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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08
VERY MUCH TO THE POINT.

Editor The Representative, Minneapolis,
Mimi,
Dear Sir:-In a clipping from Robert
Schilling's Advance, reprinted in your issue
OF May 18th, l read the following sentence:
When we ship $1,000, OOO, 900 Of goods
abroad and bring back only $500, 900 900
worth, foreigners must pay the balance in
cash or it's equivalent
Now, that seems plain and reasonable
enough but did those oth5r 5000 Coo, 900 really
come into this country, thus increasing the
volume of our circulation of money? Or
did not the most of it remain abroad in
payment of interest on the immense for
eign Indebtedness of this nation?
Our exports of gold and silver are far
from being sufficient to do it. and conse-
Quently, that monster interest" must also
swallow considerable portion of our ex-
ports of manufactured goods AGRICULTURAL
and other products.
So much for that side of the question
But now, the newspapers in generalAand
especially the plutocratic press-are making
a great fuss about our exports being so
much in excess Of our imports last year
which fact they claim to be proof conclu-
sive that this country is prospecting in great
shape-"the balance of trade is in our IA
vor" they say, but is that a sign of pros
perity?
To be brief, let me suggest a couple more
question, and if 1 am wrong I hope to be
corrected.
Is it not so that the real cause of our
large exports lies in the fact that we can
not afford to use as much Of our own pfo-
ducts as we ought to use, and would like to
use II we could afford It? And again, when
our imports are SO small in proportion,
is not that because Of our inability to buy
the imported goods in such quantities as we
would do If we could afford it?
In short, does not the much heralded
fact that 1.-The balance of trade is in our
favor" prove that we as nation are far
from being prosperous?
l consider all this Dragging about our i'm
mense exports a part of the confidence
game that is constantly being practiced by
the plutocratic press and platform speakers,
in order to make the people believe that
everything is all right and there is no cause
for any opposition to or dissatisfaction with
our present system of government.
If we could afford to consume at home all
our own products and perhaps even a con-
siderable amount Of imported articles, would
not that be the best proof that could be
given, of the general prosperity of our ma
ton as a whole and Of it's millions of in
dividual citizens?
AS It is at present, If there is any pros
perity at all in this country, it must be
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08
So Father Says.

wish that I'd been grandpa's child,
That l could had the joy
Of fishing in those good old days
When father was boy.
For then the fish grew bigger far
Than they do nowadays,
And literally packed the streams
At least, so father says.
They never caught a sucker then
That didn't weigh a ton,
And pickerel were longer than
A modern Armstrong gun.
They used to yank out halibut
In hundreds from our bays,
And shad ran up the banks to bite
At least, SO father says.
They never thought of using bait.
To lure the willy trout,
They reached a bushel basket down
And simply dipped them out,
And in about an hour or two
They'd fill up several drays
And SOW them through the neighbor-
hood
At least, so father says.
In short, they caught so many fish,
That fore theirtsport was through
The stream where they were fishing
would
Go down yard lnor two.
And not an angler faded to come,
Home loaded in'fhdse days
A habit father still ipursues,
At least, so mothen says.
Boston Courier.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08
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F. A. s |. u. Dept.
(EDIrED BY c. HANLEy.)
BUILDING AN ELEVATOR.

