The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-28
A SERIOUS SITUATION
THE PEOPLE MUST ACT WISELY ERE
1T Is FOREVER TOO LATE.

Two Armies Forming For the Final Con-
test In 1S96-Special Privileges and Cat.
ling Guns on One Side, Reason and Man
hood on the Other.
This divided 20, 600, 900 Of people are
forming their armies for the final con-
test of 1896 into two camps The pick
cts are on the outposts, and the sharp
crack Of deadly bullets between the or
pressed and Oppressors in the states of
West Virginia, Illinois and elsewhere
gives warning Of the impending strug-
gle and it's character On one side the
people are rallying around the rising
standard of dawning reason; on the
other, the brutal standard of prejudice
which kings and special privileges have
always used. Every base appeal to every
idea OF hate is being used by the leaders.
who are well paid, to enlist, train and
compel military obedience of the igno-
rant and thOughtless on one side. On
the other every appeal, every pleading
to all that is noble, unselfish and divine.
is being made to rally for home, God
and country. The one Expresses even
Its own adherents; the other extends the
hand Of brotherhood and equality. There
ought to be no doubt which will gather
the greater army, but prejudice blinds
so many they cannot tell which is friend
or foe One has two wings under skilled
and desperate leadership, the right be-
ing the Republican hosts and the left
the Democratic hosts. The other has
three divisions-Populist, Prohibition
and Socialist. The latter is being rap
idly recruited by deserters from the Cd
presslve treatment of the tyrants whom
they have served for many years.
This is the picture see in the United
States today. This is the picture, too,
that makes me tremble when | watch
the maneuvering. One might hope it
were an ugly nightmare to pass away
with the morning but for the fact it is
real. The sldrmishes have been increas-
ing year after year. There are more fire.
quent calls for gatling guns against the
people who have been starved until they
revolt against their scanty rations of
adulterated food and shelter They are
suppressed and told to starve in silence
with hand as ruthless us the cars or
the sultan's. No inquiry is ever made
whether the cry of the distressed is not
justified-l1ill them if they refuse to
submit to the private tax collectors is
the response. While protesting the
greatest of love for the working people,
the work on warships, on guns and i'm
plements of murder is going on with
unrelaNed vigor day and night
Kings always professed love for the
people and betrayed them with promises
while preparations to compel obedience
were being completed. 1t is being done
in America today. Why, oh, why will
people remain blind to the conditions
surrounding them? Why will they cast
their ballots for parties that have
brought all these horrors on the people
and do not propose a single change? Can
they not see that there is now civil war
going on i'll several states, and that they
may be the next to utter the cry of de-
spalr? Is it wise to shut your eyes and
plug your ears, that you cannot see or
hear, and then hope all this will pass
away and sunshine dispel the gloom?
Don't you know that people-yes,
even the American peOple-can be re-
duced to state of submission to any in
fanny? When you are closed out of a
place to labor and make a living and
gatllng guns are offered you for bread,
you will be quiet. When tricke1y and
open fraud stand at your ballot box,
backed by the powers that have the gat-
ling guns, what will you Go against such
odds? Oh, that time will come, my
countrymen-is almost on you now
and unless you see these things as they
are and not as you are told they are you
will find it too late. These things are
being prepared for you in the dark cham
bers OF the money conspirators in Eng
land and are being carried into effect By
American allies as rapidly as they think
will not arouse you until the trap is set
we'll and surely.
L am not using q pretty figure of
speech to tickle your ears. God forbid
it in times like these, when your national
capital is a rendezvous Of such as there
assemble. | wish it were only pretty
figure to cause smile, but it is a condi-
ton plainly set forth i'll every daily pa
PSA LII oAiO Ae.I'', ttiitt yOu ICluoC " oCO IL.
Think over what l have written, but be
not angered or excited. This is time
for calmest reason, for feeling of love,
not hate Be law abiding, suffer hunger
and cold in silence if it must be, be in
telligent, be just, but get your neighbors
to reason over these things Seek re-
cruits by kind, dispassionate words in
the enemy's camp. Make the best pos
sible showing in the sharp battle of bal
lots this fall and prepare to win at least
one house of congress and many legisla-
lures in 1896 or perish the hope of lib
erty and justice in America for part of
this generation Coming Nation.
The Northeast and Silver.
In an address delivered to all audience