The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-09-02
EXCHANGE NOTES.

EXCHANGE NOTES.
The electric light venture that the city
took hold of last winter seems to be a
paying investment to Grafton after ten
months trial. For the month of July
the plant paid net profit of $102, after
paying 1920 for salaries and expenses
! The total amount collected from the use
Of lights in stores and residences was
! 1922 This must be quite surprise to
the crOakers, who last winter prophecied
failure for the city to operate. Grafton
! News and Times.
EXMlaster Workman T. V. Powderly
is about to take the stump against Bryan
following the footsteps of Cochran. 1t
was PowdeYlys inclination to consOrt
with capitalists and ariStOcrats that
caused him to become an eX-maSter
workman instead of master workman
| The wOrkingmen who paid him and list
! ened to his counsel had cause to suspect
him.-Irish Standard.
The July report of the money in cir
culation states that we have 400 million
dollars of gold, and 80 millions of silver
dollars in circulation. Do you believe
| it? Do you take your pay in nine times
gold is as totally out of circulation as if
| it were at the bottom of the sea. Much
of it has gone there, or has been lost in
other ways, and yet it is counted as ex-
listing because it was once coined and has
not been returned to the treasury. The
remaining gold is boarded by patriotic"
bankers to embarrass our government
and force the issue of bonds as often as
!
| control the volume of money in the inter-
! est of the people, and SO increase the
/ volume that boarding money will be I'M
profitable, we may expect to see no gold
in the hands Of the people. -Sledge Ham
mer, Meadville, Pa.
A certain class of people who dress Gin
purple and fine linen and fare sumptu-
ously every day" complain very bitterly
about 50-cent dollars. Our farmers are
very tired of 50-cent wheat 25-cent corn,
and 10-cent potatoes. Truck
| er, Md.
The last sentence of President Lin
coins speech at Gettysburg was: Gov
eminent Of the people, by the people, and
for the people, shall not perish from the
EARTH True as gospel but the govern
ment which he alluded to then is not
the government Of today. 1t has degen-
Grated wonderfully, until now it is of
the money power by plutocracy, and for
shylocks, and it is liable to perish at any
time unless there is soon change in the
bill of fare.-St. Louis Journal.
Since the national bank act was con-
| ceived by John Sherman and made a law
| in 1868, it has robbed the people of more
than $4,000 600 900. Isn't it about time
/ to stop such pillaging? If the government
can afford to give the banker credit at
per cent, it can as consistently give the
people credit at the same rate by estab-
fishing postal savings banks, and abOl-
! ishing the blood sucking institutions that
have raviShed the country for more than
! a quarter of century.-St. Louis Even
ing Journal.
Whose going to back those silver dol
lars?' asked a man the other day in ar
! guing against free coinage of silver.
Answer: They will back themselves; all
the government has to do is to coin them
and guarantee their weight and fineness
and make them full legal tender for all
debts public and private. That's all the
government did from 1892 to 1873, and a
good share of that time our silver dollars
were worth s1.02 How much better
backing do you want?-GrOve City
! Times.
Wall street and the Republican party
now cry out to the old soldier that they
are for the gold standard because they
don't want pensions to be paid in 50-cent
dollars. Did they make any fuss when
the soldiers were being paid their wages
in decent dollars, or has the party Or
Wall street ever made any move toward
making up this difference? No. Their
present cry is that Of hypocrite-Ele
enth Star, Mimi.
We hope that the efforts that are be-
ing put forth to get either Watson or
Sewall to withdraw by Offering them a
cabinet position will succeed, and thus
unite all the free silver forces under one
head. While two candidates for vice
president will not cut much Of figure in
the result, it is apt to engender local
strife that may cOmplicate matters for
minor anddates-Arlngton ENTERPRISE.
Thousands Of Democrats that would
| have voted the Populist ticket this year,
will be constrained to vote their old tick
ct on account of the adoption by their
party of a good part of the Omaha plat
FORM but woe to the party if it shall fail
to meet the pledges that it is now making
to the cOuntry.-Peoples Waterman.
1t is daily becoming evident that con-
sistency is to play no part with the Re-
publcans in this campaign. With one
breath they tell you that free coinage will
enable the mine owners to Going so cents
worth of silver into a dollar; with the
other they tell you that these dollars will
only be worth SO cents. If this is true
where is the great profit that is to accrue
to the silver kings of the Sierras Mo-
! BILE County Patriot.
Hanna, the manager of the Mckinley
campaign, will put $20,00O,OOO into the
| campaign this fall. A whole lot of dirty
work can be done with that amount of
money. but it will be of no avail. Nc
Kinley has millions in money to back
him, but Bryan has millions of honest
thinking American citizens .-Lawler
Dispatch.