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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
STIRS THE HEARTS OF THE
PEOPLE,

Prof. Heron spoke morning and
afternoon on Saturday, at Everson's
Grove, S. D. His morning talk stirred
the pulses Of the people as we have
never seen them stirred before.
Strong men listened with tears rolling
down their cheeks. They have hun
gered, 10! these many years for the
truth. They drank 1t in as the
thirsty earth absorbs a refreshing
rain. and rose from the seats filled
with a new life. The address was an
inspiration. The universal expression
was chats the sort OF religion for
mel" and of that is socialism then
am a socialist" His afternoon speech
was a brillian complement to that OF
the morning.
Prof. Heron talked to great audi
ence at the NJ. E. church, Sunday
evening, ms tead of the grain palace.
The crowd was larger than the church
would hold, though $50 chairs was car
ried in and all the standing room was
taken. Many were turned away who
could not get in. The sermon was a
revelation to many who have listened
so long to dusty theology that they
have nearly lost sight Of true religion.
He stirred the souls Of those who
listened to their depths. He dashed
as with a whip Of scorpions the greed
and hypocrisy of false teachers and
pointed out, with the simplicity OF a
child, the way to better life.-Daily
Star
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
WORK OF THE FARMER.

The farmer, with the help Of the masses
who are workers, must emancipate
this country from the tyranny of capital.
The banks lead the capitalistic move
ment to enslave the people. Behind them
are the merchants and business men
generally, who are enslaved to the banks
that hold their notes and upon which
they are dependent for financial accom-
mediation. They dare not offend this cor
porate despotism. They must talk and
vote as the banks desire. They must
sneeze when the banks take snuff. They
must dance when the banks fiddle. The
farmer is not beholden to the banks. He
is free to think, act and vote as he
chooses He is a free citizen in all that
the term indicates; and being untram-
meled by the pressure of the money oil
garchy, he has responsibility that, as a
patriot, he should willingly assume, and
going to the ballot box without fear or
favor should cast his vote for the rescue
of his country from present destructive
nfluences.-Farmer's Voice. Chicago.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
PITY THE RICH!

Here are the words of the late John
Jacob Aston, from which you Will in
fer that-well, read them and see:
"The houses, wares, ships, and farms
which | own, and have to lake care
of, are for the accom- mediation of 9TH
ers. l can do nothing with my income
but buy more land, build more houses,
and lend money on mortgage. In
short, Il am found with the neces-
saries Of life, and more than these
cannot get out Of my money. Mean
time, my labor is incessant, and
know no peace by night or day."
1t is sad to hear that these chaps
can do nothing with the money they
don't want, except make more with it.
1t is odd that 1T never occurs to any
Of these dreadfully overworked mil
lionaires to get rid of their encum-
brances in any way. They might drop
a few thousand a day over bridges, or
down holes. They might hire man
to do it for 'em if it bored them to do
il themselves. They might send out
a ship loaded with sovereigns, and
sink it in the Atlantic. They might
but this i wild stretch Of mag
NATION, knOW-Uney mlRnG even Hnu
some way of spending it for the bene-
fit Of those who have so little Of their
own. They might-well, they might
speak the truth, in which case they
would confess that they value their
immense boards more highly than
their immortal souls, and would en-.
deavor to increase the former, even if
they lost the latter in doing it. AS,
indeed, it is very likely some Of them
Understanding they had such an un-
likely thing as soul about Them
Clarion.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
JUST AS EASY.

From New York to San Francisco is
by rail 5000 miles. 1t costs Uncle Sam
1884 cents per mile, or $346.S8 to have
a mail car hauled between the two
places on the fastest trains and the
railroads make big profits out of the
haul. A mail coach will easily seat
forty people and have room to spare
That means 1857 per passenger! Less
than two-thirds of the Pullman extra
charge! And yet If the people built
their own roads with their own mon
ey just like they paid the soldiers
with. so there could be no stocks,
bonds, mortgages, attorneys, advertis-
ing, lobbying funds and travelling
solicitors and fancy priced officers to
consume the earnings, the government
could make a good profit at $3.50 fare
and carry the passengers in palace
sleeping cars that would not bear the
brand of Pullman. Ordinary fare, SIS.
And the people can get this by voting
the Peoples Party ticket. II you
think such reductions in tariff while
paying the railroad employees better
wages, is desirable, why do you vote
against it?-Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
THE STARVING.

