The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
TOM WATSON'S TALK.
SOME SPICY EXPRESSIONS AND
BRIGHT THOUGHTS.
German, Brice, Pierrepont Morgan.
Ben TilIman, and Others.

DSu llHdn, ana OIHGTS.
The South Carolina Property Qualification
Under 1t None Of the Apostles Could Have
Voted, Except Judas-The Democratic Lead
ere.
German, Brice and Smith were the
three senator's who sold out to the Sugar
Trust in 1893, and allowed the Wilson
tariff bill to be altered as the trust de-
manded
It is a decided comfort to know that the
recent elections in Maryland, Ohio and
New Jersey mean that those three Sena-
tors are to be retired to private life.
If they, and about fifty more of their
colleagues, could be retired to the peni
tentiary for life this Republic would be
greatly benefited.
PIERREPONT MORGAN.
Mr.. ]. Pierrepont Morgan, the eminent
Wall Street National banker, recently at
tended the Minneapolis Convention of the
Episcopal Church as lay delegate.
ings and his counsel had great weight
with his brethren. Naturally. A man
Of many millions carries with him every
where some of that divinity that doth
hedge about a king.
j. Pierrepont Morgan is greater than
many a king,-has more money and
wields more power.
Owning nearly every Southern rail-
road, the states are mere provinces to his
empire; the governors and subordinate
officers his satraps.
No state convention can check his
march of consolidation; no court dares to
enforce the law against him.
If he wants law from Congress he
buys it, If law of Congress is in his
way he repeals it, ignores it, or has some
Federal judge to declare it unconstitu
tional.
AS National Banker he creates money
and prescribes the terms upon which the
people shall use it.
-.As bondholder he pays no taxes. and
yet draws tribute from the taxes OF the
unprivileged.
AS railroad king he taxes commerce
and puts his toll-dish into the hopper of
every business in the Republic.
AS member of the Rothschild syndi-
cate he took the United States Treasury
by the throat, and demanded and got ten
million dollars as a reward for buying
the best securities in the world, at price
SO low that the negro government OF Hayti
eot a better return for it's bonds than we
did for ours.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AND
THE CHURCHES.
J. Pierrepont Morgan is also director of
the Madison Square Garden in New
York, and leases it annually to the specu-
lative gentry who get up the French
Ball"
The "French Ball. is wild revel, a
drunken orgy Of degraded men and fallen
women. 1t is a carnival of vice, riot of
obscenity, welter of lust.
But it pays the said j. Pierrepont Nor
gan a handsome dividend, and hence the
license.
And when this identical ]. Pierrepont
turned UP as an influential delegate to
church convention we were not at all sur
prised.
All the rich rascals who have revolu-
tionized our Government and turned it
into a soulless Plutocracy are high up IN
the councils of the church.
And that is one reason why there are
so many preachers who are such misera-
ble towards that they do not dare to
preach the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
BEN TILLMAN'S PLATFORM.
Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, is still
very busy making tracks in the sand.
His property qualification" for voters
NAV last ten years, twenty or fifty, but
II is lust as sure to be mere track in the
sand as the world stands and human lib
erty endures.
God put no $500 limit on manhood, and
Ben Tillman can't do it.
THE $500 LIMIT.
There was no $500 limit to the enlist
ment in the Revolutionary War; nor in
the Mexican War; nor in the Civil War
Had there been, Sergeant Jasper's
would not have been an immortal name
nor would Hamlton's, Waynes, Henry S,
Knox's, Starks or Morgan's.
With $500 limit Stonewall Jackson
.would have remained a cranky professor
Grant a disconsolate captain, Sheridan
brilliant possibility, and Forrest an llllt-
crate poker-player.
In the blind hatred of the negro, why
Should Southern statesmen forge the
chains for their own kith and kin?
It is all wrong, and it can no more
stand than any other house built on sand.
The $500 limit would have disfran
chised Wesley, Whitfield, Calvin, Knox,
Huss. Zuinglius, Wickliffe, Luther, and
Judson.
These grand men were proud to be poor
Under Ben Tillmans law il a. e5uDtful
,f majority of Christ's Apostles could
have voted.
MAGMA CHARTA.
Our liberties as Anglo-Saxons go back
Immediately to the Great Charter wrung
from King John by his rebellious barons.
Fen Tillman enjoys his freedom from
roval control today largely through the
concessions granted the subject by the
monarch when he signed Magma Carta.
Yet under Ben Tillman's law many of
those barons who won that battle OF lib
ertv would not be able to vote. They
could not read and write. They signed
tbe Great Charter by their marks.
POVERTY OF GREAT MEN.
William PITT, the great English states
man. was buried a. the pubic expense.
with unlimited opportunities to amass
riches. he was too proud to do it, and died
insolvent. Mirabeau, the Tribune of
E'rance. died insolvent-was buried at
public expense.
Henry Clay was Indebted to subscrip-