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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
A STRONG INDICTMENT

'How did the Republican party stand on
the money question in 1894?
'They stood pat bimetalists, for they
condemned the Democrats for their efforts
to demonetiZe silver
What position did they take on the same
question in 1895?
''They were international bimetalists.
See their platform.
What position do they take at the pres
ent time?
ooh! every state platform declares spe-
officially for the gold standard
How came the Republican party to make
SO complete a summersault in so short
time?
The leaders planned it; knowing full
we'll that the adherents of the party were
such lovers Of the name Republican. be-
ing partisan blind, they were perfectly sure
the voters would ratify without question
whatever the leaders desired.
HOw does the Republican party stand on
the trust question?
" Cheek by jowl.' The leaders of the
party are trust magnates. Trusts have
been the especial pets Of the party, for it
has been from them that they have drawn
the larger portion OF their campaign funds.
what position will they take in 1900 on
this question?
They will oppose trusts, just as they OBJ
posed the demonstration Of silver in 1894.
although they themselves demonetized it.
Why will they take this position?
. AACy nAo" tHdI tuc people are SOmo-
what exercised just at present over the
trusts and 1t would not do to advocate
them, but as it has become debatable. thew
will make show of resistance to them. hut
before the country realizes it the party will
be defending trusts, just as they are now
the defender of the gold standard
why assume that the party will become
the defender of the trust, Just as it has
become the defender OF the gold standard?
The leadership of the party is essential
~ piutocratic; the rank and file are blind
as bats as partisans who will ratify lust
what the leaders demand. Besides Judging
the future by the past it is not only a safe
Judgment but righteous one-Faribault
Jeffersonian.
The last sentence of the foregoing
clinches the whole argument and is un-
answerable.
The whole Republican machine is
absolutely under the domination OF a
few mfllionaires and they are running
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
WORKING FOR THE BANKS.

(F'rom the Journal Bureau, Room As,
Post Building, Washington.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-The annual re-
port of Capt. Castle, auditor for the post
Office department, will present some orig
lnal propositions to members of congress
one OF them is the abolition of the money
order system in large cities. Capt, Castle
Will advance the theory that the govern
ment has no business to engage in the
transportation OF money That, he says, is
the business of express companies and
banks. They are corporations created for
the purpose and the postal service was not
created and has not been extended for the
purpose of carrying or paying for the car
raige Of money for people.
Capt. Castles idea is that the postal
service is created for the purpose Of carry
ing letters and newspapers. The latter as
s1st in the education of the people in any
country and for that reason he is heartily
livery service. This service brings farmers
and other residents of the country districts
into direct touch with centers of informa-
ton through daily mail service.
Auditor Castle does not advance this
theory in the hope that it will result in any
immediate action by congress, but as some
thing that the members will think over
with the possible ultimate result of limiting
the money order system to towns where
there are no banks nor express compares.
We were in congress on the commit
tee on postoffices and postroads when
the postal order system was established.
We helped to formulate the bill. The
banks fought the measure tiercely; but
the money power had not the strength
it possesses now and we carried the bill
through. The postal money orders
have, since then, saved the people of
the United States millions of dollars,
that would otherwise have gone to the
banks
But now, as the general drift is back
ward, the banks are preparing to wipe
out the money orders in all towns that
have banks; and as there are now
banks in nearly all the towns in the
country, this will practically mean the
abolition of the whole system.
And that would mean taking so much
more out Of the pockets of the people
and transferring it to the pockets of the
poor, hard-worked and impoverished
bankers. l. D.
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Why will voters help the schemers by
voting for either of the old frauds?
Why not call this gigantic blur by
voting en- mass for Jones2
In 1900 the same game is planned for
the national campaign!
Bryan has accepted the candidacy of
Tammany. Croker and Wall street
funds will be the chief instruments in
his campaign, and If elected he is their
man, their president.
Every Democrat admits that McKin-
ley is only carrying out the will of his
capitalistic masters When these same
capitalists become Bryan's masters
what then?
1t is strange that any voter with
grain of sense should say, Lets vote
for Bryan just this once" Every sensi-
BILE voter should desert both old frauds
and their candidates and vote solidly
against both. e. A. T.
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THE NEAT TRUST.

