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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
ALLIANCES AND LEAGUES.


SOMETHING NEEDED TO HOLD THEM
TOGETHER A GOOD PLAN sUG-
GESTED.
To the Editor:
We have for number of years organ
lied Farmers Alliances and Peoples
Party Leagues, but with more or less of a
failure all the time. The organizer would
come around, give us a rousing speech,
and we would organize with boom. He
sped on his way, leaving us few facts
and the echo of his voice. We were then
left to ourselves; we met a few times,
but as we were no speakers, and were
not very well posted, our meetings be-
came dull, people would not meet, and the
whole thing vanished. A few of us who
had the thing in charge sent for another
speaker. 1t would cost lis from S. to $40,
but with the same result. We would 60
at 1t again, and again with the same re-
suit. We had nothing that could tie us
togetner and interest us, but the cause,
and we could not all see it clearly. We
must be organized and educated, or lose
our grounds. Therefore let me suggest:
The executive forces of the old Farmers
Alliance and Peoples Party Leagues come
together and make arrangements for re-
form books the cost of which is from five
cents upward. Organizing and reorganiz-
ing should begin at once, and little re-
form library started in every organiza-
ton. Books from SIS to $40, besides
our reform papers, would make fine lot.
These libraries would be the headquar-
tiers, and would serve as schools and con-
Meeting links. They would gather and
educate, inspire the boys with courage
and self-confidence.; their old party
friends would be challenged for open de-
bates; rousing meetings would be called,
and system of self-education would be
in operation.
Education is the bark in which all re-
form is carried, and these little libraries
would serve as perpetual propellers, fore
ing 1t onward upon the rugged seas of
humanity; always nearer and nearer to
victory. Let us finish without despair,
fire deadly shots into the very forts of
tyranny. Send another Mot ball over
Burgoyn's table, while the oppressors are
in session. The day is surely ours.
Comrades, don't give up the ship!'
Brothers, let us hear from you.
o. o. FOSS,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

cherries and comfortless asthe baggage
room Of a railroad depot. II was bet
ting man would burst lay an even wager
that one-half of the farm houses in Mime
sofa are neither lathed nor plastered up
stairs,-I mean, now, the better class of
houses.-and not one-fourth thoroughly
finished. from cellar to garnet. Like
about everything in our modern so-called
civilized life, this is :mmaterial, unnec-
essary and degrading, not only to our
selves, but to our children, for my obser-
walton Of children leads me to believe
that they are all born with natural
and instructive love of the beautiful; they
are all little "Ruskins." What a shame!
What a pity! What crime it is to bring
them UP amongst such hideous and un-
wholesome surroundings.
Verify, our people, rich and poor, are
being destroyed by unjust and discrim-
mating laws.
SETH BOTTOMLEY.
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A FRAUD EXPOSED.
Seth BOttomly Shows the Sham OF
Reducing the Rate of Taxation
While Increasing the Valua-
ton OF Property.
LET Us HAVE MORE TESTIMONY
Important Question That Should
Be Thoroughly Discussed.

TO the Editor:
Your statement that "It takes the
whole crop to run our county threshing
machines" is good one, aud ought to be,
passed around. 1t was the same in Martin
county as it was in Goodhue. The valu-
alton was raised, as your friend OF Can
non Falls says, which would, of course,
possible.
To add my mite in showing what
wonderful reduction that Republican
Legislature made, l will compare my
own tax of last year with former years.
It must be- remembered in making this
comparison that Martin county has in
creased in population greatly within the
last few years, and as business, in all
other branches, can be done on large
scale, on a relative less margin, then it
can be, on small scale, there is no rea-
son why the same principle does not hold
good in regard to public business.
The merchant has to pay rent, taxes,
interest, etc., whether he is kept going,
hammer and tongs, from morning until
night, or 10 holding his cracker barrel
lid on three-quarters of his time. So it
Is with a state or county. We have got
to have the whole machinery to run the
county, from commissioners to coroner,
whether its population is 1000 or 10000.
So it may be stated as fixed principle
that as population increases relative ex-
penses of state or county ought to de-
crease, and'if they do not, it is proof pos
tive that there is either extravaganza
or fraud somewhere.
This is an important factor which
ought to be taken into consideration in
studying the expense of running all
branches of our government. In looking
over my tax receipts I find, taking a
bare quarter section, my house, build
ings, etc., being on other land, for the
wears named are as follows:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
THE GFEAT NORTHWEST.

