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

The Albert Lea Standard is like a
chap who has inadvertently waddled in
to a bog and sunk to his waist in the
mud;-the more he struggles the deeper
he sinks
He says he is not an "Owenite," and
yet he reflects on us for ''needlessly as
sailing" Owen. Is it needless when
Owen, in every speech he makes, is urg-
ing the pulling down of the Populist
banner, and "fusing" with the Demo-
Gratis, although the Democrats are too
sensible to demand any such fusion?
And then he has this to say:
Sheriff Philips was elected by the Pop
ulists of Hennepin county, or at least he
could not have been elected without them
and he is proving his appreciation of the
fact and of the position the Populist party
occupies by appointing Republican depu-
ties, men who are not i'll sympathy with
its principles who if they now pretend
to be are thereby unworthy of it's con-
fidence. Sheriff Phillips seems to be unde-
serving of the trust reposed in him. AS
an official he is misrepresentation of
the people and at the first opportunity he
should. if his policy is not belied, be
kicked out of office, and tarred with the
stigma Of perfidy.'
And yet Brother Day thinks it is
needless to 'assail' man who would
kill the Peoples Party and turn the
membership over to just such men as
Sheriff Phillips. How much respect will
Democrats have for Populists if they de-
stroy their own gallant ship and leave
themselves floundering in the water,
at the mercy of such men as Phillips?
1t is either brazen- faced treachery, or
rank idiocy, for any man who calls him
Party men to put the knife of suicide
t0nffieir own Threats.
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the year to date in London have been
G3 ,49S, 594 against ESQ, 10. 46S in the cores
pOndlng time of 1896.
The constantly increasing demand for
gold, as the sole primary money Of the
world, is now reaching the yellow pop
ulation of the earth-Hindoo, China
men, Japanese, Turk, African, South
American,-t people of the Arctics
and the people of the tropics. And all
the gold in the whole world will make
a cube about twenty-five feet square,! /!
And the crushing process will 60 on
until it ends civilization or ends plu-
tocracy.
We pin our faith to the belief that
the conclusion of the awful conflict will
be the crushing of the cruel masters
who now dominate the world,-and
thereafter we will have a new heaven
and new earth,-and the new heaven
will be upon the earth
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
OLD PARTY HONESTY.

There is a great showing up. nova
days, of the virtue of the G. O. P. In
Iowa they have a legislative investiga-
ton of the cost of the government print
ing, under the Republican administra-
ton of the state, and these are some
of the startling results. Read them,
and feel your hair rise like quilts upon
the fretful porcupine:"
1T is evident that there were good
grounds for an investigation, as the testi-
mony shows that the state printer las
charged prices for work that's worse than
highway robbery. Lieut.. Gov. Parrot a
Republican, and by virtue of his position
the presiding officer Of the senate. Was one
of the experts who testified. Mr.. Parrot
has been printer all his life, and IS now
at the head of a large printing establish
ment in Waterloo, and publisher of the
Waterloo Daily Reporter The following
extract from his testimony is enough to
brand the whole policy as an outrage:
u. What do you think would be a
fair price for printing postal card ID. l
on both sides. just the press WORK"
"A We get So CThe state paid SILL
90. What would you consider a fair
compensation for setting blank No ~
"A. 1 presume in my own office in fig
uring job CT that kind l would figure It
$3.50 or 49, CThe price paid by the state
for that composition was s5o.5S)
Q. What would you consider fair COM
pensation for blank No. 2?
A. About $3.50 or 50. Crhe state paid
$31.03)
Q. What would you consider fair COM
pensation on blank No. 3?
A. 81 or $3.50. (The state paid $2390)
q. What would you consider fair COM
pensation on blank No. 4?
A. l should say S.. CThat state paid
s43.43.)
Q. What would you consider fair
compensation on blank No. 5?
A. S1.50. Crhe state paid $11.91)
Is 1t any wonder that our state treasury
is empty and state warrants at a discount :?
The department Of printing is not the only
department that needs close looking after;
there are large number of state insti-
tutions that need the same attention.
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THE DIFFERENCE.

