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The representative., 1900-04-12
new LOUD BILL MAY PASS
RefOrmers Should Send In for Reform
Books, at Once, Before the POstage
ON Them II Increased-The Chicago
Sentinel Gives This Warning.

Chairman Loud, of the house post
Office committee. has secured favorable
report on a new bill to regulate the ad-
mission of mail matter to second-class
postage rates. The old Loud bill was
recommended, and many newspapers
1.-THE Sentinel did mott stated that the
matter would be buried for this session
OF congress. However, Loud would not
have 1t SO, and he has secured favor
able report ON new bill. The old bill
hit the publishers of country newspa-
pers (or, rather, the readers of country
newspapers) and there were so many
protests sent to congressman that the
old bill went back to the committee by
large vote. Now, the new Loud bill
concerns only the readers of paper COW
cred books, and Loud very reasonably
expects by dividing the opposition to
secure majority vote In favor of his
new bill. 1t is intended by the new bill
to bar all publications purporting to
issue periodically and to subscribers, but
which are merely books or reprints Of
books, whether they be bound or un-
bound, whether they be >sold by sub
scriptfon or otherwise, or whether they
purport to be premiums, or supple
ments, or part of regular newspapers or
periodicals"
Reformers know that most of their
books are paper covered books, and that
under the proposed new Loud bill the
postage on them will be EIGHT TIMES
what it is now. Consequently you can
save money by making out list of re-
form books that you will want and send
ing it in ut once.
The Sentinel, on March Is, 1900,
showed that the railroads were charg-
ing $26, ,686,827 too much every year for
hauling the mails. However, the con-
gressmen prefer to punish the people
rather than make the railroad COM
panies take their hands out of the
United States treasury, and you need not
be surprised when you read that the
postage has been increased on reform
books. But, by acting at once, you
can yet save some money on reform
books. A word to the wise is sufficient.
The representative., 1900-04-12
ON TO CINCINNATI.

Secretary 10 A. Parker, of the nation
al executive committee, has opened
headquarters at the Dennison hotel in
Cincinnati, and will be busy from now
on until the national convention, in ar
ranging for the convention and the en-
tertainment of delegations.
All railroads have granted a one-fare
rate for the round trip, which is as low
a rate as any convention will have.
The hotels will give ample entertain
ment at regular, -rates-no. advance of
prices. The Dennison, a first class hotel
centrally located, at the corner of Fifth
and Main streets, has been selected as
the headquarters for2the National Re-
form Press association. the national
committee, the national organization
committee and of the convention. The
Dennisons rates are 81 and $3.50 per
dey and it is excellently appointed. Ar
rangements. will be; made with other
hotels to entertain full delegations, and
Mr.. Parker earnestly requests delega-
tions requiring full headquarters to
communicate with him as early as
possible, stating how many. delegates
will be present and what rates the del
egates wish to pay.
The officials of the party in the sew
eral states are requested to send dupli-
cate roll of delegates to headquarters
as soon as possible, as the secretary
wishes to procure a temporary roll of
the convention. s
All editors and publishers Of reform
papers are urged to attend the meeting
of the Reform Press association at Gin
cinnati on May and 8.
The secretary will be glad to answer
any inquiries and give any information
desired. Address all communications
to 10 A. Parker, Secretary, Dennison
hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Reform press please copy.
The representative., 1900-04-12
Why Interest Is Wrong.

The arguments that some writer's for
The Appeal use to prove that interest is
wrong seems to be wordy and far-fetch-
ed. 1t is not necessary to go to heaven
to prove that interest is wrong. In
terest is wrong because it enables those
who get it to live without doing useful
labor themselves. 1t violates the
ground principles of morality. The
conditions that environ the human
race are such that 1t is impossible to
create or prepare the necessaries of life
without labor. All that live must have
victuals and other necessaries to sus-
tain life, therefore, all ought to labor in
proportion to their ability, to produce
the necessaries and comforts of life.
Those that don't labor Of course pro-
duce nothing, and necessarily live upon
the fruits of other peoples labor. This
is wrong. 1t is slavery. Chattel slav-
cry was wrong simply because it enabled
one class to live by the labor of another
class. Any system that permits lazy,
vicious idlers to live upon the unrequit-
ed toll of the Industrious is slavery
Interest does this. Therefore a system
OF interest 10 system of slavery. There
is no getting round this fact and the up
holders Of interest ought to be burnt
with it until they manifest sense Of
shame or willingness to labor for their
own support.
The objections to interest are the
same as the objections to gambling,
highway robbery, theft, piracy and
many other schemes to get 4 living
without earning it by honest, useful
labor some think, because interest is
The representative., 1900-04-12
to go write us so we may be able to help
encourage FINANCIAL + assistance.
E. A. +.
MINNESOTA AT CINCINNATI.


