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, 1899-11-09

Kansas City, Nov. 5.-Half a million
dollars worth Of property was de-
stroyed after midnight by fire that
started In Jones Bros. big department
store on North Main and Sixth streets
and spread to half n block of other
buildings in Main and Walnut streets.
The aggregate insurance Is estimated
Mt $4,000. The heaviest losers are
Jones Bros, who estimate their stock.
which was totally destroyed, as worth
100000. The insurance carried by
this firm amounted to 50 per cent. of
the loss. Il was the most destructive
fire that has ever visited the uptown
business district.
, 1899-11-09

The editorial writer of the Gratiot
Journal in last issue said that 1.-The
prosperity of the country had not
reached the middle and lower classes
Of society,"" and then proceeded to get
off a canned article IN trusts. The
Journal writer knows, il he has given
the matter any attention. that even
Ithaca factories are running on fuller
time than they were during the last
administration. There isn't a farmer
in the vicinity of Ithaca that isn't
getting more for his cattle, sheep and
other stock. There isn't a working
man in the country hat can't get
work il he wants it, and at good wages.
The iron mines, the iron mills are hus-
Ting their hardest, something they
weren't doing in 1896. Think OF it!
Big factories refusing orders because
they are already filled up for three
years to come. with their mills run
ming on double time. and then have
some one here yell out that the mid
die and lower classes are not feeling
the better times.-St. Louis (Mich.)
Republican-Leader.
, 1899-11-09
STRIKE!
Hundred of Thousands
Are Involved.
Trouble Ia an Important Part Of the organiza-
ton Affects All the R:sr-A Perfectly
Harmonious System Easily
Thrown Out OF Gear.

Organized labor has reached such a
stage that anything affecting IA particular
branch OF 1t draws all the rest into the
difficulty.
1t is exactly the same way with differ
ent organs of the human body. Work too
hard. eat too much. drink too much. eN-
any way, and the liver quits work.
Then the bowels become constipated and
the stomach goes on strike. The heart is
affected. the brain follows suit, and every
part. in the body is dragged into the
trouble.
The only way out of 1t is to go at the
source of all this-the liver. Square your
self with the liver and all will get back to
regular natural work.
C~ascarets Candy Cathartic make things
right with the liver, They perfume the
breath. prevent food from souring on the
stomach, give tone to the bowels, strength
en- the intestinal muscles, while hey are
cleaning and stirring up the liver to re-
newed activity.
No matter how long a case has been in
durable. Cascsrets are guaranteed to put
things righ as they should be, and set
the whole machinery a-going. And you
can get them at any drug store or by mail
for price-l0c, Csc, or soc. Address Sterling
Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
- This is the CASCASET tab
/~\ let. Every tablet OF the only
ns genuine Cascarets bears the
v " v magic letters &C c c. Look
M at the tablet before you buy,
w and beware of frauds, imita-
tions and substitutes.
, 1899-11-09
HowIlnu Not Popular.

Mr.. Bryan is against trusts. but he
hasn't said yet what he would do to
throttle them were he elected presi-
dent. And 1t may be necessary for him
to outline a policy before the people
place their undivided confidence In his
ability. Mere bowling isn't popular
any more. The voters are too busy
with the new Mckinley prosperity to
listen to defamation. - Winchester
Gll.) Standard.
, 1899-11-09

doorbell twice.
She must think a good deal of you to
ment."
~ don't know; maybe she wants a
, 1899-11-09

New equipment makes the Union Pacific
most popular line running both EAST
and west from I'enVer. Nine hours saved
between Denv and San Francisco or the
Pacific northwest, and only one night to
Chicago, st. Pau or st. Louis. Ticket
Office, 9l 18th street.
, 1899-11-09

He-"rhis war in South Africa will
make diamonds dearer.''
She-"l suppose so, but any girl who
really loves "A man would be willing to
wear a ring of pearls and opals until the
trouble is over"
, 1899-11-09

What's the difference between football
humane object in view"
, 1899-11-09

DO you know any way by which TO
insure permanent respect for the statues
of our great statesmen?' "Yes put
them on top of ice crenm s0dn fomntains.N
, 1899-11-09

