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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
SELLING DEATH.

DR.. Perkins, the city bacteriOloGist. yes
terday submitted to the coroner his re-
port of the analysis of the sausage from
which Remi Dupre and John Capistrant
thought to have died about two wes;ls
ago at ST. Lukes hospital. Dr. Perkins
says that cats, rats. guinea pigs and
pigeons died from injections of culture of
the sausage and that there is no question
that the meat contained poisonous germs.
The report does not state that death re-
suited from ptOmaine. or from any other
specific kind of poison, but the results of
the Investigations. DR. Perkins says, in
dictate that the poison contained in the
sausage was produced by purified meat.
Coroner Nelson says he will not hold
an inquest. because there is nothing to
show wilful use of diseased meat on the
part of the maker of the sausage. The
coroner says that it is possible that the
germs developed in the sausage after it
left the factory and that it was probably
an accidental case. Coroner Nelson sayS
he has made a thorough investigation ana
that of the hundreds of persons that
had eaten sausage from the same store
he could find no one that had suffered
from the effects of the meat-St Paul
Dispatch.
The butcher that made that sausage
knew, by his nose, that the meat he put
into it was rotten. 1t was sinking. But
to make few pennies he stuck it in
and sent two unsuspecting young men
to their graves. He should be tried and
sent to prison.
The foul smell of decomposition is
natures warning of danger He who
neglects it and poisons another for profit
is a murderer. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
POURING. IN.

The Lease Home Fund is now fairly
started. 1t is crawling rapidly to ne
first hundred. Success is now certain;
and success will help the Peoples party
all over the United States, by uniting
the membership in a great work of JUS
tice and generosity. Even those who
do not approve of all Mrs. Lease has
said and done in the past, perceive that
she is now the repre- sentative of a great
cause wounded in her person. She has
been rendered impoverished and home
less because she espoused the part of
the suffering common people; and it Is
the duty of the common people to stand
by her.
We are glad to note the S. contribu-
ton from Hon. Edward Evans, of Tom
AMANDA, N. Y, one OF the leading re-
formers of the United States and form
erly prominently identified with the
Prohibition party. We are proud OF his
assistance.
We are also much gratifed to receive
the contribution of $11 from W. H.
Jones, cold JONES'" they call him), of
Glendale, N. D.. and AZ other persons of
that city, The names appear on the
first column of this ISSUE Who will
follow Mr.. Jones example?
The Republican papers are growing
over the fact that the contributions have
been coming in slowly. They will sing
on the other side of their mouths be-
fore long.
We ask one Of our friends in each
township to start out with a subscription
paper and get all the contributions they
can. Let us see if we cannot finish I'D
the $4,000 by the time our great mid
winter convention meets I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

Each Of the Pullman twins, before their
fathers death. was engaged to marry the
daughter Of a wealthy family. Now, fol-
lowing the development of the fact that
they have been cut off in the will with a
small annuity each, comes the announce
ment Of the breaking Of both engagements.
The boys, with true manly spirit, offered
to release the girls, and the girls consented.
This suggests a disagreeable conclusion as
regards the girls Were they or their fam
lilies governed by sordid motives-Ex-
change.
If these girls had been poor-very
poor-there might be some excuse per-
haps for their refusing to face the wash
tub. But they were rich; and the young
men had $4,000 year each. An Ameri-
can citizen need not starve to death on
$4,000 year. We are inclined to think
that some Of our Minnesota farmers
have not that much per annum. And
yet they are raising up a magnificent
generation of boys and girls-mental and
physical athletes: with cheeks like roses
and eyes like stars. We can say of their
plain and substantial food what Robert
Burns said Of the Scotch haggis:"
For gallant men and handsome hizzies
Are bred on such a fare as this is"
Shame. shame. on the shoddy, new
rich. who have pocket book where
their hearts ought to be.
The accommodating tendency may CO.
exist with the meanest and nastiest
traits of the human animal. The 60
pher. that. by subterranean channels.
drags the greatest number of stolen po-
tatoes, in it's pouches. to its hole in the
ground. need not necessarily be the mob
lest and grandest gopher on the farm.
His opinion on question of statecraft
or morals may not be worth "shucks."
There are greater and better things
on this earth than money. But we are
all money-mad, and we are all going
to the devil together. l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
A TRUE FRIEND.

