The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26

ssS.l " So ~ va Veseu eAa0 xOpunot TICKET.
's5 @svts 80 A. r.
Bark, slabs and Chunks.
From the Buxx Saw.
Free silver 10 only the A b OF the
financial question.
Now let the light be thrown on the record
Of the two old parties.
The trouble with our money Is that 1t IL
too good-too hard to get.
Under our present competitive system the
pursuit Of happiness consists in sort of
wholesale dog fight.
When a man steals a sack Of -four it IL
called larceny, but IL a bank robs its de-
positors 1t Is a bank failure.
If the preachers would fight the systems
that send souls to hell their work would be
much more commendable.
/, We talk about money that Is good in
Europe: what the people need most is
backbone that is good In America
We should think that the rosy hue of the
hopes of the old party voter would evap-
crate through the holes in his clothes.
Any money that the United States will
accept for dues and taxes the American
laborer will accept for the products of his
labor.
Why not put up few farmers candi-
dates for congress? Why don't the old par
ties do so? Hasn't the farmer got sense
enough?
If Jesus Christ would come here and offer
prayer at an ordinary old party convention
1t would stampede nearly every delegate
in the house.
starvation wages and then votes for either
of the two old parties is as bad a "scab'
as the hungry man who takes his JOB.
While the church is clinging to the skirts
of arstocracy 1t ought to remember that
according to Scripture that class Of people
are not at all likely to go to heaven.
When you hear a man cay there is plenty
of money II you have anything to sell" ask
him why the merchants can't sell the goods
they have on their shelves?
The cheaper the dollar the easier 1t in
to pay debts. They confiscated our proper
ty by giving a dear dollar, now let us
not stop until we get back the cheap dollar.
AS long as the poor are indebted to the
rich they will be slaves to the rich and
that 10 why the rich want to make all debts
payable in gold-something that the poor
have not.
There is no record in the scripture Of q
SINCE instance where charity to the poor
consisted in giving them as thin thing as
soup, or where the rich were entitled to
better seats in the church than the poor
One Of the paradoxies Of events is shown
in the fact that the man. who was not
patriotic enough to 60 into the army. but
hired a substitute. afterwards became
president. and by virtue OF his office COM
mander-in-chief-o the army.
When the bankers openly boast Of greater
power than congress 1t is time the people
were preparing to bell the cat'-clip their
claws. The people could do without banks
and it is better to do 20 than to have them
run the government.
No man can be happy who has not food
enough to eat and clothes enough to wear.
and he can't have these without the oppor-
tunity to work for them. The gold STAN
dard has shut off this opportunity to thou
sands Of men, women and children.
If half a dozen free-booters go into town
and hold up a bank they get bullets
through their anatomies for their palms.
but II these same free-booters would put
up bank and hold up the people Of the
town by falling they might be elected
to congress. Great country this!
we used to wonder why the devil had the
cheek to offer Christ the earth to worship
him. when there was no record that he
owned foot of it. We admit that the
devil knew what he was doing. He knew
If he got the gold standard adopted there
there would be no trouble for him to own
the earth.
Why do men pray that this "earth shall
be as the kingdom of heaven" and then
go down to the polls and vote for men
Of whom Christ said: WOE unto you also.
We lawyers! for We laden men with bur-
dens grievous to be borne, and We your
selves touch not the burdens with one OF
your fingers. Woe unto you, We lawyers!
for We have taken away the key of knowl-
them that were entering in We hindered."
The Mexican silver dollar will now pur-
chase in the marts Of that country as much
did, but not so much of the labor that
produces those commodities-People's Pilot.
So far from being politically dead
and out Of politics is Ignatus Donnelly
that he was practically the man who
named the state ticket which the Pops
and Deems" agreed upon at the joint
meeting in Minneapolis last week. Donnel-
ly Is the brightest man in the Pop" party
and is entitled to credit for what he has
done for 1t in Minnesota. which Is undoubt-
eddy more than any other single man in
the state has done. Although turned down
at st. Louis to q certain extent he hobs up
serenely in the state and will outlive many
of his traducers. The manner In which
many of the small fry editors about the
state endeavor to throw mud at Donnelly
personally is disgusting. The Sage OF
Niniger is entitled to respectful treatment
II nothing more, at the hands Of the press.
Give the old man a show, for his white
alley. Don't all jump on him at once
Mazeppa Tribune
Public regulation Of private enterprise IL
disappointment and a failure The United
States today. with all the reverence 1t has
for a constitution which empowers con-
gress to regulate commerce." stands con-
victed before the whole world with failing
to do It, This government has tried to
regulate commerce by granting special
privileges to corporations and then allow
ing itself to be swindled by it's proteges
has given millions Of public money and
loaned other millions to private railroad
schemes to regulate commerce." and then
looked on while the railroad properties
have been wrecked and the wreckers have
become millionaires. 1t has tried to 'regu-