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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
A GREAT SUCCESS.

HOW COOPERATION WORKS IN MON
TANA.
Editor Representative:
On the 4th Of June last we started a
cooperative store here on the Rockdale
plan, beginning with groceries and pro-
visions only. Our first months cash
sales were 1915; second month, $1,130, and
third month, $1,301. Our board Of direc-
tors and the manager, are all Jealous CO.
operators, and the store is headquarters
for the distribution of Populist literature,
The Representative included, and being
one Of the papers most highly priced.
Our people are anxious to have Hon. Ig-
natius Donnelly deliver an address here,
either before or after his address at our
State Fair at Great Falls.
GEO. w. SWEET.
Havre, Mont, Sept. 4.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18

Editor Representative:
Send me, If you please, some sample
copies of Ignatius Donnelly's remarka-
BILE paper, and will spread the gospel
of truth like Wild fire. I wish we had
an Ignatius in North Dakota. The Rep
resentative is the ablest reform paper to
my knowledge, and the first dollar col
lected this fall goes to pay for it.
Young and old should combine and
back such an illustrious organ. Ten
cents aside for afew weeks will soon pay
for 1t. y. y. +.
Hatton, N. D., Aug. Is, 1895.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
LET US HAVE A KING,
WE HAVE ROYALTY ALREADY ANY
HOW.


WE HAVE ROYALTY ALREADY ANY
HOW.
Editor Representative:
Over two months ago 5000 miners In
Marquette county. Mich, went out on a
an uprising of the people without pre-
vious agitation or organization. The
men had for nearly two years quietly
submitted to a reduction of wages upon
the representation of their employers
that the market for iron was so low that
they could not afford to pay higher
wages. Without protest the men quietly
accepted the reduction. But when iron
advanced and they asked for an increase
of wages they we're met by several humid
red bayonets, ordered out by Gov. Rich
for what purpose God only knows. There
has been no violence, there have been no
threats, there has scarcely been a
drunk" since the strike commenced
The police courts have been idle; except
in the case of two mine managers there
has been no disorder. One mine agent
struck the son of striker and was
promptly fined $50 and costs. One mine
agent tore down the stars and stripes
and destroyed drum and went unpun-
ished. There is absolutely no evidence
that any interference with the mines was
intended, but the troops are here all the
same; and deep down in the bosoms of
the men is ranking sense of injustice
that in the distant future BODIES no good
for their taskmaster of the republic
Republic? Is it republic that keeps
up soldiery in contravention of the dec
laration of independence? "He affected
to render the military Independent OF
and superior to the civil power"
HE has kept among us in times 81
peace standing armies without the con-
sent of the legislature
Who will deny that the soldiery are al
the beck and call of the corporations
We are ruled by an ob;garchy of pluto
Gratis, and the courts are their lackeys
Liberty is dead. There is nothing left
to do, save inject scion of royalty
and set up a monarchy, and the sooner it
is done the better it will be for all of us
The people seem incapable of self-gov-
eminent. The money changer loots the
republic. Many voters are for sale
| and a majority are so enslaved by mar
| row partnership they can see nothing
good outside the Demo-Rep. parties
Long live the king" Set him up; we
have nothing to lose by the change, and
possibly something to hope for. One
plutocracy is loaded down with money
and they will cheerfully come down with
the ducats for the purchase of b title
| besides, the laboring class are being
degraded to the level of serfs. Mudsills
ready made for a throne. We have q
citizen soldiery of 10000 ready and
eager to shoot down our modern Helots
and reserve of $4,000 hired thugs with
in easy hail should the militia fail to
! perform it's bloody work. besides, the
church is ready to assist, and is even now
drilling the nameless youth of the ma
ton to the pleasant manipulation OF
arms, preparatory to cutting their broth
er's threats; and especially for the de-
| struction Of q few calamity howlers
called Populists; but that will be only a
play spell for one patriotic army. Give
| US a king.
EDWIN D. cox.
MarnNofte Mich
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
100000 bond: and the

100000 bond; and the pur-
chaser draws $4,000 In gold
that can be exchanged into $4,000 in
greenbacks and then draw $4,000 in ma
tional currency interest of 1 per cent
leaves a free gift of $107,910.
Here Is clear bonus at $3.50 and the
bond Of taxes, and a clear present with
an other free gift appended OF $4,000 in
gold yearly. and the bond augmented in
value IS 2-3 per cent in 20 years.
o, Satan! thou knowesl how to satisfy
the public and draw wool over their
eyes, so they cannot see how your angels
are fooling them. 0, Satan! Thou art a
mighty financier as the above figuring
will show. AXEL JORGENSON.
Keystone, Wright county, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
Marquette, Mich.
AN EARNEST REFORMER.

