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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
EUREKA.
WE HAVE FOUND IT-GIVE UP POTA-
TOES AND RAISE COTTON.

WE HAVE FOUND IT-GIVE UP POTA-
TOES AND RAISE COTTON.
Each year brings us more to realize
the almost unlimited resources yet to
De used by the progressive and observ-
ing farmers, who make up the states
popufatFoBl tn anEreat extent. Many
new products are being raised and ex-
perimented upon. We have an expert
mental farm for this purpose, which
turns out new ideas to the citizens Of
the state each year. Near Wabasha a
farmer has been experimenting with
cotton and has a good zig patch about
ready to pick.-Wheaton Footprints.
All There we have it at last. Let
us hear no more of the demonctiza-
tlon of silver and the depreciation in
the price of wheat, Cotton is the
thing! And if anything more is need
ed there are pineapples and bananas.
Joe Wheelock said we had a sub-trop-
ical climate. Nobody quite under
stood what that meant; but we think
Joe will after he gets to his long home.
But how nice it will be when the Their
mometer falls to 30 below zero to go
out and pick cotton and gather ba-
mans around Wheaton,? How the fresh
air Qorty miles an hour will play
around your scanty Central American
garments land freeze the sweat on your
handsome neither limbs, SO that they
will crackle as you walk
Is it not a,CfMl to think that such
fools should have the publishing of
newspapers in this afflicted sta tie?
They help to demonetize silver; to re-
duce the per capita Of currency from
1854 to less than IS; and shrink it still
farther last year, by contracting it
100000 more; load on us $13, 900, 900 Of
taxes annually; break down the value
of all our productions more than half,
and then poke their green gosling
faces oyer the fence and tell US to raise
potatoes and cotton!
Holy Moses! And will the farmers
sustain such internal fools and knaves?
Fools in brain and knaves in purpose!
Have we fallen so low that majority
of us will vote as these scamps want
us to?
Better that we make John Norrish
dictator with LIE Duck as commander
in chief. l grant that they are fools,
but they are not fools enough to
preach such stuff as that.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
TAKE NOTICE.

We have tried to avoid assailing any
man who processes to be Populist.
but there is point where forbearance
ceases to be virtue, and we have pro-
crossed two hundred miles beyond
that point; and next week we shall
have some thing to say about drunk
en- creature, to whom we have hereto
fore been most merciful, and who is
running around Minneapolis trying to
injure this paper. If he got his just
deserts he would be in the state prison
at Saltwater. And there are two 9TH
er frauds of the same kidney we may
have to discuss somewhat. When the
flies leave the beer barrels and insist
on biting you the best thing you can
do is to stop all other work and smash
them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

the whole world. Lord Roseberry did
US no good. The government pays off
the landlord, gives us the land and
charges us per cent on the money for
1orty-nine years. which pays both prin-
clpal and interest, and the land will
then be- FREE SfIqent, like America
But what are we going to do during
those 40 years, as we get almost moth
ing for what we have to sell: Our
farmers are leaving their lands un-
titled and purchasing and living on
American produce, so you are getting
al! our money. Our population is di.
minishing RAPIDLY. do not thing we
have four million people all told"
The landlords and the money-lords
are on top there as here:-the Tories
swept the British islands the other
day, just as the Republicans did this
country in 1894. God help the world,
for the devil of Plutocracy has got it
by the throat.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
TRUE-BUT NOT TO BE SPOKEN.
The MINNEAPOLIS Tribune saws:

ue MlunedpOllS tribune says:
The COurier-J ournal, summing up
the political situation in Kentucky,
says: 1.-THE Democratic party under
it's present conditions is not a party at
all; it is simply monster without
head, running loose through the will
derness of political incertitude. This
also describes the condition of the
Democratic party in Minnesota, and
perhaps in the nation at large.
Now every word of this will be con-
coded to be true, but the Republican
papers should be the last to quote it.
Why it was the $4,000 Democratic
votes that elected Knute Nelson last
fall, and saved the state from going
Populist, and preserved the splendid
prosperity which we now enjoy! And
now you call the Democracy "a mon
ster without head. running loose
through the Wilderness" Certainly
it had no head when it elected Knute,
but do not shock the world with your
shameless ingratitude. 1t may be the
Minnesota Democrats are fools with
few exceptions). but even fool don't
like to be publicly kicked-and they
might get mad and vote the-Prohibi-
tiOn-ticket next time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
MORE OF IT.

