The representative. [volume], May 30, 1894, Image 1

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The Representative
“SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT THEY GO FORWARD
SI.OO {tear} IN ADVANCE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894. ~ I VOL. 11. NO. 5. WHOLE NO. 57. '
TERRIBLE, IF TRUE.
GIGANTIC I.ANI) FRAUDS.
A State Auditor .Makes a Quarter
oi a Million in One Transac
tion.
Reports reacli us that a certain gen
tleman, who was formerly State Audi
tor of Minnesota, had selected certain
lands for the state. They turned out
to be exceedingly rich in iron ore. The
Auditor then cancelled the entries: and a
company, with Roekafellcr at the
head of it. took them, and paid the
Auditor S.'nji(ji) rush, ''nil ijure him f ,i!i r ot
Modulelli i's notes for s.~vfjOQ ea r k; or
$250,000 in all!
The state is a million dollars poorer,
and its ex-oflicial is a quarter of a mil
lion dollars richer. Selah!
And yet there are those who say
everything is all right: and that the
Populists are "cranks."
IVc want a clearing out of the State
house, and a complete examination of
the books. Elect a Legislature that
will probe these things to the bottom.
I. I).
History Repeating Itself.
Solomon said, "there is no new thing
under the sun:" and all this battle
which our country now has, with the
Money-Power, is simply a repetition of
the old light, in the thirties, against
the United States Rank. Then how
ever the country had an Andrew .lack
son in the White House: now it has a
Grover Cleveland: then a bold, resolute
friend of the people was at the head
of affairs; now we have, as president,
an instrument of the very power the
people are contending against. Im
agine a president who to-day would
send into Congress such a message as
Jackson wrote in IK).'!. Here is part
of it:
"The fact has been recently dis
closed that unlimited discretion has
been, and is now, vested in the presi
dent of the bank i bank of the United
States) to expend its funds in pay
ment for preparing and circulating
articles and purchasing pamphlets
and newspapers, calculated by their
contents to operate on elections and
secure a renewal of its charter.
"It may appear from the ollicial re
port of the public directors that on
the thirtieth of November. 1850. the
president submitted to the board an
article published in the American
Quarterly Review, containing favor
able notices of the bank: and suggest
ed the expediency of giving it a wider
circulation at the expense of the bank,
whereupon the board passed a resolu
tion granting the request. * * *
“Ry an entry in the minutes of the
bank, dated March 11, pell, it appears
that the president had not onlv
caused a large edition of that article
to be issued, but had also, before the
resolution of the thirtieth of Novem
ber was adopted, procured to be print
ed and widely circulated, numerous
copies of the reports of General Smith
and Mr. McDuffie, in favor of the
bank, and on that day he suggested
the expediency of extending his power
to the printing of other articles
which might subserve the purpose of
the institution, which request was
likewise granted by the board.
“ * * The expenditures purport
ing to have been made * * during
the years I*3l and 1832, were about
**o.ooo. For a portion of these expen
ditures vouchers were rendered, from
which it appears that they were incur
red in the purchase of some hundred
thousand copies of newspapers, reports
and speeches made in ■Congress, re
views of veto messages, and reviews of
speeches against the bank, etc. For
another large portion no vouchers
whatever were rendered, but the vari
ous sums were paid on orders of the
president of the bank, making refer
ence to the above resolution of the
eleventh of March, 1831.
“Taken in connection with the na
ture of the expenditures heretofore
made, as recently disclosed, which the
board not only tolerate, but approve,
this resolution puts the funds of the
bank at the disposition of the presi
dent, for the purpose of employing the
whole press of the country, in the ser
vice of the bank, to hire writers and
newspapers, and to put out such sums
as lie pleases, to what persons and for
what services he pleases, without the
responsibility of rendering any specific
account.
"The bank is thus converted into a
VAST ELECTIONEERING EN
GINE, which means to embroil the
country in DEADLY FEUDS, and un
der cover of expenditures, in them
selves improper, EXTENDS ITS
CORRUPTION through all the rami
lieations of society.”
1 t is all but needless to say that this
message, from the president of the
United States, when read by tlie peo
ple, SMASHED this bank of the
United States. 1.1).
The Question of Fusion.
