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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
"a SILVER SKIN"

Kansas paper says that the celebrated
Montana silver statue of Ada Rehan. that
was one of the features of the Worlds fair
is not silver at ali, but only lead with sill
yer skin. 1t was supposed to have been
worth $4,000. but Chicago firm which
holds it for debt, cannot find buyers at
$1,000.
In 1896 the Democrats of Minnesota
had "silver skin" like the statue of
Ada Rehan. In 1896 they shed it and
made their fight on local issues" But
the people found out that they were plu-
tocratic lead inside; and the decrease in
in value of the bogus silver statue Of
the third-rate play actress. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Watering, Feeding and Grooming the
Horses.

In watering, as in feeding horses,
man must study the individuality of his
animal With few exceptions, in my
opinion, says writer on farming,
horse should have water in sufficient
quantities to satisfy his thirst whenever
he is thirsty.
Theoretically speaking, horse should
first be given drink then nay, and lastly
oats. The capacity Of his stomach is
limited, and if fed on oats, then hay, and
then watered, some of the oats may be
forced out of the stomach Especially if
he is heavy FEEDER. before they have
been sufficiently acted upon by the Giges-
tive juices, and consequently will pass
off in the faces only partly digested.
A horse should always be given a drink
before a meal. 1t requires little train
ing to get him to drink before breakfast,
especially in cold weather. but in such
weather he is not liable to drink much
even after his meals. In all cases. ex
cept when he has been a long time with
out water, and is very warm, he should
be allowed to have all he will drink be-
fore the midday and evening meals. and
also a drink after ne has finished his
meal Where it is at Gil possible he
should have water between his meals.
especially in warm weather.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
FLINDERS.

We printed a letter last week from
that grand old reformer. r. M. Probst-
field, of Moorhead, but the compositor
made it r. w. Prcbstfield''
We also wrote of Austin. the ex-
chairman of the 18th of June conven-
ton:
Every Populist should have picture
of his lignum vitae thimble-rigging coun-
tenance, as it appeared when he rode
rough-shod over right and decency."
And again the intelligent compositor
got in his admirable work. He changed
"countenance" to "contrivance," which,
of course, greatly improved the sense of
the sentence!
Civilization ought to be suspended
long enough to let us hang few COM
positors and proOf-readers. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Stick to the Farm,

There seems to be great inclination
to leave the farms and drift into the
cities and towns. This is especially so
when times are prosperous and business
on the increase. The cities are largely
recruited from the farms, but many who
leave the farms and go into the city or
town to engage in business make failures
OF their business ventures. Mercantile
statistics show that only about five men
out of every 100 who engage in business
make success and that he other IS
fail That is. only one in every 20 sue
ceeds, while 10 fail. If man vas very
sick and knew that he had only one
chance in 20 to get well he would he
greatly discouraged. If men desired to
cross stream where they knew that -
out of every 20 who undertook it were
sure to be drowned, they would be very
likely to stay on the other side and not
take such hazardous chances. And vet
that is just the chance the men are TAX
ing who leave the farm and go into town
to engage in business. Farmers who are
fairly we'll situated should stick to the
farm. Farming is their trade and bust
ness. And it is far better to make even
a moderate success in the business which
you understand than to take the chances
of making complete failure in some
other business where there is SO much
uncertainty as to what the result will
be. We admit that the farmers life is
sometimes prOsy, and that there is a
seeming fascination in regard to living
in town and being in business And there
is often great inclination towards
making a change and engaging IN some
thing else. But many farmer who has
left the farm to go into other business
has been obliged to go back to farming
in a much poorer condition than when
he left It, Stick to the farm and the
farm will stick to you.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
THEY ARE NOT BANKERS
Merchants Who Accept Deposits and
Cash Grain Tickets Do Not Come
Under the Revenue Tax Law.
Especial to The Tribune.)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov 23-Acting
Commissioner of Inte.nu Revenue Wilson
today rendered important decision as to
liability Of many merchants Of Minnesota
who accept deposits from grain buyers
with which to pay farmers and warehouse
men for wheat and other produce.
In letter to Collector Won Bombach Of
st. Paul Gen. Wilson says:
Your letter of 9Th received regarding H.
ability bankers of certain merchants
who were accepting deposits of money
from grain buyers with which to cash tick
cts for grain when presented, thus accept
ing money subject to check. If deposits
are received from these grain buyers and
not from the general public and the mer-
chants do not hold themselves out as bank
ers you are advised that in opinion of this
Office such transactions are not sufficient to
involve said merchants in the special tax
liza bility as bankers within the meaning of
the first paragraph of section . OF the act
Of June Il. $685.
Postoffice Inspector J. d. Wood has been
ordered by the department to report from
Helena to st. Paul.
Congressman Frank NJ. Eddy arrived late
this afternoon in time to enjoy Thanksgiv-
ng festivities with his family.
G. V. Quilard was appointed postma ster
at Lakeview, st. Louis county.
Ex-Congressman Picker has secured the
apo. ntment of Edward Johnson postmaster
1T Delmage Lake county and JuTgen Duyx
1t Neeven, Charles Mix county, South
Dakota.
Harry Dewallace left for home today. He
has been before the patent office for past 10
days in prosecution of an Interference with
his device for train order signal Of which
he is sole inventor. A certain railroad
company in the Northwest is fighting De-
Wallace but it was shown on hearing that
he ideas and mechanical construction
we're original with the st. Paul inventor.
JOHNSON.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
ANOTHER GONE.

