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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
THE STATE ENRICHED.
1t Gets %2O,OOO for Pine Timber Fro
One Party.


Mr.. Donnelly's committee is doing big
work. The Mineaponlis Tribune says:
Late Saturday night the case against the
H. c. Akeley Lumber Company, pending in
Itasca county and the two cases against
Ramsey county, were settled by the at
torneys Harris Richardson for the state
and James A. Kellogg for the companies
1.-The state asked that the permit to the
H. c. Akeley Lumber Company be can
lumber taken by it. The Akeley Company
that the prices agreed therein were more
than the lumber is worth at the present
time, and the Itasca was willing to pay for
the timber actually taken, but claimed that
the amount demanded by the state was I'M
reasonable and excessive. The Itasca Com
pany has never paid for any timber, owing
to the controversy over the amount. BY the
agreement the permit is Cancelled and the
Akeley Lumber Company relieved from the
performance of its contract, while the Itasca
company pays the state $4,000 in full for all
timber taken.
The Itasca had cut timber under the per-
NIT to the Akeley Company, but the latter
mad never cut any timber"
The committee has spent about s., 900, and
already the state receives 500, 600, with other
suits pending for hundreds of thousands of
dollars. If the PopUlsts were in possess
sion of the state there would be terrible
stirring up of this pine matter The peo-
pie should elect Legislature that will fol-
low up this inquiry.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
SOUND VIEWS

= From the Father of the House.
Congressman Holman Oem.) of Indiana,
says:
Il believe the South and West will force
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
in the near future. The veto of the Bland
bill leaves without any legislation look
ing to the future coinage of silver. Inter-
national agreement will never come. 1t is
my belief that the present war on silver
has a very serious purpose behind it, and
emanates from the creditor class of the
whole world. The gold-bearing debt of the
worlds nations, exclusive of individual
debt, is $4,000 geo 600. and, is steadily increas-
ing. The supply of gold is gradually de-
creasing. Its coinage decreased from $147,-
G09,OOO in 1881 to $99,900,Q09 in 1883. The mo-
tive behind the war on silver by the credi-
tor class is to contract the currency of the
world and make gold the sole standard
If this ever comes about, money will grad
ually become scarcer and interest rates
higher, because the; supply of gold is d.
nlinishing, while a. greater per cent of it
every year is going into the arts POliti-
cally, the effect Of tho veto will be to in
crease the strength of the third party move
ment. 1t is a fact that both the old parties
have been untrue to their pledges in regard
to silver but there is a greater per cent of
the Democratic party in favor of free coin
age than of Republicans"
Mr.. Holman regards the action of the
South American republics, in proposing to
decline to pay the interest on their bonded
debts at the present price OF silver as a
very important movement. and one which
will ultimately aid in solving the silver
problem He says that all those countries
which are tributary to England, either ter
ritoria1Iy or commercially, will demand BIZ
.metallism, and that England herself will
be forced. in time, to adopt bimetallic
system In the interest of her commerce with
other nations that can from natural causes.
have no other money than silver.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
HOW LONG CAN THE ROBBERY con.
TiNCE:


DO the monopoists for one minute sup
pose they can continue forever in combin-
ing and squeezing profits out of the people?
DO they think that the people will some
time wake up and demand restitution for
all the wrongs imposed? Do they think
human nature can stand everything that
the devilish ingenuity that avarice and
greed can concoct? How far do they think
combinations may expand? Until all the
property is in the control of one man?
That is the logical conclusion of continued
combination for private profit. 1t is no.
ticeable today that the few who have mon
opolized the oil are not satisfied with their
colossal Incomes but engaged in
absorbing the copper, the iron and the ag-
riculture OF the nation. Where will it stop?
How little do they propose the masses of
mankind shall have to live on and produce
for them? And what per cent of the peo-
pie do they propose to employ at such
wages? And what do they propose to do
with those they do not employ? And to
whom will they sell the products of those
they employ, if the wages paid are not
enough to buy back all they create? Who
will buy the goods if the people have little
or no wages? These are questions it would
be well for the rich to ask themselves
they are questions that must and will be
answered before many seasons shall have
come ana gone. In what way do the rich
desire them answered? In what way do
the millions of poor desire them answered :?
Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
IMPORTANT.

We call the especial attention of
our readers to our advertisements.
The firms stand we'll and are reliable.
We would also call your attention to
the following resolution adopted
unanimously at the State Farmers
Alliace convention:
Resolved, That the state alliance
heartily approves of the work of the
REPRESENTATIVE newspaper. 1t
was established by the vote of the
alliance at our last meeting with
capital furnished by the local alli-
ances. 1t has defended the prin-
ciples of the alliance, it has aft orded
means of communication between
members of the alliance and it has
labored to promote harmony and
good will in the organization. We
call upon all members of the alliance
to do their best to increase it's circu-
lation, and we would request each To-
cal alliance to subscribe for att least
one share of stock for the paper.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
Meeting of the State Central Commit
tee.

