The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-04
SEVEN FINANCIAL CONSPIRAGIES.
SHERMAN VERSUS EMERY.
Hon. John Davis Replies to Sherman's Letter
on Finance.
on Finance.

Since the days of John Brown, Kan
sas has ever ceased to be the stamping
ground of reform. UShered into
statehood on the eve of terrible
civil war, her baptism in blood fitted
her peculiarly for the growth of Ii
berty and equality.
Never sence the days of John Brown
have the liberty loving men Of Kan
sas ceased in their determination to
hallow the soil made sacred by the
life and death of their illustrious
martyr.
That soil hallowed by the intelli-
gence of truth-loving men, and ferti-
lized by the blood of thousands of
patriotic soldiers, was we'll fitted to
receive the seeds Of historic truth
embodied in Seven Financial Con-
spiracies, and when in the campaign
Of 1888 fifty thousand copies of the
little book were scattered broadcast
over the state, the enemies of free
dom seeing that it would yield an
everlasting harvest to liberty, rushed
forth and attempted to destroy the
sower and the seed
Preparatory to their onslaught
their chiefs met in council and
evolved two monumental documents,
which were launched upon the pub
lie under the captaincy of Messrs.
Ady and Kelley.
Again in the campaign OF 1891
when ten thousand Of these little
messengers were scattered over Ohio,
the book and it's author were again
assailed.
The veritab BILE John Sherman, whose
villainous acts had made possible such
record of crime, induced by the
solicitude of his political friends, came
out with an open letter, published in
the Cincinnati Enquirer, and adj
dressed to Chas F. Stokey of Canton,
O., in which he denounces the book
as wild and Visionary and declares
that the Shylock to which the author
alludes is a ''phantom of her imagin-
atiOn.'
The documents of Ady and Kelley,
as also the letter of Senator Sherman
were Immediately met by the indo-
mitable John Davis through the col
umns of his paper The Junction City
(Kan) Tribune.
These replies of Mr.. Davis are SO
replete with historic truth that we
present the one in reply to Senator
Sherman for the consideration of our
readers:
"a few years ago Mrs. S. e. V.
Emery of Michigan emptied culver
of arrows into the ranks of the peO-
pies enemies. The darts seemed
light and feathery and the bowstring
was drawn by the weak arm of a
woman. Yet the shafts were winged
and pointed with truth and Justice,
and the wOnan'S arm was nerved with
an earnest patriotism. Very soon
the wounded birds began to tiutter
and the broken wings were trailing
in the dust.
''In the year 1888, $4,000 copies of
Mrs. Emery's little book were show
cred among the people of Kansas.
Under their fructifying influence the
seeds of thought began to spring up
in every heart. The rage of the en-
envy knew no bounds. Great lawyers
and judges of courts wrote pamphlets
and newspaper broadsides which we're
circulated by Republican committees
and corporation newspapers as cam
paign documents. Smaller men
called the little book "The Union
Labor Bible" They cursed it in
their speeches, tore it to pieces in the
presence of their audiences, dashed
it to the floor, spat upon it, trampled
it under foot. All this but proved
the rage of the lion that had been
wounded, the pain of the whale that
was pierced, or the bird that was
hit
Next comes the emptying of another
culver of shafts by the same arm that
showered Kansas. This time further
East. And, promptly, is produced
the same results. A Senator of the
United States from Ohio deems it
worth his while to confess the pain
of the arrow in his breast by review
of the situation in the usual corpor-