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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
WE WANT CONVERTS.

Populists have no intention of sur
rendering a single plank of the Omaha
platform, unless it be to make some
point more definite and radical than it
is at present, and men who have
worked and voted with the Republican
and Democratic parties for all these
past years are in no position now to be
Offering suggestions.-Chicago Ex-
press.
There we're 12,154.542 votes cast at
the last presidential election-and the
vote next year may go to IL, 500, 600, or
possibly to $4,000, 900. OF this we have
about 1000, 900. or one In sac. It is Sc
rious problem how we can raise 2,OO0,-
600 votes to six or seven millions. It
cannot be done by banging the door in
the face of those who would like to en-
ter our house; or by kicking them out
of the front yard. We must meet
them at the gate and welcome them
in and treat them to the best we have
in the shebang.
Our party is not baby house built
to play in. It is an army OF earnest
men combined for practical reforms.
We want victory because victory will
help mankind.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
GREAT EXCITEMENT.

We learn that the Populist victory
in South st. Paul has greatly dis
turbed the Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad Company. They look upon
it as "the beginning of the end"
Judge Chandler and his hired girl and
Johnny Newton and the Pinkerton
detectives have been ordered to make
a grand charge on Mayor Gahan and
clean out the town. The Judge will
be armed with whiskey bottle, the
hired girl with a broom and Johnny
Newton and the detectives with
stuffed clubs. Chandler says if the
Populist party is not nipped in the
bud they will revise freight rates on
the c., M. & st. P, SO that there will
not be IL cents difference in the price
of wheat between the Hastings price
and the Minneapolis price.
Let the war 60 on.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
is 1T THYME MONEY.
TO PARIS AS A DELEGATE.

TO PARIS AS A DELEGATE.
Special to the Globe.
Hastings, MIMI, June 14.-Hon. J.
F. Norrish has left for Paris as dele.
gate to the international prison con-
gress, and expects to be absent about
three months. He was accompanied
by his wife and daughter.
1t is reported that John has got a
"soft snap" and that the expenses of
his trip are paid by the state; prob
ably out of the state prison fund.
That's the way the peoples
money goes. John remarked to a
friend that he was not fool enough to
go at his own expense. The tax-pay-
ers ought not to be fools enough to
foot his bills. What possible good ca n
the people of Minnesota derive from
an international prison congress in
Paris, conducted in the French lan-
guage, which John does not know any
more about. than he does of Sanscrito
They could not afford to have an
advertisement in THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE, but they can afford to send one
of the Board of State Prison Managers
to Paris! But then. some one will
say, John is good Republican. Not
a bit of it. He is>a Democrat, dyed
in the wool. But he has always had a
happy facility Of holding offices under
Republican governors. Which shows
that plutocratic tendencies wipe out
all differences Of political creed.
What has Gov. Clough to do with
this? We cannot think he is respon-
sible for it: and yet he is the master
Of the State Prison Board, and ought
to know what they are doing. And
did he not appoint the ambitious
John to go to Paris? We pause for
reply.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
ASTONISHING:
OUR ARROWS PIERCE THE
H THICK HIDE OF AN EDITOR.
He Gets Mad at Being Called a
Fool.

Gentleness is thrown away upon
some men. One Of the editorial
writer's for the Minneapolis Times
prepared an article, in which he said,
that Congress should not have ''plen-
airy powers Of taxation" We asked
him the very NATURAL question where
the right should rest, iii not in Con-
gress), to say how much national taxes
the people should bear? Should the
Supreme Court settle it? Or should
we have an international agreement,
with the plutocratic nations across the
Atlantic, before we decided how
much taxes our rich men should pay?
And, in the kindest spirit, we sug-
gested that that much needed person
age, "the fool killer" should call in
at the Times office and perform his
function. And thereupon this unrea
sonable creature gets mad and calls US
names-cruel, unchristian names,-
full of abuse. But
Let the CALLED jade vince,
Our withers are unwrung."
We were perfectly impersonal in our
remarks. for we did not know the
name of the writer, and do not know
it yet; but we shall be glad to publish
it, iii he will kindly furnish it, with
proper illustrative comments. We
have no malice in the matter; but we
do think that a grown-man, land one
ought to be physically, ii not mental
~, grown, before he edits q daily pa
PERI, who does not know enough to
know that the theory of our govern
ment is that the people rule through
their Congress-; and who proposes to
take away from that Congress the
plenary power to levy taxes, and be-
stow it on some one else, is such an
unmitigated and illimitable and pic
turesque ass that he ought to be re-
strained from braying, even If the
fool-killer has to put a Quietus on
him.
Now we are not angry. Far from
it. And we are sure that il the wri-
ter In question will think the matter
over.in calm and impersonal way, he
will see the justice of our remarks
and anticipate the annihilator Of i'm
beetles.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
A TERRORIZED PEOPLE,
ROUSE YE! ROUSE YE!

