The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
CHEERING VS..

That gallant old soldier, c. II. Hop
kins, Of Fairfax, Mimi, writes US,
May 23d, as follows:
Il have had to work so steady on
my farm to get in the crops this
spring, that l have not had time to 60
around and solicit subscriptions for
TIE REPRESENTATIVE; but l will
soon be at liberty to put in little
work for the good cause.
l have organized League, and
they have named 1t. 1.-The Cicer-
oman" in the town of Canaw,-all
more soon in Nicollet county.
Lam surprised and gratitied at the
outlook. find that a great number
OF voters that used to vote the old
tickets are coming to US; and the
wire-pullers and corporation pOliti-
clans will hear something drop next
November, that will ring around the
world, as the second emancipation Of
the slaves in the United States
We notice in the Bird Island Union
an able letter from Mr.. Hopkins pen.
He replies to pamphlet speech of
Gold-Bug Johnson, the Wall street
member of Congress from North Da-
kota, aud answers his points very con-
vincingly. We quote:
On page 5 of the pamphlet he says,
'Is it not posi- ole that other causes
may have been at work other than the
characterization Of silver in 1892"
You notice that he Acknowledges silver
was demonetzed at that time, point
they will always deny when it suits
their purpose best. No other cause
was necessary, that act alone filled
the bill. He says production OF silver
increased, but he does not show that
the population had doubled and the
business Of the country had Increased
ten fold, which would require the in
creased production of the mines to
make money enough to carry on, free
and untrammeled, the great increase
of the business of the nation.
On page he quotes the part of
President Harrison's message OF Dec.
Is. '92, where he says, that the times
we're never so prosperous as then. l
remember we'll reading the message
at the time and was surprised that he
should make such statement, know
ing as did that the times had COM
menced to pinch over two years be-
fore, and prophets had proclaimed
that, il certain conditions were con-
tinued. dire diSaS ter would come upon
the country: said conditions have
been carried out to st." When the
Democrats came into power II they
could not hold their forces in line to
carry out said conditions the Republi-
cans would come to their rescue.
More Republicans voted for the re-
peal Of the silver clause in the Sher-
man law than there were Democrats,
and this at special session called by
Grover purposely to repeal said clause
in the interest of the gold gamblers
Of Wall street.
On page II he makes the very fool
ish argument that il silver was re-
monelized the bankers and insurance
companies would set aside One-half Of
their deposits for their own use and
take the other half and buy enough
silver to make new silver dollars OF
the original amount. Isn't that a
cOrker? The idea that tue silver mine
owners would be such fools as to sell
their silver for just One-half what
it would be worth after it was mint
ed. The only way that such sche
could be worked would be to get it re-
monetzed as clandestinely and sec ret
ly as it was demonetized.
The plain people are Investigating
these questions; and shallow argu-
ments, even on the part Of pur-
chased congressman, will not go down.