The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-05

| which he continually dwells Unless his
medical attendant fully explains the i'm
ports of these symptoms to the patient, he
| has neglected a very important duty. The
| farmer of Minnesota is today viewing with
| alarm certain symptoms of political dis
| ease, to-Wit: The ineQuitable distribution
of wealth. Here is the farmer and his
! family suffering for the necessaries of life.
/ Look at the food, clothing, shoes, shelter
/ for the little ones in winter time, etc,
| etc. He and family have worked all their
lives, suffered privations and exposure for
these many years in the hope of getting
home for declining age. But now hard
I times upon him. He realizes now
that he may never reach the goal of his
ambition-a home. He Strengthens
himself up from his work, perhaps for the
1lrst time for years, and wonders what can
be the matter. Il have worked early and
late, and so have the boys and girls, raised
good crops, never drank and never traded
horses; why am / hard up and in danger
Of the poorhouse?' he eXclams Why?
Echo answers why. Now will Gov. Mel
! son, in his next stump speech, please an
swef that farmers why? He will find
| that farmer in every other farmhouse in
the state. l mean meet it fairly and
squarely, and answer it as it ought to be
answered to the anxious and discouraged
farmer, and not simply pass it by with a
wave of the hand
There is another thing that troubles this
same farmer, for since he began to think
seriously about his own condition he sees
things elsewhere that he never thought of
before. Everywhere, but especially in large
cities, live men who neither toll nor spin
that is. most of the time they are apparent
ly at ease and enjoying life-and yet they
and their families are living in the greatest
| luxury that money can buy. Some of these
very men were chums of the above farmers
20 or 80 years ago. Many of them began life
f.l
advantages than our farmer, yet now they
are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,
yea millions, and all acquired within a
short lifetime, or less Observing these
facts, our farmer naturally asks How
did these rich men, milionaires, make their
money!" Gov. Nelson, indeed solemnly as
sured the farmers at Argyle that mo other
class or interest can point to any more
as much friendly special legislation 'as the
farmer has secured and yet the numbering
business, the milling, the manufacturing
and elevator business, the railroad business
the banking business. have all produced the
mlliOnaircS by the score and the rich men
by the thousands, while farming has pro-
duced here and there man tolerably well
off; but to the overwhelming majority sim
ply laborious, and in large proportion, a
precariouS existence. Now, why is this so?
VIII the governor explain the philosophy
of this? Can man produce million dol
larS-I mean under service worth that of
SoIile klnu 10 SOC1etN-ln Il lie time. II not
how did the millionaire get his million of
dollars? He got it some way, and the pro
cess ! presume, can be explained by some
one who knows OF course. I do not pre-
tend to say that the millionaires getting
rich has anything to do with the farmers
getting poor, but great many good and in
telligent people seem to think that one
millionaire makes a thousand paupers. The
fact IS that cur poor farmer has come to
believe that our very rich men have by
some hocus- pocus process absorbed all that
he has produced for these many years past.
Let the governor, then, show the farmer
rich men have got their wealth honestly.
and then another great cause of dissatis-
faction will be removed
Let the governor understand that a great
many good and ntelligent people look with
anxiety on the present tendency of Anleri-
can sociSe.I TO split up into two divisions
millionaires and paupers. There fingers a
faith-perhaps the governor will call it a
uperstiton-deep down in the hearts of
the common people in the divine verify of
the following lines:
''Ill fares the land. to Fastening Ills a prey,
Where wealth accumuates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade;
A breath has made them, as a breath has
made
But bold peasantry. their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never he sup
oiled"
DIR. CHRISTIAN JOHNSON.
New London; Aknn-