The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
GOLD MONOMETALISM.
STRIKES DOWN 90 PER CENT OF
WEALTH FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE PER CENT.
II the Warning Voice Is NOT
Needed, the People Will Vic.
lently Rend Plutocracy's
Shackles.

The amount of gold available for
monetary purposes in the world at
large probably amouts to about per
cent Of the total wealth Of the world.
It is not merely the magnifying OF
the value of so much money, however
unjust that would be, but the mon
strous proposition that the holders OF
80 rer cent of the worlds wealth,
which is subject to mortgage ana
bonded Indebtedness of from 333 to 50
per cent of its total value. must sub
NIT to the reduction In value caused
by the enhancement in the purchasing
power of gold when made the sole
measure of value.
Money, the mere instrument for
measuring and transferring the
wealth of the world, the tool of COM
merce and the creation Of the law,
ostensibly for the benefit of all man
kind, has by legislative enactment
been changed SO as to be a false meas
ure and false standard.
Let us apply the test and expose the
heartless robbery of debtors, private,
corporate, and public, and this in
wolves not only taxpayers, but the
great public from whom the income
must be derived to satisfy the vast
railway and other corporate bonds.
To preserve the ''soundness" Of the
per cent of gold the unsoundness of
the 80 per cent of property measured
by gold must be decreed!
In the name of honesty" the most
fragrant OF all acts Of dishonesty
ever known is sought to be perpetra-
ted, and that, too, "by> ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain"
1t is simply diabolical, in view of
the conditions forced upon the coun-
try by our approach towards the sole
gold standard, to see the use which is
made of the recent rise in the values
of certain commodities, which is due
to entirely different causes from those
stated by the corrupt public press,
which is everywhere intoxicating the
idea that it is sign of returning
prosperity. True emmisaries of the
evil one, they are busily engaged in
perverting the truth to serve wicked
purpose.
There has been a rise in wheat and
rise in silver. There has been rise
in cotton and rise in silver. These
are evidences Of returning confidence
in the value of property which con-
stitutes the wealth of the world. Two
change, vet neither is referred to by
THESE impS of satan.
First. There is a growing impress
sion that silver will be fully rehabili-
tated at no distant day.
The slender tenure Of the Roseberry
ministry in Great Britain, and the &C
tivity and power Of. the bimetall:c
movement there, point to a change Il
British policy.
The evident determination of the
American people to throttle the mon
ster is becoming too plain to escape
notice. This is manifested in the
alarm shown by the promoters and
defenders of so-called "honest mon
ey," and their wild desperation in
argument.
The second reason is that the close
of the war in the Orient has opened
up a new demand for silver to meet
the demands of restored commercial
nifty exacted by the victor, hence the
holders Of silver demand and get more
for it.
President Cleveiands contract with
the bankers compelled them to pre-
vent any outflow Of gold.
But the first is doubtless the chief
reason, for the people, are noting the
reckless course of the goldolators and
their foolish pretenSes/
But the conviction among thought
full men of all parties is extending,
that the American people will not
submit to the destruction of
their liberties and will not sub
NIT to the gold standard. If
by fraud and open corruption their
purposes and wishes are thwarted by
the gang of pluhderers who are now
so dexterously seeking to mislead the
people, still there is the remedy which
free people may resort to by destroy
shall stand, it shall not be changed
from Democratic republic into a
Plutocracy. From the hills, and the
valleys, and from the broad prairies,
If the voices of an outraged people
fail to arrest the evil, strong arms
will be ready.
The Republic was not organized for
the benefit of bondholders, and it's
destinies shall not be Swayed by them.
The truth may as we'll be understood
now.
Senator Chandler voiced it when in
the Senate, February 20, he declared
that 'the American people will not
tolerate the gold standard" Indeed
they will not. II the tricksters pro-
pose, by dividing the people again up
on minor issues, to enforce the elec-
tion Of president, it will tend all the
more to exasperate the people. Trai-
tors will then meet their due reward.
Those who betray their country into
the hands of oppressors are as guilty
of treason as they who take arms
against the Government. ''Resist-
ance to tyrants is obedience to Gcd''
may again become the watchwOrd of
freedom.
This is no time to mince words in
dealing with a power which hesitates
not to debauch our public men and
control the avenues OF public infOr
nation. They are enemies Of the Re
public. Possessing the power in Eu'
rope to make or stay the red hand OF
war, and to change the map Of that
continent they would fain place our
continent under the same malign in
fluence.
A people that consents to wear fet
ters needs them; our people need
them not, nor will they wear them