Mary E. Squire, writing to the Portland,
Oregon, Firebrand from San Francisco,
gives some of her experiences as follows:
1--WE have been to California, stirred
the condition of labor from center to cir
conference, and spent a half day amid
the inhabitants of the dumps, at the risk
of contracting some disease from the foul
atmosphere which hangs over it.
Hundreds Of men 1--we here and feed
upon the garbage dumped there by scav-
enger carts-food that no one would feed
to dog. These men live here because
here alone are they free from the police
mans club. They have no work, and if
they beg they are arrested, and so come
to this place, their only refuge from star
walton or Jail. We talked with many of
them, most of them being Americans;
they said:
"'We are not criminals; if criminal
comes among us we run him out; we are
law abiding citizens. Even though we
are forced to live in this way we respect
ourselves and the law too much to steal.
Just think of it; law more sacred
than life! And to cap 1t all, from their
miserable novels in which no one could
stand erect, made of bits of carpet and
straw mating gathered from the dumps,
I saw several little flags flying, and I
asked, What are these for?' The answer
was: I am a true American, and this is
my country's flag l said: Tear out the
star that represents California, leave
nothing but the rent behind-fit emblem
of your degradation He said: Madame,
I'm afraid you are an anarchist But #
1 am then what?' oh! you would de-
stroy-' Here I stopped him and said:
What? the earth, the sun, the moon and
stars, cause the rivers to flow back and
the roaring sea to burn, throw nature into
chaos generally?' He said: No, you are
not powerful enough with all your dyna-
mite to do that, but you would destroy the
law And then 1 smiled and said: And
what would you and millions like you
lose except the chains that bind you?
But am not an anarchist; am strong
evolutionist.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
ignoring Of the question altogether by
representative political body was by all
odds the worst.-Farmer's Voice, Chi
cago.
JEFFERSON AND THE SUPREME
COURT.

The contempt in which Mr.. Jeffer-
son held the Supreme Court Of the
United States is not generally known,
yet it is true that both he and Gov.
Mason were outspoken in their hostil-
ity to that body. Mr.. Mason declared
it would extend its Jurisdiction, and
gradually assume additional powers
until it threatened the liberties Of
the people. Mr.. Jefferson in letter
to Thomas Richie made the follow
ing direct statement.
1.-THE judiciary of the United States
is the subtle corps of sappers and
miners constantly working under
ground to undermine the foundations
of our constitution fabric. They are
constituting our Constitution from a
coordination Of general and special
government to general and supreme
one alone. This will lay all things at
their feet: and they are too we'll
versed in English law to forget the
| maxim, Boni jeldicss est anpliare .jatrisdic-
| tionem. We shall see if they are bold
enough to take the daring stride
these five lawyers" (judges) shave
lately taken. Having found, from ex-
PO1ASuCOS UuoU LII pOdCllIUcuU Is oil ILL
! practicable thing, mere scarecrow,
| they consider themselves secure for
life; they skulk from responsibility to
public opinion-the only remaining
hold upon them-under a practice
| first introduced into England by Lord
| Mansfield. An opinion is huddled up
in conclave (perhaps by majority Of
one), delivered as il unanimous, and
with the silent acquiescence of lazy or
timid associates, by a crafty chief
| judge" (MarshalD, who sophisticates
the law to his mind by the turn of his
own reasoning. A judiciary law was
once reported by the Attorney General
to Congress, requiring each judge to
deliver his opinion seriatim and openly,
and then to give it in writing to the
clerk to be entered on the record. A
judiciary independent of a king or
executive alone, is good thing; but
independence of the will of the nation
is solecism, at least in Republican
| government"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
Indicated by Egypt's Awfully De.
graded Condition.
STORY OF MISERY FROM PHA.
ROA'S LAND.
An Official Report Showing an An.
nual Tax of 81 Sc on Each
Acre, and of $500 in
Some Instances.
BAD PROSPECTS FOR FREE
AMERICA.
(Milwau kee Adyance.)


