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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
A Word or Two.

The business-lunatics say that the
Sherman act, which provides for the
purchase of our national output of
silver, at deprecated (market)
rate, is the cause of all our financial
troubles, and that it's repeal will
bring good times at once. Let us
see:
The Sherman act was passed by
the Congress of the United States
and the United States do not include
Australia. Even the fools will ad-
nit that. Now then if the financial
condition in Australia, where they
have no Sherman law, is as bad as
that of the United States where
they have it, then it follows that
some other reason must be found for
the state of affairs in both countries.
That is plain.
Here is recent telegram:
"SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.-News
brought by the steamer Mariposa to-
day from Australia is of a diScour-
aging tenor. The closed banks are
trying to resume and business is at
a standstill. Strikes are imminent
and tens of thousands of people are
out of work. A number of coal
mines have shut down. Wages Of
sailors are being reduced, and omni-
bus drivers went on strike because
their wages were reduced from $40
to 1915 per week. The unemployed
swarm along the docks, seeking a
chance to stow away on any vessel
bound for the United Statee. The
MaripOSa's second cabin and steerage
were crowded. Nearly all those who
came up were men and women who
were once well-to-do, but who lost
nearly all in the general crash.
They could not spare money for
first-class passage and consequently
had to come up in the steerage.
Many of them hoped to make new
start in California. The govern
ments of Victoria, New South Wales
and Queensland are doing all in
their power to relieve the situation,
with some degree Of success. One
of the measures adopted by the gov
ernment of New South Wales is the
establishment of state bank
What is the state bank for? To
increase the currency. That means
there is not money enough in Aus
tralia.
And why do the people belonging
to regions where they have no Sher-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
KOCCen;
But not forgotten"
A Villaninous Discrimination.

1 happened to look carefully at
a five dollar United States legal ten
der note the other day, and on the
back of it / read this legend:
"This note is legal tender at it's
face value, in payment of all debts,
public or private, Except suhen other
acise oppressed IN the contract"
Think of that! The United States,
makes note legal tender and then
provides that an individual may
sweep away it's legal-tender qualities
by putting gold provision into his
contracts. The money lender is set
above the nation! One man is more
than 65,OOO,OOO! An inducement is
held out to men to discredit the gov
ernment and force the country to a
gold standard Could anything de-
monstrate more clearly the subser-
viency of both the old parties to the
money power, than that legend
which can be found on any of the
notes of the series of 1890? I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
PAUL, MINI, WEDNESDAY AUGUST O. 1898.

other excuse is that the wheat was
there when the certificates were is
sued, but that someone else,-prO-
badly the populists.-afterwards
shipped the wheat out. And so it
goes.
Imagine the daily papers owned
by chaps who are "doing time" in
Stillwater,-then the news-items
would appear something like this:
Yesterday, as that honorable
gentleman, Mr.. Robert Harrinton,
familiarly known as "Six-fngered
Bob," was passing down Jackson
street reading his prayer-book, a
merchant, named Smithers, rushed
against him and stuck his watch
in Bob's pocket. He then had the
andacious impudance to claim that
Bob. picked his pocket, Bob had him
arrested for assault and battery and
Smithers was given thirty days in
the cooler"
That is about the way it is in
Minnesota. Touch a profitable rob-
berry and the newspaper offices bug
and squirm, and the game of sup
preston or misrepresentation be-
gins. These fellows would lie the
nose off the face of Truth and the
tongue out of her mouth. Every
man of their own kind is honest;
but if an individual defends the peo-
pie he is prodigious, deep-dyed
villain. The only light we get, as
to matters of moment, is that which
breaks in upon us from the outside
world, accidentally, like the fore
going extract. In few years more
the rogues will have even these rent
holes plugged, and the people will
sit in the darkness, silent, helpless
slaves. For what is intellect with
out knowledge? what is liberty
welded to ignorance? l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
A WORD OF WARNING.
Division of Our FOrces.-A Great
Danger Threatening.

