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For the Unemployed.

The following is Henry Clew's re-
commentator to men out of employ
ment:
''Be sure to get to bed early, as a
man overtaken by mis- fortue requires
more rest than at any other time. Be
sure to eat solid food and plenty of it,
as it is necessary to keep up strength.
Look forward and never backward,
and remember the world was created
for all human beings alike, and that it
is capable of providing you living
which will be obtained by working in
the right direction. The biggest for
tunes have grown from small begin
nings; as does the oak grow from
small acorn. Industry, perseverance
and pluck, will cause any man, how
ever great the misfortune which may
have overtaken him, to rise, phoenix
like, from the ashes, and snatch vic
tory out of defeat"
Mr.. Clews forgot to warn these men
to avoid blowing out the gas in their
eagerness to follow his advice as to
early retirement, and also to leave
their valuables with the night clerk
for deposit. He should also have adj
vised them, when travelling, to keep in
the middle of the road and avoid get
ting on the grass; and above all
things, not to create anything in
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
JUST AS WE EXPECTED.
The Disastrous End of Great
Battle.

Mr.. Johns bill changing the usury
laws so that only the interest shall be
forfeited, and that the usurer shall
be subject to criminal punishment,
was passed.-Legislative Report.
The people are being paid for that
$4,000 plurality last fall. This is enc
Of the tallments.
This IS the practical repeal of the Usury
Ian. The money-lenders have trium,
Pied.
What debtor will raise the question
of uSury for the sake of the interest?
He will lose his farm anyhow, if the
principal is exacted, The threatened
forfeiture of the principal has held
back the voracity of thousands, and
restrained them from putting the
poor debtors to the wall. Now there
will be no restraint and the slaughter
will begin.
And what does the criminal prose
cution amount to? Who will prose-
cute? What interest will the debtor
have, after his farm is gone, to prose-
cute the money-lender or his agent?
AAO" Will IL ~ OuU OLC pOOT ulSpOSScu
bankrupt devil to hang around the
county seat for months, with his
family at heavy expense, to put a
bank clerk in prison? And will not
the lnoney-lender be shrewd enough
to lend through a nonresident? Or
to make the loan without witnesses?
And what jury would send man to
prison where oath balanced oath?
Oh it is pitiful! TO see poor people
swindled into electing such Legisla-
ture! With party cries, and hired
stump-speakers, and lies and drums
and trumpets and fire works.
Is there to be no end to this thingo
Or must honest men wash their hands
of the whole busin and give up the
struggle and let the country 90 to
the devil?
No wonder that the Catholics and
the A. P. AS, in Dakota county, we're
united, last fall, and thousands of
dollars spent, to keep us out of the
Legislature, when the Usury law,
which we had introduced, nearly
twenty years ago. was to be wiped out
in that fashion. Alas! And alas!
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DebS Coming.

