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Willmar tribune., 1899-07-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.
kidnapped.

1T. Paul had a real kidnapping case
and the police are all wrought up over
the affair. A. L. Berry, who resides
with Mrs. Gagne, was out walking
with the latter's little daughter, Eva.
A carriage drove up beside them and
stopped. A man alighted, stepped up
to Berry and struck him on the back
OF the head with revolver. The man
then grabbed the child and placed it
in the carriage. Berry, recovering
from the blow, caught hold of his as
sailant and wrestled with him.
Another man was in the carriage,
however, and, closing the door, ordered
the driver to proceed. In the mean
time Berry and his unknown assailant
were having desperate time, but soon
Berry felt revolver at his head and
was ordered to resist no longer. He
obeyed, and the kidnaper escaped, but
not before Berry had recognized him
as Joseph Gagne, father of the child.
The Gagne family formerly lived in
st. Paul. Their domestic life was an
unhappy one and finally Mrs. Gagne
secured a divorce and the custody of
the little girl.
Climate and Crop Bulletin.
In general, the week has been a very
favorable one. Winter wheat is fair
crop and nearly ready to harvest.
Spring wheat is heading as far north
as the Red River valley counties, and
in bloom in some southern counties.
Oats are heading we'll. Barley is we'll
headed and the heads are filing we'll;
the crop is good one. Flax is in all
stages of growth; the earliest is in
blossom. In Big Stone and Freeborn
counties something is causing flax
plants to die. Rust is reported in some
wheat and barley fields, and also some
lodging, but the drier weather is stiff
fening the stalks so that lodging will
not be as serious as if wet weather
continued. Corn is still somewhat
backward, but it is improving steadily.
Hay is generally good crop, but there
are localities where both clover and
timothy are so poor that other crops
will have to be used for provender.
Willmar tribune., 1899-07-12

LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N. r.
For sale By all DrugRists.-Price SOC. Der hottl
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
RED LETTER DAYS
AN OPPORTUNITY AT LAST TO PRO-
TECT THE PEOPLE.
The Organization Of the Grain Grow
ers' Association of MinnesOta-The
Alliance Revived and In Splen-
did Condition..

The End, Sd, 4th, and 9Th days Of Jan
uary, 1899, will long be remembered as
days of the utmost Importance to reform
in the state of Minnesota. The desire
for the formation of some organization
coming from the people themselves, for
the protection of the people, especially
the grain growers, has been realized.
The machinery is now in place, If the
people are only earnest enough to use it.
The Farmers Alliance meeting was
the greatest that has been held for many
years; the liberality and enthusiasm OF
the members was most marked; it re-
minded one of the old times to see the
members walk up to the secretary's table
and put down their IS bills and 81 silver
coins. It brought back to our mind the
time when we were president of the AL
lance, and the silver dollars rained up
on the platform of our convention, until
the officers had to dodge them.
We feel that next to the Importance Of
having such a gathering and taking the
action we did is the question Of getting
a thorough reportlof it all before the
farmers of Minnesota, and of the North
west. We have therefore arranged to is
sue, either on the 18th or 18th of this
month, an. edition Of 100000 copies,
which will include,.a full report Of the
proceedings. with the speeches made at
that time. We will try to place copy
of this paperii'ip every farmers house in.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

honorable for alleged reformers, il It not?
-Schilling's Advance
This Is the best answer to all the
talk about giving up the Peoples party
and forming a new one from the same
elements.
You don't make an overcoat warmer
by turning it inside out. You don't
make a man honester by changing his
name from Tom to Jim.
Stick to the Peoples party and the
Omaha platform. -
The Republican party did not change
it's name 1856 when Fremont was beaten.
/. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

preston Of the legislative lobby Similar to
those employed in Massachusetts,.
2-Some amendment to the constitution
enabling the minority In a legislature to
refer certain enactments to q vote of the
people before becoming operative.
Occupations work upon the capitol and
the granting to the commissioners Of GER
tain privileges to enable them to push the
work economically.
This is splendid program; but how
much of it will be accomplished?
Twenty years ago we advocated that
the state should prepare and print its
own school books, as the governor now
suggests, but powerful lobby came
from the East, and persuaded the legis-
lature that there was not learning or
intelligence enough in Minnesota to
write out the MS. of the books. We Of
fered to prepare them ourself, and they
laughed at us!
For 20 years we worked to effect many
of the tax reforms proposed by the
governor, and also to reduce the rate
charges of the railroads; but we could
accomplish little or nothing. We hope
the governor will be more successful
But ''let not him boast that putteth on
the armor, but him that taketh it off,
In the meantime we shall watch the
progress of events with great interest,
prepared to commend the governor
when he deserves praise, and condemn
him when he does not. We believe he
&c :,1&o 10
good he can; but he is surrounded by an
ungodly swarm of pap-suckers and
spectators, who will drag him down if
they can. I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
THE LAW OF sELFISHNESs.

