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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
RETURNING TO ITS WALLOW,

Thus we find indications in nearly all
the states to hold elections this fall of a
Democratic backsliding on the silver issue
The Democrats of Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts seemed to set an example of
steadfastness to principle in the midst of
discouragng surroundings. The cOnven-
tons in both states declared unequivocally
for free silver coinage. But now it seems
that the Pennsylvania Democrats have
caught the contagon of backslidng on the
silver issue. Last Saturday the Democrats
of Pittsburg had political rally The rally
was small, the speakers were blue; one of
them, the county chairman, finally de-
clared that: 1T looks as if free silver had
been given a black eye by the Democrats
of this country, judging from the speeches
and temper of this audience And then the
meeting took on a decided anti-silver char
acter it being asserted that the question
of free silver coinage was not issue in
the state campaign. and that it should be
dropped and the fight made on the state
lines Indeed, the speeches sounded much
like the editorials We are wont to read in
the Philadelphia Record, which, gold paper
though it is, finds reason to support the
Democratic state ticket on local grounds"
The Philadelphia American.
Stand firm, brother Populsts Keep
the roof of the Peoples party over your
heads; for you know not how soon the
silver Democrats and silver Republicans
will be without a shelter AMI knocking
at your front door for admission.
To run away from your own hand
some home, while all the other parties
are in a state of fux, is worthy of
gibbering idiot, who has not sense
enough to lead a flock of geese to a
mud puddle.
Keep your heads clear, brethren, and
squelch the fools. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
UNDERLYING CAUSES LUNACY.

In q leader on the annual report of the
English commissioners in lunacy the Lon
don Times says: Experience tends on the
whole to show that insanity is disease of
UNDERLYING. moro prevalent among the
poor than among well-to-dO people; and it
is notorious that years of agricultural dis
tress, implying the existence of unusual
privations among farm iaborers and their
families, have always been years Of in
creased insanity, mainly among the classes
thus exposed to suffering.''
Nine-tenths Of the human family are
under-fed and one-tenth over-fed. And
the over-fed minority make the laws for
the under-fed majority, and both are
happy
The American people have been, up
to this time, the best nourished popula-
ton in the world-hence the beauty and
genius of the race. But European AID
Asiatic conditions are being rapidly es-
tablished here. What will the condition
OF the people be in fifty years? It will
depend on the laws; and they will de-
pend on the politics of the country.
The success of the Peoples party
means the disappearance of hundred
diseases due to undertaking. Feed the
brains and the fat will grow thick on
the ribs of the human race. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
THE SALTWATER PRISON.
ChafE0A Of MUcder.


STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
HENNEPIN-SS.
Timothy O'Meara, being duly sworn, doth
depose and say:
That for the period of about two years
and seven months, prior to April $685. he
was employed as guard at the Minnesota
state prison; that part of his duties was to
assist in marching the convicts from the
cell house out to the shops.
That one morning about five years ago,
while in the cell house preparatory to taxi
ing his gang out, he saw one Frank H.
Lemon, deputy warden of the prison, as
sault and strike convict named Nels
Heen, inflictng repeated blows upon the
said Nels Heens head with heavy cane.
That the said Lemon did then seize said
Heen by the neck and strike the said
Heens head violently against the iron bars
of his cell door, repeatedly
The deponent further says that by reason
of said assault said Heen was rendered
unconscious and was removed to the prison
hospital and died two days later.
The deponent further says that such as
sault was wholly without cause or reason.
The depOnent further says that the said
assault was witnessed by himself and
Guards w. R. McCracken and Ben Cayou.
TIMOTHY O'MEARA.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this,
the 18th day of October, 1897.
SIMON MICHELET.
Notary Public, Hennepin County, Mime
sofa.
The only thing about the Saltwater
Penitentiary that is above the reach of
complaint is the policy of using the con-
Wet labor to manufacture Irvine; AND
THAT THEY OWE TO THE FARM
Frs ALLIANCE.
Let the Peoples party take possession
of the state government and the people
won't know whether they are living in
Minnesota or Paradise I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
THE GREAT CONTEST.

