The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
SOME .RRFLEC770NS.
POT AroEs At lie. PER BUsHEL


worlds record made. In Columbus, in
this county. choice white potatoes are
selling al u cents buShe4. The
starch factories are running and many
potatoes are being brOughtln. Prices
paid at factories are good.
or course the starch factories will
ran when potatoes are u cents a
bushel: and they will do all they can
to keep them at that.
What we need now is a few more
lectures from President Stickney Of
the Great Western Railroad Com
pany, telling the farmers to raise
great quantities Of potatoes!
We told them in THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE. at that time, that there were
certain articles for which there was
only local market, which was easily
overstocked; and that among these
were potatoes, oats, etc. There were
other articles, like wheat. cotton,
barley, meats, ETC.. for which there
was a world demand: and when these
were cornered by. thieves and de-
pressed in price, it was no answer to
tell us to raise more oats. more pota-
toes and more garden stuff.
or these latter crops every farmer
should raise enough for the use Of his
own family and moderate surplus to
sell. This year the u cents potatoes
should not prevent him from raising
a fair supply Of those useful veget-
ables. 1t is disgrace to farmer il
he buys anything he can possibly pro-
duce himself. With a little FORE
thought aud energy he ought to be
able to live like prince, SO far as
good foods concerned. II these condi-
tions continue will not the farmers
be obliged to raise their own wool, and
then encourage the establishment of
WOODEN mills in every county, and pay
for their clothing, blankets. ETC., in
wool, from their own sheep. With
plenty OF food and plenty Of warm
clothing, blankets, ETC., they can sur
vive every thing but the end Of the
world.
Those who are in debt have the
hardest struggle. Nothing will save
most of them but political revolu-
tion this fall. II we can, within the
next year, remonetize silver and Sc
cure an abundant issue of currency,
wheat would 60 back to 81 per bushel,
(the price it is worth t day in Mexico,)
and the debtors could loosen the grip
of plutocracy from their Threats. and
clear their homes of debt.
Then let there be "a general up
rising against the Rings and Com
bines and Trusts: and If nothing else
will cure them hang lot Of the lead
ers. The greatest crime an honest
man can commit is to submit to in
JUSTICE for he takes the bread out of
his childrens' mouths by SO doing.
+ What we want in this country is the
desperate spirit of free men, who re-
fuse to be reduced into poverty to ele-
vate others into wealth. Thieves are
always towards. They rob you beca use
they think you have not got pluck
enough to resist. The two old pOliti-
cal parties have taken contract to
dumfoozle you, and keep you quiet
while the spoilers strip you. No pet
pie on earth have been more awfully
robbed than the producers of this re-
gipn Of America. For every dollar
they possess from ten to fifty have
been stolen from them.
Get your eyes open. See the mil
lions that have been taken from you
by false grades, false weights, and ex-
ceSSive charges for importation,
storage. commissions, ETC., on wheat
alone. See how the money-lenders Of
Europe and the United States have
united to demonetize silver: thus re-
ducing the primary money OF the
world one-half ,-thereb doubling tie
purchasing power Of the remainder;
so that a dollar will buy twice as
much as it did formerly; which means
that the price of all forms of property
has been reduced one-half; which
means povertpfor the producers ard
great wealth for the money-lenders,
taken out Of the producers pockets,
Then think how in your distress
they fooled you with a concerted up
roar about the tariff,-although the
difference, per capita, between the
tax collected under the Mckinley bill
and the tax collected under the pres
ent revenue law is less than One-teath of
q cent q day! ..~
Then think how,-to keep you quiet,
they told you to raise potatoes in
stead of wheat; and how you were
fools enough to believe them; and the
consequence was that millions of
bushels remained undug, rotting in
the ground.
And even yet hundreds of thous-
ands of you believe them, and will fol-
low them still further down into the
pit. You expect to be made rich by
having to pay more for what you buy,
under higher tariff, instead Of get
ting more for what you have to sell.
And then think how they fooled you
on the silver question just as they did
on the pOtatoe question.
Both the old parties united in tell
ing you, in 1893. that all that was
needed to give you immediate and
tremendous prosperity was the repeal
Of the act of 1890, which required the
government to. purchase 1850, 900
ounces of silver every month. and is
sue it as coin, or issue paper money to
reDreSent the bullion at the market