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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28
Dead Shot CataTTh Cure.
DEAD s,scT

of all men. Under his leadership the
men at st. Louis have made and are
making brave fight. and most heartily
do I wish that complete victory will
crown their struggle. The Central La
Dor Union, and the organized workers
of st. Louis generally, can not be too
highly commended by their loyal support
OF the strike. They have given to the
country an exhibition of devotion to the
cause of labor worthy of universal emu
lation.
Mrs. Debs, who is writing this for
me, and all our family. unite in the
earnest wish that victory may come to
the striking comrades.
yours fraternally,
EUGENE v. DEBS."
The crowning dastardly act Of the
strike occurred last Sunday evening,
when body Of street car men were re-
turning from picnic. and were peace
ably marching homeward. when they
reached a point opposite a temporary
barracks in which were posse Of depu-
ties. Here they were attacked by q
band Of deputies there stationed. and
several Of the union men were being
roughly handled when a sergeant drop
ped his pistol, causing Its discharge.
It served as . signal to the posse.
and from the gums Of those face to face
with the strikers and from the doors,,
and even the second-story windows Of
the barracks a deadly volley was poured
into the ranks OF the union men, killing
two outright. fatally wounding two
and inflicting dangerous injuries upo.
three others, from the effects Of which
they may die. A dozen or more were
also wounded. but fearing greater
slaughter ran from the scene before the
details Of their injuries could be
learned.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28
Arc These Human l3eingsy

! From The Philadelphia Conservator.
Is it possible that these are human
beings. and these also? On the one
side crowd gorged with money, con-
sidering what merest trifle it may buy,
what faintest want it may gratify-if
mirror with, or a pair of kid gloves to
match its bonnet; and on the other side
= crowd pining. perishing. for want Of
the most imperative necessities of life
two crowds close together, staring,
within a foot Of each other! What a
sightl For mere sheer cruelty" says
a friend of mine, there's nothing like
Responsibility and as gaze at this
spectacle I think I understand what
he means
1t is not that these delicate bred wom-
en- (and men) have no hearts. But
their cardiac ganglions are torpid, quite
torpid. Bred in luxury and ease, they
have seldom been called on to make
sacrifices for each other; physical de-
privation Is q mere name to them; the
life of human toll and human fellowship
has passed them by; their affectional
natures have become dwarfed; their
power of sympathy contracted within
the four walls of stuffy respectability;
and so the one thing which might at the
same instant deliver them and the gut
ter things, and give them both reas-
enable interest in existence, is, alas!
as matters are, quite impossible. A
gulf Is fixed: the policeman walks with
his truncheon along the curb. A
brougham drives up and scatters the
ragged ones. A footman obsequiously
opens the door; and another leaden-
eyed lady wrapped up in furs disappears
into "Barker's."
1t is all very strange. walk up and
down and wonder If 1t is a dream
some quite solid and indigestible night
mare. Supposing Il think) it were
some tribe in the interior Of Africa Of
which we heard that the natives had
these costums. That certain class
among them were in the habit Of walk
ing up and down shady promenade,
on one side of which were heaped great
stores Of bananas, mealies. dates, cot
ton clothes, beads and Shefaeld knives
from which heaps said promenadera
helped themselves freely to all they
wanted; while on the other side, in the
burning heat, stood row OF poor crea-
lures (of the same tribe) in continual
torture for want Of food. waiting for
hours, and hours, and hours, and all
their lives, for bits Of refuse to be
thrown to them. What would we say
to that? And vet, whatever plentiful
villainous cruelties of burnings and
other torments savages (chiefly under
the influence Of superstition) do perpe-
trate, doubt whether any traveller has
yet told US Of such scene OF sheer
cold-blooded indifference as that which
am describing.
And yet 1t goes on-and will go on
till the. frame of the present anti-social
society" is rent in twain. The beggars
still stand. offering their ingenious
trifles in the gutter: the shops spread
their piles Of goods (grapes at Sc. Cd. to
Is. q pound. bonnets at 27s. each) In the
windows; the policeman and the foot
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28

The Burning Question in the Twin
Cities.