That excellent paper. The Minnesota
knights of Labor, William Stevens,
editor, 81 Northwestern building, has
this to say Of the great meat trust:
This combination has been in existence
less than 20 years, but during that time it
mas either wiped out or absorbed" it's
rivals, until now Its power is unlisnited
No man, woman pr child. or government can
escape paying trbute,to this combination or
dispute its poweE- Tie combine is composed
OF f1ve firms. whose total membership does
not exceed 30 people. The trust is made
up OF Armour & Go.,oswift Co., Cudahy
Co.. Nelson, Mofriso& Co., and Schwartz
child and Sch41zberger. These concerns,
1t is stated upon good authority, do bust
ness of over $35sso00e0O year. Armour &
Co. are the leaders of this trust, and all
prices paid cattle raisers and increased
prices to be paid by consumers are decided
upon by Armour & geo.
This trust puts down the price of cat
tie to the farmer and puts up the price
of meat to the consumer. 1T burns the
candle at both ends" I'D.
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Awakening of the Farmer.

Flying along the glittering steel
| tracks of our great railways are trains
| equipped with every convenience
! beautiful beyond the widest dreams of
the romancer of few years ago. Cleav-
ing the blue waters of the Atlantic are
gray hounds of the ocean" that are
veritable floating palaces Gleamina
on the airy heights overlooking many
OF our cities, or standing silent and
naughty among their quietest shady
streets are massive and stately man
sions that within are visions of fairy
land In apartments furnished and
decorated more magnifcently than were
the throne rooms of kings in years gone
are seated men who with a word or a
stroke OF the pen increase the price of
the necessaries of life and add millions
to their already enormous wealth.
Up among the hills, nesting in the
valleys, dotting the broad prairies, are
little vine-clad cottages, cherries, barn
like structures, and rough, painless
cabins, the dwelling places of the
patient, plodding husbandman; he has
wrung from the soil-in fact, created
that which has made all the magnif-
cence which we have mentioned pos
sibly, yet who has no share or part in
it; who is privileged merely to look
upon it from afar off, He is of the kind
who for long years have been the hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water for a
multitude of parasites who have made
themselves rich and powerful at his ex-
pense-because he has been content to
accept his share of the boundless wealth
he has created paltry fraction, a mere
mite. For long years he has been con-
tent to subsist on the PLANES. ARE,
clothe himself in the co...---ooosII fabrics,
and with scarcely murmur deliver an
nual tithes to the tax gatherers for the
privilege of being governed-havng MI
private affairs scrutinized by a horde
OF well paid officials whom he, with his
suffrage, has set up in high places.
Thousands are MISUNDERSTANDING that
this state of things will endure for ages
to come; that the slow thinking, hard
working tiller of the soil will contented-
ly accept for his toll and skill the
dole they see fit to allow him;
that he will continue to believe that they
who make and interpret laws are all |
powerful and that the praise they be-
stow upon him with the tongue is am
pie compensation for the privilege Of |
him with both hands. Will |
he? We shall see. Hitherto he has |
been the tool, the plaything, of parties |
and factions; but he is awakening He |
Is learning his strength, he is gather
ing himself together, and ere long he
will arise. Then what?-Fred Grundy, |
Morristown, ILL.,, in Farmers Voice.
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the government wholly in the interests
of q favored few.

