The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
THE ALLIANCE.

battle cry for 1898 should be, free
coinage, more money, hands off by
Europe, strike at the ballot box
against the suggestions of monopoly
and gold mongers.
The Progressive Farmer: Daniel
Webster made the remark once upon
time, that 'swhen all our paper
money is made payable in specie on
demand, it will prove the most GER
tain means that can be used to fertil-
ize the rich mans field by the sweat
of the poor mans brow.
The Toiler: Brethren Of the. South
should take some good Northern re-
form paper and brethren of the
North should read the Southern pa
pers in addition to their own. This
would post each as to the work and
hindrances in each section and bring
US into closer fraternal relations
with each other.
Chicago Sentinel: When man
springs from an ambush upon an I'M
suspecting victim, Or sneaks up be-
hind him in the dark, and robs him
of five, ten or fifty dollars. he is
called q highwayman; but if he can
entangle his victim in network of
difficulties and thereby obtain his
purse or property at about one-fourth
It's value-behold, the, 'sinancier''!
The Vanguard: Take the worth
less stock out of Wall street. and
make and enforce laws against fine
schemes of finapciering and a great
big chunk of the financial question
will be settled. Trust certificates,
which represent nothing but doubt
full equity in a business, are always a
menace to finance. They are liable
to go to pieces any day, and carry
good securities with them.
Journal of Agriculture: Is it better
to show respect to the dead than the
living? Is it right for legislatures to
prove unfaithful to the public by adj
journing every time an eminent man
dies? 1t is just as near right for
private employees to "take the day.
every time a prominent man dies
and charge it up to the boss. The
only difference is the public servants
have hold of the purse and help them
selves.
Chicago Express: When ministers
of fashionable churches are requested
to preach on certain subjects that
would compel the arrai gnment of
some of their most prominent and
best paying pew holders, they gen
orally manage to squirm out of it,
some way. They make up all manner
of excuses and generally not one in
twenty is courageous enough to stand
mp, and like the old-time prophet,
"cry aloud and spare not
The TENNESSEE fToiler: We were
told that silver coinage would drive
gold out of the country; we tried $2.-
900, 900 a month and the result was
the reverse. Now gold is leaving
the country to an alarming extent
yet We are not coming a dollar of
silver. Let the gold go! The most
prosperous days America ever saw
was when the people had not dollar
of gold in circulation; let the gold
ring beware, the people may drag
down the golden calf and demonetize
gold, for if congress had the power
TO demonetlze silver legally, which
we deny, it has the power to demone-
tie gold.
Chicago Sentinel: An unusual
number of heart-rending arguments
i'll favor Of government ownership of
railroads have been made during the
past month in the way Of railroad ac-
cidents, attended with more or less
loss of life. In one case over forty
victims Wee crushed to death or
roasted alive with boiling Gil. The
details are sickening to contemplate.
man boarding car nowadays may
well be said to carry his life in his
hand. When will the people take
the matter of transportation in their
own hands and put an end to these
wholesale murders by engaging only
competent and careful employees?
The Progressive Farmer: The
efforts of some OF our newspapers and
nearly all OF the politicians to injure
the Alliance, are as great as eyer. In
the past they adopted a little better
mode of warfare; but now there is
nothing too low for them to do. They
still avoid the issues involved and
attack the leaders, call names, style
the Alliance platform ''undemocrat
ic," '..socialistic, "nihilistic' and
.'con>munistic, none of the term.
being in even a remote degree appro
pirate. But they think that style O.
warfare effective. Doubtless man,
good men have been impressed, bu
the most of our people have on theil
thinking apparatus; they are watch
ing and waiting; they cannot b.
blinded much longer.
National Watchman: Howeve
much civilization may require, or tn
great progress of modern though
and intelligence demand rapid in
terchange of ideas among commun
tiles, it is, nevertheless, true tina
the daily press of the country at tn
present time does not truthfully o
even fairly register passing events