davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
GETTING READY FOR THE
me TIIABLE.

The Salt Lake Tribune predicts
that this country will witness "the
full restoration Of silver within the
next twelve months" Our Salt Lake
contemporary was an ardent sup
porte- - Rryan. but It has evidently
come to the conclusion that the real
interests Of silver, as we'll as every
other interest was better served by
the election of McKinley.-Minne-
apolis Tribune.
Observe that our contemporary does
not deny the statement OF the Salt
Lake paper, that the Republican party
will restore silver to its former posi-
tion within twelve months!
Where now is all the bowls about
''sound money!" There is sound"
enough about it now:-the sound Of
weeping and wailing and crashing Of
teeth.
AS the banks smash their influence
disappears. The people arc after the
officers Of the banks and are driving
them into the peniten tiary as fast as
they can get at them.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
STILL GROWING.

The new subscribes come rolling in,
despite the hard times. Mr.. Hamlin
V. Poore, Of Bird Island, Mimi. sends
us in a club; w. M. Smith, OF Madl-
son Lake. Mimi, ditto;- +. B. Ryan, Of
French, Iowa, ditto; S. X. Lewis, Of
Usage, Mimi, ditto; w. S. Brown, Of
Deerfield, Ind, ditto; F. Ford, Of
Dundas, Mimi, ditto; j. Gallagher, Of
Danvers, Mimi, ditto: while great
number of earnest friends send US in
single subscribers, among these were
Robert Daily, Minneapolis, j. c.
Dickey, Pine Island, Mimi; D. L..
Olson, Princeton, Mimi, G. H. Rob.
erts, Hebron, n. D., etc. Among the
states represented during the week
were Ohio, Kansas, North Dakota,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan. Mon
tana, Georgia, New York, Iowa, Penn
sylvania, Arkansas. etc.
The best way to build up the PeO-
Plies Party is to see that good Popu-
list paper Is put into the hands OF
every intelligent, thinking man in
your neighborhOOd.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

issues Of the hour. It is fight for
life and liberty and civilization. We
demand not foreign loans b,a domestic
prosperity.
Every man who sustains your plum
aerers. and helps to pauperize you, is
your mortal enemy. beside whom the
hungry foot-pad becomes respectable.
All get together, as the buffaloes
used to do when the wolves attacked
them, their heads in the center and
their heels to the enemy.
Are the American people capa Bile of
such self-defence? Upon the solution
OF that question depends the issue,
whether the Republic shall live or
die.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

out Of the country as have moved
into it. immigration flows toward.
prosperity and away from poverty
That is universal law.
Mr.. Hill is right in one respect
This country is not yet filled up. All
the people in the United States today
could be put into Texas, and Texas be
no more densely populated than
Massachusetts, is now!
Give US plenty of money and there is
ample room In the United States fol-
five times the population it now con.
tains.
The money-Question,- NOT the free
silver question alone.-lies at the
base of the worlds peace, growth and
prosperity.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
Don't Burn the Bridge That Car
ried You Safe Oyer"

Is good motto, and should ever be
rcligiously observed. "Stand by Your
Friends" is another one, and so is 'Be
Eyer Grateful for Favors Received"
and all these sentiments means the
same as Stand by the business estab.
lishment that introduced into the
Northwest the system OF supplying
goods to consumers at wholesale
prices, or less" Aud this refers to
that great Supply House whose adver-
tisement appears on the third page OF
this number. The r. NJ. Raberts Sup.
ply House recognizes how necessary it
is for farmers to buy supplies at the
lowest possible prices, and its entire
system of business is based upon and.
managed In accord with that sent
ment. This accounts for the emo
nous trade of the house; this is VIII
it Is "safc bridge" that shou
neither be burned nor spoken ill
Do not leave such bridge to wei
through the deep waters OF mi
prices. 1t is both easier and cheap
to stick to the bridge.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
WORSE AND WORSE.
FIVE BANKS FAIL-IN ST. PAUL
IN ONE DAY.
"COnficence" Does Not Seem to Be
Restored.

