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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
A PROPHECY.

A late issue of the New Road, of Den
yer, contains cut showing Mark Hanna
at the New York reception, of which the
New York Tribune said: Hon. Mark
Hanna was rendered a magnificent recep-
ton by the wealth of New York. Among
the twenty-eight millionaires present
were August Belmont, J. Pierpont Nor
gan, Lazard Freres, Ikelheimier and Hell
delback, Henry Clews and many other
we'll known financial magnets of great in
f1uence." The Road cartoon also con-
tanned in one corner these words, taken
from Ignatius Donnelly's celebrated
prophecy in his book entitled Caesars
Column:
"This," said Rudolph, in a solemn
whisper, "this is where they meet This
is the real center of government of the
American continent; all the rest is sham
and form. The men who meet here de-
termine the condition of all the hundreds
of millions who dwell on the great land
revealed to the world by Columbus.
Here political parties, courts, juries, gov
ernors, legislatures, congress, presidents
are made and unmade, and from this spot
they are controlled and directed in the
discharge of their multiform functions.
The DEGREES formulated here are echoed
by hundred thousand newspapers and
many thousands of orators; and they are
enforced by an uncountable army of SOL
diers, servants, tools, spies, and even as
sassins. He who stands in the way Of
the men who assemble here perishes. He
who would oppose them takes his life in
his hands. You are, young man, as if
had led you to the center of the earth,
and had placed your hand upon the very
pivot, the well-oiled axle, upon which,
noiselessly, the whole great globe re-
wolves, and from which the awful force
extend which hold it all together.'- (The
Weekly Capital, Seattle, Wash.)
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
DO NOT FALTER NOW.

The following advice is sound, and
every Populist should read and act with
out delay:
Zone of the most important duties for
the active Populist to perform just now
is, in our opinion, to see that every Pop
ulist takes Populist paper. The mixed
condition of affairs during the recent
campaign renders this necessary. If they
take Populist paper they will see that
the fight is to 60 right on. We suggest
that those who have done such noble
work in getting up clubs of subscriptions
for Populist papers, inquire of those
whose subscriptions they have hereto
fore taken and see if they have renewed
and if not get their subscription for some
reform paper. ."-Missouri World
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
A GOOD IDEA,
Breakfast for Poor LOdgers.

A light breakfast of coffee and
bread will be given every morning to
the unemployed men who are given
lodgings at the Harrison street police
station. Captain Koch began the ex-
pertinent Friday, and he says 100 me
can be fed at the cost Of about 81 a
day.
IA good many of those poor fellows
who come here are honest and willing
to work, If they can find it," said the
captain. "When they leave here in
the morning they are hungry, and
hunger. find, from long experience
in the police service, tempts man to
steal. The men who follow coal
wagons all over the city looking for a
job at putting the fuel in cellars are,
as rule, the poor fellows who sleep in
police stations.
"Now, a man can't carry in much
coal on an empty stomach, and that is
why I'm going to give these poor men
little breakfast. will divide loaf
of bread between four men, and give
each large cup Of hot coffee, think
it's good scheme, and l am certain
it will have the effect of decreasing
crime. ."-Times-H Herald.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
REPUDIATED.
The Declaration of Independence
Declared a Fraud.
The Successor Of Henry Ward Beecher Opens
War on the Spirit Of the Age-Government
Does Not Rest on the Consent Of the
Governed-We're Getting There.

New York, Nov. 23.-The Rev. DR.. Ly-
man Abbott, pastor of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, last night closed one of his
critical lectures upon the Hebrew scrip
lures by a reputation of the theory OF
the Declaration of Independence that
government rests on the consent of tho
governed.
The action of the north in the civil war
and Of the soldiers at the Chicago riots
were, he said, the answer of the American
people to that proposition. 1t is years
since Plymouth was crowded as it was
tonight. DR.. Abbott has been attacked,
first by Brooklyn preachers and then by
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, for the
freedom of his talk on the Bible. He be-
gan his sermon with what might be con-
strued as defense.
"The Bible needs neither defense nor
eulogy," said he. "Your presence here to-
night in such numbers is evidence of the
hold the Bible has on all thoughtful men
and women. I desire to explain simply
certain aspects Of the book, and leave
it to be it's own defender"
Moses and his works were the proper
subject of the evening. The question of
authority of the government, said DR..
Abbott, had always perplexed thinkers.
One theory was that law should be en-
forced by the superior of the inferior,
with the penalty for violation, that un-
der lie all despotic forms of government.
The second theory was that government
rested on the consent of the governed
Our fathers had adopted that theory and
placed it in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
When Horace Greeley said Let the
erring sisters co. we answered that
theory. When we, with muskets, faced
the rioters at Chicago, who demanded
that we govern them only with their con-
sent, that was Americas answer to dec
laration that government rests on the
consent of the governed. 1t still stands
In the Declaration of Independence but
we no longer believe in it, nor in the
philosophy on which it is founded"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
THE CHRONIC LIARS.
How Their Falsehoods are Bring
ing Men to Starvation and
SuiciIe

