Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26


to give u second thought some step
is taken that is contrary to business
principles and practical experience.
1t was such Il wave Of discomfort
that was current in the minds OF the
people of Kansas, Nebraska and
Colorado and other states when
they went to the Populist party
and they are today in those states
paying dearly for not having taken
a more sober thought before leaving
well regulated and tried laws to be
overturned by inexperienced dem
agogues. The result could only be
disaster and the poor people pay for
it. 1t was 1, like feeling of discon-
tent and unrest in the people that
was encouraged and built ON in the
campaign of 1892 and ushered into
absolute control OF the national
government the Democratic party.
| What followed the political Assem-
sion of that party is too we'll under
stood to need rehearsal. The bust
ness and Industrial interests OF
America are trembling not only In
recollection OF what followed but in
anticipation of what is still fol-
lowing. No wonder that after such
an experience we find all political
meetings crowded, for the people are
beginning to think that it is not SUI
ficient simply to live in d land sup
piled by nature with all the advant-
ages under Heaven. The people
must come to second sober
thought and again put in operation
la VS. suited to our American institu-
tiOns. The Democratic party In
speech in 1892 builded high on the
imaglnatiOns OF our credulOus people
and the party's boast that under the
healthful administration of the gov
eminent in their free trade doctrines
we would be waited along over the
peaceful waters of prosperity into
the European market there to buy
the necessaries of life and leave our
money and reuurn home over the
same peaceful waters with our
foreign goods and wear them in the
sunshine Of this bountiful and pro-
ductive land that had SO long been
kept in q state ofnature by Republic
can tariff prOtection-all realized in
what Cleveland pronounced lin
iquitious, party perfdy''-the Will
son bill. That is the sum total of
the result of a Democratic admins
tratiOn that is still on the throne
and now SO earnestly seeking con-
tinuance on the plea that it has just
commenced to bring the sunshine on
our land by free trade and that fur
Their free trade will produce more Of
it.
And now what is the claim Of our
Populist party that entities it to be
ushered into power. Our Demo-
cratic party has, it claims, just
opened the markets of the world by
free trade Wilson Bill and now that
our people have free trade it is nee
essary to have something to- go
shopping with. Free trade is no
good if we do not have any money
with which to do the trading. Here
is where our new Populist party
proposes to make itself handy-just
the right time after free trade. has
come into force to let the POpulist
party get control and grind out a
hundred billion dollars Of fiat money
to go shopping with. 1t is ON the
money question that our Populist
friends have gone 50 far estray and
as incident other Industrial ques-
lions are covered by the platform
but money has been the greatest
question of that party. Free silver,
free stamping of paper and govern
ment loans, etc., are the principal
cries. Every government that has
tried it has gone into bankruptcy
and today the Argentine Republic is
in bankruptcy from just such legisla-
ton.
1t is time for the people to stop
dreaming. Prosperity is not a re-
suit that can be produced except in
exertion and excrtion mast be in
system and design. The people can
not dream themselves into active
prosperity. Actual prosperity OF
our nation must be in concerted and
action. We have prac-
tical world to contend with; we must
not assume it to be theoretical un-
less we first establish q proper basis
OF facts on which to build theory.
The government of the United States
is the aggregate of people of the
United States and whatever folly ia
committed by the people will have
to be paid by the people. Our Pop
ulist friends cry against plutocracy
which isiust enough but not consist
ent with their own claims. To put