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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
ON WITH THE DANCE.

Two banks celebrated Lincoln s
birthday by busting" One was at
Helena. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
soundest institution in that state, for
it had gone unScathed through the
great panic of 1893. It was owned by
the Hirchfields, Israelites and gold.
bugs and rabid Republicans. They
howled for "sound money" and they
got it where the chicken got the axe
in the neck. Serves 'em right.
The other bank was at West Su-
perior, Wis. 1t failed for $4,000 and
had 500 in its vaults when it shut
the doors. The city of West Superior
loses $4,000 by it's overmuch "confi-
dence." The confidence game is not
so Interesting when you have to fur
nish the confidence and the spoils.
Really ''The Advance Agent Of
Prosperity" is coming into Office in
the midst Of financial blizzard OF
continental proportions.
But then they are going to put ul
the price Of manufactured goods; and
that cannot help but enrich the fell
lows who have to buy the goods.
Nov you see 1t and now you don't
see it,"
The Minneapolis police ought to
stop arresting men for highway rob.
berry; for evidently, (by the Mckinley
gospel.) the more you take out OF a
mans pocket the richer he is. If you
can only strip him to the pelt he will
become millionaire.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
THE SHAM EXPOSED.

During the last campaign great
many good, honest men were led to
support Mr.. Mckinley because Of the
declaration in the Republican nation
al platform. that the Republicans
we're as good frie nds Of free.silver as
the Populists, but preferred to reach
the object through an international
conference. But for that pretence
Major Mckinley would never have
been elected.
We denOnced it as sham and a
fraud. We told our readers that the
eastern leaders OF the Republican par
ty did not desire the international re-
ha billtatio Of silver:-that they want
ed the gold standard, pure and simple;
that they would 60 to war for it If
necessary. And here we have tele-
gram from Washington which fully
confirms these views:
Washington, Feb. 9.-The interest
in Congress in the question Of an in
ternational monetary conference was
shown today by the presence, in the
house committee on coinage, Of many
me mbers to listen to the discussion
Of the resolutions before the commit
tee. Several men bers of the commit
tee on banking and currency took part
i q the debate.
The first speaker was Representa-
tive Hill rep Comm, who spoke from
political standpoint, bitterly de-
nouncing the senate for attempting
to lay trap to ensnare the Repubii-
can party. 1t was an attempt, he
said, to bring about things rhich the
Republican party roted do,cn at the last
election, namely, the free coinage Of
silver and double standard Of value.
Referring to Senator Chandler, he
said the proposition was thrust upon
the incoming president by senator
who had bitterly and virulently op-
posed his nomination, and that that
senator had been sustained and Sec
onded by the chairman of the nation
al Democratic committee.
'The proposition is born of moth
er who loves it not" -he said. More
than one half Of its opponents in the
Senate" he added, had been Repub-
licans, while silver men, who would
work to bring 1t to naught, voted for
it."
1.-THE stilted phrases of platform dc.
should not be read in the blazing light of
November rictory.
mo responsibility rested on this
Congress In the matter, nor should a
Democratic president be called upon
to sign the resolution. The wishes Of
gold Democrats, who had been the al
lies Of the Republicans and who had
declared for the single gold stand
ard" Mr.. Hill said, SHOULD be con-
suited. Other planks Of the St. Louis
platform, those relating to Cuba, to
immigration and others, had been dis
regarded, and why, he asked, should
Congress rush to fulfill this single
plank?" This was not the time, these
not the men and these not the prop
ositions which the St. Louis platform
had contemplated. The utterance of
that platform on the money Ques tion
had been modified by the subsequent Chica-
90 platform and By the Alliance of Repub
licanS and gold Democrats.
Observe how this honest man splits
out the feelings of his section. Fools
and children" we are told. speak the
TRUTH The fusion with the gold
Democrats has given the gold Repub-
licans new courage. They have the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
EDUCATION AND MONEY.