While at the state capitol last Tuesday, we
had the pleasure of hearing J. ]. Hill make
speech on grain conditions. He seemed
to have but one idea, which was to open up
new markets for our surplus grain His
argument was good as far as the Great
Northern road was concerned but on the
whole was not exactly what he was invited
to speak about. The farmers were trying
to organize a grain growers association.
and expected him to give them a little light
upon the most practical plan Of organization
He thought 1t good plan to organize, and
so did ali the farmers there present; but he
never gave them even a hint as to the
practical steps to be taken in forming said
organization. He expressed his views that
If the farmers would secure help from the
government in the way Of an appropriation
of several million dollars to be expended
for bounty. at the rate of 81 per ton to ships
entering ports where the United States now
has no trade. and in this way open up new
markets for our wheat, it would. therefore
not be thrown upon the English market
MIR. Hill Is hgurer, and no doubt knows
what he is talking about but just how much
good he did this sso:ia.ion is yet to be
heard.-Renville County Union.
1t is true that it would help Mr.. Hills
road to ship millions of bushels of
wheat over it, on the way to China,
Japan and India. And so far Mr.. Hill
is working for his own self-interest.
But it is to the self-interest of the
farmers of Minnesota that those mill
ions Of bushels should be withdrawn
from the English market, where they
now help to depress prices, and shipped
to the Orient. The English would howl
for them, and prices would go up in
Minneapolis and Duluth.
Should we oppose what is good for
ourselves because it would also be good
for Mr.. Hills road?
The whole world moves on the axis Of
selfshness, and even 0lval interests can
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
Pith and Point.

Borrowed money always causes a
great deal of nearsightedness.
Jay Gould is said to have exclaimed:
81 am rich enough to hire one-half of
the people to shoot the other half"
Push" with some men may mean sue
cess, but man with pull is much
more uccessful.-Minneapoli Sentinel.
When the working people compete
with each other for an opportunity to
work for mere existence how can they
expect to receive high wages?
Liberty Of competition for him who
possesses nothing-for him who is not
able to save on his daily earnings-c
not even initiate competition-is lie,
even as political liberty is lie for those
who for the want of education, instruc-
ton, time and material means, are un-
able to exercise their rights.-Joseph
Mazzini.
Ropes are needed" says ex-Gov Alt
geld. Why? To prevent the proposed
steal of fifty-year street railway fran
chises in Chicago. Continuing his re-
marks, he added: What the people Of
Chicago should do is to purchase ropes,
as they did in Cleveland several years
ago, when Mark Hanna was after street
railway franchises, and it became neces-
sary to persuade a few aldermen as to
what the people really wanted. "-Mor-
toms Monthly.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
GOOD ADVICE.

Hon. Ignatius Donnelly asks in The Rep
resentative: The women, what shall we do
with them?' And then he comments thusly:
1.-The squeeze goes on increasing; and the
best part of Gods creation is driven to sore
and desperate straits"
Why, quit squeezing them, OF course. That
is the only remedy we can see for the
trouble.
Or, don't squeeze quite so hard.-Fergus
Globe
This is good advice. We bow to the
judgment of the Editor of the Fergus
Globe. No man in the state is better fit
ted, by nature and experience, to give
an opinion upon the treatment of wOm
en.-Let the squeeze" stop.-I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

