The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-01


achat zoe haze to SELL
And, as we have shown a hundred
times, the closing of the mints
against silver, and the contraction OF
the currency, mean dear money to
hire and cheap prod uctions to sell.
Now. IN saying all this we do not in
tend to discuss the question of Pro.
lection itself. When this country is
once more generally prosperous
when every man in the West has a
home, clear OF debt.-with plenty to
eat and wear,-it will be time enough
to consider that issue. 1t NAV be
that, under such conditions. it will be
wise staUesmanship for the VEST
OVERLOOKING with wealth,-to reach
out its hands, and,-through tariff
bounties,-paid out of its own pockets
lift up the struggling workingmen
OF less favored regions, so that the
whole land may be happy and prosper
Gus. But now the people of the South
and West are engaged In a life and
death struggle for food and home and
family. This is no time to ask them
for charity to others. They must first
save themselves. To come to them
now and ask them to pay higher prices
fer the necessaries Of life is simply
cruel 1T is atrocious; it is giving
them a stone where they asked for
bread; it is supplementing the inioui-
tous Trusts and Combines, which ara
also putting up prices; it is arraying
the unthinking among the labor force
against the rest of the community, by
telling them they must tax their fel.
low men for their own support. TAX
ing the money out of one mans
pocket and putting it into another
mans pocket can not produce general
prosperity. How can it? The remedy
does not lie in that direction. 1t
must consist of those measures that
will lift up the whole land, without
injustice to any one. And that means
the reconciliation of silver, an
abundant currency, and the suppress
sion of the robberies of Rings and
Confines. These remedies hurt no
one but the money-lenders. and God
knows they have taken enough from
the people to be content to withdraw
into the background in this era Of
universal suffering. And If they are
not willing to withdraw let US drive
them out
This uproar, now being kicked up,
about the tariff. is a fictitious and
fraudulent sham, to divert attention
from the money question. It is not
gotten up by the producing classes
but by squads of irresponsible adj
yenturers and shallow pated politi-
clans. They propose to drown the
groans of the nation in the clamors of
a circus and menagerie of clowns and
rope-dancers, who want live without
work, and hope to obtain the fat of
fees. Look around and note the chaps
who are making all this hillabaloo.
Are they honest farmers? Very rare
ly. Are they honest workingmen?
Not at all. They are guided and d.
rected by the banks, (who feel that
one rascality must stand by another)
but they are, in themselves, Falls tat
fan regiment of lawyers and moneys
loaners and machine agents and loan
agents, and debt-collectors, and eleva-
tor men, and professional politicians.
the parasites of a nation-the YER
min of the body polite. Look over
the delegates to the recent Republi-
can state convention. from your own
and see il this statement is
not substantially correct. Here and
there you may find an honest enthu.
siast who believes that the right way
to enrich country is to take the
money out Of the pockets of the many
and put it into the pockets OF the
few. Ii we lived in New England or
New York or Pennsylvania this might
be tolerable. for those states have the
western states as tributary provinces,
IN which to sell their goods at en-
HANGED prices. But where do our
profits come in?
1t was all right at one time to talk
about protecting American labor
from the pauperized la Dor of Europe;'
but American labor is now as badly
pauperiz as the European. A good
deal Of it cannot get work at any
price. See how our foreign immigra-
ton has fallen off: and the workers
are pouring away from this country
10 the old world in flood, as if the
whole land had the cholera and small
pox. Would they do that if there was
not better reward for labor in the
Did world than there is in the new?
Europe will soon ask to protect it's
people from the starving workmen Of
the new world.
Let the boys and lawyers. the fools
and fossils foot their horns and beat
their gongs, and explode their Chinese
crackers: let them wave their fam.
oeaux and fire their rockets and howl
around their "spellDinders." Sensible
men despise all such arts. The farm
srs drive crows and blackbirds away
from their fields by the same ap-
pliances which the g. o. P. and the
D. o. P. employ to attract voters to
their ranks. When an eclipse of the
sun occurs in China the whole popula-
lion turns out, with trumpets and
drums and cymbals and tin-pans. and,
With an Internal clatter and din
lrive off the dragon which is devour-
ng the great luminary. They make a