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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25
THE WEST.

THE Minnesota legislature, in def
ance of the opinion of the attorney
general, will hold on to the coal com
panies' books, obtained by force, and II
proposes to prove by them that coal
combine exists in the state.
OTro FAULKENBURG, convicted oil
"whitecapping' in Perry county, ILL.,,
made n statement duplicating a num-
Der of citizens in participating in the
lynching of John Davidson at Doolit-
ties Mill five years ago Thirteen men
have been indicted.
A STRANGE disease. among cattle in
Central Illinois is believed to be due to
the feeding of millet
The switchmcn on the Big Four at
Springfield, o.. have struck.
j. NJ. ORCUTT, the Michigan "Bohe-
milan oats" schemer. is dead. He made
S25. 900 out of the swindle from 1888 to
1855.
A SUCCESSFUL cast of Montana's silver
statue of justice, for which Miss Ada
Rehan was the model. has been made
Mt Grand Crossing, near Chicago.
EX-GOv CLICK announces that he is
not in the race for commissioner of the
land office or any other place.
A WALL OF the burned Wheeler opera
house at Toledo. o., was blown over,
wrecking two other buildings
IT has been practically decided to
keep the worlds fair open late every
evening to give people chance to see
the wonderful electrical exhibit.
FRANK LIsNET, receiver of the United
States land Office at Roswell, n. NJ,
has disappeared and it is feared that he
is short in his accounts.
The war between the Minnesota coal
combine and the legislature was car
ried into the courts and the Legislature
was sustained ut every point.
CHIEFS ARTHUR AND SARGENT. OF the
brotherhoods of engineers and firemen.
have been sued for damages by the Ann
Arbor road for ordering n strike.
EX-CoNGREssMAN BLoUNT has left
San Francisco on his mission to Hawaii
and expects to be gone three months.
A COMPARISON of appropriations made
by the present Missouri Legislature
with those of previous years shows n
marked retrenchment at the present
session.
KoEuLER Bros Planet mills at Litch-
field. H., caught fire the other day and
n terrible explosion occurred which
wrecked several houses and injured n
number of people
The indianapolis city council passed
an ordinance levying n special tax OF
AZ cents on every 500 on city property
for the purpose of raising $4,000 to de-
fray the expenses of entertaining the
G. A. Il. next fall.
THE Cherokee council will meet at
Tahleouah to consider the ratification
of the strip opening bill.
TIE report that John w. Mackay is
in a critical condition is denied by his
physicians, who say he is entirely out
of danger.
O. +. KIMMER, an insurance man of
Lima. o., met terrible death ut
Grand Rapids, Mich, by falling under
a moving train.
THE strike of the Big Four railroad
switchmen Mt Springfield, O., ended by
the men declaring the strike off uncon-
ditionally.
JUDGE EDWARD L. CRAIG, the head OF
the Southern Pacific law department,
died ut San Francisco of pleurisy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25
Missouri i,ncltlc Oniccrs.

New YORK, March 2a-The annual
election of officers of the Missouri Pa
cific and Iron Mountain railways was
held at noon and the following were
elected: President, S H. IL Clark;
first vice president George J. Gould;
second vice president, C G. Warner;
secretary and treasurer, c. H. Calef; as
sistant secretary,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25
Home Necessities
LOUISVILLE. KY.

"Papa's got on his new suit;
mamma and l bought it for him.
Papa says businesses dull; couldn't
afford new clothes. Mamma didn't
like to see papa shabby. We know
lots of people told them how much
we liked THE LADIES' HOME Jour-
NAL; that we would like to have them
take it too; most of 'em did We
made thirty dollars; papa's got it
on; he feels awfully happy; SO does
mamma; l guess l do too. MIR. Curtis
will tell any girl how she can make
money"
The CURTIS PUBLISHING Co.
PHILADELPHIA
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
VERY IMPORTANT.
How the Courts have EncrOached
upon the Rights of the
People
And are Turning this Nation into
an Oligarchy of Lawyers Con.
trolled by Corporations.
An Article which Every RefOrmer
Should Read.