We find in that able journal, the
Crookston Tribune, the following:
The Fergus Falls Globe gives a note
of timely warning against fusion with
the democrats. That is right, wc
want no fusion and what is more we
won't have it. with cither of the two
old parties. We will put up a straight
Populist ticket from Governor to
Coroner, and if the democrats are tired,
sick, and disgusted with the demo
cratic party we would be pleased to
have them vote with us; but no demo
crats or half baked Populists should
be. placed on our ticket. Men and
brethren keep your eyes and ears
open and be ready to jump onto all
fusion and fusionists with both feet
We believe however the Globe is
wrong in claiming that Mr. Donnelly
favors fusion. Wc think Mr. Donnel
ly is against the nomination of any
democrat for any office on the populist
ticket. In this year when the demo
cratic party is a stench in the nostrils
of the people, for a reform party to
fuse with it, would he as though a
young man should wed a festering
corpse. The cause of reform would
under such a union diq from blood
poisoning. The Populist party is in
many states suffering from the effects
of being bitten by this old copper
head party, and we trust that tlie
leaders will keep in the middle of the
road, and not lead tlie people out into
the dismal swamp of democracy,
where tlie venomous hydraheaded
fusion reptile lurks, ready to bite, or
to charm and swallow tlie party of re
form down into the capacious paunch
of the democracy, where several other
reform parties have been laid to rest.
That Globe knave knows perfectly
well that we have never uttered one
word favoring “fusion.” lie is simply
reiterating tlie senseles lies of Fish.
Only last week wc emphatically de
nounced the scheme of getting a Popu
list governor by agreeing to elect a
DemocraticU. S. Senator.
“Keep in the middle of the road.”
Let there be no sacrifice of Populist
principles on any terms. 1. D.
HOW EUSTIS PUT IIIS FOOT IN
IT.
The Minneapolis Penny Press, —a j
very spicy little paper, by tlie way,—
gives tlie following report:
“A man, styling himself “Gen.”
Wiison, appeared in the city Saturday,
stating that lie came from Montana,
and was "advance" for Copeland's
army. Wilson is a smooth fellow,
talked glibly, and, having a little
money, opened headquarters Saturday
and began to enlist recruits. Natur
ally a large number of the unemployed
were attracted, and scores of men ap
plied for enlistment.
Later in the day Mayor Eustis ap
peared and at once filtered the breach.
He had an interview with (Jen. Wilson
and ordered him to quit the city with
his army. Wilson protested, but the
mayor was obdurate.
“Rut what will I tell the Minne
apolis recruits?" asked Wilson.
Never mind about that,” said the
mayor. "I will be to your headquarters
and address the men there assem
bled. He is reported as saying: “If
work could nothe secured for the unem
ployed of Minneapolis, food could. No
one need go hungry in a city like Min
neapolis." lie informed the men that
"Gen." Wilson had agreed to leave the
city with his division from Montana
in a peaceable way. The mayor im
plored the recruits not to think of
leavingthe city, to lie fed by the people
throughout the country.
An elderly man, probably 75 years of
age, with white hair and whiskers,
here stepped up to “Gen.” Wilson,
and. shaking his hand, said:
“Gon'l, I do not agree with what the
mayor has said: “The laboring people
of to-day are driven from one place to
another. They are treated worse than
slaves were during the times of
slavery in this country 50 years ago. 1
can remember tlie time well.”
The mayor looked at the old man a
minute and said: “You've got bugs in
your head.”
The old man ignored the mayor’s re
mark.”
Now this was rather brash on the
part of the Mayor. The old man's
statement was true: and his years and
white hair were entitled to more re
spectful treatment. Mr. Eustis is a
clever gentleman, but he was very
wrongin this episode. His action arose
out of that universal feeling of con
tempt held by the well-to-do towards
the unfortunate.
The Penny Press report continues:
“Gen.” Wilson at once rallied his 20
or 30 men and they prepared to leave
the city. A crowd of 200 people were
following them, with Mayor Eustis
and Chief of Police Smith in buggies
at the rear.
At intervals of a block or two the
mayor would stop and deliver a speech
to the crowd from iiis buggy, his object
being to prevail upon them to stop fol
lowing Gen. Wilson and his men. At
the corner of Seventh avenue and
Washington, his honor succeeded in
gathering some 20 to Jo to leave the
ranks, but as many more continued to
follow tlie army on its march down the
avenue. The mayor was determined,
and kept on following the crowd. He
made another speech on Tenth avenue
south, and a third at the corner of
Fourteenth avenue. Ry the time the
army had reached the Seven Corners
only 40 men remained. About 150,
however, followed on the sidewalks.