A woman rather likes trusting that you
mistrust her until she mistrusts that she
trusts you.
, 1899-11-09

FIT rermanenIiyC Cured. iNonts Lr nervousness after
first days use OF Dir. Kline s Gruat Nerve Resturcr
send for FREE $500 trial bottl. and treatise
, 1899-11-09

Were any witnesses present when the
proposed marriage?' ONLY
the eternal stars" Well, there's no
use to subpoena them"
, 1899-11-09

Menelik. negus of Abysslnla, has in
vaded the Nile river territories with an
army OF 10000 10 chastise the local
tribes.
, 1899-11-09

Has your artist brother won any dis
Yes his clothes don't Mt hin any
, 1899-11-09

Genius Is like life insurance: one
pays the premium. but the benefits ac-
crce to his heirs.
, 1899-11-09

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only
cough medicine used in my housed. e.
Albright, M~ifiinburg, Pa, Dec. IL, 'g5.
, 1899-11-09

Laxative Bromo Qnininc Tablets removes
the cause that produces La Grippe. L. w.
Groves signature is or each box. 25c.
, 1899-11-09

II have come" said Civilization. Ito be
a father to you Which the same is to
say, retorted Barbarism. sullen and I'M
couth, 81 shall have to eat at The second
table and wenr Your old clothes."
, 1899-11-09

What tall mantels you have. Mrs.
limp Yes: | want to put my bric-a-
brac up so high that 1 can't see whether
1t Is dusty or not"
, 1899-11-09

Keeps your breath pure and nostrils clean. Send
name for free sample to W. A. Hover or Bridahnm
a Quercnu. Denver. All drugg sts, 50 cents.
, 1899-11-09
DOLLAR STRETCHER

A DOLLAR SIRETCHER Onelady writes that the greatest dollar Stretch
r. she has yer found is III ley and original
method which j e. ubnger is introducing his latest invention, "Red CPosar
NJ " Etubingers Best"s starch. She says: With your Endless Chain Starch
BOOK, L received from my grocer ne large package of :" Red Cu@' Starch
one large package Of "Hubingers Best starch, and two beautiful akespear
panels'a all hr Sc. low far my dollar will c, am unable to figure out Ask
your grocer for this starch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free.
, 1899-11-09

Runs Every Day /" the Year.
The Overland Limited" via Union Pa
cifc for California and the Pacific north
west. Quickest time and finest equip
ment. Ticket Office, 9il 18th street.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
We All Thiak Alike.

The bill to place the state inspector
Of oil on a salary basis, failed to pass.
Democratic votes defeated the measure
They were traitors to the wish of every
Populist and every Populist paper.in the
state. Mr.. Heinrich, who is member
of the Minneapolis Brewing Company,
will continue to draw $5O,OOO year.
Democratic politicians reformers. Well,
guess nit.-Faribault JeRersonian.
Poor Willie Waldorf Astor has been
obliged oy the unfeeiinE tax commits
sioners of New York city to either pay
taxesson $2,OOO,O00 of his vast personal
property, or makela wearisome journey
from London to fight the commission a
round. He chose the latter course,
and has been doing some athletic swear
ing concerning his exttine poverty and
his allegiance to the qJeen in order to
circumvent the cruel tdx gatherers ra-
pacious demands. Seftfal years ago
Willie was taxed on 8 fjOOo,ooO Of per-
sonal property, butt on the threat to
claim exemption - ! nonresident, be
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Government Ownership a Remedy.