The state central committee of the Peo-
pies party met at the Merchants hotel
IN ST Paul April %, 1894 Those present
OF the committee We're Thos. j. Mieghen
chairman; Robert Eckford, assistant sec
rotary; DR.. f. F. Clark, S. P. Rasmussen,
Z. L. Graves, NJ. Wesenburg and |. DON
nelly proxy for c. n Perkins; others pres
emit Hon. S. NJ. Owen, T. Fl. Lucas, H. B.
Martin, A. Kruger, A. L. Stromberg, Judge
summer Ladd, Stevens, A. Van Hemert
and Major Hotchkiss. 1t was decided to
hold the state convention in Minneapolis
not earlier than June 25 and not later than
july 10, and committee of three consist
ing OF e. F. Clark Summer Ladd, and T.
H. Lucas were appointed a committee to
arrange for hall and reduced rates. The
basis or representation was arranged as
follows: Two delegates from each county
ana one for every fifty votes, or major
traction thereof, cast for Hon. I. Donnelly
for governor in 1892. The following resolu-
ton was adopted:
Resolved, That the state committee of
the Peoples party respectfully requests the
chairman of each county committee to at
once call his county committee together
and thoroughly organize his county by the
appointment of a township committee
(Where none now exist of not less than
thfee members, and to request each of
these town committees to take steps to see
that the Peoples party in their respective
towns is represented at their county con-
Vention to elect delegates to attend the
state convention.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
ne amount of fsooo, 900, or 80 600 ooo for the

the amount Of f., goo, or '4o,oooooo, for the
Same purpose. and get, with all this money
and food. snnfovtunate people died SO
fast that carpehtefs could not supply .oof-
fms nor the bYEial grounds graves in which
to put the corpses.'f1 ..f.r-.r
If conservative Bagland can do this why
cannot the Unified States. where the people
are the government, do as much? The
limit of 5000 as to value of farms pro-
posed by the 1judge would be too high
for many parts Off the West, and would
shut out the eSma3t farmers, who espec-
tally need to be- helped But this is mat
ter, of details But his valuable article
shows what can be done and coming from
a leading representative of the most. CON
sentative church in country, shows
how the light of struth and progress is
spreading everywhere. @+s[
Take couragei' brethren, public opinion is
moving with us. The time is not far. dis
tant when it will be considered an insult
to mans intelligence to talk to him
about the tariff. in the face of the awful
wrongs and crimes which are destroying
the nation. l. D,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
should Have II Million Subscribers.

From the Albert Lea Standard: The Rep
resentat1ve, which is already one of the
greatest reform papers in the country. has
accepted an offer Of leading merchants and
other pubic-sprited citizens of Minneapolis
to move to that city, being assured adver-
Using and patronage sufficient to guarantee
increased prosperity, and this weeks issue
will be enlarged to a seven-column, SPACE
sheet hlled with Ignatius Donnely's best
thoughts, and trimming full of stirring
Populst doctrines. We are glad to note
TINS new Improvement and are pleased to
commend the paper to readers 1t
ought to be in the home of every freeman
and to have a million subscribers
Aberdeen Star: The Representative the
official paper of the Farmers Alliance in
Minnesota, edited by Ignatius Donnelly re-
moves this week from st. Paul to Min
neapolis. The removal is caused by a
promise of better support in the way of ad-
Vertising from the Minneapolis merchants
The Representative is now just a year old
and will celebrate the event by issuing an
edition OF 25600. The paper is vigorous, and
entertaining. 1t is well worthy of the sup
port of the Minnesota Alliance people and
evidently is receiving it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09

To Members of the National Farmers AL
lance, Greeting:

To Members of the National Farmers AL
lance Greeting:
1t having been reported to me that GER
tain men, claiming to be agents for the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Co., have been
soliciting you to insure in their company
under the pretense that the recent National
Alliance Council, at Topeka, kas., Endorsed
the recommendation of that company by
the Executive Committee, l take this means
of notifying all Alliance members every
where that such statements, if made, are
untrue. The National Council refused to
approve of that part of the Executive Com
mittees report recommending Mutual Life
of New York, and the committee was in
structed to so amend the charter of the Ma
tional Alliance and National Aid so as to
make the Aid Degree directly and solely in
charge of the National Alliance and In
duStrial Union. l. f. DEAN,
Member of Executive Committee.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
PENNSYLVANIA POPJLISTS MEET.
Speakers Predict Dire Things at the
HnrrisburG Conventions.