negro servant would readily sell for 81, 900
spot cash. If any one desires to ascertain
how cheap white or black slaves are now
hang out a sign, servants wanted and
you will quickly learn that slaves, black
and white, can be had for feed and a few
cast off rags
We believe that if we offered to give
men their board and clothes, Chats
what the slaves goD, in exchange for
their work, we would have 10000 appli-
cants in Minnesota alone, within forty
eight hours.
And the beauty of it is, most of them
would give their votes to continue ex-
listing conditions.
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part of the Democratic party and the pie
eaters of the Populist party, to disrupt the
Peoples Party by bringing about a COM
plete amalgamation of the two, and thus
forever put an end to further reform eff
fort, except it be along lines that Demo-
cratic conventions shall map out, which
under such circumstances, would be of the
milk and water variety; for with such
unification all of the gold bug element
would flock one man back into it's
ranks to control and eat it's pie. 1t is al
ready apparent that the mOneyed interests
going to put forth almost superhuman
effort to gain control of the Democratic
party for 1900, for they believe that it is
but the natural outcome Of present condi-
tiOns that it is booked by fate, to succeed
in the next election. We are in favor of
the conference that we may show the Pop
ulists Of the South that the great heart
of the rank and file of the Populists of the
North beats in hearty sympathy with them
in their efforts to keep from being swal-
lowed up by their antagonist"
These are words of wisdom and right
to the point. They express the senti-
ments of all true Populists.
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THE iEGISLATURE.
AN MEM ER'S OPINION.
(E7r,pIy nov'c SaptipalN

Crank Days Sentinel)
The newspapers with one accord say the
last legislature was positively the rottenest
and most imbecile that ever met in Mime
Sota
Comparisons are dangerous as well as
odorous. Now we don't think the last
legislature was so shockingly bad. If
the corporations had left it alone it
would have been fairly decent. But
when Frank Day says it was the worst
that ever met in Minnesota, it reminds
us of little story as Mr.. Lincoln would
say.
fellow was hard-up and hungry,
and driven by necessity he went into a
shoemaker's shop and asked for work.
do you know the trade" inquired the
boss. ooh, yes" replied the other
which was falsehood, for he knew very
little about it. Then" said the boss,
"sit down there and make me a SHOE l
am going out and when l return 1 will
decide whether l can employ you or
not"
The imposter set to work, but the shoe
he made was such shocking bctch
that he was ashamed of it himself, and
stuck it under the bench. He took up
some more material and started on a
new one He had about finished it when
the boss returned.
He threw up his hands with horror!
ooh Lord" he cried, that is the worst
shoe ever made in this shop"
"Ill bet you five dollars it isn't re-
piled the imposter.
"Tll take that bet" said the boss, pro-
ducing his wallet.
And thereupen the scamp reached I'm
der the bench-and produced his first at
tempt. The employer conceded he had
won the bet. :
And so when you come to comparisons
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nothing to gain by it's dissolution. For
even if all future cooperation should be
impossible the Democracy has a better
chance to win with the Republican vote
divided, than they will have if three
fourths of the Populists are driven back
into the ranks of the G. o. P. There is
not a Democrat in the state ass enough
to insist that the Peoples Party papers
must be prescribed, if they advocate
that Populists should attend a Populist
national conference.
This thing strikes deeper than the
Free-Silver Democrats or the Free-Sil-
yer Republicans. 1t is compounded Of
fools and knaves. Plutocracy is at the
back of it,
But it makes plain what we have been
telling the people, that there is a coterie
in this state, headed by S. NJ Owen and
represented by the Evening Press, which
intends nothing less than the division
and destruction of the Peoples Party.
They do not intend that any delegates
shall go from Minnesota to the Nash
vile conference. What say you, breth-
rem? Do you propose to oblige them?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
sugar were not intended for the insane
patients but for the officers of the insti-
tuition.
PRODUCING PROSPERITY.

