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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
THE CHURCHES.

They Are Getting Alarmed and Speak
TIFFIN. Ohio, May 31.-The general synod
OF the Reformed church closed it's business
today. Sunday newspapers, ball games
concerts, theaters, saloons, ETC.. were de-
nOunced. The new Sunday school hymnal
was adopted. An amendment creating
court of appeals was laid on the table ndefi-
nitely. The committee on the state of the
church reported among other things as fol-
lows:
The danger to be apprehended from GER
tain agencies which are slowly but surely
revOlutiOnizing the entire social fabric, the
absorption of the wealth of the country in
the hands of the few, the steady enlarge
ment of the poorer classes of people, and
the gradual diminutiOn Of the prosperous
and happy middle class, the hope of every
thriving state; the rapid increase and in
classification of all those social and indus
trial agencies which tend to make human
life a burden of despair to the many, and
a material paradise to the few; all these
things cannot but exert baleful influence
upon and prove a constant hindrance to the
progress of the kingdom Of Christ upon
earth.
Very well expressed.
How can the people have any faith in
churches that preach Christ and serve
mammOn?
Christ did not 50 act when he was
on earth.
He defended the poor and humble and
denounced the unjust rich, and drove
the bankers out of the temple of God;
scourged them out with a cat-o-nine-
tails.
If he attempted it today they would
call in the police and carry him off to
Jail, and the preacher would deliver a
of the lower classes
"a And yet they say they are Christians.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
PREGNANT ADMISSIONS.

That able Republican newspaper, the
Minneapolis Tribune, this week prints
the following editorial:
1t is noticeable that Gen. Otis subordi-
nate commanders, who are experienced and
trained soldiers, and who are constantly at
the front, do not share the optimistic views
Of the situation which Otis sends to Wash
ington. Gen. Robert Hall is quoted say
ing, in letter to a friend in New York
city, that the end of the war is long way
off. Gen. Lawton said at the start that
900 troops would be needed to occupy
the island and put down the opposition,
and he has not since modified his estimate,
although Gen. Otis has sent word that 5000
men are all he needs or desires
The late advices from Washington to the
effect that the war department declines
to make public Gen. Otis most recent state
ment Of the situation in the Philippines has
rather an Ominous sound Is Gen. Otis
at last waking up to the seriousness of his
position, and falling into line with Generals
Lawton and Hall as to his requirements?
1t is said that no dispatch has been posted
from Otis detailing the situation for more
than week. and that "the indications are
that the department will now endeavor to
conceal everything"
The Tribune does not desire to pose as
an alarmist in regard to the military stu
alton in the Philippines. We have no doubt,
that our government is strong enough to
enforce it's authority there, but we submit
that the people are entitled to know the
exact position of affairs-not plans or con-
templated military movements, but whether
we have met with disaster or success in
the movements already completed. The
administration can gain no popularity by
holding back bad news or by negiectlng to
utilize all the resources placed in its hands
for strengthening our position in our new
colonies.
Is not this disposition on the part OF
the government at Washington, to snub
the people and not admit them to its
confidence, part of the transition from
the simplicity of the past to the military
regime which now treatens to engulf
the republic?
There is nothing so insolent as militia
nv domination Look at Germany,
where officers have killed citizens on the
smallest provocation, and not suffered
an hours Imprisonment for the crime.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
OUR SPLENDID CIVILIZATION.

The Labor Leader, Keir Hardie's paper,
has been describing the horrible conditions
under which men labor at the chemical
works of Messrs. j. and j. White at Shaw
field. After relating how the men employed
in the production of chrome at the end
of few months find even the cartilage
of the nose eaten away by the fumes which
they breathe, the Leader continues But
that is not all. At certain stage in the
manufacture of the chrome a black liquid
Is produced. If by any chance a man has
scratch on his hand or any part of his
body and a single drop of this liquid
comes in contact with the broken skin, a
chrome hole" is the result. That is to
say, the poison slowly burns it's fostering
way through the flesh until the bone is
reached. and then the putrid flesh drops
out. leaving a hole so large that a mans
thumb won't cover it. These sores are
sometimes to be seen all over a mans body,
and one case / heard of, but did not see.
where the back of a man was furrowed
by these holes right down from the shout
ders to the hips. In some cases it is the
belly which is attacked. and the poison
eats its way right through thu aaah intA
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
Are There No Wounded

