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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
500 REWARD 500.

The readers OF this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages. and
that is Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure is
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medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
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stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
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upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease. and giving the
patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
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much faith in it's curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
No Fusion.
Editor Representative:
Youcalla, Ore.

Editor Representative:
Enclosed find money order for ST. 10
to renew my subscription to the Repra-
sentative, which | see expires with the
No. PIG, and 10 cents for Farm and
Home" We cannot get along without
the REPRESENTATI I would
rather miss one meal a day than do
without it, for | think it the best paper
that is published in the interest of the
laboring people. l nm sorry that we
made such a break last fall and it
turned out as l feared it would My
motto Is, Be an Independent party, hoist
the Omaha platform and march in the
middle of the road. l believe that right
will triumph in the end, and hope to
live to see the principles of the Peoples
party govern the whole country. 1 hope
the Nashville conference will advise no
fusion, for 1 know it has demoralized
our forces In this country; but with the
adoption of the Omaha platform 1 have
no doubt but what we shall rally our
forces and regain our lost position.
With best wishes 1 remain,
Yours to the finish,
Park Rapids MINI. ,o..a1 ,s
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
Park Rapids. MINI.
The land Question.

Editor Representative:
However enthusiastic any man may
be on the financial question OF social
astic problem, he must admit that the
land question is he corner stone, the
:ou:datton OF a. labor rolorr.. With
the soil monopolized by the few, the
people would be slaves, even though
we had the best financial system shat
could be devised by mortal man. The
power to deny a fellow being the priv
ilege to live upon the earth Is crime
aginst God and an insult to humanity
The land shall not be sold. Forever
the land l give to the children Of men
The land is mine and We are only
strangers and sojourners with me-" says
the Lord Any man who can hold an
undisputed title to large tracts of land
in thickIy settled portions of our large
cities can commit the blacklist crimes
known to society, murder not excepted
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
The Milk in the Cocoa Nut.

1t transpred in the decision of the
supreme court in the famous Bell tele-
phone case, extending patent to 1907
that Justices Gray and Brown both hold
stock in the Bell monopoly. All the
great judges hold stocks and bonds in
one or more monopolies. But of course
this does not bias them in their decision
general! After 1907, if you don't die
you can have telephones put up for
few dollars and use them. Until that
time you must pay monopoly.-Appeal
to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
STATE PRISON IRVINE.

The management of the Minnesota State Prison has
for sale sufficient quantity of each grade of Irvine
ufactured at that institution fill cash orders for less
than load lots accommodate the farmers of Mime
sofa This condition will be maintained throughout the
season. regardless of the fact that have refused to fill
orders which have been received for than 100
loads Send in your orders and they will be filed promptly
Samples and Prices Will be Furnished on Request.
In ordering twne state shipping directions plainly When
shipments ordered to stations having agent be
and remit sufficient cash to prepay freight thus securing
prompt shipment All reittances should be made bank
drafts, money orders registered letters Address all
orders and correspondence to
HENRY WOLFER
WARDEN MINNESOTA STATE PRISON,
SALTWATER MINNESOTA.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

"a General Freight and Passenger
Post" written by James L Cowles,
member Of the Connecticut bar, is 4
we'll written book strongly and ably
advocating the government ownership
of the railroads. He devotes one chap
ter to the history of the postoffice since
1889, another to the abuses Of the pres
ent system of railway management, and
one on Distance a False Basis for tha
Determination Of Railway Rates." The
concluding chapter is on "The Cost OF
Service Principle and It's Application
to Public Transportation, Under the
Control of the Postoff1ce'
The book in cloth binding can be OBJ
tanned at this Office Price 75c. Send
in your orders if you want something
worth reading on this subject.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
l Republican Warnfng-JOhn Wanna
makers Views.


