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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
How to Strengthen the Churches

What is the use of leaving men in
hell in this world and promising them
heaven in the next?
There is bright young German
preacher in St. Paul, the Rev. Nichol-
as Bolt, who seems to have some good
ideas and the courage to express them.
He said last Sunday at Labor meet
ing:
"Strikes will cease as soon as their
causes are removed. What are the
causes? What lies at the root of the
whole matter? The labor movement
is not the outcome OF a loafing ele-
ment. Of worthless characters. or hot
headed agitatOrs. That would be a
very easy way to deal with so penetrat-
ing movement, if one should place
the blame on such shoulders; human
events are not developed in such a
way; a movement so deeply rooted
must have it's reason, to discover
which is our duty.
1t has been said that the labor move
ment is born of the spirit and suffer-
ing of the times. The great boast of
the Iron Age is, that while it has de-
yelOped trade, it has created social in
justice, Never in the history of the
world have the extremes of wealth
and poverty been so great. No one
sees 1T better than the clergy, Alas,
the terrible suffering of the masses!
No wonder that the power of social
ism steadily grows. One man said to
me: eff it were famine, we could
stand it better, but to see bread and
meat in abundance and not be able to
buy it,
My heart bleeds when l think of the
men unemployed"
When the people perceive that the
clergy love them, and want to see
them prosperous and happy, and are
not mere parasites sucking their SUBJ
stance they will take more stock in
their teachings as to the world beyond
the grave.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
FREE GOLD.
Miners Working in the Sand Along
the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, March 13.-Gold min
ing is being carried on almost within
the corporate limits of San Francisco.
On the beach, three miles south Of the
Cliff house, an old Squatter has for
years tOiled with shovel and pick, TAX
ing out a scanty. living by extracting
gold from the deposits on the shores
by currents and tides. Experienced
miners have frequently asserted that
the entire cost from Alaska to Cape
Horn is full Of free gold, but its success
full amalgamation was the sole Obstacle
to working it. Several weeks ago a
newly Invented amalgamator was en-
ployed by company organized for the
purpose, and as result of fifteen days
labor, three chunks of amalgam are
now at the United States assay Office,
from which value Of from 81 600 to
$1,000 is expected to be developed.
-Four men are required for each ANAL
gamatOr. A machine will run from %
to 70 tons OF sand per day. the net
profit being estima ted at 81. 50 per ton.
The ocean shore, wherever the black
as any quartz mine, and camps are be-
ing established along the beach.
Ii this proves true-and the fact
CnaG III appears In newspaper In
creases Of course, the proba bility of
its truthful will 'bust" the gold bugs,
and set them to clamoring for silver,
as the sole money of final account.
Think of it. An amalgamator every
ten rods from Alaska to Patagonia,
working double gangs night and day,
each one turning out 800 of gold
bullion every twenty-four hours, and
the beloved coin of the usurers
falling to % cents on the dollar! Glory
Hallelujah!
Lord! How land and food and the
wOrkmen'S muscles would rise in
value; while the shylocks would stop
the farmers, pistol in hand, to compel
them to borrow their superabundant
cash, at any price.
But then this may be only another
of the Money-power's prodigious lies to
keep the people quiet.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
Not True.
The Minneapolis Tribune SAYS:

l.
Mr.. f. w. Johnson, of Cokato, writes
to ask the Tribune if we mean to say
that the silver certificates are redeem
able in gold the same as the green
BACKS and demand notes. We do not
mean to say that technically they are
SO redeemable, but practically they
are. The government makes no dis
junction, in practice, between any
forms OF its paper currency, conse-
Quently they all circulate at par. If
one form of paper money should be
disseminated against, such money
would Immediately cease to circulate
at par.
This is not true. There is no law to
redeem silver coins in gold, and in
trinsically silver dollar is worth but
45 cents; and yet the silver dollar goes
at par with the gold dollar, notwith-
standing our villainous national ad-
ministration discriminates against it
by refusing to pay it out for it's debts.
1t Is the legal tender principle that
does the business. The silver trade
dollar" fell to 10 per cent discount. al
though it contained more silver than
the standard" dollar. 1t was not
legal tender-yet the silver in it was
worth more than dollar in the mar.
ket at that time.
What shall we think of newspaper
which attempt to emasculate, dis
qualify and dishonor the legal-tender
money OF their country, in the inter-
est of foreign knaves and usurers? It
is a species of high treason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