Six people are killed and many more
are wounded at Pana, ILL., Included in
this list of casualties are men, women
and children, most OF whom took no
hand in the fight, but were struck by
stray balls from the guns of fighting
rioters. Nobody knows who is to blame
for this particular riot, but it can be
traced to the first cause of all the trouble
III that unfortunate. town, which was the
bringing in by the mine owners of cheap
negro labor to coerce white men to work
for starvation wages. The state militia
spent many months in the town in order
to keep the peace, and they had left but
few days when riot, rapine and murder
broke out again more desperate and
bloody than ever. The soldiers are back
again, the people have been disarmed,
martial law has been declared and the
jails are full Of rioters. This has caused
an immense expense to the state and will
probably bankrupt the county And all
for what? Why. that greedy spectators
should be upheld in their robbing OF the
poor. The expense of these troubles are
greater than the value of the mines and
it does not look as if that expense would
ever end. There is one simple remedy
that should Immediately bring peace and
quietness to that afflicted community. but
that is heroic measure, and heroic men
are getting mighty scarce in this country.
Let the commonwealth of Illinois take
possession OF those mines under it's right
of eminent domain, paying the mine own
ers reasonable price for their land, then
let the state carry on the business for
the benefit Of all its people. No soldiers
would then be required there would be
| no more riots, all extraordinary expenses
would cease. There would be no big
dividends to be paid to idle men, there
fore coal could be made cheaper. while
at the same time labor would be better
paid and the whole community would be
peaceful. prosperous and contented It
would also furnish an object lesson on the
labor question that would open the eyes
of the blind and enable them to see how
far the principle of cooperation excels
that of competition.-The Nonconform-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Phil0s0n1ax.

One murder makes a villain, millions
hero. Wise old oracle, speaking these
words. One dollar stolen makes a
thief, millions a United States senator.
The hero of a hundred thefts goes to
Florida to fish and to reflect that virtue
is always rewarded. Pennsylvania pays
her miners five and ten cents an hour
for mining coal, and; pours full with
money and power the shameful treasury
of the spoliator What and who may be
Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania is her
people-her averaged citizenship. That
citizenship growls, threatens, laments,
but does not strike. AS long as it does
not strike the regime of the thief must
he regarded as the regime of it's choice.
And Pennsylvania is only another name
for every other state in the Union.-The
Philadelphia Conservator.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Creating DesO1atiOn.

We are 10th to print the article head
ed christian Civilization" copied from
Free Society. 1t exposes condition
that surpasses belief, and yet letters sent
by officers and others corroborate the
horrible statements.
Thus Capt. Elliott, of the goth Kansas
regiment, writes to Kansas paper:
"Caloocan was reported to be a city
of II 900 population. Our regiment rode
through it, and now it has not a single
inhabitant. All the buildings that re-
main are the walls Of the great church
and of the prison. Mayfaga, where we
had our first battle in the night time,
was a town of 5000. Now there is not
one stone to be seen on top of the other.
1t is almost impossible to form a con-
ception of the desolation."
And all these things are done in the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Municipal Ownership.

The New York Journal is prosecuting
a vigorous and sagaciOus campaign for
the establishment of municipal gas
plant for Greater New York. Among
other things the Journal recently con-
tained the following:
The city of New York can establish a
municipal gas plant, supply you with
gas at fifty cents a thousand feet and
save annually the cost of city lighting,
which amounts to $1,000,000 year in
Manhattan island alone.
Do you approve the suggestion that
such a plan be carried out?
If you do approve-do your share of
the work.
Remember, that politicians only act
in response to popular demand, and Of
ten not even in response to that. Talk
the matter over with your friends Din
it into the ears of any politician whom
you may know.
If we get municipal gas it will be the
beginning of general municipal owner
ship of,properties that should belong to
the city,
This newspaper proposes to make an
effort to start municipal ownership, and
selects the lighting by gas as the first
step. The present time is opportune-
elections in other towns have made poll
! ticians understand that municipal own
ership and the general question of fran
chise thievery is powerful factor at
election times.
Help on the thing as much as you can.
| Think about it, argue in favor OF it. BY
and by you will have a chance to vote
! for it. II the people are ready for the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Les Miserables.

The commercial reporters give us two
or three columns every week containing
fairy tales of universal prosperity. They
tell us about big crops, great exports,
busy factories and happy laDorers, but
there is one increasing business they
never mention. The suicide industry is
growing more rapidly than any other.
Every coming year shows an increase in
the number of people who have volunta-
rily quit the job Of living and have gone
is not affected by climate or weather;
drought does not diminish it's steady
growth. Summers heat and winters
cold do not affect it's productiveness.
You see the names of the tired men and
women in every daily paper. Some
times they are given half column, and
often only a short paragraph; occa-
sionally it reads like this: Richard Roe
killed himself last night because he was
penniless and out of work. He could
no longer endure to witness the sNeT-
ing of his fading wife and starving hit
tie ones. In this prosperous country Of
ours, the richest in all the world, the
poor are taking their lives every day,
because they can find no possible way
to make living. Crime is Increasing
poverty is increasing, suicide is increas-
ing, and at the same time wealth is in
creasing more rapidly than it has ever
increased before. The daily papers are
full of accounts of burglaries, robberies,
murders and suicides, the jails ere full
of criminals, the highways are full
Of tramps, the penitentiaries are full Of
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

