The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
THE ALLIANCE.


John Swinton: Preach all the SER
mons you can, talk all the morality
you choose, teach temperance as
1ealously as you please, but until
men, women and children have homes
OF their own, there will be vice, i'm
morality and drunkenness, prostitu-
ton, pauperism and crime.
Labor Tribane: The Western states
have mostly surrendered to the Peo-
pies party, snd it is now moving
eastward with new recruits from
every land, and will thus march on
ward until the monopoly is dethroned
and the people rule the land.
Chicago Express: Say! You "Calam-
ity Howler"! You who work fourteen
hours out of the twentyfour and are
glad to get plenty of hog and hominy
for yourselves and the little ones! How
would you like to dine on ..terrapin"
at 500 dozen, as they did at the in
auguration of our 'sreform" president?
Inter Ocean: The furnishing of
light, like the furnishing of water,
should not be in private hands. They
are both positive necessaries and
should be made as cheap as possible
to everybody. In the hands of cap
italists they cost whatever is neces-
sary to add millions to the boards of
the men who control the supply.
They regulate the price to suit their
own desires.
Topeka Advocate and Tribune
Again the railroad party is victorious.
Two years ago good railroad rate
bill went from the Populist house to
the Republican senate and found a
grave there. This year the only fair
bill on the subject went through a
POpulist senate and met it's doom in
Republican house. That was the
exact purpose for which the supreme
court created that house.
Journal of Agriculture: Congress
men vote away billions of dollars, yet
are under no bond to handle the
money right; but the treasurer
having charge of small amount of
money must give bond for faithful per-
Torrance of duty. Bank cashiers are
just as trustworthy as congressman,
and no more likely to inappropriate
money. Private interests are guard
ed, but the public servants need no
curb; they are beyond suspicion!
But if the public treasury gets
looted, it's small matter, you know.
Senator Stewart: Cowardice and
poverty make slaves, and the Roths-
childs have learned the way to do it.
Does it not mean something that less
than SO, 900 men have in their pos
session more property than all the
rest Of the world can lay claim to-?
These $4,000 men are those who con-
troll and debauch legislation. They
deal in money, and by dealing in
money they deal in the rights of the
worlds inhabitants. They are now,
as they have been, seeking to further
control the liberty of all men in this
country. The reason they have been
able to do this thus far is because
the representatives of the people
have been towards and have bowed
down before them.
National Watchman: The first
purely and distinctive Populist meas
ure became law under the postoffice
appropriations. Hon. Tom Watson
forced an amendment on to that ap-
preparation bill which granted $1O,-
900 as a fund for experimenting tn
free rural postal delivery, This will
not be attempted in viii. ..oes or cross
road towns -. Int AMONG the farmers
ate. Mr. Watson thinks this
experiment will develop into gener-
al free delivery among the agricul-
tural portion of the country. AS it
now stands, the farmers help pay for
delivery of mail in cities from three
to ten times each day. Is 1t any more
than fair that the farmer should have
chance at some of these fav ors ?
hence this experiment.
Topeka Advocate and Tribune:
There is work to be done. Let the
Populists in every county nominate
their best and truest men for county
clerks. Then if they are rejected by
the voters it is sign that.-the people
believe in the policy of making cleo
ton certificates to order. The records
made lately by both parties are
enough to give the Populists very
large majority of the county clerks
this fall, and when they are elected
there will be no question but what
the duly elected representatives will
get their certificates. True, accord
ing to the supreme courts decision,
the secretary of state may designate
the members of the legislature, but
the present secretary does not want
to exercise such power and nobody
wants him to do it. Look after the
county clerkship.
Virginia Sun: Mr. Hoke Smith
editor of an Atlanta newspaper, is
secretary OF the interior fol
Mr.. Cleveland. This is the Hoke
Smith, who, when General Weaver
was in Georgia, set on foot ruffiar
bureau to mob him and drive him
out of Georgia. Mr.. Hoke Smith
printed the most rascally. brutal
living accounts about General Weav