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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-01
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09

ity; and so strong an influence has
this superstition exerted. that
Leonardo ia Vinci, in his famous
fresco of 1.-THE Last SUPPER" pic
lures Judas, as he clutches the
blood-noney. oyorturning the salt
upon the table.
The greatest bulk Of the salt
used in the United States is derived
from brine springs, and the oldest
plant in tho country, the Onondaga
State Reservation, is 1t Syracuse,
New York. In tho neart OF the
lands belonging to the Five Nations
was a small but beautiful lake, OH
nen-ta- ha (Onondaga) whose waters
were sweet and pure, while in the
marshes upon its borders dubbed
springs of bitter water which left a
fine dust of white crystals upon the
overhanging leaves and grass.
The Indians marveled greatly at
tho strange mixture of sweet and
bitterwater flowing apparently from
the same source, and looking upon
the tainted pools as bewitched and
the abodes of demons, they feared
to drink of their waters. These en-
chanted springs were pointed out to
jesuit missionaries, the first whites
who dared venture among the fierce
and powerful Iroquois, and these
intrepid and hereto men taught the
savages the value of their brine
springs, and completely exercised
the demons by placing a kcttleful
of the water over fire, and explain
ing the art Of manufacturing salt.
The circumstance is narrated in the
Relation" of Father Lemoine,
who went on mission of peace to
the Indians in 1864. subsequently,
the Indians manufactured salt in
small quantities, and sent it, with
furs and skins, to the trading posts.
The close of the Revolutionary
War brought tide of immigration
into this section, and by the treaty
of Fort Stanwix, in 1883, the early
settlers bargained for the right to
manufacture salt upon the ground
on one side of Onondaga Lake. In
1897, the State of New York pur-
chased outright from the Indians
the salt-reservations skirting the
lake, and, after survey, rented
certain tracts 10 producers. The
systematic manufacture Of salt was
thus instituted, and tho works have
been in operation ever since pro-
ducing millions of bushels Of salt,
netting the State an immense
revenue, and, for a long time,
almost menopolizing the salt-trade
of the country.-Demorests Fan.iIy
Magazine.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09

II is stated that the promised
char factory Of Buckhannon was
manipulated By an expert swindlor.
and that be got 5000 from Lew
Leonard, s. 900 from the bank and
% considerable amount from the
Backhdunon Boom -to-ayo Co. and
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non would better follow the exam
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09
OUR CLUBBING LIST.

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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-02-09
TUNNELTON & KINGWOoD
RAILROAD.

Train leaves KingwCod ut r:fs o. M and ~
riVes at Tunnelton OF Sis a. M: leaves TpnuS
ton at ll:oO a. ~. and arrives at KIngwood at /
m Leaves Kingwood Mt 400 d. m and arr no
at Tunneton at 500 D. m; leaves Tnnnslton =
600 p; M and arrives at Klngwood at roo D. us
Trains daily except SUNDAY.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04

life insurance has become one of
the best methods for accommodating
an immediate estate for the prOtec-
tion of ones loved ones and as pro-
visioh for ones own old age.
How unwise it is for a man to work
and wait twenty years for the accu-
mutation of two, five or ten thOus-
and dollars when by this means for
about the same amount as he would
pay for the taxes on that much prop
erty he has an instantly accumulated
fortune; and the small amount that
he puts away once or twice year for
this purpose is earning him good
rate of interest.
Should his demise occur in the in
term his family is Immediately pro
vided for even as though he had
lived, worked and waited twenty
years or more to accumulate this
sum.
There is much to recommend in.
vestment of this nature it being tax
free, exempt from debt and insolven-
cy, made by law and the COmpany's
written contract non-forfeitable aft
er only three payments, so that in
the event of his ceasing further in
vestment the insured will receive his
pro rata share.
We cannot too strongly commend
to our membership the wisdom OF
this step.-ED. REP.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
OUR FORUM.
Revision of the State Constitution
Discussed by Hon.
John A. Reyes.
Exposures of Gold Bug Fallacies
Suppressed.
N.F.A.&I.U. National Committee
on Life Insurance.

