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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
THE POWER OF MONEY.

The Minneapolis Journal publishes
these two articles, one right under
the other:
Holmes, the fiendish murderer, is to
be executed this week on Thursday at
Philadelphia. The arrangements
have all been made and there is no
possibility Of executive clemency com.
ing to Holmes rescue. The sooner
the world is rid of him the better.
There is something fearful about
the jeers,. shouts and levity tina t
greeted Bill Taylor, the murderer, at
bad side of human nature. Resent
ments usually vanish at the edge of
the grave and in the presence Of the
mystery of death. There is a good
deal of the brute to be worked out Of
human nature before ''wars shall
cease"
In the first the murderer is de-
nounced as ''iendish" and we are told
'the sooner the world is rid of him
the better" In the other case the
'jeers, shouts and levity" were ''some-
| thing fearful" there should not have
been any resentment" shown, etc.
Why the difference? Taylor murdered
whole family, father mother and all
the children but one, (who was left for
dead,) simply to keep the head of the
family from testifying against him
in court. Why should not the popu.
lace hurrah and shout and jeer and
rejoice to see such villain sent to his
account?
All! he aoas a banker! There's the
rub. The power Of money covers even
the scaffold; and he should have been
permitted to step out quietly, while
the people took off their hats and
murmured-''excellent gentleman"
Isn't it all wrong to hang one of oul
ruling class? Does it not produce an
anarchistic state of mind in the com
munity? That's the question.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
CHEAP FARES.

In Hungary the railroads are under
government control. Since the adop-
tion Of cheap fares and simple sys-
tenn of tickets on sale like postage
stamps, passenger travel has in.
creased more than 100 per cent. If
the same rates prevailed in the
United States, a ticket from New
York to Chicago would only cost 81. 90
or from New York to Philadelphia 20
cents. and prOpOrtiOnate rates for any
distance. Freight could be prepared
by stamps according to assification
and mileage. II receipts from con-
signees were desired, they could be
had at small additional cost by regis
tering goods sent.
One thousand miles for about g. SO!
That's nice. From St. Paul to Penn
bina about $1.25!!
Lord! How the people would rush
to and fro on the face OF the earth!
What tremendous conventions we
would have! Life would be prolong.
ed picnic.
VIM can't the people haze all that in this
countrys The people make the laws
Tin your minds eye: Horatio." Or,
as they say-''over the Left
But then we would have to stop
breeding millionaires. And what
could we do without our dear, pre-
cious, delightful millionaires? Who
would own our newspapers, and our
congressman, and our politics, and
swipe the money out of our pockets.
and give us a fair choice between
bankruptcy and suicide? l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

are frequently found in placers. de-
monstrating that further back to-
ward the mountains are the mother
lodges. Auriferous deposits cover a
territory of almost unknown extent,
while prospecting thus far has been
comparatively slight"
Note the fact that it is the Secretary
Of the Washington Press Association who
is responsible for this prodigious
statement.
Although the snow was several feet
deep this pencil-shover found gold
everywhere. 1t must have gotten up
from below and hoped up on top
of the snow, to make a holy show Of
itself. for the benefit Of Cleveland,
Carlisle and the gold-bugs.
And then he tells how the pieces of
gold grow bigger, (under several feet
of SNOWY, as you ascend the streams
until from the size of walnuts they as
sumo the proportions brickbats; and
in the minds eye you can see,-just
ahcad,-the solid mountains Of gold.
that are to take the place of the de-
monetized silver deposits; and thus
Justify the immolation Of that in
significant and contemplate metal.
"Auriferous deposits cover a terri
tory OF almost unknown extent, while
prospecting thus far has been COM
paratively slight"
This. being interpreted, means,
that but very small part Of the
country has been examined for gold,
but it follows that a vast territory of
unknown extent, Of which we know
nothing, is just yellow and knee-deep
with the precious metal, which the
eye Of mortal has never yet beheld!!
Oh gudgeons! Gudgeons! Open
your mouths, and let John Bull and
Rothschild tickle your outlets with
barbed hooks!
What barren world this would be
II there were no fools to manure it
with their carcasses I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
HOW THE GOLD GOES.