HE THINKS WE SHOULD PUT THE
MONEY QUESTION TO THE 'FRONT.'
TRAITORS SHOULD BE SHOT.
Editor Representative:
One of the greatest reform papers of
this nation, aye in the world have been
highly pleased by reading in the last
number of this paper burning words from
those patriots, Taubeneck and Powers
and DR.. Johnson. Did not Gov. Weaver
sound the alarm some months ago. The
writer of these lines has been identified
with the great reform parties on the
money question ever since Peter Cooper
ran for the Office of president. 1 have
never since that time been identified with
either one of the deceitful old parties.
But I have been abused, villified, SLAM
dered, called crank, fool, more espe-
cially on the money question than on the
other parts of our platform. l, myself,
have not been content with the
greatest Of all platforms that
has ever been presented to a civilized
people and that platform is the Omaha
plotAOI Hl. DuI great CudnS0 mas come
In this country since the great conven-
ton met that produced that platform.
Both old parties are now hopelessly di-
vided on the money question; the great
honest thinking people of those parties
are perfectly Disguised with the past leg
islation enacted by and between them.
Both the rank and file plainly see that
the eastern part Of this country is per-
fectly under the control of Wall street
and Lombard street financiers. The
great financial banks in New York and
Boston are the financial agents of the
Bank of England. The Rothschilds and
other great foreign financiers, now the
agents in this country, are working in
the interest of their foreign masters, and
those masters being themselves the great
flnanciers of Europe and the especial up
holders OF monarchy, and they are known
the. world over to be opposed to liberty.
Let the Peoples Party national con-
vention be called early; formulate plat
form with the financial question to the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
A LETTER TO SATAN.

A PLAIN FARMER THINKS THE DEVIL
is A FIRsT-CLASS FINANCIER, AND
SPEAKS TO HIM WITH PROPER RE-
SPECT.
Editor Representative:
Since Satan has obtained room in your
valuable columns, would like to ask his
majesty in all secrecy, with your permits
sion, when he commenced to bride our
congress and legislators in general.
l think I see your majesty's cloven
footprint insight stirring up the people
to fight each other, so that your angels
on earth (for so call the money power)
could consign the most of the people to
slavery. Did you not advise the state
banks to break, in body, in all the
states, and to rake in all gold and silver
and paper in circulation in that time of
1860? And somewhat, but to prepare for
the second series of greenbacks you so
coquetishly, with the exception clause ON,
understood to instil in the public minds
necessity in order to pay interest on the
pubic bonds, OF which there was none Of
up till that time worth mentioning? But
you, most honored satan, knew what was
good for your angels, and you knew too.
that you could make many millionaire
merchants by depreciating our money.
and raising up gold. And, you knew too,
that the 50O,000,0O0 bond act should
command there till the National Bank
law should follow, with permission to
pay the bond dollar for dollar, in the de-
preciated greenback, worth from 80 1-3
cents to 45 cents on the dollar, whereby
your angels could get more money back
from the government than they bought
the bonds for, as clear bonus of from 3d.
1923 to $3.50, which they did receive, who
bought the bonds at 80 1-3 per cent on
the dollar see here the clear economy,
100000 in greenbacks purchased
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
AN EARNEST LAWYER.

WOULD THERE WE'RE MORE OF
THEM.
Editor Representative:
assure you am doing my level best in
I assure you am doing my level best in
the interest Of the Peoples Party and the
people Of the United States, and if we fail
to accomplish that sought for in our life
time, we can die with the conviction,
that we have fought for the cause of JUS
tice towards mankind. l have and here
by do pledge myself to get you at least
one new subscriber before-the endof the
year, if have to pay for it myself. have
in the past sent you few subscribers. We
will win, if right ever does. Yours re-
spectfully, OLE HARTWICK.
Granite Falls, Mimi, Sept. IL.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
ONE OF COXEY's STORIES.