Minnesota delegates to Cincinnati 60
fully instructed. , These instructions
were given, not by q few political bosses
in some back Office, not by a convention
OF few party leaders. Four thousand
Mid-Road Populists of Minnesota, by
their referendum ballots have instructed
these delegates to vote at Cincinnati for
Barker and Donnelly.
Delegates usually consider themselves
bound by the instructions of nominat-
ing convention. n. This convention is
often small and in an. emergency the
delegates would, II they acted their own
Judgment, be as near to the choice of
the people as the convention, hence it
sometimes occurs, that delegates disre-
gard Instructions. and appeal to the
masses for indorsement of their acts.
In the present instance the people
have already been. appealed to anu 4.vUt,
Of them have spoken for the Cincinnati
ticket as it stands. el.s
This referendum ballot has gone fur
ther than to express a preference for
this ticket -
1t declares that among; these 1000 vot-
ers only 12S want Debs for president,
while 572 voted fdt Ignatius Donnelly
for president.
Such Instructions, coming from the
masses, are of tie q greatest possible
binding force, and tb man who believes
in peoples government would think
of departing from them in any particu-
lar. )o 81
They do not leave the delegate in
any doubt as to his plain duty. The
delegate under this referendum plan is
for the first time in American politics
the agent of the people. Heretofore
delegates have gone tonconventions i'm
structed by the bosses and as agents of
the bosses and accountable only to
bosses.
Mckinley was nominated by delegates
instructed by Boss Hanna, not by the
Republican rank and file: Cleveland and
Bryan were nominated in the same way.
These delegates to Cincinnati should
appreciate this important truth, that
they are the first delegation ever in
trusted with political mission direct
from the masses. For the first time a
delegate may say, mot the bosses will,
but the peoples will be DONE"
.~ E."A, T.
The representative., 1900-04-12

Omaha Neb., March 30.-The execn-
tive committee of the anti-fusion Popu-
list party has issued an appeal to the
people today protesting against the
validity of the call for the Sioux Falls
national convention and notifying all
Populists that only those who recognize
the Cincinnati convention will be count
enanced in party councils during the
campaign. The courts here today sus-
tanned the contention of the anti-fusion
faction of the Peter Cooper Populist
club to its sole right to that title, and
its members went in body to the old
hall, broke in the door and turned
large, handsome picture of Bryan to the
wall.
The representative., 1900-04-12

Reform Party May Win This Year.
1 It begins to look very much like the
Peoples party convention, to be held
in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 9, would
mark an epoch in American history. At
this writing it gives promise of being
one of the biggest conventions ever held
in the United States. Every state and
territory in the union will send dele
gates to the convention and it will at
tract more attention than any national
convention held this year. II the work
of the convention results in uniting the
reform forces of the country, and we
believe it will, the old mossback party
candidates will realize before next Mo-
vember that they are in close contest
ed race that will take a canvass of the
votes to decide who is winner.
Those men who have read president
John Smith" will remember that the
author of that book predicted the elec-
tion of the reform candidate this fall
and the way the political situation is be-
ginning to shape itself, indicates a raw
orable opportunity for the elecuon of
a peoples man president of the United
States this fall The trusts, banks and
corporations have had representative
in the White House for many years and
they constitute very large minority of
the people of the country and 1t is quite
feasible to think that In this year of our
Lord majority Of the people Of this
country might think it was their time
to have representative in the White
House. It begins to look, strange as 1t
may seem, that such an idea was taking
possession Of the people ct this time
and that it has broken out all over the
country and was becoming highly con-.
tagious in character and. like the small
.pox or chickenpox tn Oklahoma, was re-
The representative., 1900-04-12

