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May the Lord have mercy on the poor when the plutocracy— Mark Hanna, Carnegie, Pull man, etc., begin to worry about them having their wages re duced one-half. Will you cast your ballot next Tuesday on the side of the peo ple or for the party and men who are doing all they can to make this country one of masters and slaves? The legislative candidates put up by the silver forces, should be our representatives in the next state legislature. If the working people expect their interests to be guarded they must elect the men on the platform that is pledged to their interests. Henry Clews boasted of a "reserve force'' that a congress did not dare defy but labor has a reserve force at its command that both congress and Wall street dare not defy. Will it be used on Tuesday next? See that George C. Findley gets your vote for the legisla ture. He is the only candidate on either ticket that is a member of organized labor. Your interest will be protected if Mr. Findley represents you in the legislative halls of Minnesota. Mark Hanna and his political "pals" are claiming everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. There is only one way to determine whether they are correctly informed or not and that will be clearly demonstrated on the third day of November. The voting slaves should go to their masters and have their ears pierced at the door so they will be slaves forever as the Hebrews did. A people more willing to be slaves never lived than these same Americans who get out and parade and yell for McKinley at the com mand of their masters. Hanna bring on your awl. THE LABOR WORLD The Pioneer Press, of Thurs day, devoted four columns of its valuable space explain ing how Towne was going to be defeated Nov. 3rd. It won't take only about three lines after the votes are counted to explain why he was not and it will read about as follows: Mor ris was a weak man the people did not want him. He should not have been nominated. Our labor news is scarce this week. The political campaign is drawing to a close and there is nothing practically, but what is centered in the coming election. The contest is of such vital im portance to all concerned, that we have devoted nearly all our energies and space for the last month to the all-absorbing ques tion—free silver. A vote for Page Morris means a vote for the parasite element of this country. It means a vote for the plutocrat who is juggling with the financial affairs of the nation to the enrichment of a few and the pauperizing of the many. He should be buried under such an avalanche of votes that he may never be found again, politically, until the crack of doom. The people do not want such men as Page Morris directing the great ship of state and if our judgment is good they will convince him of that fact on Tuesday next. Nearly all of the fine residences in the city display portraits of the republican candidates. Especially at the east end is this noticable. Once in a while a portrait of Mr. Towne is seen, but in this case nearly all the homes are those of moderate means. A laborer, commenting on this, said: "They may flaunt their pictures from the windows of their fine homes, we can not afford to buy pictures for dis play but nevertheless we have them, inscribed in our hearts and on Tuesday next we will flaunt them to the world." Will they Submit. So the street railway boys, the truest and bravest union men we have in Duluth, must stand a cut of 6 per cent after November 1st. There isn't a corporation in the ciiy that is piling up the dividends as this same company, yet in the face of this fact, the men must stand another reduction in their al ready low salaries. The men who earn the money for this company must pay for the street railway's contribution to the republican boodle fund. We will have more to say on this subject, and if the boys see fit not to bow their necks in humble submission they will find us with them to a finish. So much for the beauties of private own ership of public franchises. The Twin City papers devote more space to the Sixth congres sional district than to the other six districts in this state, and even more than they do to the national issues. The "gold bug" element desire the defeat of Mr. Towne more than they do all the other congressmen in the state combined. They fear Mr. Towne because he is honest, be cause he is able, because money will not buy him neither will threats terrify him, neither can he be hoodwinked from the paths of rectitude and honor and just for these reasons he will receive the votes of seventy-five per cent of his acquaintances, in fact all who do not consider party politics above personal and political integrity. See that Mr. Towne gets your vote on election day. The gold standard means that a dollar can increase in value though lying idle. For instance the depreciation of prices since 1893 of 25 per cent means that hoarded gold has increased in its power over labor and its pro ducts 25 percent, or a clear gain of 8% .per cent per annum, and that, too, locked up in bank vaults without a particle of risk. 5