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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
10 PAY NO TAXES.
THE FREE LAND THEORY OF THE Gov
ERNOR-ELEC OF THE STATE OF

THE FREE LAND THEORY OF THE GOV
ERNOR-ELECr OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON.
Tacoma, WASH, Dec. 14.--Gov.-
Elect Rogers has issued copyrighted
pamphlet containing about 1900
words, and entitled Free Land" A
copy has been sent to the embers of
the Legislature which meets next
month. He takes the position that
free land is can inalienable, impre-
scriptable and indestructible" right
of man, and draws lessons from the
freedom and enjoyment OF the Puyal-
lup reservation Indians, which he
able and untaXable hOmeSteadS. His
position is supported by quotations
from Emerson, n ,erSOll and Seneca.
In conclusion, he proposes an
amendment to the state constitution,
providing that the real estate and all
usual improvements, to value of not
to exceed $500, occupied as home
stead by any private family, the head
of which is a citizen of the United
States and this state, shall be forever
exempted from all taxation of every
kind.
The exemption is limited to home
steads The pamphlet says that the
amount excepted by this scheme
would not exceed L. per cent Of the
entire valuation. lie said such plan
enacted into law will prevent Chat
fatal clash Of the classes otherwise in
evitable." The pamphlet concludes:
County government should be abol-
is he'd or reduced to the mereSt Skelc-
ton OF what it now is. Townships
and municipal government can attend
to local affairs; let the state be called
in where necessary"
This is the scheme we have been
advocating for years past.
The producers should pay no taxes
on their homes. It is enough that
they give the state the fruits of their
productive power. Let those who pro-
duce nothing-the great transporta-
tion companies, the street railroads,
the capitalized wealth,-bear the bur-
dens Of supporting local and state
government. Let the drones support
the hiYe while the working bees gath
er the honey.
Instead Of "single tax" levied on
homes, the homes should pay no taxes;
and the great monopolies should pay
the 'single tax"
In this state the three per cent tax
on the gross earnings OF railroads will,
in twenty years, pay all the taxes Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
w. e. KIDD,

From the Prison to the State
House. mas another striking illustra-
tion. This time in S. Dakota. W. E.
Kidd. editor OF the Ruralist, at a ber-
deem, was sentenced TO the county Jail
over u year ago for exposing the cor
ruptiUn OF the governor of the state.
His home people have just sent him
up to Pierre as their rcprese ntative in
the Legislature. Prison bars are no
longer disgrace. People now look at
the offensc that is alleged and Judge
the judge NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ist.
Mr.. Kidd is an able and honest man,
and we rejoice in his success. He used
to be partner Of our beloved frie nd,
DR.. e. w. Fish, but he soon found the
DR.. out and "shook him. and he
shook him so hard that the Doctor
fell down in York state, and was
buried SO deep in oblivion that we
don't really know now whether he is
alive or dead, and it don't make much
difference to mankind either way.
But it seems like dream to think
how the Doctor rampaged over this
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
THE POOR MONEELENDERS.

ST. Luke's church, St. Paul, gave a
charity ball the other night. The good
people full of visions of cturity-of
food for the hungry and fuel for the
shiverng- out Loyalty, despite
the hard times, and the ball netted
81, 5000. The next day the ladies paid
the ,rIole sun, ou3r to q money-leader for IN
terest on their debts.
The empty-bellies and the bare
backs could wait, but Shylock has to
have his pound of flesh. cut from the
sympa thetic heart OF generous pee
pie.
Everything goes into the usurer's
pot.
Was the charity bail simply device
of the money-lender to collect his in
terest?
We unders tand St. Luke has tele-
phoned from heaven to take his name
from the church. He suggest Saint
Barabbas.
Wendell Phillips said IF this re-
public takes it's place alongside its
predecessors which have fallen, no
usurper will betray, but gold will buy
it's leaders and cheat the people into
chains"
Precisely. And they are basing the
progress and business OF mankind up-
on yellow metal which is decreasing
every year, relatively to the growth in
trade and population OF the world;
while the demand for it in the arts
and for purposes of vanity and luxury,
is steadily increasing. The wcrld
needs $250,0C0,O00 of new gold every
year, to hold the former relations nip
to the numbers of the people, while,
according to the statements of the
highest experts Of Europe. they get
now. for money, not TO exceed fifty
millions a year. And every dollar of
this decrease is panied by the
howls and groans of a wretched people
who do not know what it is has put
them into the hell in which they are
now tortured. And those who should
teach them the truth, (the daily
press), is the most efficient force to de-
ccive and enSlavc them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
CONFIDENCE AND COFFINS.