The mayor made his last effort at
persuading the men to leave the ranks
of the army on Cedar avenue. lie
headed off a crowd of some 50 men on
the sidewalk and delivered a speech
from his buggy. “Come back.” he
said persuasively, "I will Jiud you
work.” •
“Look here. Mayor Eustis,” said a
young man, “if we return to your office
to-morrow morning and ask for work,
you would call in your police and have
us carted off to the workhouse. You're
a good promisor, but a poor ful
lillcr in my opinion.”
Lieut. “Montana,” Scotty, speaking
of the action of the mayor, could
hardly find words enough to express
liimself. They had been driven out of
town like a lot of hungry dogs, and in
fact had received inhuman treatment,
he said, at the hands of Mayor Eustis.
“That mayor had little to do when
he followed a lot of unfortunate hun
gry men out of town in his buggy. If
there is a hereafter, I think Mayor
Eustis, should be severely dealt with
for his conduct to-day. His actions to
ward us will undoubtedly hurt him
with the labor unions of Minneapolis
when lie comes up for re-election; that
is, provided he is ever nominated
again for mayor.”
How Eustis fulfilled his promises is
thus indicated:
Early this morning about 250 unem
ployed were at the city hall.
They were there for bread.
They were there for work.
They were there to see the mayor.
Rut the bread, the work, and even
the mayor were not forthcoming.
Mayor Eustis was seen by a reporter.
“Nobody has waited on me,” he
said, “and 1 don't know anything
about the crowd. I have no work for
them.”
All this represents a very shallow
kind of statesmanship, and must be
productive of increased bad feeling
among the unemployed. These old
party politicians arc fooling with a
very dangerous element. I. D.
A friend in Denver, Cal., makes his copy
of the paper do double service by clipping
out paragraphs and enclosing them in his
letters, giving the name of the paper and
place of publication across the face of each
clipping. Tile plan is l*»ring fruit.
THE FRAUD EXPOSED.
More of the Tariff Sham. —A Battle
Over Nothing.
The republicans are tickled over the
way Senator Hoar, goes for the High
Protection of the Democrats. It is
Satan rebuking sin—nay more ridicul
ing sin. Hoarsaid, —speaking of the
pending democratic tariff bill:
“It represents no principle. The
free trader does not approve it. The
protectionist docs not approve it. The
wage-earner does not approve it. The
employer does not approve it. It does
not help capital. It does not help la
bor. It does not keep any pledge. It
docs not conform to any political plat
form. The committee that reported
it do not approve it. The Democrats
on that committee do not approve it.
The house does not approve it. The
senate does not approve it. The men
who are to vote for it, most of them,
are to violate their oaths to support
tlie constitution, as they understand
| it. when they cast their votes.”
Mr. Gray thorn. Delaware), —Do 1
understand the senator to say that the
persons who vote for ttic bill will vio
late their oaths?
Mr. Hoar —I do.
Mr. Gray—That is a very remarkable
charge for the senator from Massachu
setts to make against his colleagues in
the senate.
Mr. Hoar—lt is a very remarkable
thing to do.
Mr. Gray—l repel that charge as
unworthy of the senator from Massa
chusetts, and as unworthy of a sena
tor in this place. That is what I say.
Mr. Hoar—Then we will go a little
further.
Mr. Gray—We will go further. I will
go as far as the senator will.
Mr. Hoar—Mr. President, tiie Demo'
eratic-party acquired the eonlidcnce of
this country in 1802, by a platform
which declared that protection was a
robbery and a fraud, and was a viola
tion of the constitution, and they have
got a bill now crowded with protection.
They have put in it new protective i
duties. They have put a duty on
sugar, which they are going to in
crease for protection, and for nothing
else. * * *
“No man who believes as the Demo
cratic convention declared at Chicago,
that the constitution of the United
States prohibits tlie imposition of a
duty for protect ion, and who lias tak
en a solemn oath that he will support
that constitution in the office of sena
tor, on which he was about to enter,
and that that principle shall lie the
guide and law for all his official con
duct, can cast his vote for a bill con
taining a new duty, containing an in
creased duty, retaining or maintaing
and reaffirming an old duty, for the
purpose of protecting an industry
Son tli or North. * * * Opinions
and desires maybe compromised. Rut
principles, oaths, honor, pledges,
duties, can not be compromised with
out very seriously compromising the
man vv ho undertakes to do It.”
