The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-06-02

Tho Lever.
given that no great trouble was an.
ticipated. Is ths*e anything more
'otten than our metropolitan press?
The Kansas City Times, one of the
very few gold bug organs in the West,
says: "The Populists are making
things quite lively over in Berlin these
days." thus unintentionally, no doubt,
bestowing compliment on our re-
formers here at home.
Peppery Pennoyer's puncture of the
plutocratic Presidenc par ticularly
pleases Populists and proletarian pro-
ducers, prompting pe.otant perturb-
ance and profuse persifage On the part
of plutocratic patricians.
The suggestion on the part of these
Repu blicans who met lately at Louis
vile that the E. =. p. needs young
blood. will simply cause the old crowd
to slip razors up their sleeves and
await the action of the young crowd.
The standard silver dollar has 412H
grains OF silver in it. Two silver half
dollars have 365 grains, or 1924 grains
each and yet you can buy as much
sugar, coffee and beefsteak with the
two half dollars as you can with the
standard dollar, though they are 467S
grains less.
In Hungary it is possible to travel
by rail from Buda Pesth to Knonstadt,
| distance of 500 miles, for So. O8 or
one-third of cent milo. Laborers
journeying in parties of not less than
ten in number, can travel for one-halt
the foregoing rate, and government
ownership Of railways esRleins it all,
Hungarians travel 500 ,%ils% sor 49, Os.
In America for the same distance SIS,
or more than seven times as much.
What will future generations think
Of the civilization of the present day
that tolerated money strtngency for
months, yes, years, with $500, 900, DOC
of gold and over $4,000 tons of silver
locked in the treasury?
The Chicago Inter Ocean sought the
views Of number Of prominent men
as to what the Republican league
should suggest as platform for the
party, and among the number, Gov
ernor Waite. of Colorado, was favored
with little Of inquiry. Among other
suggestions he offered was this:
''Why, not, SO far as all questions that
concern monopoly and class legisla-
ton. adopt that terse but honest
plank, formulated by the late VIM. K.
Vanderbilt, the people be damned?' -
Over three billion dollars have been
paid to the bondholders since the com.
mencement of the late war, and not
one-half that amount in that time has
been paid to pensioners.
It is said that the great crowned
heads Of Europe have extensive invest-
ments in this country. They are evil
IDENTIFY preparing for emergencies, as
the King and Queen business is be-
coming more and moro unpopular
over there.
The Evangelical Alliance Of Boston
has passed resolutions calling on the
| National administration to use the
federal troops to keep the Worlds
Fair closed on Sundays. That alli-
ance is evidently made up of fine lot
Of Pecksniffs.
| Rawlins, the distinguished delegate
from Utah, who got hot at Cleveland
over the distribution Of patronage and
rendered his resignation to the Cover
nor Of Utah, has cooled of and has
recalled his resignation.
Why do You not hear q any panics
and bank failures In rrance7 Because
the Bank ~ France pays out gold O
ailvex - snit IL own convenience, and
$3.50 = - arftsciation Of gold nor
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