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well to confne their labors to doing
away with the gross ignorance and SUI
perstitions of their own people.
A letter from Bombay to the New
York Nation, tells how all attempts to
deal with the plague, and to introduce
sanitary reforms into the filthy and
congested quarters of that city are
thwarted by the shiftless and suspicious
inhabitants. Hospitals are their espe-
cial horror. People stricken with the
plague will die in the streets rather
than be taken to them. A recent as
sembly of Mussulmans replied to de-
mand for the segregation of plague
patients in the hospitals: down with
the hospitals! We will not be segre-
gated. Prayer is our medicine. The
mosque is our hospital" The Hindus
make no such open defiance, but they
equally resist all Christian effort for
their relief
A horrible belief has become quite
general among the Bombay populace.
It is that Queen Victoria in revenge for
an insult offered to her statue, de-
mands the livers of 10000 jewellers Of
the city, and that the hospitals are the
means through which she will secure
these livers."
What a dreadful thing is ignorance!
1t is impossible to compute the mil
lions of souls it has sent out of the
world before their time. 1t is impos-
sible to picture the countless tremend-
Gus, illimitable sufferings it has infiic-
ted on mankind.
The great poet said - there is
no darkness like ignorance"
In Canada the people mobbed the doc
tors, who were trying to vaccinate them
during a smallpox pestilence.
God give the children of men light.
The horrors of the era we are pass
ing through are all due to the ignorance
of the people; and their inability to
perceive that the money-lending class
was exploiting them for it's own profit.
God give them light.
The diseases of the mind:-ignOr-
ance prejudice, invulnerable stupidity,
have wrought more horrors than all
the pestilential microbes in Gods uni
verse.
The man who permits his child to
grow up in ignorance would be less Of
a murderer if he killed him outright
with an ax:-for a dead brain is less
dangerous than an uneducated one.
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THE AMERICAN BADGE.

It is a noticeable fact that there is a
very striking similarity between the
Mckinley badges now worn, to the
Cleveland badges that were worn one
year ago; the only apparent difference
being that they are somewhat larger,
the texture of the goods is a little
thinner, and that it takes a longer
coat-tail to hide them.-Inter Mountain
Advocate
For sufferance," says Shylock, ''is
the badge of all our tribe"
That was four hundred years ago.
Now it is the Christian that suffers:
and the badge he wears is more dis
graceful than that of Shylock.
The noble Republican can now point
to his patches and cry out, parting his
coat tails the while:
THANK God I am an American citi-
zen, and voted for the gold standard,
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A Pleasant Chat.

We had very agreeable interview.
few days ago, on the cars, with DR..
f. u. Lawrence, of Ell Dorado, Kansas
He was on his way back from the free
silver convention in Chicago. We
found him an earnest Populist, in all
but the name. He says the Free-Sil-
verites occupy the same ground as that
taken by this paper:-they do not think
1t wise or necessary to join the Dem
ocrats or Populists. They will 60 to
work On their own hook" and ad-
vance along their own lines; leaving
the question of cooperating at the bal
lot in 1900, with other free-silver ele-
ments, to the teachings of time and
events.
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BRYAN'S MISTAKE.

