The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
THE ALLIANCE.

Watchman: Did any farmer or
Jaborer ever earn four times as much
es his expenses on his farm or at the
work bench? That is what the Bell
Telephone company is doing.
The Sumpter Freeman: II GU,
democratic" office-holders = party
officers we mean-are third party men
at heart let them say so plainly No
deception, please. An open fight all
along the line.
The Advocate: Give US a plausible
reason why the government should
Issue money to rich men for banking
purposes at one per cent aud should
pot loan money to a productive indus
try for two or three per cent
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The Golden State: The nomination
OF Grover Cleveland as the head of
the national Democratic ticket was
almost foregone conclusion. He has
shown himself to be as great a master
Of machine politics as Benjamin Har-
eison himself.
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The Escondido Advocate: The fact
that the farmers are only being offered
from 80 to So cents per cwt. for bar
ley cannot be laid to overproduct.on
this season. but can be traced directly
to the scarcity OF money. The price
Of the farm product has gradually
dropped from year to year. until now
1t is down to less than the cost of pro-
duction. and will continue to decline
In price SO long as the present none
tary system is adhered to by the gov
eminent.
Journal of the Knights of Labor:
The. IL. 1914 business failures in the
United States last year-an increase
OF l. 700 over 1890-are not SO much
an indication OF exceptional strin-
gency in the money market as to the
tendency toward concentration in COM
mercial matters. The big capitalists
are eating up the smaller ones. and.
whether the times are good or bad. it
Is becoming increasingly difficult for
exist. Production and distribution
are getting into fewer hands. and it is
for those who suffer by the process to
say whether they wish their lot and
that of tneir children to be the condi-
ton of wage slaves to a handful of
plutocrats or partners in national
system of industrial organization
There is no altern native
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National Economist: In his decli-
nation OF the Peoples party nominal
ton. Judge Gresham is credited with
saying: Il am hourly expecting
news from the old farm that nv
brother is dead. and that his family.
with an aged mother are left depend
ent upon me. My home has a mort
gage for purchase money. my vital
energies are impaired. the result OF
two wounds received in the war.
am physically unequal to make the
campaign. More than that it would
mean another mortgage. and that to
q man of my age and the claims upon
me. is considerable. With the excep.
tion OF your sub-treasury scheme
which to me is visionary and imprac-
ticable, there is no difference between
US unless it be that many entertain a
stronger hope than do that we are
to escape bloody revolution before
this plutocracy of wealth surrenders."
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The Alabama Reformer: The Fort
Worth Gazette a Democratic organ.
IS forced to admit that the Alliance
farmers are all going into the Peo-
pies party and that the new move
ment is pushed with an energy and
system hitherto unknown to our poll
tics" 1t continues: 1T is madness
to deny this menace. or to treat it as
another greenback craze to vanish as
rapidly as it came. 1t is movement
with large energies to push it. and
with undisclosed resources back of it.
It is using with no little effect the
treacherous course of congress on the
financial issue, and the seeming en-
dorsement by the legislature of Mr..
Mills views on the subject Leading
Southern senator's. Including Mr..
Coke, have openly expressed the opiu-
ion that the Democratic party is like
ly to lose electoral votes in the South
because of the fate of the Bland bill.
II is just as we'll to face the danger in
Texas and to prepare to avert it. p"
From other sources says the New
Nation, we gather that the new move
ment amounts almost to a landslide,
and unless the Old leaders invent
some new device to elude it. Texas
Will send Peoples party men to the
electoral college.
National Economists: Congressman
John Davis of Kansas. in the House
of Representatives February Is. 1892
j said. Il would reinstate the old dollar
as it was The silver in the silver
dollar has not deprecated one particle
as compared with the general prices
of other property. The bullion is the
silver dollar which will buy as much
of the products of Labor TO day as it
would in 1873, when it was worth
three cents more than the bullion in
the gold dollar. 1t has not depreci-