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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-29


The Arena for March contains an ar
ticle by VIM. J. Strong, a prominent
attorney of Chicago, that deserves the
earnest consideration of every man in
America who thinks and feels, or enter
tains a conscientious regard for the
welfare of humanity. It treats of the
system of blacklisting which has been
so generally adopted by the railroad
companies since the Railway Union
strike at Chicago in 1894, and which
has extended to other institutions en-
ploying large numbers of men, until
nearly the whole network of American
industries is permeated and infected by
it's degrading influence. The system not
only rivets shackles on liberty and re-
duces the American workingman to the
most hateful and exasperating form of
slavery, but it reaches to the very life
of the victim and those dependent on
him, by making it impossible for him
to secure employment in any capacity
Grinding and hideous poverty, as we'll
as death by starvation, have been, are
being, visited upon innocent and help
less women and children as a means
of "disciplining" refractory male en-
ployes. And the disciplining process
never ceases during the life of the un-
fortunate who has been so bold as to
assert the common right of manhood
in efforts to better his condition. In
nearly every instance the sentence is
for life, and no amount of humility or
contrition can restore the unhappy
wretch to the good graces of his mas
ters. They are as inexorable as fate,
and as cruel as death. None but devils
incarnate could have concocted and en-
forced such an inhuman system. The
conditions are unspeakable and yet the
public knows but little about them, be-
cause the slaves of the monopolies are
afraid to cry out in the agony of their
torture. and the daily press to which
people look for news, is so completely
under the domination of the corpora
tions and trusts that it dares not utter
word in the cause of humanity. The
editor of the Arena, referring to Mr..
Strong's article, says: Throughout the
hearing of the case it is worth while
noting, the press of the country seemed
to be Joined in a conspiracy of silence
so to speak, and it is no secret among
newspaper men that the representatives
of the great dailies were instructed to
make as little of the case as possible"
These great dailies" are themselves
either victims of coercion, or mere fin
ger-posts of the monopolies, pointing
the way to perdition, as we have shown
in previous articles. Not one of them
dares to speak the sentiment of honest
manhood, and yet we boast of our free
press, and swell ourselves up with pride
as we talk of American liberty and hu-
man rights. The press, the banks, the
great mercantile houses, the govern
ments, and the very schools and pulpits
are bound hand and foot, and ridden to
damnation by the nightmare Of avarice.
This is rather strong language to
come from a Democratic journal. But
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ccuse the Mississippi Valley

who wou ccuse the Mississippi Valley
Democra md Journal of being Demo-
cratic? he Democrat and Journal is
a Democratic paper; if the doctrine it
is at present preaching is pure Democ-
racy, then every Populist in the country
is simon-pure ,Jeffersonian Democrat,
for he is preaching the same kind of
Democracy.
The Mercury bids the Democrat and
doing better work for the cause of
Populism than nine-tenths of the men,
bers. 1t is making converts to Gods
cause, which is mans cause, in quarters
that POpulists cannot rleach.
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What They Get for Their Labors-
Ohio Land Fallen One-half in Price
"A Socialist Among Them.
(Schilling's Advance)
Our socialistic friends have a great
deal to learn concerning the condition
of the farmers.
Some of the more radical among the
socialists have been painting the farmer
as capitalist on a small scale, who
brutally exploits his workmen, and sits
On his porch watching the crops grow,
without doing any labor worth men
tioning.
Some of the Eastern socialistic pa-
pers have repeatedly abused the Popu-
lists for being middle class" partv
that had no feeling for labor, and so it
is good idea II one of the Comrades
finds out how 1t is himself.
Below will be found partial account
of an agitation trip that Max Hayes is
making through Ohio, and while he
does not admit it, one can read between
the lines that he found the farmers
somewhat different from the accented
socialistic standard.
AS was to have been expected, we find the
farmers and the people living in the rural
towns In a mighty unenviable situation. Pas
toral scenes in pictures and on the stage
are beautiful, theoretically, but when one
comes in contact with "the real thing" the
poetry quickly disappears. They say that
''the hills are green and far away" and nc
truism is more apt, for when you arrive
at the hills they are quite barren and bleak
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Bliss labored nearly two years before
he got his money back.


