The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-27

fought in the coming campaign. The
Populist platform affords remedy for
these evils and provides as follows:
/. The minis shall be opened to the
coinage of both gold and silver at the
ratio of Is to l.
2. That all banks of issue must be
abolished as their charters expire, and
the government must Issue or coin all
paper money. making it equal by law in
its function as money with gold and
silver.
8. That the greenbacks must not be
taken up with gold bonds but be reis-
sued as full legal tender money.
4. That the bonds must not be
changed from coin bonds to gold bonds
and extended so years, but must be paid
as rapidly as possible and the country
relieved of this vast burthen of bonded
debt.
My friends. the situation that con-
fronts us is appalling. Under the SYM
phonious phrases of Sound money"
honest money" national honor" and
national credit" these vicious vigils of
vice and woe, these foul despoilers Of
human hopes have arrayed many Of our
brethren, our neighbors, our friends
against us. And thus the Kings army
is swelled by volunteer from the peo-
pies ranks
And while our country is baptized in
sorrow, struggling with despair and
crushed with debt, we must remember
that IT these pitiless pirates and perjured
plunderers-these cruel caluminators of
God aid humanity, who by precept and
practice, despise our republic, dispute
our constitution and destroy our liberty:
If they succeed in the next election, all!
all! is lost
For with the banks rechartered they
will faunt charter in our face IAN in
violable contract"-and intrenched be-
hind supreme court of their own max
ing will defy all efforts at change
An with the law changed making our
"coin bonds payable in gold, they will
point to the new bonds with payable in
gold written on their face can inviola-
BILE contract'), scott at all efforts to
change, and demand in the name of law
your children and mine fifty years from
now shall till rented soil and live in how
els and huts in order to pay that debt
And with treaty formed closing our
minis against silver and against the cir
culation of all other money except gold
and bank bills redeemable in gold, they
will hold treaty in our face-a sol
emn compact" with other nations-scorn
RECALLED in rubies, frescoed with fringe
bedecked with diamonds, latticed with
lace, bedangled with diadems and breath
ing sweet perfume from their trellaced
locks, their daughters will go to the bou-
quet feasts and festivities Of health re-
sorts willie two hundred thousand South
ern girls drag cotton sacks in scarcely
decent cotton clothes; and in the North
million more must stay and tread the
workshop ten hours a day.
The national committee of our party,
remembering the words of DR.. Franklin
that The who controls the money of a
nation controls the destiny of that ma
tion," have sought to make the Populist
household the Temple of Liberty into
which all the patriots who oppose these
cOnSpiratOrS could come and array
themselves under one banner, marshal
8,000 900 votes against this old British Ion
and her American whelps; feeling con-
fident that If we lose control of our
money at the next election we will lose
also control of our land and highways.
For he who controls the money of Amer
lea will control the land of America and
the highways of America.
The burning question before our people
today is, "Who shall coin and issue our
money and control it's volume?" If this
power is to be sealed into the hands of
those foreign royal rogues by treaty.
charter and contract, then farewell to
human hopes, farewell to human liberty
This, the last lingering spot on earth
where man sought to rid himself of the
oppression of kings and the plumber Of
princes, will, amid the ribaldry and rev.
elry of the rich and the agonizing groans
of the oppressed, go down an easy prey
to the titled llSllrDerS: and from the tomb
of dead Liberty will rise Royal Regent.