The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18

nero hddled while Rome burned, and our
congress talks while millions go hungry.
Nero burned Christians because they de-
claimed against the expressions of the rich
az. . EroVer SHOOTS citizens because they re-
sist the power of corporate greed.
me interstate commerce law was found
ny IT'S interpreters to be too weak to pro
tect the people from corporate ass1lmntion
70 charge excessive rates. 1t is found to be
stronger than the constitution, however.
IN lts power to place the federal military
FORCES in the hands of corporations, to
shoot revolving wage slaves
sometime when you have a little time to
thlnk sit down and ask yourself what arti-
Gle OF value the English syndicate gave us
Tor the Touring mills. 1t has always seemed
10 US that they gave the Pillsburys some
OF our own wealth, at any rate, will some
KIND soul please tell us what was shipped
us IN exchange for them.
Prominent visitors at the West Hotel at
the expense of the city, needy citizens that
nave contributed to the wealth of the city
get a hve-cent loaf from Regans'.
The defective steel armor plates have
grown better and better the closer they
came TO the white house, until at last they
are better looking than the contract re-
CURED. Surely we have an ingenious gov
eminent which by slight turn of the wrist
hypnotizes the people until black turns out
Now Carnegie, give another church to
the heather Scotch, and st. Peter will
have the gate wide open when you appear
and winged uShers appointed to conduct
you to a front seat from which you can
at your leisure contemplate the bloody vic
TINS of Homestead.
Wonder if the corporations will speak
cuSS words when they receive the actual
value of the railways in greenbacl1s in
the near future, as the result of their
present foolishness. Ought to be content
ed with the cream and not break their
necks to get the SKINNED milk too.
Public policy demands that there shall
be no idle land until there is no idle labor.
This will prevent panics and give ample
employment for all, insuring universal
prosperity.
In Sumner Ladd the people have a caEdi-
date for judge that will construe law to
conform with justice.
Sumner Ladd will not, if elected, let a
person, in defiance of the power of the
legislature to define fraud, collect the pay
due his employees, pocket the proceeds and
then escape Jail.
We predicted when the supreme court of
Minnesota, in 1888, decided it was unconsti-
tutonal for a person to collect his wages
that within 10 years lien law would be
come an established fact Four years more
Will be more than ample time to give the
will sometimes be found.
Nice state of affairs, the federal authori-
ties employing such a class of toushS and
thieves that Mayor Hopkins is forced to
arrest them for violation of law. This is
reversing the old maxim of set a thief to
catch thief by setting thieves to catch
honest men; when this cruel strike is over
the federal government will have to be put
in quarantine and thoroughly fumgated.
When the interstate commerce law was
pending in congress, Ralph Beaumont, then
a member of the K. of l.. national leeisla-
tive committee, raised it's voice against its
the producing masses. He was denounced
by many members of his organiza ton for
this action, but the truth of what he said
has been made clear within the past week
Men, make your Acknowledgements to the
little shoemaker"
Last year Allegheny county cast 3i6 Pop
ulist votes. A convention was held a few
days ago with 474 delegates Only three
votes were cast at Mckeesport last fall;
now there are four clubs with $50 members
in the city. Things are moving in Penn
sylvania, sure enough.
Another seat in the national parliament
was captured by the socialists of Germany
in the district of Pinneberg, Scheswig
making the 46th member. Aristocrats are
looking anxious.
Frank PiXley, editor of the San Francisco
Argonaut and one of the most widely known
Republicans in the West has joined the
Populsts