THE STATE OF THINGS IN MARSHALL
COUNTY.
To the Editor:
Perhaps few items from way up in
the northwest corner of Minnesota might
interest some of your readers.
Farmers are beginning to feel pretty
good for the prospects for a good crop were
never better than at present. The ground
was in fine condition when the seed went
in and as work began so early, April 1,
there being plenty of time it was gener-
ally yer Thoroughly done. The acreage
Of wheat has been greatly reduced in this
section. 1 think I can safely say one
third less land has been put into wheat
this year than any year previous in my
vicinity.
Flax. barley and oats are sown. quite
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
THE QUESTION.

However the battle is ended
Though proudly the victor comes
With fluttering flags and prancing nags
And echoing roll of drums,
Still truth proclaims its motto
In letters of living light
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
Though the heel of the strong oppressor
May grind the weak In the dust,
And the voices of fame with one acclaim
May call him great and just,
Let those who applaud take warning
And keep this motto in sight
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
Let those who have failed to take courage
Tho the enemy seemed to have won.
Tho his ranks are strong, If he be in the
wrong
The battle is not yet DONE
For sure as the morning follows
The darkest hour of the night
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right
men bowed down with labor
o women young, yet DID,
0 hearts oppressed in the toilers breast
And crushed by the power of gold
Keep on with your weary battle,
Against triumphant might
No question Is ever settled
Until it Is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.

When woman learns how to drive a nail
When q man can thread a needle deity
When mice don't make a woman pale
When woman gets off right from street
cars,
Instead of facing toward the rear,
When man stops smoking bad tobacco,
And drinking sour-smelling beer,
When woman doesn't block the sidewalk
With spreading skirts and puffed-up
sleeves,
When man stops flirting with new charmers
And to his awful darling ceaves,
When man can understand the baby,
And woman petting 1t talk sense
When man proposes a new bonnet
And woman SHES at the expense
Phenomena like these, and others,
May striks observers dumb,
But they will know by these same tokens
That the millennium has come.
-Somerville Journal,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

Another quarter section, which now
belongs to a son of mine, tells the same
story. 1t would he but vain repeti-
tion to give the figures.
But this is not all. We all know what
a damnable fraud and farce our system
of assessing personal property is, but few
would think the same injustice extends
to the real estate tax. Here, one would
think that all were skinned alike, but
there is discrimination here, too. When
in Fairmont this spring, to pay my
taxes, l compared tax receipts with a
farmer who lives in the town ship of
Center Creek. This land is within 2h
miles Of one railroad station and Az
miles of another, and is about 10 miles
from Fairmont, the county seat. While
mine is 10 miles from Fairmont and 8
miles from Winnebago City, our market
town, vet I paid nearly three dollars
more tax on the same amount of land,
and from what he said about the same
amount of improvements.
Here is another fool arrangement, tax
ing the improvements on farm. Pay
Ing premium on avarice and greed,
and encouraging a low plane of living
with its accompanying shiftlessness, dirt
and degradation. Taxing improvements
law, the first encourages the low-lived
avaricious rogue to live like dog, while
the latter law gives the lazy, shiftless
rogue chance to keep property enough
in his and his family's hands to keep him
from sinking to his natural level, which
is that of newer Of wood and a drawer
of water, for some one who would prob
ably, at least, make him patronize Jas.
Kirk or some other good soapsmaker.
These laws are also one cause of the
country being covered over with such
unsightly habitations as are to be seen
in no other civilized country that know
of.
Even In the cases of well to do farmers
when pride and avarice have a fight. the
fight in most cases ends in a compromise
in which pride agrees that If the outside
of the platter (house) and the guest
chamber is decorated, avarice may rule
the rest Of the roost, and the result is a
gaudy sham outside and an interior as
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
extensively in place of wheat. Potatoes

extensively in place Of wheat. Potatoes
are being tried as an experiment.
The heavy rainfall we have enjoyed for
the past two weeks is bringing everything
out amazingly. Nothing seems to show
any sign Of the late frosts, except the
more tender Of the garden stuff and such
fields of fax as were up in time to be
nipped.
Marshall county boasts Of good num-
Der of Farmers Alliances and more Pop
uiists, and 'The Representative" is a
favorite with the most Of us, only for the
scarcity of money it would be no trouble
to get subscribers for it.
James Laurie.
Stephen Mimi lime IL
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
Remember.

