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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
MINNEAPOLIS PROSPERITY.

The lick-spittle dailies OF Minneapolis
have for year been shouting prosper
ity and declaring that no man need go
hungry who was willing to work.
Today news comes from the West that
a prominent Minneapolitan has suicided
in the state Of Washington where he had
gone in search of employment. w. E..
Gooding, prominent, popular and
promising young man was, like thous-
ands of others, forced to leave Minneap-
oils, the city Of his home, in search Of
employment whereby he might earn for
himself and family the necessaries of
life. Alone in Washington, 1000 miles
from home, his young wife and three
babes, disappointed, disheartened, he
pens as his last act the words" this is
my only way out"
At about the same time there arrives
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
TRUSTS TO EAT TRUSTS,

The big department stores have absorbed
most of the retail trade in the large cities.
So far all was well-for them. But the
manufacturers trusts being organized and
possessing ample capital insists on fixing the
prices that department stores shall pay for
their goods and there is a clash. The
result of the trouble is that an attempt
is being made to organize the department
stores into a trust also and if it sue
ceeds the department store trust will go into
the manufacturing business make their own
goods, and be independent of the now ex-
listing manufacturers trusts.
If the managers of the proposed depart
ment store trust should direct their ener-
gies towards repeating all the protective
features of the present tariff schedules,
the manufacturers trust would vanish like
a dream.-Fergus Falls Globe.
These are only temporary inconven-
fences which accompany the adjustment
of one set of robbers to another. But
do not think they will take their grip
from the Threats of the people. These
little differences will all be harmonized.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

year. Provided, that no deduction shall be
allowed greater than One-half OF such valu-
alton of said real estate.
AFFIDAVIT, WHAT TO CONTAIN.
Sec. 2. Any person desiring 70 avail him
self or herself of the pr0visionp Of this act,
shall. between the first day Of March and
the first day Of May of each year. file with
the auditor Of the county wherein said
real estate Is situate sworn statement of
the amount Of such mortgage Indebtedness
existing and unpaid on the frst day OF
March of that year, giving the name and
residence of the mortgage, and shall also
give the name and residence of the as
signee or bona f1de owner or holder of said
mortgage. il known, and II not known said
person shall state that fact, and shall also
gage is recorded and a brief description of
the real estate upon which such incum-
brance exists
COUNTY AUDITOR, DUTY AS TO COPY.
Sec. g. The county auditor with whom
such statement is filed, in case the money,
gage indebtedness be liable for taxation in
any county in the state of Indiana or other
than the one wherein such real estate is
situate shall Immediately certify and trans
NIT copy of such sworn statement to the
auditor of the county wherein the mort
of said mortgage resides, or wherein the
money. notes or credits evidenced by mort
gage is otherwise taxable
PENALTY FOR FALSE AFFIDAVIT.
Sec. H. Any person who shall willfully
make false statement of the facts pro-
vided for in section of this act shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in any
sum not less than fifty nor more than
five hundred dollars, to which may be added
Imprisonment in the county Jail for any
term not exceeding six months.
EMERGENCY
Sec. .. Whereas all emergency exists for
an immediate taking effect of this act the
same shall be in for ;e from and after it's
passage.
For 20 ears efforts have been made to
secure such law in this state, but in
vain. Even last session that able and
honorable Populist, Mr.. Plowman, of
Otter Tail county, made gallant fight
for such measure but failed.
Get ready to try it again in 1900.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

was found dead in bed at his home 439
Twenty ninth street, early yesterday morn
ing. Blated, according to his wife. had been
very Respondent owing to his inability to
secure employment. Gustav Backus, of 43
Rose street, visited his sister in-law, Mrs.
Lorenz. janitress of the Union Hall. $50
Blue Island avenue, Saturday afternoon.
While Mrs. Lorenz was absent at q grocery
Backus disappeared. and she concluded he
had returned home. Last night Mrs. L0-
REM detected the odor Of gas in her apart
ments. She investigated, and in spare
room adjoining one of the lodge halls she
found the body Of Backus, who lay with
his head near q rubber tube connected with
an open gas jet. He was 40 years old and
unmarried.
What an awful fraud is practiced upon
the people by the daily papers in their
assertion that we are in the midst Of
prosperity. /. p.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

