The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-05

witness stand that he was to receive
$500, and his expenses, for his lying
testimony; another was mobbed by
the indignant populace and he had to
run for his life; while still another
turned states evidence and produced
the very letters of instruction from
Hershtield's agent as to the details of
the perjury to be committed! Hersh-
field Swore his wife told him that she
had been criminally intimate with the
Attorney General of the State of
Montana, and that gentleman now
proposes to try to send Hershfield to
prison for criminal libel. He will not
succeed. for it is impossible in this
country to convict millionaire of any
crime before any court or jury.
And here very properly, in the same
issue, we have leading article, which
shows that there are 1000 soldiers
in our national guard" standing
army which exists in direct violation
of the constitution of the United
States, which provides, Sec. 10 Of Art.
/, that mo state shall keep troops in
time of peace" ;"but that there shall be a
militia, of the whole people, subject
to the control of the general govern
ment. And this article also shows
that with the regular force of $4,000
this gives 1877 900 of standing army.
And that platitudinous old lunk-head,
General Andrews, who defended black
slavery as long as it existed is now Of
ficiously corresponding to have the
forces at Fort Smelling increased, so
as to be prepared ito have the citizens
of Minneapolis and St. Paul shot
down, if they become turbulent under
Gen. Miles has recommended a large
increase of the standing army; and
great Notifications, called armories,
are already built or being built in all
our principal cities. See the Arena
articles on this subject.
| But these extracts we have given
from the news of two days, give only
| glimpse of what is going on in this
country. 1t is one awful abyss of
crime; railroad robberies, vast fail
ures, great swindles, murders, ravlsh-
ings, suicides, arsons, perjuries, di-
vorces, starvations. Take this item
as sa mple:
Memphis, Tenn. Nov. 2S.-T. H.
MOnSOn, Swcde, and stranger in
this city, committed suicide in this
city at the FranssOil hotel today, by
morphine. Monson's home is sup
posed to be in Minneapolis. He left
note stating that he could not find
employment and concluded to die by
his own hand instead of starving to
death.
There is an awful pathos in this ter
rible story. He could not find en-
pioyment-he was willing to work
and he preferred suicide to starvation.
Dreadful alternative. But does every
one driven thus to the edge of the cliff
make that choice? No; oftentimes he
says, to himself-''B Before l will kill
myself l will kill some one else. l
may escape unpunished: and il not
can but come to death in the end"
The man who finds himself, by human
cruelty, through human laws, driven
to the alternative of self-murder or
crime, loses all sense of relation ship
with God or religion. He looks
Heaven in the face and sullenly asks,
-"Why am 1 thus prosecuted through
no fault of mine? Why is not the
universe better ordered?" His heart
becomes steeled against his fellows.
The wolf in him comes to the surface.
Hence the awful catalogue, of crimes
which every day fills our newspapers.
Every one of them is traceable back to
misgovernment-ba to the evil con-
ditions imposed on the world by
Plutocracy.
What is the end to be? /. D.