Consul Penfeld at Cairo, Egypt, has
made lengthy report to the state de-
partment upon the condition of Egyptian
finances. 1t shows that while the rate
OF interest has been cut almost in two,
the debt of Egypt increased by about
0,OOO,0 900 since the date of British occu-
patton. This debt Is almost overpowering
when applying it to an agricultural popu-
lation of about 100000 in country OF
about 5000 square miles of tillable SOIL
where manual labor is worth but 20 cents
q day. This shows that Egypt owes $72. 70
for every man, woman and child in the
country. Mr.. Penfield says that it will
surprise American farmers that some hus-
bandmen pay $500 land tax per acre an
nually, and the average is $4.56 per acre.
The policy of the bondholders is to bring
our country to the same condition Of serf-
dom. And unless the issue OF bonds is
stopped, we shall reach that point. Read
Consul Penfleld's report over again, and
then compare the bondholder's plan with
Coxey's plan. Which do you prefer?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

One angel met another on the
jasper street, taking earthly observa-
tions.
what are you looking at?"
"Men," said the other.
"And what do you see?"
II see men living under laws made
by fools and knaves, and submitting
Of their own Wills"
"Strange," said the other. "And
how do they justify such a system?"
''They don't justify it. They say
it's all wrong"
"And why do they submit?'
"That I cannot tell"
"And what do they cali such a
strange anomaly"
"Politics u. D. Miller in Kate
Fields Washington.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
COWARDLY.

AS humiliating an exhibition of poll
tical cowardice as was ever seen was
shown at the late meeting of the Republic
can League at which no expression was
made upon the silver question It was
claimed that it was not the province of
the League to take position upon the
financial question. AS we understand
it the League processes to be educational.
But how can it educate unless it discusses
the live, important questions of the day ?
1t shirked its most solemn duty. It was
too cowardly to oppose the attack of a
mouse, but it showed the extent of the
silver sentiment by keeping mum as to
a financial policy. 1t did not even dare
to adopt the old thread-bare resolution:
1--WE are in favor of the use of both gold
and silver as money and to maintaining
the parity between the two metals" No
body expected that it would resolve in
favor of free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio Of Is to L.. 1t is under
the thumb of the crowd. But all of the
exhibitions of cowardly demagogery the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

yearly bread, the interest ON $500 will
now more than do it Where 1t once took
the interest on $4,000 to clothe his family,
the interest on $1,000 will now do it
equally as well. In 1870, with money
renting at 10 per cent, about fifty bushels
Of wheat paid the interest on $1,000,
now with money at z per cent, it takes
over 100 bushels to pay It. In this state
ment lies the root Of the whole trouble.
One class Of producers are. and for long
time have been, fighting another class,
with the owners Of money feasting and
fattening on their disaster. The fact is
We want nothing cheap but money. We
want dear products and dear labor, which
Is only possible where there Is an abund-
ance Of money. The power of money to
Cypress through the reduction of the price
of labor and its products in the ruling fac
tor in all the distress now seen in this
country. This power comes entirely
through contracting the currency by TAX
ing it from use among the people.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

The man to be feared and Stunned
is the ''safe" man, or conservative. 1t
was the "safe'' man who anathemized
Luther, and cruci6ed Christ and
burned John Rogers. Alexander
Hamilton was safe man. George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, An
drew Jackson were radicals. The tea
episode in Boston was radical de-
monstration. John Brown was a
radical, while jeff Davis was conser-
vative. All he asked was to be let
alone. Cleveland is a safe man, Wall
street is safe, and so is John Sherman.
Grand Rapids Workman.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
STAR AND KANSAN ITEMS.

