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The representative., 1899-08-10
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(RDITED by T. c. HANLEy.)
(RD1rED BYJ. c. HANLEy.)

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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The representative., 1899-08-10
FROM THE BEACON LIGHT.


he is crushing out organized labor in
Idaho for the benefit of the corpora
tions. Step by step laboring men are
being forced down to the level of the
Firms, who come and go like cattle by
call of number
Now, then.
What are labor unions and farmers
doing to avert this danger? Nothing.
Although they have tried both Re-
publicanism and Democracy alternately
for years, they still at each election
pour oil on the flame by continuing
these two old parties in power.
But urge the farmers and laborers to
try the Peoples party for relief and
they hold up their hands in holy hor-
ror. So the farmers and labor unions
are directly responsible for these de-
plorable conditions. Until they assert
their manhood by electing representa-
tives who will enact laws in THEIR
OWN interests, men who are in their
own class, who will be their servants.
oonui'iono VIII grow from pad to
worse. How many farmers or laborers
are there in the United States senate?
That corporation breeding nest is filled
with railroad kings, trust representa-
tives, mine owners, national bankers
and jack-legged lawyers. What inter-
est have they in you poor mudsills. who
delve in fields, shops, mines? None
Your own very obstinacy and jealousy
binds your own shackles. When will
The representative., 1899-08-10

(Send communications for this col
umn to DR.. H. B. Fay, Al Washington
avenue south, Minneapolis, Minn.)
The representative., 1899-08-10

this decision had to go to the printers
lodges for approval. They vetoed it by
an overwhelming VOTE So should and
will be overthrown all attempts to abol-
fsh the Cincinnati precinct club plan.
r. M. Tankesley announces in the
LOuisberg Sentinel that Populist clubs
are being organized in every district in
Hamilton county, Tennessee.
Who will write encouragement to
this discouraged brother?
BALTIC, s. D., July 8, 1899.
DR.. H. B. Fay:
Dear Sir: l have received your letter
of the 4th inst, but not the pamphlet
Indicated In reply, must say that dur
ing my Is years experience and trials
in this reform movement, 1 have come
to the conclusion that it is almost hope
less to be able to redeem this state and
nation from the plutocratic power which
controls the humanity in our present
age. During said period I have spent
a good deal of my time, money and
health to better the condition of the
oppressed people, and today we stand
farther apart from justice and morality
in all departments of public affairs than
ever before, and are fast drifting to the
abyss where truth and conscience is not
known. AS an active member of the
Farmers Alliance, which produced the
Peoples party, the only party which has
stood up for right and justice till it's
leaders fell in for temptation with hum
cry office-seekers and selfish motives.
1t is true that all public questions are
now more discussed and considered
than before. but the public mind Ia so
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Under the caption, "The Growth Of
Monopoly In English Industry" H. w.
Macrosty, In the contemporary Re-
view" furnishes some interesting in
formation respecting trusts In Great
Britain which deserves to he attentive
ly studied by. those misguided writer's
who assume that protection Is respon-
sible for the movement In the direction
Of industrial combination so prevalent
In this country at present.
Mr.. Macrosty furnishes abundant
evidence that the phenomena is not
confined to protective countries, and
shows that the movement Is as far
reaching In free trade England as In
the United States. Speaking Of the
growth Of combinations In the United
Kingdom he says:
Single amalgamatlons, while not
entirely excluding competition, control
the screw, cotton, thread, salt, alkali
and india rubber tire industries. In
other cases a formal agreement of
masters fixes prices; thus, In the hol.
low ware trade (metal utensils) prices
are arranged by an informal ring of a
dozen Birmingham firms. Similarly
there is no open market In anthony,
nickel, mercury, lead pipes, fish sup
ply and petroleum. Steel and iron rails
are controlled by an Enlish rail ring,
which so manages matters that 1t is
undersold by American, Belgian and
German competitors. All the largest
firms in the newspaper-making indus
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RElakE)N STOh.

