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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
WHAT WE WANT.

We are hewers and delivers who toll for
others gain.
The common clod and rabble. stunted of
What do we want-the Cleaners of the
harvests we have reaped:-
What do we want, the neuters, Of the
honey we have heaped?
We want the drones to be driven away
from our golden hoard:
We want to share IL ti.e harvest: we ask
t. sit at tie board;
We want what sword or suffrage has
never won for man
The fruits of his toll God promised when
the curse Of toll began.
and the sacred word.
In all the years. and the kingdom Is not
yet here of the Lord
We are tired of useless waiting; we are
tired of fruitless prayers.
Soldier. churchman and lawyer-the fall
ure, is 1t not theirs?
What gain is it to the people that God
laid down his life,
world of strife?
If the serried ranks be facing each other
And steel in their hands. what profits q
Savior's sacrifice!
Ye have tried and failed to rule US: in
vain to direct to have tried.
Not wholly the fruit Ct the ruler; not
utterly blind the guide.
we can find the way;
At least We have ruled to ruin; at least
We have led astray.
What matter if king. or council. or presi-
dent holds the rein,
If crime and poverty ever be links in the
bondman's chain?
What careth the burden bearer that Lib
erty packed his load.
II hunger presses behind him with q
sharp and ready goad?
There's serf whose chains are OF paper;
there's a king with a tinsei crown:
There are robber knights and brigands
in factory. field and town.
But the vassal pays his tribute to the
lord of wage and rent;
And the baron's toll ie Shylock's, with a
flesh and blood per cent.
The seamstress bends to her labor all
night in a narrow room;
The child defrauded Of childhood tiptoes
ali day at the loom:
The soul must starve, for the body can
barely on husks be fed:
And the loaded dice of the gambler fixes
the price of bread.
Ye have shorp and bound the Samson,
and robbed hin. Of learning's light;
But his sluggish brain Is moving; his sin
ews have all their might.
Look well to your gates of GAIA, your
heirlooms of pride and caste;
The giant ID blind, but thinking, and his
locks are growing fast.
James Jeffrey Roche. in New York In.
dependent.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
A RINGING LETTER.

POINTED AND TO THE POINT.
To the Editor:
Some time ago your people COM
menced sending me the Representative.
Enclosed find 81 90, which, believe, is
years subscription. If l am wrong,
correct me. A revolution is now on,
and all 1 am afraid of is a compromise
and this is fight where any compro-
mise defeats the whole thing. Capital
will try every expedient to divide, dis
tract. stampede or destroy our forces,
and then when driven to the wall will
want to compromise on some banker
plan. The free and unlimited coinage of
both gold and silver at Is to 1. Treas
ury notes in place OF national bank
notes, government ownership of rail-
roads aud telegraph lines and control
Of all sources of production Of coal and
coal oil, and making monopolies of the
necessaries of life a crime, graduated
income tax on the Swiss plan, so there
can be no escape, and when q man gets
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

with virtually robbing you; the rail-
roads by refusing to furnish cars or
hampering you in filling them and
charging eyhorbitant rates. In order to
force you to sell your grain to these
same "philanthropists." who, according
to your own story, were so eager to pay
you 8 cents per bushel more than it
was worth, that they forced you to sell.
Yea; and this modern Caesar of our
Grain and Warehouse Commissioners
did weep, the tears c0ursed down his
cheeks as he told his tale of woe, and
depicted his helplessness 1t seems,
frcsn the letters you have written, that
you were simply believing because you
were the COX that was being Gcred;"
that, after the gang" made you one Of
them, and armed you with wooden
sword, your weeping and waiiing was
heard in the land no more.
No doubt but your believing at that
time got you your present job, for our
modern Caesars, like the ancient julius,
would not be wolves, but they see we
farmers are sheep."-Act LIST, Scene 3rd
Mr.. R. Cookie Burr Dick, to ring
another fitting change on your name,
in your last letter you misquoted SEN
tence Of mine to make grammatical
OA wi. w AOt CldAAu any IcldtlOASnlp
to Linley Murrey, or Richard Grant
White, but 1 do claim that can take
up a pen without writing myself down
an ass" l believe I had a little tilt"
with you at the convention mentioned
above, when you, in a clustering man
ner, claimed you must be right be-
cause you were a college-bred man. No
doubt, there was twenty times more
time, and hundred times more money
spent on your education than there was
on mine, but your instructors must
either have had poor tools to work with,
or you must have been very poor ma
terial to work on, for, after Is years.
hard work they only succeeded in turn
ing out a block-head. You are totally
untitled to hold the position you do, as
the servile tool of the elevator COM
bine." Your education is not complete
you ought to take lessons from such
men as the editors of the Pioneer Press,
New York Tribune, etc. Billy McKin-
ley or our own Congressman McC!eary
would be good men to learn from They
could,-to change an old couplet little,
learn you Ito tell a big 'wopper' with
such, sweet grace Hodge would think
you were telling the truth" Yours,
SETH BOTTOMLEY.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
BLACKLIsT1NG DEBTORS.

