The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-20
PERTINENT POINTS.

PERTIN NENT POINTS.
Bangor, Maine, was supplied with
electric light by a private company
| and it cost the city $266 per arc light
per year. Later the city put in plant
Of its own, land it now cos is $65 per arc
per year. The plutCcrats objected to
the city's putting in plant on the
grounds that it was not the city's busi-
ness to supply light. Those things
should be left to private corpora tions.
Or course they should.
| Who built the railroads Of this coun-
try? The laborer Who built the
school houses, the churches, the fac
Who raises all the wheat and corn,
and cotton and sugar? The laborer.
Who created all the wealth of this ma
tion? The laborer. Who enjoys it?
The laborer? Oh, no. He lives in a
hovel, wears patched pants and eats
the poorest Of food, and labOrs and
labors and labors. Is he satisfied with
his condition? Yes. II he were not,
he would attempt to change it.
In England 81 per cent of the people
have no property, so per cent have
only p per cent of all the wealth, or
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per cent of the wealth. The 81 per
cent are prosperous. What about the
50 per cent? In England they have
free trade and the gold standard. Per
haps they need more of that policy to
give prosperity to the people.
In Massachusetts,. the most prosper
| Gus state in the union, 60 per cent of
the population arc without property;
IS per cent have only per cent of all
the wealth: or 9 per cent of the people
have 81 per cent of all the prol erty
In Massachusetts they have high tdr!t
and the gold standard. Perhaps we
need more OF that policy in this coun-
try to bring to our people prosperity.
sons of toll! Will ye have the English h
or the American policy?
Think moment:
Say, Clodhopper, you have lived un-
der gold standard and protective
tariff system, quarter of a century.
Is your bank account any larger than
it was 25 years ago? Have you any
more property? And how is it with
you, Mr.. Laborer? Have you any bank
account at all? Did you ever see the
inside of bank? No? Have you a
home you can call your own? Twen ty-
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est financial system in the world(?) and
yet no bank account and no home?
You don't mean that you have toiled a
quarter of century and haven't any
thing? Isn't it about time you did
something to change that beautiful
system? Vote for the g. o. p? That's
what you have been doing all these
years. Keep it up. Keep it up. You
are all right. '"Nit!'
The Populists swept the progressive
state Of Washington by lo,Coo MAORI
ty. Vino says Populism is dead? 1t
hence.
Christ would be called an anarchist.
He taught the abolition'of chattel slav-
cry; he had contempt for the money
changers and rebuked them in the
temple; he warned the rich that their
chances for entering the kingdom of
heaven were very slender. The apostles
had the same contempt for the rich
that Christ had Hear James thun-
dering his rebukes at them:
go to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you. So. -, 49,, ... T..
Your riches are corrupted and your
garments are moth-eaten.
"Your gold and silver is cankered,
and the rust of them shall be wit
ness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire Of the laborers
who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud,
crieth; and the cries of them which
have rcaped are entered into the ears
of the Lord Of Sabbath"
The Tennessee Pilot puts it just
right when 1t says:
1.-THE Democratic party is not the
party to overthrow the Republican
party. They have too many interests
in common. There are not enough
Democrats who can get together and
work harmoniously. A new party
on new lines is necessity in this
country. Republicanism will rule in
this nation until a new party Orga n
lied on some great principle that is
near to the people drives it from the
field. There is no longer any good
reason why Southern manhood should
waste its strength on the Democratic
party"
Well and truly said. The Democrat
ic party is as firmly in the power OF
plutocracy as the Republican. Hill
German, Brice and their ilk are still
great leaders of Democracy. And
when have they ever taken issue with
the money power? Have they evel
taken sides with the people? What is
their record on the income tax, ma
tional banks, free silver or any other
great reform that was ever attempted
in the interest of the people? What
have they ever done or attempted te
correct the abuses which the people
are subjected to by the railroads, tele-
graph companies. coal-barons and a
hundred other monopolies? Why, tbs
leaders Of Democracy are the defend
ers of these institutions. They either
have an interest in them or are the
attorneys for them direct, receiv
ing large salaries, in some instance!
as high as $25.O year. They hell
the common people? Bah!
Let the rank and file, the honest
we'll meaning Democrats, leave thu
rotten old hulk. It's going to sinl
q ANYWAY. II. j. S.