The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29
HORRORS OF ovER-PR0DUcTIoN.
How to Get Clear of the Great Evil Which
Now Expresses the Plutocrats Soil.

dUhhOhS OF OVER-PRODUCTION.
How to Get Clear of the Great Evil Which
| Now Expresses the Plutocrat's Soil.
He wore a dark blue cap, one with a
vizer, it was of the latest pattern, under
it was "a smoothly shaven. bright face
with large blue eyes, and his clothing
and general appearance gave him the
stamp of man, belonging to the favor
ed class of humanity.
Birds of feather will gather together,
and although he at first had been stand
ing alone, watching the burning of the
Van Duzen elevator "a g. last Monday
it was not long before he was surrounded
by quite number of equally we'll dressed
men.
Good thing he said, noticing the
people around him. Good thing; let the
miserable stuff burn up; it is the over
abundance OF just such stuff as that
which is causing all these hard times.
wished that every bushel of wheat which
is in the country was right in that eleva
tor burning up
Heads were turned, necks were
stretched, and some twelve pair of eyes
were on that blue cap at once, the owner
of one pair of those eyes venturing out
how? Do you know that utterances like
those are socialistic; yes, are Popu.istic?
Burning up wheat is burning up money
and just as much of this wheat which is
burned up, just so much of the wealth of
the world is annihilated."
why, my good SIR the man with the
blue cap responded, you surely do not
| read the newspapers. You are not post
ed, nor up to date; had you been you
would not have such childish ideas.
| Overproduction' is what is, and has been
the matter with us in this country all of
this time. This horrible overproduction
why, man, it has been stated so many
times in the papers that it was the rea-
son why we received no benefits what
ever from that philanthropic measure
the repeal of the purchasing clause of
silver in the Sherman act; this miserable
production with which we have been
cursed now from year to year negatived
all the good that extra session of con-
| gress did, that passed that statutory
measure. AS long as we continue to get
| four or five thousand million dollars
worth OF raw material annually out of
| the ground in this country we never can
expect to be a prosperous nation. Let
| the stuff burn, say
A lady, dressed in sealskin, with
benevolent looking face, had Joined the
| little group, and as she stood there
watching how the flames were slowly but
surely) consuming the huge structure
she looked panied as she noticed that bin
after bin, filled with the beautiful gold
en- grain, would burst and it's contents
| be emptied into the seething cauldron be-
| low it. "Wy, SIR she said, you do not
seem to think of the scores, the hundreds
| of poor people, even in this city of Mime
| apolis, and the thousands, yea millions
| throughout this great .and to whom this
wheat, ground up into -four would be
such godsend, it would save so many
| from starvation; some are so awfully
poor"
Excuse me. madam" he replied, ap-
pearing a little annoyed, "but what
| business have the poor people in this
world, any how? There are too many
people in this country, and why should
we care to give them anything to keep
| them from starving to death? We have
an over-production of people here, and
| the sooner we realize that and take a
| sensible view of it, accompanying that by
the right measures to get rid of them the
| better it will be for those who remain.
| Now, they talk a great deal about that
| man Abdul Hamid, the sultan of Tur-
| key. l maintain that he is about the
| only common-scnse ruler in existence
| That man is a student of humanity and
| he takes the right view of things. Taught
| a lesson by the terrible condition of
| things in the United States he has set
| about to prevent an occurrence of that
| sort in his realm by cutting the threats of
a few thousand of his subjects before his
| country becomes overcrowded, and the
| baneful effects of over-production Of
-
| The only fault find with him is that he
| * too Slow he is behind the times; he has
| this killing done by days work, ali by
| hand labor; instead of getting out some
improved machinery and making a
wholesale job of it."
| The lady rightly became disguised
| and moved away, but the blue-capped
speaker kept right on, adding: Eyes, this
| fellow Hamid ought to be invited to come
70 this country to help set things right;
| ne and Olney could join hands together, a
sort of close corporation could be formed
Of the style and name of The Hamid
O.ney, Weyler Company Limited Ito
| nothing),' and with the right kind of a
plan great results might be expected"
| "Well, sir, what would you have them
do?" asked bystander.
| "Do?" the wearer OF the blue cap asked.
| LIZ. well, L LCJl yOu, IOOhlLS
| and seeing no ladies within hearing, Il
will tell you my little plan, which l eX-
| pect to get copy-righter, and I think it
| can not help be a success. l know l can
| get Cleveland interested in it, for little
money can be made out of it on the side,
| besides it's being intensely patriotic and
| beneficial"
| well, what is it?' by man with
| black whiSkers.
First of ALL" said the B. c., 1--WE will
| have to have some money. That is the
| root of all good things; it will take con-
| siderable, no half way measures will do.
1 would then begin by having congress
pass bill allowing the secretary of the
treasury to sell to the lowest bidder say
one billion of United States bonds, the
| money derived therefrom to be placed at
the disposal of this corporation of H. o.
w. Limited of course under the direc-
ton of the president"
And them"
'Then l would have this corporation
| through it's general manager advertise
for bids from railroad corporations, &C.
cepting the highest, for hauling all of the
grain, produce and eatables in the coun-
try to some valley in Arizona. The farm
ers and planters through presidential
proclamation could undoubtedly be in
duced' to get it to their nearest railroad
station, where they should be paid the
lowest market price in gold for that
what they bring, this money so received