And now comes the news over the
wires that the Evansville, Ind, coffin
works have resumed with force of so
men, says the Vandalia Leader. The
dispatch states that this industrial
enterprise had been PROSTATE for
some time, but now that Mckinley
was elected, the outlook for the coffin
business looks bright and the busy
hum Of the cCffin factory wheels will
be heard. Doubtless lack "of conf
dence" in the future prevented many
from dying, causing this factory to
shut down during the campaign, but
now confidence is restored, and hun
dreds who have been practically dead
for several months past and only
walking about to save funeral expen-
SeS, can now admit their demise and
furnish market for the Evansville
prOduct.-Ex.
This is all well enough, but there is
another and stronger reason, TO- wit:
there has been a decided increase in
the number of suicides since McKin-
ley was elected, and this has made an
increased demand for collins.
And confidence" is restored. A
man can hang himself now with the
full assurance that hell can't be any
worse than the United States under
plutocratic rule.
Let the good work 60 on.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
SIGNIFICANT.
The Chicago Times Herald has this
to saw.

i 4 Il
to say:
An interesting and surprising fact
will be found by anyone who cares 10
take the trouble to analyZe the re-
turns Of the recent election. Not
outstanding the immense increase
in The total vote of the country, ag-
gregating nearly 100000 votes. and
the almost perfect fusion formed be-
tween the Populists and the Demo-
Gratis throughout the union, the num-
Der OF votes cast for Bryan is not as
large as that cast for Mr.. Cleveland
and General Weaver together four
years ago. According to the figures
which appear to be the latest and
most trustworthy, 6,35S, O87 votes we're
cast for Bryan and Sewall and 152, $50
for Bryan and Watson. If We give
Bryan credit for the latter his total
is 6.5l8.O37. -Four years ago the num-
Der OF votes cast for Mr.. Cleveland
and General Weaver together was g.
597 ,946, or plurality Of nearly $1,000
in favor of the opposition parties Of
four years ago. bi
Walter Wellman.
The explanations Of this is simple
enough: Cleveland received millions
of votes that would not have been
cast for Weaver; ana Weaver had a
million votes that could not have
been induced, under any circum-
stances, to support Cleveland. When
we forced a DIRECT, and complete
union. this year., of Populists and
Democrats, a vast number OF both ele-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

tween the two candidates. There
isn't much consolation In this for
those who favor the election of a
president by direct vote of the peo-
pie. Plutocracy would undoubtedly
favor the proposition. Plutocracy is
strong in centers where ignorance
and poverty 60 hand in hand and
money can appeal to both with favor
able results:-BrocktoH Diamond.
In other words, where the people are
in something Of condition Of our
predecessors, in 1776. there Plutocracy
is the weakest. In regions where the
people have Appropriated more close
ly to Europe conditions, there the
Money-power is all powerful.
Shall liberty destroy oppression, or
shall oppression swallow libertyo
That is the great question Of the age.
1t will be eventually decided upon the
most tremendous battle field the
world has ever seen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
OUR IDEA EXACTL Y.

