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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

their party, satisfied with it's position on the
great questions of the day, and devoted to
their great leader, Wm J. Bryan. There is
no reason why they should disband and
they would regard any proposition of that
kind coming from us as simply ridiculous.
Two men can act together upon any
question, on which they hold the same
views, without merging their identity.
They can pull the same rope without
insisting upon wearing the same pair Of
pants. l have no complaint to make
against the Democrats Of Minnesota, and,
as l will show in tomOrrOw's issue of the
Representative, l sorry to see that
in other parts of the country there is a
decided disposition to capture our leaders
and break up our organization. This is
all very foolish and will breed an amount
of bad blood between the two parties that
may prevent cooperation in 1898 and 1900
Let the Democrats go ahead with their
educational work and the free silver men
do the same, and the POpulists follow suit
maintaining friendly and kindly relations,
and then if events justify it, see if we can
not, as three parties, not as one party
unite in the support Of the same men for
office In this state it seems to me there
will not be much trouble, unless unwise
counsels prevail. to do this. / think every
one comedies that after Mr.. Lind making
the magnificent run which he did last
year and came so near to victory, that he
is entitled to support for governor in
1895 If we could hang lot of our fools
and traitors his election would be a GER
tainty. But if any man tells the Populists
that they cannot vote for Mr.. Lind next
year. unless they turn Democrats, why,
he is going to produce a poll parrot and
a monkey time in this state that will be
quences. From the Minneapolis Evening
Press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
THE NASHVILLE PROGRAM.

The friends in Tennessee are taking
much interest in completing arrange
ments for the conference.
The National Reform Press associa-
tion will meet in Representative hall at
II am, Friday, July End, and Satur-
day will be devoted to committee work
and visiting the Centennial Exhibition.
On Sunday Rev. Myron Reed, of Den
yer, breaches at the Tabernacle
The national conference will convene
on Monday the 5th at 10 o'clock at the
state house and it's sessions will be held
day time and evening until final ad-
journment.
Board can be obtained at 500 to so
a day and local committees have taken
great care to see that every possible
step is taken to provide for the comfort
and convenience of the delegates.
From every state in the union comes
the assurance that the Populists are
united in their determination to resent
the Infamous dickering and fusion
trades of the past two years.
The Nashville conference is going to
be representative of the true spirit OF
Populism Chicago Sentinel.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
Society Must BE Protected.

Billy Williams was sentenced to seven
years Imprisonment in Washington City
last week for ''hclding up IsadOr Ef-
rom He pleaded guilty and the prose
cutor plead for the extreme penalty 10
protect society and as lessons to others
who, like this man, are forced by star
walton to become criminals, forced by
the very reason that what labor creates
is taken from it by society to pay,
among other things, the handsome sal
aries of such judges and prosecutors
Society that refuses to provide honora-
bic work is the real criminal Men
denied the right to earn living are no
more to be blamed for their violations
of private rights than they should BE-
for getting hungry. Every nOn-pro-
ducer is accessory to this and all similar
acts. The prisoner. in pleading guilty
said:
when | came back here the last
time from prison., he said Il deter
mined to be better man. But it was
hard work When l asked for a Loaf
l was given a stone. Last summer
worked fourteen hours a day, until my
work gave out, for the Grand Falls Ice
Company. The superintendent of thai
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
FRANCE AND THE L. s,

When the French revolution broke
out one-half the country was owned by
10000 mobiles and the church owned
one-sixth, leaving one-third for the
other class of 25,OOOOOO people, Here
our 25,000 aristocrats owned one half
of the country in 1890 and have SO per
cent of the wealth now; 1O5 900 own 25
per cent of it and the 7O,OOO,OOO people
have but 12 per cent The 10000 900 are
not yet ready to resort to the desperate
steps adopted by the French serfs, but
no telling how soon they may become
so. The Roman Empire, and other great
governments fell because of the con-
CtntI dtfUn uf the wealth. iii the hands Of
a few, and all other nations must in
evitably follow the same course if the
same cause is engendered America
ought to have sufficient intelligence to
avert such calamity by adopting diff.
feTent systems but so far she has shown
no signs of doing So Can the masses
be aroused to a sense of the peril?-
Farmers Tribune
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
A QUEER KIND OF CHARITY.

