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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23

Pacific is parallel and competing line
to the Great Northern. These two roads
have swiped the settled territory through
which they pass, of thousands of dollars
in bonds-Sauk Center bonding $4,000
to what is now the Great Northern, and
$14 900 to the Northern Pacific and this
latter, if not the former, was voted for
competition. The continuance Of this
vested right with Sank Center and an
hundred other towns more or less, is
just as much vested right to every man,
woman and child, as is Jim Hills boosted
right to consolidate. How can Davis
ever go before the people, after he has
gone before court and argued to sweep
away at one fell swoop, all these rights
entailed on the people, unless he is what
the late Theodore Parker termed a moral
idiot, is past the conclusion of thinking
sane men. The argument that the Great
Northern can't reach Winnipeg and Vic
toria has no more force than if it be sub
stituted Vladivostock and the North
Pole.
What is vested right, any way?
1t comes from veSture garment; and
to vest a person is to cover him with a
right fitting like garment-one that must
cling to him, and he present posses
SlOIlS VI uUluIuS, duu Ou Luc theory VI
contract the right to consolidate ad lib
itum to all eternity. is but to tie the peo-
pie of Minnesota for all time to come, to
Jim Hills car wheels. 1t is not only
against reason and common sense, but
absurd and ridiculous. l am disap-
pointed in the argument of Gen. Childs,
it is weakest where is should be strong
est. History shows conciuSively, that
there is not vested right in all England.
but what has been legally overturned
time and again. What host of vested
rights went down to their death when
Magma Carta, was wrung from King
John by the barons of England What
bad time for the barons vested rights
when, to protect himself against their
encroachments, Henry III revived the
old Saxon "Withismate," (Meeting Of the
wise), and convened them rs the COM
mons of England. Then, O, horror of
horrors. How quickly after Balingbroke
landed at Roomspur, on the 4th of July,
1893, did parliament assemble and di-
vest Richard II of his vested right to
the crown both by inheritance and by
sanction of parliament, and transfer the
crown to this same Balingbroke, as
Henry " Then 80 years later, after
the battle of Bosworth Field, how quickly
ulu tHlS Same parliament pass ny all lHe
white and red roses, and put the crown
on the head of Henry Tudor, who had not
a drop of English blood in his veins-his
father being Welsh and his mother
French, the queen dowager of Henry V.
Noblemen have been repeatedly reduced
to the ranks of the common herd because
they had become too poor to keep up the
proper style, and l will defy Jos-a-keed
Davis to discover single vested right,
that has withstood the legislative power
of parliament.
1t is time vested Right should sleep
in it's little grave along side of his dead
father, Divine Right, and that Jos-a-keed
Davis presidential boomlet should sleep
with them.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
CLEARLY EXPLAINED.

A SENSIBLE LETTER WHICH EVERY
DOUBTER SHOULD READ.
Editor Representative:
In talking with the old party voters
I find they are badly mixed when they
ccme to the money question.
Some say things will be all right when
we get the prices of all commodities on
the same level. Others say the reason
we have hard times is because the rail-
roads are all built and consequently there
is no work for the men who built them.
Still others say it is the natural order of
things; that they were talking with Mr..
So-and-so, who is an old man, and he
says he can remember the different spells
he passed through and he thinks it can't
be helped.
Well, now 1 am obliged to differ with
this old gentleman as we'll as all the rest
of them. The only hard times that can
not be helped is when the people cannot
produce enough to feed and clothe them
selves. Though our wise men tell us
much produced. ] suppose they mean
there is more than enough to supply those
who have money to buy.
But the real cause of hard times is
that between the farmers of the country
and the artisan of the city stand the men
who control the supply of money; and
they say, Before you can exchange the
products of your labor, you have got to
borrow our money, and as we want the
highest possible price for the use of it,
therefore we want it scarce. In fact we
want money scarce for two reasons: We
not only want high price for the use Of
it, but we also want to get the products
of your labor cheap. If money was so
plenty that each and every laborer in the
country could exchange the products Of
his labor with those of every other there
would only be enough to supply your
selves. Consequently, as we are not la
borers, we would have nothing to ex-
change, so we would be left out But to
prevent that, we use our influence to pre-
vent you from Taking your own money.
so you will be obliged to fall back on the
supply we have on hand, which We'll let
you have in such sums as will regulate
your exchanges; so that there will be
plenty of the products of your labor left
for us; though millions of your fellow la
borers should go hungry"
This is the real cause of hard times,
and even the merchants of the cities are
beginning to see, though it does not af-
feet them as much as the farmers, from
the fact that they make the prices on
their goods and they put in their taxes,
their rent their interest and expenses OF
living and profit besides, which the con-
sumner has to pay.
But how is it with the farmer? To
whom does he charge his interest, his
taxes and his expenses of living and a
profit besides? Does he put all this into
the price of his wheat, or his corn, or his
stock? guess net. Truly yours,
P. GILDEA.
North Yakima Wash.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
OLE o. MARJERIN.
MRS. EMERY.
SOME PARTICULARS OF HER LIFE
THAT WILL BE OF INTEREST
TO HER ADMIRERS