The battle is raging in England al
most as fiercely as it is here, between
the friends and the enemies of silver.
We quote the two following extracts
which illustrate this:
MANCHESTER. Eng, Oct. 12.-Sr Will
liam Henry Houldworth, Bart Conserva-
tive NJ. p. who was tie delegate of Great
Britain at the monetary conference held
at Brussels in 1892, presided today at a
large meeting here, at which a resolution
was adopted calling upon the government
lin view of the injurious effects of the
dislocatOn between gold and silver to
take advantage of the cvertures of France
and the United States and redeem the
governments promise in regard to secur-
ing a stable parity between gold and sill
Ver.
| LONDON, Oct. 12.--The Daily Chronicle
today. mentioning the rumor that the
government intends to do something for
silver not involving the opening of the In
dian mints. but involvng a conference
which the English delegates would attend
with free hand" asks editorially: Are
we to be plunged into an acute and dam
gerous controversy over the currency pro-
bem? Is this a time for the foremost
financial center, of Christendom to revert
to the stage from VIII oh other states are
seeking to rise? We protest against any
such action merely to oblige the United
States, who do nothing to oblige us
Here we see the business
men of England and the statesmen of
England arrayed upon one side and the
mOney-lending class and their newspa-
pers on the other The battle will con-
tinue until the disastrous results of
limited metallic currency will become so
overwhelming that the rascals will be
driven out of power. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
WHAT DOES HE MEANT
Can 1t Re TrnRS

Serious charges of murder of cOnvictS,
state prison at Saltwater, and the Still
water Daily Times makes the following
grave intimation:
We have a gentle idea that Deputy War
den Lemon can tell just why Julia Bean
the female convict who died yesterday
from taking poison, worked so laboriously
chewing matches that she might die.
What does he mean?
The Times further says
The st. Paul Globe this morning prints
an eight-colunn article on the brutality
we'll known in this town to exist at the
prison, specially among those formerly en-
p.oyed in prison by the thresher company,
and the guards. The stories as published
by the Globe this morning are true Nor
does the Globe tell all that might have
been told. This man, Lemon, should have
been tried for murder long ago. We no
tice that the Globe carefully refrained from
saying anything about his relations with
the female prisoners under his charge as
we'll as some in this town that are not
inmates Of the prison. We suggest that
Deputy Lemon try his hand at law with
the Daily Times he did with the Sum
day Sun, where he worked a packed jury
on the editor. Lemon is bad egg and we
are ready to back the statement in court.
The time has come when this man must
show his hand He has not friends enough
to get out of the way of the avalanche of
testimony that has accumulated against
him and will act sure avenger for his
foul misdeeds of the past. The Globe es-
tablishes the fact that he is murderer.
He is such and it can be proven. The Globe
has proven it. Had John Lind been elect
ed governor of this state q more humane
man would have Lemons job now. He
holds his position because of influential po-
litical friends. A legislative committee
once gave the prison Observation-Disclosures
morning call and found in the solitaire one
of Lemons victims and the committee tried
to get the legislature to bounce Lemon. The
Republican party thought it could not
afford to do it and so by reason of political
influence and the supremacy of the Re-
publican party in state politics, this bar
barian is allowed to rule tho prison. Com
pared with Lemon Harry Hayward was a
saint, If the stories published in the
Globe are true and we believe them to be
the exact truth. Warden Wolfer is not
aware of the m!sdeeds Of this man Lemon
nor is he able to remove Lemon if he u.s.
Wolfer is one of the best wardens in the
country if not the bsst but is powerless to
remove Lemon for reasons above stated
If the people Of this state were aware of
the exact condition of things at the prison
they would wipe the Republican party out
OF existence-an event sure to take place
in the next state election.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
PUT 1T TO VOTE,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Sept. 27.-Judge
John b. Stone and Judge J. B. Marsh Of
the county court, quarreled while the
court was in session today, and with
clinched fists and eyes swapping with an
ger sprang at each other and struck blows
that were warded off by tho other officers
Of the court who were present.
Mr.. Chairman:-I move you that the
1dlf of the aj,r.ty be abolished. and
that the government OF the country be
turned over to the kind of cattle repre-
in favor OF that motion vote aye"
Carried unanimously Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
SHARKS AND SHARKS.

