The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-14
WHAT OUR EXCHANGES SAY.

Blessed is he who wants but little,
for he shall be satisfedrunless he Is =
Voice. 81
The Rothschilds oHn more than one
billion six hundred millions Of the
gold of the world. Is it any wonder
that they are Interested in keeping it
the only standard OF value In this
country as we'll as Eqrope.-Owatonna
Gazette.
The postal system is not monopoly
and it issues no watered stock, neither
does it go into the hands Of receiver.
Then why not try government in the
operation OF railroads Southern Mer-
curry.
Wherever millionaires are found
there also will be found tramps. and
the more millieaaires the more
tramps. For every million man &C.
Quires, or rather steals. thousand
tramps are created and turned upon
the world to be scoffed at by those who
possess the hard-earned dollars that
he has produced, and the same
wealth builds prisons for his incarcer-
alton because he's vagabond in the
sight OF plutocracy.-St. Louis Jour
nal.
The tories OF 1776 were the wealthy
men, the bankers and the snObs who
aped the English aristocracy. "There
were very few respectable people pres
ent IN the court house yard Ia Phila-
delphia. O. July 4, 1776, when the Dec
laration Of Independence was read"
says the respectable late Charles Bid
die, who was present on that occasion,
In his autobiography. That class did
not favor independence. 1t is the
class that Is always on the tory side
in 1896 just as in 1776-kanSas Ian
tern.
There are only six countries in the
world where the telegraph lines are
private property, viz: Bolivia, Cyprus,
Honduras, Cuba. Hawaii and the
United States, yet government owner
ship is ridiculed as one of the wild va
carries of Pnpulism. Will the voters
turn the matter over in wat they are
pleased to call their minds?-Civic Re-
view.
Wages in Australia are 25 per cent
higher than in this country, and
through the federal operation of rail-
roads three miles can be travelled by a
workingman for one cent. The United
States, though, could never thrive un-
der such 'paternalism" as that. 1t
would feather the peoples nests.-St.
Louis Journal.
II you are Popuiist you are an
Anne rican, ii not, you are in league
with foreigners. Come into the Peo-
pies party and be naturalized, and
help drive the tories from the control
of our national affairs.-Shoals lind. J.,
Referendum.
The battle for human rights is be-
tween the laboring millions and the
organized pirates whor thrive by col
lecting interest on what they owe
Peoples Tribune, Vassar, Mich.
Which is better, money good in Yu-
rup, with idleness, want and starva-
tion, or an American money for Amer
leans, with work, plenty and happi-
ness?-Current Voice.
Labor builds houses and lives out of
doors. Labor feeds the world and goes
hungry. Labor makes the clothes and
wears rags. Labor builds the fires and
shivers In the cold. Labor builds COL
leges and remains ia ignorance. The
laborer supports and defends the gov
ernment and is oppressed by it.-Ref-
erendum, Shoals. Ind.
The Labor Record says "St. Joseph
will send a car load of convicts to the
Jefferson City penitentiary." Wonder
how man bank emhezzlers there were
in the carload?-Railway Times.
There can be no argument used
against the ownership and operation
of railroads by the government that
can not also be applied to the postal
service.-Fargo Commonwealth.
History relates that the laboring
men, or plebs Of Rome, Disguised with
working for the patricians and get
ting only scanty subsistence, with
drew from the city and camped out
side. They made great mistake;
they should have driven out the pa
tric;ans as useles drones; that would
have settled the whole buSiness.-Ref-
erendum, Shoals, Ind.
Tyranny is just as sure to be over
thrown in this country as that God
implanted the love Of liberty in the
human heart and watered it with the
blood of our fathers. Whether it may
be done without the shed ding Of blood
depends more upon graSping plutOcra-
cy than upon the people. -ArkanSaS
Kicker.
We rise to ask what it is that is
driving gold out Of the country? Two
years ago it was the coinage OF silver.
but now we have no such thing Co
Operator.
II any man would transact his pri-
vate business after the manner in
which our servants conduct our pub
lie business he would be considered a
lunatic.-Fargo Commonwealth.
Finance is the one burning issue,
but the transportation and land cor
porations will strangle the nation un-
less themselves MISUNDERSTANDING
Currently dice.
The political cyclone is coming this
fall as sure as fate. TO your tents, oh
Israel! Get on the Lords side, for
the wrath of the people is great and
their vengeance will shake the foun-
dations Of tocracy.-Southern Mer-
curry.
What Carlisle cunningly styled a
"popular'' loan is bowling farce.
Cleveland and his secretary are play
ing the people for 'chumps" and polk
ing fun at them, by fixing it so the
bankers get tle bonds and the people
foot the bills.-People's Tribune,
Vassar, Mich. ftt
Sherman and all his kind are work
ing men-they work the public treas
ury for all it is worth Nashville Cur
rant Voice. 7, ~
The second case oha father killing
his entire family is reported from Chi
oo-n n 70 .Eoh D1,fao