The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-15
DS-PLUTOCRACY WINS: TAILS

the two old parties to kill it in many
localities and even then it "bobs up
serenely," and like Banquo's ghost it
will not stay in the hole they dig for it
Great West.
The peoples party licked the plat
ter clean in four counties in Colorado
at the late elections, besides electing
officers in several other counties.
Truth by way freight is little slow
but is getting there just the same.-Al-
lance Tribune.
"A reporter on en- eastern paper re-
Gently testified in court that reporters
were paid for suppressing the truth
and printing matter which they know
is not true" Our metropolitan press
is the most rotten element in our gov
eminent to-day.-Alliance Tribune.
Congressman Crisp, of Georgia, who
was made speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, belongs to the conserva-
tive wing of the democratic party, a
Hill-Tammany-Ring man, opposed to
free coinage of silver, and an anti
Cleveland man. His idea of tariff re-
form is, not to NEEDLE with the present
system further than to place WOOL
binding Irvine aud one or two other
articles on the free st-Great West.
The Charlotte Chronicle intimates
that the North, Carolina congressman
will do pretty much as they please in
Washington, regardless of what the al
lance asks them to do. That is all
right They may do that way. Sew
eral members of the legislature of 1889
did that way, too. but when the roll
was called they didn't answer the next
time an election was held. Our con-
gressmen are free men. The voters
can vote for who they please next year.
Progressive Farmer.
The Reformer wants to say right
here, that as long as man is true to
the principles of reform, so long as his
own actions are all right, all the cal
umny the enemies can heap upon him
will not effect him, for the people will
stand by their true and trusty leaders
But let man begin to hedge and dodge
in such a way that his own actions show
cowardice, insincerity or duplicity, and
his name is "DenniA" This hint is
not without significance. A few men
do not carry the reform movement in
their pockets. Stick a pin down here!
National Reformer
We were present at nominating
convention of the peoples party in
northeastern Ohio last summer, and
when the convention adjourned heard
the boast that they had ticket COM
posed entirely of good farmers We
prophesied then that the ticket would
be beaten by the failure to recognize
city interests. We were laughed at,
but the election returns showed that
the peoples party wasn't in it in that
county. Last year in Kansas we saw
good men defeated because in making
up the ticket the city was ignored.
The interests of city and country peo-
pie are identical, and the sooner we
recognize that in our nominating con-
ventions the better.-CincinnatiH Herald.
The secretary of the treasury asks
congress to reduce the tax on national
banks to one-fourth Of one per cent,
and to authorize them to issue bills to
the full market price of the bonds de-
posted as security. This would be
practically loaning money to the banks
at one-fourth of one per cent on secur-
ity which derives it's sole value from
the fact that it is mortgage upon the
taxable property owned by the people.
Farmers own four-fifths Of this taxable
property. which gives value to govern
ment bonds as well as to all other forms
Of credit obligations. Yet when the
farmers ask that this property shall be
deemed sufficient security for loan of
money at two per cent.-eight times as
much as Foster proposes that the banks
6hall psy-the old party press and poll
ticians are Mortified at the presump-
tion.