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The Representative
"SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT THEY GO FORWARD
SI.OO U a ar[ in ADVANCE. ST. PAUL, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1894. VOL. 1. NO. 52.
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Representative Moves to Min
neapolis.—Great Increase
in Size.
. I
Circulation Over 5,000.—A Bright
Future.
This concludes volume one of the
Representative. Next week we
will open our second volume. Our.
readers will hardly know their old
friend in its new dress. Instead of
having six columns to the page, as
now, we shall have seven; and each
column will be about one-flfth longer
than the present size. We shall also
give up the use of brevier type and
hereafter use minion, a smaller size.
We shall have nearly twice as much
space as we have heretofore had:—
this will enable us to publish twice
as much editorial matter, correspon
dence, news, etc.; and to insert many
lengthy and valuable articles which
heretofore we have had to forego.
We will make another great
change:
The Representative will here
after be published in Minneapolis.
We have many excellent and hon
ored friends in St. Paul, and we are
sorry to leave them, but some of the
business men of this city do not
seem to have, in our judgment the
“snap,” “push,” energy and enter
prize of the Minneapolis leaders. In •
the same spirit in which the Mill
City offered us, year after year, free
halls for our state conventions, while
the Mayor of the Capitol city, would
not even answer our letters, until
after Minneapolis had opened her
hospitable doors to us; so while we
have been wrangling with the St. Paul
advertisers,—leading citizens,—for
little one inch “ads.,” the prominent
men of Minneapolis made us a writ
ten proposition, that if we would re
move to their great city and make
that the headquarters of our paper,
and of the Alliance Business Agency,
and the Alliance Fire Insurance Co.;
and the scene of our great state
ventions, they would guarantee u#
an amount of advertising that would
place the success of our paper beyond
all controversy. This pledge the dif
ferent merchants signed, stipulating
the amount of advertising which
each one would give us, for a year.
We feel very grateful to these kind
and generous gentlemen; and to the
old friends who initiated the move
ment; and we are glad to tind that
any one thinks highly enough of us
to make such an effort to secure us.
Our next number,—number one of
the second volume,—will be printed
and published in Minneapolis, May
2d. It will be a mammoth edition.
And it will contain the call for the
State Convention of the Peoples Par
ly, which will be held in Minne
apolis, to nominate a state ticket;
and also the call for a great Grain-
Growers Convention , to be held in the
same place, to take steps to organize
the farmers of the whole Northwest,
in an effort to get the full value of
their productions. These two con
ventions will last for three or four
days, and will bring not less than
SIO,OOO, possibly $20,000, into the cof
fers of the city of Minneapolis; so
that the course of the leading citi
zens of that town in making it the
head-quarters of the Alliance, and
probably of the Peoples Party also,
represents a wise, business foresight.
We presented all these considera
tions to the Commercial Club of St.
Paul; for we did not like to move; we
remembered that “three removals
are equal to one fire;” but leading
members of the club, while promis
ing largely, and meaning well, could
only give us one dollar a month, for
inch ads.; while others would give
us a one column advertisement for
one issue, and then stop it! Every
one understands that the success of
a paper depends on the amount of its
advertising; and there is no en
thusiasm that can enable a man to
live permanently on the north wind,
—or on one inch “ads.” We love the
people of St. Paul; but their business
men do not appreciate the Alliance
newspaper and organization as high
ly as we do, or as the people of their
sister city do. “Blessings,” they say,
“are like birds of paradise; they dis
play their finest plumage only when
they take to flight;” and St. Paul,
will probably think more highly of us
after she has lost us. We could not
make her understand that a newspa
per, which was the organ of a society,
with nearly 1,500 branches on its
muster-rolls, scattered through all
parts of the state; and of a political
movement which to-day wields, in
all probability, 100,000 votes, and
holds the balance of power in this
state; was anything more than any
other collection of type and white
paper.