Some time ago letters were published
in the Representative from our soldiers
in the Philippines, in which 1t was
stated that our soldiers were not giving
quarters. and were killing wounded
EIlipinos, and non-combatants without
regard to sex and age. This report may
be an error, but the fact remains that
in Gen. Otis official reports to Washing
ton the number of our dead and wound
ed soldiers has been given; also the
number of dead Filipinos found on the
battlefield; but what has become of the
wounded Filipinos? l served in the
Danish army during the Danish and
Prussian- Austrian war in 1864. The
forces we had to combat with were so
overwhelming in number that we were
driven from one position to another.
ana we had to leave all of our wounded
soldiers on the battlefield, to be taken
care of by the enemies. After each bat
tie the number of our dead and wounded
soldiers was given in the enemy'S Of
fetal reports. After the battle of Man
liza Dewey did the same. The Filipinos
have also been driven from one position
to another, and been forced to leave
their wounded on the battlefield, but
what has become of them? Gen. Otis
never mentions in his report to this gov
eminent any wounded Filipinos. AS
general rule from eight to ten soldiers
are wounded for every one killed in
battle, and if the report from the expan-
sion papers that 10000 Filipinos have
been killed on the battlefelds around
Manila is true, there must be at least
from 10000 to 100000 wounded Filipinos
in our hospitals in Manila. Another
mystery to intelligent readers is: How
did the Filipinos come to have from 10
to II killed soldiers in every battle to
each soldier killed on our side. On
both sides they had good rifles, and the
battles were mostly fought on long
range, where craftsmanship does not
count, and in cases where our soldiers
had to drive the enemy out of their
trenches with their bayonets, they were
supposed to get the worst of it. Do not
all of these facts put together make it
appear that the majority of the dead
Filipinos were killed after the battles
had been fought.
The editors of our expansion papers
mostly belong to the party of high
morals" and must be considered to be
men of high moral character, and ye,y
patriotic. Would it not be to the in
terest of their cause to inform the pub
lie that an error was made in the =
fetal reports, and that besides the 10
600 Filipinos already civilized 100. 900
more are laying in the hospitals in Ma
Mia half civilized and daily praising
the great spirit, Mckinley, for the bless
ings civilization has bestowed upon
them. JENS p. ANDERSON
: Denham, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
ANTITRUST CONFERENCE.