Our enemies are rich and their
cunning infinite. A great fight is
impending between the gold-bugs and
the free silver men. 1t will be a
battle to the death. If the gold
bugs have power enough to defeat
the free-silverites, backed up by the
mine owners, they will certainly be
able to beat any other weaker or
more novel proposition. And yet
see all over the country men rushing
into reform papers, and advocating
that the peoples party should desert
the free-silverites in this the crisis
of their fate, and commence battle
for the demOnetization of both gold
and silver. It is possible and proba-
BILE that Congress may make the re-
pal of the Sherman law conditioned
on the full reconciliation of silver;
but nobody believes that this or any
congress that will assemble for years
to come, will abolish both gold and
silver coinage. Nothing but revolu-
tion, or many years of political edu-
cation, could bring about such a
startling result. But men may, by
clamoring now for the demonetiza-
tion of both gold and silver prevent
the remonetization Of silver; and
thus the whole would pass, perhaps
forever, under the unlimited dOmin-
ion of the money-power. There is
no doubt that both gold and silver
should be discarded, and an inter-
national legal-tender paper money
established; but that is vast re-
formation which the world is not yet
ready for:-the greater part of man
kind have never yet heard of it.
If the gold-bugs desire to divide
our forces, and SO conquer us, they
could not adopt shrewder plan
than to set us fighting free silver at
this stage of the game. 1t is like
taking the bread out of a starving
child's mouth and telling it there is
plenty of better bread in heaven.
There may be: but the child is starv-
ing; it needs food at once: and the
act of despoiling it is simply cunning
robbery.
We do not say that the men who
are talking that way, land the last
REPRESENTATIVES, contained a page
of their utterances,] have been
bought by plutocracy. Some of them
we know have not been; but they
lose sight of the necessity. in prac-
tical craftsmanship, to take advan-
tage of every point that will benefit
the people. Let the work of econo-
mic education proceed; build for the
higher levels; but don't lose trick
in the great game which means life
or death for the nation and it's peO-
pie. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
The Condition of Things.

The plutocratic newspapers hav-
ing led the people into the abyss of
bankruptcy in which they are now
wallowing, are working hard to con-
ceal from their dupes the depth of
the pit into which they have fallen.
From one end of the country to the
other they are crying,-"Hush.
Hushv'
Let us give the people a few sig
nificant facts.
A leading and well-known finan-
cier-president of one of the princi-
pal banks of St. Paul-said the other
day:
II do not believe that any man in
the state can go to any bank in the
state, (Which he does not own or con-
troll, and borrow $4,000 on any security
less than national bonds"
Think of that! Land, township
bonds, county bonds, state bonds,
merchantile paper of the best quail
ity, railroad bonds or stock, improv-
ed city property-all valueless. No
thing good but U. S. bonds. And
yet these people tell us that the gov
ernment of this nation has not cred
it enough to issue greenbacks and
keep them at par!
Another incident: A we'll known
gentleman or St. Paul made this
statement the other day in the Office
of the REPRESENTATIVE:
II have $4,000 acres of land in this
state, and great amount of city
property; | am rich; and yet / doubt
if l could borrow 500 to-day in any
bank in St. Paul."
Every shoe-factory is closed and
the men discharged; Walter A.
Woods agricultural works ditto; near
ly every other factory or workshop
ditto; and the workmen turned out
to starve. Why? The banks dare
not carry the manufacturers; the
wholesale merchants dare not carry
the retailers; the retailers cannot
carry the farmers, with half crop
growing and wheat at As cents a
bushel. In four months we shall
have winter. The prospects is ap-
palling! Why do we speak of these
things? To exult over them? God
forbid! But these "blind leaders of
the blind" are intent on leading the
country into deeper deeps of wretch
edness. They propose to repeal the
Sherman law, make silver valueless,
increase the purchasing power of
gold. break down prices still lower,
and plunge the people into middle
age conditions from which only rev.
OlutiOn can save them. [. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
A Gallant Suggestion.

