Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 10, 1897, Page 4

' j Grand ‘Reyias Thera Review Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE 50c Six Months $1.00 | Three Months.. Entered in the postoMmce at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as secoud-class matter: ee rn ne er nen POLITICAL SLANDER. Editor Eastman of the Wadena Pioneer has recently been recom- mended by Page Morris for appoint- ment to the postmastership of that yillage. He printed as many false- hoods calculated to assist Mr. Morris and injure Mr. Towne during the last campaign as any other newspaper man in the district, and therefore from a Republican view he was en- titled to the recognition accorded him. The Herald-Review is always pleased to note the prosperity and triumphs of the newspaper fellows, and was glad to read of Mr. East- man’s success. But he is over san- guine to show his appreciation of the ripe plum that has been tossed to him by the federal] office distributer, and his enthusiasm leads him into political slander that refiects but little credit even upon an ad- vocate of Republicanism. In the last issue of the Pioneer appears an editorial comment on the work being done by Hon. Charles A. Towne as hairman of the National Republican Silver party, from which the follow- ing is clipped: sLL known to be IL his time to fin sumptu- d and mnable iS e© means of a I in luxurous sty on, his utterances on the wili doubtless be receiv the honest vtains hirase The writer of the foregoi quota- tion does not believe one word nor in- timation contained therein. He only hopes that there may be those who do not know the facts; who do not know how political organizations are sus- tained, and whe may accept his in- nuerdoes as a sati ctory explana- tion of Mr. Towne’s ardent support of that great economic principle—bi- metallism—that is today attracting the attention and receiving the sup port of the purest and ablest of our country’s statesmen. During the last campaign, what purported Washington dispatch was published throughout the district stating that Congressman Towne had lived at the most luxurious and expensive resort in the city of Washington while the people their representative, and that his living expenses were greater than his salary. The truth is, Mr. Towne stopped at one of the most modest and low-priced hotels that are patronized by any of the members, during the first session of his term, and Jast winter and up to the time of his departure from Wash- ington he had rooms and boarded at the home of Congressman Hartman of Montana, who rents a very modest little residence building and keeps house while attending to his official duties in Washington. As to the ex- pense of conducting the affairs of the party for which Mr. Towne has been elected chairman, he certainly does not bear the burden. Smalicontribu- tions are made for that) purpose from all sections of the country, and if the Pioneer man doesn’t know that fact he doesn’t know enough to conduct the busin of the Wadena postoffice. Mr. tman may have given ve deep consideration and thorough re- search to the money question, and tle conclusions which he advocates may have been intelligently and honestly reached; he taay be a living, breathing encyclopedia of political economy—he may be ail this, we ad- mit, but his effusions touching the subject do not justify such an opin- ion of him. He writes like one who knows little and cares less about the right or wrong of any subject. He is evidently stirred by a feeling cf self- ish gratitude for the ofce that h been given him and knows vo other way of expressing his emotions except through villification of the man who was his benefactor’s oppouent in the political arena, ici as THAT MONEY QU ON. Thomas C. Hodgson has been writ- ing a series of articles on the finan- cial question for Farm, Stock and Home. He is a clear reasoner and shows a knowledge of the subject that makes his contributions especial yaluable. The following from h penis taken from the last issue of that paper: We hear a greal dea) said about per capita circulation, and there is a world of difference betweea our circu- lation statisticians as to the amount of circulation we have in this coun- try. I have seen it rated as low as $3.87 per capita and as_ high as $34 per capita. It is probably im- possible to more than guess at it, and men are very apt to guess in favor of their own theory, One or two things, -| be high. t r| Want money to be a] however, are very certain. When money is very scarce everything else is very low in price, avd when money is flush prices are high. The early history of California furnishes a tine example. Before the discovery of gold everything was cheap as dirt. This included labor; money was very sca But after the discovery of gold everything that men eat, drink and wear ran up to fabulous prices. Wages were $20 to $30 a day for a time. In those days money (gold) | Was the cheapest thing in California, | because it was the most abundant. A little while before that it was the scarcest thing and of course the dear- est. It has been the policy of the whole world to make money scarce, and human labor with all the pro- ducts thereof cheap. They tell us that money of the Orieft is cheap, for all those nations are on the silver basis,and silver dollars are only worth half as much as gold dollars. Beg pardon, but it isnot likely that money, wages; and productions can all be cheap together. If money measures | the other things it must fluctuate in the opposite direction to them. The less a dollar is worth the less it will buy. The more itis worth the more it will¢buy. If a silver dollar will buy more in China than a gold dollar will buy in America it must be that a silver dollar is worth more in China than a gold dollar is worth in Ameri- ca. Is this true? I think so. All agree that the per capita circulation is much less in China than in this country, therefore money is scarcer, time and everywhere, and that, too, without regard to the substance of it, that is, the material of it. Tne demand for money in China is very great because she has an im- | mense population,and her circulation |being very the price must Everyone of those people and in the nature of the each have but very spend all their energi small case they can littie. The 1 competing or