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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
HOW 1T IS WORKED.

It is reliably stated that leading
railroads weigh mail matter carried
over their lines only once every four
years. national campaign years, and
collect from the government for this
maximum tonnage the other threo
years.
This fraud is the more notorious
from the fact that it is admitted and
sought to be justified by its perpetrat.
ors. The Seaboard Air Line Railway
when called down on this question,
promptly through its tative,
Mr.. McBee, justly asked our Demo-
cratic postmaster-general. "Why is our
line singled out for criticism for STUFF
ting' the mails during the rewe;ghing
period, when it is known that all rail
roads practice the same fraud on tie
governments"
Tile question is, how long will it
take the American people to realize
that there is but one preventive Of
these gigantic frauds?-governme
ownership of railways.-Southern Mcr-
curry.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
ESCAPING TAXATION.

When Jay Gould died it was found
he had personal property valud at $780,
934, $50, with only 6,563, $50 of debts
charged against it, yet his personal
property was rated, for purposes Of
taxation, on the assessors rolls, at
only 100000. He paid tax on only
$500,000, where he should have paid a
tax on nearly $4,000. 600. And the
case Of Jay Gould was no exception
among the millionaires. 1t is almost
lnvariable at death to fnd their per-
sonal property many fold greater than
their rating on the assessors rolls. In
short, the controller asserts there is
general evasion Of the payment of the
tax on personal property, his belief
being that there is in New York be-
tween $2,500OO0,CO0 and $3, OOo, o,COo. 900
that escapes taxation every year.-Ex.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
A GOOD REMEDY.

A dispatch from Topeka, Kas., says
that bill has been framed and will
be pressed before the state legislature
requiring persons who own more than
100 acres Of land to sell 1t If reasona.
BILE offer is made; II tender is re-
fused on the ground that the price is
too low, then jury will decide. II
that tribunal fixes price below the
tender made the land owner pays the
cost of the suit. II the jury fixes a
greater price the intending purchaser
pays the cost. II such law was
passed it would doubtless be declared
unconstitutional, but there is RENE
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
OUR DISGRACE.
The People Must Think for Them
seives-Views of a Religious
povor.

Paper.
We have daily appeals for aid for the
starving and INDECENT of Armenia, OF
India, of other semi-civilized climes.
They need aid and nobody questions
it. But where is the nation on the
face Of the earth Of any account in
the list Of great nations that has the
gaunt figure of famine guarding the
doors Of it's homes, except the United
States? TO our everlas ting disgrace
and shame in this land of wealth, of
inexhausible resource, of millonaires
with more money than they know how
to spend, we have the plague of
wretched poverty dying for want of
food. lying at our door stills. Who is
to blame-what Is to blame-that
such astate Of things should be among
US? Where is the beniticence Of the
''sound money" system under which
these things have come to pass? Do
the dignitaries Of government, Of of.
flee, of church, know how dangerously
near we are to the conditions which
brought on tine French revolution a
hundred years ago? Mrs. Bradley.
Martin must have her fancy dress bali.
forsooth. as Marie Antoinette had her
fetes at Little Trianon and Versailles.
Where is there promise in this coun-
try that these festival scenes. mock
ing the hunger Of the people, shall not
be turned into bloody reyel? Law
and order! Who obeys it? Not the
mighty and rich among us. Every.
body knows that. Law is apparently
made for the poor, and already too
grievously oppressed only. Shame on
those who are wont to pass as the peo-
pies champions, the champions of lib
erty, Of law, CT justice between man
this problem Of the age confronts
them, giving to their former utter
ances the lie In the teeth. Where now
is the eloquence and fervor with
which they were accustomed to ad-
dress the people, prophesying to the
masses all sorts of success and pros
perity and inveighing against those
who sought by other plans to alleviate
the common distress? Words. as bit.
ter as they are and may be made, we re
insufficient to express the scorn and
indignation, of the denouncers of the
Bryan programme. Where are they
now? Was Bryan rights he right.
after all? John Sherman, premier of
the new administration, as much as
says so. for he has espoused the silver
basis for national banks. And then
when one looks around him and sees
that his recent political advisers we're
nothing more than defaulting and
dishonest bankers, whose shells Of
houses have been swept away by the
first breath Of adverse wind, it is borne
in upon them that perhaps it would be
better if he had followed his own bent
and atte ended to his own business him.
self, without advise from any body. II
these men, these broken down bank
ers and tinanciers have been unable to
successfully manage their own little
private concerns, in what respect ire
they competent to manage successful
ly the affairs of the nation? We have
been taught cruel lesson, but all is
not lost if we profit by it speedily.
Only the deepest contempt can follow
those who still persist in the outrage.
Gus fallacy of finance which has brou't
on them this shameful condition.
Northwestern Chronicle.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24

