The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-15

endowment It's Iaculty-Out or courtesy
must not openly speak much Of theft of
the peoples monies. If a legislator ac-
cepts the proffere1 aid from an Oil mag
nate his voice in the legislative assembly
may not be heard against the interests
of his supporter. This being the philoso-
ply upon which the political actors pro-
coed need we expect anything redemptive
from old-party leaders?
The masses are fooled more than enliSht-
ened, and when a great politician gets to
the front and makes "a speech Of graft
tude" to the people at once they tell 1t
out that "he struggled to the front on
merit whereas he either bought his seat
in the assembly in congress or the presi-
denis chair; or some powerful trust pur-
chased it for him. or rather purchased him
and placed him there to serve the inter-
estS of greed.
all who serve the public have been open
to accusation. But how many. think you,
gentle reader are above reprOach!
The Sherman book may open the eyes
Of the blind to some extent. I hope So
Read Seven Financial Conspiracies," by
Mrs. Emery. Read the Third House"
(Arena Publishing Coz and see how the
will OF the people is defeated continuously
We need to know that our governments
security rests upon the purpose Of God
and the purpose Of the mass Of people who
are true patriots. Our political leaders
have sold out our interests, proclaiming
principles in convention which they never
intended to act upon in service; the people
have fought the political battles Of the pol
iticians only to be deceived and f1eeced by
the rascalS in return.
Let the light in on our present day leg
islation Turn the light on our court rem
derings Examine carefully the lines of the
political leaders who have traded US into
the hands Of oil kings at home or bond
kings abroad. Read, ponder act.
Once we have settled it that our nation
shall receive our best thought we ought
to study to know what to do to liberate
ourselves from the scheming Of the day.
and getting possession hold the reins Of
government in our own hands.
Let us agtate and educate and intro
duce the Initiative referendum, and SUI
preme mandate and have our political agi-
tations come to the front as a conten-
ton for principles rather than for polite
ianS; entering the campaigns advocating
the things which make for common pros
perity rather than for class approval
The day is coming when our political
parties will organize and dissolve for the
campaigns, and our battle lines will be
drawn between parties differing only in
that while one side esteems some
principle as demanding first settle>
ment, the other side will place another
principle as first in Importance, and both
agree that both principles right. The
ground affordipg the opportunity for the
sharp politician has been in class distinc-
tons and sectional differences. That day
is near when two men meeting from Maine
and Texas will stand together against
wrong in defense Of the right. The COM
mon people constitute Is per cent or more
Of the whole population and when this
body shall have concluded to contend for
the general welfare as grounded in the
right, the right will prevail in politics.
The people must surely begin to see that
,i,>rr ,t,~xyH ortC Of
increasingly helpful civilization needs an
expansive financial system. more money"
as a cry of the common people is not nee
essarily a cry of greed 1t is common
sense utterance as means of trade. The
financial current must flow more rapidly
and this can be possible only by higher
tide, of course. Our business is carried on
the moving financial current, as the mate
rial elements constituting our trade prod
ucts are transported on our canals and
railways. To facilitate business there
must be less friction or more power OF
both. Let's have both.
The financial and transportation ques-
tons are forefront questions to be settled
in the interest of general prosperity. Gen.
eral prosperity is essential to the perpetu-
alton of patriotic political life and noble
manhood.
Political reform. then. looks to lifting
the masses to higher planes on the one
hand, and eliminating the immortality of
marketable legislation from our national
life on the other We must soon be done
with the sale of our principles on the
auction block of partisan political conven-
tons, in legislative halls, and in our courts
or we. are speedily a doomed republic
Read 1.-The Sale of Law by Hon. ST. Clair
McKelway, L. L. D., in New York indie
pendent of July, II, 1894, and see that
others than Western cranks have come
to feel that our courts are even become
purchasable, law having become a COM
modify of the market in the halls Of JUS
tice as we'll as in the halls of legislation
Turn on the light.
G.. E. WALKER.
Sherburne MINI.