The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-17
C1 M a AYEAR q CENTS
IMPERIAL USURPAT|0NS.
Liberty Is Encroached Upon Little
By Little.
PLUTOCRACY RESISTS THE PEO-
PIES AUTHORITY.
A Monarchy In Fact Is the Result.
(From the Chicago Sentinel.)

(From the Chicago Sentinel.)
About forty years ago 1 read hun
ter's encounter with snake that il
lustrates Uncle Sans combat with the
Great Red dragon, the Money Power.
Two ment went out to hunt ducks.
One of them shot duck and went to
pick it up in the tall grass, and as he
took it up he felt something wrap
around his ankle. He looked around
and saw that big blacksnake seven
or eight feet long had wrapped its
tail around his ankle, and was in the
act of clearing itself from the tan
gled grass.
He said he being very strong man
was not frightened at all, but
thought he was going to have some
fun.
1t raised Itself up gracefully In
front of him. and he grabbed it
around it's neck, thinking he could
hold it easily. But quick as flash
it jerked itself out Of his hand wrap
ped around his leg above his knee, and
darted its head at his face as If to get
it in his mouth. He said he now saw
that it was going to be serious busi-
ness, instead of fun. The next move
it made it sprang up and wrapped
around his waist. He determined to
put all his strength and take it of.
But he said he might as we'll have un-
dertaken to break steamboat cable.
ppo6o onnfh0r lob
wrapped around his waist the second
time. Then it began to tighten up.
His breath began to grow short.
Everything began to look blue, He
thought of his knife for the first
time, but he could not get his hand in
his pocket. BY tremendous effort he
tore hole in his pocket and barely
had sense enough by this time to open
the sharpest blade and cut the SER
pent and fell to the ground uncon-
scious. When he came to his
senses his companion who had
heard his call for help was
standing over him. AL was the work
Of few minutes. He said it was
months before he fully recovered from
the effects Of the hugging.
When the exeepti0ne sser0 Dl6oed
on the greenbacks the Great Red
dragon got his tail around Uncle
Sans ankle. When the national
banks were chartered it got its coils
around his hind leg. When the re-
sumption fraud Of specie payne nts
was entered upon, it twisted itself
around his waist; and in 1873 it took
a second twist, and since then it has
begun to shut off his wind, and short
en- his breath, and thing look very
blue Now the question is: How is
Will it have to be cut loose? Every
thing in the political armament now
reminds us of 1860. History is re-
peating itself fast. In 1860 Mr.. Doug
lass divided the Democratic party.
That elected Mr.. Lincoln. Now both
the old parties are being divided by
the silver question. 1t looks as if this
confusion in the old parties would
make the POpulists successful in 1896.
If SO are we to have a repetition of
1860? We had Dred Scott decision
that the negro had no rights that a
white man was bound to respect.
Now we virtually have a decision
from the same gowned authentic
court, that man has no rights that
the rich High Priests of Mammon are
bound to respect. Will they respect
the results of the election If the Door
mans party wins? This same court
can issue an Injunction prohibiting
the Populist candidate from taking
the seat if elected. See! Why not
send him to Jail instead of inaugurate
him as president? They are trying
the injunction plan to see how the
people will stand it,and educating the
people to stand it, The policy Of the
slavOcracy was to rule or ruin, and the
policy of Plutocracy is the same. We
have no Republic now, only in name.
We are Plutocracy and King Mon
opOly reigns in our boasted land of the
free and home Of the brave.'
That serpent encroaches on our lib
critics little by little. The people are
educated to stand one measure of In
iquity before another is fofsted on
them. Becoming used to, or familiar
with one, then another is introduced.
First the serpent fastens on the leg;
then the body. The people now will
endure what they would have rebelled
against fifty years ago. The stamp
act that p-ecipitated the war Of 1776
was not drop in the bucket COM
pared to the usurpation levied on the
people now: King Monopoly levies six
cents gallon on every gallon of coal
oil used by 20 millions of people. and
by stroke of the pen filches millions
OF dollars from the people; but they
stand it. And there will be no let up,
nor limit to the eXactions of our King
Monopoly, but the absolute exhaus-
tion of the people. Greed knows no
bounds. The expressions will IN
crease until the masses are made des-
perate, then the pedulum will swing
to the other extreme.
REV. D. OGLEsBY,
Richview, ILL.,, June 20, 1895.
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