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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
A SINGLE ISSUE PARTY.

a great many good men are trying to
do away with the Peoples Party and sup
ply its place with an organization based
on a single demand for the Initiative and
Referendum we find an able commune
cation i'll a recent number OF the New
Era" which contains a great deal Of
truth 1t is as follows:
| have for the last few days been read
ing copy OF the National New Era. an
enthusiastic advocate of direct legislation
the adoption OF which as estimated by its
editor, is a panacea for all the ills in
government that men are subjected to-
Taking an optimistic view as to the prac-
teal results OF the initiative and refer
endum, you seem to think that if laws
made by our legislatures and congress
were submitted to vote Of the people for
their adoption or rejection that party
lines would be obliterated. In this
think you are mistaken The contention
as to the adoption or rejection OF the law
would be transferred to the people And
If an important measure and adopted by
party vote in our legislature party lines
would be closely drawn, and if Repub-
lican measure the best advocates in the
Republican party would be on the ros-
trum advocating the adoption OF the law
while the Democrats would be opposing
Then what? The Republicans would
vote for the measure and the Democrats
would vote against it. For, my dear edi-
tor, you know that in the estimation of
nineteenth Of the people, they thing moth
ing SO ennobling as to be good Repub-
lican or Democrat The adoption of a
gold standard was voted for by the peo-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

men who voted for him have not q net
income OF 5000 a year; and most of the
ministers of the gospel are passing rich
on forty pounds year," as the poet
Goldsmith said OF his father.
And 1t was for this that the Major
howled Jim HILL" when he was driving
the Peoples Party convention into the
Democratic corral or slaughter pen.
Like Oliver Twist, he wants more. "
He is like the horse-leeches' daughters
his cry is give!-givep'
And this he calls "Reform" And for
this he is ready to destroy the Peoples
Party! Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
HOW 1T WORKS.

The Appeal to Reason says, in a recent
issue:
Thirty days ago the hardware mer-
chant next door to the Appeal office was
buying baling wire at AZ cents bale;
today he is paying 80 cents BALE SO he
tells me. This is splendid The wire
trust has heard that Kansas farmers are
just rolling in wealth and it wants some
OF it. The wire trust has cut wages and
raised prices nearly 100 per cent! Done
to protect American labor! This is oc-
curing in nearly every line of industry
and 1t will soon absorb all the little
wealth left in the hands of the foolish
voters who are tickled with the cry OF
protection, patriotism, etc. Give it to
EN-, plutes. They like to be skinned
They will vote you into power next cleo
ton, just as they have in the past, which
is proof that they like the way things
are going. They will shoulder gun and
fight for your continued rule of the in
dustries They do not want to own any
thing. They are afraid of having the
public themselves own anything for
fear it would make them slaves Raise
the prices and cut wages Nothing
pleases them SO we'll When they vote
for public ownership I will know they
don't like to be robbed by the trusts.
This is all true; the trusts are formed
to raise prices, and for nothin else.
This means to take so much more of the
common mans money for the necessares
of life If they could not do this, there
would be no motive to maintain the trust.
They will proceed at first with COM
paro+fx,a11, c,,,o11 h,,t +1,o1, ,,-,11
raise prices just as fast and as far as the
stupid and servile people will stand it,
Look at the spectacle this country pre-
sents-trusts, trusts, trusts on every
hand-hour, clothing, meat, boots and
shoes, hats and caps, wooden goods, cot
ton goods, iron ware-everything, in fact,
that man needs And yet people silently
submit to it all without murmur, and
sustain the politicians and parties which
have brought this state OF things upon
them.
1t reminds us OF the year 1860. and the
early spring OF OF, when state after state
went out Of the Union and not voice
was raised in protest throughout the
North. Horace Greeley said, Let the
erring sisters depart in peace And it
really looked as if the Union was about
to be dissolved into nothingness with
out blow being struck; but suddenly,
when the Stars and Stripes went down in
Charleston harbor the whole North rose
up as one man.
We think the time is not far distant-it
may be in Iooo-when there will be an
other such uprising against the robbers
who are now manacling and gagging the
American people.
II it does not come, American liberty
will fail and seli-government will cease
forthwith in all the world l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
THIEVES ROB THIEVES

They are having great time at Du-
luth over wholesale robbery of tons OF
-four Some OF the leading commission
men OF that city are involved in the
crime. We quote:
Duluth, March 1o-(Times Special. }
The grand jury has returned bunch OF
indictments in connection with the flour
alleged to have been stolen from the
cargo of the wrecked steamer Arthur
Orr. The indictments were against
Peter G. Kraemer, the commission man
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
HOW WE PAY.

