The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
See What You Ought and Might
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See What 70. 0.GAt ana Might
Do?
Once Frederick the Great, of Prus-
STA with a staff officer, Count Starick,
was reviewing his army. The count
in a grandiloquent way, said he won
dered at something or other. The
quick witted old king replied that he
too, wondered and wondered Won
der at what, said the count? Iwon-
der said the king, that the soldiers OF
this great army do not at once shoot
us all dead and go home to live in
love and peace with their families
So today, it is q wonder that the
great hosts of farmers and laborers
and producers generally do not rise
up and with their votes shoot dead
the political Office hunter, the great
extortionate corporations and the
money and grain gamblers of the
country. These evil individuals are
the creatures of the peoples creation.
Their legitimate atmosphere is of the
peoples creation too. Change that
atmosphere socially and politically
speaking and you gradually wither
and eventually will kill these danger
Gus exotics nowgrown to such threat
ening proportions.
The way to effect all desired reforms
in this country is to present the cause
in an earnest common sense way to
the public. If then it leaves the stamp
of propriety and legitimacy, it will APP
peal to the understanding and re-
ceive favor. We believe that the
Peoples party in their platforms
have done this. If so it remains
for the people who are interested to
study their wants in a political way
and they cannot eventually fail to see
that the Peoples party declaration
OF principles is a new declaration of
independence Having arrived at
such a conclusion the citizen is reason
ably bound to do his duty and vote
with that party. There is no room
to shirk. He cannot plead anything
as an excuse for failure to do his duty
by family and country. Let us shoot
them dead with the ballot.-Kansas
Commoner.
The Friend of Large Land Holders.
A good many single tax men in
Minneapolis and various parts of the
state are being persuaded into Civ
ing their votes and support the Hon.
Thos. Wilson of Winona, for goven-
or on the ground that he is free
trader and very friendly towards the
single tax and anti-monopoly move
ments. Now the facts in the case
show that Mr.. Wilson's position is
just the reverse of this and his friend
ship SO far from being wasted on the
single tax men is solidly with '.his
best friends the large owners of real
estate" When the single tax men
who have been so enthusiastically
hurrahing for Judge Wilson become
aware of this fact they will be apt to
take a different view Of his candidacy
than they do at present.
The Labor Union has it on good
authority that Judge Wilson is not
only not friendly toward the single
tax movement but he is so lacking
all sense of what is progressive and
liberal in public affairs that he posi-
lively refused, even after earnest anc
repeated solicitation to sign the petit
ton to congress, which asks that
body to merely Investigate the
question of taxation and the advis
ability OF raising public revenues
, from tax on ground rent and gave
as his reason for refusing his sigma
ture the very significant excuse that
''many of his best friends are large
land-holders." The question fol
single tax men now to decide is will
they give their votes to man who
refuses to treat their movement with
even common courtesy and fairness
and gives as his reason for such con
duct his friendship for ''large land
holders And it is a very pointed
} question for evey poor man and
working man to ask himself, "Shal
| give my vote to man who is sc
warm a friend of the large land
| holders?' %
A glass factory in Pittsburg has
reported a net profit of 81 100000
last year. Isnot this rather robust
infant, and is it not about time tc
wean the brat? When calves gel
larger then the old COWS they should
> be surely choked off. These protect
r ed calves are strange animals; the
2 larger they grow the harder they
pump for more milk. By the McKin
ley bill these hoggish, pumping calves
2 get more milk than they did unde,
{ our high war taxes. -Fremont Coun
ty Herald.
A little study will convince any on,
> that an Understanding nationa
; debt was deliberately reated; debt