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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
NEAR THE END.

Thank the Lord another week will
end the campaign and with it the stu
pendous lying of our Republican
brethren. If it was to be continued
for another month Satan would have
to advertise for mechanics to build an
annex to the Internal regions.
The gold-bug press claim the earth
and the fullness thereof, but when
you 90 out among the people you can
scarcely find a towns ship or ward where
there are not numerous converts from
Republicanism to free silver, while the
changes from Democracy to Palmer
and Buckner are infnitesmal. We
need not add that the Populists are
solid as the Rocky Mountains
We sincerely believe that Mr.. Bryan
is going to sweep the state and the ma
tion by overwhelming majorities. Mr..
Lind and the whole state ticket will
be elected; as also our seven congre S.
men, including even the nause us
Owen.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
LOOK SHARP!

Don't be fooled by the international
fraud that is contemplated by putting
the gold-bug Democratic ticket on
the official ballot under the name of
National Democrats" 1t is a pre-.
arranged swindle. The Democratic
party which met in Chicago and nom
mated Mr.. Bryan is of course the ina
tional Democracy" for it extended
through every part of the nation,
from the British line to the gulf OF
Mexico and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. To start boiling faction,
on anti-Democratic principles, and
label it National Democracy" is q
trick and fraud OF the meanest kind.
We hope our friend will go to work
and warn the supporters Of Mr.. Bryan
of the swindle, through the ncwspa-
pers and otherwise. II this is not
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
ffOTERNMENT CAN CREATE
VALUE.

You say value cannot be created by
law. Suppose the government should
Say: owe will pay 81 for every bushel
of wheat that is brought to our
granary at Washington" Now it costs
you, say cents, to transport bushcl.
Would you sell it for less than 81
cents? Would Johnny Bull sell his
for less than 81. except to deduct cost
of transportation to Washington?
Would Russia, India or Chill? Why,
certainly not. The man who should
deliberately accept less would be re
gardcd as of unsound mind. The gov
ernment's unlimited demand for
wheat would raise the price every
where to the Washington price, less
the cost Of transportation.
This saying that values cannot be
created by law is ali rot. It needs on
~ proper conditions, and conditions.
can be created by statue.
Then why will not free coinage
raise the price Of silver to $I.2 an
ounce: 1t will.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
SYMPATHY WITH LIBERTY.

The United States has never raised
a hand to help any colony or section
to throw off the shackles of mon
archy. She has forgotten that ITO
was only successful because France as
sisted her. She is now seeing little
Cuba tortured and robbed by the Span
ish grandees, battling for life and lib
erty, as com placently as il human lib
erty were Something to throttle. And
such it has become in this United
States Of Monopoly. How proud of
our boaSted love Of liberty Americans
should be. A few words from the
United States would free Cuba, but
the words will not be spoken. Appeal
to Reason.
This is all very true.
We are the most powerful and the
smalles t-souled people in the world.
We don't want to hoist our umbrella
until we know 1t is raining in London.
We are never great until we are
kicked. Then we forget our hcredit-
airy bigotries and Miss-Nancy-isms and
fight like devils.
We treated France after the Revo-
luton Of 177G most shamefully. We
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
BAD MAN BRYAN.

The gold bugs charge that Bryan Is
arraying class against class, and are
thus trying to make the people believe
that he is very bad, bad man-dan-
gerous to the perpetuity of our gov
eminent. This is how Bryan an
swered the charge in his speech at the
Exposition Building, in Minneapolis,
Oct. II: II am willing to array all the
people who suffer from the operation
of trusts, syndicates, and combines
against the few who operate them for
their own benefit"
The trust and syndicates are rob-
bling the people by exorbitant rates,
and the people must sooner or later
face the robbers with the bold deter
mination to put an end to their das.
tardly work. II that be arraying
class against class, we say, 60 on, Mr..
Bryan, we are with you!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
PURITY GOOD SWEDE MON.

