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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
NOT MUCH.

The Populist committee of Jasper
County, Missouri, has adopted resolu-
tons repudiating the new party move
ment, and declaring that, while it be-
lieves in perfecting and keeping the
Populist organization in the field, it
also believes that SO long as the Demo-
cratic party maintains the position
taken in 1896 and 1900 it is the best
for the Populists to act with the Demo-
Gratis. This is certainly wiser course
than that pursued by those Populists
who assume that the Democratic party
will be Republicanized, and then pro-
coed to encourage the reorganizers by
declaring against fusion.-Bryan's Com
mOner.
Mr.. Bryan's slogan is still, II am
Democrat" If he should go into battle
twenty times with that battle cry the
result would be each time the same, de-
feat. The pioneer reformers in this
country declared at Omaha in 1892 that
both old parties were alike enemies of
the producers and defenders of special
privileges. At that early date the Dem
ocratic Party had already become Re-
publicanized. They have ever since been
Republicanized Democratic Southern
states are no better governed than Re-
publican Northern states, and in con-
gress all the great leaders of both old
parties stand together. Bryan doesn't
seem to know when he is whipped.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
ANARCHY

1t will be amusing at out next session
of congress to watch the law makers in
their attempts to legislate against an
archy They will vie with each other
in their efforts to so frame law that
it will miss the rich anarchist and hit
the poor anarchist. To be acceptable
the law must be so framed as to pro-
tect the instigators of the TRAGEDIES at
Homestead, Couer De Alene, Buffalo,
Cool Creek, Hazelton, Chicago and the
wholesale butcheries in the name Of
commercial expansion now going on in
the Philippines. The law must be con-
structed on the plan of the old farm
er's gun that would miss bear but
hit a calf.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
INTENDED FOR ALL

Under the New Zealand system the
property of the mine owners, whose
men complained of low wages, was
seized by. the government, which con-
tinues to operate the mines for the ben
eft OF all. Capitalists in America de-
clare it is folly for government to
make such an attempt, but the success
of New Zealand is a complete answer
to their objection. There is another
valuable lesson in the example of the
Pacific island government Before pay
ing the owners of property that it takes
it squeezes out the water from the stock
value" Call this confscation, if you
will, but it is only retribution.-Citizen
and Country.
When the people of this country get
educated up to the proper standard J. p
Morgan will not own the coal mines and
levy tribute upon the poor as he does
now. John D. Rockefeller will not own
the oil supply of the country. The peo-
pie will take back their own and will
get these necessaries at cost No good
reason has ever been found for one or
two men owning what the Father in
tended for ALL
The coal supply and the oil supply
are alike public utilities. They are
things of universal use as much as air
and water. If submitted to a vote of
the people today twelve million votes
in this country would demand the pub
lie ownership of these natural resources
These two men and a few confederates
are today preventing such vote and
such results by controlling political par
ties, and by controlling the newspapers
and other channels of intelligence while
/ they through subservient postmaster
general suppress reform literature and
shut out from the mails Socialist and
Populist papers. There is a hot time
coming.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

" passed the Chamber of Deputies, against
the Tesuits and other religious societies
which NEEDLE in politics under instructions
from their chief in Rome, or have been con-
victed of having accumulated scandalous
amount of property, I myself shall intro
duce in the Chamber bill creating pen
sion system for aged or disabled working
men and women.
''The socialistic reform is considered by
President Loubet and the whole ministry as
the most momentous step OF progress ever
attempted by any civilized nation since the
American and French revolutions. 1t will
be fought desperately by all the reactionary
elements and by many capitalistic Republi-
cans who fear that every satisfaction
granted to the laboring masses will only
increase their audacity-which will be true
until society is more equitably organized.
The popular cla1nor for equal chances, COM
fort, and happiness will increase, gathering
force from every concession. 1t cannot
stop, however.
Every sensible politician, even among
those who do hold my socialistic views,
realizes that something must be done soon
if sanguinary revolution is to be averted.
The first of May, though comparatively
orderly, revealed the fact that the workers
are more conscious of their rights and are
better organized, better led, and more in
ternationally sympathetic than ever before.
The progress in that direction in the last
five years has been marvellous. Already
while the jingo press is stirring up bad feel
ing in the English, and German trades
union are sending large delegations to as
sure organized labor in France of their
friendship, French laborers are sending
money to their syndicates to support strikes
in Belgium, Italy and Germany, and o,ooo,-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