covered by a soft brown beard Of ~;
cent growth.
|. Then Macarthur started up the
country to whale Aguinaldo out OF his
boots. He took Wheaton, Hale. Otis
and had Hall In reserve. The four
columns marched away, regulars bril-
gaded with Funston's raw levies.
They fought their way through jun
giles and over frightfully rough coun-
try, but they advanced. A river, sup
posed to be impossible. was met with
not far from Malolos; Funston and
half a company of his men swan over
and kicked several hundreds of Fill
pinos out of the trenches.
Those who have sat In admiration
Of the exploits Of the gallant Kansas
officer have probably not realized
what this swimming Of rivers In Luz
zon means. All, of course, are aware
that the deeds were accomplished In
the face of determined fire. But who
has stopped to think or realize that
the rivers of that archipelago are
thronged with huge man-eating croco-
dies? Men soon learn to face storm
Of bullets and even joke, about them.
But the world has few men who would
be willing to face the prospect Of fur
nishlng d meal to a hungry crocodile.
Yet this is what that youth from Kan
has has done more times than the
cablegrams show. a. .en. ,f
Since the boys from the West faced
the night attack Of August at Malate,
delivered In the throes of frightful
storm; since the gallant men from 60
pherdom and Sandburrville turned
back the exultant don, making SEEM
ing victory, sweet because Of the aw-
full slaughter Of Cavite, the bitterness
Of abject repulse and defeat. the world
has realized that the wind-swept
plains of the West produce something
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more desirable than atmospheric dis
turbances. Since the men who follow
the figure 20 on the broad blue banner
of Funston's regiment have taken to
swimming crocodile-infested rivers
that they may mingle with Filipinos
the world has taken sudden interest
in sunfowers.
This interest is not born of estheti-
cism; 1t is virile, manly interest 1t
means that If Kansas can produce a
regiment Of such sunfiowers then
Kansas deserves to stand we'll up at
the head of the list of States. No State
in the Union-with one possible excep-
tion-has cause to blush when the
names of her soldiers are mentioned.
This applies not only to the present,
but all other conflicts All have won
honor and fame for sclf-sacrifice. dar-
ing and devotion. But OF all the names
which have won added Iuster since
the first shot was fired none shines so
brightly as that of Fred Funston. No
regiment has n record more fully com
plete with military glory than his.
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He had bunch of irrepressibles with

