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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
THEN AND NOW,

Daniel Wells. Jr, Milwaukee capital
list and old settler, in speaking of Christ
mas in the early fifties gives this among
his "reminiscences:
There were no railroads then and farm
ers brought their grain into Milwaukee from
way out in Dodge county. Sometimes they
had six or eight yoke of oxen attached to
one wagon. There was great deal Of COM
petition among the buyers, and they would
go way outside on the country roads, buy
the grain. give the farmer a ticket and tell
him to deliver his load to the red, white or
yellow warehouse. just according to who
bought the grain.
It's different now, Mr.. Farmer, is it not
-Schillng's Advance
Of course it is. Now the wheat ring.
with headquarters in Minneapolis, fixes
every morning the price that is to be
paid in half dozen states, and there is
not particle Of competition, or devia-
ton from that price
We made our famous brass kettle
campaign in 1873, to overcome that
system, but the people would not sus-
tain us. The ring spent 100000 to beat
us and the Democratic leaders supported
the Republican candidate for congress.
We reduced Straits majority from TO-
600 to 800, but all in vain. The ring
triumphed, and the farmers of the
Northwest have since been robbed of
millions of dollars. And so they will
continue to be plundered, in all prob
ability, for century to come. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
al ESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Mr. F. Fl. Reifsneider having had a dis
cussion with gold bug friend, asks us
three questions:
L. How much commodity (markeU value
Is there in a copper cent?
Answer. There. are 1872 copper cents In
pound and copper is selling at about II
cents pound. This would make "a hun
dred cents worth less than u cents in
gold
2. How much commodity (market) value
is there in the nickel?
Answer Twenty nickels are reported to
be worth about Is cents in the metal
market.
3. How much would a gold peice be
worth with the stamp hammered off so that
1t Is smooth
Answer. If it still retained it's full
weight. and one took it to the government
mint. he could have 1t recoined and then
1T would represent the exact value the
law gives 1t.
Two hundred and fifty Eight grains of
standard gold would be worth ten dollars
but not jeweler or dealer In old metals
in all the land would give that for it I'M
coined
And Uncle Sam would not coin it into
disk, and 1t would not be worth ten dol
lars IL 1t were not made so by law
Ii law were enacted tomorrow that a
gold eagle should weigh fifty grains or 500
grains that amount gold would be called
ten dollars.
1t is one of the fallacies of the honest
money men-both the dupes and the dupers
that gold determines it's own value
1t does nothing of the kind.
supply and demand regulates it's price,
Schillings Advance.
And there can be no question that if
gold was deprived of it's legal tender
quality and denied access to the minis
OF the world, it would fall to as
low price as silver, under the same
treatment.
Outside of the dentists who would
want it if it could not be used as
money? And if it became cheap and
common would women use it for the
purposes of ornament? Id
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
"TnE BUSINESSlNTERESTS''
HOW THEY GOVERN A COurNTRy-
BOB SCHILLING'S MILWAUKEE,
ADVANCE HAS THIS
TO SAY:

| Jiminez, the new president of San Do
mingo elected by revolution, does not
| find his job bed of roses
AS in many South and Central American
! countries, syndicate Of cut throat capital
lists has the government under it's control
1t has loaned money to the government and
collects the import duties.
One can readily see that such an arrange
ment Will lead to continual disputes be-
tween the people and the "legalized' rob-
Ders, and any official must expect to be
ground between two millstones The syn-
dlcate controls the newspapers and a presi-
Gent who stands by the people Is liable to
be laid out cold by the business interests. !"
ana II ne don't stand by the people, they
ARISE In revolution and his earthly career
Is ended. He'll be damned if he does. and
he'll be damned If he don't
ana while the South and Central Ameri-
can republics are scarcely half civilized, and
we. with our boosted enlightenment and
ciV1ilzat1on look down upon them, condi-
tons are not one whit better in our country.
The only difference is that we are more
nypocrit1cal about ft-the money bank. rail-
roao, land and other syndicates have us nv
the throat as much as our sister republics.
ana our president is compelled to obey their
oenests or walk the political plank-we have
ali this infamy done on the sly and under
handedly
Our president is no more free to act than
is the president of San Domingo.
:. we practice the business on the style of
uncle Toby, who had been rather tough.
he concluded to join the church, and some
weeks later the minister met a neighbor OF
his and inquired whether the neighbor had
noted any change in Uncle Toby since he
became church member.
% yes replied the neighbor, g very
material changer"
What Is it," eagerly inquired the minis
ter.
why. before he Joined the church when
ne went out to mend his fences on Sunday
ne carried his ak on his shoulder
And now?"
Now he carries it under his coat
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
visited California for the benent OF
Mrs. Coles hearth. He assured the Of
hlcer that he would make no endeavor
to avoid the serving Of the warrant.