uASAASs
Chicago is being flooded by work.
lngmen who have come here on the
representation of portion of the
press that mills and factories are be-
ing opened up and that labor is in
great demand. In the towns and
cities from which they come the
| envelOped in a cloud of smoke, which
is pouring out Of the chimneys and
| smoke-stacks of big manucturing
plants that have begun operations
since the election. In New York,
Philadelphia and Cincinnati the pa
pers are full Of statistics showing the
| number Of wOrkmen who have been
taken from the ranks of the unem-
| ployed in Chicago, and are at once
more earning comfortable wages at
their trades. Chicago papers TEEN
every day with reports of business
prosperity in New Y York, Philadelphia,
| Cincinnati, Pittsburg and other East
ern cities. In this way both ends Of
the line are worked aud thousands of
| workmen are sent on wild goose
chases in search of Jobs. None of
these reports of revival Of trade is
true.
: The Chicago papers are daily chron-
lClluS dCCOuubb Ol Cflmo. SulClue ana
| starvation, and those responsible for
the powers that rule seem to be
wholly unconscious Of the gathering
| storm. Like the state of affairs that
existed in France preceding the revo-
| luton, our rising aristocracy of
wealth is considering no remedy for
existing evils but that Of force. Here
| is a sample of the news items referred
to: CDR. Wolfgardner this morning
| made an investigation Of the strange
case of John Bauer. 67O3 Page street,
who died several days ago, but whose
| wife insisted that he was in a state Of
suspended animation and would come
to life If the proper restoratives were
| applied. 1t was found that the man
was really dead. and that his death
was brought on from starvat tion.
Bauer has wife and seven children,
| and upon investigation it was found
that they are all at the point Of star
walton. Bauer's burial will be in
charge of county officials. He had
gone hungry in order to allow his chill
dren nourishment, while death came
to him. The neighbors have come to
the relief of the family."-K. of l..
Journal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
BRYAN'S GREAT VOTE.
A Gold Bug Newspaper Finds Food
for Thought in Election Figures.

for Thought in Election Figures
The Washington Post, which support
ed Mr.. Mckinley during the campaign,
does not take the view of most gold-bug
papers that the American people repudia-
ted Mr.. Bryan. Referring to the popular
vote, it says in recent editorial
There are some very significant fea-
lures in these figures. They furnish
much food for thought. The Republican
and assistant Republican organs, for in
stance, are sneering at Mr. Bryan, declar-
ing that he has been repudiated by the
American people and that it is a piece
of ridiculous impertinence in him to
think of 1900 or to suppose that the
American people regard him with any,
thing but pity and contempt. 1t strikes
us as very stupid to put forward such
propositions as these. Mr.. Bryan got g.
221, ,552 votes. Six and quarter millions
of men are worth thinking about, espe-
cially as nearly all of them are native
born white Americans.
There were not that many voters for
Mr.. Cleveland in 1892, as his vote that
year was only e,556,562, nearly 10000
less than Mr.. Bryan received on the Sd
inst. If, therefore, Mr.. Bryan is an OBJ
ject of derision because of the popular
reputation involved in a vote of only
6,221 ,552, how are we to estimate Mr..
Cleveland's standing with the masses in
the light of his vote of only 5,556,562? :?
The fact is that, taking the 1850 DEM
ocratic votes that went to Palmer and
the 10000 or 100000 other Democratic
votes that were given to Mckinley direct
and adding these to the vote that he ac-
tually received, Bryan would have carried
the country so far as concerns the popu-
lar vote-carried it by an immense plur-
ality.
But it is idle to talk of man who re-
ceived 6,250,00 votes as man who has
been discredited and rebuked by his fell
low citizens. NO such moral can be
drawn from the figures of 1896. Bryan
developed phenomenal strength, es-
pecially when we consider the utter de-
moralization of the party when he be-
came it's nominee the titantic influences
brought to bear against him, from the
administration itself down to the small
est moneyed corporation in the land Let
no one delude himself with the idea that
Bryan has been obkterated If in 1888
Mr.. Cleveland had brought out the DEM
ocratic vote as Bryan brought it out this
year, Gen. Harrison would not have been
president in 1889.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

