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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
$50 BULLETS A MINUTE.
A REPUBLICAN BID FOR OR
CANNED LABOR VOTES.

New York Commercial Advertiser. Re pub.
lican. June TO-
A rapid fire gun, weighing but As
pounds and capable of firing $50 bull
lets OF large calibre every minute,
such as has just been tested and ap-
proved at Sandy Hook, fills long felt
want. AS an attachment to the re-
cent decision OF the United States SUI
preme court, touching railroad riots, it
fits like the paper on the wall.
How do the working people like
that? They are only fit for food for
guns that shoot $50 times a minute
and to vote for the old parties whose
mouth-pieces thus tell them of it.
These Plutocrats are getting bold as
the implements of murder in their
hands are perfected. The supreme
court, and Pullmans and Carnegies
are their especial pets. II the work
ing people sleep on in their dream of
good times and justice they will find
one Of these guns at their heads unr
less they obey their masters. The
New York WOrld, speaking of this gun
the other day, said that it could be
used like garden hose and one man
could NOW down whole regiments be-
fore they could get to him, and that
each bullet will go through Is feet of
solid oak! The World -infers that
these guns will make wars impossible
that they would mean the annihila-
tion of both armies. This statement
has meaning not intended for publi-
cation. 1t is intended to luIl the
public mind into repose about war,
while the monopOlists control these
guns by controlling the government.
or course wars will be impossible
when one set of men have these guns
against the citizens without arms.
The butcheries of naked savages in
Africa by the English with similar
guns shows what these guns are used
for. This threat of a leading Repub-
lican paper that they just fit organ
lied labor means they will be used to
slaughter American citizens whenever
said citizens protest against the
tyranny Of the wealthy corporations.
Yes, these guns meap universal peace
but the peace between slave and
master when the master stands over
the defenseless slave with a club or
gun. And still the dupes vote for
men and parties who uphold monopoly
and thus pay for their own execution
ers. Caesars Column" has not been
overdrawn if the working people
don't wake up pretty soon and vote
for enemies OF monopoly.-Coming
Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
ELECTION BY THE HOUSE.

Col. W. Dudley, politician of
varied and keen experience, is out in
pathetic howl over the danger Of
throwing the next Presidential cleo
tion into the House on account Of the
financial issue. Mr.. Dudley certainly
shows that the thunder of the coming
financial storm has awakened him
from his slumber. We do not know
but that his fears are we'll grounded. !
We do know, or think we know, that
the next president willsnot be dug out
that the people will elect the Presi-
dent by a clear-cut, overwhelming
ajority. II they should not happen
to do so, the election will likely go to
the House. The result will be the
same in either event, but it is almost
impossible to convince politicians Of
the Dudley stamp that this will be
the case. They are usually loaded
with confidence that the yellow metal
gang will win. One Of the leading
partisan papers recently said that
the Western silver states could vote
as they pleased, but that there were
enough <oters east Of the Mississippi
to carry gold to victory. We are
glad to see this confidence. Nothing
aids SO much in whipping an opponent
as to have him cherish tom-fool con-
fdence. Barring, Ohio, and perhaps
Michigan, there is not a Western
state that will not go for silver. The
South is for silver, and in triangular
fight, the result in some of the east
ern states will be for the double
standard. Let the silver men permit
the other fellows to do the blowing,
while they keep quiet and saw wood.
Farmers Voice.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
AFTER FREE COINAGE WHAT?
(From the Chicago Sentinel.)