we were very much pleased to find in
last weeks issue that noble and gen.
erous letter from Hon. Geo. F. Wash
burn, OF Boston, Mass, Offering to give
IS for every $50 all the other Populists
OF this country would raise. for the
Lease Home fund. That is equal to 10
per cent OF the whole, or 5000 on
a fund of $4,000. This is splendid liber-
allty. We are proud to rank Mr.. Wash
burn among our old and honored friends.
We served together for four years, on
the national executive committee of the
Peoples Party, before a pair of small
potato, pecksniffian tricksters rooted us
out with their Intelligent shouts. They
thought that we were not made by God,
but by national convention; and that
II we were deprived of our committee
ship we would sink so deeply into the
blue mud of forgetfulness that an ar
tesian well-augur would never reach US.
The asses! We were advocating Popu-
list principles twenty years before the
Populist party was born; and hope to
advocate them twenty years after these
scamps have deserted them.
But Mr.. Washburn is a middle-of-the-
road Peoples Party man-warranted all
wool and three yards wide. He never
told us that it made no difference what
banner we marched under, and that we
might just as we'll call ourselves DEM
ocrats as Populists! Hand me basin!
D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24

party ought not to continue to live are
mad at us. They regard it as an i'm
pediment, perhaps to their individual
fortunes for US to take the course we
do.
When the members of the Irish parlia-
ment sold themselves out to the Eng
l1sh for money or place, and deprived
their country of self-government, pos
sibly forever, an indignant constituent
said to one of the members:
'You do not mean to tell me that you
ore ready to sell your country?"
eyes," was the reply, land thank God
that I have country to SELL"
There are men in our ranks today
who feel the same way. They are
ready to thank God that they have a
party to sell.
And, If any man tries to stop the sale
him they regard as a scoundrel Of the
darkest dye, and an enemy to all trade
and enterprise,-a marplot, a skalawag
Conscious Of this tempest of oppo-
sltion, which surrounds us, it is a great
pleasure to hear, through the uproar
the manly, CHEEKY voices from a hun
dred homes, telling us we are right, and
to go on in the good works; and that
the Peoples party was established to
make all mankind prosperous, not to
lift few sharpers into fat Offices.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24

a view to paying of the mortgage upon
Mrs. Leases Wichita hone; but to pur-
chase her new residence in such To-
cality as she might prefer.
Her disinclination to make her home
in the Seventh congressional district
must not stop the good work of securing
a home for Mrs. Lease. She is a noble
woman, and has performed an invalu-
able work for the Peoples party of the
United States.
We hope that at least one person in
each locality will take hold of the work
and act as our agent to solicit and re-
ceive subscriptions. The old party press
has called the attention of the whole
country to the attempt we have made
and Populists should not permit it to
fail. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
HELLO! WHA'S THE MATTERy

jim HILL IS OUT FOR STATE
BANKS. And the Pioneer-Press is
floundering on it's back in "conniption
fit
There are two things the P. P. holds
sacred: James ]. Hill and the natfOna!
banks, and now Mr.. Hill favors state
banks of issue, against national banks OF
issue, and the Pioneer Press is dis
trought. It's compass refuses to work.
1t is on a boundless sea and the north
pole is dancing all around the horizon
like a drunken aurora borealis.
And worse and worse, Mr.. Hill is re-
inforced by the N Y. Journal Of Com
merce, which takes the same position,
The Pioneer Press, with both hands
raised, in holy horror, says:
But here comes the conservative New
York Journal of Commerce with an article
taking the same position and advocating
the extension to state banks of the right
to issue bank notes. Its argument Is that
there are very substantial reasons for dis
trusting the ability and the readiness OF
the national banks to supply all the addi-
fill the vacuum caused by retiring govern
ment paper and that without the co-opera-
ton Of the state banks the reconstruction
of the currency would probably fail"
Observe, friend, that it is regarded as
a settled thing that the greenbacks are
to go. IF THEY DO NOT 1T WILL BE
BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES SEN
ATE IS NOT REPUBLICAN! Remem-
Der that, our Republican friends.
Greenbacks are infinitely better than
national bank notes or state bank notes.
II the amount of paper money in the
country is to be left to the national
banks the prosperity of the people is
then at the mercy of a small close cor
poration of bankers; and if it is to
their interest to contract the currency
they will most assuredly contract it. The
paper money Of the nation should be
issued by the nation; and it's amount
should be fixed by the people through
their representatives in congress.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
BULLY FOR THE GOVERNOR.