AUSTIN, Texas, June 5.-Dear Sir: After
much rejecting I have concluded that it
would not be improper for me to suggest
that conference OF the gvernors and at
tOrney generals of the several states and
territories be held to consider the effect
which the formation of trusts is having upon
the country and if possible to agree upon a
character of legislation that will not only
force those now in existence into dissolu-
ton, but will also prevent their further
operation. l am firmly of the opinion that
II as many as 20 states can be induced to
adopt uniform policy in reference to this
generally admitted evil, will enorce such
policy with vigor that relief will surely
and quickly follow. III "a
1t cannot be doubted that in this matter
state action is necessary and that uniform
.ty in the enactment of the enforcement
Legislation is indispensable. 1 have there
fore to respectfully suggest to your excel
lency and to the attorney general of your
state that a conference to consist of the
governors and attorney generals of states
and territories as may see proper to attend
be held at St. Louis on Wednesday, the goth
day of September 1888, for the purpose of
taking such action as may be deemed proper
respecting the subject matter of this COM
munlcatlon. Az early reply advising me of
your views and intentions is requested I
have the honor to be. very respectfully your
cbedient servant.
JOSEPH D. SAVERS,
Governor of Texas
Here you have it-another Demo-
cratic palliative. The Democratic party
as whole would propose no antitrust
legislation of more radical nature than,
state legislation. AS a party the Dem
ocrats have done as much as Republic
cans to foster trusts. They have, since
'92, been in control of the presidency
and both houses of the national con-
gress, and during Cleveland's admins
tration gave the sugar trust legislation
worth to that trust in a single year
$14,000,0OO. The whole Democratic party
is shouting against trusts. while all their
senators and leading politicians own
trust stocks. They don't mean it. They
are as usual trying to fool the voters
They shouted in s'92 for free silver and
gave us the gold standard. They are
preparing now for another big bunco
game in 1900. Altgeld is the only man
in that party who proposes cure for
the trust evil. He says turn the present
trust evil into national blessing by
government ownership. This is Altgeld:
it is not the Democratic party. The
Democratic party could not poll a ma
tional vote of 100000 for such PROPOSE
ton.
Altgeld is not a Democrat; he is a
Populist. He believes that one great
national trust should serve the best in
terests of the whole people, rather than
hundred small trusts rob the masses to
enrich the few. He believes the govern
ment, and not the banks, should issue
all money, and control it's volume and
value This is Popplism. 1t is not mod
ern Democracy. Altgeld indorses our
doctrines, but oreppdiates our party
only because in 1900 he believes his own
political chances are much better with
Bryan than with the much-derided Pop
ulists. He has an eye to the main
cnance E. A. T.
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the United states senate and named bis boy

the United States senate and named his boy
Roscoe Conkling Bruce.
Not many colored students find their way
to Harvard, but they furnish an extraor-
binary proportion Of the university orators.
In 1893 the class day orator was q colored
student. In the Yale-Harvard debate of
two years ago, Harvard was represented by
another colored student A third colored
orator of Harvard is N. B. Marshall, now
professor of mathematics of the Florida
state normal school, the author of the
drama, I'm the Ranks which is now on
the stage.
Calvin Finn. of the Washington Colored
high school, is at Exeter. and has taken
several scholarships for proficiency in his
studies.
Paul Martin, who graduated from this
same high school, has since received his
diploma from the University of Paris, and
is successful lawyer in the capital of
France.
William Pearson Whitticker received his
preliminary education in the colored schools
of Washington, and is now at Heidelberg.
Charles U. Miller, left the c0lored high
school to enter the British navy. where
he is now a petty officer Of the highest
rank.
Any day may be seen upon the avenues
of Washington young men and young
women Of color, wearing glasses, carrying
books, studious of look and manner going
to and from their classes. No more per-
sistent untfring seekers after learning
be found among the white youth. These
colorel student are not few. They number
hundreds in Washington. But among the
courts and the alley they are growing on
in knowledge only of evil other hundreds
OF young negroes who do not own a school
book, and who never see the inside of
school room year after year. Can it be a
race problem which includes these ex-
tremes? "The negro race" said
the preacher. today pays taxes upon prop
erty amounting to nearly $275, 900, 900.
Thirty-fve thousand colored people have
graduated from universities and colleges,
high normal and professional schools. The
colored people own and control from $50
to 300 newspapers and periodicals.
These facts draw our attention to
serious problems.
The vicious breed more rapidly than
the virtuous; for the virtuous are re-
strained by considerations of prudence
They will not, as rule, marry until
they can see the way to maintain a wife
and family. The vicious, on the other
hand have no such scruples about the
over population of the world. They
breed like rabbits
There is a school of Malthusian phi
losophers president Andrew johnson
was one of them, who argued that the
criminal class should be deprived of the
power to perpetuate their kind But
our civilization is too tender hearted to
resort to any such heroic methods of re-
form. If the time should ever come
when the world is forced to such severe
remedies, they may enact that none but
Middle-of-the-Road Populists mot fu-
sionists) shall have the right to raise
families; for by that time all the really
honest and sensible Inhabitants of the
earth will belong to that party!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
THE RAG BABY STILL LIVES,

