The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-14
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER,
From Eric OlsOn.-He Hits Right
and Left, and Cracks Skulls, (

From Eric OlsOn.-He Hits Right
and Left, and Cracks Skulls, /
Like an Old Berseker, Filled With
Divine Fury. Z
SHERBURNE, Mimi. Jan, Is. '94.
Mr. EDITOR:
1t seems, brothers and sisters, that
we get nearer and nearer to the point
where the people will join issue with
the plunderers. Developments indi-
cate that settlement by arbitration is
only delusion,-empty air. The blow
must be struck for Liberty, and
struck hard. The deck is being
cleared for action; sand scattered to
prevent slipping. Turn the PROV to-
wards the whaleback. Speed up.
The rivits in the plates are brittle;
the material coarse; the shock will
cut her in two, and down she goes
the Demo-P -Privateer.
The constitution of the United
States makes congress the sovereign
power: "the House of Representa-
tives shall have the sole power
of impeachment" "The senate shall
have the sole power to try all i'm
peachments.' "When the President
of the United States is tried, the
chief justice shall preside" There
is the whole fundamental law in a
nutshell. Congress the sovereign
power"
Next comes the judiciary. and last
ly the executive. Take our Mime
sofa. 1t is nearly the same; the
chief justice does not preside at the
trial of the governor; otherwise it is
the same as the United States. The
legislature is sovereign. A court
which tries to enact side law, which
is in conflict with constitutional
rights; can be impeached, removed.
The whole gang which defes funda-
mental laws, and inherent right, can
be removed, and punished according
to law, enacted by the legislature.
There is state election next fall.
The people can make clean SWEEP
if they so choose. If the people pre-
fer to retain the frauds and let the
combinations rule, the ignoramuses
must suffer with the thinking people
they impose these frauds upon, as
we'll as upon themselves. The peo-
pie are the court of last resort. Vote;
vote intelligently, you deluded parti-
sans of republican, democratic, pro-
hibition and peoples parties respect
lively; remember that your PARTISAN
ship In 1892 placed the jolly McEwen
the commercial Hopkins, the orator
Abbott, the trader Lockwood, the
sanctimonious Lende, and the iDno-
cent Zimmerman in the house of rep
rentatiyes. Types of their parties,
to be whipped into line by the party
lash and do the bidding of the gang.
Vote for your own interests.
There are so many cases put up by
shyster attorneys for their clients to
be beat on that many men despair of
justice and think those decisions f.
nal. The milk and switching cases
were such; the Hompe elevator law,
as passed, was of that kind. The
Stevenson case is another But do
not worry for few cobwebs They
can be swept down. 81
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The State of Minnesota has the
right to fix railroad rates from one
point to another within it's borders:
LIST through the legislature; I'd,
through the railroad commissioners;
Sd, through any of district courts,
subject to appeal to the supreme
court. People seem to think that
because we have a railroad commits
sion we have lost all rights in court;
that we have lost tn, right of trial
by jury. When the corporation
charges $50, for transporting a 1000
bushel carload of wheat 200 miles,
which is worth only $40 per car, over
the Breckenridge Division of the St.
P. NJ. & M. R'y, to Minneapolis, when
the matter in dispute is $40, or more,
jury trial is guaranteed by the con-
stitution. There can be a case for
$50, on 1,OUO bushel car of wheat, that
any farmer or farmers. or shippers of
Wilkin, Clay or Otter Tail counties,
or may choose to contest. The chart
er is plain, that freight and passen-
gers shall be carried at reasonable
rates."
Such farmer, farmers or dealer can
prove in the district court what is
a reasonable rate, and being a COM
mon carrier it's records are open to
public inspection of the parties inter-
eSted AS the best evidence, the
court can order the whole record per-
tanning to the part of the road over
which the transportation is done, to
be produced for examination of what
the service is worth. every detail of