The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
A FOUL ATTACK.

Among the able writer's for the Min
"cuss,'' who is a disgrace to our COM
mon humanity.
He tries to identify the Peoples party
of the United States with the wretched
assassin who the other day. stabbed the
empress of Austria to the heart with a
file. He says:
In later years We have had political par
ties who appeal to the passions and pre-
JUDGES of people in much the same way
that the nihilists of Russia and the anar-
chists of Europe do in their pretentious
manifestoes. Only the other day at Cincin-
natl, a Populist convention described the
American people as rapidly becoming
landless, homeless and hopeless" and cap
ftalists monsters who propose to sac
rifice our homes and children on the altar Of
Mammon and destroy the multitude in or
der to secure corruption funds for the mol
lionaires." They emitted a good deal more
of the same sort for the purpose of inffam-
ing people against capitalists and corpora
lions.
On the stump. these men have made APP
peals which would be construed by Euro
pean nihilist anarchist to be a call to
shoot down all employers of men. Anar-
chstic exploitation like the Haymarket
massacre in Chicago shows the danger of
this revolutionary and incendiary talk.
We have had comparatively little Of anar-
chial assassination in this country because
our people generally have no taste for stab
bling capitalists in the dark with real dag
gers or shooting them with improved revolt
vers. The incendiary utterances of men
like Donnelly, however. may be readily con-
strued by a European anarchist, just come
to this country, as appeals to the dag
mis- nj hn it.lliS he
meets. The American pessimsts hold that
all bankers, business men and manufacture
erS make men miserable and your genu-
inc anarchist believes that all such persons
should be killed Would it not be well for
our American peSSimiStS to modify their
mendaclouS language?
The man who wrote that would pick
pockets or rob hen roosts on a dark
night.
If the statement, based on the census
of 1898 is false, that the people are rap
idly becoming "landless, hopeless and
homeless" why did this scamp not dis
prove the figures of the census report
showing that Onc-fOurth of all the cul-
tivators of land of this country are now
tenants; and that population increased,
from 1880 to 1890, Is per cent, and wealth
As per cent, while THE MORTGAGES
OF THE LAND INCREASED 1856 PER
CENT! How long can that process
continue without making us landless
and homeless people?
Our platform at Omaha charged that
THE LEADERS OF THE TWO OLD
PARTIES proposed to sacrifice our
homes and children on the altar of Nam
! mon, and destroy the multitude in order
| to secure corruption funds from the
millionaires, and this scamp turns it
around and says we charged the capt.
! talists with doing all this "to secure cor
| ruptiOn funds for the millionaires. -
| That is to say that the millionaires are
charged with ROBBING THE MILLION
AIRES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
MILLIONAIRES! F.! =!
Holy Smoke! This bangs Bannagher.
And what are 1.-The incendiary utter
ances of Donnelly?"
Simply that the republic shall be pre-
served; and the teachings of Washing
ton and Jefferson and Jackson and Lin
coin shall not go down into the mud
under the hoof of money-lenders.
/ What dirty dog is this that would
blacken a great party, which is trying
to save liberty by constitutional and
peaceful action at the ballot box, by