The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-14
WHERE OUR IMPROVED TIMES COME
FROM.

WHERE OUR IMPROVED TIMES COME
FROM.
The one government department in Wash
ington which has not lapsed into the dull,
do-nothing rut of summer routine is the
bureau of engraving and printing. While
the other departments are practically de-
serted and the few clerks are doing over
their desks or struggling through the dreary
work incident to the torrid season, the big
building occupied by Uncle Sans money
mill is alive with industry. The steady
droning sound of massive machinery is
heard all during the day. and at night the
windows, from top to bottom, CLEAN with
innumerable electric lights.
The money factory is being worked to it's
utmost limit at present, for the wonderful
business activity has caused an unprece-
denied demand for notes OF various dencm-
nations. Then, again, $40 gold certificates
are being turned out for the first time in
years, United State Treasurer Roberts hav-
ing ordered $4S,0 zoo, 900 worth of them. The
yellow fellows" as they are called, be-
cause one side is printed in rich golden ink,
are being delivered at the rate of 60, 900 a
day. In addition to this the regular work
OF supplying new bills for the great guam
titles which are destroyed daily is going on
without interruption. 1t has been necessary
to increase the force and take on night
shifts in order to turn out a stream of
money large enough for the demands of the
treasury. These are the reasons that in this
usually dull season this bureau is extraor-
dinarily active.
THE United States paper money is the
handsCmest in circulation anywhere in the
world" said Claude M. Johnson, the chief
of the bureau of engraving and printing, to
a Brooklyn Eagle correspondent Taking
into account richness of design, workman
ship and execution, our bills are unexcelled.
The English bank note is very inferior to
our silver certificate, being turned out by
the surface printing process. The French
have the nearest approach to-: our system,
some of their notes being made from fine
plates and embracing some delicate work.
But when the points of intricate construc
ton and security from counterfeiting are
considered, our notes are way ahead of those
of any European country.
The wonderful business activity
does not cause the printing of more
paper money, but the printing of more
paper money causes 'the wonderful
business activity"
Mckinley has said to the bankers
that if more paper money is not put out
the Republican party in 1900 will be
blown higher than Gilderoy's kite. The
bankers do not want prosperity, for the
more prosperous the people are the less
they desire to borrow. But it sees the
cloud rising, no bigger than a mans
hand-the Peoples party-which is apt
to turn into hurricane at any moment
and so they keep the presses working
day and night.
Where be their gibes now about the
rag baby and rag money" and
making something out of nothing"
and all the rest Of the fool stuff with
which they stuffed the ears o. the i'm
beetles? All gone. Not whimper of
it left.
Rag money is all right if it is
THEIR rag money, and collects interest
from labor to put into THEIR pockets.
But the rag money" which is utterly
,abominable and damnable is that which
they make nothing out of, to wit, the
peoples greenbacks.
Push the Peoples party, boys
PUSH THE REPRESENTATIVE
Convert all your neighbors. Get it
into every household.
We will sweep the state if you help
us. I'D.