The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-02
MONEY WINS.
That Is. What Carried the Last IsIec-
ton.

10 the Editor: = stfs
There is not an intelligent individual,
even among the Republicans, in this re-
! public today that regards the result of the
| last election indicative of public senti-
| ment. 1t was not love or respect for the
triumphant party that moved the people
| IN such unprecedented numbers to rush to
| the embrace of a party whose parricidal
| hand has smote and paralyzed every in
| dustry from Maine to Texas; but simply
| money. The historian of our times, in
| writing up the events of this epoch if
| dignation as he makes record of the
| means employed to win No one can be
| surprised at the conduct of the immoral
and vicious element; for it is expected that
| they are open for any deal regardless of
its character or effect: but it should be
| cause for surprise when the church will
champion the side of wrongdoing and urge
| ana openly advocate the wrong as against
| the right We are prone to look to this
| organization FOR honest counsel and the
| purest morality; and as Daniel Webster
| said in speaking of our government: '.If
our experiment prove a failure where shall
I
So where shall we look for the staunch
supporters of honesty and good govern
| ment If not to the churches? But what
| are the fac9s? Every so-called Evangeli-
| cal church is the side of plutocracy.
| the money power, when these same socie-
| Ties Know that there is an impossible gulf
| between this souless money power and the
| ,oihns millions. The primitive church was
| honest, sincere; loyal to truth and the
! right Hence its only object was to make
| society and the world at large better and
| happier by preaching a simple gospel But
| what OF the church today? 1t is simply
| one of the most obnoxious institutions of
| aristocracy in this land. 1t has lost it's
| head ana mission in the indiscriminate
| scramble for pelf. Hence its destinations
| or pyrotechnic display drives the class
| Wnom they should reach and encourage
| from church doors and influence: and its
| open advocacy of the continued reign of
the vile money power as it is amassine it's
| hellish forces for the utter enslayement of
| the people, leads thousands compels them
70 question Its integrity l do Said a
! leading Republican, The party having the
| money will carry this election" and he
| also added. We have the money and We
| snall VIM He knew that times are hard
! ana that people have to scratch as never
! oeiore TO exc out miserable existence
ana ne reasoned rightly when he conclud-
=" 'iiat htue corn planted in such a
soll would yield bountiful harvest
SO Ii proved; money did the lob That
PARTY has the money, because it has held
the fort for 80 years and there are millions
| or voters in this country who value dol
| lar more highly than a vote The Pennies
party depends upon the intelligence and in
tesrity of the people for success 1t has
no mlliionalres. no retinue of wealthy bank
| ers from whom to draw for such purposes:
ana the man that would seek to buy votes.
mar hat Il r1III HI
| be disfranchised. This class of voters and
| 1t is the controlling class, have inflicted ir-
| reparable ruin upon themselves by giving
the government into the hands of a party
| from which we had SO gracefully escaped
| TWO years ago. When l say ruin to them
| selves | know whereof | speak; for under
| the prosperous condition of the country di-
| rectly attributable to a generous currency
| pervading thousands of our toilers receiving
| good wages, found it compa ara tively easv
| 10 procure homes by monthly installments
| But this did not suit Shylock, and so he
| determined to subvert this prosperous or
| der of things. and on the ruins of happiness
and contentment to the sses rear his
| helllsh enginery of oppression. This he
accomplished by robbing the people of their
| money and securing it's equivalent in gold
| bearing bonds that he alone could use
| possess and manage. And the effect how
startling! In one city in Southern Wis
| conSn, where so many hard-Working in
| dustrious toilers had secured homes on the
| plan limited at. and paid for years looking
! forward with all the feverish solicitude of
| loving parents to the day when the last
| payment would be made and they the
| proud possessors Of homes for little ones.
were suddenly brought face to face with
an order of things that filled them with
Tear and the gravest apprehension; for
| money grew scarce and scarcer orders for
| the products of their labor became few and
| FEWER, and. as consequence, one industry
| another 81
duced the working force to a minimum.
| mus thrown out of employment. monthly
| payments of necessity ceased and interest
| suited. entailing. of course a loss of all
that had been paid. Be it remembered that
while the price of labor went down in di-
| rect proportion to the contraction of the
| peoples money. and everything as we'll.
Shylock's price for which he sold their
| MONIES remained precisely the same: and this
was Just now Mr.. Lincoln foresaw and just
the thing he was so anxious to avert hut
| the bullet of the vile assassin robbed the
| people of his wise counsels and his secre
| 'arv turned traitor to the people, recon-
| mended contraction, and this proves NV
| ed. But thank God. the Peoples party is
| on the road, and is destined to save this
| country or it: is past redemption. let
| every man work as never before from now
| till 1896. and We will triumph
| +. w. 3. HARVEY
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