dy for landlordism which the Kansas
legislature can apply that will be
equally effective and can not be set
aside by the courts. Make home
stead to the value OF 2,0OO, free from
tax, and every acre of land held in
Kansas for speculation, will be offered
for sale, and it will sell without jury
having to fix price either. Yes, more
than that, it will bring to the state
million more people in the next five
years. This act alone would immor-
talizc the name Of Populism in the
United States.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
WHO ARE SLAVES.

They are slaves who dare not speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Facts and Figures Showing Benefits
of Government Ownership
of Railroads.
How 1t Works in Other Countries How 1t
Woule Work in Ours.

A band Of the noblest heroes that
ever assembled on the American con-
tincnt since July 4, 1776, asSemb! at
Omaha, July 1, 1892. That conventio n
drew up and promulgated to the world
declaration Of political principles
that will go down in history side by
side with the English Magma Chalta,
as one of the greatest political docu-
ments the human race has produced,
In this and succeeding papers intend
to discuss its principal declarations.
In that documentI find this concise
and emphatic statement: I'VE de-
mand the government ownership and
operation OF railroads." Would pub
lie ownership reduce the cost of trans
to one-fourth Of the present rates is
the easiest thing in the word tOprove.
Public ownership would save the peo-
pie 662 millions Of dollars year, as
follows:
by abolishing 500 presi-
dents with their statTs. .S25. coo. .OCO
2-By abolishing high-prced
managers and their staffs. 1000, Goo
BY abolishing attorneys
and legal expenses. ....... 1900, 900
All boil shing merely COM
petitive Offices. solicitors. $1,000, ,0CO
Establishing 5-7ths Of the
advertising account ...... 100000
6-Abolis hing tariff associa-
tions. ...,................ 1900, 600
by exclusive use Of short
est routes. ........:.... 25,oOO,OC
S-COnsOlidatiOn Of GepOts
and offices. s........... 10000, 900
9-By uniformity Of cars,
rails, machinery and other
incidental expenses Of COM
petition. ................. $4,000, coo
10-By avoiding strikes. 10. 900, 200
I1-By aboliShing corruption
fund to influence legisla-
tion, etc. c................... 30,OCO,o0O
12-Abolishing passes. ....... 50, O00, 600
Establishing rebates and
commissions. s.............. $4,000. .o00
14-By having no rent or III
tereSt to pay 2SG 900, 0CO
l5-Abolis hing dividends.... $1,000, ,O00
16-By turning surplus into
treasury. y.................. $1,000, 600
Total savings. ............ .$662, 600, 00C
NOW WEuU pdIU vi UIC 10 dl Income
Of the railroads are these CO. millions
In 1894 the gross earnings were 81,
GA, ,000,0C0; in 1853, little less; in 1891
(beforc the panic), 81 200,000.0Oo. l
have no statistics later than 1895. 1t
will be seen that the saving Of $662,
O0O.0 eco is more than half Of the total
income Of the roads. If expenses are
reduced half can not rates lie re-
duced one-half? Reducing passenger
and freight rates one-half would be an
inestimable blessing to the people of
the United States.
Many farmers in the United States
have no market for their butter, eggs,
poultry and vegetables, because trans
portation rates are SO high that they
cannot be shipped to large centers of
population. And on the other hand
thousands Of people in every city ia
the United States are actually starv-
ing for these products OF the farm,
but can not get them because Of the
high rates Of transportation. People
in the cities have manufactured ar
ticles for which the farmers are suf-
fering. Lower rates Of transportation
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24

Do you want Bryan's Book, "Thc
First Great Battle?" Get lis Five
Yearly Subscribers and we will
send you the book Free.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24

Iution: The constitutional standard
ed. To Ovefturn 1t would shake tho
congress- constitute the legal stand
Webster, 2Ath Congress, >, 1s3l
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-24

Ship to US and send US the shipping receipt
starts We will sell it for cash and send you the
at once We can you dealers profit sell on the
same market on which he sells and same prices.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
THE STORY OF THE CORSET.
Stays in 0Iden Times and in These latt
Days.