St. Paul underestimated us. Min
neapolis, by her generosity, has cap
tured us. She has captured us, but
she will not own us. As St. Paul pro
claimed the new gospel right in the
pagan temples and Jewish syna
gogues, so shall we thunder, in behalf
of popular rights and human pro
gress, under the very shadow of the
great mills and by the side of the
giant elevators. We shall do all we
can to help the city that helps us, but
we shall speak the truth though the
heavens fall. And we are sure we
shall have a vast, fair-minded and
just audience, right in Minneapolis
itself; for it is a world-city, made up
of the best blood of all the nations.
We propose to make the Repre
sentative the greatest reform pa
per in the United States. We are
not satisfied to be merely a local or
gan. We already have subscribers in
almost every state in the Union; we
propose to push the circulation until
we reach every village, town and city
between the two oceans. There is a
«
necessity for just such a “represen
g” of the new philosophy of gov
int and finance; and the day
)ine ivhen every citizen of Min
lis, whether he agrees with our
pies or not, will be proud to
know that his noble city is the
habitat of so vast an influence. We
propose to make the new paper as
great a marvel and wonder as Minne
apolis itself.
In one year, in the face of a thous
and obstacles, we have risen from
nothing to over 5,000 circulation.
We hope soon to double and treble it.
We expect, before the year is out, to
publish Swedish, Norwegian and
German editions of the Represen
tative. We can do it in three
months if Minneapolis will give us a
helping hand,—in the way of adver
tising patronage. And in aiding us
to build up a giant newspaper she
will dignify herself before the na
tions. Her liberality in the past has
been an exhaustless fountain. We
feel sure that even the panic has not
dried up its abundant waters.
Ignatius Donnelly.
What the A. P. A. Means.
The Rev. S. W. Sample, of Minne
apolis, is a protestant minister and
one of the foremost pulpit orators of
the Northwest; and his sympathies
have always been on the side of the
people. A few nights since he said,
in an address in Central Hall, Minne
apolis:
“I consider it a mere scheme to di
vide up the people’s vote, and so draw
their attention from some of the
great questions which affect their in
terests.”
Rev. Sample had, previously to this
statement, been speaking of some of
“the awful evils of monopoly” and
the conclusion which would naturally
be drawn from his remarks was that
he believed that the monopolists, in
the country at large, had several
big political deals on hand; and that
the A. P. A. had been originated and
was now being carried on by them
for the purpose of blinding the public
to their attempt to carry out their
plans.
In his address Rev. Sample held
that every railroad company was by
necessity a monopoly, and hence dan
, gerous. The liberty of the people de
manded that all monopolies which af
i fected public interests should be at
least undeT partial state control; and
for the accomplishment of this end
two means were suggested, the owner-
P of the road-bed and its control
cf- e state, and the complete owner
ship of the road. Of the two the
latter was to be preferred.
Incidentally in his address Rev.
Sample paid his respects to the great
inventions, which are supposed by
common people to have done so much
for the advancement of civilization.
He declared that he cared more for
manhood than f;<r machines; and
then he went on to say that the value
of these things was not near what it
had been made out to be. “I doubt,”
he exclaimed, “if one drop has ever
been added to the cup of happiness
because of these great inventions. I
have never been happier because I
was able to ride in a Pullman at 60
miles an hour.” The conditions of
Asia and America were compared on
this point, and the fact pointed out
that with all its inventions and its
supposably better condition, America
had to go to the East for her religion,
as, according to the speaker, “Christ
was not born in Yankeeland.”
Carnegie’s Villainous Workmen.
“It is gratifying to know that Mr.
Carnegie has been exonerated from
the charge of attempting to swindle
the government out of a matter of
$400,000. It turns out that some of
his grateful employes, who realize
how badly he needs money, conspired
to palm off worthless armor-plates on
the navy department. There was,
of course, nothing in it for them, but
Peoples
Par ty
Leaders:
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E WANT OUR FRIENDS in each county to
stir around among those who sympathise with
us and raise at least Five Dollars and send it to us
for 1,000 copies of the Boom Edition of May 2d.
We will send the 1,000 directly by express to one
party, he paying express charges, which would not
be much; or, we will send them by express in the
same way, in packages of ten or more to one party
in each township, to be named by those subscribing
Five Dollars; or, if separate names are furnished
us, we will send, free of charge, one copy to each
person named. We can send ten copies in one
package by mail, we paying the postage.
