The representative., 1899-07-27
Organization
Department.

DSk/SAA SAAA~AANs
(Send communications for this col
umn to DR.. H. B. Fay, Al Washington
avenue south, Minneapolis, Mimi
AWAKE.
A tremendous crisis is before you
Farmer, will you, snail-like. crawl into
your little hole, and let the trusts, with
their hireling politicians of the two old
parties, run the government for you?
Those robbers, living on the fruit of
your toll, have in secret already selected
their candidates whom you will be per-
mitted to follow, behind a brass band,
and vote for.
Bryan is one of them. 1t makes no
difference which of their candidates is
selected. Read history, and consider
how many times the people have set up
men whom they have afterwards had to
beg for aid in vain.
If you will read our national and state
referendum plans, printed in our
pamphlets, you will learn that OURS IS
THE ONLY NATIONAL PARTY exist.
ing THAT PUTS THE WHOLE POW
Err DIRECT INTO EVERY FARM.
HOUSE.
HCGGISHNESS OF OTHER PARTIES
Thursday of last week the national
committee Of the Democratic party met
at Chicago. Are you farmers paying
any Of the travelling expenses and end
less heavy hotel bills Of Bryan and his
followers? If others are footing their
continued expenses, will you or they
have occasion to look for any reward
Committeeman Woodson told how
money is raised in Kentucky. But the
details are not published. Forty com.
mitteemen were there. They selected
II among themselves, five of whom shal
constitute quorum, for an executive
committee.
These men shall be especially charge !
with the duty of carrying out the poll
cies of the whole committee, and see
ing that its orders are executed" Linds
hireling office holders are expecting YOU
farmers to whOOp it up next year for
what those few men order What are
they to you? That is what they call
reformed Democracy" You cannot
believe their promises, cannot be fools
enough to follow their orders.
Take the Social Democratic party as
another example of hoggishness. One
man alone, Debs, controls it. Only the
other day he and a few friends met in
Chicago, and by themselves abolished
the farmers plank" of their platform.
What do you Dakota farmers think of
that? Now the important news is lust
wired that
THE SOCIAL LABOR PARTY IS DI.
VIDED.
mat party has been automatically
governed by few men living in New
York city.
Those men, who maintain that the
only motive power is selfishness work.
ing through socialistic laws, and deny
the power of love or religion, have now
broken apart into two factions, each
mutually suspending the others.
Thus, there are in that party now nc
national officers, and their utopian
scheme of budding socialism is already
frost-bitten by anarchy. The Chicago
section of that party. having no referen-
dunn organization, sees no relief except
to ask individual members to write their
opinions to their paper, or to call a con-
vention Gust think of that!) that would
please such 'refOrmer" as Rinpdah1
who wants to stick to conventions and
committee rule, and was ahead of all
Democrats in voting down Swain's ref
erendum plan, which we have adopted
Tor our party in Minnesota. This plan
divides the power among the different
counties, and places it where it belongs
locally, in their respective clubs. AS
choice between these different parties
no intelligent man, if devoted to the
people, can for moment hesitate to
choose
WHAT is THAT TO ME-?
Agents of the rapidly forming trusts
guard every needed article, set prices
and wages, haunt your sleep, confiscate
adulterate food, coldly watch your dying
struggle for animal life. AS humble ex
amples, out of thousands, should your
wife want some tin plate or granite
ware, she must for instance, pay an ar
bitrary advance of so or 60 per cent in
order that your Democratic and Repub-
1can politicians may receive the means
with which to fool the people and hold
their own jobs. Monopoly has lust adj.
vanced the price on rubber boots and
glass by 10 per cent. AS the trusts con.
troi those articles, your remonstrance ia
vain. until you shall learn what It
means to be GLASS CONSCIOUS" at
The POLLS. How do you enjoy pav-
Ing from 10 to 100 per cent more than
formerly for your hardware or building
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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