California has met with an unexpected
misfortune. Sharks have eaten UP the
rock cod and other deep sea fish which
they intended to ship East. There are
more and more fish in the East, however,
every day, that proba bly, the California,
shortage will not be missed.-St. Paul
Globe.
California has worse sharks on the
land than there are in the sea- The
latter devOur the fish but the money
power devour the people. And you can
amuse yourself by shooting the sea-
sharks but beneficent civilization will
not permit you to slaughter the land
sharks. Id
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
ARBITRATION.

A proper system Of international ar
bitration. under proper guards and lint
tations, might be all right; but Miss
Wizards illustration, in a recent speecb
is unfortunate. She said:
The storthing of Norway has appointed
a committee of nine to consider the uues-
ton OF forming arbitration treaties with
foreign nations, and to submit proposals to
that end. France is moving in the same
direction and the recent declarations Of the
car and the emperor Of Germany are
Enthusiastically in favor of pacific measures.
while the treaty between Turkey and
Greece. recently promulgated by the pow
ers is peace triumph
That illustrates the whole business.
The subserviency in that case was not
to the great Moslem hierarchy" but
to the money-power of the world. that
owned the Turkish bonds.
Do you remember how in this free
land it looked at one time as if the in
dignation of our people would lean all
bounds and inaugurate war to revenge
the murder of many thousands of Chris
tian Armenians-men, women and little
children-who were slaughtered unarm-
ed in the streets and in their homes by
the bloody Moslem? And do you re-
member how all at once the outcries
ceased. Threadneedle street had cabled
Wall street, and Wall street had sent
its agents down to Washington; the
hireling newspapers began to toot, and
the Turks killed a few thousand more,
and the generous, liberty-loving, benev-
olent. intelligent people Of the United
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
THE TRAMP EVIL.
Doctor Johnson's paper, the Wilma

| DOCTOR JOnnSOnS paper, the Willmar
Tribune, says:
Something has to be done to abate the
| tramp evil. The pestilence is becoming I'M
! bearable. For five months in the year
! every town on a railroad is the prey of a
| lot of thugs, scalawags and idlers that no
Kind of ordinary police service can handle
| The state must make some adequate pro-
vision to put the tramp fraternity to work
| to earn their living. Let the state buy a
| quarry. fence it in and put overseers with
blacksnakes to keep these lazy louis at
| exercising their muscles until they learn
! to work once more. We are almost in
cllned to think that a special session of the
| legislature should be called to provide
| some such means to take care of next
| years crop of tramps
And the great gold-bug sheet, the
Times-Herald, of Chicago, says:
| That cheerful and hearty nomad-pecu-
| liar product Of a land of plenty and Of
| numberless industrial opportunities
| known as the American tramp. was the
subject of some very learned discourse at
the ClF1C-phllant hr )pic convention at Bat
| tie Creek
HOW TO abate the tramp nuisance has
! been the subject Of much profound So
| Geologic study for several decades. Manv
soclologlsts have proposed numerous and
carefully matured devices for exterminat-
| ing the tramp, but he continues to flourish
| as the green bay tree under all sorts of
industrial conditions. The ground plan of
these devices always looks well on paDer
But as extcrminators they are no more
effective than the compounds that are war
ranted by the pharmacist to drive cock
reaches into the next neighborhocd Whila
these theories are being exploited for the
entertainment Of civic philanthropic soci-
! cites the god housewife pars s,ently con-
tlhues the old time-honored practice of
nl n FOR ~,
door, where she feeds the Migrants without
exacting any service in return
And thereupon the Times-Herald urges
that nobody shall give the tramp any,
thing to eat, and so have the public
roads adorned with the dead bodies of
the starved wretches, who were not
able in this age of high Christian civil
cation to connect with "the Advance
Agent of Prosperity"
There are no doubt worthless law
creatures among the tramps, who would
not work if they had the chance: The
lives they have led have utterly demor-
allied them and turned them
back half way to savagery.
Civilized man is only a barbarian. but
tered over with the training of centur-
les But it must never be forgotten
that NOT A SINGLE TRAMP WAS EV-
| Err SEEN IN THE UNITED STATES
| UNTIL THE CONTRACTION OF THE
| CURRENCY COMMENCED.
To cure the tramp evil let us expand
! the circulating medium. Id
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03

