The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29

ara lvcryLlslns else was nI.sh In pro-
portion, because at that time we had
S67.25 per capita of currency in circu-
iatiun, while now we have So 81. The
laboring man knows that when the
products of abor are reduced one half
in price, labor itself must be CORE
spondingly reduced: unless, as is the
case in some pursuits, wages are
forced up by organizations Of the
workingmcn. But even then the
workingman finds him self out of en-
ploymenta large share OF the time:
and what he earns when at work is
eaten up ty his consumption when
Idle. The other night we heard Paul
Fontaine address a great crowd of
workingmen in Minneapolis. Said
he:
LET every man in this audience
who owns Il home, free of incum-
branca, hold up his hand"
Not hand arent up in all that large
audience!
And tni5 is the condition the Globe
thinks the workingmen desire to per.
petuate!
And for this he would divide the
workers on the farms and in the
shops into two antagonistic bodies!
). AS to the utterances Of that
Judas from Kentucky" as Senator
Tillman called him, we cannot speak
with any patience. This is the trail
tor-knave whO,--befOre he was
bought, the emonetizatiOn
of silver was the greatest crime in the
history Of humanity; and that it's
consequences would be more deStruc-
tive to the American people than war,
pestilence and famine. And now he
is trying to obscure the judgment Of
the working classes, -sutfering from
the very calamities he prophetic -
by lies and false reasoning. We
would give a good deal to get at the
''cuss,' on public platform, before
5000 people, He says:
AFTER struggling for more than a
quarter OF century, through labor
organiZa tiOnS and otherwise, to secure
rate OF wages which would make the
proceeds of days labor equal to the
cost OF days subsistence, for the
workingman and his family, you are
asked, by the advocates of free coin
age, to join them in destroying
one-half or the purchasing power OF
the money in which you are paiu; and
impose upon yourself the task of
doubling the nominal amount of your
wages hereafter
And this is uttered in the face of
the daily press of the country, which
records the awful catalogues of sui
cides Of men who die, by their own
hands, from absolute despair and in
ability to obtain work: and in mlny
cases the poor wretch murders his
whole family, rather than leave them
to the tender mercies of such world
dominated by SUCH ScOundrelS as Car
isle.
Take this instance from the last is
sue of Wayland's Appeal to Reason:
Some one sends me copy of the
Morning News of Muskegon, Mich,
giving an account OF horrible result
| OF our social system. S. b. Minshall,
| aged AS was a lawyer, life and fire In
| Surance agent and any other Odd JOBS
| that would make a living for himself
and family, a job he found growing
| harder. One Sands. agent of lum-
| Der monopoly, induced him to move
| from Chicago TO Pcntwater, promising
| him the ms uranCe on the company's
| property; and after he got him there
forced him to divide up the premiums,
| leaving Lin SO little he could not feed
his family. His household effects
were about to be sold, and this made
| him desperate. He got a Winches ter,
| killed Sands, and then went home,
| killed his wife and three children and
| himself, leaving a note that he did so
because he knew his family would
| starve and it were better they were
all dead. Six people killed because
| the social system shut them out from
| making living. l knew Minshall in
| Colorado. He was good citizen, in
au,triOus, sober and had a charming
family. He was dyed-in-the-wool
! Republican and laughed to scorn the
| clal system was wrong unjust, in
| equitable and productive OF harm.
| He refused to see anything wrong
| with it and died at his own hands,
| still ignorant that his vote and in
! fiuence had helped make and keep the
| world perfect industrial hell, to
! get out of which he committed his
awful crimes"
Or take this from the same paper:
John Clayton Temple, son of Ex-
! Gov. Temple, or Delaware, poor and
in need Of employment, was locked up
IN police station for presenting
| letter Of recommendation at house
on Fifth avenue.-New York World,
| April Is.
So it is considered crime to seek
employment! Perhaps after this be-
comes generally understood the work
ing people will go off in fence corner
and quietly and nicely starve to death,
and leave letter to the coroner to
save trouble Of investigating. Per-
haps they will and then perhaps they
will not. The people who live by rob-
berry must not be molested by their
victims asking for work!
And Judas q. Carlisle thinks that
this scion Of respectable family was
consoled, while under arrest, by the
reflection that the purchasing power
of gold dollar was more to day than it
had been at any time since the Middle
Ages, when a mans wages were a
penny Cay.
This utterance Of his is spoken
in the face of the fact that many Of
our cities have been compelled, even
this spring, TO seize upon the vacant
lots and land and give the use of them
/ nd VIZ