The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-05
A MONTANA MAN
EulOgiZes the President of the
State Alliance.

EDITOR REPRESENTATIVES,:
| have received three copies of the
REPRESENTATIVES,, and to say that I
am delighted, charmed, would very
family express the emotions awaken
ed by the perusal. Thank God, the
peoples party, the sons of toll, and the
labor element in general, have one
faithful exponent of their cause-one
that will stay with them to the end
till their battle is won; and they in
turn must stand by it. Even gener-
GUS support must not be grudgingly
but most freely given.
The REPRESENTATIVE champions
the peoples cause against growing
power in the republic that threatens
their very existence, and the people
should come up boldly and manfullY
to it's support. Such a paper is i'm
peratively needed right in St. Paul.
Your noble and powerful utterances
for the right in politics, supplement-
ed by those of that intellectual
Hercules, profound thinker, and
statesman, Ignatius Donnelly, will
charm every true populist and surely
deplete the ranks of old parties.
Mr.. D. has legion of the most
ardent admirers all over this land,
who are intensely eager to catch
every utterance of pen or lip. He
early gave to the republican party
the wealth of his prodigious intel
lect, and an ADLER, more faithful rep
resentative Minnesota never had so
long as that party was true to the
people. Under and with the patriot
ic leaders, Lincoln, Sumner, Seward,
Chase, and others, he struggled for
the unity of the republic, the saliva
tion of the union. That achieved,
he did not see the necessity of con-
tinuing the financial burdens of war
in time of profound peace; so, true
to the people, he advocated speedy
reduction of the burdens, and then
from saint in the opinion of party
leaders. he was almost instantly
transmitted into the vilest of the
vile, demagogue, renegade; de-
serter, working purely for personal
ends. The truth is patent to every
one familiar with this part of Mr..
DIS career, that as they could not
meet him by voice or pen, they were
afraid he would damage shylock, con-
sequently he must be suppressed, his
powerful influence destroyed; SO they
set upon him like pack of hungry
wolves, and from the subsidized press
and the public rostrum the vilest
diatribes were hurled at him. Pre-
ciselyso was it in the case of Chas.
Sumner. His manly utterances for
freedom ip his "crime against Kan
sas'' could not be answered by the
slave oligarchy with argument, SO
they resorted to the bludgeon. He
must be silenced. If Mr.. D. had been
moved by selfishness as charged, he
too might be a millionaire; and if
money-getting were dependent upon
brain-power, then he ought to be the
richest man in the northwest. The
truth is, and impartial history will
so record, that he has ignored money
getting. This has been with him a
minor consideration the peoples
cause being first. It will be remcm-
bered that the Roman mobiles by vir-
tue of their success in the Punic
wars were greatly enriched, while
the masses who fought the battles
were reduced to starvation. That is,
all the common people, the plebeans,
were good for was to fight and do the
dirty work, and the NOTES.-The few,
pOcketed the spoils. In this they
succeeded in the classification, few
rich and the many poor, as we find
them to-day. The Gracchi being
elected to power, saw the terrible
condition.
So they revived the Agrarian and
Lycinian laws, instituted for the
benefit of the poor. So Mr.. Donnelly
would restore to the people what the
Gracchi restored to the slaves made
such by Caesar and his merciless
minions. Mr.. Donnelly's writings
have taught the modern world to
think. His caesars Column" is a
vivid but faithful portrayal of what
must be the fate of the mightiest
republic on earth if Shylock's aggres-
sions are to continue. But, though
we seem to have boarded the express
train for the goal he pictures, we at
the same time, cherish the hope,
that by the light of such papers as
the Representative, the trainmen will
be timely warned, and spring to the
brakes and avoid that indescribable
calamity. In popular government
like ours, if we do not have good
government, it is the sole fault of
the people. Shylock will make a
fight to hold the voters under his
despotic swag, and thus perpetuate
his hellish reign; but my faith is
still strong in the intelligence of the