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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

lodging. The board and lodging is equal to
30 cents, SO that the workman gets an
equivalent Of $3.50 per day for his work.
The average price of wheat at the granary
hardly ever In late years exceeds 50 cents
per bushel SO that 1t takes three bushels
Of wheat to pay the workman one days
wages. Now II the workman is employed
$40 days In the year he gets $50 bushels of
wheat, or It's equivalent, for his years labor.
But the average yield Of wheat per acre is
not more than II bushels-oftener less than
that. 1t takes, therefore, $50 divided by
II or TIN acres of land to produce wheat
enough to pay one workman for years
labor.
And how is it with other farm products!
Suppose we take oats The average yield
per acre IL less than 80 bushels, but let us
use 80 bushels for our illustration. Oats
at the granary is not worth to exceed IL
cents bushel on an average year by year.
1t would, therefore, take nine bushels of
oats at present prices to pay one days
work and 80 multiplied by or 200 bushels
of oats to pay for one years labor of the
workman for 80 days! Now 200 bushels
divided by 30, the average yield Of one
acre, gives SO acres as the amount Of land
required to grow enough oats to pay the
labor of one hired man! But If the farmer
has 10 acres in his farm, he cannot get
along without at least one hired helper,
and what is he and his family to live on,
dlIOT giving tue QTOUuC0 OK 30 6CTcS u pay
the help. Where is his taxes, repairs of
machinery and renewals to come from?
And yet the rogues and schemers who are
sent to the legislatures, state and national
are never tired heaping burdens upon the
farmer, who like Aesop's donkey. labors
and tolls year in and year out and never
complains Of his burden until he falls down
dead and IS thrown into q pauper's grave!
How long is this to continue? How long
will the people patiently bear the burdens
of taxation that a reckless administration
is from year to year heaping upon them
always crying. give! give! Surely there
Is to be limit to the fearful extravaganza
of the government. state and national or
II not the people must rise In their might
and drive the rascals that are abusing the
power delegated to them into the obscurity
from which they sprung. Now remember
We do not claim that the laborer's wages
are too high, but we do claim that tam
pering with the currency has made some
things too high and others too low. Real
estate and farm produce has suffered a
terrible depression since 1873. Would it
not be we'll for our farmers to get together
and try to figure out why it takes the pro-
one common day labOrer.
This a suficient answer to all the
talk about boundless prosperity with
which the daily papers, and some of the
weeklies. are overflowing. Get at the
facts and never mind the blowing
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
KICKED OUT.

The Faribault Jeffersonian publishes
the following:
Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri who
seems to have considerable influence in his
state and in the present Democratic or
ganization, is opposed to the coalition policy
He says: ~ -- .,... -....
'The Democratic party .henceforth must
maintain its individuality. II other par
ties desire to build a parallel line along,
side the Democratic tracks. no objection
can be raised, but consolidation under the
terms of which the Democratic party sur
renders In part control over it's own or
ganization, or place any of its affairs in the
hands OF those who do not fully accept it's
doctrine and d1sclaim allegiance to all 9TH
er parties. is not to be tolerated under any
circumstances"
The Atlanta Journal, in commenting upon
1t, says:
these are sensible words. There Is no
kinship between Democracy and Populism
They are as antagonistic as Democracy and
Republicanfsm.
Judge Carr, of the Iowa Democratic state
central committee, says:
THAT the Democratic party has no bust
ness to let any other organization make it's
nominations
Chas A. Walsh, secretary of the Demo-
cratic national committee, says:
1T is time We stand alone. If any other
party wants to vote with US, let them come
The quotations above show pretty con-
clusively that the Democratic leaders have
come to the conclusion that they have about
demoralized the Populist party and that they
can now repudiate them and force them into
the Democratic ranks.
This has been our position all the time
and we are not therefore surprised at the
thousands OF statements now being made
by Democrats everywhere, and which we
see almost daily In the newspapers. We
believe. farther. that such men Jim Bow
Ter, owen, Zeke Austin, have acted as de-
coys for the Democratic party to finally
herd the Populists into the Democratic fold.
The Jeffersonian didn't herd worth cent
Capt Lowe has hit the nail squarely
on the head in the foregoing article.
The Democratic party did not want
cooperation with the Peoples party.
but to swallow and destroy it. They
think they have accomplished their
work and now they kick what is left of
the party out Of the window-they will
bear no brother near the throne. Re-
form means Democracy and nothing
else; they are as implacable enemies of
our movement as the Republican party,
and as rule not as open to conversion.
We could more readily make a hundred
converts from the Republican party
than we could make ten from the Dem
ocratic party. We must have nothing
to do with them unless they come in
and march under our banner
But they are greatly mistaken In
thinking the Populist party is dead.
1t is more alive today than it has been
at any time since 1894. ID.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