BOSTON, Dec. 22-The creditors Of
the Nathan P. Squire & Co. corporation.
at a meeting today voted to continue
the business of the firm under ~ as
s1gnee, subject to the assistance and ap-
proval of committee of three repre-
senting the creditors.
After the meeting it developed that
Mr.. Chaplin's denial of the reported in
debtedness of the firm to the Globe Ma
tional bank caused sensation, as he
stated that the firm was represented as
owing more than a million dollars
through the Justification of the books of
the bank. This was done, Mr. Chaplin
explained, by charging the notes and
collateral loans against the firm without
crediting the collateral, so that every
loan was made to appear twice as. large
as it should be. An explicit explanation
of the books caused the overdrafts to
disappear.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
dies to eradicate them.

dies to eradicate them.
ing the two old parties-it is just as
sensible to talk of reforming the devil
himself for he owns them both To
root out and destroy usury will require
more than moral courage and wisdom.
The whole structure of society. now
commercially built on usury. it is i'm
bedded in our literature, baptized in our
churches, taught in our schools and
practiced by everyone who happens to
have dollar or more to loan. The
enemy of mankind will be destroyed m
time, or the human race, one or the
other; the remedy is an awful one,
justice will overtake us sooner or later.
the rough things will be D'ade smooth
the crooked places straight
Why did the great cities OF old per-
ish? Because of their manifold cor
ruption. This legalized robbery in our
time will likewise end disastrous to
our great cities, unless they become
honest and dispense justice between
man and man. practice humanity as ma
ture intended it to be. If the great Ina-
jority of our race never are to tdVe
home, seldom a square meal ana must
labor. toll and suffer until old age over
takes them, and then die IN the poor
house. the doom of the race is near.
H. H. MEYER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
vote for the pending currency bill and in
1900 vote for party that practices what
1t breaches. Whatever your vote, let It
be against the hypocritiGal p. o. p.
RockERFELLER MILks THE cows.

hOChEHFELLER MILkS THE COWS,
Editor Appeal:
l am farmer and raise corn and hay,
which is fed to cows. My wife milks the
cows and takes care of the milk and makes
butter from it. and it takes about two hours
OF the pound until she gets it mar
keted. She getSe0 cents per pound, or about
10 cents an h0msfor her labor. She takes
the ~ cents and exchanges it for two gall
Ions of Rockefeblers cheap coal Off, which.
we are told, the labor cost is less than 1
cent gallon. sSh she pays the laborers
VINO produce the OIL say 2s.eents Rookie,
teller q Co. muse get the other IS cents
so she works in this case, nine tenths of
ner time indirectly for Rockefeller. And
the same holds good as to nearly everything
else the laborihg people buy, and do you
tnlnk can get her to believe it? She an
swers me 'withH Mood givetf. the riches to
Whom He WILL and you know that makes
me SO - mad just gather fnyseif~up and
get out to work to cool off. Oh, great is
the mental capacity Of the American slave
potn male and female! Amongst what other
species of theoanimal kingdom do YOU find
80 much labor for, such little. reward or
Wnen Will man learn to be humane to his
kind Appeal to Reason.
occasionally this man Rockefeller
sends the union army into state like
Idaho, puts the entire region under
martial law, imprisons all male citizens
found at large, puts a husher on the
newspapers Of that section and forcibly
raises his percentage of the fruits of
labor another notch and next election
ne marches the fools-out of the bull pen
to the polls to vote the old party tickets
and give him another term Of private
ownership Of mines and armies.
1t would be too awfu1ly awful for
these bull-pen men to vote for a gov
eminent ownership of mines and armies.
1t would be paternalistic populistic and
almost as bad as the Socialists. Hurrah |
Tor Hockefeiter, his mines, his. serfs, the |
bull pen, his standing army and his sys-
tenn of government defended and per-
petuated by the G. o. P. and the D. O. p
E. AT.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
Run on n Portland Bank.

PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. pa rumol
of unknown origin concerning the solv-
ency Of the Portland Savings bank start
ed run on the bank today Deposits
were turned over as fast as the books
were presented. most of the payments
being in gold. The crowd reached such
proportions early in the afternoon, how
ever, that officials Of the bank concluded
to guard against running short of ready
cash by taking refuge behind the means
provided by law.
The statement issued says the bank
has surplus of $1,25O,OOO invested in
good securities. About $125, 900 was
paid out today, and the bank will open
in the morning prepared to meet all de-
mands.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28

leaders for some time and although hi
viii not admit that the proposition pu,
Iorth In the resolutions is sanctioned BY
them. he does say that he believes It embed.
les the sentiments Of q majority OF the Bry.
An men of the country.
That Is to be one Of the great features
of the campaign OF 1900: Shall govern
ment paper money be redeemed in
metal? The Populists say no. The Dem
ocratic Chicago platform says yes. But
they see that the public mind is coming
to the conclusion that the promise of
15,OOO,OOO OF the wealthiest and most
powerful people on earth amounts to
more than any piece of metal, intrin-
sically almost worthless, dug out of the
bowels of the insensate earth.
What gives gold it's value? 1t is not
as useful or as necessary for the uses
OF the human family as iron, copper. tin
or aluminium. You cannot make either,
implements or weapons out, of it,
We showed in our book, Atlantis"
that its conventional value is a survival
or sun-worship in the Pagan days,
thousands OF years before the Christian
era 1t was the money of the sun. It
was called the tears wept by the SUM-"
1t was supposed to have fallen from
space; and to this day meteorites are
found containing gold and diamonds.
The Pagan priests bought it up to
adorn the temples of the sun, on both
sides OF the Atlantic; and this demand
gave it it's value
We are still in the midst of SURVIVOR
ship, and the bankers are it's high
and it's worship demands more
bloody sacrifices than that of Moloch
d
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28

drain every ounce Of gold out Of the
country?
But long before that time the people
and the banks will take the alarm, and
begin to hoard gold; and It will 90 to a
premium!
A pretty state Of things, when the
industry of the world is dependent on
yellow metal that the whole world is
grabbing for!
Are not the Populists right? Should
not our money consist of something that
cannot be exported? I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
LETTER TO POPULISTS
CHAIRMAN BUTLER. OF THE prn
PLE'S PARTY, ASKS QUESTIONS
OF THE LEADERS.
WANTS TO FIND OUT IDEAS RE.
GARDING PROPER DATE FOR
THE CONVENTION.