We are glad to hear that Eugene V.
Debs, the great reform agitator and
president OF the A. r. u, expects soon
to visit Minneapolis and st. Paul. He
has recently been on visit to the Pa
cific coast and has received tremen-
dous reception wherever he appeared.
Mr.. f. X. Holl, of this city, has shown
us private letter from Mr.. Deb's
brother, Terre Haute, Ind. lin which he
says:-"the trip throughout was an
ovation. We closed at Los Angeles to
1000 people and hundreds turned away.
The people say it was the largest gath
ering ever witnessed in this city"
The Railway Times says:
I'm private latter from President
Debs, under date of March Is. written
from Everett, Wash, he mentions
very briefly how he happened to stop
at that place Gas he had made no date
for an address there) as follows:
'"They forcibly took us from the train
at $3.50 last evening. had band car
rlage and torchlight procession, and
at 9:45, without time to wash my face
stood in the presence OF a magnifi-
cent audience of thousand cheering
people. Thousands are cheering all
the hours. early and late! The woods
are swarming with A. r. U. men. The
A. r. u is triumphant"
Private letters say there has been
nothing seen like it since the time of
General Grants return from his trip
around the world.
The meetings at Minneapolis and
st. Paul will doubtless be tremendous
gatherings.
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these hard times of overproduction,
not even a bad impression, as the old
parties have q monopoly OF that.--
Ohio POpulist.
Clews ought to be hung. He has
done his utmost to mislead and ruin
his yellow men.
And observe the Mephistophelian
sarcasm of the foregoing utterances.
The unemployed must 'be sure to eat
solid food and plenty Of it," Where
are the unemployed to get it? How
much soliditY is there in the north
wind or in their soup? And the man
who has no work can "get living by
working in the right direction!" How?
BY stealing?
All we need now is that other Re-
publican saint, Atkinson, who has
been demonstrating that the poor can
live luxuriously on one cent meal!
Oh Lord! Give the people patience.
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speedily relieves her of contact with
him. But this is very different case
from whole sex entering into poll
tics. We all know what a filthy, base,
wretched business it is; and how, too
often,. it degrades men into liars,
thieves, corruptionists and swindlers.
Do we want the child-bearers to go
into that business generally; and the
next generation to be born impregnat-
ed with that kind of influence?
But, above all, it is apparent that
the women Of this country are not pre-
pared for the exercise of the right of
suffrage, and the proof of this is that
they do not ask for it. II they were
all, or even a majority of them, stud
ents of public affairs, and eager to help
the cause of reform. the case would be
different. But every one knows that the
gatherings of average women do not
discuss politics:-they talk about their
babies, their husbands, their house
hold affairs, their clothing; they talk
through the heart about concerns of
the heart. There are, of course,
statesman-like women. - extraordin-
airy wOmen,-Such as Mrs. Emery, Mrs.
Todd or Mrs. Lease;-so there are
women. in the dime museums, with
boards three feet long. But the ex-
ceptions only prove the rule. Women
are not. as rule, bearded; nor are
they as rule politicians or states
men.
If our affairs were free from all dan
ger we might extend the suffrage to
all women as a toy, feather, a graft
fication or something to sell; or, if
you please, as a method of education
in higher thoughts Of government;
but the world is IN tTtremis;-its dan
gers are imminent and overwhelming:
and if this toy and feather are to
prove the very cause of the downfall
OF the human race and the triumph of
despotism, we must hesitate long be-
fore we Grant them
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
SHOCKING.
A Dreadful Mental Condition.

"A DreaQIul Mental NOn0ltlOn.
Every one is familiar with that in
teresting table of statistics, repeat
edlY published, which shows that for
twenty years, ever since silver was
demonetized, there has been a contin-
uous fall in it's price; and that the
great staples of commerce, wheat,
cotton, ETC., have fallen side by side
with silver, until they have reached
their present calamitous figures. Now
read this, from d reject number of the
St. Paul Globe (dem):
"Some statistics of the New York
Produce Exchange give new force toan
old moral. We are still hearing from
many quarters about the decline in
the value of farm products that has
been caused by the characterization of
silver. If they had not that string to
harp upon the free coinage men would
be without music. Now the average
price of mess pork in the New York
market, in paper money, in the year
1872, was $l3.61. For the year 1894 it
was Sab. The average price of corn
in 1879 in the New York market was
4O.8 cents per bushel; for the same
grade ofcorn the average price in 1894
was 500 cents. Here are two great
staples of the country which have act
ually risen in the market in the period
during which silver has been 'demone-
tized, when all prices have gone to
pieces as consequence, according to
free silver authorities. And silver
has fallen 50 per cent in this interval.
Where is the relation? How do these
commodities Of common production
and consumption happen to be con-
spicuous exceptions to the rule alleged
to be UNIVERSAL"
Now the man who wrote this knew
perfectly we'll that the high price of
pork is due to the high price of corn,
for pork is simply corn vitaliZed and
put on legs; and that the high price
of corn was due to continental
drought which put the price of that
staple above wheat in the Chicago
market. And yet see the cunning
with which this DEVILS advocate dis
torts well-known fact to buttress up
robbery of the people.
Language fails to do justice to the
OccaSiop
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A GOOD BILL KILLED.
lust as We EXpected.