their party pledges; and the whole
gang joined in a fox-chase after one
poor Populist Senator, who happened,
no doubt, to be innocently and honest
ly absent: and whose vote would not
have affected the result either way II
he had been present.
What is wanted is reconstruction
of the method of railroad taxation
from the ground up; but that will
never be had until the Populists carry
the state. The present conditions are
most unjust and injurious to the new
er counties, which contain great guam
titles of railroad land, exempt from
county taxes; thus throwing cruel
burden on the actual settlers, to pay
their own taxes and those Of the great
corpora tions also. If any relief comes
to them from the present law let it
not be forgotten that its passage was
due to the four Populist Senator's
Hanna, Reishus, Ringdal and Sevat-
son.
P. S.-Since writing the above we
learn that Senator Cronkhite was abb
sent "On leare," therefore the proceed
ings of the Senate in raising such a
"hue-and-cry" after him and waiting
eight or nine hours to capture him,
and bring him in, was without the
slightest excuse. 1t was an unmiti-
gated outrage. II the Sergeant-at-
Arms had found him he could not
have touched him. Mr.. Cronkhite had
taken leave Of absence for the first
time during the session and had visit
ed his home to make arrangements
about putting in his crops; and from
there he had gone to Saltwater to
look after the Irvine matter, and he
has since introduced bill, as the
fruit of his mission, to appropropriate
money to purchase another machine,
to make long-fibre Irvine. AS we said
before the whole thing has been d
shameful piece of persecution, based
on the fact that Senator Cronkhite
was Populist.
But the Reaction is helping him.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
fashionable churches, in the following

language:
1.-THE church is not for labor, and
can not be for labor, simply because it
is pensioner on the system from
which labor suffers. What do you ex-
pect labor to think of the church
when, in addition to its utter failure
to do something for the amelioration
of the condition of the toilers, it is
rapidly becoming one Of the institu-
tions of wealth, exclusiyeness and aris-
tocracy? According to the papers
Trinity Church, New York, pays $780,
600 for pair of doors, and, in the
shadow of the place they adorn, the
weary, ragged, homeless searchers for
work freeze and starve! Christ did not
raise barrier of wealth between him.
self and the people, The imposing
temples with which you inclose your
religion are as sternly prohibitory as
iron bavs. There is no affinity be-
tween velvet cushion and pair of
overalls: no community of interests
between satin and calico. There is
nothing so keenly cruel as the patron
izing air of the well dressed man
toward his intellectual equal in less
fortunate circumstances.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

st. Louis Gobe-Demo-l ST. Paul Pioneer
crat Press. oiieei
There is an agreeable There 10 ., .srss,h,a
absence in it Ghe mani absence in it (the mani
festo) OF the rant and festo of the rant and
lfotn OF the outgvings froth of the outgvings
Scion Chase and Samuel SCION Chase and Co
r. Cary in the Green F. Cary in the Green
n 1ss sso campaigns back partys campaigns
III 100 1881 and 1884 in 1876. 1880 and 1884,
dn.,o;d IS cohsplcuousiy and it is conspicuousy
suggestive of that par suggestive of mai nar
9dy on the, the Book Of ody on the Book Of
..aIleta ions winch Lamentations which
Hilnnesota Jeremiah. Minnesota's jeremiah,
!gnatius Donnelly, in Ignatius Donnelly, in
Jected into the Populist jected into the Populst
platform in 1892. platform of 1892
There would be a vast improve
ment in piquancy if the p P. would
borrow all its editorials from the
Globe Democrat.
We thought the P. P had originate
ty enough to at least BLACKBOARD us
without borrowing anything from St.
Louis. But it seems otherwise.
"Minnesotas jeremiah" That's
good! Jeremiah is good
And they say he emigrated to Ire
land 1000 years ago, with Tea, the de-
scendent of King David, who married
Heremon, king of Ireland; so he may
have been an ancestor OF ours. 1t is
through Tea and Heremon and the
Scoto-Irish kings that Queen Victoria
traces her blood back to King David;
and the theorists claim that the Irish
and English are Jews; and that the
Saxons are really WSaac's sons!.
And Jeremiah was a pretty good old
fellow. He denounced the wickedness
Of his time, and fought oppression and
injus tice. If he was alive today he
would be associate editor of THE REP
Joe Wheelock as aforetime he used to
denOunce the devil. And he would t
have to change his epithets particle.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
Wheat-Fed Hogs,