If it has (Which l do not admit), why?
Let me answer it is because such fellows
as he is have withheld action, have stood
aloof with folded arms waiting to see how
it runs, waiting for somebody else to run
their part, then if their part was not run,
holler fzzle. Now it seems to me that
If the writer of the aforesaid article had
pulled off his coat and rolled up his
sleeves and went to work like our own
DR.. Fay, he would have had the organiz-
ing OF his state well under way and would
not now be hollering '6zzle" He says
of the referendum in this letter Fish or
cut bait its "application to our party at
this time is a grave mistake" again 1T
was a fatal mistake made at Cincinnati"
which being read between the lines,
means that the Cincinnati convention was
made up OF simpletons. And now to make
his verdict true, he would have the chair
man OF the organizing committee do
very foolish thing at the present time,
call for a referendum vote at once.
Now any sensible man knows that
referendum vote called for at this time
would destroy the work OF the Cincin-
natl convention, if not the party itself.
From the way he denounces that conven-
ton it is evident to me that this is the
end he is after
To take referendum vote now would
be the height of folly. A year hence is
soon enough. In the meantime let every
effort be made to organize clubs. Skeleton
clubs for that matter Then follow up
with propaganda and thus fill up II at
the end of year from now the showing
will justify, then call for a referendum
vote. Ii not, then go ahead with the
nominees of the Cincinnati convention
and do the best we can under the old
plan Mr.. Barker says that the action
of the Cincinnati convention will stand
unless set aside by a vote OF the rank and
file T. ]. White.
Morristown, Mimi
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

Written alter seeing MlllettS dlliOuo
Painting.
BY EDWIN MARKHAM.
"God made man in his own image,
in the image of Cad made he him.'-Gen-
esis.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And en- his back the burden Of the world
Who made him dread to rapture and de-
spair.
A thing that grieves not and that never
hopes,
stolid and stunned a brother to the OK.
Who locsened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back TINS
brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this
brain?
Is this the thing the Lord God made and
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens
for power;
To feel the passion for eternity?
Is this the dream he dreamed who shaped
And pillared the blue armament with light?
Down all the stretch of hell to it's last gulf
There is no stretch more terrible than this
More tongued with censure OF the worlds
blind greed
More filled with signs and portents 1or the
soul
More fraught with menace to the universe.
What CULTS between him and the seraphlms
Slave of the wheel of labor what to him
Are Plato and the swing of the Pleaides?
What the long reaches of the peaks OF song.
The rift of dawn, the reddening OF the rose?
Through this dread shape the ages look;
Times tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the judges of the world,
A protest that is also a prophecy.
@ masters lords and rulers OF all LANDS,
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing, distorted and SOUL
Quenchcd?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and the llgnt,
Rebuild it in the music and the Dream
Make right the immemOrial infamies,
Perfdious wrongs immedicicle woes?
q masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the future reckon with this MANI
How answer his brute questions in that hour
when whirdwinds OF rebellion shake the
world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with
kings
When those who shaped him to the thing
When this dumb terror shall reply to God
After the silence Of centuries?
Oakland. Cal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
THE RIGHT STRIKE
How WOrlxingmen Can Get Their
Work Ineffective Hit at the Bal
lot Box.
Schilling'S Advance,