dues-all they have got to DO is to join
the society, form branch in their own
town and ship their wheat to the party
agreed upon. If this is thoroughly
done, in six months the ring elevators
will be for sale; and the organization
will spread over the whole country.
There were delegates present at our
convention from North and South Da-
kota, and they declared their purpose
on their return home, to organize SIM
liar society there. If it is started in
either of those states, and the editor of
this paper can be of any help he will
gladly go out and meet the farmers for
consultation, to help start the ball
rolling. There will be but lite politics
for year to come, and the best thing we
can do is to devote ourselves to an effort
to stop the robberies which have been
inflicted on the people for thirty years
past
GO TO WORK.
Get several Of your farmer neighbors
together, read this article to them; meet
in one of your houses, invite in all the
farmers of that neighborhcod and or
ganize; elect president, vice-president
secretary and treasurer and board OF
managers If you have no farmers eie-
vators at your place, start a movement
to build one. Those who put in their
money will run it without outside inter
ference from the society or any one else.
There can scarcely be any freedom from
the wheat rings if you have not local
farmers elevator. We were told the
other day by prominent man, we'll
posted, that there were men in this state
who were drawing 100000 a year as di-
vidends from wheat rings. This was
taken out Of the farmers pockets, and
one-half of it ought to be restored to
their pockets.
Some time next summer a great con-
vention will be held in Minneapolis or
st. Paul, of delegates from every branch
of the Grain Growers Association in the
state, and there the organization will be
perfected; and all such steps taken as
of the farmers
We are with you in this work Re-
port every organization to the REPRE-
SENTATIVE and also to Mr. ]. G.. Han
ley, the secretary, 401 Baltimore block,
St. Paul. MINI. We will print the news
in a special column. You must give the
names Of your officers, their postoffice
addresses and the number of members
and synopsis of such action as they
may take.
The president of the association, Mr..
c. H. Hopkins, of Fairfax, Mimi, is an
old soldier, a practical farmer, and we
believe him to be as good and honest a
man as there is in the state.
ORGANIZE! ORGANIZER! I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

Initiative ard Referendum-ResOlu
ton Introduced to Provide for a Con-
stitutiOna1 Amendment.
Following the recommendation OF
Gov. Lind in his inaugural address, Mr..
Marin, of Polk county, introduced a
joint resolution, H. F. 8, providing for
an amendment to section 1, article of
the constitution, which allows the elect
ors of the state to invoke the initiative
and referendum. The amendment, If
agreed to by the legislature, will be sub
mitted to vote of the people at the next
general election.
The resolution, reading as follows, was
sent to the judiciary committee:
Question submitted. The legislative power
of the state shall be vested in a legislature,
which shall consist of senate and house OF
representatives except that the people ex-
presSly reserve to themselves the right to
propose measures, which measures the legis-
ture shall enact and submit to a vote of
the electors OF the state, and also the right
to require that any laws which the legisla-
ture may have enacted shall be submitted
to a vote of the electors of the state before
going into effect except such laws as may
be necessary for the immediate preservation
OF the public peace, health or safety, support
of the state government and it's existing pub
lie institutions.
Provided. that not more than per centum
Of the qualified electors of the state shall
be required to invoke either the initiative or
the referendum.
This section shall not be construed as
to deprive the legislature or any member
thereof of the right to propose any measure.
The veto power of the executive shall not be
exercised as to measures referred to vote
Of the people. This section shall apply to
municipalities.
The enacting clause of all laws approved
by vote Of the electors of the state shall
be, BE it enacted by the people Of the state
of Minnesota
The legislature shall make suitable provis-
ion for carrying into effect the provisions of
this section.
Mr.. Marin deserves credit for starting
the ball. He is a good and true man.
Look it over, friend. Can you sug-
gest any amendments? l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
POPULISTS BUSY.
Plans Making to Garry the State at
the Next Election.

the Next Election.
(From the Minneapolis Journal. }
The state central committee of the mid
road Populists met yesterday at st. Paul.
there being about 100 Populists present. A
new plan of organization was adopted, I'M
der which the unit Of organization will be
have primary club organization, the pres
ident, secretary, treasurer and two election
judges being the primary committee The
chairmen of the primary committees will
constitute the county committee ana the
charmen Of the county committees will CON-
stitute the state central committee. The
state central committee will choose three
representatives for the national committee.
Provision has been made for organizers
and a circulating library to advertise the
party and strengthen it in every precinct.
A candidate for office must receive the ma
jority vote of the members of his precinct
club, a nominee for a legislative district
must have the Endorsement of two pre-
cinct clubs; for judicial four Endorsements;
for congressional, six Endorsements; for
state, ten. No candidate belonging to any
other party is to be Endorsed. The refer
endum ballot is to declare the cardinal
tenets'' Of Populism.
Read DR.. Fay's report, in another col
umn, of the great conference held in
st. Paul last week. 1t was the most
harmonious and enthusiastic ever seen
in the state. There had been some
chickering's, not as to principles, but as
to methods and details, but they were
all settled, and peace reigned supreme.
The men who were led off by the fu-
sion racket are coming back to their
first love. They see that the possession
Of few little offices is of no value to
the bulk of the people. The politicians
are subsiding and the patriots are COM
ing to the front. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
TAKE HOLD,

You can help the good work by hand
ing your Representative, of this week,
around among your neighbors, and ask
ing them to read everything in it that
refers to the grain growers uniting to
secure better prices for their products.
Get them to subscribe, and invite them
to your house to form local branch of
the association.
They must defend themselves. No
one else will do it. |. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
NOTICE

Every person in Minnesota who voted
the ticket of the Mid-Road Populist
party is requested to send his name and
address to this Office, together with the
names and addresses of all whom he
knows to be interested in or inclined to-
ward Populism. The state committee
desires this information in order that
it may better prepare for agitation
throughout the state.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
THANKS.