The following appears in one of the
St. Paul papers:
1.-THE Flanagan brothers. T. r. and
farm within one mile of Hamilton sta
tion, in the Minnesota Valley, for the
last two or three years have been StOr-
ing their wheat. like many other
farmers, expecting that prices would
go up, but they have been holding it
against falling market. This season
they made an experiment with their
wheat that was three years old and
probably would not have sold for over
40 cents bushel on the market-5O
cents would be a high price for it.
They write me that on the 2Sth Of No
vcmber they bought from Rogers &
Rogers, commission merchants. South
St. Paul, ten 'stock pigs" weighing
1.1SO pounds; costing in all $40. II.
They fed them y days on ground
wheat, one bushel per day, and at the
expiration of the y days they weighed
1920 pounds. net gain of 1850 lbs,
receiving for them 81 per hundred, or
$500. 1t cost them 80 to have their
wheat ground; as they have to keep
men on their place to attend to their
chores, they did not take the labor
into consideration, but the wheat net
ted them 654c per bushel; and they eX-
press themselves we'll satisfied with
the result, and they intend to go into
hOg-raiSing on much larger scale.
This is only one instance of many that
could be given where it has been large
ly to the advantage of the farmer to
feed wheat instead of selling it. In
this case they used the dry feed, but
l,o pfvyor al nj ret
those who have given the matter at
tention is, that it would be much bet
ter to cook the food-either steaming
or boiling it-befOre feeding it to the
hogs. VIM. DAWSON"
Mr.. Dawson is the eminent banker
of st. Paul, and very fair-minded,
able man; and the experiment he de-
tails is all right, as temporary make
shift to meet an emergency like that
now upon us. But for a permanent
system it is like Mr.. Stickney's propo-
sition for the farmers to all go to rails
ing potatoes, and thus rise superior to
the hard times.
Wheat is a crop that produces but a
small yield per acre-twelve bushels
"OuAO NC q ldll dfCIdkC, OuC
year with another, the state over.
How can Minnesota compete in the
production of pork, with its IL bushels
OF wheat per acre, with Illinois, low a
and Kansas with their 70 bushels of
corn per acre? If the Minnesota farm
er is driven to the raising of pork on
large scale there are other crops that
would pay better than wheat.
Minnesota's great staple is wheat;
we raise the best grain for bread-mak-
ing, for human-beings, in the world.
But the state has been Systematically
plundered, and its farmers despoile d
by rings and combinations of all kinds,
and the demonet ization of silver has
been the last egg on the cancels back.
And the remedy has got to be as rad
ical as the disease, Raising potatoes
and feeding wheat to hogs won't pay
of the farmers mortgages. We say
this with all kindness, for Messrs. Daw-
son and Stickney deserve credit for
trying to suggest means of relief,
even if the same be defective.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
THE WAR OVER.
Tell This Tale Everywhere.

Atlanta Constitution: An old Geor-
gia couple sat up all night Smelling a
few bushels of corn out of their
meagre store for the Nebraska suffer
ers. They did this in order to reach
the train in time, and their small gift
represented half of their possessions.
Whenever any politician seeks to
waive 'the bloody Shirt" for selfish
purposes, let the memory Of that Incl
dent rise up and rebuke him. 1t SHOWS
that we are indeed one people-one
kindly hearted, noble people; and that
great pulse of love beats athwart the
continent, from ocean to ocean.
1t is the boast of the Peoples Party
that it is laboring to wipe out section
al hatreds, and make the Union one of
hearts as we'll as of laws.
God bless that good Georgia couple!
May the black shadow of want never
darken their doorstep. Or, if it does,
let the Northwest know it, and we will
all fly to their relief.
The war is over.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
ORGANIZING SILVER CLUBS.
Every City and Town in Michigan
Intends to Have One.

Lansing, Mich, March PA free
silver club Of 100, composed o Repub-
licans, Democrats, Prohibitionists and
POpulistS, was organized last night,
with Hon. James NJ. Turner as presi-
dent. The silver movement is rife
throughout the state, and clubs will
lie organzed,in every city, village and
hamlet inside Of ninety days.
Push the organizati Of Peoples
Party Leagues everywhere in Mime
sofa. Out of all this agitation Of diff
fcrent parties will come, next year,
a tremendous reform movement, and
if it can be united on the same candi-
dates it will sweep the nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
HURRAH! GOOD!
The Populists Garry Oakland, CAL
Beat Both Old Parties Together.

Oakland, Cal, March 12.-Yester-
days municipal election resulted in
the election OF Populist John L. Davie
over }. w. Nelson, nOn-partisan. Re-
publican and Democratic candidate,
by 100 majority. The Populists also
elect their attorney, one councilman
and two school directors
This is
The first low wash of waves where soon
Will roll a human sea-
Just as We foreteld: The two old
parties got into bed toge ther, and the
Populists turned the bed upside down
and emptied the two debilitated old
frauds into the-cwer.
The first gun of 1896. Sound the
hew-gag and beat the tom John and
let the hurdy-gurdy ring. The Lord
liveth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
The Churches and the People.

Far be it from us to say word that
would harm Christianity or real re-
ligion. There are many good men in
the different churches who spend their
whole lives in doing good. And yet
we think there are UNCONVENTIONAL in
situations, especially in the great
cities, which fully deserve the follow
ing strong words Of denuncia ton.
They have nothing Of the spirit of
Christ in them.
L. w. Rogers, addressing big Chi
cogo audience, paid his respects to
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
An Explanation.

