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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-27
A Correction,

There was a mistake in my letter as
printed in regard to elevators. It
should read I'm a company not incor-
porated individual members are re-
sponsible for the company's debts"
L. G.. LONG.
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March ID.

A $780, C0 fire occurs at Sioux City.
London stock brokers and police have a
fight
Northwestern cheesemakers meet at Fond
du Lac. Wis.
Sixty men were killed by the Wyoming
mine explosion.
Extensive tanneries will be moved from
New York state to Wisconsin.
John M. Egan is appointed receiver of
the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern
railway.
A semi-oficial statement of England's
difficulty with Nicaragua is sent out from
London.
The New York police reorganization bill
threatens evil to the Republican party of
the state.
The salaries of judges of United States
courts, it is contended, cannot be touched
by the income tax.
1t is reported that the Spanish minister
to the United States has resigned but his
government will not accept the resignation.
Two brothers are arrested in Colorado on
the charge of stealing gold ore of the value
of $50, 900 to 500, 900.
The two game wardens tried at Shell
Lake, Wis, for killing an Indian chief,
were justified in their action according to
the Jury.
Secretary Gresham's brother, a good Re-
publican, remains postmaster of ST. Peter.
Mimi, owing to the powerful influence of
his brother.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-27
If Christ Should Come Today.

By James G. Clark, in the Arena.)
1 have come and the world shall be shaken
Like a reed at the touch of my rod,
And the kingdoms of time shall awaken
To the voice of the of God;
No more through the din of the ages
Shall warnings and chidings divine,
From the lips of My prophets and sages,
Be trampled like pearls before swine.
Ye have stolen My lane and My cattle,
Ye have kept back from labor its need;
Ye have challenged the outcasts to battle,
When they plead at your feet in their
need;
And when clamors of hunger grew louder
And the multitudes prayed to be fed,
Ye have answered with prisons or powder
The cries of your brothers for bread.
1 turn from your alters and arches,
And the m~ockings of steeples and domes,
To join in the long weary marches
OF the ones we have robbed of their
homes;
I share in the sorrow and crosses
Of the naked, the hungry and cold,
And dearer to me are their losses
Than your gains and your idols of gold.
I will wither the might of the spoiler,
l will laugh at your dungeons and locks,
The tyrant shall yield to the toiler,
And your judges eat grass like an OK;
For the prayers of the poor have assembled
To be written in lightnings on high,
And the walls of your captives have plend-
ed
With the bolts that must leap from he
sky.
TIL thrones of your kings shall be shat
tered
And the prisoner and serf shall go free:
I will harvest from seed that 1 scattered
On the borders of blue Galilee;
For I come not alone like a STRANGER
Lo! my reapers will sing through the
night,
Till the star that stood over the manger
Shall cover the world with it's light.
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Spain has a new ministry.
A Victoria (B. Co. tug is lost with five
men.
Earthquake with loss Of life occurs in
Italy.
Artificial cotton is successfully made in
Belgium.
Mr.. Erwin serves notice for a new trial
for Harry Hayward.
The Davis will case is revived in the
Butte MOnt.) courts.
Three members of a Pembina IN. d.
family commit suicide.
The Japanese are repulsed in an attack
upon islands near m
Federal Judge Bake, at Indianapolis, de-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-27

In writing to advertiser In this
paper our patrons will confer n favor
by saying that they saw the adver-
ttseMent in the Representative.
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Though we break our fathers promise, we
have nobler duties first.
The traitor to humanity is the traitor most
accursed;
Man is more than constitutions. better rot
beneath the sod,
Than be true to church and state while we
are doubly false to God.
W owe allegiance to the state; but deeper,
truer, more,
To the sympathies that God has set within
our spirits core;
Our country claims our fealty; we grant it
so, but then
Before man made us citizens, great nature
made us men," Lowell.
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England insists upon an indemnity from
Nicaragua.
Western university presidents will hold a
conference in Chicago.
The Debs case is argued before the ma
tional supreme court.
Presidents of Western lines settle the
freight PERCENTAGE question.
The marquis of Queensbury is indicted in
London for libeling Oscar Wilde.
Victoria Oh. c. police will not allow la
dies to appear on the streets in boomers.
Senior Muruaga is suspended by Dupy de
Lone as Spanish minister to tie United
States.
Gov. Mckinley says he will quit the Re-
publican party forever if it declares for
free silver.
An anti-fusion law passed by the Michi-
gan legislature is sustained by the state
supreme court.
The Greenhut management is charged
with having swindled the whisky trust to
the extent of 81, 600, 900.
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Crftfcisfnr Our Mfllionafres.

