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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
DEBT AND THE MONEY QUESTION.

DEBT AND THE MONEY QUESTION.
(The Hon. John A. Keyes, of Duluth.
Mimi. is the author If Minnesota's Austria
liam voting system, and is the candidate for
encouragement of the state on the silver
ticket.)
The money question and the issues of this
campaign must be considered in relation
to the debts of the country-private, state
and national. We must face conditions as
we find them in fact. We cannot manu-
facture artificial conditions and fit our the
cries to them. There are too many theO-
rists and to few cleaners of facts. The
Capitalization OF wealth going on in this
country more rapidly than ever before in
the worlds history. Reliable statistics
showed that in 1890 $685. 600 families in the
United States had as much annual income
as II 900, 900 families. Those 100000 fami-
lies composed Of the producers of wealth
on farm, in mine and workshop. had an an
nual income OF only $3.50 per year. each
family averaging 5.75 persons. Could the
figures be revised to date they would show
the inequality of condition in still more
startling manner. The United States GEN.
sus of 1890 showed minimum Indebtedness
in this country, exclusive of credits, of $780,
ooO. oooO OO This was at that date a per
capita indebtedness Of 1923. or an indebted
ness per family Of $149. The annual in
terest charge at per cent was 1854 per
farmily, which must be paid, II at all, out
of the proceeds Of the labor Of the II. 000, 600
families because it is the producing force
of society that pays principal and interest.
This takes no account of taxation. con-
stantly becoming more burdensome. Now.
the mortgage holders and the bondholders
and the stockholders Of the great corpora
lions, foreign and domestic (and a large
part of this debt is held abroaO. demand
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
COERCION AT WINONA,
Forced to Work For IS Cents a Day.


COERCION AT WINONA.
Some three months ago Doud Sons &
Co., manufacturers of picket fence, wood
rim and flour barrels, attended the ma
tional private conference of their ilk at
Chicago. BY direction Of Mark Hanna
they all shut down their shops at once.
Every manufacturer In Winona attended
that meeting. The plan was to starve
labor out and get them disguised with the
agitation of politics and then with their
characteristic promises, lies and DOODLE
say that you vote for Mckinley and the
mills will be opened rather than the minis.
Assured now, by canvass, that Repub-
lican victory is in sight, bankers say that
confidence is strengthening and this is the
way Doud, Sons & Co.'S mill is opening up.
In the force and rim department hands
received 75c to 81 per day up to the shut
down in July. Now that meat shops
grocery stores, ETC., are being bankrupted
with these unfortunate laborers out Of
work, the poor commission is daily be-
seiged for help, Dowd, Sons & Co. have
decided to employ 10 or IL hands, pro-
vided they will work for So cents and u
cents per day respectively. Rather than
starve the men have eagerly taken advan-
tage Of this chance to get work. The
Northwestern shops here have discharged
every man in their employ known to be in
favor of is to l. All the saw mills shut
down this week indefinitely. The wagon
company, the manufacturing companies
have all cut wages and hours. Doud. Sons
& Co. have cooper shops I'm La Crosse,
Wis: West Superior, Wis; Mankato,
Mimi. as well as at Winona. They pay
81 cents for making fiat hoop barrels.
Owing to organized labor at West SUI
perior they have not been able to make the
cut there successfully, and are now ship
ping scabe from here there. Live horse I'M
til you get grass. ETC.. solves this cam
paign promise. This same firm gave their
men to understand that If they were
known to be Is to l men they would lose
their job. Grocers and butchers say that
it is impossible to carry the unemployed
Of this city over the coming winter. Bank
ers are assured that their tools have made
their election sure, confidence has been re-
stored and the mills are opening up with a
cut. Winona Kicker.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
THE RISE IN THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
Hanna's Decoy to Catch the Unsuspectins
Farmer