WASHINGTON, Dec 23.-Senato,
| Butler, North Carolina, chairman of the
Peoples party has sent out a letter to
each of the national committeeman OF
that organization, asking them a num-
Der OF questions, the answers to which
will determine the plans and purposes Of
the Populist party.
AS long ago as the spring of '9S the
Populists decided to hold their conven-
ton In advance of all other parties in
1900 as concession to the middle-of-
the-road, or radical, faction of the party.
Senator Buffers letter is as follows:
Sir: AS you know, the national COM
mlttee at it's last meeting at Omaha. in
June, '98, passed a resolution known as
the Omaha agreement, to the effect that
our national convention should be held
at least one month before the old party
conventions were held
''The Republican national committee
has just held meeting and fixed June
- as the time for the next national con-
vention. The Democratic committee
has been called to meet Feb. % to fix a
date for their convention. It will nrob-
ably hold it's convention a week or two
after the Republican convention.
Il write now to get the consensus of
opinion as to our national committee on
the following points:
Il. Shall I call meeting of the ma
tional committee to fix the time of our
next national convention?
SO. If yes, what time and place do
you favor for the coming meeting?
% Or shall l take the vote of the ma
tional committee as to the time of hold
ing the next national convention by re-
ferendum vote?
a. If you favor the referendum vote
what date do you favor for the national
convention?
IS. Shall l invite the Silver Republi-
can national convention to meet at the
same time and place with us?
Il submit the fifth question because
notice that at the recent meeting of the
national executive committee of the Sill
yer Republican party, there was a
strong sentiment expressed in favor of
holding it's convention at the same time
and place as ours, with the view of
agreeing on the same national ticket"
Senator Butler expects the committee
men to whom this letter has been ad-
dressed will reply promptly, and that
within the next two weeks he will be
able to decide definitely what course
to pursue
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
NOT OUR OPINION.

Last week was published an advertise
ment of M. Mabin's little magazine, in
which he reflected unkindly upon DR..
H. B. Fay, who has charge of the OR
ganization Department" of this paper.
We are sorry to hear that one of our
readers understood this to express the
personal opinion of the editor of The
Representative. Nothing could be fur
Their from the truth. We look upon Dr.
Fay as splendid laborer in the cause
OF reform, toiling year in and year out
without compensation to hold the Peo-
pies party together and advance it's
principles. We are sorry that any little
differences should arise between our
workers. There are too few of us to
attempt to kill each other off.
Let us have peace I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
GOODBYE GREENBACkS.

The greenback. the kind of money the
wealthy classes despise and the common
classes love- is to be impounded by the
financial measure now before congress, and
thus finally withdrawn from circulation.
The money power will then have accom-
plished it's design and will have finally
succeeded in getting the greenbacks out Of
circulation.
Watch the Democratic vote in con-
gress on the pending financial bill.
If there is anything in politics more
detestible than everything else it is
hypocrisy and false pretenses.
Republicans openly demand the gold
standard and the turning over of the
nations money to private banking cor
porations, and that the government go
out of the banking business. They are
unit and majority in the nation to-
day and II majorities are entitled to rule
they should have their wish When the
people get tired of monopoly rule the
people will probably say so at the bal
lot box.
When any party lines up as unit,
openly states it's position and stands by
it, the people know where to find that
party, what to expect and when to de-
pose 1t.
When party puts forward a reform
platform of great promises and sends
out orators like Bryan to defend it and
fool the people, while in congress all
their leaders vote against every prin-
ciple of reform, that party becomes the
greatest possible danger in politics.
Democracy puts one class of men on
the stump to make bright promises and
sends another class of men to congress
to make plute laws. The Democratic
national committee has already agreed
to reform platform with Bryan to run
on it. while they fill congress with the
same old gang Of corporation and mo-
nopoly tools and gold bugs.
Watch the Democrats In both houses
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
UNION OF REFORM PARTIES
milwaukee Adyance.)

