The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-06

49, SAAN kIOSphe0OAO RACGDouA . Va &c
naming within the calm and peace
ful realms Of their own homes afte
their present terms end.
Our state assessors recentl,
stated, as the result of their pains
taking investigation, that at leas
~, SOC, 100000 OF personal property
In this state escapes taxation alto
gether. They also say that real es
tate bears about nine-tenths of thu
whole burden of taxation, and that
real estate In agricultural districts
is rapidly depreciating and in many
cases cannot be sold for sum equa
to their assessed valuation.-Hav.
ana (Schuyler Co. Free Press.
Voice:
There never was representative
assembly in any country or in any
age, so absolutely destitute OF true
friends OF the people, as this present
American congress.
There has not been time in Eng
land since the days of the Plantagen-
cts, when loyal champions of the
masses have not stood up in par
lament and defended their wards, de-
liant OF dungeon and the block.
In Great Britain to- day nearly a
majority OF the house of commons are
tireless and enthusiastic workers for
the peoples cause.
How shameful, how despicable our
republican congress looks when con-
trasted with these bluff Britons and
their brave loyalty to popular
rights.
Swift Co. Monitor:
Z. A. Pillsbury's bold announce
ment that he would give 500, 900 if
it could be proved that the margin
on wheat shipped from this country
to England amounted to over two
cents per bushel has been literally
grasped and showed back down his
throat by DR.. Fish, OF the GREAT
WEST, who first made the claim that
such steal existed. We are glad to
see the doctor COME out on top, as
something may in time be done to
let the farmers get little of the
profit, which has heretofore been
divided up among the wheat buyers
Kansas Commoner:
Party papers throughout the
state, have openly charged that the
statement made that the farm mort
cages of Kansas amounted to $685.
100000 is a Union Labor lie.
Now as a matter OF fact this was
first published in this state by the
Atchison Champion, presided over
by Ex-Governor John A. Martin.
Furthermore, many editors and
boomers privately acknowledge it's
truth while denouncing it as "an
Anarchist lie"
Edward Atkinson, the statistician,
is the original author.
Rural world:
When pork at II o'clock April -,
is worth 81 more than the same
pork, at II o'clock of the same day,
it would certainly seem that the laws
OF supply and demand have about
as much to do with the market price
as has the nebular hypothesis. Mr..
Armour could evidently give cards
and spades and still win the game.
Such Incidents exhibit the fallacy of
supposing that consumption regu-
lates prices.
Some of the recent decisions of the
United States supreme court raises
thunder with the state statutes, but
the people, thereby, have a chance
to learn what kind of men they some
times send to the legislatures to
make laws for them.-Pipestone Star
Waseca Herald:
The Tribune of Chicago puts it this
way. The Mckinley bill will save
the people $40, 100000 on sugar and
tobacco, and will increase the annual
cost OF other domestic articles con-
sumed $237, 25O,OOO. Such is the
tariff reform of the Fifty-First con-
gress.
How shall we compare the con-
ditiOn OF the well-to-dO man who has
been robbed of his watch and purse,
even at the cost of a broken head
which will heal in few days, with
the awful doom of the poor multi
tude, who from the cradle to the
grave work without Joy and live
without hope? Who is the worst
enemy OF society, the brutal plumber
er OF the few or the cultured spoiler
of the many?-Casar's Column.
The masses grow more intelligent
as they grow more wretched and
more capable Of cooperation as they
become more desperate--C@sar's
Column.