The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
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If the Peoples party should disorganize
tomorrow the money power would eobble
would make Unclef Sans head swim
Santa Barbara (CaL) Equity.
There is no mist&1ting the fact that a
second Lincoln has appeared on the scene
in the person Of William ]. Bryan. He's
right from the people at a critical period
In this country's history. Lincoln freed the
blacks; Bryan will free the whites-Long
Prairie Leader. So
It Is great fun for the Republican papers
to picture Populistss With big feet. coarse
boots and patched clothes. In thus twitting
victims Of the poveFtH which those papers
have been instrumental in forcing upon
the people. those pfstA papers are playing
with a boomerang which Is liable to fly
high over the heads Of the wealth pro-
ducers and return to crush the power that
let it f1y.-Sledge Hammer.
They say free silver will drive our gold
out of circulation. It Is out of circulation
now, and 1t carnot be any more So 1t is
all boarded by banks and individuals II
we get free coinage it isn't likely those who
have the gold will dump it into the ocean
They will still hold it or part with it only
Tor value received-Litchfield Independent.
Redeemable money will not be Endorsed
by the Populists. No system Of finances
resting on bonds and debt can hope to re-
land.-Southern Mercury
There are men who don't believe in d.
rect legislation. They tell us 1t would create
confusion. Let US see. under direct legis-
lation you vote for what laws YOU
want and reject what you don't want
NOW look at the present system; if you are
Republican you believe something about
the tariff is good for you and yet you are
IN favor of free coinage of silver, but under
OF 1oovy <b4
tarin aside or must leave silver
aside, so they don't know just how best to
vote, either way Is unsatisfactory But it
would not do to change the system, some
body might call you a crank; if you get
new ideas in your head.-The Other Side
What England wants, America don't
want" This can't be repeated too often
for the benefit Of our g. o. p. friends. It
was their own campaign cry at the last
presidential election.ALitchfleld Independ-
emit
every tramp, every fallen woman, every
child-laborer is practical protest against
the practicability of our present social sys-
tenn. Let ''pracdcar' men take notice.
Equity, Cal.
1t is to be hoped that those who receive
Mexican dollars in change when they ten
der an American dollar for fifty cents do
to keep them until Bryan has been elected
and silver restored, when they will be able
to give their would-be teachers an "object-
lesson.'-Willmar Tribune.
In published article Edward Atkinson,
the Boston author and economist, says the
delegates to the Chicago convention who
advocated the nomination Of Bryan were
half witted." Atkinson is the great
philanthropist' who declares that hard
working man can live well on bean soup
and eight cents day. His financial argu-
ment consists chiefly in calling the advo-
Gates Of free coinage names. Such a course
Is as far removed from convincing anybody
of its soundness, as1 u bean soup from a
| square meal-JameshotRn Alert.
There has never been time in the his
tory Of Populism Whit its followers should
take greater pride ihhits motives and ac-
comphshments than the present; and there
has never been a tifpe' in Minnesota when
organization than the present.-Austin
Times. ms
It has SO far cost the government $262, O0O.-
0CO Of bonds to keep up gold standard. This
bond issue will continue, II the gold bugs
have their say, until all treasury notes and
greenbacks are converted into interest
bearing bonds. Them where shall we look
for relief? To the ,pational bank notes.
New London Times. bi.t
From press dispatch we get the Follow
ing: "Mr Hanna then went down town
and lunched at the Lawyers Club with
Mr.. Hobart, Henry Clews and J. Pierpont
Morgan" These are the Mckinley man
ayers that are SO much interested In the
poor laboFing man and his ''5o-cent dollar"
-Mankato Journal.
In the town Of Harvey, Ill. and many
other places within q short distance Of Chi
cago, have been found q large number of
families who do not seem to have profited
by the advice OF cannibalistic economists,
that they should be thrifty and economic.
At any rate the poor in that section are
In q most deplorable condition and have
been forced to the necessity Of living on
crabapples. Children are pining away and
slowly dying OF starvation. This condition
is quite natural to q system under which
| the rich steal all the wealth and arrogate
| to themselves all the virtues and then say
to the poor whom they have skinned. BE
thrifty and economist; be contented with
| the erabapple diet. vote Tor Mckinley and
! all will be wellv'-Coming Nation.