A number of Scandinavians went to
a country bank in the northwestern
part of the state recently, some to
make loans, others to get an extern
sion on loans already made. "Well, /
don't know as shall let you have any
money unless you are going to vote for
Clough and McKinleY,' said the bank
er. ooh, that's all right! That's all
right'' answered the Scandinayians.
So the loans were made, and the crowd
went outside. There they set up
jabbering in their own language, with
wild gesticulations and profusely in
tcrspersed with John Lind! John
Lind! that passer by turned to one
whom he knew and asked what they
we're talking about" why said he,
they say John Lind he ben one purity
good Swede mon."
Intimidation and coercion don't 90
this year. They may say one thing and
vote another. The Australian ballot
system protects them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
ANOTHER TRICK.

Putting up the price of wheat and
flooding this country with gold are
parts of great scheme to control the
election next Tuesday.
LONDON, Oct. 21.-There is a general
belief here that the directors OF the
Bank of England, at their regular
weekly meeting tomorrow, will raise
the discount rate from 3 to per cent,
The newspapers agree in stating
that the flow OF gold to America must
be stopped. The st. James Gazette
says:
''According to exchange experts.
even the present rate does not dlloy q
margin Of profit to shippers so that a
prem I'm on gold Is evidently paid IN Ne,o
York Dy those who are SO nervous in
regard to the political situation to insist
upon boarding gold. This is striking
comment on the croOkedness of the re-
publicanS anent the defeat Of BRYAN.
1t Is also obvious that the very rapid
advance in wheat adds considerably to
the power of the Americans to draw
on the European gold supply and un-
less the directors of the bank are pre-
pared to allow the reserve to suffer
large diminutiOnS rise in the rate to-
morrow may be counted on as certain.
So far as we can judge, however, the
amount Of the reserve tomorrow will
be So, 525. 500 900, and when we deduct
the sum of elO,O00,000 which has to be
set aside against the japanese bal
ance the total is none too large, con-
sidering the autumn Withdrawals to
Scotland. Just at the beginning, the
stock exchange was fully prepared for
rise in the bank rate last week, so
there will be no sudden collapse in
prices"
The Globe says: "Whether the
wheat advance proceeds from the firm
manipulatiOnS of millionaire republicans
or from natural causes, the event cuts
the ground from under BIyan's feet.
Any man who isn't as blind as bat
can understand all this.
Gold would not naturally flow to
New York. But it does flow there.
Therefore somebody, on this side Of
the ocean, must be paying q premium for
1t! Who is it? "The millionaire Re
publicans!" There you have it,
To control the votes Of the Ameri-
can people millions are being spent to
force gold into this country and put
up the price of wheat. The whole for
eign world is agitated and disturbed
to make this country elect Mckinley.
Why is this? What interest has the
| Rothschilds, and the Bank of Eng
land, and 1.-THE millionaire Republi-
| cans of America" in common with the
men who hold the plough-handles in
the United States?
Don't you see that you are the spoil
of the mighty game? Don't you see
| that if you defeat Mckinley you will
break the hearts of the Plutocrats on
| both sides of the Atlantic? Don't do
it! Don't disappoint the noble gentle
men who have been stealing your SUBJ
stance for SO many years past. IN
button your pockets SO they can get
their hands into them. Be generous
to your plunderers. Vote for them
and then thank God for making you
an internal jackaSS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
4 WORD TO OUR FRIENDS.

These are desperately hard times,
and they are pressing with great
severity on the Peoples Party news
papers. The last issue Of the Appeal
to Reason" very able and original
paper. published at Kansas City, Mo-,
contains the following notice at the
top of the first page:
NO PAPER NEXT WEEK.
The next issue of the Appeal to Rea-
san will not appear until November
IA. In the meantime it is hoped that
friends will make an effort to build up
it's circulation and put it on self
sustaining basis, if they desire it to
ntinue in the field.
j. A. Wayland.
Kansas City, Kan, Oct. %.
The coming winter promises to be a
very hard one. We desire to continue
the publication of The REPRESENTA-
TIVE. 1t will be purely labor of
love, for we have no ambitions to
crafty, and there is no election for
two years. We think it would be bad
for good government, in this state,
and the whole Northwest, if such a
paper as this should cease to appear.
We don't ask any donations Of you
but simply look at the number on the
cOlored label of this sheet and if you
are in arrear, or your time is nearly up,
remit at once. Then 60 to work among
your friends and get up club. There
will no doubt be Democratic papers
and Free-Silver papers, in Minnesota,
but this is the only distinctively Peo-
pies Party journal in the state. 1t
was the Peoples Party that initiated
the present tremendous battle for
financial reform, and we very much
fear that if the party dies the whole
movement would in year or two
slump down into nothingness; and
can the party continue to live without
newspaper organs to defend and rep
resent it..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

