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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
BOUNULESS PROSPERITY.
1T IS JUST ROWLING,

Chenango Co., N. Y, with four
railroads crossing it, has been reduced
to the census returns of sixty years
ago. In the state of Maine 1910
farms have been abandoned, the as
sessed valuation of which was $1,24S,-
766, and in New Hampshire Ss7 farms
have been deserted. In Kansas there
were $3.50 foreclosures of farm mort
cages in six months. New Jersey
farmers have memorialized Congress,
asking that no more lands be thrown
open to settlers in the west, as the
competition was now so severe that
their crops did not pay expenses.
And the farmers of Minnesota had
better apply to Congress to stop any
more farming in New Jersey, for
prices are too low here. already, to
make farming profitable.
Think of it there are 1910 farms in
Maine,-Gov. Coughs state-abaa-
doned! Deserted! Given up! Gone
back into a wilderness condition! And
these farms, which are today value
less, were ssessed for million and q
quarter dollars! And there were $3.50
foreclosures of farm mortgages in
Kansas u, sac months! How many were
there in Minnesota? Why don't Par
son Powers tell us? Every newspaper
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS,

Mr.. J. J. Ashauer, of New Straits
vile. Ohio, in remitting his subscrip-
tion says: you cannot imagine even
family the distress prevailing in this
valley with all classes of people, more
especially the business classes, as all
they have is looked upon by large
number as fair booty. 1t excites my
admiration to behold you and a few
others Of the 1S75erS in full armor
battling for the rights Of those who
do not appreciate your sacrifices. -
Milwaukee Advance.
This confirms the statements in the
letter of Judge Cough which we pub
lished two weeks ago, that the region
east Of Chicago is in deplorable con-
dition. Our region of country is the
only one that has produced an abund-
ant crop, but prices are fearfully low.
Oats in Hastings have sold for IA
cents a bushel and potatoes at Is
cents bushel. No one need starve
here, but woe unto those who have to
pay off mortgages or debts with their
productions at those figures.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
MORE AND MORE OF IT.

An English syndicate is at present
negotiating for the purchase Of mills
in Lowell, Fall River, New Bedford,
Lewiston, Me-, and elsewhere, with
the intention Of securing within the
next six months the majority Of the
wooden mills Of the East.
That means that for the next hun.
dred years,-perhaps for the next five
hundred-the substance Of the Ameri-
can people will be drawn out of them
to sustain the aristocracy Of Great
Britain. We become another Ireland
"a tributary province Of our non-resi-
dent money-lOrds.
And the St. Paul Globe-the leading
Democratic organ Of the state-repre-
senting the smaller of the two
Siamese twins, held together by the
ligament of public plunder-crows
and dances and bowls after the fol
lowing nonsensical fashion:
The announcement from New York
of the arrival Of agents Of foreign
capitalists, with view to placing in
vestmentS in this country, comedies
with the natural order Of things
Nothing in the world but lingering
doubt Of the stability Of our financial
system, and of the repayment Of mon
eyinvested, in money of equal value,
has kept the accumulated wealth of
Europe from coming to this country
in Unprecedented amounts. There
has never been time in the memory
of tinanciers when there was so much
capital seeking Investment, at low
rates, as there is today. In every 9TH
erquarter of the world the capitalist is
of Europe have sustained losses that
have weakened their faith and made
future Investment there impossible.
Australia and South America no long
er afford outlets for the treasures OF
European money owners. They want
no more Of their worthless securities;
and for the two years past they have
been selling American stocks and
i. shares in the market and adding the
proceeds to their swollen boards.
An so. in the name Of Thomas JEFF
ferson and Andrew Jackson, the
former of whom wrote our 1declara-
ton of Independence from British
rule. and the latter of whom beat the
troops of England and killed Packen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
ANOTHER LIAR.
AN OFFER MADE-A THOUSAND DOL
LARS REWARD,

