The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
WHEW! !!
Now we Catch It.-A Protest
From the Effete East.

| AOAH SAS LASkS CxtSIs
| When went down, year ago, to
attend an Antitrust convention at
Chicago, there was, among the dele
gates, bright man and good talker,
named j. B.. Corey, of Pittsburgh,
pennsylvania. We soon found he was
"ferninst" us; and in one of his
speeches the words slipped from his
mouth I'VE coal men will not stand
it," AS the convention was called to
fight "the coal combine" this admis-
sion provoked great roar of laughter.
Notwithstanding this I rather liked
Mr. Corey. When I whacked at him,
as did, for l soon reached the con-
clusion that the convention was large
ly packed against the people, by the
governors of the states, and said so; he
received it SO good-naturedly, and
avoWed the most monopolistic and
abominable ideas with such thorough
sincerity, that I took delight in
studying him, as l should have
studied live frog of the Silurian age.
found in block of coal, an interest
ing relic of a past era of the worlds
development. Well, it seems Mr..
Cory took something of fancy to me:
probably because 1 was good fight
er; he is one himself; and subsequent
ly he wrote me, and subscribed for the
REPRESENTATIVE, and sent me an
article for it, which we published. I
used to laugh all over whenever 1
thought of Brother Corey, sitting in
Pittsburgh, reading the REPREsEN-
TIVE! could see his eyes dilating,
his hair rising, and his hands moving
nervously. l knew he would break
loose, sooner or later; and he has done
so. l am glad he did not come out to
hunt for me with club. Here is his
letter:
Pittsburgh, Pa, May 25, 1894
| Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
| st. Paul, Mimi,
Dear Sir: 1 have laid down The Repre-
| sentative after reading your leading ar
t1cles signed II. d. under heading of
Paternalism" and "Wolf Bounties" must
| confess that I am bewildered I am at a
| loss to account for the production from
the brain and pen of a man of your SEEM
ing ability and sincerity, as evidenced in
your debate with Mr.. Sims), of such a mass
| OF glaring absurdites. l confess to such a
feeling mingled with disgust and contempt.
| as units me to formulate a reply that
| would tend to convince you Of your absurd
ideas of the duties of government to the
| people.
| Take your attempt to ridicule the writer
In the st. Paul Globe article on Paterna-
| Hsm, in which you advise the Globe to re-
move to "Dahomy You quote from
| the Globe two incidents, one of two children
| committing suicide to relieve their mother
| OF their support; the other suicide of an
eoitor' teacher and writer, who hangs him.
| selr With ~ cents in his pocket, ETC. Then
your very touching little stories Of the rab-
| DIT ana rattle snakes and money lenders
| etc. Mr.. Donnelly, will you allow me- a
man who is himself a borrower, and not a
| money lender, to say to you in all sincerity
| that at the age of three score years. based
| upon my own experience, observation and
| study, in my opinion of all the evils suffer-
| ings and distress that the money lenders
| have entailed upon the borrowers they are
| small compared with the evils and logical
| effect produced (upon the very class for
| whose benefits they are professedfy in
| tended, as Is the teachings inculcated), in
| the two articles under conSiderat ton. If it
| were possible for me to use any arguments
| to convince you of the truth of this state
| ment l would gladly do so, but l seem to
| be forestalled from making any effort to
| prove to you that this is so, from the con-
viction that man of your sensibility must
| be fully pursuaded of the facts yourself
| This forces the conviction home to my
| mind, that you simply playing upon the
ignorant prejudices of your readers for the
doodle there is in it.
| Thls precludes the idea of any effort
| whatever to convince a man against his
will, especially if that will is governed by
| a spirit of avar1ce. Let me ask you to
| take your own beautifully worded exhorta-
| tion to the writer of the Globe to remove
| to where there are no Populists,' there
| are no schools" mo postoffices," mo asy-
| lums for the deaf, dumb, blind and insane"
| ETC., which represents the paternalism, the
| fatherly love of the government Now, Mr.
| Donnelly, take this peroration and apply
the logic to your other touching incident,
| that of the suicide of your scholarly pro-
| fesSor, and "see where you are at" Are
| you not capable of seeing what boomer
| ang" this is you have put upon yourself?
If not let me apply your figures of speech
| and see if it does not take the wind out
| of your logic. Why was Prof Anton
| Stamm, with his transcendent abilities and
| enjoying the opportunities of our enlighten-
| ed civilization, reduced to such penury; and
when reduced, under such favorable cir
cumstances, why did he commit suicide
| rather than accept the generous provisions
| of your fatherly paternaism? 1 will tell
you why, Mr.. Donnelly. The mental suffer-
| ing of man who, through abuse of his
| physical energies and opportunities is re-
duced to such straits, that he lies down
upon the government for his physical sup
| port, is SO great that fathery govern
ment paternalism will relieve his remorse.
This is why he committed suicide. All
| such gushes as that which you indulged in,
| berating the writer Of the article in the
| Globe, does not relieve it of its effeminacy.
| Away with all such unmanly sentiments
| 1t is the greatest curse that can befall a
| race of people to lie down upon the govern
| ment or depend upon any one but himself
| for physical support.
| Will you tell your readers wherein the
money lender, who has money to lend, ard
refuses to lend to the farmer unless he gets
| mis- own price for it, is any more wicked
| than the great, big, strong, able bodied
| man who refuses to work for the farmer
| unless he gets more wages than the farmer
| can afford to pay him? Will you tell
| wherein monopoly in money lending or
| OF coal, iron or transportation is any more
| injurious to a community than a monopoly
| of labor? Is not these labor organizations
| trampling under foot the laws of the land?
The greatest and most injurious monopolies
of the day? Is not the able bodied coal
miner, who not only refuses to dig, but
will not allow others to dig coal unless he
gets wages that will put the price of coal
out Of the reach of poor widows and help
less children, as much of rattle snake"
as the capitalist who refuses to put his
money in coal unless he receives more
than the widow or farmer can afford to
pay?
1 assure you my Impressions of my
friends talents lead me to expect a higher
order of teaching than that, and assure
you The Representative must take higher
stand than that unless it would be the rep
resentative of all that is ignoble in our
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