Do you complain of bad laws? Then
why do you elect bankers and corpo-
ration attorneys to make them? Dc
you think the bankers and corpora
tions are going to legislate against
their own interest? If YOU are to re-
ceive more for your labor and pro
ducts, it necessarily follows that
THEY must receive smaller profits,
and will THEY legiSlate to reduce
their profits? Not a bit Of it. They
are not fools
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
"OLD BALD.HEAD GO UP"

Old men may take hope. Hon. JUS
tin S. Morrill,, Of Vermont, who has
been member of the United States
Senate for thirty years, has just been
reelected, when nearly 81 years of age.
His new term will not expire until he
is SO years old? He seems to be full of
vigor and strength of mind. Glad
stone, at nearly the same age, is max
ing powerful speeches in behalf Of the
Armenian victims of Turkish cruelty.
The scientists say that mans nat
ural period Of life is one hundred years
not three-score and ten. In two
hundred years the average term OF
life, as proved by the Geneva Stats
tics, has increased one-third. Knowl-
edge of the laws of life is the cause OF
this marvellous change.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

are great, lazy, timid, conservative
beast, that does not know its own
power: but shores and lays on fat.
The slaughter Of the Cubans and the
Armenians is q disgrace to us. We
could stop it in forty-eight hours. But
the mOney-power does not want us to
endanger the collection of interest on
its bonds;-and what are human lives
to dollars2
But Bryan is coming in and new
day is dawning on the world.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
REMEMBER.

Whatever may be the result of the
election next Tuesday let us all agree
to get together next winter and revive
the Peoples party and the Farmers
Alliance. When the polls close on
November 3rd the day of the politi-
clans is over, and the day of the lovers
of mankind begins. If any man thinks
this tremendous movement for reform
is simply ladder by which he may
crawl through the third story window
into office. and then kick the ladder
down he will find himself mistaken.
There are great interests at stake
which will be protected.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

States is leading Europe. Rotert
Lindblom speaks of:-"1'he ridiculous
aduanee Of the past tsoo days." He says
"the sober second thought led the To-
cal operators to the conclusion that, at
ter all, there was no foundation for it.,
as there had absolutely been no de-
mand for cash wheat for several days.
Receipts are simply fabulous for
this time of the year and railroads are
unable to load their cars"
The farmers are unloading on the
politicians. More power to their ell
bows.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
WE HAVE DONE OUR DUTY.

Whatever comes out of the contest
next Tuesday, The Representative
has done it's whole duty;-and has
done it under circumstances of in
justice and persecution that would
have driven most men into open re-
volt. We were trampled under foot
by traitors, liars and miscreants, whe n
when we were asking nothing but
the privilege of working without pay
for those who were doing the tramp
ling! And there were others who
thought that when we were kicked we
ought not to have blinked an eye.-
but smiled and smiled and said
''Thank you, brother. Do it some
more! It is Eice"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
THE BEST DOLLAR.

