The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27
AN OLD PARTY LIE.
Stick to the Ballot Box.-Avoid All
Violence,

| AN OLD PARTY LIE.
Stick to the Ballot Box.-Avoid All
Violence.
| Some paid liar of the old-party press
got up the following as the words of
Secretary of State Osborn, of Kansas,
| culating it notwiths landing his denial
that he ever said anything like it and
his statement that its author made it
out Of whole cloth. We publish it to
show to what lengths the hirelings of
the old-party press will go:
~ want to make prediction.
There will be no overt act until the
next election. Then, simultaneously,
flames will shoot up into the air from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and every
palatial residence will be destroyed in
the uprising of the people. Woe unto
them, then, who have sought to stay
this tide. For the past six months
the farmers have been preparing for
this. They are selling a horse or
COW and buying a Winchester and
many mechanics are doing the same"
And all this shows how anxious the
Plutocracy are that the people should
refuse to use the ballot box and resort
to violence. Then they become rebels,
anarchists and the United States
army will be called on to shoot them
down,
This has been one of the dangers of
any Identification of the Peoples Par
ty with the Coxeyits, because of a
natural sympathy with wretchedness.
The Ia cf rorort q no m o+fop,v% Lo.
been planned to blow up the Capitol
at Washington. What would be easier
than for our enemies to set some
scamps at work to. explode can of
dynamite on the front step of that
building, tear down a column or two,
smash the windows, and perhaps kill
an innocent man or woman; and then
throw the whole blame on the Peo-
pies Party. This was the game the
English government played with the
Irish for generations. Ii they could
only prosecute them into an armed in
surrection it was all right:-the army
killed few hundred, lot more were
transported and all reform was rem
dered impossible for another genera
tion. Keep your heads clear and cool,
brethren. If it ever becomes evident
that the majority cannot address their
grievances at the ballot box, and
that free institutions are crushed
beneath the weight of their own
machinery, then it will be time
enough to talk Of the inherent. funda-
mental, God-given right of Revolu-
tion. But that point has not been
reached. A majority of our people
have not yet tried to use the ballot
box for their own protection. Don't
be switched aside, therefore, into tur-
bulence: but try to make your minority q
majority. How? By the personal ap-
peals to your neighbors; by the distri-
button of reform literature: by the
support of Populistic newspapers: by
taking a lively interest in caucuses.
conventions, public meetings, etc. In
short educate your friends and neighbors
to see things as they really are. Let all
your utterances be firm. decisive, but
reasonable. See how plutocracy in
vents, as in the case of State Secre-
tary Osborn, of Kansas, given above
lies out of whole. cloth, foreboding
universal anarchy, and puts them in
the mouths of our leaders: and spreads
them all over the country. to make it
appear that we are lot of Johan
Mosts and Pendergasts, rushing out
with guns and torches to destroy the
civilization. We are nothing of the
kind. We do not intend to resort to
the military methods of the men of
1776, until we have utterly exhausted
the beneflcient machinery of govern
ment, devised and transmitted to us,
by those same men of 1776. I'D.