The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-24
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BARKER STICKS AND ADVANCES,
WHILE BRYAN SURRENDERS
TO THE ENEMY.
In the American, Aug. s, Hon. Whar-
ton Barker puts old-party, time-serv-.
ing politicians far in the rear by lis
all-embracing review of the industrial
movements of the past years leading up
to our present duty as Populists. 1t
should be studied carefully in full, as
the following attempt at review can
not do it justice in the short space allot-
ted.
Mr.. Barker first calls attention to the
gradual progress of democracy in Bel
GUM, by which the laborers have OBJ
tanned one vote apiece, although other
voters with property can, il they hap
pen to have received a certain degree of
education, command three votes. Be-
fore 1898 the working class had no vote
at all. Even now the favored class,
through the Clerical party, succeeded
in electing 112 members of parliament
with 993, 900 votes, year ago, while the
Socialists and Liberals, with 936, 900,
could only elect 40. So the many who
were unrepresented demanded proper
tiOnal representation, whereupon the
Clericals offered them such an unfair
sort of proportional representation that
in those districts where the Clericals
are in the minority they could obtain
representation, but where the Socialists
and Liberals were in the minority they
should have no representation. Hence,
the late turmoil in that country. There
are compromisers there as we'll as here,
and through them the inevitable crisis
that is yet to come has been postponed
Democrats and Republicans banging
at the Philippines to distract the atten-
ion of the rabble, while English finan-
ciers enslave us. Little Col Bryan aids
them. Has paid Boss Croker the price
of his nomination. At Des Moines, Ia,
Bryan allows plutocracy to make the
campaign on the Philippine craze. Will
relegate Is to l to the rear. His claims
f0~ {%r
those of a fakir. He accused the Re-
publican party of putting the dollar
above the man. He now plainly says
let it remain above the man, if only the
presidency is not above this little man.
Boss Croker, just over from 'Heng-
land now says Bryan is one of the
greatest men America has produced"
Now read what Lincoln once said:
Lincoln once said: There are two
principles that have stood face to face
from the beginning of time, and will
ever continue to struggle; the one is
the common right of humanity, and the
other the divine right of kings. 1t is
the same spirit that says, You work and
toll and earn bread, and I will eat it,
No matter in what shape it comes,
seeks to bestride the people of his own
nation and life by the fruit of their la
Dor, or from one race of men as an
apology for enslaving another race, it
iC ho tool
The truth is bound to win. There is
no excuse for good men to longer hest
tate to rebuild the Peoples party, ex-
cept either ignorance or the movements
of the Democratic and fusion leaders
the past few days. or else moral cussed-
ness and beastly selfshness.
Now continue the reading of the
Americans true statement of the real
disease:
The parliamentary committee on In
dian currency appointed by the British
government, has reported in favor of
the gold standard for India. Over a
year ago the financial community of
London thought the money market too
tight to make this recommendation
then, but since then circumstances have
changed In the meantime that COM
mittee has been listening to witnesses,
and discussing the whole question. A
feature of the discussion of peculiar in
terest in this country, where Democrats
claim that bimetallists are Populists, is
the agreement between the gold men
and the bimetallists, although it was
afterwards put aside. This agreement
that silver should be coined at the ra-
ito of % to l, which would give India a
rupee of the value of 16 pence, while it's
bullion value is but 10 pence. Those
WORTHLESS CO who claim that a govern
ment should not manufacture money by
the printing press, would thus attempt
that very thing. These worthless ca
would screw up the value of the rupee, |
make it worth more, harder to get, by
an arbitrary legal dictum, regardless of
the suffering Indian people who have
the worlds work to perform, think only
that it would give the British govern
ment greater power over them, for
the British government would have to
pay out fewer rupees