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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
BIG CROPS AND LOW PRICES.

When the former gets to figuring how
to raise larger crops and obtain higher
prices he should first study up on the
money question. 1t is the money end of
the problem that most concerns all pro-
ducers The plutocratic press and gold
standard men say the silver question and
money issue are dead. Of course no one
would spend time reading up on dead is
sues. The pluts know this and raise the
cry dead issue" to stop investigation, to
prevent the people reading silver and
other reform literaturee, to keep prices
low and money dear.
When the farmers, manufacturers, me-
chanicS and other producers learn that
each year they exchange their product
for approximately the same amount of
money whether this product be large or
small they will have learned most valu-
able lesson. 1t matters not whether the
worlds wheat crop, corn crop and other
crops be great or small, the buyer (the
consumer) appears each year with ap-
proximately the same amount of money to
invest. Each year he exchanges a GER
tain number of dollars for products The
number of dollars offered in exchange is
the fixed quality. The farm products and
ether products of labor are the variable
quantities. Out of the worlds money
supply a certain percentage or fixed
amount is each year set apart for the
purchase of food articles, another fixed
amount for the purchase of clothing and
still another amount for the other neces-
saries of life. Each year these fixed or
definite amounts are exchanged for, the
entire product. Each year the farmer
thinks if he could only haul to market
twice the usual crop he could carry home
with him twice the money usually re-
cived. Each year he finds the worlds en-
tire product measured up against the
worlds entire money supply and his crop
whether large or small brings him practi-
cally the same money. The quantitative
theory of money and the law of supply
ard demand when studied and fully I'M
derstood solve the whole question of low
prices and hard times. The cumulative
theory of money as applied to prices.
briefly stated, is this-when the volume
of the worlds products and exchanges in
crease relatively to the worlds supply of
basic or standard money prices fall This
relative change may be brought about by
diminishing the money volume as was
done by demonetizing silver and retiring
legal tender greenbacks or it may be done
by increasing the volume of food products
and exchanges. Study these questions if
you would know the causes of low prices
and of your poverty and distress.
3tss- E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
UNCOMPLIMENTARY,
MISSOURI AND BRYAN OF NE
BRASKA.

TOM wATsON's OPINION OF BLAND OF
MISSOURI AND BRYAN OF NE
BRASKA.
Billy Bryan, as we observe, is still
Democrat.
Billy is quite a f1irt. Between old
man Dick Bland at one end of the line
and young Billy Bryan at the other,
can be found every known variety of
political kicklng-excepting the sort
which amounts to something.
Their kicking seems to be done by
accurate measurement, and their
bucking governed by careful calcula-
tion.
We notice that while they are ''for-
ever and eternally" going to do about
and smash things and create rucous,
that they never do it. Their roaring
is that OF Bottom, the Weaver, and is
constantly accompanied by side re-
mark, explaining that the lion has hu-
man bowels, after all, and really does
not mean to hurt the audience.
Go it, Dick!
Go it, Billy!
When it comes to kid glove fighting,
cologne bottle revolution, no two Miss
Nancies on the American continent
can hold a candle to you?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
THE MORTGAGED FARM.

The man who holds a mortgage on my
farm,
When times are tight, has no pressing
need,
But bids it in to crafty his greed,
Is shielded by our "shyster laws from
harm,
And even lauded for the bastard deed,
Though, morally, the man is really worse
Than ff0 he knocked me down and took
TAe my purse;
This last would mean, at most, a mo-
ment's strife,
The first would mean the "struggles of
life;'
My little children turned out in the cold,
A prey to want and miseries manifold.
Then if loot him of his lousy pup,
And pawn the beast my hunger to as
suage,
The guardians Of the law will lock me up
And jaundiced justice fly into rage,
While pampered piety my rags askance
will scan,
And Shylock shout, Behold a dangerous
man.!
But notwithstanding want to heaven cries
And villains masquerade in virtues guise,
Great Liberty is moribund or dead,
Except for those who corporations head ::
One little consolation still remains:
We voted for the men who forged our
chains.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
LIFE IN CITIES.