For over a year there has been a
Ill. A fellow named Penwell was
elected mayor as the "friend of labor"
on the Republican ticket. When year
ago a general price list was agreed upon
between the mine owners and the mine
workers, Penwell and a few others in
Pana refused to abide by the agreement
The miners struck, and Penwell i'm
ported a large number of negroes, to
take the place of the miners. Mining
in the South is done principally by ne
gro convicts, and that is where criminal
colored men learn the business.
From this one can learn the character
of the men Penwell imported. He and
his co-conspirators armed the negro des-
peradoes with revolvers and Winches-
ters, and as a result about dozen peo-
pie we're killed.
Only two weeks ago Stevens, the
leader of the black desperadoes, who
had theatened to kill one of the dep
uty sheriffs on sight, attempted to carry
out his design, and killed several in
nocent people. Though he himself met
death, it was not until seven others had
been shot.
At the election on April 1S the people
of Pana retired Mayor" Penwell.
A. B. German, Sr., a retired mer-
chant, headed the Democratic ticket, all
nominees of which were favorable to
union labor and opposed to mines being
operated by non-union negroes; while
H. N. Schuyler, a banker and the
wealthiest citizen, was the leader OF
the opposition or citizens ticket. Cor
man defeated Schuyler by 240 majority
Democrats and union men also elected
clerk, attorney, treasurer and two al.
| dermen.: The citizens ticket elected
two aldermen by five majority. There
were soyer 100 negro 7otes sworY
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

in by the non-union faction. This
led to several arrests for illegal voting.
Soldiers patrolled the entire city dur
ing the day, but no trouble occurred.
Now what was the result of defeating
the "scab" ticket at the polls?
Why, Penwell and his gang were at
once ready to make terms. A meeting
of miners and operators was held.
Penwell agreed to recognize the miners,
and to discharge the negro desperadoes,
and to abide by the joint national agree
ment between the mine owners and mine
workers.
We make no comment on this occur
renee, but would suggest that every
workman study the lesson and study it
real hard, too.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Courtesy Minneapolis Times.
Fed ON the fat of this great land,
He gets away with his brother.
The question is getting down to biz.
Are things not sOrely amiss
when Uncle Sam is still as a clam
In sight Of affairs like this?

managed to persuade the commission to
reduce his assessment three-fifths. Now
he don't propose to pay any tax at all
on his personal estate if he can avoid it.
Coming Nation.
All opposition, in whatever form, to
the initiative and referendum, may be
set down as opposition to the rule of the
people. When our Republican state
senate refused to submit the measure
to raise the gross earnings tax on rail-
roads from to 4 per cent, to vote of
the people, it made one of the gravest
of mistakes, and it will be heavy load
for the Republican party in this state to
carry in the next campaign-Faribaul
Jeffersonian.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
a4S m M #A - To Farmers Wholesale We do
@S% D3W o he Combin andw
CARL l.. STEWART LUMBER CO..
First Street North, Mnneapo Mlnn.

thing, it can be secured; if they are not
ready, nothing can be done.
The efforts of newspapers, and of poll
ticians, however much in earnest, count
for nothing unless you, the individual
citizen, are convinced that the work
should be done and are willing to do
your share.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

name of ''civilization," "Christianity"
and humanity" Hanna and Mckinley
have assumed a fearful responsibility-
Robert Schilling's Advocate.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

The New Treatment is by Inhalation and In
ternal or Blood Medicine Combined. 1t destroys
the tubercule bacilli in the lungs and blood and
will positively cure If the lungs are not destroy
ed. Cases at distance treated at home. Free
consultation. St. Paul Medical and Surgical
Institute, Merrill building corner 5th and St.
Peter streets, st. Paul, Mlnn.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

convicts, and the cities are full of help
less misery. The oA century will
go out and the new century will
come in, heralded with the sorrowful
walls of the miserable zones. Yet the
millionaires and the stock jobbers tell
us there is wonderful fprosperity and
that everything is very lovely.-The
NOncOnfOrmist. s.:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
The G. o. II. and the G.. A. II.

The G.. o. p. and the G. A. II.
Are hitched to the car of state;
But no sane man w Ould trust such span
With Columbia as the freight.
Your Uncle Sam, like a wooden man,
Nor more than n prOtoplasm,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
The Plunge Into Calamity Chasm.
at frightful gate

Allows this span at frightful gate
To leap calamity chasm.
The elephant gives n heartfelt pant
As he tries to pull things to rights
His efforts fail, you see by his tail,
To gain Prosperity Heights.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

No doubt you know r.i~ G. o. r,
For years he has does this nation,
Till suicides ON ev'ry hand
Bear witness to starvation '
Not known SO well the G. A. T.
His work has been lnder cover,