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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
"THERE'S THE RVR"

In such an effort the statesman will rec
ognize the prejudices that exist in the
minds of all parties against all others, and
he will strive to eliminate that factor by
the formation of a new party with a new
name. but essentially new party, COM
bining them in one instead of mixing them
only to be unmixed the day after election
Fusion is not desira BILE. Union on an
honorable basis is desirable. -Non-Con-
formist
But when have the Democrats shown
any disposition to give up Democracy?
They will cling to their party until
the last horn blows.
If they carry Ohio and Iowa this
year they won't touch a Popuiist with
forty-foot pole. They will steal our
principles and denounce us as anarch-
lists I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
A GREAT DANGER.

And now it is reported that a certain
Eastern judge enjoined a preacher from
holding Sunday religious services in the
camp of coal strikers. There is nothing
surprising in this. Since the people seem
to concede to individual judges an usurp-
alton of authority that tends to curtaI
certain privileges granted by the consttu-
ton, nothing is safe from judicial inter-
ference. A federal Judge may enjon any
body from anything not in harmony with
his way of thinking with impunity. He
holds his position for life and is not amen
able to the people in any shape or man
ner. But the people themselves are to
blame for this state of condition and must
now take their medicine.-St. Peter Free
Press.
Very true. Why may not Mark Han
ma make an appeal in 1900, if the G.
O. P. is beaten, to the courts, and have
the courts decide that it was not
beaten?
And then the majority of the people
of the United States would be rebels
if they resisted.
Let us elect a congress next year
that will put an end to these judicial
usurpations, and thus save the nation
from revolution, anarchy and ruin in
1900 ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THE LEASE FUND.

Don't forget the effort we are max
ing to secure for Mrs. Lease a HOME.
The money is coming IN fast, but not
as fast as we would like to see it.
Some say to us they do not approve
Of everything Mrs. Lease has said and
done Well who is there thoy do APP
prove of in every respect? Why, there
are even those, astounding as it may
scem), who do not approve of all that
WE have said and done! There S
Owen and Dobbyn and Bowler and Doc
tor Fish and the devil! Not 10 men
ton a lot of small brimstony !mps,
with split hoofs and barbed tails.
Don't stand on fine points. She is
a great woman, a good woman true
Populist and lover of her kind; and
she is poor and homeless. So come
chip in a dollar or two. It may lie
the only thing you will find to your
credit when St. Peter opens the big
ledger and runs his eye over your &C
count. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
HOW TO ENRICH A PEOPLE.

A correspondent of the St. Paul
Globe, one j. w Reveill, puts his finger
on some Of the evidences OF prosperity
in a very significant way. He says:
The Globe is at its best holding up the
miiers, the sugar retiners and the lumber
men as making their own prosperity. Pills
bury, we are told, put his -four right up to
pre- sent wheat prices. though the wheat
actually cost him only half present prices.
LUMBERMEN ADDED 81 TO The PRICE
OF EVERY thousand feet of lumber in the
yard. And the Havemeyers MADE 81 EN-
CHANGE FOR LESS POUNDS OF
SUGAR Then we learn from the Globe
that the railroads. the lumbermen.
the sugar rcfiners. the WOODEN mills, the
cotton factories, the iron industries. and
so to the end, are selfshly enr!ching
themselves by Selling on all available
helps such as legislation, Divine Provi-
dence and human improvidence Thus they
add to the value of what they possess
appreciate it. 1 wish the Globe would add
to this list the money dealers. According
to the Globe the money owners are inno-
cent lambs in WolfiSh world. They do not
seem to know how to appreciate gold
Good souls. whose pockets would have
holes burnt in them by appreciated dollars.
Millers can stand appreciated flour sugar
dealers apprecia ted sugar, and lumbermen
appreciated lumber and SO en- through the
money. He is of another race entirely. To
be sure somebody in 1873 got silver de-
mOnetized-by stealth, just as somebody got
section % in the Dingley act. l do wish
the Globe would treat lumbermen and
money dealers alike-they both apprecia te
their wares all they can
To this the Globe replies:
"A communication which repeats, at this
late day, the stale falsehood that the act of
1873 passed by STEALTH" does not seem
to require any further comment.-Ed.
Globe"
This is cheek-sublime check The
Globe knows very we'll that all the
leading members, of both parties, Of the
house and senate, including Blaine,
Garfield, VIM. D. Kelly, Beck Of Ken
lucky, Thurman of Ohio, and a score
of others, stated on the floors OF their
| respective houses, that they did not
know, for years afterwards, that sill
yer was demonetized by that act of
| 1878. And Grant who signed the bill,
wrote letter subsequently, in the same
| year, congratulating a Colorado friend
on the increased output of silver, be-
! cause Herewith the nation could pay
off it's bonds! And yet the act of 1878
which his signature had made law, de-
prived silver of all legal tender power
and closed the minis against future
coinage of silver dollars?
Oh, Globe! Globe! Tell the truth il
!, it loosens your front teeth. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
SPLENDID PROPOSITIONS.