| (From the Chicago Sentinel.)
Populists have always favored the
free coinage Of silver. Democrats now
indorse it,. Republicans do not op-
pose it, and European Shylocks "sym-
pathize with the movement"
It is we'll to inquire relative to the
motives of the old party managers in
consenting, we will say, to the free
coinage of silver.
1t is readily understood that the
Shylocks want to boom the commodity
value Of the white metal to be able to
unload their vast silver holdings at
immense profits.
But what is the goldbug monomet-
allist going to make by such deal?
Let us see.
There can be no question that one
object of the silver movement was to
trap the Peoples Party into the
Democratic enclosure, and then crush
them by defeating the Democrats.
But their main object is undoubted-
ly kept in the back ground. Populists
favor free coinage to make money
more plenty; but plenty of money is
not what the gold bugs want. When
U1lc Glluc COlucS w pass UuC dCU pIO
viding for free coinage Of silver, the
goldbug will get in his work by i'm
posing certain conditions.
Then every old party paper will be-
gin to howl about the evils OF "infla-
tion of the currency" which will be
introduced to retire the greenbacks-
that enemy of all banking institu-
tions, since it brings them no profits.
The greenbacks once destroyed, our
astute Congress men will make the
discovery that, as the capacity Of our
mints is but $4,000, ,0O0, annually, it
will take nearly ten years to replace
the destroyed greenbacks with silver
coin.
Then Shylock's best trump card will
be played with ZeSt-issue $50, 900, 600
gold bonds as basis for national
bank notes to be issued for the pur-
pose of preventing undue contraction
Of the currency.
These measures passed, and the
Shylock-goldbug policy will be trium-
phant and complete, the policy entered
| upon two years ago, viz: Repeal the
issue half billion Understanding
gold bones.
II this scheme can be carried out,
| the government will be out of the
banking business, Populism will be as
dead in Kansas and Nebraska as it is
now in Connecticut and New Jersey,
and gold will be king in ali America.
There is every indication that SUBJ
stantially the above will be the old
| party programme.
| The cry of free silver will be used to
| knock out the greenbacks, and the
"new silver party will be the club
with which Shylock hopes to kill the
| old Greenback party, as the Populist
party really is.
But the scheme won't work. It
would have stood better chance Of
succeeding eight years, or even four
years, ago, but Populists are now too
numerous: besides, they know too
much to be fooled any more, even by
such adopts as Grover Sherman Ali
son and Carlisle.
| After free silver, what?
Why, national treasury notes up to
$50 per capita.
Let us have sound money, lots of it,
and government banks to keep it in.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
A PARALLEL.
SLAVERY 8 I'D MONOMETAL-
s L1sM.
History : peats Itself Against
Be !, Monometallism.

BeffaloaSS hing News, June 5.
The Philadelphia Manufacturer has
striking article on "Abolitionism
and Bimetallism," claiming that in a
remarkable manner the conditions at
tending the anti-slavery movement OF
~ years ago "are reproduced in Phil
adelphia and throughout the country
now that an active campaign has be-
gun against the domination~Of the ma.
tion by British gold monometallism." "
The Manufacturer declares that the
agitation for the abolition Of slavery
never had a particle of sympathy from
what may be called the mass Of the
prosperous people. The public jour
nails were nearly unanimous in declar-
ing slavery should be left alone, and
they invented and cons tantly applied
terms which were intended to, bring
reproach upon the A bolitionists.
Then, as now, columns Of rhetoric
were produced day after day in the eff
fort to demonstrate that no reform
could be accomplished without inf1ict-
ing irreparable damage upon the
country. The Manufacturer states
the case very plainly. 1t says.
mo great wisdom, no intense re-
spectabiity, but only common sense,
can be required to permit man to
understand that it is folly to suffer
our greatest creditor to fix our money
standard; that we are now upholding
the British gold system only by bor-
rowing money; that the wealth pro-
ducers are being robbed by the non
producers who have fraudulently en-
larged the buying power of the dollar;
that the nation is in shame because
treasury is buying. at heavy cost, pro-
lection from foreigners; that every
thing has been made to rest on gold,
which has been cornered; that the
land and the control of the money
supply are passing from the hands OF
the people and that the domestic and
foreign debts of the nation are grow
ing larger the more desperate the eff
fort made to discharge them. No
bland talk from very respectable citi-
zens, no sophistry and figure jocking
from statis isticians, no ingenuity OF
mendacity from public journals, no
rhetorical efforts from the secretaries
of the treasury, will operate to hide
these facts. Every just man per
ceived that slavery was Infamous and
it was overthrown. Every man who
will open his eyes may see, IL he will,
that this nation is in bondage to its
British creditors who have made it
the victim of the most coloss al
scheme of brigandage ever devised by
the rapacious greed of man."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
RODE THE OLD PARTY GOAT.