hOOoE =! nOOSh T.!
Our good friend, the organ Of Plu-
tocracy, the London Times, said in
1865:
What grand opportunity there
was presented in the Republic Of the
United States, at the collapse of the
rebellion for some ambitious military
chieftain to have seized the reins OF
government at the head Of million
trained soldiers Injured by war to 20
into danger at the bidding of their
general. He could have established
the strongest central government on
the face of the globe. Unhappily that
time is now passed, and should that
mischievous financial policy which had
its origin in that war become indurat-
ed down to fixture then that repub-
lie will furnish its money at cost. It
will pay of its debts. 1t will have no
debt. 1t will have any amount OF
money that is necessary to carry on
its trade and its commerce. 1t will
become prosperous beyond precedent
in the history Of the civilized nations
of the globe. The brains and wealth
of all countries will flow into them.
When that idea will become contag-
ious, when other nations whose bonds
nave Deen 6OlQ Tor gOl0, ana the In
terest ON which adds millions annually
to their wealth, will be paid of in
green paper and lamp black, then
they who are now rich will be made
as poor as you can make them"
It would not have been as easy as
the London Times imagined, for a
military dictator to seize the reins OF
government in 1865. The million
trained soldiers" would have riddled
Mr.. Usurper like . colander. They
fought for liberty, not slavery; and
the moment they would see the
crown they would she OF at
its wearer. But those men are now
old, and their judgments obscured by
the daily press, and their hearts weak
and their courage faint. Mr.. CO.. Hill
yer of Washington, d. c., writes to the
s'Record Review:''
Zone more victory-one more four
years term Of executive control-will
so entrench the gold standard policy
that future resistance to IT will be un-
availing. Four years more Of conttn-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE AGE OF NEWSPAPERS.

Every time an intelligent man picks
up daily newspaper he braces him
self up and says to himself:-"Now for
the lies" 81
We have come upon most aston
ishing state of things-nearly all the
daily newspapers are on one side of
the pending questions, and nearly all
the people are on the other side.
Men read between the lines, and
look for the little squibs in the cor
ners, without headlines, which slipped
in without the knowledge of the edit
ors. These alone tell the truth. The
rest Is daub of lies.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
REGRETS.

We admire our friend John H. Burke,
and take pleasure in publishing his
communications, although sometimes
we think they are a little drastic; but
we seldom see them until they appear
in our columns. We were sorry when
we received the last issue of THE REP
REsENTATIvE, at our home in MINI
niger, to observe what he had to say
about Judge Mcdonald of St. Paul,
and his defence Of Mr. James J. Hill,
two years ago. Judge Macdonald treat
ed us very unfairly last year, when, as
chairman Of the State Central COM
mittee, he opened up war on us with
out provocation: and tried to use the
machinery of the People s Party. which
we had worked SO hard and SO long to
create, to undermine and destroy this
paper, and he deserved al the excoria-
tion we gave him at that time. But
nearly year has elapsed since those
low the Judge up and jab our knife
into him again and again. We hope
he now sees tho folly of his course.
And our desire is and has been to try
to hold all the elements of the party to-
gether in one harmonious whole; and
not to smite any man unless he was
actually engaged, at the moment, In
an effort to injure the peoples cause.
And we can we'll believe that Judge
Macdonald may have been perfectly
honest when he came to the defence
Of Mr.. Hill, and was not, in any wise,
affected by corrupt motives.
The very possession Of the power Of
great paper should make an honest
man careful how he uses it. He
should always lean to the side of chari-
ty and fair play, and put the best in
depreciation upon the motives of eth
ers.
We are engaged in tremendous
battle for the good of mankind:-not
to tear down but to lift up. If any
who are working with US are imper-
feet let us rather turn aside our head
than ferociously denounce their short
comings. Let us not fight one anoth-
er. but the common enemy. And 50
with mutual federation let us advance
to victory.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE STRIPED BEAST.
HE GOES TO HEAR A SERMON

