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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.

Even the New York Tribune Protests
-SOmething of the Spirit of Hor-
ace Greely Left in 1t Yet.
Nothing is so likely to provoke dis
order" says the Tribune ''as to make
law hateful. That is fact which the
coal operators who are engaged in a
contest with their workingmen and the
officials who are on guard to preserve
the peace should not forget. Strikers
have rights under the law-even rights
the exercise of which may cause mine
owners inconvenience, perhaps unreas-
enable loss. The strikers have so far
maintained exemplary behavior They
have kept the peace.
1T is the height of unwisdom for any,
body so to enforce the law in their case
as to give them reasonable ground to
feel that they have no rights anyhow,
and that they might as we'll engage in
riot as in peaceful agitation.
"That feeling, we fear is likely to be
aroused by the injunction granted by
Judge Jackson in West Virginia 1t not
only forbids Eugene V. Debs from mo-
testing the property of the Monongah
Coal company, but also to approach the
mines to ask it's employees to join in the
strike. 1t enjoins him from interfering
in any manner whatever, either by word
or deed, in the company's affairs. Doubt
less Judge Jackson feared riot and
to prevent one. We fear, however that
| even if he has the right to issue such an
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
The journey

The Journey.
think of death as some delightful
journey,
That I shall take when all my tasks
are done,
Though life has given me a heaping
OF all best gifts, and many a cup of
pleasure,
Still better things await me further on.
This little earth is such a merry
planet,
The distances beyond it so supreme,
I have no doubt that all the mighty
Between us and the stars are filled with
faces
More beautiful than any artists
dream.
like to think that 1 shall yet behold
them,
When from this waiting room my soul
has scared
Earth is wayside station, where we
wander,
Until from out the silent darkness yon-
der
Death swings his lantern and cries,
"All aboard"
I think deaths train sweeps through
the solar system
And passes suns and moons that dwarf
our own;
And close beside us we shall find our
dearest,
The spirit friends on earth we held the
nearest,
And in the shining distance, God 5
great throne.
Whatever disappointments may befall
In plans of pleasure in this world of
doubt,
l know that life at worst can but delay
me,
But no malicious fate has power to
stay me
From that grand journey On the Great
Death route.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
STATE OWNS THEM.
Government Controls All Prussial
Railroads.

Government Controls All Prussian
Railroads.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 25.-Con-
sui Monaghan, at Chemnitz, Germany,
has sent to the state department report
ON Prussian railroads.
Estate ownership Of railroads. he
says, plays an important part in Prus-
sian finances. Earning enormous sums,
serving commerce and manufacturers in
times of peace and for all strategic pur-
poses in times of war, they have more
than justified the arguments that urged
the government to own them and the
liberal policies that have put them down
and pushed them out into all parts of
the empire.
1.-The receipts for 1896 and 1897 have
gone beyond the estimate of the budget
of l 1,02O, ,592 400 marks, and the estimate
for 1898 is LILO, PIC, $50 marks, while
the total income of the kingdom is only
slightly more than two billion marks.
After giving statistics in some detail,
| the consul continues:
"No other branch of public property
! pays so surely and so we'll. The certain
| ty of the receipts, the size, the ease
with which they are obtained, their cash
| character, render them the most useful
| of all the moneys turned into the public
! treasury. How successfully they are
run in other respects, whether better
than they would have been under pri-
vate ownership, it is hard to say. The
| state has had it's hands on the roads
from the very beginning. Seeing how
successfully they would aid armies, also
how necessary they would be in the de-
velopment of the empire. Prussia did not
hesitate to take the railroads over to
the state. Their quasi-public character
has helped the people to understand that
they should be controlled at least, if not
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
ELECTRIC LIGHT $23.
The Price That 1t Costs the People
Of Clyde, Ohio.
RESULT OF MUNICIPAL LIGHT
OWNERSHIP.
The Cost of Electric Light in Clyde
Under Public Ownership Much
Cheaper Than i'm Cities
Robbed by Private
Ownership.

Mr.. j. Fl. Becker, member of the town
council of Clyde, o., takes a great deal
of interest in public ownership of public
utilities. In an interview with a news
paper reporter, he says:
There is probably no other town in
the country that is SO widely quoted for
its ownership of the water and lighting
privileges as is Clyde. Scarcely month
passes that a delegation of visitors is
not entertained in Clyde from other
cities, VINO visit our town for the pur-
pose Of studying our methods of carry
Ing on our water and lighting business
Clyde was One of the first towns to ac-
Quire its own electric lighting plant, and
as far as | know we furnish light for a
smaller sum than the same can be had
at any other place. We have SO arc
lamps in the town for public lighting
purposes, and the average cost of each
lamp a year is but $2312, about one
fourth what it costs most of the cities.
Besides, the public lighting of the town
maintains an incandescent system for
the purpose of furnishing light to the
residents, and a considerable revenue
is derived in this way. 1t certainly
seems that it is the best policy for a
town to own it's own lighting system and
Its waterworks if possible. Clyde is sup
piled with water entirely from artesian
wells, one of the wells being 200 feet
deep and 10 feet in diameter. The Holly
system of reservOiring is employed, the
water being pumped into surface con-
tainers and from there through the sur
face mains. An excellent pressure is
maintained. and the town is furnished
with an adequate water supply at
slight cost
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
M. E. Johnson, Benson, Minn....

This list will be kept standing. and
added to from week to week, until
enough has been secured to purchase the
home, and put it in the hands of trus-
tees, SO that Mrs. Leases creditors can-
not get it, or seize upon the pots and
pans and kettles therein. We knew a
banker" CD once, in Hastings, Mimi.
Che is fortunately dead now, he ought to
have died before he was born), who took
a mortgage on lot of chickens, and
spent an hour or two trying to catch
them, and WIS very indignant because
the debtor, an Irish woman, would not
help him enforce the majesty of the law
She gave him instead some Biblical
words which hurt his sensitive feelings.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

permanently organized, was moved by one
Of the delegates. There were amendments
to the effect that the convention adjourn
until l o'clock and that the hour be made
O'Clock, and in the midst Of this parlia-
mentary tangle Delegate Sovereign shout
ed: I'm sick and tired of resolutions. This
is me time for action. 1 move. Mr.. Chair
man, that the motion to appoint a COM
mittee on resolutions be amended to read
en- resolutions and plan Of action,
This brought out a flood of amendments
and motions but the whole matter was
finally tabled and the meeting adjourned
until p. M, at which hour the report of
the committee on credentials will be pre-
Sented.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER MEXICO.
Ex-COnsul General Crfttenden Wants
All Customs Barriers Removed.

Ex-COnsul General Crittenden Wants
All Customs Barriers Removed.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 16.-"It is a sur
prise to me,'' remarked ex-Gov. T. T..
Critteaden, of Missouri, that the United
States, Mexico, and even, l might say,
the South American states, the only sill
reproducing countries of the world, do
not combine together and say, Not an
ounce OF silver shall be mined hereafter
until the white metal is given an hon
orable recognition by the gold coun-
tries Mexico, in spite of every possible
opposition that can possibly be thrown
in the way of silver, has improved, Is
improving and will improve in very
many ways that will show silver has not
lost its merits and it's virtue"
The distinguished visitor has just re-
two months as consul general of the
United States to the republic of Mexico.
He is in Denver for the purpose of meet
ing old friends, and will spend a brief
vacation in this city.
Had l my way" said Mr.. Crittenden,
with the deepest fervcr in every word,
Il would tear down every custom house
along the line and On the north side Of
the Rio Grande-permitting everything
from Mexico to come in free-assisting
in that way to build up that splendid
Southern republic which is and will
ever remain ward to this government
over which the Monroe doctrine will
extend it's generous wings"
Mr.. Crittenden is brim full of enthu-
siam over the republic Of Mexico, and
the wonderful future which he prophe-
sizes is in store for its people.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

