The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
A STONG APPEAL
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
STATE ALLIANCE.
Dismiss the Hired Man; Put the Old
Woman at Work in the Field;
But Support the G. o. r.
and the ID. o. p.

To the Editor.


junketing trips are over. How many
bills that. are calculated to help the
great coalmon people have become laws?
! think nearly every one will agree with
me that there are very few. The great
Money Power has gained few points.
There is one over which they may
chuckle with glee--that is the repeal OF
the forfeiture clause Of the usury law.
felt sure that this thing would be done
when the Hon. .Ignatius Donnelly was
defeated last fall; he was the father of
that law, and right we'll did the Money
changers know that it never could be
repealed while he was in the senate
But 1t Is done, and now let the poor
dupes hump themselves
They have got what they voted for.
They can now have the satisfaction of
working the good wife in the field in the
place of the hired man. She can wrap
up the little babe and lay it in the fence
corner with the mice, snakes and goph-
ers for companions. Yes; you poor dupe
OF borrower, your children may
80 barefoot and you must put them at
work when mere babes, to earn money
to pay bonuses on money. You poor
dupe, your children don't have to have
any schooling to make good slaves.
They might rebel and cause the money
changers some little annoyance. BY
and by, when you get hard pressed and
lose one OF your mOrtgaged horses, the
will take the other and
one of your daughters can be sent as
a servant to his home to work out the
remainder, and you can buy a small
donkey and hitch your good wife to one
end of the whippletrees and the donkey
to the other, and you will then be on a
level with the peasant of Italy.
But don't forget to hurrah for the G..
o. p; and thank God that you have been
allowed to kill your best friends and can
still kiss the big toe of the money-loan-
er, even if your stomach does make a
hole in the ground as you crawl up to
put the Kiss where it belongs. You are
not an Alliance member if you ever
were you left 1t very soon, because the
money-lOaner that you worship did not
like the Alliance.
The national banker claims the right
OF issuing all bills of credit that YOU are
to call money; he further claims the
right to regulate the volume thereof.
that is If he gets you fast he will cut
down the volume and take in your prop
erty; but II they make a run on him he
CLAIMS the right to issue and increase
the volume Tor have the goyernmeo, dc
1t for HIM, and you poor fool q money
borrower, after you have kissed the big
toe OF this money-lord, jump to your
feet and howl for honest money OF this
hot
feature about it. No; you do not be-.
long to the Alliance If you did some of
the members would work little reason
! inside OF that she'll you call q head; or
they would ra;ss your scalp and drop
the contents OF a pumpkin in to make
you a thinking apparature! Yc:. have no
time to attend Alliance meetings. of
course, and then here are IS cents a.
year to be paid to the State Alliance a.,
dues. Oh you can never stand that!
No, never. 1t is all that you can d. tc
school the national bankers children
and buy his wife sealskin cloaks at three
hundred dollars each.
Oh, can 1t be possible that this coun-
try, this republic, that cost SO much
blood and treasure must he DESTROYED
and mpney-o!isarchy take its place?
No; 1t must not be.
2 Alliance members, arouse yourselves.
hold meetings; get everyone to Join that
you can. Send in your dues to the State
Alliance; give us. something to work
with. From now until harvest is the
time to work. Let every one put his
shoulder to the wheel; don't look back.
you won't be worth piller of salt if you.
90 J. /. VERMILYA.
s(Our friend Is In error. The bill
passed the house. We. will print the
vote after a while. But it was a house
bill and had to go to the senate. In the
meantime the Representative opened on
it and 1t failed to pass the senate. The
daily newspapers suppressed the debate.
and the vote. We want some of our sem
ators, who have journal, to write us
: letter and give the facts.-Ed. Rep)
- THE DEVIL TO PAY.
To the Editor. 9t'rr.
You remember all about the eccentric
Rev. Sydney Smith, who died in 1S45.
or thereabouts. You remember that
along in 1S43 he, invested his money. in
Pennsylvania safe bonds, and that that
commonwealth repudiated the bonds,
afterwards, believe, compromised and
!, .paid.) Mississippi and other Southwest
y enr states We're in the same boat. The
4 financial crash of 1867. following the
closing out Of Che old United States
\ Bank, and the collapse OF a brood Of
wildcat state banks. broke the necks
OF these states, and Of many others.
Rev. Sydney was furious. He pub
lished scathing letter on American
debts, placing the country beneath the
hated Turk and the Algerine pirate.