ON.SS 80 w - -hPSSSSAs
Senator Hanna made a good fight
for his bill to make the Railroad Com
missioners elective by the people; but
he was beaten by the following vote:
"The roll being called, the bill was
lost by vote of % to "a. Those vot-
ing in the affirmative being Senators
Cronkhite, Greer, Hanna Hanson,
Hits, Jones, Johnson A. G., Knatvold,
Larson, Lloyd Miller, Macarthur, Nc
Hale, Peterson, Potter, Ringdal,
Schaller, Sevatson, Theden, ThOmp-
son, Thorpe, Wing.
Those voting in the negative being
Senators Allen, Barr, Cole, Collester,
Currier, Day, Durham, Fuller, Hodge,
Howard, Morgan, Ozmun, Pottgieser,
Roverud, Sheehan, Smith, Spencer,
Sperry, Stebbins, Stevens, Stockton,
Sweningsen, Wyman, Yale.
Absent and not voting, Senators
Culkin, French, Heneman, Johnson
w. E., Keller, Masterman, Reishus
and Young"
The plea on which the bill was beat
en- was thus voiced by Senator Stevens,
Republicans:
Senator Stevens spoke Of the vi
ciOuS policy of placing such boards
under political influence. He regarded
the commission as one that should be
left to the selection of the executive
Of the state. II the policy of shearing
the executive of his prerogative should
be extended he would be left with
mere auditing power"
This is rich! AS if the election Of
governor was not political matter!
Surely.if the people of Minnesota have
sense enough to elect governor they
have sense enough to elect these rail-
road commissioners. POLITICAL. Think
of George L. Becker kept in office by
Gov. Nelson, running for governor to
help re-elect Nelson, and then being
reappointed by Nelson. In the whole
history Of political trades there is
nothing dirtier than that.
Remember, bretheren, this dead
vault called the Legislature is almost
unanimously Republican,. Can you
bear that in mind until November,
1896. Or are you sheer incapa bles?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
A FREE SILVER CONFERENCE.

"Hamlet With Hamlet Left Out"
There is an old proyerb: "Go away
from home to hear the news"
The Chicago es-Herald of April
Sth, contains the following political
gossip.
st. Paul, April 7.-There will be
free silver convention in Minnesota
during the coming summer or fall. 1t
will most likely be held in tue latter
Part of September or the early days Of
October. Promoters of the idea, the
men who will have the management
of the meeting, are moving quietly
and cautiously. Within a month or
two. however. they will have the plan
the general public. At present the
pronounced silver men in the con-
gressional districts are being consult
ed as to the feasibility and the adj
Visibility of holding such a conven-
ton. 1t is planned on broad lines
and will take in every Democrat and
every Republican who desires to
participate. provided he is an avowed
advocate of free silver,or known to be
favorably disposed toward the white
metal. AS to the Populists, the ques-
tion of admitting them is in this
shape: Ignatius Donnelly asserts that
the party desires to keep the issue
confined to its own ranks for the rea-
son that no other party has
openly declared for free coinage
at the ratio of 16 to l. Hence
the leaders in the movement under
discussion fear to make advances to
the POpulists at present, and they
fear also that to invite Populist CO.
operation in the convention might
have the effect of turning it into a
bear garden sort of an affair that
would greatly detract from the i'm
portance of any declaration that
might be put forth. 1t will be de-
signed purely as popular expression
Of Minnesota sentiment, put forth
sufficiently early to let the controlling
elements of both the Republican and
Democratic parties know the feelings
and possibly the intentions of their
free silver members. Great care will
be taken to make the convention rep
resentative. Among the Republican
members of the convention are likely
T. be Lieutenant Governor Frank A.
Day, George Thompson, editor of the
St. Paul Dispatch, Alden J. Blethen,
editor of the Minneapolis Penny
Press, and State Auditor Dunn.
Among the Democrats expected to
take part are: Ex-Mayor Winston, of
Minneapolis, ex-senator Ladue, OF
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and evoke from the body Of the peo-
pie q renaissance of honesty, and vir-
tue and decency. Is there salt
enough in humanity to save it?
P. S.-Since the above was written
the State Senate of Minnesota has
been actually forced by the uproar and
tumult to exclude the lobbyists. No
body can get in unless they have a
card signed by the President of the
Senate;-but of course he is too good
natured to refuse anyone who applies;
and in little while the Bear Garden
will sound as loudly and smell as
abominably as ever.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
NOTICE!