the government wholly in the interests
OF favored few.
Glass rule in this country dates bach
10 the withdrawal of the Southern states
from the union. Northern people have
been taught by the Northern press and
partisan Northern histories that the
south seeded for no other reason than
determination to perpetuate slavery.
Nothing could be wider of the truth.
Prior to the war of 1860 Southern con-
gressmen had for years made a sinh
porn tight against tariffs framed in the
interests OF New England manufacture
ers and all other legislation intended to
benefit few out of the pockets of the
many. Up to 1860, although in the
minority in congress, they had always
obtained the aid of enough Northern
democrats to defeat much of this class
legislation, and their withdrawal was
largely because they could no longer
defeat such laws.
The south had the statesmen and
represented pure Democracy. and the
North had the wealth and the greed
and intrenched capital behind specia,
class legislation at every opportunity.
The rebellion furnished the first omen
and unobstructed field for these New
England and New York schemers to
work in, and they were quick to seize
1t when Southern opposition was gone.
Protective tariff, national banking
act, refunding act, demonstration of
silver and the gold standard followed in
rapid succession
During the next session of congress
greenbacks are to be impounded, tho
discretion to pay government coin obi
cation in silver now vested in the Sec
rotary of the treasury is to be taken
from him, and then the Office of presi-
dent is to be given to the Democrats in
1900
In 1900, it Is now agreed by the East
ern moneybags, Democrats shall for one
term be given the empty Office of the
while the concentrated
wealth of the Northeast knows no party /
and has no politics, but will own con- |
gress and the federal courts.
THESE statements constitute no
dream, they are realities-facts, and I
next year every voter will have these
things to consider as he casts his vote
1t is again fixed SO that it makes no
alHerence to the money power whether
you vote the Republican or Democratic
'lcket. g. A. T..
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A GLIMPSE OF ENCOURAGEMENT.

A GLIMPSE OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
On Oct. Is Arthur Twining Hadley
was inaugurated as president of cold
Yale University" New Haven, Conn.
He is young man, but he has brains
and courage. He sees the dangers of
the times and he Is not afraid to speak
out
/ We quote:
/ DR.. Twitchells words in declaring the
Inauguration, and those of Prof George p.
Fisher, senior dean of the university in
welcoming him. were of the traditional char
acter. Not so those of DIR. Hadley in his
address. He fearlessly attacked scholastic
systems, idolized by the 60 college presi-
dents seated on the platform beside him,
Courageously he pledged himself to revise
the entire educational system OF the univer-
sity. Sturdily he vowed thai college ath-
letics shall have prominent place in the
Yale university policy, and that profession
alism shall be forever stamped from Yale's
representative teams. Calmly he uttered
the revolutionary doctrine that. in general,
college scholarships and fellowships pau
perize rather than educate their incum-
bents. One after the other he launched
his Parthian drives, creating new standards
of American university life.
In the midst of his address he stepped
prophetic words:
1.-THE increase of wealth in the outside
would be perpetual menace to old-fash-
toned democratic equality. II we. have
within the college life not only differences
in things studied but difference in enjoy
ment between rich and poor, we are at once
in danger of witnessing development of
social distinctions and class interest which
shall sweep away the things which were
most characteristic and most valuable in
the earlier education of our colleges. Not
the intellectual life only, nor the social life
only, but the whole religious and moral at
mosphere suffers deterioration If place
becomes known as rich mans college, or,
worse yet, as a college where rich and poor
meet on different footings. What shall it
profit us If we gain the whole world and
lose our own soul; If we develop the intel
lectual and material side of our education,
and lose the traditional spirit of democracy
and loyalty and iChristianity?"
Here DR.. Hadley was halted by a mighty
roar of applause which swept the college
chapel. 1t was lmagy seconds before he
could proceed
Another wild btffst I66f applause came when
President Hadley said, with studied earnest
ness:
II rejoice in Yale'sy victories. mourn in
ner defeats, but II mourn still more when
ever l see a Yale man who regards her
athletics as sort of competitive means of
pushing the university ahead of some rival.
rms is professionalism of the most subtle
and therefore most dangerous sort"
Dr. Hadiey, in short, carried Yale by
storm. and tonight eleven the most con-
servatlve OF the ti$raduates are ecstatic in
their praises OF the upiversity's new fight
ing president" IN
There is hope for the republic when
the president OF one Of the oldest uni
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the way and make hay in commerce while
their sun shines in politics.
The Republicans are ready to con-
cede that our theories are all right
II they can only whip the devil around
the stump" and retain power. They
are willing we shall open the way II
they can hold the spoils. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26