Ftnom the Washington Times.
Fa ashton and science have Joined hands
lately on the subject of woman's waists,
and now that a belt may safely meas
ure one, two or even threee inches more
than it did a few seasons ago, it looks
as if the tfnle-honored corset was gradu-
ally bling sent into semi-disgrace.
Many and various are the different pat
terms of waists offered to the woman
whose health or whose advanced idea
urge a larger waist, and as a. matter
of COURSE deeper breanhing. But, al
though all these COMPROMISES between
stays and NO Stays are winning wide
favor, it does not follow by any mans
that the day of the corset, pure and
simple, is over.
1t has had q varied career since it
first appeared in Italy during the ex-
tray agant gorge BUSINESS of the renais-
sance. Catherine di Medfci took 1T with
her as part of her t1rouSseau when she
went to France to wed Henry H., and
in spite of it's crude ughnesS most of
tbs fashionable ladies of Paris adopted
it, The fair Queen of SCOTS and Diana
of Portiers refused to don the tortuouS
combination of iron and velvet, but their
siinuous charms freed them from con-
ventionIalism and excused THIN foe many
things. Uncomfortable as the eorsets
unqueStionably were, most of the fair
DANES bravely boxed themselves up in
tlhsln, and the Elizalbteflan belle in her
stiff ruff and endless length from should
err to hips was not so very different from
the fashion plates of the past few years.
However the inventive, artisans soon
substituted something more pllable than
cold iron with which to eTAcilrcle the fair
ones of the hour. THE days of Louis
XIV. dawned, and the mold of fashion
which pleased THAT fastidious monarch's
eye Was THAT which permitted ND hint
whatever of pliability in the feminine
form or ease in posture and movement.
But when Louis XIV. arrived, BoIich-
elr, This court painter Introduced the
danes of the Eli de Boeuf as coy SHEEP
herdnesses and rural beauties, ard fer
a time stiff waists became obsolete, but
Boucher disd, and the tenacious corset
was again in favor until Marie Ant'oin-
cite posed as country maiden AIT LITTLE
Tuanon, and ONCE more easy lines were
In vogue. During the directory tn. waist
line was entirely concealed, and Roman
and Grecian sandals and togaS held
their graceful sway. The empla gowns
brought the welat imm :diateqy beneath
the bust, but the empire fell the waist
dropped with 1t, ami the modern steel,
whaaebone and satin corset came in with
tins century to hast i'm undfsputed favor
until this LATEST movement against it
took shape
For the first time in its history the ar
gumenlts against it ars fortified by pleas
fer health rather than beauty, and 1t
may be that its final doom has come,
but the ways of mankind are "wariouS.
but those of woma nl1ind wariollser," and
and no onle can say that after we llave
had am era of substantial women and I'M
fettered bodies, whether it will not b.
followed by the irreIu-essible CORSET in
all Its pristine stiffness.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
Where Do They Stand 2

The Atlanta Constitution is exactly
right when it says that the genuine
democrats OF the country are still stand
ing on the Chicago platform. If they are
not standing ON that platform where do
they stand? Do they stand with the
gold republicans on the st. Louis plat
form, or with The go.d democrats in the
midst of a quagmtre, or with the popu-
lists or the social democrats?
OF course the authoritative declana-
tons of THE national democratic party in
its last convention control all loyal dem
ocrats until the party On it's regular
councils may decide upon change of
policy. The Chico go platform is good
enough for any democrat. 1t embodies
the living issues and the winning is
sues.
The kickers who stray off and get on
little platforms of their own are not or
ganized democrats. They are camp fol-
bowers between both the great parties,
and liable to join either, for sufficient
provocatlon or inducement
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
polIas Gas It Must Be.

