The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-07

organization of all the people who want
reform in the National Legion" Such a
display of discipline and union would dis
may the enemy, win millions of new
voters and gain the victory. I want every
one who can speak and write to help
arouse the people. pray that the spirit
OF the noble woman in mountain state
with sick husband and five children
who took in washing and saved a little
money and went out and organized Le-
gions because the men did not, may dwell
in every heart. The spirit and patriotism
OF the noble women in our party is be-
yond all praise. They bear the heaviest
burdens, but they love and feel the most
and pray with hearts bursting and eyes
wet with tears for deliverance to come
Oh, women of the land, wake up your
household and urge them to work, or the
night of despair will come. God has given
us noble, selfsacrifcing workers, but we
need one thousand Legion scouts, and
only 50 have volunteered; 1000 men, the
leaders Of our party; those who have made
converts by the thousands have taken our
commission and supplies and never or
ganized Legion. We cannot win unless
we awake, unless we consider the work a
sacred duty. If your house was burning
you would save your family, but when
the very nation is threatened with con-
Stunning fire you lie still and slumber
l appeal to the grand editorial band,
who have aided so nobly, who "have
fought the good fight and kept the faith,'
to sound the alarm all along the line,
and to keep standing appeals to organize.
These faithful sentinels always do their
duty, and you starve them like you do
your cOmittees and workers. Support
your newspapers, build them up, they are
the life and salvation of our cause.
Advertise the Legion certificate; every
one who orders it has his name placed
on roll of honor, and wears the button
of the Legion. That plan will raise $4,000
for each state in 1896, and is our only
hope. 1t will adorn any home.
Let the people wake the committees up,
sound the alarm at every door. Let the
bright young men and women help or
ganiZe. We need their constant aid; they
never give up, and their young hearts
throb with hope, and they will encour-
age the faint and weary. Sometimes we
grow discouraged weary with work, nerv-
GUS with constant worry, we almost faint
by the way, but when we read letter
full of love and hope, like the veteran of
Is years who sent one dollar of his last
ten and he dependent on others for a
home and said: God bless you, want
the certificate to put on my coffin when I
die to show the old man was right" The
Legion has stood like rock for the integ
rity and honor of the party, and it's doors
have always been open to those who de-
sire reform. Some are for one plank,
some for another beacon light in our plat
form, but all united to save the nation
and drive out the horde of foreign money
changers and their purchased tools, who
have sold the birthright of the people.
We are united to secure an honest count,
to run this Government on the American
plan and give equal rights to all and
special privileges to none" in all the land.
Ours is the supreme effort to save liberty
and preserve republican government for
all the people, and we are determined to
crown the dawn of another century
with the glowing victory of peaceful
revolution, won at the ballot box, against
the wealth of the world controlling all
the armies and navies of the universe.
What sacred trust what a holy mission,
and yet the people sleep. Wait until af-
ter harvest; wait until the cotton is pick
ed wait until the fruit is gathered; wait
until the alliance and other orders are
dead; wait until the clouds roll by. Wait,
alas! until the letters are finally riveted
and the people forever enslaved. No, they
will arouse! Now is the time. The day
and hour have come when the people
must organize; when the solid lines of
the National Legion must be mustered in
every voting precinct in the nation, when
with warm hands and beating hearts we
welcome every human soul seeking light,
liberty and reform, in our ranks. If we
do not have recruiting stations open
everywhere, we canot gain the day.
We give all our time, day and night,
and we appeal to each one loving the holy
cause to give at least one day in this work.
1t was the widows mite that was the
choicest gift, and if you only have
stamp it will send letter and organize
a Legion. This is the Peoples battle, and
though the work is hard we earnestly
hope all in this household that God will
give us all strength to bear the burden
and it will be glory enough, pay enough
to organize the party and 1Har the glad
, songs of redeemed people.
PAUL VAN DERVOORT.