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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

thai CPopulist) today. There will be 10000
homes cleared of mortgages this fall. Think
of what that means. The mortgages will
average 600 each. which means the ex-
penditure Of $40 900. 1t means also that
this state is becoming a commonwealth
of homes. 1t means that the farmers OF
Kansas are realizing the opportunities
which are offered them and doing their
best to make the most of them
Il have received several letters from
banks in the smaller towns of the state,
asking If they could legally refuse deposits.
This is condition which never before pre-
vailed in Kansas. The banks have thou
sands of dollars on deposit and do not
care to take the responsibility of receiving
more money. There is demand for it.
consequently the bankers desire to accept
no more money
Never in the history of Kansas has there
been as much money with which to pay
debts as we find in the state today. The
state has struck a wonderful streak of
luck. Conditions brought a good wheat
crop; the prices advanced: cattle are plenty
and command a good price. These condi-
lions found Kansas in good position to
profit immensely thereby. and we are
doing it.
There never has been time in the
history of the state when the farmers
have not raised enough to live on Now
comes this magnificent year. with immense
crops and high prices. and it Is little
wonder they are making the best Of it,
The people are making an earnest effort to
get out of debt, and when they succeed
in doing this the Kansas farmer will lie
the most Independent person on earth, be-
cause he knows enough to keep out of debt
when he gets started in the right direction"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
JUST LIKE 1T,

The Pioneer Press, with it's usual fair
ness, neglects to publish our speech be-
fore the workingmen on Labor Day, but
nevertheless proceeds to misrepresent it,
1t takes issue with our statement that
there are 100000 tenant farmers in the
United States today; and to refute our
figures refers to the last census taken
seven years ago! But it neglects to
remind it's readers that since 1890 there
has been a world Of events; we have
had the terrible panic of 1898, in which
many millions of land owners have been
driven out Of their homes; and that
these causes are in as full operation to-
day as they were in $685.
We quoted our figures from Peoples
Party sources, based in part, we have
no doubt or the census taken in all the
states two years ago, and five years
later than the lying Pioneer Press-I D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
BARBARISM.

Plutocracy is encouraging all sorts OF
games and sports in the universities of
this country; for the same reason that
the tyrants of ancient Rome amused the
people with gladiatorial contests in the
Coliseum. The populace became there
by brutalized. bowling, screaming,
bloody-minded mOb-who cheerfully
submitted to degradation if only the
robbers would feed and entertain them,
with scenes of murder.
direction. Read this:
Berkeley. Cal. Sept. There will be no
more rushes at the University of Calfor-
MIA if President Kelloggs latest mandate
is Obeyed. Half-dazed, his jaw broken,
bis face a bleeding mass. Benjamin Kurtz,
a newly entered freshman, was found wan
dering about the campus after the rush
between the two lower classes. In the
struggle some one put his heel on kurtZ S
face. and as result he is disfigured for
life. and may have sustained an injury
of the brain. An examination showed that
a piece of flesh had been torn from one
nostril. The upper lip hung only by a
shred, and the ragged nature of the tear
made the injury the more serious. All
been knocked out of the lower jaw, and
the bone in which they had been imbedded
was broken out with them. Both the upper
and lower jaws were smashed and the flesh
of all the face crushed and bleeding. There
were two other serious casualties. Frank
Marshall. freshman. had his right leg
broken just above the ankle. Conlon, an
other freshman, came out Of the combat
with broken leg.
Isn't this nice? Isn't this pretty
preparation for the duties of citizenship
in this great republic? Degrade the
workingmen into brutes, and the upper
class into wild beasts; and Plutocracy
will steal the profits of industry and
rule the land without opposition. Then
build an "armory' at every university,
(our Minnesota institution has one), a
kind of colossal fortification, in which
the troops can be concentrated to shoot
down the citizens, if any Of them be-
come turbulent!
1t is a scheme, of higher education,
to make the angels in Heaven grim
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
HOW THEY WOULD WORK 1T,