states are delayed In reaching our Min
neapolis postmaster and we have had to
wait for our money. Our Socialistic or
government owned postal system is be-
ing improved. This circumstance alone
should argue to all Socialists that So
cialism is not yet perfection. There are
few If any institutions among men that
are absolutely perfect. and not suscept-
ible of improvement.
Mankind must In this world not ex-
pect perfection. II here and there i'm
provements are gained 1t Is all the i'm
perfections Of human nature will per-
NIT.
Many OF the Socialistic tenets are
ideally grand, but they can never be
realized. Socialists proclaim the
brotherhood of man. they should attend
a political convention aa panacea, for
such foolishness. christianity has pro-
claimed down through all the centuries
that thou shalt love they neighbor as
thyself," while human nature has been
responsible for the inquisition, the holy
wars. crusades.r religious prosecutions
and Christian murder.
The Divine commandment up to the
present hour has proved to be only a
beautiful theory, while the world has
all this time been confronted by historic
events. Socialism aims at the ideal, the
theoretical, the impossible. The uni
versal brotherhood of man and COM
plete elimination of human selfshness
is as far away as the millennium. Social
ism is a pleasant dream, a fond hope of
,theoriaers never to realized Socialism
could be realized only by the complete
regeneration of human nature, which
will never take place until, in truth,
man loves his neighbor as himself. Pop
ulism embraces all of socialism that lies
within the realms of the possible. Pop
ulism appeals to practical men who are
willing to wait for results. Socialism
appeals to dreamers E. A. T.
The representative., 1900-04-12

powered to pass upon my Populism? Who
+ had right to question It, when recognized
and indorsed, as have been. BY my own
fellow Populists of Arkansas?
will either 0f these Bryan satellites
dare declaRN- or aasumo that am not their
political equal ana entitled to equal privi-
jeges with them! We Populists Of Arkansas
claim that we are as true to the tenets
Of our party as are those who hail from
North Carolina Nebraska or any other state;
but We repudiate with scorn, come from
whom or where 1t may, the idea that fusion
With the Bryan wing Of the DemocrAtic
party Is an essential or Is even Al ele-
ment of Populism and we assert that We
are not to be traded and Transferred to
that party nor to any other.
"a. w. FILES.
Little Rock. Ark. March 49,
Mr.. Files is q Populist and we hope
to meet him at Cincinnati, where he will
be given courteous hearing and no at
tempt be made to gag or disfranchise
him. e. A. T.
The representative., 1900-04-12
RATES TO CINCINNATI.

We hope to be able in our next issue
to announce rates and route for del
egates to Cincinnati. We expect the
delegation will 60 via. Chicago and the
Monon route, leaving Minneapolis the
evening Of May 7th. Fare for round
trip will not exceed @21.50 and may be
$500 less.
It would be much pleasanter for del
egates IL all can so together from here,
In which event special sleepers would be
provided without extra cost, and cour-
tesies and accommodations from all the
roads can he obtained by a large delega-
tion that would not be given few going
alone. We ask that each delegate who
expects to 60 Immediately send in !
card 20 stating. Let delegates wishing
s 4
The representative., 1900-04-12
DRAW YOUR WALLET.

Every P0pulist who takes this paper,
and there are few in Minnesota who
do not. should read carefully the list
of delegates to Cincinnati and immedi-
ately contribute as much as he can to-
ward sending these delegates. Go to
the delegate named from your section
and offer him money, do not wait for
him to ask. Get others to contribute
and see to it that no delegate stays at
home for lack Of funds. e. A. T.
The representative., 1900-04-12
INDIANA MEANS BUSINESS.

Charles NJ. Walter. Popnlist candidate
for lieutenant governor, indianapolis
oaxs: "On to Cincinnati. Let Indiana
seed at least 200 delegates to Cincin-
lati."
Mr. Walters is man Of Judgment.
s has political foresight. He realizes
- power, enthusiasm and mamentum
g numbers. He l. IN himself . host for
The representative., 1900-04-12

fusing to obey the quarantine regula-
tions prescribed by the political doctors,
who are ever so fearful of the havoc
such an idea would play with the long
established and venerated usages of old
party policies.-People's Paper.
The representative., 1900-04-12