We have only time and space to
note that on Monday last five banks
failed in st. Paul. The Allermania
and the Germania were large institu-
tions; the others were smaller affairs:
One in St. Paul. one in West St.
Paul and one at Merriam Park. We
hear Of many friends who have lost
hundreds and thousands of dollars.
worthy who trusted these institu-
tionS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

The Penny Press states that Sena-
tor Morgan, OF Minneapolis. who sup
Purtad Rryan and Frce-Silyer, Will CO.
operate, during the coming session OF
the Legislature. with his old-time
friends, the Republicans. But Sena-
tor Howard will stand with the Free
Silver men. Good.
Moral: Don't break up the People
Party to please the new converts.
They may not back.slide and then
again they may. "White man is
mighty onsartin." But the old guard
JUu can swear by. They will ncituer
die nor surrender.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
PIE w

1t turns out that the constitutional
amendme mt, DISTINGUISHING all those
who had not taken their second pa
pcrs, was merely scheme, started by
some of the county clerks, to fleece the
poor devils Of two dollars each, in
these hard times. 1t will probably
take 100000 out Of the pockets of the
voters. And the joke Of it is they
voted for it themselves.
Great is Republican reform.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

bull-dozing thematA ITO nominating the
Democratic cand qzte for president.
II he and a doze)amore like him had
stayed away, Mr.. sB-yan would be, to-
day, president Of the United States
elected by the joint electoral votes Of
the Democrats and Populists; and the
Peoples Party would be at the top of
the hean.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
GOOD.

We are glad to hear that Mai. Bowl
er disowns all connection with the
Lynchites. He says his name was
Struggled into that call for an adverse
meeting to the Alliance on the 5th
inst. We are glad to hear this. Mai.
Bowler is too good man to be identi-
fled with lot OF marplOts,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
MADE 4 MISTAKE.

Senator Stewart, after sinking $29,-
900 in free silver paper, has asked
that receiver be named for it. 1t
took only six months to demonstrate
to the senator's entire satisfaction
that free silver paper is not GOLD
mine.--Chicago Times-Herald.
We are sorry for the Senator S
losses. He is anable man; and yet we
cannot but feel that he did great
harm by coming to the Peoples Part,
National Convention at St. Louis, and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
PERSONAL.

We have received a very pleasant
call from Hon. Fl. E. Boon, ex-M. c..
and now editor Of the Fergus Falls,
MINI. Globe" We were glad to see
him. Mr.. Boon Is one Of the longest
headed, wisest and most tactical
Populists in the state. He made an
excellent member OF Congress-, and is
still doing noble work for Peoples
Party PRINCIPLES. Call again.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
SPECIAL NOTICE.

No person has any right to incur or
create any obligation. binding on "The
Representative" Publishing Company. or
make any contract In its name, unless the
same is specifically assented to and ap-
proved of. in writing. by the President
Of the said Representative" Publishing
Company. IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
President.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

the Money-power is more destructive
to life, liberty and prosperity than the
fiercest war that ever was fought on
Gods green earth. He'll would be a
pleasant summer resort compared to
a world ruled by cruel. unreasoning.
unintellectual greed!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

And now they have formed an oat-
meal trust. Why don't the farmers
get up milk trust? There is sugar
trust and an oatmeal trust; and oat-
meal, sugar and milk 60 naturally to-
gether. Bring on your milk trust.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

Roswell G. Horr is dead-General
Sickles is very sick and Gen. Palmer
is threatened with death from pneu-
mOnia. The result in each case was due
to their great laborS to elect McKin-
ley and give the country prosperity!
This world is not good enough for
such DhilanthropiSts.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

The Illinois Steel Company proposes
to cut wages from ten to fifty per
cent! Really, that Advance Agent
OF Prosperity will have to hump him
self. or the country will go to the
devil before he can be inauguratod,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

Read the Fergus Falls Globe. 1t is
1ull Of interesting gossip and preg-
nant facts. ii. T.. Boon is one of the
''live" men Of the Peoples Party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06
FITS STOPPED FREE AND PIG
MANENTLY CURED.