BUILDING AN ELEVATOR.
Points to Consider In Building q
Farmers' Elevator.
A few items to consider by farmers
in connection with the building of a
farmers elevator.
First-Ascertain if you are getting
FULL MARKET PRICES FOR YOUR
GRAIN AT YOUR LOCAL STATION.
This is important.
Second-Compare prices at your sta
ton with prices at other stations
WHERE THERE is A FARMERS
ELEVATOR.
Third-After finding out what ADJ
VANCED PRICE you can get by es-
tablishing an elevator controlled by
yourselves, multiply this advance to
the number of bushels of grain market
ed at such station each year, and the
amount will demonstrate what the To-
cality has lost by the absence of a
farmers elevator. This item will de-
termine AT ONCE whether it is profit
able to build or not.
Fourth-If you decide that it would
be profitable to build, the first thing
to do is to call meeting of farmers
of the locality. eve will furnish any
community literature, posters, ETC., for
getting up meetings free. We will
appoint chairman to call the first
meeting of any one desiring to act in
Fifth-Form a temporary organiza-
ton, then get up big meeting. Have
it thoroughly advertised and secure all
the farmers tributary to your local sta
ton to come into your organization and
subscribe stock to build your elevator.
Sixth-See that farmers own and con-
troll the stock. If any farmer desires
to give up his stock for any reason, let
him surrender it to the ASSOCIATION.
Seventh-Allow each stakeholder one
vote, regardless of the amount of stock
owned. This puts the small stock
holder on the same footing as the large
stakeholder, and gives much better sat
isfaction.
Eighth-After subscribing be sure
you PAY 1T.
Ninth-Decide the size of the elevator
to be built. In estimating the cost of
the same you will be safe in estimating
at Is to II cents per bushel, difference
of about IL cents per bushel that was
fol no 70 of
this station on 1926, 200 bushels marketed.
These are facts and can be proved to any
one who will challenge them. When we
contemplate that there is probably less
Dakotas and Minnesota out of $500 ele
vators, we can see how the farmers are
at the mercy of the combines and the
trusts, and how he is being reduced to
poverty and distress each year by sys
tematic and successful effort on the
part of these great line elevators to
smother competition and exact tribute
through reducing grades, increasing his
dockage, and bidding below the market
for his grain, and numerous other ways
known to those greedy and heartless
combines.
The solution of the whole trouble is
in the FARMERS ELEVATOR.
Moral: Call a meeting of the farm
ers at every station where no farmers
elevator exists. ORGANIZE, SUB
SCRIBE AND BUILD.
J. C.. HANLEY,
National Organizer and Business Agent.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08
EDUCATION in PORTO RICO
American Methods Are Being Grad
ually and Successfully Adapted to
the Native Needs.
BY Wire From New York, June 7.

Gen. John w. Eaton. who in company
with DR.. Victor S. Clark, was sent to Porto
Rico last January, as inspector of public
instruction, returned on the transport Nc
Pherson, and will proceed to Washington
today to make his report. Gen. Eaton
seemed satisfied that American methods of
education had taken well in Porto Rico,
when seen by reporter at the Park Ave-
nue. hotel.
I'VE have tried in our work. he said,
mot to throw the American system just
as it is at the Porto Ricans, but to adapt
and remould it to their needs, retaining the
fundamental principles which have long ago
proved their correctness, but changing the
details to suit the best interest of the peo-
pie. The Porto Ricans have naturally
taken to our system, and the improvement
in the educational facilities of the island
is already marked.
seen. Henry authorizes the appropria-
tion by the general insular government of
$325,0O0 for the good or education during
the coming year, and the society of edu-
cation, which has been formed for the ben
eft of the children is doing a great work
for good in that direction We have di-
vided the island into Is parts and teacher
who speaks English is assigned to each
of these districts. This teacher visits diff
ferent schools in the districts and cor
reefs the pronunciation of the English
taught there"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

There are all sorts of pretty neckwear
to be had now. A plain dress or waist
can be made most attractive by fluffy
lace tie; a black satin stock with bow
and long ends, soft lace cascaded down
the front, or the wide bodice with bows
Almost any way one can fix lace on a
dress will be in style, for lace is in great
demand this season.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

A new material has come into exist
ence, and it promises to be a genuine
favorite. 1t is called Pima cloth. and
is said to be made from the fiber of pine
apple. 1t can be had in stripes of
pretty shades, and makes very beauti-
full summer gown
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

