Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-05
PUBLIC OPINION.

tnls gay 10 De called a silver
ed orator" or is sure indication
,he one so dubbed is a corporation
y or caterer to aristocracy. These
lie are hard to dislodge from their
nchments behind popular prelu-
II one says anything they are 81
ID with: "You don't like anyone
clean shirt" 1t is therefore graf
G to see one of these w1nd-bags
blurred. The biggest wind-bag of
all has just collapsed in New
K. The following is from The Peo-
Aof that city:
efore the strike on the New York
trail, Bamboozler Depew had in some
chiefly by speech-making, per-
ding a lot of gullible workingmen
he was friendly to organized labor
On this fact and the consequent be-
among the politicians that he was a
rong man." his aspirations to the
sidency rested. Of course he was
)ular among monopolists, who under
cd his game. The strike, however
ened the eyes of the blindest work
n. Then came the tunnel slaughter,
arrest and his apology to the public
insisting in confession that he was
injected with the Vanderbilt system,
as competent railway man, fit to
railway director, but as a mere pol
clan, lobbyist and general bamboo
9r. Lastly, came his attempt to muz-
the press by forbidding the sale on
Vanderbilt system of an illustrated
lper in which Mast had made bold to
We true picture of him. And thus it
curred that in less than a year Depew
9came the most unpopular of politi-
Int Mi,
ake his fall complete but his dismissal
y the Nanderbilts as an indiscreet and
ayed out lackey. This is not among
MI le impossibilities. Spider Webb, it is
A bid, has coaxed the giddy fly Depew in
his parlor.
I'll The business men of Spokane have
nade out strong case before the inter
n 7 tate commerce commission, notwith-
AA >tanding the stubbornness of the rail-
RI loads, and if the commission is not
adjunct Spokane is likely to
gain some relief from these merciless
corporations.
An equally important case case came
before the commission on Saturday. 1t
is brought by the farmers of Whitman
county and is carried on under the man
agement of the executive committee of
the State Farmers Alliance The mem
bers of the executive committee say
they heve d good case and hope to save
the farmers of the Palouse country sew
eral hundred thousand dollars on the
transportation of this years crop.
Probably no other section OF the coun-
try was ever robbed so boldly by the
railroads. They have kept their rates
up to the highest point the traffic would
bear, and they now the impudence to
show their teeth when asked to let up
on their robbery.-Spokane Elk.
We observe that there is a dlspositi n
in some quarters to ridicule and deride
the Alliance and industrial people in
connection with the reform movement
they have inaUgurated. But we appre-
bend tins mode of argument will not
amount to much; indeed, it viii proba-
. bly, come quite as far from hitting the
L mark as the same kind of treatment did
l. with respect to the greenbackers, fifteen
- ---..--v-r-U the legaA ---a-1------>--.-
M back as money was made the leading
~ political issue by this new party. But
the course of events and the decision OF
~ the United States supreme count proved
X that they were right then, and we ven
ture to affirm that time will show that
the Alliance and industrialists are lust
, as right now. This is our Judgment.
'er Make a note of it, please.-National
81" View.
One hundred thousand men, women
and children, in the city of New York,
with the going down of the sun each
day, do not know where their living for
the day is coming from. Is not this
n most appalling record of poverty and
In human restitution? Among these are
W the producers of wealth; but how small
i'd part do they share of the wealth they
create? Mighty little, you may be
oh sure; or they would not be forced to ac-
II cept this scanty condition for life's daily
wants
Now, is anybody responsible for this
beside themselves? Is society, which
III embodics the moral sentiment and the
nj combined elements of the Municipalities
is of which it is made up, guiltless in this
) 4 matter? Or is perfectly irresponsible
pt and unconcerned about the wretched
di condition of a part of the members of
cd which it is composed? Should 100000
.oo people be compelled to struggle for a
bare existence in the heart OF great
city, where there is plenty and to spare?
no 1t is sad and discouraging spectacle
oo to look upon, especiallo from the stand
10 point of Christian civilization, which
T. distinguishes the era in which we live
ms Well NAV the considerable observer ex-
.oc claim, Time, veil it; twill darken thy
10 SCROLL"
A, How long this state of things will con-
tinue, we may not say. 1t is certainly
great social evil, and it seems as if some
"~ remedy might be suggested by which
very much of it could be abated. Let
ac the guardians of society and the powers
of the state be invoked to lend helping
hand.
eo Let the accumuators of wealth, who
-" live upon the gains produced by these
'es people, come to their aid, and divide
lpI norton with them in some organized