We're kind Of on the anxious seat just
now in our town
We're soon to be puffed up with pride
or sadly taken down;
Thele's some of us Republicans and
some are Democrats,
And each crowd wants it's man to win
when lection comes, but that's
Not what we're thinkin' most about
the thing we'd like to know
Is what the fggers gathered by the
census men'll show,
For we've done q lot of boastin' and
we'll all be pretty sick
Unless our towns is bigger that the
town across the crick.
We've had our arguments about the
Briton and the Boer,
We've wrangled and we've tangled. but
They trouble us no more;
We've split up on expansion and dis
cussed the Philippines,
And we've had lot of tits about the
question of the canteens;
We nearly had q riot over Aguinaldo
too,
And a lot of us have worried as to what
the trusts'll do.
But the question now before us-and
we want it settled quick
1s whether we've been gaining on the
town across the crick.
We've discussed labor troubles, with
the strikin' and the fights,
And we've taken sides about them and
we've jawed with all our nights;
We've been worried over China and the
missionaries there,
And we've talked about the burdens
that the poor folks have to bear,
But at present there's a question that
Is greater than them all.
And 1t amt the one of winnin' at the
lection in the fall,
For we've done a lot of boastin' and
we'll all be mighty sick
If this town don't show up bigger than
the town across the crick.
IS. E. Kiser.
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THE HARDEST ONE YET.

man still marshal The show-and be-
tween goes the weasy stream Of stony
faces whose aspect ehills one to the
bone. And this Is High street, Kens-
ington, or that part Of heaven which
is called hell"
EDWARD CARPENTER.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28

Organize precinct clubs and get ready
to vote your choice for Peoples party
candidates for observation-disclosures Mes
senger.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28
ST. LOUIS OUTRAGE
HOMESTEAD AND HAZELTON PALE
INTO INsIGNIFICANCE.

q Picnic Cruelty Shot and Muir
dered by q Posse Of Deputy Sher-
ias-Debs' Strong Letter-Says No
Strike IL Ever LOst-The Lesson
II Worth the Cost.
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gentine cruisers have been asking the
on sight.
1t is Black Pedros custom to approach
an anchored vessel in poor native canoe
padded by his sauaws. He pretends TO
be dying from hunger. and he and his
wives set up lamenta tions screaming
.Yammerschooner! Yammerschooner."
which Is a Terra del Fuegian begging
term. Eagerly they seize what food is
thrown TO them, all the time stealing
closer to the ship, until Pedro has spied
out all that Is possible. Then they paddle
back to shore, where the band lies hidden
in cove, waiting for night. AS soon
darkness falls they come out. Perhaps
one-half of the canoes carry f1aring fires
in the bow, making a weird illumination
on the waters. They surround the ship
with begging cries. padding closer and
closer till they see their opportunity to
make n dash. Then. IL they can win the
deck, their practice is to seize whatever
they can, throw It overheard, plunge into
the sea and paddle away. This is If the
crew Is large enough to make them feel
that they cannot hope to beat them In
fight. But If the result of the days
watching has been TO show that the vessel
ra del Fuegians have been able to gather
a sufficiently big band by means OF their
fire signals. they try 10 capture the ship.
Beaten on by a steamship crew they re-
sort to the next form Of attack. They
suddenly extinguish all thier fires and
creep as closely as they dare to the vessel
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United States win have to step in and
police the waters themselves.
The United States would have taken
drastic action long ago had It been pos.
sibie without breach of international
comfy. But as it is, and especially in
consideration Of the fact that the United
States and Chile once had q sufficiently
unpleasant "rassle,'' this country has
contented itself thus far with making
representations.
The gunboats which Chile has In the
waters there are not particularly magnifi-
cent specimens OF their class but even
the finest Of ships would be taxed to its
. utmost to patrol the Straits properly, for
there liz no waterway In the world that Is
worse In wind, weather and coast than
they. And these same conditions make
tthe work OF the pinatical TERRA del Fu-
egians easy, II a steamship could trav-
erse the Straits without stopping. the In
dams I'm their miserable canoes could not
attack her. But rarely can even the best
engines drive a ship against the terrific
gales that blow down the mountain
sides "williwaws." the natives call
them. They are winds that burst on the
water as suddenly as a shot from a mask
cd battery. 80 mighty are they that no
trees grow in the paths they take. In
stances are plentiful where a wiiiwaw
has thrown big. full-rigged ships that
were lying at anchor with no sails up.
clean on their beam ends. Last July a
wiiiiwaw caught Norwegian hide-carry-
ing steamship near Port lamar, at the
Pacific entrance of the Straits, and threw
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doubt. by the wheeling current strength
ened by outfiows from rivers and the
predominant easteriy winds. This meet
ing with the current from the SOUTH
north OF Point Barrow. 10 the cause no
doubt Of the strong northwest current
80 much dreaded there by the whnlers.