The banks have, for Is years, fought
banks In this country. But the Peoples
Party took hold of the question in 1892,
and have aroused such a powerful senti-
ment in it's favor, that the next con-
gress is almost certain to esta blish them.
And now the banks are falling into
line, but declaring that when the postal
savings banks are established, and bill
lions of dollars of deposits are collected
from the people on the faith and credit
of the government, the government
must turn them over to the banks, to
lend out at their usual rates and for
the profit Of the banking corporations;
so that not dollar of the deposits can
get back to the people, who need the
money, unless they go to the banks and
terest on it. Under this arrangement
the national government would simply
be collecting agency for the banks; tC
collect money for them to lend out. And
if the banks busted the nation would
have to make up the losses!
And as, under the law establishing
national banks, they are prohibited from
lending money on real estate, and the
farmer Is thus Disseminated against
the same rule would have to apply to the
loans of the funds secured by the posta
savings banks. The money would be
taken from the farmers and mechanics
to lend to the merchants; and if one oil
the farmers wanted loan to save his
farm, or village, or city, homestead
from execution and sale, he could MOI
get it.
If the postal savings bank is fit to re-
ceive the peoples money it is fit to loar
it out
England today is lending money tc
the Irish peasants to enable them to Sc
cure homes!
If the United States receives the
money of the people and pays the de-
positors. say. per cent per annum fol
it, why should they not lend it out
on the homes of the people under proper
restrictions and limitations for, say,
per cent per annum? The extra half
per cent would fully pay all the expenses
of the system.
The three per cent loans would smash
the six or eight or ten per cent loans;
save the people many millions Of dollars
secure homes for the poor, and lift w
the whole community
The future civilization means the
utilization OF the governmental powers
of the people, by the people and for the
benefit of the people, with all inter
lopers and parasites driven out. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

Prof. Andrews, of Brown university,
Prof. Bemis, of Chicago university;
Prof. Adams, of Cornell university;
Prof. Ely, of John Hopkins university;
Prof. Commons, Of Indiana university;
Prof. Ross, of Leland Stanford univer-
sity and Prof. o. M, Lumry of Wheaton
college, are some of Americas brainy
and most prominent educators who
have been called down and retired by
the money power On account Of their
opinions and teachings on economic
questions.
The old party papers are still devoting
free and home of the brave" or free
institutions, free schools, free thought,
free speech, and free press. 1t looks
to us as though along with all this
boosted freedom money was alone free
to suppress the whole outfit
Heretofore young men have based
their choice in colleges mainly on ques-
lions of expense, adaptability Of the
COIlcSc curriculum 10 UQelT special wants
and the scholarship, efficiency and prom
inence of the graduates of college
Hereafter young men will first want to
know whether the chief endowment of
college is the gold Of Rockefeller or
the brains of it's faculty. If a college
has been recently endowed by some mil
lionaire, depend upon it that any en-
dowment of brains it may have pre-
viously enjoyed has been or will be dis
carded, for the two are antagonistic to
each other and cannot dwell together in
any institution of learning that is truly
free. The public sentiment of a free
country should stamp upon such insti-
tutions it's seal of disapproval till in it's
deserted halls no footstep could be heard
other than the footsteps of its dust be-
grimmed janitor. E. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
THE VICTIM.

