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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
A STRIKING LESSON.
How the People Can Protect Them

How the People Can Protect Them
selves.
There is a group of islands called the
Channel Islands, situate about 50 miles
from the coast of France; Jersey is the
largest of them, and nearly equal in size
to it is Guernsey. The chief city in the
latter is st. Pierre. In the fourteenth CEN
fury those islands were coded by France to
England, with the provso that as the in
habitants of them were French, they should
be permitted to retain their language and
their laws, which were French also. About
the end Of the last century the people OF
st. Pierre wished to build new market
house which they greatly needed but they
were unwilling to borrow money of British
usurers for that purpose, although they
could have done So for their small ~ or
IA acre farms are nearly three times as
valuable, per acre, as the machine ellleo
farms of England.
The mayor of the city, M. Brock, de-
vised a plan by which the market house
could be built on the strength of the work
itself 1t was estimated that 1T would cost
So, 900. He therefore determined to issue
5000 one pound notes, and by that means
to pay for the labor and materials used
in it's construction. He could do this, for
the laws of Great Britain were not then
recognized in the Channel Islands, and
France was not in power to force attention
to her DEGREES. The work consequently
went on and the market house was built.
The stalls in it rented for little over
$1,000 per annum, and as the money came in
the notes were called in and Cancelled. In
less than five years the rental of the build
ing had paid the cost of it's erection
In the above mentioned instance the way
is shown by which the means for the cost
of useful public Improvements will be pro-
vided for under the new civilization, With
out our people resorting for aid to manipu-
latofs and usurers. 1t is lesson well
worthy the attention of all who desire the
overthrow of the present uneconomical,
tyrannicai and usurious financial SYSTEM
~, Nouy COMMONWEALTH.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
THE COMING MAN.

BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Oh, not for the great departed,
Who formed our countrys laws,
And not for the bravest hearted
Who died in freedoms cause,
And not for some living hero
To whom all bend the knee,
My muse would raise her song of praise
But for the man to be-
For out of the strife which woman !,
Is passing through today,
A man that Is more than human -
Shall yet be born, / say
A man in whose pure spirit =,
No dross of self will Turk;
A man who is strong to cope with wrong,
A man who is proud to work.
A man with hope undaunted,
A man with god-like power,
Shall come when he most is wanted,
Shall come at the needed hour. D.
He shall silence the din and clamor
Of clan disputing with clan
And tolls long fight with purse-prouc
might
Shall triumph through this man.
I know he is coming, coming,
To help, to guide, to save
Though 1 hear no martial drumming,
And see no flags that wave
But the great soul travail Of woman,
And the bold free thought unfurled,
Are heralds that say he is on the way,
The coming man of the world.I
Mourn not for vanished ages,
With their great, heroic men,
Who dwell in history's pages
And live in the poets pen,
For the grandest times are before US,
And the world Is yet to see
The noblst worth Of all this earth
In the men that are to be.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
BimetaI|ism and MonometaIIism.
What They Are, and How They
Bear Upon the Irish Land
Question.
Blythe MOST REV. Or. WALSH,
Archbishop of Dublin.

Bishop Walsh's pamphlet is consd-
cred one of the best contributions to
the Silver question ever published It's
value cannot be too strongly empha-
Sized
The last census shows very large num-
Der Of our farms mortgaged. In SO far as
the annual interest approaches the amount
of rent paid by the Irish tenant, to just
such extent is the condition of our farm
er IDENTICAL with his and since, with the
amount of the farmers mortgage, as we'll
as the interest, virtually increases, he is in
some respects mere affected by the appre-
citation of gold than the Irish tenant Arch
bishop Walsh presents the question 50 in
diligently, so clearly. and with SO much di-
have very large and useful circulation in
this country.
The price of the pamphlet is only 25 cents,
and it is for sale, wi tn number of other
books on the silver question and the tariff,
by the REPRESENTATIVE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