HARRISBURG, May To-day the Peo-
pies party state convention was held in
this city, and was attended by a large num-
Der of delegates. J. E. Leslie city editor
of the McKeesport Herald, was chosen as
temporary chairman. In his speech to the
convention, among other things, he said:
IF the time ever was when wisdom and
broad patriotism should characterize our
deliberations, that time is now The eyes
of the whole state and union are upon us
praying that We in some direct or indirect
way, may be the means of restoring our
struggling and oppressed citizens to new
realization and consciousness of their SOW
ereignty. The political party which over
looks the misery and distress existing in
this country is not fit to live. We are on
the eve of a political revoIution:eNpd 1
venture that it will break in all its fury
long before 1885, Today we seem to be
nearing victory, and the noble standard
Equal rights to ALL special privileges to
none, should inspire noblest efforts
and at the same time attract to our column
thousands of downtrodden citizens who
hesitate between the ballot and the bullet
as Il means of wrestling their rights from
the usurperS. Let us go into this fight with
a religious faith in our principles, and by
our very ZealouSnesS and activity throw
CONSERVATION into the ranks of the pluto
cratic horde who for years have been fat
tenng on the partisan prejudices of the
people Nominate good men, stand the
broad principle of justice, and the revclu-
ton is at hand"
The following message was sent to ]. S.
Coxey at Washington, d. c., this after
noon:
1.-The Populist convention of Pennsylvania
now in session sends greeting, and eX-
presses the hope that you will receive a
fair hearing for the principles you have so
nobly advanced"
The platform adopted is substantially the
same as that adopted by the Willamsport
convention. After several adjournments
the following ticket was nominated tonight:
Governor, j. T. Altman, Juniata; lieuten-
ant-governor, James B. Aiken, Washington
county; auditor-general Abram Louder
Erie; secretary of internal affairs, w. M
Desher, Berks; congressmen-at-large Vic
tor A. Letter, MontOur: B. F. Greenman
Bradford. The secret ballot, which is ad-
vocated by the Populists. was used in de-
Gliding all questions. but proved to be a
very tedious way of disposing of business
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
JUDGE IVES.


CROOKSTON, April 2S.-Mr. Editor: In
your last weeks issue appears an article
from the pen Of Mr. j. @. Cronkhite, where
in he proposes Judge Frank Ives, of this
fhe Fourteenth) judicial circuit, as candi-
date for the supreme bench. No better or
more timely nomination could have been
made. In the contest now before us none
but the best men available for the filling of
positions of public trust should be consid-
cred Especially is this true of the judi
ciary. If all signs do not fail, the duties
that will devolve upon the incumbents Of
this department of our government during
the coming term will be such as to demand
that they be in possession of all the best
qualities that go to make up the man.
Cases will no doubt come before them in
volving questions deeper and more delicate
than those provided for by any of our laws
or our constitution, questions reaching
down into the very foundation of moral
equity.
No mere legal machine will suffice Men
are wanted. Mr.. Cronkhite has pointed out
a man. The Fourteenth judicial district
will swear by him. and your correspondent
feels highly gratifed at the opportunity of
seconding SO worthy a nomination
p. M. RJNGDAT.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
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 ad-
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.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09

eugene Fields sweetest poem.)
Sometime there ben a lyttel boy
That wolde not renne and play,
And helpless like that little tyke
Ben allWaiS in the way.
Goe, make you merrie with the rest
His weary moder cried;
But with a frown he catcht her gown
And hong until her side
That boy did love his moder well,
Which spake him faire, l ween;
He loved to stand and hold her hand
And ken her with his cen;
His cosset bleated in the croft,
His toys UNDECIDED lay
He wolde not goe, but tarrying soc.
Ben alwais in the way.
Godde loveth children and doth grid
His throne with such as these,
And He doth smile in plaisaunce while
They cluster at His knees;
And sometime, when He looked on earth
And watched the BARNS at play,
He kennel with joy n lyttel boy
Ben allwais in the way
And then moder felt her heart
How that it ben to torne-
She kissed each day till she ben gray
The shoon he used to worne;
No BARN let hold until her gown
Nor played upon the f1oore-
Codes was the joy; lyttel boy
Ben in the way no more.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
A MADMAN'S RAWLINGS.
A Terrible story.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-I was walk
ing along Market street the other morning,
reveling as usual in the flowers that line
the curbstones of that thoroughfare, when
my attention was attracted by placard
swinging from the entrance to phono-
graph establishment.
Come in it read, "and hear the rawlings
of John Mccullough in his cell at Bloom
ingdaler
| had known the great actor in his life
time, and many night had sat enthralled
by the magic of his genius. So it was with
a Well-defined thrill of nervous horror tina t
l entered the establishment, inserted the
two rubber tubes of the instrument within
my ears and caught the familiar tones Of
that deep voice, hushed for long years in
death. Anyone who has ever heard the
great tragedians rendering of 'Nirginius'
could not fail to recognize the master
voice in this photographic rendition But
woven through it, like a strain of inefface-
able blood in rich fabric, runs the awful
impress of madness. 1t lends to the lines
an awfulness impossible to describe. And
when the impaSsioned utterances break off
in a wild peal of laughter that seems so
real that the listener involuntarly drops
his hold and glances over shoulder to see
what hooking fiend is at his elbow, the
effect becomes indeScribable in its in
tenslty. | hope it may never chance to any
one who reads these lines to hear a mad
mans laugh, but should such an experience
be theirs they will have some idea of the
impression made by the photograph in
strument that caught the echoes Of poor
McCulloughs maniac mirth and perpetu-
ated it forever upon its delicate pla ties of
magnetized steel The sharp catches TO-.
breath, the rafting in the throat, the wild
shouts and nasal spasms, all were there I'M
TIL half faint with horror, l dropped the
tubes and staggered from the place.
mot for amounted kingdoms would i
allow you to listen to that thing" said l to
the Y. p, who suggested that she follow in
my footsteps. Come, let us look up some
thing cheerful
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09

