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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07
Progress of the Durraut Trial.

SAN tRANsIsCo. Sept. THE taking of
testimony in the trial of Theodore Dur
rant is proceeding slowly. During the
three days in which witnesses have been
on the stand all that has been established
Is that Blanche Lamont is dead and that
her body bore marks of violence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07
watterson Has Politics Enough.

NoBLEsyILLE, Ind, Sept. The Hon.
Henry Watterson in an interview here
last night stated that he had decided to
retire entirely from politics. Under no
circumstances, he said, would he make any
further political speeches and he further
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07

Beethoven had voice so coarse and
harsh that once. conducting rehearsal,
when he attempted to hum passage
fo- the cello TO show how il should go.
an involuntary roar-of laughter came
from the orchestra. He turned very red,
bat afterward himself laughed. aud the
incident passed on pleasantly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07
Best They Gould Do,

Mrs. De Style-Where are your sta
bles? =
Mrs. Highupp-We have not room for
stables. We beard our horses, but the
boarding stables are very exclusive,
very exclusive indeed York
Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07
Arpolnted bx Governor A,tre,d.

SPRINGFIELD. His, Sept. 7.-Governor
Altgeid has appointed james McAndrews,
OF Chicago, member of the Board of commits
sioncrs for the incursble insane, vice n. c.
Warner, OF Rockford, deceased.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-07

stated that it was his intention to go to
Europe next year to avoid participating In |
the national caflnaicn |
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
HORRIBLE.

A woman named Mrs. Matte A.
Morrison, of Clifton. Illinois, a hard
working, honest woman, but poorly
clad, toes out OF shoes, ragged, starry
ing, desperate and unable to get work,
lifted her beautiful, fair-haired, six
years old boy from the beach Of Lake
Michigan. at Chicago, where he was
playing with pebbles. and carrying
him in her arms walked into the water
and drowned herself and him.
Think of the desperation that must
have been in that mothers heart,
when she could listen to the terrified
screams of the child in her arms,-her
own child,-as he begged her to save
him; and yet marched deeper and
deeper in to death. No wonder they
said the look On her face was fierce
and bitter as she lay on the stone slai,
Of the murgue with the fair child by
her side. She was hunted to death.
How black must the world have looked
to her when she turned her back upon
it, and would not even trust her little
one to its tender mercies. What drove
her to suicide? Want, misery. What
made the want and misery? The
greed of a class of men to get two dol
lars where they had loaned one. Did
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
DAKOTA COUNTY.
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE PLUM.
DERED.
THE EXACTIONS OF THE RAIL
ROAD COMPANIES.
The milwaukee and St. Paul Com.
pany the Chief ROhber
Of the Age.

We have been looking into the way
In which the people of our own coun-
ty-Dakota-are stripped of the fruits
OF their industry, for the benefit of
the holders OF watered stock of the
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com
pany. We undertake to say that moth
ing equal to it has been known in any
other land than Minnesota. in the his
tory OF the whole world. We take Da-
kota county because we live in it, and
we are more familiar with the circum-
stance surrounding it than with more
distant portions Of the state; but we
have no doubt that the same condi-
tions exist along the whole line of the
N. & St. P. Ry. and probably through
out the whole commonwealth.
We take the market reports of Min
neapolis and Hastings for the same
day. Maya. 1895. The Hastings report
is from the columns of the Hastings
Democrat, a weekly Democratic pa
per; and the Minneapolis report is
from the columns of the Minneapolis
Tribune, a daily Republican paper.
No, n | think will dispute the fig
ures as given.
We tabulate the prices on that day
May 2, 1895:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
-
SUCCESS OR

Train robbing has become so fire.
quent and so common that Plutocra-
cy has ordered their associated Press
to suppress reports OF them as often as
possible for fear of encouraging the
unemployed to 90 into the business
generally. AS we have said before,
the mistake train robbers make is
their failure to incorporate. 1ncor-
poration would enable them to call on
Cleveland for regular army buns to
protect them. incorporate, boys. by
all means!-Road.
Morality is a good deal a thing OF
quantity. II a man steals a whole
railroad he is all right, a pillar Of the
church and an ornament Of society.
But if he steals some of the money the
railroad is carrying he is a common
thief and goes to prison:
The law condemns the man OF woman
That steals the goose from off the common
But turns the greater feion loose,
Who steals the common from the goose"
The crime is in inverse ratio to the
amount stolen. Such is thai curious
thing we cali human nature. Some
one said rebellion a never succeed,
because if it succeeds it ceases to be
rebellion. The difference between
Jack Cade and George Washington is
that n was beaten and the other
was not.
Success can gild a bad cause and
failure will damn a good n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
THE ~STRUCK-JURY BILL.
Here Is part of the record of tn,
1ohofo ON tho of,,,oI> S,,n,, LII.