Hanna's Decoy to Catch the Unsuspecting
Farmer.
Editor Representative:
1t is surprising to note with what audac.
ity the Sound money" papers of the coun
try boast of the rise in the price of 11heat
and other cereals, and ask if some good
Populist or free silverite win say from wnat
source this increase in prices springs. 1t
seems to me, and I think it will appear in
the same light to all who watch the mar
kets of grain, that this is an occurrence
the opponents of gold should speak of with
bated breath. But this argument, though
more shallow than any other Of our op-
ponents, shows what slender straws they
seek to use to decoy the 'unsuspecting
farmer. 1t is a fact and cannot be con-
tradicted that at every period in our his
tory since 1873 when there has been the
slightest agitation to remonetizing silver.
the price of wheat and all agricultural
products have risen, regardless of what
value the money brokers may quote the
white metal. How this price of products
is fixed and how it so easily fluctuates is
easily told, and can be shown by their own
statements. We all know that In times
of scanty crops the prices are higher than
at other times when crops are bountiful:
his products to market, and If there is a
demand for his goods, and If there Is no
competition. he will ask and receive a
higher price than if the market were filed
with his products. According to an edi-
torial in the st. Paul Globe, a Democratic
paper espousing the cause Of Mark Han
mas pet, there is an increasing exporta-
ton of farm products; and now, consider
ing everything, is 1t not natural that the
price should increase? And as for silver
decreasing, nothing can be argued from
that. 1t would be mystery if the price
did not fluctuate, and it only bears out
what the Peoples Party has been teaching
all along-since there is perpetual de-
mand for 1t. and until 1t can be a ready
SALE the price cannot be constant With
silver as with the wheat instance cited
above, when there is demand it will be
high: when demand it will be low.
Open the minis and silver cannot be
cheaper today than tomorrow, the silver
owner will always find ready market for
his money. if none other repository can
surely be found in the home of the hungry
laborer. Yours truly,
Tom Dneen,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
AN EXPLANATION.
Chairman Jones Issues a Nantes.
to Anent the Advance of
Wheat.

Senator Jones mas something to say on the
recent advances in the price of wheat. He
issued a manifesto yesterday on the sub
ject. The senator read the published inter-
view with Chairman Babcock Of the repub.
lican congressional committee, in which
Mr.. Babcock commended that the rise in the
price of wheat coincident with a decline in
the price of silver knocked one of the favo-
rite arguments Of the silver men into y
cooked hat. The senator disagress with
Mr.. Babcock. He goes to India for an
argument.
Here is his manifesto:
1t is true that wheat has largely advance
silver has somewhat declined, but the adj
vance in the price of the bushel of wheat
proves, rather than disproves, the theories
of the silver men. Our contention has been
that the wheat<of India competed with our
American wheat In the Liverpool markets:
that the Liverpool merchant could in nor
NAL times buy in India at any time dur
ing the past twenty-three years bushel
OF wheat for about an ounce of silver.
When the ounce of silver was worth $123
in gold in 1878 this meant that the bushel
of wheat was worth about that in gold.
But although the India wheat farmer has
always been willing to take an ounce of
silver for a bushel of wheat, the ounce Of
silver has fallen in value owing to it's de-
monetiZatiOn and disuse, and, consequently,
as the gold value Of the ounce of silver
declined the gold value Of the bushel Of
wheat declined and the American farmer
has been compelled to receive the gold
equivalent of the ounce of silver for his
bushel of wheat.
This meant gradual decline in the price
from about $1.29 or $1.30 a bushel in 1878 to
60 or 65 cents in 1893.
The real cause, therefore, of the decline
in gold value of our wheat was largely the
competition of India. This competition has
been recently done away with by reason
of the failure of the wheat crop in India.
and hence the price of American wheat,
deprived Of this competition, Is steadily
advanced. Should. however, the normal
crops be restored in India the old effect
of the fall in silver will be felt in wheat.
and the price of the American wheat in
gold will again be measured by the gold
price of the ounce Of silver If the present
financial system is maintained.
To select a situation so exceptional as
that today, that of famine in India, when
India, naturally an exporting country, for
the first time in twenty-six years is obliged
to import wheat, and then to argue that
circumstance so exceptional breaks down
the well-known rule Of law that wheat
and silver naturally rise and fall together
that Is ridiculous.
1t Is an exception, indeed, which proves
the rule. Were India in position to ex-
port wheat she would import silver In ex-
change, and her demand for silver would
strengthen the silver markets, as 1t Is
she import wheat diminishes her favor
able balance Of trade, thereby reducing tho
demand for silver. and the price Of silver
falls.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

There are some things that the people
nave done, and may do the like again
Cromwell went down to London and found
that men such as John Sherman, Carlisle
and Cleveland robbing the English nation.
Some time later he came into parliament,
and the king lost his head. Other menu
bers. in order to preserve theirs. ran
away. Some of the Tories of New Eng
land left Boston with the British army.
Their descendants are found in the
United States congress.
am glad to know that Mr.. Groat and
yourself and other brave men ore asking
questions. and if the reply is not satisfac-
tory on election day in November some
thing will be done. Labor will refuse to
wear a crown Of thorns or fight for a cross
Of gold. M. A. Chamberlain.
GlendOra CAL Oct r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
A WORD FOR JOHN A. KEYEs.
The Necessity Of an Able and Honst Attorney
General.

