The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-10
QUOTATIONS.
BY T. G. HODGsON.

case is not as bad as it might be.
Some Of US thought you were an in
corrigible crank but the experts pro-
nounce you only a mild lunatic.
There is more hope for you yet than
some of the rest of us.
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BY the way, why didn't the Mime
apolis fellows have the gumption to
lodge the lunacy complaint against
John II. Burke. What a world of
trouble they would have avoided.
Look out Burke? The successful in
generation of Frank HOskins will
only whet their appetites for bigger
game.
However, we can all rejoice that
the banks of Fergus Falls are vindi-
Gated and that their vindication in
volved nothing more than the sacri-
Solid! POUNDS! Gibralter is an
evanescent dream compared with
those impregnable institutions at the
falls of the poetic Otter Tail.
What God-send it is that in these
flush democratic times of restored
confidence we have great inter
national question to fight over and
keep ourselves from stagnating.
How edifying to behold great party
in congress straining every nerve to
put the president in hole and the
other party standing guard night
and day to keep him out. How in
spring to behold the government
and the congress spending the peO-
pies time and money in an excited
discussion over the question whether
a few half-civilized islands, two thOuS-
and miles from our coast, shall be
governed by band of Yankee plum
derers or corrupt and dissolute ma
tive court. Talk about Nero fiddling
while Rome was burning! Why there
is no comparison. Henceforth give
Nero a rest.
There is an enterprising eating
house down in Illinois where soup is
served for one cent. Walk up and
fill up, we hungry millions. Why
starve to death in a country flowing
with one cent soup? "What kind
of soup is it?" Well that is not adj
vertised. 1t is probably like that
described by Mr.. Donnelly in one of his
campaigns as follows. Take small
lean chicken, dress and hang up in
the window SO that it's shadow will
fall on a pot of boiling water. Let
boil for three hours, then cool and
serve in doses of one teaSpoonful
every four hours. BY the way, why
couldn't some energetic Minneapolis
man start a similar institution for
the benefit of the state farmers alli-
ance? There's food for thought in
this suggestion. How thankful the
people who are out of bread should
be that they can still have plenty of
food for thought.
We are making history so fast that
the dictionaries can't keep up to the
times. Terms and meanings change
with grand rapidity. For the ben
eft of the young who would be mis-
lead by the dictionaries and CYCLIC
pedias, give few modern defini-
tiOns herewith: A Famine is a con-
ditiOn of want and starvation among
the masses, brought on by mighty
surplus.
A Goldbag is financial philanthro-
pist.
A Binetallist is financial hernia
phrodite.
A G1eenbacker is a financial mon
strosity.
What is debt of honor?
There is no such thing; it has be-
come extinct. We used to think that
the greenback was debt of honor,
but the financiers have shown us that
there is no honor in debt that does
not draw interest, and experience has
taught us that there is no honor in a
debt that does draw interest.
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A correspondent inquiries how one
must proceed in order to make liv-
ing on the interest of what one owes.
You will have to organize railroad
corporation-get subsidy from con-
gress and bonuses from counties
towns and cities along the proposed
route. Build and bond for three
times what it is worth. Issue stock
and declare dividends. If you wish
to rake in pile you should bankrupt
after bonding, then organize a new
corporation and buy up the bankrupt
concern. There's millions in it.
Just as we 20 to the postoffice word
comes that the supreme court has
declared the state warehouse law un-
That's right, gentle
men Tho 1oric1of,,ro cbo,,1l l,cxxo