The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-01
OUR NEW VOLUME,
Our Paper's Past Two Years.

OON NEW NOLO ME-
Our Papers Past Two Years.
With this issue we begin the publ
tion of the third volume OF The
REPRESENTATIVE. 1t is natural for
to stop at this point of time and
Cast a reflective eye backward over the
\Oeriod since it was born, in the early
ring of 1893.
1t was a bold venture. The ALI
hoes had contributed few hundred
dollars; some that was pledged has
never been paid, because Of the strin-
gent financial conditions. With this
pitiful sum we started the paper.
There was journal here at that time,
called the Great West;" it had the
field largely preoccupici. The proofs
+ were conclusive that it had sold the
: people out, for Republican money in
he campaigns of 1890 and 1892; it was
moral certainty that it would do so
ain in 1894 and 1896, if it had the
iportunity. We did not want quar-
with it; but new paper was ne
bsity. We said to them, "the state
large; there is room for two papers,
yes for dozen. Go ahead in your
rticular line, as free lance. We
ali speak for the Alliance, "as their
Recognized organ" But the publisher
pf the "Great West" would not have
1t that way. Long before our first
number appeared the lood-gates of
abuse were opened upon it and US.
Mr.. Fish declared he would rip us up
the back" and that one paper or the
other must die at once: and week af-
ter week .Pe covered us with reeking
On, not in paragraphs or
Us &.one but in whole pages. 1t
an attempt to BLACKBOARD us off
~ face Of the earth. The poor fell
Tow had not sense enough to rene M
Der that ADLER and greater men than
he had tried the experiment for a
quarter of a century; that we had
lived on SANDER: it was our bread and
butter; we had fattened on abuse and
grown rosy and exuberant and jubi-
liant under the entrated fire of
the capitalistic class of the whole
Northwest We had been so accus-
toned to the rOars of circle of furi-
GUS lions that the yelpings of soli-
tary wolf, in the background had no
terrors for us. We could say with
Macbeth:
"The time has been my senses would have
To hear night shrek; and my fell of hair
As lie n ave a tf
horrors;
Direnss familiar to my slaughterous tho'ts
cannot once start me-.
We had fought the behemoths and
the leviathans of the great deep, and
wQre not to be appalled, by very small
flh kicking up tempest in a wash
/basin.
And so he passed out of the range of
our vision and out of the state. The
places that knew him will know him no
more forever. Only at such an ami
versary period as this is it justifable
to remind men that this Triton of the
minnows had ever existed. He is
gone-the abyss has swallowed him.
Peace to his memory.
But a more dangerous enemy con-
fronted us:-The crisis of 1893 was UP
L
like row Of bricks;-Menage explod-
ed; = the newspapers everywhere
cracked like dry thCrnS under a pot,
and went up in smoke:-terror and de-
struction settled down upon every
thing like death-pall; no man could
trust his neighbor half as far as he
could throw him; the pitcher was
cracked at the we'll and the bottom
was out OF the tub. Through it all
THE REPRESENTATIVE waded chin
deep in the floods, but it held it's head
up, and SO we reached the end of our
first volume.
Then came some kind, old-tirne
friends, in Minneapolis. who. think
ing it would be benefit to the town
to have so able and vigorous paper
published in it, approached us with
proposition to leave st. Paul and re-
move to the Flour city, and they
pledged US, in writing, liberal sup
port, in advertising, if we would do so.
We had no ill-will towards St. Paul,
and had many kind friends there, but
the tender Of such generous support
was not to be resisted, especially in
such time of suffering and panic;
and for year this city has had the
high honor of being the place Of pub
LEGATION of what many have seen fit to
call ''the greatest reform newspaper
the United States"
Md we undertake to say that a
DQFspaper which eSpouses the
he
mon people, and advocates righteous
measures for the good of all classes,
unbought by money and unawed by
\power, is, in this degenerate age. a
grander, nobler and rarer sight than
Ill the mills and elevators of Mime
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