NOBsERVING REPORTER MIXES UP
LODGE MATTERS AND POLITICS.
One of the many reporters Of the
Sllverites, whose duty it is at times to
attend lodges and political meetings,
became badly tangled up the other
day while pushing the festive Faber
in search for items. Grouped about
Alderman Darbee's store were num-
Der Of individuals. some of whom were
talking politics while other were en-
gagged apparently in the discussion of
matters appertaining to secret socie-
ties. The dialogues soon became
somewhat mixed and confusing and
when the scribe had completed put
ting down everything he heard it
sounded something like the speakers
were all members Of the Hills, Popu-
lists, free masonS or something. Note
the language:
From whence come youo"
oo1 From n my my lodging place in the
pose?''
Pm a Pop, YOU bet.''
How ldo YOU know yourself to be
Populist?"
"By having been called a calamity
howler; and I'm ready to howl again.
Where were you first prepared to
be made Pop?"
I'm the Republican party"
where next?"
ut the Republican party"
"How were you prepared?"
by being robbed regularly every
year, for ten years, in the interest of
| railroads. corporations, trusts, loan
companies and thieving public off,
cials, until l was divested of all mate
| rial substance, neither clothed nor fed,
sheltered nor shod, whereupon l was
summoned to appear at the door Of
certain lawyers office sand give dis
| tinct knock"
What was said to you from with
IMP"
"Who comes here?"
'YOur answer"
"A poor, drouth-s triken farmer who
desires more time upon his Obliga-
| tion." 4 NE
What was then demanded OF you?"
"Cash."
Had you cash?"
Il had it not, but the other fellows
| had my notes and were ready to fore
close"
what were you then told?"
ITO wait until the worshipfunmort-
| gagee in the East could be informed
OF my request and his answer re-
| turned.'
''Let him enter his pleadings in
court and be received in due and an
cient form"
'How were you received?"
upon the sharp point of a def
| cheney judgment to everything in
sight, which was to teach me that as
| the law is an instrument of justice, it
was also the weapon Of moral high
| waymen."
"How were you then disposed OFF"
II was then conducted to the senior
warden of the Jail, who told me how
might approach my wife's relations in
the East for further assistance, and
directed me to meet the Worshipful
| major at the soldiers reunion"
"How did the worshipful major dis
pose of you?"
He ordered me to return to the
party from whence l came, vote the
ticket which had formerly voted, aud
return to the next years reunion for
| further Instructions. ."-Montana Sill
verite,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
DISHONEST MONEY.
A. S. ROBINSON.


The affairs of our country are daily
travelling toward the point where
ruin is certain. and where he who re-
mains silent should be branded
traitor.
'"Sound money" is the hobby of the
present admins tration. Sound mon
ey'' is used as a figurative expression,
and as such should mean good money,
or what some people call 'honest mon
ey." namely, money that remains at
par; that does not pass at premium
or discount. This kind Of money
should be the desire of every people.
The present administration urges
that money, in order to be sound,
must be good all over the world. 1t
does not state it in those words, but
that is the idea. We do not make
laws for the whole world, nor do we
coin money for it. We are not that
great. We coin money for ourselves
and produce meat. wheat, corn, oats,
cheese, tobacco, oil, gold bullion and
silver bullion for the world. 'But
the husbandman must be the first
partaker Of the fruits Of his TOLL" yet
other nations are partakers, and we
go hungry and are in want. We dis
pose our produce at a mere pittance
in cash and when that is gone we have
to mortgage our lands at about one
fourth the value to get money. This
is the real Cleveland idea of "sound
money"
"Sound money" literally means a
money that has not flaw, hole or
crack in it, namely it is perfect in its
make and Of its kind. 1t may be
sound and yet not good.
Secretary Carlisle says that the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver would
enable debtors to pay their debts at
half their face value. He neglected
to say that they were made in gold on
a silver basis. He also stated that
gold is now worth $32 an ounce. Now
those debts were contracted when
gold was $l6 an ounce, hence so cents
on the dollar would pay all the honest
part of those organizations. TO illus
trate: When gold was at SIG per
ounce cotton was 10 and II cents, and
wheat from 81 to 81 SO per bushel.
The last crop Of cotton sold at about
5 cents per pound and wheat at about
so cents per bushel. Hence the pro-
ducer has to double the work to get
the same amount Of money. When he
gets it, it will not buy double what it
would when gold was at SIG per ounce.
The supply of gold is not sufficient for
the demand, nor would it be with gold
at $10O per ounce.-Southern Mercury
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
THE FALSE LAWYER.

