The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-03

doubt. Is there not truth in thes'
words from Viewers speech in Sal
Francisco?
Wendell Phillips said to me in his owl
residence in Boston, ''Mr. Weaver, Their
are but few people who understand tn
movement which eliminated in the civil
| war. That movement was the grea
battle for the freedom of labor. but it i
yet to be fought out ON this continent he
cause the result of that war was simpl.
tine extension of the battle, not to con
clude with the freedom of the black man
but to continue with the moneyed powe
which began where the slave power lost
and which great battle of labor has yet Il
be fought on the American continent
You may live to see it and probably will
but will be called home long before thai
contest will take place.
These words of Phillips, 1.-THE
scourge of the American con.
SCIENCE" are 'the long and the
short of it," They express the truth
that is behind the peoples party.
The downing of monopolies, the
free coinage of silver, are but phases
of the great war for the freedom OF
labor.
Some one has happily discerned
and said that the tight at Homes
stead was the Bunker Hill of the
great war now on. Bunker Hill
had its Washington and Yorktown
to follow it; and this war must have
it's leader to accept the surrender
of it's enemies. Will it be Weaver,
or some one later?
In the meantime, the battle of
ballots goes on. Hear what Colonel
Mcclure, the veteran republican
editor of the Philadelphia Times,
says about the late eye-opening and
dismay-provoking election in Ala
bama:
This extraordinary exhibition of
strength in Alabama will be a double
edged sword to cut both parties in the
presidential battle. 1t will do much to
unsettle several Of the southern states,
and it will do quite as much to unsettle
o dozen of the western and northwestern
states. Leaders of both sides will do
we'll to look out for the locomotive when
the peoples party bell rings.
Here in Ketchum we didn't know
what had happened in Alabama
when the press news came. We had
to wait till we got eastern papers
to know the Importance and signifi-
canoe of that election to the peo-
pies party. The policy of the en-
envy, who is in possession of the
telegraph news bureau, seems to be
the ostrich stick-your-head- the
bush one. When Weaver spoke to
the immense gathering of people in
San Francisco, the associate press
dispatches gave it just six lines
Does not futile policy like this,
to prevent the bigness of a new
movement being known, indicate
the conscious weakness of losing
cause in the old conservative par
ties? truth crushed to earth will
rise again." and the numbers of the
peoples party will leak out in spite
of the associated press censorship.
When good thing is sin the air.
it goes, as we'll as a bad thing like
the cholera, on its triumphant way
round the world. The cholera is
coming this way, but we may be
sure the peoples party is going the
other way round the world, where,
on its way, it will meet, for instance,
in Australia peoples party that is
ahead Of it in already practically
achieved reform measures. Says
the Christian Union Of New York
Australia is forging ahead with expert
ments for the solution Of the worlds in
dustrial problems. The first country to
Introduce the 8-hour day, and the dem
0cratic not bureaucratic state owner
ship Of railroads, she may yet be the first
to solve the problems of labor wars, COM
pulsory ldleness and the concentration of
wealth. The Victorian administration is
about to introduce q bill for the estab.
lishment of boards of Cancellation to pre-
vent strikes aud lockouts. and another to
authorize the loan of public money at
three per cent. to farmers wishing to buy
land and build homes. This second
measure is decidedly radical. but the loan
it propnsea is certainly less hazardous
than the loan our own government con
making to the Nicaragua Canal
company. The fact that the money is
lent to the poor to be apent at home, in
stead of lent to the rich to be spent
abroad does not make the measure any
more ohjectlioably socialistio,
From this it will be seen that the
new democracy. under the southern
cross, has successful government
ownership of railroads, and is going
to try our Farmers Alliance Sub
treasury" schemes that we are all so
afraid Of here. Australia is younger
than the United States, is the secret
of her being in advance Of us in
democracy, not that she is nomi-
nally under the rule Of the mother
country, that we cut loose from oyer
q hundred years ago. 1t shows
that the genius of the world is de-