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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07
A CLEVER TRICK.

Mckinley announces that there will
be very few appointments made until
the tariff question is disposed Of.
That is the dodge adopted by Cleve-
land at the beginning Of the extra scs-
sion in 1893.
By holding up appointments Cleye-
land forced the passage of the bill re-
pealing the Sherman law and complet-
ed the destruction Of silver as money
metal.
BY the same tactics Mckinley cx.
poets to force his tariff lunacy on the
nation, in which he, of course, will sue
ceed.
The president should be deprived of
the power to appoint any but diplo-
matte and consular offices. That
would deprive him Of much power for
evil.-Fergus Falls Globe.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07
THE GREAT SHIP PROSPERITY

(Written for The Representatives,.
Oh fairy ship, that sails the ocean DER,
In search Of treasurs, driven from our
TO make our people hungry, and most
poor;
Return again, and lay at every door
That confidence that driven far away.
Return, oh ship. we wonder at thy
stay.
Our people stand upon the shore and
gaze,
Looking away DER breakers, and
through haze;
While high above, in New York har-
Dor stands,
Liberty's Goddess with upliftcd hands
Holding a!oft that torch to show the
way;
Oh why should We not wonder at thy
stay.
Thy name should indicate ship OF
Now when tits spoken, seems to rouse
the hate
OF those that helped to build thy mon
strOus bulk,
And place their confidence in such a
hulk,
They swear, and then alternately they
pray
Prosperity to not pro,ong her stay.
False prophets say, she's cruising in
the east"
That by the 4th Of March, at least,
She; d come our way, and land upon
our shore,
And then unload that wondrous store
OF gold. and "contidence" to make us
glad;
Oh, poor deluded people, now so sad!
Be not deceived ships gone
That giant Octopus, with fendish
frOWn,
Drew back one feelcrs from our land
to tip
Her over. Thus did sink the ship,
Down 'mongSt the demons OF the deep
to lie
Unmindful OF the peoples misery.
Everett Spear.
Northfield, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07
St. Louis, Mo.

John G. Calhoun, one Of the ablest
statesmen and best constitutional
lawyers this country ever had, was in
favor of irredeemable paper currency,
based simply on it's receivability for
taxes and other dues to the govern
ment, and bid defiance to any man to
show wherein it would ne be the best
paper currency that could be issued.
Thomas jefferson also contended that
such a currency would take the place
of that much gold and remain at par
with that metal. But the bankers OBJ
jcct. Industrial Leader.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07
A MAD STRUGGLE.

Yes, you like to read the papers
the great daily and weekly press
about what fine old time the rich
people are having and feel how you'd
like to be rich and enjoy such or as
useless extravaganza. And the rich
people arc quite anxious to have you
read and try to emulate them. 1t
keeps you in line at the bottom Of the
hill while they feast on the summit.
So long as you hope to climb the hill
and enjoy the booty from robbery they
know you will not pull the hill down
and they are safe: They can see their
dupes mauling themselves in their
struggle to get up the hill, and can
manage the senseless crowd to their
own benefit and have a circus thrown
in. just think what fine play t is
$1,000, 900 men and women in mad
scramble to get rich. Yc gods! what
mad sight. The great coliseum OF
Rome wasn't in it.-Appeal TO Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07

Do you want Bryan's Book, "The
First Great Battlc?" Get us Five
Yearly Subscribers and we will
send you the book Free.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07

Property rights will now be placed
above human rights: mule will soon
be worth more than 4 man; and an old
hen worth more than woman. This
is the universal law OF goldbugisE.- -
Pratt county, (kas.) Union.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07

standard has already inflicted upon
them and the greater evils it is Ger
tain to inflct upon them in the fu-
Dubuque Telegraph.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-04-07

The course OF Populism," would be
a blessing compare with the reign Of
such Republican ring us now rules
our deStinies-Little Fails Herald.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
BreidenthaI Admits 1t.