THE MEANS OF CRUEL INJUSTICE
THERE SHOULD BE LAWS TO REG
ULATE SUCH PRACTICES.
To the Editor:
Do you believe in justice and fair
dealing, between man and man? If YOU
do, you will allow me space to air a
grievance, that concerns not me alone,
but four-fifths. perhaps, of the laboring
and business men of this and all other
cities and the country as we'll.
Yesterday, while in certain business
office, and having to wait few min
utes, to pass away the time, picked I'D
what suppose to be story; but to my
surprise it was what was called a
Business Mems Blacklist" Turning
to my own name, which was easily
found, to my horror I found this in
connection with 1t: mot worthy Of
credit"
Horror hardly expresses it! If there
is anything on earth that would drive
an honest man to commit suicide it is
that very thing, that any blackhearted
scoundrel can put your name there. out
of pure spite, 1t you don't owe him one
cent. and never did. And it may be
there. You had better look it I'D. II
is astonishing to see the names that
are there.
No man should be allowed to put
another's name in that book until he
secures judgment against him and il
remains unpaid. For there are millions
of claims that are unjust and on which
l.. -
ment: hut that don't hinder the So
called creditor from inserting the al.
legged debtor in that hellish book. / say
hellish book, because no one but &
sneaking devil ever thought of such q
scheme to ruin his fellow man. / am
81 years old, and If was ever sued ir
my life never knew it; consequently
there is no judgment on earth against
me. Then how does the publisher o1
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
MAKING CONVERTS.

SPREAD THE REPRESENTATIVE
To the Editor:
Enclosed find my 81 for another year
subscription. l am happy to say that
through the means of the Representa-
tive we have been able to convert q
few staunch old party people to our
way of reasoning. The same can be
done any where the Representative is
used. Wishing you all possible success.
l am very truly yours,
L. j. ONEILL.
Lambert MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
Remember.

To take a postal card and send to
the REPRESENTATIVE So Fourth st.S.,
Minneapolis, the names Of such per.
sons. either Populist or otherwise, who
would be likely to subscribe for the
and be Obliged to you beside. That is
the way to push the Peoples party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
HARD TIMES.

An old friend writes us as follows,
from Henning, Otter Tail county. in a
private letter:
To the Editor:
There is no use in trying to take any
subscriptions for either the Representa-
tive or any other paper for the present
unless, indeed, you would take in pay
butter or eggs, for these items are and
have been for the last two years the only
currency Of nine-tenths of the farmers
In this section of the country, and I
doubt not but that the same condition
exists in other sections. But still, to
Judge by the last election, it seems as
If, in the language Of Lundstrom, Of
Litchfield-in the days Of greenback- ism
in Meeker county-that the fools were
not low down enough yet" "but," he
added, they will come to it by and BY"
ana l Say Amen! Yours most respect
fully, A. P. ONSDORFF.
Henning, Mimi, May g.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

GRAND RALLY OF POPULISTS AT
GOOD THUNDER, JUNE 1ST-LET
ALL HANDS TURN OUT.
(The following notice was received
too late for last weeks issue. Ed. Rep
To the Editor:
Kindly give notice in this weeks Rep
resentative, that the Populists of Blue
Earth county will meet at Good Thun-
der, June LIST, for the purpose of having
grand rally and to organize, or take
steps towards organizing the Peoples
Leagues in the county. Fraternally,
A. M. MORRISON.
Mankato, May 5.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
MORE KIND WORDS.

