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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24

We have received a copy of Percy
Kinnard's new book 1.-THE Science of
Legal Robbery" very strong and
able work, on the financial question.
The Sunday Times Of Nashville,
Tenn, says:
with the laborious research and
close analysis Of the trained lawyer,
it's author has followed the financial
legislation Of America from the
Colonial Fathers down. It is the first
complete history Of it in consecutive
order, and the subject of money is dis
cussed in the cold, calm light Of pure
science. Congressman, irrespective of
party, may study it's pages with profit.
There is world of enlightenment in
it to our lawmakers who are I'M
bought and conscientious. To the
people Of the United States, whether
borrowers or lenders of money, it is
instructive; to the high school lad,
studying political economy and cur
rency, it is a liberal education. No
more timely or useful contribution to
the financial literature Of the times
has yet appeared. It should have
wide circulation"
Our examination Of the work leads
us to the conclusion that this praise
Is not at all overstated.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
THE GREAT DEBATE,
HORR VERSUS HARVEY.

HORR VERSUS HARVEY.
We relinquish considerable space to
full report of the great debate now
progressing, in Chicago, between our
old friend Horrible Horr and "Coin,"
w. II. Harvey, of the finan-
cial books which have created such a
stir in the country. Next week we
shall give more of it, and SO on until
we print it ALL
The debate was gotten up by the
Gold Bugs. They were going to wipe
Harvey and his opinions off the face
of the earth-sweep them into outer
most space. But he and they don't
sweep worth cent. Mr.. Harvey has
conducted himself with admirable
tact and self-control, and he has over
laid Horr so completely as to cause{a
feeling of sympathy for that flamboy-
ant but crushed wind-bag. The dis
gusted Plutocrats now want the
whole thing stopped. The Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican pa
per of the Northwest, says:
"The Horr- Harvey hippodrome pro-
ceeds by easy stages to a natural
death. Returning prosperity, con ira
dictory as it may seem, robbed Mr..
Harvey of his means Of livelihood
some time ago. People are too busy
harvesting or making and selling
goods these days to pay attention to a
lOng-winded discussion"
Some one gave the other day new
version of the familiar fable, first told
by Esop. of the fox that could not reach
the grapes, and contented himself
with the reflection that they were
probably sour anyhow. The new YER
sion is that the fox said, ut is for
tunate l cannot reach them, for il
swallowed the seeds they might give
me appendicitis" We are reminded
of this by the Tribune's reference to
the great debate as "long-winded
discussion" and "hippodrome." 1t
is easy TO see whose OK is gored.
The Plutocratic disgust was so great
that the press companies refused to
give Harvey's part Of the debate, and
the Penny Press had to send on to
Chicago and make special efforts to
obtain it. We copy from them and
hence our readers will have that
which the readers Of the morning
dailies will not have-a full report
Read it and pass it around among the
doubling Thomases in your neightor-
hood.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24

salaries to keep them loyal. All kings
do. But the wealth of the United
States is at stake. There are about
fourteen million Of voters. Many OF
these will vote the monopolist tickets
through interest or ignorance. To
hold plurality might require the
bribinR Of five million voters. II they
paid 500 a vote 1t would cost only 500
million dollars while the stakes
amount to $4,000 million dollars! See
1t? Rather than lose they can pay
S.. 900 each to country election boards
to count out honest votes and retain a
majority. They will do it rather than
free the 10 million slaves who think
they are free American citizens. They
have all to lose. The people have
nothing to lose and a world to gain!-
Coming Nation.
There is great deal Of truth in
this. We expect to see the Populists
carry the country next year, and we
should not be surprised to see Plutoc-
racy try to overthrow the result by
force
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
DEATH OF THE COMING NATION

