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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
ROTTENEST SORT OF ROT.

About the worst sort Of rot Reprkli-
can editors are inflicting upon their
readers at the present time are the
arguments advanced that the present
commercial depression is caused BY
distrust and dissatisfaction owing to
the uncertainties Of the new, admins
tratlon. It is really disgusting to
read such stuff when every intelligent
person who has given our economic
conditions careful study knows that
the causes antedate even Clevelana's
first ADMINISTRATION; that it is attrib-
utable to various causes, chief Of
which wrong financial policy, fos-
tered and sustained by both of the old
parties.
It is ridiculous for sane men Is as
sert that Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton was or is an uncertainty. as every
body knew he would take up where
Mr.. Harrison left off, just as he has
policy is concerned it is the kepubli-
can policy continued.
On the finance question there GER
tainly can be no complaint, and as to
the tariff it does not seem possible
that any one can be found who is so
foolish as to suppose Cleveland will
ever dare tink er with that. The cow
ardice of his party all through the
Fifty-second Congress and Cleveland's
failure to call an extra session Of Con-
gress to at once tackle that "robber
SYSTEM" is proof positive that the tar
iff will not be disturbed.
The fact is some of these same Re-
publican papers that are prating about
a ssmistrust Of the new 'administra-
tion," are smuggling up to Cleveland
on his anti-silver policy and getting
ready to be Included IN the bill of sale
when he sells out the Democratic
party to Wall Street.
When will these political bunco
steerers for Wall Street gamblers learn
that the people of this country have
got beyond the point where they can
be deceived by such miserable rot?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

OUR forefathers declared that all
men were endowed with certain in
alienable rights, among which werc
life, liberty, and the pursuit OF hap
piness." The sweat shops, the rail-
road companies and the Pinkertons
give the lie to the first. Our indus-
trial system. intensified by the greed
OF plutocracy, is grinding the live.
out Of men, women and children. Knt
we have liberty! The liberty to be
taxed. The liberty to work like slaves.
The liberty to starve or beg. The lib
erty TO want, and. worn out by the In
cessant tolls and cares of this life. the
liberty 70 die 2 pauper. But the pur-
suit OF happiness? All, yes! We can
pursue It, but under present con dition.
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it Hsppiness = nok lor the 49,, ".
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
The KETTLE CALLS THE POT BACK.
At IT. meeting recently held inf
Louisville, KY, the Republican League


At IT. meeting recently held inf
Louisville, KY, the Republican League
passed the following resolution:
Whereas the Democratic party for
the first time in thirty-two years has
succeeded to power in both the Execu-
tive and Legislative Departments ct
the government we now direct alton
ton to the fact that it should either
give the people q fair trial Of the
policy advocated in its national plat
form or admit that it gained su.
premacy by gross Misrepresentation,
and hypocrisy.
In view Of the fact that neither cd
party, when it had the chance has
tried just little bit, IN the past thirty
years, to redeem its pledges, the above
may be looked upon as either q huge
joke or the perfection of irony. The
idea Of either old party carrying out
its pledges to the people is too funny
for anything. There was a time when
platforms were constructed for the
purpose of rejecting the principles of
the party adopting them But SO far
as the two old fossil organizations are
concerned that time is passed. For
years they have constructed their
platform to catch votes The question
Of redeemirg the pledges made therein
never seemed to enter the minds of the
political bosses who constructed them.
Heretofore the failure to redeem
pledges has been explained away by
referring to a divided Congress, the
Senate Republican and the House
Democratic. While this was no ex-
cuse, for both parties could have CO.
operated to have redeemed the same
pledges, it was used and had it's effect
with a large number of persons who
| were made to believe that it was the
other party's fault Thus while APP
pealing to prejudice and hate, the
hasest elements, of human nature, the
old parties have to an extent not only
escaped from the responsibility in
volved in their pledges, but for many
actual crimes which they have COM
mitted. There is 40 doubt but that
the division in Congress, this Republi-
cam Senate and Democratic House
business, has been engineered at the
instigation and with the help of the
money power, for the sole purpose for
which it has been used-to defraud
and Cypress the people. But an unex-
pected revolution has turned the
tables. One Of the old frauds has a
''chance" and will be held strictly ac-
coun table, not only for what it does
but for what it don't do. The other
old fraud, seeing the predicament int
which its twin brother in crime is
placed, in frantic effort to clear its
own skirts of responsibility, migrate
fully demands that it's pledges be re-
deemed. If this isn't plain case OF
"dog eas dog" then we don't know
where we are at
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

