Telegram-herald., 1891-11-02

whiis today the volume aggregates one
thsusAad hvs husared million dollars.
Difference IN population hss naturally
soms effect. aud perhaps the
lesser voluu1s, for greater
population may not sufficiently meet
the needs Of the country. Bot If this
10 . fact to be ceplored. the truth would
answer quite ss we'll as . misleadlng
insinuatlon. Then again sound dol
lars as veil - sound plump apples are
preferable to dwarfed fruit. Mr.. Hut
cnips next stated That II cost the pro-
dueers-and LETT the impression that by
producers be meant farmers only
something Like two hundred million
dollars per annum. in interest alone,
10 move each years crop. Granting
that is costs two thousand million dol
lsrs--shs principal from which he fig
urss-anuuaiiy to move the great crops
of shs United States, yet we find this
work done in IN estimated time OF so
to 80 days, and If every dollar of this
vast sum bears interest, as Mr.. Hut
china asserts, his interest computation
would be In error something like one
hundred and sixty to one hundred and
eighty million dollars. Hero the ques-
ton might pertineatiy be askedi Arc
the people who listen to Mr.. Hutehsns
iguorsmuses, or are they the intel.
ligent work people he crec'ts them
with being? He sumo up almost
calamity, and proceeds to apply his
oddly mixed remedy. moiety OF state
craft, trace of common sense, and
the balance Of tho measure socialism.
His socialism, however. is clothed with
currency, inflated, unrestricted, un-
limited. This currency he proposes to
loan to small property owners at
merely nominal percentage. Dir. Hut.
chins' proposition 10 somewhat at vari-
snce with tho proposition Of his party,
a. believe the party proposes to limit
the issue and the loan, md to loan only
to houssholders. Mr.. Hutchins finds
precedents for these loans in the loan
to the Union Pactic Railway, the New
Orleans exposition and other schemes
Of national importance and world
wide repute without enlarging on
on this subject, does not Mr.. Hutchins
know that in accordance with national
laws and usages, improvements having
national Importance and being for
the benefit of the people at large, are
the only legitimate objects upon which
governments may laviAh their treasure?
While Uncle Sam losned money to
build . great national highway, other
countries gsvs. II the government, in
this advanced day of enlightenment,
loans as he suggests to all appIicants-
and to do less would 0unfair-would
it not increase shiftlessness, lead to
idleness, increase the debts of the midi
viduals, and eventually bring about a
calamity 90 appalling that the crisis of
1857 would shrink into insignificancc?
Laboring men will regret the illogical.
not to say foolish stand, Of this cham
pion of the labor cause. There are
many clean, common sense remedies
which may be applied to the smeliora-
ton of the condition Of the labo-ing
classes. Why does he ignore them all
and seek by insinuation and perversion
of we'll known facts to bolster up Q
cause which needs no bolstering? Al
though the ideas advanced by the peo-
ples party are to an extent visionary
and SAVIOR of sutopia, yet if but a
moiety OF the good 80 seductively held
before the understanding of men might
result, less visionary schemes might be
tolerated.