LII YVES 4 " EEAn "A SEhMONs
The president of a bursted Fort
Worth, Tex, bank delivered an ad-
dress before the Y. NJ. G. A. of that
city on sound currency Exchange.
TO be sure. The ''sound money" is
the kind that produces the sound Of
weeping and wailing and crashing OF
teeth"
Horace Greeley. in the old days,
when he was Safeguarding the Dem
ocrats to the best of his ability, and
had no idea that he would ever be
their candidate for the presidency,
made this remark:-sI will not say
that every Democrat is horse-thief;
but will say that every horse thief is
is Democrat" Paraphrasing Horace
we will put it this Wayne will not
say that every Goldite is q money-lend-
er, but we will say that every money
lender is goldite.
We do not usually regard the dealers
in currency as philanthrophists or
statesmen; and yet they are now run
ming both the old parties, reinforced
by the corporations.
Are they doing it for the good of
mankind? Is that the kind of hair
pins they are? We trow not, as they
say in the novels
A tiger followed clergyman; and
fool said he was going to hear the
sermon; but the preacher never
reached the pulpit. The striped beast
did with him after his kind. And the
money-lender will DO with his country
after his kind.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
WHICH is BESN
ARBITRATION OR WAR?

The failure Of Congress to appropri-
ate the $4,000 needed to pay the
award for damages to Canadian seal
ers in Bchring Sea was foolish and
not very honorable proceeding. We
cannot fool with arbitration and in
dulge in all the rose.colored senti-
ment appropriate to it, and then back
out Of the penalty which for us is in
variably attached to it. It was a
swindle, Of course, but no worse a
swindle than the Halifax award. 1t
was not, indeed, half so bad, for it was
not obtained by the perjury Of Cana
dian officials, as that was. It has
trified away all our rights in Eehring
Sea, and enabled the Canadians to re-
move an international difficulty by
exterminating the seals. But we
agreed to have that done, without a
single reserve on our part, when We
negotiated the treaty: And it now re-
mains to pay the award.
Canada and Great Britain both pro-
TESS to very indignant at the delay,
and are proposing conference by way
of talking US into sense OF our Obli-
cation. We suppose the Canadians
surely are laughing in their sleeves
when they profess to be angry. They
know they will get their money sooner
or later, and they have got everything
else they want except Alaska. They
are, however, in full possession prac'
tically of the only source of revenue
in the Territory. Let them not be
too urgent or they may disgust our law
yer diplomats with arbitration, and
open their eyes to the fact that the
creation Of mock court OF justice Is
not the safest way of settling inter-
national questions The Philadelphia
American.
The republic Of the United States
holds about the same relation to the
monarchical powers Of the world that
the Populists do to the old parties.
They are regarded as proper object
to be lied about and swindled and
ridiculed.
This government ought to deter
mine what is just right in any dispute
and if that is not satisfactory trot
out the cannon. They are much hon
ester than lawyers.
Or If we must have arbitration let
us have none but republics to act as
the arbitrator. There isn't q royal
government in Europe that would
not, II it had the power, scuttle this
whole country and sink it q thousand
fathOmS deep in the sea.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
Il COMPARISON.