A statement in the New York Journal,
OF Feb. 8, is authority that the cost OF re-
finsng and distributing sugar is about
one-third of cent pound. A good
item for socialists to jot down. Will come
handy in discussions about labor cost
Raw sugar does not cost one cent a
pound labor cost
Here is an essential Of life, manufac-
tured for one cent pound, and sold for
six or eight cents pound.
OF that every time you swallow
Iful of sugar, and thank God that
a sensible man, and not imposed
"A lnyOne. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
Amen Here.

A scheme is under way to connect Liv-
within a radius of seventeen miles, by
electric street railroads, which will carry
passengers in the daytime and freight at
night
That is what we need in Minnesota.
Every country road should have an cleo
trio line upon it. The cars could run up
hill and down dale as easily as horses do.
That is what the state will have yet, but
by that time all the land will be owned
by the plutocrats.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
OUR GLORIOUS PROSPERITY

w NLONlOOO NoOI I.
We all know that the taxes upon a
piece OF property are supposed to be but
few mills upon the dollar OF the value
of the property; and that the assessed
value is generally one-half or one-third
OF the real value; and yet we have reached
a condition in this state in which the real
estate of our cities is not worth the taxes
due upon it, and it seems the people who
have bought tax-titles are now trying to
get legislation to enable them to institute
suits to sue themselves to set their own
titles aside, SO that they may come back
on the state to return them the money
they paid for the taxes.
We find the following in one OF the
daily papers in its report of our legisla-
tive proceedings:
In the afternoon session, with Mr.
Jackson in the chair, the house really re-
solved itself into snug little family
party, with Roberts, Laybourn, Staples,
Jacobson, Stivers and Foss leading the
conversation, while the less important
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
BOWLER'S SALARY.
HE WANTS 1T ELEVATED FROM
CT 600 To q GOO We


Senator J. H. Smith, chairman of the
committee III public health, dairy and
food, p,ssentd a bill to codify the laws
oi Tire stare GARY and food department,
and make them more Ineligible The
only change of Importance is one provis-
ion incorporated by Maj. Bowler, the
present commissioner, increasing his sal
airy from $1,000 to $4,000 per year.
A great many Fusion Populists have
been wondering, since January 1st, what
they have got by uniting with the Demo
Gratis; but there you have it!
Bowler has been appointed to an office
worth $500 year; AND NOW HE
WANTS 500 MOREl
How many of Bowler's friends and
neighbors would regard $500 year as
pr'ncely salary? Three-fourths of the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

The New York state Workingmen' S
Federation has appointed committee to
consult legal counsel as to the proper
draughting of labor measures, SO that
when they become laws there will be no
question as to their constitutionalty.
And by the time the lawyers have
patched UP the holes in the legal kettle
the judges will bore dozen new ones
There is no limit to judicial cunning
when stimulated by fat fees.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
A SERIOUS CHARGE.

: have treated Brother Pomeroy
eat courtesy, but our friend, Mot
OF the Indiana Referendum, goes
in lively way, and charges that
Democrat in disguise. He says :
old Democratic COW is driven
oy the Democrat politicians and pa
raded at every meeting Of reformers in
hopes that the old huzzy may pick up a
few straws of popularity to fill up her I'D
der and enable her to lead stampede of
the reform forces to the Democratic
camp in 1900.
"Eltweed Pomeroy was present at the
Union Reform meeting at Cincinnati last
week leading the old Democratic cow
fresh painted and with muffled bell so that
many reformers did not recognize the old
huzzy, nor even the tinkle of her Wall
street clapper.
Is this true, Brother Pomeroy? You
are member of Buffers fusion Populist
national committee and should tote
i d
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

own neighmborhood Get two or three
together and elect officers, and then adj
Jonrn, and bring in others; and adjourn
again and again, until every farmer in
the township has chance to come In
We want numbers and wisdom and en-
thuslasm L D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
Mr.. DOnnelly'S Books.