The Necessity Of an Able and Honst Attorney
General.
Editor Representatives:
Through your valuable paper I wish to
call the attention of the voters Of Mime
sofa to the necessity of electing an attor-
ney general in our state who is able, honest
and fully qualified to aid our fearless can
didate for governor, Hon. John Lind. IL
elected (and he will be) to execute the
laws in justice and mercy. and let no gull
ty man escape. A good attorney general
is the right arm Of an executive and u
sword and shield for the protection of the
liberty and rights Of the people. 1t cannot
be truthfully disputed that a large amount
of pine timber has been taken wrongfully
from lands donated by a generous gov
eminent for the education of the little
children of Minnesota now living and for
generations to follow. Neither can 1t be
truthfully disputed that railroad q orpora-
lions and private parties have with ruth
less hand extorted from and plundered the
producers of wealth in Minnesota unre-
strained by those whose duty it was I'M
der their sworn oaths to enforce the laws
for the protection of the citizens of our
state. Laws enacted for the protection of
the people have not been enforced. Others
have been enacted (and I write it with
shame) to create offices for political
corpses whom the people at the ballot box
have spurned out. For these causes and
many more it will at once be seen the
prime necessity of electing an attorney
general willing and competent to aid in
enforcing the laws impartially, protecting
All and granting favors to none. Such a
man I believe John A. Keyes, our candi-
date for attorney general to be. While sit
ting as member of our state legislature
he was the one to whom the people owe
the greatest debt of gratitude for placing
upon our statute books the Australian
system Of voting. whereby the distressed
poor man shakes from his elbow the
hound Of greed and oppression at the bal
lot box and votes his will and for his coun-
try's welfare.I He also threw the search
light of investigation upon the state prison
ring of our state, and caused the gang to
howl moonlight cayote serenade, and
many other public measures for the well
fare of his state and country he cham
pioned. Let no voter in Minnesota forget
John A. Keyes, candidate for attorney gen.
eral at the polls at our next election if he
wants good government in Minnesota and
the laws enforced and the rights of all
protected.
Trust the people, they will save our re-
public. Allen G. Sexton. =.
Annandale, Mimi, Oct II.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
can't of their belief that Bryan is to be our

cant of their belief that Bryan is to be our
next president and free silver is assured
Emil G. Hirsch. the noted Jewish rabbi.
has bitter editorial in the current num-
Der of the Reform Weekly, a Hebrew or
gan. in which he appeals to the Jews to
vote solidly for gold. He asserts that 90
per cent Of the Jews are for gold, and it
should be made unanimous.
Gen. Weaver, among other good things.
has been making great speech at his
home Des Moines, and demolishing one
Mcfarland a Republican, whom his COM
mittee, under protest, permitted to meet
the redoubtable general
Thirteen Russians presented themselves
to register at East St. Louis, and express
ed the desire to vote for Mckinley and free
silver. but were informed that such a COM
bination was impossible
1t is reported from silver headquarters
at Denver that Wall street is sending
large remittances to Colorado in care Of
Senator Walcott, for the purpose Of defeat
ing Senator Teller's reelection.
In Illinois the contest is to be chiefly in
the city of Chicago. The purchasable ele =.
ment among the vicious or very
poor in the big city are Hanna's only hope
for carrying the state.
The Peoples Party state central Commit
tees of Kansas and Nebraska, are publish
ing Gen. Paul Vandervoort as a traitor,
whose sole object is to defeat Bryan.
In spite of the predictions Of the moneyed
classes of financial ruin, the nearer Bry-
ans election comes the better prices are.
Wheat continues to rise steadily.
The Peoples Party National Headquar-
tiers report over 100000 campaign docu-
ont out tho nOO mn
and the Democrats 81, 600, 600.
Bob Schilling is making it warm for the
gold bugs in and around Milwaukee, and
offered.
Thirteen state tickets were filed with the
Illinois secretary of state. Women can
vote this year in Illinois for trustees of
state university.
Hanna has the city press, the entire mu-
nicipal and police force back of him, with
Rockefeller, Pullman and Armour close at
hand.
Colorado women will cast their first vote
for president this year, and are taking an
active but graceful part in the campaign.
Gov. Stone, of Missouri after three weeks
Of steady campaigning, has gone to Ken
lucky to make few speeches.
II am a Democrat" Hill, having waited
until it is a matter Of small Importance an
nounecs that he will vote for Bryan.
Hon. w. H. Harvey Coin), is heard from
at various points, making his Vluiet, busi-
ness like demonstrated talks on money.
j. r. Sovereign, E. R. Arnold and A. D.
TANNER are the Peoples Party Presidential
electors in Arkansas.
The Non Conformist, from which c. x.
Matthews was recently deposed, will be
edited by Vincent.
Prof. c. Vincent is speaking to en-
thuSiaStic audiences in Iowa. A. r,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
THE ZENITH CITY.
The Gold Bugs on the Run.

