St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-16
SOM h PLAIN TALK.
That Old Hyp Icrite. the Pioneer
Press, Shown Up.


Press, Shown Up.
To the Labor Editor of the Globe.
In last Sundays Pioneer Press ap-
pears a communication from one -.
c." in which he states that If the TO-
900 workingmen who attended the Fort
Smelling picnic would go to the polls
and vote unitedly. they could score a
grand triumph for labor. In the same
Issue Of the Pioneer Press Is a lengthy
editorial. in which tine editor attempts
to tear TO shredS the statement made.
The editorial stamps its writer as a
political trickster, one OF those who
nave brought this country, with all its
grand possibilities, to the verge of ruin,
both financial and political. Labor mas
been ''f1imtlammed" by such fellows
until it feels like taking few of them
out and kicking them around the block.
and only its inherent respect for the law
restraints it from so doing.
Let us see what arguments" the
Pioneer Press has to offer:
1t first states that the writer 81. c.
does not gay what candidates to vote
for, as be KNOWS that those of The Pop
uliSt faith will be ia ken for granted, and
then goes on:
10 unite all the wage.earners of the
land under the Populist banner is the
way by which they propose to get con-
troll of the government and bring about
the dreams of socialistic anarchy"
1t should now tell us something about
liquid solids or MONDAY mO0nbeams.
"Socialistic anarchy is decidedly rich.
What do the Populists offer the
workingmen in return for their votes?"
Let us suppose for a moment that the
tptc .,,1 Ia,
and o fer them nothing. The Repub-
licans have offered them protected"
earth and given them free hell. Which
is the more honest?
The American wOrkingmen are thus
asked by their leaders to vote for a
policy the necessary effect of which is
to wipe out large part of the indus
tries which furnish them employment,
and TO reduce the wages of such Amer
lean worklngnen as can get employ
ment at ALL"
How thoughtful of the p. P! While
its editor is on guard the workingmen
will not suffer. After a century of
Federal, Wing, Republican and Demo-
cratic treason only paltry 1000, 600 or
so of them "cannot get employment at
ALL
the next thing the Populists offer
reduced wages they have forced them
to accept in irredeemabe legal tender
paper money, TO be issued by the GOV
ernment.'
Unless the Populists get into power
wages won't be reduced, eh? The his
tory of the United States should be re-
made to accommodate the P. p. Car
negie and Pullman. beth Republicans,
protected" into millions of stealings.
are raising wages at a lively clip, but
the Id fool wOrkingmen haven't
found it out.
The Homestead, Spring Valley, Pull
man and C9ur d'Alene troubles are
myths, fabricated to down the z. O. D.
and triumphant Democracy" What
fcols we do be. But, beware of those
Populists. AT recent Republican
gathering in this city the Populists
were designated as "skunks." 1t looks
like case OF stop, thief!'
The Populists want to pay them
wages in paper money, which, before it
had been issued SIX months, would have
become SO beautifully cheap that a
Dushel OF it would not pay for beet.
steak"
The P. P. is supposed to be Repub-
lcan organ. Here is an extract from a
speech delivered March II, 1874. by
OOltu n. Lug
ut was the contraction and increased
want of currency, and not a super
abundance, which produced the neces-
sity for running III debt"
And in addressing the senate Jan. 10,
1874. he said:
''rhe farmers know that one bushel
of wheat at Sl.25 in currency will buy
one acre OF government land, while it
takes two and Il half bushels at 80 cents
to purchase il. though it be in gold.
They know that dollar in paper, IF
LEGAL TENDER, will pay dollar of
taxes as well as dollar in gold. They
know well enough by experience that
If you run down prices by lessening the
currency to bring it to a par with gold
there will be Ito corresponding decrease
in taxes and salaries of county, state
and municipal officers [nor corpoi atoms,
a la Pullmanl nor in the debts they owe.
They know full well that when
their produce is thus reduced their
lands will be sold for their debts, and
bought by those who held the money
when it was thus transformed into
gold"
Not dollar of the paper money re-
fcrred to would be paid out until its
! worth in labor had been performed mot
| by the editor of the p. p, or it never