The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
MATTERS AND THINGS.
Illinois has passed an antitrust law.


 The Socialist party of Massachusetts have ticket in the field. ss
 Twenty Alliance papers were started in Missouri during May and Jnne.
 syndicate has purchased all the lead- ing tin mines of Colorado for half a mil- lion dollars.
 It is said that the much heralded Ft. Worth, (Texas,) anti-Alliance convention numbered 16 persons all told.
 The Glenwcod, (Ia.) Journal, Dem. and the Sidney Herald, Rep. of the same coun- ty, have declared for the Peoples party.
 Nearly one-ffth of the population of the United States live in the 50 chief cities, which have population of over 11,00O,- 900.
 The French Government has dscreed that engineers and stokers on all it's rail- roads shall not be actively employed for more than 12 hours each day.
 A Republican senatorial convention which met at Paducah, Ky, recently, de- cided to make no nomination but to sup port the candidate of the Peoples party. The Manhattan Republic, considered to have been one of the ablest Republican papers in Kansas, has abandoned that party and espoused the cause of the people. In Jewell county, Kansas, the Demo- cratic and Republican committees are obliged to publish their calls and notices in Peoples party newspapers, having none left of their own.
 Ex- Congressman Donnelly of Minneso- ta predicts that the Peoples party will carry the Southern states at the coming election, and enough of the Western states to elect the President.
 l An English syndicate has purchased the plant of tbe Alabama Iron and Railway company, with three large blast furnaces and nearly two thirds of the town of Shef- feld-price $3,0Oo,OO0.
 The number of failures in the United States according to Bradstreet, for the last six months, aggregate 66S7, and the Iia- bilities exceed 91 million dollars. This is the worst showing since 1885. The governor of Russian province has warned all speculators in grain who under take the forming of corners in that com modity, that they will be punished and ex- pelled from the province.
 Wheeling, W. Va, has had municipal gas works for 20 years, reducing the cost of gas from S3.50 to 75 cents per 1000 feet, ard has now appropriated s1OO,oOo for the establishment of an electric light plant. It is estimated that the elevated roads of New York city cost about $17 ,O0O, 900, while they are stocked and bonded for $60. GOO, ,O90,-to cover up the large revenue accruing to the officers and stockholders from the public eye.
 The city government of Cleveland, O.. has passed an ordinance reducing the price of gas to 80 cents per 1000 feet. But the draft of the bill required the ordinance to be published twice before going into ef- feet, and the companies have tried to take advantage of this by bringing an injunc- tion against the second publication.
 The Lancaster, (Neb.) Farmers Alliance recently passed these resolutions: s'sFirst, The industrial system of a nation as well as i.s political system, ought to be a gov ernment of the people. by the people and for the people. Second, When in the course of business consultations, in the forms of trusts or private syndicates, it becomes evident that any branch of com merce is for the behoof and profit of few men at the expense of the general public, we believe that the people should assume charge of such traffic through their nation al, state and municipal governments" This is Nationalism pure and simple. tee met at the Hoffman House, New York recently, and issued an address to the peo- pie, in which this sentiment is expressed: |: tIf the silver of the world, aud all that can be produced, cannot be restored to it's place as money to supplement gold, gener- al bankruptcy is inevitable unless some other kind of money can be devised to take the place of both. Let the gold ad- vocates take warning that if silver cannot be remonetized gold will be demonetized and paper substituted for both gold and silver. The people will not be destroyed for want of money. The gold trust, by rejecting one of the precious metals, has taught how both may be rejected. The radicalism for contraction is in danger of being met by radicalism for imitation. The time for ubterfuce and ambiguity of language is past. Platforms intended to deceive are irsul ting to the intelligence of American voters.
 The- e-BIind Lead the Blind.
 That the poor are good to one another is the silent testimony of the race of beg gars. Many of the cross streets up town through which throngs of working peo- pie pass to and from their work are in