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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
THE INSTINCT TO GRAB.

When you train up race in the
work of appropriating the fruits of
the industry Of others, inside the law,
sooner or later some of the member rs
thereof will grab all they can lay their
hands on outside the law.
This has been recently illustrated
in the case Of a Mrs. w. NJ. Castle of
San Francisco, Cal, who has been ar
rested in London for shop-lifting.
Her husband and herself are million
aires, nevertheless the woman could
not resist the temptation to steal.
Some two or three thousand dollars
worth Of goods, Of all kinds, were
found in her rooms. Her husband and
herself are out under $l5O,OOO bail. All
the money class of London. from the
Rothschilds down, interested them
selves in their behalf. The case will
probably be settled and she will es-
cape punishment. The la VS. are never
severe on millionaires.
There is moral in this shocking
story.
II Castle aud his wife had taken ten
times $3.50 from their fellow men,
tenths of mankind would have bowed
humbly before the successful
thievery. But when the greed be-
comes SO reckless as to run full in the
face of the laws made to restrain low
and vulgar criminals, then they must
be punis hed-not for stealing, but for
stealing in so degrading fashion.
Keep within the laws and you can
draw all the teeth out of the heads OF
your victims; but purloin ten cent
pocket handkerchief, outside the law,
and you become disreputable, dirty
criminal.
The distinctions Of society must be
preserved.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
A WORD OF WARNING.
LOOK OUT FOR THE LAST
WEEK,
The Only Hope the Republicans
Have for Success Is Deception
and Bribery.

The voters of the United States
must be prepared for Republican
falsehoods which will be sprung from
now until election. That party has
with few exceptions the great news
papers Of the United States, which
will readily print any kind of a false
hood which may be desired to deceive
the people. For example: They will
claim Ohio by one hundred the usand
majority, they will claim Illinois by
nifty or sixty thousand majority, they
Will claim Nebraska, they will claim
kentucky; in fact they will claim
everything in sight and these false
claims will be heralded to the people
from every aveLuc which their wide
circulating Journal will reach. The
object will be to show to the people
that there is no silver sentiment: that
the silver ''craze is dead, and that
there is perfectly overwhelming
avalanche in favor Of Mckinley. The
Bryan supporters will be in a large
measure unable to counteract these
statements for the reason that the
great papers, with the exception of
few in New York, Philadelphia, Gin
cinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, San
Francisco, and New Orleans. are most
ly all purchased by the Republican
party and stand ready to father and
spread the most ridiculous kinds Of
misrepresentation for the purpose of
deceiving the people and dishearten-
ing the silver forces. Our duty is for
everyone to consider himself as
specially delegated to work all the
harder on account Of these misrepre-
sensations, to counterfeit them and
show to the uniformed people that
these stories are lies, circulated for
the purpose of deceiying and that the
only hope the Republicans have for
success is deception and bribery. We
have no idea that they are going to
win with either or both, but absolute
ly know as nearly as can be known Of
anything in the future, that Mr..
Bryan will be triumphantly elected,
but every patriot should take this
matter to heart and work.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
Il POWERFUL LETTER.

That southern Minnesota Populist
hero,-Thomas J. Meighen, of Fill
more county,-has sent the editor Of
The Irish World the following ringing
and singing letter, every line Of
which sounds like the crack Of rifle
shot. 1t was printed first in the Office
OF the National Republican. OF Pres
ton, Mimi, an able paper, edited by
that gallant old hero of two wars,
Major Hotchiss. He gives us whack
now and then but he cannot prevent
US from being his friend until the
grave-dust comes between us.
Mr.. Patrick Ford, Editor Irish World.
Dear Sir:-I have been a subscriber
to and reader of the Irish World for
twenty years. Many years ago you
sent out group picture which con-
tanned, in addition to yourself, the
then editorial staff of the Irish World,
all at that time advocating the green
back theory in finance. This 1 had
framed and the same has been hang
ing in my room ever since.
Through my efforts you had quite
list Of subscribers at this country Of
flee in those days, all OF whom, except
myself and uncle, dropped you when
you espoused the cause Of plutocracY
as represented by the Republican par
ty in 1884 and 1883. / continued a
subscriber to Irish World, but / con-
TESS, have not read it very closely of
late years as l had lost all interest in
it. This summer however, after the
nomination OF Mckinley on a gold
plutocratic platform, your paper con-
tanned some articles from the pen of
Prof. Thompson and also several edito-
rails which smacked somewhat of the
old time flavor, and l was much
pleased as l felt that the Irish World
was again to espouSe the cause Of peO-
pie. But imagine my disappoin tment
few weeks later when you came out
in favor of Mckinley and gold. and all
the misery and hell which the success
of that policy implies! l did not
blame you so much for fighting the
Democratic party, as represented by
Cleveland and directed by England in
1888. But think of it! The Irish
World" God save the mark, now swal-
lowing itself! Fighting not against,
but with England, to fasten the gold
standard permanently upon this coun-
try and the world!
In your issue OF Oct. 3, in a leading
editorial, you belittle and degrade
yourself to the lowest level of petit
fcgying, himble-rigging politicians in
var base efforts to aid the enemies of
mankind.
Your paper has rendered the Irish
great service in the past, but that does
not privilege you to destroy them and
all others at this time.
Send me bill for amount due you on
subscriptions and discontinue your
paper. Thomas J. Meighen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
LIND DEPENDED.
A SHALLOW ATTACK.

