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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

In the Representative this week is a
quotation from the Albert Lea Standard
| advising Mr.. Donnelly to direct his
columbiads at Jim Hill and his gigantic
schemes to absorb the Northern Paci,io
railroad"
suppose" says Mr.. Donnelly in re-
ply, that we get on the roof of the
Boston Block and 'cuss' Jim Hill every
hour of every day until the air is sui
phurious? What will it avail? Jim
will simply grin at u.s."
Yes, and Mr.. Donnelly is right. Sup
pose Mr.. DOnnelly and every editor in
the Northwest should Jump on" Jim
Hill with "both feet and abuse and
"cuss" him daily and hour1v for the
next twenty years, would it bring about
collective government ownership Of
railroads? Well, hardly The abuse of
men, who are but a result of our pres
ent grab-all system, will not change the
system.
Let the press stop the abuse Of men,
and devote more time and space to the
reasons why the people should collec-
lively own railroads, and in fact, should
collectively own all of the means of dis
tribution and production, and thus put
an end to the system that makes men
of the Jim Hill stripe possble.-Tho
Rights of Man.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

Even the boot black and newsbcy
business is monopolized Mighty few
nickles the little chaps make now--the
big boy with chairs on the sidewalk
black the shoes; and the newsboys now
work for some newsdealers who get the
first and biggest part of the profit.
Making living off of ragged little
newsboys seems like the lowest DEPTHS
of Faganism, but nothing is beneath
the dignity of the man after profits
these days. Even policemen, judges and
lawyers arrest and fine the Italian to
get part of the money the monkey gath
ers from the little children, and the rich
mans wife decks out in silks and dia-
monds on money wTung from prosti-
tutes for rent. We are living in a noble
age! Highest state of civilization.-
Appeal to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

The H. r. Eagle & Co., whose adyer-
tisement appears in another column. is
a big firm in Chicago whom we have
the great pleasure of personally know
ing. They have vast stock of all
kinds of goods which by handling such
a large quantity they are able to sell at
rock bottom prices. 1t will pay our
readers to deal with this firm. Read
their ad. in last weeks issue and note
what they have to say in the issue of
today.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

100000 miners an average of IT'S davs
per year. coal cutting machine that
can be operated by a boy does the work
OF fifteen miners in being placed in COM
petition with the miners. Will a
change from gold bugs to silver bugs or
greenback bugs give these half-starved
3SO,OOO workers good wages and steady
work? OF course not. The new ging-
ham and Hatsdale looms will in the
next four years give 10000 weavers
something else to do.
The army of the unemployed is con-
stantly growing larger. 1t will grow
larger under free silver or greenbacks
just as fast as the gold standard.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
Another View,


e. G. R. Gordon, in Southern Mercury.
The money question has at last Sc
cured the attention of the American
people. 1t has succeeded the tariff ques-
tion, just as the latter succeeded the
bloody shirt issue; and there is just as
much in the money question as in the
tariff or bloody shirt issues, and no
more. It don't make any difference
whether we have gold, silver, green
backs, or any other kind of money, it
will be controlled by the capitalists Just
SO long as the capitalist system exists
The capitalists control the means Of
production and distribution, and there
fore control the people. A change in
our money question will not help us.
Take the great shoe industry as an
illustration. In fortyyears more than
100000 shoe makers have been thrown
out of work by labor saving machinery.
Today there are 213,O00 shoe makers
in this country. If they work steady for
six months they will produce six pairs
of shoes for every man, woman and
child in this country. We do not con-
sumo over four pairs per capita per
year. Let us call it six; that is all we
need under any monetary system.
What kind of financial legislation then
must we have in order that these 213,-
900 shoe makers can have steady en-
ployment? No schemes of finance or
tariff or tax legislation can give them
employment. The iron and steel work.
ers are just as bad as the shoe workers.
The coal industry at present employs
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
New Stock,
Fine Quality,
Lowest Prices
every POUND
GUARAN TEED