makers Views.
The foes America has to fear are not
the savage Turks or the insurrectionists
of Cuba or the territory grasping Brit
ish, but they are our own patient and
heart tired people, our own suffering.
much promised people, who betrayed
and disheartened, no longer have have
faith in their party and will turn to any
leaderships that offer promise of better
times, believing that worse times can
never come than those now existing. It
is terrible thing to observe public SEN
timent adrift and unexplained and the
people sweeping away from their affec-
ton to the old party. The young men
are growing up Indifferent to Republic
can principles, with no respect for par
ties of broken platforms who use ma
tional and state patronage in payment
of election contracts The political re-
ligion of the nation is falling lower and
lower under insults to Intelligence, vio-
lation of law, reckless daring of I'M
scrupulOus Bosses
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
REFORM BOOKS AT GOLD STANDARD
PRICES.

We have arranged with Charles H. Kerr
& Co. of Chicago, to send any Of our read
ers a large package of excellent reform
books, all different, for only 30 cents. The
package contains the following books:
Warrens Money Chart. new and i'm
portant work. 13o pages.
The People vs.. the Goldbugs, by A. D.
Warner, IA pages.
The New Democracy and Bryan Its
Prophet. by c. r. Tuttle, 50 pages.
How to Govern Chicago. by {. II. Tuttle.
118 pages. - ~
Bech-Meyer, ITO pages.
The White Slave, or The Cross of Gold"
nv Helen l.. Summer, 81 pages.
The People or the Politician, handbook
of Direct Legislation, by r. l.. Taylor. 60
pages
by Jesse F. Orton 81 pages.
illustrated First Reader in Social Econ
omics IL pages.
Sound Money from Business Stand
point by F. A. Cleveland. Phi. B., 80 pages.
These ten books together contain 775
pages Every one of them is we'll worth
reading, and will help make votes if given
or lent to those who have thus far voted
with the plutocrats through ignorance
they are worth $1.6o at regular prices, and
the supply will not last long. Send 30 cents
to this office today and they are yours.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
cts Me DOOd NiHht.~

"Pease, mamma, pease, tiss me dOod-
night"
My blue-eyed love, with sunny curls,
Stood pleading, tween her sobs and
tears,
l said, Il can't kiss naughty girls"
led her to her snowy cot,
"Pease. mamma, pease," she sobbed
again.
Il won't be naughty any more,'
l left her, all her pleadings vain.
I had been reared in Spartan school,
And deemed 1t duty to control
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
Growing Need Of the Referendum

u
TO the growing tendency to submit
important questions to a popular vote
must the people look for relief from
legislation of the kind recently enacted
at Springfield. Legislative bodies can
not be trusted with too much power,
and in order to limit their possibilities
for evil it has been customary for con-
stitution makers to place restrictions
upon the power Of legislatures by speci-
flying certain things which they might
not do. The constitution of Illinois
contains a great number of such re-
strictions upon the legislature, but still
the result is not satisfactory. And they
are not likely to be until the people
themselves are allowed to pass upon the
questions over which such great clamor
is raised.
The growing demand for the referen-
dunn will suffice to induce legislatures to
grant it more and more on important
questions. In particular should provis-
ions be made for the greater use of ref
erendum for questions affecting munich
palities and the rights of the people
therein.-Chicago Record.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

We're those princely rent hackers for
hidden to monopolize any more lane
than they could occupy personally the
people could take care Of themselves on
their own soil. I am glad to find that
THE REPRESENTATIVE is not afraid
to give this social question in all its
people understand fully their natural
rights they will settle forever those So
cial problems and settle those also VINO
now rob them of their rights by law
so-called, and once rightly settled 1t will
stay settled, and there will come peace
on earth to men OF good will.
JAMES DORIAN
Saltwater, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