The best dollar Is the one which
buys most, and tha American laborer
should accept no pther.-The Chicago
Times-Herald. ~
Buys most" of what? Why every
thing. Then the "best dollar" is that
which buys most of the workman's
muscle, his toil,-his life. In other
words, the "best dollar" is that which
makes the workman poorer and more
helpless.
Where does Everything" the work
man need come from? His food.-his
bread, his meat, his milk, his fruit, his
clothes, his TOOLS, etc. Why from
workmen on the farm, or in the shop,
or in the mine. Does the man who
| makes boots,- for ms tance,-think he
| can reduce the value of the product of
the world and remain rich. Does he
think he can help the money power to
beat down the price of wheat and
| flour and beef and pork and wool and
| cotton and leather, and still keep up
| the price Of the boots he manufac-
lures, or the wages paid him for manu-
| featuring them. If he does he is a
| fool, and fit material to make slave
of. He might just as we'll settle the
| ship he is sailing on, in mid ocean. and
drown all the passengers and crew,
and think he can escape without get
ting his clothes wet. Such man is
| filter for an imbecile asylum than to
assist in governing a great, free re-
| public established by heroic pa
triots.
Don't you know, brother, that the
"best doller''-that is the money with
the largest purchasing power,-breaks
| down the price Of all commodities pro-
| duced by human labor? And is there
any man weak enough to believe that
you can reduce the price Of labor it,
self? If there is any such man twill
be an act Of charity for him to go and
hang himself; for his continued exist
ence must prove an injury to every
man who is intelligently trying to i'm.
prove his condition.
What do you want? The highest
priced dollar and the lowest-priced
man? Or would Iydu prefer the high
est-priced man and the lowest. priced
dollar? SO
Did Col create This world for the
men and women he"placed upon it; OF
for couple of metals, of whose origin
science knows nothing, and whose
adoption as money was a prehistoric
accident of Pagan superS tition. while
the metals themselves were first
cousins to slavery and polygamy?
Ii any man tells you he wants the
dollar which will buy most Of every
thing,-including you.-knock him
down! He proposes to get you to vote
for your own degradation, in order
that his stock of wealth might be in
creased. He may wear silk hat, ano
a gold chain. and he may smile like
clock-work, but he is just as mucl
your enemy as the tiger that leaps up
on you from an Asiatic jungle, ane
tears you to piece. For you might JUS
as we'll die with your body torn int
shreds of anguish.
We want humanity at par. We wan
the world covered with the happy
homes Of ccntented and prosperous
people. When we have got that TIT
money question will settle itself; ant
the money-lenders, three times a day
will apologize to God and man, OF
Bonded knees, for the insult of thei
continued existence.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
I'EIRIBLE STUPENDOUS FACT.

The assessed valuation REGARDED in
the great national ledger standing to
our credit is about $50, 600, 600. 900. Our
population is 900, O9, and by some
means, by some device, by some machi-
nation, by some incarnation, honest
or otherwise, by some process that
cannot be defined, less than two
thousandth part of our population
have obtained possession land have
kept out of the penitentiary in spite
OF the means they adopted to acquire
it) of more than one-half Of the entire
accumulated wealth Of the country
John J. ingalls, in the United States
Senate, Jan. IA, 1891.
And now. friends, you have got a
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
TAKE NOTICE.

II you are in arrears pay up at once,
or this will be the last issue of our pa
per your delighted eyes will look upon.
And you know you will be heart-brOk-
en- If you miss copy. Some of you
want it to admire; and some of you
need it to swear at. For the sake of
both admiration and profanity pay up
at once
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
UP AND DO WIN.

Wheat tell this sceek nine cents IN taoo
days! This proves that the rise was
unnatural and fictitious, and engin.
eered by the spectators in the inter
est of the Republican party. If the
advance had been backed on solid
facts, the facts would have main
tanned the advance.
We don't advise our readers to sell
or hold wheat. 1t is too grave re-
sponsibility for us to assume. But If
you have to sell this fall any part of
your crop, get it into market before
the Sd of November! A word to the
wise is sufficient.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

perish together, likeT ohm Ripe. But
instead of perishingrthey are spending
their money to get; possession of this
republic and turlit into an empire.
A pretty sort of abfrtions and atroci-
ties to destroy aaworld! They would
be more at homeJpeddling, old hats
than governing the greatest nation on
the planet. -.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

