The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30
MINNEAPOLIS MIMI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 80 1894
The Rats,
Bellamy, the author of "Looking
Backward" writes:


Backward" writes:
l see that Senator Hawley, in an
swer to Senator Allen, says: 'There
is no need that these armies should
collect to make these extraordinary
demonstration because the senate
ana house of representatives. at pres
ent represent the people, and may be
trusted to do the peoples will"
Go not think Ex-senator could have
been really serious in asserting that.
The government of the United States
and of the states is not now the popu-
lar government. 1t is run by what
are called our business interests,
tlat IS to say, the mOneyed interests.
III represents great aggregatiOns OF
money and not the popular will. Ac-
cOrdlng to the mortgage statistics of
thiS last census or calculations based
upon them made by George *.
Holmes, special agent for thatsubject.
1T is shown that per cent of the
American people own II per cent of
the property in this country, leaving
but 20 per cent to be distributed
among the remaining 81 per cent of
people. 1t is that 9 per cent of money
ed men who govern the country and
dictate the policy OF congress. The
people are not in it, as the expression
goes. At the present time it is notorl-
Gus that the Sugar Trust and other
great SyndicateS are debating the
terms OF the present tariff bill. Un-
der such condition of things as this
1t is necessary, if the people would in
dIcate their will, that they should
have recourse TO popular dem0nStra-
tl0ns OF an unusual character. The
machinery Of the government, eXecu-
tive, representative and judicial, has
passed from under their CONTROL
The revelations recently made, that
Senator Kyle, Populist, of South Da-
kota, was offered $4,000 to vote for
certain amendments to the Tariff bill,
confirm Mr.. Bellamy's views. Where
money cannot rule directly it rules in
directly. And it rules without any
broad, enlightened statesmanlil<e
views, but simply through pure greed,
the great gospel of grab" If only
one man was doing this, for a year or
two, the country is SO big it could
stand it; but when thousands are at
the same work, and carry il on inde-
tinitely, the resources of the people
are finally exhausted, and peace event
yates in that turbulence, which swal-
lows up even the stealingS of the plum
dercrs, and possibly their lives
Common sense should make even the
rascals reformcrs: but men with a me re
mOney-geGting faculty seldom have
common sense where the interests of
all are concerned. Hence the nation
becomes like full granary left in
charge of rats. Give them time
enough and you viii have nothing eft
but multitudes Of shining, fat, over
fed little beasts, ana mess of huSks
and manure:-and>t then starvation.
nat is the CnitC,t states to-day. And
the problem is how to replenish the
granary and get clear of the rats. 1t
won't do to simply put more wheat in
the granary: for you are dealing with
Unsuitable appetites and an undying
instinct,-a instinct to deyOur, with
out reason or restraint.
What pity we have not got another
Pied Piper of Hamlin, who could blow
on his pipe, and have all the scamps,
grabbers, plunderers, schemers,
thieves, bribers, destroyers of the re-
public, follow him, in ghastly string,
into Hades. l. ID.