The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-28
AN OPEN DOOR.

AN OPEN DOOR.
One Of the Great Metropolitan Dailiss
Opens Its Columns to : Discussion al
Economic Questions.
Among the greatest difficulties beset-
ting the way and most serious obsta-
cles impeding the triumphant progress
OF the reform movement are the vim
dictive hostility of the several press as
sociations and the attitude and policy
of the metropolitan press. The press
associations seem to have entered into q
conspiracy Of silence and studiously ig-
more all important news concerning the
great political revolution that is rapidly
taking place; while the newspapers, in
handling what news concerning the
reform movement they receive by wire,
mendaciously misrepresent such news,
even to the extent Of making the head
lines give the lie to the subject matter
Of the item itself
But worse than all this, the columns
OF the daily papers are, as rule, de-
MED to economic reformers, while their
editorial writer's combat reform in each
and every issue. This state of affairs
makes it well nigh impossible to reach,
with the gospel of reform, the thousands,
nay, millions of readers who never see a
reform newspaper, although there are a
thousand, more or less, of such papers,
having circulation in every state OF
the union. Within the past few months,
however, one of the best metropolitan
dailies, the Chicago Inter Ocean has in
augurated a new policy, and has opened
its columns to presentation of the
prominent living issues of the day, and
has invited and solicited communica-
lions from alliance and peoples party
writers. Mr.. Nixon, the editor-in-chief
of the paper, is broad-gauged man,
who is truth-seeker and his ideas are
that if the republican party cannot
meet and refute the arguments of the
peoples party, the republican party
must be wrong and the peoples party
must be right, and that the quicker it is
found out the better it will be for all
concerned. Mr.. R. M. Easley, editor of
the economic department., is in favor of
giving the advocates of reform q fair
show and opening the columns Of his
department. to full, free and fair dis
cussion of the questions involved.
Of course the Inter Ocean is radical
republican paper and in all probability
will not be converted from the error of
its ways, but will continue, editorially,
to ridicule and oppose reform measures
and belittle and misrepresent the peo-
pies movement. But this matters not,
and is neither here nor there. Truth is
mighty and will prevail. Not all of the
Inter Oceans thousands of readers are
bigoted fools or intolerant partisans;
indeed, it may reasonably be presumed
that the great ma ority Of them are as
intelligent and honest as the thousands
of peoples party voters in Kansas, Ne
braska, Minnesota and the Dakotas,
who only three years ago were radical,
uncompromising republicans. These
individuals, because of the fair and gen.
erous policy Of the Inter Ocean, will see
both sides, and having learned the
truth, will by such truth be made free
from blind and intolerant partisan ties.
Let these alliance and peoples party
writer's send to r. M. Easley, economic
editor, articles treating Of the sub-treas-
ury plan, the land-currency plan, the
graded income tax, governmental bank
ing and ownership of railroads, but
make no mistakes and be sure you are
right before you s0rSte.
GEORGE G. WARD.
In the Inter Ocean of April 21st the
following communications appeared on
banks and banking: