Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-10-11
Muir and Wallace.
From Saturdays Daily.

Considering the inclemency of the
evening there was very good attend
ance at the court house to listen to E. D.
Wallace and Walter Muir, gubernatorial
and congressional candidates, respect
lively, on the independent ticket. Both
speakers presented their arguments in a
forcible manner.
Mr.. Muir, who was the first speaker,
devoted the greater portion of his ad-
dress to the financial question. The
three most important planks IN the ma
tlonal platform Of the party, money,
transportation and land, were made
the topics. It is we'll known fact
that money is on one side OF everything
and production and enterprise on the
other, Mr.. Muir SAID. As money ad-
vances in purchasing power, and this
was illustrated, the value of the products
of labor, on the other hand, become
cheaper. Money advances in purchas-
ing power and everything else, but
money, decreases ID value. When We
look over this nation we discover that a
great unrest prevails-the financial ques-
tion is the all important topic of dis
cussioD; 1t is one that appeals to every
body, for it affects everyone from the
farmer to the banker, from the highest
to the lowest. What the indepe1d
ents demand is more money; that
the government shall increase the
amount Of the circulating medium to
about $50 per capita. President Gar
field never SAID truer words than when
he remarked that the power that con-
trolled money controlled all manufac.
ture, and the independents say in addi-
tion, all government. He then spoke of
the large reserves and idle wealth which
has been piled up in the national vaults
and upon which the people have been
paying from 2115 and 3 to 5per cent in
terest.
Referring to the tariff question, upon
which the two great parties have divided,
Mr.. Muir said that absolute free trade Is
entirely impossible in this country. 1t
is merely question OF greater or less
reduction of import and revenue duties
and over this created and imaginary
issue the people have seen the two great
parties combat, losing sight of the more
important question OF finance. The
great object OF the party for which he
spoke was plain; it was that the nation
should take the control Of money out Of
the hands OF corporations and few in
dlviduals. They wanted the govern
ment to establish national banks in fact
as we'll as in theory; wanted the govern
ment to run this business and also
wanted the government to be behind
every dollar deposited in those banks.
Here aggression was made to elucidate
the banking system. Mr.. Muir's re-
marks were attentively listened to dur.
ing the entire hour in which he spoke.
Mr.. Wallace, who followed Mr.. Muir,
spoke Of the need of the independent
party, Of the mission which they had to
fulfill, and said that it's organization was
10 response to that demand. The dem
ocrat and republican parties had passed
their period of greatest influence and
usefulness, and had degenerated until
coterie was allowed to dictate the policy
OF the organization. Mr.. Wallace, as a
farmer and largely interested in farm
ing, was in hearty sympathy with his
auditors and elected applause by his
remarks.