The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-28

the United States, to make this money
out of us, instead Of letting the Bank Of
England make it. And he thinks Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson was very much to
blame for smashing Nichalos Biddles'
Bank of the United States, in the '30s;
and that the solution of our troubles
now Is to unite all the scattered national
Banks, which now infest us like case
OF continent smallpox, into one great
institution like that which Jackson de-
stroyed
Ii it he true that the common people
were only made by their creation to
be exploited, robbed, plundered, by a
few persons. having no greater natural
rights than the multitude. and known as
the "Money-Power," then, of course. it
would be more patriotic to be reduced
to slavery under the American flag than
under the British flag. For so we could
at least rattle our chains, and tbumn orr
breasts, and cry out, 81 too am an Amer
lean citizen" But otherwise it is not
clear to us what greater advantage 1t
would be to us to have lot of Yankee
sharpers buy up. with nothing, 1860.
Ooo or our national bonds than to have
John Bull do the same thing.
But If the bankers of England have
been able to UTILIZE THE CREDIT
OF ENGLAND to make themselves
enormously wealthy; and if the bankers
OF the United States are able, as Mr..
St1ckney says. to do the same thing.
why would it not be well for the PEG
PIE OF THE UNITED STATES TO
UTILIZE THE CREDIT OF THE MA
TON, AND DIVIDE THE PROFITS
AMONG THEMSELVES?
The credit of the nation, which is
the people, can be used to enrich the
people. just as well as to enrich a lot
OF cunning skalawags, who are. in many
cases, not even citizens of the countrv
they plumber.
Behind the national bank note stand
the government bond; behind the bond
stand the nation; behind the nation
stand the people, and all the wealth
they have created. Now if the EN-
DORSEMENT of the people is of suf-
hclent force to make the bank note pass
from hand to, hand, as money. when
there Is no law making it legal tender
or oDlglng any person to receive it.
why should not the nation issue the
note itself. as. greenback, and give
the people the profits which now go tn
the bankers?
Can there be any answer to this aues-
ton?
But we want our readers to carefully
peruse the statistics given by President
Stlckney, and then sally out and cet
their neighbors together, at the cross
roads. or the blacksmith shop, or in a
barn, and read them to them, and read
them this article, and set them to think
ing.
And tell them that Mr.. Stickney is
not a red-eyed Socialist, but railroad
! president, a lifelong Republican. and
that he gives these fgues, not as a rea-
son Tor Joining the Peoples party, but
as leading up to a proposition to estab-
llsh, In this country. another Bank Of
England, which would dominate ihn
whole land. and bring America to Brit
ISL conditions. And what are thew?
why here there are only the greatly
rich and the helplessly poor: and a
farm laEorer, who lives to the age of
Sixty, without going to the poor house,
IS as rare a creature that they rig him
up IN a blue coat and give him a pro-
cession and banquet
Show your old prty neighbors the
extraordinary, the astounding figures.
given by President Stickney. They ara
not to be disqualification we take them
from that able Republican paper, tna
Minneapolis Tribune. and they have
been approved and published by every
Republican daily paper in the state Of
Minnesota.
And by them it appears hat we owe
to foreigners between FOUR AND FIVE
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DEBT
for which we have received practically
NOTHING.
Neither gold nor silver nor paner
money, nor manufactures nor food nor
anything else.
And remind them that our politics
now turn eargerly on the question as
to whether our ability to pay this vast
this overwhelming, this fraudulent
debt, SHALL BE DOUBLED, by de-
monetizing and o5tracising one of the
metals, silver. which constituted money
when the debt was created.
Ana II this does not rouse them to
action ask the brutes to get into YOUR
hCg-pen, and feed them on refuse. the
rest CT their natural lives, while thew
grunt thir gratitude for the blessings
they enjoy.
For the men who cannot be moved
by such showing are only fit for a hog
pen. Indeed the inhabitants of the pan
might justly complain that they are not
up to the respectable intellectual stand
ard Of the animals that we fat and eat
Tor hog knows when he is well-fel
ana when he is starved, and the aver
age American voter does not know
enough to squeal when his belly is
empty.
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