The New York World says that John
D. Rockefeller's income is So SOC, 900 per
year. This is 28666.66 per day for ev-
cry work day in the year, or 81, ,43S 33
per day, Sundays included.
This is more than twenty-five thous-
and times the income of the average
labOring man, and one hundred and sew
enty-two times the salary of the presi-
dent
Think of a man drawing $2,S66 per
day for ten hours per day, or nearly
$48 per minute, while hundreds of thou
sands of better men suffer for life's ne
cessities.
But one man told us the other day
that John was 'charitable.
Is it any credit to be charitable
with such wealth at command?
Do you think that man who has been
convicted of using dynamite to blow un
the factory of rival company to rid
himself of competition knows the mean
ing Of charity?
No. Such a man has no more thought
of charity when he gives the income of
few hours to public institution than
has the fisherman when he gives bait
to a fish.
Rockefeller uses "charity" as a bait
with which to catch suckers. He uses
charity as an advertisement, we'll know
that people with intellect too weak to
masticate an idea will swallow his Dait
like suckers, and say, ooh, yes, but
then he's so charitable"
John d. Rockefeller amasses his mil
lions by taxing every man. woman and
child who uses kerosene in the United
States.
But for his grinding monopoly, oil
would sell at 4 cents per gallon here to-
day.
You pay the tax. What do you think
! of it? Do you propose to keep on voting
this tax on your family, by supporting
the party of trusts s?-Vineland (N J)
! Educator.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
HAVE YOU:

l know Boston maiden just emerging
from her teens
Who never thought of Browning and
does not relish BEANS
l know a married man who leads a
very happy life
And has a cordial liking for the mother
of his wife.
l know a maiden lady-her age is thir-
ty-three-
Who has refused six offers and one OF
them from me-
l know a pious deacon-in the church
he holds high rank
Who has never robbed an orphan, hen
rCost or a bank.
l know bright Chicago girl whose feet
are very small
And who doesn't know ''sparerib'
from the one that caused the
fall
know a man and brother"-he's as
black as any crow
Who is never found at midnight where
the watermelOns grow.
But I've yet to find POpuliSt--One
honest straight and true
Who'll longer follow fusion in the wake
of Buffers fusion crew.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

Populists Of Spokane, Washington,
took lesson in fusion politics last week
that will not soon be forgotten.
The city election resulted in COM
plete victory for the goldbugs and
monopolists, much to the surprise of
everybody, as it means complete
turning over in administration affairs.
1t has demonstrated the fact that
when a party, founded on principles,
abandon those principles, or enter into
entangling alliances, it at once loses it's
identity as a political power.
The Spokane Labor Journal makes
extensive comment thrnlgh cnmmnnfca-
tions and editorially; and these quota
tions furnish a fair glance at the situa-
ton:
The Peoples party had to make this
Tuesday, as all of the other elements
practically voted with che goldbugs and
elected their entire ticket with the ex-
ception of one, or possibly two of the
aldermen.
There was no reason advanced nor
suggested why the representative and
fair ticket put in the field by the fusiol
convention should not have received the
support of all of the followers of W. J..
Bryan Had it done so splendid vic
tory, instead of an Overwhelming defeat
wou1d have hepn the result
After several conferences had been
held between the silver republicans, sill
yer democrats and .populists. 1t was
finally unanimously agreed that if the
Peoples party city organization of two
years ago would issue call for eau
cuses, primary elections and conven-
ton, based upon the Bryan vote last
fall and admit to free participation in
the same all who voted for Bryan and
all who believed in the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, that would be
entirely satisfactory to the Bryan
Democrats and silver Republicans and
this was done
"Of all the treachery ever displayed
in politics l think the worst type of it
was shown in Spokane last Tuesday.
Silver Democrats and Republicans who
went before the Peoples party central
committee begging that the call be
made broad and wide nough to admit
all who voted for Bryan, and all who
were in favor of free silver, got their
request granted, but on election day
were working with the enemy. Demo-
Gratis who were trying to come into the
convention as delegates were working
men who have held position under the
Populist administration or been elected
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

and freight rates cut down one half, and
wages doubled. Yet the roads pay a
yearly revenue to the government of
100000.
In the United States under private
ownership it Is the other way We
have paid the railroads billions in land
and money and are now paying them
millions yearly for carrying the mail
and yet freight and passenger rates are
SO extOrtionate as to be almost pro-
hibitive, while wages paid railroad en-
ployes are degrading and almost GRIM
inal in their smallness. Surely, America
has deal to learn from it's various
mother countries.
In Germany you can ride four miles
for l cent on the government owned
lines. Yet wages are over 1875 per cent
higher than when the corporation own
ed them, and during the past ten years
the net profits have increased Al per
cent. Last year the roads paid the Ger
man government a net profit of $25 5,O0O,-
OOO
If our government owned the rail-
roads we could go from Boston to San
Francisco for $40. Here is the proof:
The United States pays $275 for the pos
tai car from Boston to San Francisco.
A passenger car will carry so passeng-
ers, which at $40 each, would be $500,
or clean profit of $3.50 per car, and
this, too, after paying 51a per cent on
watered stock, which is fully 100 per
cent on the cost of the road. These
quoted figures are taken from a reliable
sOurce.-Uncle Sam.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
THREE MILES FOR A CENT.

