The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-14

would make ~ cents, ana as silver would
still be further deprecated in value, be-
cause more of it would be used as money,
the dollar would still drop down until it
might get to be worth only ten cents and
then those wicked miners would pocket a
clean 80 cents out of 1t; those wicked min
ers, they were causing all this agitation.
And then he would say compare those sell
fish people with those good, dear old
bankers, those presidents Of life insurance
companies, who pay lecturers a thousand
dollars night, and send them out in spe-
cfal cars to warn the people of the great
danger which might become to them OF
being obliged to take half dollars when
they had deposited whole ones in their
banks; and those dear old life insurance
company presidents were at this very min
ute sobbing for fear that they might be
obliged to pay only one piece of money
where they ought to pay two. They would
fear that the ghost of fourteen millions of
their cOuntrymen" would appear to them
and say: I'VE have been paying the
dollars year after year in gold, out Of
the abundance and the purity of our love,
SO that when we had to answer to the final
summons and stand up before the great
Unknown, those who are nearest and
dearest to us. the widow in her weeds,
and the children in their tears, shall have
something coming which will make the
balance Of their lives secure Those
fourteen million ghosts would say to that
poor frightened president of ,he life insur-
ance company, II desire that law shall
be passed In this country which will not
permit you to pay those widows in their
weeds, and those children in their tears,
the cheapest dollars in the market.
Only an appearance from the supernatural
world would prevent an insurance COM
pany doing this, If they mad a chance.
Those dear old presidents, they are phi
lanthropists, they love the widow.
Those miserable silver miners, who
would steal even the childrens tears.
He would give them his word, and pledge
the honor of his party that should they be
in power, that is, he would say, that is. If
the great nations are willing that 1egfsla-
ton would at once be enacted to fix the ac-
tual and relative value Of geld and silver on
Il permanent basis, and then he would add
that he hoped that his audience would not
be disturbed by that delusion that by a stat
ute the actual and relative value of gold
and silver could be fixed any more than
that of lead and iron.' =
He would weep for the dear laboring men.
whose friend he was, and always had been !:
he was fellow laborer, that should this
silver fallacy become fact, then they
would have to pay twice the amount for
everything they put in their mouth.
And he would just laugh at those fool
farmers who expected that if the silver fall
lacy should become law that they were
expecting to receive twice what they are
now for what they sold for other people to
eat. $500
The poor laboring man would have to pay
twice as much. The fool farmer would not
get any more; yes, only half as much.
He did come and the hall was crowded to
the rafters and he said all that was ex-
pected Of him and great deal more. He
quoted yards Of statistics, specially pre-
pared for him, and wired him on that day
day Oavis), and in the darkest hues, in
the blacklist colors. did he picture out to
them the dire dismal conditions Of the peo-
pie composing the little nations of the earth
now on a debased silver standard. With d.
shudder he said Russia. China, India, and
he fairly quivered from head to foot when
he spoke about that miserable, forlorn,
wretched, afflicted Mexico where wheat
was only so a bushel Chicago Record,
Sept. 22), and where farmers were paid In
that degraded, dirty, Shiny, greasy, dis
honest, rotten, deprecated Mexican cur
rency (Which was worth only 100 cents in
that country, where everybody who had
anything to buy had to pay double for what
they bought, and those who had anything
to sell only received one-half so he rea-
soned.
Those people were to be pitied getting on
ly $3.50 for their wheat. and that was be-
cause they had unsound money.
Dishonest money.
Immodest money.
Money that would shrink
Money that would shrivel.
He grew grave when he said that.
Should we, with one single step descend
from the highest standard Of value to that
Of silver monometalism, we would enter up
on a long period of financial, industrial and
commercial disturbance, and labor would
only be partially employed. deprived Of per-
manent employment and only inadequately
paid; this disturbance would be far more
disastrous than ever experienced in our
history, and no man who has any sympathy
for the working men or women could con-
template such calamity without feeling
badly"
That is what he said was going to hap
pen, and then in golden hue he pictured out
to them the great, glorious, golden condi-
tions Of those extremely happy people COM
posing the great nations Of the earth on a
gold standard, and with unbounded enthu-
siasm he gave the names Of Turkey, Egypt,
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland,
Chill, and with the utmost reverence, with
eyes lifted heavenward, softly came from
his lips, the name of that only great, that
only happy. that country Of countries,
where, as Reed said they had, by being on
a gold standard been able to increase their
indebtedness until it now reached nearly
500 per capita, yes, the name Of England.
dear old England. good old England, was
softly spoken by him.
In those glorious great nations-great
only because they had gold standard.
they were supremely happy, and why
should they not be so-they were on gold
standard.
They had sound money.
They had honest money.
They had immaculate money.
They had money that would not shrivel.
They had money that would not shrink.
There they had no financial disturbances.
There they had no Industrial disturbances.
There they had no commercial disturb
ances.
There the workman was always perma-
nently employed.
There the workman was always adequate