He had a bunch of irreprcssibles with
him and they did excellent service.
He raided the country to within
sight of Havana and when the Span
iards bore down upon the Cubans
Funston's raiders held the rear
guard. They stood off Blanco's veter-
ans until the great chieftain could es-
cape to the hills. They were in every
skirmish and were terrors to the foe.
When the mulatto general fell and his
forces were scattered the raiders went
with them. Funston had hard time
of it lodging the enemy, but luck was
with him and he reached his native
land a war veteran months before the
nation decided to take hand.
With the outbreak of war he was
offered and accepted n staff commits
sion by one of the officers of rank.
Governor Stanley OF Kansas raised a
regiment of volunteers in addition to
the national guard and called 1t the
Twentieth Kansas. He offered the
command to Fred Funston, who ac-
cepted and, when the regiment was
ordered to the far east he hastened to
assume command. Since then the
name of Fred Funston has been men,
toned in the dispatches more fire.
uuently than that Of any officer, regu-
lar or volunteer, who is in the Philip.
pines or who fought at Santiago.
Actual warfare had scarcely COM
menced in Luzon until the world be-
gan to realize that Kansas produces
something besides grasshoppers and
high winds. The Filipinos had not
fallen back into their second line of
. trenches until the world was made
aware that the Twentieth Kansas
had driven them out Of their first.
) Colonel Funston with n handful of
the Kansas regiment went out and
got them. A forward movement was
determined on, the jayhawker colonel
and his willing followers were in the
van.
Lloyd Wheaton, veteran of many n
battle on the frontier, started to whip
Aguinaldos out of Malolos. His col
unn, called the flying column. was
detached from MacArthur's division
and projected northwestward from
the defenses before Manila. Funston,
of course. wns In this flying column,
for speed. decision, skin and pluck
were needed; he has them all and his
men have Also Wheaton succeeded
in his object Every paper In the land
printed his picture, but beside It could
be seen the boyish face - TIE Kansan
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try have just consolidated their in
terests into one large combination. In
the engineering trades twenty-four
firms have subscribed capital Of f14,-
245,OOO. In 1897 Armstrong & Co. abb
sorbed Whitworth & Co., raising their
capital to f4,21O,OOO in the process.
Vickers & Co., the armor plate manu-
facturers, are another example OF a
very large amalgamation. In the
spring Of 1897 they bought up the
Naval Construction and Armament
Company, and later they acquired the
Maxim Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammu-
milton Co. Now they boast of being
the only firm capable Of turning out
a battle ship complete in every respect
The most noteworthy examples Of
combination, however are to be found
in the Birmingham staple trade and
in the textile industries"
This condensation is supplemented
by extended details showing that
slowly but surely the British organizer
is bringing every possible plan Of
money making within the field Of his
operations, and that England is rap
idly becoming the home Of trusts.
Here is his summing up:
I'VE thus see in British industry a
steady movement toward combination
and monopoly, movement which is
the natural outcome of competition,
and therefore not capable of being pre-
vented or undone by law"
The keen critic will not fail to note
that this admission is fatal to the as
sumption that protection is response
BILE for the creation Of trusts. If trusts
are the natural outcome of competition,
as Mr.. Macrosty AYERS, then the evil
cannot be attributed to policy which
has the effect of restraining the area
of competition. We may add that this
view, that competition is responsible
Tor combinations, has found expression
in the works of such distinguished free
traders as ]. Thorold Rogers, and that
1t Is only the "feather-weight" econ
omists, fighting under the Golden ban
ner In this country, who have sought to
fasten the responsibility for the evil
on protection.
Not only is protection not RESPONSE
bic for the trust evil, but II may be
claimed that 1t offers the only remedy
for its suppression. We venture to
say that no protectionist will assent to
the proposition that combination Is
mot capable Of being prevented or I'M
done by law" but 1t is natural enough
for a free-trader to assume that the
evil Is irremediable, except by resort
TO socialism, as Mr.. Macrosty does In
his concluding sentence, In which he
says:
Nevertheless, with the weapon Of
state control In hand, combination
may be welcomed, and IL control
proves insufficient. state purchase and
public administration remain behind"
Protectionists, accustomed as they
are to the idea Of regulation, will not
hesitate to resort to the most drastic
measures II they find 1t necessary to do
30 In order to stamp out the evil. By
carefully limiting the area OF COM
petition to their own country the
statesmen Of a protective nation can
ssntrol trusts. but that win be found
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A movement is gradually developing In
Ishpeming which is alarming the men who
mark its progress. phe English miners
are showing a weil-defned tendency to
leave that section Of the country and look
for new fields Of employment. This ten
dency has been noticeable ever since the
recent labor troubles and 1t apparently
continues to grow. During the past few
weeks men who have resided there for
years have left for good, causing great
scarcity of labor at time when it should
be most plentiful. Two of the largest par
ties that have yet been formed are about
to leave for new fields of labor. One
party, which when all made up will num-
Der about twenty or more men, is prepar-
ing to leave for the Michipicoten copper
mines which have recently been discov-
cred.
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MN REPLY to telegram from a
Chicago paper inquiring whats
the matter with FunstonY Will
lam Allen White, editor of the EN-
poria CKansas) Gazette and writer Of
the famous editorial, "What's the Mat
ter with Kansas wired the follow
ing:
have known Fred Funston for about
Fifteen years; went to Kansas State Uni
versity with him, where we had q slow
mule race for the foot of every class. At
terward we roomed together while work
ing for Kansas City papers. He is not
afraid of anything that can talk. Once in
school the towns bad coon" tried to run
over Funston. The darby weighed 2OO
pounds, and was "scrapper" with
razor record. Funston is 5 feet 3 and
weighs about 95. He "bluffed' the "col-
ored brother" to standstill and went for
q warrant and marched the boss bully
through the main streets of Lawrence at
the point Of gun. Once when he was
Santa Fe train conductor he threw an OBJ
streperous cowboy down in the middle OF
a car aisle, took the cowboys gun away,
pounded him up with it, threw him off the
train and chased him half mile down the
track, throwing ballast at him. Funston
was in Alaska four years ago, and he took
a longer trip in the middle of the dark
arctic winter with only Indian guides than
Peary took in Greenland in the light OF
summer. There is absolutely nothing the
matter with Funston, and what is more
there are several hundred other young
fellows in Kansas made of the same stuff
Three years ago Funston went to
Cuba. In his travels he had come
across the junta and soon became i'm
bued with a desire to do battle under
the lone star flag. To think is to act
with him. He sailed away in a fill
clustering vessel, was landed near Ma
tanzas and joined Maceo. He was ia
miliar with arms of all kinds and soor
wore the stars of n colonel of cavalry
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LETTER ON THE STAGE.
Society Woman Trying to Earn a Liv
ing for Herself and Her Husband.