What are the cities? Hells in extern
sion, bells generative, absorptive, diffus-
i've. What are the rural or suburban dis
tricts? Mere feeders of the cities. What
are the churches in cities? The Sunday
lecture room, the Sunday opera, concert,
and assembly. Who sit in chiefest places?
Those mostly whose weekday employ
ment consists in grinding wealth out OF
the multitude; hirelings and families OF
hirelings; chiefs and traffickers in hire
linghOod; these, their sons and daught-
ers. The priest is employed on terms as
one of their hirelngs. Shall Christ cast
the money changers out of that temple?
They hold the title-deeds, anr the COM
munion service made by hirelings for
the use of hirelings. Need we wonder
that men preserve Christianity in our
day as they preserve the old family por-
traits? We hang upon the mOuldy
walls the picture of the man; the painted
effigies Of religion take the place of the
religion.
Men in the mass must share the des-
TIMES of their era. There is no escape
for this. The masses are the chief capt.
tai of the labor-kings, the usury-kings,
the kings over middle-men who rule pro-
duction and distribution. Money earns no
interest; it does not breed. Out of the
sweat of labor all things come at last.
Does the fortunate man live upon his gold
by natural increase? 1t seems so to him.
Nevertheless it is the sweat and blood
of his brother that Sustains him day by
day. Sahyamuni (Buddha), son ola king
as he was, saw the millions, the centuries
of millions, of his fellow men, prone be-
meath the burdens of their helpless fate,
and taught new religion to Asia
taught them how with dignity to accept
the inevitable, to renounce hope, to be-
come extinct. The conditions that pro-
duce Buddhism reappear as the product
of civilization. History repeats itself.
Young Europe begins to change it's fea-
lures growing aged, becoming Asiatic.
The masses who build London wear the
stOlid Indifferent look that was seen Of
old in the crowds who toiled in the erec-
tioi of the pyramids.
Labor is a curse, unles free, beautiful,
holy, having humanity for it's end. There
is paradise in every vale; an Eden hung
on every mountain side; but the man
who labors loses in the habit of labor
the finer sense from all his senses. The
landscape is beautiful, but not to him.
brotherhood (LOndOn).
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
THE FARMER SUFFERS.
ELEVATORS AND RAILROADS CAUSE
HIM GREAT GRIEF.

"A
HIM GREAT GRIEF.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission on Tuesday, visited
Argyle, Stephen, Kennedy, Hallock
and Warren stations on the St. Vim
cent branch of the Great Northern,
where it is reported the wheat ship
pers are sufferers from a lack of cars
in which to send their wheat to mar
ket. Secretary Teisberg returned
from the trip yesterday and reports
that the commission inclineS to the
belief that the farmers have a griev-
ance, although it is not the scarcity
OF cars.
1t was found that the most of the
elevators at stations north of Crook
ston ale pretty we'll filled with whea t
and that the farmers have been i'm
posed upon by the elevator men, who
claim that their No. hard bins are
full and the best they can do is to
grant No. ? grade with price to
correspond. This naturally works a
hardship on the farmer, who has not
storage room on his farm, and is be-
ing pretty closely pressed by the i'm
plement men on collections. The
farmers thus situated have been ad-
NISCo W lIOM SlUC.
tracks, pending some cure for the evil.
In Europe half the buildings are
covered with straw-thatch. Those
who underS tand the work, and many
of our foreigners do, can make a
matched roof that will turn rain as
thoroughly as shingles. Where our
farmers are too poor to buy lumber,
at Ring prices, they can erect straw
sheds in which their grain will be per-
fectly safe, and they will then be mas
tiers of the situation and can sell when
they get ready. Don't depend on a
mere straw roof, but on a hatched
one, made with Irvine, poles and
straw.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
WEIGHING THE GOODS.