That great paper, The Philadelphia
American says:
The Populist party is the force to give
direction to the chaotic elements seeking
emancipation. for it has the spirit of true
leadership that can be true only while di-
rected not for the attainment of personal
or party victory, but for the advancement
of principle without regard to personal am
bitiOns. that can only be successful while
the leaders stand ready to sacrifice self
if avowal of conviction and steadfastness
to principle demands it. Ii the Populist
party makes of itself the vehicle for pro-
noting personal ambition it cannot unity
the forces that must be unified and di-
rected. if emancipation from the slavery of
poverty. that now grindS down our produce
ing classes. is to be attained. If it makes
its first end the promotion of the interests
OF country. the uplifting of our aggrieved
and downtrodden classes, and supports no
leaders who will not lend themselves to
this end. 1t can be this urifying force
Party success and the advancement to DO
sitions of honor and trust of leaders who
prove themselves true leaders who do not
cringe before the dangers and responsible
ties OF leadership as place seekers do, will
come with such unifyrg of the forces
now looking longingly for the emancipa-
ton, but such successes and such an
Vancements must he the incidental aim of
the party. Leaders must be put forward
y,
not the aims of the party twisted so as to
serve partv leaders. Pursuit Of the low
ideal Of party will lead to defeat pursuit
of the high to success.
The opportunity to unity the chaotic
forces struggling for emancipation stands
before the POpulist party. Let it seize that
opportunity. To seize it. it has but to show
itself worthy of leadership. 1t now stands
without general leadership and rent with
discord. To show itself worthy of leader
| shin it must heal its discords cast aside
those would-be leaders who would have the
PCpulist party serve them rather than thew
the party, and put forward a leader who
will command respect ard show himself
worthy of confidence and leadership This
| the Populist party cannot do too soon, for
| the time for unifying the forces struggling
| for emancipation from industrial slavery
| is now, and this unifcation cannot be
ACCOMPLISHED without leadership Before
| the congressional campaign of 1898 opens
! the POpulist party should heal it's discords
| take it's position and make the declaration
of principle that will give direction to
| chaos and put forward its leader. Before
| the congressional conventions Of 1898 the
! Popul1st party ought to hold a national
| convention and lay down the lines for the
| campaign. not only of 1895 but of 1900. BY
| SO doing it can make itself the unifying
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THAT'S 1T.
l. D.