Iloar is a compound of literateur,
preacher, politician and niitmeg-ped
diar. It' he had been a statesman in
stead of making the foregoing speech
he would have said:
“Mr. President —our democratic
brethren and ourselves have been
humbugging the people of this coun
try for half a century, with tiie pre
tence that there were two sides to the
question of duties on imports from
foreign countries. We have made tiie
voters believe that we represented
protection and that the democrats
advocated the abolition of protection.
Tiie democrats are now in power; they
have prepared a bill which represents
their ideas; and everyone can sec that
tiie re is no free trade in it; that, in
fact, it is more protective than the re
publican tariff act, now on tiie statute
books. Consequently the principle of
protection is not in danger from any quar
ter in these United States; consequently it
will be a fraud on tiie people to seek to
make it again an issue in our politics;
for tiie only differences between the
two parties, in regard to it, are as to
matters of petty detail, as to little
tilings, pins, lioop-skirts and crockery;
which are rather matters for the con
sideration of legislative committees, in
a non-partisan spirit, than questions
of a great principle to agitate the
minds of 70,000,000 people.
“Rut we have seen the people, under
the protection of tlie highest protec
tive tariff ever known in this country,
brought to such depths of poverty and
wretchedness that our very institu
tions are trembling in tiie balance.
We must be honest with those who
sent us here. We must address our
selves to the giant questions of fi
nance: we must liberate the people
from the bondage of the money-lend
ers; we must give honest industry
prosperity, by furnishing it with an
adequate supply of currency for the
business of tiie country. To attempt
any longer to deceive the people about
pretended differences, on the question
of protection, where none really exists,
would be a shameful and unworthy
trick, and a damnable crime against
God and man. While we are lighting
this sham battle the republic is ad
vancing through the gates of,univer
sal distress to the hell of anarchy;—or
to the greater perdition of an aristo
cratic, absolute despotism.”
But Hoar thinks too much of his
nut-megs to make any such speech as
that. The conception of it would
crack his skull. He is simply exposing
the democratic fraud for tiie purpose
of maintaing the republican fraud.
It is a clamorous contention between
cheats. It is thieves lighting over
their booty. It is dirty-faced gamins
crying “your another.”
Mankind has no interest in the dis
putations of such creatures. Rut tiie
cyclone gathers,—bigger and bigger,
blacker and blacker; and ere long its
huge arm will reach down into the
desecrated arena and sweep these con
tending, chattering monkeys into the
abyss. I. D.
Tin* Wisconsin state Populist convention
will be held July 4, at Milwaukee.
The Rats,
Bellamy, the author of “Looking
Backward,” writes:
I see that Senator Hawley, in an
swer to Senator Allen, says: “There
is no need that these armies should
collect to make these extraordinary
demonstrations because the senate
and house of representatives at pres
ent represent tiie people, and may be
trusted to do the peoples will.”
I donotthink thcsenatorcould have
been really serious in assertingth.it.
The government of tiie United States
and of the states is not now the popu
lar government. It is run by what
are called ‘our business interests,’
that is to say, tlie moneyed interests.
It represents great aggregations of
money and not the popular will. Ac
cording to the mortgage statistics of
tills last census or calculations based
upon thorn made by George K.
Holmes, special agent for thatsubjeet.
it is shown that D per cent of tiie
American people own 71 per cent of
tiie property in this country, leaving
but 2!) per cent to lie distributed
among 11 le remaining !)1 per cent of
people. It is that!) per cent of money
ed men who govern the country and
dictate the policy of congress. The
people are "not in it.’ as the expression
goes. At tlie present time it is notori
ous that tiie Sugar Trust and other
great syndicates are dictating the
terms of the present tariff bill. Un
der such a condition of things as this
it is necessary, if tiie people would in
dicate their will, that they should
have recourse to popular demonstra
tions of an unusual character. The
machinery of tiie government, execu
tive, representative and judicial, lias
passed from under their control.”
The revelations recently made, that
Senator Kyle, l’opulist, of South Da
kota, was offered $75,000 to vote for
certain amendments to the Tariff bill,
con linn Mr. Bellamy’s views. Where
money cannot rule directly it rules in
directly. And it rules without any
broad, enlightened statesmanlike
views, but simply through pure greed,
—t he great gospel of "grab.” If only
one man was doing this, for a year or
two, tiie country is so big it could
stand it; but when thousands arc at
the same work, and carry it on inde
finitely, tiie resources of tiie people
are finally exhausted,and peace event
uates in that turbulence, which swal
lows up even the stealings of the plun
derers. and possibly their lives.
