The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-27
RIVER AT 8 A. NJ.
HOW POPULIsTs ARE MADE.

touching
and pitiful appeal Withholding the
name of the writer and his residence,
which are in our possession, in order
that he may not be subject to further
persecution of this kind:
To the Editor of the Globe.
l write to you to see if you would put an
Item for me in your paper, or to give me the
name Of good, reliable lawyer. l got
thrSWn out of binder in crossing the rail
road track at my own place by defective
crossing, and l am crippled ever since. I
took suit against the company last year for
$1,000 and when the time came for trial, the
attorney of the county told me that I would
get nothing except a little for being thrown
out of the binder. l did not appear and was
much grieved, for | believed that my county
attorney. .Swede man at that, was bought
and fattered by said company. The company
got the case dismissed, for I did not go to
court, seeing l was treated by treachery, as
I thought and believed. So the company dis
missed the case and took $50 of Judgment
against me, and this cruel county attorney
took another suit against me for $50 more, as
his own costs, and my wife secured him in
said $50 stock for the same She said she
would not go in court for 500.
She did not own the stock at the time she
gave the mortgage to him, and his note
will be coming due on the 18th of October
next, and We are in much distress this year
by bad crops, and by such an unlawful bill
She gave that mortgage to him against my
will, though she signed contract with me
TO him for to give him the third of the 81 900
he sued the company for, and he holds that
contract yet, and won't give it up to us
which contract states that he was to get
nothing if he would not win the case. Furth-
er, he told me not to go TO court until he
would give me notice by letter. I did not
get his letter until it was too late for me to
go to court last fall when the court was in
session.
1 will tell you, dear sir. that there is 81, 400
of mortgage on our farm, which interest
is hard to meet with our other farm ex-
penSes. Try sir, please, to help me, and see
how can an honest man live and all the dis
honesty that is going in so many ways
One can be tempted to use unlawful means
when there is no real, true law in coun-
try.
any man with rage of which we get
glimpses here. Here is a poor fellow,
by his own account, working hard to
support his family, and pay off the
mortgage on his home. He meets with
an accident, and forthwith gets into
the hand of the personal injury law
yer" This is evidenced by the nature
of the contract which called for one
third of the total damages in case of
favorable verdict and nothing
end to his misfortunes One can
imagine possible reasons why the case
was allowed to go by default, when he
sees that judgment for costs was en-
tered against the plaintiff without his
knowledge. One sees it again when he
realizes that timid woman to whom
an appearance in court seems an in
dignity too horrible to be borne, gives
a mortgage on anything to prevent be-
ing summoned to appear. Here then,
with all the laws of the country to
protect him, is this man physically in
jured, and with a bill of costs and a
law suit standing against him as his
compensation. 1t is not wonderful. it
is only human nature, that he who
feels that every door of redress has
been shut in his face turns in the last
resource to that rebellious thought of
the injured and oppressed: "One may
be tempted to use unlawful means"
This is the way that Populists are
made. 1t is we'll for us now. In the
presence of great danger, to unite. as
we did in 1861, to secure first of all the
maintenance Of this government When
an attack is made upon the Union it
self all else passes to the rear until that
enemy is repealed. But they who are
today foremost in fighting the evil
that Populism proposes must not for
get in their day of power that Pop
ulism itself is the child of other evils
tnnumerable. Our business men band
together nobly when credit Is attacked
Let them remember after this issue has
been decided that It is their duty to
band together just as earnestly and
determinedly to secure the doing of ex-
act justice to every citizen of the Unit
ed. States
The G b showed little time ago
In an article republished from the
Evening Post, how the farmer is
cinched by the local financial agent.
who throws the blame upon 1.-The
money sharks of Wall street" Here
we see how poor man is treated by
an attorney who doubtless would take
the stump in campaign and declaim
against the greed of railway corpora
lions 1t is the cry for justice that
rends the air, and not until 1t is salts
tied, be our financial system and orr
institutions what they may, will the
republic stand secure. We have done
all. that we can for this man by pub