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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
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OURSELF.

Our appeal to our subscribers has
been productive Of excellent results.
The remittances are coming in at a
lively rate, and many new subscribers
are being added to our list. Express
sions of good will reach US from all
quarters. There is universal feeling
that the suspe nsion of THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE, even for few months,
would be a desperate blow against the
Peoples Party of the Northwest. We
beg our friends to pay up and PAY IN
ADVANCE. THE REPRESENTATIVE
qciU not die.
We have been giving our readers too
good paper for the money. We fur
nished pages of original matter where
other journals furnished columns. We
will have to curtail this until times
become better. We may have to make
four page issue until receipts justify
going back to the old standard. The
editor has advanced this paper $1,400
in cash, and has performed an amount
of work worth $5,000;--the money has
not been returned, and the work has
not been paid for. But our heart is in
the success Of the principles Of the
Peoples Party and we are ready to de-
vote every dollar of receipts to the en-
largement and success of the paper,
until it is firmly planted on it's feet.
We propose, after this ISSUE to bring
everything to cash basis This Is the
last paper that ,cill be sent to any subscriber
,chO is IN arrears. Our creditors insist
upon the iron rule of cash with u.s.
and we must do the same with Others
We can not help ourselves. We will be
sorry to part with any of our readers;
It will be like driving members of our
own family out of doors; but there is
no remedy. So friends, get your ar
rearages to us before Tuesday morn
ing next, in Minneapolis.
We hope, too, not to have to put our
delinquent accounts into the hands Of
business agency, as Robert Schilling
of the Milwaukee Advance has been
compelled to do. Fair play is pretty
thing; and when man has had the
pleasure of reading paper for months
or years he has no right to turn round
and tell the publisher he don't like
it; or that he never read it; or any
other of the hackneyed excuses with
which mean men pretences their short
comings. Be just friends. and do as
you would like to be done by.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02


and Lowenthal, wholesale clothiers. A
small army OF detectives was sent out.
but up to this time only three were
arrested.
The total amount of the mems Pc
culations is said to be about 500,
The arrests have created the greatest
sensation.
A pretty state of things! Burning
up stores by machinery and clock
work; and killing people for the insur-
ance on their lives. Noman can trust
his fellows; and the women are be-
coming man-like and the men women
like; conscience is silent and the
monkeys are beginning to talk; God
has withdrawn to the further ex-
tremity Of the universe, and the Re-
publican party, with a Democratic
side-draft), is running the country.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
FOOLISH.

One Of our subscribers COMPLAINS
that we advertise Geo. Benz & Sons
whiskey. Bless your soul, the adver-
Using department of paper has moth
ing to do with its editorial utterances.
We will advertise anything that is not
obscene or prohibited by law. If our
friend does not want to drink whiskey
the advertisement will do him nc
harm; and all Populist papers have a
hard enough time to live, boycotted as
they are by those who sustain the old
party papers. Pay up your bills
friends, and we will be In shape to re-
fuse to advertise stimulants.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
Il DEAD SOUNDED.
TYPE OF THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT

TYPE OF THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT
MAKE THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND.
William Henry Hurlbert, whose
death in some obscure corner of Italy
was reported last Saturday, was a re-
markable type Of the modern journal
ist. Starting as a Unitarian ministe
whose hymns are still sung in some Of
the churches. he ended his career as a
moral reprobate, seducer and per-
jurer; compelled to hide, lest the law
should law it's severe hand upon him.
For many years he was editor of the
New York World, though his name
was by-word in the clubs of that city,
where he was charged, among other
Offenses, with poketing bric-a- brac
when admitted as visitor to gentle
mems houses. Yet this evil reputa-
tion did not prevent his astonishing
social success when circumstances
compelled him to take up his residence
in London. This American Chester
field gratified the Tory aristocracy, not
only by his brilliant wit at their
tables. but by defending their Irish
policy in his book on ireland Under
Coercion" He rendered similar
service to the Comte de Chambord by
his book on Republican France" He
had become, in fact, prostitute Of
the press, his pen at the service of the
highest bidder.-PEiladelph Ameri-
can.
And yet no doubt hundreds of thou
sands of honest men took their beliefs
on matters of vital moment from this
enlarged Pyle or Wheelock. 1t seems
so natural that great, rich daily
paper, worth million dollars, should
tell the truth; and so impossible that
it could be cowardly, cringing, hire
ling liar, the mere tool and servant of
wealth, that mpleminded, honest
folk regard it's Addisonian utterances
as the very oracles of God.
And yet on the tripod, over the orr
fee where the steam OF Plutocracy
rises, the Pythoness sits,-some such
discreditable, dirty, bedraggled, de-
based mental prostitute as this Will
lam Henry Hurlbert, type and exemp-
lar of thousands of our latter-day col
lege graduates, without religion, con-
science, virtue, manhood or honor, fell
lows who believe the universe is an
accident and scramble, and that
chance turns the crank of the solar
system; fellows who regard their own
bellies as the fat center of creation,
and the necessity to fill it the first
duty they owe to the agest past and
to come.
And these villains have brought
this world to such pass that it now
balances itself on the sharp edge of
ruin, -oscillating between a precipi
tous plunge into universal anarchy
or universal Serfdom.
And he used his pen to help hold
down the starving Irish, and to turn
the peasants Of France once more
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
TO THE ALLIANCE.

In another column we print an ap-
peal from Mr.. A. II. Hendrickson.
Secretary OF the State Farmers ALI
ance, to the members of the local AL
lances, to meetand renew their great
work.
There never was time when there
was greater necessity for the ALI
ance than there is to-day. We are
aware that many of our best men are
discouraged in the presence OF the in
Vulnerable and accommodating evil
dences of the enormous power of the
sPlutocracy, but it is not the part of
patriots to despair. Don't give up
the ship" Let us fight the battle out
to the bitter end. II we lie down the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
-DELlNQUENT'S.
OTHER REFORM PAPERS SUFFER AS
WE DO.

OTHER REFORM PAPERS SUFFER AS
WE DO.
Our friend, Bob. Schilling, Of the
Milwaukee Advance, is a victim Of the
same neglect of subscribers to pay up
that we suffer from. He is getting
ready to 60 on the war path. Here il
what he says:
We have sked delinquent sub
scribers to pay up time and again. bul
all our appeals seem to be in vain. Sc
we did what we threatened-sen
their names to an agency for collec.
tion. But what row this raised!
Here we are trying our best to run
reform newspaper and depending on
the people whose condition we are try
ing to improve. And what is the re-
ward? Why instead of helping they
are actually pulling us back. Every
one that takes paper and does not
pay for it, makes so much more ex-
pense to struggling reform paper.
We would rather one would not take
the paper at all, than to take it and
not pay for it. While we are ready
and willing to do all the good we can,
and would like to see the paper 90 to
as many people as possible, we con-
slider the man or woman that will
take a paper and then refuse to nav
for it,simply dead beats, whom it is
not worth while to convert or prevail
on to join the reform ranks. They
are deuced poor reformers and no
good to the cause, as they are likely to
betray it at any time.
One man whose name was sent to
the collection agency, remitted the
money and wrote an insulting letter
in which he Dragged about what he
had done for the cause. Well he was
not doing much for it, when he was
was helping to drag one Of the papers
down.
We have concluded to act according
to the ideas of certain editor.
One of his subscribers came to the
office to pay his subscription and said:
Il have been expecting you to send
me bill for some time, but as it did
not come, concluded to come in and
pay up"
1--WE never send bill to gentle
man." replied the newspaper man.
We'll what do you do if man don't
pay?" questioned the subscriber
20 after time we conclude he is
not gentleman, and then we send
him BILL
Find man who is a subscriber to a
reform paper and you find one that
sticks" The weakened and weak
backed reformers are the fellows who
cant afford" to take one or two re-
form papers, but have money enough
to pay for old party papers, and when
they get into the right crowd can
spend more money in ten minutes
than would pay for reform paper five
years.
TO tophet with such reformer$.
They deserve to become slaves i'm
body, because they are slaves in mind.
II you want to dance you must pay
the fiddler.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