We offer 20 Carloads new Binding
Twine, the largest amount of Binding
Twine ever offered by any ONE house
in the Northwest.
We want your orders this season, be-
ing IN position to supply the finest
grades of binder twine at Rock Bottom
Prices and guarantee every pound of it,
This Twine is absolutely new and
fresh. This twine comes from the 1arg-
est and best CordaSe mill in the world
and is of such quality that it can not
fail to please you. It is made of clean,
strong cordage, evenly spun, and balled
and sacked in new, strong sacks.
Our twine is not eXCelled by any and
equaled by few.
This twine is put up in either SO or 90
pound sacks.
We have stated above that this twine
is new this year and mean Just what we
say.
Our stock consists of PureWhite Sisa1,
evenly spun, very strong and averaging
500 feet to the pound. This is an ex-
Cellent grade, answering we'll for all
purposes.
Standard-A grade almost like the
Sisal, but darker colored. It is very
strong, free from Jumps and in great
demand by those who have used it be-
fore. 1t runs 500 feet to $50 feet to the
pound.
Manilla-Guaranteed to average 600
feet to the pound; made up at IS per
cent Pure Manila Hemp from the Phil
ippian Islands and Is per cent pure
White sisal, combination that produc-
es high breaking strength. We war
rant this grade to be equal to any grade
on the Market.
Roberts new binding twine,
new No. 2O7 Sisal, per e.
pound Nv
New No. 3o7 Standard, e.
per pound 49,. ~
New No. 5O7 Manila, Lc
per pound. -. w
Put up in 50 or 90 pound
sacks Free On Board Cars,
Minneapolis.
Bear in mind, the above prices are on
board cars Minneapolis.
If you want the twine shipped from
Chicago, it will cost you ass per pound
for the Sisal; 4Nc per pound for the
Standard, and S zsc per pound for the
Manila; but as the freight from Mime
apolis to your place is less than it is
from Chicago to your place, by all
means order your twine to be shipped
from Minneapolis. The present rate 3
freight from Chicago to Minneapolis is
SOC per hundred pounds, so you can see
if you live on the other side of Mime.
apolis that you would save 37Hc hun
dred pounds by having your twine
shipped from Minneapolis.
difference in freight applies to all
goods shipped from Minneapolis, which
our customers sometimes forget; so
order your twide and all other goods
shipped from Minneapolis.
Remember: The above twine is new
twine but we. however, have some of
our No. 81, 6uO it,, Manila twine left
from last year which we are Closing out
at SIC per pound. 1t is in good con-
dition. We sold over million pounds
last year and it gave good satisfaction.
If you want new twne, order either
No. 2O7 Sisal at Sc pound; the No. 3O7
Standard at SC pound; No. 5O7 Manila
at SC pound. But if you want last
years twine-which is guaranteed to
give satisfaction-orderN No. 81, 600 it,,
Manila at SIC per pound.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

There is one issue now before the
American people which overshadows in
Importance all others. It is not the
money question. 1t is the question of
self government. It is the issue of di-
rect legislation. It is the proposition
that we adopt the system of the initia-
tive and the referendum. 1t is the prop
osition that we avail ourselves of a ore
rOgative we have never held-the right
of majority rule. It is a demand for
direct vote of the people on all laws
which affect their liberties and their
happiness. 1t is an appeal for a true
democracy, call for the formation Of
true republic.
Compared with this there is no other
issue. Until this is met, and the people
have affirmed their right to rule, they
will not govern-they will be governed,
and they will deserve to be governed.
There is no sovereign voter today. We
are lot of delrda4 a,eas wha periodi-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

We're hOwlers of calamity,
We're crazy fiat fools,
We're lawless slum and foreign scruff
And stubborner nor mules;
They threaten us with gatling guns
And in our hair to climb
But we're thinking toilers of the land u
About
Election
Time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

We're wild-eyed Hayseeds, lazy shirks,
Alliance traitors, knaves;
We're looters of the vaults of wealth,
And our speaker always "raves,"
We're a danger to the country
And republic all the time
About
Election
Time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

Send us in club of five yearly sub
scribers and get Bryan's Book free. III 3
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
Circumstances Alter Cases.

