The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-05-19
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small business man. farmer, and
laborer are getting poorer Try it
and see where your reasoning will
land you.
Journal of the Knights of Labor:
III the Columbian exhibition is not
the cause and excuse for the most
colossal and barefaced swindling
which even this swindling century
has seen. 1t will only be because the
discovered rascally intentions of the
Chicago Swindlers keep their an
ticipated victims away.
Chicago Express: We hear a great
deal of talk these days about the
gold dollar" We wonder how many
of our readers ever saw one. They
see plenty of silver dollars every day,
but how many gold dollars have they
ever seen? We don't believe one man
in ten ever saw one-for the simple
reason that ve"y few of them arc
coined.
New Fra: After calmly and caro-
fully considering the action of the
Pennsylvania militia at Homestead,
and the Kansas militia at Topeka this
last winter will some one give
single good reason why such an or
ganization should exist at all? Have
they ever accomplished anything
more than to give a few men soft
job and make the burdens heavier
upon the taxpayers?
The Vanguard: For the encourage
ment of wage earners it may be
stated t4at there have been moro
decisions made in labor cases than
those of Judges Taft. Kicks and
Billings. In 1850, for instance,
Edward III. of England issued an
edict commanding that every laborer
asking increase of wages should be
branded with q hot iron and thrust
in prison.
Atlanta Constitution: Justice de-
fnands prompt settlement of the sill
YER question, but apart from this it
is vital question of party policy.
The Democrats will have to satisfy
the farmers of the country on this
issue. Tariff reform is something
but it is not enough. It will give
some relief, but there can be no real
relief as long as the country is tied
to the golden chariot of the money
monopolists
The Record: Go to Nashville and
make a contract with merchant for
him to deliver you a thousand yards
OF Brussels carpet, and when it comes
to be delivered insist on measuring
it with an India rubber tape a yard
long, so that you can stretch it twice
its proper length and get twice as
much carpet as you contracted for,
and you will have exactly what Cleve-
land is insisting on in behalf of the
bondholders when he opposes free
silver.
Milwaukee Advance: Silver has
rot become cheaper-gold has be-
come dearer. If you do not believe
this compare the prices of ali things
with what they were when silver was
demonetized and you will find that it
takes more commodities of all kinds
TO buy money than at that time
Well, then. money is dearer, is it
not? And as gold is supposed to be
the basis and being in greater de-
mand, it was gold that increased in
value, not silver that decreased.
National Watchman: At Toledo a
United States Judge demands and
compels the heads of two labor Or
CARNATIONS to bring in their books
and disclose all of their secret work,
their methods, and objects. This is
done under penalty OF Imprisonment.
At Chicago legislative committee
appointed to investigate the whisky
trust was met by a fiat refusal of the
attorney of the trust to bring for
ward their books for examination
The question might be asked with
much prOpriety, Where are we at?"
Farmers Tribune: Gold men would
not dare to reverse legislation on the
two money metals. Demonetize gold
and give it q limited coinage and at
the same time restore silver to full
legal tender and the free coinage and
we would soon see a reversal of
bullion values. I can have some re-
spect for the man who believes in
and advocates the single gold
standard because he believes gold
should be the only money we should
have, but for the man who pretends
to be in favor of double standard
and at the same time belittles silver
and insists on requirements for it
that he demands not for gold, have
the most supreme contempt I can
not believe him honest.
The Chicago Sentinel: AS political
liberty appeared only to be a wild
and impossible dream until it was
recognized as universal right and
its public extension gave to the hum
blest citizen political independence
and responsibility of which the
proudest feudal baron surrounded by
"a society of serfs. could have no com
prchension SO will the general recog-
milton of the inherently social char