The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-13

not afraid Of raising big families, either
by working ten hours SO day. Since
that time their children have invented new
appliances that create, on an average,
twelve times as much wealth per day.
Therefore, II labor Is twelve times as pro-
ductive, and it Is, why cannot a labor
Ing man make as good living in one hour
day, as his ancestors did in twelve? Quite
q nut for you to crack. But 1t is mathe-
matically correct, just the same.-Appeal
to Reason.
What d mockery it is TO tell the wretched
tramp to go to work while three million
people are eagerly hunting for an oppor-
tunity to work.-Pittsburg Kansan.
When the head of the Sugar Trust pays
visit to William Mckinley it means that
no wants to help the poor.
When a multi-millionaire gets a seat in
the cabinet it means that the administra-
ton Is anxious about the welfare Of the
plain people.
When Mark Hanna gets seat in the
senate 1t means that somebody loves tho
workingman.
When number of bankers hold a sound
money conference on Wall street it means
that bonds are q blessing Twentieth
Century.
The capitalist system Is filling the world
with SIN, vice, crime poverty, insanity and
premature death. but all these are neces-
sary to open our eyes to the necessity Of
change. The reason Why we have not al
ready changed is that the class which
knows Of these evils and feels them is not
the class which has possession Of the po-
Htlcal power. The change will come all the
same; will come as certainly tomorrow's 5
sun, nothing can stop it, and nothing but
a return OF general prosperity can stay It
and the prophecy may be risked that the
child is born that will see, at least, its
beginning.-N. Y. People
Here's a quite vitriolic and "anarchistic"
paragraph from the North American Re-
view. 1t occurs In a contributed article
by Gen. l.. S. Bryce:
we are living in The shadow Of an un-
Drloled plutocracy, caused, created and
cemented In no slight decree by legislative.
aldermanic and congressional action: a
plutocracy that is far more wealthy than
any arlstocracy that has ever crossed the
horizon OF the worlds history. and one
that has been produced in a shorter e. n
secutive period; the names OF whose mem
pers are emblaZOned, not on the pages of
their nations glory, but c: its peculations:
VINO represent no struggle for their coun-
try,s Liberties, but for it's Doodle; TO con-
tests for magma charta but for railroad
charters, and whose octopus grip is ex
tending over every branch of industry: a
plutocracy that controls the price of the
Dread that we eat, the price of the sugar
ei.oI HWeeteHS tHe cup we drink, the price
or the Oil that lights us on our Way the
price of the collins in which we are buried.
John l.. Gibbs is the only prom
lnent politician who has not yet de-
cIared that he is not candidate for gov
ernor. Clough is not a candidate. Clam is
not a candidate Eustis is not a candidate
Weaver is not a candidate, Tawney is not a
candidate, Berg is not candidate. Nc
Cleary is not a candidate it now looks as
II John L. Gibbs would have everything
to himself.-Midway News
What is the matter? Are they all
afraid to face the Peoples party? Have
they heard from the workingmen of the
state, since twenty-four of their In
armed brethren were shot down in cold
blood in Pennsylvania.
Stand firm, brethren. The sun of
Justice and reform will yet rise.
I. D.