The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-30
PAUL REvERE,s RIDE.
Remember the Call of the Patriot of l776
and Do Your Duty.

PAUL REvERE'S RIDE.
Remember the Call of the Patriot of l776
and Do Your Duty.
Have the working classes in the United
States sunk SO low in the scale of intel
igence and patriotism that they do not
honor the heroes of 1776? Or, if they
think they do, do they know what urged
our forefathers to take the actions they
did and in what those actions consisted?
Paul Revere, whose ride in arousing his
countrymen to the impending conflict
has been iminortalizedi in song and story,
did what? Why, my dear brother, he
did just what the reform press Of today
is doing-tried to arouse the people from
the sleep of security that awakens in
chains. He did not meet a response
everywhere were Tories in
those days as there are in these
men who were doing well, men
who held paying positions under King
George, who condemned our patriot ia
theirs as their kind today condemn re-
formers who are sending out riders like
Paul Revere in every mail to every To-
cality of this nation to arouse the people
to the impending slavery to trusts, mo-
nopolies, combines and banks-all enc
mics of free people all despots-all
Caesars. They and this republic cannot
live together. There is no freedom
where one set of men can levy tribute
off the many and live in pomp and
splendor while the producers live in
want and squalor. The trusts do levy
their tribute on the people thousand
times more than King George ever
dreamed of doing.
The workers are paid starvation wages,
and the product Of their genius and
hands is sold to those who can buy for
many times what the workers get for
creating it. This is robbery, this is the
heavy hand Of the oppressor, no matter
if it be done by king or venal laws in an
alleged republic. There is one differ
ence in methods between Revere and
patriots Of today-the former called to
arms! to armsl to the God of hosts and
dry powder, while we appeal to reason,
to love, to justice, to the ballot. None
but those sunk to the degradation of
dogs will submit to oppression, and it
must be very mean kind of dog who
will not even vote to free himself. In
this country under proper laws every
family can be well, even elegantly,
housed, fed and clothed by the products
of their own labor if they are not robbed.
Are these things of so little import to
the many that they prefer poverty and
starvation? Is it possible that the ma
jority have been reduced to condition
that, like hog, they prefer pens and
shanties to well living? No, no! 1t is
not so. The people know not their rights
nor how much wealth their labor creates
they are honest, but deceived. The
value of 100000 900 houses, each costing
$1,000, has been robbed from Americans
and given to English lords and dukes in
the one item of United States railroads
in the last 80 years!
Do you wonder Americans are house
less and wandering homeless and starv-
ing over the land of their birth? Is it
not time for d new generation of Paul
Reveres, Patrick Henrys, Ben Frank
Inns? The European lords and MOBILES
with a few of their American funky
Benedict Arnolds are getting into pos
session, legally, but not morally right,
of all the wealth of the United States!
Will you stand it? Let the answer come
back from true and honest hearts, hearts
that beat true to their family and coun-
try, Never!
The time for words and ballots grows
shorter and shorter-the time will soon
come when free speech, press and ballot
will be suppressed. Act! Act now!
Rouse your neighbors to the impending
dangers. Let no ties of friendship OF
business delay you. Already thousands
are devoting their life and going on short
rations in this patriotic struggle. Do
your duty, and do it now, or your chill
dren will curse the memory Of their ia
theirs, because they were too stupid to
see the danger that could have been
averted without sanguinary struggle.
Coming Nation.