900 of socialists of all countries are sending
signed encouragement to the victims of
Russian oppression.
"The referendum held last week among
the miners of France favored a general
strike throughout the countries, which is
only postponed in order to perfect the or
ganization In England movement of the
same sort is afoot.
THE great French revolution broke out
without giving such warnings. Only the
blind now fail to see that any great labor
outbreak in any country might spread like
wildfre over Europe and America.
Let us not forget that there was founded
in Paris last year an international fedora
ton of socialists, which is very noiseless,
yet is doing tremendous work.
Revolutions are always started by de-
termined minorities, which even the most
inert masses will follow in promising move
ments. Therefore, if progress is to be made
bv peaceful evolution instead of by riots,
reforms must be immediate.
IF the bill fails now, its defeat cannot
be permanent Parliamentary discussion
scattered by the newspapers throughout the
land will be bound to awaken even the most
sluggish elements of the working masses
and create an irresistible movement in favor
of the workingrnen's pension BILL
Does some one say the armies of Europe
will make short work of the revoutionlsts
But what are soldiers but proletaires in uni
form? They have been educated by the
socialist propaganda, and when the up
heaval comes they will carry their rifles,
batteries and ammunition over to the side
of their fathers, brothers, wives, sweet
hearts and comrades, and turn them against
their common enemy and exploiter. South
ern Mercury.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
SUPPRESSED NEWS

The vast majority of the American peo-
pie are ignorant of the most important
events that are taking place in the world
The news companies combine to suppress
such information, and the big papers sup
press it in like manner Nothing is printed
which will not meet with the approval of
the imperial trusts. Not one word do the
people hear from the plutocratic organs of
the portentous times in Europe and the ap-
preaching revolution there. They are
taught to believe, and do believe, that So
cialists the world over, are handful OF
ignorant, envious, bloated, ragged, verrnine-
infested wretches, not even worthy to be
mentioned in polite society. The people do
not know that these "wretches" are in the
majority both in Germany and in France !;
that in Germany they actually hold the
balance of Legislative power; while in
France they have the control of all the prin-
cipal towns.
The obscurants of capital in the Goth
century ray out more falsehood and dark
ness than did all the priests in the middle
ages; and that victims are quite as easily
imposed upon. Sometimes, however, there
is something comes from source SO high
and imposing that the sycophantic press is
compelled to notice it.
Thus, the press cannot afford to ignore
the declarations of NJ. Millerand, member
of the French cabinet, and minister of COM
merce and industry, posts and biography
M. Millerand said last week:
"When Parliament reassembles May II
most important work will be done. We
have lust decided that while the Premier
defends in the Senate the bill which recent
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

utilities. These include the mediums Of
transportation, the railways and the tram
lines, systems Of lighting, and the telegraphs
and telephones, now in the hands of private
companies
The Standard Oil Company built up its
monopoly by controlling railroad lines.
These quoted prohibitive freight rates to
owners of oil wells and competing re6neries
and they were driven out of business and
the Standard Oil Company got their wells
and plants at their own figures. The steel
trust is now able to pursue the same tactics
with rivals through its interest in the rail-
roads and in steamships.
The opposition to the local government
ownership of public utilities is very great,
almost insuperable at the present time
those who favor it are called anarchists"
A man who thinks that the community
should get the profits from its utilities is
denounced as one who waves the red flag
of riot. The same epithet of anarchist is
applied to those who believe in the income
tax and death duties. The United States
will not allow an income tax because it is
Revolutionary" and the highest court of
the land denounced it and declared it un-
constitutional, when it was passed. But al
though you cannot have SO riotous a meas
ure as an income tax, you may burn negro
alive if you like.
In this you see signs of the money power
The courts ject an income tax at the be-
hest of the rich. Nobody owns the negro
who is burned alive, SO it doesn't matter.
In the old days of slavery, when negro
was worth ST, 900 to his master, they did
not burn him alive
The agitation for the transfer of public
utilities to the people is not based on a
desire to get the dividends so much as it is
to deprive the millionaires of the power
which the possession of those utilities
gives to them. The men who own the rail-
roads in a state own the legislature and the
judges and the executive forces They do
this through the magic pasteboard that
means free transportation, through the
power that the ability to make lower freight
rates to shippers and manufacturers gives
to them, by the voting force of their own
employees, and by hundred other methods,
including a bank account on which they can
draw checks.
A man who cannot be bought with gold
often succumbs to railroad passes or to the
honor of getting private car free for
party Of friends.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