Editor Representative:
Mark Hanna's goldite minions had a big
blow out here last Saturday night, as az,
object lesson. 1t came very high, but
they had to have it, and the marine and
parade display was very impressive from
a pyrotechnic standpoint
They had about two-thirds of what the
silver forces had in line when Lind and
Towne opened the campaign here, and the
railroads centering here brought in half
their forces at that. AS a sample all
available men were brought here by the
roads from northera Wisconsin, and
about 400 from Two Harbors, Lake county,
employed by the Iron Range road, 70 per
Lind and Towne.
Hundreds of idle men were hired to
march in the procession. and put off thous-
ands dollars worth Of fire works
The effect was the opposite of that ex.
pected, and instead of admiration and awe
at the vulgar display and extravgant
waste of money, it has brought down upon
the heads of plutocracy loud imprecations
and curses from the idle and destitute. In
the days of substantial prosperity of the
them now. as most every grand stand
play they make does.
1t would seem the finger of God was
directing the struggle on the part of the
masses for deliverance from Industrial
bondage, as evidenced by the general dis
gust created in common people from the
transparent fraud of securing popular
favor in the forced pilgrimages of laborers
to Canton to worship at the shrine of
king Hanna's golden idol"
Their desperation is shown by Snen like
Gelford Goldite Hartley and Capitalist
X. D. Chase, two old "hayseed'' farmers,
contending in the papers that there is 4
bonanza in farming in the face of COM
mon knowledge that 49, 900 farm mortgages
have been foreclosed and not redeemed in
the past 13 years, and $1,000 town and city
lots, in the state of Minnesota. Not only
this, but the whole wheat crop at the price
secured by the farmers Is not sufficient to
pay the annual interest on the mortgage
debt of this state. Further. 1900 farms.
one-half with buildings on, have been
abandoned and reverted to the state of
Massachusetts. and most farmers in the
Middle States have been losing money since
the Repeal of the Sherman law. Let our
friends in Minnesota do their duty in the
cause this closing week Of the campaign,
and st. Louis county, with the Sixth dis
trict. will join with larger majority for
the whole ticket that the magnificent plu-
rality our Charley" got for congress two
years ago. The issue is more than merely
whether silver shall be restored not to
its old function Of primary money with
gold.
The real issue is whether plutocracy shall
control the government or the government
control plutocracy.
Fl. D. Culver.
Chairman st. Louis County Peoples Party
Committee.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
The gold dollar of today,

The fine dot above may be found by
good pair of eyes, otherwise you may need
to use a microscope, and you will discern
the grain of sand which would compare
with the gold dollar of today, and for
which you are expected to pay in labor or
goods 100 cents.
Its actual value (demonetized here and
in Europe) is not more than cents, and
that with 100 per cent profit to the miner.
1t seems to me so cent silver dollars would
be far more preferable than cent gold
dollars.
The fact is that the value Of the gold
dollar is almost entirely fictitious. The
law which compels us to use it as money
adds nine-tenths to its value. A silver
dollar at the 16 to 1 ratio will buy three
times as much Of the worlds products as
the gold dollar, both being entirely exclud-
ed for money purposes in civilized ma
tions and sold on the open markets as
beef, grain, ETC., are disposed OF today
Wilhelm Harl.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
BEWARE OF ROORBACKS.
The Campaign Reviewed-A Scheme to Retire
the Greenbacks.

