The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-02-02

these are indexes to the heart.
One OF our party was man who had
carried the banner many day. lie
led the way. Not far from Clay street,
on Kearny, we met man who seemed
like shadow waif of the night.
MY friend,' said the pastor, do you
know of anybody needing bed tonight?
We have some tickets here
Yes" he said, in a husky voice
Here's ones" and he grasped the ticket
greedily, but thankfully.
Where did you sleep last night?" The
writer asked.
sleep! I didn't sleep. I've walked
the streets all this week. Haven't had
lick of work for two months"
I'VE passed on and the longshoreman
lodging house named on his ticket.
The three experimenters walked
about two blocks further down Kerny.
The dance and beer halls were at flood
Barbary FOUNDERS. A wine joint
habitue came reeling out of his haunts
near Jackson street and was drawn in
to conversation.
I'll tell you, fellers, when you get a
combination like that agin you you bet
ter look OUT and he pointed to the
swinging doors that closed behind him
It's easy enough to slide down hill, but
Il oit lin,
started down the street.
'Wait moment. Where did you stay
last night?"
Las night? n a chair. I've slept in
days"
sleeping in a chair for eight days!
Not Pullman chair, but split bottom,
or probably beer keg, the room full
men cursing all night long.
In one saloon were found at least
twenty men who were to be sheltered
as soon as the proprietor should turn
them into the street. There they would
walk till sunrise, for these nights are
cold
ITO lie down on a bench in the park
is risky. There are too many police
stars shining in those quarters. Nearly
every man that was met hurried off to
his lodgings or to get something to eat.
One particularly seemed to be hollow
down to the soles of his feet. He de-
n hot ho bo1
In forty-eight hours. His face and
movements showed it. He was conduct
ed to restaurant near by. Perhaps you
have seen hay balers and wood choppers
eat. Well, this man took the cake-and
everything else on the table.
There was an old graybeard on Clay
street. Every wrinkle On face bespoke
a tragedy, and there were many of chem.
His hair was silvered by fully sixty
years, and he walked under a burden Of
the gathering Affections of age.
In reply to g question, he pulled a
piece of hard bread out of his coat
pocket-all he had eaten during day and
night. He had been sleeping, like many
others, along the sidewalks or wharyes.
His dim old eyes welled up with tears as
DR.. Wilson handed him a half dozen
tickets. broken down veteran of the
war-still hoping for pension, but
without cent to pay the expense of
even SO much as an application
''At most every saloon visited were
fuyn 70
most all of them were without covering
for the night. There are imposters. of
course, but comparatively very few. In
nearly every case the candor and pride
OF the men impressed the two novices in
the relief expedition. Time and again
the doctor was thanked by men who
were glad they had even beds without
food. One said he had been getting
along on II cents per day.
well, this Is a sad commentary on
grand old America. A sad state of af-
fairs for boasting nation like ours
with the most fertile and prolific soil
under God Almighty's sun. But SO it s.
and so it will remain until it becomes
worse or until these miserable wretches
and others still employed but suffering
from these conditions wake I'D to the
fact that they themselves have voted
upon themselves this awful awful state
of affairs.
For these conditions the bankers are
mostly responsible. History verifies the
allegation that for years and years they
have met in international conferences.
called monetary conferences, to conspire
to rob and enslave all nations with a
system of Capitalization Of wealth.
Under the false pretense of endeavoring
to rid the various nations of this hellish
monetary system which has dragged this
nation. with many others, down to beg
gary meet at the expense of their sew
eral governments, where they trample
under foot the pretended mission on
which they were sent, and con-
spire to crystalline, cement, petrify and
perpetuate their hellish, devouring sys-
tenn of robbery.
They met in international conference
in Paris in 1876, when, instead of rid
ding us OF the devouring system of tc-
day they formed strong combination
called the Latin uninn-a comhin otion