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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
CAPTURE THE COAL.
7. Y. Commonwealth

N. Y. Commonwealth:
1t has been very properly suggested
that the national government, acting
under provision of the Sherman law OF
1890, should seize the coal that is be-
ing transported from Pennsylvania to
New York by railroads which have form
ed an illegal combination to control the
trade. Monopolists have become so bold
ly defiant that severe measures are nee
essary to defeat them. By trickery and
cunning, INSCRIPTIONS lawyers are able to
delay court proceedings, while profits
from the combinations defray the ex
penses of securing injunctions and ad
journments But if the attorney general
were to direct that coal pro-
duced and transported by an il
legal agreement should be seized
while in transit =, the issue would be
brought to test at once. With train
loads of coal sidetracked and in the
hands of the United States marshals, the
combine" would be only too willing to
come to terms as speedily as possible.
The claim Of the parties to the COM
bination that it is simply IAN agreement
among gentlemen, not formed according
to the rules of binding contract" is per-
fectly absurd. If there was conspiracy
involving treason against the govern
ment, and proof of it's existence was OBJ
tanned, the officials would not think for
moment of looking for a written pledge,
but the conspirators would be summarily
tried and shot Neither should the at
torney general hesitate as to his action
toward these coal conspirators.
Prices of coal have been advanced and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
A GREAT FRAUD.
PACIFIC RAILROADS FUNDING BILL,

PACIFIC RAILROADS FUNDING BILL
1t is needless to measure words in deal
ing with this bill. 1t is simply bill
to legalize an already completed robbery
of the public to the amount Of more than
$120,O00,O0O, and to make possible and
safe an additional swindle amounting to
two-thirds as much.
Two railroads, the Union Pacific and
the Central Pacific, owe the United States
government 14,000,000. The greater
part OF this money was received by the
corporations in the shape of bonds of
the United States, on which the nation
is now paying interest The government
for its part has received neither interest
nor principal on it's debt This funding
bill, so precipitately reported by COM
mittee of doubtful legality, and which so
commends itself to the lawmakers that
distinguished senators resort to petty
falSehOod rather than antagOnize 1t, is
intended to renew this debt for fifty years
at two per cent, and then release the
debtors from all liability on payment Of
barely one and half per cent per an
mum more. 1t is bill for the spoliation
of the American people.
If these railroads had been honestly
built and had failed to make money,
Americans would look with resignation
upon the loss to the government But
the money that the government loses
goes into the pockets of mere handful
of robbers and swindlers, who differ from
the Burden thieves partly in the size of
their peculations, partly in the fact that
they keep servants instead of servins,
but not at all in the lack of honesty These
men robbed the roads wF11le building
them; they wrecked them as their own
ers; they Systematically planned to de-
fraud the government by keeping the
valuable portions of the roads, terminals,
feeders, ferries, bridges ETC., in their own
control and free from the government
mortgage. They have become enormously
wealthy. Though the Union Pacific be in
the hands of receivers, they do not suffer;
though the government should seize it,
they will still roll in wealth. The fund
ing bill, in behalf of which they are ex-
erting every resource of the politician
and corruptionist, will multiply their
wealth. It's defeat will leave them rich
beyond the dream of ordinary avarice
from the fruits of their already accom-
plished thefts.
Instead Of planning the passage of a
bill for the enrichment Of robbers. the
congress of these United States should
direct the attorney general of the United
States to take steps to send such male
factors to felon's cell.-N. Y. Journal.
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ed Until there Copy Every the Nation Trial Subscriptions Three Months Cts

honest and industrious men, whether in the
east or west, are the same. Let the me-
mechanic and the farmer cooperate and
stretch hands across the Mississippi. Let
us take the pitchfork and the hammer as
our emblems, and form political party of
our own.
For the sake Of the union and the meu
who died to save it; for the sake of social
peace and patriotism, we must speak the
sternest words, in spite of prejudice and
self-conceit. If there had been an aboli-
ton church in Richmond in 1858, and its
warnings had been heard, when it cried
Beware of the north, perhaps the civil war
might have been averted."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
SCARED!
The Oregon ElectiOn-Its Effect in
WASHINGTON.