We are very sorry to chronicle the
death of Hon. Asa Barton, at his home
in Morristown, Rice county, Minnesota,
on Nov. 6.
Capt. Barton had played a very promi
nent and honorable part in the affairs of
the state. In 1873, as the candidate of
the Autobiography party he ran for
governor against Hon. c. K Davis, and
came within 5000 votes of carrying the
state. He was a genial kind-hearted,
able man, and representative of the
old school of American gentlemen and
statesmen, as they existed before the
money power got in it's perfect work.
d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
TROOPSFORCUBA
FIRST OF THE GENERAL ORDERS ON
OCCUPATION IS ISSUED.
Part of the Second Army Corps VIII
Move to Mariel, Early in
December.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-The war de-
partment today issued the first Of the gen.
eral orders looking to the occupation of the
central and western provinces OF Cuba by
the United States troops. The order con-
templates the early beginning of the move
ment, as the Spanish troops are expected
to have progressed with the evacuation
movement early in December. The order is
dated November % and Is as follows:
Commanding General Second Army
Corps, Augusta, Ca: With the approval Of
the secretary Of war the First brigade,
Third division of your CORPS will proceed
fully equipped for field service and take
station in Cuba follows: Headquarters
and one regiment OF infantry at Pinar Del
Rio; one regiment Of infantry at Mariel,
and one regiment Of Infantry at Guanajay.
The troops will embark at Savannah, and
the movements will be SO regulated that
no regiment will reach Savannah more than
twenty-fOur hours prior to SAILING.
THE regiment for Mariel should land at
that point The other two should land at
Havana and proceed to destination by rail-
1t is not necessary that the entire brigade
leave at the same time, but regiments may
move in succession as transports can be
provided. The evacuation Of Pinar Del Rio
by the Spanish will be completed by De-
CemOec 5 ana the troops ABOVE OcSlSudtcu
should reach destinations by December l
earlier.
THE brigade will take as much of its
wagon transportation as is possible and
camp and garrison cquipage, including tent
floors.
THE quartermaster's department Will pro-
vide the necessary transportation and thirty
days forage for animals: the subsistence
department make provision for thirty days
suitable rations and the medical department
provide proper medical attendance and
stores
Acknowledge receipt and direct that
commanding general of brigade report to
the adjutent general of army hours of de-
parture Of each regiment and upon arrival
at destination report direct to the adjutant
general of the army for duty.
by command Of Major General Miles.
III. c. CORBIN, Adjutant General.
This brigade is commanded by Brig. Gen
William c. Oates and consists of the 18th
Pennsylvania, 3rd New Jersey and 1O2d New
York regiments They are now all at
Athens Ga, having recently arrived at that
place from Camp Meade, Pennsylvania
Mariel is the seaport Of Pinal del Rio the
province on the north side. 1t lies about
thirty miles west of Havana and lying in
land fifteen miles is Guanajay, the nearest
point to the railroad line running from
Havana to the city of Pinar del Rio, the
capital of the province of the same name.
which is about 12O miles west of Havana
and is to be the headquarters Of the Amer
lean army of occupation in the province
The railroad can be reached from Guiana jay
by a short march.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
OUR FUTURE BANQUET.