I'VE desire to especially call the at
tentiOn of our readers to one of the
most striking and important arti-
cles that have appeared for long
time. We regret that we have not
space to get more than extracts
from it, but we shall continue them
from week to week.
The article is from the March
April 1892 number of ''The American
Law Review" published at ST. Louis,
one of the Oldest and most distin-
guished law magazines of this cOun-
try. 1t is entitled "Abuses of Cor
porate Privileges" written by Judge
Seymour d. Thompson, Chief editor
of the Review and one of the ablest
lawyers in the West. We want our
readers to remember, while reading
this significant article, that it's bold
and radical utterances are not from
some populist stump orator, but
from Judge and an attorney by
profession. Nothing could indicate
more clearly than this article the
abyss towards which the free people
OF this country are advancing.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
Chinese Labor on the Pacific Slope.

r
Thomas Cameron, a member of the
Chicago Machinists' union, who reached
home yesterday from a four months
trip to the Pacific slope, Asia and Japan,
says:
Chinese labor is the curse Of white labor ON
the coast and in the vessels running out of Pa
cif1c ports. English ships bring to the coast
Cinnamon, who then man American vessels a
fremen, coal passers and sailors. The Peru, .
United States mail steamer built at the Union
Iron works of San Francisco and running out
of that port, is SO manned today. The union
sailors, the headquarters Of whose national or
ganization is in Chicago, protested vigorously
against this, but they were ignored, and now
the unusual spectacle is presented of those
Chinese who cannot be citizens replacing
Americans in government vessels. In Cobie.
Japan, l saw women and girls coalinp the
ships. They put on 1.2OO tons in seven hours.
They pass coal along in four pound baskets in
the way that water buckets are passed along
BY volunteer companies at village fire.
At San Leondro, Cal, where the great cher.
~ orchards are located. it has ALWAYS been
customary to give the work of cherry picking
to the girls OF the village Orchard owners
this year decided to replace them by China
men. When the Cinnamon were shipped in
from San Francisco, they were met at the de-
pot by the boys Of the village and notified not
70 stop. The Chinese, however, left tho train,
ana pitched battle ensued. It ragged along
tho streets Tor two hourA The Chinese were
assaulted. badly beaten and driven from tho
pace. The girls are again picking the cher.
Chicago Tribune.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
Some Causes of Hard Times,

With an army of confirmed tramps.
thousands seeking employment and those
who are at work inadequately paid. is it
to be wondered at that the storekeepers
are beginning to find out that something
is the matter
Machinery is doing the work of mil
lions OF men, and consequently the hours
OF labor must be shortened to compen-
safe for it's introduction and give the
working classes some of it's benefits.
At low computation, 10000 women
in New York and Brooklyn are doing
clerical and other work at an average of
50 per week less than men would have
for the same employment. Think of
100000 withdrawn from circulation ev-
cry week and then remember that sim
liar conditions prevail all over the coun-
try! Is it to be wondered at that the re-
suit is beginning to show itself?
Prosperity does not depend upon the
number of millionaires we have. It is
not the Huntingtons, Goulds, Astors or
Vanderbilts that circulate the money.
1t is not overproduction that we are suf-
fering from, as some noodles say-it is
underconsumption. The people are liv-
ing from hand to mouth; they cannot
purchase what they want. If all the
poor people in New York and Brooklyn
should suddenly find themselves in DOS
session of a sufficient sum to buy pair
OF boots for their little ones, there would
not be boots enough in either city to pro-
vide for them.-Letter in New York
World.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
RELIEF TO THE U. S. TREASURY
Bro. Ball, of West Concord, Scores
a Good Point.

Mr.. EDITOR:
l hold that the present treasury
embarrassment, which the Pioneer
Press thinks will reach 500, 600, ZOO
this fiscal year, is as artificial as the
panic, and, as Gen. Tracy says, might
be relieved in 48 hours.
1. There are now over 81 600, 900
ounces of fine silver bullion in the
minis alone, the coin value of the
outstanding silver certificates, which
on an order to resume the coinage of
silver would net to the government
in round numbers $67 900, 900, which
with the required $4,5O0,OOO purchase
per month, would increase the reve-
nue. during the year by seniorage to
about 800, O0O,OOO and with silver at
zoe. to fully meet the improbable es-
innate of the Pioneer Press. In
stead of helping the people when it
would help himself Carlisle, like a
great wart on the Cleveland toad.
does nothing.
2. The act of congress Feb. 18th,
1862, that of July 18th, same year,
and that of March Sd, 1863, in the ag-
gregate authorized the issue by the
secretary of the treasury, of $3.50, OOO,-
600 of greenbacks, and as there are
now but $346,6sl ,O16, the secretary
has power to issue at least $1O3,31S,-
9S4.
The law is the same as in 1873,
under which Sec. Richardson issued
$26, 100000 during the first two
months of the panic of that year:
and we think that Boutwell,, and ev-
en- Sherman both did little of the
same business to help out in a crisis.
| make this point because I believe
that it clinches the proof that it is
not so much relief that the bankers
want as an issue of bonds that they
may increase the currency them
selves. A. e. BALL.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
THE PEOPLE AND
the MONEY QUESTION
Interesting Letters from the Dis
tinguished California Poet,
James G.. Clark.
For THE REPRESENTATIVES,:
SECTION II.

For THE REPRESENTATIVE:
SECTION II.
To talk of imitation in legal tender,
government-stamped currency is as
senseless as it would be to talk of
imitation in lands, homes. or even
in postage stamps. People use
simply what their convenience .or
comfort require of all these agencies,
and so long as they do not steal, but
earn them, the usurer, the landlord
and the postmaster have no just
cause of complaint.
When we come to weigh and meas
ure this Limitation goblin, which
knaves have invented and fools have
so long dreaded, we find that a
plenty of any article.-not only mon
ey, but every value that money rep
resents. means emancipation from
bondage to spectators who wish to
corner and control that particular
article for private gain.
1t is strange that the most COM
mon and simple minds can realize
this logic applied to every other OBJ
ject save the circulating medium,
but at this particular point, shut
their eyes, PROSTATE themselves be-
fore Baron Rothschild and pray: 80
Lord! Thou knowest. Give us this
year the proper volume of currency"
When we settle this question for
ourselves, and on the right basis, u.s.
urers and landlords, whose occupa-
lions rest entirely on assumption
and usurpa tion-will be as scarce in
the future as chattel slave holders
are now.
vi course we are aware that pawn
brokers and bankers, and vast but
diminishing multitude of political
" babes in the woods" who,- like
John Jekyl-Hyde Ingalls,-are wan
dering around in search of their lost
uncles," will call us "cranks, )"
"quacks," " fanatics" and other in
teresting and original epithets for
claiming this, but they cannot gain
say it; and sometime, if they live
long enough, they may realize that
we have only been the glimmer and
prophesy of sentiment that in the
next decade is to grow into a con-
Stunning fire that shall sweep from ex-
lstence the chaff that has so long OBJ
scured not alone the money question
but other questions Of equal import
ance to humanity.
JAS. G.. CLARK.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
The Most Stupendous Robbery
of All.

The old cry of Stop theft" raised
by the greenbackers and by socialists
referred to active agents. lobbying
bankers venal politicians, or merciless
employers of labor; but what can be
said of class that robs with none of
the obloQuy attached in these days to
trusts and combines, and escapes the
growing suspicion with which bank
ers and political tricksters are be-
ginning to contend, which does not
even go to the trouble or risk of en-
barking in business, industrial or po-
litical, and yet reaps the chief ad-
vantage of all wealth producing in
situations in existence
Your neighbor, Mr.. Real Estate,
represents that class. In times of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13
FREEDOM OF CONTRACT.