John Sherman and Grover Cleveland
reminded the general-Coxey-of twins
and also Of story:
Last year when spoke at Marshall,
MOL stayed with an old farmer friend
who was the happy father of twins
remarked that they looked SO much alike
l couldn't tell them apart. Their little
sister remarked: Eyes, they are so much
alike that Mamma gave the wrong one
CO stor oil once That Is the way with
Grover Cleveland and John Sherman.
The only difference between them is,
Grover and John both ought to have the
castor oil."-Winfeld (Kan.) Free Press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
THE GREAT HoRsE-RACE OF 1896

OLE O'MARGERIN'S DREAM-HOw
THE POP. HORSE WAS LOADED
DOWN.
The luther mite, after hevin took in
(and bin took in by the fakirs of our
deestrick fare, fell asleep and dreemed.
thot tibet boss race wuz to beside the
elexyun NV 1896, and 20 milyun peepul
wuz assembled to view the rase, with the
White Hous and the Kappitle in the dis
lance as the goal. Their wuz no less
than a dozen bosses entered and wun
mule, labeld Dimokrisy. The wun la
beled Republication he'd gold pice tied
to his forelock and bag ov wind to hiz
tale, ez did the mule, and the boss labeled
Silver he'd a JACKIE lantern on q pole too
feet afore his lie; the Prihib boss wuz
sick and he'd too be supported under
lode ov water and other objicks, while
the Populist boss wuz in extent shaip,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18

we would speak reverently, for no man
can enter into the sorrows Of the human
soul; or can Judge of those delicate
shades OF alteration when the machin-
cry OF the brain gets out Of gear.-Ed.
Rep.)
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
Adrian. MINI.

eve have hesitated to print this let
ter. 1t is ohr rule to avoid religious con-
troversies; but as our correspondent &C
cuses us of misrepresenting Mr. Robert
G. Ingersoll, we give it place, and would
simply say, in reply, that it has been re-
ported and repeated in all. the newspa-
pers of the country, and never denied by
Mr.. Ingersoll, or any of his friends, that
we have seen, that he advised men and
women to seek escape from the ills of
life in suicide. We have nothing to do
with Mr.. Ingersolls views as to religion,
they may be right or they may be wrong;
but we do think that suicide is a coward
ly abandonment of the field of battle. If
we had to kill somebody to escape from
our miseries we would rather kill the fell
low that brought us to such straits, than
ourself who was simply his victim. We
have more respect, therefore, for the
dynamiter, who seeks to destroy the enc
mics of mankind, than for the poor
wretch who tries to dodge into hole in
the ground and leave those dependent on
him to fight the battle he had not the
courage to face. -
Let every man stand up to the rack anu
endure his destiny. At the same time
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
KIND WORDS.

Havre, Mont, Sept. 4.
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portfolio, made to slide in and out OF
tho safe, and over it is sheet of
thick paper and plate of glass. 1t is
now never exposed to the light, and is
rs little exposed to the mir as is posi-
bic without placing it in vessel from
which tho atmosphere has been OK
hnusted.
The document is n single sheet of
parchment. thirty-six inches long and
and thirty-two inches wide, and bears
no scrolls or decorations such ms are
seen upon many of the copies that are
sc common. The body of the writing
having been evenly and clearly written
when the instrument was cngrossed, is
still even, though badly faded, and
can hardly be made out, but the sig
natures. which were written perhaps
with different ink and another pen,
aro faded and beyond recognition,
many OF them being wholly gone, and
Others partly SO. The heavy stroke of
the pen in tine of John Hancock's
bold autograph is still visible, but
that is the only line that is distinct.
The history of the origin OF this
great State paper is we'll known to
most Americans, but is always inter
esting. Tho story of tho varied and
disastrous fortunes of tho document
itself during the past 11S years is less
known. and is here told.
On the Goth of June, 1776, COM
mittce, of which Thomas Jefferson
was Chairman, was appointed by tho
Continental Congress, then sitting at
Philadelphia, to draft declaration
setting forth the reasons why tho thir-
teen colonies should become indepen-
dent of England. Jefferson was re-
quested by the other members of tho
committee to prepare the draft, and
this draft when presented was Mt once
approved by n majority of the commit
tee, few verbal alterations only be-
ing suggested. On July I'd n copy of
this draft was laid before Congress.
and, after n hot debate of three days, n
few sentences were stricken out and
the Declaration was then adopted. 1t
was ut once entered upon the journal
of Congress: but the engrossed copy,
on parchment, was not prepared and
signed until August Q.
During the first tweniy-four years
OF its existence the Declaration was pre-
served among the archives of the GOV
eminent Mt Philadelphia, and during
all or part of that time it was un.
doubtedly rolled up, as it shows by the
cracks in the parchment that it must
have been rolled for long period,
and it is known that subsequent to
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Summer on the Declaration