The Oregon ElectiOn-Its Effect in
Washington.
The Chicago mes-Herald, goldbug,
publishes the following:
Washington, June 3.-Joy is written on
the faces of the Populists in congress and
their allies within the Democratic and Re-
publican parties The Oregon election, in
their modest opinion, settles the next presi-
dental contest in favor of silver monomet-
allism and reputation.
Among the Republicans who were fright
ened at the result in Oregon and who i'm
mediately began talking about bimetallism,
was Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire
He said:
The election of the supreme court judge
showed that there is a natural Republican
majority in Oregon. The returns also in
dicate that Senator Mitchell will be re-
elected. 1 see no reason to fear that we
will lose Oregon in the November election
I take it that the Republican platform will
declare for bimetallism, to be secured by
international agreement or otherwise. On
that platform there will be no danger of
losing Oregon and other Western states. If,
however, the convention declares for the
single gold standard there may be some
doubt of the result on the question.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina, said
The result in Oregon is bound to please
all who put financial reform ahead of party
allegiance. 1t also shows that the Popu-
lists cannot be ignored in this fight. While
it is true that the Populsts in Oregon were
aided materially by silver men from both
the other parties, still they had to fight the
candidates from both the other parties. In
the coming national election, if necessary,
they will fight all the parties. But we
ought to join hands on the issue this fall
and put prejudice aside. have no doubt
that when the full returns are received they
will show that both the Populist candidates
have been elected to congress from Oregon.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
THE HIGHEST OFFICE.
(TOm Watson's Paper.)


Let seasons come and 20, let the sun
light and the shadow fall where Gods
good pleasure puts them,-do your duty
as conscience and reason reveals it TO
you.
Let no other man measure your work.
or your responsibilities let no artful
sophistry, in favor Of the expedient veil
from your steadfast eyes the SUBMITS of
Right.
Let parties rise and fall; let time serv-
ers flop and founder; let the needless
praise Of the hour lay it's withering gar
lands at the feet Of him who will buy by
bending to every passing breeze, every
popular whim. every local prejudice.
do thou look higher--if strength and
peace and pride are to be thine.
In this brief life, (hardly worth the
living know this one thing: that a mans
honor should be as dear to him as wO-
mans virtue is to her.
Did the Roman girls not go gladly ito
the lions,"-tO a bloody death in the
arena-rather than to recant their Chris
tian faith, or to accept lawless lover?
Did not the American woman, only the
other day, leap down to death over a
precipice, rather than to opostatize or to
be violated?
Isne the ground still wet with the life
drops of poor Elsie Kroegler who let
her white throat be gashed and gashed
and gashed, by the black devil who as
sailed her, till her life was gone, rather
than to live dishonored?
And shall man be less heroic than a
woman?
Is there nothing within us that cannot
be bought? Is there no Holy of Holes Of
conviction and principle, into which the
corruptor shall not enter?
Is there nothing that we hold sacred as
the citadel of proud, fearless, upright
manhood?
Once upon time, a barbarian peasant
worked his way upward and onward,
until he wore the imperial purple Of
Rome: and he said, Il have gained all
the honors, and none of them have
value
Did not Caesar himself grow sick at
heart of the eminence he had wickedly
won, and say that he had lived long
enough?
If one must bow to what is wrong, fiat
ter what we despise, preach what we dis
believe, deny what we feel to be true, is
success so won anything but gilded dis
honor?
To be man: such man as you know
God would have you be-manly, truth
full, honest-scornfng meanness, hating
lies, loathing deceit, doing the plain du-
ties of life and shirking none of its plain
responsibilities, is not that the highest
Office you can fill? T. E. w.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

the poor miners have been forced from
colleries at a time of year when they can
i'll afford to bear such hardship. The
Sherman law was enacted to prevent Just
such agreements as the combine" in
question, whether verbally between "gen-
tlemen" God save the markD or by writ
ten contract. This enactment has never
yet been tried in case of any real i'm
portnace. Now is the opportunity to test
it, and to teach these greedy, heartless
plutocrats lesson they will not forget in
a hurry.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
Tn New York moor men are arrested

In New York poor men are arrested
for walking about on the earth, being
unable to fly. with no money, and balls
and chain attached to their legs and
pnt to breaking stone for the drive
ways for rich robbers who Doodle pub
lie officials. 1t is ten to one that the
men who made the orders and the
men who enforce it are rank criminals
-bribers Of voters, connivers at tilch-
ing the public treasury, visitors to
houses OF low degree, &c. But they
are the law Don't waste any tears
about the horrors of Siberian mines
and manacles Just as bad right
here, and just as brutal officials as
any of the grizzly Cossacks. Liberty
in this country? Yes, for rich crimi-
nails and their supporters. Crime goes
in silk hats and silk skirts, honesty
goes in poverty and gets ball and
chain as present. Such is the beau
ties of voting the old party tickets
Appeal to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