IT is evident. however, that with the
eyer-chnnging conditions of ice. water
and winds, which are no two years alike.
II would be folly to mark out on chart
the exact direction OF this current. but
nevertheless that there Is certain per-
maneucy about ~. located shoals laid
down on every Arctic chart 80 90 show.
/ will mention here the Herald shoals.
These are situated ! think. In the center
formed in my Judgment by the lighter
dlrtier bay and river ics swept 90 this
center during cycles upon cycles there
20 melt and deposit silt. 30 that IL may not
he 80 far fetched to advise gold seekers
to dredge on Herald shoals.
have been riding at anchor in the late
summer off Cape Prince Of Wales with
current 10 the north. while on the 81
beriRn side the Ice was drifting into
Bering sea with some speed. Along the
Siberian coast from Cape Serdge toward
East Cape strong set TO the eastward
II by report nearly always 20 be found
cireuiarlty ~ Arctic currents IL the diff
~ the abandoned whaling bark Young
Phoenia. In the beginning of August
ISIS. during n strong southwest gale the
Young Phoenla. Capt. Willard. DRAGGED
her anchors at Point Barrow, and in
humping over a narrow reef lost her rua-
der, When drifting helplessiy before the
wind orsbore the crew cut away the
mizzenIaast. intending 70 use tho spar az
a temporary ruader. bot before the ar
rangsmsnts could be completed Capt Mil
Lard. seeing heavy Ice close under his leo
concluded "a abandon the vessel. fearing
that she would he quickly broken %
pieces ~ the masses OF broken Ice aursinR
and rolling in the heavy swell This was
between Hfteen and twenty miles north
east from Point BsrF6w In the hrst
week ~ September ehs Was sighted IN
the distance about twenty miles due north
~ t6e Midway IslandA-~dn the Arctic east
shofe ~ Alaska. by a passing whaling
steamer. enclosed IN TIRE outer edge OF
heavy pack Ice. a large number u
whaling vsasciH had beer cruising between
this location and Polut BARLOW during
the whole month 81 August. and often
quite diatauce off-shore without having
FiNafed tbe abandoned whaler. which hnd
10 Doubt been carried far 70 tho north
during her eastward trip. Late IN Octs-
bee or fhs beginning ~ November re-
port was brought 70 the station ny some
Point Barrow natives that they had seen
= day or two before two-masted yes
Hel passing the point long way or
shore. bound 20 the westward. which they
had thought was a steamer. an she had
no sails set. On the morning Of the i1th
81 July issa. ~ about 70 a. M, We raised
from the high bluffs AZ Cape smythe with
glasses vessel then 81 least hfteen
miles TO the south, some tapping canvas
still hanging to yards and stays. We
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CURRENTS AND IG ACTION N iii ARCTIC OCEAN,


Ice TO come In with such velocity and
force, as x propelled BY its own motive
powerG Some OF the captains talked wise
" OF local currents and eddies, but their
own four or fve ships. which had been
either riding at anchor or had been tied
up TO ground leo only a few miles farther
south. had not experienced the least
change o. current During the night be-
fore a strong breeze from the east had
been blowing. After the accident. SNEAKER
aelds Of Ice set in from the same wester-
" direction The cause would have ben
always a mystery to me had / not de-
termined 10 my own satisfaction that this
Ice had been throWn of at tangent from
a larger whirling ice mass. believe It
TO Be a elcntiie fact. corrahornted by
the experience 81 whale ship CAPTAINS
that winds especially south winds. are
gradually detected when blowing over
Arctic See fields. 80 that 20 some extent
air currents In the Arctic are OF cir
cnlar or oyclonic character.
