The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-01
Dover, Mimi, Dec. -.
A RINGING LETTER.

L. c. LONG APPEALS TO THE PEG
PIE TO ORGANIZIl-THE KINDS
OF WAR HE WANTS TO SEE.
Editor Representative:
IT IS Of the greatest Importance that
every Peoples Party man should act on
the suggestions set forth III the call OF
Mr. l.. NJ. Aver. secretary of the Peoples
Party state League
Let every Populist consider himself an
organizer and get his neighbors together
elect officers. and send in all names to the
secretary at once, also elect delegates to
the state meeting. Last summer when |
was among you, you thought it was too
early to organize, you can not say that
now. The old parties are organizing
county. state and national Leagues, they
are never idle. Unless we organize we
might as well give up all hopes of ever
\ getting control of this government. We
will accomplish nothing by making
speeches and sending literature to those
who are already in the fold, we must
reach those outside, and the only way to
do this is to have a list of all voters in
the state, and the only way to get these
names is by having bands of workers in
every voting precinct.
The old parties know every mans ped
igree and they know where you and your
father and grand father were born; what
you vote. Napoleon's army was not better
organized and Differed than the mighty
machine of the old parties. and we can
never whip them with an unOrganized
mob. Last summer you saw your fields
OF waving grain which promised an i'm
mense yield, and forgot the price was al
ready set so as to leave you just enough
to live on until another year Take your
pencil and figure out whether you are
better off with forty bushels of barley
per acre at ten cents per bushel than
you were last year with twelve bushels
per acre and forty-five cents per bushel.
you Will find that when you count the
extra work for stacking, and Irvine for
binding, price Of threshing, etc, that you
did have a few cents profit on the small
crop, but this year you are in hole
There will never be a change until those
who desire a change go to work and rev.
olutioniZe our system of financial robbery
Don't let the Venezuelan affair divert
your mind from the battle we are now
engaged in. A few miles difference in the
boundary line of some South American
countries is not of as much importance
to either us or our posterity, as the bound
airy lines of our own plantations And,
my Irish relatives, don't take too much
stock in the gush of Minneapolis En-
Mayor when he says three cheers for
Grover, America for Americans and
frishmen." 1t is simply a new dodge. and
sHOWS tidl Cdn Mute mas achleVed
his ambition and they have no more use
tor Jim Hills voters who wear wooden
lhoes If we must have war let Grover
Pie great and his highness Salisbury.
tight it out it would save expense and
blood shed.
1t is the same old game. old as the his
iory of the world When tyrants see
hat their subjects have been robbed to
he verge of starvation and revolution,
hey arrange with some other oppreSSOr
mankind for q war. and while the peo-
he spill their blood for what they con
dder patriotism the shacllies Of slavery
re more firmly riveted upon them.
War is great means of killing off the
Brave and the physically we'll formed Of
he human race which makes it easier to
snSlave the balance of mankind For
thousands Of years the flower OF the ma
ions have been butchered. which has had
J tendency to deteoriate the human race.
physically morally and intellectually
Eut we import the finest horses from
France that our rulers may ride in char
OTIS drawn by beautiful steeds But if
The United States and England do go to
var. it will not be waged simply to settle.
boundaries. not to avenge insults to our
lag. not that the American Eagle NAV
nce more perch on the rOoSt now o,,-
tupied by turkey buzZard. but it will
(. ,e the great battle of the world, the battls,
which was prophesized thirty centuries
ago, which will sweep from the earth
czars and emperors, kings and dictators:
all those who sit upon Il throne and wear
a crown, that universal liberty may
reign supreme. and the devil-the devil
of greed and setishness may be chained
for thousand years
Brethren organize and take your stand
for liberty J.. G. LONG;