patriotism are becoming more and more
united," such a letter as Pontius PLATE
might have written to the money chang
ers Of Jerusalem. And there they feast
ed in gluttony and drink over their sue
cess, while thousands of people on the
plains Of the West are hungry and with
out food to eat. and people in Chicago
and other cities are begging from door
to door, and thousands in the United
States monthly, by reason of want, end
ing their own existence or committing
crime to find home" for the winter
Business and patriotism" Nothing so
clearly foreshadows the future as this
business feast! Let us hope that wisdom,
with organized effort. will avert the
crisis and steer the ship of state into
peaceful waters.-Patriots' Bulletin.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

when the manufactures Of wood working
machinery, representing q capital of 500
900, consolidated.
An effort is being made in Louisville,
KY, to establish free silver and reform
organ, by selling $10O, 900 worth of stock
In shares of $25 each. Also by means of
an annual subscription Of $6, payable in
advance.
The condition of the working classes
in Canada is so serious that the unem-
ployed have been holding meeting at
Toronto, where resolutions were passed
embodying the following demands: Re-
moval Of taxes on buildings and personal
property; the spending of the "a 40OO, 900
OF government surplus in developing
mineral resources; the passage of a law
establishing a minimum rate of wages
at 15 cents per hour; and small sum
to be provided for superanuated work.
ing men.
Mr.. Bryan is working eighteen hours
day on his book and at his correspon-
dence, which has reached as high as
$500 letters day. The book is to be
called "The First Battle" and the pre-
face, which has been given to the press,
is marked by that simplicity of style
eIAO uOuOSIy VI mduucE tudL CudIdCCcT.
ICES Mr.. Bryan at all times.
President Cleveland's message favors
present tariff; extension of the navy;
letting Cuba fight it out alone; congress
directing other than foreclosure of Union
Pacific railroads; the retiring of United
States notes and treasury notes issued in
payment of silver purchases; the issuing
OF "long term bonds or by their redemp-
ton with the proceeds of such bonds or
to call them in from circulation on pay
ment of gold; reducing the tax on ma
tional bank notes to one-fourth Of one
per cent; the establishing of central
lied national banking system with
branches in smaller communities"
A bill to make contracts payable in
gold was defeated in the Alabama legis-
lature.
The affidavit of Gen. Fry (late of
Coxey's army, candidate for governor
on the Socialist ticket, in Missouri de-
clares that his campaign expenses were
but thirty-fve cents.
Senator Carlysle's estimates of appro-
priations required includes $50, 900
for military and naval extensions; S140,-
100000 for army and navy pensions,
while $31, 100000 covers internal i'm
provements. Total estimates amount to
nearly $5O0,0OO,OOO A. r.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
OH! THE ASSES.

Prosperity has evidently struck us
hard. The delinquent tax lists are simply
enormous. In Polk county, the great
gold center of the state where every pa
per in the city of Des Moines shrieked
for honest money" and where the mon
partisan business mans club" worked
itself nearly to death about the dishonor
that would come from silver, it takes
twenty-four newspaper pages to publish
q list of the men who can't pay their tax
es. Two-thirds of these it is said voted
for the gold standard when they couldn't
get 50-cent nor any other kind of a
dollar to pay their taxes with.-Creston
American.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
STAY HAND, GOLD TORIES!
BY Joaquin Miller.

