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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
THEY TELL THE TRUTH.

BUT WHEN THE LIARS STOP LYING
LOOK OUT FOR MORE MIsCHIkF.
Dun S agency says that business is
not importing nor is there any pros
poets. That prices are falling. Good.
Hurrah for the gold bIsis.-EX-
change.
Duns agency is telling the truth
for the first time. 1t has prete nded
for two years past that good times
had returned, when it knew it was
false. Why does it tell the truth
now?
Is there not a conspiracy to force
Congress to destroy the green backs?
1t was the pressure OF the banks
that compelled the repeal Of the Sher-
man act in 1893 And in 1873 the
same influence was secretly at work
to demo Ietze silver. Now these
sales of gold to England are simply to
terrorize Congress. And Dun's ad-
missions are intended to make things
look worse and thus coerce the law
makers.
The hanging Of few gold-bug Wall
street operators would clear the finan-
cial skies wonderfully. There should
be a law that no banker should come
within forty miles Of Washington. A
republic Of free people has no use for
such vermin
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
We WANT THE EGGS.

The postmaster at Great Falls, Mon
tana. wrote US, the other day.-"your
paper has so increased in mum bers
that it will have to lay in our office
until we get over the rush" Well, if
this man is going to stop THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE. and It it 10 "laying," in
the Gr:at Falls p st office, we shall
insist that the eggs are ours. We
would like him to pack them in some
thing as soft as his head and ship
them to US.
During ''the recent unpleasant
ness" huge Yankee bomb tell aud
exploded close to the colOred servant
of Confe e rate colonel. With face
pallid and eyes bullying he ran to his
master, aud eXclaimed:-"OhM assa.
Massa. HI hab laid an egg"
That's about the way the Great
Falls postmaster will feel if one Of
those REPRESENTATIVE eggs ever
matches in his post office.
Hurry them along, mister, hurry
them along. A paper that will lay
eggs is dangerous. There might be
dynamite in them They might blow
some good sense and En- elsa gram
mar into the postmaster, and if they
did he would die on the spot.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
SPRA WILING IN THE MUD.

BellefOnte, Pa. Nov. 24.-Inves tiga-
tion among the miners of central
Pennsylvania shows starvation ST ak.
ing among them at the outset of win
ter, and certainty of terrible suffer
ing unless they receive work or help.
or the 10000 men. hundreds of fam
lilies are in absolute restitution. The
trouble among them is that there are
two men for every Job.
All traceable back to the demonet-
iZatiOn Of silver. That meant the ar
rest OF mankind in the full career of
trick put ropes across the road by
which the human family was advanc-
ing and sent them sprawing in the
mud. Who did it? The Money-power.
Why? To rob the poor wretches while
they were down. How did they do it?
By demonetizing silver; cutting the
supply OF metallic money of the world
in half, and throwing away the silver
half;-thus increasing thereby the
purchasing power Of gold and redu-
cling all values from 33 to 50 per cent.
Thus the unemployed swarm and take
Thus the farmer is driven to eco
Monies unpleasant to him and deadly
to those who depend on him. Thus
the debtor class find their debts prac-
tically doubled and are reduced to
paul erism. Thus the dealer in money
leads life of idleness and absorbs
the earth. Thus honest industry ap-
proximates brigandage, and hungry
bellies are ready to inaugurate revo-
luton, and civilization trembleS in
the lap of an ca rthquake.
And the fools say:-''It is all right.
We will increase the standing army
and buy more Maxim guns"
There is no guarantee for tire peace
OF the world except universal prosper
ity, based on universal justice; and
the repression Of the blind and insen-
safe greed of the minority.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
VIVA rs THE MATTER.
A ROW IN CAMP.

