The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
GROVER MEASURED.
He is 63a Inches Around the Waist,
While His Leg is so Inches Long!
NO ONE HAS YET MEASURED HIS INTELLECT.
He Saves the Country by Going Duck.Hunt-
ing-But the G. O.P. Press Don't Abuse
Him-He is One Of the Family.

Editor Representatives:
am close reader Of the Forum col
umns, and take deep interest in the diff
ferent views therein expressed.
would inquire what kind Of man we
have for president.
AS a fisherman I have not heard that
he is anything of success probably about
on par with the ordinary loafer engaged
in that business to kill time. AS duck
hunter he is certainly failure; a man that
can't average more than three ducks
day had better hire a substitute; we have
plenty of Dakota boys that can beat that
record with a two dollar Zulu gun.
But when it comes to finance there Is
where our "Grofer shines!'
He says he has plenty Of revenue and
has to sell bonds only to keep UP the gold
reserve.
The New York World (gold bugs) says
that a broker had the audacity to go to the
sub-treasury and draw out large amount
Of gold coin and bullion with green backs
and pile it up on the countAr and sell it to
a bond bidder at a premium, who turned it
in, in payment for bonds without taking
1T out of the treasury building!
1t is regular bunco game; there is not
business man in the United States that
would allow himself to be continuously
swindled in that kind of a way; no: nor
Grover would not if he was doing business
for himself, What is he, a fool or a knave?
Is he intelligent?
We can't think that man who is edu-
Gated in the law, is lacking in ordinary
intelligence.
Perhaps he has got, too, fat and lazy
to think. I see he has just been measured
for a suit of clothes he measures 60 inches
around the hips and 631a around the
waist leg so inches, the papers do not
state what his head measure is; such
monstrosity! the girh is big in the wrong
place.
If we had an Andrew Jackson for presi-
dent, he would find that there was con-
spiracy among the national bankers to do
the people up" and would suspend the
writ of habeas corpus, as in a time Of
great public danger, and arrest and i'm
prison the conspirators. "Grofer" goes
fishing, and yet he says "a public office
is public trust yes about election time
The national bank notes are said to be
"the best money that the world ever saw
safe. sound and flexible; and yet who ever
heard Of one of them being presented
for redemption. There is no gold reserve
behind them; neither are they legal ten
der; and the people do not ask for their
redemption any more than they do for
the redemption Of the green backs.
1t is not the people but the banks that
are using this "endless chain in the fur
Inference of deep laid scheme to entangle
the people in an endless chain of poverty
and restitution from which 1t will be next
selves.
1t naturally occurs to thinking man,
that If corporation can issue irredeem-
able non-legal tender promised to pay, that
are so good that no one asks for their
redemption. that the government can issue
its own non-interest bearing notes that
are, or should be, a full legal-tender, and
thereby save the interest on the bonds,
that the banks have on deposit with the
treasury as security for their circulation.
Why treasury gold reserve, if national
bank notes are so good without gold
reserve? Why fish for one and fowl ducks
for the other.
It is first a run to deplete the gold re-
serve and then whoop her up Grover for
another bond issue! And then another de-
pletion and another issue \of bonds SEEM
ingly without end
With these conspirators and our Gro
fer" to back them, it is the people be id
We give him $153 per day and he goes
duck hunting;-quack! quack.
w. H. Hibbs.