We are economically sick, and quac;k
doctors are practicing on the DOdy
polite.
Socialism doesn't propose to take
ANYTHING away anything from anybody
except the chance to steal.
More bank officials and clerks than
saloon keepers, in proportion to their
number. get into jail.
Nine-tenths of the American people
are wearing saddles, SO that the other
one tenth may ride them.
Let the living govern, and not the
dead. No set Of men should ha We the
power to declare the peoples will "un-
constitutional"
A man who advocates governme Mt
ownership Of railroads, and votes
against city ownership Of water
works, must be good deal mixed.
Farmers who have come to INDIE
pendence with wheat to sell
this week haven't been able to get
fifty cents for it. High prices are for
the speculators-not for the pro-
ducers.
The Standard Oil company has got
hold OF the gas business IN such lead
ing cities as Chicago and Brooklyn,
and is reaching after it in others. IT.
invests only in monopolies, and mon.
opolies are thieves tools.
The world is bankrupt today. The
people can't pay their debts. So they
90 on adding the interest to the prin-
clnal. This insures crash some day,
and the longer it is put off the bigger
it will be.
Until those who are being robbed
get together and wipe out all the laws
and constitutions that sanction rob-
berry, the toilers will groan under the
the burdens the dlers lay upon them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
OLD AGE AND USEFULNESS.

George T. Angel, editor of Our
Dumb Animals, does not propose to be
side-tracked because of his age. He
says:
We read in our morning paper, an
application by church for a pastor,
accompanied by the statement that
no man is wanted past 40.
How many eminent physicians or
lawyers can you find that are not past
40?
How many great statesmen-the
Bismarks and Gladstones?
Suppose D. L. Moody had retired at
40, or Rev. DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn, or
hundreds Of the most eminent divines
Of both Europe and America?
Where will you find a brighter man
than the present Roman Catholic
Arch bishop of Boston, now past 20?
Our own life work for dumb animals
and humane education did not begin
until past 40.
We are now Y, without thought
of stopping, and if our physician is
right we have a fair chance of ten
years more of good service before the
curfew bell tolls the hour for retir-
ing.
No man past 40!
What sort of church is it that
wants no man past 40?
1t is all very well for the boys and
girls to keep pushing, but this world
would be in a sad condition today
without the men and women who are
past 40.
We agree with Mr.. Angel.
Few men get their thinking
tube'' nicely polished up before the
age of 40. We have just turned AZ
and feel trifie touchy ourself about
an insinuation or inuendo that i'm
plies we aren't as coltish as we were
twenty years ago. We come from a
race that never say die untilthe cen.
fury post is reached and they are a
race Of kickers. We take pleasure in
joining Mr.. Angel in kicking against
that church that wants and must
have "a preacher under forty"
We know editors past 60-Ignatius
Donnelly for instance-that we woulC
like to see ''go against that crowd
II he wouldn't make the brethren
holler "enough'' then we would lose
our guess.-Denver Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
THE ARENA FOR AUGUST.