The Labor Question. Usw1patioa by the
Courts. -Fidelity to the People Essen
tiaL to Continual Political Control.
1t is part of the purpose of estab-
fishing the REPRESENTATIVES, to af-
ford forum, in which the brightest
minds in the populist party and in
the farmers alliance can express and
compare their views. The paper will
not be responsible for the opinions
set forth, but will try to give all
sides of the questions at issue a fair
hearing. We would suggest to our
correspondents to make their letters
brief and to the point; not to ex-
coed one-Quarter of column, If pos
sible. If you have lengthy commun-
ication cut it in half and make two
letters of it. Avoid personalities.
Don't write unless you have some
thing to say; and let each letter
have motive 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 prin.
ter will fix all that Good sense and
an honest purpose are rarer things
than book learning.-THE EDITOR.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
DECEIVING THE PEOPLE.
How the Daily Press Suppress
Facts that Expose Gold Bug
FalIacieS.

Fallacies.
LAKEvILLE, Mimi, Aug. IA, '93.
Mr.. EDITOR:
DEAR SIR:-Some time ago VEN
tured to write brief communication
to the Minneapolis Journal, protest
ing against it's false statements in
regard to the purchase of silver I'M
der the Sherman law. I was not sur
prised that the communication was
not printed. Later I was assured by
a friend that if I would write to the
Minneapolis Times it would be glad
to print what would write, as there
was such spirit of rivalry and
enmity between the Journal and the
Times that the latter would be glad
to print anything that reflected on
the former. I doubted my friends
statement, but for the purpose of
testing the matter, to see whether
there was a unity of action among
the city dailies in deceiving the peo-
pie upon these matters, I did write
and send the Times an article, of
which the following is a copy:
To the editor of the Times: There
is an old saying that if you give a
calf enough rope he will hang him
self. With this saying in mind it
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04

ed in Denver it would favor the free
coinage of silver. That if there were
a string of silver mines down by the
falls, 1--WE would all be in favor of
free silver coinage" This was
practical admission that it had no
principles in the matter, but was
simply actuated by selfish and inter
ested motives in it's present crusade
against more money for the people.
Being surrounded by Gordon of ma
tiOnal banks, instead of silver mines,
it finds it to it's financial interest to
advocate the interests of the afore-
said banks, instead of those of the
people. Again in another issue, the
Journal declared that it was not pos
sible to have too much good currency
in the country. This was said in sup
port of the proposition that the ma
tional banks should be allowed to in
crease their circulation to the full
amount of the bonds on deposit with
the treasurer of the United States.
But the Journal would have us be-
lieve that a dollar coined from silver
bullion is not as good as one made
from paper, although put out under
the authority of the same govern
ment, because the ''debased,"
"cheap" dollar, according to the
Journal, is made from about Sc cents
worth of bullion, while the ''good"
paper dollar is made from perhaps a
tenth of a cents worth of paper.
But the real cause of the Journals
prediction for the national bank
note must be found in the fact that
the paper dollar that it advocates
draws interest for the national bank
er, the Journals master, and the sill
yer dollar does not. But the Journal
is too anxious to win favor in the
eyes of it's plutocratic lord, and it
makes it's lies so monstrous and so
conflicting that the people are apt to
see through them. Very truly yours,
G. P. CARPENTER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
The Labor Question.

