The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
THE WAY CLEAR.
COMBINATION-THE
PEOPLE WILL WIN,
(Silyer Knight.)

(Silver Knight)
The efforts of the banks, the venal
press, and the trucking cuckoo politi-
clans to confuse the couasels of the peO-
pie and deprive them of plan of union
against their oppressors has failed The
national committee of the Peoples Party
at st. Louis on the 18th of January, 1896,
lifted the curtain and pointed the way to
union and victory. The 22nd of next
July at St. Louis. was the date and place
appointed for holding the national con-
vention of the Peoples Party. That COM
mittee did more. 1t invited the friends
of an Independent financial policy for
the United States, who on that question
are in harmony with the Populist party,
to meet in convention on the same day
and in the same city where the conven-
tion of the Peoples Party will be held.
This was the olive branch. This was
patriotic exhibition of country above
party. On the 22nd of January there as
sembled at Washington a bimetaMic con-
ference of wise and earnest men from
every section of our country. They
came not for office nor plunder. They
came to advise and execute plans for the
deliverance of the American people from
the thraldom of the money power. They
hailed with delight and responded with
unanimity to the invitation of the Peo-
pies Party to hold the antional conven-
tion of the bimetallists at the time and
place appointed for the national con-
vention of the Peoples Party They put
forth an address which will be hailed
by the American people as a new dec
laratiOn of independence. In that ad-
dress they set forth the paramount cause
of universal distress, and pointed the
remedy In the light of that address,
the people can read, in words of living
light, that twenty-five years of peace
and abundant harvests are not the
cause of stagnation and want, but that
the money powers are the enemies of
progress anr prosperity and are destroy
ing civilization to force the human race
back to the slavery gloom and despair of
the Dark Ages. This glorious declara-
ton of principles was followed by organ
ization for effective work. The work of
organization against the money powers
would under ordinary circumstances, be
difficult in the extreme, but the harvest
of wrong and oppression is ripe and the
reapers are plenty. All that was re-
uuired was a rallying point. That has
been secured. All who are opposed to
the English gold standard, bankers
monopoly of money, and SWindling bond
debt, will come together There is moth
ing now to divide them The issue was
made for them by the Shermans, the
Clevelands, the Harrisons, the Reeds and
the Carlisles. These representatives of
the money powers of Europe and Amer
lea, under the leadership of the great
house of Rothschids, are robbing the
people of their money, destroying the
value of their property, and they pro-
claim their intention to maintain the
gold standard by an unlimited public
debt, and reduce the people of the
United States to poverty and want.
Against such an issue made by the enc
mics of the people, the Populists, the sill
yer men, the farmers the planters, the
laborers, the mechanics and the produc-
ers of all description must rally and re-
sist the attack of the enemy. This makes
the issue. The people of the United
States are attacked in vital point The
enemy is robbing them of their oirculat
ing medium and loading them with debt,
and proposes to continue the war until
the masses will submit to serfdom and
slavery. No other question can be con-
sidered while the battle is raging be-
tween the money powers and the people
of the United States Behold the con-
tending forces! Concentrated wealth
has the venal politicians. 1t owns or
controls the commercial press. 1t has
ten thousand banks in the United States,
each of which is political den from
which oozes forth the corrupting slime
which permeates the ranks of the enemy
and bribes the weak and needy The
people know that every banker has be-
come a politician; that his methods are
the most dangerous, because he deals
with the degraded and venal bribery of
the criminal. Bribery of the criminal
| and oppression of the PROSTATE debtor
| are the weapons of the gilded hypocrite
who grows rich by lending other peo-
pies money, and by subsidies which he
sucks from the government through cor
| rupt legislation. We congratulate the
| friends of liberty that the issue is made,
| that the battle will be fought before the
| manhood of the American people is
wholly exhausted by the arts of the
enemy. We are rejoinced that the Amer
| ican people have resolved to fight now,
because when all their wealth is in the
| hands of the few, when poverty and
want have made them humble, they will
have no more power to resist concen-
trated capital than any other race of
slaves. Let blind greed take warning!
| It has proceeded too fast. Its robheries