1t is estimated that 500, 900 900 Of gold
through tourist travel. The Winona
Republican, in recent paragraph, quotes
a few facts which explain how the money
goes, as follows: Seven steamships
that sailed for Europe from American
ports Saturday of last week carried not
less than 1000 Cuban passengers. 1t Is
estimated that the average expenses of
European trip amount to $500 for each
person, and this means that something
in the neighborhood of $1,0OO,0OO will 60
from the pockets of these voyagers to the
pockets of the steamship owners, foreign
railway companies, hotel proprietors and
merchants
Money taken abroad by tourists is in
the shape of gold. With $1,000. 900 going
out in this manner in single day, it is
readily seen that the estimate of $780,
coo, 900 in year is thoroughly conserva-
tive.
The significance of this enormous gold
outflow, to which the attention of the
public is herewith called, is this: That
the secretary of the treasury takes no
account of this loss of 100000 per
annum by tourist travel, and yet pre-
tends to state, from time to time, how
much gold there is in the country and in
circulation. How does he know any,
thing about it, if he ignores an item Of
such magnitude?
Three years ago Secretary Carlisle as
sumed that there was 1904, 0O0, 900 of gold
in the country. It was simply bold
government as possible. His guess in
1893 would probably stand discount of
Is to SO per cent. But the amusing thing
is, that he guesses about the same
amount now, notwithstanding this coun-
try's immense losses during the past
three years.
Our net loss of gold by direct export
from March, 1893, to the present time,
exceeds s2OO,00O.000. The past week saw
$5,S30,000 of gold go from New York to
Europe by export, and so it has been
week after week, and month after month.
during the present gold standard"
Now il we add to the 5000 900 900 of
net loss by direct export, the 500 900 900
| per annum that goes out by tourist travel,
we have loss Of $500 1000, 900 in three
years. The American gold product of
s40,000,OOO to $50OOo.OO0 per annum
would help the deficit to the extent of
less than $3.50, 00o, 900, but over one-third
OF this is used in the arts. Accordingly,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
THE GREENBACKS.

A correspondent asks the following
Ques tions:
l. "Was the first issue Of green
backs secured by any issue Of bonds?
2. We're they ever at discount pre-
MUM?
3. Did the first issue have the ex-
ception clause?
4. What was the effect of the ex-
ception cIause?"
July II, 1861, Congress authorized an
issue of $4,000, 900 of non-interest-
bearing treasury notes, of less de-
nomination than $780, but not less
than $40. Later aug. 81 this act was
amended, authorizing the notes to be
issued in denominations Of not less
than S., and making them receivable
in payment Of ALL public dues. These
notes were not secured by any issue
of bonds, but were simply promise
Of the government to pay the bearer,
on demand, their face value. They
never deprecated, but on the con-
trary, were quoted at one time at
about one hundred and fifty per cent
premium measured in legal tender
with the advance in the price of coin;
the premium paid upon them in legal
tender always being about the same
as that paid on gold, as the following
table from ]. j. Knox's work on
Omitted States Notes. will conclu-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
sively show
Demand Notes. Gold.

