The representative., 1899-08-10

you DO under Such circumstances! Yet
my heart is with you, but am sorry to
say that at present l am out of politics.
AS long as the people seem to enjoy to
be governed without constitution, JUS
tice and heavenly power, it is no use.
l remain, yours truly for reform,
JOHN o. LANGNESS.
A patient last week who fought with
Dewey at Manila told us that "the SOL
diers were allowed few papers, their
mail being under a strict censorship"
But that is nothing. 1t is worse here.
Populists are not yet arrested for
preaching their principles on the
streets, for the simple reason that they
are not now enough devoted to those
principles to wish to do so. But it is
different with the socialists and single
takers. The Glass Struggle, of San
Francisco, for Aug. tells how Comrade
Anthony McGinty went (not down to
the bottom of the sea), but to police
headquarters, and was thrown into a
hole with common drunks, because he
presumed to peaceably address his fell
low workmen on the subject of common
ownership. At the same time noisy
Salvationists, quacks and peddlers were
plying their respective callings un-
touched at dozen other corners.
Now read what Chief Ripley, of the
Chicago police force. says: Il have
decided to put an end to this socialistic
street talk AT ANY COST"
DR.. Brooke, of Cambridge, Mass, who
lectured in Minneapolis last winter
said: open and free speech has be-
come so offensive in that country that
it Is common thing for men to be ar
matters pertaining to government af-
fairs. l believe that if it was not for
the standing army in Germany, that the
socialists would soon be in control
there"
EAST BRANCH, Pa.
Editor Organization Column
National Organizer Bateman wrote
me some time ago that he will organize
this state this summer. I want to be
ahead of him in Warren county.
E. MUZZY.
TURON, Kansas.
Editor Organization Column:
I am Populist every day in the weak
and doing all can to destroy the power
of the two old parties. l enclose you 5
cents for your pamphlet, and will do all
I can to aid you in your work for equal
rights for all. L. B. McCLURG.
"A great many Populists are praising
Mayor Jones for his great reform IDEAS
1t is only a matter of short time till
he will turn out to be another Pingree
Whenever an oldparty politician, bray
ing reform, will not burn the bridges
behind him, you can bet he is hypo-
critic, or out to catch suckers. When
ever man becomes a reformer he will
cut all strings that bind him to the
old parties. West Plains Quill.
Right, so far as Pingree goes. Jones
does not believe in the old parties. Our
candidate, Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, the
Sage, is the only man in the whole
world who can Shake a Spear at an
impostor, who tried to fry someone
else's Bacon years ago. And this
same Sage Donnelly has told you long
ago, before any of you suspected it,
that "Pingree was wearing the livery of
heaven to serve the devil in.' No party
but the Mid-road party can boast of
such perspicacious eyes as those of our
own Donnelly, that can see a hypocrite
whether he lived in the time of Bacon
in England, or Hotchkiss in his little
den at Preston in 1899.
And by the way, Pingree now says,
anent his strike: II don't want to give
boys the places men formerly filled be-
fore the machines were invented, but
there is law of competition which
makes us do it, in order to remain in
the market H. IF.