WASHINGTON, D. C. April ,30.-It was
stated last night that when the tariff bill
comes into the full committee from the
subcommittee it will contain two dol
lar rate on lumber. In the start the figure
was only che dollar, and from time to
time, upon opportunities from interested
dealers. the rate has been gradually raised
until it has finally reached the two dollar
mark.
Lucky it did not go up to IS a thous-
and. 49, s-f
And what splendid remedy for hard
times that tariff bill will be!
The farmers are poor-their crops
don't pay the cost of raising them
and then the Advance Agent of Pros
perity comes along with his gang, and
says: Boys, we wont do anything to
increase the money supply. We wont
even permit congress to legislate- upon
that custom when it is in session. We
wont appoint the house committees, so
that nothing can be done. We won't
increase the price of your products by
increasing the amount of money in cir
culation; but WE WILL INCREASE
YOUR WEALTH BY MAKING YOU
PAY MORE FOR WHAT YOU BUY!!!"
And think of it! The lumbermen
have already a Ring which fixes the
price of lumber as high as they please,
and you can't get shingle unless you
pay that price. --.- - w.
And now they want two dollars per M.
more than the price their own greed
has dictated. -. ui ~
Surely this is greasing the fat SOW.
Surely, Ito be more poeticaD, this is
gliding refined gold and adding per-
fume to the violet" Or we should say
the daisy. And a nice set Of daisies
they are. ,I>.:Ia ~
But you voted for it, boys SO take
your medicine if it burns your bowels
| out. You dubbed the doctors that would
have cured you; so now be happy with
the darlings Of your choice-the poison
feeding quacks, who ask for confidence
while they deal out Death.
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ONE DAYS RECORD.
"The Good Times Are COming-Wait
. q Little Longer"

s'Thc Good Times Are COming-Wait
8 Little Longer"
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-Wiliams.
Brown & Co., wholesale shipping and
commission merchants, have failed. The
liabilities are said to be 100000.
The assets are believed to be sufficient
to meet most Of it's obligations. If the
creditors will grant extension Of time,
the firm hopes to resume business For
the last nine years the firm has been rec
ognized as one of the most active houses
In the Australian import trade. In the
salmon canning business Williams, Brown
& Co. were the hackers of enterprises Of
immense proportions.
The direct cause of the failure of the
firm is said TIC have been the failures Of
Australian consignees to meet bills drawn
against them for heavy shipments Of
grain.
MADISON, Wis, May 11.-Judge Bum,
of the United States circuit court today
denied a motion for the appointment of a
receiver for the Shores Lumber company,
CT Ashland The application was made by
Charles D. Hickey and Thomas Hume
who own forty shares of stock in the COM
pany. In January the company made an
assignment and Ex-Governor Upham was
appointed assignee.
.gKANKAKEE, ILL.,, May 1.-THE general
merchandise store Of Crooks Brothers at
Gilman was closed today by the sheriff
The liabilities exceed $1,000, while the as
sets, will not reach $4,000 Many farmers
deposited money with the firm believing
1t safer than bank, and this item will
probably reach $40 0GO.
In the meantime Dun and Bradstreet
are proving every week, (by the sup
preston Of the facts), that prosperity is
returning rapidly.
A splendid liar gives a pleasant film
to the tagging vivacity of mankind
Without him we would fall into the
monotony of truth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19

got to eat; and before they will perish
they will resort to crime. And who is
to blame them? When society does not
afford honest industry it's just rewards
society?
Prosperity must precede virtue The
prayers of religion are silent amid the
howlings of hunger. Justice goes before
goodness. 81
The mohey-question concerns the
whole human family. It reaches into
everything. It isfthe alpha" and come
ga" Virtue, vice; love and hate; pros
perity or pauperism; national life or
national death; liberty or slavery;
everything depends upon the relation
which exists between the money supply
of a country and its population and
productive power.
To talk about religion and ignore the
money-question is ito whistle jigs to a
milestone" ;aa TT
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GOLD, GOLD, GOLD!
The Universal CRY.

The London Economist thinks that the
demand for gold for Japan is likely to be
persistent, and it is not very probable
that 1t will be offset by receipts from New
York. as some people have supposed. A
Yokohama correspondent points out that
Japan has taken the step of establishing a
gold standard because it wants to borrow
money abroad and it is supposed that it
can do So more easily as a gold standard
country than as a silver standard. 1t looks
{ as If an advance in discounts might be ex-
pectede in Germany. and there is some
talk there of a possible advance in the
bank rate. The total capital offerings for
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
of crime now z dominant in our country,
t-11~ 81

of crime now dominant in our country,
is the fact that most Of the murders are
committed by5 very Young men. All
conscience seems to be squeezed out of
the rising generation. We have trained
the heads Of the children with great
acuteness butt wei have left their hearts
gardens of weeds and reptiles
Another bad sign is the growing dis
trust in republican Institutions But if
we do not have republican institutions
are we to return to the horrors of king
craft and aristocrcy? Is Europe any
better off than America? 1t is worse
Build up the Peoples party, hre. hrcn
1t may save mankind. We believe God
to be behind it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
MORE RASCALITY.

