The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-31
are aiding them. AS THEY ALWAYS

are aiding them. AS THEY ALWAYS
HAVE.
In Gods name, farmer, what are you
waiting for? Pull down your flag. True
men, like Barker and Donnelly, tempo
rarily commissioned by our Populist
army, aim to lead you out of the jungles
of barbarism by obtaining for yo1
greenbacks. What are greenbacks?
They are tickets that will honestly mea-
sure the values Of the products of your
hours OF labor, an can neither be ex-
ported or in any way legally stolen from
you. CThe socialist time checks
measure the hours of labor, but their
value would be dangerously Influenced
by arbitrary laws of the majority hap
penlng to be in power.l What are gold
and silver dollars? Tickets to measure
the useless, often wicked, hours spent
by those who produce no wealth, but
scheme to rob the real wealth-producers
OF the fruits of their toll Tear those
greenbacks from the people, surrender
them to the capitalists of both parties :?
You know the capitalists are equally
thick in both those parties So fall into
their ranks, and fight each other. for
your capitalistic masters Till the soil
both day and night in the summer, and
hibernate in the winter. Close your
eyes in oblivion to such great issues as
af fox In
everywhere except in your own pre-
cinct?
You are bound to the land much as
the serf Of the middle ages, or sold with
1T as was the Southern slave You can
not deny that your Indebtedness to some
capitalist of the Democratic or Repub-
lican party imprisons you, tighter than
did the bloodhounds which used to
guard the plantations of the South.
You know that you are shut out of life.
happiness, hope, often health itself by
the privately monopolzed trusts and
big corporations. You know that when
all of the public Instruments of produce
ton, communication, TRANSPORTATION,
are monopolized by the few, be YOU
ever so able, your wages can afford you
only a paltry shelter.
= Take an average of those wages and
send them to me to publish in my col
umn of The Representative.
BY doing thist YOU intelligently aid
our emancipation out of this unchris-
tan slavery in whichswe live
Show our masters we can organize
ably as they. Danish personal jealous
les. Be brave and generous, or die
slaves. III
In Cook county ILL.,, alone, our in
dustrial warfare causes deaths by the
thousands more. month by month, than
in the PHILIPPINES. You are now, unless
you are willing to help us form clubs
and Mid-road Populists, fighting for
some little Democratic or Republican
storekeeper He is under orders from
his banker, the banker under directions
from the New York and London bank
ers. Perhaps you are fighting for some
little preacher, who in turn, to please
everyone, says nothing, so as to be So
cially popular. If your captain falls, as
fall he may, even what you have done
for him will be gone You may obtain
permission to fight under new master,
or as poor, voorhees, workers, you may
turn on other soldiers, and try to take
from them their sorry rights to work.
for what others enjoy.
And this is the splendid fight the Re
publican and Democratic parties are
forcing you into!
No wonder "the man with the hoe Of
Edwin Markham, finds his condition,
after all the ages, only more pitiable,
more precarious! No wonder he grows
duller, with the privilege of watching
each other for vastly greater treasures
than in the days of old!
Your life is short. What will you do
now, publicly, for freedom, if not for
yourselves, at least for your children?
Make public announcement of some
thing in this column. e.
When you want the news in advance,
read this column. Prof Dobbyn has
just been appointed to small clerkship
in the grain department. For the rea-
sons, read our column weeks ago. Prof
Cation had but the, one favor to ask of
Lind, that Prof. Dobbyn receive no APP
pointment. Stacy is still starving. We
think excellently of this decision of the
governors. Men neither Democrats or
Populfsts ought to he dragged in the
dust. If you can't persuade a child OF
his error, beat senseointo him.
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AN HONEST RINGf FROM SOUTH
DAKOTA.
E. J. TRACY TELLS HOW DISHON-
ESTLY PETTIGREW COPIES FROM
CAPT. J. R. LOWE AND H. L.
LOUGKS.