1t is high time that we in this country
should cease pointing the finger of criticism
at those whose worldly means are greater
than ours, and heap upon them the spirit of
malicious envy, writes Edward w. Box in
"At Home With the Editor in the No
vember Ladies' Home Journal. We have
reached that point where we even seek to
~criticise our millionaires when they buy
yachts or give large social functions. Eur
ing these depressing times l have constant
ly heard people complaining because Mr..
Gould paid $25, 600 for a yacht; because Mr..
Vanderbilt built two palaces costing him
over 1000, 600, or that Mrs. Aston gave a
ball at a cost of $40. 600. Pray, why should
they not? What helps the country at
large more than these very expenditures?
If these people boarded up their money,
we should be far more justified in criti-
cising them. The more money that is put
into circulation in this country, the better
it is for us all. Indirectly some of it comes
to each of us. I remember being at a So
cial function, the cost of which, 1 was told,
exceeded $4,000. Where did that money
go? To the very people it should go. The
wealthy hostess had the enjoyment of her
money, but her tradespeople reaped the
real benefit of it.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
March 20.

A window glass trust is formed.
A Texas boiler explosion kills six persons.
The Alliance affair Is by no means settled
yet.
Marie Burroughs the actress, sues for
divorce.
Archbishop Langevin, of Manitoba, is con-
secrated.
Whisky trust officers may be sued for
81. 900 coo.
Foreign holders of American securities
escape the income tax.
Senator Morgan favores the purchase Of
Cuba by the United States.
The Milwaukee road will establish a car
ferry system on Lake Michigan.
Christian scientists are responsible for
another death-a child of Ohio.
The report of loss of the Spanish cruiser
Itegente with 420 men is confiremed.
England grabs a large section of Vene-
zuelan territority without justification.
Two deputy game wardens are on trial at
Shell Lake, Wis, for killing an Indian
chief.
Nearly a thousand Georgia negroes sail
for Africa where they will form a settle
ment.
William Davidson is elected president of
the American Association of General Pas
senger and Ticket Agents.
Indicted policemen in New York are ar
rested and suspended. Several inspectors
and captains are included.
Secretary Gresham it is reported, demands
the recall of Hawaiian Minister Thurston.
The recall of the Spanish minister may
also be asked.
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The Alliance Column
EDITED BY
j. 1.
L. c. MAGNOLIA
A.. H. HENDRICKSON.. ..SAUK CENTRE
The National FaFmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union.