olence and wisdom. Astonished, Simon was
stricken dumb, waiting with bated breath
10 hear some word from this wonderful
being, who inspired him with awe without
dread, respect without fear, love without
selfishness, reverence without cringing,
perfection in humanity.
AT length the stranger spoke in a low.
musical, solemn tone of voice saying:
Simon, why did you feel such black dispair
when you looked on the desolation that
surround us? Why did you contemplate
rushing -unbidden from your duty? Is there
no nope left because a few petty products
OF mems hands have been destroyed? But
III years have elapsed since what you think
an lrrepairable catastrophe occurred, and
yet had the civilization of 10 years ago con-
tlnued until today more wealth than thou
seest evidence of on the face of the earth
now would have been consumed and gone
from sight, unregretted and unmourned,
FOR what is the measure of civilization but
the power of equitable consumption?
what has been destroyed? Naught but
form; every atom Of material has returned
to the place from whence it came-the eco
nomlcal mother, earth-and from her ample
storehouse 1t can by intelligence be taken
again, and a civilization thousand fold
more glorious arise, founded on justice
wisdom, equality and love.
Listen to me- Simon! And treasure up
the words l shall speak to you for you are
the lot OF no man since the foundat lions of
the earth We're laid. 1t is decreed that you
snail learn the cause of this calamity and
by gathering together thy fellowmen build
up civilization whose foundation shall rest
on the eternal rock of justice, the symbol
of which shall be circle, and motto:
All for each; each for ALL" Where the
liberty of the individual shall be left undis-
turbed to satisfy his wants from the store
house of nature until he interferes with
the liberty of another, and then government
snail be instituted to direct the united eff
fort of all in production, and enforce an
equitable distribution of the joint product
OF all to each," and each shall strive for
the good and happiness of all.
Continued neOt week.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
LABOR DEPARTMENT
I'VE have large circulation in Min.
HON. THos. H. LUCAS. EDITOR.

We have large circulation in Min
neapolis, St. Paul, Duluth and St.
Cloud; among the workingmen; and
we propose to publish in each issue of
the REPRESENTATIVE, a Labor De-
partment, especially devoted to the
cause of urban industry. The Omaha
platform declares that the cause of
rural and city labor is the same; never
theless each has some interests pecu-
liar to itself; hence we think the work
ingmen should be especially represent
ed by one of their own leaders. Mr..
Lucas was member of the Legisla-
ture from Minneapolis, in 1887, and
has the entire confidence of the labor
forces Of the state. He will utter his
own opinions and be alone responsible
for them
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
NOTICE.
Big Stone County Convention.

Notice is hereby given that county con-
vention of the Peoples Party of Big Stone
county, will be held at Clinton, Saturday,
June 49, A. D. 1894, at 10 o'clock a. m for
the purpose of eecting delegates to the
state convention to be held at Minneapolis,
July 10; also to elect a delegate to the
Seventh congressional convention, subject
to call, and delegates to Fourty-ninth SEN
atorial convention, also subject to call. The
bases of representative is to be one at
large one and for every 20 votes or major
fraction thereof, cast for Hon. lgna thus
DCnnelly in year 1892.
A. S. STEPHEN, Chairman.
VIM. NASH, Sec. Co. Cen. Com.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
NOTICE..
Annual Meeting of the Polk County
Alliance.

Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the Polk County Farmers ALI
ance will be held at the court house in
Crookston on Wednesday, the 9th day of
June 1894, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for
the election of officers and the transa ction
Of any other business for the good Of the
order
Each local Alliance is entitled to send
three delegates and the officers Of local ALI
ances are hereby requested to call meet
ings, at any early date, and elect delegates.
ance, among other things the Saltwater
Irvine question will be discussed and full
information given in regard to terms, ETC.
E. e. LOAMEN, President.
j. D. KNUTERSON, Secretary.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

Total families in the United States IL, 69O, lo0
Number living on farms........... 4,ooo,ooo
Number living in homes other than
farms .................:......' o'l",iol
OF the families on farms 81 per cent are
tenants. OF the families living in other
homes than farms 60 per cent are tenants
OF the farm-owning families 80 per cent
have their farms mortgaged. OF the nome
owning families 20 per cent have their
homes mortgaged. Average amount OF
farm mortgage, SLIGO; average amount or
home mortgage, $1,139.
The above statement reduced to numbers
is as follows:
Farm families who own no homes. 1,440, 600
Other families who own no homes. 5,l59, 796
Total families who own no homes 6,599, 19o
Farm families who own mortgaged
homes ............................ 752, 76o
Other families who own mortgaged
homes ELECTROMAGNETIC. 72Oe1s
Total homeless and mortgaged
families o,Violi4
Total families who own their homes
Two-thrds of the families with mort
gagged homes or none at all. Don't we need
a change ?-The Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
TAKE NOTICE.
Third District Congressional Conven-
ton Gail.