A correspondent commenting in compli-
mentary vein on Mr.. Donnellys Labor Day
address suggests that if Mr.. Donnelly is
sincere he ought to come into the Demo-
cratic party and act with it directly rather
than help to maintain an indipo ndent or
ganization like the Peoples party. We
want to say. first of all. there is no question
about Mr.. Donnellys sincerity. If he were
not sincere he would be rich instead of
poor. man with his prestige and ability
might have demanded and secured his own
price any time these 80 years. had he had a
price. AS for maintaining organiza tions in
dependent of the democracy. there are two
ways of looking at that We are free to say
we think these Independent auxiliaries are
a good thing for the Democratic party
They help to keep it straight and on it's
good behavior. And history shows that it
needs such aids to sustain it's conscience
under temptation. Northwestern Chron-
lcle.
Exactly. Is any man foolish enough
to think that Mr. Bryan could have
captured the Democratic national con-
vention, in 1896, if the Populists had
not converted the intelligent people
of this country to free silver in 1892?
Why Bryan himself was not for free
silver in 1892. His eloquence was de-
voted, while he was in congress, tC
Cleveland-free-t trade
And yet there are a few so-callod
Populists who want us to run away
from the great, progressive, pioneer
Ing party of brains and reform, to fol-
low the goOse-fOcks of conservatism
In the hope that they may drop a gold
9,
hats. Bah! Ipecac is nowhere l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

crops, eliminating in widespread and
CHASTITY Asiatic famine. has raised prices
for our products. These abnormal condi-
tionS have largely eliminated the competi-
ton OF silver using countries. But a
currence of good crops will renew the
fierce competition Of these countries which
will again underbid the American farmer
and reduce the worlds price of agricultural
products. While Republicans may place
their reliance upon temporary distress
abroad, Democrats demand such just and
broad basis OF standard money will
maintain a Stable standard of value and
stable prices with steady employment or
labor and capital.
The greenbacks issued by the govern
ment have proved the country's best paper
money and should not be Cancelled
There can be no privilege more danger
Gus than the control Of our currency sup
ply by private bankers and we stOutly OPP
pose their attempt to strengthen such d
monopoly by the substitution of bank
notes for our nations notes.
A subsequent plank of the platform con-
demnation is passed upon government by
Injunction This plank says:
THE country has seen with Indignation
the logical result of this judicial tyranny,
which, after an unequal struggle lasting
nine weeks conducted with remarkable
sef-control and long-suffering by thou
sands Of starving miners appealing in a
free land for living wage, men unarmed
and in peaceabie procession are shot down
the public highway. Let the people
remember this massacre at Lattimer and
resolve that government by injunction
shall not be tolerated, and that American
liberty shall not perish.
The platform also characterizes the
Dingley tariff :. measure enacted on
the imperious demands of the corporations
which contributed to the scandalous cam
paign fund"
Old Massachusetts may come to her
senses yet. The cradle of liberty" as
1t calls itself, may refuse to be its
grave. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
A POINTER.

Do not let your admiration for w. ].
Bryan lead you to advocate the disso-
luton of the Peoples party. Mr..
Bryan is mortal. He may not be alive
in 190O-he came very nea: being killed
the other day. And in three years the
whole free silver question may be set
tied. The movement just begun by the
Bank of England may be the beginning
of the end. And where will, any party
be then that has no platform but free
silver?
Stick to principles, brethren. The
world needs a great party that shall
represent reform, progress, philan-
thropy and liberal ideas, in every de-
partment Of statecraft. Don't so rid
ing off ON side issues-like a witch
On her broomstick. You will go as she
does-to the ID! l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

member that It came up in the conven-
ton of 1896: and that is what we sup
pose he refers to. And we were not
on the committee on platform. Our
kind friends, Brothers Owen and Dob
byn, looked after that.
We have not the space to print a
long platform but If Mr.. Butcher will
quote any one plank that ne thinks has
anything to do with this discussion we
will be glad to publish it. We do not
want to obscure the truth but make il
plain.
Henry George may be personally &
good man and intend we'll, and yet ad'
vocate policies that would be most de-
structive. Alexander Hamilton was
patriot, and fought under Washington
during the revolutionary wa, and yet
he advocated ideas that now threaten
the very existence of this republic
Have sense, man. And II you can'
have sense politely request the Lord te
shut off your wind. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

