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The Represent a tive j
“SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAJ&f THAT THEY GO FORWARD."
Iyear} in ADVANCE. ST. PAUL, MINN., WEprfflsPAY, APRIL 18, 1894. VOL. 1. NO. 51.
THE MARCH ON
WASHINGTON.
One can get very little idea of what
is going on in this country from the
daily papers of St. Paul and Minnea
polis. You have to buy the Chicago
papers, and especially that best nev's
paper of them all—the to
be posted. Our city papers only give
the people what they think their
weak stomachs will bear:—the news
is milked through a monopoly seive
and the cream taken out. For in
stance, this item of news, from the
“Herald” will not be found in the
Minnesota journals:
“Denver, April 3.— General Mc-
Cook looks upon the Coxey movement
as dangerous. “The weather has
been against the army so far,” he
says, “but by the Ist of May I fully be
lieve there will be an army of 150,000
hungry, half-clad men clamoring
around the national capital. The
spectacle of such a vast army of al
leged working men, asking for em
ployment in order that they may not
starve is, something new in the his
tory of the world. If the national
troops are ordered out to drive them
away, who can imagine the complica
tions that may arise? These men of
Coxey’s army have friends and sympa
thizers in every state of the union.
To me it seems that the country is
approaching a crisis such as faced it
only once before, and that was at the
time of the great rebellion.”
If it had been a list light ora horse
race the twin-city papers would have
given us the news by the page full.
As it is they devote a linger length
to the reception of Coxey’s army in
Pittsburgh, while the “Herald” gives
nearly a column and a half to it.
Here are some extracts:
“Camp Kirkland, Alleghany
City, Pa., April 3.— One hundred
thousand people saw Commander
Coxey’s army of ragged and dust
stained men enter this city this
afternoon. The demonstration accoi’ded
to the miserable creatures has no parallel
in history. A barbarian, returning
from a campaign with the scalps of
liis foes strung to his belt, could not
have aroused more enthusiasm than
marked the progress of the spellbound
horseman and quarryman, who is now
on his way to to urge
Congress to pass the good roads non
interest-bearing bond bills which he
has framed to thi-ustjinto both wings
of the capitol. * * *
It was nearly 2 o’clock when the
army was swung into line for its
march into Alleghany. The sun was
now beaming down upon the hills
with terrific energy. The dust in the
road was almost ankle deep, and the
clouds of sand the impatient horses
kicked up choked and begrimed the
men who stood inline. Just ahead
of the army were the iron molders,
the bakers and the pattern makers,
all of them wearing badges, and each
division led by a sturdy fellow who
bore a banner. It took nearly a half
hour to get this escort in line. The
crowd in the roadway was so dense
that the horsemen found it a difficult
task to preserve any kind of align
ment. For an hour or more the army
stood at attention, and then came
the bugle blast to move upon the
city, which was half choked in the
smoke of its mills. The column had
no escort of police. It moved along
as it has done ever since it left Mas
sillon, now over 100 miles away, with
Lieutenant Browne at the head of
the armv proper, and the escort strag
gling along on horses, on bicycles and
on foot. * * *
On either side of the dusty through
fare were thousands of people who
• cheered and howled until Commander
Coxey was compelled to stand up in
the vehicle and tip his hat repeatedly.
Many of the demonstrative men
along the roadside wore badges, and
hundreds of them had cards in their
hats bearing the name of the great
common-wealer. * * *
There is a bend in the roads at
Woods Run, which is at the lowerend
of Alleghany. Here the crowd was
so densely packed that it took a de
tail of policemen to cut a lane for the
procession to pass. Women who sat
in the dead leaves, on the sloping
banks waved their handkerchiefs, the
men cheered, and now and then a
fellow more enthusiastic than the
rest ran up to Commander Coxey and
shook his hand. * * *
Soon after the graveyard was passed
two men rushed up to Commander
■' Coxey’s carriage and gave him two
apple pies. There was another jam
of people at Kirkpatrick avenue.
Here the crowd became so noisy and
demonstrative that the policemen
had great difficulty in keeping peo
ple from breaking into the column.
A red faced man, who had a hat on a
pole, fell into line behind Commander
Coxey’s carriage, but he was quickly
punched into the crowd by an officer
who swung a vicious club. The
crowd grew denser as the column
swung into Fremont street. The
windows of the cigar factory were
tilled with girls, who waved their
aprons at Commander Coxey, and at
the next corner a wagon, filled with
bread for the army, stood ready for
delivery to the commissary. People
in Pennsylvania and Irwin avenues
stood in great solid walls. They
cheered and roared and some of them
waved flags.