In 1862 the government needed more
money to pay it's debts, and to carry
on the war, SO in Feb. IL. of that year
the Legal Tender Act" was passed.
BY that act deprecated currency
was created, but there we're good rea-
sons, for it's depreciation. There was
a fatal clause in this illegal Tender
Act" and this clause was printed on
the back of every greenoacK dollar
and was fatal to the dollar. It was
called the exception clause, and read
as follows: "And such notes herein
authorized shall be receivable in pay
ment OF all taxes, internal duties, ex-
cises, debts and demands Of every
kind due to the United Sta ties. EX-
CEPT DUTIES ON IMPORTS, and Of all
claims and demands against the
United States, of every kind whatso-
ever, EXCEPT FOR INTEREST UPON
BONDS AND NOTES, WHICH SHALL BE
PAID IN COIN"
Here was the trick-the contempt
IDLE conspiracy-so deftly perpetrated
by the bankers and mOney-mOngers.
BY this little piece of legerdemain the
government was made to pay the SOL
dier with this currency, the soldier
paid the merchant, the merchant
took it to the government to pay
duties on imports, and the govern
ment refused to accept it. The mer-
chant must pay coin. He goes to the
bank to exchange his greenbacks for
gold, the bank sees his necessity and
realizes it's advantage. 1t has him
ION the hip SO to speak, and asks
three greenback dollars for one OF Its
gold. There is no alternative, the
merchant must submit. He does 1t
as gracefully as possible, but here
after does not accept the ''shinplast-
ers" at par. 1t is the poor soldier
who is fighting to save his country,
| and the labOrer, who must lose. They
must accept at par, bu: must pay out
at a big discount. Grand old Thad
Stevens foresaw the evil effects of the
passage Of this Till, and foretold
| them in his great speech delivered in
the house when the bill was under
discussion, when he said: ut is a
cunningly devised scheme, which will
carry great injury and great losses to
all the classes OF people throughout
the Union, except one (the bankers).
y This bill 1.-THE Legal Tender
bin has all the bad qualities that its
enemies charged in that original bin,
and none of its benefits. 1t now
creates money, and by its very terms
declares it a deprecated currency. It
makes two classes Of money-One for
the banker. and another for the peo-
ple."
Had the original bill. which Thad.
deus Stevens introduced, been carried,
we would have had no deprecated
currency All our currency would
have gone side by side with gold, as
did the first issue Of demand notes."
But the objection to such currency
is that it would nave left the bankers
and the money-changers without a
''soft snap" p. J. SEBERGER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
BOND ISSUE COMING.

Since April II, or in about Is days, nearly
100000 of the government treasury
gold has been shipped to Europe. In fort
night more at this rate the government
500, O00, 900 gold reserve will again be
broken into. Cleveland and Carlisle, it Is
now reported, and many of the COMPRESSION
al representatives of the gold and bond in
terests, will strongly oppose an early adj
journment and are in favor of prolonged
currency agitation, before the end of which
they will make another attempt to Sc
cure an act to issue gold bonds with which
to take up $5OO,0O0,OOO of greenbacks and
treasury notes. Failing in this, Cleveland
and Carlisle will do as they did last time
issue another batch of bonds, without au-
thority of law, to subserve the interests of
Wall street. 1t is expected that Cleveland
will send to congress another bond message
before the session ends, in which he threat
ems to issue $1OO,0OO,O 900 further of bonds
if congress declines to obey his instructions.
The three bond issues of the administra-
ton thus far aggregate 1852, 900. On
these, his favorite gold syndicate has real
lied from to 20 cents on the dollar. He
has issued government bonds at per cent
when the bonds of New York city were
being issued at 21s and per cent. The
Republican lower house of congress, by an
overwhelming majority, at Cleveland's
command, passed bill to issue $500, 900, 900
of bonds with which to retire $500, 900, 900
of treasury notes and greenbacks, but the
bill was defeated by the Southern and
Western senator's in the upper house. What
the Republicans in the lower house will do
when his next message is forthcoming, is a
matter of conjecture. It is apparent that
if the Republicans of that house do not
belong to the same party as Grover Cleve-
land, they ought to belong to it.
IT NJ
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
TO RAISE A MORTGAGE.

Spokane, WASH, May 5.-Mrs. H.
Eastby and her daughter Clara start
ed from here to-day to walk to New
York. They live on farm near here
and hope to make enough money in
the venture to lift mortgage on it..
They are under contract to the manu-
facturer of a health costume.
Poor souls! Trying to walk five
thousand miles to pay debt which
would never have existed ii the peo-
pie had had fair play and were not
sold out by the politicians and law
makers. Where is the vengeance Of
Almighty God? l.. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

