The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
MONOPOLY MILDEW.
STILL MORE OLD PARTY PROS.
PERITY.
BY Paul Fontaine.

By Paul Fontaine.
Was dead drunk.-Omaha's defaulting
treasurer IS caught.-He had threatened
suicide, but was found to have done worse
than to accumulate jag at a suburban
road house. Charged with squandering
the city's funds in bucket shops (old party
business houses). Henry Bolin, Republic
can, is defaulter. The sum is not yet
known.
Strikes in Cleveland.-One hundred men
have struck for more pay at the Emma
blast furnace in Cleveland. The union
bakers, numbering 300, have struck also.
Howprices in wages are risinug. Yes where
the laborers strike or threaten to strike,
and are thoroughly organized, they Sc
cure slight advances of their miserable
pittances. Until the workig people vote
better conditions their situation will grow
worse yearly.
Sugar Bounty Steal.-Five Million Dol
lars to Be Given the Planters-Secretary
Carlisle signed regulations June which
are to govern the payment of the bounty
on sugar under the provisions of the act
approved March 2, 1895, by which S., 1885,
289 will be paid to the rich planters for
trying to raise sugar. Oh, what block
heads our wheat growers are to vote the
Republican ticket and then sell what they
raise in Minnesota to the great combiney
at beggarly prices. The farmers wheat
when it left his granary brought 40 to so
cents; beef, " cents, etc. Balaam's ass
was wise compared to our wisdom. Elect
Knute again by $4,000 plurality.
Children as Slaves.-Factory Laws are
Ignored.-Terrible state of affairs in por-
lions of Wisconsin, as reported by Special
Agent Stewart, of the government Labor
department. He says: you talk about
the sweat shops and holes in the big cities,
but have seen places in villages of Wis
ccnsin that are just about as bad in every
particular. In the town of Oshkosh there
are more children employed in proportion
to the population than in any city l have
visited in the East or South, and in many
factories the condition is simply awful.
The children are crowded into poorly ven-
tilated and unsanitary rooms, and the
long and short of it is their lives are
coined into dividends for the companies
that employ them. Then come the cot
ton mills, where they employ little chill
dren and compel them to work eleven
hours a day, a custom which has been
abolished years ago in every other COM
munity. The factory inspection law d a
bowling farce. The alleged attempts al
enforcing the law are the merest baby
work. At the big bottling work at Mil
waukee the same terrible conditions pre-
vail. Yet we hear prating idiots in the
old parties denouncing the Peoples Party
men as cranks."
Denver Roads Ordered Sold - Steps
taken to foreclose claims against the Den
yer City Railway property. How Colo
RADIO has been redeemed! Republicans
must feel proud.
Handy with His Pen.-A Brooklyn Sum
day school leader is forger His trans
actions amount to $4,000 or more and
disturb Wall street The principal topic
Of conversation among Wall street men
was the discovery of a quantity of forged
paper which had been distributed among
several prominent banks in the ne:ghbor-
hood. Albert S. Moore, SO years Of age,
and superintendent of Harlem Sunday
school, is under arrest, charged with the
forgery.
Can't Get Together.-Eastern and West
ern railway lines cutting and slashing.
With government ownership Of these lines
the rates would be less and the service
better and then all citizens could afford
to travel. Vote with the Peoples Party,
and this great benefit will come.
Odll WOIkeTS OCTlko DIT CleVoldnQ.-
That big fraud and humbug, Horr, Of
Michigan, better be sent for and make
Minneapolis another one of his sophisti-
Gated speeches on the tariff not being a
tax.
In St. Paul's Behalf-The railroads are
charged with favoring Chicago at the ex-
pense of St. Paul This private system
of railroads is only a rotten, partial, sys-
TOW, If Icfn tho Il
ton in favor of the large firms and monop-
oily corporations. Down with this system.
Vote for the Omaha platform.
Nebraska Concern Fails.-Manufactur-
ing Company operating in the peniten-
tiary goes down. The loss to the poor
fools that they owe will amount to $780,
900. This old party system is the finest on
earth.