TALL MEN LIKE wAsHBURN, GENER-
ALLY sTUPID-sHORT M1N CONCED-
ED TO BE THE CLEvEREsT AND
HEALTHIEST BY DOCTORS.
Our Paris correspondent writes: In
all the stories about giants and
dwarfs the latter are inventive and
enterpriZing and the former heavy
and stupid, says the London Daily
News. The ogre was gloomy canni-
bal for whom little Poucet was too
many. Bunyan brought two giants,
Grim and Despair, into 1.-The Pill
grim's Progress" DIS. Brissuad and
Marie, two authorities on nervous dis
eases, hold by the popular idea about
giants, and justify it on scientific
entails abnormal growth OF the mus
cular and adipose tissues at the ex-
pense of the nervous system. Hence
the low spirits Of phenomcnally tall
persons, or even of very tall persons.
The two doctors in question say
that giants. or persons with immense
hands or feet, are subject to tumorS
on the brain. The healthiest persons
are rather under than above the mid
die height. If a child has very ac-
tive brain it's growth is slow. Fore
ing young brain is at the cost Of a
normal growth. The legs in this case
are stuntcd, but the vascular system
and spine are we'll developed.
Turenne. Louis NV. Voltairc, Ma
poleOn, Timers, GuiZOt, CavOur and
Louis Blanc were small men, but over
topped the generations they belonged
to. Turenne was remarkable for a
long head in preparing his plans; but
the others for self.contidence and high
spirits. The children who come out
best at school examinations in France
are those whose bodies have grown
slowly. Doctors Brissaud and Marie
think the present day tendency to cul-
tivate the brain highly will in some
generations have for consequence
dwarfish stature. Prince Bismarck is
one of the few instances Of very
bright mind being found In very tall
body. The Celts, gay race, have
small feet and hands, and are rarely
very tall.
There have been of course a few
great men who have had long legs
like Charlemange, Washington and
Lincoln, but these exceptions only
prove the rule. The really great men
Of the world are usually about 5 feet
G. inches tall. with brown hair and
blue eyes, inclined to be stout, and
have their offices in the Boston Block,
Minneapolis.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
Il CLEVELAND TREATY.

ONE LAWYER TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO
SELL THE INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE
PEOPLE,
The English government recognizes
the terrible power of this naticn. 1t
sees that war with us would bank
rupt them; while, with our tremen-
dous resources, constituting us a
world in ourself, we could fight for
ever. They realize too that the war
like instincts of the western giant
may boil over at any time, as they did
the other day in the Venezuela affair;
and in that event affairs would pass
out of the control of the banking
class. And so they propose to bottle
us. And SO old Mother Goose, (Cleve-
land,) the platitudinous personitica-
tion of humbuggery. has agreed with
the aristocratic government of Eng
land, that, if any controversies arise
with England during the next five
years, they shall be referred to a
board Of six members, to consist Of
three judges of our Supreme Court
and three judges of Great Britain!
Under this arrangement England
would only have to buy one of our
judges to prevail in the controversy.
And when we remember the course Of
that plutocratic tribunal. when the
other day, it deprived the people of
the right, recognized for eighty years,
to levy tax on the incomes of the
rich, we can easily see that the whole
three judges would be tambling over
each other to get at the pounds, shil-
lings and pence.
The Miss Nancies of both sexes, and
the Sunday-school teachers, and the
Anglo-manacs, who turn up their
trowsers in New York when it rains
in London, and the money-power, and
it's daily papers, will advocate such a
treaty, and it will probably become
law. And so the people will be shorn
of another attribute of iberty:-the
right to enforce their rights by argu-
ments In the first place, and by guns
and cannon in the second place. 1t
will be much simpler to buy up our
agents, trained in the school of els
Atlantic corruption. than to meet TO-
900, 900 enraged people in arms; and so
England will button up her pockets
and grin with delight while she leads
this continental nation around by the
nose. e
But the sentime n talists will roll up
their godly eyes to heaven and howl
for peace. AS if it is any worse to see
men killed on the battlefield fighting
for their rights, than to see them
starve to death, or driven to suicide.
in the midst of peace and plenty,
without any rights.
No man wants to fight forever, but
every man should reserve to himself
the right to fight like the devil when
ever the defence Of his manhood de-
mands it. Peace is very pretty; but
the peoples who have thought more
of peace than Of honor have always
become the bond-slaves, the tribut ary
serfs, of those nations which were
ready to die for their opinions. The de-
cadence of a great race is more ter
rible calamity than the fiercest war.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
GENERAL COXEY.