SOME PARTICULARS OF HER LIFE
THAT WILL BE OF INTEREST
TO HER ADMIRERS.
Lansing, Mich. Oct. 1O.-Mrs. Sarah
E. V. Emery, one of the brightest women
Michigan has ever produced, died here
; today, at the age of 81 years. She was
writer of considerable ability, and as
platform speaker won an excellent rep
utation
Few Michigan women succeeded in at
tracing more attention or took a more
active part in the agitation of political
and social questions than she. During
the past twenty-five years she had es-
poused the cause of each successive re-
form party, and in it's behalf had de-
livered speeches in nearly every state in
the west. She was aggressive in work.
ing for equal suffrage and was instru-
mental in causing several suffrage bills
to be framed and introduced in the leg
islature. In the w. G. T.. q. she was rec
ognized as one of the abest members,
and two years ago was elected national
president in the department of temper!
ance in relation to capital and labor
In 1888 she completed a book entitled
THE Seven Financial Consp.racies,"
which dealt with the money question.
Of this work over $50, coo copies were
sold. Two years ago she completed an
other book, written in the interest Of
populism. 1t is entitled imperialism in
America" and over 700 copies have
been sold. In her religious belief she
was a Universalist, and this year pre-
sented the local society with valuable
church site. Prominent female suffrag-
lists will speak at her funeral on Satur-
day, and, in accordance with her request.
her remains will be cremated at Detroit
next Monday.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
North Yakima, Wash.
A TERRIBLE LETTER.

THE ST. PAUL CHAMBER OF CON-
MERGE SHOULD PRINT IT TO EN-
COURAGE IMMIGRATION-WR
ED MEN AND SUFFERING RIGHT
HERE IN MINNESOTA-READ READ,
Editor Representative:
Very few people realize the poverty, ig-
norance and misery even in our own Min
nesota, and l will endeavor to picture
you one case of thousands.
A few days ago had occasion to visit
the house of a foreigner some miles from
here I had learned from his neighbors
that he was a man not very well-to-do.
but was wholly unprepared for the pitt
full sight that greeted me.
AS l approached the house two little
boys, of about the ages of nine and ten,
who were playing outside, ran. to get
under cover" l caught glimpse of
little bare, blue feet and legs (for the day
was cold, clothes all in tatSers, and so
covered with patches of different hues
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
PLAIN QUESTIONS.