The persistence with which the
daily papers of St. Paul suppress all
matters of fact and opinion relating
to the labor question that come from
the laborers themselves is very un-
fair. On two different occasions of
this kind where abstracts of speeches
were made the views advanced by the
working men, themselves, were passed
over with a contemptuous allusion
that applied both to the speakers and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04

There are already imtimations
from republican and democratic poll
ticians who foresee the impending
breakup of the old parties and would
like to get in out of the rain, that if
the peoples party would modify a few
of it's more radical planks, it might
count on their adhesion. No, gentle
men. The peoples party is not doing
business that way. The platform
will be a good deal more radical be-
fore it is less so.-New Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04

Tom Watson is making a most re-
markable campaign in Georgia. He
is holding camp meetings of the peo-
pies party in each county in the state
and the people assemble in camp for
days at time, coming from remote
sections far and near to unite in the
free silver campaign. The pOpulists
will carry Georgia next year and
Tom Watson will receive his we'll de-
served reward. Denver News.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
Judicial UsurpatiOn.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:

EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:
1 have read with great interest
the articles appearing from time to
time in the REPRESENTATIVE on the
tendency of the courts to usurp the
functions of the legislative branch
of the government; and I agree with
you that it is but natural that class
of men who have the power should
assert and aggrandise themselves at
the expense of their fellows if they
be permitted to do so.
The courts of the United States,
owing to their tenure of Office (being
appointed for life), seem to be partic-
ularly assertive in this particular.
The provisions of the constitution
of the United States that the prop
erty of the citizen shall not be taken
from him without due process of law
is made a pretext for substituting
the judicial Judgment where the law
and the constitution provide for the
legislative, and for testing all the
laws land especially those relating to
corporations by their reasonableness
as seem through Judicial eyes.
In this way the courts exercise a
sort of censorship over the legislat-
i've department of the government
and by their decisions nullify all Ito
them) obnoxious enactments. Thus,
instead of constitutional form of
government composed of three co-or-
dinate branches, we have one great
department overawing all the others.
Let me illustrate how this is true :
The supreme court of Wisconsin the
other day in the apportionment cases
decided that it was within the prov
ince of the courts of that state to
mandamus state officer and compel
him to perform his duties IN accord
o,,ce acith the Judicial eoill.
If this be true that they can con-
troll an executive officer in the dis
charge of official duties created for
him by the supreme power of the
state, if they can thus nullify, at
their pleasure on alleged constitu-
tional grounds the acts of the legis-
ture, why it goes without saying
that they are law unto themselves
and are sovereign and supreme in the
land.
When we reflect that all of our fed
eral judges q think I can fairly say
without exception) are recruited
from the ranks of corporation law
yers, like the recent appointment OF
Judge Hornblower, are not the rights
and liberties of the people jeopar-
died by such unrestrained power. 1t
is we'll known that those lawyers who
owe their positions to the influence
of their former employers (the corpo-
rations) are not in a position TO dc
Justice between them and the people
1t is refreshing in these latter days
to find man on the bench like Oul
district judge, Hon. John w. Willis,
who has the courage to pronounce a
just decision when it's weight falls on
the side of the people and against the
elevator ring or any other robber mo-
nopoly. All honor to brilliant ju
rist and an upright judge. May he
long continue to serve the people.
p. J. FORTUNE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
AN IMPORTANT LETTER.
The Necessity for Constitutional
Convention.

I\SSCoSNy III a 0OAA0SASNAsAOAs>A
Convention.
This letter is from the pen of
Hon. John A. Keyes, formerly of
Winona, now of Duluth. He may
be Justly termed "the father of the
Australian law in Minnesota. He
is one of the ablest and most honest
men in the state. We are glad to
hear from him and hope to pub
lish other articles from his pen.-
Ed. REP.
Mr.. EDITOR:
Before any very great advance can
be made in local government we
must have revision of our consti-
tuition, and particularly in reference
to the legislative and judicial de-
partments of the government. Our
system of legislation is too crude
and too far removed from the popu-
lar will, and the judicial department.
is bound down by precedents that
have Out-grown their usefulness, and
on the whole the results are unsatis-
factory.
Upon the constitution being care
fully revised and the obsolete fea-
lures cut out and salutary ones in
corporated, commission should be
selected out of the convention to
codify the law upon the basis advo-
Gated by such law reformers as David
Dudly Field. Important checks
could be put upon the formation and
operations of corporations and power
over them extended and defined.
The work would necessarily have to
be carefully done and both the con-
vention and the committee should be
fairly represented. 1t would be a
good plan to have the calling of such
convention discussed and some of
the things needing to be changed also
Indicated. Important among them
are taxation" control of corpora
lions" Gland titles" and the estab-
lishment of tribunals of arbitration.
We have in this state at present
several kinds of taxation and the
Injustice of the gross earnings and
mining output tax, could it be &C
tually expressed in figures, would
produce sensation. Perhaps later
l shall try and demonstrate this in
justice but in the meantime let
some thought be taken about con-
stitutional revision, for until that
is done none of the fundamental re-
forms can be accomplished. 1 in
troduced bill for the purpose Of
calling such a convention in 1891,
but it failed of passage. That
might be successfully done in the
coming legislature if enough atten-
tion is paid to it before hand.
JOHN A. KEYEs.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
Cheap Rates.