ton Gail.
BY order of the committee of the Peo-
pies Party of the Third congressional dis
trict, there will be convention of the Peo-
pies party of the Third congressional dis
trict at Norwood, Carver county, July 8,
1894, to place in nomination a member of
congress for the Third district, and to per-
form such other business as may come be-
fore the convention The representation will
be as follows: One delegate for each coun-
ty at large and one for every so votes or
major fraction thereof cast for the Hon.
F. Borchert for congress in 1892.
GILBERT FISH,
Chairman Third District Committee of Peo-
pies Party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

The highest court in England has decided
that the city of London has the right to
acquire the street railways of that city
at their real value-and that is just what
is being done.
How long will it take to educate the citi-
zens of this school covered city that the
will Of the people is the supreme law of
the land, and that Tom Lowry and his
servants, the council, must obey their man
date.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

The Crisis Of Party, Jacobson. .2s
Great Quadrangular debate be-
twheen Gen. Weaver, Col. Wat
tMsrsog, Rev. conwell and Gen.
Indus trial Depression, Baily.. 80. .25
Geld Germany, by Schilling 49,. rs
Metallic Money and Hard Times,
Holden. ............. %
Industrial Freedom. ............. "a
The Money Question, Maxon. 49,. .25
Protection or Free Trade George. .25
Sketches of Financial History,
Crawford .1O
The Silver QUESTION, Schilling. -. .1O
Government Ownership of Rail-
ways 10
Protection Without Tariff, by
Brown. &c
Peoples Party Shot and Shell,
Bland. ................ 10
PETERS Way Out. ............... 10
Facts and Fiction of Life, Helen
Gardeners New Book. Paper. Sc
The Coming Climax, by Lister G.
Hubbard. Observation-Disclosures. sc
Washington Brown Farmer, by
LIE Roy Armstrong .............. SO
The New Monetary System, by H.
l.. LOucks. 25
Seed Time and Harvest, by S. S.
King 70
The Railroad Question, by VIM.
Larrabee. Cloth. 1.25
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

Wednesday, Goth, L. A. 321 meet at 1923
Nicollet avenue.
Wednesday, goth, l.. A. 1873 meet at Ro-
mans Hall, Washington and Twentieth av-
cues north at p.
Thursday, 21st, Ladies' Assembly, l.. A.
752, 1.-THE Mascot" meets at 1923 Nicollet av-
enue at p. m.
Friday, 22d, j. L. E. B. meets at 1923
Nicollet avenue, at p. m.
Saturday, 23d, L. A. 4014 meets at Nor
deem Hail. $50 Second avenue south.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
THE NEW COMMONWEALTH.

The Great reform paper of New York
1t stands for cooperation for private inter-
ests and nationalism for public interests
One dollar a year. Sample copies free. Ad-
dress the editor, 1MOGENE c. FALES,
705 Macon St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
The FuI1 Extent.

Little Clarence-Pa, what does Congress-
pan Thickneck mean when he says, Upon
my word and honor as gentleman"
Mr.. Callipers-Nothing my son.-Truth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

Remember, that when you deal
with our advertisers you help us to
more advertising; and thereby you
help the cause, which you have at
heart. The prices are away below
what you can get at home. Always
mention the REPRESENTATIVE when
you write for goods or prices.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
Labor Notes.

