The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-04
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A Gold Standard Picture.

Gold Standard Picture.
Where today are the true defenders
OF American liberties? One more act
| In the drama of the gold comedians on
the financial stage and $4,000. 900 OF
Wealth-producers in this country will
become the chattel slaves of few
men!
IL possible, the present session of
congress will put this country on an
exclusive gold basis. Is this no cause
for alarm? Should not the hosts arise
and oppose this most gigantic system
the world ever knew for the wholesale
robbery of all the people by a gang of
high pirates on the financial seas?
This is life drama, in which wa
all take part. Life, liberty and the pur-
suit OF happiness by free people, of a
free republic, must be guarded by 4
l1berty-loving patriots awake to the in
terests of the masses, or the willy money
sharks will steal our liberties and
sell them, with our bodies and souls
to the bloody queen, the kingly tvrant
or the money combine, and when thus
made slaves with what can our freedom
be bought back-with our labor. our
honor, or our genius? No, all we are.
all we can expect to be, becomes prop
erty OF money trusts and money COM
bines. We labor to obtain the neces-
saries of life. if we cannot produce
them we must have money to buy them.
The gold owners know this and want
to become absolute owners of the ma
chinery for producing money with
value fixed in their gold, that gives
them complete ownership and control
of everything money exchanges for.
This is the incubator from which all
trusts are Matched, all Of them repre-
sent money but how about trust or
combine that owns and controls all
money?
Farmers might combine to handle all
farm products.
With 100000 stock holders and so
men representing and controlling the
value, measuring the price of every
commodity, will furnish the money and
draw the profits from the farmers COM
bine or buy and own it, or withhold the
money and kill it, "see?' This is what
is raising hell with the country, with
the political parties and with the peo-
pie, money-the peoples exchange for
all labor and all productions of labor
is made the legal measure of all values.
and then by legal process is made the
private property of few men,
The peoples bonds, their private
property, their power to rule, their
power to own, their power to buy and
sell, mems earnings, their productions,
their liberties their lives are all sacri- |
iced to intrinsic value found only in
private gold. So private gold is king,
and Is $40 grains on the throne |
likes the exchange price of all from a |
grain Of mustard seed to a human soul.
The amount must be sufficient to salts |
y the combine dollar, that like the |
grave never says 1T is enough God !
,ity our gold blind people who will fix |
J value for everything else in private
,old, and then try to measure up to that
'alue with anything but gold. The flu
ure life and existence of money trusts
md combines in this country depends
.ntfrely on the private ownership of
he medium Of exchange for all labor
md its productions. Have we a proper
of the power Of individual
old today? Why, without fear Of con-
radictfon, I declare there is nothing
old ON our markets but private gold.
Bring what you will-of property, real
r personal, or labor-and the money
ombine has already fixed the amount
o be taken in exchange for 25 $40
rains of private gold
With an honest and patriotic ballot
boot away the standard that holds
rivate gold above everything else, and
ear from the image it's vital part-in-
rfnsic value-that lies so near the
lutocratic gold owners heart, and
rake money the equal of labor and its
money of the people, by
he people and for the people. Then
he one cannot combine against the
Their This is the whole solution of
he money question and easy to be
nderstood The tariff question was {
My fight for money by protected in {
ustries against the rights of the
ealth producers. Make the man equal |
, the dollar