Too few farmers and too large farms.
Too many owing on their lands and
too much interest paid. Too many
farmers compelled to sell what they
raise at any price offered to liquidate
what they owe for land that is no prac-
tical value to them. Change these
conditions by placing moderate price
on what land you have under your con-
troll more Than is bringing you rev.
enuue and sell it. Then farm what
you have left as though you had
rental tax of S. to S. an acre to pay a
landlord.-Granite Falls Tribune.
That means separate yourself from
part of your land, and then work like
the devil and the thieves will soon
take the rest of it. Not a word aga inst
the robbers, but suggestions to disso-
ciate yourself from the land and be-
come a serf.
Oh these old party papers are a lot
OF daisies;-fragrant, sweet smelling
daisies
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
PERPETUAL MOTION.

The question of perpetual motion
has been solved by Populist genius:
Rags make paper.
Paper makes money.
Money makes banks.
Banks make loans.
Loans make poverty.
Poverty makes rags.
Rags make-Well, you stop here and
commence over again and keep on go
ing until the COWS come home. Road.
Or you might put it this way:
Greed makes contraction of the cur
rency.
Contraction of the currency makes
poverty.
Poverty makes further shriukage
of all values.
This decreases enterprise and causes
further contraction and shrinkage.
These in turn assail tho very securi-
ties held by greed and whelm all in
common ruin.
And ruin leads to violence and viO-
lence to the death of liberty. And the
nation has to chose at last, between
anarchy and despotism.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

scientific way Of milking a cow,
strange as it may appear. The way we
ungentle hands, force the unwilling
milk from our cows, would make the
Danish farmer stand aghast.-Brook-
ings Press.
Why SO tender of the cows and so
unmindful Of the fellows that own
the cows? What say you of the wheat
rings and elevator-rings, and meat
rings and lumber rings and railroad
rings, and all the rest. that are milk
ing the farmers, and with "ungentIe
hands" forcing the tactical fluid from
their glands? Is COW more pre-
cious than man? Oh blind leaders
Of the blind
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
BUY SCALES-IT PAYS.

An amusing little incident hap
pened near where l live. last week.
A farmer took load of oats to Has
tings and sold them to buyer for Is
cents bushel and received his pay.
Then he said to the buyer:-"I
weighed those oats before I left home,
and have the witnesses, and you have
cheated me in the weight-so much. 1
want $50, and if you do not pay me l
will have you arrested and sent to
prison." The buyer refused to pay
the money. In little while the farm
er returned with the sheriff. The
honest buyer began to realize the
beauties of the situation, and he Of
fered the farmer $50. No-he in
creased his price-he wanted 800. The
buyer paid it quick! And was mighty
glad to get off so easily.
This illustrates the truth of what
we have often said, that there has
been enough money stolen from the
farmers Of Minnesota, by the buyers,
elevator men and millers, during the
last Is years, to pave all hell with gold
from center to circumference:-yes,
and to erect gold statues around the
front door, to Satan, Beezlebub, Baal,
Moloch, Judas: Benedict Arnold. John
Sherman, Grover Cleveland, and all
the rest of the noble friends of man
kind.
We had an experience Is years ago.
of an instructive and amusing kind.
We were farming in Stevens county,
Minnesota. and had an immense crop
Of wheat. We were threshlng one
mile from Donnelly station, and haul
ing it in to the elevator at that point.
The yield was large and the grain
heavy, and we filled the half bushel
measures as full as they would hold.
A stroked bushel would weigh 60 lbs,
and yet 25 sacks of four of these full,
heaped half bushels would weigh at
the elevator from Al to 40 bushels,
never SO. knew l was being cheat
ed, but men were too scarce to weigh
it at the machine; and so l sent note
with the next load, to the depot agent,
to- lend me his scales, which would
weigh about 500 pounds; and instruct
ed the teamster to stop at the elevat-
or on his way back, and let the grain
buyer see the scales.
I stood those scales along side of the
threshing machine, but never weighed
a sack with them, and after that
every wagon load scent over so bushels,
same as high as 5S9
II there had been hanging bee at
that elevator / think I should have
lent hand, and contributed literally
to the purchase of rope.
Some years ago in Hastings the buy
ers used to keep, behind their doors, q
list Of all farmers acho oacned scales, and
when they saw farmer coming with
load, they would consult the list before
adjusting the scales!
And they were nearly all Republi-
cans, and believe in "honest money"
today-God bless them
Z BnyIs scales, obrethren, and 60 in to
maked s9A1e money. Club together,
three or four, and buy set. You
will save the price many times over in
one year. The buyers have been gut
ting you for quarter of century.
See if you can not get the gives on
them. 1t will help you out in these
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
SCALES.

