The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-22

it is enough to induce the poor devils
to 80 out into the back shed and hang
themselves. A man who IL asked to
betray his fellow men for dollar r
two might just as we'll be dead. His
very dog is apt to hold him in con-
tempt and desert him, with its tail
between it's legs,as worthless Gus"
who does not even command re-
spectacle price. Go,-hang your
sciyes,-gentlemen; and let the cor
ner's verdict be-"Died because his
paper was not printed in Swedish or
Norwegian"
And where did all this money come
from? About $40. 000of it was paid In by
the railro I'd corporations. Why did they
pay it? Is it because they realized
that the defeat Of the Republican
party would be great injury to their
interests? Do the railroads hold w
the Republican party, while the Re
publican party. in turn. holds up th'
railroads? And both "hold up" the
people! In the issue between the
corporations and the people;-the ont
demanding high rates Of Transports
ton, and the other insisting on re
duced rates,-are the corporations
and the Republican party one and
the same thing; SO that you cannot
attack the Republican party without
the railroads rushing up and plankins
down $4,000 ($2, 800 Of which goes tt
the Democracy!D, to keep the People.
Party out OF po,oer.
Now, friends, if it is worth $4,000
to the railroad corporations to keep
the Peoples Party out of power, is it
not W orth many times $4,000, to you,
to put them in power? Chew upon
that rag for an hour or two. And il
you have not got the $50, 900, is 1T not
worth your while to 60 to the trouble
at least, Of walking up to the polling
place and making a cross opposite the
names of Peoples Party candidates?
Or did God Almighty forget to put
any brains in your head, and filled UP
the vacuum with mush and saw-dust,
so that you will again believe that the
Populists are anarchists, and that
their success would keep money out
of the statev' Oh, Lord! The man
who could believe such trash should
be put on clean plate and handed
back to his Creator, with an humble
suggestion to make him over again,
and put some brains In his Uranium,
and bake him for century or two, to
take the greenness out Of him. Why.
it is evident that if there had been no
Peoples Party in 1894 that $4,000
would have gone to New York or Lon.
don, to the owners Of the roads, in
stead of being spread about among
our impoverished people. Even in
our defeats we are public benefact-
ors. Think Of the $40, 900 given (as re-
ported above), to the Republican
speakers, to lie about the Populists.
For that $50. 900 they told not less than
100, 900 lies, and would have sworn TO
them, if Tams had insisted on it, for
Is cents a swear. And think Of the
honest farmers who listened to these
crossroads pettifOggers and spell-bind
ers and believed in them, when for
a few dollars more they would have
made their speeches on the other side
with equal zeal and gusto. The story
is told of lawyer who, being employed
to prosecute man, became fudded
with lq uor, and proceeded to defend
him. Alter he had proceeded for some
time the man who had hired him
pulled his coat tail, and said to him.
"You are all wrong:-you are speaking
on the wrong side" And thereupon
he straighten ned himself up and said
''Gentlemen Of the jury, l have just
rehearsed to you all that can be said
in behalf of this bad man-this great
villain-and l will now show you how
fallacious are the arguments used in
his Defence" And he proceeded to
take to pieces his own speech, and did
it SO effectiv ely that he convicted the
defendant.
We unfortunate Populists had nc
money to even pay the expenses OF
speakers who had been advoca ting our
principles, in poverty, for many years.
If we had had $4,000, and were dis
posed to use it, we could have hired
200 Republican orators, to prove that
knute Nelson was a horse-thief, and
the editor Of this paper an uncanon-
lied saint, with six-foot halo around
his head.
Oh, friends, think for yourselves.
Don't be humbugged by IS, 900 Chicago
papers or hireling howlers.
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