In Australia, on government owned
railroads, you can ride a distance CT
1000 miles for $3.50, frst-class, while
workingmen can ride six miles for
cents, II miles for cents, 80 miles for
10 cents, and railroad men receive 25 to
80 per cent more wages for eight hours
of labor than they are paid in this coun-
try for ten hours In Victoria where
these rates prevail the net income from
the roads is sufficient to pay all the fed
eral taxes, which is another convincing
proof of the possibility of government
without taxation.
In Hungary, where the roads are state
owned, you can ride six miles. for l cent,
and since the roads were bought by the
government the mems wages were
doubled.
Belgium tells the same story-fares
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
TO REFORM EDITORS.

special TO The referendum.
Union City, Tenn, June ALI reform
press editors who expect to attend the
national reform press association meet
ing at Nashville, Tenn, on July End,
will please give me their names with the
names of their wives or daughters who
may accompany them. The Centennial
Exposition management have extended
an invitation to the reform press to at
tend the exposition on July 3rd and de-
sire the names of those who intend to
be present that passs into the grounds
may be issued to each on their arrival
at Nashville. All Populists who desire
to attend the reform press meeting. on
the End or the National Populist con-
ference on July 5th can get the very
low centennial rates granted by all the
railroads to persons going to Nashville
during the exposition
J. H. MCDOWELL, Com
Reform papers please copy.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

ties too great. There are too many sad
and destitute homes, and too many graves
contain broken hearts,. all produced by
the monster of injustice and oppression
now enthroned in our land for us to stop
by the waysidc to quarrel with brother.
Gentlemen, as we love our country as
we know that our principles are right,
and as we wish to hasten the day when
justice shall reign,
Let us have peace"
Fraternally,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

to Office by them, were bowling for the
plutocrats.
About the only voters who staid with
the ticket fighting to honorable defeat
were with few exceptions) the old
time radical populists. They are to be
congratulated and have something to
feel proud Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
CYCLONE DAVIS VIEWS,

Butler gave official notice to Bryan in
ever get the Populist support again
when they were inside of the old par
ties. This taken with the fact that ev-
cry member of .our party in congress
signed an address to the public as Pop
ulists and taken with the further fact
that they put up and voted for their
ed Of Speaker Reed that they be recOg>
nized as distinct party in shaping
committees, shows to my mind that
numbers are doing faithful work for our
party and whatever may have been the
difference among our people in the past
there should be none now. All should
get to work, quit pickering over past
matters and line up, join the clubs and
get ready for the next years fray. Do
like Oregon. each state lay out a plan
and get to work. There is no bitterness
in the Oregon resolutions yet they show
clearly that the Populst party of that
state is not allied with nor mixed up
with any party, but proposes to run its
own officers. We hope every state will
do the same thing.-Alliance Vindicator,
Sulphur Springs, Tex.
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

People engaged in other industries,
or not engaged at anything, are watch
ing the farmer just now and wondering
how much he will be able to produce
in the fall-BOen's Globe
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

The new tariff says that I shall pay
$3.50 tariff for the privilege of buying
knife worth 81. Congress says | will
become prosperous by paying $3.50 for
81 knife. If buy knife like it made
in this country, | do not pay the 81. 80
to the government, but pay it to the
home monOpolist. who can charge the
same sum if he pleases. Now what am
! to dO-be patriotic and buy the home
article and let the government starve,
or support the government by buying
the foreign article and let the home
mOnopolist starve? Is the man a pa
triot who supports the government or
must he support a corporation to be a
patriot? Darned if ! know where ! am
at. And then again suppose a fellow is
too poor to buy knife at all-what is
he?-Appeal to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09
The Coming TranafOrne on.

The American working people have
had an easier-or rather less onerous
time than their foreign brothers in
Europe, it is true; but do not doubt that
we are surely, even rapidly, approx
mating their methods of existence. Ex-
Senator John ]. Ingalls, of Kansas, said
on Jan. IA, 1891, in speaking of the pln-
tocratic evolution:
But | cannot forbear to affirm that a
political system under which such des-
pOtic power can be wrested from the
people, and vested in the few, is a
democracy only in name
On page 1862 of IF Christ Came 10
Chicago, William r. Stead said:
The transformation is hidden from
the multitude. because the coming des-
pot eschews the taWdry tinsel of the
crown; and liberty is believed to be as
safe as, WELL let us say. as the pOpulace
of Rome believed the republic to be
when Julius Caesar refused the imperial
purple. But everywhere the money
power has the people by the throat.
The poor man is the servant Of
the rich, and at present stands in some
danger of becoming his slave. The
Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

This is sent to remind you
that Roberts Diamond oap
is the soap. Try it. Nine
Bars for BIC. Order &c worth
next order. Warranted to
please you.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

What do | think about the airshipo
think you had better read Caesars Col
umn." Coming events cast their shad-
ows before The Appeal to Reason
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

Z NJ ROBERTS. Mnneaa..s thiins, We sell Corn Flax
Wheat Barley
starts We Viii s1l send
We you deaers profit
which sells prices
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-09

The Deerhound Is popular priced wheel Itssss s.
, DON'T PURCHASE YOUR 1897 Beyee until you have
sent for des:rii tive circulars Of this whee.
ka0ieo' or Cents mOdel Sams Price.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-17
Did Their Work.