Our friend, j. B. Corey, of Pittsburg,
Pa, writes us complaining of Mr.. Har
vey's attack on Senator Nelson, in our
Forum, in a recent issue of THE REP
Forum is an arena for the expression
of opinions; and that we shall be glad
to insert communication in defence
OF Senator Nelson's political career, if
one is offered. Public men are a lie
gitimate subject for public discussion
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
A Valuable PAPER.

We have received copy Of Senator
Ringdahls splendid report of the spe-
cial committee in relation to COS of
railroad construction, made by the
committee on railroads. Send to your
member or senator for copy The
statistics are valuable. The Populists
are doing good work.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
THE FOOLS REJOICE
And the Honest Men Smile.

Casselton Mirror: The funeral ora
ton of the Populist Party has been
preached. and the remains of the de-
ceased political babe have been laid to
rest. It's career was short, its cries for
care and succOr unavailing. The
yOungSter was heralded at first as the
long sought savior of its native coun-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

THE Democrats are very sick. There
isn't one Of them has said "taritf' for
six months And now most of them
are enquiring the way to the Populist
camp. Come in, gentlemen. We will
treat you to the best we have. Come
in and help us reform the world. We
need each other.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
STEALING EDITORIALS.
"MinnesOta's Jeremiah"

Alas Alas! Our old enemy, the Pho
neer-Press. has fallen so low that we
begin to pity it. The Minneapolis
Tribune prints the following:
1.-THE Pioneer Press, of St. Paul. pays
delicate compliment to the St. Louis
Globe Democrat by reproducing in its
editorial columns sharp criticism of
Of the free-silver party. Note the
similarity of language in the two edi-
tOrialS:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

WE are glad to get SO many excel
lent letters for our Forum. 1t is one
of the most interesting parts of the
paper. Just now we are getting more
letters than we can handle, and there
fore we ask the fOrbearance of our
Those that do not
get in this week we shall try to ind
room for in eur next issue.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
w. d. ANDREWS.

OF New London. Mimi, has for sale
500 pounds of the earliest of Amber
Cane seed. On account of hard times
will sell at price reduced (from the
regular 80 cents a pound) to Is cents a
pound. BY mail cents extra.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

FREE passes, excursion trains, free
feeds, beer whiskey, balls, music and
killing the bills demanded by the peo-
pie. That is the meaning Of this
muchnesS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

THEY are going to impeach Judge
Ives for doing his duty. No Republi
can was cycrimpeached for that cause.
But Ives is a Populist, SO down with
him,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

For taxation
Allen, Jones, SEvATsoN,
Barr. Johnson, AG, Sheehan,
Cole, Knatvold, Smith,
Culkin, Larson, Theden.
Day. Miller, Thompson,
HANNA, OZmun, Thorpe,
Hanson, Peterson, Wing,
Henneman, REISHUS, Wyman,
Hodge, RINGDAHL, Young-28.
Hits.
Against taxation
Collester, Lloyd, SchaUer,
Currler, Masterman, Spencer,
Durham, Morgan, Stebbins,
French, Macarthur, Stevens,
Fuller, McHdte, Stockton,
Greer, Potter, SWeningsOn.
Howard, POttgleSer, %.
johnson, WE ROverud.
Absent without leave-Cronkhite.
Absent under eXcuses-Keller, Sperry
and Yale, all of whom voted against
the bill on Monday.
[Populists. caps: Democrats, italic; Re-
publicans, RomanI
The position Of the Populists and
Republicans is very different. If the
proposed taxation of railroad lands is
adopted by the vote of the people, it is
within the possibilities that the Re
publican Supreme Court may hold,
that, as the gross earnings tax, accord
ing to the constitution, covered "the
real estate" of the companies:
therefore the placing of an ad-
ditional tax on their real estate
was a violation Of the con-
tract and released them from the pay
ment of the gross earning tax. It is
true that the state would then have
the right to impose direct taxation on
the property, real and personal, of the
railroad companies for even four times
the amount they now pay, if-ah.
there's the rub-J they can get a Legisla-
ture honest enough to pass such lac! But
the present Senate holds for four
years, and would have voice on the
matter; and it has shown itself to be
be mighty ticklish, shaky, uncertain
body of patriots. If the Populists had
the Legislature and the governor, or
were certain to have them III four
years, they could advance with safety;
but as it is they have to try to do right
and leave the chances of evil in the
hands of their political opponents. 1t
is marching into the darkness, over a
land full Of pitfalls.
The Populists did right to vote for
the bill. The Republican and Demo-
cratic platforms forced the issue; then
all the three Democratic Senators and
% Of the As Republicans went back on
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

THERE is universal disgust with the
present lie ,islaturc.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

WILL somebody say Tariff just
once
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

THIS is not the legislating Legisla
ture, but the junketing Legislature.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20

IT is coming our way, sure.