haps $50 a ton. what was the conse-
quence? We sent rails all over the world,
invading Great Britain, Japan and other
countries. With the enormous deposits Of
higher grade ore in Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin, there is no reason why we should not
be able to produce rails and other steel
products cheaper than any other nation. AS
result of trust manipulation steel rails
now sell 1t so q ton or .theFeabouts. OF
course the profit IL excessive. 1t is an
outrage on the CONSUMER and It is short
sighted on the part of the manufactures.
There IL one thing that greatly dis
turbs me. The Republican party. whether
Justly or unjustly, IL associated with trusts
In the minds Of the masses As a party
we have reached crisis, where we have
got to call halt. The Republican party
has got to dfscnnnect itself from trusts.
1t has got to do something moro than adopt
platform planks against trusts. It has got
to put forth its full strength and legis-
late against thems The feeling against the
trust idea is intense,,in the West. It is
so intense in the Republican party that
the party will break ranks unless something
is done. The undertow Of sentiment In the
Western Republican states against trusts
Is not understood in the East. The revolt
may strike US as early as next year.
1T seems to me, after giving the sub
ject a great deaf Of thought that the Re-
publicans in congress will have to ex-
anime the subject thoroughly, and when
ever they nnd a tfusE ia depending for its
duties, it will be- til duty OF Republican
congressman andserAtors to remove the
that"
No man in thesUnited States has done
more to corrupt and debauch and do
moralize the people and impair the in
situations of our country and destroy
the national traditions than William D.
Washburn. But now he is without
ONCE, without money, without patron
age and without power. Knute Nelson
swiped him Off the board and he is now
striving to mount the antitrust hobby,
after having been for 20 years at the
head of the wheat ring of Minnesota,
the worst and most villainous trust
ever organized anywhere in the world,
which has stripped the farmers of the
Northwest of millions of dollars, and is
still in full operation.
We learn by the papers that he is now
talking pretty" to Knute Nelson, and
begging him to let him get on his feet
just this once. Knute has got him
down and we hope he will keep him
there If he ever gets foothold again
he will drive the knife into the Nor
wegian's heart up to the hilt, and grin
a cold-blooded smile as he kicks the
corpse.
He represents the last remnant Of the
most greedy, grasping, arrogant and I'M
scrupulous breed of men that ever tread
upon the face of our politics. They were
in power for a generation in this coun-
try, and we defy anyone to point to
single word spoken or vote given in
behalf of human progress and the safe
ty of free institutions by any of them.
Their record is vacuum. Il,
Don't let up on him Knute, for the
Lords sake. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

