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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

must be just the kind that would like
it. They must be willing to put up with
the hardships of pioneers. They will
be forced to make dinner from onions
bread and butter and cold water, or a
breakfast from scrambled eggs, fried
toast and coffee; they may get lettuce
beans and bread and butter for theil
supper. There is no room, time or ma
terial for fancy dishes. The stock farm
has not reached that state where the
butcher can kill beef day. enough
for two meals, or three sheep a day
enough for one meal. Ruskin democ-
racy is able to serve meat only occas-
siOnally when seventy-five pounds OF
ham will only fill the plates once around
and the herd of hogs has only beer
started.
Dodson says the colony is satisfied
jubilant in the prospects of the future
The women who have worked over the
washtub and the kitchen stove all thei1
lives are content that the drudgerv o1
the workingman's home has been taken
away from them. Bare floors, and fis-
sures in them at that, are nothing in
comparison with the prospect of moth.
ing to do but sweep, make beds and
teach the children. Tubs and stoves
have passed out of their lives-so long
as Ruskin lasts
The men are contented because they
are as we'll off in Ruskin rs they have
ever been. They have all been forced
to work hard and live without luxury
They reason that hard work is hard
work any place: that frugal living is
no more frugal In Ruskin than in the
cities; that all the ills of Ruskin are
nothing compared to the ills they knew
when they and their families were a.
the mercy of men who paid them nc
more than the demand for labor woul6
permit. They think they are safe IL
Ruskin's prospects. The prospects O.
Ruskin promise to keep them when they
are sick or old and their widows and
children when they die.
They have laid the corner stone o.
the College of the New Economy. II
rests on a height that overlook5 the
present work of the settlement. They
propose to teach here the theories which
have made them landholders and pro.
prletors and which they insist contains
the only route of the laborer from
serfdom to actual citizenship"
They have come from every state in
the country-from all the trades. The,
propose to get all workingmen into
communities like their own. The,
make an unusual set of men-men with
great bulging foreheads and heads
soaked and stepped in socialism, 1 stud
led them and watched them, and it is
safe prediction to make that this co
operative colony will stick to it's plan
until 1t gets on it's feet or dies in its
tracks. HARRY r. LOWRIE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

OF this laudable system OF government
is now being carried out, by which the
city will be given parliamentary power
to appropriate property to provide sani-
tary dwellings for all the WORKING
classes. So excellent is the credit of
the city that it is able to borrow all
the money it needs at 211a per cent, a
rate OF interest which will go far to
make the venture a financial success;
and 1t Is reasonably expected that the
social and sanitary results will fully
compensate the city for the outlay 1t
may be mentioned here that many years
ago the city established public wash
houses where, for cents an hour,
Toman is allowed the use OF hot and
cold water washtubs, and may have
the washed clothes machine dried and
mangled all within the hour. It is
claimed that of all the vast number of
operations of this kind undertaken by
the city none has proved a failure, and
what this means can be understood
when 1t is said that the authorities have
under their care city farms, city mar
kets, dairies, libraries, scientific schools
and many other things OF like character
Indeed, the city has realized in fifty diff
ferent ways the reduction of the cost of
service to the public which comes from
the public ownership of lighting plants,
street cars, waterworks, markets and
other public utilities. In conclusion it
may be said that no clearer tribute to
the success of the system can be paid
than by the fact that the entire revenue
OF the city is derived from it's public
works and institutions, and that the
hours of service of the public employees
have been shortened and their daily
wage increased Scientific American.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