Common sense should make even the
rascals reformers; but men witli a mere
money-getting faculty seldom have
common sense where the interests of
all are concerned. Hence the nation
becomes like a full granary left in
charge of rats. Give them time ;
enough and you will have nothing left ;
but multitudes of shining, fat, over-j
fed little beasts, an ! a mess of husks j
and manure;—and* then starvation! j
J hat is the L'nltcii *t«tes to-day. And ;
tiie problem is how to replenish the !
granary and get clear of the rats. It |
won’t do to simply put more wheat in
tiie granary: for you are dealing with |
insatiable appetites and an undying
instinct,—an instinct to devour, with
out reason or restraint.
What a pity we have not got another
Pied Piper of Ilamlin, who could blow
on his pipe, and have all tiie scamps,
grabbers, plunderers, schemers,
thieves, bribers, destroyers of the re
public, follow him, in a ghastly string,
into Hades. 1. D.
Very True.
Mr. Olaf Swenson, of Wegdalil,
writes us a letter in which lie says,
“No reformation can stand which is
not based on morality and Christian
ity:” and lie regret- that our public !
schools do not do more to train up
the children in tlie sense of justice j
and right.
That is correct. Tiie contentions of j
men are mere scrambles of wild
beasts, until the spirit of Christianity
is infused into tliem. Wc must de
mand equality and fair play, not only
because we want our share, but be
cause we want our neighbor to have
his share. Tiie substratum of reform
must be philanthropy—not greed.
Mr. Swensson also recognizes the
danger of dragging religion into the
politics of this country. If our
enemies can set us squabbling over
denominational differences all capac
ity to unite to defend ourselves from
oppression is gone forever, We may
not like our neighbor’s creed; but we
will like still less to hear our children
crying for bread. When a crowd are
gathered, to extinguish the lire which
is consuming a poor man’s home, no
man stops to ask what is the next
man’s opinion as to the best way of
getting into heaven. That is not tiie
subject matter under discussion. Let
us put out the (ire which is consuming
the prosperity of the people, and talk
about Paradise hereafter. If any man
tries to stop the work of extinguish
ing the conflagration by separating
one denomination from another, we
may safely conclude that he either
started the fire himself, or that he is
in the pay of tiie man who did start it.
I. D.
Found Yin Out.
The Helena, Montana, News, has
these words of glowing truth to say of
a distinguished contemporary:
“Why do Popul st paper compliment
the daily plutocratic press? The Pio
neer Press, of »St. Paul, is the worst
enemy silver has, and no Montanian—
particularly no Montana Populist
should touch it. even with a pair of
tongs.”
We arc pleased to see that the aroma
of the Pioneer-Press has reached even
the llocky Mountains, and is melting
the snow on the tops of the highest
peaks.
There is one gratification:—while
the Pioneer-Press has done a good
deal to produce these hard times, it is
suffering by them more than any other
paper. It is ‘ hoist with its - own
petard.” I. D.
MARTYRS.
Coxey, Browne and Jones in
Prison.
Me copy the following from the
Chicago Herald:
Washington, May 21. — Coxey,
Browne and Jones, the three common
weal leaders, were sentenced by Judge
Miller, in the police court to-day. to
twenty days in jail for violating the
statute of 1 lie United Stales prohibit
ing the display of partisan banners in
the capitol grounds. Coxey and
Browne were also lined s:> each for
trespassing on the grass; the alterna
tive being another ten days in jail.
Jones was acquitted on the last
charge.
The Coinmonwealers’ followers and
sympathizers pretend to think that a
great, outrage has been committed.
The sentence imposed by Judge Miller
to-day has set going all the wheels in
the Populists’ heads in and around
Washington, and to-night the Populist
members of Congress arc almost
unanimous in declaring that trouble is
bound to follow the imprisonment of
the three commonwealers.
N. A. Dunning, the editor of the
National Watchman, the Populist olli
cial organ, declared this afternoon,
when he heard of the sentence, that he
had a great mind to summon 100.OuO
men to Washington to rescue Coxey,
Browne and Jones from jail. Mr.
Dunning had heard rumor that the
prisoners had been taken in shackles
to the jail and in fact that they had
been put in double irons. This rumor
proved untrue, but it was sufficient to
throw Mr. Dunning and his entire of
fice into a frenzy, and lugubrious pre
dictions were made that within a
short time Washington would be in
ashes.