Young Springer, son of Congressman
Springer, has just been appointed a chap
lain in the army by President Cleveland.
Young Springer is a lawyer by profession,
a politician by instinct, and a government
clerk by occupation. What his qualifica-
tions are in theology and orthodoxy We are
not informed The Prescriptions are, how
ever that there is little religion and less
discipline needed in an institution where
the punishment for insulting and shooting
a captain by his lieutenant is suspension
on half pay for one year, and the loss Of
a pair Of brass spurs by private is pun
ished with six months in a military prison.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
Helping Our Own PAPERS,

The following resolution was passed
by the executive committee of Min
nesota State Farmers Alliance, and
signed as appears below:
Resolved, That the executive COM
mittee of the State Farmers Alliance
urge all Alliance members in the
state to examine carefully the col
umns of the Representative, and
of all the local reform papers of the
state, and to give their trade as far
as possible, to those persons who adj
vertise in such papers; as in this way
manufacturers and tradesmen will be
encouraged to advertise in such re-
form papers, and thus help the cause
of the people.
Ignatius Donnelly, President.
A. II. HendricksOn, Secretary.
p M Dpohctfa16 Trio
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
LAAoR NOTES.

We trust the Times may have the fore
sight to array itself on the side of the In
dustrial millions, not on the land question
merely, but also ON money and transporta-
tation. If it should do this 1 believe it
would soon have the largest circulation of
any daily In the West. We are at the
parting of two ways and the papers which
display courage and humanity will be. the
great dailies of tonorrow.-The Arena.
The Times is with the people on these
subjects, too To the Arena, which is to-
day the only courageous and progressive
review In the United States, we extend the
right hand OF llowship.-Chicago Times.
The tin-star deputy sheriffs of the rural
districts find the law quite as brittle as do
obstreperous strikers. The miners in Col
orado have laid down their arms and ap-
pealed to the militia for protection against
the attacks of legalized mob. The tin
star deputy should be suppressed.-Chicago
Times.
Forty, miners at Washington, Pa, who
threw down their tools and joined the great
strike, were forced back to work at the
point of winchesters in the hands of hired
deputies. Mind you, this did not happen in
Siberia, but in Pennsylvania.-TheT oiler.
"In 1850 there was but one criminal to
every 3,4l0 inhabitants in the United States;
and in 1890 there was one criminal to every
$50 inhabitants" In 1850 there were not q
dozen millionaires, in the United States;
in 1890 there were 1900, this shows that
crime grows and keeps pace with the con-
centration Of wealth. how long at this rate
will the free institutions of this country
take to degenerate into a reign of terror
Which is likely to cost the most, stand
ing army of police, detectives, deputies
and soldiers, with their cQncomitants of
arms and ammunition, jails and poorhouses,
with their train of hollow eyed skeletons
of starved and murdered people; or to adj
minister government with justice, by either
defending the right of all to the gifts of
nature, or taxing the holders of those
gifts and furnishing employment for all?
French government agreed to grant
$290. 900 to trades unionists in 1895 for the
support of aged workmen, with the prom
Use that that sum will be increased from
year to year. U. S. government allows its
aged workmen to beg, steal or starve."
But we have the consolation left to know
that freedom to starve has not been
impaired or likely to be interfered with.
Great thing to have freedom.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

| weaver OOC
Driven from Sea to Sea, by POST. soc
Great Red Dragon, by Voolfolk. >. SOC
| Industrial Club Declaimer, by Vim
cent. soc
The New Crisis, by Bell. ......... soc
Hand Book of Politics, by c. Vim
cent. 25c
The Political Earthquake, by
Stockwell. 25c
In Office; Washington Story, by
| Bogy Csc
Chats on Money, by Bell. .......... Csc
Iocsin of larm, by Jones. ........ 25c
The American Peasant, by lib
| bles. Csc
The Real Issue, by Hull. 25c
Money Monopoly, by Baker. 49,. Csc
Pointers on Mortgages, by Hart
and Rhodybeck ............... 25c
Library Record (flexible) ...... 25c
Peoples Songster Comic by White 10c
Alliance and Labor Songster, by
| Vincent. ................... .1C
Points for Thinkers, by Stockwell, 1Oc
The Straight Of 1t, by Harvey. -. 1Oc
Demands of the Peoples Party.
| (Speech) by Beaumont. .......... 1Oc
Keifer's Minute Book for 125 meet
| 1ngS, cloth. .......... 81 q
Farmers Side (cloth) by PETER. /. Il
Looking Backward, by Bellamy.
Cloth, $l.10, paper soc. ........
The Railway Problem, Stickney.. 81
Railways of Europe and America,
| by Marion Todd. .............. sc
| Whittier Are We Drifting. ..... l. 81
| Aurraphohe ..................... 81
| A Plutocracy: or, American White
| Slavery ................. .5t
An Honest Lawyer, Kerr. ........ 81
Thirty Years of Labor, Powderly. 81
A Common Man, Bogy............ 81
A Cooperative Commonwealth,
| G1onlund ..................... 81
Member of the Third House. -. 81
Jason Edwards, An Average Man 81
Prairie Folks. ................. 81
Better Days, or the Millionaire Of
Tomorrow, Fitch. .............. 81
A Kentucky Colonel, o. P. Reed. 81
The Indiana Man: or Liquor in
Politics, Armstrong. ........... 81
Progress and Poverty, George. -. 81
A Strike of the Millionaires
Against the Miners. ............ 81
In Darkest England, by Gen. -
Philosophy of Price, by Dunning. 81
Trials and Triumphs OF Labor,
by De Bernard. ............ s.
Not a Revolt, a Revolution, Wat
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-19

