The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
POLITICAL POINTERS.
THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN
THE PEOPLE AND THE
GOLD STANDARD.
(By Paul Fontaine.)

have shown any signs OF cooperation.
The controller of the currency shows
that the National Banks of the United
States, on June 7, held in reserve 1854,
900 900, of which $177,OOO,OOO was gold
coin and gold certificates, SAL 900 900 sill
yer and silver certificates, and $145, 00O,-
900 legal tenders. Now add the reserves
in state banks, trust companies, safety
vaults and other institutions, and it
shows conclusively that the amount of
money in circulation, per capita, is not
$24 as Sherman and Carlisle claim, but
less than S., as claimed by the Peoples
Party all over the nation.
Not for ,silver-Democrats will hold
no National Convention.-SO Mr.. Har-
rity declares.-The chairman says he
will not call the National committee to-
gether to consider any such natter
The calling of such a convention, he
thinks, would be harmful to business in
terests. The Populists can look on and
smile while the Kilkenney cats fight I'M
til there is nothing left Of the two old
parties but their gold tails.
A scheme is on foot to hold silver
convention in the State of Alabama. The
call has been issued and is signed by
many prominent Democrats. We were
confident, when attending the national
silver convention in Chicago during the
worlds fair, that important American
history was being made.
The Minneapolis Times, of June 8,
says: Military Training in the Public
School-"One of the most obvious quail
ties Of the young men who have served
for any time in the militia is respect
for law. To obey, to surrender personal
preferences and to submit to what is I'M
comfortable, to recognize the authority
of persons in Office, to exercise self-con-
troll, and to regard law as inviolable-
these are the constant teachings of a
military system. These strike at the
most common faults of boyhood."
Yes, Editor Blanchard, educate them
to hold life cheap and property dear.
The second coming of Christ will soon
be a necessity Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread" This applies to
the Orthodox churches.
About to+1 is the ratio of silver men
to gold heresy cranks in Illinois. The
Democratic convention declared for free
silver with vim that means business in
that direction.
Oregon Republicans, as represented by
their young mems clubs, will oppose any
effort to commit them to silver. What
do those dudes know about the country
or money question, anyway? A good
class of servants.
Senator Palmer, gold-bug Democrat,
anarchist and all around tool of plutoc-
l;o1o Co. D~o To
what base uses Jeffersonian politics have
degenerated. People are. thinking now,
as never before, and you may look for
serious breakers ahead. 1t was less than
Is months from the day John Brown cap
tured Harpers Ferry until the Slaveoc-
racy had fired upon Sumpter. 1t will be
only few months before the South and
West will be obliged to give the East a
crick in the neck and suppress pluto
cratic monopoly.
Republicans against the people.-They
are down on free silver. Their state
convention held in Kentucky June 5,
among other foolish things, denounced
free coinage as a heresy. No more crazy
lunatics ever assembled than the gang
at Louisville, dubbed by courtesy Re-
publican convention. Our Revolution
airy fathers made free coinage of silver
the money for Americans to defeat the
English.
How we love this grand prosperity of
the rich, produced under Republican
laws for the past Is years. What a fine
system! The best on earth! If you don't
like it move to the Sandwich Islands or
Greenland! Don't kick, because you will
secure better condition of things Gov
eminent banks instead of skinshops; an
honest system of railroads without re-
bates to favored firms; more just laws
taxing all persons on real property and
not on personal effects, and internal rev.
enue humbug..
More evidences of our fine American
system of doing business which the Peo-
pies Party desires to make impossible
in the future. The Duluth Common
wealth says: Merriam and Tams Blk
by have water system at Pierre also
They got the contract for twenty three
years and paid nothing for it except what
little may have been necessary to humor
the aldermen. It is the same kind of ex-
tortionate, unrighteous franchise as that
at West Duluth and the people are NOV
ing to have it set aside on the ground
that it is for an unreasonable time, that
the terms are onerous and that it con-
tains many provisions no council has
power to make
Our American courts are rapidly prov
ing their allegiance to the monopoly cor
porations. The case of the Pullman
company is in point. How the political
judges-appointed by Cleveland or some
other executive authority-find it con-
venient and easy to change their opin-
ions. Our courts are laughing stock Of
the country. Justice Shiras, for exam
ple,-in the income tax decision, who
reversed himself in favor of the monop-
oily robbers and the conscienceless rich
Keep an eye on the people and see how
they will soon reverse that court.
More of them falling into line. Every
laboring man and producer will be di.
rectly the gamer by securing the en-
forcement Of the Peoples Party plat.
form Incorporated into law. The Kan.
san says that the convention of the West
ern Federation lof Miners has Endorsed
the Populists and the Omaha platform
and adopted a resolution declaring fol
the free and unlimited coinage Of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, irrespective Of any
national or international conference, anC
condemning the issuing of gold bearing
bonds.
Carl Brown, now of Massillion, Ohio
| will invade Washington again this sum
| mer with an army of unemployed. Thu
major is not a buffer. Jacob Coxey's
non-interest bearing bonds would give