THE OLD ALLIANCE BROKEN.
In the last presidential election the Pop
ulists contributed a considerable percent
age of the vote cast for VIM. ]. Bryan.
Without the Populist alliance he would
not have carried Kansas or Nebraska, and
probably none Of the mountain silver
states. while his vote in many of the
Southern states would have been danger
ously close.
1t is little early to discuss proba bilities
or the next presidential election, but as
Mr. Bryan is an avowed candidate for re-
nomination. the disposition of the Popu-
lists towards him becomes a matter of
interest. Thos. E. Watson, of Georgia.
who was one of Mr. Bryan's running
mates, representing the Populist side of
the fusion is out in an interview in which
he says that by the time the fall cam
paigns begin there will not be silver
Democrat in the country, men holding
silver views will be compelled to walk into
the PCpulist ranks and leave the old
Democratic party organization to the gold
men," He therefore issues an urgent in
vitation to all silver men to take shelter
in the broad arms Of Populism." He
adds: The time has come when the peo-
pie of the Union realize that the only
party which will devote all Of its power to
the conquest of monopolies, trusts and
rings is the Populist party, and that it
will be the vantage ground on which all
true patriots will rally in 1907
Mr.. Watson perhaps speaks authorita-
lively only for Georgia. but it is noticeable
that in other states the Populists are re-
fusing to renew the alliance of last fall
notably in Ohio, where they have refused
to indorse the Democratic nominee and
nominated ticket Of their own, headed
by Coxey. If this disposition on the part
of the PopuliStS to refuse to renew the
alliance is general, the silver Democrats
may be compelled to accept Mr.. Watson S
invitation to join his party. Their only
alternative would be to lapse into hope
less minority faction. Mr. Bryan himself
would undoubtedly be quite satisfactory to
the POpuliSts if he would consent to be-
come one of them and cease to call him.
self a Democrat According to the pres
ent outlook. If there is fusion in 1900
1T will be the other way-that is to say,
the head and front of it will he the Popu-
list party. and the silver Democrats will
play second fiddle.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
To the Lease Home Fund.
keystone, Wright Co., Mimi,
August %, 1897.

Editor Representative:
Enclosed herewith please find so cents
for the Lease homestead fund. l wish I
could have made it $50 instead of So
cents. 1 love the very name of that
woman, though l have only seen her
once, and had the pleasure of shaking
her hand. l refer to Mrs. Mary Ellen
Lease 1t seems that the first ten cents
offered for her was an omen Of good
luck for successful end for good and
worthy cause. When l was reading the
sympathetic expressions of the different
givers, my tears were flowing from the
strange mixture of the laughable and the
pathetic expressions. In particular the
friendly present of $1,000 to you, Mr.
Editor, and then your stinginess (after
SO muniicent present) that could only
afford to bestow on our friend Mrs.
Lease $5; when you knew at the same
time that it would have so greatly
pleased Mrs. Leases friend, the Pioneer
Press, if you had made it $500.
l laughed aloud while the tears blind
ed my eyes.
Good luck to the fund and Mrs Lease
Yours truly,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

owned, by the state. The tendency all
over the empire is towards state and
city ownership OF all Kinds of transpor
tation facilities as we'll as of telegraphs,
telephones and other means of commu-
nication"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
A LAND OF TENANTS.