It got out through our compositors
that we would have an article this
week urging the farmers to buy scales,
and thereupon one of our advertising
agents went to work to secure an ad-
vertisement of some scale company.
The great firms like Fairbanks, Howe,
etcs.. did not seem to have any desire
to deal directly with the farmers; but
G. D. Holbrook & Co., of 3O5 Third
street south. in this city, gave us an
advertisement, which appears in an
other column. Tneir prices are very
low. Write them and they will fur
nish all information needed. They are
a reliable house.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
PAY UP BRETHREN.

Don't forget to pay up your sub
scription. We are in the midst of
men who want to see this paper die,
and are doing all they can to kill it.
If the farmers and workingmen do
not stand by it nothing can be ex-
pected from the business classes. 1t
is true we are fighting their battle,
but they have not sense enough to see
it. The money is rolling in at lively
rate, but we want more,-mOre,-
mOre-until we are out of debt and
little laid up for rainy day. A
small amount from each one Of our
large family will do it.
Pay up and get your neighbor to
subs cribe
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

There has never been so many East
ern capitalists visiting the Northwest
ia one SeaSOn-or in several seasons
as there has been this fall. The big
crops of the Northwestern states have
been heralded all over the country.
and Eastern capital is looking this
way for Observation-Disclosures Tri-
bune.
Yes: for investment in wheat at 40
cents, oats at 10 cents, barley at 20
cents and potatoes at cents. They
gather like vultures to the carcass;
and the old party papers Cry OUT
"How sweet they smell! See how they
gather! Good times are coming again!
The vultures are FULL"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

The Gazette is forced to take from
its scrap book the remarkable address
of Senator Davis before the professors
and students of the Michigan Univer-
sity in 1856, in view Of that gentle
man S attitude on the consolidation Of
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
citc. The man of 1886 is unlike the
senator Of today. The man said:
1.-THE spirit of feudalism walks the
earth and haunts the institutions OF
today. in the great corporations with
their control of the national highways,
their occupation of great domains,
their power to tax, their cynical con-
tempt for law, their sorcery to debase
most gifted men to the capacity of
splendid slaves, their pollution of the
ermine of the judge and the robe of
the senator, their aggregation in one
man of wealth SO enormous as to make
Croesus seem pauper, their picked,
paid and skilled retainers, who are
summoned by the message of electrici-
ty and appear upon the wings of
steam. Redwood Gazette.
And now he is the chiefest advocate
of railroad consolidation-the one al
together lovely from gold-bug plat
form. 1t were better to remain in
private life than to be conspicuous for
deSertion Of the truth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

Wisconsin has a new kind of strike.
A gang of potatoe pickers, paid two
cents bushel for basketing Pingree's
pride's, quit work at Black River Falls
when asked to go over the field twice.
st. Paul Globe.
Why this is pure anarchy! The foun-
dations Of society are endangered. Call
out the military, Grover, and force
those arrogant nabobs to gather those
potatoes at the poiat of the bayonet.
Our liberties must be preserved.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
Il POPULIST PAPER
FOR WINONA COUNTY.