No fits after the first days use
DR.. Kline's Great Nerve Restore
Free - trial bottle and treatise So
by DR.. Kline 931 Arch ST., Phiiad'
phia, Pa.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

Mr.. V. d. Nixon, has kindly con.
sented to act as our agent at EyOta,
MINI
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

Take hold and push both these petit
tions, and in this way you may do
some thing to relieve the present
deadly distress.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-01-06

THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL SUPPLANT-
ING THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
We have received the following let
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

twenty-nine, to make three hun
dred and sixty-five days, and thirty
in leap year. After a few days
there would be no need to refer to
calendars, as the same day OF the
week would have the same date
through the year. The changes OF
the moon would be on about the
same date through the year, and
many calculations like interest,
dates of maturing notes, and many
other important dates, would be
simplifed. Although the present
generation would have to figure
new dates, for birthdays, and all
legal holidays, except New Year,
would be on different dates yet
the gain would be more than the
loss, as that would be permanent,
and the objections trifing. The
proposed change certainly has the
merit of novelty, and it is just to
say that the arguments in favor of
the metric system on the ground
of utility apply with considerable
force in the present case. We
fear, however, that the objections
on the ground of sentiment, which
are strong in the matter of weights
and measures, would be even
stronger against the proposed re-
vision of our methods of comput-
ing time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
BEST LINE
ST. PAUL
AND
MINNEAPOLIS
TO
ST. / oUIs.

iching distance OF 125 miles in five
days. Neil is an enthusiastic talker
and worker in the interests Of good
roads, and no one here is better
qualified to speak Of the matter, as he
is personally acquainted with the
whole country and knows just where
the roads should be laid out. He is
no advocate of make-shift winter
roads, and believes no money or work
should be fooled away on them, but
instead should be devoted solely to
building wagon roads that can be used
every day in the year. He says a good
wagon road can easily and cheaply be
built from Grand Rapids and Hibbing
to Koochiching, with short branch
to this place, and that the growing
needs aud Importance Of the country
demand such road, and he is right.
He says Representative Gum will
make a strong effort this winter to
secure legislation establishing the
present state road from Aitkin. to
Grand Rapids clear through Itasca
county to Koochiching, and believes
he will succeed in his endeavor. A
good wagon road is surely needed
from here to civilization one that
will be available every day in the
year, in summer as we'll as winter.
Our dependence on irregular steam
beats in, summer, and ice roads in
mid-winter, with al utter blockade
for two months or more each and
every fall and spring. is altogether
out of the question for the present
and growing interests of all kinds up
here. We want and must have Il
wagon road whether we get railroad
or not. and the sooner energetic and
concerted action is taken in the
matter, the sooner will we have the
road. Such a road would draw immi
grafton, and there would soon be
hundreds of settlers for our agricul-
iurai lands, where now only dozens or
less arrive to take advantage of them.
The latest excitement out west is
ut Randsburg. Kern Co., California,
in the Mohave desert, where. they
have recently struck a new free-mill-
ing district, a small one only about
6 miles square, and they are rushing
there by the hundreds. Think Of it!
only a little belt about as big as that
of the protOgene formation about
Mine Centre, while here we have 500
miles square, all gold bearing forma-
ton. And mind you, wood there
costs S14 cord, water cent gallon,
and haul ityourseff four miles! Quite
a contrast with our rich ores, free
water and wood at only $3.50 per cord
on the ground in the Rainy lake gold
fields. Under such circumstances
will we boom? Well, you just watch
our smoke from now on!-Rainy Lake
Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
THIRTEEN MONTHS A YEAR.

