The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-01-24

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| FRIDAY, JANUARY p. 1880.
THE WEXFORD RESOLUTIONS
BY communication elsewhere
printed in this issue, it will bt
seen that the farmers of Wexford
haye been studying out what they
want from the law makers and put.
ting these desires into form. We
are glad to see this movement and
wish that it could be made more
general, not only among farmers
but among all citizens. There is
no better way of finding out what
is actually and really wanted than
by putting these desires i'll the
form of words. The uniformed
chaotic desire in the human mind
is like an unknown and unnamed
seed, only growth into a plant
can determine its value. The de-
Isire to better ones condition, and
lat the same to blame others be.
cause our condition is not better.
lis q very common sentiment,
and when any class of men formu-
late their opinions and desires we
Invariably find this feeling express.
ed in words. We say any class ad.
visedly, for we believe, that if the
richest men of the land should
come together in convention that
they could easily set forth in a SET
of resolutions as many apparent
wrongs, as any other class, and
which wrongs would appear OH
their face at least, as clearly
wrongs, as those that might be
formulated by the half starved
workmen in their employ. Then we
find the individual or the class,
each striving to right their own
wrongs, real or fancicd, while the
true rule, tnat the good of the
whole is the best for the class or
individual, will be applied when
the millennium comes.
Meantime, the quickest way to
that millennium, is for each class to-
express to the others what it deems
its rights and its wrongs; and in
time these rough blocks will be
trimmed and squared by public OPP.
inion and legislative enactment,
until they will fit into the grea,
plau of human industry and Ell.
deayor.
In our Wexford friends resolu.
tions, they have generally aimed at
the remedy rather than the disease
They have suggested remedies to
the doctor without clearly diagnos.
ing the disease, or at least have
dealt with symptoms rather than
the organic trouble. Neverthe.
less, the resolutions are such that
the real troubles are easily known
land are, in the order of their i'm
|portance. as follows: debt, CROP
failure, monopolies. These arc re.
|alities, and the resolutions though
crude in form and desire, are simply
Expressions Of the pinching pains
Of the poverty caused by these dis
eases.
Legislation in this case cannot
cure, it can only assist natural
laws. Legislative enactment can
not make arbitrary prices OH any
commodity, whether it be money,
wheat, grist, or the price for stor-
age and carrying goods. except
perhaps, to fix certain MAXIMUM
and minimum rates, and even
those will be ignored by the laws
OF supply and demand when occa.
sion requires, and the old proverb
holds good in these cases, abort the
difference in leading a horse to
water and making him drink. In
no one thing is this shown better
than in the matter of money loans.
The best remedy for this is not to
contract the disease, Of which in :
terest is only symptom. The or.
iginal loan is usually fair bargain
and at comparatively easy terms,
but when crops fail and the time
for payment comes, it is then the
usurer takes the unfair advantage
by extortine large bonus for
carrying over" Now to over.
come that we make a law so strict
than the usurer dare not do this,
what is the result? Simply fore.
closure which may or may not be an
advantage to the debtor; or else the
bonus exacted will still be extorted
and enough more to pay the usurel
for the risk he runs.
This is given as an example
only, of the difficulty ofreeulatine
commerce by Legislative enact
ments. Some law on the SUBJECT i,
necessary and the true limit is
that which gathers the golden egg
without killing the goose. In re
ference to interest, let our solon.
satisfy themselves, what is thu
least amount of interest that car
be paid by our people without re