he got his money back.
Another episode which shows the act
ual financial stress of the Republican
party in that campaign was the Wana-
lis in the closing days of the campaign,
touring with President Harrison! Sew
eral of the politicians of prominence in
Indiana gathered around Mr.. Wana-
ence he advised them to make liberal
expenditure of money in Indianapolis in
the closing hours of the campaign.
They replied that they hadn't the
money. He told them TO go ahead and
raise it on notes, and that he (Wana-
maker) would see that it was repaid
after election. The money was raised,
$4,000 jim all, and notes given. Win
field T. Durbin, of Anderson, Ind, a
capitalist and present national COM
mitteeman from that state, advanced
the money.
After election Mr.. Wanamaker showed
Durbin to the Republican national COM
mittee, which already had all the
trouble it could handle in the way of
adjusting financial shortages. After
considerable parleying, covering nearly
two years, Durbin placed the claim in
the hands of w. w. Dudley and L. T.
Michoner, of Washington, two promi-
nent lawyers, the former of Blocks of
Five" notoriety, and they threatened
Wanamaker with suit. Mr.Wanamaker
finally settled the matter by sending his
check for $4,000 to Mr.. Durbin.
These incidents show how thoroughly
misled the public was during
the campaign Of >, 1892 as to
where the money was. The
Democratic committee in that cam
paign, it subsequently developed, had
abundant resources, and wound up the
campaign with respectable surplus,
although it was frequent gossip during
the campaign that the committee was
fioundering in a pool of insolvency.
A~GA1 1AA OAMFAlON.
Some of the wiser heads have been
looking forward to the next campaign,
and speculating on the probability of
the Republicans raising another such
huge fund as the one they expended in
1896. 1t is the experience Of the men
practiced in the art of politics that
money does not come pouring into a
campaign fund voluntarily and from
party impulse. More often it is prompt
ed by the hope of reward or under stress
of circumstances.
The election of Mr.. Bryan in 1896
or of any free silver man would have
meant far more serious consequences
to the monied men than it will mean
in 1900. In 1896 the election of Bryan,
followed, as presidential elections are,
with house of like complexion, would
have meant the absolute control of the
law-making power in the hands of the
free-silver men, for the senate then
was a free-silver body. The senate is
now estimated as safely against silver
for at least eight years to come, so the
election Of free-silyer president would
be as far from securing free silver leg
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The Farmers of the South in
Worse Condition Than
Ever Before.
The Land Passing Into the
Hands of Merchants.
Cotton Cents a Pound and
Wages 20 Per Month-Interest 10
Per Cent for Three MOnths-A
Whole People Being Reduced to
SerfdOm.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The indus
trial commission has somewhat changed
!ts plan for the work OF the snb-cor;-
ni!ttee during the summer months by
Ievcking it's order for the appointment
of special commissions to investigate
the elevator trust and the mining il.
0us try west of the Mississippi river. In.
stead, it has authorized all the regular
sui commissions to sit during July and
August. Under this arrange 1,ert the
agricultural commission WI: take up
tic tr,ator question, gOins tn the
Northwestern states for this purpose
and the mining commission will go
West for the purpose of looking into
the conditions affecting mining in that
region. The latter commission will
hold it's first meeting in Denver on the
18th of July. The sub-cOmmissiOn on
the manufacturers will make tour of
New England during the summer.
James Barrett, vice-president Of the
Georgia State Agricultural society, was
the only witness before the commission
today. He spoke upon the agricultural
conditions in the South, saying they
were worse today than they had ever
been in the history of the country. He
said the cotton interest was especially
depressed, prices last year amounting
to little over 4 cents per pound.
At this price man could not save
himself if he paid wages amounting to
more than 50 a month. Planters gener-
ally pay about $6 month for wages,
and at such rates they could not prevent
loss if they received less than cents
per cound
Mr. Barrett said that nine-tenths of
the cotton grown was mortgaged before
it matured. Rates of interest and COM
mission were high, and the merchants
were gradually coming into possession
of the lands. The banks charge 10 per
cent for money for three months time
He advanced the idea that the national
bank act had done vast damage in out
lawing real estate as security for money
loaned to these banks, and that, all told,
this act was to the South the most dam
aging legislation that had ever been
enacted.
The witness said that nearly all the
plantation labor was done by negroes,
and that there was practically no i'm
migration because of the cheapness of
labor and the social conditions. The
railroad rates were such as to render it
impossible longer to make watermelon
growing profitable, and the same was
true of other garden products.
"The railroads are both the daddy
and the nanny Of the trusts" he as
serted. Mr.. Barrett said that the CEN
sus of 1890 had shown that Augusta,
where he lives, was the most illiterate
place in the United States, and he
thought this fact was due to the pres
ence of too much politics in the schools.
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Disgusted Silver Republicans.


