The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-21
Editorial Briefs.


nominate candidates for governor.
lieutenant-governor and attorney
general. An address has been issued
that declares against State banks and
wildcat currency; for free silver and
an equalization of taxation, and COM
mends the Populist admins tration in
those States where they have control
PAPERS like the St Louis Globe
Democrat arc of some good after ALL
When they so earnestly commend Mr..
Clcveland's administration and praise
his financial policy. Democrats may,
with a good deal of earnestness, in
quire, "Wnere is MIR. Cleveland leading
us?''
SOME people know when they have
enough. but the Ohio Republicans
don't seem to be of that kind. when
they take up again the worn out and
trampled upon issue Of protection. II
there is anything deader than McKin-
leyism in this country do not disturb
it, as McKinleyism is offensive enough
without anything worse.
THE advice of the President to the
country to keep cool in the present
financial emergency ought to have a
soothing and reassuring effect, and
would have, perhaps, if anybody but
the gold bugs had any confidence in
his future policy. As he has clearly
outlined his purpose to force the single
standard theory as against bi-metal.
ism, he will find that his recent utter
ances counseling GOODNESS will not allay
the popular indignation that is rapidly
rising in the Wsst and South against
his already defined purpose Of handing
this country over to Wall St1 eet.
THE Rocky Mountain News, in a
recent issue, had one of the pattest
hits in the way Of cartoon that has
been put out lately. Cleveland is rep
resented as making frantic effort tc
ride unicycle, the wheel of which il
the figure of gold dollar. Uncle Sam
is standing by with a bicycle, the big
wheel of which is silver dollar
and the small one gold dollar. Uncle
Sam says: II told you, Grover, You
couldn't ride that darned one-whee
concern. When you pick yourself VI
and brush off your clothes just jump
on to this bicycle and you'll sail along
like a daisy through the rest of your
administration.
REPUBLICAN papers and politician,
that are charging Clevelands admin
istration with the response bil:ty Of the
present financial distress of the
country ought to give the people
credit for having a little sense left,
even if they have been foolish enough
to allow the country to be brought t.
the verge of bankruptcy by trusting
the newspapers and politicians. &C
back to March 4, 1885. and you fine
that Cleveland took up where Arthur
left off. Marh 4, 1889, Harrison tool
up where Cleveland left Off. March 4,
1898, Cleveland resumed business,
again, taking up where Harrison left
off, and not change in all these year,
that could distinctively be called Re
publican or Democratic, but carrying
out, and continuing policy that il.
jointly Democratic Republican, and
one party as much responsible for it a,
the other.
IT is matter of pride and great
deal of satisfaction to reform workers
generally to note the steady increase
of reform papers springing up over the
country, as well as the improvements
being made on many that have been
in the field for some time. Many of
our brethren who have labored for
years and suffered the privations and
hardships incidental to reform pub
fishers life, are sharing more fully in
commercial patronage, some of them
getting chance at the pie counter,
and are losing the old-sime gaunt ap-
pearance. Yet, there are
many who are pulling hard
against the current" to whom
our sympathies go out and
who should have far more generou,
support than many of them are getting.
WELL, the banks go on busting"
business houses still going to the wall
money stringency increasing, prices OF
products getting lower, times getting
hard, trade getting duller, business.
men discouraged, confidence weaken
ing, gloom and dependency settling
over the country like dark pail, and
yet we are told all this will be removed,
cleared up, and the bright sun of pros.
perity is to burst upon us-when?
Why, when Congress is convened i'll
extra session sometime in September
If Congress can do this why put 1t of
three months?
THE Pharisees of the country are in
perfect rage over the opening Of the
Worlds Fair gates on Sunday. Like
their prototypes of old they ''are
straining at gnat and swallowing q
camel" As a matter of duty the
Worlds Fair ought to DO closed on
| Sunday to give rest and recreation to
the thousands Of employees who labor
inside the gates. As to the absence
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