The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-06
OUR NEW HEADING.

generous support we are receiving
from our subscribers justties some lit
tie expenditure, we present, with this
issue, new and handsome head, which
we hope will meet the approval Of our
readers.
When this paper was esta blished it
took its name from the fact that it
was the official organ and representative
of the Sta tie Farmers Alliance Of Min
nesota. But every hour since it start
ed its scope has been growing and en-
larging, until now we think it can
claim to represent, in some sense, the
spirit and purposes of the new birth
of thought that is taking possession
Of the world; and which is due to
Francis Bacon and Thomas Jefferson
more than to any other two persons
who have existed on earth since the
establishment of the Christian reli-
gion.
The motto Of Bacon,-"for the glory
of God and the relief Of mans estate"
is proper foundation on which to
build great party; which, while it
extends the hand of help to lift up
the down-trodden, bows reverently to
the Creator of the universe-the
Mighty One-from whom is derived
all the blessings and powers of this
earthly life. While in Thomas Jeffer-
son we recognize, more than in any
other of the natives of our soil, the
very genius of our institutions; he was
the most American of Americans; the
man who had "sworn upon the altar
of his God undying hostility to every
form of oppression of the bodies or
the souls Of men,"
II this paper can humbly represent
the lifework and the life-purposes of
these two illus trious men it need Of
fer no apology for it's existence.
Bacon says:
Relieving that was born for the
scrrice Of mankind, and regarding the
care of the commonwealth as a kind
OF common property, which. like the
air and water, belongs to everybody, l
set myself to consider in what way
mankind might be best served, and
what service was myself best fitted
by nature to perform
Macaulay says, speaking of the pur-
pose of Bacon's philosophy:
ut was the multiplying of hum an
enjoyments and the mitigating Of hui
man sufferings. 1t was the relief of
mans estate The art which Bacon
taught was the art of inventing arts.
n Ask a follower Of Bacon what
the new philosophy has effected for
mankind and his answer is ready
1T has heightened life; it has in
creased the fertility of the SOIL it has
given new securities to the mariner;
it has furnished new arms to the war
rior; it has spanned great rivers and
eStuaries with bridges of form un-
known to our fathers; it has guided
the thunderbot innocuously from
heaven to earth; it has lighted up the
night with the SplendOr Of the day; it
has extended the range of human
vision; it has multiplied the power of
human muscle; it has accelerated mo-
ton: it has annihilated distance; it
has facilitated intercourse, correspon-
dence, all friendly offices, all dispatch
OF business; it has enabled men to de-
scend to the depth of the sea. to soar
into the air, to penetrate securely in
to the noxiOus recesses of the earth,
to traverse the land with cars which
whirl along without horses, and the
ocean with ships that sail against the
wind"
The other mighty spirit, whom this
paper presumes to represent, is that
distinguished American, Thomas JET
ferson. The Peoples Party Of the
United States should make him their
patron and eXemplar. Indeed the
great struggle in which we are en-
gagged is but revival Of the battle of
his life; we hear, every day the echo
OF his words ringing through the clam
ors Of the present conflict; we perceive
every day how clearly his prescience
penetrated even to these times.
He was pre-eminently the man of
the people. He opposed. as we Popu-
lists do, the concentration of wealth
in the hands Of the few. He broke up
the system of "primogeniture" which
gave all the property to the eldest son.
He opposed and overthrow the claw of
entail" which tied up wealth from
generation to generation and prevent
ed its dissemination among the
masses. He took advantage of the
contest of the colonies with the moth
er country, about mere matter of
taxation, to build the new nation up
on the platform of world wide liberty
and equality. Through the uproar of
the petty and temporary dissension
he blew trumpet blast of universal
principle which shall ring throughout
the affairs of men as long as the world
stands.
He purchased from Napoleon, for
fifteen million dollars, the whole vast