1t has been suggested that on
the first of January, 1900, a new
division of the year into thirteen
months be instituted, 1t is claim
ed that this is not SO preposterous
as most people would be likely to
consider it at the first thought.
IF such a division were made the
irst twelve months would have
just twenty-eight days, or four
weeks each, and the new month
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
THE OUTLOOK.
No Bessemer Ore Agreement for 1897 Yet
In Sight
ing time

In Sight
In the absence of any action about
ore prices Or ore output in 1897, or any
likelihood of such action for some
weeks to come, and with conditions
such that very few sales of dock ore
are to be expected this winter, the
relation of current movements in pig
iron and steel to the primary interest
is the uppermost subject from an ore
standpoint. 1t is recognized that one
interest in the iron trade will not be
allowed to enjoy exceptional advant-
ages, and that competitors may be
depended upon to find ways of approx
imating, at least, the low costs recent
ly talked about. A steel works, for
example, with a mining connection
on the Marquette or Menominee
range. would be able under it's lower
lake and rail freights, to get "a price,
on dock at Lake Erie, as cheap as
that of the average Mesabi ore
delivered there. And when the ore
rate over the new "Bessemer" road to
Homestead is officially published, as
it will be. under the Interstate Com
merce act, other lines will know just
what they will have to meet in order
to put their furnacemen customers in
shape to compete. AS to the probab-
ility OF a Bessemer ore agreement in
1897, the situation is far from clear.
Should there be one, it will doubtless
differ in number of particulars from
that of 1896
A feeling of uncertainty as to the
basis of values in the first half 1897
dominates the iron trade today More
or less uneasiness is evident, growing
out of the general belief that pro-
ducers who expect to get their
accustomed share of business must be
prepared To come close to the pace
that is to be set by the leading
interest at Pittsburg. The problem
is the attainment of BesSemer ore
mixture that shall approximate the
new Duquesne standard of FIVE cents
unit, and ways of safely increasing
the percentage of Mesabi ores will be
studied in new earnest. The Pitts
burg market especially has shown the
symptoms that attend transition
periods. Prices are unsettled and
there is more than the usual variation
between the highest and lowest.
While buyers talk OF $40 iron at
valley furnace, and, one exceptionally
low sale is reported, it does not APP
pear that in other cases furnaces are
quoting below $10.50, valley. Yet
reports of transactions even below the
$40 mark are persistent. tbs difficult
to tell how much of the weakness is
due to the necessity of realizing on
accumulated iron, how much to the
uneasiness of middlemen caused by
the usual holiday weakness and the
contagion of low-cost talk, and how
much to the fact that furnacemen are
getting in shape to make cheaper iron
if it must come. 1t need not be ex-
pected that the selling of iron below
cost will keep up long, especially in
view Of the widespread belief that
1897 will bring trade revival. Iron
Trade Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
Damage Suits.

Two complaints in personal injury
suits on the January calendar in dis
trict court have been filed. John
Jenswold, Jr., is the attorney in each
case. The largest one is that of Isaac
Hill against Winston Bros. Hill
alleges that in November, 1895, he
was working as common laborex on
the stripping of the Iron King mine
at Virginia. He was put at work
shoveling under large section of dirt
which had been previously loosened,
and while he was working it caved in
on him, breaking his leg and crushing
his foot. The amputation of his leg
just below his knee was necessary,
and he wants 100000 as compensation
for the loss of that member.
Charles Davis sues the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern railway for $40, ITO.
He alleges that while he was unload
ing ore from cars on the company's
dock a crank on some hosting appar-
atus got away and broke his arm.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
From RAINY Lake

Neil Mclean. Of Koochiching, was
welcome caller on the Journal last
week. He was not lost, strayed or
stolen during the late cold snap, and
walked from Grand Rapids to Kooch-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