To the Editor:
I should have written you before, but
money has been very scarce up here.
If 1 did not believe your paper was do
ing great good l would not think of
sparing the money. But cannot we'll
do without the Representative. Send
till the money runs out and oblige.
Yours, WELLS WAY,
Aitkin, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
GOOD WORDS FROM OREGON

TO the Editor:
Enclosed find Is cents, for which
please send the Representative for
three months. like the tone of your
paper, as it stands squarely on the
Omaha platform and not on the narrow
platform Of one plank. Yours for sue
cess, H. A. KERNS.
Portland, Ore, May /.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Dear Sir: Find enclosed money order
in the sum of 81 to pay my delinquent
subscription, and one year in advance
to The Representative. I am much
pleased with the paper and almost con-
slider it among the impossibilities to be
without 1t. Very truly yours,
]. 4. PROBSTFIELD.
West Superior, Wis, May S.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

50 rich that he can't use up his income
on his family, say . half million dollars,
let It all then 60 to the government,
and not as now be aggregated In suc1,
enormous Jumps, which are constant
menace to a free government; in
short, give US an American pol
Icy; damn England and the
whole outfit of aristocrats. These
things can't be compromised at ali.
Give us an aristocracy Of honest man
hood, worthy OF humane government
of the whole people. Yours always,
VIM. A. BENTLEY.
bismarck N n Nav 1QoS
The evening times., 1895-08-23
ALASKAN BOUNDARY L1NB.
Denial of the Report That England 1
Taking Independent Action.

Denial of the Report That England L.
Taking Independent Action.
Geu Duffield, superin tendent of the
Coast aud Geodetio Survey, said yesterday
afternoon TINT he placed biss little credence
in the report that England had a surveying
party running q line of her own to deter
mine the boundary between Alaska and
British Columbia.
''It was only a few days ago-August
10, to be exact'-said Gen. Duffield, that
l met Mr.. King, the Canadian boundary
commissioner, by appointment in Roches-
ter, for the purpose OF comforting about
this boundary survey and arranging our
plans for the future.
Il know that Mr.. King has not been
In Alaska during the present year, and
heNiuformed me that none Of his party
was in the field. For that reason am
confident no surveyors are now at work
OH the line, but even if they were it would
make little difference.
The bou undary line is fixed by treaties
between this country and Great Britain
and between Russia and Great Britain
The work of the surveyors is to definitely
mark the lines laid down by those treaties.
We have an engineering party engag ged in
that labor and so have the English, and the
surveys are being made as rapidly as the
appropriations and the seasons will per-
nit.
when the work is completed report will
be made to the respective governments.
Mr.. King and myself will visit the scene
OF the work in October, but when the
surveys will be completed is a question
that cannot be answered"
The evening times., 1895-08-23
Catholic Knights Excursion.

The Catholic knights of America gave
their second annual excursion yesterday
TO River View. An exhibition drill was
given by Companies A and of the Con
Eaga College Cadets. This was followed
by an individual prize drill, in which
thirty-five members of A company took
part. The prizes were $40 and So gold
piece offered by the Catholic knights for
the best and next best drilled member OF
the company. The first was won by Sergt.
Ed. II. Hayes, Company A, and the SEC
ond by Corp Thomas b. Cook, Company
II. After the drilling Company B was
presented with handsome silk flag. Capt.
Vincent Coughlan, the winner OF the in
dividual ticket selling contest, was the re-
cipient Of 4 watch.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
BELONGS TO VIRGINIA.
District Attorneys Investigation of
Alexander Island.

