The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18
OLD hJolNBS.
Wishes to Ask the American People
One or Two Important Questions.

One or Two Important Questions.
Boys. did you ever stopto consider where
we are. at or what we are coming to?
Now, judging from the drift of things and
present tendencies ene long we will find our
selves stranded, ORC fguratively speaking,
against q stump. We are are confronted
with one OF the most tyrannical and degen-
Grated aristocracy that has so far existed
in the worlds history. 1t is of two dis
tinct types. The only one of three that is
at all commendablssto .spciety or civiliza-
ton is the great middle classes Now what
are the great characteristics of that great
consist Of? Well, they are an aristocracy
based on limited and reasonable amount
OF wealth and aggregate an unlimited
amount Of brains and have acquired a won
derful store Of learning and intelligence
They are at the present time what they
always were through past ages: the salt of
the earth, the guiding star of the people.
They are the handspring in society; the
propelling power to civilization; the wheels
that carry out civil government and perpet
uate the liberties and freedom of the peo-
pie. The next type spoken of are very not
ed In several ways and on an entire diff
Ierent basis. 1t Is an aristOcracy based on
wonderful cunning, vast possessions and I'M
excelled cussedneSs. They are few in
numbers but mighty in wealth power. They
are the fellows that allow their baser pas
slons to over-rule their better Judgment
They practice the vices and refrain from
the virtues. They distress their fellow man
and then mock him in his suffering They
are the fellows that corrupt the lawmakers
n 10 NOT IL
wealth and then say as they said 40 years
| ago: This IS mine under the law, and we
Will make it your duty to guard defend
anu restore TO us our property Is it not
a fact that we were legally bound to ap-
prehend and return the fugitive slave? And
are we not being sworn in to service as
| deputy United States marshals almost every
| day to guard railroad kings and protect
tneir property against the boys, because
| they are making an effort to pre-
| vent the bloody tyrants from TAX
| ing the bread from the mouths of
their wives and children. And when Mr.
| Coxey, genuine philanthropic, makes an
appeal and tried to approach the highest
| authority in the land in behalf of our poor
| and unfortunate, he is promptly incarcer-
| ated without cause or just provocation
| Now, boys, to use little vulgar slang they
! have put it all over us in various ways
| and then rubbed it in clear to the bone
| Now boys in presenting this third, last and
| least type of all Gods creation 1 want that
| you look upon them with tender compass
sion AS rule they are poor folks. but not
| Goa poor, for the great Jehovah deSpiSes
| a traitor. They are pmps for the rich ty-
| rant, and solutions for the money power
| But then, they are not to blame altogether
| for this reason. A large majority of them
| were born on pan cake days, and there
| seems to have been batter substituted for
| brains So you will readily see it would be
| unfair to hold them strictly accountable
| Now l trust after careful thought in this
| matter you will be able to designate what
| type you are from. Now l want to say
word about Pluto doctrine. Of all the mean
| contemplate, dishonest doctrines that was
| ever preached to the American people, this
| vested rights doctrine takes the pot The
| people used to think that states rights doc
trine was the most damnable stuff ever ad-
| vocated, but when you come to compare it
| with this vested rights doctrine it sinks into
| insigniticance. Great guns! Why, just think
| of it, for one man or corporation to have
| and to hold any one or more of the many
| things belonging to natures bounties. The
| idea of an individual being vested with the
| right to monopoize thing of nature,
created by natures God and intended as
| blessing for all his crea lures. Now pause
and think of it, l mean. you old liners in
| the two old parties. Just think of the bill
| lions that has been robbed from the people
| in that way. And the monopoly covers
every tHlIlS there Is III iidtui IS Stolc IiOuSc,
| from gold down to aluminium, together
with our forests and the land included.
| Now would you old liners have it SO for all
| time? Fellow citizens, the starving women
and the ragged and hungry children of this
nation are appealing to you for mercy.
Have you become case-hardened and devoid
| of conscience? or will you respond in their
| behalf, and stop this Topping around from
| one of the old parties to the other with
practically the same results and absolutely
no relief whatever. Boys, down with plu-
tocracy. OLD JONES.
Ellendale n. D.