Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.

The conglomeration assembled at Cincinnati to dicuss a third qiarty movement has very naturally to agree.- When men meet to dicuss legislation which will put money into their pockets without the formality of mental or physical labor it is not surprising that, there are diverse views. No two men have ever yet agreed on the proper method of accomplishihg the impossible. It is with a woeful misapprehension of the objects and purposes of legislation that the convention has met. Legislation creates conditions not wealth.- It is general not class, and it is stronger the less it is felt. Should the sub-tteasury scheme for instance succeed it would bankrupt the nation and bring financial ruin. It would injure the men who propose it most, and least the capitalist who could in part avoid the ruip. By its provisions the fanners could sell their wheat and yet retain control of it until clamorous demands of millions of starv-

ed forced a final relinquishment of control at a blackmail price. The first payments would at that time be redeemed by the government and an inflation hi three or four hundred millions in the Fall would be followed by a similar contraction in the Spring. Eve ry other avenue of trade would be paralyzed by it and starvation and want Would follow this plan of attemptiug to enrich the farmers by government aid. And the farmers and the debtor class as is usual in all financial disaster would be in the end the greatest sufferers. If the farm doesn’t pay, quit it Many a man has taken up anew at forty the task of carving out a-for-tune. The introduction of new inventions have paralyzed hundreds of industries but the manufacturers of the old time spinning wheels are not holding conventions to obtain legislation to aid them. If there is too much grain raising, too much supply, the remedy is plain and it is not the sub-treasury Let the farmers act with cbmmon sense, avoid the gorgeous flying machines of the Simpsons and they will prosper. Imagination will make a large wheat crop that will grind into mighty little flour/ Muscle and thought and not imagination makes farming (profitable. —Logansport Journal.