The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
st. Paul, Nov. 80.
WORK AND WAIT.
Victory Will Eventually he on Our
Side.


Hon. Ignatius Donnelly-I notice your re-
tirement from active political life. 1t is
great calamity for those who have had
you as their advocate and friend for so
many years, but l hope the remaining years
may bring greater reward and less care.
History shows that few true and pure men
or women are really appreciated by those
for whom they labored and sacrificed. Re-
member the world has crucified greater
than thee. Paul says: eff in this life we
only have hope, are of all men most
miserable" Now, mans mind reaches out
in this world to benefit and raise humanity
to higher plane, but is frustrated by that
stronger influence, selfshness, and the love
of money, which will be removed when the
spirit has gotten clear of this corruption;
then, I believe, will see the beauty of
the labor of love done while here, and it
will be a grander monument than could be
erected in granite or marble columns CAS-
we SOW, SO shall we reap Your sayings
in your books will never die. They are to-
day bringing the fruit which will under
mine the corrupt social, religious and po-
litical society. surface reader may say
reform has met defeat, but when we cast
our eyes over the records of time, we be-
hold it took strokes on the chain of civil
bondage, such the fugitive slave bill,
the bred Scott decision, a blow at Sum-
nerS head Or the shot at the flag on FIT.
Sumter to warn liberty of her danger.
Although those blows were given by the
hand of man in his wrath or folly. yet God
forced those blows to break the letters
which bound the black man. The very
means that the Republican party has used
to win will force the masses to join the
chariot of reform in its march to triumph
in 1900. There is God in history. Our
work is to stand at our post, doing our
duty, hoping on, not envying the prosper
ity of the wicked, for ''they are like the
troubled sea- like a drunken man. The
landsldes of 1892 and 1894 have demon
strated that fact. Love of power love of
office, love of revenge, and selfshness have
ruled the majority and if we had been per-
mtted success at this time it would have
been destruction. We have not the
pillar Of cloud by day, nor the pillar of
light at night The element Of purity is
not fully developed so as to insure true
government. Love thy neighbor as thy
SELF
l cannot help thinking of what Lincoln
said about contraction, that sit was the
most heinous crime the government could
commit against the people, Also the gang
of pirates, whom Merton said had driven
the government into acts of oppression no
free nation since the dawn of history ever
had submitted unto. And S. P. Chase said
it would array the banks and people in
contest such as we have never seen in
this country.
The calamity Lincoln warned us of, Chase
saw, and Morton told Of are accomplished
facts, and because we have voted to avert
these dangers we are called "cranks."
Hoping to be able to get subscribers for
the Representative this winter and other
papers and distribute reform books among
those that are searching after the truth
and that you may live to see the fruits of
| your labor of love, l am yours as ever in
| labor for truth. J. E. FULLERTON.
Montevideo, Dec. 10.