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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
SKIRTS TO GO-KNICKERBOCK.
ERS COME.

AS soon as a woman frees herself from
the slavery of the skirt she will have
taken a mighty leap towards equality
with man. The bicycle will do more than
any other agency to place her in her
proper sphere of strength and indepen-
dence. And the women will not give up
the bicycle now that they have found out
that it gives them a new delight and q
sense of freedom and self-suficiency that
is as delicious as it Is good. Before many
seasons have passed the woman's natural
good sense and the necessities of the case
will dictate rational costume and show
that the skirt is not only out of style but
improper.
Not being able to attach side saddle
to the vehicle and operate it successfully
she initiated the sterner sex, and now she
proposes to mount man-fashion and ride
a mans wheel Acting with lady-like
modesty and propriety, women simply
adopted the sport as they found it.
And now they are beginning to ride
horses in the sane manner. This shocks
some people, but ten years from now a
side saddle will be an anomaly, and COM
ing generations will smile at them even
as we laugh at the poke bonnet and hoop
skirts Of our feminine ancestors.
The wheel is creating revolution IN
dress The conventional skirt IL nuis-
arce to a wheel woman. After tearing
two or three Of them she modifies her at
tire. In my judgment, bloomers will not
! be permanent, for they are inherently
unbecoming. Without doubt voluminOus
knickerbockers win eventually be the
recognized attire. e.-New York Common
wealth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05

estimation in Asia prevailed until within
a recent period. AS late as the seven
teenth century gold and silver were val
ued in Japan.
The earliest record Of ratio is found in
scribed at Karnak, the tribute list Of
Thutmosis, 1900 B. c., giving 1888 to /.
The Britannica tells US that the same ra-
tho is shown by cuneiform inscriptions on
ancient Persian coins and that Keno
phon reported its existence In 400 B. C.
With the approach of the Christian era
silver appreciated with relation to gold.
In 189 B. c., both Greeks and Romans
had ratio of 10 to 1. Upon Caesars re-
turn to Rome there was temporary re.-
ative superabundance of gold and the
ratio fell to tx to 1. A century later the
ratio of 121z to was fixed. 1t SO re-
manned for nearly two centuries.
At the end of the fifteenth century the
ratio established by Spain was 1OA to 1.
Halt a century later, the plunder OF
America being principally in gold, the
wealth of the Potosi silver mines not be-
ing as yet known, Spain, which then
monopolized the supplies of precious
metals, raised the legal value Of god to
1917 to 1. Another century made Portu-
gal the arbiter, as into it's Golfers flowed a
stream Of gold from Brazil, Japan and
the East Indies. In 1888 for the first
time appeared the now celebrated figures
is to 1. Then came another change. The
placers of Brazil were exhausted, the ORR
ent had been fully plundered, Portugal
had lost its Importance. Spain again
controlled the ratio, and in 1855 her col
onial produce being chiefly silver. she
raised the relative value Of the white
metal to 151s to 1 for Europe, allowing 1t
to remain at the Portuguese ratio for her
American colonies France had had
since 1875 a ratio of her own, 1411 to 1.
In 1875 she adopted the Spanish relation
-15A to 1.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
MORTON NOT CORDIAL.
PoPUL1sT TALKS OF BRYAN.
He Says the Middle Of the Road
Would Have Been the Safer
Course, hut Thinks the
Party Will Line Up.

