The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-29
Z AN APPEAL. \
HELP THE MIA TIVE.
Presses, ETC., and Start a Scandin-
avian Edition.


Did political parties. Men who, two
years ago, would have carried The
out of doors with
the tongs, and deposited it on the
now read it eagerly. This
alone makes it power. We have now
reached circ ulatiOn Of $4,000, which
implies not less than 100000 readers:
for it is everywhere passed from hand
to hand and read and re-read with |
ayidity. We know Of some cases |
where single copy circulates through |
a whole neighborhood. Before the
campaign fairly opens in July we ex-
pect to have $4,000 names on our SUBJ
scription list. When it is remembered
that we started, in 1893, with about
500 subscribers, with a few hundred
dollars, paid in by the Alliances, our
extraordinary growth can be realized.
But we are fighting powerful enc
my:-subtle. dangerous, all-pervading,
omnipresent and as cunning as the
devil.
We have been too poor, heretofore,
to buy printing presses, and conse-
Quently we have had our press-work
done by other newspapers. We can
not afford to get into debt to capital
lists. They might draw the rope around
our neck and shut off our wind at any
time Neither can we afford to 60 on
as we have been doing. Suppose those
having printing presses in Minneapo-
lis and ST. Paul should, in the heat of
the fight, be induced to all unite and
refuse to perform our work;-we would
hang suspended, between heaven and
earth, like Mahomet's coffin,-and the
Peoples Party Of Minnesota would,
for the time, be lost.
Under these circumstances we ap-
peal to all public-spirited Populists,
who can afford it, to send us what
they can spare,-be it one dollar or
one hundred. They can take stock
for the amount, and we believe the
day is not far distant when that stock
will pay a good rate of interest. Or,
if they prefer, they can make the pay
ment as donation.
There are due us from subscribers
somewhere between three and four
thousand d)llors. These are individu
ais whom we had reason to believe
were honest and true men. We did
not cut them off because the times
were hard and they were poor; and we
would not trouble them now but for
the reasons set forth in this article.
WE EARNESTLY ENTREAT EVERY
SUBSCRIBER WHO is IN ARREARS: TO
PAY UP AT ONCE WHAT HE OWES US,
AND, IF POSSIBLE, ONE DOLLAR BE-
SIDES FOR YEAR IN ADVANCE.
For all arrearages, paid within the
next two weeks, We will make dis
count of fifteen cents on the dollar;
or, if collected by third party, we
will allow % per cent discount.
If this is done, all along the line, we
would have probably $1,000 ON HAND.
With that fund we could purchase a
perfecting press, on behalf Of THE
REPRESENTATIVE Publishing Com
pany; we could buy our paper at whole
sale, and at much reduced rates; we
could secure quarters where we would
have our press and type and business
offices all in the same building; and
from that forth we could open up a
cannonade on Plutocracy, whose re.
yerberations would echo all over the
United States and the world. Oul
large subscription lists already OBJ
tanned in the states east, south anC
west, and on the Pacific coast, show
that there is an opening for just sucl
paper as this.
More than that, if we owned oul
| OWn PRESS VIC COUlO Ucfy tetotty oCUit
Scandinavian edition OF The REPREsEN
TATIvE. The press work would cos
US nothing additional, for the press
man would be hired by the month
one man could do the translating; AM
we might even engage type-settine
machine which would reduce the cos
Of that department one-half.
And if we had our own rented build
ing, press, type-setter, paper, ETC., i
would be easy to put forth, during tn
three months before the election,
CAMPAIGN DAILY, with which to tigh
the enemy during the latter part c
the contest-a matter of the utmos
; importance.
Noar friends, all this can be done If thos
l. 1rho oacc as sciN ONLY PAY UP THEIR II
DEFICIENCIES.
Can you not do that much to help olor
the good cause?
Now. bretheren, do not suppose v
have any selfish object in making tn
appeal. We are not a candidate fl
anv Office. and do not intend to