81 ALLOW ATTACK.
HON. IGNATICS DONNELLY:
l herewith enclose a clipping from
last weeks issue Of 'Zum brUta News
which explains itself. This article
has caused quite Il stir, and If not re-
futed or properly explained, it will be
made strong punt against the hon
eSty OF our guuernatOrial candidate.
IL unable to explain. please commit
to John Lind. Yours truly,
ZumbrOta, MINI.
Our correspondent sends us an eX-
tract from the Zumbrota News, the
object of which is to show that Mr..
Lind voted for free-silver on June 5,
1880, provided that the bullion value
Of 37l.25 grains OF pure silver (the
mount of pure silver in dollar.
was worth, at that time, 81 in the
market. The editor charges Mr.. Lind
with being hostile to silver. He does
not sec that if 37l.25 grains of silver
was worth one dollar at the minis it
would be worth one dollar in open mar
ket: for no one would sell it for less in
the market than he could get for it at
the mint.
This is another of the PlutOcratic
bugaboos.
But even if Mr.. Lind had opposed
free silver in 1890 that is no reason
why he should oppose it in 1896.
Tue man who is incapable of receiv-
ing new idea is six years ought to
have his brains removed and the
cavity filled with oatmeal mush. 1t
would be a good idea to commence on
the editor of the Zumbrota News. 1t
would result in great improvement
In the editorial columns of the paper
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
MORE LIES.
The following appeared in a recent
number of Fargo paper:
preserved

The following appeared in a recent
number of Fargo paper:
Wage Garner: was in the Repub-
lican torchlight procession last even
ing, contributing my mite to the
cause OF the grand old party that
pledges itself to the working man "an
honest dollar and a chance to earn it
by honest labor" At the same time
Ignatius Donnelly was over in Moor
head shouting free silver, and trying
to delude the laborers into the belief
that the unholy cause of the silver
mine trust would be source Of i'm
mediate relief to all wage earners.
What spectacle it must have been,
from such man as Donnelly.
worked five days and a half on Don
nelly's farm in Stevens county, for
which l was to receive 81. SO per day.
haven't got it yet, and there isn't any
apparent prospects that l ever will.
Yet Donnelly passes as friend to the
labOring class. Let him follow the
old maxim-"charity begins at home"
and pay me the 1925 he owes me
and then I'll have more faith in his
professed interest in the welfare of
the wage-earner.
We have only to say that "wage-
Garner" is an unmitigated liar. We
never heard of his claim. II he has
any let him sue. We will promise not
to plead the statute of limitations;
and our granaries are full to bursting
with grain, so that he will have nc
trouble in collecting his claim IL 1t ie
just one. No man living in Fargo
or anywhere else has ever presented
an unpaid bill to us for $8.25, in the
past twenty years. Why will scoun.
drels lie that way? Who is ''wage.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
THANKS,