We desire to say that we will not re-
cognize any payments made to Robert
Eckford for subscriptions or otherwise
given notice to this effect and we now
renewit. 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, BOG Boston Block, Minneapolis,
Minn.," and all checks or postal or
ders must be drawn to the order of
1.-THE REPRESENTATIVE"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
DOCTOR AMES.
The Old War-HOrse to the Front.

Inc Old War-HOrSe to the Front.
The celebrated A. A. Ames, once
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, last week, on his return to
this state from Philadelphia, thus ex-
pressed himself to a reporter of the
St. Paul Call, touching the Democrat
ic party:
'"The party is rotten to the core.
When l was in the East mixed up
with politicians great deal-in fact,
l was right in the political hotbed 1t
was there l got good idea of how
things have been running. The Re-
Publican party, in national sense, is
just about as bad as the Democratic.
There will have to be general smash
ing up of the old parties. The Democ-
racy is so demoralized in the east that
it may be said not to exist. There is
a general tendency all over the coun-
try to break away from party ties, and
the party lash has lost it's influence.
About the rankest political institu-
tiOn ever known in this country is
Tammany, but the good people of New
York are after the tiger and Tam
many is on the run. There is no in
tention upon the part of the business
people in New York city who have in
terested themselves in the extermina-
tion of that organization to let up"
We quote this especially for the con-
tirmation it affords Of our own views,
that "there is general tendency all
over the country to break away from
party ties, and the party lash has lost
it's influence" So mote it be.
The Doctor, we are told is Popu-
list. No wonder-he has been steady
reader of THE REPRESENTATIVES,
and when you conjoin intelligence and
The REPRESENTATIVE the inevitable
result is POpulist.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

A lady subscriber sends us the fol-
lowing clipping to show that we were
In error In copying telegram to the
daily press, that the three lady mem
bers in the Colorado Legislature had
been forced to blush, by discussions on
the age Of consent bill which emptied
the galleries. The clipping is as fol-
lows:
Carrie Clyde Holly, representative
OF Colorado. writes, in answer to an
inquiry about the sensational dis
patches declaring that the woman
members of the legislature, and she in
particular, had been treated with
great discourtesy: Nothing like it
has ever occurred. We have always
been treated with the utmost cour-
JeSy, ana the measures we have pro-
posed nave been received with atten-
tlon. l certainly have not the least
cause for complaint. True, we have
not always agreed, and we vote against
one another according to our convic-
lions. The rate Of interest bill. re-
1erred to, voted against, as incon-
sistent and inefficient. The other
ladies voted for it. l discussed the
principles, as did the others. without
bitterness on either side, and no scene
occurred of any kind. The bill passed
the House, but was defeated in the
Senate, The somewhat famous age
OF consent bill, raising the age to 81
years, which introduced in the house
early In the session, has not yet be-
come law, as the Senate has kept it
back, and tried to smother it In com.
mittee, and has amended it SO that
the age may be reduced to is, with 9th
er alteration, and may even kill it, in
spite of the Republican platform. We
shall soon, see."
This is not as clear or definite as we
should like. The ladies may not have
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
A Lesson to Be Rene mbered.