I do not know whather I am keepinr
strictly within scientific tcrmlnology o.
even within the facts as generally accept
si. when state that the Arctic ocean lies
beyond the tilsl zone. that the forces
which cause the phenomenon 81 tides on
THIS earth have no chance 10 directly or
crate tn the Arctic ocean. Al Polat Bar.
wv FF&AfG tNo anu GtcN Uses are not
pero9puale- We have AZ times high wa
ter, especially IN summer. with strong
sousheriy Winds. Often the water vii rise
more Or less from caases unknown 20 me,
but Nhich on occasion al least ] imagine,
ear he traced 90 tho scliE ice masses.
whieh, moving throush the water. act like
immense moving dams forcing the water
VT A@fNrc them u has sometimes apaear-
"a 90 me that the water had been damned
" between Ice masses and ne iand ike
a great reservoir. which. having but com
Fafstivsiy snail outlets through witch 20
recover rs level would require tine 10 10
81 Indirectly ~ feel the effect % tide
actton az Point barrow. especially On the
sneing ani here Z ALI make a ilrressioa
whtch may appear Irrelevant % the mat
Ter Guaer discussion. bot Is not
Daring nay frat winter az Point Barrow
Z SIS oftca assured by the Eskimo whale
man thai The whales never came unff
after The drst eull Eaoon 81 spring Their
experience. gathered, 10 doubt. ~ long
years ~ chserTatI,n. vas verified By nv
gwu. But Why What has the moon to
DO @lth Nhaies' Was the question which
Hataraiiy sug stfd 'taeif The ansv r
.. the moon causes lldes ard the udes
rAuSe-1ut WA4t r. minute DURING the
long winter months the ice king has grad
uAlly extended Ais SinStom, ss-eR3iEx
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It up on the rocks as IL 1t we're a canoe.
its bones are there now. mighty dumb
beacon, warning mariners OF the vast
dangers of the place.
Owing to these conditions. even a steam
ship has to anchor frequently. Indeed.
nearly every vesse, anchors at the APP
proach of night II there Is holding ground
under the keel. And 1t is when the ships
are thus at anchor that the cruel and
hungry Terra del Fuegans swarm out in
their canoes and make their attack. I'm
til recently they have been hampered by
the fact that their canoes were wretched
apologies for craft. and that their only
weapons are bows and arrows But Under
the leadership of the renegade white man
they have already obtained at least one
seaworthy ships boat, and the great fear
OF the authorities now Is that they may
succeed in getting hold of rifles. Already
Black Pedro has perfected their old sys-
tenn OF communication from headland to
headland by fire signals. With this per-
fected system they have been able to send
warnings of intended raids by the gun
boats along the entire coast, so that by
the time the naval men had begun their
foray all the canoes had been hidden. To
obtain and destroy the canoes Is about
the only way In which their depredations
can be checked at present In the absence
of a strong naval force. No man dares
to follow the savages into their rocky
hiding places on the Land OF Fire. 1t
would mean sure death.
So well hated has Black Pedro become
that the officers OF the Chilean and Ar
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thought foh awhile that she was an cary
arriving wiialer. but her giraffe MOVED
ments as she was whirlod along on th4
Ice soon showed her "a be defciict w
had at the time very strong breeze ffnI,
the northeast which had been blowing ei{
ready moro or less for over a week. J
IL was about I r. IN. when We b0ard14
her abreast OF Cape Smytho about two
miles off-shore and found her 10 bN tn
Young Phosnia. She was solldy ffo1o@
In and raised somewhat, IN the mid11
OF heavy field Of Ice about two acres
extent. Her hold wax filicd with solid a
and the remaining maata and rikGtG1
though weHther@w worn. seemed TO b.
comparatively Eood condition. Her ~
had been blown sut Of the buntiiugs q
port OF her canvas still attached 70 r.
yards was Mapping loosely, on her d.
we're numerous bear tracks and evId1n1
% an effort on the part Of the Raaxg
reach some smoked salmon still hanGnI
from her hoatsklda She was moylnf =
rapidly that We had only time 70 -
from her a few articles before we hs1 e
let her continue on her lonely vaykol.
Iiy ., m. abe had disappeared from eigp
drifting into the northwest and siuee ~
she has never been seen, Il must resnel(
a matter ~ conjecture whether she ~
carried "d At a tangent into the yeeel
nette current 90 be ground 20 fiscfr
the same Arctic min which crushed ~
Jeanette, or whether released fes -
Icy bonds. she found q grave 10 The cenfc
Of the clrciing current.