This May 2d Issue will be the
Opening of the Populist Campaign of 1894
in this State.
Take off your coats, gentlemen. Get a hump on
you. Now is the time to make converts.
I. D.
they couldn’t bear to see their gen
erous, noble-hearted employer strug
gling along with a beggarly income
of two or three millions a year and
unable to buy an additional county
or two in Scotland for shooting pur
poses. Hence they worked off the
bogus steel on the government.
These men will probably be put in
jail and their turpitude will cause
great sorrow to Mr. Carnegie when
his yacht touches at one of the Medi
terranean ports and he learns the
news.—Chicago Herald.”
Now, isn’t it a shameful thing that
a lot of workmen, at whom Carnegie
was shooting guns not long since,
should turn in to rob the govern
ment of $400,000 and put the money
in Carnegie’s pocket?
And then when Grover Cleveland —
the good Grover Cleveland—the
democratic friend of the people—gets
after Carnegie, the republican, the
protectionist, he compromises and
lets Carnegie—the good Carnegie—off
upon the payment of $200,000! And
Carnegie is $200,000 ahead. And
every body is happy, and “the goose
hangs high,” and the only issue be
fore the people is the Tariff on calico,
—5 cents a yard at that. I. D.
NOTICE.
"We have received a quantity of val
uable documents on the subject of fi
nance which are printed in the Ger
man language. We shall be glad to
send them free while they last to our
German readers and their friends.
Our readers will confer a favor if
they will send us the names and post
office 'addresses of their German
neighbors. To every name so receiv
ed we will forward post-free a portion
of this literature.
CONCRESS DESCRIBED.
A Serious and Interesting Ques
tion as to Legs.
“Now let congress beware. It has
incurred the wrath of Sam Jones
along with the displeasures of the
rest of the world outside of New
York. Mr. Jones wasted a job lot of
his inimitable and picturesque vo
cabulary upon our statesmen in a
speech delivered somewhere down
south last week. Se said:
“Of all the box-ankled, bandy-shanked,
flea-bitten, bob-tail, lop-eared, mangy,
courageless, brainless jackasses that ever
assembled since God made the world, I
think for pure downright enssedness
present gang in Congress, headed by
Hill in the Senate and tailed by ‘ no quo
rum” in the House, beats them all.”
A great many democrats who do
not admire or indorse the pyroteebni
cal Jones will thank him lor ade
quately phrasing opinions for which
their command of language offered
inadequate clothing.”—St. Paul
Globe.
“Let the galled jade wince, our
withers are unwrung.” That is a
Dem.-Rep. Congress, and there is not
enough salt of honest Populists in it
to sweeten it.
We are surprised that not a demo
cratic or republican newspaper in
this state has attempted to prove
that McCleary, Kiefer, Hall, Tawney,
Fletcher and Baldwin are not
“bandy-shanked. Where are their
friends? They might at least meet
that charge. Now we represent the
third party, and have no interest in
this matter, but, (in the interest of
fair play, and for the credit of the
state), if the parties assailed will
send us photographs of their nether
limbs we will be glad to publish
them in our columns, properly la
beled. We are a little suspicious of
Fletcher—but he can borrow another
pair of legs for the occasion, and who
will be a bit wiser? As for Boen we
will certify that his legs are as
straight as a ramrod and a good deal
thicker.
Come; let us settle this momen
tous charge. We know that our dele
gation in Congress,—the man from
the 7th district excepted—do not
amount to much morally, mentally
or physically, but we indignantly re
sent the charge that their legs are as
“bandy-shanked” as their intellects
and their official records. We chal
lenge the proofs. If we havn’t got a
straight-legged delegation in Con
gress what, in Heaven’s name, have
we got? Show up or shut up.
I. D.
Homes.
John Swinton wrote, “Preach all
the sermons you can; talk all the
morality you choose; teach temper
ance as zealously as you please; but
until men, women, and children,
, have homes of their own there will
be vice, immorality, drunkenness,
1 pauperism, and crime.”