Here is part of the record of the
debate on the struck-jury bill:
The first battle at the evening session
was precipitated over Senator Potter's
struck jury bill. When the bill was
read ]. d. Jones moved a call OF the
house, which was ordered, and 1O1 mem
bers answered to their Dames. Two or
three attempts were made to suspend
the call, hut the advocates of the bill
fought against it, and the conference
committee was broken up to secure the
attendance of five members there. When
the bill was laid open for discussion Mr..
Dahl made another bitter attack on the
bill declaring it to be a vicious measure,
which, when it was formerly in force,
had been used by the corporations
to the detriment of the poorer classes.
1t afforded, he said, an opportunity for
the rich corporation to make a deal with
the sheriff and secure a jury. The jury
would be known long before the cause
was tried, and 1t afforded all the Oppor-
tunity for interested parties to approach
a jury. There never was a sheriff in
Hennepin OF Ramsey counties but would
rather "stand in with" the city railway
company than with the working man.
The city railway company had it's rep
resentatives lobbying on this bill all
day; it was their bill, the labor ~organiza-
lions were unanimously against 1t, and
if this Republican legislature passed
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
AN EXPLANATION.

SENATOR STEVENS CLAIMS HE WAS
NOT PROPERLY TREATED-THE
REPRESENTATIVE GLADLY GIVES
HIM A HEARING.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, care The Rep
resentatiye, Minneapolis, MINI.
My Dear Governor:-In an editorial
In the last Representative an injustice
is dom me, though doubtless not intend
ed. / am not surprised at the construc-
ton you place upon the report of my
remarks, without having before you the
statement which called them out. The
Globe did not give the report of the re-
marks of my colleague, Senator Ozmun,
OF this city, which were to the effect that
the country was in a state of unrest
bordering on anarchy, land he made a ref
erence to Chicago as an illustration, and
objected to the holding of a convention
at this time because what he termed the
anarehistic elements might prevail and
a constitution be adopted which would
be entirely unsafe. What l said was in
reputation of his apprehensions.
AS you yourself have experienced the
misfortune of being misunderstood in
your laudable efforts, l trust you will
again read my remarks in the light of
this explanation, and put me right in
the matter. Yours sincerely,
H F. STEVENS.
St. Paul. Mimi, May 3, 1895.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
TIE

A striking illustration of the hol-
lowness and insincerity of the daily
press is found in the announcement
recently made in the St. Paul Globe,
-that in a few days, Mr.. John Gilpin
Pyle, editor of the Republican organ,
the Pioneer-Press, would assume the
editorial chair of the Democratic organ,
the St. Paul Globe!!
For about twenty years Mr.. Pyle has
been writing Republican editorials.
On the day named he will turn a back
~summersault, crack his heels in the
air, and light on his feet, a full-blown,
Tor rather fly-blown), Democrat!
'Can such things be.
And overcome us like . summers cloud,
Without our special wOnder?"
1t can be compared to nothing but
the conversion Saul of Tarsus:-but
the voice is from the opposite quarter.
But what fools the people are to pin
their faith to the utterances of such
Jumping jacks! Republicans today
Democrats tomorrow! Populists next
week-if any one had the money to
hire them!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
ANOTHER,

The celebrated n. z. Clarke, of St.
Cloud and Minneapolis, lumberman,
banker, fancy stock raiser, real estate
dealer, leading Republican, and one IF
the biggest frogs in the everlas ting
puddle, has "bustcd' and "gone to
smash" to the tune of a million dol
lars.
We are sorry for him. There are
worse men in this world than n. P.
He will get on his feet again If Yankee
grit counts for anything.
But it is curious. The same papers
which announce this tremendous fail
ure contain a screed from Henry Clews
of New York. to show that times are
on the boom. Henry stands all the
old party daily papers in a line, and
gives the word:-"Now boys, all shout
together-'Times are better!' That's
right; very we'll done; take another
breath and go it again. Times are
BETTER Very good! If you'll all keep
time and shout together the fool farm
ers will begin to think it's true"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
THE TRUE CHRISTIANITY.

