The representative., 1901-03-28


They haEe power to cut OF all organ
ized speculation from feeding at their
crib by speedy and close organization OF
their forces.
On the same basis, protected by the
same laws, they may now form the
greater trust fully able to throttle and
strangle all others, for from the produc-
tions of the soil all trusts draw their
support.
To secure control demands thorough
organization. Every school district must
have live working branch Of the COM
bine, with as perfect working machinery
as the Bankers association, the stock
exchange, the railroad combine, the
board of trade. or the commercial club
Then united action will change the meth
eds of procedure, and have the above
named combines hunting job instead Of
fattening, as they now are, from the la.
Dor Of the farming class.
All products would be marketed at the
elevators, warehouses and stock yards
of the Farmers trust, outside the great
cities.
Goods and prices being fixed by the
trust, represented by its agents, chosen
from their own ranks, and with the
money now going to these leeches, the
trust (for we must SO call it when
Greek meets Greek, or we fight the Devil
with fire. could control prices Of trans
portation on land and water, or buy and
own the lines.
l do not believe our farmers fully
realize the cost to them of supporting
these useless appendages. The amount
saved by uniting and cutting them off
would build for the farmers a line Of
road across the continent each year and
fully equip it. This is known to the
laboring classes in this and other ma
tions, who are ready to aid such farm
ers' combine.
Now, everyone knows that the key to
the situation is in the hands of the pro-
ducing classes of the United States, and
the everyday question is: Will they sit
still and see themselves made slaves to
combined money, as are the wage earn
ers, who have not power to cope with
conditions that make them as much the
property of the money combine as are
the wheels that make up the machinery
that turns their mills and factories
Do not think that I am in favor of
trusts, for l am not; neither am I in
favor of wars for the subjugation of the
people. l am in favor of defending our
liberties as a nation and a people by
forming armies, or trusts, when We are
forced to do SO or become a nation Of
serfs; and l do hope that the farmers
will organize for united action without
delay in defense of their legal and con-
stitutional rights to oppose the further
oppression and robbery of the masses by
the power of organized capital.
Startling, but true, Is the statement
that the common people have not one
gress.
All are committed to the support of
combined money-25 $40 grains of gold
in the peoples dollar fixing it's own
value, as both money and exchange. In
the hands of money combines, it has an
increased purchasing power and in the
hands of a commodity combine it has
unlimited power-simply for the reason
that the value of gold fixed in dollar as
the standard Or measure of all values
can have no equal.
To illustrates: One poor, hard-wOrk-
ing, common laboring man can in one
day produce the equal of one-dollar
treasury note. He may do 1t in three
hours and get the exchange, but 10000
600 strong, healthy wage earners and
100000 robust farmers, working six
days in week and ten hours each day,
cannot in one thousand years produce
the equal of one dollar of our gold stand
ard money. Do all the people know
this? All, my friends, this is. the Cleve-
and-Mckinley, Democratic-Republi
method of increasing the purchasing
power of money. You may equal the
exchange value Of the dollar, the stamp
on the gold, but the standard-never
S. NJ FAIRCHILD.