stone.
FREEDOM OF CONTRACT.
In regard of it's relations with the
wage worker, the corpora tion stead
lily claims the right to be treated as
on a par with the wage worker in
the making and taking of con-
tracts, and the courts of justice gen.
orally cOncede to the corporation
that right. The legislature of Mas
sachusetts recently passed an act
designed to curtail a species of
sweating which the mill owners of
that ST. ate had adopted against their
female operatives, and the supreme
judicial court of that state held it
void as abridging the freedom of
contracts. The legislatures of two
states enacted laws prohibiting cor
porations from paying their labor in
what are called ''store ORDERS"
thereby swindling them out of a
portion Of their wages by compelling
them to trade at the company's
store where they were obliged to pay
enormously excessive prices, instead
of being left free to trade where
they could buy the cheapest. These
statues were in like manner held I'M
constitutional, as abriging the free
dom of making contracts; although
the supreme court of Indiana, to it's
credit be it said, has held otherwise.
What mockery to talk about the
freedom of contract where only one
Of the contracting parties is free!
What mOckery to talk about the
freedom of contract as between the
corporation which has everything
and day labOrer who has nothing.
The wage-earner has nothing to
eat, and the corpora ton has every
thing. 1t is the corporation that is
respectable. and the starving wage
Garner that is the nuisance-the
thing to be avoided-the thing
to receive charity at the end of
pole. Laws cannot be passed for his
protection, providing that certain
oppressive contracts shall not be
made with him.
l conclude by repeating before this
audience solemn protest which l
have elsewhere made against the
doctrine of the economists who pro-
coed upon the view that labor, like
any other commodity, is subject
merely to the law of supply and de-
mand. grant that such is the gen.
eral and often the memorable law;
but l protest that it is within the
power of human institutions to mlti-
gate it's rigOr. l say again that if
human government has any just
office to perform it is to arbitrate
between the man who has every
thing and the man who has nothing
between the man who is up and
the man who is down-between the
man who is on top and the man who
is beneath.
The owner of horse has an in
terest that it shall be well fed,
and warmely housed and kept in a
good condition. The late slave-own-
er had the same motive in respect
of his human chattel. But the cor
porate manager has no such motive.
He is as insensible to the sufferings
of the wage-earner as the Emperor
Vespasian was to the suferings of
the five thousand slaves that died in
building the Coliseum. Other slaves,
captured in war, were crowding in
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13

Continued on page 4.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13

in this question. 1t pleads for hon
esty, for principle, for the cOnserva
tism that shall carry us to greater
heights of prosperity in the future
than we have yet reached"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13

Starvation IN Neev York and Bamqueting
IN Newport. What aCiU Carlisle Re
ceive for has Ireache,ys- Blaine on
Silver.-A Leading Yeao York Repub-
kcdn Paper on the Silver Contest.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13

in this question. 1t pleads for hon
eSty, for principle, for the cOnServa-
tism that shall carry us to greater
heights of prosperity in the future
than we have yet reached"
*x*
The cry of the gold power about
honest money reminds me of the
thief who, in western city some
years ago, siezed package of bills
in bank just as number of people
were passing home at the noon hour.
The thief, who had hidden the bills,
raised the cry, "Stop thief!" as he
rushed into the passing throng. 9th
ers took up the cry and a general
chase took place, the real robber for
some time being the most vociferous
in shouting Stop theft" 1t is pre-
cisely so with the gold power to-day.
They have plundered the wealth pro-
ducer, and out of their ill-gotten
gain they now propose to further
subjugate the people while they cry
honest money!" sound currency,
etc. But, gentlemen, you are even
now overreaching yourselves. Be-
ware! the people are losing all conf
dence in the Enlgish press published IN
America. and a day of reckoning is
approaching. B. o. FLOWER.
Questions that Were Not An
ST. PAUL, Sept. 2, 49,
MIR. EDITOR:
The following are few questions
propounded to daily paper of this
city some time ago but unanswered
1t seems the majority of the daily
papers are afraid to have the true
facts regarding the silver question
known to the people, and [ presume
it is for this reason that we notice
every speech in congress on the gold
side of the case published in full,
while the silver speeches are passed
by with about three lines, headed by
some such leaders as, "Silver Vagar-
ies," "The Wall of the Calamity
Howlers," and others similar.
j. J. CUSHING.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-13

ey-combed with corruption. A cor
poration is formed; it's business is
put into the hands of certain man.
ayers holding some of it's stock, and
expert in the management of it's
business. Debts are created and
the managers become the creditors.
The result is that rings are organ
lied within rings, wheels within
wheels, combinations within COM
binations. The managers, in the
character of creditors, seize upon
and foreclose the property of the
corporation, and by we'll known pro-
cesses squeeze the other stockhold-
ers out and become themselves pro-
prietors, with larger holdings than
they had before. This sweating pro-
cess, dignified by the name of fore
closing and reorganizing, has come
to be regular industry in our
courts of justice. In this regard the
chancellor and the rogue are run
ming continual race together. No
sooner does the chancellor invent
some means to circumvent the
rogue, than the rogue invents some
new device to Outwit the chancellor.
Courts of justice have neither the
time nor the means to take upon
themselves the management of all
the corporations in the country; and
therefore the outraged and COM
planning stockholders are told that
they cannot come into court until
they have exhausted all the rene
dies within the corporation. They
ask for bread, and they receive a
stone.
The morning call., 1893-06-15
CREIGHTON'S WILL
In the Form of a Letter to
His Wife.
An Important Document Roughly
Scrubbed on Western Union
Telegraph Blanks.