This administration committed one of
the gravest crimes of it's criminal record
a few weeks ago. In obedience to the
will of the money gamblers the treasury
authorities have established the prece-
dent that dollar is not to be recognized
as such unless it contains a dollars
worth Of metal in it's composition.
1t came about in this way. A number
of Chicago bankers were kind enough to
come to Mr.. Carlisles relief and Helped
out his declining gold reserve. They
sent large amout of gold to the treasury
to be exchanged for greenbacks. On re-
ceipt of this gold the treasury authorities
did not count it, but dumped it on the
scales and weighed it like a grain buyer
would a sack of wheat. The result was
that large number of the pieces of gold
money were found light weight. These
pieces were branded with an 81 and re-
turned to the Chicago bankers. These
bankers are now doing some high kick
ing, as this money will not circulate, but
must be returned to the minis.
Thus the money gang has established
a precedent that will accord with their
ideas of doing business. They first
forced the government, through the in
fiuence of such scoundrels as John Sher-
man and Grover Cleveland, to establish
the gold standard. Thus they desire
even this Sound" money weighed. and
now when the money rogues present
their bond coupons for payment they will
demand that their interest be weighed
out to them in gold. Gold, therefore, is
not money any longer even by the recog-
milton of the government itself, but is a
commodity, regardless of the government
stamp upon it. The next thing the
money power will demand will be that
the government shall disregard the law
full weight of gold in a dollar and that
the market value of the bullion shall
represent the paying power of gold.
This action by the government makes
gold very uncertain sort of money. You
people who have gold hid away under
old stumps or hung in between the outer
and inner wall of your houses in old
stocking legs do not know how much it
amounts to. You may count it over and
find there are $500, but when the money
power places it on the scales, it will fall
short about $50 or more. Soon the mer-
chants will refuse to take gold at the
government fiat, but will flip it on the
scales and tell you to throw in little
more gold, as the amount Is short weight
Two years wear only is necessary to
cause an abrasion in a piece of gold
money that can be detected by the
scales. If you have gold over two years
old it is light, and should have govern
ment brand or - on it. Now do you
see the tricks of the gold gamblers?
What grand and glorious country this
is to be ruled by gang of money sharks
who would sell their country and barter
their hope of heaven for money. That
is the class of people who dictate our gov
eminent policy now.-Washington Let
ter to Southern Mercury.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
A WRETCHED PEOPLE.
HORRORS OF THE sLUMs.

Prof. Huxley was interested in an es-
pecial London parish and wrote of it thus:
Over and above the physical misery, tho
impression has never died out of my mind
of the supernatural and entirely ast0nish-
ing deafness and dullness Of these poor
people. Over that parish Dante's inscrip-
tion, Leave hope behind, all those who en-
Or here, might have been written There
was no amusement to diversity the dull
round Of life except the public house;
there was nothing to remind the people
of anything in the whole universe beyond
their miserable toll, rewarded by slow
starvation. In my experience ofall kinds
of savages all over the world, found
nothing worse, nothing more de-
graded, nothing more hopeless, nothing
SO intolerably dull and miserable as the
life | left behind me in the east end of
London Nothing would please me more
than to contribute to the lettering of
that state of things, which, unless wise
and benevolent men take it in hand, will
tend to become worse and worse and to
create something worse than savagery--a
great Serbonian bog, which, in the long
run, will swallow up the surface crust OF
civilization"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
WAGE WORKERS EARTHLY PARA
DISE,'

The above is the title of a very inter-
esting pamphlet of Y pages, published by
Hon. John R. Beasley, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. The full title is: tThe Wage
Workers Paradise; Five Dollars a Day,
-Four Hours Work and a Hundred Years
of Life"
The author has used it some time as a
public lecture, and it has been received
with great favor by those who heard it.
To the above is added an essay entitled
''The Blighting of the TradeWind on
Agricultural States" and Mr.. Beasley' 5
bill ITO Re-establish the Federal Re-
public Created by our Colonial An
cestorS."
Mr.. Beasley is wel-known writer
and speaker, and this pamphlet is one of
his best productions. We commend it
to our readers everywhere. Orders
should be sent (not to us) to John r.
Beasley, Chattanooga, tenn. Price, IS
cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
BANK GOES UNDER