BY Joaquin Miller.
(The Poet of the Sierras.)
NY country, has it come to pass
That British greed and British gold
Have won where sword and blazing brass
Won not in daring days of old?
Dare Wall street Arnolds walk abroad
Where stands old Wall streets Wash
ington,
And taunt us? In the name of God,
What have we done? What have we
done?
What have we done but toll and bleed
And battle down the border land
And widen worlds for Wall street greed
With dauntless heart and horny hand?
I think the time has come to say,
Stay hand, you tories, Arnolds, stay.
Stay hand, stay tongue, stay brazen
throat:
And if brave Britain is more dear
To Tories there than Patriots here
Why, Tories, Traitors, take the boat.
Who made this land? Who hewed the
way
From Allegheny's stony sleeps
To where Sierra's pine tops play
deeps?
Why, silvered heroes, men who knew
Such daring as shall never die;
Such daring as the dauntless few
Who smote your British hip and thigh,
While you, you sat and gathered gold
Or passed your cunning years abroad
And taunting, sneeringt bought and sold
The very blood that drenched our sod.
My God! And now what more would
you,
Thrice Judas, Arnold, traitors you?
Your hands from OFF the nations throat
And we will raise God songs of praise
And gratitude for f9frer days,
Nor miss you in single note.
You have your gold. Be satisfied
And tempt not fate too far today.
Take up your gold. The world is wide;
But we are here, and here to stay.
You want our silver? Want our lands?
Want British law and British spoil,
While we in chainY, bound feet and
hands,
Toll on and on as peasants toll?
This land is freedoms land for aye!
The war of ballots fq1 the grace
Free Land! Free Silver! And FREE
MEN! ~.
Free men who do not fear to die.
Free men have died, and may again!
And if, by chance, your gold has won,
Beware! The war has but begun:
The war Of ballota for the grace
To coin our moneys, keep our laws,
To clip old England's reaching paws,
And laugh her lion inrthe face.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
A DEGRADED INTELLECT.

Robert Ingersoll is reported to have
received several thousand letters be-
fore and since the election from his
former following, denouncing him for
his position on the silver question.
Many Of the letters say that they have
taken down his pictures, and in one
neighborhood a bonfire was made Of
them. The facts are that $1,000 per
speech is what caught Mr.. Ingers0ll.
Mammon is in the land. and among
a pity that such great intellect, with
so large following, was not above
temptation. All OF those. who acted
so intemperately would have respect
ed him for his gold standard views
had it not been that he had a few
months before intelligently advocated
the full restoration of silvcr.-Patri-
OTIS Bulletin.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
A FREE COUNTRY.

Great Britain, in 1889. Tad It's, 900 miles
of wire, while the Western Union, in the
same year, had CAT 1887; yet the latter
sent fewer messages than the former. In
countries where the government operates
the telegraph it has been proven that
Tue rates are scarcely one-half what they
are in this country. The United States is
the only country where the telegraph is
not part of the postal system, and if the
government controlled here the rates
could be reduced more than one-half and
the system be self-suStaining-EX.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
WAS THERE FRAUD?

(Cor. to the Iowa Farmers Tribune.)
l notice that you publish accounts in
some places of very large gains in the
Republican vote while the increase in
population don't warrant it, and no fall
ing off in the vote of the opposition, but
rather an increase. Some things look
little mysterious about the vote in this
county.
In 1893 this county gave Jackson 1,795;
Boies, 1852; Joseph, 1873, and Mitchell,
1877; total, 3,4S7. In 1895 Drake got
1,796; Babb 979; Crane, 2O4, and Bacon,
268; total, 3,247. While in 1896 McKin-
ley got 2,749; Bryan, 1,471; Palmer, 25;
Prohibition, 80; total, Apt, making
total gain over any previous vote of
1,030. In 1895 the Republican majority
over all was only 345, while this year it
is 1921.
1t is known that there has been no in
crease in population to speak of, so where
did all this increase in the vote come
from? Were they shipped in and colon
lied, or just grew from Mckinley bulbs?
Of course it must be honest for the
sub-bosses here are honest, for we heard
one of them remark that there was not
the slightest trickery in the Republican
party. l am glad to hear it and wish
we might see and believe it for the credit
of humanity.
We are keeping up our silver organiza-
tion here and hope to be much more
thoroughly organized in the future We
will try to increase the circulation of
your paper, as we believe it is doing ex-
cellent work. w. H. Littell.
Charles City, Iowa.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

Twould be folly to think Of Populists
making four years fight merely for obi
metallism." After four years campaign
on the vigorous and progressive utter
ances of the Omaha platform we only
speak the sentiment of two million vot-
ers, when we say that bimetallism Is too
narrow plank on which to align the
contest for the next four years.--Chtcago
ExpreSS
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

