The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-28

Crystal Mirror, signing himself "a FREE
PRESS Subscriber" comments on an As
ISOLATED Press dispatch from Washing
ton which quoted an editorial from
New York paper, warning capital to
Beware of the Granger" and calls up
on us for few remarks. Our good
friend, who is evidently close reader
of the FREE PRESS, should appreciate
that newspaper very often publishes
that in its news columns which its pub
Usher does not endorse. For instance,
a murderer is hanged and the details
of the execution are deliberately set
forth. The fact that this is given space
in the columns of a paper does not COM
NIT the editor to champion capital pun
ishment. Because Democratic news
paper publishes the particulars OF a Re-
publican convention, including its plat
form, does not commit the editor to Re-
publicanism, and vice versa. There
are hundreds of items Of news and ex-
tracts from papers published all over
the country which find their way into
print that the editor is rot accountable
for. This is an age of progress, and it
takes all kinds of reading matter to sat-
isfy the intellect as it does all kinds of
people to make the world. 1t is hardly
necessary to assure our friend that the
FREE PRESS will continue to publish the
current news, and in doing so it does
not expect to please all. What would
please one subscriber would displease
another. The editors personal views
are not always the reflex of his readers.
We have notions peculiar to ourself of
right and wrong, Of justice and injustice,
same as other people. Now as to the
article in question. ga FREE PRESS Sub
scriber" should know, as close reader
of this paper, that the editor entertains
no such views as those promulgated by
the New York paper. There is as much
honesty among the members of the Al
lance as among the members of any
other party. 1t is the merest rot to be-
lieve that the farmers who will occupy
seats IN the various State legislatures
and in the halls of Congress are going
to destroy everything, ruin the business
of the country and drive capital into
hole and then bury it. There is no
more danger of their doing this than
that they will make angels out of politi-
clans. This country will continue to
prosper and grow only so long as capi-.
tai and labor are in sympathy one with
the other. No one wants to pit capital
against labor with view of crushing
out honest toll, and no honest man
wants to destroy capital. There should
be no hostility between the East and
the West, the North and the South.
American interests are so varied and 80
vast as to afford every section ample OPP
portunity to prosper and become great.
What is wanted is more confidence be-
tween capital and labor, between the
farmer and the business man, and less
of this cheap oratory that one class OF
the community is combined in an unho-
Iy alliance to destroy all other classes.
The tFREE PRESS has too much conf
dence in the good sense and integrity
of the American people to believe that
our interests will suffer because of the
Alliance organization, despite the fact
that it has among its leaders number
of aIarmists and demagogues. If the
movement is to succeed these will in
good time be relegated to the rear and
honest men advanced.