One OF the most recent and conspicuous
examples of POpuist who has discarded
the calamity howl for the prosperity
whOop is j. w. Breidentha Of Kansas.
He is the Bank Commissioner of the
State, and less than one year ago he was
a Bryanitc. who could see no prosperity
and no salvation for the country unless
the Boy Orator Of the Platte was elected
and silver given free coinage at the hcav-
cn-ordaincd ratio of 1G TO 1. But Breiden-
thai has changed since then. He has
seen great light, and this is what he
has to say to-day:
Never In the history Of Kansas has there
been as much money with which TO pay debts
rs we find In the State to-day. The State
has struck wonderful streak of luck. Con-
uitlons Drought good wheat crop the prices
advanced; cattle are plenty and command a
good price These conditions found Kan
sas In good position to profit Immensely
thereby. and we are doing II.
There never has been a time In the history
or the state when the farmers have not
raised enough 10 live on. Now comes this
magnificent year, with immense crops and
high prices, and II Is little wonder they are
ing an earnest effort to get out Of debt, and
when they succeed In doing this the Kansas
farmer Will be the most independent person
on earth, because he knows enough 10 keep
out of debt when once he gets started in the
right direction.
Kansas Is to-day the most prosperous State
In the Union. There will bc 10000 home
steads cleared OF mortgages this fall Think
of what that means The mortgages will
average $1,000 each, which means the ex-
penditure Of S40,00O.0OO. 1t means also that
this State Is becoming a Commonwealth OF
homes.
If Brcidcntlial had said last November
that in less than a year 10000 Kansas
farmers Woull nay off SIO con OOO of
mortgages, under a Republican President
and the gold standard his fellow Popu-
lists OF Kansas would have chartered Il
special train to convey him to an insane
asylum. City Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
BRYAN AS a oeADeEAr.
He Attacks the Corporations and Then
Asks and A ccepts Favors from Them.

He Attacks the Corporations and Then
Asks and Accepts Favors from Them.
The more Mr.. Bryan tries to explain
away his foraging expeditions on railroad
passes the more he cOnYicts himself Of
demagogy and willful deception. When
the San Francisco papers made public
the fact that Bryan had solicited and ac-
cepted fayors from Huntington's South
ern Pacific Railroad in the shape Of rail-
road passes, Bryan's friends at first de-
MED the charge. They backed their de-
mails by producing the requstion written
by Bryan in which he applies for the free
ticket over the Southern Pacific on ac-
count OF the Omaha WOrd-Herald.
Upon inquiry at Omaha it developed
that Bryan had severed his connection
with the World-lIcrald year previously
and furthermore that the World-Herald
had no advertising contract with the
Southern Pacific and was not entitled to
any transportation for any advertising
done for that road. TO parry this eX-
posure Bryan retortcd over his own name
that he was still ii stakeholder in the
World-Herald by this, matters were not
much mcnded for the reason that as Il
stakeholder in newspaper he could have
no claim upon any railroad for free rides
and furthermore that under the interstate
commerce law interstate railroads are for
hidden from giving free transportation OK
cept to railway employees.
The Southern Pacific is not. however,
the only railroad on which Bryan has
been foragng. Mr.. Bryan Travelled to
St Louis some ten days ago over the Wa
bash and dead-headed his way with an
1897 annual pass. The pass is ostensibly
issued on account of the World Herald
but bears on its face the fiat contradiction
of the pretense that it is a business trans
action. Railroads do not issue annual
passes in exchange for advertising. In
the nature of things they could not know
how often they would be used, for what
distance and how much advertising value
they would represent.
The discreditable part Of Bryan's dead
heading over the railroads arises not
merely from the fact that he poses ms the
champion Of the anti-mOnopoly forces and
denounccs the railroads for discrimina-
ton in favor of influential non-producers
as against the common people who must
pay their way but also because while
amply able to pay his fare he is resort
ing to deception to cover mp his accept
ance of railroad gifts.-Omaha Bee.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
The Iron barometer.