Gov. Leedy. OF Kansas, takes ad-
vantage Of the habit of issuing thanks
giving proclamations to jab the spear of
truth and the bowie-knife of sarcasm
into the Unreasonable, hireling liars.
Of the daily press, who have for years
been disappearing Kansas. He SAYS:
after seven years Of self denial our 1peo-
pie have SO reduced their enormous indebt-
edness that at last their liabilities bear A
reasonable ratio to their resources. The at
tacks upon this state, to which it has been
so long subject have been discontinued.
and the reputation Of Kansas is again "a
good as its character always has been
For these blessings let us return thanks
to the Great Author of the universe, who
watched over and guided our fathers when
they established on the Western prairies
the foundations Of our state. ,---
In the day Of our rejoicing let our peo-
plo not forget the poor and needy of the
great cities and Of foreign countries hut
send up our petition that the Giyer or ali
good things may enable them to be as self
reliant as self-supporting, and as self-re-
specting as are the citizens of His COM
mOnwealth in Kansas
That last whack at the wretched peo-
pie in the great cities of the land is
splendid. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
HARD AND SOFT MONEY.

when a citizen of Mexico wants to take
a foreign trip costing 800 he is obliged
to get together $3.50 in Mexican money,
every dollar of which he works as hard
for as an American citizen works for a
gold dollar. Consequently few Mexicans
except those of the very wealthy class take
foreign trips Minneapolis Tribune
The trouble is that it is easier for the
Mexican to secure the $3.50 in silver
than it is for the citizen of this country
to find the 500 in gold
Mexico is splendidly prosperous while
the United States is in the last stages
OF collapse. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
\ COLLAPSE.
Right In McKinley's Home.

Right In McKinley's Home.
Amid the multitudinous lying of Dun
and Bradstreet it is encouraging to get
one solid chunk of indisputable, con-
crete fact. Here we have it.:
DR.. T. p. Young, Of Canton, Ohio, writ
ing to tho Medical World. says that as a
result Of Mckinley prosperity, Our fac
tories are closed, people are idle, store
rooms and houses vacant, and many people
leaving the city. Five meat markets on one
street closed last month and Mother Nc
Kinleys Flats, that rented for $35 month,
are all standing idle, and even the saloon
in her sons the president's) building has
quit business. Collections are poor, the
worst they have ever en.'-Coming Ma
ton.
This perforates the humbug of the
advance agent of prosperity"
Stand firm, Populists, the sun of truth
is rising. 1. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24

and 1t was turned over to Fusionist guar
dians.-Minneapolis Tribune.
We do not desire to interfere in the
affairs Of our sister state, aud we may
not be thoroughly posted, but we have
known Hon. H. L. Loucks since long be-
fore the Peoples party was started in
1891; and we have always regarded him
as true man in every fibre of his beng:
and an earnest, Jealous, efficient friend
of reform.
1t is a calamity for justice and right
when such men are driven into corner:
displaced by men who were eleventh hour
converts. If the party is to win it must
stand by it's natural leaders. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
DIR FRIENDS.

Two Harbors, Mimi, Nov. 16, 1897.
Editor of Representative:
Enclosed find dollar to apply on my
subscription for next year. 1 could not
be without the Representative. There
is not a paper of it's size on the American
Long live the Sage of Nininger and may
God grant that his spirit enter into
some one of the coming generation to
help preserve free institutions in this
country. Yours very truly,
ANTON JOHNSON.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
SOUTH DAKOTA.

