Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-05

to see a light. We clip thefollow.
ing from "The' Americana of
February 9, 1895, u weekly
journal published in Philadelphia
by Wharton Barker. Weuseci to
read the American years ago,
and we rejoice to seq it now has
courage enough to hoist the
banner of reform within hearing
OF Liberty Bell. Last fall Pop
ulists were denounced by their
opponents as the essence Of all
that was low, mean and vicious.
But here comes The American
and tells the good people OF
Philadelphia and elsewhere that
the peoples party is merely the
manifestation of the widespread
discontenC OF law-abiding and
reputable; citizens" This of
course is not the opinion OF a
Wall street Bull-Bear, but of a
man whose opinion is worth a
thousand times more, q broad
minded journalist and philoso-.
pher. The American is q republi-
can protectionist journal. We
highly recommend it to our re-
publican friends here about:
Under ordinary conditions, one of
the greatest questions before US in
America is capital and labor, which
is being fastened and intensified by
the pernicious policy of government
on the currency question. The per-
sistent ignoring of bimetall,sm means
continuous low prices for commo-
dities, and that in turn, notwith-
standing labor organization, newt
ably means lower wages. Are the.
wage-earners and producers of
America to-day, in spite of the tens
Of thousands Of free public schools,
more ignorant or more patient than
the artisans and PEASANTS of France
one hundred and ten years ago? How
long do the gold-Standard plutocrats
OF to-day and their creatures in the
Cabinet and Congress, the apostles
and disciples Of Clevelandism, think
that the toiling and producing masses
Of America can quietly stand the
present fearful strain? Is there no
note Of warning in the Coxeyite move.
ment Of last year, Notwithstanding
it's absurd features? Are all the
Anarchists and Socialists in America
'of European origin? Is not the
present. course Of the President and
his supporters more calculated to
swell the ranks of the Anarchists and
Socialists than anything that could
be done by the most fanatical leaders
from Europe OF those misguided fac
tiOns? Is there no lesson conveyed to
the responsible leaders of the two old
political parties by the wonderful
growth of the Populist party during
the last two years? That party is
merely the manifesto ton of the wide.
spread diScOntent Of laW-ahidiDg and
reputable citizens, and, unless some.
thing satisfactory is accomplished in
the meantime, the next election will
find the Pnpulist party disencumbered
OF much ct it's objectionable surplus.
age. under more conservative and
creditable leaders, probably under a
; new name, but it's ranks will then be
, augmented by hundreds of thousands
OF voters from t he wage earning class,
and from what before the final de
monetization of silver were the
middle or fairly well-uu-do classes,
but who are now becoming poorer
with each succeeding month. Men
are being alienated wholesale from
the two old parties by the tinaucial
ruin entailed upon them as individ-
uals by the insane golu-basiS craze,
which has been, and IS being, foisted
by interested or ill.informed politi.
c'ans, by insidious and specious
methods, on an increasingly suffering
nation, in the interest of the creditor
and money! Oaning classes of this and
other countries.
Suerly President Cleveland has not
: adopted the saying Of the infamous
. Madam Pompadour. After me the
deluge'? lie and his famIliars and
those whose private selfish interests
they are SO faithfully serving in en-.
'ieav"ring to push through the pro
. posed immense issue of gold bonds
and so intensifying and perpe tuating
the reign Of low prices and The ruin
OF the debtor class. would do we'll tC
read and seriously study Carlisle ;
"History of the French Revolution"
and see what happened from perverse
ignorance Of, or Indifference to,
existing conditions which a century
ago plunged France into lawlessness
and temporary anarchy.
Each succeeding month but in.
crcases the evidence that the re.
> establishment If bimetallism, as it
existed prior to 1873, is the only way
out OF the present national dilemma
and it would be far more manly and
dignitied for President Cleveland
frankly to admit that such is the case,
than to persist in ignoring the plain
. facts, and founder on deeper and
deeper with the present vicious
policy, which can only have one
result that every patriotic American
should endeavur to avert.
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SENATOR THORPE'S VIEWS.