Representatives Pence and Bell, the
two Populist members from Colorado,
shortly drifted into the Watchman of
fice, and they, too, expressed their dis
approval of the sentence. Represen
tative Hudson, of Kansas, who was
one of Coxey's council, expressed him
self to the same effect in court, and de
: elan d that the imposition of a jail
| sentence upon these men was a blow
to national liberty.
Judge Miller very properly reminded
Mr. Hudson, and incidentally some of
the other Populists who had been talk
ing very loudly, that their sympathy
was entirely misplaced. He intimated
that there was more politics in their
endorsement and support of Coxey
than there was of sympathy or regard
for human rights.
It seems to us that flic action of
Judge Miller in subjecting these three
enthusiasts to the humiliation of im
prisonment in jail, along with the
vilest criminals, is very wrong and
i very ill-advised, li w ill lift them from
j the attitude of “cranks" to the level
’of martyrs. The Virginians hung
; John Brown.—legally they had a right
| to do so.— for he had attempted to in
j augurate insurrection and civil war:
but if they had simply incarcerated
him in an insane asylum it would
would have been wiser. They made
I him a hero, and when the war came a
| million men marched into the .South
singing:
“John Brown’s body lies a mouldering’ in
the grave.
But his soul goes marching on."
The imprisonment of Coxey, Browne
| and Jones has strengthened the senti
ment of discontent. Men will say,
they were punished for their opnosi
tio to Plutocracy: that there was no
reason for their conviction: —since
they did not carry “part isan banners.”
Their banner was the “Commonweal
of Christ;" and we do not think Christ
is a member of any political party in
these United States; certainly not of
; either of the two old frauds. Nor do
| Coxey, Browne and Jones claim to be
| long to any political party; nor w ill
anyplitieal party be willing lobe re
j sponsible for their theories or past or
j possible actions. These men, and
| their doings, are simply an expression
of the evil conditions, which surround
us;—they are enthusiasts, fanatics, if
you please;—but. at the same time,
honest, earnest men, trying to help
mankind according to their best
lights. They should have been met
with kindness; their theories should
have been presented and listened to,
by Congress; and an attempt should
have been made to remedy the great
evils of which they complain, or good
reasons should have been given why
they could not be remedied. It is no
answer to club these men over the
bead, and send them to prison for car
rying a banner, or “walking on the
grass;” especially in the city of Wash
ington with its continuous record of
horrible corruptions.
Nor will it have the effect intended;
—to keep others from going to Wash
! ington. They are swarming in vast
numbers. The country is in a really
precarious condition. The western
men are most to be feared, for they
are desperate lighters, dead-shots and
ready to die for an idea.
Brutal greed has brought our coun
try to its present calamitous condi
tion: and brutual ignorance seems de
termined to precipitate a crisis. If w e
did not know that all issues are in the
hands of God we should view the fu
ture with the gravest apprehension.
J. I).
Hold on and Sec.
The Populists will hold a convention
and place a state ticket in nomination
at Minneapolis on July 10. S.M.Owen
will be tendered the nomination for
governor on a silver platter, but no
consideration within the gift of the
Pops, will ever induce Mr. Donnelly
and his following to give Owen any
thing like a cordial support, and with
out them he can never make much of
a showng at the polls.—Martin County
.Sentinel.
And we would answer our old friend,
Frank Day, with Mr. Lincoln's favorite
quotation from Scripture: “Stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord!”
I. D.
Indiana is safely delivered of a new
Populist paper about every week. How she
Is (lyin'.’ . . „ _ _
= SIGNIFICANT.
- Tj 1 ;j )
I i; _in the Penny Press of Minne
apol 14, the following:
“'I > —members of the Lafayette
Papi 7 i Club had a rousing meeting
yest< 5 ' y afternoon, when addresses
were * live red by County Attorney
Xye, vR. Winston and D. B. John
son.
P. i>. »7inston, in the course of his
address, said: "What we need is a lit
tle more patriotism and a little less
politics in this country. It would be
better if tlie parties would < r et togeth
er and discuss the questions of Tiie
day on a patriotic bans. It seems
t tiat our difficulty dates back some
what. and it is my opinin that we
have been coming up to this crisis for
the last 20 years. I say frankly that 1
arn a dyed-in-the-nrjol bimetallist, and be
lieve that the demonetization of silver eras
the commencement of our trembles. Wc
have these conditions, however, and
they must be removed gradually as
tiie people are educated. I believe
that one of tiie leading questions in
the future politics of this country will
be tiie financial question, and 1 believe
that both parties will find out that it is
for their best interests to take up tiie
question and exert all political pres
sure to secure bimetallism.”