no doubt was imposed upon, but this
very weakness arising from lack of ex.
perience may be considered as against
the women In politics. There are men
who cannot be bribed with money, but
who are bribed through the pretty face
and form of a woman, and which, be-
fore women entered into politics, was
almost an unheard Of crime. Coco
government will come when we have
good people and never before, no mat
ter whether men vote Or women vote
In our present way Of thinking we are
inclined to believe that the woman
who makes an attractive home, a good
mother, and through her spirituality
commands the love and respect OF her
husband, is doing more to elevate poll
tics by elevating her husband than she
could do at the polls in a life time,
though we don't object to her going to
the polls, too, if she wants to, and
knows what she is about
We are not prepared to pronounce
woman suffrage a failure for it has not
yet been given fair trial. We can
say, however, that so far as it has been
tried, it is a dismal failure; but, ten
years may convert the failure into a sue
cess and we would like to see it tried
for at least few years more. It's a
we'll known fact that in every civiliza-
tion of the past that as often as a gov
ernment becomes SO corrupt and de-
spicable as to disgust the men, the
women are brought out as last resort
and made to bear the brunt of the mis-
takes Of the men. 1t is possible that
the United States is now on the verge
Of just that sort of change.-Denyer
New Road.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
IN EARNEST, But

The anti-fusion Populist conference
met last week in the capitol, with
over $50 delegates present Conspicu-
GUS among the participants were Igna-
thus Donnelly, Gen" ]. S. Coxey, "Buzz
Saw" Morgan, of Arkansaw, NJ w
Howard, of Alabama, Bob Schilling
Of Milwaukee,
No one will dispute that the confer
ence was in the main composed OF
earnest, conscientious men who believe
themselves to be acting in the best in.
terests of the people. But the rapidly
changing conditions of this country
both political and Industrial, will, Ii
they have not done so already, demand
even more radical measures than The
peoples party, whether fusion or other
wise, will be willing to accede That
this is becoming recognized already is
shown in the remark made by one gen
ing an eloquent speech in the late
conference, that IF a middle-of- the
road policy was not adopted, the Popu-
lists of Texas would join the Socialis,
Labor party"
1t was Holmes, we believe who said
once that new times demand new
measures and new men," and at this
time when the world is rocking IN !,
sea of injustice and the bitter cry of the
discontented swells ever upward day
and night; when the shackles wrought
by old time traditions and customs are
eating through flesh and bone into the
heart of oppressed and crushed human
ity; when every noble impulse and
laudable ambition is squeezed out of the
worker by the ever-clutching fingers
of greed and avarice; when the master
treads, unheeded and unheeding, ovel
the PROSTATE body of the wage slave
to the realization of his dreams Ol
power and luxury; when the dollar Is
deified and the man is damned, new
measures must be presented and new
men to fight for them must come to the
front and cleave the way to victory
Journal of Labor, Nashville, Tenn
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
is 1T A FAILURE
COIOradO's Experience

The Farmers Tribune of Des Mo1nes
is authority for the statement that ex-
Governor Waite of Colorado, since his
ST. Louis lecture, has been engaged f..
denver series of anti-Woman suffr, oo
lectures throughout the East. We arc
not prepared to deny the story. but
viewed from some standpoints he could
hardly be blamed if he did so. Without
question he did more to advanca tho
cause OF woman's suffrage in his state
than any one single individual, and to
MIN is due much praise for the coura 90
ne displayed in heading off the efforts
or the Republican party to kill the
measure in the legislature after the neo.
pie had voted to adopt the system
we DO not care to pronounce woman
suHrage a failure, but this one thing we
are certain of: the moment women CO..
cured suffrage they made it a business
to down everybody who happened to be
conspicuous in assisting them to win
we still think that the broader the sen.
tlment is upon which the Republic rests
the cleaner and better must no tho ,d
nllnlstratlon OF government, but afte,
all that has been said and done those
who, like ourself, did all in their powc,
tc lnaugurate this new feature, are seri.
Ously in doubt as to the advantasa tb ~
mas been gained in this state through
the adoption Of equal suffrage. If we
had 1t to do over again we believe .hat
we would advocate, as Governor Waite
did in his st. Louis speech, an exten.
sion of franchise along educational lines
and deprive ignorant male voters as
well as female voters of the right 70 mix
in politics.
There is one thing that can be said
however, and that is this: that women
are about the same as men, when in
politics, and will accept bribes as quick
~ as men. The time was in Colorado
when men entertained a reverence and
respect for mothers and sisters and for
woman in general. We have noticed
j that since women began to vote this
| reverence seems to be disappearing and
women are treated with less Difference
! than usual. They are now looked upon
as EQUALS in politics and in the wild
scramble for Office we find women scrap
| ping around and getting mad, and chas-
ing around with petitions demanding
this and demanding that, until the aver
age man becomes thoroughly disgusted
In our last legislature the biggest bunco
bills and hold-up measures were intro
+duced through a woman legislator who
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
The State House.

