The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-11
A CONCERTED HOWL.

A CONCEATED HOWL.
Instead Of squarely and Immediately
meeting the money question" the Re-
publican party. when il obtained power,
ignored it altogether. They sat for
months in congress, at heavy cost to
the taxpayers, and with all the ma
chinery of legislation in their hands,
adjourned from day to day, after sit
ting for ten minutes or half an hour
each day; and finally, after four months
OF extra session, adjourned sine die,
without considering or attempting to
consider the one great issue upon which
the campaign of 1896 was made and
which is today predominant in every
mind
They passed the tariff law, the pull :
pose Of which is to increase the price
of manufactured goods; the increased
price of which is to be paid by the geo
pie, at time when thousands are
committing suicide because they have
not the means to live. The tariff bill
became a law July 25. Then a con-
certed howl was set up to persuade
the people that prosperity had returned.
with whoop and a bound, and the
clowns cry, Here we are again, Mr..
Merryman."
And yet in the presence of this up
roar we find in one days newspaper re-
ports the following items of news:
BARABOO Wis, Aug. News reached
this city today of the tragic death Of Ar
thur S. Frain. at the Cliff House, Devils
Lake, Saturday night. He was found in
his room on the bed dead with two bullet
holes in his head and revolver lying at
his side He was for several years the
manager of the stone crushing plant at
Devils Lake. 1T is THOUGHT THAT
DESPONDENCY WAS THE CAUSE OF
THE DEED. He was about GO years of
age and brother of Dr. Frain of Chi
cago.
DR.. Frain will be pleasantly remem-
bered as having been at one time assoc
ciated with DR.. Fish in the publica ion
OF "The Great West"
DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. 2-Oscar Nelson
a waiter, was found dead in bed this morn
ing. An examination showed it to have
been case of suicide from morphine pois-
CnlnS. DESPONDENCY is SUPPOSED
TO HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE. The man
was comparatively unknown here
NEW YORK, Aug. "a supposed double
suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas &C.
Cured at 456 Lincoln street, Jersey City
The victims were Henry ALBERT. SO years
Old and Nina his wife, 56 years old Mr.
and Mrs. Aubert lived in a frame building
where for Is years he has conducted the
New Jersey Embroidery Company, which
of late. as a business venture had dwindled
to nothing. THE SUICIDES ARE AT
TRIBtTED TO BUSINESS REVERSES
While the Republican papers are yell
ing, at the top of their voices, that
prosperity is here, the dreadful work
OF self-murder goes on undated, and
the reign of bankruptcy, violence and
crime steadily advances over the desc
lated land. Take these items, all of the
same date, July 81, six days ufte, the
tariff bill was signed, and appearing
in one issue of a daily paper:
ASIiEVILLE, N. c.. July 31.-The First
National Bank Of this city did not open
this morning. notice was posted on the
door stating that. owing to the inability to
collect and the stringency of the times the
bank viii! go into voluntary liquidation.
BOSTON. July 31.-A warrant in insolv-
lncy has been ordered in the Suffolk in
ooiNtIiCy court against the estate OF James
Stevenson, styled the millionaire real es-
tate owner" 1t was issued upon two small
judgments secured here, which Mr.. Steven
son failed to satisfy.
And here are some more from the
next days report:
Jerome e. Bacon. of the Bacon PAPER
Company has pleaded insolvency for his
creditors Mr.. Bacon assigned April 20, and
his assets Were reported at $1,000 900, with
Eo1Ni of ~
secured by collateral. No settlement re-
suited from this assignment.
ATLANTA. Ga. July 31.-Applicaton was
made in the United States court here today
for receiver for the Yorkvlle Mining
Company organized in 1895, to develop gold
bearing properties in Pauding county The
application will be heard Monday. The pc
titioners are J. L. Hudson and IL associates
of Detroit. who claim that they have ad-
vanced $4,000, which has been expended in
the purchase of lands, and that no money
is left to develop the mine.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The Golden Rod
SILK Company, of Paterson. N. j., has
given notice Of it's failure, and a receiver
has been appointed Liabilities, S1O3 900
assets about $4,000. Aral & Tokaki & Co.
importers of raw silk. are large creditors
The firm ascribes it's losses and failure to
continued labor troubles. Tie strikers
some months ago retarded orders, causing
a loss of trade and Gripping all resources
PHILLIPSBURG. N. j., Aug. 1.-The
American Sheet Iron Company strikers
held a meeting last night, at which the
committee reported The result of It's con-
ference with Supt. Dandy. The company
offered the men work at cut wages but
they refused to accept this proposition
and decided not to depart from their
stand.
A diligent search each week Of the
papers of this country would develop
a list of bankruptcies, suicides and
murder that would fill every inch of
space in this paper. And yet in the