Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-05
THE FIRST GUN
"A Third-Party Man Comes to the Front
Loaded for Every Ill

held the last twenty years, and still we
have seen you advocate the same reforms
that the third party is clamoring for.
While we do not admit that the Cincn-
natl convention represented the majority
of the organizations that are in favor of
third party, still they expressed the senti-
ments OF the reforms we are in need of,
and IL you will allow us little space In
your paper we will prove to you that the
reforms we demand are of vital interest
TO every true American citizen in this
broad land.
First. We demand that the government
should issue more money for the transac-
ton of business. The statistics show that
the money In actual circulation amongst
the people amounts TO aboutsS per capita.
So II any one has more than that amount
some one else is bound to be broke, as the
vulgar expression of it is.
Now, here is one method we advocate.
Surprising when we had voted the bonds
this spring that instead of putting them
on the market to be sold and pay per
cent. interest TO some eastern capitalist
VINO, In seventeen years, Will have re-
ceived the S250,OOO In interest aad still
have the principal outstanding, we
would have sent them to the
Treasury at Washington and deceived
In return $3.50, 600, in crisp new iive-dollar
bills, and paid the government say about
two per cent. interest for the transaction.
That interest would return to us in pay
ing soldiers pensions. in salaries to our
senators and representatives and in i'm
proving our harbors. OF course Spokane,
Walla Walla, etc, would have the same
privilege. The merchants there would
get money to buy the wheat and live stock
from the farmers. The farmers, when
they could get money for their produce,
would want to build houses and barns,
and would send over here to get their
bills filled. Every wheel in our sawmills
would be turning; every idle man would
get work. and we would soon have to send
over to them to get some of their flour
and produce. And all this could have
been accomplished without the assistance
of single cent of Wall street capital
Or. in other words, we wish to have the
government issue money and take school,
town, city, county and state bonds there
for. Now, we ask in the name of com
mon sense, Is not Fairhaven security Just
as good as a chunk of silver or gold in the
national treasury.
We know there are some of the Alliance
members who advocate the sub treasury
plan; that is, they wish to borrow money
on wheat In bonded warehouses in the
same way that the distllery men get
money on their bonded whisky; but we
will admit, for the sake of harmony, that
whisky nowadays is of more Importance
than bread, at least in politics.
There is a great number OF other
schemes proposed, but every cool headed
man must admit that the government
cannot be run for private individuals; 1t
would only promote unnatural specula-
ton, while, in the first mentioned way, it
would set the money In circulation,
through legitimate channels of business,
and at the same time it would give us
public improvements for the full value of
the money. We know Wall street will
howl, but let them howl; this is our
country, not theirs.
The second great problem is the trans
portation question. Did any of you. my
friends, stop and think that 10 is not now
as when you and | were boys; that the
tailor that made our clothing was right in
our own village; the shoemaker that
made our boots and shoes was our next
door neighbor; and the good mothers
don't sit up now till 10 and II o'clock and
spin and weave, but that all those goods
are made over at the Atlantic seaboard in
great factories, and shipped across the
| continent, and that the great railroad
kings are taking the advantage of us?
For instance, let us take an illustration.
IL Adam had lived until now, that is six
thousand years, and earned ninety -one
dollars every day, and saved every cent
without placing 1t at interest, he would
still be about half million behind Gould.
If Gould is worth two hundred millions.
as they say he is. Now gentlemen, we
don't wish to rob poor Gould of his for
tune, because he has built roads ont i'm
this western country at a great loss; but
we wish to squeeze little of the watered
stock out OF his millions, so he will quit
declaring dividends on three hundred
dollars, where he only expended one hun
dred: and II he don't want the people 20
control his roads, well then let us build
b ] nf . 4,
done. How is IL that Germany can own
her railroads.
The third great question that is agitat-
ing the minds of the people, is the tre-
mendous power the corporations are ex-
ercising over the nation. Did Washing
republic for such men as Andrew Carnegie
Rockefeller, Claus Spreckles, and others?
| On what pages In history are their names
written? What bloody battlefields did
: they shed their blood on? Has it come to
this that the sturdy miner, who tolls in
the bowels OF the earth for half pay to
} set our mills and factories going, shall be
, watched by Pinkerton thugs? While the
, great barOns that own the mines are pa
radinx our streets in gilded carriages. like
the lords OF the middle ages. Shall the
poor farmer who brings forth from the
virgin soil all that we subsist on, be
sketched as a clown in our most refined
newspapers? While the mighty railway
magnate, who is robbing him OF his Just
dues, rolls by In his palace car that King
Solomon, In all his glory, might envy him
Well, you say, what ale you going to dc
! about IT, That's just it. If you would
say, What am going to do about IT.
: we could soon remedy the matter. 81,
, down and think. Why is it so many
business men fail. Why is it we meet SC
many forlorn looking individuals on on,
: streets. Ask them If they ever had a
OF course, you say intemperance did that
truth in what "Sockless" Simpson says
that THE greatest question is not, does
a man go home drunk? but, has he a
home to go top
We are not very particular If the old
parties viii give us these reforms or
third party. We are in favor OF protec.
ton II IL will protect labor as wei
as capital. We are in favor of tariff
reform IL IL will at the same time reform
such men as Carnegie and Spreckles from
taking all the benefit OF the tariff. We
are not against the free coinage of silver
/, III they can arrange IL so that we will gel
, a few dollars in the deal and we see
nothing wrong In the so-caled Force bill
1t would only keep every man away
: from the ballot box that doesn't vote ac.
cording to his honest conviction.
Say, kind reader, are you with us o,
against usP A THIRD PARTY MAN.
, The Next Morning.
The night before had seen Trimkins in
!. very hilarious humor. When he awoke il