The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-06-02

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ing out of every Eastern mortgage and
money loaning company from their
midst The wealth of the West is
abundantly able to take care of her
interests.
YOU &rs hearing great deal about
Cleveland Democracy of late, are
you not? This talk. too, is not coming
alone from Republican papers, but
Democratic papers are talking about
it and speaking of it in a way that
leads one to believe that Cleveland is
heading new branch of that party.
One thing is certain, and that is, that
Cleveland has branchsd off from the
Chicago platform of Last year That
declared in favor of metalism, while
Cleveland stands squarely for the
single standard and is the open enemy
of silver. If Cleveland stands for any
kind of Democracy at all it must be
s'CleveiAad Democracy as he has
surely rspudiated the Democratic Ma
tlonal platform OF 1893.
If OUR American Congress refuses to
yield to the policy of Mr.. Cleveland in
his enmity to silver, but in the face of
his wishes and the demands of Wall
Street, will he dissolve Congress as
Emperor William did Germany's
Reichstag? Possibly we may not
have got that far-much to the regret
of the gold bugs, but as a plutocracy
we are making rapid strides in that
direction. ~
Is IT possible that the editors of the
daily press Of the country and the
politic ians are in ignorance Of the
height and depth, length and breadth,
Of the refor m sentiment of the coun.
try, of the frmness and determined
purpose of the people to overturn and
augurate the reforms they demandf
Is it possible that they are ignorant
Of the drift of popular sentiment, and
that it can't be changed by pooh
poohs, SCOTS and sneers? What an
awakening they will get in the near
future!
How very provoking it evidently is
to the proud and naughty self-consti-
tuted governing classes to see the com.
mon people, the mud stills, the cowhide-
booted fellows from between the fur
rows, greasy mechanics and begrimsd
laborers, coming forward and saying,
1--WE will take hand, too, in govern.
ing; will take some of the Offices and
their enholuments; will see that the
laws are administered in way that
will insure equal rights to all with
special privileges to none-in short,
restore the government to the people
again" No wonder the privileged
classes are mad and in their impotent
rage hiss s'anarchistsp'
THIS is grand age in which we live.
Aside from the grand achievements
the world is making in science, art,
literature, and in the field of inven.
lions, we are inaugurating the grand
est reforms in the worlds history
ushering in an era in which the grand.
est ideals of government will be fully
realized in the universal prosperity,
perfect contentment and supreme hap.
piness of the people; when poverty
and crime will have been banished,
and under systems that may be COM
pretended in the principle Of the uni.
versal brotherhood of man, the broad.
est statesmanship and most exalted
ideas of true manhood and woman
hood will be fully developed.
WE DO not believe it is possible to
name single evil in this country that
would not be removed or improved by
financial reform as suggested by tho
Peoples party. Our social and politi-
cal interests are more largely in-
fuenoed by money than any other ele-
ment. A reform that would make the
dollar mans servant and not his mas
ter, make it merely the represent ativs
and not the dictator Of values, would
have a favorable effect upon every
other reform.
HAVE you noticed in the accounts Of
the numerous bank failures recently
that almost invariably at the end Of
each dispatch the depositors are aa,
sured that they will b paid in full4
This seems 70 b stersotypsd wAv
that banks have when they break q
.'brsaking u eenay.''