The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-22
KICKS THE NEW YORK TRI-
~ BUNE.

The gold and other monopolists have
/. paid the New York Tribune to send
its weekly edition, full of lying stuff
In favor of single gold standard and
a millionaire creating tariff, 10 thous-
ands of Western farmers. Among the
recipients of the organ of Rothschild
and the other Shylocks was Thomas
Brennan, OF Sweetwater, Tenn. Being
patriot, and despising gifts of the
enemy, he refused to take the menda-
cious sheet from the postoffice, where
upon he received postal card, which
read as follows:
Dear Sir:-A friend has ordered this
office to send the Weekly Tribune to
you for time and has paid for the
same, in order that you may read the
protection side Of the tariff question.
The paper will be sent without cost to
you, and whether you agree with its
tariff articles or not we trust you will
find much that is valuable and enter
taining in its columns; Very respect
fully. +.'., THE TRIBUNE.
To this Mr.. Brennan replied as fol-
lows:
New York Tribune: I have tried to
stop my part Of your weekly. am in
receipt OF your printed postal card, in
which you state friend has ordered
this Office to send me the weekly Tri-
bune for time, and has paid for the
same, ETC., is noted. You are aware
that IL have intelligence enough to
compre bend the drift of your teach
ings that could not help but see by
mailing slips that there would be no
cost to follow, notwiths landing you
were apprised that / did not want it.,
but had ordered it's return to you re-
jected. l know all I desire to know
about thieving tariff question with
out your version, and heartily agree
with Chief Justice Miller, that to lay
with one hand tax upon the indus
tries of this country to be bestowed
with the other upon some favored in
dividual, is none the less robbery,
though done under the form of law.
You further knew it was not a
friend Of mine who had pointed out
my Isolated cabin to you, from the
portals OF which you were forbidden,
and into which you still persist in
forcing your baneful presence; but l
will have no more Of it. 1t becomes a
pleasant duty to guard my innocent
family OF five boys from your contain
mating influence, to show to the m
that while their father was car
rying a muskct throughout Dixie, un-
der the folds of "Old Glory" striking
the shackles from 1000, 100 OF black
slaves and protecting your miserable
carcass from the vengeance of rebel
brigadiers, you were scheming. with
the secret enemies of our government
j t. fasten industrial slavery upon CO.
0o0,cOo white, and serfdom upon their
posterlty. No, we don't agree. and
life is too short and my time too pre-
cious to wade through twenty pages
of such miserable chaff for the fe "
grains of wheat contained. Consider
yourself kicked off the stoop, and stop
annoying me with your weekly visits.
I am still Tom Brennan, late Priv
ate Co. G, 90 o. V. l., now private and
independent citizen Of Lns' United
States. that wears nobody's Collar. IA
vors the greatest good to the greatest
number, absolute free strade, direct
taxation, with equal taxation Of every
species OF property according to its
real value, including government
bonds and other public securities, and
to that END am enlisted for life. .~
Sweetwater, Tenn, June is, 1896.