And now it is the Ohio Democrats
who are doubtful about inviting Mr..
Bryan to that state to take part in the
campaign. To be turned down by Tam
many was bad enough, but to be de-
prived of the pleasure Of riding Mark
Hanna all over the Buckeye state must
be a sore disappointment indeed to this
later child of destiny Minneapolis
Tribune.
The signs are multiplying that Pluto
cracy is making desperate effort to
capture the Democratic party. It real
ICES that the Republican organization Is
played out?
The Chinese and japanese use paper
pocket handkerchiefs; and, when they
have soiled them, make no attempt to
wash them: but throw them into the
gutter. This Is the way Plutocracy
uses it's instruments. The Republican
party having destroyed it's grand pres
tige and degraded it's noble record by
becoming the tool of the money power,
will now be abandoned; and a great eff
fort made to capture Democracy.
And it must not be forgotten that
nearly one-half of the Democratic vote
of the nation is now under the con-
troll of the goldocracy. Take New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Con-
necticut, New Hampshire, Maine, etc.
Mr.. Bryan made a great mistake when
he spent weeks in those regions trying
to convert them to free silver. If he
had devoted the same time to the Pacific
coast and the central West he would
have been elected. This is a geogra-
phical battle as much as was the civil
war. The poor people of the East have
already reached the condition to which
it Is sought to bring the rest of the
country. The money-power owns them
absolutely; and owns their minds
through the newspapers. The Peoples
Party is an effort of the healthy flesh
of the system to prevent the spread of
the cancer, which reigns elsewhere. It's
roots spread while we sleep.
NIL. bryan luduc d ullStdh0 Wuon lie
thought he could go down to New York
and New England and rouse them to
the same enthusiasm. for free silver,
which he had found in the West and
South. He did not consider that the
West and South had been in favor of
an abundant currency while he was
making free trade speeches in congress.
The West and South had not demanded
free silver because he advocated it;
but lie advocated it because the West
and South demanded it.
The enthusiasm for free silver which
burst forth, like geyser, in the DEM
ocratic convention at Chicago, was born
out of the breast of Populism We
wont say the Democracy stole part Of
our platform-they simply appropriated
it. We don't object. We are glad to
see the justice of our principles recog-
nized, but we don't want to furnish the
essentials of victory and then be kicked
to pieces Tor our pains.
We demand fair play and fair treat
ment, and if we don't get it there will
be the biggest fight ever seen in Amer
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Miss Erwin felt compelled to laugh a
little herself.
After a while Miss Erwin told about
her labors when she was assisting
Spalding in the preparation of his fam
lily history. She confided to them that
there were about 1000 names of the
Spaldings in the volume; and that the
book sold at $40 copy.
Were any of the books sold?" asked
a juror.
II believe few copies were sold,"
said Miss Erwin.
did you share in the profits of the
sales?"
Eyes, sir"
what share did you get?"
81 got all the money" was the
prompt reply.
"Well, then, you didn't share with
anybody, but were the whole thing, were
you not?" inquired another juror, with
laugh that was largely contagious.
Yes, sir, l suppose l was" replied
Miss Erwin.
And this man Spalding was fair
type Of hundreds of others who, rot
ten to the core, howled for sound
money" and intimidated or fooled bus
mess men, of all kinds, into the sup
port of Mckinley, and the Inauguration
of the present terrible conditions.
Miss Erwin was doubtless also a be-
lever in Sound money" and got it out
of box!
Unhappy people. Who could be
fooled by such shallow knaves!
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An Alliance Picnic.

On the 10th inst. we took part in an
Alliance picnic, att Clyde, Winona coup-
ty, Mimi, upon the property of Mr.. j.
X. Campbell, of that place. 1t was an
exceedingly interesting occasion. de-
spite heavy rain storm, which broke
into the middle of the ceremonies, and
kept away thousands
Clyde is hamlet. in the midst of a
beautiful country, eight miles south Of
Utica, on the Northwestern railroad.
The crops were backward, but the
country looked charming in its brill;au.
robes of green. This is one Of the fin
est sections of the state.
The Alliance had prepared. seats.
platform. etc.. in the midst OF aslurelv
grove, but when the hour came fo; us
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-16
A Valuable Work.

We have received from l.. D. Ray
nolds, 2G7 S. Lincoln ST., Chicago, a
copy of, his new book, entitled Nation
al Platforms and Political History"
containing about $50 pages, price 25
cents. 1t contains a full record of po-
litical history from TIT to the present
day, including all the platforms of all
the political parties Of the country. We
do not know another work which con-
tains so much valuable information in
so small a compass. Send for copy.
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More Lies,

The other day we were in Winona
county-one of the oldest settled coun-
ties in the state.
We have been told for years that the
farmers of Southeastern Minnesota
were universally prosperous, with no
debts and money to burn" We found
on the contrary a great deal of debt.
In Saratoga township there was only
one man, out of many, owing more than
$500, who was last year. able to pay
the interest on his indebtedness!
Farmers have been shipping potatoes
by the car load, and all the returns they
got were bills from the railroad COM
pany for eight dollars car. The DO
tatoes would not pay the freight!
Good times! Of course Southeastern
Minnesota is prosperous! Mckinley
Will lick any man who says it isn't!
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Vbp Two Teams.