We have received clubs from the
following: F. G. Dickey, Seattle,
Wash; w. S. Arritt, Howard Lake,
Mimi; A. n. Christensen, Taopi,
Mimi; j. Nelson, Homestead, n. D.;
Geo. W. Greene, Anoka, Mimi; ]. D.
Kilgore, Wintersville. OHIO; S. r.
Durea. Woburn, Mass: T. r. St. John,
Billings, Mont; J. P. Simons, Forest
Lake, Mimi; D. Fitzgerald. Mime
apolis, Mimi; J. E. Ferte, Living.
stone, Mont; H. w. Magnus, Stanch-
field, Mimi; w. Merlin, Willow City.
n. D.; T. T: Julseth, Kenyon, Mimi.
S. Ellis, Glencoe, Ohio; A. Nesbit,
Ballaire. Ohio; L. c. Tabor, Madison
Lake, Mimi; J. f. Lynch, ST. Croix,
Wis; A. G. Barrett, Holdings Ford,
Num-; M. f. Wood. West Concord,
Mimi: J. w. Shaw, Excelsior, Wis. and
others. 1t is impossible to thank
each one individually, and so we take
this method to thank you all. II we
had 5000 such Jealous workers, we
could convert the world.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
UNFAIR.

Ignatius Donnelly's REPRESENTA-
TIVE does not treat its daily Pop con-
tempOrarieS with that courtesy which
should obtain among fellow fighters
in the same cause when he boastingly
remarks:
Remember that THE REPRESENT
TAT1vE is the only Populist paper in
the state with general circulation. :"
The circulation of these daily allies
must be general; it can't be very par
acknowledgements Tribune.
What we meant was that the Penny
Press does not claim to be Populist
paper, but a free silver advocate.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

tally, and to pay them hereafter in
deprecated dollars worth only So
cents each.
This is foul lie. Mr.. Bryan never
wrote or uttered anything Of the
kind. You might just as we'll quote
a defence Of human slavery and pre-
tend that 1t was taken from one of
Abraham Lincoln's messages to the
American Congress-. The Review is
usually fair paper, and it is support
ing Mr.. Bryan. Either some person in
its employment has practiced fraud
on it, or a Mckinley speech lay on the
same composing stone with Mr..
Bryan's letter and some fool mixed
those babies up"
We call upon the editor of the Re-
view for an explanation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

tic class. until they can reach the
shops and buy the necessaries of life.
II they buy a shin-bone OF beef, to
make soup, they are again The capital
istic class to the extent OF the value
Of the shin-bone; but as soon as the
soup is digested they fall again into
the ranks Of the commonality.
Such arguments are the veriest
trash. You might just as we'll say
there is neither night or day,-be-
cause the twilight is every thing; and
broadens into a shade more OF light
at noon and of less at midnight.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
THAT'S RIGHT.

Mrs. Bryan surprised 1.-THE generals
by hanging a beautifully-draped pic
ture Of McKinly over her porch as the
procession filed by. 1t was a delicate
compliment, and 1.-THE generals" admit
it. 1t proves also that the next lady
OF the White House will be a broad
minded woman, of whom the nation
will feel proud.-Denver Road.
What a contrast does this afford
with the ''hoodlums" Of Yale College,
who drowned Mr.. Bryan's voice with
their lunatic outcries. and when those
failed called in brass band to finish
the job.
1t Is easy to see who are the "anar-
chiStS."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
l CITY THAT PAYS IT'S CITI-
ZENS.

If enc should suggest that a city
should pay its citizens instead of citi-
zens paying taxes to keep up the city,
you would consider him a ripe sub.
ject for the insane asylum, wouldn' t
you? Yet there is Just such strange
and crazy city on the earth. K9nigs-
dorf, Germany, city about as large
as Kansas City is such place. 1t
owns its street cars, water works, gas,
telephones, ETC., and this pays all the
city expenses. Adjoining the city
was a very shallow lake of several
thousand acres, and as sanitary con-
dition it was drained. AS the lake
was public property, unlike the
American plan of selling it to horde
of capitalists to get still richer off the
unfortunate people who wanted to
use it, the city kept title to it and
every year sells the use of it to the
highest bidders and vast rentals are
thus obtained that go into the public
treasury that would otherwise have
gone into private pockets. So every
year the city declares dividends to it's
citizens. How heathenish the people
there are as compared with the
American idea OF paying to keep up
the city!!-Appeal Reason.
What blessed day it will be when
the people own all the street car lines
and the railroads and use the surplus
revenues derived the from to pay all
the expenses of government.
For instance:-it cost $4,000 mile
to build and equip Tom Lowry's street
car lines in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
but they are bonded and stocked for
$50, 900 a mile! II five cent fares pay
running expenses and the interest on
$50, 900 a mile the half-a-cent mile
would pay the running expenses and
interest on $4,000 a mile, leaving a
cents miIe, }; or call it 4
cents mile.t t, go into the
public treasury, to pay the expenses
of the government. The same prin-
ciple could be applied to the regular
railroads. jn
Think Of all land and personal prop
erty taxes being abolished; the court
houses turned into high-schools; the
county officers sent home to 60 to
work; and the bribery OF the people by
officials brought9; to an end. The
voters will all be- Honest when there is
no one to buy them.
But it will be'asked:-how can the
people obtain sqEh reform?
l. Put the Peoples Party in power,
in state and nation.
2. Increase the membership of the
Supreme Court Of the United States,
by the appointment of judges who
will rule that ia essential To liher tv
that one generation shall not bind an
other; and that the law-making DOW
er is supreme.
+ 3. II the corporations will not sell
out the roads for actual cost then
build new roads and put down rates
until the old frauds are driven out of
existence and the bleeding Of the peo-
pie stopped.
| 4. Then restore former rates and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
4 LOCAL MATTER,

