The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-25
Cedar Rapids Gazette:

representative OOlpu OuSuU W IT.
sign and go home, after confessing
to the publishing in his paper of the
school book trust articles, which he
says he did for pay. He has several
times "talked big" in his paper about
The Gazette being an assistant
democrat, etc., but he cannot, nor
can any other man, "dead or alive, F"
point to a single dishonorable act on
the part of The Gazette. We say
what we believe and do not go about
it sneakingly either. Nor have we
ever, either directly or indirectly,
catered to trusts and monopolies, or
been purchased by them. Nor shall
we be. But the great moral, highly
-conscientous (?) statesman, Mr..
Dolph, confesses to taking trust
money. Smoke 'em out.
Dawson Sentinel:
You no doubt remember, as all will
who we're present at the annual
meeting of the State Alliance, the
fierceness with which General Baker
attacked the sub-treasury bill as
presented and read by Mr.. Wardall.
So excited was the general that in
vectives flew thick and fast stigma
tizing the bill as "the most gigantic
scheme ever brought before a civil
lied community" Poor Baker, he
had never heard of it, nobody had
ever asked Baker to endorse it.
What did it matter that the bill
was for the relief of the farmer, it
was "gigantic'' and that was all
there was to it. Now, Mr.. Editor,
this is where / take issue with the
General Any bill or measure that
has for it's object the relief from the
burdens resting so heavily upon the
farmers of our own state and the
nation is worth the calm. cool and
deliberate attention and discussion
OF every body of men who are friends
OF humanity. So did not Baker
think, hence his hostility.
Why, General, this is not the first
gigantic scheme that has been
thrust before the people of the United
States. The Central and Union Pa
cific railway was characterized by
the same appellation, and yet the
Government came to the aid of the
builders with millions of money and
nearly forty million acres of lands.
No one then thought of crying out
against the Gigantic scheme" Had
it been known then as it is now
known that the companies would
have turned thieves and robbers in
finitely worse than the "Road
Agents of the present day, it would
have met the hostility it SO richly de-
serves. Another gigantic scheme"
that caused but little comment was
the building of bonded warehouses
for the manufacturers of whisky in
in which to store their nefarious pro-
duct. That which kills body and
soul can be deposited and millions
of money advanced to the distillers,
while if the men who produce that
on which the world lives, ask for a
similar boon, it must be treated "a
gigantic scheme" to plumber an over
burdened treasury. The money ad-
vanced to the distiller would furnish
all the relief asked for by the sub
treasury bill, the most benefcent
measure ever brought before the ma
ton. w. S. G.
Iowa Tribune (Des Moines, la. J
says: ts
The mortgage demon hangs over
the farmers Of Iowa like Damocles'
tabled sword suspended by a hair
ready to drop upon the victims, and
yet the commerce committee of the
Iowa Senate last Monday reported
unanimously for the indefinite post
ponement, bill reducing the legal
rate OF. interest to s per cent, and
when greenbacker forced the Sen
ate to consider the matter. Col.
Gath, of this city, almost shed tears
in speech for the poor farmers who
would be ruined, by this bill. DR..
Eagle replied to him, there is anoth-
er kind of farmers in Iowa that Dor
row all the money they want from
the United States treasury at 1 per
cent, not 8 per cent, and they seem
to survive very well, and if 1 per cent
money is good for the bond holding
farmers he didn't think it would ruin
the pillow. holding farmers to have
their rate reduced from 10 to 8 per
cent" There was no more said
against the bill.
/ J. R. Steele, Pres't of Alta Vista AL
lance, gives an encouraging account
of their alliance.