The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-05


ested in that movement all through his
district, by calling them lot of fools.
Another curiosity and matter of con-
lecture is the fact that the lumber COM
panies Of Carlton county are able to
spend large sums to continue T. Fl.
Martin In the Office OF county auditor
for certainly Martin himself cannot af-
ford to throw out say 81 900 to 81, 500 to
elect himself to a $1,000 Office for two
years. Is not the state supposed to
audit and thoroughly Investigate the
books and records of the county audi
tors? For certain there is catch
somewhere in that office Yours truly
A REPUBLICAN.
Cloquet, Mimi, May Is.
A JOHN BROWN SERMON.
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA PLATFORM.
BY MONSSINI "a WORKING MANY
To the Editor:
In the 18th chapter Of Ezekiel we find
this wonderful declaration Of principles
repeated thrice. that preachers, politi-
clans and people may give heed to it in
their effort to build up liberty that shall
stand the test of time and eternity for
all human creatures; and there is NO
declaration of principles yet extant, that
are more destructive to "wickedness In
high places" than the following, and
every reformer or Populist should learn
it by heart, in order to drive it into the
ears of Olives" or the devilish rich until
they vanish from the face of the earth
whose God-given resources they have
stolen from the people contrary to the
following divine declaration:
Behold! All souls are mine, saith the
Lord, as the soul Of the father, so also
the soul Of the son, is mine; the soul that
sinneth, it shall die; but If man be
just and do that which is lawful and
right, and hath not oppressed any. but
hath restored to the debtor his pledge
hath spoiled none by violence, hath given
his bread to the hungry and hath COW
cred the naked with garment; he that
hath not given forth his money upon
usury, neither hath taken any increase
in land, that has withdrawn his hand
from iniQuity, hath executed true judg-
ment between man and man, hath
walked in my statutes, and hath kept
my Judgment to deal truly; he is just
he shall surely live saith the Lord God. u
Let me repeat First, Behold! Man has
a soul, according to this declaration, that
is to live hereafter; hence anything that
interferes with its proper development
for time and eternity, is an accused
thing, and all who help to make and
maintain it.
Secondly-"But If a man be just and
do that which is lawful and right" here,
total depravity" preachers and faith
alone" fools, have nothing to hang their
tenets on, without doing that which is
just and right, however much they may
believe in Christ, who demands even
more than found in this declaration;
hence preaching Of faith without doing
justice to God and man, or the practice
of morality, is an accursed thing, and all
who help to make and maintain it.
Thirdly-"That hath not oppressed
any, but hath restored to the debtor his
pledge" hence mortgage foreclosure
is an accursed thing, and all who help
to make and maintain it.
Fourthly-"That hath given his bread
to the hungry and hath covered the
naked with a garment" here, the A. P.
A. principle, or high tariff and protec-
ton or anti-income tax, that would put
the burden upon others or see them
starve because they are not Of the same
creed or country. When we are COM
manded to feed even our enemies, is an
accursed thing, and all who help to make
and maintain it.
Fifthly-"He that hath not given forth
his money upon usury." Hence our pri-
vate banking system, the Rothschild and
Wall Street combine, is an accursed
thing and all who help to make and
maintain it.
Sixthly-"Neither hath taken any in
crease in land" "For woe unto him
that joins house to house and field to
field that there be no room," land mo-
nopoly, therefore, or our real estate sys-
tenn, which bankers after another man s
lot or farm, and therefore is as guilty
before God as he who bankers after an
other mans wife, is an accursed thing
and all who help to make and maintain
it.
Seventhly-"That hath withdrawn his
hand from iniquity," that is, from cap
italistic inequality, that makes the few
rich to the expense, the poverty and the
degradation of the many, is an accused
thing and all who help to make and
maintain it.
And Eightly-"Hath executed true
Judgment Of justice between man and
man." not between landlord and tenant,
or capitalist and laborer, nor between
king and peasant, nor creed nor color,
but between man and man, be he black
or white, hence our judiciary system, as
now carried on with all Its laws, lawyers
and judges, even up to the chief justice,
is on the whole but an accursed thing
and all who help to make and maintain
1t, for its ruling power is no longer JUS
tice but money. And as to the senators
and representatives, state or national,
bribery and spoil is their chief vocation.
honesty to go and hang himself when
seeing he had betrayed innocent blood
but the political betrayers Of the people
live today but to glory in their shame,
and to gloat over their ill-gotten gain,
regretting but the lost opportunity of
stealing more. And where will it end
IL these things continue much longer
The marks of Sodom and Gomorrah are
already stamped upon every feature of
our boasted civilization, namely-"Pride,
fitness of bread, abundance of idleness
and contempt for the poor" and is God
to be more merciful upon this genera
ton instructed in the brotherhood Of
Christ than upon those who were not
thus instructed? 1t is therefore high
time for the people to come out Of wicked
Babylon, the mother of monopoly and
capitalistic intrigue, lest we receive of
her plaques; for by her false principles.
which say Am I my brothers keeper, -
her kings and merchants of the earth
have made themselves rich and power
full through her merchandise Of gold
and silver, pearls and precious stones, :"