WHILE the banks in the West and
even number of banks in neigh bor-
ing cities in the East have come to
Uncle Sans aid during the gold
troubles, it is significant fact that
no New York banks have offered as
sistance-the very fellows, too, that
the Government in the years past has
helped out of a number of close cor.
uerS
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THERE is scarcely condition, in
which the interests of labor are in
volved, that does not arise either from
bad legislation or the want of good
legislation, yet we are told by the
squirrel tailed political bosses that the
agitation of politics will hurt labor
organizations. When the fool killer
comes round and kills all the fools tho.
laboring men will be in proper con-
dition to deal with The rascals.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Is IT not strange kind of logic to
advance when the st. Louis Globe
Democrat declares that '.bank failures
have ceased, and the financial situation
is better instead of worse On account
OF those that have occurred?" And vet
this is the kind of poison conservative
business men continually suck from
the Globe-Democrat, and papers Of
that ilk.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

GROVER CLEVELAND weighs over
three hundred pounds, but there isn't
as much democracy in his whole body
as there was in Andrew Jackson's little
finger
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Plutocracy has greater cause to look
with suspicion upon any move to bring
about the emancipation OF labor than
the slave master had to feel uneasy at
the agitation Of the slavery question.
To the slave owner there wore millions
1T stake, to the plutocrats there are
hundred of millions Have we less
reason to suppose that the plutccrat
will relinqnish his hundreds Of mill
lions without resort to force than che
slave owner would give up his mil
lions? Farmers Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THERE was a lesson in that WalT
Street panic. In fact there were two.
lessons. 1t taught the people the need
OF more money, and learned Wall
Street not to indulge too freely in at
tempts to scare the people into a bond.
Issue
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
RAILROADS OWN LEGISLATURES.

The Omaha platform declares that
unless the people soon own the rail-
roads, the railroads will soon own the
people. There is great deal of truth
in that declaration and the railroads
have begun acquiring title already
by buying Legislatures. Illinois has a
law which provides that no railroad
company shall be liable for more than
$1,000 for killing person. Though the
killing be the result of the careless
ness of employees or the negligence of
officers, no jury can assess damages at
more than $4,000. In whose interest
was such a law framed and passed?
Does it look like some Of the railroad
companies property was in the Legis-
1ature?
An effort to repeal the law met
strong opposition. From whom? Who
could be interested in keeping the
value Of human life at the low price
Of $4,000 but railroad companies?
Would not the railroad managers fin d
the ownership of few members of
the Legislature desirable? Would they
try to buy them? Would such efforts
be successful? There is no room for
doubt about it. The people must own
the railroads or lose ownership Of
themselves The end is not far off
Which end do you think the more to
be desir ed? Then why don't yo1 ,alk
that way and vote that wav?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

HE Western or Southern Congress
man that allows himself to be side
tracked on the free silver question
ought TO have . tin can tied to his tail
and the dogs set on him.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

On the question Of the tariff the un-
terrified Democracy seem to be in
pretty much the same position OF I'M
certainty as was the man who. having
the tiger by the tail, could not decide
whether it would be better to let 90
Or hold On. They seem to b Letting
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Before the election the Democratic
campaign cry was more money and
less tariff" 1t seems now that they
are to give us ''less money and more
tariff
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

IT WAS perfectly fitting that the bat
tering down of the State House doors
OF Kansas was done with railroad
sledge-hammer in the hands of a Re-
publican.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THE Republicans are supporting
Cleveland in his gold bug financial
policy. And why should they not3
His policy is the same as Harrison's, o.
little samer, if any difference.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The West and South will take care
OF themselves, and also of any Con-
gressmen who sell to the gold bugs IN
the present fight for more money.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

CLEvELAND's friendship for the Jews
and 'Chinese-dear money and cheap
labor-especially recommends him to
Wall Street.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.
The fact is gradually dawning upon
1he mind of the average Democrat that
1T was the nomination and not the
platform Of the Chicago convention
that Mr.. Cleveland accepted. This is
made manifest in the fact that he not
only opposes bimetalism, but is in no
hurry to reform the tariff.
We are rapidly developing race OF
snobs in this country that will soon
make effete monarchists look to their
iaurels.
Clarkson made a significant almis.
zion when he declared before the
Louisville convention that the young
men were leaving the Republican
party.
When paper money was the 'excly-
iive currency in this country we en-
joyed as a nation during that period
the greatest prosperity we have ever
had before or since, and not a. dollar
of gold or silver was used in ordinary
business transactions.
Pennoyer is just now the best adver-
tised man in the country. The entire
pack of plute .yelpers are barking at
his heels
Good politics is good religion and
good religion is good politlcs,'' says
gene enc Here Is e subject for 4
series Of sermons for ministers who
have the courage to preach the truth.
A Democratic organ in South Caro-.
tina published an interview with what
1t termed "a prosperity, money-mak
ing farmer" and denounced in un-
measured tennis the Calamity howl
ers" It was afterwards ascertained
that the s'money-making' farmer com.
menced in 1857 and is now worth
$1,000, having accumulated an average
of S2S year.
In Kansas alone s,s51,O76 acres Of
land have been given to the railroads,
or larger area than twenty-five ol
the best counties in the State.
There are more than one hundred
cities in the United States that own
electric lighting plants. Some Of
these are lighted for 81 lamp per an.
mum, andin several cities the street
lights are furnished free of cost t.
the taxpayers, owing to the profit de-
rived from the commercial arc and in
candescent lights and yet at greatly
reduced prices TO the consumers.
1.-THE absence of leadership showr
in the Republican meeting at Louis
ville," says Henry Watterson, A'wouid
be of good .augury to Democrats i.
there were not evidences of like de
fciency ON .0ar own side of the line
n
It costs $500, 900 q year to fire sun.
rise and sunset guns at our forts .and
navy yards. The people will I'm time
not only abolish this useless custom,
but wipe out . good many other use
less things connected with the army
and navy.
The Santa Fe Railway Company
refused at the beginning of the year te
make any contracts with Populist
papers in Kansas for advertising in ex.
change for tranepor tation, but few
weeks ago some OF the Populist pub.
hshers found the company had sneaked
iii on the patent side of their papers
with its s.ad," but when notified the
auxiliary house very properly and
promptly removed the lad"
The late session OF the Nebraska
Legislature reduced the expenditure
of the State az compared with the pre-
ceeding Legislature 1896. s27. SO. This
Is the direct fruits Of Populism.
-
- Fellows who are making the
xrsa isSt cutlery aeainst ne MAR PEN
lsionS - wlioll INC nesrnsi shout
~ bouds x>e6sit nefs, Who bsve been
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The proper solution of the money
question will GO a long ways towards
solving many others.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

If WALL STREET wants any moH4
panics it is welcome to them. They
don't seem to hurt anybody else.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THE Democrats got the offices, but
what have the people got? A lot Of
broken pledges and an empty pocket.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The. battle in Virginia this year will
be fierce. The issue will be the peo-
pie against Clevelandism.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

EVEN Wall Street is yelling for more
money. 1t is wonderful how popular
this issue is.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