At the point in Irwin avenue the
crowd became so unruly that the
* police had to use their clubs in order
to cut a pathway for the army.
Flanked on either side by a troop of
noisy men and boys, the command
turned into School street on its
march to the base-ball grounds. The
quick moblization of the people
choked the street and almost over
whelmed the officers, who were bat
tling with clubs and lists.
The above is only a small part of
the Herald report. Now turn to the
St. Paul Globe’s report of the same
event on the same day.
Pittsburg, April 3.— The common
wealth army has arrived. It reached
Lower Alleghany at 1 o’clock, and
was met with hands by the iron
molders’ union, pattern-makers’,
and a large concourse of people.
When the city was reached a halt
was taken for lunch, and at 2:30
o’clock the army marched to Exposi
tion park, where it went into camp
for two days. Long before the ar
rival of the commonwealth the
streets in the vicinty of Wood’s Run
were packed with people. Director
Murphy, of the department of public
safety, became alarmed, as the
crowd was wrought up to a high ten
sion of excitement, and refused to al
low the army to come into the city
by that route. A challenge was
made, and Coxey and his followers
marched in over the Brighton road.
Many houses were decorated and
along the route to the park the army
was greeted with cheers by the
crowds who thronged the sidewalks.
A feature of the parade was 100
bicyclists carrying banners inscribed
“Coxey’s Brigade.”
What a contrast! One would hard
ly think the two description referred
to the same event.
Whatever one may think of this
Coxey movement, and however much
he may fear the probable results, it
is certainly a marvellous, unprece
dented and portentous thing in this
America. If it is going to culminate
in civil war, as General McCook says,
the people are entitled to know all
about it. It is too big a thing for any
man to put a bushel basket over and
sit upon it.
Our space is limited, but we shall
try to keep our readers posted upon
the salient features of the move
ment; and they will be the only
readers of a Minnesota paper that
will be thus posted, if toe do. I. D.
Our Growing Aristocracy. (
There is in Chicago an association
of “rich and brainy men,” as mey
call themselves, a Tolleston gun club,
who claim to own 5,000 acres of marsh
land, along the banks of the Little
Calumet River, in Lake county, In
diana, an hours’ run by rail from Chi
cago. They keep the 5,000 acres as a
game preserve. That is all right;
but it seems these budding aristo
crats have employed a lot of game
keepers or watchmen, and, under
specific instructions from the club,
they beat and knock down and im
prison any one who dares to venture
on their sacred precincts. They do
worse. The Chicago Herald reports:
“Justice Morlock also says that in
the investigation before him there
was testimony showing that the em
ployes of the Tolleston Club had been
frequently guilty of abusing by
pounding and shooting at citizens of
Lake county, at divers and sundry
times when they were on their own
yrounds; and that certain citizens had
been warned that they must not limit
on their own grounds at certain seasons of
the year , for the reason that the en
joyment of such privileges would
scare the game from the county,
thereby interfering with the sport of
the gunners of the Tolleston Club.”
How English this is! How Frencliy
we might say! It reminds us of the
good old times when the law author
ized the French nobleman, on liis re
turn from the chase, to bathe his
feet in the bowels of two peasants,
freshly killed for the occasion.
But it seems the people of Lake
county, Ind., were not French peas
ants of the 13th century, and so,
when watchmen Conroy and Cleary
jumped onto citizen Looker, and pro
ceeded to beat him black and blue,
citizen Looker incontinentally killed
them both: which put a different
look on the feudal situation. And,
what is more, the citizens refused to
prosecute Looker, and the court dis
charged him; whereupon the Chicago
noblemen are exceedingly incensed
against the peasants, and call them
“anarchists!”
But the Tolleston Gun Club are on
ly a little premature. In about
twenty-five years the Looker breed
of farmers will be more subdued. By
that time their farms will be gone;
they will be tenants: and they will
be only too happy to be beaten for
the edification of the rich aristo
crats.
There is nothing so easy to breed,
and nothing so hard to extinguish,
as a nobility. Even the guillotine and
the Reign of Terror could not quite
accomplish it. But we see it coming
and the Tolleston club is one of the
symptoms. I. D.
NOTICE. 1
Anyone can obtain Free Silvw
literature by addressing The Pan-
American Bi-Metallic Association,
Denver, Colo., and enclosing postage
Ownership of Railroads.