1t is dollars to doughnuts that States
Attorney Monnett, of Ohio, could not
get the Office of dog catcher in any
Ohio city. He has dared to stand for
offer of 100000 bribe money from the
Standard Oil trust Rockefeller had a
very quiet but effective way of dealing
with such dangerous men as Prof
Bemis Prof. Andrews and Attorney
Monnett. Mr.. Monnett will soon be
permanently out of job, and, like a
Filipino, he will become "assimilated.."
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

In Minneapolis hackmen pay a tax or
license of $25 per year on each hack and
driver.
The street railway company pays also
$25 per year on each street car operated
during one or two of the best months
approximates $3.50 per month.
The earnings OF street car average
about a 200 per month.
Does the magnate own the council.
and does the hackman pay the magnates
taxes? If this problem is too complex,
get pencil and single.
r. n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
NOTICE..

With this issue we change the date
of publication of the Representative
from Wednesday to Thursday, the Trib-
une again does our printing. The paper
will be mailed promptly Thursday morn
ing, and subscribers will get it earlier
than heretofore, as we'll as fresh from
the press. AS now published, we be-
lieve it unequalled by any reform paper
published.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11


bad sulphurOus smell, to the loss of
many honest farmers. Eric is now try
ing to throw the blame on Hon. H. L.
Loucks, of South Dakota, an honest and
able man.
Eric, at the present time, has got ex-
Congressman Halvor E. Boon on a
string, and we prophecy that Halvor
will, some bright morning, be found
hanging to tree on his own farm, with a
card on his breast, "Died of too Much
Eric"
We will forgive the Fran If it charges
us with half of the sins in the calendar,
from murder to pocket picking, but don't,
for Heavens sake, allege that we are as
sociated with Eric Olson in his new ven-
ture, or in anything else, /. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

Why should the poor rascal be subject
to restraints which do not trouble the
plute thief? Give the average rogue the
same right to plumber the plutocrat that
the plutocrat has to plumber the public.
Fair play is pretty thing!"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
FAIR PLAY.

'You can't make men honest by legis-
lation," is number one piute doctrine
But, we have good evidence that you can
make them mighty dishonest by that
process. -Faribault Jeffersonian.
j II You can't make men honest by leg
islation, why not repeal all laws against
stealing, robbery, arsen and murder!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
THE TRUE REMEDY.

Some years ago we were appointed one
Of the delegates from Minnesota to an
antitrust conference in Chicago. The
present United States Senator. Hon.
Knute Nelson, was one Of our associates.
We took the ground, in debate, that
there was no remedy, for trust combina-
tions, but to deny them the use of the
courts for the collection of their claims,
that it would be a sufficient defense in
any suit, for goods sold and delivered,
for the defendant to set up and prove
that the plaintiff was trust existing in
violation of law, and that it had no
right to use the laws established by the
people for their own protection, to rob
and plumber the people who made the
laws.
This was considered an unheard of
and outrageous proposition, little better
than rank anarchy; and Mr.. Nelson and
the rest agreed that you could cure the
disease with whipped syllabub and skim
med milk, and gentle rubbings of the
critters hind legs. We were put down,
of course; and the trusts have continued
to grow, until they have taken posses
sion of the whole nation.
But some of the seed we scattered fell
on fertile soil, and we find in the daily
papers of May 3 the following proof of
how it has fructified:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

When the Filipino was shooting
Spanish tyrants he was patriot. When
he shoots American tyrants he is a rebel,
see!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

Observation-Disclosures Journal.
We congratulate the Journal that it be-
gins to see the light. Had the POpulists edi-
tors of the state stood solid in 1896, all
would not now be Observation-Disclosures
Jeffersonian.
The blood poison of fusion is being
eliminated from the body polite, and
we trust it will never invade the Peo-
pies Party again. Let those who pre-
fer the Democratic grave yard 60, and
God bless them in their peaceful sleep.
n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

