The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-28
A DUTY 70 PERFoRs,.

Inc the Republican Platform--The Ticket
Has q silver Enemy ut the Head and q
Labor Enemy at the Tall
The glittering generalities set forth
by the Minneapolis convention, as q
platform of principles, would be most
ludicrous if it were not for the many
bright anticipations which must be
wrecked If those who promulgated it
succeed.
The third party and all wavering men
have duty before them in it's earnest
examination.
It contains it's usual congratulatory
sauce for a proclaimed prosperity in
our fields and workshops.
Which is the most patent to labor,
such assumptions, or the facts which
drive them into organizations in self
defense?
Labor will recognize the sincerity.
Labor's condition is and has been q
reality, and not pretense.
The republicans gloat that this con-
dition is largely due to their wise legis-
lation.
Labor will here see that the republic
ans recognize the fact that legislation
makes the conditions which surrounds
labor.
This is their first open admission Of
such fact.
This gives us fair starting point.
Conditions are a result of law enact
ments.
This shows a marvellous advance, as
it was opposed to all extent during the
old period of greenback education.
Yet with this advanced creed they
hasten to reaffim their ancient allegi-
ance.
They close their ports by protection
ind open them by reciprocity as a
means of benefting American labor.
Reciprocity can be nothing less than
concession to free trade.
Free trade opens all markets.
Reciprocity opens agreed markets.
England's free trade principles, put
IN practice, has made her the CONNER
cial mistress of the world.
The next bird of beautiful plumage is
The proclamation favoring bimetallism,
when they alone are responsible for de-
stroying bimetallism, even at time
when silver was made the most valuable,
rs pretense to it's destruction.
Aye, it was made too valuable as per
the present principles.
If they favor silver as a standard
money at a parity, why did they create
the disparity, and when they saw its
operation refuse to retract?
Their action shows no desire for
parity.
They show that they well know that
congress destroyed that parity which
they now demand; but do they propose
TO undo the work which DESTROYED the
parity?
The purchasing and debt-paying
power of money is not controlled or in
auenced. by its material.
that power.
Every fair productive interest de-
mands that all money shall be alike in
money functions, which are impaired
only by the law and should bear upon
Ill forms alike.
In their denunciation of southern out
RACES, so-called, do the republicans re-
member that they alone are tho archi-
tects of the system under which they
lre perpetrated, if at all?
If they have failed, after their thirty
years Of endeavor, are they competent
servants?
Is it not best to force change with
view to more efficient course?
1t would seem as if the republicans
were self-convicted ineficients.
When were the mentioned political
reasons more forcibly illustrated than
in the memorable seven to eight con-
test?
IF the republicans are the especial
champions Of the oppressed, why, after
70 long period of supremacy, should
they claim continuance?
1t may be patriotic to sympathize
with the Irish and the Jews, even while
Polachs as . means of plac.
ing American labor upon the same level
It may be the height of political patri-
otism to reaf6rm opposition to trusts,
ETC., even while building them up under
various phases of law.
These same republicans created the
great monetary trust corporations
which are to-day absorbing the very
life of all Industries.
Such creed, following such a prac-
tice, hardly gives the intelligent Amer
lean the most exalted ideas of that ma
tional honor which the politicians and
the political press so earnestly endeavor
to instil into the minds of all people.
Even the great war failure platform,
which the democrats offered in 1854.
was NO more humiliating for it's false
positions than this last great work of
the money scabs in convention assem-
bled at Minneapolis.
1t seems impossible to get an express
sion in political declaration which
aares antagonizes Americas worst enc
mics.
The late convention was as servibe to
the banking o1igarchy as the old democ-
racy was to the slave power.
There is not manly expression in
the whole thing which reaches out to.
or beats in unison with the loyal Amer.
lean heart,
1t is simply magnificent disappoint-
ment, with a silver enemy as 8 head
and labor enemy as tail, using scah
as court to labor votes.
This is the first sop thrown to the
labor whole.-G. r. Williams, in Ma
tional View.