Eyes, we have charged s1.65 for gas"
This admission was made by President
B. F. Roden. of the gas company, be-
fore the special committee of the board
of aldermen last night.
Mr.. Roden was bold. He admitted that
the gas company had charged the cfti-
zens of Birmingham s1.65 per Thousand
feet for gas. He admitted that the gas
company's contract with the city was Ito
furnish the citizens with Illuminating
gas at $1.4S per thousand feet. Mr..
Roden's only explanation was that the
city had accepted gas from 1.-THE COM
pany for lighting its engine houses for
company had agreed to furnish the city
for fifteen lamp posts to illuminate the
city streets.
Mr.. Roden was nonchalant on the
stand. He admitted Ii all with an air
which appeared to say. What are you
going to do about it, gentlemen"
Now, the question is, whether the gas
company owns the city or whether it is
a servant of the city. The board of al
dermen have a simple duty before them.
They are to decide a question of fact
Has the gas company violated its con-
tract with 1.-THE city? If 1T has, and that
has been admitted, then the city should
abrogate its contract. The city govern
ment which made THE contract gave the
gas company a franchise. If it has a
right to annul it's contract 1t has a
right to annul its franchise Abrogate
the contract which has been violated;
annul the franchise, and proceed to make
anotner contract TOT cheaper gas LOT
Birmingham.
Everybody knows that Birmingham is
entitled to dollar gas. Birmingham
should have dollar gas. If the board of
aldermen do their duty. Birmingham
will have it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
The GeOrqia MethOdists.

IL is a pity that the Methodists of the
North Georgia conference are in such a
tangle. They went to Athens in a bad
humor Mrs. DR.. w. H. FELTON, had pub
lished an ARTICLE In which she quoted
a report which charged certain minis
ters with failing TO pay Their debts, and
the Rev. C. C. Cary, Of Cedartown, in
dorsed 1t. This caused the Rev. Mr..
Zimmerman to report the charges in a
circular, with the addlI tfona| charge that
some ministers were said to be guilty of
immortality.
The conference was mad. DIR. Heidi,
DIR. Cook and Mr.. Gibson, of Atlanta,
were placed under charges. The latter
was vindicated. die had been charged
with being too gallant to the ladies.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
Brann and the Raniists.

IL would be a ridiculous thing for the
Bapttsts to remove their state headquar-
tiers. from Waco. Tex, because Editor
Brann publishes his Iconoclast in that
town, and abuses them, and stir up
trouble and bloodshed among the people
nc ,Brann publishes libelous stuff bet him
be indicted and punished, but don't mob
him, assassinate him ON run away from
him.
The Baptisits of Texas are very strong
and pious body of people, and they and
their churches win be ON deck long after
Brann is dead and forgotten. 1t lis fool
ish to be so agitated over the ranting of
a sensational editor. who writes his fiery
rot for revenue only.
The best way to do Is DO pay no att
tention to him, unless he violates the
law, and then he should be turned over
no the courts. 1t is nonsensical TO fight
about Brann's articles, and worse still
to be driven out of town by them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
WILL THEY COME HERE 2
Party of Northern Capitalists Now Making a
Tour of the South.

Sparitanburg, S. c., Nov 29.-The ST.
Louis and Southwestern limited from
Washington brought into Spartanburg
this morning a special car containing
q party of Northern bankers. capitalists
and cotton nriM owners on tour of in
spection. The parity is made up of e.
Naumburg, of Naumburg, Laure g. Co.;
Joseph p Townsend, president of the
Bowery Savings bank; s. H. Milfkin, of
Deering, MAliHln & Co.; Wheeler Smith,
architect; John Sinclair, contractor; A.
w. Green and Edwin Green. w. B.
Beaverton, William Brockman and c. H.
Hackett, wholesale clothiers, New York;
w. F. Miliken, wholesale grocer, Port
land, Me-; ]. w. Danlelson, treasurer of
several eastern cotton mills. Providence.
and NJ. V. Richards. land agent of the
Southern railway.
The day was spent in the Spartan and
Whitney mills. The party will run by
special train over the Southern to exam
Dire other mills in this section. Thence
they go Through South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Alabama, East Tennessee and
North Carolina.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
A Cranky Idea.
will have