Health for ten cents. Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally, de-
stroy microbes, cure headache, bilious
ness and constipation. All druggists.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

One year n
ok months '."''''''''' ~
Three months Observation-Disclosures. 40
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The law is that every newspaper SUD-
scriber is held responsible until all arrear-
ages are paid. and then the paper may be
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imum in future we desire to ask the fol-
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

bridge. seventy-fi five feet into the river be-
low. Pedestrians on the bridge saw a man
suddenly throw OF his overcoat and under
coat and, pulling his hat down over his
ears, leap head first into the water, saw
him come to the surface ana commence to
swim as he was borne by the current to-
ward the water power companys dam,
where the swift current carried him over.
He came up out Of the white foam below
the dam and did his best to swim toward
of the Belt Line bridge. He caught hold Of
passing log. but it was wet and slippery
and his hold was loosened. The current
carried him away and he was last seen
whirled under the Belt Line bridge.
People ran to the river bank below the
and it is supposed to have been carried far
down the river by the current. Despon-
dency is supposed to have been the cause
of the suicide. John McKinnon, an en-
ploye OF the city waterworks department,
was driving across the bridge and stopped
for few minutes to speak with friend.
He noticed a middle-aged man with heavy
gray-tinged whiskers walking across the
bridge gazing over the railing into the
water. Suddenly, when in the middle of the
bridge. the man stopped and pulled OF his
overcoat and then his undercoat McKin-
non thought at first it was the bridge watch
man. Then the man pulled his hat down
over his ears, climbed on the iron railing.
and all before anyone realized what he was
about to do, he had jumped into the river
McKinnon hurried to Washington avenue
and there picked up Officer George Dahl,
whom he told what had happened. They
drove back to the bridge. but nothing could
be seen of the man. The people on the
bridge. however, had seen him as he came
to the surface of the water, and they de-
scribed his attempts to swim and told of
how he had tried to cling to the log after
r0d 10 10
disappeared in the water under the Belt
Line bridge. The police took the clothing.
and upon searching it found several notes
and letters reading as follows:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
COOPERATIVE Fruit Plantation.

Persons who would be interested in es-
tablishing a cooperative fruit plantation
in Mexico while continuing their ordinary
occupations, please address the Secretary
of the Cooperative Plantation Co., Ltd,
101 North Ave. Battle Creek, Mich, for
particulars of such a movement
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

A COMBINATION WHICH IS H.
LEGAL UNDER THE ANTI
TRUST LAW CANNOT BE OPER-
ATED UNDER THE CLOAK OF
A CORPORATION BY ITS CON-
STITUENT MEMBERS OR Gov
ERNING BODIES.-DECISION BY
THE MISSOURI COURT OF APP
PEALS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11
Attention Farmers.

copies OF agricultural journals magazines, cat
alogues books. newspapers and circulars OF the
cry and be kept posted on improved seeds and
stock, for two years or more7 If So seud us
your name with ten cents in silver and we will
Insert the same in the American Farmers d.
rectory, which goes whirlipg all over the United
States to publishers. merchants and manufact-
Ires. You will get more reading matter than
you could purchase for many times the small
cost OF ten cents. We want every farmers name
in the Tinted States in our Directory at once.
Address
FARMERS DIRECTORY CO., .,-
Department Al,
Birmingham. Alabama.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-11

Kindly mention The Representative
when writing to advertisers and if you
do not receive prompt attention please
let us know.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
MAN. POOR MAN.