An education is the safest invest
ment, pays the highest interest, is
most readily exchanged, never depre-
ciateS in value, never suffers from
over-taxation, is never in danger from
thieves and never ends in a lawsuit to
break the will after the owners
death. philadelphia American.
Very true. And yet education
alone, in these days, will not keep a
man from starving There are hun
dreds and thousands Of unemployed
who cannot get work enough to keep
body and soul together. and who have
had a thorough common school in.
struction.
Education will not overcome the
evil effects of bad laws; but it will add
to the horrors Of distress and spur a
man to suicide. The man who is
wronged and does not know he is
wronged, is not so badly off as the
man who is wronged. and has bee n
educated sufficiently to know the ex-
tent Of the Injustice practiced upon
him. This is one OF those cases
"where ignorance is bliss and It's folly
to be WISE" 80
He who is to be a serf should re-
ceive serf's mental equipment.
Everything rests at last on the
financial question. The metallic SUI
perstition is tue lion in the path Of
progress. When what we call money
is fully adequate for the exchange Of
all productions Of industry the Millen-
ium will have 'dawne4 But until
that end is reached mankind is in
chains-chains Of gold and silver.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
AMERICANS IN EUROPE.

Our people are work ing up splendid
regulations for themselves across the
water. One American woman is now
in prison in England for poisoning he
husband; another is charged by her
husband with forty-eight violations
OF her marriage vows; while innumer-
able divorces and Law suits are to the
credit of the rest of our rotten female
arist0cracy. And even our men are
making themselves conspicuous as
swindlcrs.
Our demoralized nation is becoming
the jest OF the world. We have been
aping the oldworld aristocracy and
surprising them in their vices.
Berlin, Feb. 6.-Robert F. Kneebs.
the American horseman. who was SEN
fenced yesterday to nine months i'm
prisonment, and to pay fine of 1000
marks in addition to being deprived
Of all civil rights for two years after
having been convicted of racing the
trOtting mare Bethel on German
tracks, under the name of Nellie
Kneebs, may have to stand trial again.
this time on the charge OF conspiracy
to commit perjury.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
to keep the wolf OF famine from the
door, about organizing societies for
''purely social p.trposes." Bah!
81 y
REFORM PAPERS.

The st. Paul Advocate, p. J. Ger.
ahty, Editor, is an able and influen-
tial representative of the labor forces
Of the city Of St. Paul. Its editorials
are strong and incisive. It deserves
the heartiest support of those whose
cause it advocates. II 1t had espoused
the defense OF the money-power, the
money-power would sustain it liberal.
ly. But we are sorry to see. by Its is
sue Of the 18th inst, that it is not re-
ceiving that encouragement, at the
hands of the laboring people of Min
nesota that it deserves. We clip from
that issue the following extract:
Whether the Union Advocate will
ever receive the general support OF
do not know. If 1t does not, it will
endeavor to live without it, and do
It's work none the less earnestly, al
though, perhaps, less effectively.
The fact that such a paper as this
has no assurance of the support of
those for whom it speaks offers very
Instructive commentary on the atti-
tude OF the people in the present
crisis. There is no other paper of this
character or purpose printed in any
large city Of the state excepting,
alone, Mr.. Donnelly's paper; and that
is maintained Gf 1T can really be said
to be maintained) only by sheer force
OF Mr.. Donnelly's genius and by con-
slant demands on Mr.. Donnelly's
private purse.
But the people who refuse to sup
port papers like the Union Advocate
n
to enrich the scorpion daily press by
their patronage.
These remarks are we'll deserved.
The REPR is now, per-
haps, upon Sounder basis than 1t
has been for some time, and yet we do
not receive one-tenth the support
which we think we are entitled to.
Instead of 10000 Giro ulat ton, we ought
to have 100000 in the Northwest and
throughout the Union.
The orators are heard only during
the period Of month or two in two
years; the newspapers speak continu-
ally. 1t is not necessary for the citi-
zen to drive, perhaps, five or ten
miles. over muddy roads, to listen to
them;-they 60 right to the bosom OF
his. family; and be their influence
good or bad, it is cons family operating
upon the minds of their subscribers.
We cannot hope to win unless our
newspaper press is cordially and
heartily sustained.
During the free silver banquet at
St. Paul, last Friday night, a remark
of Mr.. Lincoln was quoted:-''That no
man, even though he be President Of
the United States, can dare to en-
counter the opposition of great
newspaper, unless he has the control
OF another newspaper equally great,
with an equally large circulation, 60
| ing to the same classes" These we're
words Of wisdom, which the forces Of
reform should take to heart. The
Populists cannot all be orators, but
they can at least. all of them, spare
| something from their income, to sus-
tain the principles they believe to be
right and necessary for the pros perity
| OF the people.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
A GOOD Law FIRM,