Labouchere returned to ngland. and
two months after married Miss Barring
because Mr.. Hope had promised to
take him into partnership, and he be-
came allied to the house of Hope on
the strength Of that promise of mar
riage.
That chap would beat Frank Day as
politician. Throw him up 100 feet
in the air, and he would light on his
feet and grin with profound bow.
Frank is daisy. Hasn't Barring got
another daughter?
And yet Frank is a good fellow:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
4 BUSHEL OF CORN,

A bushel of corn makes four gallons
of whiskey, which retails for SIG. Out
Of this the government gets 50, the
railroads $l.60, the manufacturer 81,
Exchange.
1t is enough to give sober man the
delirium tremens to study those fig
ures
II the farmers were only intelligent
enough, and organized as they should
be, they would get the 81 and the bar
keeper the 40 cents Or, better still,
the corn would not be made into whis-
key at all.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
FUNNY, ISN'T II.

Government can take railroad that
has been wrecked by private manag-
ers, involving the ruin of small share
holders, straighten out it's affairs and
turn it over to private managers to be
wrecked again. But it can t take rail-
roads that have not been wrecked, be-
cause il it did that would wreck the
government looming Nation.
But the worst Of it is for the gov
eminent to take a road that has be-
come bankrupt through watered stock
and prevent it from being wiped out,
so that the watered stock may con-
tinue to afflict future generations.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
BIG THIEVES AND LITTLE ONES

The Chicago millionaire stock yard
owners secretly and surrepti tiously
tapped the city water mains and stole
$1,000 worth of water. Chicago will
stop the leak and tell Mr. Armour and
his pards that they oughtn't have
done that; while those thieves will en-
courage war on the social vice of the
city; and any bootblack caught taking
a loaf of bread to keep his starving
mother from the grave will get term
in the pen. Nothing wrong though
Exchange.
Is it inevitable that the world gets
wickeder as it gets older?
1t looks like it. AS the great poet
says:
'Pla te sin with gold,
And the strong arm Of justice hurtless
falls;
ClOthe it in rags q pigmy's straw doth
pierce it,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
THE GROWTH OF THE STATE.

1t has been announced in some of
our state papers that the population
Of Minnesota under the census Just
taken would amount to two millions.
Instead it is now given out as 1873
$50, or nearly half million less. The
gain in five years has been only
71,524, and 1892 of this has been
largely due to the development of the
mining interests in the Fourth con-
gressional district. The Third dis
trict gained but II per cent and the
Fourth but per cent; while new set
tiers added % per cent to the Seventh
district-the Red River Valley. AL
together it is not very encouraging
showing. Population moves towards
prosperity and away from poverty.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
PRETTY SMALL BUSINESS.

The beef trust is one Of the richest
corporations in Chicago and in the
United States, yet Chicago kilograms
announce that it has been detected
using city water from d main which
had been secretly tapped to avoid the
payment Of license. Perhaps theft Of
this kind is as honest as its general
plan OF operations against the public,
but the beef trust ought to RENE m Der
that the highwayman lowers himself
in public esteem if he stoops to pick
ing pockets York World.
All! Indeed! It was all right so long
as the trust stole millions from the
from the city that was horri BILE Of
ence. 1t makes great difference whose
OK is gored.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02
THINK OF THAT.
WHY PRICES ARE LOW.