Wc are glad to read this, for Mr.
Winston is one of the purest and
ablest men in tiie democratic party.
It shows that tiie leaven of truth is
working.
And then followed a republican
speaker. County Attorney Nye, broth
er of Bill Nye, and a strong man. He
said among other things:
lie also stood on about the same
platform as Mr. Winston regarding fi
nances, and had always been a bi
metallist in principle, although lie
might differ with Mr. Winston as to
the effect of demonetization of silver.
The main trouble was that the ele
ment of aristocracy and wealth was
underneath ihe financial question,
and for that matter neither the re
publican nor democratic parties had
anything to brag of. for both had been
dominated to a certain extent by the
Wall street element.
That's right gentlemen. Come right
into the Populist rank*--. The doors
are open and front seats reserved for
you. We want all able and sound
men. We need your Help. What do
party names amount to anyhow?
I. D.
The Light Spreading.
Tiie St. Paul Globe said the other
day:
Recently tiie cause of silver has re
ceived some notable recruits in a no
table quarter. Senator Carey, in a
speech on the seigniorage bill, read a
letter from Charles Francis Adams, in
which that gentleman admitted that
he had changed his views with further
study, and that lie favored bi-metal
lism, and, while lie did not believe
that it was feasible if undertaken by
this country alone, that tiie evident
drift of sentiment abroad was in favor
of it.
Francis A. Walker, superintendent
of tiie tenth census, author of a "Pol
itical Economy,” used as a text book
in our schools, lias also issued a pam
phlet advocating the international
restoration of free coinage. This out
break of heretical notions in steady
going New England lias stirred up tiie
disputants, and tiie papers teem with
their arguments. That assertion with
which we of tiie West have become so
familiar in recent years, that the gen
eral fall in tiie prices of staple com
modities lias not only been synchron
ous with tiie depreciation in the price
of silver, but has been its effect, is tak
en up by the new recruits and urged
with sober earnestness.
Why not? Isn't it true? The Globe
can sneer, but lias it a democrat or re
publican that would dare to meet a
champion of the People.-, party on the
stump in public debate? If it lias trot
him out. It has a lot of uninformed
readers, and it has turned them, men
tally, into swine, as Circe did her
lovers. But public discussion—it
wants none of it!
But we are glad to note that the
light is spreading even in tiie far cast.
The “cradle of liberty" has been turn
ed into a trough for the stalled oxen of
Plutocracy. But there may come a
resurrection even in New England.
I. D.
The Power of the Press.
“The Inter Ocean has been telling
the people how the gas trust lias been
robbing them. The gas trust quietly
bought up the paper and -topped the
expose. The people must he kept in
ignorance. The Times is now the only
paper that has any soul not owned by
tiie monopolies. Voter, do you -ee
how tiie daily press gulls you? What
they say is what the rich robbers want
you to believe. Had you better not
study some public questions and re
arrange your ideas?—The Coming Na
tion.
Tiie “power of the press,” simply
means, in these degenate days, tlie
power of money. All you have to do is
to roll tiie people of millions, spend
hunreds of thousands to control the
avenues of public thought and infor
mation. and you can then go on and
stcalotlier millions, li is a very simple
formula. Steal the wagon and spend
a tritle to grease the wheels, so their
squeaking will not waken the snoring
owner. That’s all there is to it. But
where is it all to end? ('an it be
remedied by peaceful means? That is
the great problem. Is not the thing
unending, perpetual? What is its
limitation? Simply this that as all
the robbery must come off labor em
ployed in production, the producers
will at last get so wretched as to be
come desperate and blow up the whole
thing. Or may they become so de
graded as to lose all spirit of resist
ance? I- I}-
If a government enacted a debt with a
certain amount of money in circulation and
then contracted the money volume before
the debt was paid, it Is the most heinous
crime a government could commit against
the people.— Abraham Lincoln.
COXEYISM.
The daily papers have “dried up’*
concerning the “industrial army” of
the unemployed. Coxey was compelled
to withdraw his men from the soil of
the District of Columbia to escape
persecution; and was then obliged to
shift again from Hyattville to
Bladensburg; and now the papers say
that his encampment is to be broken
up, although lie is violating no law.