Precisely. And the two old parties
, are establishing and maintaining
iniquities by which the people are be
ing swept out of their homes, at the
rate of one hundred thousand a year.
And no party but the Populists pro
pose to stop this career of destruc
tion.
We should have a homestead law
that would deny the right to mort
gage the home and leave the wife
and children paupers. The concen
tration of the land in the hands of
the few is the appalling danger that
threatens us, Without homes our
people will be unfit for self-govern
ment. The home is the only pedestal
on which the ballot box can safely
rest. j. d.
A Two-edged Sword.
It is amusing to see how the A. P. A.
persecution is bringing the Catholics
into the People’s Party en masse, and
we are glad to see it, for a Catholic
vote for the right counts for just as
much as any other vote. Heretofore
many of the Catholic papers of this
country seemed to sympathise with
the money-power, and had little to
say in behalf of the reform move
ment. But lately they perceive that
the corporations are helping the A.
P. A. movement to break up the Peo
ples Party at their expense; and they
are growing savage and striking from
the shoulder. Observe the concluding
words of this clipping from the
Catholic Citizen, of Milwaukee, Wis.
“While in Milwaukee Ignatius
Donnelly gave to the public the fol
lowing story concerning our fellow
citizen, Henry C. Payne, vice-presi
dent of the Milwaukee Street Rail
way company. A man went to Mr.
Payne and said: “Your motormen
are all members of the A. P. A.
“Yes, and I like it,” Mr. Payne is
reported to have said.
“Why do you like it?”
“Because if they strike there are
lots of Catholics to take their places,”
Mr. Payne is reported to have said.
Mr. Donnelly argued that this showed
that capital saw in the A. P. A. an
opportunity to disrupt organized
labor.
Eugene V. Debs in the Locomotive
Firemen’s Magazine credits the story
that the A. P. A. was given its im
petus as the result of a meeting of
railway magnates in New York some
years ago.
The American capitalist in seven
cases out of ten is at heart a scoun
drel. He corrupts our city govern
ments, debauches our elections and
when it comes to destroying labor
unions by stirring up the old insenate
hates of the past ages, Jie has no
scruples. Whether Capital Has plan
ned the Know-Nothingism or not the
evidence seems clear that it has
utilized this idiocy. Labor should he
wise in time and stampout the insid
ious A. P. A.-ism that would hand it
over bound and shackled to the mercy
of Capital.”
I. D.
The Higher Education.
Gov. McKinley of Ohio, visited
Minneapolis the other day, and this
is part of the newspaper report:
“The university chapel was beauti
fully decorated with the college colors,
red and gray predominating. A
United States garrison flag formed
the back ground of the stage. About
300 students and college people were
seated in the auditorium, and 200
more, largely visitors, from St. Paul
and Minneapolis, were seated in the
gallery. Gov. McKinley, on the arm
of President Bridgman, accompanied
by Gov. Nelson and the parties above
named, entered from the rear of the
stage. Immediately, without a word
being spoken, the audience arose and
gave three cheers for McKinley, clos
ing with the college yell:
Walla, Walla, Woo.
Walla, Walla, Woo.
Hoo up. Hoo up.
Hamline U.”
It is cheering to think that when
this generation passes off the stage
of action, it will be succeeded by an
enlightened body of educated citizens,
so trained in our colleges and univer
sities that they can give utterance to
such beautiful and intelligible senti
ments as the foregoing:—
“Walla, Walla, Woo.
Walla. Walla, Woo.
Hoo up. Hoo up.
Hamline U.”
We like this very much; but permit
us to suggest a variation and slight
improvement:
“Hoop de doodle do!
When the fool-killer’s though
With this enlightened crew,
There will be very few
Left—Booh hoo—hoohoo
Hamline U.”
We’ll bet a six-pence there are not
ten boys in that Walla, Walla, Woo
crowd that know that silver is de
monetized, or what effect its demonet
ization has had on mankind. The
“higher education” consists in train
ing up a lot of young men, to shout
“Walla, Walla, Woo,” play base-ball,
wear good clothes, carry a vaecuum
around on their shoulders and vote the
old party tickets. The salvation of
the country depends upon the com
mon schools, and the boys who are
more familiar with “Gee—Haw—
Whoa —Buck,” than they are with
|“Walla, Walla, Woo.” I. D.