Chicago Times-Herald, July q.
Seymour f. Norton Is home from the
Populist convention, where he received
S31 votes as a candidate for the nomina-
tion for president. He says the free sill
yer cause would have been more of sue
cess II the Populists had nominated .
ticket entirely separate from the Demo-
Gratis, and If the campaign Of the two
parties had been carried on separately.
Mr.. Norton has been middle-o the
road Populist for years. He is conserva-
tive, scholarly and thoughtful. He II
now, he says, friendly to Mr.. Bryan. The
foregoing was his response to request
for his estimate of the strength of the
present ticket.
"These two parties separately could
have polled, In the aggregate, $780, 900
more of the popular vote than they can
under the present arrangement" he ~
serted.
Mr.. Norton Is not disappointed or diD-
contented at the outcome Of the conven-
tion so far as he was personally con-
cerned. He says he is now ready, AZ al-
ways, to sacrifice all personal feelings to
the success Of Populistic doctrines.
"Our best. course" he said, "would
nave Deen 70 nave nalled our prnclpIes q
the mastneao ana kept 70 our party
tnrougnont tne campaign. Inc ooutnorn
statesWere especially DUET against Delns
Gratis. The Democrats and 6Populists
nave had Dltter struggies IN the Soutn.
AZ Imes the Fopullsts' VINO ine1e.ed on
tnelr party rlgnts IN the ooutn; oiq 20 at
the peril OF tnelr nves, Ior tne Demo-
cIals tIleu 70 intlMiua'e tneM. ms
leenng was particularly Dltter IN lexas'
alabama, georgia ana south Caroina.
ooutnern fopuiists are averSe 70 com0ln-
ing with democrats, ana Sou1nern Demo
Gratis are also aVerse 10 unltlng Win Fop-
ulists.
AZ the parties nad Kept separate tney
couia nave massed tnelr eiectoral votes
ana tnus prevented Mchlnleys eiection.
Inen. Dy Judiclous trade IN the eiector&l
ceiiege, tne democrats couia nave Deeh
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE.

Where Our AristOcracy Came From
This morning took garden seat"
next the driver on bus from Marble
Arch down Park Lane. This driver was
a character lost from the pages OF Dick
ems. Round and ruddy of face, with a
beard of the pattern known as "sluggers'
he had been bus driver for forty years,
all Of. which were pleasant ones If his
full habit and constant genial smile are
trusty witnesses He addressed his first
speech to me as we passed the snowy
carved stone house that is slowly build
ing to the honor and glory Of Bernard
BarnatO. Nodding his head toward the
nile the ancients iehu said and hot in
cockney accent either: Il wonder II he
will sleep any sounder In there than he
used to under the arches?" did you
know Barney?" I asked. AYE. sir, him
and his father before him. Many a time
old Barney Isaacs rode with me. He used
to go around gathering up old rags, you
know, and old iron, with little black
Guilty pipe in his teeth. He's been on my
bus with his bundle until l knew him
well. It was always Hello, Barney with
me. After awhile I lost sight of him,
and don't belive / saw him for about
fifteen years. That was three or four
years ago, when I saw tidy dressed
man driving slick pair of bay cobs and
a bobbin' and wavin' his hand at me,
and blessed if it wasn't old Barney Isaacs!
And says Hello, Barney He died only
about year ago, you know. And young
Barney Isaacs, him ass Barnato now,
Why, / knew him when he used to turn
cartwheels alongside the bus so that pas
sengers would chuck down ha'pence to
him. He was a shrewd 'un. His first
start was gettin' diamonds away from the
niggers. can't just tell you the partic-
ulars. He put 'em in his boots, you
know, and come over with 'em. He was
bothered what to do with 'em for safe
keepin', but there was little bar maid
as he knew right intimate and he took
'em to her. When the muss was all over
he went to her for 'em, and she says:
They're all right, Barney, but to get
'em you've got to marry me first So he
says, All right, and he did, which the
same is his wife now, and mighty good
wife she's been to him, too, is what
hear. Barney helped all his folks, but
thefe was one sister, I'm told, wouldn't
take nothing from him, which, 1t would
seem, is true, for she keeps her little
second hand sort of shop down in the
East End STILL Don't know the reason !;
something about his refusing to help care
for the children of some poor Jews, I'm
thinking, though never quite got the
right of it."
And so humbleness babbleth Of the
mighty. -Elwyn A. Barron.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Where Patriotic Americans Can
Pattern After Their Foreign
Cousins to Good Advantage.

