The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-19
lSPONDENCE
\ THE REPRESENTATIVE.


[ntcresting Letter From Our State
Lecturer-Evils OF Party
Bigotry-The Refer
endum.
1t is part "a the purpose of estab-
fishing TIE y REPRESENTATIVE to afford
: forum. IL which the brightest
] Anlas in the Populist party and in
ifhe Farmes' Alliance can express
.and compase their views. The pa
per will no be responsible for the
NJ opinions st forth, but will try to
give all ,ides of the questions at
issue far hearing. We would sug-
gest to or correspondents to make
their letters brief and to the
point; MT to exceed one-quarter of
column, ii possible. The shorter
letters are more likely to be pub
fshed than the long ones. If You
ave lengthy communication cut
It in half and make two letters of
1t. Avoid personalities. Don't
write unless you have something to
say; and let each letter have a mo-
tive and teach something to the
reader. Try to make your readers
better and wiser by what you write.
Never mind about the grammar or
the spelling The printer will fix
all that, Good sense and an honest
purpose are rarer things than book
learning.-THE EDITOR.
Ever since the time when our re-
mote ancestry, tired of their patri-
h>arcba1 government, and through
Eir Prophet, asked God for
fng, mankind has worshiped the
bowers that be. Though the prince
mav be moral leper, and mentally
m imbecile, if born to the purple
the scion of a king-he is looked
upon as almost divine.
The party has been crowned king
in this country and partisanship is
k-9pping THE ve,y foundation of our
once Tee republic. The worship
OF party causes men to forget their
man1ooG, to be mere cringing tools
Z -NfJtrcksAers, nfinitesimal parts of
aglgantic nadine which has made
thirty thousah money kings and
million tranfs.
Ihe Republican voter does not
neaieve that, The Lord Almighty
himself supetintends the finances
= this country and caused
hlver to be so scarce in 1878
s1al 1t would no longer do for
money and has now uncovered so
h1ch of the metal that it is only
worth seventy cents on the dollar;
he does not believe ''all laws enact
ed by the Republican party are in
re interest of the farmer and la
@.g man." he does not believe
W. People s party is made up of So
lists who wish to bring all men
down to common level; he does not
believe zone frog dancing in
churn full of cream can convert it
ell into buttermilk.' Yet, all this
and much more rot of the same kind
was thundered from the stump by
the great (?) headlights of the Re-
publican party in the last campaign
in this state, and the Republican
voter swallowed it for the party's
s2ke.
The referendum, or direct legisla-
ton, is the only remedy. Let all
bills be referred to the people to be
discussed and voted upon.
This would do away with hired
lobbyists bribed traitors and weak
led fool legislators 1t would
BE US to higher plane of civili-
zion, and breed a nation of states
len fully qualified TO govern them
selves.
If the people could have the privi-
lege of voting on the Mills and Nc
Kinley bills, without regard to party
lines, they would soon settle the
question.
Gen. Hancock lost the presidency
Aeanse he spoke the truth. He said:
ME- >t3siff IS a local issue" We
kirow the Democratic free trader of
louisiana is for protection on sugar,
and the Northern Republican pro-
tectionist is for free trade on sugar,
= and so it goes.
Selfishness seems to be the pre-
dominant trait in human nature. We
want protection on what we sell
and free trade on what we buy.
But the professional politicians
tell US we are not expected to un-
derstand the tariff and financial
question, that ''only the wise should
be allowed to discuss them" We
certainly ought to understand the
financial enigma by this time. That
beautiful illustration, SO frequent
" used, ''that the government
could no more stamp paper and
nj Ike money of it than it could
81 mp rag baby and make it live
Ivy" made it absolutely clear.
kIive us direct legislation and one
ntiak at time and we will set
ariff, government ownership
bads, prohibition and the
question to the satisfaction
one but the plutocrats and
ty politicians. The chance
left open for them to go
& and get rich instead of
ng the public down to perdi-
hey are now doing.
L. G.. LONG.
nge VS.. the Farmers AL