We hope Hon. Ignatius Donnelly will
not allow his personal animosity to-
ward individual members of the party
to warp his better judgement as to par
ty poicy.-Des Moines, Iowa, Farmer
Tribune.
Can it be party policy to abolish the
party? Can it be party policy to aban-
don half our principles, in order to get
into bed with some other organization,
and possess few petty offices.
Iowa ought to be the strongest Popu-
list state in the West. 1t is one of the
weakest. Why? Because whenever
reform lifted up it's head in the past,
in the state, and the glow of hope
shone on its face, the leaders turned in
and traded it away to Democracy. for
a little plumber, and ruined the party
and did not get the offices!
General Weaver is a pleasant gentle
man, and we have nothing but kindly
feelings towards him. but he has a
mental idiosyncrasy that makes him
sell out the baby of Reform before 1t is
more than half out of its mothers
womb. 1t is not yet baptised before he
has the bill of sale drawn.
He has misread the axiom that two
and two makes four. 1t isn't always the
case Two horses hitched to the front
of wagon and two more hitched to the
tail don't have the pulling power of
four horses. They pull in opposite d.
rectiOns Ond the result is-nothing
One good lively, muscular, active earn
est team will do more, to get the peo-
pie out of the mud Of oppression, than
five hundred horses tied together by the
tails.
The general is an able man but un-
progressive. He has a hitch in his
mental construction and his brain
limps. We can never forget an incident
which occurred at the great convention
held in Cincinnati in May 1891, to or
ganize new party. There were 5000
delegates there from all parts of the
country. AS soon IS the convention
was called to order motion was made,
as is usual in such bodies. that the
delegates from each, state select mem
Der to act as vice president, another to
act as secretary. anothr to serve as
member of the committee on creden-
tials, another for the committee on per-
manent organization, etc. We moved
to amend that they also select mem
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HOw's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known F.
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lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Price
75c per bottle Sold by all Druggists.
Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the BEST
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er for the national executive commit


tee. = srss -~@>ss
We can never forget the fury with
which General Weaverssfrode down the
central aisle, and withseyes flashing
denounced us for tryingsto commit the
convention to the idea ola new partly!
We told him. in reply, that we
thought that was what we were there
for.
We asked him if he thought 5000
people had travelled thousands of miles
to get there at their own expense, SIM
ply to pass a few resolutions and go
home; like the king Of France, who
"With forty thousand men,
Marched up the hill, and then marched
down again"
The wild burst of applause which
greeted our words from nine-tenths of
the convention, settled the question,
and, as r. ]. Meighen said the other
day, Then the Peoples Party was
born"
Senator PETER was temporary chair
man and he ruled our amendment out
of order, because the convention was
not yet organized; but it carried when
the convention was organized; and
General Weaver then came in and step
ped to the front Of the movement he
had tried to Obstruct. and became it's
candidate for president!
We do not say this in any unkind
spirit, but every man has his mental
peculiarities, and it is impossible for
him to rise above them. Hence we find
General Weaver, who did not want to
see the Cincinnati convention commit
ted to the idea of a new party, insisting
that it must cooperate now with the
Democrats; and S. NJ. Owen, who had
not pluck enough or sincerity enough
to attend the Cincinnati convention in
1891, or the St. Louis or Omaha con-
ventions in 1892, (even when elected
delegate thereto), insisting that the
party must give up it's name, organiza-
ton and "prejudices', (principles),
and merge into another party.
Blood will tell" and a mans men,
tai construction will rule his actions as
thoroughly in 1897 as it did in 1891.
And SO we say to our friend, of the
Farmers Tribune, that every utterance
of his paper, as it seems to us, is cal
culated to undermine and destroy the
Peoples Party, and build bridges to
carry it's membership over into another
party. On the contrary The Represen-
tative is laboring to repair the breaches
in the walls of Populism, caused by
wipe the dirt off the folds of our glorius
banner, and set the. bugles ringing to
rally our scattered and disheartened
hosts.
We are preaching the doctrines of:
/. The convention of Cincinnati in
1891.
2 The convention of st. Louis. in
1892
D. ue convention OF OmdDd, IN
1892
The Farmers Tribune is striving to
carry out the ideas. which led us in
1896, to abandon our own party, and
seek our candidate in the ranks Of an
other party; which made us trade ad-
miration for an Individual for devotion
to immortal principles. The pathway
thus started upon leads down into the
abyss, and terminates at an open grave.
For one we want. nothing of it.
Right is right to the end of the chap
ter
Our duty now as party is to live and
grow.
What we will do in 1900 the events of
the interim will help us to decide.
Stand firm brethren, though the
heavens crack over your heads.
God loves brave men and buries
sneaks under the compost of public con-
tempt.
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SllHrIl.