To take postal card and send to
the REPRESENTATIVE, 50 Fourth st.S.,
Minneapolis, the names Of such per-
REPRESENTATIVE, and we will send
them sample copies, free of charge,
and be obliged to you beside. That is
the way to push the Peoples party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

the intervening Years betWeen 1881
and 1883 l do not give, because our
school house was burned down, and the
cost of building and furnishing a new
one, to pay for which we issued bonds,
made our school tax very heavy
Mind, this is for the same quarter Sec
ton of land, without any assessable i'm
provements on it whatever. In fact we
have cut down and burned up an old
grove on one S0-acre, which we bought
after we bought the first.
To show that l am not making out a
case will give the tax of the 40 acres
on which my house and other buildings
aresituated, the quarter section being on
section IA, and 40 on %. Tax on 40 acres
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
BY Panl Enntaine

There are a few Populist leaders that
evidently believe their party still has an
existence.-Denver Evening Post.
That is true. The vote at our last
state election was, in round numbers, as
follows: Republican, $4,000; Populist,
$4,000; Democrat, 5000; Prohibi-
ton, 4,OOO There are few old party
leaders that pretend to believe that the
Populst party is dead.
Why shouldn't the money loaners ia
yor the gold standard? Through it's op-
Grafton they have just taken in, under
foreclosure sale at Pueblo, Colorado,
the Grand opera house, which cost $780,
900 to build, at $125,0OO. Also the Board
of Trade building, which cost s120, 900 to
build, at 1872, 000.-The Nations Crisis.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
RECOMMENDS A GOOD TREATMENT

RECOMMENDS A GOOD TREATMENT
To the Editor:
Stick to the Omaha platform. 1t makes
the goldbugs sick to think that no real
Pcpulist wants it modified.
If we could give all the goldbug lepers
a years treatment to "The Representa-
tive" most of them would be cured.
Hoping ''The Representative" may have
long and successful career, l remain
yours truly,
S. LINDERSMITH.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
MAKES THE FUR FLY.

To the Editor:
My command of language is poor. I
cannot express myself as would like
to in favor of "The Representative" I
love to read it and to read after men
who speak right out. Peg away, brother:
you are making the fur fly
L. w. HENDERSON,.
Little Pine Creek, N. c., June IA.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

To the Editor:
Held meeting at a country school
house June 10; good attendance and all
very much interested. Five subscribed
for 1.-THE Representative" that are in To-
cality where "The Representative" has
heretofore been stranger Expect grand
results" I am very respectfully yours,
C. H. HOPKINS.
Fairfax, Mimi, June 10.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26

In writing to advertisers in this
paper our patrons will confer a favor
BY saying that they saw the adver.
tisement In the Representative.
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AN ACTIVE ALLIANCE.
A GOOD EAMPLE.

GOOD EAMPLE.
To the Editor:
AS this is Populst town, as our cleo
last fall shows about 4 to 1, it seems as
though there was little use of making an
effort here. But that would not be doing
our duty as loyal citizens; so we have a
good alliance that has not missed holding
a regular meeting for over year, where
the principles of the only true and coun-
try-loving party are discussed by such
men as Hon. E. ]. Moore, our representa-
tive; Luther Phelps, our alliance organizer
and others.
We will try and get up club here
We want more of your most valuable pa
pers to come to Usage, hot-bed of Pop
ulism. Please find so cents enclosed and
continue my subscription. 1 would be
lost without that most welcome visitor
THE Representative. Yours for the good
cause, "A. w. Anderson.
Secretary of North Star Alliance
Usage, Mimi. June Is.
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secretary OF North Star Allia
Usage, Mimi, June Is.
PLEASED WITH THE PAPER.