The National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union.
ELWOOD FURNESS. President.............
Nevada, Iowa
T. ]. MEIGHEN, Fifth Vive-President......
..FOreStVlle, MINI.
AUGUST POST, acknowledgements.
.MOulton, Iowa
q. E. LAWRENCE, Lecturer.
Marion, ONO
L. c. LONG, State Organizer............"..
.A1dSHOiAd NuAAA'
Officers of the State Alliance.
j. 1. VERMILYA, President. ....... Eyota
A. H HENDRICKSON, Secretary.........
.Sauk Center, Mimi
r. NJ. PROBSTFIELD, Treasurer..........
..Moorhead, MINI
L. c. LONG, State Lecturer.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
LIST Dist-THOS. ]. MEIGHEN. .Forestville
End Dist-PETER McGRATH..............
Thunder
Bird Dist-MICHAEL HOLDEN.... Norfolk
4th Dist-S. w. POWELL........ Saltwater
9Th Dist-JONAS H. .Wayzata
9Th Dist-A. NJ. STILES.........Sauk Center
7th Dist-DR. C. JOHNSON..N New london
DEPUTY STATE LECTURERS.
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NJ V. POoRE................Bi Bird Island
JONAS H. Lake
J. T. Santiago
c. F. Union
A. D. Redwood
.Ridgeway
J. H. Long Prairie
Erik ...SherDurne
A.. Degraf
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THOMAS Minneapolis
Red Wing
Luce
Luis
H. L.
SETH Nashville Center
A. VAN HEMERT................ Grand Meadow
A. c. Staples, Todd county
NJ. L. Wadena +. o.
2. ~ Staples
Big Lake
A. F. LUDWIG. Brainerd F. @
CARL Nichols
THOMAS F. .Milaca
X. n. AIkINSON Forreston
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EDWARD Benson
). Triumph
y. n. Pleasant Grove
Z. V. Lincoln County
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POPULIST VIEWS.
He Is interviewed Regarding Various
Matters Of General Interest.

ABERDEEN, S. D., March 22.-United
States Senator Kyle was visited at his new
headquarters yesterday and asked about
various matters engrossing public atten-
ton.
VIVA is your opinion of the new silver
party, and how will it effect the political
parties of today and particularly the Peo-
pies party?" was the first question.
The new silver party is the offspring
of the Bimetallic league" replied Mr.. Kyle,
and is supported chiefly by disaffected
silver Republicans. Silver Democrats will
not join forces with them at the present,
but will organize to control the next Dem
ocratic national convention. In the event
of failure they will desert. The Peoples
party has been the only party to come out
honestly and Enthusiastically in favor of free
coinage of silver, and it will be there in
1896, ready to welcome all who may wish
to join it. Peoples party men will not be
drawn off by an organization based on a
single issue. In my judgment, both the
dominant parties will find their ranks deci-
mated in 1885,"
Senator, will you tell how and wherein
the two dominant parties of today differ?"
only on the question Of the tariff, and
on this question the Republicans are rap
idly approaching a tariff for revenue. On
the money question the party leaders of
both parties are a unit. Both declare for
gold as against silver; both are in favor
of increasing the national debt, and both
want the paper money of the country is
sued by bank corporations"
From what you say, then, one is led to
believe that you are not satisfied with the
business of the last congress and the posi-
ton Cleveland has taken upon various
matterS?'
we are not satisfied, as we failed to get
through some very important measures in
the interest of the people. But we are
satisfied in that the money kings were
blocked at every turn. They came down
upon us like harpics, determined to destroy
the g~reenback circulation and enact a law
for the issue of $500, 100000 of bonds. They
also expected to pass the Pacific funding
bill and the railroad pooling bill. Il think
they left Washington much wiser for their
experience. The people still have a little
to say in matters of legislation. The presi-
dent has interested himself especially in
the proposed gold bond issue and in this
he has very few sympathizers."
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March u.

The Wisconsin assembly tables the anti
pass bill.
Delaware's senatorial deadlock is nearly
broken.
A colored woman is lynched by mob in
Tennessee.
Wilkin county is after a portion of Otter
Tail county.
Gen. Phillip st. George Cooke dies at
Detroit, Mich.
Ralph Wilkes the famous stallion, worth
$75,00 is dead.
England schemes to secure control of the
Nicaragua canal.
More wreckage of the Spanish cruiser
Regente is found.
Gen. Adam Badeau, who was on Gen.
Grants staff, is dead.
Ex-senator Fair is said to have had a
mania for writing wills.
The Renville county seat contest is de-
cided in favor of Olivia.
South Dakota's state fair is located at
Sioux Falls for six years.
A number of men are killed in an explo-
sion in a Wyoming mine.
Thirty-five men are indicted for partici-
pating in the New Orleans riot.
If Minister Thurston is not recalled he
will be presented with his passports.
Capt Crossman of the Allianca, resents
an insinuation made by President Cleve-
land.
The whisky trust secures absolute control
of the spirit output of the United States.
Pat Grove, the notorious bandit, we'll
known in Wisconsin and Iowa, shoots a
Denver detective.
A dynamite explosion on the Rhine in
the Netherlands kills a number of people.
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BIG BARGAINS IN Tea