ing for Herself and Her Husband.
Mrs. Il. Benton Letter, niece of Levi
u. Letter, the Chicago millionaire, and
herself a popular member of Chicago
society, has gone on the stage. 1t isn't
love of applause or a theatrical ambi-
ton that led her to adopt the profess
sion, but the necessity of earning liv-
ing for herself and her paretic hus-
band. The latter is n cousin of Joe
Letter and of Lady Curzon, the vice
refine of India. Mrs. Letter is a WON
an of education and culture. She has
written several stories for children.
which are meritorious.
Her husband for years held a respon-
sible position with his millionaire un.
Gle. He was a hard and close worker
and was busy from morning till night
In attending to his uncle's affairs
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Suicide of a BEDFORD Farmer.

Eugene Roy, son of a prosperous Red
ford township farmer, and popular
young man in the neighborhood, was
found dying behind wood pile at the edge
Of the woods near his home, with three
gashes in his throat and like number in
his left wrist. He was conscious and ra-
tional. Asked as to his motive for suicide,
he said it was all on account Of his sister
Lydia's illness. He said, however, that
he did not remember having done the
slashng.
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College Dental Room Robbed.

the university at Ann Arbor has leaked
out. One night the college was broken
into and 500 in money and $500 worth Of
gold filling stolen. 1t is thought some one
who had been treated in the operating
room committed the deed.
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Franchise for an Electric Road.

The Calumet and Hecla Mining Com
pany has granted franchise to John ID.
Cuddhy and Edward Ryan to build an
electric street car line through their prop
erty, connecting the cities of Laurium and
Red Jacket
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Fit puuish mcnt for Atkinson.

Don't send Mr.. Atkinson to jail.
Don't accommodate him In that way.
In this matter he isn't worth feeding
Mt the public expense.-Washington
Star.
The American punishment for such
public enemies is public contempt, as
lasting as it is sincere, as earnest in
spirit as it is humorously temperate in
expression. No fine could be as heavy,
no Imprisonment could be as enduring.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Edward Atkinson and his crowd are
trying to hide behind the Senate docu-
ments as defense for their treason
able utterances. They imply that be-
cause certain things were read, or said,
or permitted to go in the Record they
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Albion Mau Badly Injured.

s. G. Allen, manager of the Albion cleo
trio light plant, while fixing wires received
shock which threw him from the lad
der, on which he was standing. He
struck on his head. Conclusion Of the
brain resulted. His recovery is doubtful.
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- - a. <".< - tf|. $3.50
an impossible achievement 10 me-
trade country. for the simple reason
that the attempt to prohibit combine
ton In a land with widc-open trade
doors will prove destructive to domes-
tic industry San Francisco Chronicle.
Yearnirg for the Soup House Policy.
Two hundred day laborers of the
Mount Vernon Manufacturing Com
pany have received a 10 per cent. adj
vance In wages. The works We're
closed down much of the time early In
the nineties for want Of orders, but
now II has contracts for building LOO
new cars, In addition to those upon
which the men are mt work. Business
men, farmers and others In that vicin-
ity claim that local conditions are i'm
proved by the expenditure of thou
sands Of dollars Of wages monthly In
the city, but others who earn nothing,
build nothing, pay nothing and do moth
ing but talk, and long for the return
of the soup house policy party to pow
err, are not happy at the outlook, and
bear upon their forlorn visages the un-
spoken prayer Of give us calamity, or
give us death."-Carmi Qll) Times.
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Too Good a Thing to Drop.