Jesus never preached from a mort
gagged pulpit and never buncoed the poor
people to keep him in fine clothes, food,
and a swell front rectory. We find
much fault with the action of the Jews
of old, but let a man today raise his
voice in earnest for the common people,
the kind Jesus loved, particularly, and
the press and the pulpit would begin at
once to yell anarchist" (observe Myron
w. Reeds easel and demand that he be
Jailed IA la Debs). The Jews are no
worse today than the Gentiles. The lust
for gold has made lis all cold, cruel and
exacting, and true charity and manhood
seem to have drifted into oblivion. Mon
ey, not intellect and decency, is what
counts with us today. This sort of thing
must stop or our so-called civilization
will go up in smoke.-Denver Road.
True, every word of it. q
Suppose Jesus had come to Jerusalem
praising the money-changers and draw
ing a large salary from them, would
Christianity ever have been established
Or if it had been would it have been any
better than the worship Of Jove n
Juno and Venus and Bacchus which it
supplanted?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
FREE-SILVER COINAGE.

Between the faction that declares we
have silver money enough and would
not admit more to the mints, and the
other extreme that would let it into the
minis at twice it's value, those who, like
the Globe, regard silver as suitable mon
ey metal and do not fear a deluge of dol
lars, but are unalterably opposed to let
ting any man get through the govern
ment twice what his product Is worth,
or any more than its market value, feel
as if they were between the devil and
the deep sea, and wish a plague would
fall on both their houSes.-St. Paul
Globe.
Well, why not open the minis to the
free coinage of silver, and thus ascertain
what it is worth, when put back into the
position it occupied for 5000 years?
In 1873 it was worth a premium over
gold. And who would sell silver bull
lion for less than 100 cents on the dollar,
if he could get that for it at the minis,
by turning it into legal-tender silver dol
lars worth that now?
Open the minis and give the white
metal a chance. You might just as we'll
destroy on honest workingwoman's good
name, by your ISLANDERS; and then pass
a law that she should not have work
until her good name was restored.
Retract the ISLANDERS and her good name
will come back at once. Open the minis
and silver bullion will be at par with
gold bullion in twenty-four hours.
And the scoundrelly knaves know this
perfectly we'll; but they have got man.
kind by the throat and propose to hold
their grip. Get UP and smash them at
the ballot box.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
THE BUsINESs-MAN's ERA"

The champion knife snapper lives In
Gainesville. He is a little boy-the son
of a pracher-and this is his record, as
given by his father:
THAT boy, not many months since,
worried me until / bought him a knife.
Like a boy, he left it out one night and
it got rusty. Then he lost interest in It
and began at once to swap it off. Well,
the little rascal has naturally a knack
for trading, and, sir, he took that rusty
knife and with 2 little work on it, and a.
good deal of talking, he succeeded in ex-
changing it for two good knives. These
knives in turn he traded for three
knives, worked considerably IN them,
and got a cheap watch for the three.
He kept trading till he had completed
Al different bargains, most of them in
his favor. At the end of the forty-sev-
enth trade he owned a shotgun, a hound
puppy, two jack-knives and IS cents In
money, besides other smaller trinkets
too numerous to mention. There's moth
ing like it.-Atlanta Constitution.
That boy is a good type of the success
full business man.
In a few years more he will be head
OF a bank, a railroad president, and an
advocate of a sinbgle-gold standard.
And he will be very indignant if any
one presumes to say that a faculty for
swapping jack-knives is not the proper
foundation on which to construct .
statesman.
And, to the common mind, the lot of
stuff he gathers around him will be con-
vincing proof that he ought to go to the
United States senate and help direct the
destinies of mankind.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08

