The representative., 1901-04-25
OUR .FORUr1
Bi&otr& II the Trouble.

DA4OaEA ~ the IFOuOAes
Ed. Representative: AS my writing in
the past has received such courtesy
from the editor. Ind public, have be-
come emboIdeted and wilT once mors
venture to ap1e4r in the columns Of
your valusble paper. hoping BY it to
afouse the uerm4nt patriotism that to-
day slumbers I'd eur once free and pros
porous land. whose people have been
transformed from men to the most SER
vile slaves known to history. Natural
lists tell us that in the twelfth genera
tion there is only one drop of the blood
of the hrst generation to each 1904
drops, and that this drop will some
times show all the characteristics of
the original stock. This has been shown
pigeon.
The American of today is the old
world slave with a few generations of
training in American liberty and 1t ap-
pears that this one drop Of the original
slave blood has completely dominated
the spirit of freedom that was once the
pride of our land and admiration of the
world. 0, Freedom, thou art gone, and
EO'er thy sacred ashes let us mourn
The Goddess of Liberty has been driven
from our nations capital. but let us hope
not forever. The Golden Calf" is now
the idol before which the American peo-
pie kneel. The great majority may look
| upon it from distance, but touch it
they never can.
In the history of Persia we read OF
certain general who, when he found
he was to be vanquished. called around
him his cencubines, 100 In number, and
told them If they would fall into the
hands of his enemy it would break his
heart, and he had decided to destroy
them; and, tying them together, he
placed them upon pile of wood and
told them to sing his praises while he
applied the torch.
Again we read of the Roman emperor
who would take his slaves up 10 the top
of mountain and to satisfy his vanity
would order them to jump into the roll
ing water below.
We, today, look upon these with
mingled sympathy and scorn. This was
their education and training. How will
future generations look upon us, in
whose hands the remedy still remains?
(THE BALLOT AND THE SWORDl)
With nothing but contempt, for Father
Time will surely Judge us right
Oh, what verdict for history to pro-
nounce upon the descendants of the rev.
olutionary heroes! And how those in
whose breasts there still fingers drop
of patriotic fire should labor to avert it.
The hand of oppression is truly press
ing hard and clouds of darkness sur
round us, but back of this sits the God
OF Universal Justice, in whose hands
nations as we'll as individuals are only
as blade of grass; and l believe the
day is not far distant when this ma
ton will be torn by internal strife, for
50,000,0 900 people here own no homes and
10000 own more than one-half our
wealth, while so men can come to.
gether and cause a panic in "a hours.
Think of it, gentlemen, so men can
say to 76,000O 900 of Americans: Cease
thy progress" to the God of Creation,
Cease thy work This is terrible to
think of and do you think that if the
neOnlo should ra ico nm or, r,ooco ,nd ~
mand their rights that the money power
would submit to it? Believe it not, for
back of them stands the army, navy and
supreme court of the United States,
which can nulify any law that may be
demanded by the great masses
Man can hardly trust himself, he
who will tell otherwise knows not hu-
man nature and should be watched. How
can the American people, with millions
at stake, trust these nine gowned mas
ters (supreme court? God never made
nine men that were equal to that task
And this should be done away with,
for l believe it is SO rotten that buz-
zard could smell it from the Pekin hills
of China. To tell them that they are
weaving the net that is soon to destroy
them Is useless, as it was to tell and
plead for liberty with j. c. Calhoon, the
great exponent of human slavery, In
the SOS. You must use other means
as did the heroes of '61-the sword
that sacred custodian of human liberty
for the power of rulers is limited and
beyond that limit law is without au-
thority. When rulers in dealing with
the masses overreach that limit then the
mode Of redress is left with the people.
The great curse of the masses today
is religious, racial and political bigotry.
This is the monster that must be slain
first. Then let us have full organiza-
tiOn of the industrial masses and let us
demand public control of railroads and
all public utilities, also direct legis-
lation, which will bring about all these
and also repudiate those dishonest
bonds" In 1890 the average per capita
of debt upon the homes and farms of
this country was 500. and in 1895 the per
capita of money in circulation was
$3.G7. Now, how: are the American peo-
pie to pay $96 debt with 1887? 1t will
scarcely pay the sinterest. This is what
the money men desire, as it will ulti-
mately place all the property in the
hands of few.
The Minnosoto, looisIaturo in ITO loot