Washington, D. c.. Dec. 29.-There
was considerable interest manifested
this afternoon at the Minnesota head
quarters concerning long article in
the Alexandria Post-News in which
Tams Bixb chairman of the Republi-
can state central committee, is taken
severely TO task for the manner in
which he conducted the last state
campaign. This is the second article
that has appea.e attacking Mr.. Blk
by and it is evident that a very
stormy effort will be made to depose
him from the position as the head Of
the state committee.
The Alexandria paper says that Mr..
Bixby has no right to hold the posi-
tiOn of private secretary to one of the
leading candidates for governor and
retain his position as chairman at the
same time. 1t also boldly charges
that the financial part of the last
state campaign was not run on bust
ness principles, and that money was
spent in cOtSidera BILE quantities and
no report submitted to anybody The
fact that the Post-News is considered
to be the personal organ of Senator
Knute Nelson has given rise to the
rumor that Nelson and Bixby may
nave udu SUulS lulSuuUCTSUd uuluR
since the last campaign.
Brother Tams denies that there is
any Notwithstanding is lovely and
the goose honks high" But if Tams
would only tell what he knows a
great many prominent Republicans
would soon be in the penitentiary.
Tams has had his fingers on the key.
board for years past, and knowns all
the tunes that have been played.
Better let Tams alone. He is not a
man to be kicked with impunity.
He could a tale untold. whose slightest
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood.
Make thy two eyes like stars start from
their spheres.
Thy knotted aud combined locks to part.
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quilts upon the fretful porcupine."
Handle Tams gently. If he opens
his mouth the bulls of Bashan would
be nothing to the roar that would fol-
low
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
NE W AND OLD STYLE STATES
MEN.

The American statesman of the old
school had his failings. But he was
man. He did not sell himself to cor
porations. He was not mt ney-sack
or the tools of the mOney-sacks. He
did not go to Wall street to find bis
hosom friends and advisers. He be-
lieved in the people and held it to be
the duty OF all Oftice-holders, from
president to constable. to serve and
represent them, not TO attempt to
rule them in detnance of their will
and against their instructions. He
was a man to love and trust, and the
world loses much in losing him. And
it has certainly lost him. The Thur
mans have gone. The Brices, the
Smiths, the Quays and the Germans
remain.-NcW York World.
In that day it was almost disgrace
for a public man to be rich. Now it
is disgrace for him to be poor. Then
the bankers had no more control over
the country than the bunco-steerers
have now. They pursued their mon
ey-gra bling arts in silence and sec
resy; and all they asked was to be let
alone. Now the little finger Of a
banker is larger than the lOins Of
hundred farmers; and there is no
grass on the path between the White
House and Wall street.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
DEMONETIZING GOLD.

In 1850 the April number of Har-
per's Magazine printed the following:
1.-The vast discoveries OF gold in
California renders it likely that gold
will be cheaper than pig iron in an.
other ten years. 1t is not fit money
metal and should be demOnetized at
an early date. Silver is better fitted
for money purposes than gold. Why!
solid gold plates and spoons will not
be an uncommon thing to see on our
ia bles if the California output is not
soon curtailed. We are glad to notice
a movement is on foot in England
and Germany to remove the support
it gets by reason of it's use for money.
1t is cheap metal and deserves to be
dealt in only at it's regular commercial
value"
Harper's Magazine has been recog-
nized for half d century as the great
American home magazine, and when
ever it has become necessary to pull
the wool over the eyes OF the people
the MOney-pOWer has always recog-
nized its work, and without delay EN-
nloyed it to do its vile bidding."-
Denver Road.
This shows us that ii the gold sup
ply OF 1850 had continued undated
silver would to-day be the object OF
the worlds idolatry. But the gold
was mainly placer deposits, and soon
gave out; and then the immense sill
yer developments Of Nevada turned
the tide, and instead of demonetizing
gold, as was partially accomplished in
Europe, they demonetized silver. II
it had been otherwise all the old
party papers Of the United States
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
THE DUTY Of THE HOUR.

Shore ditch, parish in London, has
erected a plant by which electric
light for the whole parish is to be
generated by the burning Of the par
lsh refuse. Hitherto it has cost Is
cents ton to get rid of the 10000
tons of re fuse gathered in year. BY
consuming it the cost will be 81 cents
ton. while the utilization Of the
power produced will bring in 1900
year proft.-Helena (Mont.) News.
What an exemplificatiOn of the
power of human intelligence to turn
even evils to ad vantages!
Hitherto mankind has lived by levy
ing on undeveloped nature. But we
have reached a new era. The worlds
supply of fertile, unoccupied land is
now practically exhaust ted. The in
genuity of man, which has so far been
exemplified in wonderful Inventions
and conquests of natures crude pow
ers, must now turn itself to securing
to the inhabitants Of the earth ia
play, equal opportunities and happi-
ness.
This must be done, or armed revolu-
tion, leading to universal anarchy,
will follow. Population is increasing
at a fearful rate of rapidity. We can
not expect vast communities of men
to peacefully starve to death, in the
midst of abundance. We would not
do it. The little instance given above
shows how even refuse can be turned
to account, and filth metamorphosed
into brilliant light, for the benefit Of
the whole people.
That is the direction in which we
must travel. God has given this lit
tie planet to the human race. 1t can
make it a hell or heaven. Which
shall it be?
Listen respectfully to every honest
man who proposes a reasonable
remedy for existing evil conditions.
Even the man who suggests
an impractical ble course is better
than the man who suggests nothing.
Agitation is the beginning of wisdom.
Hear everything and judge for your
self.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08