We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement which
appears in another column, of Dick
son and Donnelly, Attorneys at Law.
st. Paul. MIR. S. j. D)nnelly is a son
Of the editor of THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE; was Assistant County Attorney
Of the capitol city for four years, and
was previously an assistant in the Of
flee of the Attorney General Of Min
Eesota, for like period He is a very
able, honorable man. Mr.. Dickson is
as thoroughly informed in civil law
as Mr.. Donnelly is in criminal prac-
tice. Together they make a very
strong team. We would recommend
them to all who are unfortunate
enough to have to 60 to law. They
can be thoroughly trusted
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17

skulls. and the limbs and points had
the appearance Of those of artificial
skeletons. There is an immense mi
grafton to the Assam tea garde rs,
1000 persons going. there weekly de-
serting their wives and families.
This place is the worst of any part of
Central India. >sa-"-- ~ 80
Read that and shudder! Think of
it.! Adult men reduced to mere skele-
tons and weighing but fifty-six pounds.
And why does the failure Of one
crop bring the poor Hindoos to that
condition.? Because they have been
so enslaved and plundered, by tax
gatherers and bond-holders and
usurers, for generations, ever since
Warren astings' time, that they have
no surplus accumulations of wealth
to fall back upon. While these poor
toilers are reduced to skeletons, in
India, there are millionaires in Eng.
land rioting in useless luxury off their
unpaid labor.
And they call themselves followers
of the bare-footed Christ! Followers
Of the robber Barabbas rather.
Christians! Pagans Infidels Thugs!
SlaughJererS OF their kind.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
SIGNS or THE TIMES.

line Bradley Martin ball In New
York. the other day cost half u million
dollars. Half a million dollars for five
hours of show and vanity, while mil
lions in the same land, aud hundreds
CT millions throughout the world.
were suffering for want Of food! Half
million dollars wasted in trumpery
and nonsense, while human beings in
India are so reduced by starvation
that adult men weigh but ffty-six
pounds each! .+
And yet perhaps the distribution of
those half million dollars has given
thousands of sewlng-women and toll
ers and gardeners and musicians and
their families, and the trades people
who depend upon them, something to
eat. Better to spend it this way than
to lend it out, at high rates of inter
est, to grind the faces of the poor,
and reduce them to still greater
depths of misery. 1t is mighty pity
the whole vast fortunes Of these people
could not be spent in the same way;
and thus restored to the common
fund of society, to water the whole
face of industry, instead of being shut
up in these dead reservoirs.
The law should limit the accumula-
ton Of personal fortunes so that they
should not exceed a certain reason.
able limit.
But what we note especially, in this
Bradley-Martin masquerade ball, is the
trucking to royalty and the absence
Of the slightest evidence Of america,
feeling. There were present repre-
sentatives of kings and queens galore,
with dukes and ducheSses, princes
and princesses, lords and ladies'
chevaliers and cavaliers, and all the
rest Of the rotten horde who have for
ages lived, in idleness, on the toll OF
the common people, giving them
nothing in return. The performance
was the dedication CT the gospel of
blood, brutality and plumber. Not
one personated George Washington, OF
Benjamin Franklin. or Andrew Jack
son, or Abraham Lincoln. Pym and
Hampden and Cromwell, in the. garb
of their epoch, would have made strik.
ing tigures,-but they would have
been hustled out of the concourse
with contempt, while the honors were
paid to kings and queens, courtiers
and courtesans, who had left behind
them nothing but a trail of slime and
blood on the pages Of history.
New York is a foreign colony. It,
leaders hate liberty and would
trample on the Declaration of Indepen.
dence,-if they dared. They have not
a heartbeat in common with the
cause of free institutions. Theil
| money has been spent, by the mil
lions, to corrupt the rest of the ma
tion and degrade and destroy it.
Their rottenness spread over Mime
sofa last fall like leprosy.
Rouse up, good people. and observe
| whittier the age is moving. The
causes that drove you and your ances
tors out of Europe are robbing you
here. America is being EuropeaHized
with terrible rapidity. What are you
going to do about it?
A new birth of devotion to the prin.
ciples Of 1776 is needed above al
things.
God give it to the neOile
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
REMEMBER FERIARY 9snd.