Among the proofs of rcviving prosper
ity, which some people are trying hard
not TO see. must now be included the in
crease OF - per cent in the output Of pig
iron within about one month after the
new tariff was enacted. For many years
there have been not II few among the fore
most practical business men who have re-
garded the production and consumption OF
iron as the surcst barometer of the CON
ditions upon which depends increase or de-
crease or general prosperity. This is in
part because the production is of necessity
months ahead of the final consumption in
finished forms, and is based upon all that
some Of the shrewdcst practical men in
the country can fOrcsce Of the future de-
mand for rails car materials and other
railway supplies, for freight vessels along
the lakes and on sea coasts, for business
buildings and the structural shapes Of
which their skeletons are framed, for ag-
ricultural implements and the iron ana
steel entering into their construction, Tor
extension and Improvement of farms, ana
so for fence wire and wire rods, and for
erection Of residences and other build
ings, and so for nails and hardware of all
kinds. When evidence points to material
ly increased consumption in so many
forms trained business men calculate that
better times are coming.
The production of pig iron started this
year with weekly output Of about 1OO,-
600 tons. having enlarged to that extent
from 112.7S2 tons last October, gain
OF more than 40 per cent. There was a
little further advance to about 10000
tons in March and April, but as the pass
Ing of the tariff bill came TO he considered
more remote or uncertain and stocks Of un-
sold iron accumulated the production was
diminished to 10000 tons ut the begin
ming of July. showing a conservative de-
termination to defer further increase Of
output until the conditions necessary for
future prosperity were more positively as
sured. This assurance came with the
passage of the tariff bill late in July, and
the weekly output was slightly raised
Aug. /, and increased 20, lbs tons weekly
during that month. But the output Sept.
was already the largest ever known for
that month, excepting in $3.50 when Il
sudden furry lifted prices about to those
of 1S90-and it was "a 900 tons larger
than Sept. |, 1892.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
No Time for Crnakiuo

The propensity of the calamity bowler
TO predict misfortune for this country and
tn emphasize the dark side of life, will find
little encouragement by contrasting the
present condition and prospects OF the
American people with those of the rest of
the world. For such Il comparison will re-
veal the fact that we are vastly better off
today than most peoples. While other
countries are threatened with distress ow-
ing to short crops, we Americans have
been blessed with one of the most album
dnnt harvests in our history. While the
far East is suffering with famine and
while the harvest in Ireland is reported
ruined 10y unpropitious weather, we in
America are chiefly concerned with the
problem of transporting to market the
surplus products Of the farm. While ris-
Ing prices will bring dismay to those
parts of the world which are under the
necessity of buying, the American farm
er, with granary overlooking with wheat
and corn, looks with complacency upon
the steadily climbing grain markets. The
great laws of supply and demand are
working In our favor, and are bound To
bring renewed prosperity to our country.
Detroit Free Press.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
Causes of Good Times.

Advocates of the theory that the revival
of business throughout the country is due
to the wheat crop instead of the tariff
found something to ponder over in the
trade reports of Dun and Bradstrcct's
for last week. From these it appears that
the farmers have not yet marketed one
tenth of their wheat, but are holding il for
the higher price which the foreign demand
implies. Hence 30 per cent of the cash
returns already credited to them in Dem
ocratc estimates has not yet gone into
American circulation, and cannot posi-
bly, have caused or influenced the general
reopcning of iron, steel, rubber and tex
tile industries and the increase in the pro-
fits of all private business which have
been in evidence since July. The special
points Of interest aside from this in the
trade reports are An increase since one
year ago of "a per cent in the employ
ment Of members of trade unions; n gain
of u per cent i'm one month in the output
bof pig iron, implying an increased con
Isumption of 100000 tons; rise Of cents
in the price of wheat; an advance for Au-
gust in prices of more than 100 staple
farm and manufactured articles of "a
per cent, following 81 per cent advance
in July, and a marked decrease in failures
both in number and the average amount
OF liabilities. In this chapter the tariff
plays n leading partisan Francisco
Chronicle
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08

