The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-12

eraf army and navy to enforce the orders
of the usurpers. blott1ng cut state lines
and state sovereignty 5IbM the very power
OF the state militia itfelf eto shoot down
creatures who considerfliberty means
today what the fathers fought for and won
in former century-a 1flYeion, chimera!!
Why the leaders aud the oligarchy are
prepared today to dissipate, your day dream:
and seek to force the Issue as they did
when the troops were rushed into Chicago
and placed everywherAjn readiness to sup
port he edicts of the Petty 'despots who is
sued orders of imprisShmSfit without laws
ana without jurisdiction, az merciessly as
the cachets de Bastille dragged away de-
fenceless citizens from their homes in
France! The decisiom Of the United States
supreme court declaEss that the militia
of each state is under the command of
Grover Cleveland to he sent where and
when he pleases to obey his orders in any
state-and the law under, which he would
thus take them out 10 Shoot down supposed
free Americans would be that which was
enacted to suppress Kukux in the South!
Attorney General Hancock of New York
has so informed the national guard and the
Republican party leaders stand ready to
back up Cleveland and his satellites to
form stronger government and to protect
plutocrats with huge standing army.
Surely, you cannot deude yourself with
an idea that the masses crushed and
cowed down as they have been, submitting
to every debasing imposition of tyranny
without remonstrance, and permitting
Shackle after Shackle to be riveted, while
the steel coils of arbitrary law and federal
encroachment have been continuously
wrapped around their poweress limbs,
without contest from shrinking shiverng
hearts-surely you cannot imagine that
sistance can come from SUCH when the
masters choose to change the form of gov
eminent and ordain the new order of so
cial and class distinction?
The Illinois leader, McVeagh, declares
Cleveland to be infallible in the of
armies as he is upon the tariff, and hum
dreds of thousands of trucking, cowardly
partisans will back up that base declara-
ton, Gov. Altgeds true position to the
contrary notwithstanding. The California
Democratic convention voted down-615 to
IA resolution asking congress to take
action upon the arbitrary conduct of the
district judge in sending hundreds of citi
zens to Jail for contempt (some as much
10 months) and to order appeals by law
from such decisions! And the state law
only authorizes imprisonment by state
courts for five days, and there is no law
defining the power at all to federal courts!
One hundred citizens assembled here to
form militia company, and a committee
read out the constitution which would gov
ern them. When it was finished a dozen
men arose and wildly protested they
couldn't sign that as the federal judge
would imprison them for months under
charge of sedition They were told these
were simply extracts from the declaration
of American Independence! But they re-
fused to ORGANIZED
Dissipate your illusions, and go home in
peace and stay there, with a clear con-
science, and sleep WELL and enjoy your
meals, and quietly wait for the events,
which God surely has in preparation for
the down-trodden masses before the new
year rings in.
You might in vain resist the attacks of
LOCO rats who beset you in cellar, for,
though you might crush and kill several
hundreds, the others would pick your
bones. The human rats will have no such
chance. They will not catch Grover Cleve
land alone. They will find him surround
ed by his myriads of satellites ready and
eager to butcher a million of starving
wretches who might dare to rise in in
surrection against his armies and his
judges, and their tens of thousands of
deputy marshalsl rushing forward to
scramble for the treasury chests of gold.
l have had my day dreams, too, but I
have scattered them ALL and look for
nothing that can perpetiate this as the
land of the free anu the home of the
brave u fl
There is no hope for politics. The masses
have been corrupted debauched, debased,
systematically for years. They are ready in
too many communities to sell out body and
soul to the highest bidder. just as the Ro-
man armies did to the iaspirants for the i'm
perial purple. f04
Sell out your paper. my friend, and let
the lawyer chairman run his daily and
prostitute it to the capitalists as he chooses
while you seek and gain true happiness in
quiet peace, assured that your humble eff
forts cannot influence the DEGREES of Prov
1dence though God may grant you the tran
guilty and the faith to accept whatever
may come, without a murmur Yours truly,
BLANTON DUNCAN.