The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
FOREIGN INFLUENCE.
We Must Combine Against 1t.
Headquarters of the National Reform
League, 40 North Market street.
CHICAGO, June %, 1894.

League, AZ North Market street.
CHICAGO, June %, 1894.
Editor Representatives:
BY resolution of the Executive Com
mittee We are instructed to mail the
following call to action:
ITO gentlemen Of recognized patriot
ism, who have taken the side OF this
republic and the people,"
The sad and deplOrable state of our
country at this time calls on all God
| fearing and liberty-loving citizens to
take an active part, knowingly and in
diligently, for restoring peace, con-
| cord and prosperity to its inhabitants
by eadjusting its affairs, upon its time
honored principles of Liberty, Justice,
and Equality.
The natural rights of the people are
not to be forgotten or ignored in max
ing exclusive laws for vested rights or
corporate communism, to be planted
upon the ruins of virtue, beneyolence
and humanity.
| 1t is Self-eyident truth to all men,
who think and reflect, that there has
| grown up in our midst heartless and
sOulleSS plutocracy, devoid Of principle
! and intellect, and if not checked in
! their wild and mad career of greed and
| avarice, they will bury the whole peO-
| pie in one common ruin and free gov
| eminent disappear from the earth.
| TO ayert-such a calamity it is neceS-
sary to act speedily and wisely. We
know no better way than to call upon
| those who love their country and
| ing hope of Immortality beyond the
| grave, to meet in
MASS CONVENTION ON INDEPENDENCE
DAY IN CHICAGO;
| there put aside all narrOw-minded and
contracted ideas and raise the broad
standard of the Jeffersonian idea of
goyernment-that the people of this
| republic are capable Of enacting and
esta blishing good, just and beneficial
| government for ourselves, and that we
will no longer submit to European plu-
| tocratic dictation in our public affairs.
We hold to the old adage of our
Revolutionary sires, No Foreign Inter
| ference" and to that end and purpose
we respectfully ask your cooperation,
suggesting the prOpriety Of all the va
| rious organizations being called to-
gether by their respective officers, to
| meet for great common good, upon
one common ground, and agree on
platform, concise, brief, and to the
point, that the people may choose be-
or that instituted by our illustrious
| forefathers.
Partisans and party slavery should
be at an end. The paramount neceS-
! Slty at this time is patriots to preserve
and perpetuate our Republican insti-
buttons.
Hoping to hear from you at an early
day we remain, respectfully,
j. S. WHITCOMB,
VIM. r. MCNALLY, Secretary.
President.
Accompanying this call is the fol-
lowing letter:
CHICAGO, June /, 1894.
Mr.. Editor: To you, as patriotic
and observant American,it is needless
to assert, that the nation is confronted
with crisis which demands immedi-
ate and energetic action to preserve
from destruction the imperilled liber-
ties of the people as well as the coun-
try itself from the ruthless dominan-
cy of autocratic wealth.
The masses by fragmentary division
| render themselves the unconscious vic
Tins OF the money power, which is
their instructive and unrelenting enc
my. Every intelligent and studiouS
American must see that England
through ner gOld, mas corrupted our
public mcn-dictated our financial leg
| iSlation, absorbed the profitable indus
tries of the country, mOnopoliZed the
benefit of our development, reduced
the United States to condition verg-
ing on national bankruptcy, and final
ly succeeded in visiting upon our peo-
pie idleness, penury and starvation.
such as characterize the people Of Ire
land and HindoStan
If liberty is to live in the United
States the influence of England must
be Immediately countervailed. This
can only be done by uniting the divid-
ed masses who war against their cOun-
try and themselves, under the leader
ship of professional politicians who
consciously or unknowingly are the
evil agents Of the money power which
symboizes Great Britain in the United
States.
We seek your personal aid and influ-
ence to convOke convention in this
great central city, for the coming 4th
of July, with the object of rescuing
the people from the degradation and
thraldom of party slavery: and uniting
them in a solid phalanx for the saliva
tion of themselves and the sacred lib
critics consigned to their guardianship
by the patriotic fathers of American
freedom. Very respectfully yours,
w. E. MCNALLY.