THE WORK OF FOOLS AND KNAVES.
Our readers will learn with deep re-
greet, from the announcement in an
other column, that Mr.. J. A. Wayland,
the very able editor of that remarka-
BILE paper, THE Coming Nation" has
been forced to dissolve his connection
with the journal he built up, out of
his own brains, and remove from the
colony he had esta blished at Tennessee
City, Tenn. It will now be the "Going
Nation" for it will go down as rapidly
as it went up. The whole thing was
but the thought-power OF Mr.. Way
land. It has been rebellion of the
pigmies against the giant. They are
hunting around to find some one to
take his place. They will hunt in
vain. Such men are not found on
every bush. It will be like the Irish
party, when it threw Parnell over.
board, and imagined they could find a
dozen Parnells In their own ranks.
The result is Parnell is dead and the
Irish people are farther from Home
Rule than they were fifty years ago
We shrewdly suspect that Plutocra-
cy sent some cunning fellows into the
colony to do just what has been done.
They have closed for time one of the
most potent mouths in America, and
destroyed paper which has attained
a circulation of so, 900 copies.
Mr.. Wayland made mistake in try.
ing to overcome the great evils of So
ciety by establishing little colony
an oasis in the midst of a desert OF
misgovernment. The remedy for tine
worlds errors is by the ballot box, OF
failing the ballot box, revolution. You
might just as we'll attempt to suck
the salt out of the ocean with rye
straw as to reform the world by found.
ing colony.
We trust Mr.. Waylond will not des-
pair at the treatment he has received
from the impractical bles. Let him &C
to some central point, like Chicago
and start another paper, and sound
the bugle-call and his friends will rally
around him as one man; and the fel.
lows who kicked him out Of the Com.
ing Nation will think cyclone has
struck what is left of their plant.
The whole thing is conspiracy
against genius and philanthropy
which stirs every honest heart to in.
dignation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
OUR THYME.
IT GIVES SATISFACTION.

1T GIVES SATISFACTION.
Mr.. Peter Shippman, of LIE Sueur
Center, Mimi, writes us: II have re-
oeived my Sisal Irvine. It is o. K
first quality. We saved $1.20 per hun.
dred from the lowest figures we could
obtain from dealers" Mr.. Shippman
expresses his satifaction with the
amount we must have saved the farm
ers of this state.
Mr.. Ole X. Sebo. of Porter, Mimi,
writes us that he is we'll satifed with
his Irvine, and thanks US for what we
saved him.
Mr.. P. Curtin, of Echo, MINI. writes
US, "thev say your Irvine is very good"
D. S. Christensen, of Georgeville,
Mimi, says: ''The Irvine I ordered is
received and I am we'll satisfied with
it,
We get similar letters from all over
the Northwest.
Next year we will make our arrange
ments to supply every Populist and
Alliance member in this region of
Of country with Irvine at inside prices.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
THE CLERGYMEN.

They are getting great many hard
whacks nowadays, for the indiffer-
ence most of them show for the welfa re
of the people.
These significant lines have lately
appeared:
AMONG THE PREACHERS.
''It is summer in thy world, o Lord
white;
Vast crowds are waiting to receive thy
And pitifui blind eyes ask for Thy Light.
1--WE know, for Thou hast taught us, how
the sad
Coming to Thee, with life and light. are
Shall we not go to them and make them
glad?
Is this the time for us to be at rest?
And here is a Kansas story:
Something new. even in the matter
of standing off the preacher. has been
discovered. and in Kansas. When the
new dominic called on Farmer Tom
Wilson, of Rock Creek, Jefferson coun-
ty, week or SO since for donation
toward his salary, Mr.. Wilson said he
had no money, but would give two
rows Of potatoes, each 20 rods long.
If the Lord wants you you to get $40
from me-" said the farmer, "He will
water the potatoes well, and I will be
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
SHEER NONSENSE.
GROSS MISREPRESENTATION
NALISM.