.vsRs as @ RsSQ q y s,,:ss
state, county and, township. ana SO.
goo. 900 more annually Of interest on
''watered stock" Of RAILROADS; usurious .
rates on borrowed money; and throuTh
the stealings OF elevator, wheat, lurn-
Der, cattle and other rings. What do
the people get for it all? Nothing.
What are they going to do about III
Speak and act.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

part. They were engaged in King Will
Jams wars, and Queen Anne's, even in
their infancy. They conquered Arcadia,
even in the last century for us; and we
then gave it up. Again, in Queen Anne's
war, they conquered Nova Scotia, which
from that time has always belonged to
Great Britain. They have been engaged
in more than one expedition to Canada.
ever foremost to partake of honor and
danger with the mother country.
"Well, sir what have we done for
them? Have we conquered the country
for them from the Indians? Have we
cleared it? Have we drained it? Have
we made it habitable? What have we
done for them? l believe precisely moth
ing at all, but just keeping watch and
ward over their trade, that they should
receive nothing but from themselves at
our own price.
Look at the preamble of the act of
navigation, and every American act, and
see if the interest of this country Is not
the avowed object. If they make a hat
or a piece of steel, an act of parliament
calls it nuisance; a fitting hammer, a
steel furnace, must be abated in America
as nuisance Sir, speak from facts. l
call your books of statutes and journals
to witness. With the least recollection,
every one must acknowledge the truth of
these facts" Walsh, PIP. 1889.
That is truthful British testimony as to
tyranny, inflicted on a loyal, patriotic,
liberty-loving, and unoffending people.
The mother country ruled by the aris-
tocrats descended from the days of Will
lam the Conquerer, claimed the right to
"bind the colonists in all cases whatsO-
ever" with no liberty of thought or ac-
tion on our part.
While everything has been done
through the press, on the stage, and by
legal prohibition to prevent the volun-
teer migration of the worthy people of the
British Islands to America, and to that
end thew never cease to ScandallZe this
country and our people who were already
here. vet. on the other hand, America
was made 'penal colony" as dumping
ground for all the scoundrelism of the
"mother country" Justin Mccarthy, in
his History of our Times" (vol. 8, p. 29)
says
s'Transportation as means OF getting
rid of part of our criminal population,
dates form the time of Charles H., when
the Judges gave power for the removal of
offenders to the North American colo
MES"
Innumerable convicts were sent into
Virginia and other colonies, also paupers
and other burdensome classes, until the
revolt of the colonies made it necessary to
send the British convicts to other places.
But I need not mention the details of
the colonial grievances. They are given
most truthfully in that immortal docu
ment known as ''The Declaration of AM
erican independence" which should be
learned by rote, by every American pat
riot The design of the British crown
was to establish an absolute tyranny
over these states. The colonies were
patient and bore every grievance with
fortitude until absolute war was levied
and our people were shot down by British
troops as rebe.s against the king.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

If Cuba had placed her gold bonds
as donation in the hands Of the New
York money power and Cevelands S
old law partner. she would have been
recognized and aided long ago. Wall
street is the real ruler OF the United
States, and whatever it says goes. If
it owned the bonds it would declare
war against Spain tomorrow to make
the bonds secure. Cuba might as we'll
be bonded to Spain as to Wall strete,
though.-Appeal to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

Cooperative monopoly is dead against
the initiative and referendum.-Typo-
graphical Journal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-07

y 10 ~ points, bu, reacted and declined 1 10 ~
points, ciosing barely steady. In Manchester cloths
were firm; in yarns there was not much doing. The
port receipts to-day were B,569 bales against 1887 last
week. 4,is9 last year, and S,oet In iseAi thus far this
week 2o,42o, againstl9o, 800 thus far last week. spot
cotton here was unchanged, with sales OF HS0 for spin
ming, and / 400 delivered on contract. Mobile advanced
Nc. New Orleans sold 5000, Augusta 1855, Norfolk
t2s, Mobile quo. and 81. Louis 1903 bales Augusta
received 9O5 bales. against % last week and 100 last
year; Memphis 1865, against iAs last week and 1879
last year; 81. Louis %. against s2s last week and $40
last yearj Cincinnati 70s. against 1904 last week and
AIS last years Houston $40, against 1917 last week
and i07 last year. Memphis shipped 2,9ii bales, sc.
Louis 300. and Houston 1919 bales. Houston ex.
poets tomorrow 200 to 800 bales, against 400 last
year. New Orleans expects l,700 20 1900, against
1907 last week, 2.9oe last year. and 767 In 1894 The
utt,rn tradton .-a. n b. foiIoya,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-07

