The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-23
LIVELY SHAKING Up
FOR Mr.. D0NNELLY
Ridiculed Statements Made
in a st. Paul Speech
by Mr.. Horn,
Who Replies with a Terrific
Battery Of Dignified
Argument.
Populist Fallacies Thoroughly
Flayed by Republican
Wisdom.
DONNELLY VS.. HORR.
DONNELLY VS.. HORR.

DONNELLY VS.. HORR.
When the Minnesota Republican
State Convention met in st. Paul July
II, a very earnest address was made by
Mr.. Horn, of New York, but formerly
Michigan Congressman. He devoted
considerable time to the Peoples Party,
while speaking, and discussed some of
the alleged reforms that the new party
would inaugurate.
Ignatius Donnelly, in a recent issue
of his paper, ridiculed the public state
ments made by Mr.. Horr, who in turn
discusses the whole matter in the New
York Tribune.
Donnelly vs.. Horr.
Mr.. Horr says in the Tribune:
lam in receipt of an article published in
The Representative, a Populist paper To-
Gated in Minneapolis. The person who
seuds it states that it was written by Igna-
titus Donnelly. should think there must
be some mistake about that, because the
entire article is full of billingsgate and
low personal filings, and a man of the liter
airy reputation of Mr.. Donnelly would
hardly be expected to stoop to such vulgar
journalism; but the initials II. D." with
which the article is signed, seem to decide
the question against me, and assume
that my Minnesota correspondent is cor
rect in his statement.
AS rule, never notice public criticisms
Of my public work when they are couched
in language which shows their author,
whoever he may be, to lack ordinary po-
likeness. When one is writing for publ
cation he can never afford to use the Ian
guage of the common BLACKBOARD. No
matter how cultivated and refined he may
be, decent and well-informed people will
classify him in the vocabulary he himself
uses as BLACKBOARD, when in fact the in
dividual may be capable of better things
if one happens to catch him lat his best. I"
Epithets are not arguments. They are
seldom used except when their authors
lack better material.
! l was in St. Paul when the Republican
state convention met, and had the honor
of addressing the delegates there assem-
bled for the space of As minutes. visited
ST. Paul for that very purpose II. D. I"
asserts that was sent there by the New
York Tribune. What difference would it
make whether was employed by the New
York Tribune or not? have no means of
support except my earnings from month
to month Is it disgrace to be employed
by great metropolitan journal, such as
the New York Tribune is everywhere ac-
knowledged to be? If so, then I acknowl-
edge my disgrace. 1t is also true that do
a large amount of campaign work for the
Tribune Is there anything wrong about
that? If my views agree with those of
the Tribune, and the managers of that
paper see fit to keep me engaged in teach
ing such views from the platform, have
they not perfect right so to do? If l
teach the truth. does it make my utter
ances any the less true because am con-
stantly employed ON the New York Trib-
une? Has not the Tribune a perfect right
to select its own methods of education?
Then what does any intelligent man ex-
pect to gain by asserting that 1 am in
some way connected with the New York
Tribune? have never sought in any way
to deny that fact. It is the kind of work
which man does for which he should be
held responsible.
The wrath of this Populist writer seems
to have been aroused by some things
which said at that state convention.
The right to criticise is denied to no one.
l now invite the attention of my readers to
some of those criticisms.
What Reduced Wages.
l quote from the article in the Repre-
sentative, signed II. D."
Mr. Horn said:
Whenever you reduce wages, you stop
consumption, and then the markets are
ruined.'
Il. D." replies:
Well, who in thunder reduced wagesi 1t
was your Republican party. when it de-
monetized silver in 1873, and made the
gold dollar the equivalent of twice as
much OF the workman's muscle and the
farmers toll. And now you come here to
enlighten the western hobos with your
shallow platitudes. Scat Get Quit
The trouble with this statement is that
1t is not true Wages did not begin te
decline after the passage of the act of 1873
Indeed, during the 20 years from 1873 tc
1893, the wages of the workingmen of thu
United States were increased per capita
The members of the senate committe.
who investigated that point reported
unanimously to that effect, without regard
to party affiliations.
There may have been . few isolated
instances in which wages were lowered il
the United States between those dates
but taken in the aggregate, the wages
paid in gold dollars to each laborinR maj
were increased during those 20 years. TIL,
claim has been constantly made durin,
those years by nearly all the farmers
journals of the country that there ha.
been a decline in the price of farm
products, but that the wages of hire,
hands had been nowhere less, and in man,
instances had been higher than they wer
20 years ago.