What a remarkable thing it is that the
United States government cannot make good
paper money-greenbacks- can make
such Internally good bonds! Are the bonds
anything but paper?-People's Tribune,
Louisiana.
OF course the rag-baby is alive and in
1900 it will be marching over the coun-
try with giant strides.
Nothing but the natural stupidity of
the people, and the benumbing power of
a plutocratic press has kept the people
from rising in revolt against the villain
GUS receptions practiced upon them.
The rag baby will be the chief issue
next year, and it will sweep the country.
I. d.
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the entrails. The men work IL hours day,
seven days . week, for $5.25.
Posterity will look back upon us as
lot of barbarians who could permit such
conditions to exist in the Nineteenth
century of Christianity.
Think of people who could tolerate
such things, in their own greatest city,
going out to the ends of the earth to
subjugate happy savages, that they may
bring them to like state of awful
wretchedness. Ed.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
RADICAL DOCTRINE.

Gov. Altgeld said the other day, at
the Louisville, KY. Democratic confer
ence:
THAT politician makes a mistake who
thinks that by mere denunciation of trusts
he can fool great number Of Democrats
in 1900. The people want to know what
we propose to do about it," Mr.. Altgeld
suggests no such old-fashioned Democratic
remedy as revision of the tariff to At the
crime. He boldly declares that the trusts
have come to stay, and tacitly admits that
he is very glad of it. THE experience
of other countries" he says, 'as well as
through a consideration of the question,
shows that 1t is impossible to reduce many
of these monopolies back to their original
element. They have come to stay, and,
therefore, 1t il the mission and the duty
of the Democratic party to secure the hene-
at Of the monopoly for the public. for the
PEOPLE, that means municipal and goyernr
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
Treason.

Making criminal charges and vile
slandering of their opponents is the
latest resort of egotistical braggarats.
Men never resort to such measures.
Those that are crying traitor, treason,
etc, should remember that this govern
ment is practically government by
political party. That if it is treason To
oppose the policy of the governing party
then l would remind the governing par
ty that it was born of treason and chris
tened it's birth by the sacrifice of $780,
900 lives. 1t should remember, how
ever, how it calls pet names. Treason
consists in denying to others the rights
they themselves enjoy. Emphasizing
such denial with whistling shot ana
screaming shell. Such are the promo
tiers of the Philippine war.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
LIND FEEDS THE HUNGRY.

In our state faction of the Populist
party has claimed to believe that the
Short cut to true reform was by fusion
with the Democratic party. They have
bitten repeated the mystic words, Unit
ed we stand, divided we fall" and de-
elared it applicable to the political stu
alton.
Many Populists have undoubtedly
been honest in such declarations, and
1t might be difficult to prove the insin-
rerity of any. In placing an estimate.
however, upon the acts and motives of
men, all the attendant circumstances
should be considered 1t is we'll known
that rewards, present or prospective, do
influence the ordinary mortal 1t is also
seen that in no single instance has flu
sion of right and wrong resulted in a
victory for right. 1t would be alb
sOlutely impossible for any fusionist to
name single step taken toward Popu-
lism under Lind that would not have
been taken under Eustis. The makeup
of the legislature was Republican, and
in all it's sentiment anti
POpulistic in any event. Lind's
election, so far as reform
laws was concerned, was absolutely
without significance. Every level-head-
ed Populist knew that this must be the
case when he cast his vote. The only
question at issue between fusion and
anti-fusion Populists in Minnesota in
the campaign of 1898 was the question
of the relative Importance of few
state Offices and the life of the national
Populist party
The resultant vote gave half our party
over to the Democrats and gave few
Offices to the most conspicuous fusion
lists, national party sacrificed for six
or seven state appointments, and in
coming campaigns it will interest Popu-
lists of our states to know who got the
rewards for the delivery of half our
party to Democracy.
First on the list comes Jim Bowler.
with fat salary as head mixer for
Minnesota, and in the same dairy and
food department will be found Mai.
AOtchkiss, understripper.
Next from the Northland comes P. M.
Ringdahl, railroad and warehouse COM
missioner; then in the department of
weights and measures we find Paul Fon-
tame booked for comfortable stipend.
and in command of the Soldiers home
another of the faithful, G. N Lamphere,
comes up to the public crib, and near
the tail end appears the voracious Dob
byn, and standing near with hungry
looks, long line of Democrats enact
ated with the vacuum of 30 years. All
this for six or seven petty state Of
fees and the destruction of a great re-
form party. What next?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