General Coxey says he has left the
Peoples Party. We don't believe a
word of it. He will Ee at the front
again, with us, when the battle be-
gins. He is one of the bravest and
most energetic men in the country.
He sometimes gets so far ahead he is
out Of sight Of the troops, but he will
halt a little to let US catch up when
the fighting commences.
We must all stand together on the
'Omaha platform. The world is too
full of enemies for us to divide.
Cuss" as much as you please. Gcner-
al, 1--WE do some ourself occasionally
especially when we hear the word
'"Owen'), but touch elbow to elbow
and on with the fight. We would
rather lose a thousand conservatives
than one brave fighter.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

The people Of Saratoga declare that
they saw Il rainbow last Sunday morn
ing. AS there is no record of a rain
bow having appeared in New York in
December this may be considered as
the most direct evidence that Sarato-
ga people do not put water enough in
their toddy.-St. Paul Globe.
The first rainbow We are told an
peared soon after the Flood; and was
Gods bow Of promise that the world
should never again be destroyed by
water The last rainbow is sent to
assure the suffering world that God
will never permit another such old
fraud as Cleveland to become presi-
dent OF the United States.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
4 BIG LOSS.

A wealthy business man and farm
er, and a keen observer, said to US the
other day:
The people of Minnesota are not
getting within from eight to fourteen
cents bushel, what the present
wheat crop is worth"
Look into this, farmers, and let us
have your figures.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

A prominent business man of St..
Paul said, d day or two before the
elections:
"Why, sir, if Bryan is elected l will
have to close up my business"
Bryan was not elected and a month
after the election the said prominent
business man closed up his business
in other words, he ''busted."
MOral:-"the fools are not all dead
yet"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

Bradstreets report of the 2lst says,
that "the anticipated increase of
business has not occurred" 1t fur
ther says, "that the many industrial
enterprises which have been started
up have been over emphasized" The
business failures for last week were
30S-50 more than last week, Is less
than year ago, Ii more than in 1894
and 50 less than in 1893. Where is the
Advance Agent of Prosperity?
He is trying to put $4,000 pegs, (of-
tice-seekers, Unto 100 es,-the num-
Der of offices now in the gift of the
president after that old aristocrat,
Cleveland, has extended the Civil-Ser-
vice system over the rest of them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

virtue may return to him. We may
have another street-car strike in the
Twin-cfties, within the next few
years, and we long to see him, with his
shfrt-tail at half mast, once more
making Demosthenian orations, on
the street corners, in behalf Of the
rights of man. m
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
SPECIAL NOTICE.

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same is specifically assented to and ap-
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President
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

A universal strike among the dock
men Of all the civilized nations of the
world is now threatened,-to be start
ed on given signal. Five hundred
employees of Bremen have struck. The
lightermen of Hamburg demand in
creased wages, or will strike. There
is discomfort among the laboring
classes all over the world. Even
Cleveland's Secretary Of the Interior
sees what is coming. He writes to
gold standard Democratic banquet at
Kansas City, Nov. %, a letter which
created lively sensation. He said:
while l agree with the advocates
of sound money in the fight recently
made, there are many principles advo-
Gated by some of those who have been
advocates Of that cause to which l
cannot subscribe, Ii some legislation
is not enacted to check the growing
influence of wealth aud Giro umscriDe
the powers of the trusts and monop-
olies there will be an uprising of the
people before the century closes which
will endanger our institutions"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
ONE END OR OTHER.

The name Of Cleveland's private car
Is 1.-The Coronet." Usually the coronet
is worn on the head. Cleveland sits
on his. He wants to get it as near his
intellect as possible. He must have
royalty at one end or the other.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23
VERY PLAIN.