It is thought by many men who look
beneath the surface OF things in
studying the science and the art Of
government that the greatest prob
lem Of the present day is the govern
ment of cities. It is a pressing prob
lem, first because the population of
the United States is becoming rapidly
an urban population, and secondly be-
cause the government of our cities
grows rapidly worse and worse.
Taking the whole country, more
than thirty per cent of the people live
in towns con tanning each eight thous-
and or more Inhabitants. There are
more than seventy-tive cities having
at least forty thousand inhabitant is
EACH. More than ten million people,
one-seventh Of the whole nation, re-
side in cities having each at least one
hundred thousand inha bitants.
AS for the second reason, we all
know that corruption, jobbery and
bossism are curses of every large city.
When the offense becomes absolutely
intolerable, the respectable voters be-
stir themselves and turn the rascal q
out" But it is as when a man brush
es away a persist tent fly which posters
him on q hot summer afternoon. The
fly has alighted on him again before
his hand has come to rest.
Practical as the Americans are in
most matters, they are not at all prac-
tical in this. TO be protected in life
and property by competent police;
to have streets well made, we'll lighted
at night and kept clean; to have
schools taught by able teachers, on a
reasonable system, in wholesome and
we'll inflated school houses-these
and other objects Of municipal gov
ernment have no necessary nor logical
connection whatever with national
politics.
We do not select our physician nor
our lawyer nor our bookkeeper be-
cause he is Democrat or Republi-
canFOr POpulist; but in almost all
our cities the city attorney. the city
treasurer and the board Of health will
be changed whenever there is a
change in the political party having
control.
In such matters as this they do far
better Ia the cities ofsEurope. In
Germany man who has been a sue
cessful mayor in . small city is en-
ploved by larger city-is promoted
as II were-just as, among us. an able
country Clergyman is called to minis
ter to city congregation.
When the city engineer, or the chief
Of police or the head Of the fire de-
partment dies or resigns-fOr he is
pever dismissed except for good cause
Ian English or continental city does
not fill the place BY appointing some
ambitious party worker, but 1t seeks
for q man who has already demon
strated his ability to do the very work
that is to be required Of him. When
some large public work Is to be under
taken the overseer Of II and the men
who are to dig, or to blast rock, or to
carry mortar. are not chosen because
they have voted this way or that way,
but because they are capable Of doing
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
the particular thing which they are
expected TO do.


What is the result? English and
European streets are cleaner than
American streets. Fires are less fre-
quent and less destructive, although
the fire departments are smaller than
ours and not so we'll equipped. Public
order is quite as we'll preserved as it
is in American cities, although the
poverty and wretchedness which lead
TO crime are more common there than
here, and although the distinctly
criminal class is larger than with US.
Moreover all the varied functions OF
a municipal government are per-
formed in European cities for what
would seem to American Taxpayers
an exceedingly small amount OF
money.
Is there no lesson for US in the facts:
They are facts, as every one who has
travelled abroad knows, and it would
be absurd to refuse to admit them
simply bec0use they are proud Of our
country. Why, then, if we could have
our municipal work better done than
1t Is, for less money, should we cling
ObStinately to our system?
Certainly matters are growing
worse instead of better in our Amer-
can cities, while in the foreign cities
there is scarcely symptom of the
evil which is today the greatest scan
dal in our system OF gOvernment.-
Youths COmDaniOn.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
"SIXTEEN TO ONE"
What 1t Means.

What does 16 to 1 mean? How many
Of us know? Ask anyone-your neigh
Dor, yourself, perhaps-and note the lack
of knowledge extant. And yet in the alb
stract the matter is simple one. 1t ex-
presses the relative value of gold and sill
yer for coinage purposes as established
by the government. Of necessity, things
that are placed in comparison and consid-
cred, measured, estimated or valued rel
atively must have a common character of
some sort. In the case of gold and silver
it is weight. One ounce of silver has
only one-sixteenth of the value of an
sixteen ounces of silver
This government ratio while arbitrary,
is based upon something which rests it.
self upon the natural laws of commerce,
the two chief conditions of which are de-
mand and supply; in other words, the
legal ratio is the commercial or true ratio
modified for one technical reason or
another to a small decimal extent.
This relative or ratio value. has fluctu-
ated with more or less violence since the
earliest record of it's existence It has
bsen affected wholly by causes which
may be grouped under the heads of sup
ply and demand. There have been tenn
porary disturbances, such as affect all
merchandise, which have either raised or
lowered the ruling value Of the cheaper
metal relatively to the dearer-specula-
ton, governmental action. or other hu-
man action which suspended the work
ings Of natural laws for a time. But in
the main the market has been influenced
by over or under production, by improved
methods of mining, new mechanical dis
coveries, increased transportation facil-
les, reduced freight rates, and SO on-the
usual things which figure In the progress
of the worlds commerce.
Within historic times the value Of sill
yer relatively to gold has greatly
changed. In antiquity local conditions
governed entirely; there were as many
values to silver as there were countries
Commerce gradually eQualized- these diff
ferences.
According to the relative production
Of the two metals countries appreciated
or deprecated silver. In Asia, gold
producing country, silver was higher in
estimation than In Europe, Of which sill
~ W1s the peculiar production. This
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
THE MONEY QUESTION SETTLED