The Chicago Times-Herald, President
forth, Nov II, what results are to follow
the sweeping Republican victory of
Nov. 8:
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
In view of the success of the sound money
issue it will become the presidents duty, as
it will undoubtedly be his pleasure, to sum-
mon the new congress 10 assemble early
in March, so that the pressing work of
form may be entered upon while the voice
of the people still resounds in the of
congressman.
To wait for the regular session of con-
greSs in December would be to subject the
particular issue just voted upon to all the
chances of new and more exciting subjects
that may come up in the meantime.
The people have demanded at the hands
of the new congress a measure OF currency
and banking reform. and the administration
will see to it that opportunity is given for
congress to perform it's duty.
Nothing is more imperative than that the
country should be relieved from further
uncertainty concerning it's financial stand
ard. The mouths of the whole brood of
agitators of the silver question should be
closed effectually by the enactment OF
law that will give rest to the agitation. The
irresponsible mendacity and misrepresenta-
ton of such men as Coin Harvey, and
Altgeld and Stewart, and Bryan, should be
ended by a law acceptable to the people
and the money question removed from poll
tics forever.
What the busin 1ss community ask is.
first, the urquestiOnabe establishment of
the gold standard; second, the retirement Of
the greenbacks and relief of the United
States treasury from obligations to sup
ply gold for export or other merchantile
purpose; and, third, the reform of our bank
ing system SO that it may conform to mod
ern and rational methods of finance.
The sooner congress can apply itself to
this work the better it will be for the bust
ness interests of the whole country.
This is the feast that we are to sit at:
l. The crushing out of silver.
g. The destruction of the greenbacks.
8. The banks to have the exclusive
right to furnish the money of the coun
try, so that there shall not be dollar in
circulation that does not pay interest to
some money-lender.
And all this means the reduction of the
American people to European conditions.
By 1900 the Populist party will be at
the front of affairs, and leading the peo-
pie to reform and victory.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Left Alone.

It's the lOnesOmest house you ever saw,
This big gray house where l stay
1 don't call it living at all, at. all
Since my mother went away.
Four long weeks ago. and it seems a year,
Gone home" so the preacher said.
An | ache in my breast with wanting her,
An my eyes IS always red
1 stay out doors till I'm almost froze,
Cause every corner and room
Seems empty enough to brighten boy,
An filled to the doors with gloom.
I hate them to call me in to my meals,
Sometimes l think l can't bear
To swallow mouthful of anything,
An her not sittin' up there
A-pourin' the tea, an passin' the things,
An laughing to see me take
Two big humps of sugar instead of one,
An more than my share of cake
I'm too big to be kissed, I used to say,
But somehow | don't feel right,
Crawling into bed as still as a mouse
Nobody saying goodnight
An tucking the clothes up under my chin,
An pushing my hair back so;
Things a boy makes fun of before his
chumS,
But things he likes, you know.
There's one to go to when things go
wrong
She was always so safe and sure.
Why not a trouble could tackle a boy
That she couldn't up an cure.
There are lots of women, it seems to me,
That wouldn't be missed so much
Women whose boys are about all grown up
An old maid aunties an such.
I can't make it out for the life of me
Why she should have to go
An her boy left here in this old gray house,
A-needing of her so.
1 tell you the very lonesomest thing
In this great big world today
Is big boy of ten whose heart is broke
Cause his mother is gone away.
jean BleWett in Toronto Globe
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
4 GREAT CHANGE,

