People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — REPORM PRESS. [ARTICLE]

REPORM PRESS.

The supreme court has again espoused the cause of the mighty and crowded the poor man down anothef notch. The Illinois leg-’ islature passed a wise law protecting the miners against the operators in the matter of meas- j uring coal. The law provided' for what is known as check weighmen—weigh men appointed by the miners to check the weights of the corporations. The supreme court of Illinois has promptly stepped forward and knocked out the check weighman—he is unconstitutional. The workingman is punished to the last degree and always will be until he votes his own ticket. These offices are more or less political and until the w’orkingman votes in his own party the supreme eburt and state lesislature will have very little respect for him. —Joliet (Ill) News. The Denver Republican and other republican uew’spapers throughout the west are getting themselves into a wet) from which it will be no easy matter to extricate themselves when Simon says thumbs down. These longwinded silver editorials and declarations of principles will be nasty things to be found in their pockets when the command is given to fall in and follow’ the McKinley bull drum. Tfie people will watch with much interest their acts of contortion while going through their political gyrations.—Aspen (Colo.) Tribune.

It is mainly as a source of revenue that Cuba has been a desirable possession to Spain, since its political importance is no longer very great, except as a matter of sentiment. It has now become an expence. If the war be carried on after this summer it must be at the direct cost of Spain, and though the war should be successful, the productiveness of the island has been ruined for along time to come, and an attempt to tax the costs upon Cuba would be so oppressive that the people would have more to dread in submission than in continued fighting. Either way it really would be more profitable to Spain to let Cuba go.—Philadelphia Times. Public sentiment is almost unanimously in favor of the election of United States senitors by direct vote of the people. About the only opposition to the prop-

osition anywhere is found among the plutocratic members ofthe senate, who realize .that, their days in 0 numbered Fas m aa that becomes the law of the land.—Fort Collins (Colo.)Courier. It is daily becoming more evident that it is not the tariff that is going to figure most prominently in the coming campaign but the currency. It has been staved off a long time by various devices, but ingenuity can no longer succeed in keeping it out of sight. It has reached the point where it will not down at anybody’s bidding. It calls for settlement and the call must be heeded.—Portland (Me.) Press The name of the Tramway conductor who is said to have made away with 200 transfers, and is now doing time for an alleged but unproved offence, is Laws. He ought to know more about'his own name. If Mr. Laws had only stolen a few franchises worth millions it would be different. It is always wiser to steal the common from the goose than to steal a goose from off the common.—Rocky Mountain News. America will permit no policy of wholesale slaughter to be undertaken on Cuban soil. If Spain cannot conquer the insurgents in civilized warfare she cannot conquer them at all. Any setting up of the tactics of barbarism on the part of her generals would, bring upon the Madrid government the condemnation of the civilized world. Cuban independence would be guaranteed by consent of the powers.—Detroit Feed Press.

A home paper is in no sence a child of charity; it earns twice over every dollar it receives, and is second to no enterprice in contributing to the upbuilding of a town or a community, says a western weekly. Its patrons reap far more benefitis form its column than do the publishers, -and in calling for the support of the people of the community in which it is published, it asks no more than in all fairness belong to it, though it generally receives much less.

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