WE DON'T care how many panios
Wall street has, SO long as she ''pays
the freight
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THE best way to repeal THE ShermaA
silver law is by passing free coinags
silver hill
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

In the election Of Cleveland the
Democrats got their mule, what they
need now is rider.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The Democratic papers are burdened
with large gobs Of silence on the tariff
question.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

THE way national banks are ''bust~
ing" furnishes an excellent object les
son in favor of government banks.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

KEEP your eyes on the new Popunsr
administration in Kansas The State
officers are giving, attention to many
new reforms in the new administers
ton, besides the enforcement OF laws
that have been ignored for years
through the favoritism Of former adj
ministrations shown to corporations.
Railways, insurance companies and
trusts are finding new class of men
At the State house at Topeka to deal
with, and, that they must toe the
mark u
FREE silver is only the battle ground
-. hishs go rs1l $500 . a. -
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
LABOR creates capital and y -
greater importance.

A REFoRMER that don't work ct i =
not reformer ito hurt"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The civilized ~ nations of this
earth owe over $35, 900. 900, 900. It re-
quires AN army Of $500, 900 men work
ing 800 days in the year at ST. per day,
to pay the interest on this vast indebt-
edness, nearly every dollar of which is
held by men who are parasites on So
ciety. These debts do not represent
honest earnings, but cunning, avarice
and robbery. But these debts are only
a title ofthe aggregate indebtedness.
It is debts that are eating up the profits
Of industry debts founded on fraud.
The working man is a slave-a slave
to debt condition in which he had no
past in making.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Because the people have meekly fol-
lowed their party leaders in the years
agone, is no indication they will al
ways do So Mr.. Cleveland will dis
cover this when he attempts to sell
the Democratic party to Wall Street.
DR.. Briggs has one comforting
thought: he may be pronounced a
hereto but his Calvinistic brethren
cannot burn him at the stake. In that
respect the world is farther advanced
than it is in monetary science when it
still clings to relics of .barbarism.
The bank failures in Australia dur
ing the month of April had aggregate
liabilities of over $3.50, 900, 600. or 81, 500
for every family. Since then other
failures have. followed until the aggre-
gate losses foot up over 5000, 600, 900.
It is said that it is costing the gov
eminent $4,000 a week to entertain
the Duke of Veragua, an alleged de-
scendant of Columbus. at Chicago.
The Princess Infanta is also being
entertained while in this country as
the guest of the government. Royalty
comes high, but it seems we must have
it. The people will foot the bill, SO
go on with the dance.
The Peoples Protest published at
Cullman, Alabama, is a new accession
to the ranks of Populist Journals.
How is - possible u harnonize lazi-
ness and overproduction- alleged rea-
sons for hard times, SO often heard in
this country? If people are too lazy
to work how is it possible to have an
overproduction? If we have a real
overproduction, would it not be good
thing it there. were more lazy peoplef
Tarnation fools ought to quit making
such silly excuses.
The experiment of issuing $50 per
capita was tried in this country and
was followed by the most prosperous
period our people have ever known.
Let's get back the government in the
hands Of the great common people and
try 1t again:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

The Chemical National Bank of Chi
cago, the depository Of the World s
Fair funds. closed its doors after. doing
business as such depository only one
week. Kansas has $1,000 of her
Worlds Fair funds tied up in this
busted concern. The failure of the
Chemical caused the Columbus Ne
tionl Bank.of Chicago and the Capital
National Bank of Indianapolis to close
its doors and the failure of the Cap
ital forced the Premier Steel. Works of
Indianapolis, Ito shut down. Oh, no !;
National banks can't fail !''-Torch
Of Liberty.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Labor is alive, active and intelli-
gent; capital is cold, dead and mani
mate. The former should receive the
first consideration. Farmers Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07