above, and many others to the same eff
feet, there was absolutely no sale at all
for potatoes in the town of Hastings;
and we are compelled to put them in our
cellar at the risk of finding half of them
spoiled in the spring. AS the prices of
clothing and lumber, sugar and a great
many other things, have risen largely,
we will have to take the large profits
we receive on our potatoes to make up
the losses we thus sustain. 1t is pretty
state of things and ought to make ev-
cry American citizen proud of his co,ln-
try. And then the tariff on potatoes has
been increased too
P. S.-Since writing the above the
buying of potatoes has commenced in
Hastings, at q cents a bushel.
I. D,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
THE MOUNTAIN IRON NINE.

DULUTH, Mimi. Oct. 2O.-Opposition to
the growing monopoly of the Rockefeller
interests is said to be growing A new
company has been formed here, the nature
and name of which has been kept secret
out 1t Is said that it's object is to ACQUIRE
control of Independent properties on Me-
SABA range developed and undeveloped
Inc CONDITION of Independent properties
has been bad because the high freight
rates of the railroads have given the
rockefeller properties the ADVANTAGE It
Is said that ar independent road is to be
built, and control of it's independent prom
ertles Will be of much advantage in con-
tr0ilng freight rates. The new company
will control a large output and will be able
10 oner the new road big inducements to
tap the Mesaba range
AS chairman of the committee upon
this matter, we made an exhaustive re-
port to the last session Of the legisla-
ture, and the attorney general was d.
rected to employ counsel to prosecute
the case, and obtain possession of that
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
SMALL EFFORTS BRING RIG RESUvTs

SMALL EFFORTS BRING BIG RESULTS
Several of our old subscribers have
recently sent in new subscription with
a renewal of their own We wish more
OF our subscribers could appreciate as
we do, the Importance to the paper and
to the cause Of reform of an act so
trifling to the individuals and yet so
important in the extension of our circu-
lation and opportunity to do good
We know that true reformers have
had much to discourage them. Many
feel unable to take a reform paper end
have little heart to ask others to do SO.
To such we would stretch out a help
ing hand and say consider brother what
would become Of the cause Of reform
and of the oppressed people if The Rep
resentative and other publications Of it's
kind should suspend publication. 1t re-
quires comparatively small effort to get
one of your neighbors to subscribe. The
aggregate of these small efforts makes
the large subscription list of the sue
cessful reform paper. Push the circula-
ton of The Representative to $4,000
homes. E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03

valuable property for the state. So far
as we have heard, nothing is being done
upon the matter, but in the meantime
the Rockefellers are digging and blast
ing the ore out of the mine, and ship
ping it out of the country as fast as pos
sible; and when, at the end of ten or fif-
teen years, the supreme court of the
United States declares-as it must 1e-
clare-that the mine belongs to the
state. all the state will have will be
an invested right in an empty hole.
In the meantime the people are becom-
ing good deal indignant over the whole
business.
We find the foregoing item Of news,
which illustrates how rapidly our scate
and its interests are passing into The
hands of the monopolist l. d.
Special Telegram to the Tribune.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03

Kinley for helping these Wall street
robbers defraud the government and
prevent an experiment in government
ownership of railroads, then he should
have it in full measure. If there is hon
or in being a fence for millionaire
thieves then Mckinley should have that
honor. E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03
HENRY GEORGE DEAD.

