The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-29

itself on a dOWn-hill journey to the poor
house.
The first feeling to be inculcated,
therefore, at such meetings as this, is
that we must not treat the. great ques-
tiOnS involved from a class standpoint.
"He made of one blood all the races OF
men that dwell on the face of the earth. .
There is no anatomist that can tell the
skeleton of millionaire from the skele-
ton Of a beggar. There is no chemist
that could have identified the flesh of
Alexander T. Stewart, when it was stol-
en- and carried off in bag, and probably
fed to the dogs, from the flesh Of the
poorest pauper that ever lived and died.
We are all citizens of common coun-
try, descended from kindred races;
whose ancestors once dwelt together
under the same tents, and spoke the
same Aryan tongue; and we are here in
this new world, living under the same
government, with constitution which
forbids aristocracy, insures equality and
demands universal prosperity.
If we stand idly by, and permit few
men, for the sake of greed and vanity,
to subvert these noble institutions, and
reduce the larger part of the population
of the country to wretchedness and serf-
dom, we are simply taking the roof off
hell, that our children and our children s
children may be cast into the flaming
abyss
And what shall we get for it. We
shall not share in the plunder of the
multitude. In fact, our own chances OF
success in life be diminished by the
overwhelming misery that will surround
us.
And what will the few greatly enrich
ed obtain? They will dwell on the
flowery side of Vesuvius, not knowing
what moment "Enuledas may arise" and
they furnish another Pompeii, for the
instruction of future ages.
Let us be friends and brethren. Let
Christ's great gospel of peace and broth
erly love and the Brotherhood of God'
dwell in all our hearts.
If any class of men propose to start a
civil war in this land, let us take coun-
sci with them. If they do SO because
they are unjustly treated, and reduced
to want and wretchedness, beaten down
below the level of civilized life, their
all of existence made a mere span of
torture, let us gather around them and
say to them, that this thing must not
be. That the rights of the humblest ere
the interest of all. That the highest
Of us are scourged and prosecuted in
their poor persons; that all the
strife which fell on the
back of Christ marked the limbs of the
whole human race, SO the expressions
of the poor are the shame and disgrace
of our common humanity. Let our en-.
tire population stand up around these
people, and say to the wolves and tigers
that are tearing them:
These are our fellow men; our fel
low Christians; our fellow Americans
They must have fair play; fair chanc,
! to be men, a fair chance to develop th'
best that is in them; that they may b.
worthy children of the great God wht
| made them; and who plainly intend
the lifting up Of humanity to the high
est levels possible to the race"
| And if there are a few hundred or
| few thousand among us who are fille'
with a beast-like cupidity; whose mar
row minds do not appreciate the glory
the splendor and the beneficence of OIL
institutions; who worship European
conditions, and would introduce then
! into this country and bring to destruc
| tiOn the magnificent experiment Of lib
erty, equality and justice which Jeffer
son and Washington and Franklin an
Adams inaugurated on this continent
let us say to them to desist. And
| they will not, let them be tenderl
paupers, which they admire so much
and gently informed that if they eve
again attempt to pollute this land G
liberty, with their foul feet, they will b
destroyed on sight and their rubbis
of money thrown with them into tn
sea-
When the American people come t
understand that this is a contest be
tween the millions who want enough t
eat; and the millionaires who want
million times more than their wretche
stomachs can possibly hold, the end wi
not be far off. The people will rise G
masse-nOthing can stand before thei
enraged faces-their frown will be lik
the wrath of God written in the cour
tenance of the cyclone; and in thunde
tones they will declare that liberty mus
not perish; that our flag must fly fol
ever the emblem of justice and civilizs
ton; and that the men who plot tn
establishment here of an empire, on th
ruins OF the peoples homes, must
hunted like wild beasts from the col
tinent of America.
Gold Democrats Nominate.
OMAHA Neb., Sept. 22-Thrty-nine countf