The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
A SENSIBLE LETTER-READ IT.

Butternut, Mimi, Jan. 49, 1S96.-Edi |
tor Representatives: Enclosed you will |
find clipping from the Lake Crystal |
Union, which thought might be of some |
interest to you. The Union is a radical |
republican paper. Yours Respectfully, |
-Chas. Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson sends us the following ex-
tract from the Union;-it shows that the
light is dawning.
AN OPEN LETTER.
We received letter from friend in
Connecticut last week. He said we
might publish a part of the letter If we
liked. We have taken about all Of It,
We consider it worth publishing. If
more people of this country would let
their views on such important matters
as the life blood of the nation be known.
there would be a possibility of bringing
about reform. We are pleased with
the letter and can say the readers of the
Union will also be pleased. If we have
made public more of the letter than the
gentleman intended we should, we beg
his pardon and ask him to come again.
He expresses our views
Al South St.
Stanford Conn.,, Dec. 81, '95.
Editor Neff Dear Sir: l hope you
will accept the proposition made by Mr..
Hunt in enclosed clipping from the Free
Press, and deal out bits of information
on the subject; you have plenty of ann
munition with which to do It.
So far as republcanism goes, l voted
for Fremont in sc and have voted none
but the republican ticket every year
since that date
| built the cement works in MankatO,
and so know all of them there, and take
both the Free Press and Review, and not
having the pleasure of your acQuain-
lance, you may know who l am by my
reference to Mankato.
Mr.. Hunt says: I'VE had always sup
posed that our congressman as we'll as
the party which he represents was for
bimetallism in it's truest and broadcast
| sense" etc. Now. Mr.. Hunt knows as
| we'll as other people, just what an out
rageous fraud that is. "McCleary (whom
| l know very welD stands squarely upon
| the Minneapolis platform" etc. Ger
tainly he does; and that platform in so
| far as it relates to bimetalism, is a stu
pendous fraud. Everybody ought to
know If they do not. That plank was
| framed as sop, to be held out to republi-
| can bimetalists to hold them. The franz
| ers of that plank knew the impossibility
| of getting England to join this govern
ment in the adoption of bimetallism.
| They have known it every day since, and
| they still expect people to be humbugged
by it. Bimetallism, if established by En-
gland and the United States is all right;
perfectly proper; wise and beneficial;
sound and great. But for the United
| States to do it alone, is a crime-a crank
notion. Now, if it is crime for one ma
| ton it must be a double crime for two
| nations. or take two separately. if they
| oh of a icoo ND
does that constitute two nations of
cranks? Mr.. Hunt acknowledges that
bimetallism would be good thing for
this country. if only England would join
us. He makes me tired.
There may be money enough. but it
has all drifted into the banks. There is
not half enough money in circulation
and it is the amount of money in actual
circulation which governs prices of pro-
ducts. This is an absolute truth.
The law of supply and demand which
is so often quoted by single standard men
is correct in a sense, but it is directly
affected by the amout of money in actual
circulation. When people have no mon
ey, how can they demand and buy?
That law is humbug when applied as
the gold men apply it. The actual de-
mand has never been supplied and never
will be so long as men are hungry, or
poorly clothed, or are in any way de-
prived of the comforts of life. The de-
mand is there, but the inability to buy
is also there. This occurs daily in mil
lions of cases. You take a walk with
your wife some evening and you come
to store window and you both look at
something for sale. Your wife wishes
she had it and SO do you. but you say
you cannot afford it. Why can't you?
Because times are so hard. There was
the supply and the demand, but no trans
action.
Now here is case in hand and close.
When the Mankato Cement Works
were built in 1888, cement was worth
$1.00 per barrel at the mill. We figured
it would take about three years to wipe
out the bonds with the profits, which
could easily be done at the going price
for cement. But cement was falling and
had been since '73, yet we foolfshly sup
posed the bottom had been reached. But
the price kept on falling off, until from
81 90 it got down to 40 cents and instead
of being able to pay debt with, say
900 barrels, we found it required ESQ.,.
900 barrels to pay the debt, and the con-
Germ went under. Our republican tariff
had nothing whatever to do with the
case. 1t was simply the gradual shrink.
, age OIL money III actual circulation ina
did it.
Our gold standard friends love to poke
fun at silver using Mexico, but they over
look the fact that in this single STANDARD
country of ours, the railroads amounting
to hundreds and hundreds of millions O
dollars are in the hands of receivers
, while in Mexico not one railroad is il
| that fix.
do not know exactly how you stant
on politics, but from clipping l take 20,
, to be a republican. and for free coinage
I That is the way | stand. and l say let tn,
republican national convention DROI
, | that humbug lie about bimetallism. On
thing the republican managers can rel.
, on for fact. which is, that our party il
! becoming honey-combed with free coin
age men. This is true in New England
+ at all events.
q Mr. Hunts babble about 80 cent do.
D lars" He never saw such dollar in thi
! country. If silver is cheap, who mad
it so? Those who deprived it of fire
q coinage From 1894 to 1873, a silver dol
!. lar was worth more than a gold dollar
= during every year between those dates
, Suppose the United States, England, Ger
many and France were to demOnetiZ
f gold. and keep it that way for IS year:
: who is there that would believe it woul
y not be cheap-cheap as silver is today?-
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