Millions are perishing today all over
the world. because OF the senseless SUI
perstition which; makes gold-an almost
useless article-lnore valuable than food.
raiment, implement, land, houses and
even man, Gods highest product on this
planet.
This is the old story over again. Not
long since witchcraft demanded it's heca-
tombs Of victims:-now it is gold.
Here is the record of the superstition
OF two hundred years ago.
The belief in witches or kindred so
called spirits has caused in the past In
all countries the death Of numberless peo-
pie. DR.. sprenger has given us actual
figures for 100000 deaths
In England alone it Is computed that no
less than 10000 mostly women and chill
dren. were burned hanged or drowned for
the crime of being witches.
In ENGLAND. under Our Blessed King
James l." this belief almost amounted to
frenzy. King James. who was as ignorant
and besotted king ever lived. wrote
a book upon witchcraft and tie various
forms 1T could assume. And some years
later, in the times of the Long Parliament
and Cromwell, he of sanity fame, it ragged
In redoubled fury. In this time Mathew
Hopkins piled his trade Of detecting witch
es, going from province to province, way
laying women. girls and even men and
children seeking upon the bodies of the
poor. helpless victims for the witches mark
which of course was always found bruise
birthmark mole serving to condemn
them. The people were worked to fury
by him. and no one was safe from the fanat-
ical or hysterical accusations of ones
neighbors. Poor. wrinkled old women rick
nfNv ,t,11
bulk OF the victims. At last the people
grew tired Of the slaughter, and denounced
Hopkins as lying impostor
Louis XIV. of France, by an edict Of law.
prohibited witch findings and murders in
his country. The witch laws were never
repealed in England. it is said. and yet con-
tinue upon the old books of statute.
Not long after the days Of Hopkins we
find Sir Mathew Hale sternly repremand-
ing young lawyer for daring to assert
that such thing as a witch did not exist
and never had. 1t was all lies and magma
ton. Sir Mathew very plainly gave the
sprig Of law to understand that witches
did exist, not only had we holy writ for
that. but also unimpeachable CO human
testimony" The young lawyer was defend
ing lady before the court on the charge
Of being a witch. and he seems to have
been little in advance of his superior
judge. l have no way of knowing now
whether this lawyer won his not
I hope he did.
Some schools ought to write book
upon the follies and blunders of the
courts. 8
1t is safe to say that majority of
those 100000 murders of alleged
witches, were committed under the di-
rection of thei authority of judges of
yet there are those who think we ought
to give up the fuls of the people, in this
country, and substitute for it, the dom
nation of a few judges, selected by the
mCney-power! I'll. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
THE BLIND CURED.

A very important discovery made by DR..
r. Deutschmann, of Hamburg. is just now
much spoken of by physicians. particularly
by specialists ora the eye. says the Phila-
delphia Record. Itrdeals with the success
fu1 cure of disease of the eye which but
a short time agp was considered absolutely
incurable the SO called detaching or peel
ing of the retina, which sometimes follows
a case of retinitis, This disease consists in
the shrinkage of the aqueous humOr, a
watery, slightly salty fluid which lies be :
tween the cornea and the crystalline lens.
with the greater part of its substance in
front of the iris. If the quantity of this
fluid is lessened 10 a certain extent the
eyesight is absolutely destroyed and the
physician can do nothing but pronounce
the disease incurabe Now Professor
Deutschmann has succeeded in introducing
into the diseased eye a sufficient amount OF
the aqueous humor taken from live
rabbits eye to restore the lost sight. Sew
eral cases where this most delicate opera
ton was successfully performed are on
record. the one of a purser on one Of the
steamers of the Hamburg-American line
being most interesting This man, totally
blind three years ago, was able to re-
sumo his former occupation after under
going the operation just described. and his
sight is now as good it was at any time
in his life.
If this be true and the aattening OF
the eye-ball from the absorption Of the
aqueous humor, can be cured by pump
ing more fluid in, then the day of the
spectacle makers will have come to an
end.
And who can tell but something may
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

government Ownership Of monopoly. ETC.,
there would still be a difference between
them. fundamental, radical and irreconcil-
able. The distinction or difference can be
briefly and clearly stated, to wit:
The Bryan Democrat demands that the
law making power be in Bryan-Demo-
cratic representative. The Populist de-
mands that the law making power be vest
ed in all the people. under direct legisla-
tion The one demands the retention of the
representative. proxy, misrepresentation
system. The other demands radical
change to the initiative and referendum or
direct legislative system.
The trouble is that our Democratic
brethren, to get Office, will steal every
one Of our principles; and then fail to
carry them out; as they did with their
declaration for free silver during the II
years they had possession of congress.
If we only knew, positively, that they
stood squarely on our platform; and hon
estly intended to carry it out, we might
be willing to abandon our party and
join them. But there's the rub
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
HAMLIN v. POORE'S VIEW.
Extract from a private letter.

