The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-25
SOCIALISM Us. POPULISM.


Mr.. Thomas Lucas, who tried to
raise Beelze hub in the Peoples Party
State Convention of Minnesota, in
1894, by insisting that the sub-treas-
ury plan was to be kept in the plat
form, although the farmers, who were
to be benefited by it, were willing to give
it up, as it was method of relief and
not fundamental principle of ac-
ton; Mr.. Lucas, we say, is now max
ing speeches to the laboring people Of
Minneapolis and urging them to leave
the Peoples Party and go into So
ciaistic party. Thomas knows very
we'll that the Socialists had ticket
in the field, in Minnesota, in 1883, and
it polled about 800 votes in the whole
state. And he knows that the So
cialists have never carried state,
county, city, or township in the
United States. And he further knows
that every labor vote withdrawn from
the Peoples Party and given to So
cialist party, is half vote given to
Rothschilds and Plutocracy; and an
other rivet fastened in the chains
that are making slaves of the people
of the United States.
We do not say that the worthy
| Thomas is the paid agent of the
| horsepower to divide and destroy
| the labor force of this country, but
we do say that, il he acas hired by
| Plutocracy to do its dirty work, he
acOuld take the erdct course he is noaU TAX
ing!
Now this may be only curious
| coincidence. Thomas may be an hon.
est fool instead Of being an intelligent
rogue. Plutocracy may be grinning
at him instead of paying him. They
may be tickled to death to see him
working for them without compensa-
tion; and doing that without money
which they would cheerfully have paid
him money for doing.
But it is another suspicious circum-
stance that the ground on which
Thomas deserts, and seeks to destroy
the Peoples Party, is, that it intends
to throw the Omaha platform over
board, at it's national convention at ST.
Louis, July I'D, AID make the great
battle on the silver plank alone!
How Thomas knows what the Peoples
Party will do, four months from now,
is some thing mo teller can find out"
Only the prescience of God could
fathom that consequence: but it may
be that Thomas is a prophet Of God:
or holds some secret relationship with
the Creator, which is not apparent on
the surface. If this be so, we hope, for
the credit Of the Lord, that Thomas
will keep this matter to himself; for
if it was generally understood that
Tom Lucas was the mouth-piece of
God Almighty the increase Of atheism
would be something tremendous. The
churches would have to shut up shop.
1t is hard enough for a party to be
held responsible for what it has done;
but to oppose it for something it has
not done, but is going to do, or leore IN
done, months from now, is dreadful
condition Of things. Nothing but a
Lucas could desert party for upper
formed crimes yet hidden, unmatched,
iii the womb OF time.
1t looks as if some parties behind
| Tom had said, See here, old fellow,
your usefulness, inside the Peoples
Party, is gonc:-you are found OUT
you are ausgespielt. You must go OUT
side and fight Them
"But how?'' asks Tom: "they have
done nothing but what l previously
supported. How can attack them?"
"Give 'em hill for ,Ullat they are going
to do.'
And so Tom sallies out, and tells
the workmen to denounce the unborn
child, because he knowns, (as
prophet of God,) that it is going to
have squint eye and pug nose and
hump on it's left shoulder. xiii the
mother before she can possibly bring
such monster into the world" cries
Tom. That's the way to reform
mankind! Smash the Peoples Party
because it is advocating the Poop e's
cause, but may-ah there's the rub
it may sell the people out; and there
split up the friends Of Reform
fore the best thing to do is to
and make certain the success of the
elements that have already sold the
people out, and are now striving to
make Serfs of the farmers and slaves
of the mechanics. A certain slavery
is better than a possible liberty" says
Tom
But who is supporting Tom while he
is making this gallant fight for the
impossible? Bread and butter we
must all have. Where does Toms
come from? Is the Lord feeding him
with mama, rs he fed his prophets Of
old? OF cour it must be so, for no
man would dc bold enough to init.
mate that it was the devil
There are Tom Lucases all over the
United States:-tonguey, shallow,
high-faluting, loud-voiced, bawlng,
specious, slippery, cunning sons of Be-
lial. Their game is to keep the work
ing people divided, powerless, en-
shaved, for all time to come. Rather
than work. themselves, they would see
millions of their~brethren consigned
to the pit, and bowling in endless
misery. They have cursed and ar
rested all movements for the eleva-
ton of their class; they have ruined
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