A Superior. Wisconsin man who had
been millionaire but was about to
loose his property for debt to despond-
ent creditors in the hard-fsted east,
induced his wife to sue him for d.
vorce on the grounds of cruelty. The
divorce with alimony was secured, and
he Immediately turned his property
over to her in settlement of the ali
mony Judgment. In few weeks they
were remarked. We are the people,
and must be respected. Next
That illustrates how cOnjugal affec-
ton can rise superior to all the muta-
lions of fortune
Bring on your divorces.
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HOW CAN WE:

A friend writes us and begs us to
make friends with S. M. Owen-that 1t
will hurt the party" etc.
We have great respect for our friends
but he is mistaken.
How can we defend the life of the
Peoples Party and compromise with a
man who seeks to destroy it?
At the Free Silver Banquet, held in
st. Paul, Feb. II, (Abraham Lincoln's
birthday, Mr.. Owen was present and
made a speech, which was reported in
the Minneapolis Evening Fress of Feb.
10, in extenso We copied part Of it in
to our issue of Feb. "a. Mr.. Owen has
never alleged that he was incorrectly
reported He said in that speech:
'Let us be unmindful of the name
that is inscribed upon the political ban
ner we march under"
That means that we, the Populists,
are to march as cheerfully and readily
under the Democratic or the Republic
can banners, as under the Peoples Par
That means that we are to have no
Peoples Party-for there can be no
party if there are not those who are
devoted to it no prefer it to all other
organization.
Suppose Grant, when our armies
stood facing the confederate forces, led
by Gen. Robert E. Lee, had issued an
order in these words:
"Soldiers of the Union:-It don't
make bit of difference whose flag you
march under. The stars and bars are
Just as good as the stars and stripes.
Let us be disloyal to our old army pre-
judices Let us unite under some
name; we don't care what it may be.
U. S. GRANT"
it have taken the soldiers of the Union
to have suppressed the southern insur-
rection, on those grounds.
And yet this is just what Owen said
in that speech, on Feb. II, of this year:
We quote again:
LET us be disloyal to our old party
prejudices. Let us unite I'M
der some name: we care not what it
may be-"
Now we ask our friend, In the name
of God and our common country, how
can we. as the editor of the chief Peo-
pies Party paper of this state, cooper
ate with a man who advocates the dis
bandment of the Peoples Party? How
can we embrace a man who is striking
at the heart of the organization which
polled, in 1895, nearly two million
votes? How can we, without being a
damnable traitor, help to restore that
man to the confidence Of the people,
that he may use the power we give him,
to deal more deadly blows at the heart
of Reform?
We are willing to forgive Mr.. Owen
and his gang for all their contemplate
treatment of oursef. For pretending
to advocate us as Minnesota's choice
for the presidency, and then uniting,
deprive us of even place on commit
tee!! For trying, in 1894, and again
in 1896, to destroy this paper. For all
the presecutions-sieek, sly and malig-
nant-with which I'VE have been as
sailed for six years past, by this man
and his allies. aFor his support of Doc
tor Fish and Juhn1L. Mcdonald and
Darlington Phelps and L. M. Aver, and
all the rest of the corpses, whose head
stones now shine in the graveyard of
insignificance. s
But all this we could forget and for
give, if he was onlyfdevoted to righte-
GUS principles and an earnest and hon
est advocate of Reform.
But when anH man asks us to help
this bitter. unrelenting. INSCRIPTIONS.
lo Il
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"The old continentals.
In their ragged regimentals,
Failed not"
GOOD TIMES COMING