The Salt Lake Tribune, leading silver
Republican paper of the intermOuntain
country in 1896, thus declares itself:
Senator Teller says the silver Re-
publicans, he believes, are still as true
as they were in 1896, to the cause which
they held and hold as most essential to
the best interests of the American peo-
pie. We believe that Senator Teller is
mistaken. We know of no one who was
silver man in earnest in 1896 who is
not now, but we know the feeling of
silver men in Colorado, in Utah, in
Idaho, in Nevada and in Montana. Sill
yer men who all their lives were Re-
publicans until 1896, gave up for the
time being the principles of lifetime
vital question. But>they do not feel as
they did in 1896, for the reason that in
each one of these states named the De-
mocracy has demonstrated, that so far
as they are concerned they are hardly
capable of self-government, to say moth
ing about governing this nation. We
defy any honest man to point to what
the Democracy has done in Utah since
they won their great triumph in 1896,
to give ordinary people encouragement
to believe that If they had full power
in the nation they would even desire
to do the right thing by the people. 1t
is party seeking chiefly petty spoils,
and it would take a very brave man to
recommend men who have all their
lives been Republicans, to support their
ticket
"Mr. Bryan, personally, is very
splendid man, very patriotic man. We
believe he has no less noble thought
than to wish to have the things read
justed which now are wrong. We be-
lieve he is sincere in his desire to have
silver remonetized, to have the trusts
throttled, to break down the barriers
which concentrated wealth has raised
between the people and the interest
gatherers, to protect the latter. But in
this state, and this is but a sample, we
have seen two legislatures in session in
absolute control of the party, and the
way they handled their trust is enough
to make one weary of all kinds of
trusts. But that is only part of the
business. With the money we have
borrowed and with the proceeds of two
or three great crops, with the yield
from mines and with the money put in
circulation by the war, it is true that
every form of industry in Utah is pros
pering. More men are being employed
than ever before. In our limited mar
ket farmers are obtaining good prices
for their products. The tariff helps the
stock men exceedingly, and it is charac-
teristic of the American people that
when they are doing we'll, they will not
vote for a change. Then in the Golfers
of the East there are millions and tens
of millions of dollars, and those who
own these dollars, rather than to see
their purchasing power reduced by re-
storing free silver coinage, will spend
anywhere from eight to ten millions on
presidential election, and that is suf.
ficient to carry majority of the elec-
toral votes.''
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face of every brass-mounted, imperial
istic expansionist who attempts to face
an audience on the 4th day of July, and
read the Declaration of independence.
1t would be fine lesson to study the
physiognomy of such hypocrite.-
Searchlight
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A correspondent of the Minneapolis
Times (Republican) writes as follows:
Washington, June 21.-"There is only
one man in the United States who
knows what the campaign of 1896 cost
the Republican party, and he will not
tell.''
This observation was made by a
leading Western member of the Repub-
lican national committee. The name OF
this custodian of so much valuable Sc
cret history can be readily guessed by
the average reader. He has borne up
under the strain through the major part
of an administration he did so much to
create, and is now seeking his health at
Aix-les- -Bains. Such would be the in
ference drawn by every reader, and
Mark Hanna was the man whom the
member of the national committee had
in mind when he made the remark.
Recently Judge M. F. Tuley, judicial
patriarch of Chicago, charged that the
Republicans expended $50,000,00O in the
campaign of 1896. For this he was
taken to task by H. H. Kohlsaat, editor
of the Chicago Times-Herald. Mr..
Kohlsaat insists that the cost is below
100000, and he estimates roughly
that $1,OOO,OO0 went for printing and
the distribution Of literature, and the
rest for salaries of employees, speakers.
etc.
GROsvENOR's ESTIMATE.
This estimate does not tally with
that proclaimed by Gen. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, few days ago, in one Of the de-
partments, while commenting upon the
civil service:
''See what it has cost the Republican
party. It required $15,000,00O to elect
Mckinley, and it will cost $25, 5000, 900 to
re-elect him. Why? Because you can
not get men to turn out and work in a
campaign without pay, for they know
that under civil service there is no such
thing as reward by appointment to Of
flee for political services. Hence they
must be paid in money, and conducting
a campaign becomes at once a gigantic
business proposition"
In estimating the cost of the great ma
ti6nal campaign, chance guesser is
always open to the popular failing in
estimating the riches of the supposed
wealthy men of the country. Millions
1aH 60
pennies at news stand.
COSTLY CAMPAIGNS.
familiar with politics that the Repub-
lican campaign of 1896 cost more in
cash than any previous campaign of
either party in the history of the coun-
try, and its nearest rival was probably
the Democratic campaign fund of 1892,
which was employed in the election of
Mr.. Cleveland.
Through that campaign the Demo-
Gratis asserted continuously and vocifer-
ously that the Republicans had vast
corruption fund, and one of the New
York papers essayed to give the figures
They looked astonishing in cold, black
type, but the astonishment was greater
after the campaign was over and it was
learned that the committee had strug-
gled throughout the campaign for
money, and came out fully 100000 short,
the Indebtedness being held by Cornell
ius N. Bliss, late secretary of the in
terror in the Mckinley cabinet. Mr..
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islation in the four years following as
to produce free trade legislation, and
for the same reason-the obstinacy Of
the senate.
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AN AGE OF CORRUPTION