A portion of his address was as follows:
Nevada may be said to be a child of
California, as the greater part of its
early settlers were Californians, and,
like the pioneers of 40, they were of the
best material and braved the many hard
ships and privations in crossing the
mountains of perpetual snow, and enter
ed what vas then a sagebrush desert,
inhabited only by hostile Indians. Their
work OF the development of our mines
was phenomenal, and for thirty years
our people enjoyed a wonderful degree
OF prosperity. Our miners and laboring
men received a higher rate OF wages
than was ever before paid for the same
class Of labor in this or any other
country.
During this time our mines yielded
nearly 5000, 10000 in gold and silver
bullion, which we think a very fair
showing for a State having q population
Of about one-seventh that of the city of
San Francisco.
In common with all other silver min
ing communities our mining industries
are now suffering in consequence of
adverse and we think unwise legislation,
which will be corrected when the
American people decide to dispense
with the services of selfish, partisan
politicians, who serve their masters and
elect in their stead honest, able,
patriotic American statesman who will
labor for the best interests of America
and Americans rather than for foreign
capitalists,
When Governor Colcord's address was
ended Cassasa's band played a march
written for the occasion by J. p. Meeder
and dedicated to Commissioner Yering-
ton. Then the President introduced the
FIRST Governor Of Nevada, H. G. Blais-
dell, and the latter was followed by ex-
Governor John ii. Kinkead, Charles E.
Laughton, Rollin M. Daggett, q. G.
Powning, D. E. Bailey, Major Stonehill,
Major Sherman, H. G. Creswell, Wells
Drury, ]. A. Stevens, w. d. Jones and
s. T. Gage.-Examiner.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-19
They Bit.

On an afternoon a few days ago A. J.
Willis and R. M. Macpherson slipped a.
way from Truckee to Bonner Lake to
"catch'' a basket of fish. That this lie
| the '~'close" season for California trout
did not bother them, but it does bother
the members of the Truckee Sporting
Club who are always on the lookout for
poachers. When Willis and Macpher-
son gos back to Truckee they had several
we'll filed baskets under their coats,
which fact did not escape the eyes of the
president of the club, Stewart Mckay,
who stepped ur to Willis and ran his
hand into the basket. We can only ex-
press the result in the words of Byron:
"He found, no matter what,
Twas not what he sought"
Stewart was satisfied however and sent
for Fish Commissioner Billy O'Neil who
officially examined Macpherson's basket
to his sorrow. While Mckay and o.
Neil were consoling each other the fish
ermen made their escape correctly think
ing that Truckee has "1sh" that do not
swim in lake or river and two fine speci-
mems were landed.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-19
A DAY.

1t was a genuine Nevada day, and the
glorious promises made for the State and
the open hospitality displayed within
the building were as big as the fossil
footprints or n of the stories that Sam
Davis brought down from Carson.
Several hundred people from Nevada
we're in the throng that listened to the
speeches. George w. Baker, who was
introduced by Commissioner Yerington,
President Of the Day, vas the first
speaker. He said that he was proud Of
his State, and that if all other States
should see fit to declare war upon New
ada he would be found modestly in the
ranks.
The next address vas by Director
General de Young. lfri
GOVERNOR oLcoRD TALKS SILVER.
Governor Colcord was greeted by
Cassasa's band with "Hail to the Chief"