The Campaign RevieWed-A Scheme to Retire
the Greenbacks.
Editor Representative.
In reviewing the present campaign up to
this time find the champions of the single
gold standard have been driven from every
point of argument they have advanced.
and at this time were the result of the
election Nov. rest upon common sense
and reason. The reform ticket will be
elected from top to bottom. Now it is
q question If a stampede can be created by
roorbacks, and the old cartoons relied
upon and worked SO successfully two years
ago picturing Kansas and Colorado, the
result of my observations after four
weeks active campaigning among farmers
convinces me that such tactics will fail this
time. Even their best card among the
farmers used the past week so persistent
ly by their papers and speakers, 1.-The rise
in the price of wheat and the fall in the
price of silver Is failing them because
they are letting the price of wheat drop.
One thing certain. from now until' after
election the Republican politicians in this
state will be n very busy class of people,
too busy to crack jokes, or stop for trides
While writing I wish to call attention to
something that to me portends a danger
to the people of this country. 1 notice re-
ports in the New York papers of large
amounts Of gold being deposited in the SUBJ
treasury and legal tender notes drawn out
learn this process Of drawing out legal
tenders for gold is being practiced by for
eign syndicatcs. Now, in reviewing the
financial legislation for the past thirty
years 1 find the bond manager has always
succeeded in his object: If thwarted upon
one line they tried another. always relying
upon the influence Of their subsidized
press to educate the people to sentiment
that will either demand what they ask
or acquiesce in such bonded legislation as
the bond managers demand. believe the
next great move to be made Is to secure
an issue of $500 .0c0 Of bonds and the de-
struction of the remaining greenbacks
Let us see how they drew out legal ten
der notes for gold will help them accom-
plish their purpose. learn by this SUBJ
sidized press that there will be $lOo, COZ, Geo
or over Of gold deposited by these syn
didates before the flood Of gold will STOP
with 500, 600 Of legal tender notes in
the hands Of these syndicates. and the gold
reserye gets down to tho danger line. with
Ahe press Of the country calling attention
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
ourForun.
a FEW SIMPLE RULEs-READ AND BE
GOVERNED ACCORDINGLY.

We are 30 crowded with letters. many q
them excellent and most interesting, that,
70 give them all a hearing. we are con,
grained to quote the following from SOUND
Money.-Ed. Rep.
Write on one side Of paper, beginning
tne hrst page about the middle of the sheet.
Always sign your name to your arucle'
Be brief
20 not try to cover the whole range OF
reform in one letter.
Be brief and to the point.
Letters of 800 words on one point, pfoPerS
condensed. will cover almost any subject.
Be brief.
Shoot at the mark-not in the air. AIM
at something and hit 1t.
Be brief. Boil down and quit when you
are DONE
Again We say, be brief.
In other words we say-be brief!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
THE NEED OF FUNDS.

st. Paul, Minn., 1S96.-To the Friends OF
Free Silver: The only doubt that the state
of Minnesota will be carried for Bryan and
the state ticket arises from the lack OF
funds. There is no source from which
large contributions can be obtained, and
so our campaign fund must be inade> up
from small contributions from individuals
Anything you can contribute will be &C.
ceptable.
The people must carry on this contest.
and we ask you to send contribution, 70:
which due credit will be given you. Ad-
dress contributions to e. M. Pope, Secre-
tary, Globe Building. st. Paul. MINI.
A. A. HARRIS,
Chairman Finance Committee.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
THE VALUE OF A GOLD DOLLAR.
Editor Representative:

Editor Representatives:
Many drummers for wholesale houses
are carrying around with them on their
trave.s large sized silver dollars and exhib-
iting them as take off trick on free
silver.
None of these same men realize. how
ever, the ridiculous situation on the other
side, or the question of what has become
of the gold in a gold dollar if the law be so
amended Gf the ratio is increaseD to
reduce the gold dollars size instead of in
creasing the dimensions Of the silver dol
lar.