The Last Presidential Campaign Cost
the Republican Party Fifteen Mill
ion DOllars-The Next Will Cost
Twenty-Five MilliOns-HOw Can
der Such COnditiOns2
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With the initiative and referendum
the peoplt ~get any reform a majority
will vote for. Now we get any law the
millionaires will pay for. Read Bond
and Industrial Slavery" Price IS cents.
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NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

The New Treatment is b. Inhalation and In
ternal or Blood Medicine Combiaed. It destroys
the tubercule bacilli in the lunos and blood and
will positively cure If tho innas are not destroy
ed. Cases at a distance tfsated at home. Free
consultation. St. Paul Medical and SURGICAL
Institute, Merrill building. corner 5th and St,
Peter Streets st. Paul. Nuns.
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"Shalls money control thiss govern
ment?" will be the great issue in Iooo.-
Direct legislation would settle this ques-
lion and settle it right. Read Bond
and Industrial Slavery" Price rs cents.
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WILL BE TESTED
ANTITRUST LAW TO BE TRIED ON
THE FLOUR COMBINE.

Attorney General of the State Will
Commence Action Against the
The Case One of the Most ImpOr-
tant in Legal and Commercial Cir.
cles in the History of the Country
The Result May Prove a Factor
In the Next Political Campaign.
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A mechanical device for the investigation Of
war-scandals will, we suppose, be the next
hideous invention for prospering the business
of war.-Detroit Journal.
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Novel Fire Department

