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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
Cruel to the Last Dsgree.

The following telegram that ap-
peared in all the daily papers of the
land, shows the attitude plutocracy
takes against any of its vasSals that
dare to kick against the present slave
system:
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1O.-The Ex-
aminer says General Superintendent
Fillmore of the Southern Pacific was
asked today whether the company is
preventing members of the American
Railway Union who engaged in the
strike from getting employment, said:
"Wc have no use for men who en-
gagged in the recent strike and will not
encourage them in any way"
Suppose these strikers should OBJ
tain other employment, would your
company 90 out of it's way to have
them discharged?" he was asked.
"Yes," answered Mr.. Fillmore. eff
| know that man was not true to
this company and if 1 find out that he
got Job anywhere ,uiU pursue him
and use my best efforts to get him dis
charyed.'
"Starve them to death" is the mot
to of corporations. Starve their
families! Slaves are plenty, and by
numbering few thousand of them the
balance will cringe and crawl in hum
BILE hmission!-Omaha Evening
News.
This is utterly abominable. We
cannot but think this inhuman
wretch, Fillmore, is an exception to
his class. The 'strikers" thought
they were right; they were trying to
improve the condition of themselves
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
To Our Friends.

There is a crisis upon US, and the
party. If you think we have done our
duty in the past, and are likely to do
it in the future, say so. And not only
say so, but give the REPRESENTATIVE
helping hand, by doing some mis-
sionary work to increase it's circula-
tion. Be assured Of one thing;-we
will never betray the party nor desert
its principles. That you may swear
by.
If we get the funds we will start a
daily paper. Do you want it? Can yot
help as? We are trying to sell some
lots, in "Donnelly's Addition to St..
Paul." and if we succeed we will make
things buz and hum.
But if you prefer John Macdonald,
and Tom Lucas and the attorney OF
the Minneapolis Park crowd, and the
representative of Minneapolis mill
ing company, and the unknown mil
lionaireS, say so: and | will sell out to
them, for fair price: and go back to
Nininger and devote myself to book
making for the rest Of my life. That
is probably what / should have done
years ago. And that would probably
have been be tier for health, long life
and lasting fame.
am sick at heart when I think Ct
these schemers. To be attacked when
L was doing my very best: and they
were to reap all the fruits of victory
tn II I -
with its hundreds of offices; l was to
have nothing:-I asked for nothing
But-worSe than all-the very newspa-
per with which | was trying to help
them to wealth and hOnorS was to be
crushed, lest | should not die easily
enough.
If | had an opportunity I should
like to ask the Lord what induced
him to make such creatures? There
was no imperative necessity imposed
upon him. There couldn't be. Why
did he not create job lot of tailess
apes, -gOrllaS.-and chuck them in,
instead? He would not have had to
make many alterations in Lucas to
improve him up to that high destiny:
and he would be great deal pleas an ter
object to contemplate than he is to-
day; and, besides that, he couldn't
make anarchistic speeches! Delight
full thought.
But there is no use "crying over
split milk" The harm is done and we
have to stand it. But we cannot help
but feel
''Can such things be.
And overcome us like summer cloud,
Without our special wonder?''
And be assured, friends, that the
Schemers are not at the end of their
scheming. Plenty of money can be
had to divide and distract the Peoples
Party. The new paper will come
even if it lasts but month or two
And so-help the REPRESENTATIVE,
while there is yet time. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
Coming to Our Ideas.

