The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29

est portion Of that money, and then today
they would have been in a position to
point out where the bank was in which
they had made their deposits. This
would have been a great satisfaction to
them and would have enabled them to
bear up under the hard time scourge; but
the improvident working class they never
think of tomorrow; those garment MAX
ers not only add to the human misery
but also shamefully neglected to provide
for themselves, and did actually spend
their money, sometimes amounting to 81
week in buying bread and such for
their families, and now they are hanging
around the souphouses.
"ThOSe tOilers, those miScreantS, those
dregs of society, those wan-loOking, ca
daverous-appearing creatures, whose ex-
istence is getting to be such menace to
the better class of society, would have
gathered up, put into those same freight
cars, in which the produce and wearing
material has been transported, and take
them to the same valley, on little ele-
walton where they could see the immense
amount of those things which are nee
essary to prolong life. Pens, Of course,
would have to be constructed in advance,
to put those miserable beings in, but
they ought to be open SO that they can
things promiscuously spread before them
without being able to touch them.
"Then l would get ready to go after the
worst kind of cranks in the whole outfit,
the farmers-those Internal fools who get
up in the morning, trOt around so as to
feed their teams and be ready to get to
work at daybreak, to pillow, to sow, to
reap, to thresh, and all for what? To
raise more wheat, more corn, more po-
tatoes, to add to that visible supply which
has been the ruination OF us. They dc
not read the newspapers, and consequent
" are not aware that there is already
more stuff of all kinds on hand than nee
! essary, and they continue raising it, corn.
wheat, meats of all kinds are absolute
ly unstable. In a good many places
there is no market for it because the
people who would eat it if they had it,
the weavers, the garment makers, the
shoe-makers and their families through
their former shiftlessness, have now not
anything to procure it with, and have to
do without it, or be satisfied with half or
quarter rations. Would those stupid
farmers only read the papers, and learn
how the workmen in the big cities have
to stand in line early, to get single LOAF
of bread given to them one loaf for
family, where each member could eat
three of those, did they have it; those
same ignorant farmers would desist from
adding to the worlds troubles by adding
to it's supplies Their wives in winte.
wear calico, their children for want OF
footwear stay out of school, but why dc
they have such luxuries as wives any
| how, and why children?
Those farmers with their ridiculously
patched clothing, these half dressed wo-
men and children | would transport tC
that same place where we have already
the fool toilers of the cities, but those
farmers l would put up towards the tor
of the mountain near the snow, in plain
sight of that wearing apparel which they
have for SO long time been in need of
Then at the same time would have them
placed so that they could view from their
enclosure the wheat, the corn, the pro-
duce that has caused all of the misery.
and if they have any conscience left ii
| will smite them, they will cover THEN
faces with shame; remorse will tear thelI
hearts no matter how hardened for rails
| ing so much and so many things to eat.
| Their guilt will make them hang their
heads.
These two classes of people being
there would then allow the railroad
| companies, which have been favored by
| government contracts to do this hauling
| to sell tickets and with their passenger
cars, and Pullman sleepers under govern
| ment protection, bring to this place ali
| of the better class of people, who care to
come, and take a look at one of the
greatest inventions of the age, that OF
disposing of an obnoxious surplus"
"And them"
'"Then 1 would have that firm order al
| Of the produce, all of the breadstuff, al
80 +l,o oil Of no ri oil IF ho
essaries of life, so gathered together, set
afire, where all those wretches, those mis-
creants, through which we were accursed
with the existence of those things, coulo
see it, burn and destroyed
and then?'
"Then would come the great denou
| ment, the grand climax of the whole af-
| fair When the thing was burning lusti-
| w, I would have Abdul Hamid order ou'
! his Kurds, Olney his regulars and Weyler
his Spaniards, rush into the two different
| pens, bind hand and foot all those therein,
strip them of their clothing, and, through
an endless chain, which l would have con-
structed to begin with, have them all
pulled into those immense fires, as
| lesson to themselves, to all prosperity, to
all civilizaed nations that we know how
| to punish that terrible crime-'over-pro-
| duction.'
| "The great traffic, the immense earn
| ings which the railroad companies would
have realized from the carrying OF those
| immense quantities of stuff, naturally
would increase profits to them; our Sc
curities would sell abroad the gold OF
| the English investor would find it's way
out here, after this grand final restora-
| ton, of railroad business. Confidence,
| that great thing which we all have been
| lacking in, would then at once be re-
| stored confidence in our worthy presi-
| dent that he would have enough for a
rainy day, confidence in the great The H.
| o. w. Company Limited that they were
equal to the emergency; confidence that
never hereafter any one man, state, or
| even the entire nation would be burdened
with the greatest of all curses that fear
| fullest of all -produc-
ton"
"And then" a piece of the elevator
| fell down in close proximity where the
| little group had been standing and a
great dash was made for safer quarters
the little group soon DISPERSED 1.-The fell
low with the blue cap disappearing
| amongst the crowd -Leal
JUDGE TAULBEE JOINS US.
Georgetown, Tex, Jan. 81, 1861 have
been asked by my friends who are still
holding on to the forlorn hope of getting
any reform in the Democratic party, If it