See how they come:
''There were 256 business failures re-
ported throughout the United States
this week, compared with 1877 last week,
234 in the week a year ago, 232 two
years ago, 227 three years ago, and as
contrasted with 3O3 in the like week of
1893. There were thirty-eight business
failures reported from the Canadian
Dominion this week. compared with
thirty-seven last week, thirty eight in
the week year ago and twenty-one
two years ago."
How long will it take us to reach
prosperity at that rate?
And yet Dunn and Bradstreet tell us
every week that times are getting bet
ter.
The uncOnsciOnable liars
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How n Bank Was Run.

In the universal scramble for money
the common people were prone to
worship those who had, or appeared
to have, large quantity of it, no mat
ter how obtained. Hence the vast in
fluence of the banking class in the last
election. Hence their responsibility
for the evils which have fallen upon
the country. Hence the wrath Of the
people, (when the bubble burst and
the promises Of prosperity were proved
to be lies), which has sent numbers Of
these financial political leaders to pri-
son, and has driven others to suicide
to escape the penitentiary.
The investigations made by grand
jurors in the. great cities of the ma
ton have recalled shocking state of
There was the case of the Globe
Savings Bank of Chicago. when it ap-
peared that the president of the bank,
a man named Spalding, had lavished
the depositors' money on a female
clerk Here is an extract from the
testimony:
testified that she at one time owned
900 acres of land in Idaho worth $25,-
900. She told the jurors that she had
never seen this land, and did not know
where it was located. She did not know
how much had been paid for the land;
she never paid anything for the land
herself. When asked how she obtain
ed the land she blushingly acknowl-
edged that Spalding bought it for her
It was the same way when Miss Erwin
talked about the $4,000 worth of real
estate she at one time owned in Buena
Park Questions intended to reveal the
manner in which she came into pos
session of these lots we're invariably
answered by the statement that Spald-
ing had been the purchaser for her.
What have you done with all this
property" asked one of the jurors.
Il turned the property over to Mr..
Spalding," replied the young woman,
somewhat sorrowfully, with the be-
lief that it would save him from going
to the penitentiary"
BY dint of questioning it was learn
ed from Miss Erwin that she had been
induced to turn over the property by
an attorney named H. w. MCGEE, who
represented to her that it's return would
save Spalding from punishment. She
had consulted with her father and
brother, but had not talked with an
attorney concerning the matter.
Don't you think we had better in
dict that attorney for obtaining prop
erty under false pretenses?" asked
waggish grand juror. AS laugh went
around the room Miss Erwin joined,
and smiled an affirmative reply to the
question.
Miss Erwin told the jurors that she
had not been employed at a salary by
Spalding since 1893 This aroused the
curiosity Of the jurors, and they wanted
to know where she got money for her
expenses.
81 got what money I needed from a
box in the safety deposit vaults at the
bank" said Miss Erwin, somewhat nerv-
ously.
did you carry a key to the box?"
asked a juror
YES sir"
did anyone else carry key to the
same box?"
Eyes, sir; Mr.. Spalding carried a
key"
did you put the money in the box?"
was the anxious query of another jul
ror.
mo SIR" replied Miss Erwin, "the
money was put into the box by Mr.
Spalding.'"
This discovery caused something OF
a sensation in the jury-room and made
the jurors look at each other long and
hard. Then they began laughing, and
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A mans character is like a fence
you cannot strengthen it by white
wash -Schillings' Advance.
That is so. And a political part is
not as powerful as the lies told in it's
favor. A strong smell is not always an
evidence of strength.
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There is every reason for believing
that if the Populists had stood true to
principle through the campaign Of SO,
the party would today be gaining re-
cruits at the rate Of ten thousand day.
Voters of all parties are thoroughly dis
gusted, but no one wishes to join the
ranks of an army that is liable to be
surrendered any moment by it's leaders.
Sentinel, Chicago.