pockets and buy hundreds OF copies Of
books, like 1.-The Seven Financial
Conspiracies." and "Ten Men Of Mon
ey Island, and "Cold Facts, "(price ten
cents each AMI still cheaper by the
hundred.) and spread them every
whe re. to open the minds of your fell
low men and destroy the virus Of lies
which Plutocracy has bought up, and
is pouring out in millions Of gallons.
The stake is your country. Nay: it
is something bigge even than your
country. 1t is the human race, now
and through all future generations.
Shall An,e ricans 90 back to European
conditions? That is the Ques ton. The
biggest that has ever been asked on
this round ca nth.
What answer do you give? Your
ancestors tracked the snow Of Valley
Forge with their bleeding feet. Will
you sink supinely into serfdom, to a
lot of damnable money lenderS, and
soulless sharks? Up and at 'em.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
NEW SUBSCRIBER TAKE NO
IICE.

This paper will be received by many
who did not themselves subscribe for
it, and they may fear bill will be
sent. Look at the number on the
label. Ii there is none then it is
merely sample copy. If the number
on the label Is l3 more than the num-
Der of the current issue Of the paper,
then some person has paid for the pa
per for 13 weeks or 3 months in adj
vance, and the party receiving it will
be charged nothing for that time. If
at the end Of the three months they
do not want the paper, send us notice
and it will be at once stopped. If we
do not receive such notice we will con-
clude you want to subscribe and will
Ontinue to send the paper until we
hear from you
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
NUMBERING 4 NORWEGIAN.

1t is bad state of affairs when the
positors'knowm more than'the editor,
and insist on correcting his copy. 1t
kind Of turns things upside down.
And it Is barely possible that the COM
positors may be mistaken.
We wrote, for our last issue. a notice
Of the visit, to THE REPRESENTATIVE
Office. of Hon. II. E. Boen, ex-me m Der
Of Congress from the Seventh District.
The intelligent compositor said to
himself THAT old fool (the EDITOR
don't know anything anyhow; even
the Republicans are willing to admit
that fact" And so wherever we wrote
Mr.. Boen's name he kindly inserted a
u and made it read ''Bo,cen." Now as
there never was man Of the name of
Bowen member Of Congress from
any district in this state, the intelli-
gent compositor put us in the position
of praising. in strong terms, a man
who never existed. This is embar-
RAISING. 1t is too much
"Boen" is good old Gothic name,
which comes down from the days of
the Vikings; the family has lived on
the same farm for many generations;
they belong to a grand old race and
father OF many races:-reaching down
even to India, whose people tell us
that their ances tors originally came
from a country where the days were
but six hours long. Some of them
probably lived On the next farm to
Congressman Roens ancestors. And
now to have the ancestral cognUmen
Englishized into Bowen" is too bad.
We have long had notion that the
Norwegian Bjarne was the same as the
Irish Barney: but we are too much
afraid of both races to say so. Some
red-headed Irishman might try to
persuade us-with a club-that he was
a dark-skinned Celt. from the shores
OF the Mediterranean. Hereafter we
trust our compositors will 60 upon the
presumption,-it may be violent one,
that the editor knows how to spell
the names of his frie ends
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08

Of how he licked the other fe low.
Said lie: Then threw him; and for
greater security got under him: and
I held him down with my nose, which
l had carefully inserted in his mouth
for that purpose"
Campos would make first-class
editor Of gold-bug daily newspaper.
His talents are wasted in soldering.
Or he might hire out to Dun and
Bradstreet, or to Chauncey Depew.
HIS first blast would lie the legs off
an iron pot; aud his second would lie
holes where the legs had been.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
RUSH THE WORK.
NOW IS TIE TINE.

