The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-16
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interests, ana more parJlcularly III
those business interests be railroads.
Methodist Herald: A politician said:
1.-The Decalogue and the Golden Rule
have no place In political campaign"
Politicians who act upon that princi-
pie never round up lengthy political
career with an enviable reputation.
Indepe ndent; When the people get
as careful about their votes as they
are about the ,mopey in their pockets,
conditions will chdnge in this country.
American Nonconformist: Under
consumption--17the people are too poor
to eat all the bread they wants. the
cause of the extremely low price of
wheat.
| Missouri World: With the attempt
OF the administration to call in and
destroy the gree nbacks, the Peoples
party ought to grow alta Nancy Hanks
| speed.
Observer: Pioneer reformers never
have the church as an ally. But after
the battle none are louder in the claim
for the moral effect of the eleventh
hour work.
Coming Nation: Suicides are be-
coming as common as BANKRUPTCIES.
BY the process Of bad laws tue proper
ty is being contiscated by q few, and
that produces disease of which sui
cides from dependency is one symp-
tom.
Peoples Banner: SO long as private
trusts as permitted to perform govern
mental functions, so long will the
worker in the production Of monopo.
lied necessities and consumers of the
product be submitted to indignitieS
| and eXtOrtions.
Sentinel The greatest contest of
the age has drifted beyond mere party
| lines, mere sectional anG local differ
ences. 1T has become struggle Of
| life and death; for the life of indi-
vidual liberty and a just return for
| labor on the one side. and for the
death Of independence and the abSO-
Lutte subjugation Of industry on the
Other.-Sentinel.
Denver Road: A Populist admins
tration was the first in the history Of
the state to enforce the laws against
gambling. The churches knew it when
they voted to detrone it.
The Seer: Congress and legislatures
may till 10000 statute books full OF
laws, but there will not be-thcre can
not be-induStr trial peace in this coun-
try so long as railroads. banking, coal.
Oil and other necessities are permitted
| to remain private monOpolics. Make
them public property like the post
office, and no other laws will be neces-
sary.
Chicago Times: All the financiers
have assured us that the Farmers AL
lance plan for storing farm prod ucts
in government warehouses as security
for governments loans to the farmers
at per cent Interest was unspeakably
absurd. Now the same financecrS
want the government to lend bank
So for every 81 1t deposits in it's treas
ury up to - per cent of it's capital
stock and at interest of only one half
OF per cent. ~
Cleveland Citizen:, f. b. Castor, of
Kansas City, is organizing with con-
siderable success, the Fairhope Indus
trial Association with a capital stock
of 81 100000 dollars, divided into
shares Of $500 dollars each. and it pro-
poses "to establish and conduct a
model community or colony free from
all forms of private monopoly, and to
secure to its members therein Cquali-
ty OF opportunity, the full reward of
individual efforts: and the benefits Of
cooperation in matters of general con-
Germ" The pros pectuS giyesa learned
review of industrial conditions, and
assalls the competitive wage system
in a manner that leaves no doubt of
the sincerity OF the promoters and
their understanding Of intricate So
cial questions.
Fargo Commonwealth: A significant
indication of the condition of public
sentiment of the financial question is
the total disappearance in the last
few weeks Of those financial optimists
who declared that the currency is good
enough and that all that it needs is to
be let alone. A legal-tender currency
that has capacity of draining the
gold reserve Of the treasury at the
rate Of 100000 week can not be
safely let alone indefinitely, and there
is now no dissent from the opinion
that we need a thorough and effective
revision OF our currency legislation.
Moorhead News Rep.): The Farm
ers' Alliance in state convention de-
mands the reduction of salaries Of Of
ticials, state and local. The resolution
states that these salaries were estab-
liSned when wheat was selling at 81. 80
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down to correspond more nearly at
least to the price of products. 1t is
certainly grievous hardship for tax
payers whose property has deprecated
80 per cent, and whose revenues have
fallen off in the same proportion, to
be obliged to pay the same high rat
of taxation for expenses of govern
ment.
St. Peter Herald: The writer had
occasion to interview number of
prominent Republicans upon the SEN
atorial question last week, and while
each had his individual preference
and, too, while there was wide differ.
ence SO far as that pre- ference was CON
cerned, we were gratified to find that
among all of them there was union
Of opinion regarding the mode of Sc
lection. With scarcely an exception
they expressed their dissatisfaction
with the present methods of elccting
United States senators, and were un-
qualifiedly in favor of electing them
by direct vote of the people.
The Kingdom: The review of bust
ness for the year 1894 issued by r. G.
Dun y Co., shows that the number of
failures during the year were SO pei
cent less than during the previous
year, the decrease being especially
marked in the Central and Western