UNABLE TO SECURE READY MONEY
SOUTH CAROLINA CONCERN AS
SIGNS.
Leadville. Colo, Nov. 6-The Lead
vile Savings and Deposit Bank closed
it's doors today and made an assign
ment, owing to scarcity of ready
money. The assignment covers the
personal property Of z. w. Breene,
president. as we'll as all the banks
chattels.
Charleston, S. c., Nov. 6.-The Ash
ley Phosphate Company, one OF the
oldest and best known companies in
South Carolina, made an assignment
today to w. Branford Frost. No state
ment of assets and liabilities is yet is
sued.
The Republicans carried eleven
states on November 5th, by over
whelming majorities, and the next day
the smashing and breaking begins
again.
Good. Nothing but that kind of ar
gument will illuminate the stolid in
telligence Of the average American
citizen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

Brother Donnelly is having such pros
perity recently that he has decided to ex-
tend the circulation of his paper, and yes
tedray published an edition of ten thous-
and copes," so as to have a few extras"
to send to those who are ''hungering and
thirsting" after true knowledge, relative
to the simplest principles involved in the
Constitution of the United States, and
governing the monetary and other econo-
mic questions. By and large Brother
Donnelly publishes one of the "meatiest'
weekly newspapers to be found in the
West. One may not agree with his theo-
ries his doctrines, or his assertions-but
everybody will admit their honesty of
purpose, their originality and clearness
OF Statement.-Penny Press
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
ERICrS PEPPER POT.
ALL HOT,


"See how few men, living in Du-
luth CT Minneapolis sell 5000. 900 bu.
of wheat to the worlds market, at a
price agreed upon by the Scamps, with
out any consulta tiOn with the men
who raised the grain. And then fix the
price the farmers are to receive low
enough to give themselves swinging
profit"
Why should they not?
Let us review the past.
Pillsbury chloroformed Loucks, and
busted the Scandinavian Eleva tor
Company. The Grain Growers Asso-
citation of Minnesota Investigated the
wheat thieves. but John Zelch. Merri-
am, Knute Nelson, ct al. whitewashed
them. The law Of Knute legalizes
stealing. | spent the summers of 1891
and 1893 in the Red River Valley to
organize the Grain Growers, but some
one chloroformed them. A few en-
thusiasts> tried to revive it in July,
ance appointed Powell. He turned
dough-face at once and you said to me:
"You cannot attack Powell. The
millers are bound to steal wheat"
what should they do with those
who reduce millions to puverty?'-
representative.
Send G. A. Pills bury to the United
States Senate to help Knute bury the
voting cattle under the debris of Lin
coin Republicanism.
ERIC Olson.
We are glad to print friend Eric's
reflections, for they are generally or
iginal and to the point;-Eric always
thinks for himself. But what ground
has he for attacking the Alliance
agent, S. w. Powell? We have always
regarded him as good and true man.
Speak out, Eric! If there are any
black sheep in the flock let us know
all about it.-ED. REP.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
THE SILENT CLERGY.

The pulpits set the night apart
to pierce Corruption's evil heart;
But nearly every shaft they hurled,
Shot through the sky and missed tn
world.
The more misguided shafts shot down
And hit the women of the town.
Picked up by friends who face the foe.
One shaft the message bore, Go slow,
Great changes all are slowly made"
Because-by such advice delayed.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

DDS easily surmised, sought to do further
service to his masters by rising in his
seat in the senate some time since and
proposing to burden the people still more
through an issue of 100000, 900 of inter
est bearing bonds. Not satisfied with
doubling the debts of the people through
his funding schemes, or of stealing one
half of the peoples money by the act of
1873, this bloodless, heartless, financial
bucaneer advocates and votes for the de-
struction of his own offspring, the Sher-
man act, and seeks in time of peace to
increase the interest bearing debt of the
people. We are glad he leaves none to
inherit his name or instincts of rapacity,
and we trust in the providence of God
the people may in the future be spared
from the blighting influence of any more
of his kind.-Living Age.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