ITO which fund II New jersey and
the man says, We'll. ! will have to look
at the books. that is ? doubtful state. :"
No one questions the fact that the
National Banking trust has controlled
financial legislation since tho war, and
coming down to state and municipal
legislation, trust control il equally
notorious. More recently Havemeyer
testified that he was running q trust
to control the sugar market" The court
records Of nearly every state are spread
over with similar testimony. The trusts
no longer avoid publicity, they have
reached the broad, open turnpike Of
public defiance and unfurled their ban
ner of "The public be damned" Con-
centrated wealth has already declared
its ability and its purpose to control
government, and CONTEMPORARY asks
the people what they propose to do
about 1t.
For answer Bryan and Cochran say
Pass laws giving the acts of trusts
greater publicity"
How .puerile, how silly to demand
laws compelling trusts to do what they
are perfectly willing to do.
Bryan and Cochran are demanding
publicity that the public may have for
the asking.
This demand is as useless, as silly
and laughable as that of the love sick
swain in the following verses from the
pen of Robert Story:
"You have heard said youth to his
sweetheart who stood,
While he sat on a corn sheaf, at daylight's
decline,
'You have heard Of the Danish boys whis-
tie Of wood?
wish that Danish boys whistle were
mine"
'And what would you do with 1t? tell me-"
she said,
While an arch smile played over her beau
tfful face.
IT would blow it," he answered, "and then
my fair maid
Would fly to my side and would here take
her place."
us that all you wish it for? That may be
yours
Without any magic, the fair maiden
cried;
"a favor so slight ones good nature Sc
cures
And she playfully seated herself by his
side.
II would blow it again. said the youth,
"and the charm
Would work so that not even modesty's
check
Would be able to keep from my neck your
fine arm"
She smiled, and she laid her fine arm round
his neck.
yet once more would blow, and the music
divine
Would bring me the third time an exqui-
site bliss
You would lay your fair cheek to this brown
one of mine,
And your lips stealing past it would give
me kiss
The maiden laughed out in her innocent
What a fool of yourself with your whistle
you'd make!
For only consider how silly 'twould be
To sit there and whistle for what you
might take
Cochran and Bryan are coquetting
with the trusts while they draw the veil
of oratory over the eyes of the people.
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
THE TELEPHONE SERVICE.

BEAUTY OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.
New York Is now connected by long-dis-
lance telephone with Little Rock, Ark,
distance of 1888 miles. The company,
a private one, Of course. is extending fta
line to New Orleans, and hopes to have
1t completed about Nov. /.
But it costs $40 for f1ve minutes con-
versation over the wires with Little Rock.
Compare this with the European tefe-
phone service. which. in contra distinction
to our system. is under government man
alignment.
In Germany the public telephone costs
but sac for the whole year. Sweden, charges
$40 year for a telephone CONNECTED sWith
every city in the kingdom. sAiA placed
gratis in any domici1e. switzerland
and SIG the third year-and the service
pays for itself at those rates.
And even New Zealand is ahead OF US.
There the public telephone s/sts $24 year.
Our postof1ce department at present Is
one national enterprise that touches the
beneficial manner; that is why 1t is by
far the most popular branch of the gov
eminent. ~+as~seas e
Can there be a doubt that national
telegraph and national telephone will
make our government Infinitely more pop-
ular than 1T is? The private telegraph and
telephone serve mainly speculation; the
public telegraph and telephone will bind
us together as nothing else can; will make
our people of the different sections as
neighborly as the Inhabitants of a city
now are. And how important that Is. sec
tional dissensions that occasionally crop I'D
should teach us.-New York Journal
In some respects this republic is the
worst governed country in the world.
1t is not republic, it is an oligarchy
where the multitude are led away by
their passions and their bigotries, and a
few men rob them blind. Read the
foregoing figures and you will admit
this statement is not exaggerated.
I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
THE QUESTION OF WAGES.

We find the following very interesting
article in the Chippewa Falls, Wis,
Sentinel, which We hope our readers
will study carefully. The writer is
practical farmer and knows what he is
talking about.
Ho, brother farther i &c stick YOUR SHADES in
the ground and let5us compare notes and see
where we are. II. 1
AS we see it thee Representation of silver
and the establishment of the gold standard
have SO deranged ovalues that there is no
longer any just Or equitable ratio between
money and real estate. nor between farm
produce and farn1 !Sbor. The following
and account for be, iihrd CONDITION Of the
land owner and f1fmaf Time out Of mind
products was bqshel Of wheat for, q days
wages Of workiak n. But how stands
the matter now? An ordinary farm hborsf
receives one dollar day with board and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
RINGS IN THE NOSES OF HOGS.