The Fruits Of the Gold Standard.
Is it not strange that a free country
farmers than England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales? Texas alone has 80, ,245,
while the remainder of the states COM
bined have 6,929,755. Class legislation
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

regenerated Democratic CD journal will
explain the difference in principle be-
tween the appropriation of money by
legislative enactment to make and keep
of money to build railroad by the same
authority.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

Human Nature is Ever the Same.
Nearly 1000 years ago there came
certain man preaching peace and good
will among the common people. Incl
dentally he told the privileged classes
of that time of their hypocrisy, and
warned them against tie oppression of
the weak and defenseless, such as wild
Ows and orphans. AS the common
people heard him gladly and began
thinking about the truth of what he
was saying, the privileged classes began
to fear him and determined to get this
dangerous agitator out of the way. They
then trumped up whole lot of false
charges, against him, hired a lot of
ward bummers to work up a sentiment
among the ignorant multitude against
him; so much SO that when the people
of the city were given the choice be-
tween convicted and notorious high
wayman and robber and their real
friend, against whom no crime could
be proved, the people chose the robber
and allowed their friend to be murdered
Some have questioned the truth of the
above occurrence. but the essential facts
are undoubtedly absolutely true. 1t Is
so true to nature that it will hold good
in every essential feature even today
Let man talk truth and justice for
the common people and the hired assas-
sins of the privileged classes will follow
that man to the scaffold And the null
titude, properly manipulated, will gather
around shouting: "Gve us Barabbas!
Give us Barabbas!"- !"-Willmar Tribune.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

trerd, and advised the people who wish
cial order. hat they must be on their
guard and prepared to unite their forces.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01
To Our Hoa -Df Out.of. Town Patrons:

DEAR FRIEND AND CUSTOMER
We want you to let help you good you
Minneapo this Fall the State Fair and
Carnival.
The week of Sept. 6, with its manifold attractions, and
with the OF low rates for accorded
the railroad companies half fare
being arranged for distances within miles Minneapois
to afford the opportunity of inviting people
outlying territory and join grand jolifation
1t is generally known that the ''BG STORE is
center of attraction and with the great preparations
coming events going will be the chief
tanmen and the focus of general interest This
sufficient in itself supply the of ALL
bargains That less shopping will be done by visiting
friends, without saying Not only do provide
roomest cozies ARREST largest and best place
also surround visitors with possible convenience
comfort Our of saespeople and guides will
ly at service and will be
Reception Parors Writing Rooms with free stationery
Nursery with skilled ones, free
Check Room free Information Bureau, You
lunch Basement Restaurant for Sc table dhote din
for rs We have Photo Gallery top
floor and thousand and modern We
wonderful cash system where the money through
cecod store large ordinary house and the
largest individual Electric Heating
word-famed Electric Street "Baze Glory"
every evening.
Make it point to visit you Minneapolis.
appreciate your past favors and will glad recproate
Make yourself home here when you city
let us know you in
Yours very truly
S. E. OLSON co.
PS-RemsmDe,; Al FIFTH ST: and FIRST AVE. S.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

and the rule of the money power have
produced these results in the past 100
years. How long will it be till the people
will all be slaves?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

HE 1.5oo. 900 people o4 linneoota pay.
etafe. county and township; and 90.
eoc, % more annually 0R Interest a
z.'wa tered stock" Of railroads. usarlouo
sratdS en- borrowed money: ana through
sehe etealings Of elevator, wheat. luin.
her. scattle and other rings. What Do
the people got for Il all4 Nothing.
Whit are they going to do about itf
SnAAk and act
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-01

The editor of the Representative. $500
J. B. Gehr, Walla Walla, Wash. 100
H. B. Fay, Rumsey, MINI. ....... 10
David p. Meacham, Milton, N. c.. 10
A. W. Sanderson, Usage, Minn.... 10
David Fitzgerald, Minneapolis. 10
Anonymous, Duluth, MINI. ..... 10
Anonymous, four parties, 1Oc each. 40
E. B. Scripture, West Concord,
Mimi. . 10
David Fitzgerald of Minneapolis has
handed in the follnMin0 cont ri hut iQnS
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-26