Mrs. Lease in her populist stump
ing tour of the South, may discover
a few ripe eggs against. Paul
Globe.
Shame on you to suggest that the
greatest female orator of the age,
and woman of unblemished repute.
should be made the subject of vio-
lent and filthy attacks, with rotten
eggs! The man who wrote that ar
ticle would steal those very eggs, if
hungry and devour them in
an advanced stage of maturity.
You can see his portrait in the cele
brated painting of "Christ before
Pilate," painted by Murchasky; he
stands close to the railing; bowling
against the Great Reformer; his
open mouth looking like railroad
tunne1l; one great, idiotic, senseless,
continuous bawl! You can almost
hear the words-Crucify him! Cru
city him"-coming screaming from
the cavernous depths of his univer-
sal gullet.
And the Globe has no answer to
suggest to the argument and elo-
quence of Mrs. Lease but,-rotten
eggs! Why don't it take shotgun
to her? Rotten eggs were employed
thirty odd years ago against Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips.
But the posterity of the men who
threw those eggs are not proud of
their ancestors performance. They
set up no claim to it. And the men
themselves are dead; and you might
put over their graves the inscription
which a western town set up over
the mortal remains of a noted horse
thief:
Rotten;
But not forgotten.
Oh Democracy! Democracy! Child
of the brain of that most illustriOus
of patriots and sages-Thomas JEFF
ferson, how have you fallen when
male editor of your leading north
western Organ,-yes creature wear
ing breeches, s,-suggests rotten eggs,
as a proper reply to the crushing
logic of the female DemOstheneS of
Amerca.
s'Shame. where is thy blush?"
I. D
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

Burning paraffin may be quenched by
throwing flour upon it.
In breeding any kind Of stock always
breed to something that is an improvement
on what you now have
A tombstone in Green Grove cemetery.
near Keyport, N. j., was seized by con-
stable to satisfy claim for debt the other
day.
The Washington Post estimates that
there are 54S. 10000 acres in the south,
398, 800, 600 acres of which are good arabic
land. G
Types are not used in printing Persian
newspapers. Tho copy" is given to an ex.
pert penman, who writes 1t out neatly.
Then his work is Autographed.
At the last census there were In the
United States l, ,450 manufacturers of con
fectionery, employing nearly 10000 hands
The yearly value of their products exceeded
S25, 900, 900.
Next to that Of umbrellas, the ownership
of books is perhaps the least respected
Hence the philosophical though rude re
mark "that fools lend books and wise mer
borrow them"
The day is usually reckoned as being Q
hours in length. Strictly speaking, such i
a mistake The standard unit of time i
the "sidereal day" which is % hours, SO min
utes and 4O92 seconds in ''solar" mean
tiran
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19
Democratic Northwest.
oh,e pomocratLo PIatform.

We hereby approve the platform o.
the Democratic party adopted by Its ma
tional convention at Chicago and especially
those portions Of il, referring to the tarih
and 70 currency legislation. We congratu
late the country upon the early prospect Q.
measures Of relief as outlined by the presi
dents late message 70 congress, and We
have confidence that the Democratic con
gress will devise laws TO furnish such 10
lief.
The financial situation Is the unfortunate
legacy of the Republican administration
il is the natural result OF the Mckinley
tariff, the Sherman silver law, eXtrava
gance Of the Republican party recently IN
power, and the creation and fostering OF
trusts and corrupt combinations by that
party, all combining 70 shake credit, u
create distress in the money OF the country
and TO paralyze its business.
We recommend that national banks may
be permitted to issue their currency TO an
amount equal to the par value OF United
States bonds, which they may deposit with
the treasurer Of the United States, to the
end that the volume OF currency may bt
Immediately increased.
The interest of every true soldier anc
pensioner demands that the pension rolh
should be made and preserved as roll Of
honor. We believe in just and liberia
recognition of the claims OF the veterans
and favor granting them all that patri
ism could ask, all that national gratitude
would demand. But the granting OF pen
sions of fraudulent claims, or for partisan
purposes, or department. decisions in Gun
travention of law, as practiced under tht
last administration, needs TO be investigat
ed and corrected so that the unselfish valol
of the American soldier may remain un'
tarnished
The Democratic party pledges itself that
the rightful claims of no Union soldier to Q
pension shall be denied, and the allowance
of any worthy pensioner shall not be dis
turbed.
We condemn the unbusinesslike admin.
istration of state affairs under Governor
Mckinley, deplore the official scandals and
defalcations under it, and denounce the
condoning of official crimes which have
brought humiliation upon our people. We
denounce the reckless extravaganza OF the
large Republican majority in the roth gen
eral assembly which appropriated for cur.
rent expenses about 100000 in excess OF
the current revenue, and added almost $780,
100000 to the local bonded indebtedness Of
the state, by laws in the main unconstitu.
tional We demand that an end be put to
such robhery,of the taxpayers.
The Democratic party expresses its conf
dence in the ability of Hon. Calvin S. Brice
of the United States senate to materially
assist the Democratic majority in the con-
gress of the United States to extricate the
great commercial interests Of this country
from their present distressed condition.
The country has abiding faith in the in
tegrity, the patriotism and exalted courage
Of President Cleveland. True to the peo-
pie and watchful of their interests, he will
enforce honest and economical methods in
the conduct of public affairs, and secure to
every section of the country the blessing OF
good government
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19
Dogs as Fire Alarms.

