The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-04
THE VOICE Of THE CLERGY.
IT'S SUPPRESSION BY THE DAILY
PRESS.

The Religious World Rousing Up to =
Sense of Its Duty.
We have received the following letter,
which we request our readers to carefully
peruse:
M. w. CHUNN,
Pastor of Unity Churches,
Rock Rapids, Iowa. Luverne. MINI.
Editor Representatives:
June 26-In April last the editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune wrote me that when
l struck particularly newsy subject to
forward him a synopsis for MONDAYS
paper. Last Sunday delivered such a dis
course. I sent the Tribune editor a syn-
opsis. For reasons best known to himself
the editor failed to publish the synopsis.
The address was entitled 20, the Timesl
o, the Principlesv 1t is in the line of re-
form and purified politics. I tell the truth
about the old parties selling out to trusts
and combinations I spoke of the prosecu-
ton of Coxey, the inquity of the Mckinley
bill, the senate compromise tariff etc I
should like to know if you would give the
synopsis or the address entire in your pa
per! The synopsis 1 have prepared would 4
make about three-fourths of column in
your paper. The address in full would make
about three columns NV addresses are
published in all of the liberal papers and
ina gaines. L design the address to help
the cause of pure American politics. Yours
truly, NJ w CHUNN
Luverne. MINI.
Mr. Chunn enclosed copies of his corre-
| spondence with the Minneapolis Tribune.
together with the refusal of that paper to
publish a synopsis after asking for it,
The synopsis of the speech is as follows:
o, the Times! o, the Principles.
Synopsis of an address delivered by DR..
M w. Chunn in Unity Church, Luverne.
Mimi, Sunday June "a, 1894:
A Few months ago the country was
aroused to high pitch Of excitement by
the movement of the various armies of
the commonweal on to Washington In
the last days of April the citizens of our
national capital found Coxey's army at
their very doors. When on May the com
monWeal leaders attempted to reach the
steps of the capitol building and address
the assembling multitudes, they were ar
rested by the police authorities They were
tried and sentenced each to 20 DAYS in
jail. 1t was in vain that Coxey appealed
10 the constitution of the United States,
"hlcn allows the people peaceably to as
semble and petition congress- The author
tiles of Washington would make an exam
pie of Coxey and thereby attempt to sup
press the spirit of social discomfort that
was raising its head in all parts of the
adopted by Coxey to relieve the destitute Of
the country was wise or feasible But the
TACT that the Coxey movement, and a
score of other similar movements should
originate in the United States, demon
StrateS that the times are ripe for some
great social change. Tens of thousands of
thoughtful American citizens who have
Joined none of the industrial armies pain
fully realize that the rights of the people
for years have been legislated away in
q N Of haor fIac
trusts and corporations. 1t may be a
crime to tread upon the grass of the capt.
tol grounds. but what is such a crime
compared with that of the United States
senate in treading upon the rights of 65-
100000 of American citizens?
l will call your attention to another
scene. A railroad train takes to Washing
ton the representatives of the sugar, the
lumber, the coal and the numerous other
trusts. These men take lodgings in the
most expensive hotels of the city. They do
not attemR to harangue the public from the
steps of the capitol building; they dis
play no banners, partisan non-partisan;
they carefully heed the city ordinance to
keep off the grass. But they capture the
United States senate. The senators throw
up their hands and surrender uncondition-
ally to the trusts. No person who is
posted in the present condition of affairs in
Washington would hesitate to affirm that
there has been recently perpetrated the
most shameful bribery of United States
senator's by the sugar trust. From the
senatorial debate of elimination and re-
elimination conducted in the senate on
June 9Th, no observing man had difficulty
in getting at the fact that the hand of the
sugar trust was in both the Mckinley
tariff act of 1890 and in the German Brice
tariff compromise of 1894
Whatever views you may hold regarding
the tariff, you must admit that the political
party which rode into power on the Chicago
pla tform of 1892 duty bound speedily to
give the country tariff for revenue only,
and to wage a to the knife upon all
trusts and combinati ons A question of far
more Importance to the American people
than, Shall we have tariff for protection
or tariff for revenue only % is the ques-
ton, Are the legislators whom the people
put into power going to carry out the de-
clared wishes of the people?' 1t is because
the question at issue is that of the per-
manency of representative government that
| have felt duty bound to make my voice
heard in the matter.
The senate sugar schedule, according to
the testimony of Havemeyer himself, the
president of the sugar trust, will take S40-
900 year more out of the pockets of the
American people than does the Mckinley
sugar schedule of 1890 Havemeyer was
frank enough to confess that the object of
the sugar trust is to make money; the trust
controls the output and the price of sugar.
The dominant party in the senate sup
posed to be standing on a platform that de-
nounces trusts and pleads for the right of
the American people. 1t would be difficult
to find in the annals of the United States a
more fragrant case of misrepresentation gov
eminent than this tariff legislation enacted
by the senate. The coal trust. the lumber
trust the iron trust Jared just we'll in
the senate did the sugar trust.
The open disregard of the will of the peo-
pie by the United States senate; the dis
graceful speculation of senator's in sugar
stocks while the sugar tariff pending
before congress; the contemplate surrender
of the senate to the sugar, and coal and
lumber barons; the arrogance of the preSi-
dent of the United States in setting at de-
fiance the will of the legislative branch OF
government, and running the finances or
the country in the interest of the Wall
street bankers sufficient to awaken in
the mind of the patriotic citizen the sus-
picion that the grand dream of Lincoln-"a
government of the people, by the people
and for the people'-has been rudely shat
tered in this republic.
The hour has arrived when it is criminal
for any citizen to remain Indifferent TO our
political situation. The remedy for our ma
tonal disgrace-the corrupt and misrepre-
sentative government at Washington-will
not be found in turning down one political
party and placing the party of the opposi-
ton in power. but by making such radical
changes in our constitution that the people
shall be able to lay their hands speedily up
on every legislator who shall dare to treat
their voice with contempt. l do not believe
that the day is far distant when such urg-
ent changes in our constitution will be
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