On that day, all over the state, and
we trust, even in the adj Joining states,
an effort will be made to revive inter-
est in the great Alliance organization.
AS is known to our readers, our ma
tional organization having dissolved,
the Alliance has resolved to unite
with the F. A.. s. l. u, which has
branches in every state ia the Union.
We believe that the times are propit-
uous, and that we have a better
chance now than ever before to do
some practical good to tine agricultur-
al and industrial classes.
The great subject Of interchange of
products is being agitated everywhere.
The only thing taking seems to be
earnestncSs and confidence. The lack
of confidence Is probably due to the
fact OF the dispirited and dishearten-
ed condition of the people. Many feel
that nothing can help them. This is
not the right way Of looking at things.
who would be free themselves
must strike the blow" We must
not lie down and die, because great
powers have combined to crush US.
The teachings of events are bringing
our fellow men to recognize the fact
that we are right.
We ask for no prescription of any
man or class; we simply desire to CO.
operate for self-defense and so ms ure
to US all share of the great blessings
Of civilization, to which, as free men,
we are justly entitled.
There was time when the Alliance
in Minnesota had 400 branches
throughout the state. We must re-
new the sentiment and earnestneSs of
that period. We must reach an equal
or greater development; we must
stand by the good and true men who
are trying to help us.
We hope that on the 22nd of Febru-
airy, the birthday of the illuStrious
founder Of our country, George Wash
ington. the reformers will get togeth.
err, not only the farmers Of the agri-
cultural regions, but the laboring peo-
pie of the cities. towns and villages.
and see what they can do for themselves.
Organize! Organize. 1t is the only
pa thway to success.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
THE CAUSE OF IT,

La Lucia, analyZing the causes
which brought about the reforms,
says Premier Canovas del Castillo had
offered in message to the queen to
read in the COrteS statements regard
ing the different versions circulating
among the Spanish and foreign press,
describing the proposed intervention
by the Washington cabinet in the
matter Of the Cuban reforms. He de-
scribed the excitement prevailing in
American cities and discussed the
various resolutions introduced for the
purpose OF inducing the government
to assume position in favor Of the
Cuban insurgents. The Spanish
premier stated that the situation had
now become comparatively calm, and
that apparently the energies and out
cries OF the senators had been bottled
up. 1t was also stated that the nerv-
business of the position assumed by
the Americans could be taken as an
indication OF the fact that they were
in the wrong, and dope ndent upon ar
guments for errors committed by the
friends OF Spain.
And who "bottled up'' the Ameri-
can senators? We're their mouths
stuffed with COB Of greenbacks? Is
that the way the loud roar of Yankee
sympathy petered out into the thin
squeak Of :uberculous rat, as it
disappears into its subterranean re-
treat.
Noble America! 1t can stand by
and see our friends, and neighbors,
the liberty-loving Cubans, slaughter
ed. Shame! Shame! We blush for
our country.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
HUNTING BED-BCGS.

