The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
Il TERRIBLE POWER.

The East is rotten to the core. Its
newspapers. with the possible excep.
tion of the New York World are mere
mouth-pieces of the Money power.
They pounce on any man who stands
in their way with fearful abuse:-
they tear him to pieces;-they over.
whelm him with ridicule. The most
ferocious wielders OF pens, dipped in
vitriol and gall,a hired to vociferate
against the unfortunate individual
who takes the part of the people.
They make him so loathsome that his
very wife and chilren are as named of
him, and ready to abandon him. Here
is sample.
New York Sun: Maloney is at it
again. He has Oped his ponderous
and babbling jaws and no man knows
when the draw will be down again.
The periodicity Of Maloney appears to
have something to do with the
changes OF the moon, but neither
Prof. Newcomb nor Prof. Young has
been able to find the exact connection
between the planet and the comet on
wheels. Maloney will lie perdu for
week, sometimes for nearly a week
and half. People in Illinois cease
TO near him whirring, and they begin
10 think that he has lost himself at
last, and they smile again and take
Ihelr meals with genuine appetite.
But pretty soon the moon gets CAV
and the dogs begin to bark. and then
Maloney bursts once more upon world.
He finds a big corporation and de-
ciares it to be trust and brings suit
against it, always with dreadful bang
and reverberatlon. Some people hate
cats and some hate corporations. Cor
poratlons Maloney cannot abide. He
howls, foams, fumes. He screams,
roars. splits. He scratches, tears,
somersaults. The corporation stays.
Maloney goes. but he returns again
when the moon is at the half. At
SUCH a moment an expression Of deep
and unusual enjoyment may be de-
tected on the face OF the Man in the
Moon. He swings his lantern as il he
were trying to flag Maloney. He
swings his bundle of fagots with as
much expenditure Of muscle as if he
were the Hon. Bebe Arson betting
the wind. He grins till the clouds
crackle. Even Cain has to grin when
MalOney comes out and blows at a
trust.
We have to read between the lines
to find out what Maloney's great Of
tense is. 1t seems he has Eeen prose-
cutting some corporations for engaging
in trusts and conspiracies, to control
the markets, and raise the prices the
people will have to pay for the neces-
saries of life; and for this horrible
crime against society and humanity
me intellectual demon, who prob
ably gets drunk every night to COM
pensate himself for the self-abase-
ment he undergoes in the day time in
performing such dirty work, is let
loose upon him, to cover him with hor-
rible misrepresentation and terrific
ridcule.
And who is this wretched, absurd,
moon-struck bowling lunatic Ma
loney? He is the Attorney General OF
the second largest state in the Union,
the state of Illinois; and he is simply
performing his sworn duty, under the
laws of his state, to prosecute trusts
and combines. Who would dream this
from the Sun article? He appears
ike some assumptions, unknown
maniac, dancing war-dance at the
door of an insane asylum, with straws
in his hair!
Is not this a dreadful power to be
exercised against reformers? Who is
safe from such assassinS Of character
and masters of vituperation.
And this is the kind of domination
which is sought to be extended over
the West. And it will come if an
aroused people do not crush it.
"MalOney comes out and blows at a
trust" and the daily papers defend
the trust and the robbery Of the peo-
pie by asSailing Maloney.