The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
AT LAST!
Pay up.
THE LIGHT DAWNING,

1nE LILO III la w NlNG.
Even the St. Paul Globe. (gold.bug
Democrat,) is getting it's purblind
| eyes open. 1t sees chasms and catas-
trophies ahead for the Republican par
| ty and the gold-standard. 1t said, a
day or two ago, under the heading
"Danger Signals"
sour Republican contemporaries are
| endeayoring to discount the apparent
! drift toward Populism in the spring
| elections by showing that Republi-
cans and Democrats do not 20 out in
stormy weather to vote, while Popu-
lists do, and that politics cut no figure
in spring elections, anyway. Their
| anxiety shows their disturbance, and
they have reason for it. We suppose
| no intelligent and honest man Ques-
tions that re,y decided increment has
taken place to,card the Poputist causc in
this portion Of the country since the
election last November. For this the
managers of the Republican party are
wholly to blame. They themselves
| set up test that was unnecessary,
! absurd and certain to react unfavOr-
| ably upon themselves. "Prospe rity''
| was the only word in their mouths
from morning until night. They did
not tell the diScOntented man that he
| was suffering the consequences Of his
own folly and that OF others; that the
| country was passing through the in
| evitable reaction from boom period:
that we were having the experience OF
erery country on the foce of the globe IN de-
clining prices with increasing age, and
that industry and frugality were the
only remedies. Not a bit of it. They
| told him that lie was suffering because
the country had had Democratic adj
min stration. They confirmed his be.
| lief that commercial conditions can
be changed or created at will by party
legislation; and they, furthermore
pledged themselves solennlyt0 gire the coun-
t1V prosperity If they scere returned to por-
Advance Agent Of Prosperity was
simply preparing the way for Repub-
licsn disaster and the increase of I'opu-
They knew that the election of Mr..
Mckinley did not mean an immediate
return of prosperity. Yet they claim.
ed that it did. They put all their eggs
into this basket. They placed all
their bets on card which they knew
could not possibly turn. And now
that Mr.. Mckinley has been inauQ.
urated and the wicked Democrats are
out Of office, and the times improve
but slowly, the certain consequences
| follow in drift toward Populism.
What use is it now for organs like the
New York Tribune and the Pioneer
| Press to tell US that prosperity does
not come in a day. and that Mr.. Nc
Kinley cannot work miracles, when
they told the whole country for four
years that Cleveland and the Demo.
| Gratis alone stood in the way of good
| times; and told all the voters for six
months that if they would only vote
the Republican ticket, returning
prosperity would cover the countrv
| like wave? They we're making Pop
ulist votes all the time, just as they
made free silver votes for nearly
twenty years before they finally took
a stand against it, by their support of
silver coinage acts. 1t is reasonably
clear already that the Republican
party, no matter what it may do in
! Congress-, has dug its own grave by
its establishment of the prosper ity
| test.
Bully for the St. Paul Globe! .,,,
We fear however that the paper will
not live long if it begins to tell the
truth that way. It is not accus toned
to it, and the unusual strain will
burst its old hulk to fragments.
Now boys, all come into the PEOPLES
Party, and move forward with a
whoop and hurrah! Note the fact
| that this Democratic paper does not