1t is with profound sorrow we chron-
icle the death of that great man, Henry
George.
He fell battling in defense of human
rights against the rottenness and cor
ruptions of the age
He died the most striking and pic
turesque death that could come to a
great leader of the people. He went
down in the very forefront of the first
battle for the possession of the empire
city of the New World.
His death was due to the superhuman
exertions he put forth in his canvass
He had the heart of hero, and the
courage of lion. A report says:
Mrs. George and Henry George, Jr.,
have long been solicitous regarding the
effect of the terrible strain Of the cam
paign upon the husband and father He
had been bundled about from place to
place each day, far into the night He
had been making speeches before most
wildly enthusiastic gatherings of men
from all stations. 1t has been noted
again and again that his faithful wife
sat beside her husband on the platform
from which he spoke or watched closely
from place of vantage close by She
evidently feared a calamity-a fear
based on one calamity which struck
her husband three years ago.
Mr.. George had not been strong for
the last three years. His son had been
his companion in almost every enler-
prise in which he engaged. He went
with him on his tours of the west us a
special newspaper correspondent in his
last presidential campaign, kept close
at his side in his movements in the
campaign.
Within the last day or two cicse
friends of Mr.. George have noted with
apprehension marked changes in his
manner and appearance. His eyes grew
dull. There were wrinkles at the cor
ners. His voice, usually resonant and
pleasant, now pitched almost to piping
treble in conversations, was querulous.
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so highly wrought that they might snap
without warning The pace of the cam
paign was harder than this man, high
strung and sensitive, could maintain.
The Henry George of Greater New York
was not the Henry George of old.
Men of all parties have forgotten
their anger in grief at the blow which
has fallen with such suddenness. Last
night noisy, shouting throngs crushed
into halls and upon streets to hear the
speeches that, in great part, were filled
with personalities and bitterness, rock
cts flared and fires burned; men argued,
and urged, and all signs bore witness
that the campaign was at it's heat. When
today dawned all was changed.
Men were 10th to believe that one
who had been so much in the public eye
in the last few weeks was no more,
and for the time being the complexion
of the political situation was forgotten
in genuine grief. Those who last night
bitterly denounced the man who said:
II stand for the real Democracy, the
Democracy of Thomas Jefferson" today
recalled many touching kindly acts in
the life of the dead man, which showed
his nature had joined in the words
which came naturally to the lips of
all: "An honest man is dead"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-03

States of America were as happy as II
they had got big red apple apiece.
Do you think civilization ought to be
ruled in that way? And are not those
arbitration schemes simply inaugurated
by the Rothschilds to prevent wars that
might eliminate in revolutions, or, 1T
best, lessen the power Of their bondmen
to pay interest on the bonds?
Wanted, a cataclysmal earthquake, to
tumble down the temples of Mo,ock and
Mammon; and break the chains on the
limbs of the worlds oppressed millions.
l. D.
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affected if both gold and silver were

affected if both gold and silver were
driven from the face of the earth.
Major Bracket, of Minneapolis
we'll known personage-has been In
Alaska; and he recently made the state
ment that there is over A BILLION
DOLLARS OF GOLD IN THAT COUN-
TRY, and that it will be taken out In
the course Of few years. II the ma
jor is right, the rush of miners will
continue until the last grain Of that
metal is thrown into the commerce Of
the world Long before that time ar
rives the money-changers Of the earth
will rise up in revolt against gold, and
either demand that silver be substituted
for it, or that paper money shall take
the place of both-believing that they
can more readily control the govern
ments of the earth in their law-making
faculties than they can the prodigious
and overlooking abundance of nature.
We have already seen articles in the
daily press, claiming that the Klondike
SOlu WCS uOI lSdlly SOIu, OuC IuelI II
was something like the material which
Emmons, of Boston, has lately been
producing out Of silver by means OF
great pressure applied to the metal I'M
der conditions of great cold; and the
demand has already been made that
this Alaskan gold BE NOT RECEIVED
AT THE MINIS AS SUCHM!
Time at last explodes all frauds. 1t
has exploded thousand superstitions
that robbed and ruined our ancestors:
and it will continue to explode all 9TH
ers until nothing but truth survives
in the human family. When that day
arrives the lucubrations of our friend,
Mr.. Stickney will survive to be laughed
at very much as we now ridicule the
learned charges of the judges Of the
olden time, when they directed the j,lr-
les to find men and women guilty of
witchcraft, so that they might be burn
ed at the stake, for injuring their fell
low creatures by the aid of black cats
and broomsticks. Id.