The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-07

| silver at the ratio of 16 to / meets our
approval. but for internal commerce the
truly scientific money of the United
states Is a money not dependent upon
intrinsic value or coin redemption, but
a money issued solely by the govern
ment. without the Intervention of cor
porations, thus Matchmaking the money
trust. Such a money should be a full
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, without any exception or limi-
| tation In payment Of all dues. It should
| be issued in volume commensurate with
| the business demands of the country.
and increase of population.
Third-We demand direct legislation
and proportional representation, by
which the people shall be truly able to
govern themselves, become their own
legislators, judges Of the constitutions
ality of their own law-making act, and
forever keep for the common life the
self-governing power which can never
be rightly or safely delegated to repre-
sentat1on. Thus only, and for the first
time since our fathers established the
New England town meeting, will gov
eminent by, for and of the people be-
come a reality.
Fourth-The rapid concentration of
private industries into consolidated or
gan1zat1ons, commonly called trusts.
which Is now awakening and alarming
the American people, is the result of
economic law and the development of
the age. and cannot be remedied by re-
striction or penal antitrust legislation,
or outlawed in the courts, but such evils
can only be remedied by the ownership
of natural and economic monopolies by
the whole people in their collective ca
pac1ty as nation, state and municipality,
In order that there may be equality of
all men in the gifts of God to the COM
mon life, equality of economic oppor-
tunity and political power, equality in
excess to all the national and social re-
sources needful for the living Of free.
happy and complete lives.
Fifth-We charge the Republican and
Democratic parties that, while recog-
n1z1ng the disease, they have utterly !
failed to discover or prescribe the true |
remedy. The declaration of congress.
that the people Of Cuba are and of |
right ought to be free and independ- |
ent," should apply with equal force and |
effect to the Filipino and his native
land, and that the same rights and lib
critics so guaranteed to one by the
United States, should also Immediately
be guaranteed the other and rendered
to both.
PROF. GEORGE D. HERRON's AD-
DRESS.
George D. Heron turned himself
loose on the Populists of Iowa at their
convention yesterday, and he found In
them one of the most sympathetic audi
ences he ever addressed. He ground out
all the stereotyped phrases which go to
make up his bitter TRADE against all !
things that are, and the Populists ap-
plauded every one of them. He said
that actual treason against the United
States has been committed by President
Mckinley; that governments, all
through the ages, have been nothing
but the oppressors of the people; that
the real traitors in the United States
,oday are the commercial classes,
whose weakling and plant tool the
is;" that the war in the Phil
ppines is waged in order that CONNER
;1al companies may find a market for
he products Of American toll, which the
American people themselves are too
'oor to buy; that "the policy of COM
and expansion which the
American people are pursuing today, is
he same policy that destroyed Rome
nd practically every other great civili-
alton that the world has known" and
the American people now find them
elves betrayed and perjured as a ma
ion by their government"
Those are the sentiments which the
ocialist agitator expressed, and which
he Popul1sts of the state, in convention
applauded till the roof of the {
lynn hall resounded with the echoes.
Mr.. Heron said other things. the ,
ubstance of his remarks, further than Z
hose already quoted, being as fol- ]
ows: II
by way Of prelude, shall say do
ot wish to hold this convention re-
ponsible for the views l shall express. I
come to you merely to give you my /
iews." L
Social reconstruction may not come
ow. It is not quite time for that. This I
ystem in which we live has gone be- q
ond the stage Of mending and repair
lg. d
It cannot be mended; It can only be 8
aded. Antitrust legislation has moth i,
g to do with the solution Of this prob 8
m. The great political parties know 8
lat their antitrust planlxs mean abso- l,
ltely nothing. (Applause.) We have O
'me to the end OF one historic stage In
ethods Of construction. The fndiyid- k
alistic method of distributing the p
orld's goods has come to an end. We r
I'VE arrived at one Of those supreme Ii
oments when an old world is about d,