newed indication Of reviving prosper
ity.-The Advocate.
Unless the Greater blundered badly
the two hands that accompanied every
mouth into this world are naturally
able to supply that mouth with all
that it requires. If society has erected
barriers and imposed restrictions that
prevent the hands feeding the mouth,
except on condition that they also
feed other mouths whose hands are
unwilling to work, then society is inn
properly interfering with natural
rights. x. Of Z. Journal.
The bank reserves Of the country
will range from six to twenty five per
cent OF their outstanding obligations
This is regarded as ample for the
banks which have no power to levy
taxes or issue money. These powers
belong to the government and can be
used at any time to create the means
of payment. The government has IN
its vaults 500, 900. 600 gold reserve.
which is over twenty-five per cent Of
its outstanding obligations which,
even under the present system Of
ignoring silver, are payable in gold.
Yet these banks insist that the govern
ment ought to increase its reserve 20
as to place it on solid financial basis.
Az specimen Of cheek, this takes the
cake. The banks at best are decidedly
shaky financial institutions, while the
government IS absolutely master Of
the finensiel Gitual - jll.t ~ - s 1
~ IA lil.l svt ~ y VA
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07

Save men from the wretchedness
and crime of this life and you need
worry but little about their salvation
in the next. Farmers Tribune.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-03-11


7. B. Fox came down from Sun
River, Montana. few days ago and
spent two days with bis sister, Mrs.
whitton. The mercury was down "a
SO below zero at his home before
having. Mr. Fox will find there i,
no place like Idaho in all his travels.
Bannock county Mormons fell into
the soup tureen aud not one of them
could get out. OF al the fat plum
10 the official basket not single one
fell TO them. Why2 and echo answer,
Hht2 Is not "a Bunnock Mormon a.
good as a Fremont Mormon 2 Ii mot,
why not
Our little NEWS carrier still bpwail-
the loss Gf his noble, faithful and
affectionate dog, Jupiter. Every da,
he speaks Of him tenderly and low
ingly and prays that some evil fate
may overtake tn" one who robbed
him OF his harmless. but true and
faithful friend.
Ex-presldent Harrison has accept
ed a law professorship in the Sanford,
California, University, and will talk
constitutional law TO the students.
What a wise move this is on the part
Of the ex.president II more of our
statesmen would look after the rising
generation and point them 10 the
right way We would have country
of better men and one of better and
wiser rulers.
The failure hy the Legislature to
pass AN apportionment hill leaves
Fremont, Bannock and Canyon cDun.
lies without representation in the leg
i>lature \ recall Of the body Just
adjourned in extra session for that
particular purpose would be worse
than Asiatic cholera to the state adj
minis,ration. And still by rights,
those counties ought to have represen-
IatiOn.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-03-11
IN Danger Of the Grand Jury.

Associated press dispatches going
out from Boise City duplicating mem.
hers of the Legislature with bribery
place some OF them in veryeserlOus
positions. These statements cannot
escape the eyes and cars of proper 81.
ficers and Of grand Jurors. And il is
not at all unlikely that Investigators
will follow that will bring out start.
ling developments.
But Whatever NAV be done in that
direction, The News is proud to say
Bingham county's representatives are
not in the class to lie investigated.
They came out with clean hands and
clear consciences.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-03-11
A Splendid bargain.

DIR. Givens, superintendent Of the
insane asylum, today made the pur-
chase If l40 acres of lapd of the Ben
jamin ranch for his institution. Con
sideration $3.50 for the entire l40
acres aud l40 inches of water. The
purchased land is enclosed, 30 acres
in alfalfa aud 20 acres seeded in
wheat One portion Of it is also a
timber claim, This is 10y all odds the
hest bargain made in real estate in the
vicinity OF Blackfoot within the last
10 years. Tie management OF the
the asylum is, all around, first class,
and this fortunate purchase when
utilized and cultivated will go far to.
wards making the institution self.
sustaining so far as farm products
can make il. The acquisition is a
splendid bargain,