and a ton OF refuse, cattle-feed, Is but
$3.50! It is . wonder it was not the
same!! In Minneapolis, Gu the CON
trary, a ton Of the same wheat is
worth $22.ll instead of $l7.59; and a
ton OF bran is worth $40 instead OF 4l2;
so that the difference there between
bran and wheat is $l2.ll against $3.50
in Hastings!I!
And this is the egregious, viNainous,
damnable way IN which the people are
swindled and reduced to payerty for
the benefit Of non resident owners OF
watered stock-mostly foreigners, who
never saw and never will see the men
they are plundering.
Oh! the pity OF it! Towns ruined,
farmers covered with mortgages, the
whole land paralyzed; and a lot OF shy
ster politicians unite to destroy any
man or men who dares to open his
mouth against this villainous system.
''Shorts" in Hastings, May 2, $14 per
ton. "Shorts" the same day in Min
neapolis $l1.75
And every one that can pay the ex-
pense of the trip goes to st. Paul or
Minneapolis to buy their groceries and
dry goods, and they save enough to
make it profitable.
But what can you do when the
spirits Of tie people themselves are
Servile?
This country went to war, in its
babyhood, in 1776, with tie most pow
crtul nation in the world, because it
would not submit to a trifing tax on
tea and stamped paper, made by d
Parliament in which thay had no rep
resentation. What representation
have the people Of Dakota county, in
the Milwaukee s. St. Pau! railroad
company, which in twenty-five years
has taken from each man a fortune;
and proposes to plumber them indie
Ilnitely in the future, until all go
down in bankruptcy together?
Don't look to the politicians, breth-
rem; or the office holders. Talk to
your neighbors; organize, organize for
1896: and let us see if the next delega-
ton to the House from Dakota coun-
ty shall be earnest reforms OF tools Of
that old fraud, Chandler, sometimes
called the Judge, though he never was
a judge of anything in this world but
whiskey, women and legislators.
Now is the time to prepare for the
battle in 1886. Take off your coats
and 60 to work. Revive your Alliances
everywhere.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
A NEW NAME FOR DOING MOTH.
ING

It (the recent legislature has not
manifested any extreme radicalism in
dealing with matters of transporta-
ton and questions economic, and has
recognized the fact pretty generally
that all these things work themselves
out much better when lett to tie in
dustrial and economic laws aud rrin-
ciples which underlie all objects
themselves. st. Paul Dispatch.
That is putting it very gently. Why
the transportation and economic cues
tiOns were the very ones the people
wanted action upon, and the Dispatch
thinks it is to the credit of the Legis-
lature that it never touched them!
1t left them to the industrial and
econmic laws" Oh Lord! Why what
is the use of a Legislature? "The in
dustrial and economic laws" are al
ways in session. Better abolish the
Legislature and let "the industrial and
economic laws" Ito wit. the corpora
tions, } run the whole business.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
GOBS OF

City National Bank, of Fort Worth,
Texas, failed" with e4S7 900 of de-
p~ositOrs money.
Beaden, Neb., bank went up the flue.
Axtel, Neb., bank followed suit.
Rayenna, Neb., national bank
trumped.
Dublin, Texas, national bank also
truInped higher.
And only a few counties heard from.
Exchange.
1t must never be forgotten that
Populist success last fall would have
prevented the arrival of tho good
times we are now enjoying. How for
tunate that the leading Democrats Of
Minnesota had the patriotism to go
around among their bretheren and
persuade them to vote for Knute Mel
son for governor; because thereby the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
RUIN.
FARMS BRING $1.65 WHILE CITY
LOTS ARE VALUED AT so CENTS.

EArtMO bft1NG Sl.t5 WHILE CITY
LOTS ARE VALUED AT so CENTS.
From the Minneapolis Penny Press.
This farm of 160 acres sold for one
dollar and sixty five cents"
Assistant City Attorney William H.
Morse stood upon the front steps of the
old court house this morning and at
tracted general notice by the above ut
terance.
AS assignee of the estate of w. w.
Page, the lime and cement merchant, as
signed, Mr.. Morse bid off the property in
his care at public auction. The above
property lies in Richland county, S. D.,
and was bid in at the figure named.
Likewise two lots in South Chicago
brought 80 cents while a lot at Riverside
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, Mime
apolis, went at Sc. Outstanding &C
counts to the amount of $142.7 IS were pur-
chased for half Il dollar. ]. A. Young
purchased all but the South Dakota
property. The entire estate of Mr.. Page
brought but $134.05. Two years ago this
property was valued at So, 500. Mr..
Pages liabilities are about SAG, 900.
This is a type of the crushing out of
values that is going On everywhere.
And we have not yet reached the bot
tolu of it..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08