In discussing the situation in the Mon
tana Alliance three years ago, we said the
people had ceased to respect the law which
had then become an element of force, and
that the labor world was then in moral
rebellion, which closely allied to ply
steal rebellion" In view of the present
situation, the words then uttered appear
now to have been prophetic, for if this ma
ton is not in physical revolution, it is so
closely allied to it that spark would
burst into flame all the horrors of civil
war. No patriotic citizen can view the
vast army of unemployed, modifying and
marching by thousands towards the ma
TONS capital, with feelings other than of
the keenest anxiety. The movement has
progressed beyond a jest and it will re-
quire the wisest and most liberal states
manship to prevent a war of destruction.
No one can see the outcome of this modern
crusade. All along the line of march the
army receives nothing but kind treatment
from the people and curses from the rail
road corporations, and by the time it
reaches territory tributary to the national
capital it is safe TO say that fully 20JG1o
will be in line. This is an enormous
body of men and once angered or driven to
despera ton by taunts and insults, God
alone can foresee the wOeful results to
follow.
Our representatives in Washington as
sumo to be masters instead of servants of
the people, and indicate a determination to
meet this army of petitioners with force
instead of giving them respectful hearing
and doing something for the relief of the
unemployed. We hope wise counsel will
prevail, because the first man shot down
by order of any military commander back
ed by congress, will be the signal for the
torch to flash from Boston to Galveston,
and every armory razed, every gatling
gun spiked and destroyed and every engine
erected by the plutocracy with which to
murder the people thrown from it's founda-
ton.
We are among :trying times and the best
conservatives wisdom of every good citizen
should be brought into play to prevent the
disasters we have suggested.-The Montana
Silverite.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
STYLISH SHOES EREF,
Remember the Number.

We have rented room 3U6 Boston
Block, Minneapolis for the business
headquarters of the REPRESENTA-
TIVE and the Farmers Alliance In
surance company, and also of the
Alliance Business Agency. Come in
and see us. The Boston Block is one
of the finest buildings in Minneapolis;
it is at the corner of Hennepin and
Third Streets.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
POPS AND GRAIN GROWERS.
Their State Conventions to Be Held
Here in July.

Here in July.
Negotiations are pending which will prob
ably result in securing Harmonic Hall for
the state convention of the Peoples party
to be held in Minneapolis early in july.
Inc board of trade is conducting the ne
sotlatlons and the rental price will be
raised by private subscriptions among the
business men of the city. Following the
Peoples party convention, the grain grow
ers of the state will hold three days
session in the same place. The two bodies
VIII occupy a week with their delibera-
lions and it is promised that 1000 persons
outside of the city will be in attendance
Minneapolis Journal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
Another PONIIliSt Paner.

We have received a copy of "7he Er-
ponent" (PopulisD paper, of Buffalo, N.
Y. 1t is small sheet, but full of sub
stance and thought. A clear-headed
man is editing it. May it spread the
light in the land of darkness. Success
to it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09

OFFICERS OF THE STATE ALLIANCE.
HON IGNATIUS DONNELI.Y, President.
Ryan Hotel, St. Paul
A. II. HENDRICKSON, Secretary.
Sank Centre, Mimi.
r. NJ. PROBSTFIELD, Treasurer.
Underwood, MINI.
L. c. LONG, State Lecturer,
Magnolia Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09

Notice is hereby given to the members of
the county committee of the Peoples
Party of Wright county, and to all sup
porters of said party, that meeting of said
committee will be held at Buffalo, Mimi
on saturday, the twenty-sixth day of May
1874, for the purpose of perfecting county
organization. HAROLD w. ROLL,
Chairman County Committee