The Arena for August is filed with
good reading, as usual, The most
striking and important paper In the
number-the one that will interest
the largest number Of men and wom-
en- all over the country, is Mrs. Helen
III. Gardeners review of recent Age-Of-
consent legislation in the United
States. She deals in this paper with
the bills passed in New York, Arisona
and Idaho, raising the age Of eighteen,
and analyses the Arguments for and
against. This is the first Of series
Of papers giving the full history Of
the subject. The article is illustrated
with portraits. Governor Levi p.
Morton's picture forms the frOntis-
piece of the number. The Hon. Wal
ter Clark, Of the Supreme Bench Of
North Carolina, tells the history Of
the Telegraph in England as depart
ment of the British postal system.
The governmental operation of the
telegraph there has resulted in ten
times as many messages, thirty times
as many press dispatches, at less than
one-third the cost under private ad-
ministratiOn, and the telegraph nets
big receipts to the government and
makes its postal system complete and
self-supporting as the American is
not. Prof. George II. Emott, Of Johns
Hopkins University, writes on IAN
Arbitration Treaty between Great
Britain and the United States" Prof.
Frank Parsons shows how the NUM-
equalization Of Electric lighting would
give the people more light, electric
lights in all homes and offices, and at
two-thirds less cost than now. This
is an important collection of facts and
statistics. Mr.. B. 0. Flower, the Edi-
tor of the Review, writes stirring pa
per called 1.-THE August Present"
touching upon the social and intel
lectual movement of our times in reli-
gion, sciences and economic thoughts.
A symposium Of women, Iona /. Rob-
inson, Altoona A. Chapman and Fran
ces E. Russell, discusses tie question
of rs the Single Tax Enough" Rev.
Frank Burlington Vrooman writes on
Public Health and National De-
fence" Hon. John Davis M. c., deals
with the career Of Napoleon from the
Lombroso point Of view, in way diff
ferent from the hero worship of the
hour. Rev. w. E. Manley, DID,, con-
sders Human Destiny" from the
point of view Of orthodoxy. George
Sidney Robbins discusses 1.-THE Middle
Ground'-which lies between philoso
phical anarchy and state socialism.
"A Member of the Order" writes of
"The Brotherhood of India" in criti-
cism of DR.. Hensoldt. Poems and
stories are furnished by Will Allen
Dromgoole, M. D. Well and Annie L.
| MlzZcV.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

Bread has increased one cent loaf.
Milling trust showed up the price Of
flour. Spectators concerning wheat
and farmers no better off than before.
Meat is away up. The big four COM
bine" dictates prices to cattle raisers.
Oil is up. Standard trust fixes prices
to suit themselves. Footwear has
gone up along with other necessities.
A little increase Of wages isswallowed
up by trusts of advancing prices
"Returning prosperity" has a string
attached to it.-Cleveland Citizen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
Edward Atkinson. the BOSTON baked

Edward Atkinson, the Boston baked
bean statistician, for years has been
engaged in finding out how little
would suffi ce to keep the soul Of the
workingman or woman in thei
bodies. At last accounts he had it
down to about 10 cents day, possibly
4 cents meal. at any rate, in the
shoe manufacturing business, the
New England manufacturers have so
reduced wages that they can under
sell London manufacturers right in
London. The New England manufac-
turing coOlie will soon rival, his
Chinese cousin, who works for IS a
year, eats rice and rats and could give
Atkinson pointers.-Railway Times.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

The supreme court has dissolved the
whisky trust and declared it contrary
to law, but the sugar trust continues
business at the same old stand. The
dressed beef combine continue to die
tate the price Of meat. The wire nail
trust prospers, and the oil monopoly
gets in it's work to the tune of $50, 0OO,-
900 month.-ChicagO Sentinel.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31
ATTENTION ALL!
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resentative--Read and Act.

Hundreds saying
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started We do not think regrets
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We want subscriber belongs Swedish
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THE HIGHEST COURAGE.

Men worship power. In this coun-
try power takes two forms: wealth and
office. How few understand, who
have not tried the experiment., what
logged pluck and fortitude is neces
sary for a strong man to deliberately
range himself among the weak, in a
land where wealth and office is syn
onymous of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
(ROS tony
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

In Italy two socialists, Signori
Felice and Barbato, were sent to pris-
on for being agitators, lone for ten and
the other for twenty years, and were
then elected to Parliament by their
constituencies. This, under the law
of Italy, releases them and from the
prison cell they went direct to the
highest wmaking body in the land.
It looks as if the people had more
power in monarchy than in our
boasted republic.-Milwaukee Ad-
vance
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-31

The people of the Slavic race in New
York, who may be numbered by tens
Of thousands, are as notable for their
harshness toward their young children
as the people OF the Italian race,
mum bering scores OF thousands, are
notable for their gentleness toward
their offspring.