It won’t do for us to give up that
plank of our Peoples party platform
which speaks in favor of government
ownership of railroads, when such
eminent scholars as Prof. Ely, head
of the School of Economics in the
University of Wisconsin, speaks as
follows:
“It has been held by some that it
should be made a penal offense for
those who are.employed by railway
corporations and other corporations
of the kind with which we are deal
ing, to strike, because the interests
of the general public are involved.
There can be no question that the
general public is concerned, for the
services rendered by undertakings of
the class called “natural monopolies”
are necessities in the modern busi
ness world. But, if these wage-earn
ers—the most important and numer
ous group of wage-earners in the
country—cannot resist oppression
and injustice in the only way in
which resistance is effective, namely,
by strong combinations and united
action, then they are virtually re
duced to slavery The only way out
of the dilemma is government owner
ship. If government is the employer,
then the employed have representa
tion in the controlling body ample to
protect their interests. It is perfect
ly legitimate for the people to say:
‘As we guarantee to you equitable
treatment and fair wages, we must
insist that you serve the public faith
fully like soldiers. This is only a
£ IMPORTANT. ~j
XT To Secretaries of Alliances: XU
Every day we recieve letters from farmers saying
XT that they would like to subscribe for the Represent
ative, but that the low price of wheat, and the hard
times render it difficult or impossible to advance the
money needed. We want the truth to spread, and we TXm
r~ are willing to run some risks to that end. We there-
fore make this
XT Very Liberal Offer: Xd
We are willing to permit the secretary or president
of each local alliance to send us the names and the
XT postoffice address, of ten farmers, in the neighborhood,
whom they will certify to be good, honest men, to
whom we will send the Representative, beginning
XT the May next - TT^
And we will wait on them for the subscrip
✓N/- TION MONEY UNTIL AFTER THEY THRESH,— not later
then the 15th of October next.
If the secretaries all avail themselves of this offer
it would give us about 11,000 additional subscribers, _
whom we would have to carry for five months ; but we
believe nine-tenths of the 11,000 would promptly pay
up before October 15th; because the offer is made for
their good, and the good of the People’s Party. If
r any farmer will send us his name and address, and a
statement of the secretary or president of the local _
alliance, that he is an honest man, and pays his debts
when he has the money, we will put him on our list,
and carry him until October 15th 1894. Or the certifl
cate can be signed by any one known to us as prominent in
the Alliance or People's Party work.
Any man who subscribes can pay for his paper, for
one year, by sending us the names of four new sub
scribers, with one dollar for each,— no premiums.
Take hold, friends, and see what you can do to help
along the good cause. Address:
~ Tile Representative,
just return for what you receive.” ’
In the new questions, involving hu
man liberty, which are coming up un
der the changed conditions of mod
ern society, it is well to bear in mind
that life is a greater concern than
property. The convenience of the
travelling public and the necessities
of trade must always yield to the as
sertion of individual liberty.
Good. That’s the way to put it.
* I.D.
BACK DUES REMITTED.
Do not forget it. The Executive
Committee of the State Farmers Al
liance, at their last meeting, held in
January, 1894, unanimously adopted
the following resolution. Let all the
alliances avail themselves of this
liberal concession.
Whereas, Many members of the al
alliance, in consequence of the hard
times, have fallen behind with their
dues; and whereas, we desire their
co-operation in our work, even more
than their money; therefore.
Resolved, That we hereby remit all
back dues of members in arrears,
Srovided they come in and pay the
ues of 20 cents each for the year
1894; and the secretary is hereby di
rected to recognize all old local alli
ances as in good standing which so
pay up their dues for not less than
seven members.
For Sale.
Thirteen pure-bred Houdan or Wy
andotte eggs, $1.50.
Mrs. S. M. Long,
£-"m Magnolia, Minn.
M Remember
that losses by fire have
to be paid promptly. Assessments
must be paid in the same manner. *
NATIONAL BANKS
AND USURY.
We have received a letter from a
Red River Valley correspondent, the
other, day, making inquiry as to
whether National Banks could prac
tice usury. We referred the matter
to Mr. T. K. Kane, and he was kind
enough to send us the following re
ply:
* *
*
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly,
In reply to your favor of April 4th,
relating to the effect of state legis
lation upon the powers, privileges,
and franchises of National Banking
associations, permit me to siy: That
it now appears'"to be a well settled
doctrine, that National Banks hav
ing been called into existence by a
proper and constitutional exercise of
federal authority, are in the man
agement of their business, and in
the exercise of the powers conferred
upon them, peculiary and exclusively
subject to the control of the general
government. The reasons which sus
tain this doctrine are based, first up
on the hypothesis; that the right
of Congress to call these institutions
into existence being conceded, the
duty of preserving them from
hostile and impeding legislation, on
the part of the states, must follow as
a natural sequence; and secondly, on
the ground of their recognition as a
valuable aid to the government in
the administration of an important
branch of the public service.
