The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-22

advantage of our country.
In conclusion, VIII say that those Re-
publicans in our country who will not sup
port it's present policy do so because they
are opposed to financial system that
promises to force our government into an
enormous bonded Indebtedness IN order to
maintain the present body -snatching gold
standard and to perpetuate the great in
debtedness and system which forces all
property of our land into the hands of a
few, which will end in no business for our
lawyers and professional classes and make
our business men managers and clerks for
corporations.
We are opposed to endorsing the action
of John Sherman in his REASONABLE and in
famous act of 1873-an act which stamps
this shambling apparit.on and attenuated
wreck of divine purpose with a brand
more indel,ible than Gains.
We are opposed to protection that would
protect with puny tariff on one hand and
extends an advantage of over 100 per cent
to foreign pagans and resources on tho
other.
We are opposed to protection that pro-
tects the financial highwayman in demand
ing that his victim be compelled to serve
him all his life after he has been despo..ed
of all he possessed. We are in favor Of
sound money and honest money and the
payment Of all debts In strict accord with
contract and conditions when made, but
are opposed to seeing the farmer who
agreed to pay debt with either 100 BUSH
els of corn, oats or wheat being compelled
to pay in wheat only, because the creditor
had, by wrong doing, placed double price
on wheat-as the gold standard operates
today. We are opposed to system that
has reduced the per capita circulation to
practically nothing; for 1t is the per capita
circulation, not the amount that measures
prosperity. AS we would oppose the use
Of the word virtue to cover prostitution we
oppose the kind of sound money" "hon-
est money" that has plundered 10000, 900
people in our country, driven thousands on
innocent men and women to suicide or
abandoned lives and sent gray haired men
and women to pauper graves.
Sound money! that glories in the pros
perity and industrial activity of pagan ma
tons; that glories IN the wreck and ruin of
American manhood.
Sound money! predicted upon the debts
of corporations instead of gold and silver
coin and currency based upon the same or
the honor of the people,.
Sound money! that has enabled Euro
pean banks to gain 81 100000 of gold
since the panic, while the United States has
accumulated a bonded debt, which, with in
terest, amounts in the end to about $780,,
OCO 900 in order to protect and retain In
our country $225, 000, 900 in gold in sight
and known to exist.
Sound money! that last year entai,ed a
loss of SO per cent to the gold standard
countries on their share of the worlds
wheat crop OF 1855. OOo, 900 bushels, and a
gain OF 100 per cent to bimetall:c nations
for theirs-that results in an annual loss to
American wheat farmers Of over 5000. 0Q0,-
coo and has not cheapened the western
bread buyers loaf one penny.
Sound money! whose advocates extol,
laud and double the value OF the product Of
the gold miner, and Willy, traduce and ruin
the silver mine worker five miles away.