(For the Coming Nation.)
UP to the state house wend their way
Some scores of thieves elect
For the great recompense they pray,
May we grow rich from day to day,
Although the state be wrecked"
Up to the state house climbs with stealtl
Another pilgrim band
The thieves who have acquired thei
wealth,
And, careless of their country's health,
Now bleed their native land.
And soon the yearly sale is made
Of privilege and law.
The poor thieves by the rich are paid
Across the counter, and a trade
More brisk you never saw.
And we whose rights are bought an,
With reason curse and swear.
Such acts are frightful to behold
Nor has the truth been ever told
Of half the evil there.
At last the worthless set adjourn:
We sigh with deep relief
Then from the statute book we learn
The record of each theft in turn,
The bills of every thief.
For we who cursed and swore,
Before this base-born statute book,
Whose poisoned source we ne'er mis-
took
Both worship and adore
For law is law" we loud assert
And think ourselves astute,
Yet quite forgetful, to our hurt,
That fraud is fraud and dirt is dirt
And like must be their fruit.
We laugh at heather who revere
The gods they make of stone
And yet we never ask, l fear
AS we bow down from year to year,
How we have made our own.
We all deny the right of kings
To speak for their Creator
May we not wonder then whence
springs
The right divine to order things
Of any legislator.
Ernest II. Crosby.
Rhineback, N. Y.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
Not the Right Plan.

A. Mankato. Kan, on May rs, Gov.
Ieedv addressed 1000 people on the rail-
road question and took occasion 10 OUT
line a plan of his own.
He stated that he and other men or
means were prepared to go into part
nership with the states, counties ana
municipalities to build road from
Central Nebraska through Kansas ok
lahoma. Indian Territory and Texas 10
the erlf-the states and municipalities
to hold a majority OF the stock. and con-
troll the road.
The convicts of the different states
could be utilized in building the road.
It may be that do not understand
the scheme, but it looks to me very
much like old wine in new bottles.
The word partnership in my judg-
ment vitiates the whole plan and brings
the proposed road in line with the roads
we now have-Only that the bulk or the
advantage in the Leedy plan is with the
partners" and not with the public.
want to see no more railroad pallia-
tives come from Populists-there is one
and only one solution to the railroad
question from our standpoint, and that
is public ownership.
Let the governors of Nebraska, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas devise an in
terstate railroad absolutely owned by
the states in question, let the various
legislatures enact the necessary laws.
then let the road be owned, built,
equipped and run by an interstate COM
mission with profit enough to provide
for extensions.
With north and south state-owned
road in successful operation, there
would be no difficulty in building, equip
ping and running east and west roads
reaching from the Atlantic to the Pa.
cific.
But these roads must be on the basis
of state ownership-no partnership, no
juggling with stocks and the private
manipulators Of railroads.
Leedy may mean we'll, but his road
should it ever be built on the plan he
proposes would just be so much more
fodder for the Goulds, the Huntingtons
and the anderbilts.-Pittsburg Kansan.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

coterie of chumps self-constituted
political bosses at Minneapolis who
vainly imagine that they are "the whole
thing" in the Peoples party of this
state, threaten to ex-communicate all
Populists who sympathize with the
Nashville conference. Well. let them
threaten. At the next state convention
these little parasites won't be in it a
tiny bit
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

mated on silver platform, and nov
the Populists have placed in nomina.
tion DR.. U. NJ Browder, who is making
an aggressive campaign. OF course
the Republicans pay the freight"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
PERTINENT POINTERS.
(FrOm MankatO Journal

(From Mankato Journal.)
For one we think more of the Peo-
pies party than of any other political
organization on earth. If any political
party must perish before certain re-
forms are attained let it be some othel
than the Peoples party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04
RUSkIN
THE COLONY WHERE LABOR IS
KING, WHERE THERE IS NO
MONEY AND NO IDLENESS.