Prosperity has come they say.
But | won't see it.
I'm blind and half deaf anyway,
Don't want to see it.
Sixteen to one is still my cry,
That wanting, nothing else is night;
A whiskered Populist am l
And [ won't see it.
The above was received in answer to
an argument, from a Republican. Now
ii Job had patience, so has PopuliSt
And | wish l could say to you, salt Of
the Earth people, through the REPRE-
SENTATIVE, that you do not "appre-
ciate the eternal fitness of things"
We Populists have no respect for con-
ventionalsm. The commands q duty
we should obey. Conventionalism says
that the teacher, the philosopher aud
the moralist must be sneered down;
that they are disqueting, they compel
us to think, they startle our conscience
they boldly compel us to take sides in
the great battle Of progress which is
being waged or win the contempt OF
our better selves
1t is not easy to break with conven-
tiOnalism, 1t is also perilous to do So
let us remain where we are, let us par
ley with wrong If we cannot ignore 1t
but above all things do not compel us
to join the much maligned minority
Such is the voice of conservatism ESQ
called.
But the true man cannot heed this
smooth voice. He has a work to do
The hands of honesty and justice have
touched him and he sees the enormity
OF injustice on every hand, he beholds
the splendid possibilities which lie be.
hind humanity's conquest of animality
and selism. He cannot be silent and
he cannot prophecy pleasant things
He Is an optimist and therefore he
refuses to allow the hideous wrongs tC
tester when health and happiness lie
within grasp Of humanity the moment
short sighted selfishness is exchanged
for wisdom.
Do you wonder why we are Porulist :
Come with us and we will show you a
true representative government There
we will show you a civilization which
man is capable Of that civilization built
on a plan of unselfishness. And, we
are also pessimists. We will go with
you and show you where the CLEAN is
lost in the dark ray of self1shness. We
shall recognize wrong and face it and
fight it with the truth In spite OF con.
ventiCnalism
Now, my gold bug friends. be honest
with yourselves and tell me why vol
sheer and ridicule when we invite you tc
a path bordered by hope and prosperity
Why don't you stop this habit of ridicule
and let us study the question as be.
comes lover of freedom, and for free
discussion lies the only safety for just
settlement. NED c. HARDY.
Duluth, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
Omaha Platform or Nothing.

Editor Representative:
Enclosed in this letter please find
$1.10. The dollar to be applied on my
subscription to the REPRESENTATIVE
and the 10 cents for the Farm and
Home" for year.
Fusion is a dastardly sell-out of our
principles. If the votes you have mus
tered under our colors are but Hessian
West and to Republicans in the South
disbeld. No, give us the middle of the
reod people. We must not be the tail
end Of any party. Omaha platform or
nothing. JOHN c. JOHNSON.
Current Lake, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

The Populist party will be compelled
to go back and take hold where it let
go last fall or go out of business If
we ever get reform in our nationa! at
fairs it must come through the Popllist
party. Anything that is tainted With
Democracy in future will be looked upOn
by the masses as 4 snare. and we'll
they should be, if the past administra-
ton means anything.-Broken Bow,
Neb., Beacon
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

This story, we believe, has been told
before, but it contains such q good
moral and is, moreover, historically
true, that we venture to repeat it:
Oliver Cromwell, while Protector, once
sent special envoy to Sweden. In the
person of Bushrod Whitelocn, most de-
vOut man, but one OF an extremely ner-
vOus, anxious temperament AS the am
bassador was about to embark ON his
journey, he was detained at Harwich by
a storm. He was also troubled with the
affairs of the nation that he tosr, turned
and groaned in his bed, unable to get to
sleep.
At last his confidential servant, who
had won Whitelock's respect and conf
dence through his faithfulness and good
sense on many trying occasion, ven
tured to say. play, sir; will you give
me leave to ask you a question:"
"Certainly," was the answer.
DO you not think that God governed
the world very we'll before you came
into it,"
"Undoubtedly l do said Whitelock.
"And," continued the servant, do you
not think he will govern it quite as well
when you are gone out of it,"
"To be sure he WILL" responded the
master, promptly
Then, sir, excuse me, but may you
not truSt him tn yOtarn II tho 1jttlc
lille you are to live in it,
Nhitelock made no reply - this peril
nent question, bur he turned over and
was soon alseep; and on his return he
repeated the storfy Of this bit Of advice
with much appreciation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
id0le-Of-the- R Dad.