We want to thank the st. Paul Globe
and the Minneapolis Times for the
very full and fair reports they gave us,
last week, of the four days conventions
OF the State Farmers Alliance and the
Grain Growers Association.
They will not lose anything by it, in
the long run. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
Tourist Rates South.

The Monon Route are now selling tick
cts to Florida, Cuba and all Southern
winter resorts, good until May 81. Also
homeseekers' tickets to points in Ten
nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
isiana, at very low rates. For map,
folders, rates and other information. call
or address l.. E. Sessions, N. w. Passen-
ger Agent 4O3 Northwestern building,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
HILTON A BANKRUPT.
Ten Thousand Creditors, With Claims
of $2,539,9O7.

New York Jan. 6.-Albert B. Hilton, who
formerly carried on a large dry goods busi-
ness on Broadway, filed petition in bank
ruptcy today. The schedules inclule the
names of about 10000 creditors, most all for
small amounts. The total liabilities are s.
539, @1.. all unsecured. He has no assets eX-
cept clothing valued at $500, for which he
claims exemption
Whew. Two and half million of
debt, and 5000 of assets, in the shape of
clothes.
Gollyopholis! But prosperity HAS re-
turned |. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

With the initiative and referendum
the people get any reform a majority
will vote for. Now we get any law the
millionaires will pay for. Read Bond
and Industrial Slavery" Price Is cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11
THE BEST ANSWER.

The Populists of Texas polled from 105 600
to 10000 votes for the candidates on their
state ticket. All the socialist parties in the
country together polled about $1,000 votes
and yet these reformers toot and tell us
that the Peoples party is dead" Rather
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

Coax your neighbor to subscribe one
year for The Representative, send us
his dollar, and we will send you free
Grams War Atlas, containing 16 beau
TRULY colored maps. You need the
Atlas and he needs The Representative
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-11

Our subscribers are paying up at q
lively rate. Look at your label The
Grain Growers Association movement
will make every issue of our paper yer,
valuable. Don't lose one Of them.
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The Yale expositor., 1899-05-12
That 20 Hour Sale.

AS test of the capacity of bushes:
force we ADVERTISED 20 hour sale last
week. The crush that responded was
proof that our advertisements are read
and that we haye the confidence of the
public. This week we will have on
sale another complete assortment OF
all sizes and colors of our celebrated
CSC warranted kid gloves 81 90 by mail
and you get pair to match your new
gown. Nearly 800 agents samples,
ladies' and childrens' 15c to Csc sum-
mer vests to go at two for 25c, the SOC
silk vests to go at 25c. Three hosiery
bargains. A big opening new sailors
and wheel hats in Millinery Depart
ment. Come here first, our low prices
warrant it. Boice's.
The Yale expositor., 1899-05-12
MRS. JOHN D. McKEITH
Departed This Life at her Home In Speaker
Township, Saturday, May 9th.


Susan Carmichael was born in Mid
dlesex County, Ont, October End, 1910,
and in 1861 at the age of 81, was united
in marriage to j. ID. McKeith. Five
children were born to them, two of
whom, twins, died when about nine
years of age. The three that still sur
vive are Mrs. William Tomlinson, Mrs.
Charles Sloat and Duncan. Twenty
six years ago Mr.. and Mrs. McKeith
moved from Canada to Michigan and
have lived continuously in Speaker
and Yale since, but during the past
year they had made their home in
Speaker.
For several years Mrs. McKeith had
been i'll frail health, but nothing seri-
Gus was thought of it until she grad
ually grew worse and for a week CT
more her death was not unexpected,
although the summons, when it came,
on May 6, was a shock to her loving
family and her hosts of friends.
The funeral obsequies were held on
Sunday from the NJ. L. church, Rev.
Mccall conducting the services, assist
ed by Rev. Rowe. The deceased was
a member of the OES and that Order
took charge of the burial services in
Elmwood cemetery.
a quiet consistent, earnest woman
although not a member of any church
one can hardly doubt but that such a
soul as hers would find it's Heavenly
Father. She died surrounded by her
family, relatives and friends. Those
from abroad who attended the funeral
were Duncan Carmichael and Mrs La
monte, brother and sister of deceased,
Mrs. Margaret Carmichael, Mrs. Nc
Clurg, of Lobo, Ont, Hugh and Dun
can McKeith, of Wyandotte.