Minnesota is fortunate. While in
Georgia, Kansas, Indiana, etc., there
is a great sQuabbling between the
Populists and Democrats. here they
had no difficulty in uniting on a fair
basis; and they are standing by each
other like a band of brothers. The
representative deserves some of
the credit for this state of things
but it will probably get none
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

Prince Bismarck-helped to demone-
tie silver in Germany, but he has
seen his mistake and now favors its
reconciliation. He is frank enough
to acknowledge that he made mis-
take when he assisted in striking
down silver
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

done there will be thousands who see
ing the words National Democray"
will be deceived into putting cross
opposite the candidates so designated.
That is what the name was adopted
for. Let every man warn his neigh
Dor.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
4 GREAT TRICK.

We cannot but believe that the
large rise in the price of wheat is al
together due to manipulation.
The object is to give the farmers Of
the country glimpse of prosperity,
under the belief that they will there
upon fall at once into the arms Of
their old party. They regard the farm
ers as they would hungry dog:-give
him bone and he be gins to knaw and
forgets his grieva nces. Take the bone
away from him and he becomes Pop
ulist. otr
The rise of wheat is engineered in
this country. Read the following:
New York, Oct; ,2Q.-Wheat opened
less excited than 1T did yesterday, but
there was nevertheless enough trad
ing to run transactions above six mill
Liverpool cables land continental
cables induced holders to throw over
large blocks of wheat, which fairly
swamped for a timtf and forced Or IS
down from s44@D2bc for December.
Then came period of dullnes, fol-
lowed in the afternoon by general
stampede of shorts and a wildly f1uc-
tuating market. ending in whirl at
4@lst net advance over last night. At
the highest point December was just
1c under yesterdays top notch, at 86sc.
The close was at 85sc. although on the
curb prices were lacked up to 86c for
December. Total sales for the day
were 14,0e0, 900 bushels, against 20, 1885,
600 bushels yesterday. After exchange
hours the feeling was extremely nerv-
Gus among the bears, who feared that
foreign markets would respond to our
late jump and cause correspond
ing bull fury tomorrow. One of the
bull pointers this afternoon was sale
of 800, 600 bushels by local house for
Portugal.
Here it is apparent that the United
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

chance to vote this condition up or
down. To make it better or to make
it worse.
Which will you do?
So vote that your posterfty will not
be ashamed of you fifty years from
now.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

Towne has made magnificent fight
in the Sixth district and Page Morris
isn't in it," Towne will go back to
Congress with splendid majofity;
and accompanied by the love and
gratitude of people who esteem hon
eSty and admire courage
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

The lies will stop at o. clock, D. m,
Nov. Cd, 1896; and silence will ascend
like Q balm among the astonishihed
stars: aud the devil will take the cot
ton out of his ears: and the imps will
crawl out from behind the birthstone,
and propose three cheers for the cdi-
tors of the daily press OF the United
States of America. Selah!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

We are glad to learn that Hon. r. A.
Walsh is running splendidly for Judge
of the District Court OF Ramsey coun-
ty, and is certain Of election. His
record as chairman of the House Com
mittee, to investigate the Coal Com
bine, in 1898, ought to be sufficient
alone to elect him. He did splendid
work at time when it took nerve to
dO IT.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

The gold bugs tell you that free
coinage of silver will bring our dollars
down to SO cents, and in the same
breadth they tell you that you want
to enrich the silver mine owner by
making 50 cents worth Of silver worth
dollar.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

We spoke the other night at two
large meetings in st. Paul, and it was
q great pleasure to see how enthu-
nias ttcally the campaign is carried on.
ana TO note the ability of the speak
Aara. Tom O'Brien is an ideal organ
4 irer of victory. II the state goes for
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

II there was an unlimited market for
wheat at dollar bushel, would it
ever 60 below that? Why, then, is it
abs urd to believe that free coinage
would keep the price Of silver up to
$I.29.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

Hon. Francis E. Clarke, of St. Paul,
has the cordial support of both the
Democrats and Populists of the
Fourth district. and will be triumph
antly elected. We hope every friend
of ours will stand by him.