By A. D. Cridge.
We're Communists and Socialists
And Dynamiters, too;
We're slaves of walking delegates,
Who tell us what to do,
There's nothing we should kick about,
We've all got cheek sublime;
Bue we're bone and sinew of the land
About
Election
Time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

They tax us, and they drive us,
And mock us in our woe:
They tell us we're responsible,
Tho they know it isn't so;
And we stand right up and take it,
While the bloats their pockets line
On, were several million darndest fools,
About
Election
Time.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

We're everything that's vile and mean
For twice three hundred days;
Nihilists, thugs and Pinkertons
Are urged on us to blaze,
If but we demand justice,
AS against gilded crime
But we're valiant hosts of labor
About
Election
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

The Rings steal hundreds Of mill
ions annually from the People. Ono
tenth Of the plunder is used to con-
troll the daily press and buy up the
leaders Of the two old parties, to
darken intelligence and make the
voters poor, blind and incapable of
self-defense. Strike before 1t Is too
late.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

They tell us of protection
And the glory of tax;
The rights of honest capital
To ride upon our backs;
Our comfort and prosperity
(ThO' we haven't got dime)-
And to once more save the party,
About
Election
Time
The herald., 1897-10-08

The San Gabriel Electric company, now
developing the water powers in the San
Gabriel river, will be in position to supply
arc and incandescent lights and power for
all purposes February l. 1898, at prices
lower than can be made by companies
using steam. They would therefore, re-
spectfuly request that users of light and
yond February l, 1898. Consumers will find
it to their interest to wait. San Gabriel
Electric Company
The herald., 1897-10-08
THE CLOSING MOTION

Joey's replies were rather melancholy
in tore. He seemed to be drifting to
destruction with no hand to rescue or
save, or something to that effect. Coun-
sci for the plaintiff attempted to ex-
clude the letters as having no bearing
on the case, but Attorney Stephens ex-
planned that was their desire to show tina t
plaintiff within ore short month after
she lad sworn to the complaint that
life was wrecked was writing burning
love letters to anot1sr man. This
closed the testimony and witness left
the chair that must necessarily have
been very uncomfortable seat.
Judge Stephens introduced a motion
for non-sut on the ground that plaintiff
had not shown cause for action and tha t
previous to the appearance of deferidan n t
on the scene there had been estrange-
ment and alteration between plaintiff
and her former husband. An argument
here ensued betweep the attorneys con-
corning testimony offered yesterday, and
in the absence of the court reporter court
was adjourned until $3.50 this morning.
The herald., 1897-10-08
BrIght's SpeciaI Delivery

Will check baggage to any part of the
world One trunk, 35c; round trip, Soc
iO4 S. Broadway; tel, main 49,
The herald., 1897-10-08
WoIcott's Mining Manual

Contains the new mining laws of the state
and valuable mining dictionary; price, 25
cents; also Wocott's mining blanks: all
booksellers.
The herald., 1897-10-08

Largest variety Concord business wag-
ons and top delivery wagons. Hawley.
King & Co.
The herald., 1897-10-08

Hawley, King & Co., ,cor.5th st. and Bwy.,
agents genuine Columbus Buggy company
buggies and Victor bicycles.
The herald., 1897-10-08
JoTTINGS
Our Home Brew

Maier = Zohelein's lager. fresh from their
brewery. on draught In all the principal
saloons: delivered promptly in bottles o.
kegs. Office and brewery. 440 Also street;
telephone 81.
The herald., 1897-10-08

Agents Victor, Heating. Wcrld and
March bicycles. Hawley, King & Co.
The herald., 1897-10-08

Everything on wheels. Hawley, King
& Co.. cor. Fifth street and Broadway.
The herald., 1897-10-08

NeuHtsudy, d d. m.
Well Joedy, darling, if l remember
right, l told you that 1 would not write
you any loving love letters but I
thought perhaps you might be little
heart hungry, so / have put little love
in this one.
/ have been trying to finish up my
packing. but now that l have gotten to
my papers. letters, etc, my courage does
indeed fail me. / shall start over to
Boyle Heights at $3.50 this evening, and
intend to catch the $3.50 car returning.
Maude and Mr.. B. will come up to
Pico and j. streets to meet me. Maude
has got an uneasy fit on her again. |
am not nearly so happy today as I have
been lately. I tell you what it is, Joedy
dear, it helps US appreciate people when
they are gone. I thought that fully
understood your worth to me, and your
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27

