The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-01
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humanity. There will be fresh supplies
! every week, and it will cost you one dol
lar per year, including the rest Of the pa
per, to enjoy our homeopathic panacea.
Mercury.-Grover may shoot ducks but
he didn't shoot any 'rebels'. and neither
will he shoot any Enslishmen.
Missouri World.-Piracy under the
cloak of greed WILL in its greed, unmask
itself.
The history of the Democratic party for
the past thirty years can be summed up
in three words: Prayed. Promised. PEI
cred.-Peoples Party Tribune, Louis
lana.
Rocky Mountain News.-There is one
more thing Cleveland should attend to al
once. If there is raid on the treasury
he should order Carlisle TO pay out in sill
Ner
1t is notable fact that while Grover
Cleveland has helped bankrupt the ma
ton, collectively and individually, he has
made $4,000 900 for himself.-Farmer
Tribune, Des Moines.
Mercury.-Carlisle says the retirement
| OF $500 900 of currency would not con-
tract the currency. That is on a par
with Carlisle's logic. He once upon
time said government could not make
money.
1t is impossible to serve the cause of
liberty. which is the cause of God. and the
cause of the gold-bug. which is the cause
Of Mammon. at the same time.-News-
Reporter, Leadvile. Col.
Butte Bystander.-If silver is not re-
monetiZed the absolute and complete ruin
of every manufacturing enterprise in the
United States must result.
Rural Centre-The weapon of the
l. ~l.J. -
one of the earliest forms of the sword.
Many early swords, particularly among
the marine nations, were edged with the
teeth of shark.
Missouri World.-The scheme to retire
the greenbacks and treasury notes under
cover Of war message" is a desperate
| one. but the money-power hesitates at
nothing to accomplish its end.
There are two kinds of patriots-one
the soldiers of 81 who gave their blood for
their country and were paid in green
backs, another the gracious capitalists.
who gave their money for bonds and were
paid in gold.-Daily Cooperative, Tope-
ka, Kan.
Office seekers and pie-eaters may be
cuckoos to Grover, but the chief cuckoo
is Grover himself. Wall street has only
to look forward toward the snuff box to
make old tub of-guts sneeZe-Farmer's
Tribune. Des Moines.
If Congress will pass a joint resolution
over the presidents head declaring that
no more bonds shall be issued: that
should war occur the expense will be met
with new issue of greenb backs; that the
present greenbacks should be preserved
forever. then the war talk will cease.
The money power wastes no time on dead
projects.-Missouri World.
Butte Bystander-The banker loans you
ha i'm, llx- hino
and you actually pay the bank from six
to sixty per cent for pledging them your
own wealth.
Rural Centre-At the end of 1898 Bel
GUM had 2,036 miles Of railway, and with
the exception of 2O0 miles of it. is owned
and worked by the government
Industry-Twenty years ago, says the
Maine Populist, our farmers were selling
their produce and acting ~ their own
agents. Today the sheriff is doing it for
them.
friend, do you actually think that a Pop
ulist paper is necessary? Do you really
believe sit would be a good thing, if it
could only be run? Then subscribe your
self, get your neighbors to do likewise,
and trade with our advertisers.
Just why Grover did not appoint his
personal and financial friend Baron
cy has not as yet been explained. but
most likely the baron prefers to act as
judge de facto and not de jure.-Farm
er'S Tribune, DeS MOneS
Commonwealth.-We have had a graft
flying exhibition of patriotism rising
a bOve partiSanShip within the past week.
Now let us see if our congressman are
patriotic enough to pass relief measures
for the treasury without making polit-
cal grand stand play for 1896
Our extremely patriotic administration
has resolved to make another bond issue
Of $50,000,000. It's motto is Europe may
run this country to hades as soon S it is
a mind to. but England must not touch
Venezuela. - Farmers Tribune, Des
MOines.
Rural Centre-The first rope makers
were the spiders. which spin a thread so
fine that, although it is composed of fifty
or sixty strands, it is a dozen times
smaller than the finest thread spun by
the hands of men.
Farmers Tribune. Des Moines-When
the tory money conspirators present their
greenbacks and treasury notes 10 the ma
tional treasury for redemption and refuse
to accept for it coin, either silver or gold,
as the law provides. then it Is time for a
new declaration of Independence.
The Commonwea lth.-Tf half the timber
and all the iron land in the country
wasn't exempt by Law or evasion from
taxation it wouldn't be necessary to issue
bonds to build roads There would be
enough money to spend $4,000 a year on
repairs and much more for new con
struction. With half the property ex-
empt the road fund is just enough to pay
for repairs.
Trade Review, Burlington. lathe Ia
boring men of Peoria are moving in di-
rection highly commenda BILE. They are
arranging to boycott the saloons in a
way against which the most violent enc
my of organized labor can make no OBJ
lection Instead Of going to the saloons
to spend their money for that which units
them for their work. they propose to or
ganize a dry club. Plenty to read.
plenty to smoke and plenty to amuse, but
no whisky
Reform Advocate-What pen will at
tempt to describe Minnesota winter
weather? 1t is as changeable and full
of moods as CIeopatras temper, now
chilling you to the vitals with its awful
and forbidding frown, in the next hour
shedding around you the warm glow Of
it's radiant and enchanting smiles. AS
the great Roman soldier loved the beau
tiful Egyptian queen so do we love our
fair Minnesota. The quips and pranks
of her strange moods may vex US at times
yet we would have nothing otherwise.
The Weekly Capital.-Yes Eve favor
war with England on this plaI: Let
Cleveland, Sherman and ali the old party
possibilities for presidential nomination.
lead all the gold bug bankers and brokers
and heads of monopoly corporations
against a like number of English pluto
Gratis headed by the royal family and no
bility. The battle ground to be unoccu-
MED territory in Manitoba where they