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. GA special
nesting OF tue chamber vi commerce
will be held Thursday afternoon To
devise means for assisting In the relief
OF those who are suffering from plague
and famine in inuia. The merchants
of the city have In the past readily
responded TO all calls for aid in cases OF
Distress anu 1t is their intention to
show substantially that they sympp-
thize with the sufferers ia Tar iauia,
Just what c0urse will be pursued will
not be positively determined until
after the merchants and the citizen
who Will DO invited to attend exchange
ideaP. IL has been suggested ny come
to charter o vessel ana ship flOur ana
wheat Ii the vessel WAS to sail with.
in lew weeks, 1t would reach lula
about the time 1t 10 feared the sufferers
from this famine will be- In most needs
OF assistance.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-26

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-COl. A. j..
Smith, toe governor OF the Leaven-
worth Soldiers home, against whom
chargcs of Encouragement were
brought by Representative Blue OF
Kansas, was the chief witness iodsy
before the congressional committee
Investigating the matter. Ho entered
general uenial OF the accusations
made and asked for further hearing.
Col. SmIth represented to the COM
mitiee that, with the large member
snip OF the home, II was absolutely
necessary to hold over them the fear
OF uisho aorable ditcnarge in order that
discipline might be enforced.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-26

Letter From IA Lady missionary at
bombay.


bombay.
RosroN, Jan. 25.-Miss Abbie Child,
secretary Of the woman's board OF mis-.
sions, has received the following let.
ter from Mre. Rev. Il. summs Of Bonn
boy;
"fhis terrible bubonio plague lie
working fearful havoc in ali branches
OF the nutive community. Some $4,000
have left town. The BsroGar railway
alone hos put on elk extra trains day
to provide accom- IN dalton for those
leaving by their line. In the railway
station here at Byculia there cit hum
dreds waiting Tor an opportunity 10
leave by the Great Indian Peninsuls
trBius.
"rhe people are dazed end terrified.
DIR. JeLuo, the assistant coroner, says
that the papers give not fractional
part OF the iucts as to the plague; thai
| In one burying ground the day before
| there had been 100 bodies brought, anC
they couia not dispose of them fas
enough. In the Mohsmmedan buryinp
| grounds they are laying four aud nv
bodies in a grave. And yet, with al
| Of this about us, not native Christian
has had AN attack. Eight Europeans
| II not more, have died of 1t.
| CAT first IT was thought that abou
| 80 per cent recovered, but later fact
| from various sources prove the fatality
| to be even greater. Since the death o
| a little girl In one OF our schools, tn;
| doctors have ordered all four oil GU
| outside schools TO be closed"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-26
THE FIlssr BATTLE.
Story OF the Campaign ms Hold by Hon.
W. j. Bryau.

W. y. brShu.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-The last pages
Of The First Battle, the Hon. w. J.
Bryan's book, havs gone to press, and
the W. b. COnkey company, the pub
fishers, expect 10 have the fret copy
bound In about week. The book Will
be a story OF the campaign OF 1886, it's
important events anu issues, anu In.
CIudes the mos, noteworthy incidents
ut MIR. Bryun's famous tour. 1t also
contains the principal addresses anu
the documents relating to the silver
movement and some OF Mr.. Brysn's
lpseches, Considerable space Is given
10 connection with tno silver agitation
while IN Congress and prior TO the
Unicago convention, and to a discussion
Of the election re.urns anu an analysis
Of the political situation.
Gee Of the interesting features OF tho
book Is the biogIaph icsl sketch writteb
by Mb. Bryan. She concludes the
ikstch ihu,: "ro give an estimate OF
bis character or OF the mental endow.
nsnts which he may possess, would be
bsyond the scope OF the article. l may
be justified, however, In saying that
bis life has been one OF earnest pun
lole, with that sort OF genius which
has been called "a capacity for hard
EOik.'n
"Ihs First Battle''is dedicated to the
Hon, Richard z. Bland OF Missouri,
Gtn. Jsmeu b. Weaver of lows and
Tue Hon. Henry M. Teller OF Color.
idc, who the author considers ",he
tiemost champions OF himstzll!sm In
lbtlT feSnpptiya partiea -
Many interesting incidents OF the