Extract from a private letter.
Elm last weeks Progressive Age the
worm Dobbyn has turned and l judge
spewed up all, even to his boot heels.
He no doubt feels better over it. For
my part 1 have got through reading his
learned illusions; my subscription has
expired and l have notified him to stop
sending his paper to me.
Il now see plainly that the element
composing a majority of the delegates
Of the apparent opportunity to get pos
session of the Peoples Party committee
craftsmanship, and stop the progress of
the movement, in order to make it an
annex to reformed Democracy" They
do not reckon on the kind Of material
the radical part Of the Peoples Party is
composed OF. They think, probably
we have worked all these years simply
for fun and glory. l am thinking our
glory will be in turning that element
completely down next year.
Brother Poore had better not be too
sanguine of the future
The faction he refers to are few in
number, but they make up in shrewd-
ness and activity what they lack in
numbers. They are the politicians of
the Peoples Party-they really belong
by right, among the old party manipula-
tors and wire-pullers
They are determined that the Popu-
lists must give up everything but free
silver and become an annex to the Dem
ocratic party!
And when we resist this demand and
The destruction OF the party, they
charge that we are dividing up our mem
bership and injuring the cause!
We sometimes feel like stepping out
and letting the molasses run Our
noble organization, in this state, would
then, we fear, become cage in which
lot of dirty monkeys would engage
in an universal scramble for nuts.
Every man would sell out every other
man. and the chains would be rivetted
on the limbs of the people. while the
trading and dickering was going on.
We begin to fear that the doom which
we predicted in Caesars Column" can
not be averted by any efforts of individ-
uals. The world is too full of fools and
scoundrels-and Minnesota has got SO
per cent more than her just share.
When you think Of faction of a par
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
CONGRATULATIONS.

Our old friend, Thomas J. Meighen,
of Forestville, Mimi, we'll known to all
the Populists of this state, and respected
by all who know him has seen the weak
ness of his bachelor ways and gone
and done it, He was married Sept
to Miss Mary Broderick of Preston,
Mimi. The bridal couple started on a
tour east, and will return about October
first.
May all JOY and happiness accompany
them, and may they never die until all
their friends get tired of them, and may
they then go to that land where the
wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest, and where Dobbyn
and his beard will never be SEEN Amen.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

Mrs. Lease, we learn has a magnif-
cent lecture on "IreIand-Her Warriors
Poets and Patriots" 1t is said to be
her most stirring and eloquent address,
full of fire and fervor and patriotism
Ireland Is becoming more and more
an object lesson for the American peo-
pie. 1t tells us what we are likely to
become If the plutocrats of England are
to control our legislation and suck the
substance out Of our people. See Mrs.
Leases engagements in this paper, and
write to her about her Irish lecture
Why can we not have her at St. Paul.
Minneapolis, Hastings, Rosemount,
Marysburg. Rochester, LIE Sueur, and
score of other places? l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

Right to the Point. The Emancipa.
tor of st. Cloud, our assistant editors
paper says:
Ohio Populists have drawn the dividing
line between Bryan Democracy and gen.
uine Populism, and have put a full state
ticket in the field to represent Populstic
principles.
The distinction between a Bryan Demo-
crat and genuine Populist is Of vital inn
portance to the nation. it is no magma
airy difference, no hair line that can OF
should be bridged by fusion.
If the Bryan Democrat and Populist ex-
actly agreed upon all great economic ques-
tions of the day; if they agreed fully upon
the tariff. the money question, single tax.
income tax, government by Injunction.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