The Philadelphia Press calls attention
to the heavy Mckinley vote in the large
cities. There is where the Bryan anar-
chists dwell-Topeka Advocate.
It is on the program to finish up the
time honored greenbacks. A money that
once saved the nation, that was good
enough to pay off the soldiers, is not good
enough for the shylocks who would thus
choke a little tighter-who would rivet
more firmly the chain that now binds.
In order to accomplish the retirement of
the greenback an issue or two of bonds
will be necessary. Thus the public debt
will grow, and Shylock will reap the BEN
efit.-Senaca (Kan) News.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16

every year 80 of sansee't dirscs sIsss Sss
state, county and township; and IA.
100000 more annually Of interest On
"watered stock" Of railroads: usuriouo
rates on borrowed money; and through
the stealings Of elevator. wheat, lunA,
Der, cattle and other rings. What do
the people get for It all1 Nothing.
What are they going to do about ke
Speak and act.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-29
SAILOR WHIPPED
Donkey Engine Man of
White Rose Attacked.
Sailmaker From the u. s. 5. Alert
and Two Sailors From the
Coal Vessel Implicated.

The L. S. S. Alert has not been in
port very long, but she is beginning TO
have trouble already, and trouble, too,
which has led to the calling of a court
of inquiry over the case of the sail
maker, who, acting with two sailors on
the Norwegian bark White Rose, of
which Capt. Aaroe is master, succeed
ed in battering up badly the donkey en-
CINE man aboard that coal vessel, who
now lies in his bunk hardly able to
move as result.
Shortly after II o'clock on Sunday
night while nearly all hands on the
White Rose were in bed, the steward
ran down into the Captains cabin cry
ing:
They are killing the donkey engine
mani"
The Captain ran on deck and found
the sailor referred to lying upon the
deck very badly hurt He learned, upon
inquiry, that the sailmaker had come
aboard, and that, in conjunction with
Knudsen, a Norwegian, and Cranes,
an Englishman, had set upon the don
key engine man with Delaying pins and
other weapons they could find. The
former had fed while the Captain was
coming on deck.
The unfortunate man was cared for
again.
At o'clock yesterday morning the
Captain was again awakened and in
formed that the same man from the
Alert had come aboard, and, upon go
Ahg on deck he was found to have dis
appeared again.
Inquiry brought out the fact that it
was not the donkey-engine man the
conspirators were after but the second
carpenter.
During the forenoon Harry Evans
was sent aboard the White Rsoe and
Knudsen and Cranes were arrested.
1t seems that the sailmaker of the
Alert and Knudsen are both NOrwe-
gians and hail from the same town.
Cranes, though an Englishman, is a
great friend of the two Norwegians.
They had evidently planned to whip
the Second Mate of the White Rose
within an inch of his life or kill
him. The fact that their mistake in
hattacking the wrong man was pointed
! out to them while they were beating
| the unfortunate victim, is probably the
only thing that saved that mans life.
When the facts were made known at
the police station Marshal Brown
communicated with Capt. Hanford of
! the Z. S. S. Alert, and the court of in
quiry called for this morning was the
result.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-29
a CHEAP RESTAURANT.

People.who go in for 10 shilling din
ners, and even the gentlemen who
break the confiding hearts of restau-
rateurs by ordering magnificent spreads
and then confess their inability 10 pay
for them, will be surprised to learn
that there is a restaurant in the East
End of London where a good meal may
be obtained at the price of l penny.
You seem to grow pretty fat on
your penny dinners, a representative
remarked to the sleek proprietor, who
was busily preparing his dishes the
other morning.
"Wen, l do pretty WELL" said he,
but l give a decent enough dinner for
a penny My customers are chiefly
factory people. Here's how 1 make up
one of my dinners: Sausage, a farth-
ing; pickles, farthing; bread, farth-
ing, and either butter or cheese, a farth-
ing. Down here in the East End, [ can
tell you, these dinners are popular
enough, and constitute the chief meal
of a good many people.
Il deal chiefly in farthings. L sell a
lfarthing's worth of bread to plenty of
customers. Another of my specialties
is halfpenny worth of timed lobster
or salmon These delicacies are al
ways in demand"