A Chicago novelist, who has recently
been pressed by his publishers for the con
Guiding chapters Of a story, says The
TimesHerald, sent his wife and children
into the country in order to secure chance
to work undisturbed. The first night he
was alone he settled down to write. Sud
denly the rotmers in the flat below his be-
gan a terrible racket. At last, when for
bcarance ceased to be virtue, the author
went into the hallway and aocosted man
who was carrying an armful of things out
of the lower fat "Hellol" he exclaimed.
What in thunder are you trying to do
down there anyway" "Don't worry"
replied the fellow on the landing below.
Were doing the best we can" "Ihis is
no joke, tell you. can't do my work
properly so long as you act like this"
We can't do our work properly either"
answered the mover, with laugh, Gun.
less you go back into your room now and
leave us alone" The novelist retired into
his flat closed the door and began to
write. A half hour latsr he was suddenly
aroused by the loud changing Of police
patrol wagons bell. A wagon load of blue
coats stopped in front Of the building. Tho
flat below had been stripped clean by bur-
glars during the temporary absence Of the
family at tho theater.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-17
WHO PAYS TINE TARIFF

During the campaigns of several years
past one of the familiar sayings of the
free trade spellbinders has been: "The
consumer pays the tariff" They repeated
the words so often that they actually
came to the belief that they were true,
and were very much offended when any
doubling Thomas questioned their as
sumed truthfulness. The proteotionists,
on the other hand, have always main
tanned, that in order for the foreign man
ufscturer to find market in a country
under laws protecting home industries
from outside competition, he mast pay
that charge. Heretofore the protection
lists have had no help from foreign pa
pers and economists in maintaining their
position, but that assistance has at last
come. The Bradford (England) Daily
Argus, in its issue of August Is, says:
at is fact that under the Mckinley
tariff the wages of operatives, as we'll as
the profits of employers, were cut down.
1t is also fact that every increase of
foreign tariff has the same results. And
yet the Cobdenites would have US believe
the stale old fallacy that the burden of
tariffs must fall upon the consumer and
the consumer alone. There is not
weaver for the American market in this
district who could not, from his or her
own experience, disprove the theory and
show that he contributed by the docking
of weekly earnings to pay the duties
America imposed"
Since vast majority of the peo-
pie in the United States have had
some bitter experiences in the past
four or five years and are consider
ably wiser in some respects than former
ly, this bit of free trade testimony may
have been offered a little late, but it goes
to show that the protectionlsts were bas-
ing their statements upon facts, and not
upon hollow theory.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-17

THE question of protection to the con-
sumers of railroad sandwiches is to be
determined by the New York courts soon.
A man in that city recently broke off two
teeth in eating bun and he brought suit
against the baker who manufactured the
bun to recover damages for the injury to
his chewing appliances. Should the courts
decide in his favor the fellows who travel
up and down the land eating at railroad
lunch counters may be able to have their
dyspepsia paid for.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-17
AN UNFAIR TEST.
The Bypnotist Seemed a Wonder Until
the Crowd Caught On.

4
the Crowd Caught On.
Gathered about mound of earth at
the head of which stood mysterious
dark bearded man were thousands OF
wondering people. Two weeks before a
dark whiskered man, who was no other
than Professor Ezengallhe, the great
hypnotist, had hypnotized man and
buried him six feet underground.
The day and hour had come for the
subject to be released from the damp
dungeon.
Would he be found dead or alive?
There were those who said a corpse
would be found in the coffin. But the
master only smiled.
Willing hands piled spade and pick,
and soon the box was lifted out of the
grave and the subject exposed. The
professor waved his long hands over the
face. With weary yawn the man sat
up and looked about him. A great Cry
of wonder went up from the crowd.
Suddenly man sprang to the coffin
side and shook his fist in the face of the
SUBJECT.
Fraud, fraudl' he cried.
The subject paled.
cit is nothing to you to be buried
alive'-
He was wild with excitement
"You lived six years in Philadel-
phia."
There was a seconds silence, then the
angry mob seized the deceiver and
hurled him back in the grave. But as
they threw the dirt upon him they
heard him singing:
"Be it ever so humble
And they knew they had no revenge.
New York Sunday World.