The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-10-13

| Resolve, That we here assembled,
! both Republicans and Democrats, DO
sever our connection with the old par
ties and that we recognize the OmahA
, platform to be essentially the platform
!: of the people, North, South, East anu
West, embodying and crystallizing the
sentiments OF the people; and
Resolved, That henceforth we swear
our fealty to the Peoples party.
| There is soon to be called generaF
meeting in Denver where all ex-sold.er1
will be invited.
1 Stewards Resolution.
| Senator Stewart, some time since, in
| trOduced in the senate q resolution
providing for committee of five sen
ators to be appointed to ascertain
whether any senator was connected
with any national bank rs a stock
holder or otherwise. .
| There is q law which says. that IsO
stakeholder. or officer Of a national
bank shall be eligible to 4 seat in the
! senate. Senator Hill Of New York OPP
posed Stewards resolution, saying rs
| was uncalled for and was a rejection
| OH the senators.
| Why is it reflection on the soma
tors? Would it be q reflection ON 8
man who was stealing corn to be Or
dered out Of the corn crib-he Is VIC
lating a law which is on the statute
books, and SO would these senators who
are stockholders in national banks Ne
defying the law of the land They are
! working in their own selfish lAtelcSsSs
the same us the corn thief, for they are
in favor Of and clamOring to increase
the circulation Of national banks. IL
they are personally interested, anu OF
course they are, why give them the "p-
portunity to develop their selfishness
to the infinite detriment of the LABOR
ing classes Should the law be en-
forced the senate would be almost dc
populated, but what of that? Better so
than open violation of the law.
The Governor OF south Carolina APP
pea1ed to.
| Some of the South Carolina farmers.
through the Alliance, are appealing TO
the governor Of the state to call an
extra session of the legislature to i'm
provise some means Of saving their
property, and themselves, from fin6n-
cial ruin. The price of cotton is SO low
that it is hardly worth the time and
labor required to get it to market. Tbs
governor is receiving such appeals as
the following:
Whereas The money sharks and gold
bugs have contracted the volume OF
money so that there is practically NO
money in the country to move the cot
ton crop, and s.E 1srss
| Whereas, Congress does not seem to
| intend to give necessary relief in time
! to save us from bankruptcy therefore
| be it
| Resolved, First, that we earnestly ap-
peal to the governor of South Caro-
lima to call an extra session Of the
| legislature, so that we may be enabled
| to pay our debts without bankrupting
ourselves and starving our wives and
| children.
Resolved, Second, that under the pres
| ent conditions there is no way whereby
we can meet our debts without sacrific-
ing our homes and property, which we
do not propose to do.
Take our lives, but do not starve our
wives and children.
Contraction the Cause.
One of the requisites Of a proper
financial system is suf1iciency Of sound
and stable currency. But that is NOT
all that is needed. 1t should be beyond
the power Of any body Of men to
manipulate the volume in circulation.
either by contraction or expansion. for
their own benefit, as has been done I'm
the past, for that the purchasing power
OF the dollar is fixed by the amount Of
money in Use is well-established law
in finance.
! SO long as it is in the power of pri-
vate individuals to contract the Vol
ume OF circulating medium through The
retirement Of bonds upon which it Is
based, just SO long will the country
suffer from periodical panics. Elinai-
nate the bonds as a basis and substitute
for them the entire wealth Of the eouta-
try, which is the real basis under the
present system, and we would sllen
have currency which no one cou3,r
contract by the surrender of t!:at upoya
which it would be based. AD h,,ncsk
dollar is one whose purchasing power is
always the same, and this can only lsa
maintained by increasing the money In
circulation in proportion to the increase
| in populatiOn.-BOstOn Traveller.
The conditions are very fast shaping
themselves, says the Representative.
out Of which q Populist victory in ma
tiOnal politics will come in 1896. Only
last week the Denver News, the most
powerful daily in the Wset, renounced
| it's allegiance to the DemocraticR epnbli-
can-gold- bug the people be-d--d party
| and espoused the Populist cause. We
have strong daily in New York city
the Daily Record and, judging from the
following from the DubuQueQ owa) Tel
egraph Democratic) We may soon have.
another recruit:
1T is constantly becoming more and
| more evident that neither of the greut
political parties. as now managed, cares
for principle; that both are command
ed by generals who are controlled by
| the corporations and classes; that plat
forms are mere devices for catching
votes and have no real meaning: and
that if the producing classes would Sc
| cure legislation in their interest they
| must repudiate both the old organiza-
| tons and form and support new par.
IT,"