The representative., 1899-11-16

NDAcCt 1clIolS AOI lulS COLUMN 10 Or.
II. B. Fay, Al Washington avenue south,
Minneapolis, Minn.)
ONLY ASK, READERS, THAT
you, BY RETURN MAIL. SEND NE
A POSTAL GIVING THE ADDRESS
OF AT LEAST ONE TRUE BLUE
M1D-ROAD POPULIST IN YOUR
COUNTY OR WARD. CAN YOU DO
LESS FOR LIBERTY? WILL YOU
NOT DO THAT?
WHAT POPULIS7S ARE NOT.
True Populists, unlike very many
Christians, protesting but not possess
ing practical Christianity, do not at
tempt to reform others before becoming
truly converted themselves. When Pop
ulists convert their own county, foreign
war questions will settle themselves. IT.
however, we should be forced even now
to preach proper methods of civilizing
barbarians, POpulists will do so only
after mature deliberation of all the cir
cumstances, as independent, intelligent
thinkers, RECORDING THEIR JUDO
MENT THROUGH THE REFEREN-
DUN. AT present they will not like
fool Democrats, rush the first war cry
to create sham battles simply because
Republicans take some other True
Populists will not eat old broken junk
bottles simply because Republicans cast
them away.
Any old thing not good enough for
Republican is good enough for a Demo-
crat. Not so with Populists.
TO Bryan, or a Lind free silver, to
get an office is one thing; to Populist
is means another thing, because a Pop
ullst, at least, don't want things to be
worse than they were during the civil
war. The same holds true about carry
Ing war into the Orient
Populist is not a crazy-brained At
kinson, of distorted figures, 20 try and
aid the plutocratic, Democratic party
back into power by planting anti-expan-
sion and kissing Tammany Croker
God save the mark, Rev. Bliss.) Pop
ulists are neither Carnegies, or Edward
Atkinson's men in the woods of "the
class struggle with long distance
sympathy
They, with such as Mclean and Goe-
BEL are the liberty-loving gentlemen
who never worry over the killing of
workingmen here at home No word of
protest came from them when working
men were shot like dogs at Eazelton.
Pa. The silence of those reformed free
silver canters about miners, imprisoned
like beasts in Idaho; slaves that are
being forced to compete with cheap
Chinese and Philippine laborers (even
now Ohio miners receive less than
5000 yearly, gives the lie to their vul-
gar boast that they would be protectors
OF the weak. Their long-distance SYM
pathy may fool the simple minded. but
not true Populists mindful of their late
sham battles over free silver and tariff.
WHAT POPULIsTs ARE NOT.
No. 2.
Neither do true Populists live four
centuries before the birth of Christ.
sEavishly following Alexander the Great
(Hanna) into Asia Minor. Populists
have passed the stage of hero worship.
taught by such colleges as that of Iowa.
which has just forced Prof Heron out
and SO closed the chair Of "applied"
(reaD Christianity
The overseer of such seats of learn
ing CD may keep on spouting: "No
matter how Napoleon or Caesar gather !
wealth, it's all right SO long as they |
endow our college, mo matter how
many heather Charlemagne kills so |
long as he forces them at the point of
the sword to bow in baptism before the |
empty form of cross"
AS humble Populist myself not be-
ing paid the salary and honors for do
ing Mckinleys work, | shall not give
MIN the fruit of my thought since | am
sure that, even without 1t, his party for
the next five years will follow the foot
steps OF the dead Alexander the Great,
even to India, in order that the million
times favored few may be a million
times still more favored. Republicans
and Democrats who, like the foolish
Macedonians, love to spill their lives
before the captured cities of Damascus.
tyre and the burnt palace of the Per-
sian capital, may keep on marching.
killing. working, that the few may wal
low In idle luxury. They may shout for
leaders to confscate, sack towns, mur-
der. enslave by wholesale men, women
and children. They may lift aloft our
piutocratic Alexander the Great clothed
In the effeminate apparel of Eastern
kings, and let him repeat the message of
Alexander to Darius: Il will not receive
a part of your empire for the whole. for
Asia with all it's treasures belongs to
me; if | wish to marry your daughter