The representative., 1893-09-27
AN INSTRUCTIVE
~ALLEGORY.
How to Kill a Dog. A Great
Many Ways to Do 1t.

clares:-'there are great many
ways of killing dog, besides chok-
ing him with butter" There is a
mine Of truth in this ancient saying.
II the dog has got to be destroyed
there are numerous ways of doing it.
You can club him, shoot him, stab
him, poison him, choke him, or hang
him;-Or you can, in gentle and in
sinuating way, tie tin-kettle to his
tail and send him off with cry of
mad Dog" In that case the dog
dies, like many an honest refOrmer,
through undeServed SANDER.
Man is the most cunning creature
that dwellS on the face of the earth
The arctic fox found that out. He
used to put his nose under the trap
and turn it over, swapping it, and de-
vouring the bait at his leisure. But
the Esquimaux was cunninger than
the fox. He set the trap upside
down; and when the fox inserted his
astute nose under it he was caught
by his organ of smell. The man
thought an inch deeper than the
animal.
But the EsquimauX is baby COM
pared with the white man. And let
that white man be civilized and
trained to craft through generations,
and then give him the power which
millions of dollars confer, and you
have a creature that the very angels
in heaven might be afraid Of
The politics of the world never be-
fore saw quite such contest as that
in which we are now engaged. The
old battles between dynasties or
churches were common place affairs.
You could not expect much of man
who would die to make another man
go to heaven in a way he did not
want to GO. And it wasn't of much
consequence to the plunderer wheth
er the spoils went to a Napoleon or
King George. But now we are enter
ing upon serious business. The serf
has progressed far enough to know
what he wants; and he wants it bad
ly. And the master knows just what
he will lose if the serf has his way.
And so the battle RACES between the
great Houses of Have and Want; and
the whole world is dividing into two
hostile camps.
But Want out-number Have a
thousand fold. How then can Have
defeat Want? 1t must fall back on
cunnang. The one long-head must
out-wit the thousand strong arms.
Intellect must overthrow numbers.
And the House of Have appre-
hends the danger clearly. 1t remem-
bers how little handful of men,
called "Abolitionists, grew, under
the swell and sweep.Of great hu-
manitarian sentiment, until it seized
upon the nation and overthrew
slavery. And it perceives that it
took that movement sixteen years of
struggle, from 1910 to 1856, before it
carried a single electoral vote; while
the peoples party leaped, in one cam
paign, from nothing to % electoral
votes, and loss, ,424 popular votes.
And the House of Have scratched
it's head and says, ,-'where is the re-
volt of the workers to end? Are not
the canaille about to sweep the
wOrld?"
And the question comes up,-ho,o
to kali the dogs
A vast army of poor men contend
ing with small array of rich men;
what more natural than for the rich
leaders to buy up the poor leaders?
And the higher one of the House of
Want rises the more the House of
Have can afford to pay for him; and
so poor human nature,-which is but
another name for infirmity,- is put
to the sorest trials, even to the
breaking strain, when honor gives
way.
But if a leader sells out he must
appear as if he had not sold out; or
he will be valueless to them. He
must not go out with his gun to
shoot the dog; he must. pat him on
the head and quietly feed him with
strychhine; until the dog dies, over
whelMed with kindness.
ButShow?
We have here ipssMinnesota an al
legged reforms sStatepaper. 1t has lost
it's power of direct evil, but it is still
able to do the cause immense harm.
It publishes such utterances as this:
"Dynanaite is sohot the patricidaa robber
and the political pirate teor So long as
susc dust and nit9ic acid are cheap the
pattsoay of public robbery is trj5e dan
qerous. Dynamite acill get cut
the Gordon knot and make com,momers Of
princes"
Now the man who wrote this knows
perfectly we'll, that the farmers and