The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
SHORT AND TO THE POINT.
Comment Tersely Put Upon Matters Of In
terest to Friends of Reform.


To arms, to arms. We braves! Popu-
lists, put on your best spiritual armor and
take your best spiritual weapons! They
tell us that the attack on the industrial"
of Wall str>s-t is over. But that is only
matter Of trust stocks. The edict has
gone forth from Washington and Wall
street that the Industrial men of the west
and south are to be subdued by hard
times"-are to be taught to cease their
rebellion against their masters. Pharoah
Cleveland has decreed that the people
shall ''make bricks without straw
wealth for their lords without enough
money. Our naughty owners will have
to undergo the 10 plaques Of Egypt be-
fore they will ''let the people CO."
Again we allow our masters to disrupt
the industrial world. The Wall street
panic may only mean the loss Of water
from trust stocks there. Throughout the
land it will mean the stopping of many
factories and the beggary of many wage
workers. But we poor pawns and COM
mon soldiers are only fit to serve the
uses of the kings and queens and knights
in the back row of the chess board. Yes,
the balance of trade is somewhat against
u.s. Why? Because since 1878 gold has
been rising and our exports of all staples
have been falling in price.
One Of those fine haired, high toned,
noble souled Kansas Republicans writes,
"Kansas has just recovered from the hu-
initiation and disgrace heaped upon it by
the Populists and Democrats, and we are
now preparing to try universal woman
suffrage" The other Republicans will
be glad to hear of the recovery. But the
wish was father to the thought. The
little finger Of the Populist Of 1894 will
be heavier than the thigh of him Of 1892.
As to women. if the bosses think the
bankers and railroad clerks wives of
Kansas can get more women voters for
the Republicans than the Populists can
muster among their wives and daugh-
tiers, they're making the mistake Of
lifetime
The Lawrence (Kan.) Journal says that
the leading Populists should be hanged
as anarchists like Parsons of Chicago.
Turning to old Kansas papers of 1856,
you find them crying for ropes to hang
Brown, Lane and other ''red mouthed
abolitionists" early Republicans.
There are times when even Populists
get exasperated beyond human endur-
ance and parliamentary decorum. At the
moment when the railroad lieutenant
governor of Nebraska, as president of
the senate, undertook to arbitrarily lay
aside all legislation on the railroad ques-
ton Gf we may believe the Omaha Bee)
q riot was imminent. Populist senators
were SO furious with Indignation that
they grasped bottles of ink and mucilage
and started to their feet. A CHASTITY
pallor overspread the face of the rail
road funky, and he receded from his
position. We are all tempted to over
step the rules of decorum at times. The
question between the Populists of Ne
braska and the Republicans of Kansas
in the show of force is, Which had a Just
cause?
The enemies Of the Nebraska Populists
accuse them Of bad craftsmanship. Our
men claim that the contrary is shown in
| their legislation, which has been to en-
courage learning, prevent cruelty, re-
duce taxation and protect the people
from high official robbers. They elected
true Populist to the United States SEN
ate, and not one of them sold out. They
claim that theirs is the only legislature
that has met west of the Mississippi in
20 years without being controlled by
railroads and bankers.
Bellamy's New Nation is getting to be
q hummer. After telling of the poor
sick man in Brooklyn who poured kero-
sene over himself and lay down to die by
fire, when his sickness was added to the
family starvation, it says such things
should make the most earnest Of us all
feel that we are loafers. It adds: "As
for the men or women who do not work
at all, who do nothing to extinguish
these fires Of hell on earth, if there be a
day of judgment, we do not envy them
their interview with God"
There has been a good deal Of indef-
mite talk about the sneak game of redeem
ing treasury notes of 1890 in gold. Here
are the solid figures: July, 1891, $5, 1885,
900; August, $685. 900; September, ST.
5000; October, 1924. 200; November,
$220, 600; December, 81, 366. 800; January,
1898, 81 81, 438, 300, or total of SCI, 1876 800
of treasury notes redeemed in gold for
the seven months mentioned For Feb
ruary and March it is said that the re-
demption has averaged $4,000, 900 each
month.
Every wholesale dealer in the Mime
sofa coal combine had to pay to Manager
Rhodes $1,000 and every retailer $1Oo
All who cut the prices were refused sup
plies. Government ownership of mines
and railroads comes on apace.
That is a pretty hard story that 7. E.
Watson of Georgia printed over his own
name about DR.. Macune-viz, that he
sold out to Wall street for $4,000 cash
and S., 900 on time, and that The Econo-
mist is now run by Horace Kenney,
whose headquarters is at 115 Fifth ave-
nue., New York, where he publishes
American Industries, a Wall street paper.
Sort of Subtreasury.
A New York daily paper says that
money can be borrowed on butter, eggs.
cheese, chickens and farm products of
all the kinds that will keep as easily as
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