The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-08
Read These Burning Truths, Remem.
Der the Administration Of Grover
Know That the "verdict" II at
the Same Time the Organ
OF Tammany and the
Champion Of Bryan.
The Country Is Equally i'm Peril From
the Same Gang, Whether Mckinley
or Bryan BE Elected-Stana by
the Peoples Party and Be
Fooled No Longer With
Old Party Promises.

"What we call commerce or trade or
business is generally toll, merely that
greed-scheme by which avarice seeks
to feed and fatten. And the moral diff
ference between pure burglary and pure
business has grown to be slight. 1t is
difference, too, in no sort to favor the
victim. Lockwood before the industrial
commission, asked a fair question (not
yet replied toy when he said: What is
the material difference between being
robbed by footpad with pistol and
being robbed by Standard Oil with
railroad?' No, truly business is greed.
And greed, which each day lowers moral
standards, finds final expression in the
slavery of every one too weak to resist.
You end-your government does-with
the strong few as masters and the weak
many as serfs. In this money age,
when gold is power and poverty limp
and sick, one need not wend far afield
to find ones ruler. Yet it need not be
that money should conquer freedom.
II freedom would but girt up the loins
of her courage, face money and fight for
her right to live, her triumph would be
easy and swift. But therein lies the
trouble. Americanism, coming to our
own sad, pathetic case, would seem as a
spirit to be paralyzed. Look at the out
RACES of the Hanna government! They
crowd one another in a very lock-step
Of corruption and fill each dripping day.
Yet resentment burns slow and cold.
There would appear to be no more of
fire in the public breast than might be
found in the bosom of wet bath towel,
and public courage shows water-logged
and sodden. 1t Is a wrong figure, how
ever, to speak Of the public as dogs
Rather are they sheep to be driven. On
their way to the shearing sheds, in
charge of those who fleece them, it now
and then falls out that the antic
ignominies of some under shepherd of
an Alger or Gage, or it may be an
Eagan, alarm the flock. They bunch
up and stand at dubious gaze. There
upon the Hanna at the head Of all casts
out this disquieting shepherd. The
flock at once forgets and goes forward
The fleeing proceeds; the shearing goes
on the same
Surely it would SEEM" continued this
philosopher, that given on the part of
the people one spark of that former
spirit which, kindled at Concord, burned
through Valley Forge to blaze in vic
tory at a final Yorktown, Mckinley will,
this year, be beaten from his place.
Yet SO certain are such as Hanna of the
dull and stupid tameness of the Ameri-
can voter, that they today wage one to
two on McKinley's success. He should
OF verify be beaten. Conditions have
changed in four years. The fight of
1896 was perforce a battle of promises
and platforms. Both sides, Bryan and
Mckinley, both were out, while Cleve-
lend held the White House. Neither
Bryan nor Mckinley had record to
consider and the contest was rather one
OF hope and fear, based on the profess
sions of candidates and platforms. To
this situation one must add the $19,OOO,-
600 corruption fund which bought and
fought on the side of Republicanism
This years warfare is not one of prom
Use. There has been in the black, illicit
case Of Mckinley some four years of
performance. The Canton CIPHER has a
record. He has been tagged on to
more than one, yes, more than one hun
dred numerals of villainy and greed to
mark the measure Of public crime. To-
day Mckinley has a record. And there
by depends much decent public hope
That record will be put before every
voter Of the land. It's vileness is neither
to be challenged nor denied. How one
of common honesty or common thought,
on reading it, can vote for Mckinley, is
more than anyone can see. Mckinley
of a verify! should be beaten; not SO
much by Bryan promise as Mckinley
past.
run rapidly over the years since
March, 1897, how is such wrong to
escape the lash? The Maine is killed
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