0hOSO M1ShGE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NALISM.
The TIN Of July was not a good time
for the meeting of a party that pro-
fesses itself the quintessence Of Amer
iconism and yet would go to Russia
and China for financial policy. The
less the government interferes with
the sacred rights Of the individual the
better. II our government bought
the crops and loaned money on farm
mortgages. does even the most jealous
Populist believe the holders
void rule the debtors with rods Of
observation-disclosures.
Now the fellow who wrote that
knew perfectly well that the Populists
never proposed to buy the crops. That
is bold-faced lie, to flavor his other
misrepresentation.
''The less the government interferes
with the sacred rights of the individ-
ual the better"
Indeed! Then what crime it was
for the law to put Harry Hayward in
prison, under sentence of death. for
trying to increase his fortune by the
transformations and modest removal of
Miss Cling. Harry had sacred
right" to get rich-as we all have,-
and it is sheer Paternalism to inter-
fere with him. Harry believed in
''The good old rule, the simple plan,
That they shall take who have the power
And they shall keep who can"
This creed antedated civilization
and Christianity. All history is full
of it. Primal man was a marauder
and murderer-a Harry Payward.
Harry is firmly Of the opinion that
mankind is governed too much. "
And Paternalism, in it's foolish care
for the poor milliner, is about to choke
"the sacred rights" out of this scion
Of aristocracy at the end of rope.
Turn Harry and Blixt out and abol-
ish all law, for the principal cause and
excuse of all law is paternalism.
Paternalism! In the name Of God,
why would men pay the expense of
supporting government If they did not
believe it would play the part of a
father to them, and protect them?
And Paternalism is simply Fother-
we pray to Him every day to take care
OF us. as father cares for his child
rem. Why don't these knaves call up
on the Greater to shut up heaven, fore
60 his "Paternalism," and let the
devil run the universe?
Go into court Of justice. What is
it but Paternalism? The power of the
All put forth for the Protection Of the
One. Paternalism is benevolence; it
is charity: it is fair play; it is civiliza-
ton.
What do these knaves want when
they denounce Paternalism?
They desire to open the gates and
break down the barriers, so that the
strong plunderers may work their
sweet will upon unhappy mankind.
Simply that and nothing more.
Instead of abridging Paternalism
we should enlarge it. until every
wrong is righted and this earth made
a Paradise, radiant under the smiles
of God.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
MORE BAD LAW.

Mr.. Joshua O.. Cater, Of st. Cloud,
Mimi, called to see us the other day.
He is good deal exercised, and very
properly, over a recent decision of our
Supreme Court. A telephone COM
pany set up it's poles and stretched
it's wires along the front Of his farm
for three miles, without so much as
saying, "by your leave" or "thank
you" There is provision of the con-
stitution of this state, or was when
we looked at its last, for the Supreme
Court may have wiped it out in the
meantime,-a provision, (Sec. Is. Art.
y, that reads as follows:-''private
property shall not be taken for public
use without just compensation there
for, first paid or secured" and Mr..
Cater, being plain man, a farmer,
and Populist, was fool enough to
think the constitution of the state of
Minnesota amounted to something,
and he therefore objected and went
to law with the "Hello'' fellows. It
is a we'll defined principle of law that
the title to the land embraced in pub
lie roads remains in the owners of the
land, and that the public has only an
easement or privilege Of travelling up
on it. Now the right to put up poles
and wires and make money off them is
different thing from travelling over
road on foot, or horseback, in wagon
or on bicycle; but majority Of our
ENTHUSIASTICALLY admired Su-
preme Court INDUCED in lot Of fine
spun theorizing about new inven.
tions, and held, practically, that a
public road could be taken and used
for telephones or telegraphs or rail-
roads or anything else; and that the
man who owned the land had not the
right to even say Boo to them. All
of which illustrates how little thing
the constitution is and how Zig a
thing the Supreme Court is. We can
see the former sliding down the
throat of the latter, with the people
hanging on to it's coat-tails, and shout
ing to the spirit OF Tom Jefferson and
Andy Jackson for help.
We are glad to learn that Chief
Justice Start and Judge Buck dissent.
ed from this decision. A little leaven
leaveneth great mass; and a couple
of handfuls Of salt may arrest decom.
position even in spoiled ham.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS.

It has been pleasure to US to carry
q great many Of you during these hard
times. We do not want to dun you
now. We will simply ask that when
you sell load of rye or barley or pota-
toes, or wheat, you will remember
that down in this corner Of creation
there is a newspaper, called THE REP
REsENTATIvE, which is fighting your
battle to the best Of its ability. And
don't be content with simply paying
up arrearages, with something in ad-
vance, but send us in two or three new
names, and so spread the light of
truth and the gospel Of righteousness.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
GET THE PEOPLE AT WORK.