Democrats are bowling about Repub-
licans shooting negroes in the Philip
pines, and Republicans object to Demo-
Gratis shooting negroes in the South.
This may be good politics, but it is
rough on the negroes. Negroes might
remember that Populists are opposed
anywhere.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
TIDE TURNING.

The Rock County News, published at
Luverne, Mimi, a Democratic paper,
ZONES out boldly and avows it's support
Df the whole Populist platform. It's
EDITOR praises Mr.. Longs paper, THE In
ltiator," published at Magnolia, near at
hand, in high terms. This shows a lib
sral spirit
Now push the work, boys, and you
will carry Rock county in 1900.
Id
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15
E. A. T.

And now the question is: What did
President Mckinley put on Tom Reed"
Morgan's Buzz Saw. Judging from Toms
recent political evolutions, Mckinley got
hold of the pepper box instead of the
salt shake.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

The Dutch deposition told his banker:
IF you are insolvent and busted, then
! wants my pay now quick.
"If you are all right and can pay
then l don't want it,"
There is no Dutch about us. We are
plain POpulists and we want our pay
now quick anyway
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

Health for ten cents. Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes, cure headache, bill
iousness and constipation. All druggists
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

Canned beef doesn't taste like it used
to, and everybody is asking, lis it en-
balmed?"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

If you are short on cash today we can
wait till tomorrow for that little sub
)cription account.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

Don't mention it, but Just send us a
little of the needful to get out the best
reform paper in America.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

SplraLlOn. fdraQlSe ana Inferno are hardly
further removed than the top and bottom
strata of dark skinned people in Washing
ton. Color is all that the classes possess
in common.
Between the claried surface and the
dregs is the black labor of the city, fairly
honest and fairly industrious, content with
moderate wages fond of harmless pleasure.
serving in numberless minor and mental
ways. This black labor may be lacking in
ambition to rise above the level. Yet it
does not develop the vicious instinct which
would send it downward to the criminal
class. 1t tolls patiently. 1t learns some
thing as days go by. 1t wOrships noisily.
1t believes and practices blessed be little
The census of Washington, taken last
year, showed the population to be 277, 1872.
This population is 189.457 white people and
88,325 colored. The negroes constitute a
little less than one-third of the population.
Yet the record of arrests was II, 734 white,
1858 colored. OF the negroes arrested,
1924 were under Is years.
OF these 1874 negro children, two were
charged with murder, two with attempted
rape, one with indecent assault, one with
rape, IL with indecent exposure, 40 with
incorrigibility, 2S0 with petit larceny, 81
with disorderly conduct.
Washington has a cOlOred high school,
1t is well attended, and some of it's students
are making high marks. One of these stu
dents went to Exeter to prepare for Har-
ward. He was the honor man every term
at the famous academy and found time
to edit the Literary Monthly. His first
year at Harvard is just closing. In it he
has distinguished himself by winning the
Pasteur medal for debating and by being
chosen on the freshman team to debate
with the sophomore team. This colored
youth from Washington has taken rank
as. one Of the foremost debaters at Har-
ward. His father was Missouri slave and
carried travellers valises up and down the
lAvae Mt st. Louis. Afterward ha nat In
The Princeton union., 1899-10-05
CHAPTER v.

II any man serve me, let him follow me.
II, was nearly midnight before the
service at the Rectangle closed. Gray
staid up long into Sunday morning
The Princeton union., 1899-10-05
IN HIS STEPS.
at1l,at u1nuln
gestn@ Du g.
By Charles NJ. Sheldon.

Cop,n.i1hted and published IN book form by the
.1drance Publishing Co. of Chicago.
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