Asa sample OF wha, an old maid
can do with u pen, says nm ex
change, We submit the following:
"Man Is ~ iwo.legged animal
that chews tobacco and walks on
the forked end. Most men are
born; We never heard Of but one
that wasn't. aud he was made of
mud just for sample. Mana
life is full of disappointments.
growls aud corn cob pipes. He
goes forth like n lion in the morn
ing and leaves the wood for his
wife to chop, and in the evening
he sneaketh home with pants rip.
ped. and raises Gain about bard
times He has ~ grippe on road
working day, aud walks twenty
miles 10 circus. lie will chase
- jacR.rabbil Iour miles through
the snow and borrow u horse IN
ride u half mile TO the posioilice.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
Peace in the Philippines.

Last week the news was that
the FiliplnOs were negotiating
for terms of peace, that they were
exhausted with the unequal war
against the Americans, and that
their. surrender was bound 20
come. This week we have news
almost to the contrary, that fight
ing is on, and that the Filipino ar.
my has been largely re inforced.
And the news is farther that our
own army must be largely iucreas.
ed before we can hope to conquer
them. The news has thus alter
mated since the beg inn n G
Of this unfortunate trouble. and
60 much that the most intelligent
reader can know hut little of the
real condition oyer there.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
ENTHUSIASTIC FOR HfCKMM Nd
FULTON
Electric Hallway.

Charles Bcadles, one of the best 'lti'
gems of Tins county. is IN earnost ,vo-
cate for tho above enterprise. The
FULTON Leader says:
Boadles is enthusiastic over tn pro
posed electric railroad line To be NIT
from Fulton to Hickman and n
ought To 40 by Browns School gSc.
This is what is called the middle rate,
and seems to ho the best rs there NO
deep cuts or high grades To 90 on as
on the old state road and State me
road. From the Fulton Cemet 20
Liberty Church-a distance oftrlve
miles the route is about straigh and
level except when the road 1,rs
Browns school house. when n beis 20
the right a couple OF miles. come UcS
To- the direct line.
This can be remcdicd by cutting new
road straight forward through the lnds
of Louis Bruwder and MIR. BeadleS both
of whom are not only willing 10 rnt
the right Of way but will suhscrib lib
orally.
There are about twenty men IL that
ncighhorhood like Louis Browdp Tom
Browdor, Charley Davidson, Sure
jim Browder, Jim Fields. Clay 5uW-
der and others who viii take str 10
the amount of 81 900 each or inor,
II is hoped that the enterprise ", as
sumo u more tangible shape at al early
date.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
The VI hjtsitt Wrangle.

The Whitsitt controversy in the
Baptist Church will not entirely
subsidp, Notwithstanding the re.
cent general Convention relegat.
ed him to private life. Ina re.
markable sermon in the Broadway
church. Louisville, the pastor.
Carter Helm Jones. denounced
the action retiring DIR. Whitsi,t as
prompted by malice and founded
on ignorance. The congregation
applauded by stamping on the
floor, the women crying, and an
Outburst seemed imminent. The
demonstration shows the strong
hold DIR. Whitsilt has on his fol.
lowers.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02

The annual report Of the Chief
of the Weather Bureau shows a
remarkable increase Ia the loss of
farm property by lightning during
the last few Years. Ii IN aues.
ton, however, whether this in due
TO the frequency of thunders,orms
or to the more extended facilities
for securing information. Atpres
ent the Weather Bureau has cor.
respondent in every corner OF
every county Of the country, who
keeps II posted concerning all
events OF Interest to the farmers
and the public generally, while
formerly It's system of news gat h.
ering was imperfect and lncom.
plete.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
LUNATIC'S RETORT.

There il said tn he an inrpsie of
the Hopkinsv,lle asylum whose
idiocy takes the form of n hs5cI-
nation that he has swallowG "a
Democrat. He goes abont spit
ting aud rubbing his slomacD and
complaining OF the bad tastk hat
comes mp into his mouth as re.
suit of having eaten the Jnuly
politician. Not long ago here
were u number Of visitors othe
asylum, all Republicans, Wild ook
ouch delight in hearing th( loOr
fellow complain OF his unbppy
experience. He was quest ued
closely as to how the De19tat
tasted as he went down, sn1c TO
whether the Jeflersonian drsed
much disturbance Ia the 6afIc
regions. The lunatic took all
good naturedly and pstieDilt aud
finally be sald: SIN NV fol glad
il wasn't a Republican sv low.
ed" Then ono OF his tormdn,ors
asked why. Because 1t Would
have killed me on the spot, re.
piled the sufferer, solemnly. Then
the visitors travelled on, anl the
insane man passed his b4hdoyer
has stomach with nm expreS.( % Of
relief.-Hattford Herald.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02