1t is wonderful to note the change in
the tone of the Populist papers that SUD-
ported fusion. since the election. The
poor devils before that time scarcely
dared to say their Aouls were their own.
All around them were the clamorous
office-seekers of the Owen Bowler stripe.
and they insisted that the editors must
go slow on this that and the other
question. 1t would not do to say a
word against Democracy, for they had
married that venerable fraud. 1t would
not pay to preach free silver, for they
expected the votes of the gold bugs.
And so the life and the spirit were
taken out of the poor wretches. and they
sucked their thumbs all through the
contest
But the incubus is lifted, and they are
again POpulists. Last weeks Omaha
n-Conformist says:
1t doesn't look as if the fool Democrats
would ever learn any sense In most of
the northern states they practically Ignored
the silver question, confined their cam
paign to local issues and lost nearly every
state In the south they made the fight
almost entirely on the silver question. and
carried every state but one by largely in
creased majorities. Silver isn't dead. but
the cowardly Democrats are almost dead
and are entirely damned
And again the same paper says:
IN FioW of the recent events in these
parts the predicament Of silver Republicans
is not an enviable one. They are martyrs
To blind faith and now that their horo-
hold
slightest trace of prospective office, it is
reasonable to conclude that they may soon
be led to see their error of their ways, re-
pent and be saved.-Omaha Bee.
Toe average Republican cannot conceive
of anyone taking a stand in politics except
t. get an office. The word honest has been
exprnged from his political dictionary. If
the free silver Republicans had spasm Of
political honesty, only to get an office. few
tears will be shed over their d!sappoint-
ment, but We do not believe the charge.
We do not expect them to go back to the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Boycott the Gold Press,

Our deliberate advice to our friends is
to boycott persistently the gold-bug press.
We are met sometimes by the claim that
we must read both sides or we can't be
thoroughly informed. There is truth in
that statement, but there is policy and poll
tics in boycotting the gold press
How many of your Republican neighbors
subscribe for a Popuist paper?
None.
How many of your Populist neighbors
subscribe for Republican paper?
Nearly all of Them
And some of them say they are ''con-
verted'-do not need a Populist paper and
spend all their money on Republican papers.
What would you have said if word had
come back that the Nebraska boys al Manila
had thrown their loaded cartridge belts to
the Spaniards in the heat of battle?
The Populfst does just that thing when
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23


words in capitals, and SO took the soul
out of the sentence.
1t is the most extraordinary thing in
the world that if anything is left out, it
is always the most important part.
God bless the intelligent compositor,
and his brother, the intelligent proof
reader, and take them both to heaven
on swift-runnfng bicycle. They are
too good and useful for this world
The murder of the innocents, by
Herod, was nothing to the way that
good thoughts are slaughtered in the
printing offices of this country. It is
enough to make one believe in the de-
moniac control of human brains.
ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23

he pays for gold-bug papers and does not
support his own.
Would have you go without news of Re-
publican arguments?
By no means.
But you can get their best arguments
and able replies to them in your own press
Then if you thirst for more, we suggest that
you induce Republican neighbors to sub
scribe for the Nonconformist, and load your
party gun before you subscribe for Re-
publican paper, and so load his party gun
and fill his party commissary train.
Stand by your own guns
It is party treason to neglect this and at
the same time give financial aid to the
enemy.-The Nonconformist.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Tourist Rates south.

The Monon Route are now selling tick
cts to Florida, Cuba and all Southern
winter resorts, good until May 81. Also
homeseekers' tickets to points in Ten
nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana, at very low rates. For map
folders, rates and other information, call
or address L. E. Sessions, N. w. Passen-
ger Agent, 40S Northwestern building
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
The Smith Grubbers

Are considered to be the best in the mar
ket. We have one of these machines
which will be sold and shipped direc
from factory for very low price, as W
need the money. This is golden chanc
for any one of our friends who need
a grubber, and II that means you, don
let it pass by. Address
THE REPRESENTATIVES,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
HE MAKES A SLIP.

