The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-27
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE

I'VE can accomplish nothing till we
revolutionize our legislatures and
courts
Let a demand for proportional
representation be put in the constitu-
ton of every progressive society in the
United States.
| All talk of a new party, unless it be
more radical than the populist party,
is idle gibberish, and comes by sugges-
ton from the enemy.
| dwellings tramp circular is a
center shot 1t makes every plutocrat
and plutocratic parasite squirm like an
angleworm on a fsh-hook Pittsburg
Kansan.
dispatches from New York an
bounce heavy gold shipments to Eu-
rope. Where are those statesmenAwho
said this would stop when the silver
| purchase law was epealed?-Ottawa
journal.
| The action of the Western Union
telegraph company in furnishing no
news of the populist vote in the late
election was due no doubt to the hatred
that gigantic corporation entertains
| toward the party that advocates the
public ownership of all telegraph lines
1t is doing more by its unfair treatment
of populists to boom the government
ownership of telegraphs than the popu-
lists can do.-Road.
The bankers are getting more of
the lack of confidence game than they
know what to do with. The financial
report say: Bankers are most APP
palled at the huge piling up of money,
for it represents the continued idleness
of capital, but there is no indication of
an early cessation of the accumula-
ton" What appals them is their in
ability to loan it and force usury out
OF the people. Alliance Independent
The reform elements in Alabama
have perfected an arrangement by
which they will cement and concen-
trate their efforts in the coming fight.
They have no fear of being defeated or
counted out. The straight democrats
and negroes in the black counties will
no doubt resort to the same frauds
again and try to defeat the reform
move, but it will prove fruitless. They
are so burdened with the iniquities Of
the past that they are handicapped,
and Cobb will be elected by large
majority. Success to Alabama.-Nash-
vile Farmers Voice.
! There is certainly one firm of brol-
ers in New York that have got their
eyes opened to the real situation. In a
late circular that firm makes the fol-
lowing statement: "The American
eagle and the Russian bear are asking
the English lion to eat them up. Over
flowing bins of each compete to empty
treasures of both. Plentiful bushels
are making scarce dollars. ragged
coat on the farmers back means an
empty sack in the mechanics pantry.
hProtits of the custom house are losses
in the bill of lading. The cheaper the
food the lower the wages. The bounty
of nature appears to foster the greed of
man. The English gold bond takes the
pound of American flesh Henry r.
Legate, in Boston Traveller
| To one outside of the order it looks
: as though the executive committee of
the Farmers Alliance had made seri-
Gus mistake in indorsing one OF the
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would be far more in accordance with
the principles of the organization if it
would stand squarely for the state in
insurance, and until that can be
brought about, let it depend upon its
mutual aid degree. It is to be hoped,
for consistency's sake, if for no better
reason, that at the next meeting of the
executive committee it will withdraw
the Endorsement from that tentacle of
one of the greatest and most heartless
of our numerous monopolies. The
Farmers Alliance cannot afford to oc-
cupy this anomalous position. Henry
r. Legate, in Boston Traveller.
speaking of the banking scheme of
the house committee the Alliance-Inde-
pendent says: THE populists will all
smile at the bait and at the mossback
politicians who suppose they can be
attracted and fooled by any such Shy
lock schemes. Neighbors or strangers
matters not; the whole Shylock class
is abhorred by our party; and we have
faith to believe that our plan to have
all the people and all the wealth-land
houses, capital, railroads, manufact-
ured goods. food and fuel, cotton and
wool. gold, silver, copper, iron and the
rest-the security for an ample supply
of greenback currency, is plan whose
financial wisdom will commend itself
to ten times more voters than will
the wildcat currency scheme of the
democrats. The people have moved in
their intelligence far beyond what they
discarded thirty or more years ago."
Speaking in all seriousness, we
would give very little to be guaranteed
that the overthrow of the capitalistic
system is near at hand, so entirely as
sured are we of that contamination.
What we would like to be guaranteed,
on the other hand, is that the revolu-
ton would not come too soon, that is
to say, before the people know just
what they want and all that they
want From the possibility of revo-
luton that, being premature, shall be
superficial, may God defend us. 1t is
this feeling that keeps us reiterating
SO constantly and to our readers, per-
haps, SO tediously, the fundamental
principle of nationalism, the necessary
and indispensable cornerstone of any
new nation that shall last-economic
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