DIR. H. L. Loucks, the father Of the Popu-
list party in South Dakota. after exhaus-
lively reviewing the results Of the recent
election in that state, reaches the fcllowin:,
doleful conclusions:
The party is now slowly dying of dry rot.
The sooner the surgeon is called in the
better.
We have no doubt that DR.. Eoucks him.
self could be persuaded to come to the res
cue, and it must be confessed that his Off
spring has not enjoyed any great degree of
vigor since he was dismissed from its care
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
THANKS.

We are always very glad to get the
kind words of approval of our course
which appear, from time to time, in
the columns of this paper. When we
write for it We are four and a half
miles from anywhere, out in the coun-
try. We do not see the smiling faces Of
our friendly readers; we do not hear
the clapping of their hands and the
stamping of their feet. We do read,
however, the personal attacks of the
opposition papers.
All those who think the Peoples
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
sAsskrrTc.h

ter informed thaa-they. These leaders
are aware of this fact and the cOnse-
quent responsibility incident to leader
ship. In view of these facts I believe
Mr.. Gossman would concede that it was
harsh sentence that should impose
same blame as upon leaders who have
unwisely, if not corruptly, led their
party to ruin E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
WHO IS TO BLAME3

Crookston. Mimi, Nov. u. 1897.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly,
Editor Representative,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Dear Sir: Please find inclosed my check
for two dollars, subscription due for the
Representative The cause Of the Peoples
Party has suffered severe setback be-
cause Of fusion during the past year or
two: but 1 attribute the blame to no one
in particular. 1t seems that the great
masses of the party favored it, but now
too late see the mistake. The cause Of re-
form is not lost but only delayed.
1t appears too often in public print that
this one and that one are to blame for
the fusion, for the sacrifice Of principle to
temporary expediency. We should each
one shoulder the blame and reorganize our
forces by working together against the
common enemy.
Yours truly,
L. E. GOssMAN.
We believe that the sentiments ex-
pressed IN Mr.. Gossman's letter are In
the main correct. 1t would indeed seem
that In the battles before us and in the
great problems that confront us, every
true Populist might find use for his tall
ent and best energies. 1t most certain
ly is time that Populists reorganize and
shoulder to shoulder meet the peoples
enemies.
But right here we meet the most vital
questionable are the peoples enemies
Differences Of opinion arise before the
battle begins. In this issue of The Rem
resentative we publish the declaration
OF an avowed Populist that the new
Democracy is championing the peoples
cause. and that the Populists, like the
gold Democrats, have lost caste with the
our own ranks and seeking the suf-
frages of Populists declares that the
POpulists "are weak" and that in their
demands evidenced by the Omaha plat
form there is too much of the theoreti-
CAL" AS a leader in his dictrict he
counsels Populists to help Democrats
storm the governmental outworks, and
later in the name of Tammany and the
Democratic party. capture the Ameri-
can citadel.
Can Mr.. GOssman wonder that in the
presence of such counsel, here and there
rising above the disconnected masses
some patriotic Populist should cry out.
IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY
AND THE OPPRESSED AMERICAN
PEOPLE WE WILL FIGHT FOR Pop
ULISM?
The American people follow leaders
Flooding at their daily avocations thew
trust their political destiny in the hands
Of leaders whom they believe to be bet
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
WE'LL DONE.

The Representative, Boulder, Colo, is
justly proud of the splendid victory won
in their county and in the state in electing
a Populist to the supreme bench of the
state. 1t was done, too, with Senator Tell
err supporting the Republican nominee. Mr..
Towne threw his influence to Gabbert and
very largely assisted in his election.
Good! The Colorado papers are full
of praises of Mr. TOwne He seems to
have consistency and good sense.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24

Unwise venture.-Gummey-Did you hear OF
Blocks latest foolish scheme?
Gargoyle-What was it?
Gummey-He had heard that there was no
bicycle store in Venice. thought that was q
grand opening for business and shipped 100
wheels there. He Is on his way now to begin
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24

Jno. w. Arctander, attorney at law.
913 N. Y. Life Bldg, Minneapolis, MINI.
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