Our public institutions are supported
by the taxation Of the people;-mucH
of it wrung from poor men who have a.
hard struggle to procure the barest nec-
essaries Of life. And yet we learn that
the most criminal extravaganza prevails
in some of our charitable institutions.
The Insane Hospital at Rochester is dis
tlnguished in this line A committee of
the Legislature made report, from
which we extract the following:
Your committee took some fifty
vouchers for goods bought outside the
state in different lines to the wholesale
merchants in ST. Paul and found that in
no cases were the prices paid any less
than the same quality of goods could have
been bought for in the state and in many
cases they were higher.
I'VE also found what seemed to be a
great extravaganza in. the purchase of
large quantities of luXuries by the Roch-
ester insane hospital shown by a bill
dated June 20, of this last year. bought
OF B. l.. Richardson, Organve, VT, for
16O gallons of maple syrup and 1898 pounds
OF maple sugar. amounting to 1894 with
freight from Vermont to Rochester. About
sixty days later bill of 5000 pounds of
maple sugar was bought in st. Paul.
Also the following bill bought of
Sprague, Warner & Co., of Chicago dated
Nov. 10, of 1895: 3,515 pounds of red nee
tarines at cents; 1,4a pounds of Mon
aprcots at II cents; 1855 pounds of Cali
fornia Drunes at 6h cents: $500 pounds
pitted cherries at S12 cents, amounting in
all to SS32.56.
Your committee finds on inquiry that
the grade of these goods is so high that
merchants in this state cannot sell them
to the trade, the price being 10 to Is per
cent higher than any grade required in
the northwest.
1t occurs to us that this is extraya-
gance on the part of the management of
the Rochester hospital to buy a higher
grade of goods than is required by the
taxpayers of the state, and that if some
of these luXures were dispensed with a
large sum of money would annually be
saved to the state.
Think of feeding lunatics on maple
sugar, red nectarines, pitted cherries,
etc. When the poor creatures scarcely
know the difference between potatoes
and turnips. And consider also how few
of the taxpayers, in these dreadful
times, enjoy such luxuries.
But it may be that the red nectarines
and pitted cherries and Vermont maple
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
HARD TIMES.
Picture of Existing Conditions.

Inc press has been trying for some time
to whoop up good times, until il has
passed into rhyme .v
Good times are coming,
When the mills will be humrninc.
Wien tie hammers glad soulI will he
heard,
And therel be plenty uf money.
And even milk and honey ~ 80.
But the milk has all turned Into Curd.
We are not pessimist-our nttllre is to
look upon the bright side of things but
this is one of the things that, don't ap-
pear to have a bright side. The questions
uppermoSt in the public minds are: What
is the matter? Who or what rs resnonsi-
bic for the present distressing conditions ?
From what source must we expect re-
lief? 1t doesn't take asvery wise man to
answer these NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. we will
undertake to do so briefly
l. What is the matter? Any smpleton
knows the times are out Of jcint-that
multiplied thousands art out Of employ
ment, and that means they arc cut Of
bread-that many .'pindl2s are yet s;lcfft--
that trade of nearly everysl.ind .lragsi al
most hopelessly along.
z. Who or what is responsible? The
home life of the nation has degenerated
The country is filled with schemers, dis
honest spectators, unscrupul ous trusts
Public confidence is lost among the rulers
of trade. Our political systems are cor
rupt and our social system is full Of
dead mems bones. There IS good in the
world. and there are good people; but the
devil has such firm hold on business. on
society and Oh the politics OF the land
that good people are standing aghast With
dismay.
8. The source of relief? The home must
get back to it's simplicity and purity; it
must get tirmer hold Upon rs children ard
train them to be honorable and true We
must elect good men to office and down
the political trckste-s. Then prosperity
will smile upon us. rhen me .nusic Of
busy trade will fill the and with ladness
Let each of do all we can. to bring
about a better era. Let us live uDttof the
principles of our beloved order and a bet
ter brighter day will lawn upon our
cherished homes and glorious land.--The
Protector. -t.
All very true and very right, But
have you got to the heart of the mat
ter? 11Est>-
How can your children be virtuous
and honorable when they cannot get
daily pay for daily work? They have
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-05-19
A NEW PARTY.


PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May LEX
Postmaster General John Wanamaker. at
banquet Of the Business Mems League
this evening, made a remarkable speech on
national and state politics. After comment
ing on the failure of promised prosperity
to appear in consequence of President Nc
Kinley's election, Mr.. Wanamaker said
that the low state to which the political
religion Of the nation was brought by I'M
scrupulous bosses must eventually result
in new party.
We don't quite understand what 1.-The
political religion of the nation" means,
but we have no doubt it was the cause
of Wanamaker's defeat for the United
States senatorship; and if so party
should be started at once. For any re-
ligion that would keep that great and
good man and Sunday school teacher,
out of the United States senate, where
great and good men and Sunday school
teachers are so badly needed, should be
abolished at once.
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POSTAL ORDERS.

We read in the report of the proceed
ings of the International Postal Con-
gress:
"There is said to be a considerable differ
ence of opinion among the members of the
committee having under charge the propo-
sitions relating to the money order sys-
tenn There seems to be much objection to
the suggestion to make post offices the
medium for the international collection Of
money and this objection is understood to
be based upon the argument that such a
system would seriously affect the banking
system of exchange"
That's it exactly. The advance of
the world must be arrested to help lot
of bankers exact profits from the people
All our politics today turn on the
struggle of the banks against the peo-
pie.
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JUST AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT.

The Torrey bankruptcy bill puts new
powers into the hands of creditors to
push defaulting debtors to the wall.
Senator Nelson introduced a bill more
favorable to the debtor class and it
passed the senate. Now comes word
from Washington that Speaker Reed, of
Maine, and others, for the capitalistic
section, are going to smash the Nelson
bill. Just as you might expect. 1t is
the East against the West every time
the right Of the dollar against the right
of man; he dead past against the living
present; the old world against the new
Go it boys. 1t will be our innings
some day.
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What in thunder is a "Moratorium %
We read the following in one of the
| daily papers: - = c@..". @>
VIENNA. April 24.-The Neue Freie
| Presse says that King George ofcGreece,
! by decree dated April IS, has granted
| a moratorium of a month. -
This moratorium probably means q gen.
eral suspension of settlement of debts
| until more or less definitely fixed subse-
quent date. The Greek government itself
! has already defaulted on its debt .durins,
several years. Dec. 10, 1893, the national
legislature formally decreed that" there
after only 30 per cent of the stipulated in
| terest on the public issues should be paid
Since then the per cent bonds of the
| Greek government have fallen from As to
1919.
"A general suspension of the payment
! of debts." Why that would suit Min
nesotas case exactly. It is to some ex-
tent already in force--but outside the
law. ash. .u5f-
But if any one had proposed to exact
| Moratorium" in the last session of
the legislature, he would have. been in
continentally shipped to the lunatic asy-
lum at st. Peter; and the very people
who were to be benefited by the said
Moratorium" would have rotten egged
him as he passed by. :
Fancy how the newspapers would
have howled themselves black in the
face!
And how the supreme court would
have Jumped on the bowels Of the act
and tramped them to pieces,"" 49,
True the people may be driven to cut
their own Threats or those of their
neighbors; but dead citizen is nothing
compared with an incensed usurer: and
the processes by which the country is
going to the devil must not be inter-
fered with. ~:t .t-'79': F9
The government is simply machine
for the collection of debts, and the
transfer of property from the MANY to
the few. The idea that it was con-
structed to protect the masses from
robbery, or to make them PROSPEROUS
and happy is too absurd to be considered
for one moment "'"H, 80!
Man was made for the government
not the government for man. Any other
idea is Populism, Anarchism, Dev:iism.
Away with it! g.. 80 ~