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in the darkness. Then suddenly the air
Is full Of burning brands. which they aim
to throw into open ports and matches TO
set the ship on fire. 1t was in this way
that they attacked the Chilean cruiser.
She was lying at anchor in n cove not
far from Famine Reach, riding out a
storm. when the savages padded up
astern and threw burning faggois through
her stern ports into the officers quarters.
The fire which started nearly burned the
ship before it was extingushed. The
Chilean naval officers credl. the act TO
the Spanish renegade. and have added II
to the score which they owe him and
which they hope to repay with interest
some day.
A favorite trick of the Indians when
they see vessel laboring heavily in ono
of the wlliwaws and driving perilously
near shore, something which is almost
unavoidable. as the passage Is so narrow
i'm places that the rocks almost meet on
either hand, Is to Turk on a precipice and
shoot arrows at the steersrnan I'm the
gentle hope that they will kin or dis
able him so that theeship viii breach TO
and fall away on the rocks.
The steamboat Dolphin, which was
known to all New Workers. as q boat ply
ing Go the Fishing banks. was attacked
in the straits on her way to the Klon-
dixie regions. A few weeks ago the
Hamburg tramp steamer Herodot. large
vessel, reached her Pacific port with a
story Of having been surrounded by the
savages and having had a running hgat
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himself over all the water and building
his grand castles and turrets in every
part OF his Arctic domain When the
March sun gilds the many pinnacles and
spires he has reared over his vast handi-
work he relgns supreme. and the whole
Arctic is his own Motionless lies his
kingdom IN silent grandeur. Then. all
at once In the spring comes the giant tide.
made doubly strong by sun and moon. and
with Irresistible might topples over the
ice kings glittering throne-the waters
swell-and see-there Is room for life
Az winter has progressed the fee In the
Arctic has Increased. becomes more and
more firmly knitted together, so that by
March the whole ocean seems TO be cow
cred by one enormous fee sheet. rs rigid
and as motioniess as the land over X
blow the strong March gales. cold and
dry without any perceptihle effect upon
g. Hardly any oscillations take place
and no water holes or leads are 10 be
found. There seems TO be hopeless
task for the slowly Advancing spring.
Then all az once there Is a mighty change.
the Ice bursts into cracks and leads
strong winds moist and laden with snow,
como from the north. the ice begins 10
move and to whlFi. currents and edaies are
created which sweep the whale food to-
gether from where u has hung under the
heavy ice all winter, and the tables are
set for tho Aretic's summer guests, the
whales and Hher aenixens Of the Deep
which now pass up IN endless numbers 20
their northern home. what Is the mighty
agent7 what brought this sudden and
wonderful change in the Arciics ! be-
iieve X to be the spY1ng tide, IL is the
only force Of sufficient power TO accom-
plIsh the result. Examine circumpolar
map. and Il will Be observed that the
Arctic ocean Il nearly inciosed ~ land
afr
through the mxny narrow. nearly always
lcgs~hIocked channels Of the archipelago
between Greenland and the American
mainland. the tide has no chance 20 pene-
trate with any great force. Only on the
Atlantic side - there an opening Eride
enough for the dae 90 break The See bar
Ticrs with a shock THAI is felt over the
whole Arctic area Something has 70 give
way, and the Zee cap cracks and breaks
50 It's weakest places then tho Winds GET
a chance aEain. and the cgrrants and
many rivers Whica aew into the Arctic
Do the rest.
I viii advance the proposition that al
currents IN the Arctic are circular. fol-
lowing therein perhaps simuly the law *
moving in the direction ~ least resist
aucc The lee Masses which they eacnun-
ter VIII always gradually dcfacs them
and ln a way IKE solid land. although
they are AZ times pushed along ~ tt,em
aua az others serve % branch and change
them
The idea OF circularity % currents tn
the Arctic first took form in my mind
By watching the action o. the water q
a small river when breaking out IN the
gpriug upon tire 'yet soAe sea ice, food
irg and dislnseE-atirz H. The mass
ul ihe watef Weuld ba forced aronad Ia
= circle b the obstructing ice 70 join
again and to augment and strengthen the
steadily oyeEaowilg stream. Returning