The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-19
iLEAhN FROM oUR ENEM1Es,
4 Things That Cause Shylock to Rub His
Hands and Chucklc.

Things That Cause shylock to Rub His
Hands and Chucixle.
Mr. Henry Clews banking house
weekly financial review. for the week
ending june 90. said; stock market
conditions are decidedly more salts
factory. Doubts arc giving way to
certa.nties and better feeling has as
sorted itself. For weeks the market
has been depressed by the silver stu
alton. gold exports and new crops. In
each Of these reports there has been a
distinct change for the better within a
few days The outlook for sound
currency legislation has been cleared
by the nomination of Mr.. Harrison as
the Republican candidate for presi-
dency and Mr.. Cleveland as the Dem
ocratlc candidate. Whichever of the
candidates is successful next Novem-
Der the country is not only saved a
vast deal of anxiety concerning the
silver craze. but the prospects are en-
couraging for the repeal of at least
the worst features OF our present fool
ish silver laws"
Sound currency legislation" and
the repeal of our present foolish sill
yer laws provided for by the nomi-
nations Of the twin parties whether
Harrison or Cleveland be elected.
And the banker rejoiceth and the mar
ket price Of money goes up.
But the poor man and the man who
owns land must buy the use of money
to cultivate it with-what will they
90? The bankers graciously allow
them to choose between two twin
tickets. Will they vote either of
them? asks the Vanguard. Will their
ears again be deafened with songs
OF old party issues. long since. dead
Will their eyes again be blinded by
an Imaginary Mason and Dixon line
drawn in blood? Will they still he
Democrats and Republicans. because
their fathers were a generation ago?
or because they themselves were thir-
ty years ago, when both. Republican
and Democratic parties stood for
something they no longer stand for?
Or will they this year learn some.
thing from their enemies. and from
tbs open rejoicing that stock gamb-
ling is buoyed up in these two nomi-
nations that legislation in the inter-
ests of the gold bugs is guarante ed,
whichever nominee is elected
Honest men of America. you who
have flouted this revolt of Its produc-
ers as begun in Alliance meetings in
the district school house. or assembly
meetings in obscure back ALLEY halls,
are you still against US ?
The revolt is growing. and in the
conditions in which Banker Clews
glories is its nutriment. It has pass
ed from obscurity into the binding
glare of hatred. where it, every
movement is distorted. it's every mis-
take is magnifed. 1t goes from
country cross roads and grimy debat.
ing rooms on via Ocala. ST. Louis
and Cincinnati to Omaha and still it
grows. 1t will grow until it covers
these United States and bears this
government up out of the Shiny
depths of filthy partnership into the
clean levels Of patriotic honest ad-
ministratlon of the government of the
people in the interests of all the PEG.
pie. Are you still against US honest
men of America?
The Republican and Democratic
parties are with and for corporate in
terests and scarce money. Both are
earned by the plutocrats. Each in
turn. as its turn in power comes,
eyacts such legislation as the pluto
Gratis demand and repeats such laws
as the plutocrats are not satisfied
with. Banker Clews acknowledges it.
and he only says what every thinking
man knew before. The twin parties
are owned and run by the plutocrats
The Peoples party means to abol-
ish all class privileges. and to erase
all sectional lines. AS to-day it
knows no North. no South, so it de-
mands for Tomorrow there shall be
no East at the expense OF the West.
Eastern money markets will never
control congress elected by the PEG
pies party. The Peoples party de-
mands a repeal OF laws which allow
the banker corporations to stand be-
tween the people and their govern
ment taking toll of the life blood of
the nation and people both. 1t de-
mands the repeal of laws which vest
in railroad corporations ownership of
the nations Highways. 1t demands
in the concrete that the plutocrats
shall take their hands from the
throats OF the people and that the
government shall cease to be the
plutocrat's man Friday
What the government is doing.
under the control OF either of the old
parties Banker Clews has uncon-
sciously revealed in this weekly bank
statement What the Peoples party
seeks to do. its platform and nominees
at Omaha declare.
Are you still against US oh. honest
men of America who began by fiout-
ing us because you did not understand
us?
Can you not learn. if not from US
then from our common enemy?
How 1t Protects.
1t sounds very pathetic to hear the
old Republican stump orator tell how
the old marty loves the pa-oarners