Dead Shot Remedy Co., Boston Block.
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Gentlemen: All catarrh remedies I
have tried have been a failure until I
tried yours. Yours is just what want.
Please send me another box.
Respectfully yours,
MRS. CHARLES GRANT, Elroy, wis.
The representative., 1900-04-12

Health Tor ten cents, cascarets make
the bowels and kidneys act naturally.
destroy microbes, cure headache. bill.
iousr.ess and costipatiou. All drugsistA
The representative., 1900-04-12

s booklets of songs and prose for 3
dimes. Address M. Baker. Labor Tenn
pie, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

the Courier published the enclosed
item, in which reference is made to
your establishment. Will you kind
ly advise me for publication whether
the statement made therein, so far
as it applies to John Morrell & Co.,
is true? l make this inquiry because
the truthfulness of the statement has
been challenged by persons who are
saying that the Courier made use of
this same statement to brighten"
voters in 1896, and they allege that
the Courier is trying to do the same
thing now. AS you know the Courier
did not make use of this matter in
the campaign of 1896, because you
requested that it should not be so
used, and because lie eaitor of the
Courier felt as you did that the use
of the matter then would tend to de-
feat the very cause in behalf of which
this paper was SO zealously laboring
and in which you were so deeply in
terested. After the election was over
and the fact was assured that the
people had declared against free sill
yer, and in favor of the gold stand
ard the Courier took occasion to re-
fer to what the effects of free silver
would have been on this community
and then made public the statement
re-published in the issue of the Cour-
Ter of October /. The Courier new.
er has tried nor is it now trying to
frighten any one. A fact is a fact
and if the enclosed statement is true
it can easily be verified; if it is
not true, then the Courier will at
once acknowledge it's error and cor
rect the publication that has been
made. Our only desire is to state the
truth. Hoping you may be able to
give me statement for publication,
am
Sincerely yours,
w ee Editor Courier
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
LACEY is HoNoRED.
Presented With Watch by League of
American Sportsmen.

Oskaloosa, Oct. 1S.-Hon. John F..
Lacey, who came home yesterday
from Avery, where he had splendid
meeting, found an elegant gold
watch and chain here awaiting
him. 1t was a gift from the League
of American Sportsmen in token of
their high regard for the Lacey game
law, which represents eight years of
hard labor by it's author. The watch
is of the best of Waltham manufacture
and it was made entirely in the United
states. The case is elegantly carved
with figures of birds and other appro
pirate marks, and on the outside is the
Inscription, 81. A. S. Protect the
Game"
On the outside of the back case is a
picture of the majors daughter, Mrs
Nellie Brewster, and her daughter
little Doris Brewster. On the inside
cover is another inscription, as fol
lows:
Presented by the League of Ameri
can Sportsmen to the Honorable John
F. Lacey, the friend of the birds, in
recognition of his great work in secur
ing the passage of the Lacey Game
Bill, December rs, 1900"
The present is a handsome one and
is highly appreciated by Mr.. Lacey.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
Real Estate Transfers.

Real estate transfers furnished by
Lowenberg & Co., real estate agents,
Ill South Market street.
John Gibbons and wife to T. E.Gib-
bons, lot 26, Norris sub Ottumwa, 81.
|. E. Fisher and wife to Walter T.
Hall, lot 241 Dain addition, Ottumwa,
$1,4O0.
d. H. Hudson and wife to Ida A.
Spencer, lot Z, block 81, Eddyville,
$500.
J. S. Oldham and wife to J. A. Laf-
ferty, part lot 5, block IL, Eddyville,
$3.50.
J. B. Mowrey and wife to Laura B.
Hollingsworth, lot 8, block II, West
Ottumwa, $500.
Lincoln Hardesty and wife to VIM.
H. Johnston, west half, southeast
quarter, section Is, rs, IA, (subject
mortgage $1,000 S1,440.
Jennie Funk, ct al, to G. w. Beck,
undivided two-sevenths of southeast
quarter southeast quarter and part
north half southeast quarter and
north five-eighths southwest quarter
southeast quarter section IT, 70, 49,
$500.
Thos. w. Hollingsworth and wife
TO j. -. MOWIey, uoituWeSL qudiLel
northwest quarter section IA, II, IA
$1,000.
Mary T. Leighton and husband, A
c., to Jas. K. Deford part northeast
quarter northeast quarter section ~
| II, 10, $444.
| Mrs. r. P. Cowan (by sheriff. tc
Wapello county, lot 60, Cowan's sui
to Ottumwa, $603.45.
Lucy L. Johnson (by sheriff) to Wa
pello county, undivided four-ffthf
east half northeast quarter section 20
and undivided four-fifths southeast
quarter southeast quarter section 20
"a, IA, $4,000.
| r.. G.. Warder and wife to M. G.
Warder q. G. d. part west half ives
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Sincerely yours,
A. w. Lee, Editor Courier.
Mr.. Fosters Statement.