criminal lawyer, who sat near us,
leaned over and whispered in our ear
after Altgeld had finished: THE
voice is the voice Of Altgeld but the
sentiments are the sentiments Of Lin
coln." The strange thing is that the
audience which the Governor adj
dressed was not made up of the So
called common people," but was
composed Ut business and professional
men and high officials. It can almost
be said that they came to hiss and re-
NAMED to applaud. There is surely
something about the man that will
for years to come make him promin-
ent figure in the politics of our coun-
trY
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

was impossible to tell in advance of the
setting in Of the winter what the
condition of the fall sown wheat would
then be. If the long drought be followed
by general rains throughout the wheat
belt, and if these in turn be succeeded by
little warm weather, the wheat would
terminate and get a sufficient start to
carry it through the winter all right He
did not think there was any reason at
this time to predict anything like gen.
eral failure of the crop.
We print these facts so that our farmers
may see that food may be very scarce,
over the whole world, before 1897. Don't
throw away your crops for song.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
WHY NOT.

Below is one of the brilliant arguments
presented by the Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin against Altgelds sledge ham,
mer blows. 1t is presente as a sample
of the deep erudition with which the
average plutocratic paper meets facts:
Gov. Altgeld's declaration that the
bacteria of corruption have eaten the staff
of his American flag is no doubt intended
as an argument for allowing him plenty
of rope.
But some times the Wisconsin does
let the cat out of the bag as it does in
the following squib:
The shadow of the hard times that have
been is projected into the present. But
for the fact that they are greatly in need
of money, farmers would not have to
hurry their wheat forward upon a falling
market and prices would be likely to
stiffen.
That's it exactly. But then why don't
so people need not be in need of it?-Mil-
Waukee Advance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
DO JUSTICE.

The Milwaukee Advance says: The
State FamerS Alliance of Texas de
nounced the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight
by resolutions. 1t was this action that
braced up the back bone of the Demo-
cratic governor. Then when he called a
special session of the legislature the
Democrats could not muster votes enough
to pass the law to stop the fight. The
solid vote of the Populists against the
brutal act prevented it. In choosing be-
tween right and wrong the Populists are
always right. But not a Republican or
Democratic newspaper has given them
credit for this act.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

she went beyond her depth and was
compelled to swim a distance of 100
feet before her feet again touched solid
ground. She reached home safely, and
that evening her usual visits to the bed
sides of the sick were made.-St. Louis
ReDublic
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

Murphy are placed in control? AS fur
Their evidence of the healthy moral con-
dition of St. Paul it may be cited that
25 men have been indicted under the
same charges that are made against
Murphy.-Martin County Sentinel
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
PERHAPS THE EARTH JUST MISSED
FAYE'S GREAT COMET.-WINNI-
Pegs ROREALIC SHOW.

Remarkable Phenomena in Both Europe
and America-Seismic Disturbances In
Every Direction and Wonderful Auroral
~ Displays All Over the North-Droughts
Without Parallel In the Bureaus Annals
New York Herald's Summary.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

w men ladies to travel in Minnesota
for. established, reliable house. Salary s7Sd
and expenses Steady position. Enclose
reference and self-addressed stamped en-
velope. The Dominion Company, Third
door, Omaha building. Chicago.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

Remember-has three 60 qualities: l.,
Purity; 2, ripe, old age; 3, fine palatable
flavor-Geo. Benz & Sons Monogram
Whiskey. Take no other-this is pure
Druggists or dealers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

Everybody is complaining of dull
business and yet the advoca tes OF sin
gle gold standard kept right on point
ing out the "unmistakeable signs of
reviving prosperity" What cruel
sort Of joke it is.-Evansville Courier,
(dem.)
The Pioneer-Press calls it "this new
era Of prosperity" All
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

The we'll known quality of Uncle Sans
Monogram Whiskey, from Geo. Benz z
Sons st. Paul, Mimi, has been, is and
ever will be maintained. 1t invigorates
and strengthens. All druggists sell it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

The excellent quality of Uncle Sans
Monogram Whskey, from Geo. Benz &
Sons, ST. Paul, Mimi, is never tempered
whit is pure. Druggists and dealers
sell it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

There is no more powerful, brilliant
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a rich feast of reason and humor every
week. II you want reliable, 365-day,
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try Observation-Disclosures Representa-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13

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