The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-07-07
BY OTHER EDITORS

by OTHER EDITORS
The fact that bankers III 4 number
Of cities Ia the East were excited last
week in regard to report that q spe-
cial inspection had been ordered BY
the comptroller OF the currency Gre
ntes the suspicion that the government
y lax in the duty Of inspecting, and
that many banks If properly examined
would prove to be unsound. There
can be no doubt Of this. and this ac-
counts for the ~uneasiness Of those
bankers who feared special examina-
ton. Kansas Commoner.
Shades Of the departed! What q
difference between modern or Cleve-
land Democracy when pared with
the Democracy of jefferson or Jack
sons time. Think of ''Old Hickory
dallying with the plutocratic robbers
as Cleveland is to-day! Andrew jack
son encountered the same power. the
same plutocratic influence during his
administration, but he throttled it
and choked tiff not the life out of it,
into submission for time. When it
reared its head again in 1861 and in
the years that have followed, it has
found but very few. men among the
leaders in the Democratic party of the
Andrew jackson type to dispute It's
power, but instead it finds itself in
full sway backed BY Grover Cleveland,
the head of the Democratic party, and
chief executive Of the nation. Really,
times, men and parties have changed.
Kansas Commoner.
The Populist movement is called by
Eastern papers "The uprising Of wool
hats and cowhide boots.''
Good enough.
Let 1t go at that
Both will be Tin it, at the day Of
political reckoning Road.
1t would be well for the American
Republic to learn of its older contem-
poraries- For instance, Switzerland
passed through similar ordeal years
ago and baked the usurers by loaning
government scrip to the people and
permitting them to pay it back in
small annual installments. This was
done and the country saved. The
Progressive Age.
Save men from the Indebtedness
and crime of this life and you need
worry but little about their salvation
in the next Farmers Tribune.
Labor is alive, active and intelli-
gent; capital is cold, dead and mani
mate. The former should receive the
first considerat ton. Farmers Tribune.
Demonetize gold, make silver coin
age free and issue few hundred mil
lions of full legal tender greenbaclxs
and it will teach the gold cranks ofthis
country a1esson Of intrinsic value that
they are really in need u. Farmers
Trl bune.
The present administration claims
to have heart That it has stomach
nobody can deny possibly a heart,
too. but at this time that organ APP
pears to be spiritual deformity, no
matter how useful it appears to be as
blood pumper.-The Road
Labor can never hope to retain the
wealth which it creates until it con-
trolls the medium by which this wealth
is exchanged. The labor question is
in the last analysis, purely a question
Of money-or in other words, exchange.
Alma News.
The ancients believed that gold and
silver were the tears shed by the sun
god and the moon-god, and for this
reason should be used as money. This
is probably the most intelligent rea-
son ever given why these metals
should be given precedence over all
other products as money Metals
Alma News.
We observe by Republican papers
that Vie Alliance has split again.
This time it is in Minnesota. It is
some time now since there has been a
split, and we are glad to note this re-
newed Indication of reviving prosper
ity.-The Advocate.
Unless the Greater Numbered 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