Every now and then some good kind
friend sends US a clipping from a
rural newspaper, which lies about us
in shameful fashion; and wants us to
''go for" the reprobate. We can't af-
ford to do it. The game isn't worth
the candle. Why should we stop the
consideration of great ques tions, con-
corning the whole world, to hunt bed
bugs? After we have mashed them
what use are they? There is nothing
left of them but shell and stink.
You can neither sell them nor eat
them nor use them for perfumery.
They are persona non qrdtd even to the
devil. They are as near nothing as
they can get and yet preserve individ-
ual identity
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
THE FREE SILVER BINQCET

The Free Silver banquet held in St.
Paul, last Friday night, was mag
niticent success. Over two hundred
and fifty guests were present. The ex-
ercises lasted from $50 clock D. m. to
ga. m. The best of feeling prevailed.
There were present Populists. Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. All were hope
full that free silver would sweep the
whole country in 1898. 1t was felt by
all that every hour that had elapsed
since Nov. 3d. 1896. had brought US
converts by the score. and that VIC
tory was close at hand over the Money
Power and their deluded followers.
S. M. Owen advocated that all par
ties should drop their organizations
and make a new party. We invited
them all to come into the Peoples
Party camp and march under our ban
ner. We believe that by 1900 that will
be the course adopted.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
La " AND PROSPERITY.

The EmpOria, Kansas, Gaze tie says
one Of the main troubles with Kansas
is that the people have been taught
that the law can do some thing
for them, whereas the act
ual fact is that the social salvation of
any community lies in having large
percentage Of individual hustlers.
Free silver or free riot will not make
a community prosperous, but money
earned and saved is capital and CAPT
tai is power. The people who rely on
something or somebody outside of
themselves with responsibility for
their own failures will never be Gin
it," If the people of Kansas would let
these truths percolate through their
brain-pans they would cease voting
the POpuliSt ticket.-Minnea Tri-
bune.
We think that it will be conceded
that Thomas Jefferson. of Virginia.
the author Of the Declaration of In
dependence, knew a little more than
any man now on the Tribune staff.
We are inclined to believe that the
Tribune staff would themselves admit
this. And yet Thomas Jefferson de-
clared that a people could be made
prosperous or impoverished by the
operation of law"
In this country the operation Of la W
has made the rocky wastes of New
England to blossom like the rose:
while the same law has placed the
Mississippi Valley under universal
blanket blister of debt and mort
cages. And yet New England pro-
duces nothing but schemers and mon
ey-lenders; and the Mississippi Valley
is the unparalleled garden Of the world,
blessed with boundless fertility,-b
occupied largely by jackasses. who
bray their delight the louder the
scarcer the thistles become.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17

THE REPRESENTATIVE will always
endeavor to be Of general and relia BILE
information to its many thousands Of
readers. The advertisers you see in
our columns are all, to our best knowl-
edge, reliable firms and professional
men, who desire your patronage.
Their prices and goods are such that
1t will pay to deal with them. II you
will kindly stand by US and give our
advertisers the preference you will
thus help the paper, more than in any
other way. The REPRESENTATIVE,
we are glad to announce. has now a
very large circulation, and increasing
every day from all parts OF the coun-
try, and IL you have anything to sell
or wish to buy, make it known through
our columns. You will be surprised
at the results. 1t will reach the
masses through Ignatius Donnclly's
REPRESENTATIVE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-17
DON'T FORGET THE.
REMEMBER THE end OF FEB
quarry.
Get Together and Start Your Ali.
anceS

Remember the call of President
Long, to meet Feb. 22d. and reorganize
your Alliance. The cost will be al.
most nothing-the good may be meal.
culable. The labor force of the cities
is getting ready to cooperate with
you. ..t...,-
The conditions are desperate but
there is the more necessity for intelli-
gent action on the part of. the people.
Let every man take hold.
Let us see what cooperation can &C.
cOmpliSh for the relief of the people.