HIS DEADLY WORK, BY JOHN sWINTON,
''In the business of subverting the
liberties :; our beloved country, do
not dread the soldier with his rifle
nor the conspirator with his mask, nor
the fool, fanatic, or the demagogue.
nor the king in his regalia. nor the
cleric with his tongue, nor the editor
with his quill, nor Satan with his
horns, nor yet the millionaire with
his millions. if they have but fair
field, The man to be dreaded in this
republic is the shystering lawyer; le-
gal machination is the thing of men
ace and danger. 1t is in this country
especially that the people need to be
on the alert against legal quibblers
here they swarm as they do nowhere
else on the globe, not only in the
courts, but in Legislatures and their
lobbies and every place of power and
greatness.
How often, in searching amid the
ruins Of popular properties in other
countries that once enjoyed the m, do
we come upon the tracks Of the false
lawyer! For what oppressor has He
not found legal subterfugc? For
what deed of guilt has he not been
ready to erect a legal bulwark? Do
we not find him with legal defense
of every usurper; with legal justi
cation for any invasion Of every birth
right of man; with a legal bubble
over every great popular franchise;
with legal gloze for every clear word
| Of freedom; with legal pettifoggery
against every establishment of right:
with legal weapon for nullifying
| every victory of progress; with a legal
jimmy, as Major Haggerty lately said
in the Assembly, to pry open every
mans safe: with legal mechanism for
| tearing out every stone in the fabric
| of justice, and for rearing every pillar
in the edifice of wrong?
Not guilty deed has ever been
perpetrated by power: not base
treason has ever been Matched against
| the Commonwealth; not device has
ever been set for subversion of any
popular right-but the false lawyer
has stood ready to uphold it with the
| armament of false legality. He bat.
tered the Twelve Tables OF Rome, he
made of no effect the Ten Command.
ments of Moses, he stifled the genius
of Magma Charta, and he is now scut-
tling the Constitution of the United
States.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
HORRIBLE
MEN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY THE |
BLACKLIST.

MEN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY THE
BLACKLIST.
Do you know what the blacklist
means? Not long ago at Denver,
Colorado, J. "A. Hamilton, a railroad
conductor, put bullet through his
head. He was in the A. R..lU. strike
last summer and was blackllsted. He
tried again and again to get job at
railroading, but everywhere that aw-
full blacklist stared him in the face,
and, if he got job, it would be only
day or two until he was discharged
with the excuse that he did not 'give
satisfaction. He knew no other
business. The railroad had made
him a human machine, and when he
tried to assert his manhood and
stand with his fellow laborers, the
edict went forth that he should tarve
for that is what the blacklist t
means. That is an instrument of
punishment capital uses when it's
slaves show signs of acting like free
men. 1t is more effective than the
umbscrew or the rack. 1t will
break the stoutest heart. It is more
cruel than the grave. OF all the in
ventions of greed it is the most effec-
tive. Its malignity is devilish. 1t
puts the mark of Cain on brother
and leaves him no recourse except to
die
There is only one way to beat the
blacklist, the starvation and the sui
cides that follow in it's train. and that
is government ownership Of railroads.
Aud when monopoly and greed go SO
far as to drive men to death because
they have dared to exercise their
rights as human beings to strike to-
gether for better conditions Of living,
it is time the people arose in their
might and wiped out such corpora
tions. We need a new Declaration of
Independece. Once give man such
power over his fellowmen that he can
dictate how much they shall keep of
their earnings, while be takes the
rest, and you make him a meaner
tyrant and more heartless despot
than Nero or Caligula. the milk of
human kindness turns to acid in his
veins, and he soon values machines
more than men; property above per-
sons. The former wear out and cost
money to replace; the latter may wear
out or starve or blow out their brains.
but there are plenty more to take
their places. without expense to him !.
Human beings are infinitely the
choicest products of our planet; and
yet wood and stone and iron are treat
ed better than they. How long, oh
Lord, how long!-Star and Kansan.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
Q1 M 4 YEAR q CENTS