We are receiving SO many applica-
tons for Mr.. Donnelly's books that We
have concluded to keep a supply Of them
on hand hereafter, and furnish them di-
rect to applicants.
ATLANTIS, 4So pages, illustrated. Szsoo
"Ragnarok." 452 pages. illustrated ZOO
Great Cryptogram, oo8 pages, il
Illustrated R.e6
Caesars Column" 367 pages in
cloth ............-...- Loo
paper, so cents.
DR.. Huguet," 3o7 pages, CLOTH. Zoo
paper, IS cents.
Golden Bottle 3I3 pages, cloth frpo
paper, IS cents.
American Peoples Money" 1856
paper, Is cents.
The above prices include the postage
which on the Great Cryptogram" IS
36c. Address: THE Representative"
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

ever. the conference Is simply educational
we shall not have one word to say
against it. In the meantime we propose
to treat it with all respect and courtesy,
but keep our eyes wide open. We are
too old to be foled with platitudes.
d
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

DR.. Sackett. of Herman, Mimi. writes that he
has used H. w. Barker's Nerve and Bone Liptr
ment extensively in his practice OF medicine,
and especially recommends its use for strains,
and bruises. and in fact for anything whore
such medicines are used. For sale at tho 6lu&
stores and dealers in medicine.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

The initiative and referendum retires
money from politics The best book
written upon the subject is Bond and
Industrial Slavery" Price Is cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15
TAKE NOTICE.

!. Fairchild is ready to go out
. re branches OF the Grain
location wherever he may be
this state or North or South
lie is an eloquent and able
onest to the core. He is the
we told of Feb. 8. who lost
Iowa by the trickery of New
lers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

-. 49, asks is his expenses and ST per
day. He will be glad to stop with his
brother farmers Write to him care OF
The Representative He will do you
good. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-15

Joe A. Parker has moved the Free
Republic to Paris. Tex. May he pros
per in his new home. God never made
& young man of nobler spirit and truer
principles.-The Referendum.
Amen Here
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
UNIQUE NEWSPAPER.
[From the Chicago Tribune.

IFTOm the ChIcag0 tribune
J. C. Owens, publisher of the Burnside
Item, is an interesting editor of unique
newspaper. Burnside was formerly
Point Burnside, and is located on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad at a point
where it crosses the Cumberland river.
The town, noted principally as a coun-
try produce depot and a sawmill head
quarters, took its name from General
Burnside, who operated extensively in
that vicinity during the War of the
Rebellion. 1T has a population of 500
or more.
One of the interesting features of the
Item is that it is published on the ed
itor's farm, a mile and a half up the
river from Burnside. The Item is a
bright and newsy sheet of four pages,
five columns to the page, and is all
About twice a week Editor Owens
mounts his horse or harnesses his skiff
drops down to Burnside, picks up all
the local news and neighborhOod goS-
of letters from correspondents in ada
cent villages, returns to his farm and
proceeds to publish one of the best
printed papers in Kentucky.
Editor Owens is not troubled with
strikes. "We," he says, carry on farm
ing, raise stock and breed fancy fowls as
a side line. Before we started the pa
per we operated incubators and raised
large numbers of fowls for the markets
We means wife, two children and my
self. Wife is good compositor, old
ate, and the 5-year-old is a born printer,
farmer and chicken raiser.''
The Item was established in 1895, has
never missed a mail or an issue, and
never printed less than 800 papers. ! Its
present circulation is 1511.
Editor Owens was born in Wayne
county, KY, and at 18 went west. He
first roughed it in a logging camp be-
came railroad brakeman, accumulated
a little money, and concluded to go to
school. Taking as much education as
he thought he needed, he began teach
ing. Then he concluded to study law,
and was soon licensed to practice. Later
he took notion to start a paper, and
he had several interesting experiences
in western journalism. He finally drift
ed back to Kentucky, got together
enough money to buy a rich bottom
farm in the Cumberland valley, and
evolved the idea of combining farm
ing, chicken raising and journalism.
Mr.. Owens is six feet tall and weighs
200 pounds.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
STANDARD TO QUIT OHIO
Plants and Refineries Will Be Re-
moved to Indiana Towns.

