The representative., 1901-05-30

Western country to 60 East instead Of
West Such . plan would deprive the
Great Northern railroad Of immense
revenues from the hauling Of wheat
The situation was serious one. Be-
sides the 100000 subsidy at stake the
foreign traffic Of Western railroads was
deeply involved.
What could be done? Nothing could
safely be said against subsidies. The
public must be duped. Congress must
be manipulated. AS result Of this Sit
uations J:sC. Hanley and M. P. Moran,
from Minnesota, and other men Of SINH
! lar occupation from other Northwestern
| states, we're hurried down to Washing
ton. These men represented to con-
gress that they came not as the repre-
| sentatives Of corporate interests, but
| as representatives of the farmers. They
| represented that the entire farming
community of the United States were
anxious to pay this subsidy, provided
| only it opened up markets to the west
| ward. A delay was forced on the pas
sage Of the Hanna bill while the neces-
sary sentiment was being worked up
! through the plutocratic dailies. The
Tribune, Press, Globe and many other
corporation organs devoted pages to
| showing the farmer how in Eastern
| Asia he would find a market for $1.00
wheat among people now living on
rice at cost of two cents per day.
The people of China and Japan were
to be educated up from 2cent rice and
rat diet to a wheat and beef standard
that would give Minnesota farmers 81
per bushel for wheat. Great head that
figured out the details of this mighty
scheme. Visions of that $9,OO0,0 900 sub
| sidy were behind the whole conception.
1t was ground hog case. That sub
| sidy must be secured. Farmers must
| pay freight on their produce over the
longer mountainous route to the Pacific
The produce must find market west
ward if one had to be Manufactured to
order out of a cannibal or rat and rice
| eating Cinnamon of the far away
| Orient. All this was done. Plute pa
pers got the tip and went to work. Mr.
Hanley says that in nine out of IL states
contests were made and won for the
! election of United States senators.
Things are now fixed. The daily pa
| pers have done and are doing their
md no
ready for the question. Reform papers
of wide circulation have all been killed
| of in the Northwest, except the Rep
| preventative. Cooperation of Morgan
| 10000 loot has been agreed upon. Han
| ley has called farmers junket to pacify
| the few who may attend; The Tribune,
| Press and other corporation organs are
widely advertising this Hanley CORPORA
| tion affair as spontaneous uprising
and mass convention of farmers anxious
| to be assessed for this $9,OOO,OOO ship
subsidy.
| A real convention of farmers in Min.
| neapolis is to be feared We have tried
| to get the real farmers convention call
| ed here for June II and IL noticed in
! the Farmers Tribune, but without sue
cess.
| A farmers convention gives corpora
! tions the chills The death of the Rep
! resentative is predicted, wished for, and
| prayed for, because it is now the farm
ers' last rallying point. Come to the
| Minneapolis, convention.
Come prepared to organize and fight
| for the cause of the farmers. Get all
your neighbors interested in this entire
situation, which is the most critical that
ever confronted the common people of
| this country. The time is brief for or
ganization that can be effective. 1t is
| now or never. If farmers cannot today
be rallied they will never organize. Let
ters to this Office are the only index l
have. They all point to a big meeting.
| Many are making great efforts to come.
Many will circulate these calls and
alarm their neighbors. 1t is time to
rally for decisive action. Strike and
strike now!