The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-10

brought forward in the interest of
the whole nation.
If the history Of the ''press'' for
the last thirty years was written it
would Out-rival the "father of lies"
If alliance men are calamity howl
ers," the newspapers have been the
tools OF the calamity makers"
Previous to 1860 there was neither
tramps, calamities nor milliOnaires.
If you will allow me to make sug-
gestion it will be this, that you de-
vote part of your paper to exposing
the lies, garbled news, political plate
advertising, and all the snide rub
bish that fill our country newspapers,
which has placed them on the same
level as the patent medicine almanac.
A good name for this department Of
your paper would be ''The Antidote. >"
To show the necessity of this en-
close few clippings from the papers
Of few newspaper jackals," not a
few because they are scarce, for they
are as plentiful as Office seekers.
National defence is looked upon
as necessity by all Americans re-
gardless Of party" --Mortin County
Sentinel.
This looks very plausible on the
face of it, but when we consider the
length of our coast line, the idea of
defending it by fixed Notifications
only shows the imbecility of it's adj
vOcates, if they are sincere, which
they are not. The quotation is moth
ing but "plate advertisement" it
will appear in all the Organs in the
country in one shape or another.
Its object is to make the people be-
lieve that Notifications and national
defence are one and the same thing.
The real object of the paragraph is
this: The decendents OF the Fright
Hon. lite Barnacle" have become
so numerous that there has got to be
some plan devised to get them suck
ing room on Uncle Sans body polite.
And what fat job this would be!
Think Of it; dude architects, vOra
ciOus contractors; and then when the
forts were manned, what chance
for our American "shOddyites" to
unload their rakish dudeish male Off
springs. There's millions in it; and
as the farmer pays for all. for he is
at the bottom of the heap, he would
have the pleasure of footing the bills.
OF course we want national defence,
but the "stone fort" is as far behind
the Iron clad Ship as the common
needle is behind the sewing machine.
But how about internal defence,
for here our greatest danger lies?
Neither dude soldiers nor stone forts,
nor iron clad vessels even,-plate adj
vertisements will avail here.
''Set thy house in ORDER" thou
political hummer, for thy days are
numbered.
Here is another beautiful extract:
''Three things every farmer should
bear in mind: "AvOid debt" PAY
off old OneS;" contract no new ones"
Mirror and Farmer.
What a mirror! What farmer.
Say, Mr.. Hayseed, with your wife
and children, don't you see where you
missed it? You ought to keep out of
debt with wheat 80 cents per bushel,
the thermometer 20 degrees below
zero, coal $40 per ton, shOddy over
coats $16 each, and with "army-
blanket-cloaks" for your wife and
girls, only $12 each.
And here is even another for this
time:
eff the farmers would stop the
leaks on their farms they would never
think of antagonizing the railroads"
This is from a snide agricultural
paper, that is used as ''clubber" by
the country organs in Minnesota.
If the editor had been writing to a
''hen" he would have said, Lay all
the eggs you can; don't mind where
they go to; you are all right as long
as you have a chalk nest-egg."
And still farmers will subscribe for
such papers"
Perhaps they measure the farmer
right after all; maybe they have less
sense than hen, for it will change
its nest if you rob it too often.
SETH BOTToMLEY.