that little: hence labor and all its products arecbeap. Double her circulation and there is no doubt that you will double her prices. If you want to buy cheap go where money isdear. If you want to sell of money. We are told that supply and demand make the price. This is not true, practically. It is supply and ability to buy that make the price. Y, you have the demand because you are able to buy, and the wants of man- kind are well nigh illimitable. Prac- tically, then, it is money ‘that makes the demand for the products of labor, and for everything that costs money and which people want. The firs de- mand is for money. Supply that and you immediately have the demand for all the other things. We have more money than they have in China, and for that reason we have more conven- iences and comforts of life than they. We also have better prices and higher wages than they. But we are drifting in their direction, and those who con- trol the affairs of this country seem determined to land us there eveutu- ally. But I have slipped a cog. I meant to call attention to the fact that in our economy the government under- takes to supply the money while hu- energy, industry and intelligence expected to supply all the things | that money will buy, the luxuries as well as the necessaries of life. We, the people, have done our part, and because the government has partially failed to do its part we have low prices, low wages and stagnation, and the men who favor the dear dollar would fain make us believe that the whole trouble is ‘‘over-production.” They have not had the cheek to say an over-production of money, though they are coming to even that point. It is often hinted, even argued, that money is necessarily cheaper now than heretofore because it is being produced cheaper than ever it was be- fore. TE republican party oceupies much | the same position as do our friends of the Adventist faith. The latter have so often failed in their prophesies of the coming of Christ and the winding up of all earthly affairs that people | who are not effected by their peculiar {teachings have little faith in what they have to offer on the subject. So it is with the party in power. Last fall the Republicans only asked that Me- Kinley be elected—prosperity would appear the day this fact’ was assured. | McKinley was elected, sure enough, but the date of prosperity’s arrival was postponed. We were told to awaite the passing of inaugura- tion. The cold days of March ame and went, and yet the people stood about the cheer- less fireside of Business Depression, and in vain they awaited the arrival of Gen. Prosperity. Another post- ponement was asked and granted. The General is just now busily en- gaged on the tariff bill and he is pledged to appear in public immedi- ately after the passage of that im- portant measure. The Herald-Re- view is prepared to grant another ex- tension of time. It is on the program to ask a year or two in which the new sas a aes and scarce.money is dear money every | ! for good prices go where there is lots | Hence, if you have the money | s schedules We will be generous and make the concession. In the meantime it is be feared that the General will become incapacitated through old age or over- work, and in that event we are pre- pared to waive all rights as American citizens except the right to stand up atthe public meeting and tell the present managers of the General, in language that they will not misun- derstand, that they lied to us and we shall not believe them in the future. THE Minneapolis Tribune says: “Mr. Roswell P. Flower is one of the few men in business in the democratic party. Asa general rule, that aggre- gation is made up of those who have no very heavy business concerns of their own, and would not suffer very severely from any industrial disturb- ance.’ In the first sentence of the above there are only two falsehocds. Roswell P. Flower is not a democrat ane he is nota business man. Poli- tically he is an advocate of the single gold standard—that’s Republican. He is a politician if there is such a thing in the whole state of New York. Out of politics he has made his money. The last sentence of the quotation is submitted for consideration by that large class of citizens known as wage- earners. Read itover again, and re- member that the. Minneapolis 'Tri- bune is a Republican paper, represen- tative of the party in the northwest. It considers that a hungry or un- clothed workingman would not suffer any particular inconvenience from such a condition as it suggests. Farm,Stock AND Home,Hon. 8. M. Owen’s paper, has taken a conserva- tive position relative the beet sugar experiments that are occupying the | attention of farmers all over Minne- | sota. Lt has advised its farmer readers | that they should not be carried away | with the idea that, ‘all farmers even, to say nothing of other people, ould not get rich at it, that it could not become an all-embracing bless- ing,” anl argues to show that “some reliance must yet be placed upon the ordinary crops of the farm, however | flat, stale and unprofitable their grow- | ing might seem.” All ef which is true enough. But Mr. Owen’s paper {seems to fear that the farmers of Minnesota are likely to “go broke’’ !experimenting. No danger at all. It is true, as Farm, Stock and Home , that sugar beet growing would be most successful and profitable in | localities where natural conditions are most favorable,and that ultimate- |ly the industry will be followed in | them only. There is but one way to determine as to these favorable locali- ties and that way is exclusively through experimenting. The result | of this year’s work in that direction will largely determine this most im- portant fact. THAT conservative magazine, the | Century, has the following to say edi- torially, under the title of “Thieves and Robbers.” ‘‘Men are plundered now-a-days in America far more fre- quently and flagrantly than in Eng- land in the days of Robin Hood. There are men among us_ beside whose robberies of the brigands of Italy and the Bedouins of the desert are mere pleasantries Of ajl the triumphs cf invention none are more wonderful than those by which the hard earned gains of the millions are forcibly conveyed to the vaults of the | few. No business is more highly or- ganized, more strenuously pursued, more successfully