The express business of the United
States is controlled by six big COM
panies, whose combined mileage is
about 10000 miles.
The postal business Of the United
States is controlled by one big COM
pany-the United States. The COM
bined railroad mileage operated is
about ITO, 900 miles.
The express companies charge 80
cents for carrying one pound 400 miles.
The United States carges 16 cents
for carrying one pound 5000 miles.
Government ownership Of the ex-
press business would smack strongly
Of socialism. wouldn't it?-Minneapo.
lis Union.
Very we'll put.
II there is any truth in the old party
bowls about paternalism, we should
close up the postofices and let the ex-
press companies carry our letters for
Is cents each. And then we should
shut the public schools up and permit
the next generation to grow up ignor-
ant hoodlums-fit tools for the money
power.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

and published in three languages; and
to see seven Populist congressman
and Populist governor and state Of
'ficers, and Populist Legislature elect
ed next year. and the whole foul gang
Of corruptfonists and plutooratic tools
cleaned out forever! It can be done
and it need not cost you a penny.
What say you? Will you take hold?
Remember every penny OF profit goes
into the building up Of this paper,
started by yourselves on $500 of cash
capital. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

HARCOURT DAsHEs THE HOPES OF Sill.
YER MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN.
London Cablegram.-Sir VIM. Yer.
non Harcourt, chancellor Of the ex.
chequer, has formally replied to the
memorial forwarded by influential
bankers aud financiert in terms EN-.
phasizing his previous strong remarks
in favor of the gold standard. His re.
ply concluded thus:
"You may rely upon it that her ma
jesty's government will give no coun-
tenance to any change In the funda.
mental principles of our monetary sys.
TEN, nor in any discussion in which
they may be called upon to take part,
will they admit any doubt as to Their
intention firmly to adhere to the single
gold standard.
Where are our Minnesota Republl-
cans who are in favor of bimetallism
ii England is willing? They know
very we'll England will not consent
she will never give up her grip on the
world. And yet they resort to this
kind of cheap quackery to deceive the
people. .4
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE NEW MARTYROLOGY

What q glowing farce this Debs SEN
tence is. Here is a man about to su b.
NIT to sentence Of court. about to
go to joil, and every America citizen
has for him feeling of profound sym
pathv. II Col. Fox were still alive he
would put Debs in his Book of Mar
tyrs.-Penny Press.
Yes; and much more deservedly.
For Debs is suffering in the cause of
humanity all over the world, lin an
effort to make the labQrer wiser and
happier-while many Of the old-time
martyrs died for doctrinal differences,
which have lost their point and i'm
portance as the ages roll on, and may
utterly disappear in the centuries to
come.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

and see what the administration has
done. They permitted more infamous
legislation than was ever before en-
acted. A man who thinks more Of the
Democratic name than of free silver
Will always prove traitor to silver.
They have in the past and will in the
future.-The Coming Nation.
All that is true-but there are many
proofs that there is a strong dispose
tion in the Democratic party to break
away from the old leaders, even ii
they have to set up a flag of their own.
Success to them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS.

We are. receiving great many or.
ders for the thirty volumes Of Cham
bers Encyclopedia for $3.50, in accord
ance with our advertisement. It is
wonderfully cheap publication. We
viii! send a set free to any person who
will getsup club of fifteen annual
subscribers, new, with the cash, SIS.
1t is a library in itself.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
HIS ENGLISH
NOT so FAR WRONG,

/ have before me a letter from a
Partisan friend, gentleman Of some
literary note In his own country, who
informs me that he is learning Eng
lish by the aid of small text book
and aedictionary, without any other
instructor, and he adds: "In small
time I can learn so many English as
go on the scaffold to lecture. DE
troit Free Press.
Perhaps this worthy Frenchman
may not be so far out of the way in
his use of our language. He has
probably heard ofJudge Wood and our
United States Supreme Court. and
thinks the lecture platform may be
the next thing to the scaffold.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
THE GOOD TIMES.

