The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-01-31

have their agents now In Washington
and when q bill comes up for discus
sion. II 1t il detrimental to their inter
ests he will nail It. ana II he wishes to
have bill passed In their interest he
IL there to labor for It. Now. gentlemen,
the farmers of this nation have in Wash
ington their representatives, and II our
representatives and senators are not
willing to work in the interests of agri-
culture they are black balled by our
agent and II from our state am Inn
mediately notified of 1t, and also black
ball him in our state. l do not need to
go around and tell the farmers of 1t, bu.
l just give a letter to the fellow who is
running against him, and he will tell
the farmers of it. And no man will sup
port man who Is an enemy of his trade
Now there was made clear profit Of
about $4,000 on Irvine in 1898 at
Cylon. This year, before got after
them, they set the price of Irvine at IS
cents. That meant a clear profit of .3H
cents per pound, or 32,175 on a carload
Of Irvine. In 81 sisal and standard sold
in Chicago at 81 cents per pound. In
'98 at 6 cents. and in '99 at 6A cents
What did we have to pay for it here?
These are facts that cannot be disputed
by anyone.
1t has been estimated by some great
f1nanciers that II all the gold OF the
world was accumulated in to one great
heap it would only measure a cube Of
q feet; and the scarcer 1t is the better
for the money power of the world, and
this gold blanket that is today covering
the financial world will leave someone's
toes uncovered and will ultimately
place the center of power in the hands
of few. To show you the absurdity
and insignificance of the product of gold
and silver in comparison with the pro-
duct of labor: The profits realized from
the ice crop of the Hudson river is
$150000,O00 annually, and in the United
States about $10O, OOO, 900. Now the COM
mercial value of both gold and silver in
VIC OAltCu OlQlCo III 20 was @JO,OOl ,fUV.
So you can see that the ice crop of this
country is greater than. the gold and
silver together, and think of the annual
product Of the farmers $4,000 OOO. 900 and
the world thinks more of this lump of
yellow metal than our mountains of
golden grain, and whose fault is it, Mr..
Farmer? Your own.
Now let us again return to statistics
The total wealth of the United States is
So, 100000 $1,000, and upon this there is
a bonded and mortgaged debt Of $42,-
0O0,O00,OO0. The annual interest paid
upon this is $1,000 ,000, 900, a per capita
Of $34.34 interest. There are ten million
mortgages upon the homes and farms of
this country. Thirty thousand people
own $50, 900 900, 900, or more than one
half the total wealth of this nation;
and 50,0O0.000 people own no homes at
all. One-fourth the voting population
are unemployed; 100000 children la
Dor, beneath the age of is years; 2,0OO,-
600 women toiling from IL to is hours
day for such beggardly wages that
they are compelled to live by shame or
starve. There has been given to rail-
road companies in this country 210,000.-
600 acres of land, and there is under cul-
tivation today only 2O2, 100000 acres.
These are appalling facts and we, as
representative of the G.. G.. A., are labor
ing to right them peaceably, and II you,
with us along these lines, you are
urgently requested to do so.