A competent writer and printer
wants to start a Peoples Party paper
in Winona county; if he receives some
financial encouragement. This coun-
ty gave 1900 Populist votes last fall,
and ought to support good paper.
Write to Duplex" care of The REP
RESENTATIvE.
We must all begin to get ready for
the great fight of 1896. There ought
to be Populist paper in every large
county in the state. Forty cent wheat,
Is cent oats and 10 cent potatoes are
great vOte-makers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

hard times. The State government
won't protect you-See il You cannot
protect yourselves. One hundred dol
lars would come very handy nova
days. You could take a dozen copies
OF The REPRESENTATIVE for your
friends and chip in $50 for the cam
paign fund. Hunt thieves. friends;-
1t is royal sport and doing good serv-
ice. Buy scales and hunt thieves!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
ALL OVER THE WORLD.

The characterization of silver, the
increase in the purchasing power of
the gold dollar and the corresponding
fall of prices, are getting in their per-
feet work in every part of the planet.
A friend writes us from Ireland as fol-
lows:
"Our oats are worth 6to pence az
or IA cents)s "a stone;' "a stone is about
IA pounds); our farmers are in the last
stages OF poverty, as. they get such
small prices for everything they have
to sell. fear this depression is over
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

Richard Gerdes, who was sent to the
St. Peter insane asylum short time
ago, died from the utter collapse of his
nerves in that place one day last week.
Bonds had been given for his release,
but then he was too far gone. Mr..
Gerdes, not more than year ago, was
a merchant at Morgan, but failure in
business caused him to lose his mind.
Arlington Enterprise.
Another victim of the Gold Bugs.
Why does not God give the spirits of
the victims of greed the power to
haunt and torture their oppressors?
How Wall street and Thread-needle
street would resound with shrieks and
groans! A large part of hell is now
occupied with the battles betwee
dead Plutocrats and the suicides and
criminals sent there by their inhuman
arts.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
ORA WING THE MILK

Talk about scientific education, we
need all the science we can command
in the common things that appear
easy to master. There is scientific
way Of feeding hogs and cattle. A
scientific way Of working up bacon,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16
BOSH!

After all, it will not be the farmer
who has raised the most wheat, but
one who has diversified his farming
most, and has something else to sell
besides wheat, who will be the best
Oft when the books are balanced for
the year.-Warren Sheaf.
Still trying to humbug the people.
"Diversitication of industries" That
is what the thieves have preached in
Minnesota for quarter of century.
While they stole the profits on our
wheat they shouted, DIVERSITY"
When last years dreadful conditions
fell upon US they shrieked, -"Raise
potatoes!" And now this scamp
breaches ication-with wheat
at 40 cents, oats at 12c and barley at
20 cents.
The farmers ought to diversity by
hanging few old-party editors.
Raise telegraph poles and ropes and
adorn them with the bodies of traitor
Gus scamps, who live off the people and
lie to them to ruin them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

A good deal has been said about the
difference between Ignatius Donnelly
and Sidney M. Owen. The difference,
expressed in votes, is the. difference
between the 81. 900 which Mr.. Donnel-
ly received and the $1,000 which Mr..
Owen received.-St. Paul Dispatch
And that difference was largely due
to the fact that Mr.. Donnelly ran in
the presidential year and Mr.. Owen in
the off year. Mr.. Donnelly, when a
candidate for governor, ran ahead of
the electoral ticket of his party about
10000 votes. And his vote was nearly
10000 instead Of 37,000-it was 1852.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16

One of the attorneys who took a
prominent part in preparing the argu
ments before the Supreme court said:
1.-THE decision will prove the falsity
of the argument made that if this
law was declared unconstitutional the
government would have to refund the
millions paid under the income tax
law Of war time. / tell you, the courts
of this land are more poCeJM than the leg
islatiue or erecutive branches of the gorern-
ment, aud euen the a7my.
or course they are: This is no long
er Republic-it is moneyed oil
garchy. The laws have to be strained
through the golden seive of the courts,
and half dozen men decide the rights
of mankind
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-25
NET IN THE DARK.
Narrow Escape Of Two Rapid
Bicvclists.