Very Interesting Account OF an
Experiment Which, According to
Its Founders, Will RevOlutiOnize
the Whole World; Overthrow
Kings and AristOcracy; Abolish
Poverty and Make All Men Happy.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

For $3.50 we will send Bryan's Book,
"The First Battle" to any address.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

We have not heard any Populist who
has been in the ranks very long, de.
nounce the recent Nashville conference.
The action of that conference was man.
ly, patriotic and timely If the Peo-
pies party is to be preserved it is time
now to step out and declare ourselves
Independent as political organization.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-04

At the last congressional election ir
the 4th district in Indiana the Populis
candidate was withdrawn and the Peo
pies party vote was given Judge Hol
man, who was elected In the mean
time Mr.. Holman died making it ncc
essary to elect successor, which cleo
tion will take place Aug. 10TH The
Democrats were asked to name a can
didate favorable to the Populists, but
instead gold Democrat was nomi-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
tho champion long distance

James Michael is tho champion long distance
bicyclist Of the world.
He recommends all wheelmen to take Paino'g
celery compound.
His experience Is that of thousands Of others.
With the opening of the bicycle season many q
young person and hundreds Of older people who
have determined to take up bicycling as q
health.giving exercise find themselves really
lacking the proper snap" or stamina to begin
on. Their bodily condition prevents 80 spirited
exercise. They would like to ride, but they arc
out of sorts. run down by q winter of work or In
door life. Many who are really sick, who have
suffered from debility or wasting diseases for o
long time until they had begun to think their
troubles had become chronic, as nothing gave
them relief, would turn to bicycling for relief.
But this splendid exercise. like any other, re-
Quires strength to undertake. Tho blood Is ont
OF order. the nerves are deranged, and natures
food for both is needed.
All such persons will find to their immense Joy
that Paine's celery compound. taken now. will
make them well.
Paine's celery compound works wonders In
the spring. II you have labored under the load
of repeated headaches. peuralgic pains and days
Of nervous debility. now Is your best time to
get well.
Michael is to-day the most phenomenal rider
in professional ranks. AS far back as 1894 he
was undisputed champion OF Great Britain,
and in the following year he went to France
and scored 25 straight wins against tho picked
riders of Europe. Hc has defeated such ia
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
STREET PREACHING ELooUENCE.
Colored MANS Rcbuke to n Supposed An
noyer-The Future and tho Present.

Coiored MANS Rebuke to n Supposed An-
noyer-The Future ana tho Present.
A colored man. broad -shouldered. and full.
bearded. gave readings from the Scriptures.
sang psalms. and preached half q dozen Ave
minu.e sermons to q sidewalk audience in
Myrtle avenue and Prince street. Brooklyn.
yesterday afternoon. An empty barrel at the
curb served as a pulpit desk. although he made
little use Of II. All the sermons were on texts
In the prophecy of Isaiah. When the speaker
took his place in the street he began TO sing.
"A Charge to Keep l Have" In a minute
or two perhaps half n hundred persons were
listening men and women. and boys and girls.
About twenty colored persons were among
them. After singing tho old hymn In q clear
baritone voice, with eeveral trills in the higher
notes. he opened n Bible.
MY words this evening 1T was mid-nfser-
noon arc from the prophets. l read from
Isaiah. He was great man.. He knew that
Christ was a-coming. And how? And why?
And in what way? He was q prophet, my
brother. and that Is how and why. He told of
the first cunning Of Christ. He spoke of then
tho present. now che past. I speak Of the fu-
tnre, now the present. and give the word Of
Chri.t's second coming to the people Of Brook
lyn."
boys playing behind a croukery crate ut the
n spoiled orange over the missionary's head.
He thought 1t came from an open window on
the second floor. and his. eyes flashed as he
addressed himself to the Window
II look up to that window. What do I see?
Hell is there. look again to that window.
and / see trouble. Once more / glance up TO
that window and | see sin. Keep Oh a-chuck-
ing. hell IS with YOU. not. with me. Keep on
a-chuckinR. trouble is with you. not with me.
Keep on a.chucking: sin is with you. no. with
me. Praise God. Keep on a-chucktng."
For half an hour the missionary read verses.
sang. preached. and quoted fragments OF
verses. Among other things he said:
1T is written that The wicked will be con-
sumed. punished as II by nrs.. as n fse meits
know 1t comes from the bees. And what burn.
harder than wax. Nothing. my brothers
nothing. So choose now. Walk in tho lights
Rememter Isaiah. He know what he was talk
Ing about in the then present-now the DAT I
Isaiah of old. ! trlnc you tidings of good cheer.
Walk f. tho light"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
PRISONER ATTACKS KEEPER.
A Desperate Rattle in tho YorkvtIIe Court
Prison.