A COLORADO soldier. fighting
with the army in Luzon, writes
home Il had hoped 10 he ut
home and at work before this I
feel as though | am losing valua.
bic time. Ny heart Ia not in this
war as 1t was in the one enlisted
TO fight In, and / go into it simply
because | have to. II | were not
an American. ! think | would be
helping the FilipInos. Yon may
well be glad you didn't enlist in
the war; In spite of the copsor
ship of matter IN and out of Ma.
Mia, evidently some of our sol.
diers don't need 10 be told that
the war with the insurgents 10 not
a creditable one TO the United
States. Exchange,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
Socialism Follows Trusts.

Eugene Debs, the great Social.
ist and labor leader, who played
such conspicuous part in the
great Chicago railroad strike, de.
clsres that ''Trusts are but q step
toward Inevitable socialism, aud
that il is useless to oppose them"
HIS idea is that IfTrusts, the CON-
binaiiODs Of great capitalists are
TO control the prices Of the pro.
duets Of the field aud msnufac.
turin esta blisbments. then the
people in preference will elect to
put the Government in owner.
ship and control Of of all such
things. The socialist idea is that
the Government should own all
the land, operate all the factories.
railroads. &C., and teach that
competition is ruinous to the best
interests Of the people. They al.
so teach that it ia to the interest
Of large capital TO concentrate
power and kill out competition TO
the end that they can control the
supply and therefore the prices.
The Socialists contend that the
Government should do this be.
canse they believe the Govern.
ment will do 1t more equitable
than the individual combines.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
DEATH.BLOw TO INyEN3A;

Trust control of the productive
energies of the country means
that the stimulus hitherto gwen
to inventive skill shall cease. so
lone as manufacturers moved up.
on competitive lines there vas at
active demand for improved ma.
cbiDery, and the rewards ID the
men who invented were munitcent
and served as spur TO the intel.
lectual efforts of thousands
With the sources OF production
controlled by combines. cOmpeti.
ton will he checked. Men who
make improved machinery, Or dis.
cover aud apply new secrets Of
nature for chpapening production
aud increasing profits, will have
no market for the sale Of their in.
vPntiOns.
They will have to take what the
trusts choose TO pay. They will
be told that the trusts have no
competitors, and therefore need
no new inventions. With invent.
ors unrewsrded ard inventions
paralyzed, the incentive and pc
tency Of the United States in the
commercial conquest Of the world
will he seriously bindered.
This conclusion is not cOnject
ural. IL is inevitable ii trusts at.
tain the dimensions aud power TO
which they seem 10 be tending.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
A BIG ONE.

1t is evident that California H.
not the only State in the Union
lay ing claim To big trees. Ken.
lucky holds u pretty lively hand
in the timber line. NJ will be OBJ
served by the following: One Of
the biggest logs ever offered for
sale tos Kentucky saw mill Was
seen al Psducah day or twoago.
II was sold To Palmer. Ferguson
x Co. for The sum Of sl4a. I, WAS
nine feet ia diameter. sixty feet
long, and said To contain 10000
feet Of red oak lumber.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02

TIE Fulton Guard seems to be
apprehensive that the gold demo.
Gratis OF Hickman will take pos.
session Of the County Democratic
Convention 10 the interest of one
of the candidates for Governor.
The facts are that few, If any, Of
that element will take any part in
rhe convention at all. We wish
they would. The doors are open.
Aud our contemporary may rest
sssured' that they are about as
much divided as to the present
ssodiissss ~ any other element.