A report is current in the press that
Miss Frances Willard has determined
to make radical change in her
method of fighting the drink evil. In
stead of trying to make men prosper
Gus by compelling them to stop drink
ing she will, it is reported, try to in
duce them to stop drinking by helping
to make them prosperous. She is re-
ported to have said: at is social con-
ditions which make men drunkards,
and our organizations too frequently
neglect to make allowance for that
fact. In my opinion we shall be
obliged to become the champions of
the trade unions and work with might
and main to better the condition of
wage earnerS before the vice of drunk
enneSs can be attacked, ,"-ChicagO
Times.
Just what we have preached for
twenty years. We said long ago.
Every bad law builds taverns." The
whole system of prohibition, as advo-
Gated heretofore, is wrong. 1t says to
the dunkard-"You are poor,
wretched, blear-eyed, half-fed crea-
ture;-you havn't had a square meal
or bright thought in a month. You
are too poor to have q home or a
family. Your liver is out of order and
your kidneys diseased, and you havn't
the money to hire doctor. The world
is beating you over the head and kick
ing you over the planet. You see
Lethe in rum bottle. Now we
are philanthrophists. We don't pro-
pose to do the first darned
thing to improve your condi-
tions, and lift you up to a better en-
vironment, but we insist you shall not
forget your miSerieS in drunkenness.
We belong to school of doctors that
believe in treating the symptoms Of
the disease and letting the disease
alone. The disease is miSgovernment;
the symptoms are drunkenness. We
know nothing of craftsmanship but
we can knock the cup out of your
trembling hand, and leave you as mis-
cradle as before. And that we call
Temperance REFORM"
Miss Willard is great woman. She
has got her eyes open. She has been
across the ocean, and she has seen
that the rum-tratfic grows in exact
proportion to the wretchedneSs of the
people.
We welcome her to the hosts of real
temperance reform. She will do a
great work in the new field.
Give mankind justice and they will
soon Outgrow the follies of the worlds
barbarous youth; and one of the great
est of these is taking the eXcrement
of microbes, called alcohol, to
disorganize the system and short
en- life, by fictitious excite
ment. Only the fools and the
wretched could fail into such a
shallow, debasing and destructive
habit. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
FEEDING WHEAT TO THEIR
HOGS.
Indiana Farmers Find 1t More
Profitable to Sell Corn.

1NDIANAPOLIs, Ind, July 30.-The
farmers of Indiana, for the first time
in the history of the state, are feeding
their wheat to their hogs and selling
their corn. Wheat brings but 43 cents
per bushel when delivered at the coun-
try stations. and corn sells readily at
from 10 to Al cents. The farmers say
that one bushel of wheat contains as
much nutriment as two bushels of
corn, and as hogs are bringing good
prices and corn is higher than wheat,
it is economy to feed the latter and
sell their corn.
Isn't that pretty state of things,
to be brought upon the country by the
two old parties.
Wheat is human food-brain food
rich in phosphates; while corn is a
muscle food. If the Indianians per-
sist in this course their hogs will soon
know more than they do; and the first
thing you'll hear the hogs will be Or
ganizing Populist clubs all over In
diana, and making stump speeches
over the sides of their pens; while
their owners will be shouting for the
two old parties. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
An Apology.

We have been so busy this week,
fighting for the life of our newspaper,
and the protection of the large capital
and labor which we have invested in
it, that we have not had the time to
continue our reply to Gov. Nelson's
speech at Argyle. In fact, the way
we are being treated has kind of sort
of taken the zeal, or, so to speak, the
starch out of US; and we will require a
week or two to recuperate, and get
the steam of disintereStedness boiling
and bubbling again. 1t is discourage
ing to fight for man while his friends
are putting the knife into you. We
are only human; and we have more
human nature in US, to the square
inch, than any other man in Chrsten-
dom. And it is great strain on the
nervous system to continue to shout
"Glory Hallelujah.' while you are be-
ing kicked all over 40-acre lot. The
ris te1go interferes with the mental
q plomb and enthusiasm.
AS soon as we can get some cooling
lotion for our raw wounds, and por-
Gus plaster for the small of the back,
we will reply to Mr.. Horr. Of the New
York Tribune: and continue our ans
wer to Gov. Nelson, against whom
we have not, be it remembered, as we
said once before, particle Of i'll feel
ing. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
More Good News.

