The representative., 1894-08-22
A TERRIFIC ASSAULT on COMRADE
NELSON.
Some Pertinent Questions for Him to
Answer,


AS our good governor, Comrade Nelson.
told the people of Minnesota in a late
speech made at Argyle Mimi, that every
thing is lovely and that our farmers are
prosperous, etc, take the liberty to tres
pass upon your valuable time and space
to send you the results of the shipment of
car load of wheat shipped from Cokato,
Wright county, Mimi, to Minneapolis, dis
tance So miles, Aug. 49, 1894, and received
and sold at Minneapolis Aug. IA, 1894 by
Woodward & Co., 406 and 4OS Corn Ex-
change, Minneapolis. members of the Chi
cago and Duluth Board of Trade and Mil
waukee Chamber of Commerce. The state
ment given below is true copy of the
statement given by SAID Woodward & Co
to the Cokato Elevator Company Aug II,
1894, since the date of Comrade Nelson's
watered speech at Argyle Mimi, July 80
1894.
COPY.
Date of report, Aug. II, 1894.
No. of car, 13456.
Shipped at Cokato, Aug. 49, 1894
Received at Minneapolis and sold Aug. "A,
1894.
Contents, wheat.
Grade, l l.
Gross weight, 997 bushels.
Dockage, 1910.
Net weight, 9S020
Price, 5SA
Gross proceeds, $57104
CHARGES.
Freight and inspection, $4S06
Weighing, 20 cents
Switching, $780,
Commission, 9S0-$59. Sc.
Net proceeds, $511. .4S.
Now, l wish to ask Comrade Nelson why
he, as governor of Minnesota, allows the
farmers of Cokato, Mimi, who are large
per cent Scandinavians, to be thus plum
dered Why has he not called the attention
of the legislature and the attorney-general
to the fact that the people of Minnesota
have been and now are literally robbed by
the railroads of their hard earnings?
Again, 1 wish to ask Comrade Nelson if
it is not fact that the statutes of Min
nesota allows 10 per cent interest per an
mum to be taken by the lender of the bor-
rover, and one years interest taken in
advance? Again, l wish to ask Comrade
Nelson why he, as governor of Mime
sofa, does not recommend the legislature,
by message, to make the rates of interest
lower and thus relieve the burdens of the
people? Surely he should do so, if money
is as plenty as Comrade Nelson said it was
in his late Argyle speech Now, Comrade
Nelson, honor bright suppose during the
rebellion we had been put on picket-post
try and destroying the supplies of our
army, don't you think we would have
given the alarm? But if had not
don't you think we would have been ar
rested, and when brought before such men
as Generals Grant, Sherman or Pap
Thomas and we had told them such
nursery tale as you told the people of Ar
gyle, do you think it would have gone
down, or have stood washing without the
colors fading? Don't you think the chances
would have been you would never have
been governor of Minnesota, or l a Peo-
pies Party crank, for those were the days
when men were expected to do their duty
to their country. Without monkey work,
come up to Cokato and inquire about the
condition of the people, and you will learn
cages the homes in two townships;
that the average rate of inter
est is over nine per cent; that
all the obligations, or nearly all. since
congress betrayed the people and with
ruthless hand tore from the statute the
law that Washington, the father of our
country, signed, to-wit, free coinage of
gold and silver, which nefarious act you
and your Republican and Democratic par
ties SO loudly applauded. l say since then
nearly all the peoples obligations are made
payable in gold, and, comrade, l ask you
to tell the people of Cokato and Minnesota
where they will get the gold to pay their
debts, except to borrow it from foreign
countries.
One more question and I will quit. Now
comrade can you expect the Scandinavians
to vote for you when you as the chief ex-
ecutive do nothing, nor propose nothing to
relieve their financial distress? At the last
election the Scandinavians relied upon you
as one of a people who had suffered long
the expressions of kings and come to
free country to get homes for themselves
and little ones; to take the benefit of the
homestead law that our lamented Lincoln
signed which homes are now passing into
the hands of the usurer by the high rates
of interest in our state, and which as gov
ernor and with the same blood in your
veins YOU neglect and refuse to remedy,
Won allow the corporations and other
sharks to plunder them without restraint
or protest Do you think they, the be-
traved people, will vote for you in the
coming election? If SO, for what purpose
will they do so?
AZ the Minnesota Soldiers Home, who have
their pensions taken from them in excess
of s4 per month by a rule of the board of
trustees in viola ton of law, which is put
into the scrub banks and loaned to the
people at 10 per cent and one years inter-
est taken in advance? Do you think they
will vote for you? If SO, what for?
With charity for all and malice toward
none this is written; not to injure or de-
fsme a comrade; nothing but the distressed
condition Of my country could compel me
to saw ought against comrade, believing
that over their faults a mantle should be