The contraction of currency for the
month Of August, according to gov
ernment statistics, was $40, $50, 1853
This fact contributes very largely tC
the depression of business. During
the year there must have been con
traction exceeding $100,OO0.000, al.
though government reports place it at
about One-half that amOunt.-Ex.
+ While you have been eating, drink
ing and sleeping the work has been
going on. Contraction of the curren.
cy during August last-$1O, $50, 1853, &C
cording to the government report
During the gear one hundred millions!
AS money grows scarcer, it grows
dearer,-everyone understands that;-
that is it will buy more Of everything
for sale:-oats, Us cents); potatoes, &c
cents); barley, go cents): wheat, az
cents; etc,
Do you see the point, you old party
blockhead? That is what you have
been working and voting for.
Then read this from a recent mum.
Der of the London Times.
ut seems impossible to get bimetal
lists to understand that there is quite
a large number of US for whom gen
eral rise of prices has no charms what
ever. We like them low, and the low
er the better. II they all went down
to half their present figures we should
rejoice, because we have nothing tC
sell and great many things to buy
For those who have things to sell We
do not feel 9nV Uroo f. POncQrn ~
Whereupon the National Watchmar
remarks:
Nov this is all there is to the
whole business. The London Times
speaks for what is technically known
as the city-the banking interests
the interests of Lombard street
When it says 1--WE have nothing tC
sell, " it speaks for the large and grow
ing class in this country and in Eng
land that produces nothing-the class
that collects annuitieS and clips its
coupons, having nothing to sell AND
everything to buy.
Honest people ought to be thankful
to the Times for speaking out sc
plainly. 1t states the whole case in a
nutshell. 1t speaks for the whole class
of those who have nothing to sell, but
everything to buy. This class, repre-.
senting one man in every one hundred
thousand of the worlds population
maybe less, is undoubtedly right in
desiring TO make prices lower and low
er all the time. They care nothing
for the progress of the world, nor fol
the state Of business. All that they
are interested in is the increase in the
purchasing power of the money in
which their debts and the interest on
them are paid"
Now you. good people of the North
west, have got something to sell; you
are not living on your coupons; you
want good prices for what you raise,
or for your labor if you are working
man. Can you not see where your in.
terest is in this great fight?
If you can see it then, sally out and
show this article to your neighbour, who
is still in the valley of darkness, won.
dering why his big crop is worth moth
ing. Rub it into his wooden head
with urry-comb-then apply kero
sene-and il he won't see it then
touch him off! He will give more light
dying than he ever did living.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

Republic is lost. There is nothing
then but anarchism, and that may
plunge us into worse conditions than
those which now surround US. AS an
instrument to bring the farmers to-
gether and enable them to cooperate
the Farmers Alliance has no equal
and no substitute. 1t is the only or
ganization in the Union directly de-
voted to the protection of farming in
terests and the uplifting Of the pro-
ducers.
Brethren! Wake up! If you have
but dollar in your pocket give
twenty-five cents Of it to help rebuild
the shattered walls of the Alliance
Notifications.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

Ex-Gov. James M. Ashley con-
tributes timely paper to the Octo-
Der Arena entitled "Should the Su-
preme Court be Re-organized?" Many
recent decisions handed down from
that body have created much discus
sion along this line, and Gov. Ashley's
paper will be read with great inter
est.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

back into the possession of the Bour-
bOns! OF course he did!
If there is no hell God should make
one at once for such monsters,-for
seven times hotter than the center of
the earth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

fruits OF human labor. There is o
other explanation.
Stand firm, friends. Victory is not
far off
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

If you want to dance you must ply
the fiddler.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-05-01
SWEET GARLANDS OF ROSES
WERE TENDERLY LAID OVER THE
GRAVES
Where Heroes Lie Buried Memorial Day
aud How It Was Observed in Daw-
SONIA Fine Address.


