The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-11
WHAT SAY YOU?
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE MIN
NESOTA A POPULIST STATE,
DO You Want to Convert the Whole
Northwest?-And the Whole
Nation?

committee Of one. Take a sheet of
cap paper and lead pencil and sally
out. Ii it is town or city go into
every store and bank and shop, and
say to the proprietor:
Give me ten cents"
what for?" he will ask.
For THE REPRESENTATIVE for
three months"
"What is THE REPRESENTATIVES,"
he may inquire.
Ut is the great organ Of the Peo-
pies Party in the Northwest. 1t be-
gan two years and half ago with 500
subscribers; now it has 1000 readers a
week and goes into every state in the
Union"
"But don't believe in its political
principles"
"Are you satisfied that times are as
good as they should be?''
No; not by darned sight. / can
hardly make both ends meet. If they
continue this way will have to 60 in
to bankruptcy"
"What causes it?''
"Oh the Dem ocratic Tariff. I take
the Daily Pioneer LIAR and that is
what it says
"What kind Of tariff did we have
in 1882"
''The Republican, Mckinley tariff"
"Were the times good in 1922
Good. Don't be fool! That was
the year of the great panic. when
everything went to everlasting
smash
'"Then it wasn't the Democratic
tariff that made the hard times, which
existed before it was enacted?''
"Certainly not"
'"Then what was it,"
81 don't know"
'"Then give me ten cents, and for
three months you can read what IRE
think did it. You can judge for your
self whether we are right or not. 1t
can't hurt you to hear our side of the
argument"
''But you are all 'cranks'."
"Did not the Jews say that Christ
had an evil spirit; did they not cruelty
him for blasphemy? And they made
Socrates drink the hemlock because
he told the Greeks their gods had
once been living men. And Bacon,
the wiSest of mankind, some declared
had bee in his head. And the family
of the inventor of the telephone took
steps to put him in the Insane
Asylum, because he said men could
yet talk with one another 500 miles
apart. The 'cranks' of one age are
oftentimes the 'sages' of the next"
well, here is your ten cents. 1
will give your medicine a three
months trial and see how it works."
60 then to the next man, and so on
from man to man, until you have got
every business man in the town. In the
same way get every farmer in your
township. Think how Plutocracy
spends millions to purchase the daily
papers, and millions more to scatter
them broadcast among the people,
And see how ignorant the people are
about the great questions at issue.
They can tell you all about the base
ball matches, and Corbett and Fitsim-
mons, and the horse races, and the
last murder; but talk to them of the
financial questions and you will find
their ideas most crude and imperfect.
And millions of dollars are spent by
Plutocracy to keep them in that con.
ditiOn. The whole game is to paralyZe
the peoples brains in order to empty
the peoples pockets; to deprive them
Of the capacity of self-defence and
then strip them into naked poverty.
1t is horrible conspiracy against
mankind.
You can head it all off if you take
the course we suggest.
'Strike for your affairs and your fires,
Strike for the green graves of your SireS
God and your native land"
Give us chance to reach the peo-
pies minds, and we are ready to en-
counter all the cunning liars and
plausible knaveS that Plutocracy can
hire between here and the Internal re-
gions. Now they ignore US: but they
watch every issue of this paper with
alarm and terror: and mutter.-"Is
there no way to plug up this fountain
of truth?'
No; let it's waters spread over the
whole earth.
Democratic newspapers are urging
the Populists to go into the Demo
cratic party, declaring there is plenty
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