The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-03
THE ALLIANCE, !

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demands that r.a4de, or should have
made, the Peoples party the Alliance
party, but is did not and could not
make the Alliance the Peoples party.
Truth: Leland Stanford once asked
Sherman in the senate: Senator,
what is that?'' holding out silver
dollar. eighty cents" replied Sher-
man. IN give you my check for a
million at ninety mine cents each,
said Stanford, but Sherman would not
trade. He wilted, and by his silence
confessed that the silver dollar is a
good dollar.
National Economist: The national
debt is to-day larger than it ever was
before as far as our ability to pay it
is concerned. That is, it would take
more days work or more Of the pro-
duct of labor in any form to pay it
now than it would in 1866; and it is
now proposed to increase it by the
sale Of more bonds. Both Repub1i-
can and Democratic leaders favor an
increase.
Kate Fields Washington: After six
months of discussiOn--or perhaps be-
cause Of 1.-THE lessons of the Home
stead strike seem still obscure. One
or two facts stand out, however, with
distinctness. Winter is stern arbi-
traitor who alt, avs decides against the
workingman. The pressure of neces-
sity is SO much sharper then that the
theoretical features of his case disap-
pear in the urgent need for food and
coal.
The Journal of the Knights of Labor:
Awriter in Kate Fields Washington
says that Jay Gould '.belonged to that
honorable half of humanity which
produces more than it consumes -
This is interesting, though it would
be more interesting if the writer
would tell what useful thing Gould
ever produced or helped to produce
It would be nearer the truth to say
that much respected half of humanity
which steals more than it needs or
can consume.
The Toiler: The people of Georgia
do not despair. They know they
were maligned and misrepresented by
the newspapers, ridiculed and de-
nounced by the stumpers and counted
out and defrauded by the officers
charged with the conduct of the cleo
ton. But from all parts of the state
come words of hope and determine
alton. When another election comes,
yet larger proportion of the voters
will be with the reform forces. The
campaign of '94 has already begun.
Chicago Sentinel: If money should
be issued as long as there was de-
mand for it, by those willing to pay
the government tax, it would in time
become worthless. But if the amount
is fixed, SO that there shall be no in
tlation or contraction, the value OF
money would remain fixed and uni
form. And probably no better rule
can be found than SO much per capita.
1t can then be increased as population
increases. Nobody wants an Gun
limited" issue of money. Though we
need and should have more than we
have at present. The amount should
be increased gradually, year by year,
till the amount is sufficient for bust
ness purposes; and till men who are
in debt can get out of debt.
Journal of the knights of Labor:
The newspaper talk about the ship
ments of gold will be interesting
reading for curious antiquaries in the
days when the gold-basis stupidity
will occupy place in the limbo of
exploded superstitions. The world
will yet become wise enough to won
der how presumably sane people
should have tolerated system which
made its industrial prosperity de-
pendent upon the presence or alb
sence of a yellow metal. In that day
there will be increasing wonder, when
it is remembered that this presuma-
bly, sane people tolerated this system
while they were quite aware that the
plentifulness and scarcity of gold was
manipulated by a few sharpers bent
I'LL AiShAAAS II OAA oAAO POOPAO GAOAA
earnings.
Topeka Advocate and Tribune:
Cold chills chase each other up and
down the spinal column of our great
fnanciers lest America should become
the dumping ground for the world S
silver if our minis are opened for it's
free coinage. Will the world dump
its silver upon our shores as free
will offering provided we agree to
coin it and put it in circulation as
money among our people? If so, let
it dump. On the other hand, if it is
brought here to exchange for our
surplus commodities we can suffer no
harm from that transaction. There
is no conceivable circumstance by
which any injury could come to us
through the free coinage of a metal
the bullion price of which regulates
the price Of our agricultural products.
Let the dump begin.
Chicago Sentinel: The monetary
conference proved the biggest polit-
ical farce that has been on the boards
for q long time. 1t was originated by
Republican campaign managers to
help Harrison to a reelection. 1t
was semi-endorsed by certain Euro