The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
Congregational Schemes

Congressional Schemes.
AS congress nears the time for adjourn
lAenI us true purposes are disclosed, an
extra session was oaledt under the pre-
tense of devising some means of reliaf for
the panic stricken people; 1.-The time of the
extra session was FIFTEEN aWav in idle talk
and instead of relief for the peonle an EXTRA
burden OF one and al half million dollars
was lalu on THEM party predjudced
shoulders. The regular session commenced
with great talk about tariff as a relief to
our bankrupt manufacturers merchants
ana starving people, the last DAYS of the
session are at hand and the tariff talk Of
rehet has resulted in the placing of tax
oli the sugar bowl of the poor man to
raise revenue, and protect the class privil-
edges of the sugar trust; showing the true
purpose of our misrepresentation in con-
sress are to 1nf1ict additional burdens of
taxation on the struggling people At the
last moment a bill is introduced to buv ont
a. cost OF several million dollars some
thlnS That few plutocrats own-a scheme
to build the Ntcaraguan canal and orr
ignorant or knavish members of congress
are preparing to fasten a load of 800 600 :
OOO on the backs of the people for their
patrons Uhe plutocrats) benefit, hoping to
get chance to gnaW some of the differed
bones.
Another SCHEME that is coming more
prominently into notice the days of the
session draw towards a close is the effort
TO drefraud the people out of the millions
due them by the Pacific RAILWAYS"
Those roads have received in land and
money advanced by government about $780,
ooo'ooo they owe the governmental should
De the people-$120, GOO 900 for principal and
interest, for by the terms of the loan as
lnterped by their lawyers seated on the
bench of the supreme court no interest
becomes due before the principal (thnk of
this We mortgage laden farmers and labor
ers that struggle in the grip of shylocks)
In order to ease the burden to those
m1lllonaires, who from small fortunes have
pied up their riches by their dishonest
manipulation of the franchise given and
loans of money made to them by the gov
eminent, the interest is to be reduced one
half ana the time of payment extended for
term of years long enough to allow the
reduction of interest to pay the principal !;
YET those same knaves in congress that do
this, speak of the wild and anarchistic talk
of the Populist about land and sub-treasury
loans direct to the people without the in
PREVENTION of national banks. For the sake
of retaining some semblance of liberty get
the party scales off your eyes.
Another very pretty scheme to put a few
million dollars in the pockets of the
millionaireS of this city is the plan to have
congress build a dam across the Mississippi
just below this city ostensibly to extend the
navigation of the Mississippi; little one
moss steamboat has been built to pole be-
tween the rocks in the river. Now Senator
Washburn and your Uncle Loren seem to
| be showing why they sit in congress so
still during the fore part of the session, it
| leads one to believe. they have been con-
serving their energies in order to help the
scheme along. Won't this scheme add a
few millions to the value of the Bohemian
| Flats" so lately dropped into the title
drawer of w. d. Washburn by dspossessing
| the poor people that have ''squatted'' on
them so long. We understand that your
| Uncle Lorens property will not lose any of
| its money value by the deal.
| Always send men to congress that have
axes to grind. Of course w. d. Washburn
| nor your Uncle Loren never have any axes
| to grind. as %