The liabilities Of commercial fail
ures for the first quarter of 1895 az
gregate $64. 1877 1888, according to Dun's
Review, and this does not include the
amount Of foreclosure sales or volun-
tary assignments. Well, "the Lord
gave and the Lord taketh away"
Brother Creamchease, will you lead in
prayer?-The Nations Crisis.
And yet we are told every day by the
daily papers that business is just
booming-and that the only danger is
the Populists! Isn't that rich! The
poor Populists who have not got con-
troll Of a single Legislature in the
United Safes.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

Our call upon delinquent SUBJ
scribers In last weeks issue was most
effective, SO much SO that we have
been too busy keeping the accounts
to cut OF any who failed to pay up;
but next week we will set the axe at
work In earnest,-so hurry up. II you
can't pay up and want to continue the
paper until after harvest, write us and
say so. But almost anyone can raise
Is cents to keep his subscription alive.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

Look it over, brethren, and see what
the demonstration ofsilver has done
for you.
And this state of things is to endure
forever unless the Peoples Party can
win.
Is it not your interest, friend, to
take off your coat and do all you can to
help it? How? By converting your
neighbors, through conversation and
the distribution of Populist newspa-
pers and literature.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
FREIGHT TRAIN RETURNS.

Freight train reports show that Wis
consin Populists were in it this spring.
AT Stockbridge the two old gangs
fused, but the Pops cleaned 'em out.
At Auburn, Wausau and many other
places in the possession of the enemy
the merry kalamity FRANKS also swiped
the fogies. -Cleveland Citizen.
The game Of suppression is so we'll
played. by the old party daily papers,
that it is only through the local pa.
pers that we learn the results, weeks
or morths after an election, il the Peo-
pies party made any gains.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
GOOD.

Senator Ringdal, of Crookston, sends
for big bundle Of extra copies Of THE
REPRESENTATIVE and thinks he can
largely increase its circulation in that
neighborhood. We don't want to brag,
but we are sure there is no better way
to strengthen the cause Of Reform
than to spread this newspaper among
the people.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
MR.. DONNELLYS NEW BOOK.

One Of the first reviews OF Mr.. DON
nelly's new book that has reached us
is the following from that able Jour-
nal, The Reform Advocate, Of Clark
field, MINI. 1t says:
We have received this week from
the publishers copy of Hon. Igna.
titus Donnelly's new book, "The
American Peoples Money" which is,
as Its name signifies, work on the
financial problem. During recent
years great many authors have as
sayed to present the history of our
financial legislation to the public in
style such that it would be intelli-
glble to the average mind; but, owing
to the completely OF the subject, few
have been successful. This work.
however, is not only clear and enter
tanning. but is absolutely fascinating.
The numerous original illustrations.
inspired by the author and drawn by
skilled artists, add great deal to the
vividness with which the subject mat
ter is impressed upon the mind. At
this time, when the money question
is the all-absorbing topic OF contro-
versy, every voter should become
thoroughly posted on the issue, and we
know Of no work which will prove OF
greater value to the inquirinR mind
than this last production of Americas
most versatile literary genius. Irna-
titus Donnelly.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
A GREAT WOMAN DYING.

It Is with profoundest sorrow we
print the following. The announce
ment will bring grief to the hearts of
thousands in Minnesota: +.
Reformers everywhere throughout
the length and baeadth Of the land
will be pained to learn that Mrs. S. E.
Y. Emery, the author Of that primer
OF finances, 1.-THE Seven Financial Con-
spiracies," is very low, and is not ex-
pected to survive many months. Can
Ger is gradually though certainly eat
ing her life away, and now she is con-
fined to her rooms at her home id
Lansing, Mich. Her monument has
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
TAKE NOTICE.

Some of our friends seem to think
that we should send receipts for mon
ey sent by subscribers. This is never
done by newspapers. Watch the label
on your paper, and the number on it
will show whether or not your money
came to hand. II it does not SO ap-
pear in three weeks then write us.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
"A HUMMER.n

Our friend, A. X. Stone, Of Pine Is
land, Mimi, sends us a new subscriber
and adds:
my religion is the religion of HUI
manity; and my politics do not give
my religion the lie. Your paper IS "a
hummer in the interest OF humanity.
Long may it wave."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

already been erected within the hearts
OF the people of this nation.
When the historian comes to write
the history OF these times he will give
Mrs. Emery an important place among
the causes Of the great revolution. A
good, and wise woman. We will still
hope against hope for better news.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19
ERROR.

BY typographical error the name
OF Senator Ringdal, OF, Crookston. was
dropped from the list of Alliance dele
gates, appointed by President Vermil-
va, to the meeting of the Federation of
Labor, at Duluth, June %.