On Friday Dawson paid the usual an
nual tribute to the memory of the brave
men who died for the cause ofthe south
in the great civil war, and garlands OF
beautiful flowers woven by fair hands
were laid upon the sol covering the
graves of the dead soldiers of the con-
federacy.
The morning was cloudy and threat
enipg, but in the afternoon rays of warm
sunshine kissed the clouds away, and
the weather was altogether lovely.
In the absence of any concert of az
ton by the memorial association it was
through the efforts of Mr. w. K. ~oils-
bury. a brave and loyal veteran who
marched many weary miles and engaged
in many hard-fought battles during the
four wears of the memorable conflict,
that a pleasant programme was arrang-
ed. which was carried out very nicely
The exercises occurred at the opera
house. and when they were begun at
o'clock that building was filed to its
utmost capacity Seats were reserved
for the girl pupils of the public schools,
and, as they marched down the ailse
each bearing a floral offering, they made
a pleasing and interesting picture. The
Dawson Guards, under command OF
Captain Clark. were also present, and
occupied front seats. Tie music was
under the directionjof Mrs. Britton, and
was both beautiful and impressive.
The exercises were opened with an
overture by Mrs. Britton and Miss Mar
tin. which was folio ~ed by the "Bonnie
Blue Flag rendered by choir of mixed
voices seIec ed for the occasion. Rev.
T. NJ. Galloway, of the Baptist church,
offered feeling prayer, and an appropri-
ate anthem was sung.
The orator of the day, Rev. DIR.
Scruggs of this city, was then presented
by Colonel NJ. C. Edwards. DR.. Scruggs'
address was listened 70 most intently,
and was pronounced one OF the very best
ever heard here on similar OCCASION.
1t was a mastery defense of the cause
for which confederates fought, and
beautiful tribute was paid to southern
vaIor as displayed in the conflict, and 10
southern women, who sustained their
loved ones by their sympathy and self
sacrifice during the trying ordeal OF war.
A worthy tribute was also paid TO this
great country, now united by lnsepera.
Bile bonds OF fir lternal affection.
At the conclusion of the address the
choir rendered "Dixie, the dOxology was
sung and Rev. III. r. McLendon pro
nouuced the benedictiO1.
The procession for the march
to the cemetery was thoR formed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-05-01
SACRED MELODY.
THE ORGAN RECITAL AT THE
METHODIST CHURCH.
A Delighted Audience Listens to Exquisite
Music--Showers of COngratula-
tions and Baskets of


Last Friday night, at eight O'Clock
sharp, the children of the Methodist sun
day school marched down the broad
asles of that church and, entering the
chancel, rendered the opening number OF
a brilliant programme.
1t was the night of the organ recital
and despite the threatening weather fully
three hundred people were in the church,
drawn thither to hear the feast OF music
promised-and they were not disappolnt-
ed, for from the opening anthem. to the
Closing doxology there came forth from
organ and from voice notes of purest
melody
Solos and trios and quartettes and ch2-
ruses and recitatlons, following one after
the other, showed that earnest and sue
cessful preparation had been made to
give pleasure to those in attendance
The selections were all of. high class
music, and the different singers Sho wed
their appreciation of the spirit OF the
songs they sang.
Mrs. j Fl. Scruggs presided at the
new organ, and under her skilful manlp-
ulaton that magnificent instrument was
heard at its hest. From the sottest OF
soft notes it would changeto triumphant
paenS of rejoicing. The soto Mrs. Scru@gs
rendered, "The Last Rose of summer,
was listened to with intense satisfaction
oy the large audience.
The full chorus consisted of Mesdames
Britton, Parks, Cherry, Mercer, White
head, Laing, Baldwin and Messrs. Lalng,
Sale, Bell, Gurr and Query and Mr.. y.
l. Chambers with the cornet. When
these voices took up the beautiful num-
oers on the programme, and the organ
oreathed out its accompaniment, saCis-
faction was depicted in the countenahces
OF the listeners.
-. The quartette, "When l Can Read MY
6ltieS Clear" by Mesdames Britton ana
Larks and Messrs. Laing and Boil, mas
oeen specially complimented. This was
charmingly rendered without referring
70 the music, and was greatly appreciate
"a The trio by Mesdames Whitehead,
Tuerry and Parks, entitled Father
Lead Me-" came in also for large share
of praise
The first solo of the evening was fault
.eSSiy rendered by Mrs. Edward E. Brit,
ION 1t was Concone's Judith" and
mrs BrittOn's full soprano voice, clear
SSnu distinct, carried each word of this
,Seauuful selection 10 every portion OF
;ne church. 1t was evidently greatly en-
''9eu' and number Of baskets of hand