Newspapers are great educators and
the young pEople should be encoura ged to
read them. Many men of education and
culture acquired their knowledge from
the newspapers and Ia few good books.
But this does not Justify the cranky
id.a of some people that the newspapers
should be used lin schools instead of the
old-fashioned READERS" The San Fran
cisco Argonaut very properly says of
the proposed experiment. in Kansas:
The STATE of Kansas has for years been
q, restless state. 1t has been cursed with
cranks. Crianks have grown there like
weeds. Populism, socialism, PefferiSm,
Sockless- SimpS endsm-all of thetse isms
have desolated that unfortunate com
munity. Abour a year ago Editor White
of the Emperia (Kan:) GaZer1te caused a
grim to run over the continent like a
prairie fira when he published an article
entitled what Is the Matter With KAN
Sas?" After thoroughly discussing the
causes of his states social and political
unrest, Editor White wound up his ar
ticle by renlarking: '@The truth is that
Kansas has bsen engaged in raising
hell, and is now suffering from AN over
production" With this the rest of the
United States cordially agree. We may
remark that if the schools of Kansas are
going to usla such papers as the New
York Journal for educational purposes
the crop which Kansas is now harvesting
is ais nothing to that which. she will reap
in years to come. Kansas hitherto has
only been "a iiotbed of crankS. If her
school children rsad, mark, learn and
in,wardly digest sheets like the New York
Journal She will eventually become a
breeding ground of criminals.
The ArgonIaut lis unnecessarily severe
upon the New York paper It's remarks
should have been directed against all
newspapers i'm connection with the pur-
pose mentioned. A newspaper Is not de-
sigred for "a school reader. 1t Is intended
to give tine news, with editorial COM
ments, and it sometimes champions a
panty or advocates certain policies and
doctrines This makes 1T unfit for use as
'reader" in a non-part.San school, no
matter how high its standard may he.
Even the cleansslt newspaper contains
items of news and reports of trials which
school The New York journal Is no
worse in this respect than many other
great dalies.
Another point should be mentioned.
The editors and reporters on "a daily
write undsr pressure, and their English
is not always a model of style. They use
slang and coin new words recklessly. 1t
is better for the schools ito read selec-
tTons from standard authors While in
school the youngsters Should stick to
their text books. They can and will read
| the neMspapens alt home.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
True of Both Races.

At the recent meeting of colored Pres
byteran ministers in this city, the Rev.
L. j. Washington, while making a strong
plea for the education of his race said:
"The negro has the power of THE bal
lot in his hand. With this power and
uneducated, the negro race Is a curse to
the country. An ignorant man has no
more business with the ballot than has
a monkey with the Word of God"
This is golden utterance and it
should be kept before the people. 1t is
not applicable to THE blacks alone; 1T
applies with equal force to the whites.
1t is dLsgraceful farce to allow hum
dreds of thousands of men IL this coun-
try TO vote when they cannot read their
ballots. II is dangerous folly TO allow
the vote of an illiterate negro or white
man to kill the ballot of an educated
and patriotic citizen.
Corrupt men and demagogues will al
ways control the votes of the ignorant,
wlseither Blney are white or black. Wash
ington is right. The ballot in the hands
of an ignorant man is a curse ito the
country. When intelligent negroes adj
init this, it should cause the whites to
make an effort to reform the evil.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-30
NO HOPE FOR MRS. MOBILES.
United States Supreme Court Says the Law Has
Been Properly Carried Out.

Washington, Now 29.-The United
States supreme court today reviewed the
decision CT the Georgia supreme court in
the case of Mrs. Nobles convicted of the
murder of her husband, i'm which SHE
claimed the process Of law had been de-
MED hler. The result of the decision is
that the sentence imposed by the court
cannot be executed.
Justice White handed down the opinion
of The court. He reviewed briefly the
points in The case, showing that Mrs.
Mobiles counsel had moved for a. trial
to prove her sanity after she alad been
found guilty of the murder of her hus-
band. This motion was denied by the
trial court and the decision affirmed by
the sbate supreme court. Mrs. Mobiles
then appealed to the federal supreme
court on tho ground that the fourteenth
amendment, guaranteeing all citizens
dua process of Law, had been evaded.
The contention was overT-uled by Justice
Whites opirion, wl1o said that the CON-
tentions involved We're wholly Within the
jurisdiction off the state courts.
IF The position of the plaintiff in error
WAS found" said Justice White mo
criminal could ever be brought to pun
ishment, as his Immunity would de
pend upon his fecundity in raising pleas
of insanity.