Senator Cronkhite selected H. F. SIG,
providing for a redemption from sale
within two days Of property sold un-
der a chattel mortgage. Passed.-Leg-
isIatiye Report
Good. A wise selection. Don't be
too rough on Cronkhite. He did some
good work-notably securing the ap-
preparation for the new tw!ne machine
in the State prison which vii! proha-
bly, reduce the price Of twine this year
a half million dollars in Minnesota.
All our Populist senators and mem
hers did splendid work, and they
should all be honored and rewarded by
tl;eir constituents. We are proud of
them. 1t is a grand augury for the
future. In 1896 we must elect two
thirds of the House.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
JUDGE CHANDLER AND THE
LEGISLATURE.

Judge Chandler, of the Milwaukee
road, was asked how he regarded the
legislation bearing upon railroads. He
said that he had decided opinions up
on legislation generally. but was old
enough not to express them. He had
nothing to complain of so far as his road
eoas concerned. He was glad that freight
rates had not been cut, as that would
have crippled the roads. He was glad
that the legislature had been conserv-
atiYe, and taken a reasonable view Of
Notwithstanding Call.
You can see the old cuss grinning as
he says this. He was satisfied with
the Legislature! OF course he was.
He had nothing to complain Of. In
deed! How much did that mental
satisfaction cost him?
And it would have reduced the
wages of the Workmen on the road
the dear, good workmen!-the kind
~considerate Judge!-if the Legislature
had reduced the rates and the inter-
est on watered stock.
And the next day after the Legisla-
ture adjourned the Judge announced
that the road would have to cut doUn
the roges Of its men!! The old fraud!
When it comes to a question of re-
ducing the capitalists interest on his
watered stock, OF the poor mans
wages, the poor man has got to suffer.
He is all well enough to be used as a
cats paw to pull watered stock chest
nuts out of the legislative fire, but
when the emergency is past he is of no
Importance. And when the contest
comes between the rich mans purse
and the stomachs Of the poor mans
wife and children, it is a great deal
easier to contract the latter than the
former:
"Alas that gold hould be so dear,
And flesh and blood SO cheap"
The Judge is near enough to death
to catch the smell of the sulphur. And
yet he is willing to help rascalities
that yield him no returns in this
world, but will be as a cut-throat chat
tel mortgage on his miserable soul in
the next world. A man had better let
his bowels out, japanese fashion, than
to live and use his mentality and cor
porosity as the slaves Of iniquity.
Prince Hal said to Falstaff:
How Ill gray hairs become a fool and jes-
How ill,-we might justly add,-gray
hairs become a demoralizer of legisla-
lures and a destroyer of the prosperity
of his fellow men To stand tremb-
ling upon the very boundary line
between two worlds, and reach back
and do all the harm he can to one, be-
fore he tumbles, shrieking into the
vortex of the other. 1t is dreadful!
There should be a law to write the
truth about every man on his tomb
stone. What a monument the Judge
would have! Five hundred years from
now the children would pelt it with
rotten eggs.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08

this bill it would hear from It in the
next campaign.
Mr.. Warner defended the character Of
the sheriff, and held that that Official
could more easily be brihed under the
present than under the proposed law.
Mr.. Jones, J. NJ, admitted that there
had been a lobby On the floor. and after,
he said, cracking a bottle of champagne
at the expense Of the lobbyist, he found
that said lobby was against the bill
The roll being called, the bill was
passed by a vote Of SO to Al.
A sues 3; B demands a struck jury; he
is rich; he gives the sheriff s1oO and .
list Of names Of his friends; the sheriff
reports the names; the jurors named try
the case, and A is whipped out of his
boots. And there was $4,000 plurality for
this kind of thing. We hope the men
who voted for it like what they are get
ting. 1t don't hurt us.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
NOTICE!

We desire to say that we will not re-
cognize any payments made to Robert
Eckford for subscriptions or otherwise
to The REPRESENTATIVE. We have
given notice to this effect and we now
renew it. Mr.. EckfOrd has nothing to
do with this paper. and remittances
sent him do not reach us. All moneys
MUST be sent to THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE, 53 S. Fourth ST., Minneapolis,
MIMI" and all checks or postal Or
ders must be drawn to the order of
THE REPRESENTATIVE"