startling rapidity. Thirty years ago the
Vanderbilts had no social position in New
York, and their chances of ever getting any
were looked upon as poor. In few short
years they have bought social prestige
sent round the corner for it as one sends to
the grocers.
This is stated not from any opposition to
the Vanderbilts, but to make the point that
what they can buy any one else can buy
If money can be exchanged for anything on
earth, it is natural that it should be more
in demand than anything on earth. If it
will purchase disregard for the people of
how it was obtained, what matters it how
it was obtained?
By consultations the American trusts are
gradually doing away with every cornpeti-
ton, except that between men who want
jobs. The result of this, of course, must be
raising in price of the commodities and
a lowering of the wages. What has pre-
vented both these things being done in ex-
cess has been the force of public opinion.
Sugar, coal, meat, and other necessities
which have been cornered by the trust have
risen in price through artificial reasons to
an extent that has put extra millions into
the pockets of those who control them, and
who have so much property already that
they suffer from sort of financial indiges-
ton.
The aristocrats of the United States are
the corporations. They conduct their forays
upon the people as did the robber barons
of old. A corporation of large capital is in
New York as sacred as the person of the
sovereign in London. 1t can rob, burn,
murder, almost with impunity, and if it
wants help all it has to do is to call out
the state troops to help it.
The last sentence may appear to be an
exaggeration, but competing refneries have
been burned down in the interest of the
Standard Oil Company and men connected
with them killed, and even such philanthro-
pists as the partners of Andrew Carnegie
sent a band of civilian dead shots to
Homestead to shoot down strikers. | was
there at the time and saw the corpses.
If the industrial millionaires can make
and defy the laws, buy and bride juries and
Judges and congressman, what is to restrain
them. unless there is some uprising and
some enormous change?
The nearest available remedy for some OF
the abuses will be the government owner
shop if what the Americans call public
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
THE PERlLs or WEALTH.

Appeal to Reason: An English writer
in the London Daily Mail, the most largely
circulated paper in England, contributes an
article which is interesting, not for the new
ness of what he says, but for the source
from which it comes. The article was re-
produced in the New York Daily Times
one of the most ultra-capitalistic papers in
this country. The article is of value, be-
cause it indicates that even in high places
is the truth beginning to penetrate. Keep
pounding away, boys, victory lies just over
the line. Here's what the Englishman says !:
When the United States abolished slavery
they did not do away with the slave driv-
ing instinct of their people. For years the
Shareholders had stolen the result of the la
Dor which their slaves did. 1t was such a
pleasant, easy way of getting wealth that
the recollection of it is relish in the mouths
of the covetous.
The slave drivers of today in America are
the millionaires and the men who operate
the trusts They are the fattening ogres
whom the people will have to destroy or be
destroyed by. They are the Simon Legrees
of the hour. They operate within the law
for they make the law
The American people have some pet
phrases with which they like to describe
England. They say it is feudal, king-rid-
den, helpless tool of the aristocracy, and
that sort of thing They do not see the
beam in their own eye. The United States
is millionaire-ridden
The millionaires start and operate uni
versities, discharging professors who teach
economic doctrines of which they disap-
prove The millionaires operate the legis-
latures, and in some cases the courts. They
run congress, and they are quartered in the
White House at Washington, where the
president whom they elected does their bid
ding.
Every year a greater percentage OF the
wealth of America goes into the pockets OF
the millionaires. 1t is fact that the second
million is more easily made than the first,
the third than the second, and so on. By
the force of attraction a dollar naturally
gravitates toward the largest pile.
The Rockefellers who control the Stand
ard Oil Company, are absorbing the wealth
of America at an enormous rate. With the
wealth come political power and social
power Social prestige is obtained with
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24
THE DEAD LINE

The Caxton Caveat gives to news
paper publishers the following very
business-like advice:
Made a dead-line for credit, beyond
which no one shall pass. Make that
dead-line two years for subscribers,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-24

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The Globe-republican., 1901-01-31

The belief that only the lonGhorns
could thrive on the range, is one of the
myths that has vanished. Experience
has shown that any and all of the great
breeds do well upon the range when
cIinated. The impression is largely
due to the many instances that all prac-
teal COW men can point to where fine
blooded sires had been pampered and fed
during the whole of their short lives were
turned loose upon the range to rustic
with the longhorns on their native heath.
In such contests the blooded stock invar-
iably came out second best. Had per-
feet specimen of the very best rustling
range animal been transplanted to stall
fatted and fed his blooded cousin,
then returned to the range to compete
either with acclimated a range
bred thoroughbred-it is safe to say that
he would not come any nearer taking
first money i'll the struggle for existence
than did his pampered blooded cousin.
The Globe-republican., 1901-01-31
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The Globe-republican., 1901-01-31
The Funeral OF Mrs weagiey.