Among Americas latest statesmen
no ono entertained more exalted re-
gard for the Declaration, or more per
sistently emphasized it's important ro-
iation to legislation, than Charles
Summer. He always held that tho
Constitution should be interpreted in
the spirit OF tho Declaration. He
said: "fhe Declaration of Indepsnd-
enue has supremacy grander than
that OF the Constitution, moro sacred
and inyiolable, for it gives tho law to
tho Constitution. Every word in tho
Constitution is subordinate to the
Declaration. The Declaration pre-
cedes tho Constitution in time, rs it is
moro elevated in character. The Con-
stitution is an earthly body, if you
please; tho Declaration of Indopend.
ence is the very soul itself. WASH
ington Star.
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tho exercises. He'd been projeckin'
around for three weeks hirin' cowboys
nm Injins for Wild West show. Ho
saw Buffalo Bill a-rakin' in barrels of
money an havin' long hair it seemed
as if he oughter get some of the dough
his own self. His hair was about his
strongest point. He was the son of q
Sedgwiok County farmer, an he'd got
his name in the paper in connection
with Oklahoma, an KNOWN lariat
from a nosebag why wouldn't he mako
hit? Pnwnee Pete, of course, wasn't
his real name. He knew Spotted
Horse, Englo Chief, Left Hand, Good
Chief, an maybe few moro Pawnees,
an so when Ills hair grows long
enough ho babtizes hisself Pawnee
Peto an let him go at that.
con the day of tho celebration
everything seemed to como Jnrviss
way. 1t looked first as if the Red
Bud affair would have to DO pulled off
without no music. Tho only brass
band loose in Wichita had been signed
by the committee from Little Dutch,
which thrivin' town had pooled with
tho neighborin' city of Minnesota for
jint jamboreo on Independence Day.
Tho Little Dutch fellers was hot
sports, nm when they see how soro tho
Red Bud committee was about losin'
the bnnd they proposes to do moro than
tho fur thing; they prompt offers to
play seven-up for tho outfit. The
chairmon of the Little Dutch and Red
Bud committees sits down an Red Bud
wins by three on most tremenjus,
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photolithographer. Later, o full sized
copperplate engraving was prepared,
and the copies printed from this plate
are perfect ac-similes of the original.
1t is believed that in making this en-
craving the original was seriously
damaged by chemical application to
restore the fainter lines but it may be
said that if this engraving had not
been made there would not be Gu exact
copy of this most important document
IN existence. A framed copy of this
engraving may be seen in the library
OF the, State Department, aud, what is
even moro interesting IN franc be-
meath it, Is shown Thomas Jefferson's
original draft of the declaration, in
his own handwriting aud with all OF
his erasures and interlineations just as
it left his hand.
The singing of the Declaration OF
Independence WINS solemn act. The
singers were subjects of King George,
and their act was treason. If the King
could have caught them no would have
hung them every one, and this they
knew; but according to the traditions
that have come down TO us, this knowl-
edge did not deter certain of them
from relieving the solemnity of the &C.
oasion with the natural flow of their
wit and humor. The remarks attri-
buted to them are not exactly authen.
ticated by history, but they are too
good not to be believed. It is said
that when John Hancock fixed his bold
autograph he remarked: "Tho Eng.
llshmen will have no difficulty in read
ing that" that when Franklin signed
he said: "Now we must all hang to.
gether or we will hang separately;"
and that Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
when asked why he wrote his place of
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that time it was hung up exposed to

