The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-01
THE Squirt OF PROSPERITY.

CuuCH VIC ucduluR "A OOmplc Cc
Knockout" the Minneapolis Tribune
the other day said:
1t seems almost providential that just at
the moment when the sophistries of the sill
verphobists are apparently obtaining a
strong hold upon the masses of the people
logic of facts should arise to demon
sfrate their fallaey. The main contention
OF the advocates of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on the ratio of is to I is
that a large volume of money is needed to
cause rise in prices. They quote inter
minable statistics (mostly manufactured to
suit the easel to show that the low prices
or products has been caused by the de
monetization" of silver; they assert that
there can be no rise in prices and no re-
turn of prosperity without the restoration
OF silver to its full monetary use"-i. e.. it's
reception at the mint on terms of equality
with gold at the old ratio.
But 10 and behold. Without any increase
in the volume of money; without any re
monetization" of silver, prices are rising
Cotton, one of the staples, has advanced 2
cents pound. or so per cent upon the low
est price reached; petroleum has more than
doubled in value; beef has jumped until
prices are almost tout of sight," potatoes
squirm; wheat is up cents and corn and
other cereals are advancing. Hides are 125
per cent higher than they were some time
ago, and. leather has risen from 30 to 20
per cent. Silver itself, without anything
heing done for it by law. has advanced
from to 10 cents per ounce.
What has caused all these advances?
Simply the operation Of commercial causes.
OF Of GILL
had little or nothing to do with the de-
clines, so the failure to ''remonetize" silver
does not stop the advance. There never
was more effective refutation of any ar
gument than the complete demolition of the
current free silver argument found in the
current market reports.
Observe the trickery of this fellow
He gets off regular cock-de-doodle-d
outburst over sudden rise in prices
all over the world; and yet the very
facts, as he gives them. contain the
complete refutation of his argument.
The Populists said:
1. The characterization of silver re-
duced it's bullion value, in relation to
gold.
2 This caused like reduction in
the price of the great staples of the
worlds commerce.
3. This caused falling market,
contraction of currency, universal
bankruptcy and "hard times"
4. AS soon as silver was remone-
tized it would rise in value and all
other things would rise with it. This
was our argument.
There was great war between two
Monaghan nations, across the Pacific.
Peace was finally made, and China
agreed to pay Japan 100000, 900 taels of
silver. This created a demand-in lieu
of that which the minis formerly fur
nished. The poor prosecuted white
metal rose with bound ten cents an
ounce: and forthwith, just as we had
promised, the price of all commodities
rose with it; and the first ray OF hope
in three years began to brighten the
eyes of the maniacs who had driven
silver out Of the minis.
And then the writer for the leading
Republican paper of the Northwest
God forgive him!-comes out, and.
while avoiding all reference to the
causes that made silver rise, tries to
prove that the demand for silver had
nothing to do with the previous fall
of prices or the present rise in prices!
There was time in italian history
when poisoning was UNIVERSAL
princes and mobiles, lords and ladies,
all shared in the joyous sport. II a
man was invited by a friend to ban
quet he first made his will and, then
filled his pockets with antidotes. They
had rings so constructed that when
you shook hands with gentleman a
little knife scratched your flesh,-and
Poof! You were an angel. A cul-
tuIed and charming damsel handed
you flower; you smelled of it; and
you went out with the breath; you
assembled to heaven ON puff Of fra
GRANGE. The thing was so universal
that it at last terminated all social in
tercourse.
Now we have fallen upon another
extraordinary era. 1t is not an age of
poisoning, but an age of lying.
Poisoning was then high art; now
lying is a splendid science. Young
men go through college to fit them
selves to do justice to their life-task.
They keep their conscience in their
pocket book for luck penny. Every
"cuss" says,-'I will destroy the
world, provided I can get my terrapin
and champagne" They would sell
the universe for the Utilization Of
their palates.
Lie! Why they will lie so that
Truth will run and hide herself, drag
ging her battered skirts over her
blushing face; and ashamed to be
found living on the earth; conscious
that no one respects her, and that she
is incapable of self-defence; and that
her enemies have thousand argu-
ments where she has one wretched
fact. Unhappy Truth! She will yet
land in the poor house.
Now in this Minneapolis Tribune
article we have an exemplification of
the age. All the facts are there, but
so distorted, twisted, hump-backed,
asphyxiated, that they prove an abso-
Lutte lie.
And it is for this Plutocracy main
tains daily papers.
The St. Paul Dispatch, Republican,