managed than that of robbery. Private greed is saping the source of public honor. Gigantic and countenanced rubbery is under- mining the foundation of public mor- ality and corrupting the national! character.” Jessie GRANT evidently considers that he conferred a large favor upon the city of New York, not to mention the nation in general, by going him- selftand taking his family to wit- ness the ceremonies of the dedicatiou of the toinb of Gen. Grant, his father, observes the Portland Oregonian. He lives in California, and bas brought in a modest bill of $759 fur expenses that occasion. Jesse, together with the rest of the children of Gen.Grant, were guests of the city of April 27, and in a spasm of patriotic generosity the sum of $150 was voted to pay his traveling expenses, including meals aad inevitable “sundries” that form the major portion of the junketing bills in general, and that of the fun- eral junket in particular, aggregating the above sum. nishes another illustration of the faculity the little sons of greatmen possess for wearing and exciting the contempt of self supporting, self re- specting citizens. SPEAKER REED and other leaders of tte House are making powerful at- tempt to give the administration credit for any settlement that may be brought about of the Cuban war In the meantime the develish butcher- ies in that human slaughter house continue and the awful agonies of a brave but helpless people struggling for liberty, do not reach the beart of a party that knows no law, buman or divine, that will not contribute im- mediately to its own strength. may become operative. incurred in visiting New York upon|’ The incident fur-. Tue editor of the Duluth News- Tribune is a curiosity in journalism. He writes like a raw college graduate possessed of boundtess.-ambition,. un- measurable egotism and the brains of a spring chicken. Yes, the tariff issue is a sectional one indeed. ‘The two Republican senators from Pennsylvania, Quay and Penrose,are-making a strong. ef- fort to put iron ore on the free list, because the Pennsylvania manufact- urers can buy cheaper rew material from Cuba. Watch the fight when it comes up in the senate. THE Democrats of the House and Senate have adopted a wise policy re- lative tothe tariff bill. They pro- pose to give full reign to the Repub- licans and will interpose no objection to the measure except to record their votes in opposition to it as a whole. This will place the responsi- | bility where it belongs. SENATOR Davis and Representa-| tive Fletcher have interested them- selves in behalf of the lumbermen who bought timber on the Red Lake reservation last winter. They peared before the secretary of the in- terior department the other day and urged that the sales be either rejected entirely or affirmed at an early day. tANSOM METCALFE has commenced the publication of the Mesaba Range again, the first copy of which reached our exchange table this week. It is just such a publication as is needed in that politically benighte] region and cannot fail to exert a powerful influence for the cause of the Demo- cratic party and bimetallism. Ed- itor Metcalf is one of the brightest newspaper writers in Minnesota and he should occupy a broader field than that tributary to any town on the range. Tre student of history often stum- bles upon something that leads him to doubt if man in the centuries has improved much in moral or political virtues, like the following, for in- stance, in England 250 years ago: “The true service of the public business of so much labor and so mu care, that though a good and wise man may not refuse it, if he be called to it by bis prince or his country, and thinks he may be of more than vulgar use, yet he will seldom or never seek it, but leaves it commonly to men who, under the disguise of public good, pursue their own designs of wealth, power and such bastard hon- ors usually attend them.” How much like this things political are done now-a-d —S. M. Owen. Some Questions Virginia must be in sore straits when its mayor appeals for aid to Messrs. Rockefeller and Carnegie. The question naturally arises: Why appeal to these men? Is not the county of St. Louis able to relieve the suffermg of its worthy poor? Why should Carnegie and Rockefeller con- tribute to this fund any more than a thousand other millionaires? Is not this application a silent intimation that these men are more responsible than any other for the present con- dition of the laboring men of this range and for the stagnation in the iron fields generally? And if this is) so, isn’t it a humiliating spectacle? Why is it necessary for the laborers mm the iron mines to ask for charity \from the men who employ them? Why is it that these iron kings are in a position to bestow alms while their workingmen are reduced to such cir- cumstances that they must ask for aid? Why should not the benefits of pro- ducing iron be more equally distribut- ed? ‘hese questions should be tho- | Virginia, and when they have reached a proper solution they will go to the polls and strike imdustrial freedom as well as political hberty. If justice were done the thousands and millions that such men are able to give away for charitable and other purposes would be distributed among workers of the country in the way of a com- mensurate wage, so that they would be independent and _ self-respecting citizens instead of suppliants at the feet ot charity—Mesaba Range. Result of Towne’s Work. The Duluth News Tnbune says that “during the ensuing 12 months over $1,00,000 will be expended in the Duluth district on government work and about half of the amount !will be spent in Duluth and Superior harbors, In addition to this there will be a great deal of money ex- pended for private dredging made necessary by the government improv- ments in the deepening of the chan- nels.” But the News ‘l'ribune forgets to say that this immense appropria- | tion for the Duluth harbor was se | cured through the efforts of Hon.Chas. A. Towne. “Blow, blow! ye winter winds—thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.” Silyer Headquariers at Duluth. The headquarters of the Silver Re- publican organization will be estab- lishod in Duluth June 12, according to latest reports. The national com- Chicago June8. Ex-Congressman C. A. 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