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Best %uncolored Japan Tea Stiff
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Best uncolored Jagan Tea Stiff
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Best uncOlored Japan Tea Dust,
per lb..;....;.::....::......... .os
Fine uncolored Japan Tea, worth
35c) per 20
Finest English Breakfast Tea, lib. 80
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fession he should pursue, disliking the
idea OF farming, and certainly that did
not seem what Enos was made for.
His mother had hoped that he would
have liking for preaching and study
theology. 81 should like Enos to be a
dominic" she had said, and Enos himself
was thinking of the law, when runaway
accident occurred, and it came to pass
that Enos saved Miss Adelaide Percivals
life ut the risk of his own. Mr.. Percival,
in his gratitude, had offered Enos a posi-
tion in the bank of which he was presi-
dent, and since then the young man had
been made cashier wonderful thing for
so young a man as Enos. Edward Perez
val had become his friend and had been
brought home to visit and fell in Ave with
Mahala-so he vowed-at first sight. And,
ali, how fond she was of him!
81 think it is because father and mother
are such good people that the Lord has
blessed their children" said Mahala to
herself, smiling gently as she gazed to-
ward the roofs of her native village, now
visible in the distance.
"Alumbridger' shrieked the brake
man. 1t was the popular pronunciation of
cells and stepped out upon the platform.
Her trunk stood there but she saw no
wagon waiting for her.
SIS the train early, Mr.. Doble?" she
asked the baggage master.
"No, Miss Mahaly,' he replied; "the
train is a little late. Your wagon is yonder
under the trees" Mahala hurried across the
intervening space. A girls voice came to
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alive. Optimism Is thousand times pref
cradle to pessimism. 1t is to be doubted
if any one is thoroughly pessimist or
can be. To think that we owe something
to others, to causes that we have not Great
ed, saves us from selfishness, the deepest
vice of humanity. Thankfulness Is the
most fertile source Of altruism, the spring
by which the world is to be redeemed, and
altruism is growing steadily. We may not
need special day to return thanks. All
days should be thanksgiving days. They
keep our hearts warm anS tender and sem
sitive to the sufferings of@our kind.
JUNIUs HENRI BROWNE.
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you've TOLD HER, LEFTY" HE SAID.
other women know it as well as men do
that their own personality strews their
way with flowers of courtesy. Mahala's
face was, in that sense, her fortune.
She had taught in public school for
several years. not from necessity, but in
that commendable spirit of independence
common to the daughters of New England
families. But that was done with now.
She had resigned her position and was 60
ing home not only to spend Thanksgiving,
but to begin the preparations for her we'd
ding.
The course of true love had run smooth
ly in her case. Nobody objected to her
choice; there was nothing but good feel
ing all around.
"No one could fail to like Edward Per-
cival or my own people. My own people
are so NICE" she said to herself. 81 am so
proud of father, so fond of my darling
mother, and Enos, oh, my splendid broth
er! Sometimes 1 think he is dearest of
them all. And the brightest, best, sweet
est little girl in the world is sister Lefty
It ought to be enough for any girl to have
such home people, and besides that am
engaged to marry man like Edward Per-
cival. What happy girl I am! What a
happy girl!'
Soon she fell to dwelling on the perfec-
lions of her future husband and retracing
the chain of incidents that led to their &C
quaintance. 1t came about thus:
Two or three years previous her brother
was asking himself what business or pro-
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men who felt themselves called upon to
expound the Scriptures. They considered
it their bounden duty to be mercilessly
logical, whether or not they offended rea-
son or shocked humanity. 1t mattered not
if they portrayed the Deity as monster.
He was what he was; what the eternal
word declared him to be. There could be
no palliation of the word. If God ap-
peared pitiless, cruel, malignant, he was
really just, good, compassionate, and they,
in their narrowness and bigotry, labored
to reconcile those glazing contradictions.
Thank nature and common sense this so
called religion, the most depraved form of
theology, has long since grown obsolete.
Its existence at any time seems to the last
quarter of the century altogether impossi-
BILE. During the last so years, the whole
educated world, the western world espe-
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ligiously and gained favor socially. Peo-
pie who feel that they should give thanks
to any supernal power may not recognize
any one day more than another for so do
ing, and consequently may refrain from
observing any special day. Whatever the
cause, Thanksgiving has lost much of its
popular hold so far as ecclesiastic cere-
mony is concerned. But as a day for the
reunion of kindred, near or remote at
bountiful dinner it is highly revered, and
the beautiful custom more and more wide
ly followed. New England has been called
the brain, sometimes tie conscience Of the
republic. 1t has certainly done good deal
toward settling the land. New Englanders
have immigrated all over the land.
The custom is SO human, so benevolent,
so attractive that descendants of the Dutch,
Germans, Huguenots, Scotch-Irish and
other races that have also peopled the re-
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IN BLACK AND WHITE
THANKSGIVING STORY BY MARY KYLE
DALLAS.