Alexander Island.
1t is now believed that the Attorney
Generals office and the United States at
torney OF the District have become con-
vinced that Alexander Island does noyn
and always did belong to Virginia. IL
was intended al one time that the District
attorneys office should make an eXamina-
ton OF the subject and present all the
facts TO the Department of Justice, and that
then Mr.. Dickinson, one of the Assistant
Attorneys General, would prepare a bill
on behalf of the United States against
the State of Virginia to settle the south
west boundary line OF the District of CO.
lumbia and file the same in the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Ii is believed that such examination of the
subject SO far has not convinced the authori-
ties which have charge of the subject that
Aiexander's Island is portion of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The salient fact that all
The land titles OF the island come from Vir-
Sinia patents, and that the habitants of
the island paid Virginia taxes before and
subsequent to the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and stlll pay them, is said TO be re-
garded as conclusive of the subject No
movement has yet been made looking to the
requirement of the island by the United
states ''ln full and absolute right and jlI-
risdlctlon, as well as of soil as of persons
residing or 10 reside therein" by a cession
from the State of Virginia to the United
States. IL is believed that such a cessioR
would be very popular In the county of
Alexandria, and il is certain that it would
De very advantageous for the District of
Columbia, as since the improvement OF the
Potomac fats the city of Washington has
extended to within few hundred yards of
Alexander's Island, and II would be espe-
cially important for the District to have ju-
risdiction of the land on both sides of the
main channel of the Potomac opposite the
seat of Government
The evening times., 1895-08-23
AFTER TwgNTY-sEvEN YEARS.
Mrs. Mayhem Finds Her Husba nd In
St zabeth's.


St. Eliza beth's.
After separation of ftwenty-seven years
Mrs Levi NJ Mayhem, natron of the
Cincinnati English Orhpan Asylum, was
yesterday reunited to her husband, who
is at present confined in the Government
Hospital for the Insane.
The couple were married in Hamilton,
Ohio, after Mr.. Mayhew's return from the
war, and lived happily until some time
in 1868 when the husband suddenly dis
appeared Every effort TO discover his
whereabouts was unavailing until year
ago when Mrs. Mayhem applied for
pension and was informed that an applica-
ton had been received from Ossawatomie,
Kan, in 1882, under the same name.
Upon making inquiries it was learned
that Mr. Mayhem was confined in the
asylum at that place sii>urably insane.
The wife, being unable TO care for him,
had him transferred to the Government
Hospital here DR.. Godding says the man
is never violent, but suffers from incurable
paralytic insanity. He did not at first
re C ognize his wife and can remember
nothing during the twenty ty-seven years
of his absence.
Mrs. Mayhem will make every possible
effort to obtain a pension for her hus-
band, and IL successful, Will take him
home with her and care for him.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
NEW STEP IN BOUNTY CASE.

Senator Henderson Moves to Referthe
Matter to Secretary Carlisle.
Ex-senator Manderson yesterday tele-
graphed Comptroller of the Treasury Bow
Ter that he had forwarded motion to
refer the whole question of the payment
Of the sugar bounty appropriation to the
Secretary of the Treasury on account of
the peculiar language of the appropriation,
which, he claims, takes the matter out of
hands of the regular accounting officers
OF the government. The language upon
which the motion is based is as follows:
The bounty herein authorized to be
paid shall be paid upon presentation Of
such proof of manufacture and production
as shall be required in each case by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with
the approval of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and under such regulations as shall
be prescribed by the Commissioner OF In-
ternal Revenue, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury.
And for the payment OF such sugar
bounty the Secretary OF the Treasury is au-
thorized to draw warrants oil the Treasury
OF the United States for such sums as shall
be necessary, which sums shall be Ger
titled TO him by the Commissioner of In
tcrnal Revenue, by whom the bounty shall
be disbursed, and TO tounty shall be AZ
lowed or paid to any person as aforesaid
upon any quantity OF sugar lcss than coo
pounds
If Mr.. Mandcrson's motion prevails it
Will take the quest ion oftac bounty payment
entirely puf nf Mr. PnvrlarS hands
While the language of the ect seems TO
give color TO the claim that the Secretary of
the Treasury should issuc warrants directly
on the certificates of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, ii is POINTED out that
the language of this appropriation is iden-
tical with that of the original Mckinley
bounty, which language was not treated
either by the last or the present adminis
tration as taking those disbursements out
of the hands Of the regular accounting Of
ficcrs of the government.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
OLD NAME STANDS.
Catholic Union Adjourned without
Changing 1t.

