The representative., 1895-10-23
MORE LETTERS.

MIRE LEJIERS.
We do not want to devote much
space to our personal matters but we
cannot refrain from publishing few
| more of the many letters received by
Us. They are Instructive, and enable
the people to understand each others
thoughts and conditions.
Matt Tolefson of Heron Lake.
Mimi, pays up and sends us a new
subscriber, and adds:
Forty cents for No. ! Northern
wheat. The only thing | know OF that
is worth . bushels Of wheat is The
REPRESENTATIVE.
Mr.. J. NJ. Retallac of Duluth, Mimi,
says:
"If were happily in the condition
to do so, | would be only too glad to
donate or advance, if you pre- ferred it
better, at least the subscription price
for 100 years to help along the good
cause. believe you are honestly try
ing to 90 noble work, but l very
much fear you are doomed to failure
and disappointment.
After last years campaign who can
have any sort Of respect for the aver
age American 'damphool?'
knute, the unique. last year told
the Minnesota farmers they produced
such an abundance of stuff that it
made them poor; that they must not
produce but half as much in order to
get rich; and they gave him $4,000
plurality for in effect telling them
they were fools! And l must say the
results of that election demonstrated
I,n fna hot l. l. h0%
ter than they knew themselves
what they are-preciOuS fools. The
Lord only knows where they.will land
America yet.
With every wish for your success in
your attempt to remove the biggest
mountain OF ignorance that was ever
built. l am yours, etc"
Mr.. Leslie Orcutt, of Madison Lake,
Minn.. writes to us:
81 have been taking your paper
since | received the first copy. l did
| not require much time to see that |
needed it in my business. l have
been farmer for twenty years, but
you see | am selling goods now Yet,
sir, my interests aud sympathes will
| always be with the laboring classes. |
am trying to help the man that needs
my help. The millionaire does not
need my help.
/ could not live without The REP
REsENTATIvE. For the sake of the
coming generation do not let The
REPREsENTATIvE die. We started a
League here and a few of us are
pounding away, trying to make people
see where their true interest lies.
Your paper is helping us.
Mr.. D. F. Ufford Of Adrian, Minn.,
sends 81 for his paper and adds:
"Y our call to uelnquenls to pay
in arrears; enclosed please find 81 to
cover the same.
-Four years ago when nominating
| Mr.. Donnelly for The presidency of the
Alliance, the delegate from Fillmore
county said he had known him Tor
tWenty-three years. | can go him
some better, as | have known Mr.. Don
| nelly for thlrty-tive years, and have
| failed to see the time that he was not
| working in the interest of the COM
mon people: first starting paper in
| their behalf, in the seventies, called
THE Anti -MonopOliSt," which | sub
| scri bed for as long as the present edi-
| tor Of The REPRESENTATIVE was at
it's helm. | Shall stick to The REPRE-
SENTATIVE as long as it exists; and it
| Will exist, if the farmers whom it is
| edited for will only come forward and
sustain it as they should.
Wheat at 81 cents per bushel, oats II
| cents bushel, and barley Is cents per
buShel, is not very encouraging [
help us.
Mr.. Henry Ames, o. Litchfeld,
| Minn., writes us as follows:
Il enclose 81 on account of my sub
scription to The REPRESENTATIVE.
l am pleased with your paper
l went into the United States navy,
at II years OF age and stayed to the
end of the war; and have always, to a
| year ago voted the Democratic ticket;
but, have seen enough Of Democracy,
| rampant and perhdiouS as it is, VITA
every promise broken, except that to
(! the Sugar Trust, TO last me life
time. AS long as the old parties can
keep the eyes of the masses turned
| backward and fixed on the ghosts of
| those great men, Tom Jefferson, An
drew jackson and Abra ham Lincoln
| the trusts, combines and corporations
| will continue to pick their pockets.
Let the dead past bury its dead.'"
| Swan Nelson of Willmar, Mimi who
was the Peoples Party candidate for
Lieutenant Governor in 1892, on the
same ticket with the editor of THE
REPRESENTATIVE, and is one of the
| foremost men in Reform work in the
state, writes US as follows:
| Enclosed find two dollars to pay for
| The REPRESENTATIVE
| | have been derelict in my duty in
attending to my subscriptions; but
shall try and do better in the future
l with great many others, in our
struggle for living, loose sight of the
fact that we have paper that needs
our hearty support in the labor for
humanity and justice, I hope that
| YOUR aDDeal for what is due Won and