PETER says: ''Get the people at
work." What has PETER ever done to
"get them at work?'-Minneapolis
Journal.
Now that's what we call smart. But
what has the editor of the Journal
ever done to get the people at work.
What has he not done to arrest pros
perity, close up the factories and de-
prive the producers OF an opportunity
to make living?
What has Cush Davis done to ''get
the people at work?" What has the
whole Republican party done? They
demonetzed silver and broke down all
values; and set people to swindling
each other, killing each other and
committing suicide. And now their
ink-slinging, word-mongering, lie-con-
structing editors pertly ask questions
like the foregoing.
But isn't Senator PETER right when
he proposes to set the people at work?
Is it not better than the Republican
program of soup houses and machine
guns?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
GETTING IN THEIR WORK.

Hon. Peter McGrath, of Good Thun-
der, orders some Irvine and adds, at
the end of his letter: 1.-The Irvine
Trust is getting in its work in this
section"
That means they are putting up
their price because of the Irvine fam
inc. II it had not been for 1.-THE REP
REsENTATIvE" the State Prison Board
would have asked seven to 10 cents for
their Irvine. We have saved an i'm
mense sum to the farmers of the
Northwest.
And yet Solem, of the Ugeblad, Of
Fergus Falls, thinks we ought to have
urged the farmers, in the midst of
their poverty, to pay higher prices for
their Irvine! What is the matter with
him? Who is he working for? Ger
tainly not for the farmers.
We are in favor of the State Prison
Irvine plant If 1t furnishes its taoi,ae as
cheap as others. We never undertook to
sell Irvine until the Warden wrote us
that they could not compete with
Eagle & Co.'s prices. the Alliance Sc
cured the es establishment Of the Irvine
factory in the penitentiary, to reduce
the price of Irvine, not to increase it.
They very properly reasoned that with
free labor, free shops, free machinery
and everything else free, except the
raw material, worth about two cents
pound), they ought to sell Irvine
cheaper than any other factory in the
world. But the shameful spectacle is
presented of the peoples factory ask
ing two cents pound more for Irvine
than it could be bought for elsewhere.
1t is all wrong. There is bad manage
ment or treachery somewhere.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
ANOTHER INVASION.

THE JUDGES USURPING THE POWER
OF JURIEs.
We haye repeatedly shown that the
courts are persistently absorbing the
rights of the people. Here is another
sample of it:
Cleveland, O., July pa few weeks
ago jury in the United States dis
trict court gave verdict of $50, 900
against the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road company. in favor of Charles
Henthrone, who lost both arms in an
accident. A motion for a new trial
was asked. Judge Kicks has an
nounced that, in his opinion, the YER
dict was too great, and was largely
based, he believed, on testimony that
the company knew the engineer who
caused the accident to be hard
drinker, and still employed him.
Judge Kicks stated that an eXamina-
tion Of the company's pay rolls re-
vealed the fact that the engineer was
not in the company's service at the
time of the accident. Henthorne's
counsel was informed by the court
that if a Judgment of $4,000, half the
amount awarded by the jury, was ac-
cepted, the motion for new trial
WOuIu w OVeTTuleQ. uuSe HICKS gave
as another reason for his action the
fact that in the adjacent court dis
trict on the west a jury recently al
lowed only $12 900 damages in a case
exactly similar.
The right Of trial by jury is guaran-
teed in the national and all the state
constitutions, and there is no warrant
anywhere for such an exercise CT pow
er on the part of the court, 1t simply
takes the whole matter out Of the
hands Of the jury; and says to the
plaintiff ',ce think you should have SO
much; and if you are not satisfied
with our judgment we will continue
to grant new trials until we find a
jury that will think as we do"
The courts as rule stand as a sort
of buffer" between the corporations
and the judgment of that tribunal
which is, by law and constitution, the
sole judge of the facts.
Would Judge Kicks submit to have
both his arms cut off, by railroad
train, for $4,000? No; not for $780,
600; not for 81, 100000. And yet he sits
there to scale verdicts and protect
corporations.
The courts must be curbed or all
the rights of man will disappear in
their internal maws.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
ORGANIZE!
GET READY FOR FREE FIGHT.

And you think you can win when
you get majority, do you? Did you
ever sit down and count the odds
against you? It is the purpose Of the
ruling classes to rule you, just as much
so in this country as in Europe OF
Asia, and they are going to rule you
by fair means or foul means. They
rely on force and bribery, All kings
do. They will not give up the reins
of government when they are out
voted. The king and mobiles do not
abdicate when they realize that a ma
jority of the people do not want to
support them. They devise means to
prevent the majority from knowing
that the majority are against them.
Now they have the army and navy,
have them in hands they feel they can
trust and thev VA" those officers big
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
LSSACHAR.