Charles A. Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis, is
the most successful wheat raiser In the
world He has cleared upwards Of a mil
lion dollars on this crop. already.-Fergus
Falls Globe.
1t is great shame Charley was not
president of the National Farmers Con-
vention held the other day in this state.
Surely any man who farms the farm
ers must be farmer.
Surely the wolf who has devoured the
sheep can properly claim to represent
the sheep.
Why not? Who has a greater inter-
est in the mutton question than he? He
speaks not only from the depths of his
heart-but his belly.-I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

be done In the same way to cure the
mentally blind, so that they will be able
to discriminate between truth and error.
We would like to try the experiment
OF pumping the aqueous humor of q
jackass into the head of G. o. P.
improve his editorials.
If it did we might justly claim that
the day of miracles was still with us.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
PROSPERITY.

]. r. Willard & Co., Of New York,
bankers and brokers, failed Sept. 9, for
one million dollars. The firm was a
big one and had branch Offices in Phila-
delphia, Buffalo, and Montreal and hun
dreds Of correspondents all over the
United States. Some reports are that
the failure will run UP to five million
dollars. !. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
PROSPERITY AND POPJI,ISN.

We were told, when Kansas went
populistic last fall, that the state would
go to destruction; that the whole fabric
of society would collapse Since then
the Populists have passed a great many
good laws; the crops are good, and now
we read:
Topeka. Kan, Sept. 2-"Kansas is today
said Bank Commissioner John W. BreiGen-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

The Popocratic, cooperative fusionist
wants the law making power vested in
Democratic politicians who howl about
the parity between two metals and ig-
more the parity that should exist be-
tween party promise and its perform
ance
This fusionist is one of those fellows
who discards political reason for politi-
cal faith, who in politics believes every
party promise and is ever ready to
trust again, again to be undone'
The Populist is weak in faith and be-
lieves he will be strong in action only
when the law making power shall be
vested in the whole people. The Popu-
list has had fusion educated out Of him
and practical political sense edu-
Gated into him in the schools
Of hard knocks. He has TAX
en- the full course and graduated The
fusionist is still in embryo and 1t cannot
yet be told whether we may expect a
Democrat or a Populist. Circumstances
anu ~ CoCHC civil OHlueulS very udluIdl-
ly make almost any kind of a straddle
entirely satisfactory. At this stage Of
development the fusionist should not be
rudely shocked with the startling teach
ings Of socialism or mature Populism.
but left to further develop in the nat
ural way. Meantime the true POpulist
with his reform book in one hand and
his party paper in the other will further
invade the camps of the two old parties
to conquer and win over recruits and
to propagate his kind. E. A. T..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

The Populist sees in Democratic
victory a government dominated by
Eastern and Southern Democrats and
begs to be excused from having any
more Of that in his.
The fusionist has had his eye sight
blurred by Democratic promises, bright
ancy Of Bryans campaign until to him
every Democrat seems to be a Bryan.
You can't believe your own eyes, brother.
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15
A GENEROUS GIFT.

Mr.. RefnhOId Zeglin gives - for tho
Lease Home Fund.
p. 0. Waconia, Mimi, Sept. 10, 1897.
Hon Ignatius Donnelly-
My Dear Sir-I send you enclosed
check for IS for the Mrs. Lease fund.
and hope that all lovers Of liberty will
chip in enough to save the home OF the
Joan dare of our country.
Very truly yours.
REINHOLD ZEGLIN.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-15

When a Democrat talks to Populist
about the parity of gold and silver the
Populist naturally wonders if the Demo-
crat has in mind kind Of parity SINH
lar to the parity between a Democratic
promise and Democratic performance.
With Populist that kind of a parity
will never wash or dovetail. E. A. T.
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ty which demands the destruction Of the
party it is enough to make a man cry
out with horror:
Destroy a party which cast million
votes in 1892, and two million votes
in 1894 and 1861;
My God! Is the human race doomed
l. d.