TO the savings banks. If the currency
were deprecated GO per cent, ms it would
be were silver coined free at the ratio OF
16 to 1, the depostors would lose 10 1-3
millions. No friend of the free coinage
plank mentioned that fact or argued that
building and loan association investments
would be affected injuriously.
The constant experience Of the world
has been that when there is change for
the worse in the money standard the
wages Of abor are slow to adjust them
selves to it. The price of commodities adj
vance rapidly. The price of labor lags
behind. Thus there is real reduction IN
wages. Though they may be nominally
a little higher, their purchasing power is
decreased.-Chicago Tribune.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08

in the case is that there has been sub
stantially the same healthy advance in the
prices of other properties of about the
same sensityeness to the market. This
proposition was brought out with special
force by Gov. Tanner in an interview
given to the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
At the time the Governor spoke the adj
vance in wheat had been 80 cents per
bushel, and he added:
But railroad stocks. manufacturing stocks,
and all other stocks Of character to feel the
effects of prosperity have increased all the
way from 30 TO 30 per cent GA the former
values at the same time that wheat has
been making this gain OF 20 cents bushel.
Cattle, hogs, corn, oats, redtOp seed. all
farm products have gone mp almost. II not
quite, I'm the proportion that stocks and
wheat have Bonds and mortgages have en-
HANGED Taking the vast Interests repre-
scented by stocks and b9nis, YOU will ind
that the Increase I'm thC total value made
during the past three mouths ~ - OOO,OOo,-
600. The advance on other things, cattle.
hogs, corn, and so on, has amounted 10 more
than S3OO,O0O,0OO. There is grand total
of 81 300, DOT, coo added To the wealth Of this
country. 1t has been done by tie adoption
of wise and encouraging economic policy
which has restored the confidence of our
people, Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
Work of the Dingley Law.

Reports from the little State of Rhode
Island are full Of cheer. "The mill situa-
ton is better than it has been for five
years." says special dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. The Lonsdale
company has started on full time opera
ton, employing 5000 men and women.
In the WOonsocket worstcd mills, the
200 employees had their hearts gladdened
by the restoration of wages to what they
were in 1893, which is virtual increase
Of ~ per cent. But more than this,
ground has been broken for the erection
Of n new mill in the Olneyville district,
and plant near Blackstone, which has
been idle for almost five years, will be
purchased by new company and started
into full operation. 1t will not require
a microscope 10 observe that the develop
ment in the mill situation is the direct re-
suit Of the Dingley tariff law. 1t means
prosperity.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08

the markets will again be MS low and weak
as the price of silver"
This sort Of explanation can never be
effective, for two reasons. The first is
that il goes too far for the average voter
to follow with much interest. The second
and the best is that il wholly fails to ac-
count for the advance in many important
commodities which have nothing to do
with the harvests in Europe or the famine
in lndin. Has there been famine in
hides anywhere? Has the leather crop
failed? What bad weather has made
iron scarce and raised the price of steel?
What is the force that has lifted the mar
ket for wool as far, in proportion to for
mcr quotations, ms wheat has risen? Why
are lambs much higher than they were
when the Dingley bill was passed? How
about the butter crop? Has that failed
in India? Is the cheese market feeling
the effects of the harvests in Russia?
Where is the cotton crop failure? Who
has heard of n lumber famine?-Cleveland
Leader.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
COME, Mr.. BRYAN.
Try to BE Consistent in Your Theories
and Assertions.


and Assertions.
At AtchiSon, Mr.. Bryan made a speech
from which the following are detached
sentences: last fall the Republicans
said we were repudiationists because we
wanted 10 lessen the purchasing price Of
the dollar. The price of wheat
and corn is governed by the law of supply
and demand solely. The law Of supply
and demand governs the value Of Il dollar.
If there is short crop of money dollars
will rise. Nature makes n short crop Of
wheat. Man makes short crop of dol
lars by law
\ year ago Mr.. Bryan asserted that the
value Of a dollar was not influenced by
any power whatever except the declara-
tion by the Government that it was n dol
lar. lie asserted in season and out of
season that such Il declaration was sufl-
cient not only to make every silver dollar
worth gold dollar, but also to raise every
ounce Of silver bullion in the world to the
value of gold at n ratio OF IL to |. With
such record as this, how can the man
have the audacity to now come babbling
about the value Of the dollar being gov
erned by the law Of supply and demand?
He says the dOllnr has grown too valua-
bic because it has not kept pace with the
law of demand. The more money there
is in the country. he contends, the less
the dollar will buy. Does history bear
out such n claim? In one of his lectures
Mr.. Bryan presents n table to show that
since the crime OF 1878 there has been a
steady diminiShment in the price OF pro-
duets. TO make his theory good he must
also show that there has been a diminish
contrary, there has been steady and
rapid increase in the number of dollars
since 1878, until now we have a per cap
tia circulation of S2430, whereas in 1873
we had but $1S.04.-Kansas City Jour
nal
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
Southern Cotton Mills.

