The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-24
A LYING SHEET.
An Accountable Peryerter Of the
-@ Truth -
THE CHICAGO .SKANDINAyEN.
The Republican Party's Villainous
Importation.

Importation
There is a Scandinavian newspaper,
published in Chicago, called the Skan-
dinaven. 1t is the worst slop-bucket
Of pernicious and abominable lies in
the United States. It has done its
people infinite harm. In 1899 it was
spread broadcast over this state from
the Iowa line to the British posses
sions. It charged, among other beauti-
full fabricatioas, that | was running
Pope of Rome! And that would, if
elected turn over the state to the
Roman hierarchy, public schools and
ALL. And yet the writer of those de-
lectable articles very we'll knew. that ]
was not, and never had been, men,
| Der of any church; and that | was an
| independent in religion as in politics.
| And then it told it's readers that the
| Congressional documents showed that.
a Pacific Railroad Company had paid
me $1,000, while was in Congress- for
my vote. An Infamous lie. l at
tempted to prosecute the scamps for
criminal libel; but / discovered that it
was published by corpora ton, not an
| individual, and that proceedings for
damages would have to be commenced
in Illinois, at heavy expense.
| And now while nearly every other
Scandinavian newspaper in the North
west has joined the Peoples Party,
and is leading its people towards the
light of good government, this imbe-
cile wretch sits in the murky mouth
of it's little hall and vomits forth
floods of yituperation and falsehoods
into the faces Of the wayfarers.
A friend sends me copy Of it's issue
of October 10TH in which is printed
an editorial, in English, in which it
tries to rebuff some Of my statements
on the financial question.
1t says that | erred in stating that
the population of the United States
increased lover thirty per cent" be-
tween 1880 and 1890, while it really in
creased but 24.0S per cent. l have
usually said it increased nearly 80 per
cent. But what difference does it
make whether the increase was 24.OS
or 80? The average increase fro m the
beginning of the government was
| about 30 per cent. II it fell off to "a 0S
between 1880 and 1890 it is simply an
other testimony to the destructive in
flucnce of Republican legislation. l
have repeatedly stated that the popu-
lation, in those ten years, increased
nearly 80 per cent, that the wealth of
the country increased - per cent, and
that the mortgage Indebtedness, on
real estate, increased 156 per cent!
Why did he not tackle that last propo-
sition? That is the gist of the whole
case If the population increased but
24.0S per cent and the mortgages 156
per cent, then it is much worse case
than if the population increased
"over 30 per cent, and the mortgages
156 per cent.
Then he undertakes to show that
instead of the land owners increasing,
between 1880 and 1890, p per cent,
they increased 81 per cent. We have
not with US, 1--WE are travelling on our
campaign. the census reports and
cannot therefore verify this mans
statements but from his general char
pecially as our figures were derived
from a high authority. And then
he claim that instead of the
"renters" increasing 402 per cent
in those ten years they in
creased but 26.5 per cent. Well, sup
| ho, he
renters increased nearly three times as fast
as the oerners' And is not that pretty
showing in new country, where the
land has been, and still is, given away
free to the people? And is not this
knave engaged in dirty piece of
business to use the tie of nationality
and the confidence of his cOuntrymen
to keep the party in power which has
produced these conditions and will
perpetuate them? II would rather be
dog and bay the moon than such a
Scandinavian" Il would rather be a
toad and live upon the vapor of dun
geon'' than lead my country into the
abyss of poverty and ruin. These
poor people fed hither to escape from
| Il w HClO plIC WCdlUI anu UfIC
land we're concentrated in the hands
of the few: and now this leader of
theirs-this purchased leader
bought with their blood.money-
bought with the lives of their wives and
children-takes issue with me, and
demonstrates that the people of the
United States are becoming tenants
three times as fast as they are becoming
landowners! And he thinks this is a
sufficient reason why you should con-
tinue the Republican party in power,
during whose thirty years possession
of the nation this curse has fallen up
on the country.
oh, scandinavian newspaper! We
are merciful man, full Of "the milk
of human Kindness" but if your edi-
tors and publishers do not smell brim-
!, stone in the great hereafter then He'll
? might just as we'll be shut up or turn
ed Into skating rink. For all the
little personal peccadilloes and weak
nesses of the flesh. of the individual,
shrink into utter insignificance beside