men, with souls in them, intelligent
teachers, true churches, modern Christs
(not scheming Doodle politicians), to tell
how this can be done. The teacher who,
more than all others, is making this
plain is Gods law, working through our
ing that individuals, so far as the pro-
ducing, manufacturing and distributing
work of the world is concerned, must
be mere parts of great machines.
(To be Continually
The high living of the upper ten is
productive of great socialistic good to
humanity in that it is creating an in
stinctive and unconscious desire in the
workers to obtain for themselves also a
higher environment than is now theirs.
A note of warning to precinct clubs:
The meeting of the National Reform
Press Association and organization COM
mittee for the Peoples Party, May Is,
1899, has passed into history. The re-
port says that the assemblage of sa-
wants decided upon policy for 1900"
to be pursued by the Peoples Party.
That is all right provided they were
members in good standing in the pre-
cinct clubs. would remind all those
not members, etc., that section 10 of the
plan of organization counts all such out
of the councils of the Peoples Party:
out OF its management. There are clubs
enough organized now to demand of all
would-be managers of the PEOPLES
Party strict compliance with the pro-
visions of said section. The penalty
for non compliance would be a refusal
to support any paper not published by a
member of precinct club. Let such
editors know that clubs are trumps. and
that we will not hesitate to punish them
when safety demands it.
Another point is, that such men-men
who do not hesitate to speno their time
and money in going and coming from
home, 500 or 600 miles Or more. to at
tend such meetings, and air their views.
have not influence enough at home to
form precinct club, they are not worth
patronage.
Perhaps these men are banking them
selves upon their publicity, and think
themselves 80 far above suspicion that
they ought not to be required to enroll
themselves in precinct club. To all
such l would say that what is good
sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander. If the gander won't eat the
sauce the geese eat, drive them out of
the flock, and have done with their
eternal squawking.
1t may be thought l am too severe. Let
me tell you the game we are playing is
liberty for the great plain people, Po-
litical parties run on the representative
plan must be overthrow or all of lib
erty is lost. No time now for lullaby
songs, or milk and water policies. No
time for men to sit straddle of the fence
crying good lord and good devil, not
knowing whose side they will fall on.
E. J. WHITE,
organizer, Rice Co., MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

Rosa Bonheur's pictures are selling so
we'll in America and command such high
prices, that much envy has arisen among
her fellow artists. She is exhibiting in
years. Mrs. Anna Klumpike, a young
American artist, has on exhibition
portrait of Rosa Bonheur, with which
the great artist is very we'll pleased.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

With the initiative and referendum
the peopls oget any reform majority
will vote for. Now we get any law the
millionaires will pay for. Read Bono
and Industrial Slavery" Price IS cents.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

"shall money control this govern
nlent?' will be the 'grsat issue in 1900
Direct legislation ,valll3i settle this CUES
ion and settle it yigAt Read Bono
and Industrial Sl1safys-. Price IS cents
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-08

Deal with Representative advertisers.
They are reliable as far as we know and
will treat you we'll.
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Direct all communications for this
column to DR.. H. B. Fay, Al Washington
avenue south, Minneapolis Mimi
A POPULIST CHURCH..
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
Ancient Inkstands.

An inkstand that was probably IN
use three thousand four hundred years
ago has been lately acquired by a
museum in Berlin. 1t is Of Egyptian
make, and is supposed to belong to the
eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty, or
somewhere about 1900 B. c., although
its real age can only be judged of ap-
proximately. 1t is made of wood, and
has two compartments, an upper one
proviL | with two holes, one for black
and ore for red ink, and lower one
for holding reed pens. The black and
the red ink are certainties, for some
still remains, in dry condition, with
in the receptacles. Another ancient
inkstand is supposed to have been in
tended for the use Of schoolboy. 1t
would certainly hold ink enough for a
schoolboy's needs, for it has no fewer
than four ink-holes. Both inkstands
were found at Thebes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
A Klpllng Poem.

Several years ago Fred D. Under
wood, now general manager of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, named
two stations in the upper peninsula Of
Michigan "Rudyard" and "Kiplisg,"
one being in an agricultural country
and the other in an iron ore district
some time later a mutual friend in
formed Kipling of Mr.. Underwood's
action. and the celebrated author sent
Mr.. Underwood his photograph with
the following lines on the back:
"RIJDYARD" AND "KIPLING."
.yy,se is the child who knows his sire,
'rhe ancient proverb ran,
Put wiser far the man who knows
How. where and when his offspring
grows,
For Who the mischief would suppose
I've sons in Michigan?
Yet am saved from midnight Ills,
That warp the soul of man
They do not make me walk the floor
Nor hammer at the doctors door.
They deal in wheat and iron ore,
My sons In Michigan.
Oh. Tourist In the Pullman car
(By Cooks or Raymond's plan3,
Forgive a parents partial view;
But, maybe, you have children too
So let me introduce to you
My sons in Michigan.
RCDYARD KIPLING.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