The st. Paul Dispatch Rcp) the
other day let the following slip into
its news columns:
"Ihe Democratic patty might as
we'll have made no nominations, at all
in North Dakota this year." said G..
L. Clark, of CasseltOn, at the Mer-
chants today. They will be able to
poll no strength at all. In the towns
and cities their vote will go to the Re-
publican candidates, and IN the country
for the most part 1t ,riU 90 to the Populists.
| do not wish to be understood by
this as saying that the farmers of the
state are all becoming Populists, Or
that all who may vote the POpulist
ticket this fall are intending to be-
come members of that party and in
dorSe its platform, for they do not.
They are simply dissatisfied with both
the old party platforms and want a
change. A great many voted for
Cleveland two years ago on the sup
position that the Democrats would
take some action favorable to the
farmers and the Western people gen
orally, but now they find Cleveland
takes stand more favorable to the
East as against the West than any of
the others. Then, too, North Dakota
is strong free silver state, the farmers
deing free silrerites almost 10 u man, and
this draws them to the Populists."
Now let Us hear from the North Da-
kota Democrats. They will probably
tell us,-and tell us truly,-that the
Republican voters are swarming into
the Peoples party. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
Horrible.

The spectacle of men fighting for ,vork
of policemen having to be called to
clear the trenches of superfluity Of
laborers-is the saddest one that Chi
cago has beheld since the great fire.
Chicago Times.
My God! This is terrible! Battling
for the privilege of working all day for
enough to eat-and the next day go at
it again; and SO on until the earth
rattles on their pine boxes.
Cannot the good God do something
to relieve his wretched children? Or
is this thing to 60 on forever? Why
not give some good-hearted, honest
man supreme power for four years,
and let him improve Gods world or
blow it up. He could not make it
much worse than it is, for the great
mass of mankind.
A judicious hanging bee in Wall
street would be good measure with
which to begin the reformation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
SOME APHORISMS.
With no Special Application to Any


One.
Every man has right to defend his
own life,-even if he has to kill his op-
ponent.
Every newspaper has the same right
Let him who assails it, without provo
caticn, bring his coffin with him to
the encounter
There are times when charity, kind
illness and mercy are thrown away
You can do nothing with scoundrel
but crush him.
There is time to fold up the New
Testament and open the Old
The Peoples Party is not half SO nee
essary to great newspaper as great
newspaper is nccess ssary to the Peoples
Party.
Genius and Industry can survive any
cOnvulsion. They will find foot hold
in the destruction of world.
A small, base, blooded, grasping
man is of no use to anyone but him
self: and his meanness oftentimes
blinds him to his own interests. Like
rat he eats all he can hold. and dir
ties all he can't eat.
A leader should be at the front
of the enthusiasm and sincerity of his
party-not dragged along by the hind
legs to the advocacy of it's principles.
when Paris was in the throeS of
the Commune, party of men at the
window or house noticed man act
ing in singular manner. The troops
had just driven the insurgents past,
and the man was following cautiously
at some distance after the soldiers. as
if determined not to lose sight of
them. Alternately jumping from the
shelter of lamp post or tree to the
refuge of doorway, he gradually ad-
vanced as the troops moved further
and further away.
One of the men in the window called
out, Look here, dom you know that
you may get hurt, following after those
men in that way?'
The man turned, and with an i'm
passioned gesture exclaimed,-'I must
follow after zose men: l am zaire
leddile.'"
Brave men build up great move
ments and towards profit by them
The lion kills the game and the jackal
steals it.
Woe unto him who, in the midst Of
peace. initiates war. ''He who draws
the sword shall perish by the sword"
The coward who touches the elec-
trio button in the next county, is as
great a criminal as the ruffian who
puts the bomb in place.
When you are driven to fight for your
life ALWAYS pass by tile hireling sub
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
An Idea.

Farmers are poor because they pro-
duce too much! Weayers spinners
and carders are ragged and hungry be.
cause they have glutted the markets!
The one who raises food is ragged and
the one who makes cloth is starving
Great civilizations. Fine industrial
syS yStem!-Altrurian.
What would be the condition Of this
country if there was no money at all
in circulation? If man was in debt
his creditor would fix the price of the
property he offered him in settlement:
and he would Of course take adyan-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

Recommends Another Insane Asy-
lum.

