The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-19
The PlutOcratfc fress Receives u
Scoring.

The Plutocratfc fress Receives u
Scoring.
To the Editor:
The Lakefield Standard in it's last issue,
sits down on me hard. The writer states
that "he had some respect for my honesty
of purpose before he read my letter in the
Magnolia Advance, of New 49," but now he
has lost all confidence in He accuses
me of indorsng vilainous, loathsome, de-
testable, excreable lies; that I SANDER my
country; that my letter is villainous ii
rade against the honesty of the people of
this country, and says 1 should be buried
in the deepest kind of a political grave.
He did not publish my letter. but publish
ed the article from the London Echo which
l appended. AS the Echo article pub
lished in the Representative and many
other Populist papers the same week that
1 had it in the Advance this shows that it
was generally Endorsed by Populists. OF
course he wants me buried, most Repub
lican editors do. One suggested there ought
to be some way to get rid of me. The
voters have shown that the born aristocrat,
educated under a monarchfcal regime, is
preferable to the old farmer and soldier as
a representative. What more do you want?
You seem to all be built on the same plan,
from Shylock's chief mouth piece, the PiOn-
err Press, to the Titan Standard; a set of
human jackals not content unless you can
pick the bones of the slain You belong to
the class which rotten egged VIM. Lloyd
Garrison and hung John Brown.
1 think Job had the Republican editors in
mind when he said: I'm my heart l said
all men are liars" The Standard editor is
on par with the Republican editors at
Window and Slayton. They were not con-
tent In reporting my speech to misconstrue
what l said, but substituted fabricatiOnS
Of their own.
1 can prove the truth of every sta tement
made in my letter by unimpeachabe testi
mony, except in relation to millions of
money" but as l knew where $1,000 was
| used in one Legislative district | computed
that there must have been millions used in
the United States
AS to the statements made in the article
taken from the London Echo, they are in
| line with utterances of the great Dr.
Lyman Abbott and John j. Ingals-the
former in the Century Magazine, the latter
| in congressman no stronger than the
| words of Alexis de Tocquevile, the honored
member of the French Academy, or of Jo-
| Seph MazZini, the great Paupust of Italy,
| or our own Ignatius Donnelly in Caesars
| Column" My forefathers fought with the
| patriots in the American Revolution. l put
| in three years in the war of the Rebellion.
| I propose to put in the rest Of my life in
| the battle for human liberty, not to injure
my country, but to help save it from de-
| struction by the vermin, the paid tools of
| despots who mould public opinion and by
| teaching false doctrines rivet the shackles
| of slavery of the shyocks of this country
| and Europe
| do not wish to curry favor with such
| editors. l consider their good opinion dan
| gerOuS to honest men. When they dead
and buried in oblivion, forgotten by their
| own descendants, or remembered only as
| teachers of barbarism, the leaders of the
PopulSt movement will be credited as
/ patriots and huma nitarians.
r. Friends, let us work to spread the Rep
| resentatiVe in every township in the state
| SO we can have some means of defense
| against the barbarians who, tory like
| would shoot us from ambush.
l.. c. LONG.
Ma0DOlja