The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-07
quilting TIE PEOPLE.

c'iO WV t'i'tiNul pttt tICSN wv ilO are DOUll
dominated by the money lower get
up Il grand excitement about the tar
III, the fishery question. The "boody
shirt used to answer this purpose
SPEEDILY, but it is getting too. ragged
and threadbare now. Each rarity
takes one side, and they make a
grand fight over it. Whichever party
wins, goes into office and does as it is
told by It's masters
Every president since Lincoln has
been nominated by the money brokers
of Wall street, Cleveland was nomin-
ated by Whitney, Of the Standard Oil
Trust, one Of the most powerful and
INSCRIPTIONS monopolles in the
world
Harrison was nominated G.. f. De-
pew, who owns $50, 0O0,0J0 and is Prcsi-
dent of the Vanderbilt system of rail
roads.
The Wall street brokers pull the
strings. the puppets dance, and the
people think the rulers are doing their
will.
When the Republicans were enjoy
ing the spoilS Of flee they made laws
TO suit the money power, whilst they
Consolcd the manufacturers with high
tariffs, and the old soldiers with pen
sions. The people they satisfied by
proclaiming the benefits of protection
from the pauper labor Of Europe"
The Democrats favored tariff
for revenue only" Not being
able to avoid the finance
question altogether, they said
they were fer free coinage of silver,
but Worded their platform so ambigu-
ously that it might be understood in
several different ways. On this &C
count the Western and Southern
states went Democratic and Cleve-
land was elected, with what result we
all know to our cost.
REPUBLICAN DEsPOTs.
The United States are supposed to
form Republic, free from kingly
favoritism or imperial deSpOtism But
since the war there has grown up
amongst us any army of kings and deS-
pots.
We have over us the money king,
the iron king, the coal king, the cat
tie king, the pork king, the wheat
king, the corn king, the lumber king,
the railroad magnate. the telegraph
monopolist, and the coffin despoG
These rule the people with rods of
iron, and Scourge them with Scorp-
ions.
They own the telegraphs, the great
press ASSOCIATE )ns, and the leading
newspapers and magazines.
They control large numbers of Sena-
tors and congressman as we'll as the
political orators, the pulpit exhorters,
and the local politicians
When they are opposed they bride
the leaders to betray the rest.
Whom they cannot bride they
smash
When the law favors them they use
it, and where it opposes them they
defy it.
They take the food out of the
mouths of the hungry, corner the coal
from the freezing, take the medicine
from the sick, and rob the dead for
coffin
They are now encouraging "gingo-
ism" so as to be able to increase the
army and navy that are to keep us in
subsection.
The year before last they sent sol
diers to turn us out of our hOmeSteads
in Wyoming.
They hired Pinkerton detectives (?)
to shoot us down at Homestead.
In California last year they tried to
sink Il rival ferry-boat with 700 passen-
gers on board.
For long time they ran their
trains through the streets of Oakland
at % miles an hour to avoid carrying
passengers who had a right to free
rides.
When an American war ship was
wrecked the other day, they refused to
allow their vessels to go and save the
crew from an awful death until they
got their blood money from the Gov
eminent.
Such deeds are not the deeds of
men. They are the acts of demons
who have escaped, for time, from
the fires of hell.
THE RAILROAD MONOPOLY
The history of the railroad mon
opoly in this country is enough to
make one despair of civilization.
BY bribed legislation the western
railroads have got hold of 2sG, OO0, 900
acres of the finest land in the coun-
try.
The stock on which they draw inter
est has been watered until it re-
Sembles city milk, composed of seven
gallons of water to three of milk. To
draw interest on this diluted stock
they charge rates which are crushing
the business of the country.
THE TRUST.
The food trusts are perhaps worse
than the railroad monopoly, fer they
snatch the food from the mouth OF
the widow and orphan: they rob pro-
Queer and consumer alike.
Senator Vest says:
1.-THE cattle pool Of Chicago is the
most Infamous tyranny that ever cX-
listed in the United States"
The late Senator Plumb said:
For years the prices Of cattle to
the producers had been going down.
They had gone down 80 per cent. At
the same time the price of meat TIC
the consumer had gone up, and every
single dollar of the difference had gone
into the pockets of the combination"
In two years 400 trusts were organ
lied, dealing with almost every article
in use.
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND.
Many millions of acres of land have
been bought by foreign millionaires
who draw prncely revenues from the
country.
If this land and that seized by the
railroads had gone to the people in
quarter section farms las the Govern
ment intended it to when it passed
the Homestead laws) the country
would have been full of happy homes,
free of rent or mortgage. The owners
of these homes would have been taken
from the labor market, there would
have been no surplus labor, and the
result would have been higher wages