A Dakota county friend informs US
that Mr.. w. II. DeKay, Of Hastings.
the candidate of the Peoples Party in
that county, for County Attorney. has
declined to take out his certificate
and will not therefore be candidate;
and he expresses the hope that all
Populists will vote for Mr.. Millett. the
Democratic candidate. Mr.. Millett is
a pleasant, amiable, Intelligent gen.
tleman and we'll read in his profession
and will proba bly, be elected.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
OUR SPECIAL EDITIONS.

We shall reproduce in this issue and
the next some Of the best articles
from former issues Of The REPREsEN-
to thousands OF new subscribers to
whom these articles will be valuable
and novel; and will do more good than
those we could write in the hurry and
confusion of the campaign.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
CURIOUS.

Mr.. Bryan. during his recent visit to
Minnesota, spoke in the highest terms
of Hon. John Lind, and Hon. Charles
A. Towne. candidate for Congress in
the Sixth district. But he made three
speeches in the Fifth district and had
not a word to say for S. M. Owen.
What's the matter? Where is Dob
byn? Mr.. Bryan is strong advocate
of the Initiative and Referendum. Is
that the reason he Was silent about
the honest patriot of Minneapolis?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
COM E AGAIN.

Allen G.. Sexton and Judge David
Cochran. both of Wright county, paid
The REPRESENTATIVE a pleasant
visit last week. We are always glad
to see the two old war horses from
Wright. Judge Cochran reports that
Lind will sweep the county by about
four or five hundred majority and
Chas. A. Towne will carry it by about
one hundred and fifty or two hundred.
Mckinley and Bryan will come in neck
and neck, with the chances little in
favor Of Bryan. In view of the fact
that Wright county has always been
strongly Republican, usually seven or
eight hundred majority; it must be
admitted that the Reformers there
have been doing grand work.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

but such utterapces as the first above
quoted show theildesperation Of the
men we are contending with. Rather
than give up their unjust advantages
they would plunge the country into
civil war and bling on the Empire.
1t is time theyWere curbed at the
ballot box. IT the are not they will
soon be too strong for any such peace
full inStrumentAli6y.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
MEXICO.

Read the report on page one. Of J..
NJ. Hawthorne, Of st. Paul. Mimi.
sent to Mexico to spy out the land by
the recent Free-Silver convention in
St. Louis. We know Mr.. Hawthorne
we'll. He is an honest and able man
and a reader of THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE. Under these circumstances his
statements can be depended upon in
every Particular.
He reports wheat worth $3.50 per
bushel in Mexico!
What do our poor devils of farmers,
who are selling their wheat to-day for
40 to so cents per bushel. think of
that? II a farmer in Mexico owed
81, 900 secured by mortgage on his
farm, and farmer in Minnesota was
in the same fix, which would have the
best show to save a home for his chill
dren?
What are all theories OF finance
good for in the face OF such ques-
tiono
What have all the wars and migra-
lions been fol, since the time OF julius
Caesar, and for ten thousand years be-
fore that date? To secure land The
swarms of Germans who, 1900 year
ago, with their families in covered
wagons, encountered the great Roman
general. as they were invading what is
now northern Italy, told him they did
not want to make war or hurt any
one, but they wanted land-land-
home! That is what brought us or our
ancestors from Europe. Home! The
dearest spot on earth. Land-sheiter,
food for wife and little ones.
Here are two theories Of govern
ment. One secures the home to the
owner and keeps the wife and chill
dren out of the poor house. The 9TH
err drives them off the land and turns
the property over to some idle devil
for Cne-fourth its value;-Some
work on it. never built a house, or
fence, or dug we'll, or planted tree,
or raised bushel Of grain.
Which is best? A condition which
gives the farmer 81. 80 for his wheat or
. a condition which gives him SO cents
for it? Which do you think you ought
to vote for? ~,
or course if you owned mortgage
on a Mexican's farm, and wanted to
get the farm for lone-fourth what it
was worth, you would be glad to see
the Mexican's grain worth but so
cents per bushel, nsted of $3.50: and
if you could do this by making the
Mexican dollar worth four times what
it is worth, you could establish a
daily paper, and get the Mexican to
subscribe for it; and give him hun
dred excellent and conclusive reasons
why the changeshould be made; and if
he was fool enough to vote to helpyou
along in your scheme he would de-
serve to die of starvation. That is
the way God disposes of the fools.
Darwin called it s'the survival of the
fittest." 1t might be called the pres
ervation of the higher standard of the
human race, by the elimination Of the
idiots.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