Cakes Mimi, Republicans: An
anonymous circular is being distri-
buted among the farmers advising
be good ADVICE and it may not be. The
best farmers will undoubtedly do as
they think best and as the circum-
stances require. The people of this
country have not yet forgotten what
cost them few years ago.
Is it not shocking that such liars
should claim to be human? We have
denied fifty times that we ever had
anything to do with that "hold-
your-wheat" circular; and still the
old-party papers continue to repeat
the falsehood. We have shown fifty
times that we denounced that circu-
lar, at the time it appeared, and re-
pudiated it on behalf of the Farmers
Alliance, and advised the farmers to
pay no attention to it. And never
theless scoundrels, like this Cakes
editor cont inue to repeatit. Is it n OF
shameful.
Now we will make this offer. We
pledge ourself to pay $1,000 to any
person who will prove that we issued
that 'hold -your-wheat' circular, OF
melted it, or endorsed it, or had any.
thing to do with it except to repudi-
ate and denounce it.
Come, Herculean liars, step up and
earn your money.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
HARD AT WORK.
PLUTOCRACY SKILLFUL MANIPULA
TIONS.

PLUTOCRACY' sKILLFUL MANIPULA.
The Minneapolis Tribune has this
to say:
The Republican leaders who have
been bitten by the silver bug have
displayed rather more discretion, and
have not taken such an attitude as to
cut off their retreat when the silver
craze subsidies. There is Tom Carter,
for instance, the chairman of the Re-
publican national committee. Some
months ago he went about shouting
Tor silver in an unofficial manner, and
threatening bolt in case the Repub-
lican platform should not indOrSe free
silver coinage. But Mr.. Carter has
evidently seen a great light since
then, for he has subsidized in marked
degree, and instead OF breathing
threatehings and slaughter il his hob
by is not Endorsed. he now ''rOars as
gently as sucking dove" In an inc
terview in New York, few days ago,
he admitted that the silver issue was
disappearing from politics, and in
reference to his own state he said:
VERY little interest is being taken
in politics in Montana at present.
The people, as by common consent,are
dropping the subject. Business is
moving along very we'll, although the
silver mines are still closed down.
The people Of my state who have look.
ed to the mines for their industry are
now turning their attention to other
things. In Montana the Populist
party is regarded as the party of the
past, and even If it does come out for
free silver it will receive no support"
10 ri flo
his rObustious assertion, shortly be-
fore the meeting Of the Republican
League clues at Cleveland. that the
Republican party would lose IS cleo
toral votes west of the Mississippi
river il it did not recognize the
rights of silver" in its platform, and
"redress it's wrongs" Also that if
neither Of the old parties gave the sill
yer men what they demanded, they
would join the Populists or some 9th
er party which would.
When we see the silver "Bombastes
Furiosos'' like Carter so quickly and
easily tanned, it does not seem as if t
would be difficult task to bring the
minor erring brethren like, TUwne and
Day, back into the fold and induce
them to discard their silver gods and
| join the grand Republican procession
| to victory.
All of which, being interpreted in
| the light Of the present age, mean
that the Money-power has bought UP
or intimated Carter, and thatit hopes
| to do the same with Congressman
Towne and Lieut.. Governor Day. AS
the Tribune says they will ''see new
light. and will roar as gently as
| sucking doves"
Perhaps so. Humanity is a very
weak and discreditable compound;
| and can generally be trusted to do the
mean and cowardly thing.
But, friends, you can see the deadly
nature of the conflict in which we are
engaged, when prominent men change
front in a night, and leading newspa-
pers exult over it. 1t is money, un-
limited money, wrung from the lab Jr
of the producing classes, used to put
gives and ShackleS on their limbs.
Up, brethren, and let US all move
| together in defense of human nature.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
OTERRUN WITH IDLE MEN,

Abner Allison of North Dakota
states that his state is Overrun with
idle men, and the Northwestern por-
tion of Minnesota is in the same con-
ditiOn. In Blanchard county, al
though the crops are immense, the
army of men is so large that wages
have been forced down to SO cents a
day and board. The people of the af-
flicted states still blame the newspa-
pers for advertising that they needed
more men. The situation is so bad
that from Mr.. Alllson's talk one
might think that the men were steal
ing cattle, ETC., to keep from starving.
Minneapolis Times, Aug. 18th.
This is just what we foretold. when
the railroad companies and the daily
papers were rushing the workmen to
the frontier. The days when an army
of harvest hands were necessary to Sc
cure the crop have passed, Self bind
ers have ended that.
A shameful fraud has been prac-
ticed on the poor fellows, and an un-
just burden cast upon the farmers of
the frontier.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
HAIRY MAINE MEN.