product. and already the finest sparkling
elders OF Frankfort are competing with
the lesser grades of champagne. Briefly,
the cider manufacturers have learned to
years ago, utilizing pure yeasts in pref
ernece to going it blind and trusting to
chance.
. Similar yeasts, scientifically evolved. are
now used In the making of certain Hqueurs.
such as 'kirsch,' and they are employed also
in the manufacture of commercial alcohol.
producing higher percentage Of that ar
tlcle from potatoes or grain than can be
got by ordinary fermentation. A member
OF the. French Academy of Sciences, by the
way. discovered not long ago. new starch
fungus, named by him 'amylomyces,' which,
Is being utilized In alcohol production to
such advantage that the profits yielded by
it already have built the Pasteur Institute
at Lille
We shall next hear that the invisible
germs pass. In the food, into the bodies
OF human beings, and modify their
mental and physical constitutions; and
thus come about the difference between
an Englishmen and Scotchmen, or an
Irishman and a Dutchman!
1--WE are such stuff as dreams are
made of,
And our little life is rounded by "a
germ
Science may yet show that the an
cient Roman supremacy was due to
clouds Of special animalcula, and when
these were blown into the Mediter-
ranean the race of conquerors became a
race of slaves and organ-grinders. And
thus:
Industrious Caesar dead and turned to
clay,
May stop a hole to keep the wind
away"
n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
CHOICE BETWEEN OLD PARTIES.

CHOICE BETWEEN OLD PARTIES.
AT Lima, Ohio, Mclean, millionaire
Democratic candidate for governor of
Onlo, speaking to large audience OF
Democrats, said: "The first duty Of
every Ohio Democrat is to vote the
Democratic ticket straight, but if for
special or personal reasons he cannot
DO this, then vote for Nash"
What stronger evidence could be pro-
duced to show that the two old parties
stand for the same thing In Ohio
Nash. the Republican candidate for
governor, and Mclean, both represent
the millionaire interests of that state.
Mayor Jones, Of Toledo, is the peoples
candidate running independent He
stands for direct legislation and public
ownership Of public utilities. The
money power and both their candidates
Mclean and Nash stand opposed to all
such reforms, hence this utterance ~
McLean's.
Both Nash and Mclean are candi.
dates OF the money power of Ohio. The
choice between them is supposed to
have some bearing upon whether the
nations milHonaires in 1900 will support
Republican or Democrat for pres,-
dent. Otherwise it is immateriaI
to the Ohio millionaires whether Nash
or Mclean wins. In either event the
interests Of concentrated wealth will be
cared for.
This advice Of McLean's means, any
thing to beat Jones"
Why % tho voters fall to see this?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26

The Missouri World, published at
Chillicothe, Mo-, by Dixon & Landlord,
Is one OF the very few Populist papers
that has survived the political storms
OF the last three years. 1t is one of the
ablest on our clubbing list, found in an
other column, and keeps it's readers up
to date as to the sentiment of our party
at the South
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PEOPLE BEING DECEIVED.