"What would you think to be the best
way to settle the money question:" asked
Flu Evans.
"Get rid of it, as did old Lycurgus, the
Spartan lawgiver.''
what did he do?" queried Yank
Blank.
"Well. Lycurgu5 was an old codger the
Spartans took up when the working peo-
pie had got 80 pauperized by the rich
men and politicians that there wasn't
anything left Of Spartan simplicity .ex-
cent mortgages. They we're in about the
same fix as the working people of>today
and gave old 'Ly' to make full swing to
make what laws he pleased. The old
man jumped with both feet on the money
question; he demonetized both gold and
silver, and made money OF iron, STEPPED
in vinegar when red-hot, so that 1t would
be worthless even as old iron thereafter
Then he told the rich to collect their be-
longings and skip, or turn them into the
common Jackpot, from which all in need
could draw. He divided the land into
small holdings, created an industrial
commonwealth, based on individual
rights and privileges, with individual re-
sponsibilities; and, for 500 years, Sparta,
with her worthless iron money, -four
ished; poverty was banished, and the
once mortgage-ridden and barren land
'bloomed like garden"
but the money was worthless" said
Pupper.
There was nothing back of it to re-
deem it-like gold and silver" said
Bleaky, of the carpenters.
And other nations wouldn't take il, :"
remarked Miles O'Reilly.
There's where you're off," replied the
Citizen. "It doesn't matter what money
the intermediary Of exchange is made Of
paper, iron or shingle- wood-so long as
it can raise up and say, with Bob Inger-
soil, I know that my redeemer liveth.'
The entire property Of the nation, and
the labor OF each individual composing
the nation, was pledged for its redemp-
ton. And that is all the other nationali-
ties required"
The Rev. Alb Cinfh remarked that the
whole story could be read in the history
of the Spartan republic.-St. Louis
Union Record.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05

and Populists met at Sedgwick county,
Kan. and divided the Offices for fusion.
The Democrats get county attorney, COM
missioner and state senator, and the Pop
ul;sts get district clerk, superintendent OF
public instruction, three representatives
and police Judge. The Populists will vote
to indorse the Democratic electors.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, has de-
clared that he will not accept the Populist
nomination unless all other candidates on
the Democratic state ticket are indorsed.
A. r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
ENGLAND Is GOING TO GRASS.
British agricultural returns for 1895 re-

veal some remarkable facts The wheat
acreage has diminished by $4,000 acres
in a single year. The total dimfnution
since 1895 has been just 2.00O, 900 acres, Of
which two-thirds were In the last. five
years, leaving now less than 10000 acres
all told. To some extsnt barley and
fruit have taken the place Of wheat, but
the great bulk of the land has gone to
grass. notwithstanding this, dead meats
imports continue to mount up over 600,-
600 tons. Of which three-fifths came in
from the United States last year. The
total annual imports Of wheat and flour
have nov reached the tremendous figure
cf e15O, ,00O, COX. Kansas City Packer,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
MAINTAIN PoPULIsT PRINCIPLES.

Populists must bear in mind that the
financial plank adopted by the national
Democratic convention is quite different
from that originally proposed by the
platform committee. The original was
in the line of progress. AS finally adopt
ed, 1t leaves the national bank system
substantially as it is, and the bankers
will contract the volume Of currency
nearly as easily with as without the free
coinage of silver. So long as paper money
is "redeemable in coin," the money
power will keeps its grip on the people.
A popular platform and candidates are
necessary. We quote:
Before Amendment.-"Congre alone
has the power to coin and issue money,
and President Jackson declared that this
power could not be delegated to corpora
tions or individuals. We, therefore, de-
mand that the power to issue notes to
circulate as money be taken from the ma
tional banks and that all paper money
shall be issued directly by the treasury
department"
After Amendment.--"We therefore de-
nounce the Issuance Of notes intended to
circulate as money by national banks as
in derogation Of the CONSTITUTE on, and we
demand that all paper which Is made a
legal tender for public and private debts
or which is receivable for duties ii the
United States, shall be issued by the gov
ermment of the United States and shall
be redeemable in coin. The New York
Commonwealth