Coxey himself has been sent to prison
fur walking on the grass of the Capitol
grounds, and carrying a banner in tlie
public streets. He ought to suffer
for such horrible offences. In the
meantime the universal unrest con
tinues, and the empty bellies persist
in howling. You cannot hang your
stomach on a fence and walk off and
leave it. You have got to carry your
appetite with you, and the revolutions
of the earth on its axis simply add to
its 'artures. And the fact that an
otlu r man’s abdomen is full does not
in the least degree content your
emptiness. And so we read of those
poor fellows, pale, thin, haggard, stag
gering as they walk; while the well-fed
townspeople laugh at them. And the
railroad companies exult to think they
have headed the “armies” off, by re-'
fusing to take them for les> than full)
fare, or even to carry them in cattle’
cars at cattle-rates. But still, as if by
an instinct, an unreasonable instinct,
it is true, the hungry multitude press
onto Washington:—and Grover goes
hunting,—to the Dismal .Swamp!
Very appropriately, for lie has made a
Dismal Swamp of this whole country;
and the starving may yet go hunting
for Grover! And the Denver Road'
says:
“Our partner in business, Orlando
Kling, who has just returned from
Washington, says the city is tilling up!
witli Coxeyites, and that before June!
1, there will be an immense crowd on’
band. The papers suppress the facts
for a purpose.”
We have seen millions of grass-hop- ;
pers all moving, on foot, or on wing, in j
the same direction, by an universal in-1
stinct, as if every one of the little]
creatures had a magnetic-compass in its’
pocket. And history gives us many il
lustrations of similar instinctive
movements taking possession of great'
bodies of men. The cry ran once,—
"On to Richmond;” the cry now is.—-
"On to Washington.” And a greater
enemy of liberty is enthroned in the
District of Columbia than ever domin-.
ated the capitol of Virginia. The
Confederates wanted liberty, at the
cost of breaking up geographical
unity, but the scoundrels who possess
our government want slavery, with
geograpiiical unity, lor the benefit of
foreign and domestic money-sharks.
We don't see that it will do any
good to gather a million hungry men
into Washington: but that is not the’
question:—the question is will they!
go there, and what will they do when'
they get. there? And even if they arej
dispersed by armed force shot down and l
slaughtered, —as seems probable—will 1
that till the empty stomachs of the
other millions, or take the desperation
out of t lie hearts of men? Can you
make a peaceful citizen, or a patriot,
out of a man with a gnawing and col-*
lapsed stomach? A republic is a
country where the happy people need
no standing armies. A despotism is a
country where the wretched victims
of mis-government arc kept in subjec
tion by rilles and cannon. Which are
we to-day? 1. D.
A Bad Condition of Things.
Renville county ought to be one of
the richest counties in the state. it
would be if it had a fair show. It lias
a fertile soil and is well situated geo
graphically, and has been settled for
25 or 30 years; but the following ex
tract, from a private letter written to
us by our esteemed friend. Hamlin V.
Poore, shows the real condition uf
things there. He says:
“I see but little encouragement for,
better conditions in the near future
for flic farmers: but that is not lessen*
ing my efforts in behalf of reform,;
There are things transpiring here
that point to inevitable suffering,
among the farmers, no matter wliatf
the crop may he: giving notes anil
mortgages upon the crop for seetrj
grain at from 75c. to tl per busheU
does not look to me like a business]
transaction that will add to the pros-j
perity of the farmer.”
We arc glad to add that M r. Poore, is
well pleased with the “Rutj:i->knta.-
tive.” He says:
“I might think I was blinded by my,
warm friendship for the paper were it]
not that I never hear one word (
against it, by anyone who reads it;
which is proof positive to me that it
holds the good opinion of its sub-!
serbers. You did a grand and patriotic ,
work for reform when you exposed t,lic
base perfidy of Dr. Fish. The earnest
delegates from Renville county fully (
realized, at the last annual meeting,
the noble work you bad performed in j
that line, and they stood tinnly by you
for re-election.” I.D,
Why Not?
Minneapolis seems very anxious to
have the Populist state convention
held there and 10,000 farmers attend,
and drive there by team. The city is
desirous of feeding 10,000 hungry farm-.
ers for two or three days- for dollars.'
—Lanesboro Journal.
And why not? The old party papers
want—each of them—lo,ooo farmers to
feed them—for nothing; for, as a rule,
they have done the people evil and not
good, all the days of their lives. [
And Minneapolis is talking about
greeting the 10,000 farmers with a pro-'
cession of 10,000 workingmen.
And we expect to have Mrs. Lease,
and Governor Waite and Governor j
Lewelling to speak to us. And Min
neapolis will see the biggest time ever,
known since Col. Stevens built the tirst
house in the town. 1- B.