Four members Of curious com u-
nifty of semiwild white men. which is
said to exist in upper Maine. near the
Canadian boundary, were arrested in
Norridgewock, Me-, few days since
for sheep stealing and are now in the
county Jail there. where they are at
tracing much attention. They we're
almost naked when caught, and their
chests and back are covered with a
thick growth of fine hair. They seem
to know little of any language. The
gang to which they belong consists of
some 40 men, who live in caves, sub
sisting on what they can find in the
woods and steal faom neighboring
farms.
This is what our high civilization
brings humanity to-ignorance and
| theft.
Why didn't these fellows emigrate
to Minnesota, ms tead of crawling into
hole in the ground? They could
have gone to stealing pine and build
ing churches, and been leading men,
bers of the great Republican party
and pillars of society. They wouldn' t
have had so much hair, but quite as
much ignorance,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
UNCONSCIONABLE LIARS.

he Associated Press the other day
bounced that Senator PETER had
Jared in a recent New York speech
t the silver question was losing in
est in the West. At Fort Worth,
kas, last week. Senator PETER de-
ID that he had made any such state
mt or that he favored a new party.
fer's all right. but the Associated
Fss as usual is all wrong when refer
to Populist policies.-Noncon-
mist. a
This is an old trick of the Pluto
Is. To put out a lie and take the
lnces that millions will never see
denial Of it. And then start a
en- new lies to distract attention
m those who would try to contra
t the first.
is safe rule to believe nothing
put the Populists that you see in
} old-party newspapers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
CRUELTY.

| farmer in northern Indiana re-
LILY committed suicide because he
| d not meet his financial obliga-
s, when the goldbug parasite press
| he'd into the dead mans red head
pronounced him insane.-Noncon-
hist
E probably was; for it is more than
y he had been voting, right along,
Dne or the other of the two old
Fies. There are a great many such
htics in Minnesota. God grant
they don't end the same way.
1t it was unkind on the part of
newspapers, after helping to ruin
poor man, to make fun of his red
b. There have been a great many
1t men with hair Of that hue:-
b Jefferson, Lafayette, etc., were
timenS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
that comes to us is full of advertise
mentS Of foreclosures

that comes to us is full of advertise
ments of foreclosures.
And the two old parties have done
this thing. and now they propose to
marry and set up housekeeping
among the ruins. Let the nuptials
proceed. Let the devil and John
Sherman act as brides maids, let the
house be papered with mortgage
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; and orna-
mented with the bones of suicides
who died in despair And then let
Bob Ingersoll preach the wedding SER
mon, and demonstrate that there is
no hell beyond the grave, because
there are lots of it on this side of the
grave; and that the highest reach of
craftsmanship and philanthropy is
for each man to rob his neighbor and
cut his own throat. Great is oul
modern American civilization!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28

to their spoils, Doodle and robber
methods.-Des Moines' Farmers Trib-
une.
They played the same game with
Gov. Waite and Gov.Tillman and Gov.
PennoYer.
There really seems to be On ercup-
tion of Satanic activity upon the face
of the earth.
Keep your line steady, friends. and
advance solidly, regardless Of the
bowls and fire. works of these demons.
What job the Lord must have had
before he threw Satan over the battle
ments Of heaven! How the fiend must
have scratched and yowled and cater
wauled-like a wild cat the size of ten
elephants. But then he had no daily
newspaper!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
KNOW THINE ENEMIES.

bndon, Aug. lot is reported
J the Bank Of England has order
portraits Of President Cleveland
Postmaster General Wilson to be
g in the bank in recognition of
r work against free silver.
cry proper and appropriate. They
b enabled England to buy her
l-supplies at 80 per cent less than
nerly and England is not migrate
And the Bank of England also
suspended on its wall the portrait
ohm Sherman. The original ought
G spended to tree.
ut strange to say the Bank of Eng
\ has no portrait Of George Wash
Ion, or Andrew Jackson, or Abra-
b Lincoln. The old breed of Am
an patriots is not as popular with
Bank as the new.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
ROTTENNESS.
THE UNIVERSAL DISEASE.


Special Telegram to the Tribune.
Pierre, S. D., Aug. 2o.-The sensa-
ton which has been brewing In the
census mmissiOnerS' office broke out
today. Emmett Cole made the fol-
lowing affidavit:
pierre Capitol: Pierre,S. D.. Aug.
20, 1895. On the 18th day of March,
1895, l was appointed as clerk in the
office Of commissioner OF labor, Of
statistics and the census. On the
18th inst, l was discharged from said
position for Decentralization and 'in-
competence, to which l plead guilty.
l desire to say, however, ii the court
please, that the INSTRUMENTATION con-
sistS in the fact that | would not de-
liver to S. A. Wheeler, commissioner
Of labor, statistics, etc, large por-
tlOn OF my salary as rake off or
Doodle to which thought he was in
no wise entitled. And further. my in
competency consists in not being able
to comprehend the sculduggery Of
boodlers or attempted bOodlers, which
seems to be epidemic in this state.
EMMETT COLE"
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Goth day of August, 1895. S. Z.
Yarnell, Notary Public, South Oak.
Commissioner Wheeler of course de-
MES Coles chargrs. He would be a.
very poor South Dakota politician If
he could not deny them. Neverthe-
less they are probably true-for man
Especially of the g. 0. P. breed), is
prone to wickedness "as the sparks fly
inward"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
THE NEW AMERICAN.

adually the goldbug policy is get
B in its work. In Indiana it has
been an uncommon thing this
+ to see farmers wives riding corn
Tvs and mowers and loads of hay
Observation-Disclosures.
Te have heard a great deal lately
| ut the new woman" who comes
S in a pair Of pants, riding BIZ
g. But this is another NEW wo-
h.": Her bicycle is COW pillow and
thronta load of hay. If the mon
bower continues to rule the land
shall soon witness the spectacle so
Pmon in Belgium:-the new woman
be seen climbing a ladder with a
full of bricks on her shoulder.
fy talk about "Woman's Rights"
by will soon have the same right as
b, to work devlish hard for starva-
b wages. 1t will be not so much a
fstion Of wearing pants as of get
g the material to make the pants.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28

matters to the condition they were in
prior to 1873, when peace and pros.
perity are once more over all the ma.
tion, then let Senator PETER and Prof.
Dobbyn bring forward their PROPOSE.
ton to ''coin the land;" and after ten
years OF discussion the people may
agree that it is something better than
silver or gold or greenbacks. But to
WAIVER now is to give up the fight in
1896, and possibly give up liberty and
prosperity forever. :
But it may be after all that the
whole story of Senator PETER being in
favor Of ''coining the land" is pluto
cratic lie cut out of whole cloth. You
can scarcely believe anything you see
nowadays in the newspapers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
GOLD BUGS DYNAMITED
WITH CARTOONS

We have received a copy of Carl 8
Cactus" edited by Carl Browne. Of
Commonweal fame. To say that it is
a hummer, is to express it mildly. 1t
is 16-page illustrated monthly, pub
lished at Washington, d. c., in the
sole interest Of the Peoples Party.
Eight full pages are political cartoons
and eight pages of the hottest of Pop
ulist reading, The copy before us is
worth % cents, and yet the price is
only five cents copy, or rs cents
year. The cartoons are autographed,
and, altogether it is the finest cartoon
paper ever gotten out in the Ptpulist,
cause, and will prove of great value to
it. 1t is nothing short of dynamite in
the gold bug camp. Exchanges please
copy. ~
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
TALENT MISUSED.
TAWNEY, TOWNE AND DONNELL7

TAWNEY, TOWNE AND DONNELLY.
Hokah Chief: The Albert Lea
Standard, Populist grind organ,
takes exception to the assertion that
Mr.. Tawney is the ablest Minnesota
congressman. 1t says Mr.. TOwne, of
Duluth (the free silverite, who is be-
traying his party and constituency
is entitled to that distinction by ali
odds. But ability switched on the
wrong track is worse than ignorance.
and DOnnelly, the prince Of Minnesota
Populists, is living example of what
knowledge poorly engineered amounts
to.
By Knowledge poorly engineered"
this Hokah hireling, miscalled" Chief"
means knowledge that is not the slave
of the Money-power. We are proud to
any success in this world by DESERVING
Truth and becoming the bondman of
Wealth. And what have we lost? The
right to hold certain offices, in COM
pany with lot of nobodies who are
forgotten before they die. If we are
remembered by posterity it will be be-
cause we despised the petty places of
politics. And wealth what is it?
How many rich mems sons have We
seen who we're disgrace to their
progenitOrs? How few of them are
there fit to be named in the presence
of honest people? VIM. r. Merriam is
the only rich mans son in ST. Paul who
has amounted to anything;-and if he
had been poor he would have amount
ed to much more;-for he would have
been an intelligent Populist instead
of mistaken Gold-bug. Nature made
him able and wealth has perverted
him.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
NO THANKS DUE.