Mr. Childs, in conclusion, said the
Northern Pacific had no standing in court
in the case at all-had no business there
The Court-Then why has the supreme
court, while denying it the right to inter-
vene, given it the right to be heard here,
and why has the railroad commission
given it that right?
1T is simply given the right to come in
and be heard the same as it might go be-
fore committee investigating the ques-
ton OF rates, the purpose being to give
the court full knowledge of all the circum-
stances" replied Mr.. Childs.
HAS the court right to take into ac-
count the facts submitted by this COM
pany?"
only so far as they apply to the reason
ablenesS of rates on the Great Northern >,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
MERGING.
THE OLD PARTIES FUSING.

Cincinnati, June 22.-Ex-Governor
Foraker created sensation in his ad-
dress at the Harmon banquet last
night, and brought every man to his
feet in hearty applause.
He was discussing Secretary Olney,
whom he praised in unqualified terms.
Suddenly, in one of those bursts OF
eloQuence for which he is noted, he
declared that in connectian with the
Chicago riots Attorney General Olney
has done his country the greatest
good OF any one since the surrender of
Appotomattox. Long ages after he
was gone his bravery and patriotism
would be treasured memories in the
minds Of all lovers of law and order,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10

doubledin value, causing like fall in
the prices Of all commodities. The
gold countries have in reality been
left without a. standard of value at
all, for that cannot be called stand
ard which is itself cons tantly fluctuat-
ing.
National honesty, faith and prosper
ity, the preservation Of the indepen-
dence of the producing classes, the
salvation Of the nation itself, demand
the restoration of bimetallism and
the re-esta blishment of a stable meas
ure of value-the most important and
far-reching Of all our measures.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10

The raise in wages is explained.
The steel and a few other firms
raised wages 10 per cent and COM
PEELED men to do double work! o,
yes, capital Is cute. Sounds nice to
say wages are raised, is a big political
club to swing, and the poor devils
tied down to twice as much work as
before are unable to tell the world
that their wages have actually been
| reduced because of increased burdens
laid upon them. What Haunting ncs!'
! Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
WHY 1T WAS KNOCKED OUT,

II the income tax law had been sus-
tained as a whole, says the Boston
Transcript. William Waldorf Astor
would have been compelled to pay a
tax of $17S.O00. John D. Rockefeller's
tax would have been $4,000. Other
taxes would have ranged about as fol-
lows: Russell Sage, 800, 900; Jay Gould
estate and Cornelius Vanderbilt, $780,
900 each; w. K. Vanderbilt, $4,000;
Henry w. Flagler and William Rookie
feller, $4,000 each; John Jacob Astor
and Moses Taylor estate, $780, 900 each.
Hetty Green would have been COM
PEELED to pay the heaviest tax borne
by the women. Her proportion would
have been about $50, 900.
This was the reason the supreme
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
VOL. iii. NO. II. WHOLE NO. u5.

Dear money and cheap property, and
the endless cheapening Of the latter.
that the income class may enjoy it,
means slavery for the wealth pro-
ducers of the world and vast sacri-
fee of real property acquired in good
faith. To strike down ninety-nine
dollars worth OF property that the
holder of the one dollar may profit
is the monstrous evil against which
bimetallists protest.
J. w. PORTER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
MINNEAPOLIS. MIMI. WEDNESDAY JULY TO- 1895

court declared the income tax uncon-
stitutional; it would have forced the
rich man to carry his share of taxa
tion; as it is now the poor devil must
stand it all; certainly it would not do
to give the poor man justice. he has
no reason to be poor.