them and then crosses were made and
the resulting studied closely through
out their growth, fruiting, and metur-
ity, copious notes being taken and pre-
served at every stage of development:
It has been found that blending OF
large and small boiled varieties is not
desirable and all foreign cottons, the
Egyptians are best and unite most
readily with our American cottons.
Crosses of Aft and Mannoah varle=
ties of Egyptian cotton with American
sea island cotton has produced prolific
plants yielding a staple OF superior
grade. The black, smooth seeds are
generally transformed to a fuzzy dark
brown seed in this cross.
The present stage of the experiment
gives great promise of securing a supe,
rior upland cotton having a healthy
and prolific plant with a fne' long,
strong staple.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
CLEANLINESS IN THE DAIRY.

Wooden vessels should not be usedin
the dairy because they are too difficult
to keep sweet and clean. Tin ia the
best material for buckets, pans, ETC.,
because it is so easily cleansed. When
milk is to be kept for a long time stone
ware or glass vessels are preferable
and should be employed for family
use. Tin vessels should have as few
seams as possible, as these hold dirt.
The milk cans used for shipping milk
to cities should have large mouths to
facilitate cleansing; the mouth Of the
can should be of nearly the same diam
eter as the body Of the can. Ali milk
vessels must be kept sc~rupulously
clean. They should first be rinsed in
cold water, then washed in tepid water,
next thoroughly Ecalded or steamed,
and then inverted and exposed to SUD
and air until next needed. They should
not be rinsed in cold water before using,
for this water may not be pure and
some Of it remaining in the vessels may
contaminRte the milk. Soap is unde
sirable about dairy utensils because if
a trace of it remains on the vessel it
may injure the taste Of the milk. Soda
and lye may be used and are preferable
to soap, but each must be thoroughly
rinsed off before the vessel is again
used. Water rightly used ia better
than any chemical for cleansing pur
poses in the dairy.-Farm and Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27

of the word. The man who scrimps
his dairy will be scrimped himself
when the returns come in.
Whatever troubles the COW, causes a
loss in the value of her milk and Icount
dogs as a nuisance among any herd. l
know some men think they save some
steps by keeping a dog to bring up the
COWS. Perhaps they do; but there is a
way we can find out just how much it
costs to save those steps. We are no
longer in the dark in these matters.
Let q cow come into the stable quietly
and be MIXED by a gentle, sympathetic
mixer. Test her product. Then let
this same COW be brought in In a way
to excite her and keep her 80 through
a milking. Now test her milk and you
will learn a lesson not soon forgotten.
Perhaps you may conclude to dispose
of the dog, or at least to keep him out
of the pasture and barnyard.
never kept a dog. A few years ago
I sold a young COW to a man who did
own such an animal. The first time
the heifer was brought up by the dog,
she threw up her head and tail, leaped
the fence and made a bee line for home.
And I didn't blame her. Who Of us
would enjoy having u heels nabbed
at every step, or being snapped at all
the way home9 I think n such ok
perience would cause US to put a pistol
in our pocket the next time we went
that way, and probably there would
soon be q less dog in the neighbor-
hood. know they talk about educat-
ing dogs to do this work. never saw
one so we'll educated that I wanted him
around me
z T.. VINCENT.
BPoome Co. N. Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
THE DAIRY.
FREQUENT CaURNING BEST.

It is harder work to make the best
butter from a one-coW dairy, especially
late in the season, when the milk les
sens. The best butter is made with
least expense when the dairy Is large
enough to require churning every day.
This makes a great deal of hard Work'
unless it impeIs dairymen to PROVIDE
power Of some kind, 90 as to relieve
the hard labor. This it generally does.
Whenever the dairy is large enough to
require churning every day, a cream
cry or a separator will pay, not only
by saving the labor, but by making
more of the cream than is possible by
the old process of hand skimming the
milk,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
II DAIRY OUTLOOK.

Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
With plenty of rain and resulting
fresh pastures, the market reports from
the great cities indicate the largest
shipments of butter ever known at this
season of the year. Prices rule low,
and the only thing the dairyman can
do is TO keep the expense of production
down to meet the reduced market value
Of his butter. But the poorest kind OF
economy leads men to cheaper the
article he offers for sale because it must
be sOld at a low figure. Keep up the
Standard Cut down the cost of pro-
duction by improving stock, by using
modern methods of procuring cream
and by getting the highest possible
value out of feed. This is true econ
omy, and we must recognize this fact
or fail.
A good dairyman who had made a
marked ucces in the business, once
told me that he had got his start in life
n kept things moving his way by
strict economy, I watched him in his
home for some time. I noticed that
his buildings were kept up in good con
dition. Things looked tidy about his
farm. His barns were we'll painted
and battened. His COWS we're KEEP
warm, no great cracks to let the win
try winds. blow in through them mort
than he could bring in at the big doors
His cattle were fed we'll and regularly
He made a good article of butter AM
sold it at a pay ing figure. He ha'
plenty Of utensils in all departments
And this was what he called stric
economy. Now, like that defnitio
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
DAIRYING ON THE FARM.

A Michigan dairyman at an institute
summed up the reasons for dairy farm
ing in the following cogent manner:
L. That it is the business upon the
farm that permits the most absolute
control over conditions of production
and distribution of product; hence the
most profitable.
2. It is the highest art of farming,
because it combines all other lines and
gives a greater opportunity for execu-
tive and manufacturing skill.
8. It is most free from irresponsible
and destructive competition by neces-
sity of its character and by the per-
sonal equation of the individual pro-
Queer.
4. It is a more exact line of produc-
ton, permitting gross receipts to be
forecast with greater exactness; hence,
the greater possibilities of increasing
net receipts, either by lowering expen-
ses or increasing volume of product.
5. It permits the employment of
labor at a season of the year when
farm labor is cheapest, if winter dairy,
ing is followed.
6. Of all the products sold from the
farm, butter takes the least fertility
and restores the greatest amount to
farm, and it is we'll known that the
most fertile sections of the country are
where butter farming is followed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
SOUND AND SENSIBLE.

The Topeka Independent makes
some sensible remarks along this wise
The Associated press having sWal
lowed it's last rival, now has a
complete, monopoly Of the busl
ness of supplying general tel
egraphic news to all morning papers.
This is practically a close corpora
ton that makes the establishment OF
new morning papers in our large cities
almost impossible. No new paper can,
for il ssance, get the Associated Press
dispatches in this city without paying
more for them than the business will
warrant.
Moreover, this concern sUppresses
whatever it chooses to and colors every
thing it does send out-when 80 in
clined.
Such a news monopoly would be i'm
possible but for the telegraph monop
oly-which is reported to have strength
ened itself by the purchase of the Yves
tern Union people Of a controlling in
terest in the Bell Telephone Company.
No other country permits a private
corporation to have such power over
it's citizens-and yet we call America
''the land of the free"
Some Democrats and some Republi-
cans have fought these monopolies,
but neither party yer did so-as a
party-until last year, and then it was
far from being united and in earnest.
The Democrats are moving more or
less rapidly in the right direction, but
the Republicans r going in the oppo-
site direction-and only the Populists
are unitedly and determinedly right.
What do the individual Republicans
who realize the Wrongfulness and dan
gerous character of such 8 monopoly
propose to do about it, Or are they
to always to be mere human drift
wood on the stream of time9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27

Bulletin 1874, of Ithaca On. Y Sta
ton, gives results of experiments in
growing strawberries under glass.
The plants were grown in 81 inch
pots plunged under the runners in July
aud August. After two weeks they
were taken up and transferred to 4
inch pots, and put in cold frames and
left uncovered till freezing threatened.
They yer transferred to 5 inch pots
on Sept, 8th and to 6 inch pots On Sept.
and remained in these to the end.
After cold weather the frames were
covered with glass. On Dec. 285h they
were brought into a forcing house,
having in meantime been frozen sold,
to give them rest, but it is doubted if
this be necessary, but it may destroy
red spider and other pests. On appear
ance of 6 few rust spots, the plants
were sprayed with copper carbonate
solution and rust disappeared. Flowers
opened February 1st, and berries were
well colored by March 9th, and on
! March 18th the first picking was made