ST. PAUL, July 27-The board of
physicians appointed by the governor
to inves tigate the insane hospitals of
the state and report as to their needs
reported today. DR.. E. c. Riggs, who
made the Investigation and report, ia
vOrS the establishment of a separate
hospital for epilepticS, as we'll as the
building of fourth insane hospital,
to be located near the two cities He
also recommends the adoption of the
cottage plan in the handling of pa
tientS.
That's right. The peoples backs
are broad. Why not establish a state
asylum for consumptives? And an
other for dyspeptics? And another for
victims Of catarrh? And another
for sufferers from cOrns? And it might
be we'll to have an institution where
bald-headed men could be supported
at the expense of the state. Indeed,
why should any intelligent persons
work, as long as there are such multi
tudes of fools ready to toll and pay
taxes?
We have gone far enough in the di-
rection of charity. Let us turn our
attention now to the matter of JUS
tice. When the taxpayers do
not, on the average, live half
as we'll as the criminals in the
state prison it is time to cali halt.
Let the peoples ribs laugh with fat
ness, and their faces glow with happi-
neSs,-and then we will listen to your
philantllropic schemes, in behalf of
epileptics, ITO be located near the
two citieSn' l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, WEDNESDAY, AUG %, 1894

tage of his opportunity;-for wheat,
cotton, corn, ETC., would not be legal
tender. Imagine merchant shipping
lot of cattle or hogs to New York to
swap for dry goods and groceies, to be
subjected to the same extortion. The
legal-tender or government token is
the basis of civilization.
And if this be true as to the total
abolition of all money, is it not pro-
portionately true If you reduce the
amount of currency to one-half what
it should be?
Is it not carrying the race half way
back to barbariSm? I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

ordinates and go straight for the heart
of the man who hires them.
'"Taffy" is pleasant to the palate Of
expectation, but it sours on the stom-
ach of realization.
Nothing endures in this world but
fair-play and honesty.
Let us cling to principles no matter
how base are the wretches who use
them and betray them.
You cannot soil, by personal un-
worthiness, anything that issues from
GOd-head.
Let the truth live, though all the
rogues perish. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

and families; they had the right, as
American citizens, to do this; and to
now not only deny them work, but fol-
low them up and drive them out of
places they might obtain elsewhere, is
simply diabolical. The man who
would do it ought to be hanged to the
next lamp-post. He would starve help
less women and innocent little chill
dren to death. Hanging is too good
for him. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

valuable service Of Senator Wash
burn"
Another millionaire! Let the next
Legislature pass law that no man
shall ever be a candidate for the
United States senate in Minnesota
unless he has million dollars. And
then let us put the office up to the
highest bidder and use the money to
reduce taxation. Now it goes to wipe
out few farm mortgages here and
there. owed by members of the Legis-
lature. l.. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
A CONGRESSIONAL RAILROAD
ATTORNEY.
Photographed Tawney to Come at
Once and Attend the Railroad
Cases Continued Under a
Misrepresentation.

Judge Wilson of the Omaha road,
and Robert Evans, Of Minneapolis,
were before Judge Williams in the
United States circuit this morning
discussing the matter Of the time for
hearing three suits in equity now
pending in the court, one against the
St Paul < Sioux City, and two against
the Winuna x st. Peter road.
Judge Wilson, as counsel for the
Omaha road, which is interested, said
that the cases ought to be heard at
once and that he had not agreed to
the continuance until the 10Th.
The court found that the continu-
ance had been granted under miSap-
pre- hcnsion and ordered the clerk of
the court to telegraph at once for Mr..
TawneN, now in Washington, he being
one of the counsel in the case. The
United States is the plaintiff in each
of the three cases and seeks to set aside
the certitication of certain lands to
these companies on the ground that it
was Improperly granted, and to restore
title in the United States. Judge
Wilson said this morning that the ac-
ton directly affected 10000 or 1000
acres of land and indirectly affected
much more.
The certiiicatiOn was made more
than twenty years since.
Robert &. Evans appears as special
counsel for the government, and
Judge Wilson and Mr. Tawney appear
for the defendants. Judge Williams
will hear the cases Friday morning.
Now when Mr.. Tawney rises to ad-
dress the court will not the judge give
to his argument additional Weight be-
cause he stands there a representative
in Congress of over 1000 people?
And did the people who elected him
intend that they themselves should be
thus cast into the scales Of justice. to
weigh down the side of the people,
who seek government land, and to
help railroad corporations?
And when the people of the First
district pay Mr.. Tawney 5000 year
and prequiSiteS should he not be sat
stied to let railroad corporations look
elsewhere for their attorneys? l. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
A Practical Suggestion.

