The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

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2, has made most valuable suggestion
which should be taken up all over the
United States. He does not believe in
studying cheap 10-cent books without
system. He proposes when the major
lty of our city precincts have clubs, that
each one buy a standard book on some
plank of our platform. This list of
books and the order in which they are
to be reviewed is to be decided by the
best students in the country.
Then, to certain members in every
club different books are to be allotted for
study. And on every meeting night
one after another such reviewers are
to report in brief the principal points
made in his book for the benefit of the
other members, and when done pass his
book on to the next club. This can be
followed by a general discussion of the
subject. How can a valuable circulating
library be better formed?
1.-THE highest culture is to speak no ILL.,
Inc pest TelOflner is the man whose eyes
Are quick to see all beauty and all worth.
And by his own discreet, well ordered life,
Alone reproves the erring.
When thy gaze,
Turns it or thine own soul, be most
severe.
But when it falls upon a fellow man.
Let kindness control it, and refrain
From that belttling censure that springs
FORTH
From common lips like weeds from
marshy soil"
X
$50 WANTED.
What for? To buy you stationery,
with the address of every county organ
izer, printed arguments, platforms, and
pamphlets, stamps, SO as to establish
clubs in every precinct in your own
ward or county. Every cent, where and
how expended, to be reported in The
Representative. Any man who speaks
against this necessary first step or shifts
the burden on brother, is either ignor-
ant or an enemy in disguise. This
money is needed now, not next summer
So. so has been paid in. Who is next?
Send your contribution to Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly, Hotel Waverly, Minneapolis,
Mimi; Capt. J. R. Lowe, Faribau1t; M.
P. Moran, Graceville; C. J. Arntzen,
Wegdahl, or myself, DR.. H. B.. Fay, 80
Washington avenue south, Minneapolis,
MINI.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 81, '9S.-F.di-
tor Organization Column, Representative:
We on the highwa to success. The
Dro,N lnS Dnyf hoft hos,
gone through the bin of fusion, the pesZi-
lence of contumely. the arrangement of
brute force. 1t has come out considerably
battered, but is still in the ring" while it's
tormentors and villifers have been exposed
through the whole trouble. Like the fellow
that bet he could swim a wide river under
the water, they have succeeded in living to
this day through the fight, but at every
stroke they made they showed the bosom Of
their pants We are rid of political traders,
of every selfish rabble and we have got
rid of the purified Democracy" and its
offensive smell. In Michigan the Eryan
Democrats (he hippodrome still voting for
Jackson) and the Palmer Democrats, have
become fast friends-pirate hugging fools,
who didn't know where they were att
since they stumbled over the cross of gold
and sat down upon the crown Of thorns-
Under such circumstances many Of our peo
pie voted for Pngree, but as Populists-
real old Populists-the kind We showed up
at Nashville, July 1897, that consistently
voted against Bryan at st. Louis, we have
increased in size. From $3.50 voters who
supported label for justice of the SUI
preme court in the spring of 1897, just fol-
lowing our rebellion against FUSION We
have been able to record Il, 0O0-15, 900 voters
Notwithstanding the greater desire of many
to defeat fusion. We can safely rely on
10000 adherents now. For all over the state
the word comes to me from Populists who
tried fusion "just once more this fall, that
i t don't pay to follow a Jack O. Lantern
party any lOnger-THE MUD SWAMP is
TOO DEEP.
JAMES E. M'BRIDE,