The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-09

it was these Things that had furnish
ed homes for, seventy million people,
but 1T seems We are not indebted to
the Lord God, but to Wall street, for
these mighty blessings. II the mile
age Of our railroads and telegrap hs
has been doubled they have left US in
debt to foreign nations, SO that al
most our entire productions are ship
ped abroad, to pay interest on our in
debtednesss Neither do we believe
that the seventy million people today
live better than the thirty million did
before the war. Before the war no
such thing as tramp" was known
in our land. The people were SUBJ
stantially out of debt. Every indus
trious man could find work to do at
good wages. Now we have millions Of
employed and the catalogue of
crimes, murders, suicides is increasing
at ratio never before heard of in
the history Of the world. Neither has
the money power created the new
South. The old South was rich and
| prosperous. The new South is mort
gagged to the eyeids; the price OF its
productions reduced to less than cost
of creating them. Cotton that used
t. be 10 and 20 cents per pound has
been put down to and cents. The
discOn tent Of the South, universal and
intense, is expressing itself in the
present political revolution, which
has practically driven the Republican
| ortU # NJ victo
gions. 1t is true. as Mr.. Depew says,
that the Money-Power has decreased
the cost of living, but it has done it at
the expense Of the farmers, who now
! get about one-half for their products
| that they did twenty years ago. At
| the same time the farmers are SO i'm
| poverished that they are unable to
purchase the goods manufactured by
the labor Of the cities, and the whole
land is paralyzed, and nothing pays
| but lending money.
| Mr.. Depew says: "What has free
| coinage OF the confidence man done
! simply by the promise OF what he will
! do? Let the distressed farmer and
the unemployed millions of the
! United States answer at the ballot
| box. Lack of confidence has DIES troyed
| the purchasing power Of the country:
| destruction OF its purchasing power
has ruined it's market; the ruin Of its
market has eft the farmers product
unSaleable on his hands,
This is all very adroit on the part of
the worthy Mr. Dcpew. He charges
upon the Peopl:'s Party the condi-
tions which brought the Peoples Par
| ty into existence. He has just told
us that the seventy millions of today
| live better than the thirty millions
did before; and in the next breath he
speaks of ''the distressed farmers and
the unemployed millions of the
United States.' 1t is a lack Of conf
dence that has destroyed the purchas-
ing power of the country, but the pur-
chasing power Of the country has been
decreased by the increase or the pur-
chasing power Of the dollar, caused by
the destruction Of one-half the prim-
airy money Of the world, through the
| demone tization; Of silver. The I'M
salable products of the farmer are due
to the fact that the unemployed mil
lions have no money with which to
buy them.
And this plausible advocate of the
very conditions which have made him
millionaire next SAYS:
"What the farmer wants is not
more coinage, but more customers'
But how can the customers buy if
they have not the money wherewith
to buy? To cut half the worlds
metallic money supply is to cut in
half the capacity of the customers to
buy and therefore the farmers pro-
auctions remain unsaleable.
Mr.. DeDeW continues: "What the
wage Garner wants is to give his la Dor
for the best dollar in the world and
the opportunity, whenever he wants
it, to get that dollar with his labor"
The best dollar in the world, accord
ing to Mr.. Depew, is the dollar that
will buy most of the products Of the
laborer; that will pay for most of his
time and for the largest amount Of
toll Of his muscles. The best dollar
means the worst man; for as the dol
lar goes up the man goes down.
And, in conclusion, Mr.. Depew
thinks it is not wrong for him to have
got good fat place. Certainly not;
but if he, for the purpose of holding
on to it tries to mslead others, who
have not fat places, to their ruin then
his course is reprehensible and should
be exposed.
He says he does not want to pay
twice as much for the necessaries Of
life as he pays now" What are the
necessaries of life? Food-clothing.
What are these made Of? Wheat,
corn, barley, beef, mutton. pork, poul-
try, milk, butter and cheese; with
wool and cotton for clothing. And all
these things are raised On the land by
men who are called farmers. Now
Mr.. Depew confesses that if policy
is adopted. the opposite Of that which
he advocates, the prices Of these ar
ticles would be doubled. and thereby
the producers Of the same would get
out of debt and be enriched; and their
consumption of clothes, implements,
luxuries, ETC., would be so increased
that "the millions of unemployed" to
which he refers. would find purchaser rs
for their wares, and would be prosper
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