The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06

We were right when we said that the
accession of DR.. G. johnson, OF New Lon
don, to our ranks decided that Kandiyohi
county would be Populist in the next cam
paign He is doing grand work by speech
es and very able articles in the New Lon
don Times He shows how shallow is
the cry about the tarif-that potn tne
old parties are at peace about lt-ano tllal
the scare-crow won't frtghten the o1u pros
any longer He says: BE of good cheer
Mr. Haselton, the Wilson bill, if 1t passes,
will hurt nobody. TIE economic conultioh
OF the country now is beyond the possiplllty
of injury from any tariff measure But the
Wilson bill is good protection measure
Carnegie has Endorsed 1t. Gov. Nelson says
free lumber is all right. The Minneapolis
Tribune says free ore is good. The Pioneer
Press says the tax on sugar would 90 at
present. The Wilson bill in the main goes
back to the tariff of 1883; then we had good
Republican times I believe in the right
kind of a tariff but not in being tariff
mono-maniac. know that tariff-phobia is
prevalent just now, but could hardly be-
heve that Mr.. Haselton had severe at
tack of 1t. The Democrats have not the
slightest intention of destroying the pro-
tective SYSTEM their actions prove that
without a doubt. The simple fact is that
the panic began in 1892 when everybody be-
leved that Harrison and protection would
stay During nine months in 1892 $182, 0CO,OOO
Of gold were drawn from the treasury for
greenbacks by the money brokers and sold
to Austria at a premium Over $1OO,OOO,O00
of American eagles are now in the Austrian
treasury. Secretary Foster had bonds pre-
pared to issue If needed before he left the
office. The Republican party is responsible
for our present Ubiquitous system of money
"a system that like the seven lean cows of
Pharoah, has eaten up not only the prince
y revenue furnished by the tariff but
beggared the whole country at the ex-
pense of the million dollar bankers, who
own seven-eighths Of the whole wealth of
81, 900 peope-and amount of asser-
tions to the contrary can alter that fact
While the rank and file of the G. 0. p
have been enthusiastic and admiring Abra-
ham Lincoln and his compatriots of the so s
for their grand and patriotic achievements
a silent, subtle and unexpected enemy has
entered the camp as a thief in the night
ana now the people are awakening to find
themselves bound and gagged by legalized
robbers under command of the Duke of
Wall Street For rs years link after link
| has been welded of this r1urderous chain
| OF gold in which the American people, g.
100000 of them, are being lead to the
auction block of involuntary servitude!
| And what is worse, thousands of ntelli-
| gent citizens, with the chains rafting about
their ankles don't know what ails them yet.
! But they will find out whenvthey get lover
| the hill to the poor house."
Very well put. We thank God for DR..
johnson, and for all honest men with
the courage of their convictions. This is
| not a fight for party triumph. but for ma
| tional life and personal prosperity-for lib
erty, order and society.
In the same article he says:
Snow me, you Republicans and you
Democrats that are up-holding these
schemes, an instance in history, sacred or
| profane, that approaches in atrocity and
| infamy this, and I will shut up You saw.
Donnelly is a demogogue. Grant it, for
| the sake of argument. Is he not an angel
compared to the money schemers? Why
| don't our great statesmen, senators and
| representatives, rise and fight for the peo-
| pies rights? You tell that, who are up
holding them, will you?
Il listened to one of our seators in 1890
| in Willmar laudng the Republican party
| for passing the Sherman law, giving more
money to the people, etc, etc. We all ap-
plauded. Wall street determined to have
| it repealed. The same senator voted for the
repeal of the measure that he praised three
years ago. Shall we applaud again? Nav
| more. Shall we stand still and have our
property confiscated very vitals torn
| out, led as sheep to the slaughter and
not murmur because of our party? Shall
we, like the barbarianS of old sacrifice orr
wives and children to this Moloch of party
ism? Away with such thoughts We pioneers
that have sought wind and waves and
| dangers and difficulties of foreign shores
and climes to escape old country tyranny
and oppression. Arise! Thou old viking
spirit and animate thy children for liberty
| thou spirit of Hermann that made Au-
| gustus weep for his legions awake! and in
| spire them; thou inspiration of Marston
| Moor, rouse again thy gloomy squadrons
against the iron heel of oppression and
thou, Erin, whose courage, supported by
wit and humor, has, on a thousand battle
| fields, infused life and animation into thy
| fallen and dispirited comrades come thou
| also and lend thy cheering influence! Come
all We spirits of liberty and freedom! Raise
| again, as in '76 and 81. the battlecry of
| freedom, that this government of Washing
| ton and Lincoln, of the people by the peo-
| pie and for the people, may not vanish off
| the face Of the EARTH