that time it was hung up exposed to
pablo gaze.
When, in the year 1900, tho Ma
tionAl Government was transferred to
Washington, the Declaration was Gag
ried there and deposited in the De-
partment of State, whore it remained
for forty-one years. In tho year 1871
substantial building having been
erected for the use of the United
States Patent Office, which had form
erly been in the State Department,
and the State Department. being in
brick building, and not fire. proof,
Daniel Webster, Secretary Of State,
addressed letter to Henry l.. Ellis
worth, the Commissioner of Patents,
and requested him to receive the Dec
claration and other valuable docu-
ments into his custody for safe keep
ing. This request was complied with,
and for tho next thirty-fiye years the
Patent Office retained charge of the
precious paper, but it was while there
it suffered its greatest injury. 1t ives
hung up, exposed to public view, be-
hind the glass in ono end of case of
Patent Office models. At certain hours
OF the day the sun shone directly upon
1t, aud, OF necessity, it gradually
faded. 1t is amazing almost beyond
tho power of belief that of the dozen
Commissioners ofPatents who had the
custody of this document during
those thirty years, not one of them
saw that it was being ruined, and not
ono of them had the forethought to
tabo it out of tho sunlight and put it
away in darkness. In England such
treatment of an important State paper
is unheard of. Magma Charta, the
doath warrant of Queen Mary and
other archives in the British Museum
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four or five times as oldas our Declara-
ton of Independence, are still kept in
condition of perfect preservation.
In 1875 Congress woke UP to the
outrage that was being perpetrated
and appointed commission consist
ing of the Secretary of the Interior,
the Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution-Professor Joseph Henry
and Ainsworth r. Spofford, the
Librarian of Congress, "to have resort
to such means MS will most clfectually
restore the writing of the original
manuscript of the Declaration of In
dependence, with tine signatures up
pended thereto" Experts were con-
suited bythis commission, and finally,
the matter was referred to the
National Academy of Sciences. It
having become known that the great
Declaration was fading away, the pub
lie became interested in tho effort
made for its restoration, md the pub
lie press urged the Importance of
prompt action, but years went by
and nothing was done. Tho National
Academy of Sciences reported to the
commission that portions of the
restoration was impossible Mean
while, in 1875 George W. Childs, of
Philadelphia, and Frank NJ. Fitting,
IN charge OF the historical department.
OF the Centennial Exposition, re-
quested the Government to send the
document to the Exposition to be
placed on exhibition. The Secretary
OF the Interior, Hon. Zachariah
Chandler, wrote alettor to President
Grant, setting forth the reasons why
tins request ought not to be complied
with, but this request was granted,
and, on its hundredth birthday, the
great charter, faded and scarcely
lleglbie, returned to tho place of its
birth, and there was exposed to the
gaze of the American people, its pitt
ful condition standing rebuke to the
National Government.
In 1877, ut the close of the EXPOSE
tion. the Common Council of Phila-
delphia petitioned Congress for au-
thorlty to retain the Declaration and
to place it in independence Hall. This
request was refused, and the docu-
ment was brought back to Washington,
but upon request of Hamilton Fish,
then Secretary OF State the Secretary
OF tho Interior consenting-it was
again returned to the State Depart
ment, where it has since remained.
While the Declaration was in the
Patent Office IN excellent photolitho-
graphic copy, reduced to about half
it's size, was made by tho Government
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rangements you've made for tho
proper observance of this holiday, but
l aims to trim this critter lot
$50 he don't do thing but cut tho
critters long, wavy hair off short. Ho
was the ragedist lookin' Pawnee Peto
that n hess ever SHE'D at when he
sneaked Otto tho corral an rode away.
You can't do good clean Job of bar
Berlin with bowie knife no matter
how much pains you take, an Hill
wasn't mono too careful about his work.
"Then I climbs up an reads that
bluff about oil men bein' born FREQ an
equal an entitled to the pursuit of
life, liberty, an happiness with no
strings on 'em. Oklahoma Hill car
ried out tho Wild West programme
hissclf in the afternoon.
"Why did he trim up Pete? We'll,
it seems Pete, in startin' in his Wild
West show, thinks it's good play to
queer Hill, an Hill bcin' in the East
he thought it was dead safe backcap-
pin Of him. Some newspaper man
up ut Kansas City told Hill that Paw
noo Peto said he was n counterfeit of
tho most pronounced kind nm nothin'
but n cross between wheat farmer an'
country store keeper. It made Hill
some hot this and other reports OF
Pete's scaadalous doin's, so he left his
show with Frank Albright an p'inted
straight to Winfield to kill of this
gossip. He concluded he'd let him
live though nm just shear him. Hill
explained this to tho crowd an they
told him no apologies was needed.