The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-29
INSULTING THE.EAsMgR.
Partisan Editors whs Say That He swants
S0mething for Nothing" t

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Something for Nothing"
The partisan papers and profes
sl0nal politicians, have been havin,
much to say of the various demand
of the labor organizations for legisla
tive relief and hold out the idea tina
the advocates of the sub-treasur,
plan want end expect 10 get some
thing for nothing" Agreater fallacy
was never in print and we don't be-
lieve the people are longer going te
be influenced by bootlicking office
seekers.
| The fight upon the sub treasury and
land-loan plans says the National
Reformer. has been particularly bit.
ter. The vOcabularies of irony and
ridicule have been exhausted in long
editorials which editors with more
paunch than brains have enormously
called argument The impression
they seek TO make on more or less
gullible readers is that the farmers
want something for nothing. In
other words they want money
without giving something in
return. Were it possible to
| exchange some of the so-called able
editors for money the feat would be
accomplished. But as they seem to
be already sold teeth and toe-nail.
soul body and breeches it is hardly
possible by this means to demonstrate
that such thing can be done But
seriously. in view of the fact that this
very proceeding has been gong on
| continuously for more than thirty
years and these able editors have
been either ignorantly aware of it or
criminally silent it comes with very
poor grace for them to criticise the
farmer severely. even though he did
want slice off the same piece of pie.
Let us look at the facts as they
really are, as even the able editors
will not attempt to deny.
The bondholder took fifty cents
in coin, bought dollar greenback,
exchanged it for government bond.
and the government made that dolla
bond worth one dollar in coin. 1t
did this by legislation. The bond
holder gets 100 cents in coin' for the
fifty cepts he gave the government.
lie got fifty cents for nothing on
every fifty cents of investment Do
the able editors deny this and have
they ever paraded the fact before the
public as an act of injustice? The
government deposits millions of dol
lars in national banks for their use,
free of interest Under CIeveland's
administration over $50. 900. 900 was
in possession of national banks at one
time. Here is case of something
for nothing which the able editor
has not been swift to rush into print
with in the shape of a scathing edi-
torial.
by favorable legislation the gov
eminent doomed the bonds to a pre-
MUM of 20 per cent and then bought
them in. paying bondholders in pre-.
mlums over forty million dollars.
Something for nothing Where is
the able editor that has honestly pro-
tested against such ruinous proceed
ing? The government helped the
Pacific roads 10 over 1920 600 600. |
Another case of something for moth
ing Speak out able editors
YOU gone on record on this? Answer
these questions:
What did Jay Gould give for the
water in the stock of the Western
Union Telegraph company?
What did Vanderbilt give for the
water in the stock of his roads?
What did G. P. Huntington. Tom
Snnff "a fo, ~
stock? Nothing.
What do you call the rates charged
On the basis of this fictitious stockp
for nothing.
'FOr shame! TO sit quietly for
years while farmers were working
ike Irojans to keep the wolf from the
1oor to see them loaded with taxes
ieeced by railroad companies, and
'obbed by banks and loans companies:
% see their farms slipping out of their
grasp because of these gigantic steals,
While you raise not a voice against
mem; and now, when they ask to be
'eleased from the clutches Of Shvloclv
money lenders. with a government
oan at rate Of one and two per cent
ANt - eiieVii AZ ShctA SCO Cllo L dCIIlC rail- |
Dads two per cent more than if
harged the exposition companies at
New Orleans or Philadelphia, eighty
me per cent better than it got from
he bondholder; with best security in
he World-better than mortgages on
better than gold-and YOU
alsed the measly hypocritical cry
hat the farmer wants something for
othlng'
Now. when he is sinking deeper
nd deeper in debt; when the farms
re rapidly slipping out of his grasp;
Then the homestead, upon which
lsping babes have grown
nto manhood and womanhood.
nd which their united efforts ,
ave made to blossom as the rose. is
bout to go from them under a mort
age. when the price of products of /,
Is labor, already below the cost of
reduction, is getting lower every {
ear. he raises his voice and asks to 6
ONE within the pale of the protection j
the government he has made and +
aved. and of which he forms the {
lost important part he is met at ,
ne very threshold ofhis petition with =
ne cry calamity howler paternalism. 8
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