The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-17

Seeing in the American. Of this city,
your nd. and thinking that you may
have some ideas that may help me out
in forming Peoples party clubs in this
hOtbed Of corruption, and not knowing
single Populist in my neighborhood,
find 1t pretty hard to Introduce Populist
principles, for you yourself get laughed
at for your trouble.
Hoping that l may obtain some here
tofore not thought of ideas from your
book. I enclose, as requested. 1--WE one
cent starps. Yours for the cause,
JOHN J. BRADY.
1886 South Seventh St., Philadelphia.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Ca, Aug
10. 1899.
DR.. H. B. Fay:
Dear Sir: l have collected little
money from different men, and intend
to commence Populist work in good
earnest. send you the names of the
men. amount Of money to the credit Of
each and postofice address. Please
send each one your little book, SC, and
for the rest Of his money send him a Sc
lection of your reform literature, etc.
l am doing my best to get all to work
in this Populist camp, and be sure and
not make any mistake in sending out
papers, etc. Most respectfully, etc.,
B. s. CLEMENTS.
Sec. Executive Committee Of County.
DRIFTWOOD VERSUS LEADERS.
That riff-raff called the Democratic
party are like little dogs in the dark.
They cannot see. but on hearing some
plutocratic dog growing for larger
markets. they all begin barking phil
ippines," WAR" Imperialism" Bry-
ans voice is getting lost in the beastly
hubbub.
The age is past for an Alexander the
Great or Napoleon to march conquer
ing armies of soldiers over the world to
enrich themselves. But other armies
infinitely more destructive are being
Eye fools and blind" that cannot see
how the Philippine soldiery are toys,
and their battles dreams compared with
the real soldiers in the war royal now
separating two worlds.
The one world contains nothing man
needs. Its generals are the internation-
al bankers; it's soldiers ana citizens
gold and silver dollars 1t is the unreal
world of chance and speculation, with
its daredevil robberies, panics. 1t is
the modern army of spoliation.
Its chariots of gold and silver are
ruthlessly driven over the bodies of the
citizens of the other, the real world, the
world of true wealth producers. Wealth
is not gold or silver. Wealth is the pos
session of valuable things by valiant
men and women. There is no wealth
| but life. Gold and silver are sinking
shipwrecked men and women by the
thousands. That country is richest
which nourishes the greatest number of
noble, happy human beings. This real
world must completely subdue the gold
and silver world, before the whole peo-
pie can have true wealth, knowledge
and partake Of human enjoyments.
How much of your time, reader, is
consumed in the animal search for
food, drink and shelter? If you are not
human, made in the image of Cod"
why not? Because you uphold the gold
and silver system of the Republican and
Democratic parties.
At all times, ever since the Declara-
cussion of internal improvements to the
civil war and questions of Lincoln
greenbacks, the blind, arrow-minded
Democratic party has been less disposed
devilish laissez faire system than the
Republican. Bryan, with his coin, Is a
typical Democrat. Populists demand an
honest measure of values and medium
of exchange, greenbacks. that shall do
| justice to the laborers who produce the
genuine wealth of the real world. This
| money (greenbacks pure and simple)
| will represent fortunes that foreign
bankers cannot knock the bottom out of
when they please, for they will not ex-
port it.
And Populists have brave, true, intel
ligent teachers, who dare stand forth
and open doors into this new world of
the coming century.
These thoughts were suggested by
reading the American for Aug 5, in
which many real conditions are shown
by master mind, review of which we
hope to make in our next issue.
H. B. F.
The Republican party knows a good
thing when it sees it. The managers of
that party in this state have already no.
ticed the reorganization of our state
central committee. They see how we
have enlarged it so as to consist of one
member from each county, thus distrib-
uting the representation fairly through
out the state, instead of having a COM
mittee of a few bosses as formerly. Now
they propose the same thing for their