The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-31
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PERCY, Mimi, Oct. 18th, 1890

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EDITOR GREAT WEST:
The time is near at hand when tn.
Independent Party will have to meet
the plutocrats face to face, to defeat
their rights as American citizens.
Whether we are to succeed or not
depends very much on our behavior
in the first encounter.
There has been some dispute in re
gard to selecting leaders to begin
with.
1t could hardly be expected that
we could select the very best man out
of an unorganized mass. AS ''every
revolution produces a warrior" this
one will certainly not be an excep-
tion.
1t is folly now to quarrel over lead
ers. Our candidates for Governor
and lieutenant governor ought Ger
tainly to be satisfactory.
There are some alliance men that
seem to be studying whether to stay
with the alliance or desert their own
ranks and join the enemy.
After aiding the enemy to destroy
the ranks of their brothers, what are
they going to do? Do they mean to
stay with the enemy and fight
against their own interests?
If such a course is taken the Ameri-
can farmers are not capable of self
government.
Staying at home on election day is
bad Judgment. If a family in school
district would refuse to send their
children to school because the best
possible teacher was not employed,
and permit them to grow up in ignor-
ance, would not that family be the
main losers?
For what purpose is steal of two
grades on wheat made? Is it made
to raise a campaign fund, and for
taking back the money paid to pre-
vent an independent agricultural
school?
No doubt, Pillsbury thought the
school deal a cheap one. Such a
schoolwould make farmer statesmen,
who would be able to defend their
rights against plutocracy.
The present position of the agricul-
tural department is a sham COM
pared to what an independent college
would have been.
If we are to have a measure of
values we are entitled to an honest
one. The present system is a scheme
to let a few individuals have the use
of the currency for the purpose of
confiscating the property OF the
masses.
The money printed by the govern
ment belongs to all alike until paid
out for value received, but congress
does not take that view of the mat
ter.
The money of the government is
lent to few men Ito themselves to a
great extent) at one per cent. These
lend the same money out at extor-
tionate interest on security. In a few
years the money is all drawn back in
interest, and the mortgage is good
for the property given as security.
Again the same money is sent out
and returns with a mortgage as be-
fore.
By the use of money that belongs
ss truly to us as it does to them, the
privileged class has taken billions of
our property.
The argument that we need not
loan money unless we want to, is
sometimes thrown at us. But law
and custom compels us to use money,
and the government lends it only to
those lew that use it for speculations,
and those spectators will be careful
not to part with this money until
someone that cannot do his business
without comes and offers sufficient
security. The money lender is indie
pendent; he knows that a progress
i've people must have money, no mat
ter how much the commodity costs
them.
The needs of the masses are not
considered in financial legislation. A
few schemers are allowed to dictate
the amount to be in circulation, and
they want the amount that they
themselves can draw on bonds, to
have the whole benefit of the money
in use. Whether or not that amount
is sufficient for the needs OF the coun
try is not taken into consideration.
If the government issued a cur
rency, in sufficient amount for thu
benefit of the citizens of the 9. S..
without special favor, it would aid
the producer in getting the benefit o
his product, and the laborers in find
ing a ready market for his services.
Ii lands are not as good a securit,
for money as bonds why are land
taxed and bonds not?
The bondholder only can explain
ho Lnonc fhot r. T., not cofo Gov Al