Al the broadway Heal Estate SalcsrOom Yesterday
Nlllhm NJ. Ryan sold, executors sale. southwrst
corner o. First avenue and Eleventh street, four,
STORY hrlck tenement, lot 90. 1KBI, to &, rhibIn for
Sn y 10, s "a , y ! % FIRST syennes four story tcne,
Si2 hast Eleventh street, ttvestory tenement, lot
%. loHbb 4 70 handclbaum & Levine for S2O, 900;
SSnG3m me pWijalS lot lnsSsAv, 10 II, hlIts Tor 81 $50; also
ment, lot 3oX0S.3, 10 James McCIenahanf for S2S 600
James !. Wells sold, executor sale. northeast cor.
ner 81 Grand and Mangln streets, three.story brick
a. slIin lg iq{ 26DT1o, e. Nicholas Gerdes for s23, 700.
sterlam avenue, l9.ll feet north OF iGlst street
0oxlOo, 60 = j, Halligan for $1,000, The prop
M . on kdngsbIiige road xl@9. lxs2Vxl50. With
TWO stprS frame buildings. 10 Robert j. saul for eI2-
300, Also liSth street, neRr Louis avenue, two lots
each %oHl9e. 20 the same buyer for S2. 90 each.
refer 7, Meyer a Go. offered 215 lots In the twenty.
ttoHrth ward. located on high tcrraced ground on
SedRwlck avenue, !li1th street, and on UndsrcIlnp
Montgomery, aud Popham avenues hrtNeen / i'm
ana l1'th streets, one hundred and seventy lots
were sold at an average OF about 81 200 n Iot ma
a later date at auction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-07
Live stock

NEW YORK. Wednesday, May o Receipts of beeves
rectt to local slaughterers, and 30 cars for the market;
under a good Inquiry. but prices a shade lower on
Nothing was uusoll AT tho close. Poorest to best ma.
So,oTados at g 80: oxen and stays at 81, 60GS 10;
peer nrm at os ,b4c: 2 n. for poor to prime native sides
at ehsl lu'ec. - ~, dressed weight; American refrig.
Sllc. . n, dressed weight. Export. today, 557
morrow, 700 beeves.
Receipts of caves. ali for the market. were S.sI7
head: 1857 head on sale. all told. Market opened
quiet, closing very duh Mt u decline from MONDAY OF
&c. en-. About 900 head were carried over. Glo~-
ing sales or poor TO choice vcalS were at S3nSI.25 q
lWO MS; n bllhch or buttermilk calves brought 81. 10.
Dressed calves quiet: city dressed vcals, So 5ac = n.
kecelpts OF aheep and lambs, all for the marker,
were 3td1 head; 22 cars on sale, all told. Desirable
medium weight offerings were in generally good de-
nand at firm prices; heavy stock ruled extremely
dull at FORMER figures, The pens were cleared with the
exception OF liz cars, inferior unshorn sheep soil at
sJ;3ON 2 100 MS. inferior to choice clipped do. Mt 81. so
@Si 10; Inferior to fair unshorn lambs at 81 i2lp,9
$40 common TO choice clipped do. at $4gS s.. 20;
southern spring lambs at sag "a So each: State do.
lambs, St9slOc.
Receipts OF hogs were IO,v58 head. including 100
mead on sale. Market quot. with inferior 10 goua State
Q$I2O.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-07

May @,

Tho w!thdre walls OF gold coin from the Sub
Treasury to-day were Sc. $780, 900. OF which all
but 100000 will be shipped to Germany to-
morrow. The amount last named was with
drawn by a firm of bullion brokers. 1t is under
stood that with to-mOrrow's shipment tho last
order from Berlin for gold has been filled: but
there Is no certainty that 1t will not be followed
by another order In the near future. II It Is not,
the prospects are that no specie will be ex-
ported on Saturday. The current rates for
exchange do not warrant shipments, %particu-
larly rs the steamship companies have ad-
vanced their freight rates on specie lac OF l
y cent, to 5-32. The Withdrawals of gold from
the Sub-Treasury, together with reports that
either Congress or the Executive were about to
take action relative to the Cuban situation dis
tasteful to Spain, gayo Il fresh impetus to the
selling movement on the Stock Exchange. The
selling, however. was almost entirely by pro.
fessional operators. the majority Of whom are
room traders. There was nothing approaching
liquidation in tho ordinary sense OF the term.
In addition to the closing out OF speculative
ventures on the long side there was sons selling
for short account.
In the last hour advices from Washington
that there were no developments in the Cuban
situation and that the Lower House had voted
to adjourn on May Is caused q moderate rally
In the entire list. IL was most pronounced In
Sugar Refining, which was first In respect to ac-
tiyity. The market as a whole was a little more
active than yesterday, the total transactions
being nearly a third larger. The increase was
made up almost entirely by more extensive trad
ing in sugar Refining, st. Paul, American To-
baccO, and Louisville and Nashville. In spite OF
the late rally, nnal prices were, As . rule. below
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-07
MRS. STETSON'S FUNERAL.
The Body Brought Hero from Boston and
Placed In n Vault Mt woodlnwn.

