The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
A BOLD ATTEMPT.
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE rs TO
BE ABOLISHED-W ARE TO
BE KUSSIANIZED.


Henry Clews' weekly financial review,
sent out from Wall Street. May a.
and asks US to comment upon il !
This utterance has already becom
famous. Mr.. Stacy had an excellent
article upon it in our last issue.
The whole affair is an arts tocratic
howl against Republican institutions.
This man Clews, (who the devil is he
anyhow?) who probably never did an
honest days work in his life, seems
to believe that the right of the peo-
pie to think for themselves on the sill
YER question is threat against the
property rights Of the East. Hear
him:
with such an issue as now pro-
foundly agitates the country from end
TO end, an unsettled and waiting feel
Ing in speculative circles is perhaps
all that may be expected. Wall
street Is the point at which the great
est sensitivenesl of the silver agita-
tiOn centers. The mere fact that a
large portion of our people should be
intent upon forcing the acceptance of
a debased and fluctuating metal as
standard money is a diScouraging
symptom, for it shows to what dan
gerous ends an ignorant free suffrage
may be prOstituted. That alone is
enough to produce a deep unsettle-
ment of feeling among responsible
property citizens; for the same
incapacity for Judging upon complex
money questions may easily, At any
time, imI eril the country under the
settlement of other large questions
affecting the welfare Of the nation. ;"
BY forcing the acceptance of a de-
based and fluctuating metal as stand
ard money" he means the reStora ton
OF silver to the place it occupied, side
by side with gold, for 500 years; and
from which it was hurled down, in
1873, not in open conflict, but by
scoundrels like Clews himself, secret
ly, @rrepttiously and with the aid of
100000 Of British gold, spent in the
purchase of the American Congress-
And the desire Of the people to repair
this wrong, which has plunged the
country into universal ruin. this inso-
lent rogue says, is an evidence Of the
dangers Of ian ignorant free suf-
rage That means yo,tr free suffrage,
fellow citizens. And what is to be
substituted for the ballot box? There
is nothing but the Russian system.
For England, France, Germany, Aus
tria and Italy, and all the other
nations Of Europe recognize the right
OF the people to speak through the
ballot, to a greater or less extent.
But we are to have an absolute despot-
ism, because IAN ignorant free suf-
frage" interferes with the operations
of Wall street and its watered stocks,
where they swap "a blue dog for
green monkey" And the worthy
Clews goes further:-he says the
right Of the people to think for them
selves, against the interests of Wall
street, may be extended indefinitely;
for the same incapacity for judy
ing upon complex money questions
may easily, at any time, imperil the
country, under the settlement of 9TH
er large questions, affecting the well
fare of the l.ation." There you have
it! The people are unit for self-gov
IL Ii
them. For they may 90 wrong and
stump their toes. And to prevent
such catastrophe the right to vote
must be taken away from them!
Do you see, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis. the banquet that is being pre-
pared for you? The single gold stand
ard is but the entering wedge. 1t is
to rive the republic into fragments,
and on the ruins Russian despotism
Is to be built, with nobility Of
usurers to sustain it,.
And then see how you are to be con-
trolled. Read this:
"Wall street is not in any degree in
sensible to this crisis. 1t can under
stands that the danger may reach an
acutcr stage than it now presents; it
is quite prepared for the possibility
that managing politicians may GO
further than they have yet dared in
the way Of sacrificing sound-money
policy in order to secure votes for
their candidates; it is aware that
startling results may come out Of
either Of the party conventions; it
would hardly be surprised should the
silveriteS be able to block Sound-mOney
legislation in the next Congress-; all
these things may be classed among
the possibilities Of the next few
months. But Wall street has learned
to believe that there are greater
pOtencieS than party Platforms, than
legislative SubServiency to popular
ignorance, than the madness OF par
tiSan infatuatiOn. There are situa-
tiOns and events which can instantly
cOerce and convert the most reckless
legislators into the willing servants of
conservative sentiment that re pre-
sentS the real interests and safety Of
the nation. 1t will not be necessary
to wait for any after effects Of silver
legislation to remedy its miSchiefS, al
though that would be a perfectly safe
course. The near prospect OF the au-
thOrization OF flee coinage-a count
ing of heads showing certainty OF d
twO-thirds vote in the house and sem
ate for l6 to would evoke in Wall
street the kind Of conditions that no
Congress has ever yet dared to diSre-
gard, and the cause OF free coinage
would be overthrown at the moment
when its success seemed most certain j..
1t is this reserved power on which
Wall street is now repOSing."
What does this mean9 We publish
ed in this paper, recently, one-half of
Mr.. Struckers book, showing con-
clusively that the panic of 1893, was
created by Cleveland, Carlisle and the
national bankers Of New York,
fhrouuh a cOnSniracv to force Com