next draws large pension, but hs
never saw his regiment or looked up
on the rebels. He is in favor of the
next war. The next is prospective
candidate for Secretary of State; he
held the Office OF clerk Of the district
court since before he was Of age; first
as Democrat and then as Republi-
can. He may run next fall as Popu-
list.
One Of the district delegates from
LIE Sueur county. is a saloon-keeper;
another is poor farmer, ION the rag
ged edge of bankruptcy" and there
fore perfectly independent of the
banks. The saloon-keeper's son has
just been appointed to cadetship in
the U. S. Naval Academy, at Annap-
oils, Md, by Hon. Joel P. Heatwole.
We have nothing against the boy or
his father, but it looks a little
strange in the "God and Morality par
ty," for which nine-Jenths of the
preachers are always praying. Pray
hard, brothers, for the devil is under
the pulpit.
Here is the Pine county delegation:
1.-Two doctors, one druggist and one
real estate dealer"
The Pine county Republicans have
realized that the commonwealth is
sick unto death. and they sent two
physicians and one druggist to physic
and purge it, and one real estate man
to start graveyard. Bully for Pine
county. It has a fine realization Of
the eternal fitness of things. We sup
pose they have no bankers in that
county or they would not have been
ignored. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
MORE LIES.

TREMENDOUS GOLD DISCOVERIES.
Every few days we have astonishing
accounts, in the veracious daily pa
pers, of immense discoveries of un-
PARALLEL gold deposits. One day they
are located in Africa, the next day In
Asia, the next day in Australia, etc.
But they never come to anything; and
about the time one is forgotten some
penny liner, in a New York garrett,
digs up Monte Christie treasurers
somewhere else. And so the fools
are tided along while the mortgages
are being foreclosed.
Here is the last yarn:
Seattle. May4.-The steamer La kline
four weeks out, has arrived here from
Cooks inlet, after fine passage both
ways. On board was VIII M. Steele,
secretary Of the Washington Press AS
ISOLATION, who reports his observa.
tions as follows:
The rush this spring to the gold
district OF Turnagain bay, Cocks in.
let, was unprecedented. Although
comparatively unexplored, numerous
creeks on the bay have given I'D cold
~ ASU 0uA ~ O&kVVC Va QUILL tdluC DIS u
encourage the hopes of pros pectors
| numbering into the thousands, that
wealth may be rapidly amassed there.
During the past six weeks score OF
| vessels have headed for Alaskan
shores, but they all started too eally
this year. for an unexceptionalIy
severe winter has left its impression
in huge cakes of ice that haven't vet
been blown out to sea, and snow is
still on the ground to depth of sew
eral feet. A feet Of vessels is LYING
off Coal point, in Katechinak bay,
awaiting a favorable opportunity te
go 100 miles further up the inlet.
| II spent two weeks cruising on the
| inlet, and from careful examination
OF the existing conditions and au
thenticated reports of Developments
| and finds along numerous creeks, an
firmly of the opinion that the proper
kind OF men haZarded no chance ir
| casting their lines into the golden wa
tiers that flow into the inlets.
Every creek and river shows traces
Of fine gold, which increases in coarse
ness as the streams are assembled
! while pieces Of gold airing quart;
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13
STRIKES VERSUS LOCKOUTS.

The great steel pool of the United States,
organized last month with 81 Of the largest
steel companies in the world and 100000
900 of capital represented, has begun opera
lions by shutting down the Ohio Steel Com
pany works and other establishments and
throwing thousands Of workmen out of
work. The object is to raise prices by cur
failing product. The result Is to drive
workmen from the means of livelihood and
force out of the people extra tribute for the
necessar:es of life. Against this sort of COM
bination the corporate press Of the country
raises no complaint.
But at Milwaukee, the street car operat-
ives left work to compel the company to
confer with them or arbitrate the question
of fair wages. The company had promised
to raise the wages at given time, and
when the time came refused even to confer
with the men, let alone submit to arbitra-
ton. H. C. Payne, member Of the Repub-
lican national committee, and recent re-
ceiver of the Northern Pacific at $4,000
per year, is the president Of the street rail-
way which refuses to arbitrate with the
men. The action Of the workmen Is con-
demned by the daily corporate press Of
America. The action of the workmen,
taken in order to obtain recognition of
their rights in court Of arbitration, is de-
nounced as disturbance of business"
just as the action of the great steel trust is
supported as Justified by business"
Corporations may combine against the
public interestes and conspire against the
freedom Of trade and the laws of the gov
eminent; while workmen may not take
joint action in order to secure arbitration
for the adjustment Of their peaceful claims
to justice. The difference IN tibet attitude
Of the old party machines, and organs, and
administrations toward the workmen's
strike and the corporate lockout is making
Populists daily F. N. S.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