NOW Is III II VI Z.
Note the tremendous growth Of the
circulation of this paper. 1t is IN
paralleled. We should go to 10000.
We will, if our friends stand by us.
What has been done already, in
dozen or two cities and townships, can
be done in $4,000 more cities and
townships. The field is iimi:less.
We honestly believe that the facts
We are presenting would, if brought
nome TO the minds of the people, con-
vert majority Of them TO the Peo-
PIES Party.
Think what that means. A revival Of
Jeffersonian and Lincclnian honesty.
simplicity AND patriotism; the bank
erS driven back into their gopher
holes, and the holes plugged up; Eng
lish Influences wiped off the slate Of
the nation; prosperity for farmer,
mechanic, merchant and manufac-
turer; money enough for the business
Of the country and no more he'll rule
cf mortgage foreclosures, and home
smashing: and pauper breeding and
suicide-inciting legislation.
Push THE REPRESENTATIVE, breth-
rem. That is the ladder that leads up
from the cavern Of death and doom.
Let each man do his part. We will
do ours.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
THE PRICE OF LUMBER.

The times are so good in Minnesota,
and the price of our products so high,
that the Republican party has passed,
through the House,a bill to put high
tariff on lumter, so that the farmers
would have to pay little more for it
il they wanted to build a pig-pen.
Inasmuch as the lumbermen have al
ready an organized ring, to keep up
prices, it would look as if they were
Independent Of all tariffs. But there
is such thing as greasing the fat
SOW; and the farmers ought to be
kept down, and made humble, for this
overlooking prosperity, which they
now enjoy, is making them kind of
bumptious. We asked for prosperity
and they have given US higher
prices:-not for what we sell but for
what we buy. We asked for bread
and they gave us bloody ck-bat,
with dirt on it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
" NOT Il FOOL, BUT -

The Republican warden of the Kan.
sas penitentiary reports deficiency
OF $4,000 a month. When there was a
POpulist warden he turned surplus
into the state treasury every mouth.
The farmers OF Kansas didnt all like
that, SO they voted the Pop out. The
heavier the taxes are. the better the
Republican farmer likes it. The Re-
publican farmer is fool.-Helena
(Mont.) News.
Well, no; We won't say he is a fool
He is simply the unfortunate victim
OF evil influences. He has believed in
his o!d-party newspapers while they
were tying him neck and heels and
delivering him over to the enemy. Be-
cause the Republican party was right
thirty years ago he has jumped to the
conclusion that it is right today.
This is non se4uitur Everything
changes. The very stars in their
courses have their alterations.
"Where are the friends of my YOUTH"
cried Retrospection; and Echo an
swered:-"1n the penitentiary." The
Democratic party was as clearly right
in the time Of Jackson as it was clear
ly wrong In the time Of Buchanan.
The Republican party was as clearly
right in the time of Lincoln as it is
clearly wrong in the time Of Platt.
ITO what vile uses may we come at last?
1lluStriOuS cesar dead. and turned TO CLAW.
May stop hole to keep the wind away"
So, friend Republican, lower the
angle Of your nose about % degrees.
Be not cock-sure that every man who
differs from you is a fool. Use the
faculties of observation and reason
which God has given you. You were
not born the bond.slave of a party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08

have been terrorizing Butte for
several years, was established to-day
by papers found on his person. He is
the man who took car load of mold
ers from Philadelphia to San Fran
cisco in 1890 to take the place Of the
strikers who were out over twenty
months. The men he brought with
him were induced to go back upon the
payment Of their expenses and 81, bv
the strikers. White, however, refused
to go, and he was escorted out Of the
state by committee after he had
been nearly beaten to death by m OBJ.
Since then he has been cumming"
around over the Northwest and has
been in jails in half a dozen states.
He was caught In the act Of his last
robbery, and with his partner, the
short man, George Howard. concert
nall singer. was arrested. They shot
their victim. an old man, who is lying
in dangerous condition.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
4 WAVE OF PROSPERITY.
HOW TO BE HAPPY,