Robbery and Rottenness,
j The unjust concentration of the
i earnings of the many in the hands ot
i the few, is producing a social de
moralization which reminds us of
the epochs of the old Roman empire.
Read this extract from a Parisian
letter to a Chicago paper:
• ‘Divorce dinner parties have been
i frequent this season. The cards of
'invitation mention that they (the
persons to whom they are addressed)
I are asked to celebrate the happy
I liberation of the person sending
| them from an unsuitable marriage.
! A regular formula has sprung up
j ma y He safely adopted. It is
j not thought good taste for a man
who has come out of the divorce
i court with the honors of war to call
i H\ 8 friends of both sexes to rejoice
i with him on the event. All that is
' tolerated in a private dinner. But
ladies may rejoice as much as they
The mos t straight-Jaced and
orthodox persons see no harm in go
ing to a divorce dinner if the invit
ing lady mentions in a foot note of
the card that she is suing for a reli
gious divorce at Rome, and has every
reason to expect that her suit will
succeed. This only means that she
does not object, for respectability’s
sake, to pay 60,000 francs to the con
gregation of rites. The court of
Rome allows thirteen pleas for di-
I v °rce. The most usual one now for
women of rank and fortune to plead
is not haying really consented to be
marrjed in the church. Lady Mary
Hamilton urged this plea when she
wanted to get rid of the prince of
Monaco and marry Count Festetics
Ihe divorce law is killing society. No
woman with a husband worth keep
ing can now endure the idea of let
ting another person of her sex, who
is at all attractive, speak to him.
Enterprising and dowerless girls
marry anyone at all who can intro
duce them to rich men from among
whom they can, after skillful man
agement and intrigue, secure hus
bands A girl with a great fortune
is pretty certain after marriage to
get discontented with her matri
monial lot, and to look out for some
one who suits her fancy better,
mere can be no peace or quietness
under such circumstances. The di
vorce suit is often preceded by an en
gagement. Curiously enough, French
widows are not inclined to marry a
second time, butthe divorcee is near
ly always in haste to re-marry.”
Robbery and rotteness; injustice
and licentiousness, go hand in hand.
When a man steals the property of
100,000 workers he can afford to riot
and wallow in vice. A cure must rise
up from the masses or the world is
lOSt. j j)
Help Us, Brethren.
It we issue 100,000 copies of the
Rkfrkskntativk, on May 2d, we
will need 100,000 names to send them
to. Leading papers in lowa and Wis
consin have been lending us their
mailing lists; —but we need more—
more—more.
And so, as soon as you read this,
sit down and send us a list of all the
intelligent, reading, thinking Popu
lists, democrats or republicans of
your acquaintance, with their post
offices; and we will send them a copy
each, free, of the great issue; and if
that don’t open their eyes nothing
this side of Gabriel’s trump will
do so.
To Get Out of Debt.
I will sacrifice a fine 320 acre im -
proved farm, in the South Dakota.
Corn Belt. Will sell much below act
ual value, only one fourth cash, bal
ance on time to suit purchaser at low
interest. Adress, Lock Box “U”
Mitchell S. D*
For Sale.
Thirteen pure-bred lioudan or Wy
andotte eggs, $1.50.
Mrs. 8. M. Long,
Magnolia. Minn,
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] Alliances. §
3 It is proposed to push the E
2 Alliance organizations to the E
3 utmost during this year; but E
3 as a first step we need the E
3 names of all members. I E
2 therefore ask all secretaries E
3 of local Alliances to send me E
1 3 a list of their active mem- E
! 2 bers, and the list of those E
j 3 who have been members but E
j 3 have fallen into arrears; and E
:2 a third list of liberal-minded E
| 2 farmers in their section who E
1 2 would be likely to join the E
I 2 Alliance. Please attend to E
3 this at once. tr
| IGNATIUS DONNELLY, |
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