Winamac, Ind. May 31.-The Stand
ard Oil company is making prepara-
tions to remove its entire manufactory
plants and oil refneries from Toledo.
O., to Indiana, on account of the legal
complications risen between the attor-
ney general of the state of Ohio and the
oil company.
H. o. Hathaway of this place today
received plans and specifications from
the Standard Oil company to enable
him to make bids for the erection OF
new oil plants and refineries, to be built
on the right of way of the Indiana
Natural Gas and Oil Line Pipe COM
pany, from Winamac to Whiting, Ind.
Several weeks ago IS carloads of To-
inch pipe were shipped and unloaded
at this place. Several hundred Italians
are now at work digging trenches and
laying two 10-inch pipes alongside Of
the two S-inch mains of pipe laid in
1892 by the oil and gas company.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
PAINTED STOCKINGS.
rFronn the Cincinnati Enonirer. l

CF'rom the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Lieutenant Hourst of the French
army has published a lively narrative
of his recent explorations in West Afri-
ca. With four white companions he
pluckfly sailed down the Niger river in
an aluminium sailing boat of about
seven feet beam, managing to carry her
and her smaller consorts, manned by
friendly natives, the whole distance
from T1mbuctoO, past Say and BusSa,
to the sea without accident or loss of
life. Being a Frenchman, the most anus
ing parts of his book are devoted to de-
Scrfptions of the Negridan ladies, whom
he studied along the river banks. He
was not captivated by their beauty
Indeed, he compares them to Durham
oxen or negresses, who, like English
women, when they are ugly at all, are
really revo1tingly ugly
The corpulent matrons of the Niger
eagerly clad themselves in yards upon
yards of cheap Paris veIveteen, but
there were girls of more slender make,
whose sole attempt at dressing was
staining their legs to the knees with
rocou or red dye, which gives them the
appearance at a distance of wearing
nothing but light red stockings" The
lieutenant was as confused as shy Eng
lishman at the unusual sight; but one
of the red-legged beauties, noticing his
embarrassment, remarked very sensi-
bly,, Are we so badly made that we
need hide ourselves? All in good time,
when we are old like our mothers, we
will wear clothes" This frank explana-
t1On seems, somewhat unaccOunta bly,,
to have put the visitor at his ease.
The men folk, likewise, have their
amusing traits. A declaration of war
was one day brought to the 1ieutenants s
boat. While it was being translated
NJ. Hourst covertly watched the ambas-
sador. After delivering his message
he had prudently sought refuge behind
a piece of rock, but finding that no no.
tice was taken of him he peeped out,
first with one eye, then with both eyes,
and finally ventured into the open with
the plaintive interrogatory:
rs there any hope of my getting a
air of breaches ~,
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
THINKS MONEY RULES.
Ian Maclaren" Tells His Cengrega-
ton of Recent American
Experien ces.
200 pounds.

Liverpool, May 31-Before his congre-
cation in Seton Park Presbyterian
church. Liverpool, the Rev. John Watson
tQan Maclaren) took for his subject his
recent American experiences. The Sun
day newspaper in the United States, he
said, were unmitigated curse to the
people, and London was to be congratu-
lated on the failure of the attempt to in
troduce the innovation there
The one thing which above all others
startled him, DR.. Watson said, was the
power of the secular spirit in America and
the weakness of the Christian church,
Men We're devoted to money and money
getting in a way and to a degree which
he could not have imagined possible.
The churches in the United States. he
continued, were conducted, to a consid-
cradle extent, a large business concerns.
money-making permeatfng everything In
many districts he found congregations
consisting almost entirely of women.
DR.. Watson eulogized the vivacity, in
tellect and energy, the boundless resource,
high hope and confidence of the Ameri-
can race, which he declared to be one of
the most promising of the Anglo-SaXon
branches. The readiness of the rich
A merican to build and endow educational
institutions he considered a matter for
national pride.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
KILLED THEIR FATHER.
Two Young Children Grow Weary of
Persecution - Will Not Be
Punished.