Editor Representative:
Enclosed find postoffice order for SLIGO
to be applied on subscription of Chas
Meinger of the place
1t is little late, but better late than
never 1t is somewhat hard to get hold
of money.
Keep the middle of the road. l feel
a good deal like Comrade L. c. Long
Let those that want to fuse fuse. ]
think We ought to have had enough
Of 1t last fall. Yours for straight goods
FRED MEINGER.
YOucalla Ore
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

With rigid rule, nor never knew
soul.
heard her sob, my mother heart
With yearning filed to soothe and
cheer;
Yet refrained, and in her sleep
My baby still lay sob5lng there.
Twas midnight when felt touch
A fever'd hand lay ON my brow,
My white-robed baby pleaded still.
"Pease, mamma, pease; can't sleep
now
All through that agoniFing night
Delirious she moaned in pain,
The little broken heart still plead
For kisses that 1 gave in vain.
Al dawn the angels lowered near;
She nestled close, and smiled and
said,
Il won't be naughty any more"
And in my arms my baby lay dead.
~
And l am old; the passing years
Have brought no, comfort in their
flight, = 80
My heart still hears that sobbing cry.
'Pease, mamma, e3eaSe, kis:, me dood-
night"
Kate Thys' n Mari in Forum.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

The Sharples Separators both skim close,
and do it with minimum Oil and fuel ex-
penditure. There is practically no wearing
at parts upon a Sharples machine, because
Of its mechanical perfection, and owners
of these machines have run them two years
without one cent paid for repairs.
All interested in the latest and best In
separators will do well to write to Cornish
Curtis s. Greene Co., st. Paul, Mimi. who
are antitrust headquarters for all APP
proved patterns. including the Sharples "
model.
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Do you want Bryan's Book, THE
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THAT LITTLE SPRING.

A Good Thing to Have ON Sep
aratOr.
There are numerous cream separators on
the market, most of them built to sell, and
without regard to the features which are
considered essential In the manufacture Of
the Sharples separator. The Importance Of
a cream separator in the dairy or creamery
is now so generally admitted as to make
the demand for these machines large.
Those inexperienced In buying cream sepa-
rators should consider we'll the mechanical
construction Of the machine for durability,
as well as the skimming qualities of the
separator.
The 81 model, Sharples Separator, COM
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

The Old Reliable American Nonconformist il
again in the family that gave it birth. and Is
celebrating its return by a vigorous. bold
and outspolen demand for radical reforms than
any other journal OF national circulation 1t is
edited and published by PROF. c. VINCENT
who is well known political speaker in more
than 70 states. 1t is spicy, but not iconoclastc
bright, bat not bitter; logical and profound. but
not dry and prosy. In short. it is just what
every POpulist family should read. and every
Populst should delight in extending its circu-
laSion in his locality.
1t is the NEwSTEsT, BRIGHTEST. sPICIEsT
ard ABLEST Populist paper In the United
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country. 1t is a six-coumn. eight-page weekly
journal of established reputation and circulation
founded In 1879. Subscription price, s1.0O
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

The Populists have given fusion a
thorough trial, and it has been found
(ColD
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

a%x &c. czo e g. Hkz
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

Get Bryan's book, "The First Battle. =
Price, $3.50. Send orders to this office.
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Do you want to read Bryan's book!
It is complete history of the last cam
paign, and contains all the arguments
in favor of bimetallism. Send us $3.50
and the book will be delivered to you.
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Attorneys and CoDnseIIors at Law.
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Law Offices, 116 East 3rd ST., St. Paul.
Telephone call, 643.

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
Don't RiIicule.

Prosperity has come they say.
But | won't see it.
I'm blind and half deaf anyway,
Don't want to see it.
Sixteen to one is still my cry,
A Whiskered PCpulist am
And [ won't see it.
Evening star., 1897-03-29
They Left the Church.

