The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
FRIEND OF LINCOLN SPEAKS,
The Great Jesse Harper of Illinois Sends Z
Striking and Highly Important Article
to The Representative.


| Editor Representative:
| Fiften years ago, looking over the
| field-the world,-to ascertain the
trend Of things, and such an array
Of circumstances, conditions and re.
suits come, as to appal me: and set
down in sorrow the outlines of the
saddest picture ever saw.-*
"Ihe gold standard will destroy
| Civilization "
''On the sea Of discomfort, on the
floods of fury"
THE mystic sea Of unrest is world
wide. ID. Israeli.
"The nations are drifting. Sails
bury.
"The upheaval of humanity is just
Napoleon III.
dynamite is heralding a new era"
Julius Jerome.
''The storms now shaking earth are
| the Ore-runner of re-genesis. IS.
Capital naughty, labor sinking, the
end nearing. ."-Ludwick.
Corrupt enactments by designing
men are the first sown seeds Of
death. ."-H. Clay.
wages fell from Egypt to Rome
over period of eighteen hundred
years,-LdbOr sank to seren cents day.
"The epitaph was death, b,-how grim
the irony"
| "Wages have been falling, falling,
falling, and we are reaching the next
hiatns,-doCn to ttcentyeight cents day
the globe orer."-*
l want to follow up these thoughts
as they fix the status of today.
1t is part Of paragraph, 5, Of my
book, in which | discuss, Govern
ments, the CLASSES and the Masses"
which will go to press the first Of the
year. l want to see what the readers
of The REPRESENTATIVE think Of it.
1t is radical book. radical as truth.
~
The people had contributed more
\ than two billion dollars. to overthrow
the system that was reared on the ae~-
sumption that capital should own Ia
| Dor.
They took that which was issued as
money: took it for all war supplies;
took t for services as soldiers; and the
individuals took it of each other. in
all the myriad exchanges Of the
domestic business, amounting to bill
lions annually.
A,,d no bonds should erer hare been is
sued
They were put out at the dictation
Of class, to be used in the after.
time, to change the Republic to Mon
arcny.
At this point Satan entered our
Eden
The office, Secretary of the Treasury.
The officer, the man Hugh McC'alloch.
Listen:
1.-THE first thing to be done is to es-
tablish the policy Of con traction"
THAT the legal tender acts we're
war measures. passed in great emer-
gency; that they should be regarded
only as temporary; that they ought
not to remain in force day longer
than would be necessary to enable the
people to prepare to return to the
GOLD STANDARDS; and that the work
Of retiring the notes which have been
issued should be commenced without
delay, and carefully and perSiStently
continued until all are retlred.'
Report Of Secretary OF the Treasury,
| Dec. 4, 1865.
1t was the cry of greed, for class
government. At that time we had Of
all kinds Of circulating medium ST.
996. 678,770 and we had Of bonds regis
tered that could be used as banking
securities $S0s, $40, ,467.
The way Of getting bonds cheap
by discrediting the ''greenbaek," was
complete, and the-highway to rob-
berry had been opened as wide as the
broad road that leads to destruction.
And Congress was as ready for tho
"job," as ravenous wolves for the in
nocent flock.
1t took this cruel agent Of despot-
ism by the hand and said we will do
thy bidding.
"Resoved, That this House cordial
ly concurs in the views Of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury in relation to the
necessity Of contracting the cur
rency with the view to an early re-
sumption Of specie payments as the
permit, and we hereby pledge cooper
alton to this end and as speedily as pos
| sible."
And from that hour of darkness to
the present moment, Congress- the
government itself, as admins tered by
the political parties having control,
have been pushing the fight to
gold standard. That is the fight now.
The whole march has been over the
blighted hopes of free institutions,
and the raising Of a despotism on the
ashes Of their fallen affairs.
Panic followed panic, ruin swept
|
Contraction lowered the price of
property. so that fifteen billion dollars
worth of it was taken from the debtor
an1 passed to the creditor, at twenty
cents on the dollar Of the cost OF pro-
ducing it.
Millonaires have grown as mush-
rooms in rotten wood.
When J. Cook & Co.. failed in 1873,
the volume had shrunk to 1920, $685.
0S5.
And the work Of the spoiler went
on till the volume sank to 800, ,OO0, ,000
L. M.
And in comparison with our present
population. over sixty-eight million
people, our volume is smaller per
capita, than ever before
And when the wonderful increase OF
business, growing out OF the vast pro-
duction, by the millions of workers, is
considered.
! The lack Of money has reached the
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