A great many mothers have the
habit of taking their babies to the ia
BILE, and allowing them to eat little
of anything and everything they can
find. This is pernicious habit and
breeds a great deal of trouble. Solid
food is improperly masticated in the
mouth and improperly digested after
swallowing, thus passing as an irritant
the whole length of the intestinal tract.
Starchy foods are allowed infants at
times, and we know these must be
changed to sugar before being alb
sorbed, and in the child this change
will not take place until about the
sixth month Of life. The undigested
starchy food ferments easily and be-
comes severe irritant.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
KipIIng's Place in Literature.

Rudyard Kipling now seems to be
so far along on the way to recovery
that the English-speaking world may
be congratulated upon a narrow escape
from an irreparable loss. By general
consent Kipling may be said to possess
more Of that mysterious fire called
genius than any other living writer.
Since Stevensons death Kipling has
been quite universally accorded the
foremost place in the ranks of modern
authorship. To compare him with Ste
venson would be futile, for the work
Of the two men is different, and Kip
ling has scarcely more than begun his
career, while Stevenson had at least
reached his prime. Kipling's greatest
work is undoubtedly still before him,
and this is why his death would have
been SO poignant blow to the litera-
ture of the epoch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

Higdon, Fisher and Thorpe, (Regis-
tration No. 2O37) Patent Lawyers, Dia-
mond Building, Junction Main and Del
aware Sts., Kansas City, Mo-, report
the following list of patents for the
week ending May 2, 1899, to invent
ors living in Missouri, Kansas and Ne
braska. Tel 1912.
Byron Z. Chollar, st. Louis; electro
magnetic actuating device.
Al II. Heron, st. Louis; gearing for
washing machines.
j. w. Jennings and j. o. Spradling,
Kearney; wire fence.
Gustavus Rein, st. Louis; fare regis
ter.
Morse B. Schaffer st. Louis; car
transom.
E. C. Sooy, Kansas City; baling
press.
F. Steffens and O. f. Koss, st. Jo-
seph; gallery car. -,
John s. Thurman, st. Louis; oil
burner.
John c. Wands, st. Louis; bolster.
George R. Ford, st. Louis; match.
Design.
George R. Ford, st. Louis; match.
Design.
Bernhard NJ. Graft, st. Louis; loclset.
Design.
Ferdinand Schwedtmann, st, Louis;
converter box. Design.
Ferdinand Schwedtmann, St. Louis;
converter box. Design
Ferdinand Schwedtmann, ST. Louis;
converter box. Design.
TT chn Il
spool thread holder. Design.
KANSAS.
Samuel A. Bragunier, Topeka; mail
box
William A. Glasgow, Scandal,
needle attachment for self binders.
James Yarton, Kansas City; incan-
desceut vapor burner.
Howard H. Shelly, Hutchinson; par
ing knife. Design.
NEBRASKA.
Charles w. Barkley, Seward; method
of, and apparatus for typewriter in
struction.
Charles s. and A. S. Huntington,
Omaha; Logging.
Issue of May 2, 1899
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
Popular LowPrlcod California Excursions

The Santa Fe Route daily excursions
to California in tourist sleeping cars
are deservedly popular. Cars are Of
newst pattern and very comfortable,
having every necessary convenience.
These excursions are accompanied by
Pullman conductors and porters, and
are patronized by many of the best
people. Low rate tickets.
The Santa Fe's California line Is re-
markably picturesque. Its middle
route across the continent avoids ex-
tremc heat or cold.
For descriptive literature, address,
GEO. w. HAGENBUCH, p & I. A.,
Santa Fe Ry., Kansas city. Mo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
Dumb Suddenly RECOVER.

Several cases have lately been re-
corded in which the dumb have been
restored to speech by some sudden and
violent shock. A Mrs. Patten, at Col
chester, England, found voice sudden
ly short time ago after silence of
twenty-three years, the shock being
caused by the illness Of her daughter