The representative., 1901-05-23
Facts for the People,

m0AI, POIIIlCS anu principles OF the writ
er have not changed since the following
was written for Farmers Alliance pa
per, in 1889, and the same conditions
herein outlined are now fully realized
by all classes to be fastened upon the
people by our congress and courts, he
asks the publication of it in the Rep
resentative at this time:
There is no lodging the issue as
against oppression by organized capital
and organized business of every kind.
The farmers of this country were driven
into organization for the defense Of their
rights and protection of their homes
and families, and when organization
commenced among farmers, investiga-
tion of conditions and causes necessitat-
ing organization also commenced, and
as a result OF thorough investigation
the following facts have been brought
to the surface, which none but a fool
will attempt TO deny. Corporations have
been enthroned-this means they rule
the people, and the right to rule the
people is vested in the congress and
Judiciary of the land, and without the
support of these, oppressive corpora
tions cannot exist in our government,
and the people, thank God, are now
calling for the records of the past to
show them what their congress and
courts have been doing, and it appears
hot
money to the people on the peoples Sc
curities, as they should have done, our
representatives in congress have placed
the peoples securities in the form of
government bonds behind scheme for
the robbery of the people, unparalleled
In the history of crime Let common
intelligence explain why. AS we review
the record, and person with capital suf-
ficient to purchase of the peoples securi-
ties (backed by the national treasury,
and every dollar of the peoples wealth,
and bearing interest to be paid in gold
from their treasury, $4,000 worth or
more) may have the right, with the sup
port of the courts, to issue to the people
all Of the peoples future money, not
coin, stamping it with the seal of the
nation, then charge the people any rate
Of interest they can compel them to pay
for their own money; the payment Of
said interest to be secured by mortgage
on the homes of the farmers and labor
ers of the country, or any one having
such security to give and wanting to
use any Of this money, issued on the
peoples credit only. All mortgages SO
obtained from the people shall be suf-
ficient guarantee to the bankers that
congress and courts legalize and make
valid this indiscriminate, wholesale, un-
constitutional, unlawful robbery, of an
unsuspecting people, and in default of
said payments or demands, said lands,
homes, houses, or other property may be
sold to pay the full amount of said mort
gage, with all cost and expense of col
lecting the same, and this. while but
the legislators of the land. has made
one of the many schemes supported by
many milionaires and encumbered mill
lions of homes, and today threatens to
destroy the national fabric While the
veil has been removed and the people
know that this and many other evils
only continue to exist because they are
entrenched behind legislation, it is only
adding insult to injury when old party
bosses and lobbyists, and party fools
ask organized intelligence in the Farm
ers' Alliance and other labor unions to
stay out of politics for themselves, and
in politics for the support of their op-
pressors and a system of continued rob-
berry. 1 would be glad to stay out of
politics were it possible to change the
condition of things by so doing, but
after careful investigation I find it
impossible to bring relief to threaten
ed republic by inducing the citizens of
that republic to directly aid in fortify-
ing the enemy against them, and when
l say to the farmers of this country
there is relief for you from combined
legislation against you owned and con-
'trolled by capital, while we are poor
from being robbed by the combine, am
doing violence to my own sense of hon
or, dishonoring the cause of right and
attempting to deceive the very class that
l seek to help-that class l am counted
among and l want it distinctly under
stood by the Iowa Farmers Alliance and
other organizations, corporations, legis-
latOrs and editors, that l am not only
convinced from the situation, but from
experience, l know that the men in
power from party support, for 20 years
have shown favor only to corporations.
Thousands of homes actually earned by
the self-sacrifcing frontiersman and his
family being today in the hands of
heartless railroad and other corpora
tions and the people are robbed of their
rights because of the money and its
power that bribes courts and pays leg
islators that are of the class that will
sell their manhood and the peoples
rights for Doodle. AS an alliance or
ganizer, these, my honest convictions,
are what I have continued to give the
people without fear or favor of banker,
combine, corporation or threats of any,
and when compromise is asked from