The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-05-26
Well Brother will let the beast have your VOTE too7
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

The suggestion of an income tax Of
8 or 10 per cent on all incomes in ex-
~esss of $4,000 per year, payable in
gold, is pertinent one just at this
time, and would meet the hearty ap-
prevail of everybody outside Of gold.
bugdom.
The announcement of the President
that there is a limit to executive physi-
cal endurance, and that the White
House gates are closed against the
offce-seeking mob, causes consterna.
ton in the Democratic camp. The
q cry with many is, "What are We
Lere for?''
PRESIDENT CLEvE1AND's rule shut
ting out the common mob of office
seekers was perhaps good one and
necessary, but he finds, the Senators
and Congressman as hungry as ever,
and they are no doubt pleased with
the rule, as it gives the Office broker
age business q boom wholly unex-
pected
CONSIDERING the number of bank
country within the past few months,
and the fact that most Of them were
national banks, s'the best banking
system the world ever saw Is not
bearing the test that is calculated to
inspire confidence. and if the system
Is not soon revised upon the basis Of
security, the common people will con-
clude that our modern ''financiers"
know very little more than clod-
hoppers.
UP TO date not a farmer in the
country has been heard from who is
shedding any tears over the failure
Of the National Cordage COM
pany. This company was
organized for the purpose Of controll-
ing the manufacture and sale of bind.
ing Irvine and other articles made
rom sisal. These robbers organized
to rob the farmers, but in the failure
OF the company the robbers have been
robbed by men who were undoubtedly
members of this company of robbers
THE Wall Street gamblers, who were
in the midst of the furry there re-
Gently, are evidently astonished at the
Indifference of the business men of the
country - merchants, manufacturers
farmers and all other classes of legiti-
mate industry, to this Wall Street
storm. Having purposely produced
this panic in the hope of soaring the
country and forcing the issue Of
bonds, they are amazed to find the
legitimate business interests moving
along without tremor
IT is fatiguing to read the comments
of Republican papers on the alleged
humiliation of the United States in the
hauling down of the American flag
raised over Hawaii at Honolulu, over
looking the fact in their zeal that bor-
NCAo III R0S 0AAoAAs UAdb WHICH, tuO u2Q
was raised over the defenseless
Hawaiians it was the act of usurper.
contemplate and cowardly. and en-
tirely foreign to every principle upon
which this government was founded.
! THERE are, perhaps, one hundred
annexationists in Canada for every one
that may be found in Hawaii, and yet
we think that even the swashbucklers
who are roaring about the hauling
down of the American flag hoisted at
Honolulu will hesitate before hosting
"Old Glorv" over Toronto or Quebec
and assuming protectorate over our
Canadian neighbors. The jingo blath-
erskites who feel so terribly humili-
ated in the lowering of the flag at
Honolulu can possibly see the differ
ence in the two cases. Uncle Sam
could play the bully with defenseless
Hawaii with impunity; whereas, in
Canada he would get fight on his
hands instanter. No true and loyal
American citizen can feel any pride in
the raising Of that flag over Hawaii.
It was brave and honora BILE to haul It