The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-15
a WATCHFIRE IN THE NOUN:
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a WATCH.FIRE IN THE NOUN
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THE EASTERN FORESTS cABLAzE.
There arc not lacking symptoms
that the great wave OF ,refOr m has
reached even the mountains OF. New
England. A paper called.the eeKtck-
err was established about gear ago
in Glover, Vermont, published month
ly, we'll edited, and kicking vigorously
for Peoples Party principles. ,s,.s',-
We quote the following from q re-
cent issue: ..""~.~-~,-,.s
"Trial subscriptions for the Kicker
until after November election, 10
cents; and every copy OF 1t will be a re-
poSitOry of facts OF vital Interest to
every citizen. ,..4N~
Send in your orders. Farmers, who
read 1t, will find therein an -explana-
tion Of the question-very little I'M
derstood by them-why they are pro-
ducing butter and wool for 10 cents
pound and potatoes, 10 cents a bushel.
The politicians say lit is the Demo
cratic tariff" but these products are
higher in Canada and In Europe than
they are In the states, and the pres
emit tariff makes US pay 80 cents tax
on q hat made in England, and S.
for pair of pants containing less
than so cents worth Of wool, and made
in the sweatshOps at IL cents q pair.
Who gets the protection. out of
these oariff taxes, the 10-cent wool
farmer, the 11-cent pants maker, or
the manufacturing monopolist who
keeps lobby force at the Capitol to
get his ''line' of goods marked high
In the tariff schedule? No, Brother
Farmer. It's no use letting those
lawyer politicians try any longer to
tax us into prosperity. Give US more
honest legislation, more justice, and
more money in circulation, and we
will have better times"
And in this same connection we
quote the following from the last is
sue of the Irish World of New York:
"Portentous and menacing, 8 political
spectre has risen in the rural outlines OF
this state, threatening to overshadow
parties and conditions, and obliterafe
partisan lines from the Pennsylvania
boundary to the St Lawrence and from
Lake Erie to the Huison."-New York
Herald.
When the New York delegation
headed by Mr.. Plat, went to st. Louis
to help bulldoze the Republican conven-
ton into committing itself to gold, they
declared in most positive terms that the
vote. of the Empire state would be lost to
the party IL strong gold plank was not
inserted in the platform. Many OF the
New York delegates acted and spoke as II
Wall Street was the state Of New York.
The New York Herald's note Of warn
ing will no doubt arouse the politicians
to a realization IT the true situation. This
organ of the money power tells them in
plain language that the people-the COM
mon people, as Lincoln was wont to call
them-are arraying themselves in solid
phalanxes against Wall Street and its al
lied hordes Of money changers From
the Hudson to the Lakes the money Ques-
ton and It's bearings on the interests Of
labor are discussing with an earnestness
that promises 70 place New York with
her seventy-two electoral votes on the
side of the white metal. a..s.. ST..
The New York Herald Is our authority
for this statement. It has been sending
its representatives into the different
counties Of the state, and their report
would indicate that the spirit that In
spired the famous war song, I'VE Are
NNInlA6, 4 ONAOA <AV1 uAqpA, AAfCO A4OA-
dreS Thousand Strong" is abroad in the
rural districts of New York. The Herald,
in laying before its readers the character
of the political revolution that is taking
place in state that the moneylenders
confidently counted upon as their own,
says: 100 20 .
1.-THE first intimation the cities had Of
this surprising slant toward free silver
was given in the Herald dispatches from
Saratoga during the Democratic state
convention. In order to test, the ac-
curacy of the statements Of sound money
Democrats that Democratic and. Reptfb.
lican farmers alike were becofttng RAM
pant on free silver, the Herald sent out
correspondents into a few Of these local.
ties to make inquiries. - i ~. ;
Their reports, printed herewith, show
that it is the Republicans rather than the
Democrats who should be alarmed. The
situation is like mountain forest in Au-
gust, ready for the match. The Repub-
lican leaders are in ignorance of the ac-
tual state Of affairs-it has all come
about In three or four weeks. The county
Democratic leaders, having become ac-
quainted with 1t In their casycuse5, are
secretly anxious for free silver To triumph
in Chicago. They think they can shift
tu0 CsElA ISSUE duO carry the l8fm3CS al
most solidly for free silver" 49,,
With this introduction the Herald goes
into details. It finds that st, Lawrence
county, once regarded as 'sthe rock
ribbed Gibraltar Of Republicanism' Is
one enormous debating society, The de-
batting is all on the question of SILVER,
The reason why all this debating Is GO
ing ON Is then stated. est. Lawrence is
almost an entirely an agricultural coun-
ty. The tremendous fall in the price
Of farm products has made the acarcity
of money in the rural distridtt almost
grotesque. Cheese sells for from e.to S1k
cents per pound; butter has been down. as
low as 10 cents; potatoes must BIS fed to
tho stock ,f-4
This object lesson as to the nature OF
the relation existing between prices and
the amount of money n circulation has
set the farmers in St. Lawrence county
thinking. To help them on their think
ing silver leagues have been !, started,
which promise to do good deal Ut edu-
cational work between this and Mo-
vember.
In other counties it is the same story
= farmers rallying around thesitver
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