An extraordinary document found its
way into the probate clerks office yester-
day in the shape of q holographlc will of
the late Robert j. Creighton. Creighton
was well-known newspaper man, and at
the time OF his death was employed by
John d. Spreckels in a fiduciary capacity.
The will, dated July s. 1888, is scrubbed
in pencil on number of Western Union
telegraph blanks, and takes the form of a
letter to his wife.
~ may be what you say" he writes. ''a
man who does not respect you. | don't
think so. l may not take sufficient care of
you or treat you with proper Difference.
That will not dispute. But do say that
for twenty-five years l have done my best
to do so, and if l have not it has been my
temper. However, it is now past. You
cannot live with me on account of my
folly and rudeness-you would call it, and
You do. drum kenness. l don't quarrel with
you about your definition. but simply say
that when l am away from you that weak
ness won't in any case trouble me. You
may wholly depend upon that.
Regarding your future and that of the
children | have this to say: First, l shall
always do the best ! can to supply you,
only you must not come and worry me
when L am doing my best; second. shall
support Agnes wholly, but l shall insist
on seeing how she is educated and by
whom and in what way, and also in which
studies, ana in short | shall take the
entire supervision. as l shall under
take the entire expense of the educa-
ton of my daughter Agnes. and I shall
buy her dresses, select her masters
and do all sundry in regard to her educa-
tion that her father should do-provided
always that her mother, nv wife. lawful
and beloved Margaret, Mrs. Mckenzie,
shall exercise the same rights, privileges
and super vision. but not otherwise herein
named. Provided. also, that the fore said
Margaret Mckenzie, my lawful and Truth
full wife, shall of her own motion, and
without bonds, security or otherwise, act
as my sole heir, executor and executrix
without bonds, and that her decision shall
be final upon all points upon which there
shall be any difference of opinion between
herself and my son Charles Creighton"
And so this extraordinary document stum-
bles along. The only point about it that
seems at all clear is the testator's intention
that his wife should receive all bis estate
in trust for her children. They are two in
number, son aged thirty and a daughter
of twenty-five.
Creightnn's estate will probably realize
about $4,000, mostly consisting of small
interests in certain corporations. There
is also a New Zealand Government life in
surance policy of $1,000.
The morning call., 1893-06-15
LAID AT REST.
The Impressive Funeral Yesterday
of the Late Mrs. S. Sweeny.

Vi TIC LdL0 mESs -. SWGGTY.
a requiem mass was celebrated at st.
Mary's Cathedral yesterday morning for
the repose of the soul of Mrs. Susanna K.
Sweeny. widow Of the late Myles D.
Sweeny, whose death occurred last Sun
day evening at her residence, 1929 Mason
street
Very Rev. Father Prendergast, vicar
general of the diocese, assisted by eight
clelgymeD. conducted the services, and
Father Connolly, the spiritual adviser of
the deceased, delivered the address.
AS the congregation entered the cathe-
dral Professor Elmer. the organist, assisted
by Rudolf Pates with violoncello obligato,
rendered the ''Marche Funebre." During
the service the choir sang Wilcox mass
and the Liberia, while Mrs. Oliver Batch.
elder rendered two soprano solos, "Ob,
Evening Prayer" from ELI"
Among the mourners were members Of
the Holy Family and Order of the Pre-
sentation. to both Of which Mrs Sweeny
was benefactor. The Sisters of Charity.
whom she had helped in their good work,
were also among the large congregation.
as also were number OF poor people
whom she had befriended in her lifetime.
At the close of the service at the church
the remains were removed to Mount Cal
vary Cemetery and placed in private
vault awaiting interment. A large num-
Der of beautiful floral pieces were offered,
among them being large wreath of white
lilies sent by the Sisters of the Holy
Family.
The chief mourners were DR.. and Mrs.
Joseph Pescia and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Mahon. The folio wing-named gentleme n
acted as pall-bearers: John Burnett, w.
Stackpole. Francis Sullivan, DR.. j. Z.
CaIegaris, John Derham, Alfred Tobin,
Dr.. Jerome A. Hughes. DR.. Joseph
Oliver. Alfred r. Kelly. Daniel Butler, DIR.
Vincent Buckley and Bart Oliver.