The representative., 1895-10-09
A TRIP TO MONTANA.
THOUGHTS AND DISSERTATIONS

Leave MIuneapOl1S al S.IC p. m. ):
sleeping through the slumbering vii
lagos and towns,-(eyery Minnesota
village is town and every town a
city,, and wake up in the great wheat
fields OF North Dakota. Cannot help
but contrast the improvement in
travel compared with what it was
when came west in 1856: then you
could only check your trank for one or
two hundred miles, and you had to get
out and drag it yourself from ore end
OF long depot to another. There
we're no sleeping cars, and if you jour
neyed at night you had to sit up, with
your pendent head wagging and bob
ing about. waking you up every now
and then with each emphatic bump
and jerk. Now you go to bed in lux
urious couch and find yourself in the
morning nearly as fresh as if you had
spent the night in your own bed at
home.
THE VALUE OF SLEEP.
The unconscious part of life IS a
very important part Of it. Profound
sleep is indeed "tired natures sweet
restorer.', 1t 'knits up the rayelled
Sieve Of care" He that does not
sleep soundly does not last long, The
price Of life is Inconsistencies during
great part of it:-you dip into semi
death in order to live. Is death only
a profounder sleep, and do you wake
up somewhere else refreshed and re-
l>n II
coyery that you can restore drowned
man to life four, five six hours after
apparent death, goes to show that life
does not quit the body for consider
able period after the heart ceases to
beat. l think it was Zoraster who
taught that there is no complete seper-
alton Of soul and flesh for three days
after the breathing ceased. Poe has a
CHASTITY story in which it is claimed
that the divorce is not complete until
decomposition has done it's work; and
he represents the ghost complaining
of the horrible sufferings it endured
while the processes of decay were go
ing on.
THE WORLDS GREAT GRAIN FIELDS.
1t is astonishing to see the thOus-
ands of acres of grain still standing in
the shock. suppose the people can
not afford the extra cost of stacking,
and would sooner trust to Providence
| and the elements than to the wheat
buyers. Nature is not as cruel as man.
This is the worlds great wheat field.
Here are the boundless areas, the level
plains, the cheap lands, the fat SOIL
Here the plow can run all day with
out striking stone as big as your fist
This ought to be paradise of pros
perity and beauty, swarming with
wealthy, happy people. There should
be handsome groves around splendid
structures, barns, Outbuildings, gran
aries. sheep Sheds barns, stables.
There is richness enough in the black
earth to produce all this, but the
greed of man has brought it all to pow
erty and peasant-like conditions. The
robbers of the whole world have got in
their work on this vast domain. If all
who live off this wheat crop could be
forced to stand around the fields the
roads would be black, k,-not with
ragged paupers but with we'll dressed
men in silk hats and broadcloth. If
all the wealth stolen from Minnesota
and the Dakotas, during the past 80
years could be restored to those who
produced it, this would be the richest
region in the whole world: our towns
would be metropolitan cities; our
merchants princes: our farmers the
proudest aristocracy on earth.
CAN THE FARMERS COMBINE?
Wheat went up, they tell me. 4A
cents bushel in the Red River Val
ley yesterday. Why was this? There
were no war news to Justify it. l
heard of no corresponding increase in
Eastern Minnesota. Why was ito The
farmers ore not hreshing and not selling.
The expectant thieves are disappoint-
ed. The COW refuses to let down her
milk. She must be encouraged. They
must throw her another bundle of fod-
der, or their buckets will be useless.
And so they put up the price a cents.
All this teaches us that if the wheat
growers Of the United States would
| only combine they could make whea
worth a dollar bushei The flour
makers are organizing for similar
purpose; and yet they have always
kept the price of flour above the price
Of wheat. And the farmers cannot
look to them for defence, any more
than the sheep could TO an amia bic So
cety of wolves.
We have got the organization al
ready, for the protection of the whea t
raisers, if the farmers would only ex-
pand it and use it'll refer to the
Farmers Alliance. with its branches
n all the states where wheat is raised
in any quantity. The people of the
United States must have bread
white bread at that:-and if the
farmers combine the bread-eaters
would have to pay the price demanded
by the bread-raisers. But it will be
said from Russia. the Argentine and
| India wheat would be introduced. Let
them try it. BY the time they have
| paid the freight from their sea-coasts
| to Chicago. the price would be so high
| that we could afford to sell our wheat
at living figures. And then we have,
Or did have, until the beautiful Demo
cratic Congress came into power a
tariff of % cents bushel on imported
wheat.
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