One OF the most encouraging features
of the business season ended on the first
of this month was the showing made by
Southern mining and manufacturing en-
terpriscs. Reports from reliable sources
indicate that all Of them were fairly pros
porous, even while similar industries were
depressed in other parts of the country,
the result being due in great measure to
the advantages of the proximity of the
raw material to points of consumption or
manufacture, and to the favorable clmat-
ic conditions. This was especially true of
cotton manufacturing, which evidences a
growth both continuous and of remarka-
BILE extent. For the first time the con-
sumption of Southern mills exceeded a
million Memphis Scimiter.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
Yens OF silver and Yens OF Gold.

1t was very unkind on the part of the
Director of the Mint to delay his recent
statement about the comparative value Of
the coins Of the world until the departure
of those silver patriots who recently has
tened TO Japan to learn the true cause Of
the decentralization of silver there. Had
they had opportunity to study Director
Preston's little table they might have
stayed at home and devoted their ener-
giles TO explaining TO the farmer why
wheat has gone above n dollar bushel
while the free coinage dollar has fallen
below forty cents. Director Preston's
table shows the comparative value Of the
silver and gold yens Of Japan during the
past decade. One minutes study of these
figures would have been sufficient to show
these peregrinating patriots the true cause
Of Japan's action. Here are the figures
read them for Yourself:
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-08
PROSPERITY is NOW GENERAL.
Business Improvement Moves Forward by Great
Leaps and Bounds.
The DoIefuI Cries Of Calamity Howers Cannot
Check the Advance Of Good Times.

Being unable to deny that prosperity
has come again upon the country, the
POpOcrat statesmen and organs with
one accord are loudly proclaimlng that
It is all due TO the failure Of the foreign
wheat crop. The growers of wheat
they say, are prospecting. but other
wealth producers are getting no bene-
fits. There is "A great deal of difference,
however, between mere assertion and
well authenticated fact. There is
abundant evidence on every hand that
all classes Of the people including
wealth producers of every description,
are sharing In the new prosperity. The
failure Of the foreign wheat crop could
not start hundreds Of idle shops and
factories to operating and give employ
ment TO hundreds of thousands of idle
workingmen. The failure of the foreign
wheat crop would not suffice to stimu-
late ail lines of business and produce
n feeling Of confidence and security
among investors and merchants
throughout the country.
The failure Of the foreign wheat crop
would not quicken the domestic wool
trade, the leather trade, the trade in
print cloths and sheetings, the tin, cop
per aud iron trade, the beef, pork and
lard trade, the trade in petroleum,
glass, lead, cottonseCd oil, lumber. pa
per, brick, coal, salt, hay, hemp, pota-
toes, corn, barley, rye, butter, eggs and
fruit. According to Bradstreet's. which
has kept n record of the business done
in all lines for the last four years, the
trade In all these commodities and
scores Of others has rapidly increased
since July-the month i'm which the Re-
publican tariff was enacted.
Regarding the stories Of Western
farmers paying off their mortgages IN
such enormous amounts, the Orange
Judd Farmer has made careful inqui-
ries and says that while it finds the
newspaper statements somewhat eX-
aggcrated, there is unquestiOnably an
immense amount Of liquidation going
on. During the past few years the
farmers have practicCd such economy
that the marked Improvement in wheat
and other prices has wonderfully i'm
proved their financial condition. One
great incentive to pay off old mort
cages is the lower interest rates at
which new loans can be obtained.