ostess Ito Logan, six years old,
is taking dinner with them)-
y, Logan! You say they cont ask
essing at your house? You don't
blk the Lord for what you have to
bgan-We don't have to. We pay
what we get.-Judge.
nat the feeling Of the two old
les. The Lord has nothing to do
them. All they have they paid
n cash.
bit who furnished the cash? 1t
t have been the producing classes.
b one creates any wealth but them
they havn't got it. Where is it?
used to pay for the shackles that
! them?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
MORE HORRORS.
HORRORS ON HORRORS HEAD AC-
CUMULATE"

CUMULATE."
Before Harry Hayward is hung-and
he ought to have been hung three
months ago-another and even worse
case crops out.
A woman of loose life-an adven-
turess-lives, in Minneapolis, with an
other Of the same sort. Wealthy men
are drawn into their house and rob-
bed Of their diamonds, while asleep;
the same being returned to them.
through the police, under threats Of
arrest. The husband Of each one Of
these women died, and the widow drew
insurance money,-under,i it is alleged,
suspicious circumstances. Then the
life Of one of them, Mrs. Hawkins,
was insured for $1,000 for the benefit
OF the other, Mrs. Perkins. They
claimed that they were sisters. and Of
Spanish blood; although they were
not related to each other, and had
both been born in Iowa.
About month ago Mrs. Hawkins
woke up in the night to find her bed
in flames and herself severely burned.
A month later she woke again in the
midst of roaring fire, which burned
her so badly that she died in few
hours. On both occasions Mrs. Per-
kin's boy,-eleven years Of age-slept
down stairs on lounge fully dressed,
as if prepared for flight:-and Mrs.
Perkins herself appeared completely
equipped, even to her corsets. 1t is
believed that the dead woman was
drugged with morphine, which it is
known that Mrs. Perkins bought, and
was so stupefied that she could not es-
cape until the flames had done their
work. 1t is claimed that the lamp ex-
ploded, but test of the oil showed
that it would not explode. It was
claimed that the first fire was caused
by the fumes of turpentine taking
fire, but experiments demonstrated
that this was impossible. Altogether
the thing looks very black for the &C
cused. She was, if reports are to be
believed, a liar, an impostor, a swind-
Ter and desperate adventures.
Life-insurance is becoming prolific
source of crime. Conscience is fading
out of the human race: and high civ
ilization means high rascality. The
pressure Of poverty, caused by the
contraction of the currency, is bring
ing dreadful strain to bear on
poor humanity; and when this is sup
plemented by an universal greed for
wealth, and desire to live in idleness
and luxury, we have these colossal
and monstrous crimes of which our
ancestors knew nothing. Misgovern-
ment. in the interest Of selfshness, is
simply machine to convert human
beings into demons, Think Of this
woman, with her bleached hair, SUI
pervising the burning of her bosom
friend,-the black and cracked skin,
the gases of the stomach breaking out
of the deformed mouth, the groans,
the screams! 1t is a picture more
dreadful than any Dante ever drew of
the depths of his Inferno.
Where is all this to end?
1t is a dreadful price to pay for the
increased earnings of the money
lenders.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
dren, who will vote for one or other Of

dren, who will vote for one or other Of
the two>old parties.
They talk about the end of the
world coming in one general cat
aclysm. Would it not be better to
have kind of pepper-box end OF the
world, that would discriminate, and
kill off only the fools, and leave the
globe in the possession of the sensible
people?
There would be nothing left alive in
Minnesota but the POpulists.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
THE RAIL WAY TIMES.

The grand Labor-day edition of the
Railway Times, of Terre Haute, Ind
generally known as "Deb's paper
will be ready for distribution by next
Saturday. 1t will be a magnificent
issue. Send five cents to THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE for a specimen copy; or
call the Office and get one.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
A SUGGESTION.

|hese are the dullest times with
newspapers as this. Our sub
Ders are generally hard at work in
harvest field, and have not yet
{shed. We therefore ask all who
Indebted to US, and are able to do
remit at once. Everything is
! with a newspaper.