The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
MONOPOLY MOULD.
BUSTED BANKS-STARVING PEO-
PILE IN MICHIGAN-PANIC OF 1857
VICE IS KING IN CHICAGO
WHAT THE GOLD STANDARD
DOES FOR THE DEAR PEOPLE.
(By Paul F'ontaine.)


collector Kelly. The most serious Of
tense of which the company is guilty is
its use of cancelled stamps. How COM
mon!
Vice is King.-Appalling lawlessness
along the drainage channel. Premium on
human life. Robbery and subsequent
murder 'of common occurrence. Police
force is powerless. Crime prompted and
aided by vicious saloons and UNPUBLISHED
by the constituted authorities. All this
is done in Chicago the Calcutta of these
United States. State control of the liquor
traffic at cost is O sure cure. Try it in
Illinois and Minnesota and see its marvel
Gus results for good.
People Starving in Michigan.-The hun
cry and Disconnected settlers of Hubbard
marched into Midland again this week
looking for relief for their families at
home. The F. and p. M. r. r. sent fif-
teen freight cars into Hubbard after their
tan bark and wood, but the men will have
to be fed before they will have strength to
load the cars.
II you want this country run by the
banks, Of the banks and for the banks,
continue to vote with the two rotten old
parties. The banks of Missouri in asso-
citation assembled voted unanimously to
oppose free coinage. Of course, free coin
age means that so per cent of their mo-
nopoly will be taken away. The Peoples
Party is the only political organization
that proposes any relief from monopoles.
The lumber combine, to rob, has ad-
vanced prices by vote of their associa-
ton. How easy the princely kings levy
taxes out Of the fool people, Give it to
'em, Mr.. Robber, they love to be swim
died and they have votes to re-elect
Knute.
A fair sample of the gold standard mo-
nopoly lunatics method of contracting the
currency and destroying credit is shown
by the assignment of the Minneapolis
Exposition Company Property worth
five years ago 100000 and today will not
sell for one-ffth the amount. Oh, what
fine business men are running this coun-
try! Vote for Knute again, then get the
hearse.
Furniture goes up.-Yes, the manufac-
turers recently met and the monopoly
hand has raised the prices. Their pistols
are pointed at the head of each American
chuckle-headed voter to deliver portion
of his hard earnings to them. WE'LL they
vote it thus, and so mote it be.
Shop men go out at Altoona.-A gen
eral strike anticipated. Wait until the
grand strike of combined labor in about
one year from now, then you will know
what a small affair the Debs rebellion
was. John Brown VS.. Jeff Davis. Oh,
boys but the circus is coming and that
soon. Important history is now being
made.
Still another bank goes wrong.-They
seem to be palsied these latter days. The
we'll known banking house of G. Hay
wood & Son has assigned to c. w. Chase.
Liabilities are about 100000
IS Defaulter-Cashier of a bank at
Sturgeon, Mo-, goes wrong and the bank
closes it's doors. Yet the wise people of
Missouri have not the good sense to vote
with the Populists and secure government
banks that can't bust; where every depos-
itor would be safe Turn on the light.
Let the merry war go on, the more busted
banks the quicker relief will come.
Porkpackers assign.-Sigmund Freitsch
& Co., pork packers, assigned to Moses
Ruskin, who estimates the liabilities at
$4,000. Mr.. Freitsch says his assign
ment is only a suspension, caused by the
high price of hogs and the low price of
lard. Among the creditors is the Merch-
ants National Bank, $4,000
And now we have hotel Republican
prosperity. The Gayozo Hotel of Mem
pills. Tenn, went into the hands of a re-
ceiver this week on obligations amounting
to about $1SO,OOO.
Panic of 1857.-Our business men of to-
day have heard of the great panic of 1857
and yet very few of these modern wealth
gatherers have considered thematter of the
origin Of that great disaster. Well, we
now tell them, the bankers did it, and
they did it in this way: Up to the year
1857 the coin Of a large number of foreign
countries was legal tender with us-con-
gress had so declared it. This was "fiat"
relating to metallic money. About Feb
ruary of that year congress declared that
none Of these foreign coins should con-
tinue to be legal tender, thus destroying
most Of the gold and silver coin in cir
culation. This Of course was a contrac-
ton Of the currency to the extent of all
this foreign money, and the panic came
OF course it came, and the cause was an
act Of congress. The distress that fol-
lowed was great and as inexcusable as it
was great. So with other pancs of later
original came from contracting the cur
rency. This is fact that only ignorance
will seek to deny. Then what should
our people do? Well, we suggest that
the Chinese punishment be tested little
for men who will deliberately bring on
panic should not be allowed to live. es-
pecially in the United States. John Sher-
man could be exported with much gain to
the American people.-Pittsburg Daily
News.
The Oil Trust.-"If the trust intends to
pay Colorado oil producers only five cents
for crude OIL we are to be treated to an
other example of the beauties of monop-
oily. There is, said to be considerable
good oil land in at Florence not in the
hands of the trust. There might be
money in developing it were it not that
the trust would Immediately reduce prices
again to crush competition"
So says the Rocky Mountain News. It
gives us ''that tired feeling" when we
notice the efforts of the uneducated 1--WE
mean it, to destroy monopoly.
The News would not advocate public or
state ownership of an Oil well. O. no, That
would be anarchy, don't you know,
All the people might be glad to chin
in, through taxation, few nickels to
sink a state well on state lands inst tn
keep the monopoly selling oil at five
cents, if nothing more.-The Denver
Road.
No Kicking.-I'm not kicking at the
oppression you Americans suffer. I'm
not condemning your employers when
your wages are cut. only call your atten-
ton to the oppression, to the cut. You
vote it so and l want you to get enough of
it. You vote for parties that believe in
this system, that gives the employer this