RINGS IN THE NOSES OF HOGS.
Man is the creature Of God and money is
the servant of man, and protest against all
theories that enthrone money and debase
mankind.
eff you will go about the country you
will see where people have subscribed
money to establish enterprises, and where
those enterprises, having come under the
&C ntr Il o. - ~trv-.s have been closed up
and stand now as silent monuments to the
Sodom Of the trust system. In any case of
local strikes and fires the work goes on
elsewhere, thus preventing serious loss.
when branch of industry is found in
the hands of one of the great monopolies
so that every skilled man must go to one
man for employment, the one man fixes the
wages as he pleases and the laboring men
will then share the suffering of the man who
sells the raw material.
81 want to warn you that when the mo-
nopoly has absolute control, brains will be
at a discount We have not yet had taste
Of complete trust. But when the trust
has rid itself of all competitors what is
going to be the result? My friends, all you
have to know is human nature. God made
man selfish
ION the farms we used to protect property
from the hogs by putting rings in their
noses. Why? So that while they were get
ting fat they would not destroy more than
they were worth.
"ONE OF THE GREAT PURPOSES OF
GOVERNMENT, IS TO PUT RINGS IN 1l4n
NOSES OF HOGS. Bryan at Chicago.
All this talk about putting rings in
the noses Of hogs sounds very pretty.
- If these trust hogs were all Repnbli-
can hogs we might with some safety
trust the Democratic party to put rings
in the hogs noses. On the bther hand,
If the hogs were all Democrats the sur
est way to get the rings properly adjust
ed would be to let the job to the Repub-
leans
Upon this phase of the trust situation,
Senator J. B. Foraker, at Columbus,
Ohio, recently said:
TRUSTS are not Republican institution,
enjoyed by Republicans alone, nor Dem
ocratic institution enjoyed by Democrats
alone; men of both parties are engaged in
them and interested in their operation and
their protection under the law. They are
simply feature of our modern business
conditions, with respect to which party
lines cannot be drawn
Since these trust hogs are, as it ap-
pears from the above, about half and
half Republicans and Democrats, what
is the matter with letting the Populists
do the ringing?
This country will never see a good,
thorough job Of ringing hogs done until
the Populists do it. AS long as trusts
control government, state and federal,
as at present, the hog ring proposed by
Bryan and Cochran, stamped publicity
and government restraint, will never
work. Such rings will never hold the
brute and will need to be adjusted at
every session of congress
Let Populists use the Populist patent
ring of government ownership of public
utilities and hog rule in this country
would be permanently at an end
1t is absurd and disgusting to hear
Bryan and Cochran trying to make the
people believe that If power be taken
away from Republicans and again given
to Democrats the Democratic hogs will
put rings in their own noses. E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

The best way in which to send your sub
scriptien money is by postofflce money or
der or by registered letter. One or the otn-
or can be obtained at every postomce IN
the United States. Express money oroers
are also cheap and convenient from the
larger places. Bank bills sent In ordinary
letters, while commonly safe enough. are
occasionally lost, hence SUBSCRIBERS SO
sending must remember that they 90 SO at
their own risk. -
IN changing the address to which paper
Is tc be mailed, it is absolutely necessary
that the subscriber should give his old as
well as the new address. Otherwise the
change cannot be made.
The receipt of subscription money 3 al
ways acknowledged by the cnan&e OF ex-
piration on the address label. NO otner
receipt is necessary. If this change CT GATE
is not made within two weeks from the
time the money was sent inquiry snouio
then be made by the subscriber.
STOPPING THE PAPER-The publisher
must be notified in writing when the sub
ing paper or refusing to take II from your
postmaster will not answer
The law is that every newspaper SUD-
scriber is held responsible until all arrear-
ages are paid, and then the. paper may be
ordered discontinued.
In order to reduce complaints to the min
imum in future we desire to ask the 1oi-
lowing questions:
Does your paper come regularly?
Is your name correctly spelled on our
mailing list?
Are YOU getting NOR than one copy?
Does the date on the label of your pa
Der this week agree with your last receipt!
II not notify US and We viii rectfy mat
Hers,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

