The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Tn. Tendencies Of the Times.

Ihe political parties, Or the leaders
of them, are blind if they cannot see
the tendency Of affairs. The masses
are aroused. They are thinking; they
are reading; they are studying polit-
ical economy. If political parties can
not or will not recognize the demands
of the people, they will be destroyed.
The farmers have been demanding
rights, which are theirs, for series
of years. They have never asked for
anything but justice; and no reason
able man in all the land would dare
to say that this great agricultural
country should not have it's .agricul-
ture'' protected. This country is rich;
it is rich in natural resources, rich in
the fertility of the soil; rich in mines.
rich in manufacturers; rich in it's
enormous accumulated capital of $780,
600, 100000. Our farms have made
every Western city; they have made
our railroads; they have built
our school houses and churches;
they have clothed fashion in
it's splendid garments and trinkets.
and have made us all that we are as
individuals of American society. Yet
others beside the farmer have become
rich, while the farmer, the producer
of most of the wealth, has not always
been able to make both ends meet.
. This tiller of the soil has not been
satisfied with the management of
politics in this country. He has not
<o +n~
and bum politicians and professional
place hunters to nominate a ticket,
and then drive the agricultural
classes to vote for it. He has been
"kicking," and he is yet kicking, and
just as sure as the sun shines, unless
he secures justice, unless he is guar
anteed equality before the law and
before Legislators he will smash all
the crockery in the political closet
before he gets through with his re-
monstrance against wrong and inius.
tice to himself. Farmers Voice.
The Autumn of the Millionaires.
No necessary work can long be left
neglected and if millionaires will not
distribute their own wealth and use
their great positions with great souls
and hearts, they will find that they
will come to be regarded by the
hungry and thirsty Demos much as
compensation reservoirs are regarded
by the inhabitants of the cities who
have constructed them to replenish
the stream which their thirst would
otherwise drink dry. The great for
tunes of so, 600, 600 and 800, 600, 600
and $500. 100000 will come to be re-
garded as the storage service upon
which mankind draw in seasons of
scarcity and drought. That is the
use which society will make of its
millionaires if millionaires do not an
ticipate the inevitable by utilizing
their millions. Some people imagine
that the progress of Democratic
socialism will tend to discourage the
accumulation of these huge fortunes;
it is more likely that Demos will re-
gard his millionaires as the cottager
regards his bees. These useful in
sects spend the livelong summer day
Ill COl1cCt1uS dHu AOdfulHS up III lnelr
combs the golden plumber of thou
sand flowers, but when the autumn
comes the bee wishes to take it's rest
and to enjoy the fruits of it's summer
toll. But the result does not alto
gether correspond with the eSpecta-
tions of the bee. A few more Jay
Goulds and the autumn of the mil
lionaires will be near at hand. w.
L. Stead in Review of Reviews.
The Age of Prophets.
For 400 years the human race has
not made a step but what has left It's
vestige behind. We enter now upon
great centuries. The sixteenth CEN
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