When the horse cars of Toronto
were run by private corporation, the
company employed 6O4 men, IA hours a
day, at bare subsistence wage. As
soon as the city took the cars it raised
the number of men to 7O7, worked
them only 10 hours day, paid them
higher wages and yet made generous
profit for the people. This was too
much for private corporations to wit
ness, and they intrigued and got the
horse cars again, but only for time.
Exchange.
A great many of the Plutocrats, who
now threaten the safety of free insti-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

If Greenbacks, which are govern
ment promises to pay" are not good,
why should bank notes, which are gov
eminent promises to see paid, be good?
New Orleans Issue.
The answer is plain enough. The
greenbacks are the the peoples money,
of which the people have the free use,
and no tribute is levied On them. Be-
hind every national bank note stands
a bank; and the note cannot get out
of the bank until some one borrows it,
on good security, and agrees to pay in
terest on it. Every bank note in the
world is based on an individual note
bearing interest. A, B and G cannot
get bank notes to carry on their bust
ness until D borrows them Of e. And
of course E don't think, very highly of
greenbacks because he can't collect
interest on them.
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-tutions, obtained their wealth by fore
ing themselves abetween the people
and the people'G work, and fleeing
both. This country has no interest in
the creation nef inillionaires or paup-
ers;-and thei on4 class is the compile
ment OF the other. and both are re-
prOach to civilization.
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their brows and the wag of Satan's
tail in their goateesl' That's gerry
goodl
Aud it is true. A small class OF
idlers Is plundering the multitude, un-
til the people like Cain are ready to
cry out, "our sufferings are greater
than we can bear.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

The Democrotic party carried the
country in 1892, and went to the devil
in 1S94-NeW York Sun.
Yes: and the Republican party car
all going to the devil in 1885,
And the Peoples Party will win in
1896, and the devil will close up sheol
and settle in New York,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
Another High Compliment.

Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, our
distinguished candidate for the presi-
dency in 1892, writes us a private let
ter in which he says:
II wish to congratulate you upon
the publication of a strong, dignified
and versatile 'paper-by all odds the
best in our movement"
Thanks, General. We appreciate
such compliment from such source
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

Auoka Union: Donnelly is develop
ing a prodigious amount of good sense
since he quit politics and assumed the
editors hip Of THE REPRESENTATIVE
Thanks, Brother Pease Here's till
you! May you live long and prosper
''you and your families" You are. a
man OF judgment and good sense, and
your proper place is in the Peoples
PARTY.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

been treated with personal discour-
tesy, and yet they may have been
compelled to listen to arguments of a
nature to bring blush to any modest
woman's cheek. Is it denied that any
such debate took place and that it
emptied the galleries?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

Take the government out OF the
banking business, eh? What? Put
the banks in the government business.
Oshkosh (Wis.) Advocate.
That isn't necessary. They are in it
already. They own both the old par
ties and furnish the campaign funds
for both.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

A toothpick factory is said to have
suspended. So many people are living
on soup that toothpickS are drug on
the market.-Facts and Figures.
True;-but the election of Owen
would have kept money out of the
state! Think of that and suck your
tOOth-pick
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

Our old friend Judge Cough, of the
Chippewa Falls Sentinel, is getting
his Irish up. Hear him:
Go where you will, in the railway
waiting room, on the cars, at the
hotels and the Hobbies Of our legisla-
lures, one hears nothing but the
elaboration Of schemes to raise more
taxes. Those hatchet-faced rascals
with damnation imprinted upon their
brows and the wag of Satan's tail in
their COATES, spend all their time
consulting how to raise more revenue:
as If the people of the United States
are bound to supply funds for every
congressional extravaganza that
members desire to heap into the ap-
propriation bill each session. The
public debt is now piling up at the
rate OF $18,0O0,O0O month, and the
layhawking politicians arc looking
around for something to tax in order
to meet the deficiency. Why do they
not meet it by cutting down expe nses
instead OF raising more taxes?"
That's good! "Hatchet-faced ras-
Gals with damnation imprinted on
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

Labor casts 80 per cent of the votes.
If anybody is to blame for the cond-
lions that exist, labor is.
Don't talk to us about unions" and
"strikes" while "labor" votes as it
dOes.-Denver Road.
Only those are permanently slaves
who are fit to be slaves: and the next
campaign will determine whether the
workingmen of the United States are
worthy of freedom or are instinctly
SerfS.
They are being weighed in the bal
ance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17

A government Of injunctions, by
judges, for the corporations. What
shall we call it, evolution or devilu-
tion?-Caliope.
No; it means pollution for the peo-
pie and dissolution for the govern
ment