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

James (ch. 5, '. A was intended solely
for the Roman world.
In behalf of all these people, whose
conditions and wrongs have but SUI
serficially alluded to, urge and earn
estly petition you to carefully consider
the accompanying bill, which has al
ready received the approval OF the Kan
sas senate in resolution, copy OF
which has been furnished your speak
er, and which will command the APP
prevail of a majority of the state when
ever opportunity offers; and which will,
if enacted, make some restitution to
labor for the wrongs of the past, and,
in part at least, restore a plundered
people to the condition they would
have occupied if they had not been
robbed.
l trust you have the courage to un-
dertake and the wisdom to complete
such a solution of the problems pre-
sented as is within the lines of a rigor-
GUS justice and generous charity;
that you will make a careful examina-
ton of the conditions that prompt
this petition; that then you
will be satisfied with no remedial
measures that will do less than this bill
would do, and that you Wi, inaugurate
a process which will offer to every
American citizen willing to work the
opportunity of getting home of his
own. and of giving its inmates the COM
forts, the protection and the opportu-
mites for instruction and recreation to
which the family of every Industrious
American citizen is entitled; which will
restore to our million idle laborers the
privileges and opportunities which are
promised them by our institutions;
which will take the farmers boys from
the p]ow handles and send them to
school or set them at play; which will
stop the villainous processes that have
plundered the farmer-enable him to
pay his debts-taking him out of the
market as borrower and out of the
clutches of the speculator, thereby
decreasing the demand for money
and the interest rate; which
will furnish the funds to en-
able the government to keep it's
contract with its loyal defenders, and
meet all of it's other war liabilities by
a tax on the surplus of the capitalists
and bondholders and thereby free our
Industrial classes and laborers from
this enormous burden; which will re-
move the necessity for lives of dishonor
or death by starvation from a quarter
of million young women, and help to
close the schools of vice and brute de-
velopment for children in the streets of
our cities: which will help our indus
trial legions to share in the benefits of
the philosophy they have conquered.
and reap something of the harvest
from their genius and cunning, and
which will reduce the mischievous re-
suits of idleness and idolatry and help
to revive the promises of Christianity
and its consort, civilization.
For these reasons amid the multi
plicity of calls on your time, 1 earnest
ly urge your honorable body to give
the purpose and propositions of the ac-
companying bill some serious consider
alton.
Mr. Speaker and Representatives:
You may have no fear that the bugle
of the homeless tramp will sound for
y
of the capitalist or manufacturer will
ever draft you into the paupers' ranks,
but whether you have or not, this is a
condition your children will fear and
face, in company with those from the
more humble walks of life, unless you
or your early successors have the wis.,
dom and courage to inaugurate pro-
cess that will prevent it. If you have
not the love of justice, the sympathy
for the oppressed. or the interest in the
perpetuity of our institutions to do this,
it is more than probable that these
great and vital questions will be re-
ferred to a more just, more humane.
a more patriotic body of men who will
be your immediate successors.
PERCY DANIELS.
Narragansett Farm, Aug. IS, 1898.