Professor Gentry's famous dog and pony
show, which exhibits in this city under cam
vas at Eighteenth street and Avenue A
Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and
evening. March 10 and. IL. have the most
novel fire department in the world. The
members are all dogs. ponies and monkeys.
There is a chief and all the subordinate Of
f1cers, all of which work in harmony and
move the apparatus, which is an exact re-
production of regular department appa-
ratus. This act is one of the many features
of the new performance this year. and there
are many other novelties. The show is ex-
actly twice its former size this year, and
the performance is even more interesting
than ever. The prices of admission are:
Children, 10 cents; and adults, % cents.
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THE REJECTION OF
THE ARMY BILL
Caused Disappointment Among
ASpirantS for Easy Berths.
MANY WENT TO CAPITAL
And Scores Are Still There, Hoping
That the Military Arm Will Yet
Be Increased to the
Proposed Number.

Washington. March 9.-(special.) -There
are a great many disappointments pursu-
ant to the rejection of the Hull army bill
by the senate and the adoption of the sub
stitute measure in its place. Had the Hull
bill gone through there would have been u
great many places for young aspirants for
army life Most of the southern states
would have had anywhere from twelve to
eighteen second lieutenants, besides several
paymasters and staff pos tions, each.
1t was thought at the war department
that the senate could not resist this tempt
ing prize and that the offices allowed in the
bill would grease its passage through con-
gress. 1t was given out officially that these
places would be distributed equally be-
tween the states in proportion to their pop
ulation, and that the executive would not
try to interfere in the choice made by the
state delegations.
In view of this statement hundreds of
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-10

young men rushed post haste to Washing
ton, and many of them secured fine en-
dorsements to be ready to file their papers
must have been over thousand applicants
in the city. Over fifty thousand applica-
lions were received in the office of the adj
jutant general during the discussion of the
BILL
Many of the young men who came on are
still here. hoping that something may turn
up which will necessitate the president en-
listing the extra thirty odd thousand men
provided for in the substitute bill. AT the
present time the president does not think
he will need more than the $1,000 men al
ready enlisted in the regular army. Even
this ceases to exist after 1901, when. accord
ing to the German amendment, the army
will be reduced to 1900 men again. No
one believes, however, that this amendment
will ever be put in force, for before that
time the next congress will have passed
some sort of military bill providing for a
permanent increase in the army.
1t is not believed here, however, that the
president will ask for 100000 men again, es-
pecially on the eve of a presidential race
The past request for that number proved
so unpopular that 1t is not thought that the
executive will tempt the hostility of the la
Dor element by another such recommends
ton. But he will recommend some legisla-
ton on the subject possibly asking for co.
600 as a regular standing army.
General Corbin said when the Hull bill
was pending that if the bill failed now in
time of war. 1t would be hopeless to get
through such measure in time of peace.
The disappointment of the regular army
officers is very keen. for under the Hull
bill they would have all received promotion.
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ODDITIES OF POISONING.
Some May Eat With Impunity Certain
Foods Which Are Rank Poison to Others

The constitutional differences and pecu-
liarfties which exist among individuals
| should always be carefully watched and
| considered. One person can handle poison
Ivy with impunity, while another Is pol
soned IL only in the vicinity of the vine
and without contact Some members OF a
family residing In a malarfal district will
suffer regularly with chills and fever, while
other members will not be at all affected.
Food that is actually poisonous to some
persons will not so act on others. One per.
son may eat all kinds of green fruit and
vegetables with impunity, while another
person could do SO only at the risk of his
life. Certain kinds Of fish are actually poi
sonous to some people. and perfectly whole
some to others.
1t is this peculiar condition Of the sys-
tenn which constitutes the danger point In
the individual case, and should be prudent
ly observed by each one for himself. Intes-
final arrangements frequently arise from
and are aggravated by certain kinds of
food. Thus person affected with kidney
or liver trouble should not eat very white
bread, since the extreme whiteness is often
produced by the use of alum with an in
ferior article of flour, and as alum is known
to be poisonous in it's effects on a sound
constitution, this is why alum baking pow
der is never used by people of Judgment
and discretion.
More of earthly happiness depends upon
what we eat than many people realize, and
1t is for this reason that the different states
are one by one passing pure-food laws.