The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
MOVE ON THE fsNEMY.
PRESIDENT LONG SENDS OUT A
BUGLE BLAST,
Editor Representative.

l wish to call the attention of the
which may inspire them to action in
the way of organization, and to m IKE
one more strike for liberty; one more
charge on the ramports Of the enc
mics of civilization.
These two facts which I am going to
give you show the power there is in
organized effort.
II you have read the history of the
indianapolis conference you are &C.
quainted with the wishes of the chos-
en- apostles of Plutocracy. In palace
cars they were transported from every
city to the Mecca Of their hopes. that
they might aid in. riveting the chains
upon the Ii mbs of those who feed the
world. The 800 delegates to that con-
vention claimed to be bushes men.
They we're bankers. usurers. railroad
magnates, the deciples of Pluto-the
accursed of God-the degenerate de-
scendents Of the. tyrants whom Christ
denounced as the despoiler Of the
widow and fatherless.
In all this broad land of ours was
there not one farmer,or one mechanic
with intelligence enough to represent
the producing classes? Do the bank
ers and business men who are going to
ruin by the tens of thousands, have a
monopoly of the knowledge of none
tary science?
Every speech made In that conven-
tion was in fiat contradiction to the
great truths taught by the immortal
philosophers since the time of A risto-
tie to the present day.
They declare for the golden calf
pure and simple-the destruction of
the greenbacks and the control of all
paper money by the banks. They
elected powerful lobby to represent
them in congresS-powerful because
they have the prestige Of representing
a convention Of business men.
Brother farmers, we are fast drift
ing to the same cemetary which has
swallowed the producing classes in
past ages. History has recorded their
fate as warning to the children Of
| men.
Lyman J. Gage will be the secre tary
of the treasurY-he is the Napoleon
among National bankers.
| 1t has been heraded to the world
and applauded by the gold-bug press
that he is in full accord with the reso-
| lutions passed by the aforesaid con-
| vention. This is fact mum Der one.
1t gives me great pleasure to chron-
| icle the second fact, because it proves
| the power OF organization among the
patriots who produce wealth as we'll
as among the anarchists who set a
price on all you buy and all you sell
rob you at both ends-and call it bizz-
ness
The momentous fact for which we
should feel grateful is the action of
Senator II. j. Miller in introducing
and working for bill to make the Of
flee Of railroad commissioner elective.
Four years ago during the campai ign
spoke in Luverne, the home Of Mr..
Miller, and after giving a resume of
the robberies in railroading, | advo-
Gated that we should have law lust
| following week the Senator publis he'd
me in his paper as an 'im becile." Two
| years ago he denounced me in his
| paper as an 'anarchiSt" nominated by
a convention made up Of anarchists.
| AS Alliance men we are not parts
ans or office seekers, therefore it is of
no Importance to US through whose
efforts bill may become a law, if it is
in the interest Of justice, and we
should be thankful and proud to know
that our power has been felt in shap.
ing legisla tion, even if we never get
any credit therefor.
| Neither is it OF any importance, and
perhaps not worth considera tion, why
blatherskite politician should call a
man an anarchist for advocating a
principle and the next day vote for 1t
himself, but In this case l want to tell
my friends why it is that the august
and learned senator votes for the prin.
ciple that his anarchist" friend has
| advocated for many years. While nc
one would think it, judging by his
physiognOmy, H.J. Miller is one of the
shrewdest, most scheming politician ms
in the Second congressional district
and he believes that in the morning
OF the world the Greater Of the uni
verse foreordained that he should, as
the St. Paul Globe says, "step inte
McCleary's shoes when McCleary is
promoted to the senate" He als(
knows that he Is not held in very high
esteem by the Republican politicians
at home, and IL by championing Ali
ance principles he can make himself
solid with the half baked of all par
ties it is policy to do so. His calibre
is shown in his speech in the Day
Dunn matter, when he said; "If yol
unseat Day you unseat the Republi
can party"
He has introd uced another bill
which OF course will pass. and when
he gets In congress he can get ma
tional law to the same effect; that Il
his private cemetery BILL
remember when at Montgomery
Alabama, In 1865, saw the most beau
tiful cemetery and grandest monu
ments l ever beheld. At every gat,
there were notices that any black maj
who should step inside it's sacred pre-
cincts would receive dire punishment
Few black men could read the warn
ing, but his etheopean skin did not de
bar him Of love Of the beautiful, ant
when he beheld the images of angel
and lambs, and towering monume nts
all cut from snowy marble, he wa
tempted to intrude, and when he di,
so he was chained to post an,
scourged with cat-O-nine tails, unit
his blood, which was as red, it may no
be so blue as once flowed in the vein
of the patricians whose dust lay be
low the vine clad and flower bedecke'
mounds, ran down his back.
The toilin9 masses. of America tax