A exciting incident Of the fire com,
motion Saturday night was an &C.
cident which occurred on NORTH
Broadway A. P. Glimpse rode up to
the Upshaw residence to give the
alarm Of fire. julius Miller was com
ing down the the street toward the
ire A team bound north turned up
to the house at the same time. In
the wagon were DR.. Bethel, W. B.
Flora and two other gentlemen.
Both cyclists saw the team but
neither saw the other. They turned
to the middle Of the road and met
with a crash. Miller was riding
fastest and was not hurt. Glimpse
was picked up senseless and taken
to Henry Harger's where he lay in q
faint for more than an hour. DR..
Bethel cared for him until DR.. Felty
arrived. About 2 o'clock he was
taken to his brothers. This morn.
ing he Is able to be out, though with
a bruised face and the recollection OF
a narrow escape from death. He was
struck on tho head, producing con-
cussion Of the brain. His wheel was
a wreck and the broken parts were
sent to the factory today for repairs.
The accident shows the necessity of
bicycle lamps and an ordinance re-
quiring them should be passed. and
enforced.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-25
BLAZBD IN TIE MIGHT.
UPsHAw FURNITURE AND CAR.
PET co. BURNED OUT.
Fire Starts in the Third Story Of
the Fine Block on Broadway and
Does $4,000 Damage-A Long
Hard Fight With the Flames.

The most disastrous fire that has
visited Abilene in many years oc-
CURED Saturday night, breaking out
in the third story Of the Upshaw
Furniture and Carpet Cos fine block
about 1880. D. T. Keller and J. c.
Porter first saw it. They thought
some one was in the building with a
lamp. There was a flash in the north
east corner and then all was dark.
They gave the alarm and soon fire.
men and citizens were present in
large numbers. Many ladies were
out and considerable excitement
ensued.
Confusion in the handling of hose
and the fact that several sections Of
old hose which had been on the reel
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-25
RAINED AT LAST.
Dickinson Gets a Good General
Shower.
From Saturday q Daily.l


The rains fell at last and everybody
feels better. The thunder showers
predicted by the signal service ar
rived on time and a rainfall Of one
inch was general over the whole
county. Reports from Harrington,
Hope, Manchester and Chapman are
that the rain was Of about the same
amount as here. 1t will be of great
value 10 corn and pastures both Of
which needed it exceedingly. The
showers preceding this have been Pc
cullar in that they have covered very
small areas. 1t Is said that five
miles east Of Hcrington there Is q
spot whore three inches Of rain has
fallen since July 4 and people are
complaining Of too much water
Ilerington has had merely light show
prS,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-25
HURT IN A RUNAWAY.
Theo St. Peter Has a Serious Bone.
Breaking Accident.

A serious accident occurred on the
Hargreaves place southwest OF the
city at noon today. Theo. st. Peter
living on West First street was work.
ing there and driving hay wagon.
the team became frightened and ran
away, throwing Mr.. st. Peter out and
smashing things up generally. Mr..
81. Peter struck on his shoulder and
side. On being taken home, DR.. Haz.
lett was summoned and 1t was found
that the right shoulder blade, the col
lar bone, and some small bones in the
shoulder and upper arm were broken.
The right leg was bruised badly
though not broken. The unfortunate
victim Of the accident will be confined
to the house for some time. It0was a
narrow escape from a fatal result.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-25
N. Cobb Dead.

Nahum Cobb, formerly Of Abilene,
died OF heart failure at his home in
Council Grove last week aged o.
Mr.. Cobb had been a sufferer for the
last seven weeks with gangrene. One
Of his limbs was amputated last Fri
day in the hope Of lettering his con.
dition. He rallied nicely after the
operation and appeared to be improv'
ing Monday evening his heart again
became affected and he passed away
Mr.. Cobb came to Kansas % years
ago residing at Abilene, Dwight,
Council Grove and Dunlap. He. was
an earnest worker in the Protestant
Methodist church Of Dunlap, whose
pastor Rev. Woodward, conducted
the funeral services.