The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27


with shot guns, revolvers and rifles,
for the scene of the outbreak.
Then follows another item:
"MUSKETS ARE Cooked.
EVERY TRAIN CARRIES DErAcH-
MENT OF SOLDIERS"
Then follows an account Of ten car
loads of soldiers sent out from Mas
silion, Ohio, on the Wheeling and
Lake Erie road. The coal miners
have burned two bridges and a rail-
way station and train of box cars.
Every coal train carries detachment
of soldiers, ''whose guns are cooked
and ready for instant action"
Every column of the same issue
teens with accounts of striking work.
men or desperate Coxeyites. And
mixed with these are reports Of
swindles and corruptions enough to
make the heart sick. One of Car
negies' former workmen testifies,
that that eminent Republican philan-
throphist, now apeing the airs of
aristocracy in his Scotch castle, pre-
pared bogus maps and plans to cheat
the government, and that IS to 80 per
cent of the work done for the U. S., in
the way of steel armor for it's vessels,
was flake" or bogus" work, utterly
useless for war purposes.
In an adjoining column we have a
report Of the celebrated Erastus Wi
mans embezzlements and forgeries in
New York, to the amount of millions.
In another is re-hash of Menage's
colossal swindlings. Then there is a
report of the revelations made before
a Senatorial committee of the Sugar
Trust villainies. Then comes the
proof of the tremendous extortions of
the Democratic Tammany association
of New York, from the gambling
houses and fallen women, amounting
to $4,000, 900 year. Then we have a
column devoted to the trial of Hawks,
cashier of the defunct Seven Corners
Bank, St. Paul, indicted for making a
false report to the Bank Examiner.
While interspersed with all these, in
the same issue, is CHASTITY array of
murders, suicides, defalcations, en-
beZzlements, robberies. etc., etc.
And the broiling hot weather is on
us. and July,-"the month of revolu-
tions, ,"-is near at hand-with des-
peration in the hearts of millions and
shallOwnesS in the heads of the few.
Amid the ruins of the republic the
monkeys have no instinct except to
steal nuts and fill their pouches. And
yet there are millions hurrahing for
the two old parties which have done
all this harm!
But the revolution Of ideas spreads
and spreads and the dawn of truth is
near at hand. Read this:
LINCOLN, Neb., June 1.-two Incl
dents, more of the sensational than
ordinary. marked the commencement
exercises of the University of Ne
braska. The first was the marked
sOcialistic commencement grafton de-
livered by Prof. George Heron, of the
Iowa college, Grinnell, and the second
came in the wholly unexpected bitter
reply of Gov. Crounse. After the pre-
liminary exercises, Prof. Heron was
introduced and gave as his subject,
"a New Political Vision" The
speaker branched off at the outset in
discourse as Populistic as it was
sCcialistic. He said:
The aim of law is the education of men in
those questions which unite them in the
rights. At no time since the age of the
Roman STATE has law received so much at
tentlOn as to-day. Yet all know there is
NO JUSTICE IN THE COURTS.
If there is anarchy everywhere it had it's
origin In the courts. Christian organiza-
while anarchy would be it's destruction'
God sent this American nation to be an ex-
ample to other nations on earth. We haye
are fallen nation.
Gov. Crounse improved the oppor-
tunity offered him in presenting com
missions to the university cadets to
make
BITTER REPLY.
He denounced the sentiment as inap-
propriate, misleading and uncalled
for: He closed as follows:
Owing to a better digestion or other rea-
sons. take more cheerful, optimistic
view of things than the gentleman who has
addressed you at length, and | feel called
upon to repudiate what he has said, unwar-
ranted in fact, and damaging and dis
couraging to the youth just entering upon
country is wholly bad and totte ring on the the
verge OF destruction. | don't agree with
Inn bnat our courts are Dad: that they are
cess pools of corruption and the founts of
anarchy: neither do believe that Coxey
American citizenship. l believe our insti-
tutiOns are the grandest and best system
of governments; the best ever known or de-
vised.
Here the thinker" comes face to
face with the skim-milk politician
the dodger of the truth by appealing
to universal prejudices, which may be
right or wrong. Prof. Heron did
not say that this country was wholly
bad; but no man can doubt that evil
to-day has got the upper hand of good
ness. If it is not on the verge of de-