The sale of the crops, be they big or
little, must bring large amount OF
money into the country, but if the great
err part of it goes to money-loaning cor
rCrations, that ship it 1T once to New
York, how much permanent. good will
1t do? How much will it be felt in
gins to close in, and the Ohio election
is over, and the liars nave begun tC
tell the truth, or part of it?
Don't be misled, friends, into extra
vagance. Get out of debt. The Lore
does not starve millions of human be
ings every year to enable you to pay
the interest on your mortgages.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

decisions and despotic injunctions. 1t will
not solve the present unhappy industrial
and wage question. 1t will not prevent the
few from appropriating. through unjust
laws. the wealth of the country and reduc-
ing the producing masses to pauperism and
slavery.
This is we'll expressed and right to
the point. 1t is the "nub" of the
whole business
thing but free silver, is like the man
who would cut out of his Bible all ex-
cept the Book of Revelations. 1t will
take more than that to exercise the
devil of greed and cruelty. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

all depositors in full. The bank will go into
voluntary liquidation
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. Sept. 2O.-The
First National Bank, which failed last Sat
urday, was re-opened this morning to re-
ceve pass books. collect accounts due. ETC.
Depostors will be paid in part as soon as
matured papers can be converted into cash
and the books are Strengthened up. The
examiner is hopeful that every depositor
will be paid in full. The banks aggregate
assets foot up $780, eco. but available assets
will not be over $92, coo it is thought
And yet they tell us bank-made pros
perity is here. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THE "ADVANCE AGENT HAS COME.


CHICAGO, Sept. 1S.-The records of the
CORNERS office show an unusual number OF
suicides during the past week. NO less
than seventeen persons have ended tfelr
lives by various means. Hanging ana
DIR mixing carbolic acid we're the methods
most frequently resorted to.-Chlcaso
Times-Herald.
Lack of employment, lack OF food
lack of hope, disappointment, gloom,
wretchedness are accountable for these
self murders; and behind these are
Mark Hanna and Mckinley and behind
them the plutocracy.
If there is no hell one should be es-
tablished at once; and the hottest cor
ner of it, heated ten times hotter than
the fiery furnace of Shadrack, should
be set aside, and sign put up over it:
"This corner Of this popular hotel is
especially reserved for the men who
Ito increase their own wealth., are
sending millions to untimely graves
N B.-No fans or ice-water allowed on
the premises. Keep as cool as possible
under the circumstances" l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THE FIRST GUN.

A few days ago government censorship
of the press was started in the United
States. A group of anarchists al Portland.
Ore, at no small cost to themselves in the
way of privation and suffering, were print
ing paper called the 'Firebrand. me
United States government has placed them
in Jail.
There are not more than two or three
dozen leading Populist papers in the
United States. What is to prevent the
government from clapping the editors
of all of them into Jail?
Increased greed and arrogance on one
side; increasing wretchedness and dis
content on the other Result: He'll!
d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THANKS,

That excellent, whole souled Populist,
Hon. Peter McGrath of Blue Earth
county, has sent in his contribution
to the Lease Home fund He is always
foremost in every good work We also
failed to notice the dollar contribution
Of Brother Gibbs of LIE Sueur county
chairman of the Peoples party state
committee, and one of the best men in
the party
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
SENSIBLE.
"The Thomas E. Watson Club" O
Germantown, O., met and issued al

"The Thomas E. Watson Club" of
Germantown, o., met and issued an
address, in which they said
Resolved, That heartily endorse the
action of the Nashville conference and
commend the patriotic and courageous
stand taken by the middle of-the-road pa
perS of the country.
The free coinage of silver will not put
end to the enormous robbery by the
present National Bank system. 1t will not
protect the people from the extortionate
and piratical charges of railroad corpora
tons whose stock in trade is largely dis
honest watered stocks. 1t will not abolish
trusts combines and syndicates. 1t will not
stop the growth nor curb the power of mo-
nopoies. 1t will not prevent class legisla-
ton the granting of special privileges
1t will not abolish or check the bribing and
deba uching of city councils, state legisla.
lures, congress, courts and voters by cor.
rupt corporations and politicians. 1t will
rot prevent or even check the present rapid
subversion of the rights and liberties of the
people and the final overthrow of constitu-
tional government in this country through
the usurpations Of courts by means of vena,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THE TRUTH.