Parties wanting to get cheap and
comfortable accommodation at Chi
cago during the Columbian EXPOSE
ton, should address Capt. G. A. Pow
er, Louisiana Hotel, Cor. list and
Seipp Az: Chicago; Capt e Power rsv was
the getter Up OF the famous s GnGin
peoples party was born. Rates 81 q
day up. The Reform Press Ass0cia-
tion will meet at the hotel Sept. 4th.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
IMPORTANT
To the Members of "The National
Farmers Alliance and In
duStrial UniOn.''

August Is, 1898.
To the Membership of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial I'm
ION.
The National Executive Commit
tee of the Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union having had referred
to them from several alliances the
question of the organization of a
life insurance company on the regu-
lar standard plan or the recommen-
dalton of some organization that
would be known to be a good, reliable
and safe company and the members
of the Executive Committee having
given the subject due consideration,
reach the conclusion that a new asso-
citation, at this time would be nei-
Their polite nor wise.
We believe however, that we will
fully care for the interests of the
order by recommending some life in
surance society, conducted on the
mutual plan, with good record,
and a sound and safe financial pol
icy, at the same time Offering insur-
ance at lowest rates consistent with
safety to the insured as we'll as the
insurer; and we unhesitatingly and
cordially recommend for the insur-
ance of the lives of the members on
the mutual plan '"THE MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW
YORK"
We do so, because after careful
study and investigation, we are led
to believe that The Mutual Life In
surance Company of New York is
the largest and strongest mutual
life company, and paying the largest
amounts in dividends of any insur-
ance organization in the world. 1t
has been tested in the crucible of
finance for more than fifty years,
and has always, so far as we can
learn, treated it's members with the
utmost equity and generosity and
been prompt in the payment of it's
every obligation. Being a purely
mutual organization, the ownership
of it's vast assets, amounting to
more than $175,O 5000, is strictly the
property Of the membership. 1t has
in it's membership very large mum.
Der of the most careful. prudent and
far-seeing men in the nation; and
being founded on lines somewhat
similar to those of the Alliance, fol
mutual benefit, assistance and pro
lection, we believe that our mem
bership, by insuring therein, would
have the best and safest protection
for their money, and leave a sure
benefit to those in whose favor the
insurance is made.
| In times like the present, with sc
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04

much uncertainty in every walk of
life, it becomes the duty of every
farmer to make safe provision for
his wife and children in case of sud-
den removal from this life, and espe-
cially if his property is at all encum-
bered, so that in the event of his
leave-taking, the family remaining
may be sure of home, free and I'M
trammeled by debt, and not open
to foreclosure and sale: the first
steps to ruin and want.
Fratenally,
II. L. LoUCKs, Chm.
81. G. DEFINING, Sec'y.
MANN PAGE.
I. e. DEAN.
L. LEONARD.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-04
GRAINBUYER.

A grainbuyer of fourteen years ex-
perience would like to buy on joint
account, or will run an elevator on
commission. Address all communi
cations to Grainbuyer," at this Of
flee, or lock box No. ID, Pierson, Iowa.