The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-06-09

; ely adjusted.
ton law, but the Democratic majority
refused to pass it.
The American socialists are sending
funds to Germany to aid the socialists
in their campaign over there.
The Democrats and Republicans of
Ogdensburg, N. Y, fused and de-
feated the Populists, and then had the
sublimated gall to boast of having won
victory.
Labor conventions everywhere are
resoluting in favor of government con-
troll or ownership of railways, tele-
graph and telephones. Resolutions
will do no good unless iaboring men
vote along the same line.
In the canton of Zurich, Switzer-
land, fourteen Socialist candidates for
the Legislature were elected recently.
The workers in building trades in
Michigan have an average of 4. 80 to
the family, and wages average only
81. SO day according to report of the
labor commissioner of that State.
The ST. Louis Republic declares that
it government control of railroads
does not obtain soon we will have war.
Reform papers are called anarchists
for suggestions of that kind
Two Republican papers in Oregon
State Journal and Capital Journal,
candidly admit, after reviewing the
situation in that State, that Oregon is
now undoubtedly in the Populist COL
umn. This accounts for she abuse
heaped upon Governor Pennoyer by
the plute press.
In the cigar makers strike of ten
months at Peoria, ILL.,, only one man
deserted the cause. Those fellows
exhibited the kind of nerve that wins
battles
There is nothing like a full under
standing of preserving the equities.
Carnegie will put up an expensive lib
rary at Homestead, and is enforcing a
90 per cent reduction of wages at his
Duquesne works.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed bill which provides for sup
plying school children with text
books at the expense Of the State.
Upton, Ind, recently voted 419 to
% in favor Of municipal water works
How ccu'd the people there do other.
" Sc with q paper like the Dispatch in
their midst?
In Paraguay ten-word messages are
sent for 10 cents. Telephones are
| rented for S. so month. kilograms
in that half-civilized country are sent
between all points for cent word.
The California Employers Associa-
ton, having defeated the trades unions
in a number of strikes, is now turning
attention to the Peoples party. This
will rebound to the good Of the people,
as the Employers Association will be
knocked out when the issues are thus
defined.
The rotten career Of the Republican
party in Nebraska made so clearly
], manifest in the exposures in the re-
cent investigations at Lincoln, will
send the Populist cause on a boom In
| that State.
/! And now comes s'Calico'' Charlie
Foster, ex-Secretary Of the Treasury,
and joins the rapidly recruiting army
of bankrupts with liabilities aggre-
eating $780, 900. Possibly, when q
few more Of the great t6nanciers'' get
1T in the neck the country will come to
| its senses.
/
| Reports say that poll of the mem
bers of the House Of Representatives
shows majority of thirty-five in fa,
vor of the free coinage Of silver. It Is
calculated that there is majority Of
twelve or fifteen in the Senate in ia
vor of free coinage. If this is true
Grover will have to fall back on his
veto to knock out the white metal.
! Viii he do ~ We'll, we shall zee.