The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
Vol. XXI. Chicago,Il July "A. 1895. No. 4
RAILWAY MEN!

VOL. AAll CnlcagO,lAl July "a, 1885, NO. =.
RAILWAY MEN! q
You have an opportunity such as
has rarely been given to any class OF
men in history-the opportunity to be
the controlling influence in saving
| your country.
which, il you vote as unit, you can
election. In the present. crisis it rests
with you to oppose solid front--a
bulwark Of reason and Of patriotism
10 the flood Of free silver madness
which is rising In the Western aud
| Southern states.
What interest have you in helping
those who, blinded and led astray as
they are, propose to raid the treasury
and bankrupt the nation only to
make our mine-Owners wealthy
! Certain classes may not care. what
| wreck may come to the country's COM
MERGE If only they can get cheap dol
lars for their crops. The miner may
be willing to see the United States
sink to the rank Of a third class pow
or, bankrupt and dishonored, il only
the output OF his mine be doubled. in
value to him. y
But what is that to youe Your in-
| terests are bound up with the per-
manence Of our commercial prosper.
ity. For your honest work you want
and have a right-tO get you pay in
honest dollars. What will you profit
by depression in wages and an in
crease In all that your wages have to
buy? Do you want to get your pay in
dollars worth fifty cents a p ece?- -.1- !.
therefore, Organize! This 6 Is, no
question of Republican or Democrat,
| but Of your own protection as wage
earners. Organize for the preserva-
| Jion OF sound money-in defense Of
your own WageS-in support Of the
the coun try's honor!
| At every shop and every division
pOint on every railway in the country.
there must be a Railway Mems Sound
Money Club. II you. who read this,
are personally willing to take hold OF
the work of organization In your local
ity and the work Of educating your
| fellows for their and your own bene-
| At, write to The Railway Age, Chi
| cagO. Until the central organization
Clubs is perfected. we will send you
all the information and literature you
require. free. aa. I
Let railway men OF every class act
| together. It Is as noble cause as
ever man put his hand to. Organize
| now and work, and when November
| comes and free silver il defeated. the
people will know that the railway
men did their part nobly for the coun-
try's salvation.
/ This is most ingenious piece Of vii
lainy. See the cunning references to
the mine owners! They do not men,
tion the hundreds of thousands Of
mine operatives, who have been
driven from their homes and made
| tramps; and whom the remonetiz-
alton Of silver would summon back to
labor and to prosperity. II a hundred
miners are made happy surely we can
endure the fact that one mine-owner
shall be made richer. Who is there
will cut off his own nose to spite an
other mans face?
And who are the men who will be
benefited by getting "cheap dollars
for their crops?" The farmers. II
they can get the prices of twenty
years ago will not the whole land be
benefited? Are not half the rail-
roads of the (U. ST. already bankrupt
and in the hands Of receivers?
Why? Because the farmers are too
poor to travel. or to buy the articles
fof comfort and luxury whose trans
portation would enrich the railroads
and enable them to pay good wages to
their men. II the present conditions
are to continue much longer how
| much lower will those wages be
pressed down?
And how are the United States to
sink to q third-rate power by giving
the farmers a dollar bushel for their
wheat and everything else in proper
tton? Are we not now nation of
debtors and almost Of bankrupts? Is
not the interest on our debts owed
abroad equal to our productions which
we ship abroad? Have not our mills,
our mortgages, our bonds, our banks,
our breweries. and our railroads al.
ready passed into the hands of Eng
lish capitalists? Are we not becoming
q Greater Ireland?
Give the country prosperity and the
wages Of organized labor will speedily
rise to the level OF that prosperity.
Who're are there any fifty cent dol
lars? Did you ever see one? Try to
buy one? Offer to buy one for 95 cents
and you will lind no seller. It Is all 2
fraud and shameful lie, told to In
duce you to betray and ruin your
country. ' Z
And they want you to organize In
defense Of sound money" What do
J they mean BY sound money? They