FOR PLANE PEOPLE.
Editor Representatives:
Who advocates the single gold stand
ard?
The millionaires and their henchmen.
Who advocates the free coinage of both
metals?
They are the humanitarians of the
present age, who believe that the labor
ing man has some rights to an existence.
and is opposed to muzzling the OK that
treadeth out the corn.
Who cornered gold on the memorable
Black Friday?
The very same class of men that are
now bowling for single gold standard
so that they can enact the same thing
over again, only with more hope of sue
cess.
Who are the Benedict Arnolds and
Jeff Davises Of the present age?
These very men that are trying, as it
were, to make the people pay dollar for
a so cent debt.
Who demonetized silver in 1878?
The bank of England with it's 100000
in the hands of Ernest Seyd.
Who ever said a word about the in
justice to the soldiers when in 1861 the
government promised 100 dollars bounty
for years service then in GA and 65 they
were paid in greenbacks worth about 40
cents in gold? And yet out of that vast
army of patriots l never heard of one to
kick because he did not get the gold.
Now, who are the patriots and who
are the traitors?
The Tribune few weeks ago was la
menting about the vast sums that were
squandered abroad by wealthy Amer
leans. and was wishing for some remedy
to prevent it, Well there are two simple
remedies that would suggest themselves
to any sensible man. One would be to
substitute a house of Lords for our SEN
ate; and then confer a title on all our
millionaires SO that their girls won t
have to go abroad to purchase title;
and in the meantime, Grover might be
persuaded to be a second Duke of Nor
mandy, or Grover the 1st For if any
of your readers remember seeing a pic
ture of the Duke and believe in reincar-
nation they can easily recognize in
Grover a second edition of the new Duke,
bound over in new wOlf-skin with gilt
edges and solid gold trimmings.
Now the simplest remedy of the two
would be 10 vote the Peoples Party ticket
SO that the producers Of this vast wealth
that is spent in debauchery abroad would
have a whack at what honestly belongs
to them J. M. JORDAN.
Red Wing, MINI.
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Lac qui Parle, MINI.
SOME GOOD IDEAS.

A FARMERS VIEWS ON MONEY AND
TRADE-s135 FOR A s25 BINDER.
Editor Representatives:
In your issue of Sept IS notice an ar
ticle over the signature of C. B. Maben,
and l do herewith undertake to answer
the same.
Mr. Maben, i'm several points, is perfect
ly right, and in others he comes very
near being so; all he lacks is to study his
plan persistently and give his scheme a
systematic shape.
Nothing can be legal tender that does
not represent value. The fact of law, be
it stamped on gold, silver, nickel, copper
or paper, is merely a customary proceed
ing A piece of paper 3X6 inches, with
the words Five Dollars, U. S. Legal Ten
der" and the signature Of the u. S. treas
urer, passes for S..
We have another kind of documents,
the force of which rests on the exactly
same principle. For instance, know all
men by these presents, that |, Peter Pull
tum, have, On this 18th day Of September,
1895, and herewith 90 sell to Dick Pull
tum, the south half of section s. town 104,
range IS, for the sum of eighteen hundred
dollars, paid in hand to me this day.
JACK PULTUM.
Witnesses:
Notary Public.
Recorder of Deeds.
The fact is this Value should be given
for value. The person who is too meanly
disposed to earn his own living will cheat
other people out of it. If it is a persons
duty to earn his own living, he must have
a right to earn it; and. having earned it,
he should be protected in the enjoyment
Of the same. We all know that persont
can become an expert in but one branch
of industry. The bootmaker could not
exist if he had nothing but boots to wear,
to eat and to live on; the farmer could not
long exist if he had nothing but wheat
to wear to eat and to live on. He could
not even produce it without tools;
nor could he for a single week
save it from the weather with
out the aid of buildings. We must
trade with one another, and the curse of
the age is that the present way of trading
is so expensive, so wasteful, and it is
this waste that is crushing our republic
There are now on an average, Is men
engaged in effecting deals which under a
sensible system one man could do alone
Just consider what people are paying now
and you will no longer wonder why fact
cries are running only part of the time.
but you will wonder that they can run at
all. Surprising farmer goes to one
of the dozen hardware dealers in one of
these small railroad towns where one
dealer would be enough. and buys har-
vester for. say S135. 1t costs about S12
nowadays for hired labor to build a
harvester; therefore, the men that pro-
duced the machine get for their trouble
about 10 per cent Of the purchase money:
the material necessary costs about SO, or
6 per cent. The manufacturer demands
about 40, the small dealer or final sales
man about 35, and the railway compan-
les from to 10 per cent. This rule holds
good on all manufactured articles. be
they harvesters, wagons, thresher en-
gines, overalls or brass pins. This be-
ing the case, how can it be expected that
things should work smoothly? Paying
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
A PARABLE.