.Waseca Radical: G. A. PillsburY,
who was mentioned as a possible can
didate for United States senator, says
"hc has no desire for the office, and es-
pecaly so when the state needs the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29

Alexandria Republicans: The Demo-
Gratis won't fuse, but they will simply
let the nomination of governor go
by default. 1t won't be fusion exact
ly, but it will mean the Democrats
will have everything but governor and
United States senator, which will fall
to Owen and DOnnelly-if the misfOr-
tune goes through.
These liars ought to make their
falschoods hitch. One scamp says we
are going to desert the Peoples party;
and the other says we are to be elect
ed United States senator, as the
champion of the Peoples party. One
result is about as improbable as the
other.
Will not God be good enough to con-
slider these knaves for a second, and
damn them and forget them? l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
The Dark Ages Come Again.

1t is really cheerful. 1t makes one
grin to read articles like this in the
Plutocratic press.
MADISON, Wis, July 81 Special.
AT monthly meeting of the Board
of Regents of the State University
sensation was produced when Presi-
dent Bartlett, with the consent OF the
board appointed a committee COM
posed of H. w. Chynoweth of Madison,
John johnson of Milwaukee, and DR..
II. Il. Dale, of Oshkosh, to investigate
the charge published by State Super
intendent of Public instruction Wells
that Prof Ely's teachings in the Uni
versity are socialiStic in character and
tend to produce unrest among the Ia
boring classes. The committee will
report at the next monthly meeting
OF the board.
NEW YORK, July 3l.-[Special. l.
Princeton's faculty and trustees are
taking serious cogniZance of the
growth of a socialistic tendency in
some of the teachers of today, as illus
trated in recent addresses by Prof.
Richard. T. Ely of the University of
Wisconsin, Prof. George Heron, of
Iowa College, the Rev. Myron W.
Reed, of Denver. and others of like
standing. According to Princeton's
teachers Ely, Heron, and Reed are
social heretics. There is no doubt
that educators of other leading college
faculties take the same view of these
men as is taken by Prof. Sloane. Prof.
Ormond and Dean Murray of Prince
ton. Prof. Sloane said to-day
"Princeton is strongly opposed to the
teachings of Prof Ely. Princeton
stands, as she always has stood, for
sound political economy. l certainly
think the teachings of Profs. Ely and
Heron and Mr. Reed indicate a ten
dency toward socialism and anarchy
by some of our public educators. 1t is
dangerous symptom, and it is very
probable that in view Of this tendency
Princeton will take a stronger posi-
tiOn in regard to those questions"
Prof. James O. Murray, dean of the
University. practically declared that
men like Ely, Heron, and Reed were
more res ponsible for the evils Of the re-
cent strike than the rebellious follow
erS of ignorant and uneducated lead
ers. Prof. Murray, in fact, would favor
the enactment of laws that would lock
up these men with their dupes in
States prisons. Other Princeton pro-
fessors spoke in the same strain.
State Prison. Nonsense. Burn them
alive! That's the way to do it.
And what is the otfense of these
distinguished professors, Ely, Heron
and Reed? Simply that they tried to
apply Christianity to the affairs of
men; that they sympathized with the
poor and the wretched; that their
hearts went out to the suffering many
rather than to the wealthy few
1t is fortunate thing for the world
that Christ was not educated in
Princeton college. 1t would be bias
phcmous to imagine what a dwarfed
distorted, narrowed, heartless Nam
mon-worshipping sycophant they
would make him,-if they could. No;
he grad uated from the carpenters
bench: and his associates were the
poorest and humbleSt Of earth's chill
dren.
But Ely, Heron and Reed. To the
stake with them. Or better still to
the cross. Let the Sanhedrim of col
lege professors assemble. Let Roths-
childs preside. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
Contradictory Utterances.

Here are two extracts from Republi-
can papers. Compare them:
Pope County Journal: Ignatius
Donnelly has retired from the edito-
rial chair of the Populist organ, the
REPRESENTATIVE, and is succeeded
by "Bub' Williams, whilom editor of
the Albert Lea Standard. Donnelly's
next move will be his withdrawal
from the Populist party; just see if it
won't.