An Iowa paper says: "a wonderful
Wave of prosperity is pouring over the
country. Cotton has gotten up to Il
cents; corn to 20 cents: potatoes 81
cents: peas 30 cents; wheat 40 cents;
and oats 10 cents. The people have
actually become so high-minded tina t
they are studying about how TO OBJ
tain patches for the windows in their
breeches. and the elbows Of their
coat is; and the women are SO eXtrava-
CANT as to desire new coffec-sacks for
pctticoatS. This wonderful wave of
pros perity has the endorsement of
both old parties and all the million
aireS''
This wave has not quite reached Our
section. If we could get 30 cents
bushel for potatoes we would "thank
God and take courage" We can only
get six cents. And wheat in North
Dakota is % cents to 80 cents
bushel, with cheating in weights and
grades thrown in.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
THE WHY AND THE WHERE
FORE,

Lieut.. Governor Day, (Rep) in the
Fairmont Sentinel says:
'Our bosoms do not swell with pride
when we contemplate that Minnesota
has not a chairmanShi hip in either
our great leaders eibowcd cut Of the
Echo answers, Why?'
The answer is plain enough. The
corporations rule this state. and they
need tools not great men. Job says of
Behemoth: "Shall put ring in his
nose and make him a plaything for
my maidens?" You can't put ring
in the nose Of a really great man, and
make him the servant Of money-grab.
bers. Hence he S tays at home
Corporate domination means the
deterioration Of the human race. The
Spanish Inquisition killed off all those
who dared to think for themselves:
they eXtinguished the breed; and
thereby reduced Spain from a first
rate to fifth-rate power. 1t was like
sending agents through the country
TO kill ali the blooded stock. The
land would breed nothing, for genera
tions thereafter, but runts and
scrubs.
The corporations for forty years have
been our Spanish InQuisition; they
have been stamping the honest and
able men into the mud, and lifting up
the corrupt and servile imbeciles, un-
til the country looks upon Congress
and laughs, and turns away it's face,
and is sore ashamed.
The nation must own the railroads,
not alone for the money they will save.
but to preserve the integrity, genius
and mani hood of the human IA m llV
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
A STRIKING FACT.

THE WHEAT AS WHEAT IS WORTH 4OC.
A BUSHEL: THE WHEAT AS FLOUR
IS WORTH $1.25 BUSHEL!
Wheat is now selling at 40 cents a
bus hel, the lowest ever known in this
country, and yet when we buy fur
we pay at the rate Of $l.25 per bushel
for the wheat that made the flour.
Who pockets the, difference between
81 rs and 40 cents? Why, the millers'
trust gets the most Of it and the rail-
road monopolies get the remainder.
Stick to the old party, boys
Amarillo, Texas Republic.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08

No person has any right to incur or
create any obligation, binding on THE
REPRESENTATIVE ublishing Com
pany, or make any contract in its
name, unless the same is first specific
ally assented to and approved Of, in
writing, by the president Of the said
REPRESENTATIVE Publishing Com
pany. IGNATIUS DONNELLY,
Pres idaut.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
PLEASE NOTE.

Do not send individual checks in
remitting money. The banks charge
a percentage for collecting the same;
and when we are furnishing the paper
for eight or ten or fifteen cents, for
three months, every penny counts.
Send postal money orders or bank
draftS.s
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
4 MOTHER DELUSION" "

The cry Of the Money-lenders, while
insisting on an exclusively gold cur
rency is that gold has intrinsic value,
because it always costs d dollar of la
Dor to produce a dollar Of gold. II
this were true there would be no mon
cy IN mining gold except for the la
borer who dug it out of the earth.
Great capitalists would not, as they
do now, own gold.mines, because
every cent would be consumed in pay
ing the wages of the wOrkmen. But
the Denver, Colorado, Road" explodes
this humbug, as follows:
"ColoTadO isn't the only place in the
world where gold can he mined for
less than 6 cents on the dollar. Below
we publish table showing the pro-
ducing power of Australia and West
African properties:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08

Think for yourself. You owe that
much to your posterity. Remember
what the Bible says:-"Though thou
brayest fool in mortar yet will not
the foolishness depart from him" Be
sure you are net a candidate for the
mortar.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
NOTICE.

We want all our our friends who
are in arrears to be kind enough to
pay up. We are printing SUCH big
editions that it costs us big money.
The Scotch have saying many
little makes mickle." We are doing
good work for the cause you have at
heart; so give us a helping hand.