A mass meeting under the auspices of ihe
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
the District of Columbia was held yester-
day afternoon at the First Goa ,regational
Church.
Mrs. Margaret B. Platt. president of the
union. occupied the chair. The principal
address was made by Mr.. John G. wooley
of Illinois. In the course OF his speech Mr..
Wooley referred to republican methods in
the west, and commented on republican
leaders in such a way 10 give offense TO
some forty or more persons, and they at
once left the church. Others who took part
in the program were Rev. Page M,lbuin,
Mr.. F. NJ. Bradley, Mrs Cox, Miss Sadie
Drown. Mrs. Seely and Miss Pearl Seely.
Evening star., 1897-03-29
sPIRITt ALuSMs DAY.
The FOrty-Ninth Annivcrsnry of It's
Origin Celebrated.

The forty anniversary OF the adj
vent of modern spiritualIsm was cole
brated yesterday afternoon at Maso,ic
Temple in the presence of large and
very attentive audience. The plntform
was handsomely decorated with growing
palms and the American colors.
Mr.. +. A Wood presided Others on the
stage were Mr.. r h. woodberry. secre-
tary of the National Spiritualist Associa-
tion; DIR. Mary Walker, Mrs. A. NJ.
Jacques. Mrs. Maria l.. Wheeler Brown.
Mr.. F. a. Wiggin. Prof. Maxim. Mr.. J. l..
McCreary and MIR. Geo. A. Bacon.
The orator Of the occasion was MIR.
Woodberry. whose theme was the RE
ligion of Spiritualism. His text was BE
loved. believe not i'm every spirit. hut try
the spirits. whether they be of God. he
cause many false prophets have gone out
into the world. the verse being found in
the First Epistle of John.
In the course of his discourse the speak
er said: The average spirituaist is not
an atheist iniidel-why? He believes in
a simple Yet scientific religion. He walks
forth i'm the evening and gazcs into the
immensely of space: he secs planets whirl-
ing in this space. each in its orbit. Vet con-
troled 10y law: he watches the rose bush
grow and develop a bud and "A sweet hlos-
som: law is there made manifest. Spirit
right back to the simple belief of the
Indian. This simple faith is more attrac-
tive TO some of us than endeavorng to
prove one God is three Gods and three
Gods one God.
Short addresses were made by Mrs. a.
G. jacques Mr.. Il. A Wigsin, MIR. Geo. A.
Bacon: poems were read by Dr. Mary
Walker and Mr.. j. l.. McCreary and Mrs.
Brown and Prof. Maxim performed on the
piano and organ, respectively.
Evening star., 1897-03-29
The Luther Leakue.

The Luther League Of St. Marks Luther
an Church gave an artistically successful
musical and literary treat Friday evening
which was greeted with well-merited ap-
plause by an audience which completely
filled the Sunday school room of st. Pau,'s
Lutheran Church. where the entertainment
WAS held. Rev. Jno. C. Bowers. the pastor
OF st. Marks, presided.
Those who contributed to the evenings
enjoyment were Mr.. Archibald Olmstead,
piano sClo; Messrs. Skerrett and Meyers
and Misses Doe and Clear. quartet I'm vo-
cal selections: Misses Cora Penfield and
Bessie Stewart. in Rotations: Mr.. w. r.
Phfllips, cello solo: Young Ladies' Mando-
lin and Guitar Club. musical selections; DIR.
Frank T. Howe OF The Evening Star. who
contributed an entertaining talk on Luck
in Newspaper Work" Mr.. Iseman. violin
solo; Mr. ]. Barton Miller. humorous and
sentimental readings: Mr.. Gilbert A. Clark,
basso solo; Mr.. George Chandlee. selections
on the cornet and Mr.. Guy v. Collins in
humorisms and limitations. All of the mum.
bers were well rendered and enthusiastical
ly encored.