The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
A ScORCHER.
The Bunco-Steerers Must He Cleaned
Out of tho Tamnle.

Out of the Temple.
The American people have so long
been foolish enough to let Mr.. Coch-
ran & Co. in one party and John
Sherman & Co. in the other bunco
them that Cochran is right in taking
them for fools, writes George Wilson
in the Chicago Sentinel.
Mr.. Bourke Cochran is Democrat
par excellence. He is sample Dem
ocrat. He proposes the Globe Demo
Gratis ancient and exploded game of
'sforcing Europe" to recognize silver
by abandoning it ourselves.
If we say we will not coin our own
silver. Europe will say why should
we coin itp'' But if we coin it and
thus make silver bullion scarce and
high it will look desirable to Europe.
1t is useless to disguise the fact
that such men as Cochran, who are
nothing more or less than traitorous
tools of the foreign bank rings work
ing to enslave the American farmer,
laborer and miner. They are doing
in peace what others tried ITO do in
war times when Edwin NJ. Stanton
took hold of them with an iron hand.
Mr. Cochran was sworn to support the
constitution and he perjured himself.
He cares no more for his oath nor for
his country than for the last smoke of
his cigar that he pulled into the air
Once we abandon silver and. down will
go the price of bullion, so low that if
ever rem onetized it will be with four
bit piece as big as dollar is now
The Peoples party must go to work
in the four ensuing years and make
plans and lay down principles. have
heard that the senators from the
Northwest will act with the Demo
Gratis in the tariff. The Democrat
leaders are thoroughly rotten and
dishonest on finance, are they safe to
follow on the tariff? TO show what
liars they are they put Cleveland up
to howl Tariff Reform and when it
comes to a vote Vest, from Missouri
says: ''No tariff reform for Missouri
zinc, iron or lead or hemp. Kentucky
says ''me to- as to hemp. Virginia
wants protected peanuts and tobacco.
North Carolina ditto; South Carolina
protected rice; Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee protected iron, Louisiana
protected sugar; Florida protected
fruits against the pauper fruits of the
West Indies; Texas on sugar and
against Mexican stock. In fact, the
Democrats are exactly like the Re-
publicans; each one says protect
me. let the other pay"
/ Let no Peoples party senator or
congressman do anything so foolish
as to trust the two bnnco parties.
Whilst the people of the British
empire are largely with us our bit
terest enemy in the world is the no
bility and royalty of England. Eng
land with her Rothschild has struck
us: let us strike her back. And here
is one way: We have no navy. Eng
land does the worlds ocean freight
ing. Millions of dollars stolen from
us by depressing prices of our prod
ucts by Rothschild's demonstration
steamers under the English flag.
Let our government build the same
! SORT of ships suitable for swift trans
port in time of war (such as the
| British government charters from the
! Cunard. Guion and other lines) when
speck ofwar appears, and use them
in time of peace for carrying passen-
gers and freights. In this way we
will build navy and train sailors.
We can forbid any immigration ex
cept on our own ships and thus con-
trcl that important matter.
There a4t some who will say our
government ought not to engage in
business. In India when people are
| starving by millions they will not eat
! the sacred white cattle, fat, sleek.
lazy animals. 1t is superstition in
! both cases.
In the matter of our paper money
We ought to wipe it out, the present
absurd and complicated and varie-
gated menagerie and picture gallery
combined, and have simplicity for
multiplicity, only three kinds of
money to-wit gold ten and twenty
pieces, silver from one dollar down.
and supplement them If any more
money is needed by government
paper on the strength of the govern
ment and not GA any promise to pay.
Alexander Hamilton will probably
be acknowledged an authority in
finance by even the gold bugs. He
said that even the government need
not take either gold or silver for
taxes; it can take them in kind or it
can provide a medium in which only
they can be paid. Let the only paper
money be pieces of paper receivable
from the government for all dues by
it and receivable by the govern
ment for all dues. In denominations
of $25, $50. 500, $500 and $1,000; il
the only paper in existence it will be
kept lat par" by bankers because it
will cost only one third to ship by ex-
press that gold does.
| know that the gold bugs will cry
-.Greenbacker" and '.thrashing over
old straw" but none of them ever die
more against Greenbackism than
did; for | did not believe then any
; more than now in putting new piece
in an old garment or in adding to ou
promises to pay any new stipulation
, to pay that was not in them whel
, issued. But if we use the product of ou
. mines first and a government papel
as the only paper money, having n