The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-07-20
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1894.
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT.
Congress should investigate the
strike from its very inception. The
public wants all the facts in the case,
regardless Of where they come from or
who is hit by them.
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For some years past the Rowell ad
vertising agency has offered a reward
of 800 for proof that any newspaper
has made a false report of its circula-
ton to the newspaper directory. A
Minneapolis man has just been paid this
reward for proving that Farm, Stock
and Home of that city, whose editor
was the Populist candidate for COVER
nor of Minnesota in $780, and who has
just been nominated again, has been
lying about its circulation. These
things are expected from the hirellngs
of the plutocratic press, but they don't
look very we'll from reformer.
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Argus Leader: The Argus-Lead
does not and cannot endorse many of
the Populist planks.
But the Argus-Leader gives the Pop
ulist party in this state all possible en-
couragement, and would gladly sup
port every plank in its platform if
fusion with what is left of Democracy
in South Dakota could be effected.
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After all this hubbub over the alleged
frauds in government armor by the
Carnegie establishment, it turns out
by actual tests that the plates are all
right. 1t looks as though somebody
had gone off half-cocked in this matter
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1t is really painful to see how deeply
enshrouded in gloom are the great minds
of the respective Populist editors of the
Canton Leader and the Sioux Falls
Forum The shadow of coming en-
pire" completely envelops their intel
lectuals and all because President
Cleveland refused to sit idly by and see
Chicago destroyed under the dilatory
tactics of anarchist Altgeld and dem
agogue Hopkins.
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Bach of Turner and LeCocq of Doug
las, both near neighbors of ours, are
Republican candidates for commission
er of school and public lands.
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One Erwin of St. Paul. who has quite
local reputation as criminal lawyer.
comes to the front once more as the
possible defender of Debs. This is En-
wins first appearance since he started
to turp things upside down at Home
stead two years ago.
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1t seems almost unnecessary for ex-
President Harrison to express himself
as follows, for no one can question his
patriotism and Amerioanism:
| not only did not express any criti-
cism Of President Cleveland's action,
but have distinctly and always main
tanned that it was not only right, bat
the duty of the president to enforce the
laws of the United States everywhere,
without asking any body's consent.
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The American Federation of Labor
has formally refused to join the strike
but is profuse in its expressions OF SYM
pathy toward Debs and the A. IL. U.
The latter, however, proposes to stay In
to the death-to the death, probably OF
more of its poor misguided followers.
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Pullman has come before the public
with another statement, and until his
facts and figures are disproved every
candid man must admit that there are
still two sides to the controversy.
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Says Gompers: BY this railway
strike the people are once more REMIND,
ed of the immense forces held at call OF
corporate capital for subjugation OF Ia
Dor. All the civil and military
machinery of the law rallied upon the
summons of the corporations.
What pitiful rubbish! Per contra,
then, the red ruin inaugurated in CHI
cago more than week ago should have
been allowed TO go unchecked in the
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