Mrs. Weagley, wife of d. L. Weagley,
died of pneumonia. at s: 10 Friday night
The funeral services We're held in the
Christian church. Sunday afternoon, aud
were conducted by Rev E. NJ. Carr
The pail bearers We're r. ID. Webb, II. A
Cord, J. NJ. Grover, IL. H. Crawford,
Marion Mars, and w. j. Liggett.
The choir was composed of Roy Martin,
j. l. Myer, Mrs. Ida Reynolds, Miss
Nina Norvill, and Miss Nellie { hapman,
organist.
The opening hymn was ssAsleep in
Jesus.''
Rev. Mr.. Carr read verses from the 10
chapter of first Corinthians.
The choir sang s.Sweetly IN the arms
of Jesus.'
Mr.. Carr delivered fervent and touch
ing prayer, which moved the hearts OF
every one present, and in deep sympathy
of the sorrowiug ones.
Mr.. Carr spoke of the deceased ia
touching terms, and of her biography
said NJ ISIS Amanda Shafer was born ia
| Cincinnati, Ohio, and was married. to D.
Il. Weagley in 1861. OF their marriage
nine children We're born, five of whotn
living the deceased had been a
sufferer for three years past. Mrs
| WeagIey had united with the Christian
church eight years ago, and was con-
sistent member.
Mr.. Carr said he could not do justice tie
the memory of the deceased owing to
his feelings for her. OF her devotion to
the Savior he said under her affiictions
she did not forget to pray, and she thank
ed her Savior in love and looked in fond
expectation of death relief 10 her
bodily suffering. He said Mrs. Weagley
desired TO live one year longer to care for
her youngest daughter. An hour before
her death she wanted her friends to pray
for her. Mr.. Carr said faelingly, to
those of you who have made no prepara-
ton for tie future. Your lot will be
harder than the sister who met death
| in the arms of Jesus. We cannot call her
back, but go where She is. Let
this be our purpose in life to prepare to
meet her in death. Trust in the Lord,
that may enter the abode of the pure
and the blest. He spoke with emotion,
and said to the afflicted husband trust in
God who is able to keep you, and to the
? children of the deceased, he said remem-
D Der the loving words of your mother.
The choir closed the exercises in the
church with a hymn, after which the re-
nainder of the exercises were completed
= at the grave
The family and relatives who were
present were in deep affiiction, and a
sincere sympathy felt by the large
number of people present.
The GLoBE-REPUBLICAN unites with
the sorrowing friends in expression OF
coincidence to the bereavel. May God
assuage the grief of all who are in tear
and sorrow.
The Globe-republican., 1901-01-31

A we'll known citizen of this city re-
tired with his family at early hour
Sunday evening. and he thought no in-
trusion or moleotation would disturb his
peaceful repose, but to his astonishment
at about eleven clock he was awakened
by noise i'll the parlor, and while the
strains were not musical, he surpris-
ed at that time that such noises should
occur, knowing that every member of
his family had gone to bed. and he did
not believe that any one of his children
was in a somnambulistic state and was
pounding the piano without regard to
note time Hurriedly going to the
parlor he found the family cat trailing
her paws across the piano keys and her
felinity was enjoying the fun. Animals
imitators and can be trained TO do
most amy ordinary trick without regard
to instinct. This is true of this cat. The
children of this household had learned
puss to do the piano humping, which
the gentleman found out when he stood
up each cat trainer before the breakfast
| table the next morning.
The Globe-republican., 1901-01-31

Madam Fry is very talented and
pleasing Vocalist, and her execution at
once Pronounces her musician of great
genius and excellence. She has devoted
her entire time to the study of music and
has filled many prominent positions rs
te.cher of vocal and instrumental music
also soloist in many Celebrated con-
certs and Oratorio work She has keen
conception of humor and Wonderful
Dramatic Ability.
At the Presbyterian church, on the
night of Feb. Z Children under Is, 25c,
adults Soc.