The prosperity We read about is only In
the papers. Go among the people and in
Quire; and they will tell you it is just as
hard to get dollar now it was two and
three years ago-in many cases harder. The
high price of wheat benefits the board OF
trade men only. The farmer has either
sold his wheat. it is not yet harvested
H. G. Greer, Chicago Aug. 2S.-ChicaSc
Record
And by the time the farmer is ready &c
sell his wheat the price will probably
have fallen.
The fat things of the earth are not fol
him.. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

AS they sail down the Yukon, it's billions:
When they land at St. Michael's it's mil
lions;
But the spoil of the battle,
When they get to Seattle,
Is just few Observation-Disclosures!
Very true. And the rule applies to
about everything in this lying age OF
ours. And If there is any profit in
the lie it swells to proportions that
disturb the balance of the universe.
You can't believe half you hear-and
you must not believe that. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06

We publish the following to show
how great an ass can edit paper in an
(From the New York Sum-

how great an ass can edit a paper in an
Eastern city:
(From the New York Sum-
Gold seems to be becoming almost regret
tably common, ard even it's friends must be
made a little uneasy by the reports of the
discovery of lodes of it in Minnesota. Not
that Minnesota is not worthy of having the
best there is, that gold would not be
proud to be found in parts of the gophers.
but there considerat tons of personal
sympathy and respect which makes kind
hearted folk want to refuse license to
gold miners in Minnesota. 1t is the home of
two of the highest soaring, winged
spirits of 16 to l. the Hon. Charles Argent
UNI Towne, silver Republican, and the
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, Populist and Sage
of Nininger. They not only venerate and
love silver, but they regard it much more
important to human life than air is or
water Not merely the sight but the men
ton OF gold affects them strangely. Mr..
TOWne is seized with an uncOntrOlla BILE
SPAIN Of argument whenever he sees or
hears of a gold dollar, and Mr.. Donnellv
1eelS a rotary motion even when he reads of
gold used as metaphor. The presence of
gold in their state will be considered by
both these distinguished economists as a
personal insult. 1t would be much better to
leave the Minnesota gold. if any there be
undisturbed, than to disturb Mr. Dcnnellv
and Mr.. Towne.
Now, If we were to publish such in
fernal nonsense as that the New York
Sun would use it as basis on which
to demand the expulsion of Minnesota
from the Union. They would insist
that it showed. that our people had
fallen to a depth of idiocy incompati-
BILE with self-gOvernment
A very small chinch bug can ride
on the front of cow-catCher of a
locomotive; and very small potato
of man towers into eminence if he
lives in great city. Think % that,
Dobbyn, and migrate at once J. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
This bank closed in voluntary
liquidation by order Of j. e. Nc
Clure, president. Depositors
will be paid in full and shortly.
E. c. CHEESBRO, Cashier.

Nothing definite can be learned. as to the
banks liabilities and assets
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-InfCrmation
has been received by Acting Comptroller
Coffin to the effect that the affairs of the
Efrst Nat onal Bank, Of Greensburg. Ind
have been turned over to the directors of the
bank with sufficient funds on hand to pay
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
Do You Want GOld7

Everyone desires to keep informed on
Yukon, the Klyodike and Alaskan gold
fields. Send 1Oc for large compendium
of vast information and big color map
to Hamilton Pub. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
THE BANKS GOING AGAIN,

up in enc day:
RICO. Colo, Sept 20.-The Bank of Rico
has closed its doors. The following notice
vas posted:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-06
WANTED.

(. A man in every locality to buy grain of
all kinds in car lots. For particulars
address Geo. A. Moomaw Co., Corn Ex-
change, Minneapolis, Mimi.