Chicago, May 31-A special to the
Tribune from Rapid City, S. D., says:
Lena and Nicholas Bouts, the chill
dren who were brought to this city by
Sheriff Leedy from the western part of
Bennington county, admit the charge
a railway tie contractor for the Burling-
ton railway.
The father it is said, usually staid
at home and made the children and
their mother do the tie cutting, and
when the payments for the tie contracts
were made by the railroad company
pocketed the money and spent it upon
himself.
Lena, aged Ia, and her younger bro
and early on Thursday morning, while
the father was still asleep, the two chill
dren secured a rifle with which the girl
shot her father through the head. After
firing the rifle Lena and her brother
went out to the kitchen and prepared
big breakfast. They ate all they could
hold of the things which their father
meal the children had had for many
day.
When the girl was told by the sheriff
that they would have to hang her bro
ther Nicholas for shooting their father
Lena weakened and confessed every
thing. The children are being cared
for by Sheriff Leedy. New clothes have
been purchased for them, besides the
first shoes they have ever had in their
lives
1t is not decided just what course
will be pursued in their case 1t is
probable that no prosecution will be
made and the children will be taken
care of in a private family here, or they
may be sent to the state reform school.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
CORNERED STAMPS.
J. NJ. Fontanlas Thinks lie Has 3
Sure Fortune in Hand.

Chicago, May al. NJ. Fontanlas of
San Juan, Porto Rico. is registered at the
Great Northern hotel, in company with
F. F. Arguero, the official interpreter of
former Governor General Guy v Henry.
who has just concluded his administra-
ton of the island.
Mr. Fontanlas has proved himself an
up-to-date man of business. At the close
of the war he bought up all the residue
of the Spanish Porto Rican stamps. It
cost him $25. coo to corner the issue. But
he has obtained the monopoly. and now,
since Spanish administra ton is over, no
more Porto Rican stamps will be fabri-
Gated. In these days of stamp collections
and brokerage stamp business, Mr..
Fontanlas thinks he has a fortune in his
hands.
The value of his stamps, he says, will
constantly accrue; already they are curfos
and soon they win become costly rarities.
Besides, he can hold them long he
pleases and watch the price go up.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
TO JULIA RUDDY
A TOKEN OF HONESTY
GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL
CHICAGO, MAY 27.

-.--.:...;....-..-.....
S. A. Porter, the man who lost and re-
gained a small fortune within a few hours,
is a wealthy 1umberman of St. Paul,
MINI. About two weeks ago, accompanied
by his wife, he came to Chicago, and has
been stopping since at the Great North
ern. After attending to some business,
he returned to the hotel about 10 oclock
in the morning and spent an hour re
clining on sofa in his room. His wallet
fell from his hip pocket and rolled under
the edge of the sofa Afterward Mr.. and
the pocketbook. They went shopping, and
about O'Clock in the afternoon Mr.. Por-
ter, when about to make some purchases,
found his pocketbook was gone.
On learning that the chambermaid in
cleaning up the room, had found the wal
let and immediately turned it over to the
manager, Mr.. Porter and his wife decided
to reward her. After purchasing the
watch and chain and having it inscribed,
Mr.. Porter presented it to the delighted
girl, who is now the envy of the other en-
ployeS of the hotel.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
He SHOT THE QUEEN.
Why DR.. Pepper is No Longer in the
Consular Service.

Washington, May 31.-Robert Mans
field, the editor of a paper at Marion,
zibar on the east coast of Africa. The
place pays $4,000 This is the office held
by DR.. Pepper of Virginia, who created
such a sensation when he was there
and so offended the native queen as to
cause a demand to be made for his
recall. 1t seems that the queen was in
the habit of bathing in the surf in
front of DR.. Peppers house, and as. she
did not wear an up-to-date bathing
suit the modesty of the doctor was
shocked, and one day when the queen
was taking her bath the doctor got a.
shotgun and fired at her and inflicted
wound which caused the queen to eat
her meals off the rnantelpiece for some
days. DR.. Pepper came home after this
and has been out of the consular ser
vice ever since. Mr.. Mansfield viii be
cautioned not to shoot at native queens
when they go bathing on the beach at
Zanzibar after his arrival there.