The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE.
1t Is Coming as It Came Before in the
Year 1910.


1t Is Coming as It Came Before in tho
Year 1910.
Indeed, the year of jubilee is at
hand. The Hebrews held their year
of jubilee every fifty years, but in this
case it seems to be fifty-two years from
1910 to 1892. In 1910, the farmers
and other producers held session of
jubilee, as a protest against the wire
pulling and extravaganza of the Van
Buren, administration, and the result
was, Van was laid on the shelf, while
farmer Harrison, from Tippecanoe was
triumphantly elected. And now, again,
in 1892. the signs are rotten ripe for a
repetition of those stirring times, when
log cabins arose like mushrooms in the
night. and hard cider flowed like
water. In 1910, the great issue was
between the common people and the
extravaganza, wire-pulling, bossism
and general corruption of those in
power. In 1892, there is. addeu to
all these, the most gigantic system of
paternalized corporate oppression up
ON the common people, any nation
ever Witnessed Indeed. all signs
point to more than repetition of the
campaign of ''Tippecanoe and Tyler
too" Then real farmer lead the
hosts of freemen to victory, so now a
real farmer with hayseed in his hair
must be called from the pillow, like
Washington and Putnam in the Amer
lean revolution, and Cincinnatus. the
Roman farmer, to hold aloft the ban
ner of equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.''
The women, in their constant at
tendance upon the meetings of the
Alliance throughout the length and
the breadth of the land, are becoming
well informed and we'll drilled to take
their places in the ranks of this great
army of veteran toilers who. like the
Athenian hosts under Miltiades on the
plains of Marathon, will drive the
corporate combines of Persian pluto
cracy from the. shores of Columbia )
soil.
Among the records of history are
found great seiges and contests, like
the seige at the gates of Thermopyla,
the battles Of Hastings and Waterloo
fought either in defense of country or
in the interest of conquest-yet, when
considered in the light of the enorm-
ity of the conditions to be removed,
and in the far reaching benefits that
will accrue to the living and to pos
terity to come. this great contest of
ballots in 1892, if successful, will
eclipse the grandest victories found
within the cycles of antiquity.
And. now, what can be said to arouse
the enslaved of America from their
respondent Indifference to the impend-
ing woes that await them? We shrink
with horror from the cruel edict of a
Pharoah to kill all male infants lest
the Israelites should overrun mis- king
dom? Was that more cruel than that
the infants of to-day should be doomed,
in their youth to a life of servitude,
in which their tender bodies are to be
worn out to enrich the Office of manu-
featuring barons? AS Moses raised up
the brazen serpent in the wilderness,
that all who were bitten by poisonous
reptiles might look to it and be saved,
so men brave and true. raise up the
demands Of the oppressed everywhere,
that all may look to them as a sure
avenue of escape from plutocracy's
evils.
Maria Theresa, Empress of Bohemia
and Hungary, after being banisbed
from the capital of Vienna, fed to her
Hungarian subjects, and holding up
her. infant son before them, said:
abandoned by my friends, prosecuted
by my enemies, attacked by my near
est relations, and having no other re-
source than in your fidelity, in your
courage and my own constancy, COM
nit to your care the son of your king
who has no other safety than your pro-
lection" With one voice they ex-
claimed: 1--WE will die for our Queen. "
American freemen. the infants of our
land, born and unborn, who must in
herit the evils you complain of unless
they are removed, are committed to
your care. Will you act in this crisis?
Will you put on the armor now? May
God help.-E. H. Belden in National
Economist