The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-01-06


end to dealing in fictitious products
they should call meetings in every
neighborhood and appoint two or
three persons to write letters to bothgl
their United States senator's and ask
them to vote for such a law.
National Watchman: Politicians
are already chuckling over their cam
paicn frauds. In = group of them.
one was heard to exultingly say:
..We beat out the brains Of the
Farmers Alliance with that stuffed
club of a fLrce pill.' Oh. we know
'em. Line them up every time, gen.
tlemen. on something like that"
And the rest smiled audibly.
Journal of the Knights of Labor:
We hear nothing now in the way OF
talk about civ l-service reform. The
sentiment that public Office is pub
lie trust seems to have been lost In the
landslide of couple OF months ago.
md now the actuating idea seems to
he Ito the victors belong the spoils.
Adlais axe, rather than Growers
platitudes is the object Of the Demo.
cratic worship at present
~
Journal OF Agriculture: A great
MANY people do not think for them
selves. Even some congressman and
United States senators in the last two
wears have been first for free silver
then against it then for it again.
Such vascillation is pitiab BILE when it is
seen that such actions are due not so
much to a lack OF intelligence as to
lack OF moral courage. and a greater
desire to serve a party than u people.
West Coast Mail: The following is
a gem of thought which furnishes
food for rejection: LAS long as our
civilization is essentially one Of prop
erty, of fences. of eNclusiveness it
will be Knocked by delusions. Our
riches will leave us sick; there will
be bitterness in our laughter and our
wine will burn our mouths. Only
that good profits which we can taste
with our doors open and which serves
all men,"
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Industrial World: Steam and cleo
tricity have changed mans relations
with nature. Steam and electricity
have solved the question Of produc-
ton. Steam and electricity are mo-
nopolized by a few individuals who
are enabled by this means to wielt
the power of millions by with holdine
the means of production. Monopoly
of land. money and machinery are
the three chains that bind the limbs
of humanity and drags it at the char
lot wheels of Ca sar kothschild.
Samuel .Gompers. president Ameri
can Federation of Labor: The effort
of the organi ed wage workers t.
seek amelioration in the condition
the wealth-producers. of our countr,
by gradual evolutionary methods AM
to keep pace with the development
and progress of improved machiner
and the concentration Of wealth is no
met in a spirit of fairness. but op
posed and antagoni ed as If GU
movement were destructive rathe
than construct We that we were enc
mics instead of friends Of the people
**x
National Economist: The leaven
working Sherman admits upon tn
stump that when national banks ar
forced to withdraw their notes be
cause of the payment of governmen
bonds the federal government mus
fill the vacuum thus created II
says: The issue OF circulating note
is not indispensable to their contir
uance and when that franchise fall
upon the government after all its Of
legations shall have been fully pai(
it will be in position. without th
aid of the states to furnish an ampl
currency for the conven ience of til
p ople.''.
Journal Of the Knights Of Labo
The Republican organs are trying
explain away the low price of whea
Why gentlemen. there is no use
wasting columns of your valuab
space in attempting to explain thi
The explanation is simple; mol
easily accounted for in fact ths
the landslide from which your part
has suffered. The reason of the ia
in the price. of wheat is this: II
spectators want to get the farmer
wheat at Il low price. and have hs
the volume of circulation manip,
lated accordingly. But do not be u
easy. BY spring. or even before tt
present congress expires. you will
able to boast again Of the rise in II
price of wheat. 10 be- sure Il
wheat will be all out of the hands
the farmers and into those of Il
spectators by then. That need n
stop your boastlng: Us you ha
boosted frequently. and with as lit
cause. before.
National View: The solid South
fairly divided for the first time Gin
the war by two white parties. a,
now that the utter overthrow Of r
publicanism has killed this section
issue, it will continue to be so {
vided. For the first time since t
war a genuine campaign has oxyge
ated the stagnanI atmosphere
Southern politics. The hard groun
of prejudice and provincialism
been broken up as by plowshar
and new ideas political moral e<
nomical have been sown broadca
and mean a fruitful harvest in futu
Il fsvy:,e