The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-07-11
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@ copy OF his very able speech on Our
National Waterways" delivered in
the Senate on June 10th. It is refresh
ing to get hold Of a speech delivered in
Congress every word Of which one can
relish and take q wide-awake interest
in. Such is Senator WINDOWS, upon
great political question which virtually
concerns every farmer and every bust
ness man in the west. We can give on
ly the concluding paragraph at this
time:
Would that Congress might cease
talking Of how much, and what kind of
money VIC shall have, and address it.
self to the solution Of the great COM
mercial and industrial problems that
are pressing upon us! Would that par
tis:,n schemes could be forgotten long
enough to study how we can best pro-
mote the development of our resources,
secure 4 market for our surplus pro-
ducts, and give remuneratiyo employ
ment tv labor!
We have steadily urged through the
ADVANCE that relief could not he had
for the people by tinkering the curren-
cy, nor Ivy unwise retrenchment Oh the
part Of the government. Instead of
stopping all public improvements when
the mills of the country were idle and
thousands out Of employment, the gov
eminent should have taken advantage
of this time Of cheap materials and low
wages and gone forward with the great
public improvements so much needed.
This would not only have greatly re-
lieved the distress of the laboring class
es, but would have opened tho way for
permanently lettering their condition.
TOO FREE
The Worthington journal, Of last
week, copies an article from the New
York Times, and says:
The New York Times in speaking Of
the communism in this country, ex-
presses the same opinion that the Jour-
nal has entertained and expressed here
tOfOre, that our government is too lib
eral and too free for the safety Of our
people.
The New York Times is now and al-
ways has been an organ Of the money
power and the aristocracy of the coun-
try. II good old Horace Greeley we're
living how his blood would boil at the
utterance Of such sentiments and how
he would score the aristocratic Times.
This has been the plea Of every tyraat
and priest in all ages. They have al
ways raised the cry Of ''the people can
not be trusted" ''too much liberty is
dangerous to the state" etc., and SO
they have suppressed free speeche and
free action by prisons, and guillot:n s.,
and bullets. To-day the German En-
pire is suppressing newspapers, exer-
cising rigid censorship over the press,
and dragging men and women to pris-
on, under the plea of SURPRISING COM
munism. It has seized upon tie at
tempt of a foolish and rash man to take
the Emperor's life, and made this the
pretext for depriving the people of lib
erty of speech. And these European
powers have even had the cffrontery to
propose that the United States join
them in exercising this censorship over
u free press and freedom of speech.
The constitution OF the United States
guarantees full civil and religious li'er-
ty to the people, and that they will
maintain and enjoy ut all hazards. The
Republic has thousand fold more to
fear from the kingcraft and priestcraft
of the old world than it has to fear from
the rash and violent communism
which Europe is sending to our shores.
A prominent feature of the ceiebra.
ton Of the Fourth is the exhibition by
Prof. Moak, Of Colorado, of his trained
grasshoppers.- Rainhridge IN. r. Re.
publican.