The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
QUOTATIONS.
Thomas C. HOdgsOn INDUCES In
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Thomas C. Hodgson INDUCES in
Some.
To the Editor:
The Farmers Alliance is a pretty old
institution, when you come to trace up
it's pedigree.
The earliest organization 1 have yet dis
covered is recorded in I. Samuel, 22:1-2:
David therefore departed thence and es-
capped to the cave of Adullam. >
And everyone that was in distress, and
everyone that was in debt, and everyone
that was disconnected gathered them
selves unto him, and he became captain
over them, and there were with him about
400 men,"
That was a typical Farmers Alliance
and good strong one. 1t was organized
in cave and in ememy's country, but
1T succeeded and eventually overthrow the
dynasty, which had brought dept, dis
tress and discomfort upon the masses. Let
us take courage.
Popuism is also very ancient. 1t was
not born at st. Louis or at Omaha, either
Here is an address delivered 565 years ago.
by man named John Ball. an English
clergyman:
Good people, by what right are they
On what grounds have they deserved it?
Why do they hold us in serfage? If we
all came out of the same father and
mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they
say or prove that they are better than
we, If it be not that they make us earn
for them by our toll what they spend in
their pride? They are clothed in velvet
and warm in their furs and their ermines
while we are covered with rags. They
have wine and spices and fair bread, and
we oat cake and straw and water to drink
They have leisure and fine houses; we
have pain and labor, the rain and the
winds in the field. And yet it is of US
and Of our toll that these men hold their
state. "-Green's Larger History of the
English People
And the historian adds: ct was the
tyranny of property that then reused the
spirit of socialism,.
Green hits it exactly. Tyranny of prop
erty.' There may have been a time when
the people were afflicted. with a tyranny
of religion. At other times it was
tyranny of political rulers. But it is now
what is was in England in the Fourteenth
Century, tyranny ofbproperty." Verify,
what a demagogue that John Ball was
He was every whit as bad as Owen or
Donnelly. But history somehow neglects
to mention it. 80
To add to what has already been said
about Cleveland and the government finan-
CeS is NeTlldDlo cruelty TO ANIMALS. only
wish to remark that the developments in
this country since election have been so
much worse than we Populsts predicted
that it actually astonshes ourselves The
farce now going on at Washington makes
one feel ashamed of his kind. For 20 years
our people have been demanding business
administration and they have got what
they wanted. They've got it bad" How
long before they will cry out for a states
man? Here is one that is ready to trade
off a million business men for a single
statesman and give the other party pick
and choice" at that But, lord! how they
would be cheated. l relent. 1 have no
spite against other nations, and a million
of our smartest business men would ruin
any nation under heaven. India has been
plundered and ruined by business men.
Egypt is today the awful victim of bust
ness administrati ton. The poor Indian of
North America can only escape into OBJ
llvlon from the grip of the monster "busi-
ness" Nothing desolates like business
and when the people demanded business
administration they courted desolation,
and they have got it. "Wheatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap"
There is all the difference between states
manshp and business that there is between
greed and philanthropy. statesman is
necessarily a philanthropist of the highest
rank. A model business man is one who
has reduced selfishness to a science. He
has been a success in the line of self
agrandisement. What folly to think he
would be success in the line of public
ACCOMPLISHMENT. Can the leopard change
his spots or the Ethiopian his skim" No
more can successful business man be a
successful statesman. Gladstone is no
business man; yet he has done work that
true business man could have transformed
into millions. Jefferson was born rich for
his time. He married a fortune and was
buried at the government expense But
the true grandeur of his craftsmanship is
only just beginning to be valued at it's
worth Lincoln will never be quoted as a
business man. His one venture in the line
Of business was dismal failure. But he
stands for high water mark on American
craftsmanship Behold the trinity,
Greed, Business, Diabolism. These three
are one.
Uncle Sam was very sick He had been
ailing a long time. At length the doctor
was called in. He Diagnosed the case and
decided that the patient was suffering from
a great lack Of blood. well, doctor, what
shall we do for him?'
The doctor looked wise for while, and
said: 1--WE must bleed him. but if that
does not cure?" WELL we will have to
bleed him some more, and keep on bleed
ing until we produce a change"
Does it take a prophet to fOretell the
kind of change that treatment will pro-
duce? Varily, a. "wayfaring man though
a foop' can see the end of such a policy.
o, for statesman!
T. H. HODGSON.
Bright's Spring.
Sergeant alarms Bright, of the senate