To the Editor:
Please find enclosed $1.00 and order for
your paper, "The Representative" for
one year for J. J. Preedy have been
taking "The Representative" for some
months. am pleased with it; it is GER
tainly a cracker-jack. 1t is an exter-
minator of the pest and is doing won
derful work. keep it on file in my shop
as long as can, but it gets into circula-
tion. Every copy is vote-maker for our
side. Yours kindly,
III. ]. KANBER,
st. Paul, June 20, 1895.
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to the poor. Surely prosperity is coming,
but 1t Is coming to the other fellows and
we are paying for it.
IF. G. Green.
RenYille MINI limo II
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07
DELEGATE CONTEST.

There seems to be some doubt
among the politicians as to who
will be the strongest and best man
to represent the republican party
from this city in the next national
convention.
The BEE has printed a list of the
gentlemen who have been men
toned as candidates, and as an in
ducement to make this contest in
teresting, the BEE will present a
fine gold headed cane to the candi-
date who receives the highest num-
Der of coupons. The coupons will
be received and counted by the con-
test editor, and all coupons will be
kept and counted in the presence
of committee to consist of one
friend from each candidate
Each coupon will count one vote,
which must be sent to the contest
editor of the BEE.
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07

Last Tuesday night, Mr.. VIM.
Cook, our great violinist appeared
before the Bethel Litera y and
Historical Association, with a lee
ture, entitled 1.-The possibilities of
the Negro in Music Mr.. Cooks
lecture was devided into five parts,
each one. dealing with the lives and
works of Beethoven, Mozart, Schu-
bert, Wagner, and Drorak, the
latter being that famous composer,
who has startled the musical world
of ten continents, by his discovery
of negro melody and his great
NEGRO Symphony, which has been
pronounced by European critics
to be the greatest production of the
generation.
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07
THE PEOPLES CHOICE
WHO WILL THE NEXT DELEGATES BE
VOTE FOR YOUR CHOICE.

The coming Republican contest for
delegates to the next National Repub.
lican Convention will be hot one.
Public meetings have been held
throughout the city, and it is still unde-
cided who the most popular man is.
AS test of each mans strength the
BEE will publish the list of the probable
candidates. with a coupon attached,
which will enable friends of each cam
didate to vote for his choice.
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07
generation.

around and bonnets and muffs are
made enSuite as heretofore.
Ostrich feathers are in the greatest
demand now, and have returned to the
very height of fashion after occupying
a middle station, somewhat neglected
for long time.
Long sweeping plumes are worn,
Prince of Wales groups, clusters of
tips, single tips, rows of tips and feather
trimmings, and all these are worn not
only on hats and bonnets, but on man.
tells, fancy waists and evening gowns.
A row of upright tips running COM
pletely around the crown is the latest
fancy for trimming hats, and is an ex-
cellent method of employing large
number of tips on one article Of head
gear, If that is anything desirable.
Silk beaver hats are brought out for
the winter wear, but will not be very
popular.
There is a somewhat neat bell
crowned hat to be seen, the crown of
silk beaver and the brim of dull silk.
1t demands plain band as finish and
admits no trimming
Silk beavers is most satisfactory
when confined to the "stove-pipe" for
gentlemen and for horseback riding
women.
The favorite couture at present con-
siStS of bouffant wave locks at the top
and sides of the head and a coil or
Dress waists are now SO much
trimmed that the gown of last year
may by retrlmming be transferred at a
small expense into apparently new and
quite fashionable one
The Mandrake shades, reddish.
orange are handsome for evening wear.
also bright pink, gold nile and stem
green.
Full blouses are becoming to slender
people that they continue to be worn
in spite of the jacket fronts and podet
basques that are newer,
Eur and Ostrich feathers edpiups
trim the handsomeSt midwinter cos
tunes of ladies cloth, camels hair, now
call zibiline and heavy chevoit mix
lures.
ANothihS, HUNS DStlSI IMAM 1ur with
velvet, but little of the trimming and
IN narrow width is sufficient.
The latest skirt requires ten wards of
twenty-five inch silk
A suitable dress for all occasions
should be of black A good serge or
fancy weave in wool mohair would
be just the thing.
A wide lining belt on skirt adds to
the size of the waist
Printed velveteen in bright colors is
novel for dark dress trimmings
knot at the back, secured bv shell
pins.
Ermine is much used this winter
Tor trimming coats, both for the little
and big folks.
Capes, waists, costumes and trim
ming of velvet will be much used this
winter.
A new ribbon for crush collars and
belts IS of black and white stripes
with an inch wide band of colored satin
on one edge.
Do You read the BEE
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07