The twenty-seventh annual convention of
the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union closed
last night after three days scssion. The
question Of changing the name OF the
organization by dropping the word .'Irisa,'
caused heated remarks, but owing TO the
lack of the required two-thirds majority,
the name remains undisturbed.
The officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: P resident, ID. w.
Lynch, of Delaware; first vice president,
John j Beian, of Canada; second vice prcsi-
dent, Miss Kate German, of Rhode Island;
treasurer, Mr.. Doher, Of Pennsylvania:
secretary, Augustus H. Boyle, of Pennsyl-
vania.
After the installation of the Few officers
the union adjourned to meet at Wilmington,
Del, August next.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
Died Mt Ninefy.fhree

James Murray, an old resident of George
town, died Wednesday evening of general
debility, aged ninety-three years He had
hved here seventy-one years, being engaged
IN business as painter considerable por-
ton OF the time. He leaves one daughter,
Mrs. Elizabeth Meem, and two sons, Mr..
Richard Murray, of Baltimore, and Mr.. j.
c. Murray, at whose home she lived. The
funeral services were this morning held at
10 O'Clock in Trinity Catholic Church, and
the remains were inferred at Holy Rood
Cemetery.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
Only One Admitted.

Up to the present time the only woman
who has ever dared to set foot within the
cloistered precincts of the Grand Trappe
monastery, at soligni, In France. was Queen
Marie Amelie. After her visit, so the story
runs, the monks repayed the cloisters
through which she had passed, consider
ing that their abode had been desecrated by
the feet of even q royal lady. But now q
new church is about to be consecrated
there, and for the uine days between Au-
gust 80 and September 8 persons of both
sexes are to be permitted to visit the sacred
Enclosures of themonkD.
The evening times., 1895-08-23
District Republicans Say Har-
mony Is Assured.
VIEWS OF SOME LEADERS
Union Club VIII Steer Clear of the
Color Question and Work for the
General Good-EffOrts on Foot to
Arouse Better Glass of Men to
the Situation Before Them.

Tho efforts toward harmony among the
Republican clubs OF the District appear to
be meeting with good results. Republi-
can leaders emphatically declare that when
the time arrives for active work all differ
ences win be laid aside and the task of bar-
monizing completed.
Col. w. A. Cook, who has been in line for
many years in politics in this city, and is
now a member of the Unicn Republican
Club, said to-day that the determination
OF his club is not to interfere with local mat
ters go far as the national convention is
concerned, and that it does not intend TO
tolerate or allow the question of color
TO come in at all in political affairs.
TOO MUCH TALK.
Perry Carson, who was also seen, said:
LET those men who are bowling about
mob and negro rule take an interest in poe
litical affairs here and all the trouble viii
bs averted. Harmony is bound to come,
and whei: the time arrives for meeting 1t
will be found that all will be willing tp
pull together"
Andrew Gleason said TO Times reporter
that the article in The Evening Times OF
Saturday relating 10 tDe question Oh mar
mony was the keynote toward better feel
ing. The question as to the duty of Repub-
licans is plain, he said, and If they would
take part In the meetings and not leave
matters TO the element that has heretofore
controlled political affairs better class
of men would be selected to represent the
party al conventions.
SENDING OUT LITERATURE.
The Union Republican Club, through its
public document committee, Maj. c. II.
Lawrence chairman, is preparing 10 dis
tribute several thousand speeches of promi-
nent RcpI blican congressman.
AT the clubs headquarters there Is an air
of activity, and already communications
regarding political literature are received
from different portions of the country. The
club is receiving also the rosters of similar
clubs i'll the different States, which will
put thea III touch with the principal or
ganizat,ons and facilitate The distribution
of campaien II literature.
The executive committee has begun its
labors and i plan Of operations laid out.