For Governor, JOHN LIND. Brown
county.
For Lieutenant Governor, j. NJ.
BOWLER, Renyille county.
Secretary of State, JULIUS J. Helm
RICH, Hennepin county.
State Treasurer. ALEX MCKINN ON,
Polk county.
Attorney General, JOHN A. kEYEs,
St. Louis county.
Presidential E!ectors-T. j. NEIGH
EN-, WILSON BORsT, ii. H. BONNIE
WELL, JOHN II. IVES, JOHN DAY
SMITH. SYLVESTER KELLIHER, CHAs.
D'AUTREMENT HANS b. BJORGE,
JAMES DILLON
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
WAGE-EARNERS THE CREDITOR
CLASS.

Mr.. Bryan is very apt to rail at the
creditor class. He fOrgets that the
largest class Of creditors in this coun-
try Is the class OF wage-earners. Un-
der free silver these wages would be
worth half what they are now. II
there were great imitation of the
currency the prices would 20 up rapid
~; wages might after while 70 up a
little, but they would go up very slow
~, and never as high as prices. Many
of the arguments of our foes are diff.
cult to meet, simply because they are
so absurd that it is hard to speak pa
tiently about them.
This is all nonsense. The wage
earners, we are told are the creditor
class. Yes; until they are pad their
cages; then they become the capitals
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

pay all taxes out OF them. Then the
man who is too poor to travel would
pay no taxes; while those who are
rich enough to travel would pay the
same rates they do now; but the
money would go to the enrichme Mt of
the whole people not of few "sharp-
ers0
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
WE ASK PARDON.

of this issu The editor, Mr.. Don
nelly, is speaking almost every night,
and making long journeys almost
every day.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
SPECIAL NOTICE.

No person has any right to Incur or
create any obligation, binding on the
Representatives Publishing Company, or
make any contract in Its name. unless the
same Is specifically assented to and APP
proved of, in writing, by the President
Of the said Representative" Publishing
Company. lGNATIUS DONNELLY,
President.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

The rest Of the campaign will be
red-hot. but victory for the people
over Plutocracy is near at hand.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

First DiStrict-P. FITZPATRICK.
Second Dis A. DAY.
Third DiStrici-H. J. PECK.
Fourth DISTRICT. II. CLARKE.
Sixth DiStrict-CHAS. A. TOWNE.
Seventh District-E. E. LOMMEN.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

Mr.. Bryan will be elected president.
Put that down as certain.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21

Editor Representative.
After scarcely two days notice, at
43O p. m. on the 10th inst, VIM. J.
Bryan arrived at Litchfeld, and spoke
to large enthusiastic audience as
sembled at the depot to hear him. In
spite Of rainy weather and muddy
roads, more than 5000 people were
estimated by good authority to have
been present. Among all these not a
bankers face was to be seen anywhere
at the depot or on the streets that
afternoon. At the end Of about ten
minutes speaking he (Bryan) boarded
the train a midst "cheers" and thur
rahs for Bryan" There is no doubt,
Meeker county is going for Bryan, and
the Republican officials admit it re-
luctantly and with much seriousness.
-NelS. A. Draxton.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-21
For President

For President
WILLIAM j. BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice President
THOMAS e. WATSON,
oil Georgia.