The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-12

WORTHiNGToN. MINI. SEPT. u, 1889 7
The Greenback-Union Labor party Of
Iowa met together in State Convention
last week and put in nomination an en-
tire state ticket-pledged not to with
draw from the field in any event. This
is an innovation on past practices. or
late years in that State, all the ''iSms"
known to its politics have served rs
mere adjuucts Of the Democratic party.
This year both the old parties are de-
nounced in the resolutions ms being
hopelessy allied to the money power,
whatever that may mean. Notw!th-
standing this, however, we may expect
to see local alliances between its lead
ers and Democrats in all the counties
where there is aparticle of hope of de-
feating the Republicans. Gen. Weaver
appears to have been the author OF the
platform, and it goes without the say.
ing that It promises to right about al
the Ills that humanity is supposed to be
heir to. Among other things the rail
road ''monopoly' is to be put down by
the forcible purchase Of AL the roads
or the construction of new ones by tho
Government, to run OIL parallel lines
with the old ones, to carry all farm
products to market for merely nominal
prices. Then the prices Of farm pro-
ducts are to be raised by an unlimited
issue Of greenbackS, thus cheapeEing
money; and, at the same time, interest
Is to- be lowered Ivy Government itself
becoming a lender ut two or three per
cent. interest per annum-to farmers
Only-tO enable them to lit the present
reputed mortgages from their farms.
and 50 on for quantity! IfGoverninent
Is to be turned into kind Of an ele-
mosynary institution, it strikes us that
it should become general in character,
and not coEtine its favors to single
class OF debtors. Why not extend them
TO all who are in debt? Nay, more,
if those who possess farms are to be-
thus aided to retain them, why not
purchase farms for those who have
none? Surely such are most in need of
such help! But when the ''mOney pow
er" and the ''railvoad monopoly' are
thus subducd, where is the means to
come from to support this great Ma
tional Elemosynary? But we forget.
Your true greenb..cker doesn't believe
in redemption at all. He would have
fiat mnney''-uot Il promise to- pay Oh
the part Of the Government, but Il dec
laration on its part that this Is non-
ey' and an anatllema upon any one
who refuses to rec..ive it. And so We
woul'l only lave to keep the grcenback
mill a.g,,iny! And that is just about
what General Weaver's policy would
end in should he get an opportunity to
put it in furcr. It is hut the wild Chi
ln-ra of y fAuatie.sl brain
Bat one of the straugest sights in
modern poll; les is 70 see men who pro-
f"ss to believe in Tie teachings Of JET
frrSOn. y man who believed il, lie ,ii:,-
plest form Of guvyrnmt mt. CONSERVING
with, assisting And oiiuOur5 5iny ,hCs1
who would make "f it s.'lretilr.g to Go
for every indiVjlu.l that Which lie is
bound by every !'Tiiicipl" ut m.n'0nl
to do for himself; Srmtlhi!.y, in fact,
Whic! u" nuSt du for Ei'liSrlt if he
would retain his own Individuality and
self respect. Thomas Jefferson btiieved
that that Government should content
itself with keeping oldvr in suci"ty,
protecting each individual in his prop.
erty ard other rights, and outside Of
that to leave to individual and private
enterprise the management Of the gen.
eral business affairs Of society. lie be.
lieved that where the individual was
left freest to pursue his own way, SO
that he did not trenc|, npon the rights
OF others, there would grow up the
best men and women and the harpi st
state Of society. Before the professed
followers Of the Sage Of Monticello en-
ter into any more alliances with these
modern cranks, they ought to read up
little in his political teachings.
We wonder if the writer's who are
accustomed to speak of marriage as
failure because of the comparatively
few cases that get into the divorce
courts, would be willing to carry the
same principle into the ordinary trans
tions Of life? For example, is all busi-
ness failure because Of the numerous
cases Of bankruptcy which are reported
in the commercial papers each week?
And yet the evidence in one case Is fully
as strong as in the other. Both are ex.
ceptiOnal cases. and prove nothing.
1t is the ninety and over per cent. of
marriages that never want to nor go
into the divorce courts, that speak truly
Of the marriage relation, and furnish
reliable data to judge Of its divine orr
gin, and not the few exceptional cases,
where proper precautions were not ia
ken before entering upon it.
Whenever a maHufactory reduces the
pay of its operatives or breaks up, the
free trade papers invariably point to it
As an evidence Of the evils Of protec-
ton; but when 4 general revival Of
business occurs, with general raising
of wages, they pass the matter over in
perfect silence that their readers may
know nothing about it. Hence, they
say nothing about the present revival