|
mere are more men who know the
country needs reforming than there
were ten years ago.
There is a better understanding in
| regard to what changes are needed than
o,'e. L~ro.o.
There are many reform organizations
and everyone thinks their pet theory is
the only one to save the country.
TO get the reform forces to pull to-
gether is the great question now.
This Philippine expansion imperial
policy of the Republican party will kill
it,
Mr. Bryan, good and great as he is, is
going to do up the Democratic party
And it is the best thing that he can and
will do When the nominating conven-
tions will meet, confusion will be SUI
preme, money will not hold them to-
gether. Pennsylvania and Utah failed
to elect senators, although there was no
lack of money to use on the occasion.
The trouble in uniting the reform par
ties is that every party will insist on
having all it's theories incorporated in
the platform, and if it is not done thew
will not join.
When the Republican party was form
ed the Abolitionists had sense enough
to unite with it, although it did not
contain the very essence of their doc
trine-if the party had declared for the
abolition of slavery. it never could have
succeeded, but if they had and elected
their men, the result would have been
the same-the South would have re-
belled anyhow
So now ii the reform parties unite on
platform with only two or three OF the
essential planks of reform in it and sue
coed in the election of president, the
result will be just the same as if they
had inserted 20 reform planks
Let them demand nothing but the is
sue OF money by the government only
making it a full legal tender for all pur-
poses; government ownership Of the
railroads and the initiative and referen-
dunn. These three demands are suffi.
cient to start with; when the men are
elected and the ground is broken ouce. |
in enacting reform demands, then other |
reforms of equal Importance will be |
brought forward to be acted upon.
Monopoly is king now. Monopoly will
not abdicate it's power to the masses. |
that is to the mud-sill- hay-seed brigade !,
until compelled to do so. The history
Of the world has demonstrated that
what men gain by fraud they will hold
by force. The monarchies of Europe
are delighted at our present imperial
policy; they know that it is monarchy
in essence if not in name. that It means
bondage, debts and slavery to us. and !
is contrary to the fundamental prin- .
ciples of our forefathers This war is ,
nothing but wholesale murder. War is !
only justifiable in self-defense and not
for Doodle.
The election in 1900 will decide our |
fate for years; if the people fail to use
their power and dethrone monopoly, I
then we must expect a monarchy Per-
haps nothing will open the blind eyes
Of the masses as when carried into cap
tivity for while
The politics of our statesmen in |
power is SO entirely rotten, that it
should be Stunned as leprosy is. The
evils Of corruption are so completely
in the warp and wool of |
society that it will require severe RENE
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28

tinues the length Of time have indi-
Gated the truth OF this will have become
too apparent for successful contrayen-
ton.
i believe the Transvaal war will he !
mighty influence In the campaign az
next year in this country, and that the
object lesson will convince the people
OF this country that it is not safe to
place on gold the entire burden Of the
monetary volume of the world.
1t may be interesting to observe that
the panic in New York was simultan-
eous with the passage of the house gold
standard bill. Now, if a panic had fol-
lowed the passage of silver free COIN
age bill, the wise men and the press of
the land would have attributed it to the
passage of the bill.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-If the war in the
Transvaal continues for two or three
months longer, the cause of silver will
have been won.
Thus spoke former United States Sen
ator Du Bots, of Idaho, one Of the Silver
Republican leaders, who was in Chicago
yesterday:
"The short time 1t has been in pro-
gress" continued Mr.. Du Bots, has fur
nished proof Of the contentious of the
friends of silver that there is not enough
gold in the world to form the basis of
the worlds money, and If the war con-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-28
NERVOUS At BOSTON.
Closing of the Globe Bank Renders
the Market Shaky.

| Closing of the Globe Bank Renders
the Market shaky
BOSTON, Dec. 22.-There was a ner-
vous feeling apparent in financial quar-
tiers today before the opening of bust
ness on account of the troubled aspect of
the situation resulting from the closing
Of the Globe National bank Consider
able confidence was expressed, however,
that the action Of the clearing house,
last week, in making certificates avail
able through committee to banks in
case of emergency, would avert any fur
Their serious failures.
At the Globe bank today all the clerks
were busy when the regular hour for
opening came, but the doors remained
closed and a notice bearing the sigma
ture Of D. G. Wing, temporary receiver,
gave the reason. The stock market was
expected to feel the disturbed conditions
were held and some active work was
done in copper circles before the ex-
change opened
During the forenoon the National
Shawmut bank made public the follow
ing notice:
THAT there may be as little incon-
venience as possible to the depositors of
the Globe National bank and others, the
National ,Shawmut bank offers to ad-
vance to pay to all depositors in the
Globe National bank against their de-
posits so per cent of the net amount of
the same
The action of the National Shawmut
bank had an excellent effect in all cir
cles, and within short time after it
had become known, except for a fever
ish tendency in some transactions on
the stock exchange, the financial sec
lions of the city were as quiet as usual.