The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
OUR FORUM CENSOR.

A REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
Editor Representative: ,e
Your editorial on the Forum suggests a
censor, so 1 elect myself to that important
post and ask:
Is is not in accordance with personal
liberty to take your beef in a gallon of
water when pint will answer?
The pint may not be too rich for an
editor who has to swallow everything,
but for many you can't get it too thin.
Winona kickers pound of beef is dam
aged somewhat in putting up. To accuse
w. w. Erwin of being the owner of a BIZ
BILE is in agreeable contrast with the
commercial travellers story. He says:
Bill Erwin was in Attorney General
Child's office when his typewriter laid a
copy of his Lords prayer decision on tbs
desk. He poked it over to Bill to read
who said
That's sound, general, but I'll bet a
ten you can't say the Lords prayer, now
you have decided it unconstitutional
Done, said the general handing the
money over to Edgerton, and began:
Nov I lay me down to sleep,
l pray the Lord my soul to-
Give him the money, George. I see he
has posted himself up lately said Bill
I turned on the commercial man and
asked:
Have you papers for that?"
"Old man. says Commercial, "why do
1 need papers when l was there?" and
asked General, where does the sectarian
character of your Lords prayer come
in?'
At Lord to be sure says the general
But no sect is mentioned
D,,{
as all sects have God, the sect is there
all the same. For instance, the Metho-
dist prays to a Methodist God and so do
all sects either to a Baptist, Catholic, ETC.
If the prayer only read:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
pray my Baptist God my soul to keep
the sectarianism would be plain. but that
would spoil the poetry of it.
General, l said, your last decision is
much palmer than your first. and besides
I find you have high appreciation Of the
poetry of the Lords prayer
Now Kicker says Erwin has a bible of
his own. How easy it is for folks to lie!
Kicker should be more explicit as to
who he guys" and Woods are. When
God set mark on Cain he called him
by name and then branded him. the best
authorities say he made niger Of him
That is the way to fix EN-.
Shake! I have had all his experiences,
even to being born in Massachusetts, but
unlike him l can see where we chewed
great deal We prevented the circula-
ton tax on national banks being repealed
and also an increase of issue to par value
Of bonds. We remonetized and re-made
a legal tender the dads dollar" We
stopped the destruction Of the green
backs. We did insist on the constitution
al rights of congress to make greenbacks
money, and the supreme court sustains
us. We urged that the greenback be
made full legal tender, and though we
did not succeed John Sherman as secre-
tary Of the treasury issued an order to
take them at the custom houses and they
f1Oated at par. No party ever did as
much for its country as the greenback
party.
The doctors anxiety over getting to-
gether is too feversh to be healthy. We
shall join when candidates are proper
and all the Scheming and planning we
shall resort to will not unite us before
Milton says:
Devil with devil damned the firmest
concord holds.'
Now we have an indefinite atrn Prs a.
Now we have an infinite host of damned
will very soon have equally as large
host of damned Republicans by the ides
of November, for has not the Republican
congress passed the Wilson bill plus Is
per cent and otherwise backed Grover?