A New YORK History sky
scraper, the Syndicate building,
was sold yesterday for $685.
291.5S. On a deal of that size
they ought to have knocked off
the 58c.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

JOHN LIND, the free silver can
didate for governor, has for the
steenth time announced that he
will not contest the election of
Gov. Clough. He undoubtedly
wishes to impress it on the minds
of the dear public.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

A YOUNG couple who eloped
from Minneapolis have stranded
at Winona. They have no money
and say they will live on love.
Nice, cheap living but not very
fattening.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

No one appeared at the meeting
called to consider the project OF club
dances for the winter and In con-
sequence the prampters are OF the
opinion that a club is no crying
necessity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

THIRTY -FOUR railroads and 5,4OO
miles of track went into the hands
of receivers in 1896, the largest
number of roads ever becoming
insolvent in that way since rail
reading first began.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to
be in state of jollifcation over
the near approach of his retire
ment to private life. Funny, isn't
it, but the people are in the same
hilarious state, too, over the event.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13

CHICAGO aldermen have passed
an ordinance against ladies wear
ing the high hat in the theaters.
Theater managers who allow it are
to be fined. The man who has
been paying a dollar to get good
view of the millinery is beginning
to get his desserts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-13
Subscription So per Year.

WE have sent out about $4,000
worth of subscription accounts
during the week and confidently
expect to receive returns for the
same-enough at least to pay for
the postage stamps used in send
ing them out. We do not send
these statements for fun, but be-
cause we must have money to run
our business, eat with and pay
debts which we honestly owe and
for which our creditors are hold
ing us responsible. Kindly give
this matter your earliest attention.
It is small amount to you, but
to us it means a great deal. OF
course. we will receive a number
of answers which read something
like this:
Mr.. EDITOR: This is to inform
you that | received your bill for
subscription, l do not read your
paper and although | have been
receiving it for year and a half,
feel as if l should be excused
from paying for it.
This is all very well, but it will
not buy stockings for the babies,
or pay off chattle mortgages. A
man who receives q paper for q
year and half and when the pub
Usher asks him for money, says he
don't want it, must be short on
matter which goes to make up a
good reader and the sooner he
notifies the publisher that he don't
want it, the better it will be for
the publisher. But, one thing we
will particularly request. Do not
ask the postmaster to return it
marked Refused. Send in your
refusal Yourself.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-08

that goes in the lntest waters OF the
Mississippi. When floods come IL rises
on the waters. like oahs Ark. and sell
party. A wen stocku library is esrt OF
the equipment of ii ark and evening
around the lamp ,S>ssneral literary time is
enjoyed. SeveraFof the company that live
in the ark dqfring the late Mississippi
aood were Ch4utauquans and there was
much class reading" done and class work
carried out, for you can't restrain Chau-
tauquan.
1t Is hard to come down to facts aud
figures about Households. AT New Ro-
chelle there is a man who solemnly de-
clares that he lives in a house-boat all the
year around. That is as it may be. You
can believe it or not. But though 1t is only
August he has taken. his boat out OF the
water and is living in H. 1t is drawn high
and dry upon the beach. and there are
steps erected up 10 the deck or piazza.
Next spring he says he will float her
again. This boat and cottage combined
cost 1880. But il you are eontented with
something for the water only. you can
be suited for, say $500. II you get eight
friends TO chip in with you, your boat
costs less per capita. The Wall street
brokers boat was much cheaper.
The brightest paint, the freshest paint
Is always 10 be seen upon the Households.
They get their new coat every spring.
That is usually white with green blinds.
10 look as much like a country cottage as
possible. House-boating is grand fun. and
81 you get chance TO indulge in il. you
win enjoy 1t to the very utmost II you
wish to ill your cup OF delight until Il is
surfeited. just order the house-boat car
ried off TO the fishing banks: and night
and day keep your line hanging over thu
side, ready for the nibble OF the FISH.
CLARENCE S. RUSSELL