22nd Ohio state Reports, 492.
S. C. 10 American Reports, 751.
115 Massachusetts Report, 539.
S. C. 15 American Report, 138.
In the case of the Farmers Bank
vs. Dearing, reported in ’9l U. S.
Reports, the Supreme Court laid
down the law as follows: “The
states can exercise no control over
national banks, nor in any wise af
fect their operation, except in so far
as Congress may see proper to per
mit.”
Notwithstanding however, the
zealous care with which the federal
courts have guarded the right and the
power of the general government to
exercise absolute and exclusive con
trol over national banks; it will be
seen in the section hereafter cited
that the laws of the different states
and territories have an important
bearing upon certain branches of the
business of national banks. Section
30, of chapter 105, of the U. S.
statutes at Large, passed at the first
session of the 38th Congress, being
sections 5197 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, provides as fol
lows:
“Any association may take, re
ceive, reserve, and charge on any
loan or discount made, or upon any
note, bill of exchange or other evi
dences of debt, interest at the rate al
loyed by the laws of the State, Territory or
district where the bank is located and no
more When no rate is
fixed by the laws of the state or ter
t ritory or district, the bank may take,
j receive, reserve, or charge a rate not j
: exceeding seven per centum and such
i interest may be taken in advance.”
Section 5198, of the revised
• statutes provides as follows:
The taking, receiving or charging
a rate of interest greater than is al
lowed by the preceding section, when
knowingly, done shall be deemed a for
feiture of the entire interest which the
note, bill or other evidences of debt
carries with it. or which has been
agreed to be paid thereon.
By an amendment at the
2nd session of the Forty-third Con
gress, and approved Feb. 18th, 1875,
National Banks are rendered subject
to the jurisdiction of the state courts
in the following language, Revised
Statute, section 5198:
“That suits, actions and proceedings
against any association under this
title may be had in any circuit dis
trict or territorial Court of the
United States, held within the dis
trict in which such association may
be established, or in any state, county
or municipal court in the county or
city in which said association is lo
cated, having jurisdiction in similar
cases.”
From the foregoing we may deduce
the following rule: That National
Banks are limited in the amount of
interest they may reserve by the laws
of the state in which they are located;
if said state has any laws on the sub
ject; if not they may reserve the
amount allowed by federal law; but
the penalty for a violation of the
usury laws is regulated wholly by
federal legislation; and national
banks are not bound by the usury
laws of the states where they are lo
cated as per cases cited. Yours most
respectfully, T. R. Kane.
* *
*
[lf any national bank charges more
than 10 per cent interest all the in
terest can be recovered by the party
paying for it. Wherever a national
bank practices usury send us a sworn
statement of the facts and we will
apply to the Treasury Department
at Washington to vacate their char
ter, and drive them out of the
state.—l. D.]
The Thing Proved.
The democrats and republicans, for
a quarter of a century, have kept up
a battle over the Tariff. The Popu
lists said it was a “sham fight.” Here
is the proof we were right. The St.
Paul Globe, state organ of the Min
nesota democracy, said, April 9th,—
speaking of the democrats on the
pending tariff bill:
“There was a weak surrender to
the demands of these attorneys of the
trusts, and a bill was reported in
which the one redeeming feature of
the house bill—its one distinctively
democratic feature—was eliminated,
and the f ill made hardly distinguishable
from the one it proposes to displace."
Now seriously, our good democratic !
brethren, isn’t it about time to give j
up this villainous pretense of a di-i
vision where none exists? The re
publicans are protectionists—so are
the democrats. The republicans are
friends of the trusts—so are the
democrats. With what face can you
ask the people to go to the expense
of keeping up two parties with one
set of principles? Box and Cox were
twu different men occupying the
same room:—but democracy and re
publicanism are the same man in the :
same room. You can’t possibly in
sist on the landlady furnishing grub
for two men when there is only one
man to eat it.
But they are getting ready to coq
tinue the same old battle, with the i
same old banners, bands of music,
torches, sky-rockets, and precisely the
same old speeches.
And this reminds me of a story
told by a Kansas paper:
“I see,” said a democratic orator as
he rose to address a political meeting,
“a number of Populists present.
Now I would like to know what you
were before you joined the Popu
lists?” A lank old farmer on a back
seat rose and said: “We were d d
fools!”
