The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-30
McCLEARY CRUSHED.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
They First Make Mad.

Hwy II 81 VAohO AvAdAs
Editor Representative
AT this late stage of the game, some one
having desire to convert me to the single
gold standard sent me the dishwater argu-
ment Of Hon. CD j. T. McCleary. To one
who has stood the storm of ridicule, vitu-
peration and abuse, that the conspirators
against the liberty of the people, with their
hired Hessan allies Of the press. and their
ignorant henchmen have seen fit to heap
on all who dared to oppose their nefarious
schemes of plumber for more than 20 years,
who had the hardihood to question their
divine right to destroy the happiness Of all
who toll. it would be ample testimony and
excuse for the friends and relatives to in
carcerate one in home for imbeciles
were he to go over to the enemy now.
after having had his eyes opened to the
wreckages and devastating waste which a
constituencies. soulless .coterie of the
most criminal and diabolical class Of
men that ever escaped the galiOws inst-
gated in 1862, and persistently pursued
from that day until Mr.. Cleveland (by
grace of ignorance and bigotry OF the peo-
ple-prcsident of the United States) con-
vened an extraordinary session of con-
gross and destroyed the little remnant of
silver Legislation which yet remained.
We have had the single gold standard for
three years. How do you like it?
Mr.. McCleary, with eyes in the back of
his head. and a Seventeenth century intel
Iect argues that history, science and COM
mon sense all declare for honest money"
Of course honest money in his vocabu
larry can mean no more nor less than gold.
1t may not have entered his benighted
intellect that there are men and women in
the world today who have forgotten more
of science are more deeply read In his
tory, and who have as much good horse
sense as any who oppose Them vet totally
repudiate both gold and silver as money.
You seem to believe that though We have
men, strong and hardy, food to maintain
them, and all the raw material for the most
extensive wealth production, yet without
the gold of the Jew Insurer no productive
enterprise is possible. The people have
been imposed upon by this bare-faced con-
fdence game SO long that it is being
looked upon as necessary evil. You in
suit the intelligence of every man, and
also impeach our integrity. With an I'M
parallelled self assurance presuming upon
our ignorance, you assert that natural
law has something to do with fixing the
prices LAS prices decline compared with
the reward of human labor the condition
of the people is elevated" Ye gods, is
the man In his dotage? Let us examine in
to this wisdom. In strict justice all the
wealth that man creates belongs to him,
and no one else has right to take any
part of it from his without returning an
equivalent. Mind you, l don't for mo-
ment believe that we are on such a basis
today, but are exactly the reverse. God
I'm heaven, what an assertion to make.
Prices under present conditions are the
reward of labor. How in heavens name
can prices, which are the reward of human
labor decline and thus increase the re-
ward of labor and elevate the people is
more than l can figure out unless 2x2-s.
Your zeal in your special pleadngs for
the Jew Insurer, who Is eternally geetting
something for nothing from productive en-
terprise, led you to throw that sop to the
laboror. hoping that he was too ignorant to
pierce it's sophistry.
You claim that for "the vast mass of
humanity it is bringing emancipation from
want" That assertion stamps you as an
ignoramus or a knave, as millions of the
citizens of these United States can testify
from sad experience.
You may be a reader of the scriptures,
but you evidently skip all passages that
have any reference to usury.
The free coinage of silver would be hard
on debtors" would it? Why, simply be-
cause the usurer, worse than useless fac
tor, would refuse to make loans and would
call in loans that We're already out. In
other words. the whole country is on it's
knees and must give over to the pirate.
at his stand and deliver" everything that
We possess even our manhood.
You give yourself away. We are now on
gold standard and the gold gamblers
have our industries by the throat, think
ing to scare us into submission by their
threatening us with commercial disaster.
A blind man can see what We are suffering
from gold basis now. But debts are
an evidence of prosperity is the slogan
that has gone forth from the powers that
be- and woe betide the man unucky
enough to oppose them in their piratical
schemes. Our people are hopeleSsly In
debt. More than nine millions of homes
have mortgages on them; there is scarcely
municipality in this broad land
that has not piled up an enor-
nous debt; all corporations have
heaped up mountain of watered debt for
the people to pay interest upon: as re-
suit we are on the verge of n social ca
taclysm. The invisible money powe knows
this, and in order to keep and hold the
people in perpetual bondage it proceeds to
blarney the people about their great coun-
try, it's wonderful freedom, and how
much better off they are than the oppress-
ed of other countries. They love the in
dependent co farmer, the honest laboring
mass. the yeomanry and bulwork Of the
nation. They flatter and jole with such
lies as honest money" protection to
home labor, labor is honorable while
they proceed to enact laws which protect
capital, not labor, and spurn honest labor
as pest.
AS a citizen any man has a right to his
opinion and the free expression of it. AS
a public servant who is paid by taxes
wrung from productive enterprise, he is
not acting in his capacity as citizen, but
as a hired conservator Of the public veal
and liable at any time to be called upon to
give an account of his stewardship. If
he lends himself through ignorance or re-
ward as tool to further the ends of a.
class whose interests are inimical to the
public veal, he can expect nothing less
than that he will be weighed in the balan-
ces.
Notwithstanding the assertion of gold
gamblers that gold IS the only measure Of
: value, it is being concluded by large and
rapidly Increasing number Of the brainiest
men and women of the world that it Is no
measure at all. That it's use as money IS 4
dra uhao and a hindrcroe ia tho ,rx,,