John Bull-Now that we're getting to
be such warm friends, isn't 1t about
time to drop that foolish tariff of yoursf
Uncle Sam-Thanks, Johnnie, for
your assurances Of friendship. but that
foolish tariff has proved too good
thing to drop. Why don't you try u
yourself7 THERE'S millions In III
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Col. Bryan's idea that "an idea once
turned loose in the world can never
again be chained" is quite an idea.
The last New York spread might
have been appropriately labeled: 1.-THE
man who is working the workingmen's
dinner"
The attempt to make President Nc
Kinley appear as a usurper and die
tator and as sort Of modern Caesar
will probably not succeed
Most of the anti-expansion writer's
have lost temper and are tearing pas
sion to tatters. This frequently hap
pens under disappointment anS a
growing sense of being in the wrong.
There have been traitors in all wars,
says a contemporary. They have never
yet prevented the rightful settlement
of an American war, though they are
more of nuisance than IL they fought
their country openly.
Admiral Dewey says that the govern
ment Of Aguinaldo is a "severe mill
tary despotism." 1t takes mans
head off when he does not come to
time. Who knows better, the profess
sors in Mr.. Rockefeller's college In
Chicago or Admiral Dewey in the
Philippines?
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MICHIGAN MATTERS.
NEWS or THE. WEEK coNclsEL7
CONDENSED.

Miners Leaving Isphenaina Creates
Scarcity OF Labor Young Man
Kills Himself with Razor Robber
at the University Killed by a Fall.
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The House has recently passed the fol-
lowing bills:
Senator McMullen-Permitting Alpena
to issue 100000 in bonds for city cleo
trio light works, the proposition to be SUBJ
mitted to the people. Immediate effect.
Senator Notwithstanding Alpena
charter. Immediate effect.
Mr.. Eikhoff-Appropriatin $4,000 for
new building and grounds at Pontiac asy-
lum. Immediate effect.
Mr.. Herrig-Making awards of dam
ages for accidents prior claims on rail-
road companies. Immediate effect.
Mr.. Notwithstanding State auditors
to investigate claims in connection with
the deepening of the channel of Maple
river.
Mr.. Anderson-Relief of Louis Schmidt.
Mr.. Carton-Authorizing school boards
to establish day schools for deaf mutes.
Senator G.. Smith-Authorizing mining
companies to increase their capital stock
to S5,OOO,0O0.
Senator Ward-Allowing Wesleyan
Guild. University Of Michigan, to change
date of election of officers.
Mr.. Kelly-Protection Of fur-bearing an-
finals. ~G
Mr.. J. r. Read-Authorizing the city
of Manlstee to issue bonds not to exceed
SOC, 900 for a water works.
Mr.. Bryan-Amending law relative to
relief Of poor persons.
Detroit water board bill.
Mr.. leischhauer-Amending act to pro-
tect the good names of certain persons.
Ma Davis-To prevent spread Of San
Jose scale. Immediate effect.
Senator Graham-For the incarceration
of societies for the prevention Of cruelty
to animals, children, etc.
Mr.. Chambcrlain-Relat to writs Of
replevin.
Mr.. Colvin-Prohibiting the obstructing
Of streams in Saginaw County.
Mr.. McIlcod-Dctroit street railway ref
erendum bill.
Mr.. Eikhoff-Permitting Detroit FIRE
commission to grant 6remen a furlough
with pay.
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THEH0ME0F TRUSTS.
ENGLAND THEIR
FAvORITE SOIL.

To Abolish Protection In the United
states as . Means Of Throttiing the
Combines Would Be Fatal to Many
Americas Industries.
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are all right. That is begging the Ques-
ton. Some of the rankest treason ever
heard in this country has been uttered
on the floor of Congress. That was SO
in 1S60-'61 as well as in 1898 49,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Should it eventually be found neces-
sary to admonish Mr.. Edward Atkin-
son as to his duty to his country by
some form of punishment, 1t might be
advisable to string him up by the
thumbs with his toes just touching the
floor while relays of talking machines
grind out to him renditions of all his
statistical essays and economical trea-
tises. Thus would a long-suffering
reading public be avenged for the mill
ions of words and figures with which
this prolific compiler has deluged the
presses during the last forty years.
Washington Star.
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State News in Brief.

Bellevue has begun war on slot ma