The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-09
THE ALLIANCE.

Inc dlfhculty lies In agreeing upon
methods for accomplishing the de-
sired end.
Topeka Advocate and Tribune:
There seems to be some doubt now as
TO whether Ingalls, is a Republican
Republican. as he styled himself last
spring: or one Of the latter day. stand
up variety that believes in preaching
something this year and going back
on it neXtyear
The Chicago Free Trader: A re-
cent Chicago bride wore gown cost
ing 81, 700. No bub: dad" didn'
make the money working in coal
mine at 60 cents a day. nor did he
make it raising wheat or corn. He
made it by farming the farmers that
farm the farms.
National Economist; 1t is gravely
published that Austrian wOrkmen are
Studying the Russian language with Il
view to emigrating to Russia to as
sist social revolution in the autocrat's
this century appears to be suffering
from under consumption at home,
ND Imitation" abroad.
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Rev. P. w. Sprague: 1t is right to
organize for mutual protection. and
you are a fool if you don't. A wage
worker who won't join the organiza-
ton of his craft is unworthy the name
of man. Capital is organized and it
monopolizes and corners everything
of value. and it organizes 'syndi-
Gates which cut everything to pieces
West Coast Mail: The little city
of Salem. in Virginia, has bought
the Salem electric lighting plant for
SO, 000 the company receiving tow n
bonds at par to run from six to
twenty years at the option Of the
town. bearing six per cent interest
in payment for the plant A year
ago the plant cost the private COM
pany $50, 900.
Truth: Leland Stanford once
asked Sherman in the senate: Sen
ator what is that?" holding out a
silver dollar. Eighty cents - re-
piled Sherman. 'Tll give you my
check for million at ninety nine
cents EACH. said Stanford, but Sher-
man would not trade. He wilted and
by his silence confessed that the sill
yer dollar is a good dollar.
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Southern Alliance Farmer: This
is not a paternal government we are
told. and yet Mr.. Cleveland. as presi
dent loaned the banks of Wall Street
SOS. 900. 900 without interest wher
they were .hard up" The Southern
farmer is today hard up" but he
must not expect or ask any assistance
from the government; it would en-
courage paternalism you know.
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If it takes s, 900 militia to 'over-
awe" 4. 600 locked out steel-worker.
at Homestead and TO- 900 militia to
overawe l, 900 switchmen at Buffalo,
how many militia is it going to take
to overawe the 20. 000 900 working
men of all sorts in the United States.
and where are they coming from? i
would be well to figure out the size O
the job before taking the contract.
Chicago Free Trader: We have
nothing to say against national bank
as against state banks-but while the
former are more preferable than tn
latter the national banking system
should go. There is no necessity 70
it. The government should reserve
to itself the sole right to issue al
money. whether that money be o
gold silver or paper Or all three. o
anything it chooses.
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Chicago Sentinel: While we ar,
apt to sheer at England for permit
ting her peers and millionaires to Oh
tain and hold such big estates.
would be as well to know that thi
country is not free from such land
grabbing people, and we might star
with Henry Miller of the San Joa
ouin Valley. Cal. who controls NOR
than a million acres or with j. I
Haggin of the same state who own
500. 900 acres.
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journal of the knights Of Labor
This law (the Mckinley bilD is t
give 10 our people the opportunit
for advancement and to give them
chance in life. and may the dew
take the hindmost" so said Senate
Sherman in a recent speech.
course the .hindmost" Senator Sher
man would have us believe will ce
tainly be foreigners. But equally {
course, under the competitive system
whether the tariff be framed by Nj
Kinley or Mills there will always b
plenty of ''hindmost' among our ow
people. All cannot get proftabl
employment as procurers OF legisl'
ton for Wall street. all cannot brin
the fruits of their labor to as profit,
BILE a market as the Ohio senate
found for his political principles.
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Chicago Sentinel: "A dollar no
will buy more than ever before.
shouts the "honest' moneyite. That
the trouble of it. 1t buys too mue
of labor and the products of labor ar
yet pays but one dollar of Indebtedness
The currency has been so contracte
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