Nature has so fashioned the dogs nose
that the nasal bones are convoluted and
rolled in scrolls, upon which his olfactory
nerves are spread 80 that the entire space
from his eyes forward is most intricate
and delicate smelling machine and the
largest which has been given to any living
creature. The organ is extremely sensitive,
especially in the spaniel breed.
One of these little jewels" in the house
will not only Instantly warn all inmates
against intruders, but will be the first to
discover, by its sensitive nose, that most
deadly and dreadful Of all the elements
fire-which comes creeping stealthily upon
the unconscious sleepers and suffocates
them in their beds or arouses them only to
die a horrible death in the sitting, smoke
filed halls and stairways.
No spaniel or hunting dog can rest an in
slant while the slightest puff Of smoke is
irritating his sensitive nostrils. He will
fret and whine and increase the volume of
his alarm until the household is aroused,
and do all this long before any human be
ing can detect the faintest odor of smoke.
He is indeed a most prompt. speedy, re-
liable fire alarm, which never fails and new
er gets out of order while his life lasts
New York Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19

There are some people who know II all
and others who think they do, and the lat
ter are apt to make the greatest show Of
knowledge.
One of this species stood near the bow Of
Champlain steamer one day. He had a
remarkably sunburned complexion, he car
ried q guidebook in one hand, three rail-
road time tables and map in the other,
and he was bursting with information.
Finally, unable to stand it longer, he ap-
preached small man who was leaning
thoughtfully over the rail-
my FRIEND" he said impressively, II
suppose you know that those gray and
fallen walls over there on the west shore
are all that remains of the world famous
Fort Ticonderogai"
''No, l didn't know it." said the small
man simply.
"Well, sir, they are. It was on that spot
that the English commander was called
from his bed to surrender in the name Of
the continental congress. It was along
these Shores" added the man with the
ruddy complexion, waving the fiutteripg
time tables oratorioally. that the French
and Indians fought the English. Every
stone, sir, is crowded with history"
"Ticonderoga, hey" said the other re-
fectively. "Do you live up herei"
"No, l live in New York"
"Born here perhapsf"
''No, SIR"
Travel up and down the lake pretty
often, I suppose"
well, no; this is my first trip" reluc-
family admitted the owner of tho guide
book.
"Tis, heys Well, was purser of this
boat for nine years, and / know every foot
of that shore. That ruin over there is
Sampson's dock, and Ticonderoga is IL
miles south of here. Anything else to tellr'
--Waverly Magazine.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19
FOR THE BREATH.
How to Keep Sweet Breath-Use
Powdered Charcoal.

How to Keep a Sweet Breath-Use
Powdered Charcoal.
Good teeth and sweet breath are
within the reach of most. The services
of good dentist will insure the former
against such imperfections as shall be
positively unsightly or taint the
breath. The advice Of your dentist
should be sought as to the proper tooth
powder to use, as many of the COM
pounds on the market contain harm
full acids and gritty substances. There
is no surer way to destroy the teeth
than by the want of brushing or rims
ing after eating fruit. In California,
where fruit of all kinds is so cheap for
10 months in the year as to be within
the reach of almost the poorest, beau
full teeth are rarely found, while 1t is
very common thing to see even young
women with false teeth. Excess in
the use of fruit sometimes produced
undue acidity of the stomach, which
also reacts on the teeth.
Six ounces OF rosewater mixed with
two drams of chlorcte of potash, is an
excellent purifier ofthe breath. Rinse
the mouth after each meal. For
acidity of the stomach, which gives
bad breath, use a solution OF tea
spoonful of baking soda and half as
much salt in glass Of water. Drink
little of this and rinse the mouth
also.
A box of the very finest powdered
charcoal, which can only be obtained
at drug store, should always &c at
hand. Give the teeth an occasional
brushing with it or rub little between
the interstices of the teeth at night,
brushing it out in the morning.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19

inns. And we call upon all Protestant
gentlemen, In every community, toac-
quaint themselves with the literature
which is being secretly disseminated
among the ignorant Protestants OF
their neighborhood, and to speak out
about II as every man ofhonor is bound
to do. If the purposes Of Roman Cath
olics need for any reason be opposed or
resisted, let us oppose and resist them
like men.
William E. Moore, Pastor First Pres
byterian Church.
A. E. E. Taylor, Pastor Westminis-
tor PresbyterIan Church.
Francis A. Henry, Rector st. PauPs
Episcopal Church.
Alexander Milne, Pastor Plymouth
Congregational church.
William II, Scott, President Ohio
State University.
Edward Orton, Professor In Ohio
State University.
Samuel G. Derby, Professor in Ohio
State University.
Henry Stauffer, Pastor Mayfower
Congregational Church.
R. s. Lindsay, Pastor Eastwood Con-
gregatiOnalional Church.
Richard r. Graham, Rector Church
of the Good Shepherd.
James Poindexter, Pastor Second
Baptist Church.
Washington GLADDEN., Pastor First
Congregational Church.
D. Fisk Harris, Minister ST. Clair
Congregational Church.
William NJ. Jones, Pastor First Uni-
versalist Church.
G. H. Robe, Pastor Trinity German
Lutheran Church.
Richard T. Swain, Westerville.
George H. Schodde, Professor In
Capital University.
lam too recent conner to Column
bus to append my signature to any
document purporting to represent con-
ditions in this city. With the general
spirit and purpose of this paper, how
ever, I am very deeply in sympathy,
and feel 1t my duty to do anything /
can do to allay suspicious which are
calculated to work great mischief and
which, juding from all means of infor-
nation at my command, are wholly
groundless.
WILLIAM MACAFEE, B
Pastor of Broad Street M. E. Church.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-19

The diatoms, of which there is an infinite
number of forms and species, belong to the
seaweed family and are microscopic organ
isms of wonderful shapes and rare beauty.
They are single celled plants and are with
out doubt the most minute representatives
of the vegetable kingdom. Most plants are
but an aggregation of an immense num-
Der of cells Of greater or lesser diameter,
but as above limited the diatom is but a
single cell, and this SO minute that 5000 OF
the spindle shaped variety, laid end to end,
scarcely suffice to make one inch!
The living plant is beautiful object of
microscopic study, but it is not to be COM
pared with the delicate skeleton Of prop
erly prepared specimen. They are found
in every Imaginable shape and form -circu-
lar, oblong, fiat and square, cubical, watch
shaped, oval, triangular, wedge shaped,
crooked, screw or corkscrew shaped, like
pill boxes, lead pencils, boats, turtles, etc.
Skeletons OF extinct varieties may be
found in almost any kind Of soil, among
the sands Of rivers and creeks, or even in
water from artesian wells. They are very
delicate and lacelike. single specimens
(note size above) frequently exhibiting l0,-
0oo interstices. ST. Louis Republic.