Funeral services over the remains Of Mrs.
Kate Stokes Stetson. widow OF the late John
Stetson, were held at the Little Church Around
the Corner yesterday afternoon. The Rev. DR..
Houghton oflciated. The body arrived In this
city from Boston at $3.50 yesterday afternoon.
and with It in a special car came the mother,
Mrs. Emma Stokes; Mrs. Emma Stokes Pilling.
Mrs. Belle Stokes Insley. Mrs. Ella Stokes
Doris, John b. Doris, and Spencer Doris.
The service was a simple one. and at its con-
clusion the body was taken to Woodlawn Gem
etery and placed in n receiving vault. Later It
will be inferred in the Stokes plot In the same
cemetery. There were q number Of floral offer
ings. among them a pillow from Nine. Pillar
NORM. Among those present at the services
were: A. NJ. Palmer. Marcus Mayer. William
Dunlevy. Adolph j. Jantsen. Alexander Com
stock, James Thornton, Edward Gilmore.
Charles Schroeder. Charles g.. Craig. Gustave
Kerber. Mabella Boher. Signor Perugini, Addte
Cora Reed. Charles Schaeffer. Col. T. Aston
Brown, Dor8 Davidson. Ramic Austin, Louisa
EldridGe. Leonqra Bradley. Marie Bates, Miller
Kent. Dorothy tsner, Henry G.. Jarrett, Estelle
Edward Stokes. and NJ. j. Butler.
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Court Calendars This Day.

Appellate Division-supremo Court-No.. 90, 80,
go, 81, 10.
supreme Court-speoial Term-Part I.-Motlon
calendar called at II A. NJ. Part lI,-EK.parte mat.
tcrs. Fart IlI.-Clcar. Motions, Demurrers-Nos.
l73, lb3. Preferred causes-Nos. g5TI, 8O99,
ami ~fact-Nos. ll96. 1858, 2lV2. giO5, 1857. Fart
V.--Cas@ unfinished. Cases from PARTLY. Part VI
Case unfinished. Cases from Part IL. Pnrt WI
Case unfinished, Elevated railroad cases. Part Viii,
Adjourned for the term, Trial Term-Part IL
Clear. Preferred causes-Nus, 1899, b25l, B43s,
1904, 77Os, Iel3, 1887, ,sl54, 74+5, 1888. 7972,,
500, Tsgo, 5000. 55bs. Part m:-Case unfinished.
Adjourned until Monday. May Is, 1890. Part v.
Clear. Cases from Part III. Part N.-CIear.
Cases from Fart III, Fart vu.-Case unfinished.
Nos, !iVj, 1863, llds, Is2, 2J37, 234s, 235S,
SllO. gags, sio5, 1911, l0i0. 100, 2lgG, I54O.
fart Nlli,-Caso unfinished. Cases from Fart VII.
N;-stse unnniahed,, Cases from Part VII. Part
Al.-NhJournet until Monday, May Is, 1898.
SuTrOglte's Court Trial Term, Wills OF Charles
J. Golden, Sophie kleuer, Evan Lewis mo u, Evan
Lewis NO, ~, at 10 80 A. NJ. Estate OF smith I'm.
iauts) 81, 1880 Am. Chambers-Wnl OF Robert
Caroline N, Hayes, Jeanette Kassel, A. W, Kent
John Harris, Charlotte 4, Adams at 1880 A, Mi
John Dunn, Catharlne Butler at g y. NJ. '
city Court-SpeclRl Term-MotlOns. Trial Term
Part l.-Clear. Nos. lO4s, s7S, 100, los. iinN
S0s4h, lOg2, 800, $40, 425e, lll2, 4iO0.' 4yl8'
1897, 42l0, 422i. 1874, 1870. 1870. 1871, 1875
1879 1850 1881 1857 1888, 1854, 1855. 1859,
loss, 1859. 1000, l00s, 685. ii87. sB8VL. iiYSS'
ll72, ll77, 800. Part m.-Clear. NOS iJ56'
A25s. 500, 1919, Part R.-GIear. short oauses
Nos 4Os2, 40SS, $500, AAOt, GAO3, Sl02' aIis.
AsS3. A5AS. AAsl. Al05. '