In response to the above, the
Courier is in receipt Of the following
autographs letter from Mr.. Foster,
which speaks for itself. We commend
it to the careful attention of every
voter, we care not what party he affl-
liates with:
Ottumwa, Iowa, Oct. II, 1900.
Editor Courier
We are in receipt of your commu-
nication of the 18th inst, with extract
enclosed relating to our position dur
ing the presidential campaign in 1896
and in reply to same have to say, the
statements therein contained are sub
stantially correct, also have to say
that we should be compelled to mater
tally reduce our volume of business
pending the adjustment of the coun
try's currency to silver basis
should the unlimited coinage of same
at the ratio of 16 to 1 be adopted.
Yours respectfully,
John Morrell & Co., Ltd
| Thomas D. Foster, Director
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
AS TO EFFECT OF FREE SILVER COINAGE
On the Packing Industry This CtyThe Couriers
Statement Conditions in 1896 is Con-
hrmed-An Important Letter.

The Courier IS in receipt of writ
ten statement from Themes D. Foster,
director of the great pork packing firm
of John Morrell & Company, limited,
as to the effect upon the pork packing
interests of Ottumwa, if this nation
should adopt the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1. This state
ment is. in our opinion, so far as the
material welfare and future prosper
ity of this community is concerned
the most important document that the
Courier has given to the public dur
ing the present campaign. Mr.. Eos
ters letter is published in full here
with in connection with an editorial
tina: was printed in The Courier of
October /, and letter from the edi-
tor OF The Courier to Mr.. Foster.
The Courier Editorial.
On Monday, October 1, the Cou-
rier published the following editorial:
at is now a we'll known fact if
Mr.. Bryan had been elected in 1896.
Ottumwa would have suffered the IT.
reparab-e loss of the major portion of
it's great pork packing business. Op-
lions had been secured on land in Can
ada with the purpose of moving the
principal part of the industry there, if
Bryan should be elected and the coun-
try go to free silver basis. Here is
a fact that cannot be gainsaid by any
amount of free silver theory and argu-
ment. Mr.. Bryan is again candidate
for the presidency on platform that
reiterates the pledge to bring about
tho immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1, if he should be elect
ed"
The statements of fact contained in
the above editorial have since been
publicly challenged, and openly denied
| by democratic partisans. AS the mat
ter was one that could be easily
verified, the editor of the Courier de
termined that this should be done
and in such manner as would for
ever set az rest any question as te
the same. To that end the following
letter was written and mailed to Mr.
Thomas D. Foster, director of Joh1
Morrell G Co., Limited.
Letter to Mr.. Foster.
4 October Is. 1900
MI. T. D. Foster, Director, John Nor
rell & Co.:
Dear Sir:-On Monday, October 1
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
AMONG THE LODGES.
a. o. u. w. Lodges Unique Plan
to Increase Membership.
D. OF II. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Hickory Camp, No. 81, w. o. w.
Adopts Resolutions Touching the
Death of a Brother-kniehts of Ply.
thias Will Give Charity Ball.

Ottumwa lodge No. 227, Ancient Or
der United Workmen, has adopted a
unique plan to increase the member
ship of the order which promises
much. Sides are chosen and each
tries to best the other in bringing in
applications for membership. 1t has
been agreed that the losing side will
treat the winners and all members
taken into the order during the con-
test. Altho inaugurated but last week,
it already has stirred up lively in
terest, six having been taken into the
order at the meeting last evening
which is very good for start. The
boys say they have license to increase
the membership to 500 before spring
and they intend to take advantage of
the privilege and do some work this
winter.
A committee has been appointed
and given full power to make ar.