Joseph Dazet, who stabbed Policeman Patrick
J. Grimes on Thursday night. was committed to
tho Tombs yesterday in default OF 81 900 bail TO
await the action OF the Grand Jury on n charge
OF felonious assault. Dazet is % years old. and
lives at I30 West Thirty.ninth street. Tho po-
lice say that he is a desperate man. and the
keepers in tho Yorkville Court prison coincide
in that view.
Dazet made an attack on Keeper James Gal
laghcr yesterday. Gallagher was taking the
man 10 court from his cell on the first tier, which
is about ten feet above the concrete floor. when
the prisoner suddenly leaped upon him and
grabbed him about tho throat. The men are
about the same size. The keeper was surprised
by the attack, but recovering his wits sought to
subduc his assnilnnt. They struggled about the
platform. At one time the prisoner pushed tho
other over against the t~Our-iOOt iron railing that
runs along the tier. with tho evident purpose OF
throwing him Into the court below.
Gallagher. anticipating this, putt nil his strength
into the wrestling match. The men fell to the
floor and tumblcd about there, first one ON top,
then the other. Their struggles brought them
to the head of the iron stairs, and locked in each
others arms they went rolling down. Half way
TO the bottom is u barred window overlooking
the courtyard. The men fell into the window
recess, where they were wedGcd In, when Head
heard the noise OF tho fight. ran up and over
powered Dazct.
Grimes went to court with his head done up
In bandages. The prisoner caught sight OF him
and stepped forward ms though to attack him.
Court officers held him back.
IT. am sorry Gid not finish the euss." the
lie kicked me when l was down. and no man can
do that and live"
lie told the MAGISTRATE that he had dono the
against him on account OF his attack on the
keeper.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
MANGANESE AND DAMPHoo1.
Druggist says He Will sue the Doctor who
Wrote This Prescription.

A prescription that DIR. Abraham s. Bienen-
stock, a physician living at $50 Stanton street,
gave to q patient on April 8 has involved him In
loyal trouble with Ascher Gordon OF tho
firm of Mekin & Gornon. druggists at 11s
Stanton street. to whom the patient brought
the prescription to be compounded. Gordon's
lawyers are now preparing papers in e suit for
damages based on the wording Of the prescrip-
ton.
~"Mekin-Gordon ct schmendrick. with some
mangan. dioxid."
The prescription ordered that tho medicine DO
put up in the form Of n pill.
The thing that made this curious p~rescrip-
ton highly Objectionable was the word
"Schmcndrick." Druggist Gordon says that
this is a colloauial Hebrew term. which is the
equivalent of damphool. The clerk who received
this prescription told the woman who broug hit
1t that the dioNid OF manganese pill would be
ready in half an hour. Druggist Gordon pasted
the original prescription in his book, made and
delivered the pill, and then consulted his law
ycrs. He said yesterday:
DIR. Bicnenstock is known all over the east
eide because OF his eccentric manner of making
compound them He is in the habit. often Of
writing Powder Maggie and Pill Annie, coup
ling the names OF girls with the drugs. ] have
called the attention OF the County Medical So
ciety to this practice. Latterly. however. l paid
no attention to these queer prescriptions. but
when / got this last ono with that term 'Schmen
drick' on It, / was Obliged to act"