The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-16
THE ALLIANCE.

9elmor WHO ID n0lplng 70 gather IN
the 500. 600. 600 in gold here for
Austria's honest money basis says
the scheme might hurt silver. but
that don't matter. The average
man, for example professional man.
does not worry if he gets few cents
less OF metal in the coins of currency.
Il Is only the business man or poll
tician who takes notice of these
things and then they are only used
for politics. Holy Moses. what
sage!
National Economist: We die and
pass away. but governments are per-
petual and exist forever. Each gen.
Grafton is not only preparatory OF
another. but aids and assists in shap-
ing the liberties and happiness of
the generation that comes after it.
There is no doubt but that the
money power now Yields the controll-
Ing influence over national iegisla-
lion. This should never be in a re-
public where the people should rule.
II it continues enslavement Of the
masses will be the result
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Chicago Free Trader: Some of
these fine days after old Shylock has
Ril his bonds and mortgages payable
in gold along will come some party
of and for the people and demonetize
gold. and then old Shylock will wish
he hadn't been such monstrous
greedy shark. The gold dollar will
be worth not to exceed 60 cents. And
this is just what will happen when
we. the people get a congress wise
enough and courageous enough to
take the Shylock bull by the horns
and break his internal neck
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Southern Alliance Farmer: The
only stock in store with the Demo-
Gratis seems TO be bad whisky and
bulldozing. In this campaign such
methods will not avail to down the
just demands of the people. Those
people who have deserted everything
for principle will no: be driven from
their position by few hurley roughs
who attempt to get up a row for that
purpose. The people in this reform
movement are not in for fun but for
justice and bulldozing will not be an
effectual weapon with which to fight
them.
Journal of the Knights Of Labor:
The government should own and con-
troll the railroads in the interest Of
the people. This would mean re-
duced rates. better service and fair
revenue to the common treasury. No
watering of stock no enormous div
idends for selfish stockholders. no
fleeing the public. etc. There are
nearly 200 900 miles of railway in
the United States and yet the time is
easily within the memory of middle
aged men when the total railway
mileage of the country was less than
10. 900 miles.
Plow and Hammer: A prominent
lawyer of Tiffin. when asked if he
would support Brice for the presi-
dency il nominated. replied: Yes.
The millionaires run this country. and
they ought to run it. They always
have and always will. We do not
want any ragged breeches brigade
controlling affairs in this country"
We wonder how this lawyer would get
living if it were not for the ragged
breaches brigade. We wonder if this
ragged breaches brigade does not only
furnish the products, but through it
the money that allows the lawyer to
live from the sweat of other men >
brows.
Knights of Labor Journal: The
- 1914 business failures in the United
States last year-an increase of ], ZOO
over 189O-are not so much an indi-
cation of exceptional stringency in the
money market as of the tendency to
ward concentration in commercial
matters. The big capitalists are eat
ing up the smaller ones and. whether
the times are good or bad. it is be-
coming increasingly difficult for the
small trader or manufacturer to exist
Production and distribution are get
ting into fewer hands and it is for
those who suffer by the process to say
whether they wish their lot and that
Of their children to be the condition
of wage slaves to a handful of pluto
Gratis or partners in a national system
of industrial organization. There is
no alternative.
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Chicago Sentinel: What a world
OF injustice has been done under the
axiom of the greatest good to the
greatest number. and the majority
rules?" No one mans right should
be infringed upon-even if it be for
the good of all the rest of mankind.
That's justice. We used to believe in
the greatest good to the creates,
number" that is we used the express
sion. but after bordering over it we
concluded that it wasn't exactly wha,
we meant Under that rule rank in
justice may be heaped upon grea1
many. Justice to all" which also
means injustice to none is wha
we believe in.
Chicago Sentinel: On page IS o.
a book entitled Responsible Govern.
ment' Republican campaign tex
book written by Van Buren, Denslow
l. l. D., late associate editor of the