HOW THEY PRESCRIBED PORK.
Skunk Mizzery, September 10, 1895
To the Editur:
Sum five yeers ago our town voted on
the subject of law regilatin the use NV
certain meets ez a diet. Jew named
the cattle in the town and when the law
cum to be understood, it left beef the
only meet we wuz allowed to eet The
voters didn't understand it at the time
and the soopervizers sined it without
reedin it. Then the voters sed it made
no difference, beef wuz the best and it
wuz as cheep as ever
Hangin wuz maid the penalty of ownin
pork alive or ded, and the cattle owners
kept ejukatin of EN- to think pork wuzn't
fit to eet. 1t wuz aul rite fer awhile and
the hull kounty follered SCOT. Soon beef
began to rize until it wuz bubble the troo
valyoO, eZ no one wuz allowed to buy
any meet outside our own town. Most
Ov the poorer classes worked fer the cat
tie owners and they wuz kompelled to
vote fer beef every yeer. A flu soreheds
formed a party fer the reinstatement NV
rites by false countin.
It got so in a couple ov yeers that the
poorer divils couldn't afford to bi meet
at all, and tina hev bin tryin TO git the
law repealed, but in vane. The combine
bot enuf votes to keep thare holt and thay
still find enuf moneyed men to bi thare
beef and tina gro richer and richer Pc
titions WIZ prepared to allow the free
rein oe nor- hr- SIGH howl ahnut hon
esty and patriotism you never herd.
wy may Seu, pofA Eat Sood 20 ee.;
it is of no valyoo eZ a food produck.
Their IL plenty ov beef to supply the
town and lots ov new calves GROWN up.
Be sides cheep pork wood run the beef
out ov the kentry" But lots ov the
blamed fool kickers sed, "They didn't
never see no beef now but in the poses
shun ov the rich men," Money beet 'em
every time, and the cry ov Sound meet"
''honest meet" ETC., drowned the cry ov
"the meet ov our fathers liz good enuf fer
u.s. Things went on from bad to wurse;
no meet at all but fer the flu, only wunts
in q long while. Troo, mutton wuZ
ycczed little, but it tasted ov wool and
didn't cut no splurge.
Well, last spring the climax arriv The
infooriated voters he'd bin fooled into
passin the law and money and inf1ooance
agenst 'em maid it impossible to git
repeel so thay marcht in body to the
owners and slawtered thare cattle and in
sidentally hung 'em, arter burnin thare
dwellins. The soopervizors wuz tard
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
gainst every one left him now in the

against every one left him now in the
east.
Come, investigate for yourself, and, if
pleased, secure land and water right
while such yet can be had cheap, then
fetch your family, stock, farm machin-
cry, ETC., and settle here If you are not
born kicker whom even God Almighty
could not please, and who might find
fault with heaven itself, you cannot fail
to be contented and Tin comparatively
short time) prosperous here,
Any further information needed for
locating here, will, if called for, be most
cheerfully given by Your Sincere Friend
EDWARD LARSEN.
Burton, Teton Co.. Montana.
October 7th, 1895.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
INSURANCE.

Not the advertisement of the Franklin
Benefit Association of Duluth, Mimi. in
another column. 1t comes to us highly
recommended:-the mere fact that Hon.
John A. Keyes is counsel for it is in it
self strong Endorsement Observe the
liberal benefts:-$ 900 a, .eath, $1,000
for loss of both eyes, the same for loss Of
beth hands or feet; or $500 for loss of
right hand, ETC., etc. One never knows
what will happen and it is well to pre-
pare against death or accident. Write
for particulars
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
OurFOrun.

Many of the contributions to the
Forum are too long. In the future we
must insist that they be made shorter.
Most of them could be condensed into
Geo words. II this is done it will ell
able the REPRESENTATIVE to print
more and a greater variety. Here
after the shorter letters will be
given preference. Write them on one
side of the paper only. II written on
both sides they will not be printed un-
der any circumstances.
Write them plainly and with ink.
Do not crowd the lines closely to-
gether. A plainly written letter con-
forming to these rules will stand by far
the best chance to be printed.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
NEW Err DESPAIR.

