The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-21

My dear friends, long to tear passion
to tatters before your people. This
day man, before met you, told me
times were better; that men were get
ting better wages; that, therefore, IL
was useless for me to try to interest
them in Populism" So l long to have
chance to play heavy tragedy. l long
to remind you Of the $500, 1000, 900 in in
terest money our people are annually
paying John Bull, the great proportion
OF which would undoubtedly continue
in spite of all SINGLE TAX allies OF
the Democratic party will accomplish
long to remind you of the 5000, OOO
homes that, since the civil war, have
been mortgaged. of the Is per cent OF
our people who live on rented property
of only II per cent of the capital in the
in Italy labor receives so per cent of the
capital of that country. / long to re-
mind you how George Gould's securities,
while he was on a three months rest in
Europe, increased in value to at least
SIS 600 600; of the 100000, 900 mine of
Senator Clark of Montana | would re-
mind you, on the other hand, of the
1000 miners in the United States
whose average wage is only IS cents per
day; of the practical prosperity which
enables the governor of Idaho to still
II 10
by the bowling press. full Of Philippine
reports, and without any charge brought
against those miners herded like so
many wild animals in their filthy, Lib
bey-like prison I would dwell on such
facts as that of Mrs. Belmont, of New
York city, who spends $25, 900 in one
season on her clothes, and of the Brad
ley Martin farewell dinner, which cost
$4,000. | would tell of college prof.
lessons who draw their convictions from
Standard Oil, which defes public au-
fhorities but pays their salaries; of the
20 per cent of our people who own no
property at all. I would like to tell
those men who say wages are better,
that these wages, measured in coin OF
he money power. does not give them
0r the farmers who support the whole
life Of our country, any more Of real,
true life than they received before.
They do not know what real, true life
IS Their increased CD wages may de-
GIVE them in an animal satisfaction for
! low form of life as habit adapts
prisoner to close confinement. But such
wages give them only the artificial
health of the drunkard, wealth of the
niser, sociablity of the gambler,
GU of the school boy, the
beauty of chrome or. a village band.
ind the righteousness of a heather
3ut such wage-saves have not the least
,ttainable under the issue of greenbacks
IS advocated by our party
But I will not dwell upon these facts,
because I see that old farmer over there
s getting restless. He already knows
hese facts too well to his sorrow, to
iced schoolboy defamation over
hem. The great majority of our people
eel the depression. They are only
Waiting for some practical means to es-
ape.
That means I have come to present to
ou AS in Lincoln's time, it is some
hing which the people. thoroughly dis
listed with both Old parties, Indifferent
nd hopeless, know it is useless to ex-
ect from the Democratic party any
lore than from the Republican party |
can congressman, lcCleary, has had |
; teach bogus Populists in Washington
hat true Populism is, | might look (if !
here were any choice, but there is |
one), for more help in the party OF !
2teIligence and aggression, the united |
arty of expansion (using the word in |
n honest sense) than I could in par !
, of hypocrites, or the party which |
My picks up old broken junkbottles, |
ast away by Republicans.
And what does McCleary say? MI |
learv said in his last speech in con-
ress:
Now, a Populst under present con-
itions cannot consistently be free
liver man. If he does he will deny
le fundamental articles of his faith.
he theory and practice of the Populist !
arty provided that the making of |
oney and the regulation Of the vol
me Of currency is q governmental
melton and should be controlled by it,
nd it cannot properly be controlled by
ny individual. The coinage of silver
,day is governmental action. In
der to get free coinage you must take
way from the government; the author
y that it now possesses and give it to
dividuals. In other words, you must
} to individuals for your coinage, and
ot to the government"
There are none so blind as those
no will not see.' Reformed Democ-
ICY. indeed! AS was said in the Gree
y campaign, already forgotten why,
e have read of sudden and miraculous
diversions. We read of St. Pauls
inversion, of the light that shone
'ound him. But l ask you in the his
Try of the human family have you
yor known OOO O0O of man - non nnn |