McKinley's lead over Bryan in the
popular vote is equal to the MAORI
ties obtained by the fomer in New
England, New York and Pennsylvania.
Outside Of these localities the popular
vote was about evenly divided be-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

The latest estimate of the NeWYork
World is that there are 13S trusts and
monOpolistic combinations in this
country. with an aggregate capitaliza-
tion of 81 ,507. 900, 900.
Ten per cent on a billion and half
dollars would make very neat cam
paign fund to perpetuate the robber-
les of the people. No wonder McKin-
ley was elected.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

The Miesville, Dakota county, MINI.
resolutions and greeting to Hon. VIM.
J. Bryan are going the rounds. The
last paper we saw them in was the
NOncOnformist of Indianapolis, Ind
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-23

We were favored with a pleasant
call from Mr.. G. "A. Dalman, of Min
neOta, Mimi. Mr.. Dalman was the
president Of the MiHneota b metallic
Club, and an active worker in the las
campaign.
The record-union., 1896-08-08
Resolution Of Intention, No. 323.

RESOLVED. THAT 1T IS THE INTEN-
ton of the Board of Trustees of the City of
sacramento to order the following street
work to be done, to wit: That street
IN this city, from the east line Of Front
street to the west line of Second street
and laying streetway of concrete six 90
inches in thickness and with top coating
OF aSphaltum two and One-quarter (2l4)
inches in thickness, grouted rock cutters
nVe (o) feet wide on q concrete foundation
four "a inches in thickness; altering two
t2) old catch basins and where not already
done constructing granite curbing with
round corners at the alley intersections
And notice is hereby given that all per-
sons Directing to said work are required
to file their objections in writing, in the
office of the Clerk of the Board of Trus-
tees, as required by law, stating how much
frontage on said streets is represented by
the party so objecting, and on what street
the property so represented is located.
And the Clerk is hereby directed to post
this resolution conspicuously for two days
near the chamber door of this board; also
"Record-Union" newspaper as required by
law.
The "Record-Union" newspaper is here
by designated as the paper in which to
publish the notices required by law to be
published by the Superintendent of Streets
scribed aforesaid.
In Board of Trustees, Sacramento,
August g. 1896.
Adopted by the following vote: Ayes
Trustees Wachhorst, Kent, Mckay, De-
vine Pennish, Leonard.
Absent-Trustees Davis, Tozer, Bentley.
CHARLES E. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
NJ j. Desmond, Clerk of the Board of
Trustees auS-2t
The record-union., 1896-08-08
OUR CLIMATE.
A n0Ose-Jaw Citizen Who Has the
California Fever.


Director Barwick Of the Weather Ser
vice has been instructed by Professor
Willis L. Moore, Chief of the Weather
Bureau at Washington, D. c., to for
ward to John H. England, Moose Jaw
Postoffice, Northwest Territory all data
in his possession bearing on the climate
Of California, especially of those locali-
ties where oranges are raised.
Mr.. Fingland desires to emigrate from
Moose Jaw, and he wishes to know the
best place to locate for the purpose of
planting orange trees and the cult
walton of other fruit, etc.
Director Barwick has forwarded to
MIR. Fingland's address the Resources
Of California and the Sacramento
County Souvenir" along with numer-
GUS reports of the State Agricultural
Society.
He also informed the gentleman that
oranges can be raised in California
northward from the Mexican line for a
distance of 700 miles, and that latitude
cuts no figure in the climate of this
great State, as places could be found
hundreds of miles north of the Mexican
line where the climate was hotter than
near the southern limits of California
This shows how the United States
Weather Bureau Department is fur
nishing climatic information Of any
portion of the United Staes that may
be called for by people who live either
in or outside of the borders of the
United States of America.
1t is to be hoped that the informa-
ton furnished Mr.. England by our To-
cal officer will induce him to settle in
some portion of California, it matters
not where.