Don't get discouraged when you
hear some wisehead say that the re-
forms you are after will not come in
your time. Even so truly great and
penetrating mind ae Ralph Waldo
Emerson was satisfied in 1859 that
"We shall never see slavery abol-
ished." The reform is not ALWAYS as
far off as it seems. There are Emer-
sons, but there are Lincolns, too
Mills Uowa) Journal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23

$135 for only about $25 worth. If the
words Right and Justice mean anything
they mean that man taking a dollar
worth to market shall receive dollar for
it, and the man paying out dollar shall
receive a dollars worth.
Oh, but l have heard many a one say
that would kill all speculation; everybody
would then have to work if they want
anything. AS it is now, many a one gets
hold Of things easily. True enough; but
speculation is only one of the many words
that stand for thievery.
J. F. SCHUCH.
Winthrop, Mimi
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23

A preferred Risk" for example
(such as Merchant, Doctor. Attorney,
Clerk, ETC. }, is carried at
81 a Quarter, or SIG a Year.
Note its Literal Benefits.
$1,000 at death from Accident.
$1,000 for loss of DO Ia Eyes.
$1,000 for loss of both Hands.
$1,000 for loss of both Feet.
$1,000 for loss of Ha nd and Foot.
SOTO for loss OF either Foot.
$500 for loss of right hand.
$3.50 for loss of lett hand.
Sl2) for loss of either eye.
500 for permanent total disability.
So per week in case of Accident.
Good for 50 weeks.
$40 per week in case of Sickness.
Good for rs weeks.
More hazardous occupa tions are charged
for in proportion.
A mem bership fee of $500 carries every
Policy to the first day Of next month.
GOOD AGENTS WANTED IN
Liberal inducements offered to the r
dress or call on the Secretary or any
FRANK A. BATES & CO., Manage
VIM. f. GORR1E, Manager, St. Pau
LEO HEILPERN, Manager, Winon
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23

OFFICERS:
w n H11BBARD. President
r r STEVENS. Vice President
THOMAS CULLYFORD, Treasurer
A Fl w ECksTEIN. Secretary
HON. JOHN A. KEYEs, - counsel
FRANK LYMAN, M. D., Med. Director
DIRECTORS;
J.B. Stevens lumber manufacturer.
A. B. Chaplin, st. Louis Lumber Co.
VIM. r. Stone. Stone Ordeau Co.,
wholesale grocers.
Thomas Cullford, Capitalist.
w. H. Hubbard, formerly OF Schiller
Hubbard Co.
Chas. w. Ericsson, 1.-THE Clothier."
M. M. Gasser, Grocer.
A. II. w. Eckstcin, e. R. Brace. Of
Brace, Eckstein & Forrest, insurance
and loans
VERY COUNTY IN THE STATE.
yht men. For further particulars ad.
# the following:
8, 2OS Bank of Commerce, Minneapolis.
Mimi.
Mimi
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-08-24

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con-
stitutional disease. requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally. acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the constitu.
ton and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to cure Send foi
list of testimonials Address.
F.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
s~sold by Druggists. 75c.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-08-24
onions for smallpox.

'I don't know of a better article
of diet during an epidemic Of
smallpox than raw onions," said
DR.. Barbour, Of the New York City
hospital recently. "A liberal use
of them is the best thing | know Of
to prevent contracting the disease
outside of vaccination. The action
of an onion in the presence Of
smallpox is peculiar. If you put
an onion in a room infested with
any manner of disease other than
smallpox, the. onion will thrive
But put an onion in a smallpox
ridden room, and it will wither and
die 80 rapidly that you are almost
able to see it. This shows how the
onion absorbs the poison of the dis
ease and manifests what a power il
is as a disinfectant. "-E1.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-08-24
Potted strawberry Plants.

These are obtained in this way.
Flower-pots of a size three inches in
diameter at the top are sunk around
the parent plants level with the
ground. They are filed with fairly
rich soil. AS the runners are made
the part bearing the young plant is
made to rest on a pot and is kept
in place by small stone or lump
of earth placed on the stem. Very
soon the pot is full of roots, when
it may be severed from the parent
plant and set OFT on its own &C
count. No attention is required
while it is roofing in the pot, save,
perhaps, watering, if the season is
very dry.