In 1896 word went out to. the nation
from Chicago that the Democratic con-
vention had adopted the Populist plat
form. The Populist press quickly denied
this and Immediately following came the
declaration from the old party press that
the Democrats had adopted the Populists
money plank.
This last declaration was in fact al
most equally untrue. but during the ex-
element of the 1896 campaign the Popu-
list press to some extent permitted this
declaration to go unchallengCd and
joined the Democrats in the fight for
bimetallism. 1t is time that our party
at every opportunity challenge the po-
sition of the Democratic party on the
money question. Populists never believed
in or advocated bimetallism except as
an escape from mono-metallism.
Bimetalism was tolerated by us only
as the lesser Of two evils In our present
monetary system Populists have regard
ed private control of the volume of the
currency by National or other private
banks as the first and greatest evil.
Democrats favor private state banks
With Populists mono metallism stands
as the second great evil in our present
system and bimetallism as the third evil.
Scientific paper money, irredeemable,
based on the credit and wealth of the
nation, issued and it's volume controlled
by the nation without the Intervention
CT private banks is the Populists' ideal
money ana. in our opinion, would at once
dispose of al! the perplexing questions of
intrinsic value, coin redemption govern
ment and bank reserves, tiuctuating
measures of value and robbery of decctor
by creditor classes and to a large extent
the question of usury. In last issue of
teresting letter from ex-Gov. Waite, a
staunch POpulist, who seems to have
been careless in the use of language and
subjected himself to the sharp criticism
of another perhaps equally prominent
reformer, Mrs Marion Todd, who COM
ments on his rather inadvertant admis
sions in the following pointed manner:
Editor Representatives: In your last David
II. Waite, in referring to the Chicago plat
form of 1896. says:
After adopting in substance the financial
plank of the Omaha PLATFORM, etc. | have
been trying to discover what part was adopt
ed. The Chicago platform declares in favor
Of a coin basis The Omaha platform repu-
dates coin basis. 1t is the substance OF its
money plank. Nothing very similar in this
'Tis true both declared in favor of free sill
Yer, but this is no part of its substance. 1t
is nOn-fundamental.
Time, however. has proven as great dl-
vergence upon this point since one was evil
IDENTIFY made to deceive while the other was
not. Would Mr.. Waite please inform us
wherein any part of the Substance Of
the Omaha money plank was adopted by
Democracy in 80? The Cincinnati confer
ence may save the Populist party. If not it
is gone.
Sincerely,
MRS.) MARION TODD.
Sprngport. Mich, Nov. y, 1898.
Mrs. Todd discriminates and considers
the whole money question from Popu-
listic point of view. Democrats have
considered only small factor in the
problem. +. A. L.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
MUTUAL.

There is great rejoicing in North Da
kota The Republicans have cut loose from
the Norwegians and claim they can go it
alone. The Norwegians have been a dead
weight on the party for a long time.-Chip-
pewa Co. Sentinel.
In this state the Norwegians have cut
loose from the Republicans, and there
are revolutions breeding in the near
future.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
A GOOD THOUGHT SPOILED.
Last week we wrote:

Last week we wrote:
you cannot have a living man without
soul; AND YOU CANNOT HAVE A
LIVING POLITICAL PARTY WITHOUT
DISTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES. IF YOU
WITHDRAW THE SOUL THE MAN
DIES; and if you withdraw the principles
disintegration commences, and there is
nothing left but a corpse and bad
SMELL"
The intelligent compositor left out the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
Does This Mean You:

A new Smith grubber, direct from fac
tory, for sale by us, very cheap. Do you
want it? Do you need it? If so, don't
let his golden opportunity pass by. Ad-
dress THE REPRESENTATIVE,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23
CLEAR AND MILD
THANKSGIVING WEATHER PROMISES
TO BE ENJOYABLE.

Trains ON Some Of the Roads Are Way
Behind Time-Wisconsin Central
Pulls i'm Five Hours Late-Street
Way Through the Drifts, and All
Lines Have Been Opened Up-MOre
Snow Fell Than Was Supposed.