BY the first of December Gen. Otis will
have as many troops at Manila as marched
with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, al
most as many fought with Wellington al
Waterloo, and 10000 more than England
sent to America during the whole Revolu-
tionary war. And this army is backed uI
by navy of battleships, cruisers, torpedo
boats and gunbOatS that would have swept
the combined fleets at Trafalgar from the
ocean in few minutes And yet all this
according to Mckinley's speech at Pitts
burg, is to conquer but one tribe of Fill
pinos whose leader, Aguinaldo, is but a
would-be dictator, and not in accord or
sympathy with the majority of his own
tribe. Truly, this Aguinaldo must be a
great warrior.-Peoples Advocate, Mead
Vile, Pa.
We assume that the foregoing was
penned in sarcastic vein. The PEOPLES
Advocate Is one of our staunch pioneer
Popul1st papers, and closely watching
every movement Of the money power.
Reformers every where have noted
the facts above stated and know that
while 1t may be. that Aguinaldo is a
great warrior, it is beyond dispute that
the administration is a great liar.
mink OF government, the creature
and servant of the voters, deliberately
and continually misrepresenting to those
voters. Agents deceiving their prin-
clpals.
Truth Is, Aguinaldo has the support
OF the entire Filipino people as enthusi-
astically and periodically as in 1776
George Washington had the support of
the American people.
only few months ago the cities SUD-
posed to be under our sovereignty were
allowed to elect mayor and some local
officials by popular vote. OF course this
was done to make the Filipinos feel
that they were to enjoy self-govern-
ment If they acknowledged our SOW
ereignty over the islands.
After the election it developed that
every official so chosen was in sym-
pathy with Aguinaldo and doing all in
their power to aid him.
Here was grand exhibition of low
atty and patriotism not exceeded even
on this side Of the sea.
Readers of this paper who have anv
doubts about the merits or status Of
the Filipino war should read, in another
column, under caption can Anti-Im-
perialistic View" a letter from orr
friend, P. H. Harris, of this city. Mr..
Harris is Republican and wrote the
letter for Republican daily and Re-
publican readers, and on that account
has no doubt contented his soul with
plain, unimpassioned and uncolored
statement of facts It will be noticed
that he has not attempted argument
or to force his views upon the reader.
His statements of fact are such as anv
Republican can read and feel that he is
free to draw his own conclusions.
Among Republicans such a letter
Will do more to cause them to do their
own thinking than the passionate at
lacks of Bryan.
1t is facts that most thinking men
want and they prefer to do their own
ioaSohlns. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
From n Missouri Poet.

"A maiden fair with sunkissed hair
came tripping down the street; with
face serene-her age 16-gee whiz! but
she was sweet! On banana peel slick
she came down quick, with jolt that
shook her curls, but the words she
used must be excused for she's one of
our incest girls. A naughty young
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
versities Of New England can talk that

versities Of New England can talk that
way.
It shows that the Rockefellers have
not turned all the institutions Of learn
Ing into instrumentalities for the de-
struction OF free institutions, and the
building up Of dirty imitation OF old
world aristocracy In this Home OF the
free and land of the brave"
Success to President Hadley. I'D.
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A Kansas woman has been suing
man because as she claimed, he shook
hands with her so hard that he broke
her leg. An illustration of the way
they shake hands in Kansas might not
be wholly, devoid of interest.
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The article on our front page, under
caption "Imprudent Marriages. is one
of rare merit. 1t covers a much broad
CT field of inquiry than it's title would
indicate. Read it and file it away for
future reference. 1t would be valua-
BILE contribution to any scrap book.
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Thinks 1t n Good Remedy.

NEW ULM, Mimi, Aug. Z, 1899.
To Dead Shot Remedy Co., Minneapolis
Mimi:
Gentlemen: Please find one dollar
enclosed, for which send me by mail to
New Ulm, Mimi, five boxes of your
Dead Shot Catarrh Cure l had five
boxes of the same, and think it is a
good remedy. Yours respectfully,
JOS. DIEPLODER,
Town Clerk of Lafayette, Nicollet Co.
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chap who saw the mishap, and smiled
with tiendish delight, will regret the
same when he finds his name is pants
next Sunday night"
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Health for ten cents Cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes, cure headache, bill
iousr ess and costipation. All druggists.
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There is Very little money in defend
ing criminals unless the criminal is in-
corporatcd.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26

A trust is onethird cash, balance
wind and water.
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pepsia and piles is Dead Shot Ca
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Florida pines and Colorado ozone
! combined. Never fails. Box 25c,
Dad Shot Remedy Co, ea2 Boston Block /
Minneapolis. Mimi.