II we had $500, 000. 600 in 1893, and by ma
tive production added 500, 900 900 avail
able for monetary use, we would now
have left, deducting 5000. 900, 900 loss by
direct export and $500, 900, 900 loss by
tourist travel, only 5000. 100000. This
might be helped out trifle by an insig-
nificant amount of tourist travel coming
from Europe to this country, and perhaps
trifle by immigration. But the mar
riage of a hundred millions or so Of
American wealth per annum to foreign
counts, and the emigration Of such men
as Aston to London and other European
points, would far more than Offset what
little gain in gold stock we might cx-
pect from foreign tourists or impover-
ished immigrants.
It is therefore safe to say that-under
the operations Of ''the existing gold stand
ard''-the United States has been re-
duced to gold stock of only about $780,
100000. Those people who prophesy
that free coinage would contract the cur
rency by causing the loss of our gold, !"
should ask themselves where that gold
now is, and if it could leave us any more
surely and steadily than it is now going,
whatever monetary system we might
adopt. F. N. S.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul earn
ines for the fourth week in April in
crease $75,O12: for the month of April,
increase, $3l2. 40S, and from July to
April 80, increase. 1891 sos.
Read that carefully, and then re-
member that the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway compay is the
most dcvilish enemy the people of
Minnesota have to-day. They take
possession of our politics, pack our
conventions, swarm into our Legisla-
lures, and own our congressman and
judges. And yet while thousands Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

The present Congress was given its
Republican majority for the express
purpose of obtaining relief from the
stupid and treacherous management
OF Cleveland and Carlisle. Up to this
date these Republicans are holding
their seats under false pretences.
This will not do. II the changing Of
parties brings no relief turn the hose
on Congress itself. Trim off the SEN
ate and President. Inaction is
treachery. -Sunday JOURNAL st. Louis.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

good, Industrious people in this state
have been reduced to pauperism their
earnings in ten months have in
creased nearly jfve million dollars! And
yet if any man proposes that the peo-
pie should get out OF their clutches.
and stop their stealings, a hundred
hirelings shout "Paternalism!'
Oh. we live in dandy age! l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-13

We have great many subscribers
at St. Cloud. To make it more con-
venient for them to pay up subscrip-
lions, we have authorized Mr.. A. E.
Brandt to act as our agent there.
Those wishing may pay to him. We
do this to save our subscribers at St.
Cloud much annoyance, time, and ex-
pcnsc Of postage money order.
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Twenty Thousand Circulation.

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REPRESENTATIVE is 10000 copies.
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this 3lst day of March, A. D. 1896.
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Notary Public.
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Pull off your coats just for one day;
you can get at least one subscriber.
With 10000 shirt sleeves in sight, we
can get 10000 new subscribers in 10
days. Try it, friends. 1t will do you
no harm, but do US lots of good.
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Don't be surprised If you should
fail to receive your paper next week.
Look at the number on your label,
compare it with the number Of the
paper. II it is less you are in ar
rearS.
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Even old John Sherman is weaken
ng. In an interview with Cath" in
Sundays Cincinnati Enquirer, he con-
cedes the Populists and Silverites ITO
electoral votes and thinks the election
will GO to the house OF representatives
with very uncertain results.-Noncon-
formiSt.
The suspicious signs multiply every
where.
Push the good work, brothers.
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II each OF our subscribes sent in
Just one new subscriber in the next
Is days, June 1st, would see US with
10000 strong.
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