The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-11
WASTING SYMPATHY,
MAJOR Bowler Speaks Right Out the WRATH
That Is In His Heart.

Major Bowler Speaks Right Out the Wrath
That Is In His Heart.
Friend Donnelly:
The following quotation is from the Re-
preventative Of November 4th-
A PITY.
I'VE are very sorry that so many good
men have gone down in the tidal wave. We
extend to them our sincere sympathy.
1T becomes a grave question whether
the ballot box will ever be able to over
come the banks and trusts. The poorer the
people become the more open they are to
corruption. The land is honey combed with
rottenness."
Now do not waste sympathy upon good
men gone down in the tidal wave:'
TWAS not offices, but a righteous cause.
they were fighting for-the are still on deck
armed with self respect and conscious that
In the end the rigth must and will pre-
vail
Sympathize rather with the great mass
of struggling humanity who must go on
and continue to give UP so much of the
products Of their labor to buy the dear
British single gold-standard dollar with
which to pay taxes, official salaries, and
interest ON their debts that there will be so
little left that they must still live in rags,
and misery, and debt
Reserve your sympathy, for it will be
needed for the many farmers wives and
daughters who have had to labor in the
fields, early and late, in this year Of grace
1885, because their husbands and fathers
realized so very little money from their
products that they could not even afford
IN In <vo~,
ging for bread. Breathe courage into the
hearts or those timid beings-merchants
farmers. and wage earners-victims of our
vile credit system resulting from an INSULT
cient volume Of money with which to do
the business of the countrywide have
been scared and coerced, like SO MANY
sheep, into voting contrary to their con-
victions, and by so doing have reduced
their own bankruptcy and possible refuge
In the poor house more probale-almost a
certainty. r
Pray Almighty God, in the exercise of His
manifold and ample .mercies, to forgive and
enlighten those clerical creatures who by
their support of such candidates as D. M.
Clough and w. c. P. Breckenridge, con
DENIED the conversion of our state house
and National capital into dens of harlot-
ry; VINO had not ears to hear, nor DISPOSE
tfon to notice. these grave charges that
had become matters of public notoriety,
but who heard and repeated with holy
gusts every unsupported breath of SLAM
der hurled by subsidized press against
John Lind, whose private character and
splendid reputation as public servant had
long been known and recognized by all
hol} hot
man was IAN infidel' They could not
satisfy their dear salary-seeking souls as
to whether Mr.. Lind was a republican,
democrat or a populist'
Finally, excuse the devil for grinning un-
til that part of his head above his mouth
resembles an island, for how, in the light
Of recent events, can he help it.
Let us all rise and sing-"O what shall
the harvst be!'' Shall British gold, Mark
Hanna? mammon worship preachers:
lecherous state officials; head clerks of
foreign syndicates who own our milling and
other great industries; Jim Hill profess
ed democrat. who named and elected our
present, and two preceding, governors and
both our present U. s. Senators; that noble
quartet of railroad attorneys-Flandrean,
LAWYER Wellington, and Wilson; John
Most, Bob. Ingersoll. and Mat Quay
shall these elements the plunderes, rule;
or the great laboring, wealth producing
people have SOMETHING to say about
making and administering the laws under
which they live? Shall organized wealth.
a few men in New York and London who
own much money, bonds mortgages, and
other property,-shall they, or the people.
rule?
Shall Congress exercise it's constitutional
right to provide sufficient amount of
money for the people to do their business
with, or shall that power be delegated to
few bankers to limit the amount Of
money to such volume as will make money
dear and the products of human toll
cheap?
Let 1898 anu 1900 answer.
]. M. BOWLER.
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