The Charge of the Loot Brigade.
All in league, all in league,
All in league onward,
All in the Valley of Greed
Ride the Four Hundred:
Forward. the Loot Brigands-
Freedom-hp,lldd up your hands,
Into the Valley of Greed
Ride the Four Hundred.
Forward, the Loot Brigade!"
Is there man dismayed?
Not while the looters know
How voters have Numbered;
When congress questions why.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs butt to bride and buy
Into the Valley of Greed
Ride the Four Hundred.
Poverty to the right of them,
Poverty to the left Of them,
Poverty behind them
Homes they have plundered;
Stormed at with sorted shell,
(Half truths the papers telD,
Boldly, they ride and we'll,
Leaving a trail of death
Bringing the people hell
Gallant Four Hundred!
Flash all the jewels rare,
Flash from each millionaire
Bonds-bonds have set them there,
Charged to the people, while
All the world wondered!
Plunged in the strife for wealth.
They loot our homes by stealth,
And when the plundered
Raise but a feeble cry.
List to their kind reply
yours but to do and die
For US. the Four Hundred!"
Poverty to the right Of them,
Poverty to the left of them,
Poverty in front of them
Wrecks the hopes they have
Shattered and sundered!
Who-who shall break the spell
Greed wove for them so we'll,
Leaving his trail of death,
Bringing the people hell
Just for Four Hundred!
When shall their glory fade?
Not in the next decade
Not till the nations paid
Gold bonds unnumbered;
Honor your lords commands
Honor their bloody hands,
Honor the Loot Brigands-,
Noble Four Hundred!
-Chas. A. Sheffield.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
Wishing.

Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do.
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true
Rid your mind of selfish motives,
Let your thoughts be clean and high
You can make a little Eden,
OF the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make start,
BY accommodating wisdom
In the scrap-book Of your heart.
Do not, waste one page on folly;
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
THE PRICE OF BEEF.
We quote the following from Schill
ing's Milwaukee Sentinel.

The Fergus Globe, published in a section
Of Minnesota where q good many cattle are
raised, and edited by ex-Congressman H. e.
Boon. practical farmer. says. in its issue
Of Sept. 3:
Beef cattle are worth cent per pound
more now than year ago; but retail
butchers charge an average of ~ cents more
Per pound for meat now than then.
Here we have the evidence Of farmer in
q fArming country a. to the rise In the price
Of beef. We can tell our friend Boen that
IN tho large cities beef has raised s cents
anA 0nGn pr pounA- The farmers ret one
and the boof combine takes four cents. ow-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
Wheat
Lands.

There is. more money
raising wheat at the present
time than you can dig out
of the ground in Alaska.
The Great Northern Rail
way has 100000 acres of
the choicest wheat lands in
the United States. These
lands are situated in the
Red River Valley of Min
nesota, in Wilkins. Clay,
Norman, Polk, Marshall
and Kittson counties; they
will average about $1,000
per acre in price. For
maps and terms address
Land Commissioner, Great
Northern Railway, St.
Paul, Mimi, or the Land
Agents named below;
George Purvis,
CrOokston. MINI.
G. H. Carey,
Breckenridge, Mimi.
O. a. Robertson,
" Campbell, Mimi.
G.. j. Wright,
s.. Fergus Falls. MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28
A METALLIC BOTTOM.

Elsewhere in this issue we print an.
article under caption, 1.-THE Buzz Saw
on Postage Stamps.'' It Is short
article, hardly quarter Of . column in
length. and yet readers who grasp its
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

Live to learn, and learn to live.
II you want to give men knowledge,
You must get it; ere you give.
Do you wish the world were happyf
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds OF kindness
AS you pass along the way,
For the pleasure of the many,
May be often traced to one,
AS the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

"Shal' . money control this govern
ment?" will be the great issue in 1900.
Direct legislation would settle this ques-
ton and settle" It right = Read Bond
and Industrial Slavery" Price IS cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-28

Health for ten cents Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes, cure headache, bill
iousness and costipation. ALL druggists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-05
SKOWHEGAN.
Court at Skowhcgan.

SkoWhcSan, April I.
The jury reported on the Bailey
Mitchell case, Tuesday morning. A
verdict Of $697.35 was rendered the
plaintiff. The suit was brought
against J. II. Mitchell Of this town. as
administrator Of the George Mitchell
estate and the partnership Of
George and J. +. Mitchell, the latter of
whom is now living. Hudson APP
peared for the plaintiff and \. X. But
Ter for the defendant. This case was
given to the jury, Monday afternoon.
The Gooding-Daggett case was tried
Monday afternoon and evening, Judge
Savage having deemed it advisa BILE to
mold an evening session in order to
finish the work of the term as soon as
practicable. The plaintiff, J. NJ. Good
ing, of Portland, the general eastern
agent for the North Western Life In
surance Company brought the suit
against Mr.. Daggett, the defendant,