The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
PREJUDICE
The only Serious Obstacle to Pop
uliStic Control.

The only Serious Obstacle to Pop
ulistic Control.
The REPRESENTATIVE hopes to
get over into North Dakota and help
sow the seed of reform thought among
the good people of that state.
Our columns will be enriched each
week by contributions from some of
the brightest minds in the country.
Below we present the first of series
of letters from the pen of Hon. w. HI.
StandiSh, A Acknowledgement of North
Dakota. We cordially invite any of
our North Dakota friends holding
similar or opposing views to avail
themselves of our Forum for the pre-
sentatiOn of their opinions, to the end
that truth may be established and
justice prevail, assuring courteous
treatment to all.-EDITOR.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE.
1T is the purpose of the undersigned
to furnish your readers with a series
of letters on the benefits to be deriv-
ed from placing the pOpulistic party
in control; but before they will by re-
ceived something must be said to re-
move popular prejudice and open a
spirit of inquiry.
Prejudice creates ten fold more ig-
norance, injury, and danger that illit-
eracy, or want of education Men
are so universally moved by their pre-
JUDGES in politics, without investiga-
ton or the use of their reasoning
faculties, that the college graduate,
the judge, the legislator, the physi-
clan, teacher, and lawyer, as we'll as
the ordinary citizen in the eyes of
the discerning man, is looked upon
as machine, in whom if you but
start the agencies that reach and con-
troll his prejudices, and you reach and
control him.
In other words, you touch the but
ton attached by wire to his party or
his newspaper and you start, control
stop, and handle him as if he were a
piece of machinery, and he does the
bidding of the force at the button as
completely as a piece of machinery
would, and as blindly.
From time immemOrial there has
been a clamOr against monopoly, and
to devise some effectual way to stop
it, has been considered the greatest
aim for government to observe, and
yet monopoly goes on increasing, so
much so that now one half of one per
cent. of the people of the United
States possess one-half of the wealth,
and one out of every ten who die in
our large cities, fills pauper's grave.
Suffering and privation everywhere
abound, even with the sober, indus
trious, and saving: and the inequali-
ties already existing will soon be
doubled unless the present policy Of
the Cleveland administration is at
once arrested and suppressed.
How is this arrest and suppression
to be made? Simply by removing the
causes that produce this monopoly and
inequality of conditions.
In Gods creation every result comes
from creating specific cause, and to
prevent the result we are taught to
destroy the creating cause. Bad re-
suits in government come from bad
producing causes. You cannot create
or leave alive the causes and suppress
the results any more than you can
infuSe poison into the human system
and remove the effect by putting on
outward appliances to suppress the
eruptions. You cannot in this way
save life, much less cure the disease.
AS in such a case to save or prOlOng
life, or effect cure, you must eradi-
cate the poison that has found it's
way into the system; so, if we remedy
this great existing evil of monopoly
that creates SO much suffering uni ust-
ly and breeds anarchy and insecurity,
we must do it, not by measures of sup
preston, but by discovering the causes
that create monopoly and the remov-
al of those causes; thereby, gradually
may we in the future lesson and re-
move it by measures of prevention.
How is this to be done? Under any
policy now or ever advocated by either
of the oldparties? Not at all. There
iS-nOt one in ten of the voters of the
old parties but desires this cOnsum-
nation, but if there is nothing in
your party that can or does prevent
monopoly you can aid to eradicate it
and carry out your own views of right