The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
FROM THE TOMBS.
A VOICE OUT OF THE CATA-
COMBS.
The Americans and the HindOOs.-
Inside View of a PlutOcratic
Heart.

Inside View OF PlutOcratic
| Heart.
| We have received the following
anonymous letter. We print it be-
cause it throws light upon the pur-
poses and ideas of the thousands who
today are trying to destroy the
American Republic:
IGNATIUs DONNELLY,
Sage of Nininger.
One of your insane followers has
been thrusting the REPRESENTATIVE
at me of late, and the last three or
four l have read. After doing so, al
ways think what pity such talent
should be wasted. You know more in
fifteen minutes than Knute Nelson
does in month. Then, why not put
IT to some good use? With a little
| policy or Shrewdness you could have
been where Knute is now. Some saw
it's for lack Of balance wheel. It's
simply your cussed kicking at things
that don't suit you. 1t don't pay to
Kick against "the pricks" You could
have been wonderful lawyer. I
would rather receive check for
81 200, as attorneys fees from the G.
M. and st. P. r. r. Company, than to
have all the glory and honor you will
receive at the hands of your little hand
ful OF followers in lifetime. It's all
vanity and vexation of spirit, Mr..
Donnelly. Your Peoples conventions
are all "like an insane asylum in a
state of insurrection. The leaders
hav'nt sense enough to do anything.
Even you are unable to handle them
In a convention. Then what can you
expect of the ignorant millions?
The more filthy and ignorant, the
better contented they are. Six thous-
and dollars year are worth more to
me now than $4,000 would be should
your financial system to initiate the
currency come into vogue. Four per
cent interest on the proposed issue Of
bonds by the President, is worth more
than 20 per cent would be with $50
per capita of money. We don't want
cheap money. The wealthy are bound
to fight such scheme. It might do
il we were all heavily in debt.
should hate to be in the minority.
Talk about the people 'rising up to
overthrow the Money-power." st is
''bosh-sheer unmitigated bosh.''
One hundred and fifty English CAPT.
tallsts, today, control, own all of
India; 100000 900 Hindoo slaves work
ing for these few Lords. Why don't
they rise up and overthrow their mas
ters? They are contented, just as
about 50,O00,O00 Americans are today.
And all you can say will have no more
to do with the legislation in this
country, than the weight of fly
would In stopping the Ferris wheel.
Mr.. DOnnelly breathe in one good
breath of American statesmanship,
and then with the spirit and patriot
ism OF President Cleveland, or Sena-
tor Sherman, go into Populism, and
completely demolsh it, as you have de-
molished the single-tax doctrine. Do
this, and you may yet rank with the
great men of our country.
Yours, etc., A LAWYER,
We desire to say in reply that we
have not "little handful of follow
ers." We represent nearly one-third
of the total vote of Minnesota, two
years more will make it plurality.
This vote has also been developed in
the last five years. In the United
States there are 1.600,O 900 who feel as
we do; and they have seven United
States Senators, and strong delega-
tion in the House.
In the next place our state and ma
tiOnal conventions have been as wise
and as worthy and as orderly as those
of either of the old parties, and a
thousand times more honest. We
cannot of course prevent our enemies
hiring men to go in and try to tear us to
pieces; like that wretch who was kick
ed bodily out of the convention in St.
Louis, on Feb. %, 1892.
And this fool thinks because 200. .OOO.-
600 Hindoo serfs, a mongrel race, con-
trolled by the most wretched supersti-
tions, an effeminate, tropical, rice
eating gang, quietly submit to Eng
lish domination, that 70, OOO,O Ameri-
cans will as quietly sink down into a
like condition, under the same mas
ters. That's read wrong. They may
be fooled for time, but sooner or
later they will break out and scatter
their oppressors to the winds. AS
long as this great white race in
America has free-schools and roast
beef liberty will not be displaced by
serfdom.
1t is not in our power, or the power
of thousand leaders, to demolsh
"Populism," if we wanted to. 1t is
based on great universal, fundamental
truths which no assaults of indiyid-
uals can overthrow.
And what cowardly spirit does our
anonymous correspondent exhibit
when he says,-"I should hate to be
in the minority" And yet that feel
ing influences millions of small-souled
creatures who call themselves men.
Gear to be in the minority!'' That
is the sentiment of the fool sheep,
when the whole herd rush into the
pit together. Byron said:
1.-The lion is alone and so anil"
We wouldn't give as much as the
value of the dirt from under Bixt's
thumb-nail for the man who would
rather be wrong with the multitude
than right with the minority. Such a
fellow ought not to be permitted to
marry, for the continuance of his
cowardly breed is positive detriment
to mankind. There is not in the
whole history of the world a single
man whom the world calls great, who
did not, at the crisis of his fate, stand