The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-14
KEEP QUIET!

KEEP QUIET!
Laws are for the Robbed, not fol-
the Robbers.
This Planet Belongs to .sthe I'm.
mOrtals."
What perplexing and unaccount.
able thing it is that so many "free
and independents citizens of this fail
republic are given to calamity how.
ling" and denouncing national banks
(Which insure us the "best money in
the worldly, railroad corporations
(Which are ''bankrupting them
selves" in order to accommodate the
dear people), monopolizers of natural
resources (who from the beginning
were foreordained by the Almighty
to live on the fruits of other mems
labor')! 1t is passing strange that
there should be in this broad land
of ours single man so lost to all
sense of the eternal fitness of
things as not to humbly acknowl-
edge the power that permits him to
exist and grow wheat or make plows
and get sufficient out of the process
to enable him to exercise the "bless-
ed privilege"
And yet more than a million men
last November deliberately insulted
their great benefactor, King Mono
poly, by voting in favor of ending
his. reign. Just think of it.! Could
ingratitude 60 farther?
Listen, my calamity" bowling
friend: Your attitude is to fall down
and quake, like the savage, before
the idol you have carved.
This idol is immortal This idol
has power to make and unmake all
ordinary human tom-tits in this re-
public. This republic was made
chiefly to afford King Monopoly un-
limited opportunity to appropriate
your earnings.
What kind of country would you
have without the national bankers,
the coal baron, the railroad mag
nate, the land speculator-the whole
body Of dispensators of public bless
ings from Wall street to the Mime
sofa pine ring?
Laws, O, deluded and misguided
man, are for the robbed, not for the
robbers. Laws are for farmers,
blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers,
machinists, miners, and other peo-
pie who work.
Keep quiet and let things slide!
Just think what "the immortals"
have done for the country!
Have they not beaten the schedule
and given you paradise" ahead of
time?
What more do you want?
Don't kick! Don't howl. Chew
the cud! Be contented in the con-
dition in which ''the immortals"
have placed you.
This planet belongs to them.
So do you!
Look at that colossal blunder of
yours in setting up public post
office and operating it yourselves,
whereby you have prevented "the
immortals'' from giving you the in
estimable blessings of a private post
office! Gaze upon that monument
of your folly, the public school sys-
tenn! Go, cover yourselves in sack
cloth and ashes, and repent that by
your public school you have deprived
your children of an education under
the beneticent direction and influ-
ence of 1.-THE immOrtals."
What can you do against a power
that can barter with judges, fix jur-
les, bride newspapers, pack caucus
es, build churches, pay preachers,
and get sinch on the inheritance
of the ages, while you are trying to
be industrious and honest and get
to heaven?
What can you do with power be-
fore which preacher, prelate, poll
tician, and "plunkey" abase them
selves?
True you are attacking radical
error: Private owership of public
utilities; but an inscrutable prOvi-
dence put you here to work and be
quiet!
Down then, on your plebean bel
lies to the idol, the "deity," the elm
mortal one"-King Monopoly.
Keep quiet and let things slide!
A. S. EDWARDS.
Regret the Controversy.