'sThe Blessing of Issachar" was the
theme of Rev. Robert Hammond Cot
toms morning sermon at st. James
Church yesterday. He selected as his
text Genesis XIX, IA and Is:
''Issachar is strong ass crouching
down between two burdens; and he
saw that rest was good, and the land
that it was pleasant; and bowed his
shoulder to bear. and became serv-
ant uuto tribute"
Issachar belonged to the Republican
party. He was diligent reader Of
the Pioneer Press and admired Piles,
the wife smasher; he was in favor Of
the characterization of silver. If he
produced 1000 shekels worth Of figs
and dates, and wheat and barley, and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
THE LUMBER COMBINE.

HELP THE INDEPENDENT COMPANY.
The St. Paul Dispatch prints the
following special:
lumber manufacturers, it is learned
here today. may soon be put on the
defensive in boycott against them,
which, it is said, will soon be inaugu-
rated by the Northwestern Lumber.
mems association, the cause being
that Winona firms sell to the Union
Lumber company, which does bust
hess here and at ROchest ter, Mankato
and Lake City. The Union company
cuts under the prices Of the retail
dealers belonging to the Northwest.
ern association, and the associa tion
desires to force it out of the field or
cause it as much trouble as possible.
The Secretary Of the Northwestern
association recently visited here to
try and induce the manufacture rS
here to refuse to sell to the Union
company, but without success. Hence
the Preparations for boycott. e. S.
Youmans, of Youmans Bros. g. Hodg-
kins, said their firm will not be die
tated to, and il the retail dealers be-
longing to the Northwestern associa-
tion refuse to buy Of them they will
establish their own yards in that ter
ritory, if necessary. Other Winona
firms will undoubtedly take this
stand, although M. n. Norton, Of Laird
& Norton, when interviewed, said he
knew nothing of the matter.
We urge our friends in Southern
Minnesota and elsewhere to give
their patronage to Youman's Broth
ers and all others who are fighting the
Ring. This lumber combine is one Of
the meanest our farmers have to con.
tend with. We urge our friends in
western and northwestern Minnesota
and the Dakotas to correspond with
Youmans & Co., and get them to es-
tablish lumber yards in their respec-
tive localities. Stand by those who
give you competition and thereby re-
lease you from commercial bondage.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
LAUGHABLE.
The Minneapolis Journal saws:

The Minneapolis Journal says:
The Globe places itself in the FORE
font Of the champions Of the indus
try and wage-wrecklng policy in de-
handing that the Democra tic party
shall carry out it's "abolish protec-
tion" pledge of 1892. 1t. is well to
know where the Democrats really
stand. .e. .-....
Observe the efforts of the scamps to
revive the old dead tariff issue! The
Plutocratic-D Democratic Globe says the
Democracy must stand by the tariff
plank of 1892. And the Plutocratic-
Republican Journal says: "Ah! Mrs.
Murphy is it there you are? We will
fight you on that question every day
in the year." And thus they begin the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
GROWING.

L. D. Foster, of St. Cloud, writes us
1.-THE Peoples Party is growing here
every day." The same news reaches
us from all parts of the country 1t
begins to look as if the Demo
cratic rank and file would come over in
platoons, regiments and armies. They
begin to see that their leaders are
"playing them for suckers in the in
terest Of the Money-power."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24

the sick man, "Don't you think it is
great deal OF mustard for very little
mate?"
That will be the condition of things
next year in this country. There
won't be enough old-party mate left
for the mustard plaster Of Populism
to attach itself to.
Healthy reaction! We should say
so. 1t promises to react both the old
parties out Of existence.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
THE SCHEME.

The Democrats proclaim "sound
money and free trade' while the Re-
publicans are demanding Sound mon
ey and protection" The aim Of the
gold wing Of both parties will be to
force the money question into the
shadow of the tariff issue and thus
again silence the attempt to secure
for the United States a financial sys-
tenn of their own.-Madison Indepen-
dent Press.
It cannot be done. The Tariff issue
is dearer than Rameses. There is no
galvanic battery in the world that
can revive it. People laugh when il
is talked about.
The money question will be the IS.
sue in 1895.