Col. TRUESDELL
ROBERT H. KEY. . Toe
Cot. NJ. M. PARKER.
w. H. BROOKER o.
ANDREW GLEASON 1so
CHARLES OTLET ~ =
Col. P. H. CARSON, =
Dr.. c, B. PURVIS. ...........
DANIEL MURRAY.. -
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ALBERT SELLERS :,
L. M. SAUNDERS. .. IS
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07
I WANT THE BEE.

You can have it by calling at any
of the following places of business
Robert r. Brown, Twelfth and
Q streets n. ".
Robert FL. Keys grocery store,
213 Third street s. W.
Payne's barber shop, 1870 Four
and-a-half street s. W.
j. W. Taylor's barber shop, 9O6
Eleventh street.
Jackson, sos D street n. W.
The Washington bee., 1895-12-07

BUY FROM THE MANUFACTURER AND Saw
so PER CENT
jhese F1anos are M de from the best natcrlp,
hnlsned In the best manner, and beng in egert
s SspESe n9ne.t and First-Class have been awarde
ne Inst Premium wherever exhibited for the Ia.
Dry ears. ~ cry piano gu arant eed for ak ycnr-
~ nye Gays sr1al allowed that it Lay be thorough
tEHifsed oy yourself and friends before paying Tor
LOOK &c the prices and send for Descriptive
Catalogue before buying elsewhere.
NO. l. Upright ~ Square. $3.50, north SI0t.
s"' ~ EGO, SOC
To. 3, oao . ens,
The Somerset reporter., 1895-04-18
Subsoil Flowing.

You can purchase subsoil plows Of
any implement dealer. There are also
attachments made that may bo put on
ordinary stirring plows. These general
ly give very good satisfaction,
As to the time of year to do the work,
that depends on the soil and other cir
oumstancos the same as in ordinary
blowing. A correspondent of Farm,
Field and Preside says that it may be
done every year or only once III two or
three years as circumstances will per
nit Subsoil blowing is loosening tho
subsoil without bringing it to tho sur
face Where the loosened subsoil is laid
on the surface, it is called trench plow
ing. Subsoiling is probably advisable
on larger variety of soils in this coun-
try than is trench blowing On un.
drained soils it often is Worse than use
less, unless in rare cases, where there is
a thin layer of compact soil above por-
Gus soil. In heavy clay soils the effects
are not permanent In deep, loose soils
the practice may do some good, but not
always enough to repay the extra cost
The Somerset reporter., 1895-04-18

Practical Farmer speaks of variety
of "vneless' sweet potato suitable for
growth in the eastern, northern and
northwestern states, with short, chunky
vines that, planted at about the usual
distance apart for ordinary potatoes, ~
feet of rows and y feet in the row,
yield $50 to 200 bushels per acre and
would bear putting much closer and
seem to be hardy enough for the north
ern states. A few years ago it was
thought that sweet potato grown
north of the Carolinas was not good.
Yet now, according to the authority
quoted, the Jersey sweet potato takes
higher rank than those grown farther
south.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-04-18
Experiments With Potatoes.

In Kansas station bulletin is given
a record of experiments conducted three
consecutive years to test the relative
value for seed of tubers from the first
crop and from the second crop. BY early
planting of early varieties seed potatoes
were secured i'll July sufficiently matured
to produce a second crop i'll tho same
season. The second crop was light, tho
tubers often small, but firm and of fine
quality. Second crop potatoes kept until
planting time, were sound, firm and
nearly free from sprouts, while the or
binary crop became badly siroutod and
shriyeled. In most cases second crop po-
tatoes used as seed gave larger yield
than seed tubors from the first crop.
tho increase in 1890 and 1891 averaging
49, per cent From second crop seed
potatn,r rtiooms moro .'teps was larger
crop seed, allowed to become sprouted
and soft before planting, yielded only
II per cent more than ordinary seed po.
tatOes
Flat culture and hill culture gave
practically tho same yield.