How beautiful.is the simplicity of
truth! And this reminds us of a
quotation from the Bible:
“Though thou brayest a fool in a
mortar yet will the foolishness not i
depart from him.”
And so there will probably be j
democrats and republicans until the
end of the world. I. D.
What the Republican Party Said
to the A. P. A.
A fallacy sat on a statesman’s knee, *
And asked with a g-lance askew:
"What do you think in your heart of me,
And what am I worth to you?”
The statesman—being alone—spoke free;
“Don’t publish this interview.
You are worth a great many votes to me,
But I don’t think much of you.”
The fallacy hopped from the aged knee,
And winked as she said adieu:
“If voters were thinkers and saw through
me
They would’nt think much of you.”
Coin.
We have been advertising a little
j book called “Coin’s Hand-book,” and
! have sold a number. We find, on ex
amination, that it is an anti-flat or
anti-greenback publication. We do
not desire to hold that kind of litera
ture: and have therefore discontin
ued the advertisement. Our posi
tion, —repeatedly stated, —is, that we
do not believe in a commodity money,
of gold, silver, brass, lead, wheat or
potatoes; but as long as gold is con
tinued, to be used we insist that its
ancient colleague, silver, shall be
used with it, as a matter of justice
to the debtor class. If we have to
have metallism in money we prefer
bi or tri to mono. But the money of
civilization, the money of the future,
is full legal-tender paper money.
I. D.
A Good Example.
Hon. C. S. Hull, Judge of Probate
of Marshall county, Minn., sends us,
from Warren, six dollars for 100
copies of Mrs. Emery’s “Seven Fi
nancial Conspiracies.” That is
right. That is sensible.
Those books properly distributed
will add 200 votes to the Populist
strength in Marshall county. This
is the right way to canvass;—a thous
and times better than visiting .sa
loons and drinking whiskey. A man
who has sense enough to help the
cause, in the way, Judge Hull is do
ing, deserves to be re-elected. A
wise politician 'will work rather for
his party than himself. When the
tide rises all kinds of boats are car
ried into harbor. Look out for the
chap that cares for no one but him
self. He “dies as the fool dieth.”
, I.D.
£l y > -
An Excuse.
We ask pardon of our subscribers
for delay in sending out last week’s
paper, so that our patrops did not re
ceive it until several days after it
was due. The fault was not ours. It
was, we are sure, one of the old party
tricks, with which we have to contend
constarßly. It will not occur again.
As Blajpon Duncan says, “the trou-
are too many scoundrels
Afcmind.” We ran up against one of
them. This is a hard battle we are J
fighting; but we are ready to fight it jt
through. __ L D.
Take Notice.—A Great O
We shall celebrate the issue of
number one of Vol. 2, of the Repre
sentative, on the 2d of May next,
by the issue of 25,000 copies of a
magnificent edition. It will be a
great paper; and will go to all parts
of Minnesota. Wisconsin, lowa,
North and South Dakota, and in
fact to all parts of the nation. Those
who desire to advertise should send
in their orders at once; and all our
friends are requested to send us the
names of their friends, relatives,
cousins, uncles and aunts, for free
| copies. We will furnish them in
| packages of 10 or more, for distribu
tion, for one cent each,—being less
than cost. We will do even better
than that: —If you will send us $.5 ice will
send you one thousand copies!!! Take
hold, committee-men, and flood your
county with the greatest campaign docu
ment you will ever see. This issue will
help the Alliance and the Peoples
party immensely. So take hold and
assist us to spread it everywhere. If
we get encouragement enough we
will make it a 50,000 edition—perhaps
100,000. Now’s your chance.
Populist county officers, who want
to run again, and prospective legisla
tors and congressmen, cannot do a
better thing for themselves and their
party than to order 1,000 copies for $5,
or 500 for $2.50, or 250 for $1.25, and
spread the light of the gospel by
handing them around to everyone.
Let us hear from you at once , so that
we can make our edition big enough.
Important, to |
Alliances. |
It is proposed to push the E
Alliance organizations to the E
utmost during this year; but E
as a first step we need the E
names of all members. I E
therefore ask all secretaries E
of local Alliances to send me E
a list of their active mem- E
bers, and the list of those E
Jhio have been members but E
fallen into arrears; and E
a third list, of liberal-minded E
farmers in their section who E
would be likely to join the E
Alliance. Please attend to E
this at once. E
ICNATIUS BONNELLY, |
Mlt. tTATI FARMIRt ALLIANCB.
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