[Copy 1895, by American Press Associa-
tion.
"All aboard!" shouted the brakemen,
taking the cry up one after the other and
making something like the chorus of a
glee of it. "All aboardp'
Everybody plunged into the cars as
though the end of the world had come and
this were the last train to heaven.
Last of all very lovely girl with her
arms full of parcels and her hands occu-
pied with the inevitable travelling bag and
umbrella was lifted, pulled, pushed and
otherwise assisted to the platform of the
already moving car.
AS she entered three young men sprang
up at once, as does "Jack in the box, !"
and she had but to choose her seat, with a
"Thank you" and smile, distributed to
all three, and the one who was favored by
the acceptance of his proffer was envied
by the others. There are girls so sweet
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prayer, is now OBJ
served, 1 think,
by every denomi-
nation, services
being held in the
morning in all the
churches. These
services are much
less attended, how
ever, than they
formerly were, be-
cause the day has
recently lost favor
theologically or re-
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public have 1m1-
tated the New
England example
and found enjoy
ment and strength
and fresh inspira-
ton in it.
In New Eng
land in the early
days religion was
mostly theologic,
theologic pure and
simple, a thing of
entire faith, or aD-
solute dogma, the
vigorous interpre-
tation of certain
intensely earnest
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grave, forgive my poor, prodigal son Enos
as 1 forgive him. were the old man. s
words. Then he opened his eyes.
Enos stood before him in the doorway,
and as he stepped into the room remarked:
Father, that was a powerful prayer,
and it seems to have been felt so by the
family, but I must ask, respectfully and
reverently Of course, how came to need
so much praying for and crying over? I'm
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spirit of charity has strengthened and ex-
banded until every class and every individ
ual, however alien or humble, is now in
cluded. We are beginning at last to rec
ognize that mankind is but one vast hui
man family; that vice and crime arise
from stress of circumstances rather than
from malevolence or deliberate choice;
that people are not so wicked as they are
unfortunate and need cheering, sympathy,
development.
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cially, has grown
less and less theo-
logical and more
and more reli-
gious. We see this
continually on ev-
cry side. Greed is
no longer fixed
and binding. The
sense of duty to
our fellows, the
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have cause for
gratitude a n d
thankfulness. No
matter, if we do
overrate ourselves
ever so much.
Overrating helps
us in the battle Of
existence; affords
US strength and
confidence. Van
ity is almost as
great a sustainer
as hope, which
keeps all of us
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Arthur Arnould, the French ittera-
teur and formerly member of the COM
mune, is dead. He was born April z,
1888. He was the author of a number
of works, including one entitled 'The
French Revolution"