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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

The question arises, by what secret
alchemy or unseen influence are the
parties enabled to keep the American
people from breaking up the rotten
hearted despots who are bleeding the
labOring classes and creating mil
lionaires by fraud and political rob-
berry? Where is the lever they oper-
ate? First-it has the United States
Senate, compact body of pluto
Gratis, rich lawyers, railroad presi-
dents and Doodle kings. To this
Senate add the President and cabi-
net. Then enlarge to every state, and
you find railroads, elevator COM
bines, beef combines, and Treasury
suckers, from the county up, who
''stand in with the plutes of She
Senate ''for all there is in it,
"Counties?' you say. Yes, for the
party-boodler will build culvert
over some creek with ten dollars, and
draw on the treasury for $24O to
divy up with the rest. 1t is singular
that new party cannot get into the
field-but SO potent is the money
power that it seems impossible
Every man who makes ten dollars in
four years by his party" talks
against new party! Radiant pa
triOtism.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
HO there, Robinson

We aren't through with that rail-
road pamphlet of RObinson's yet.
From all over the state come letters
congratulating the GREAT WEST In
girdling the affair. But here's an
other crack on the Uranium OF that
brilliant genius who wrote it. Rob-
inson "blew" heavily on the basis OF
his statements, being taken from the
advance sheets of the Interstate
Commerce Commission sent him as a
great favor!
We state, ON THE AUTHORITY OF
THE U. S. GOVERNMENT, that Robin
son has never had the advance sheets
OF the Inters tate Commerce Commits
sion Report-unless he stole the
manuscript!
Now let him come to the front and
explain himself. He gave a pretend
ed "balance sheet" of q railroads ex-
penses. We traced it up to the
Northern Pacific and established it's
fraudulency. We then showed that
it's enormously swollen accounts (on
account Of new and vast enterprises
only consumed twenty per cent OF
one years income! We now assert
positively that the whole pamphlet
is fraud-that he has never had the
"advance sheets of the Interstate
Commerce Report"-for this reason
1T has not been printed yeti
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

The road from Elk River to Milac-
ca is 32 miles long. Jim Hill draws
interest OH over 81 300, 900 for build
ing it. Yet the county through
which it runs paid bonus enough to
gradei it and furnish just One-third the
rails! And that was about one-fOurth
the cost of building it. Elsewhere
we have allowed that it cost $500, 900
to build-but that is because $4,000
to the mile is only one-fourth of
what it stands up against the farm
ers when leaving out the land! The
real cost lies somewhere between
$4,000 and $1,000 mile-ready for
the lOcOmOtOr.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

The United States government is
furnishing various banks a hundred
million dollars to do business on. Ii
the same government could furnish a
loan to the farmers of the ten west
ern states at per cent. there would
be a saving of $172,OOO,OOO annually
on land mortgages. Then when fore
closures occurred it would be the
government which owned the land.
AS it is, nearly fifteen thousand
farms a year are passing into the
hands of the plutocrats. One east
ern loan firm rents out over 5OOfarms
around Huron, Oak.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
"Age on ages telling!' That is a

"Age on ages telling!' That is a
grand and comprehensive expression.
Rarely do reforms transpire during
the epoch when they are given birth.
Often from the depths they spring in
to being, and battle for life, until the
fanatics and cranks whose offspring
they are, sink into the grave unsung,
and unrequited for the secret herOism
of their lives! The generation which
follow lends respectability and en-
cOuragement to the fanaticism of the
preceding period-and another gener-
alton adopts them. But again there
have been reforms which have arisen
and sunk out of sight like the splut-
ter OF meteorite in the deep sea-
and ages after some convulsion of
nature has brought them again to
view.
1t seems very difficult to believe, in
this line of thought, that Christ was
followed by churches teaching and
practicing communism Such is the
indisputable knowledge of history.
But yet again reforms come sud-
denly. Ten years ago the "Looking
Backward" OF Bellany would have
been expurgated from the houses of
nineteen-twentieths of the American
people. But today it is the delight
of ninety-nine of every hundred
Here has been a sudden change. Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, Mary Liver
more, in fact the grandest intellects
of this century endorsing ''social-
ism!' Why, it does not seem pOssi-
BILE! 1t isn't possible-there will yet
come some thump at the door, and
we will all wake up, and find that
Andrew Jackson has just been nom-
mated for the presidency-and what
funny dream we did have, didn't
we Mr. Bellamy!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

There are 45 national banks in
New York City.
They have a combined capital of
$45, 100000.
Their profits reached the enormous
sum of $13S millions!!
This is over 3O3 per cent?!
In 1880 the profits on the farm, by
the Z. S. Census were 3 per cent.
3O3 and 3. That's the difference
which the protection of the United
States government brings about. The
laboring people of the United States
are under the foot of the money
kings. The U. S. senate is composed
wholly of bankers and lawyers mot
a labOring farmer or mechanic in the
whole outfit.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
1t is a curious commentary on the

1t is a curious commentary on the
vast power of the newspaper that
almost Immediately after the Hector
Mirror published it's column OF rant
against the Alliance and the
work, the farmers met and Or
ganized one of the largest alliances,
on the start, in the state. 1t had u
charter members, and report ap-
pears in our columns.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
Better FarnninQ.

The tOiling man sometimes gets
weary, and folds the bedclothes
about him., as he lies down to snore,
sick and tired of contention. But
what wearies him most of anything
is to have set of harpies harp their
harps in his ear morn, noon and
night, telling him what miserable
botch of workman he is. Sometimes
he is shiftless; sometimes he is a
drinker; sometimes he is an ass; but
all times the siren song pierces his
vitals-"what an Internal poor farm
er you are!"
''LOw prices for wheat? All,
that's because your a darn poor
farmer
denominations robbing you? Yes,
but that's because you don't know
how to shovel manure
"Thirty per cent interest on a
mortgage? Certainly, if you knew a
beet from a bootjack you wouldn t
feel sixty per cent
Railroads take 20 cents to haul
wheat 12O miles? Cert-gnaw bones
closer and let your children wear no
stockings and you can get rich on
air!'
"Sugar too high?' Thunder, put
your Trust in sawdust-and eat
no sugar-milliOnaire are careful
about expenses
"Politicians stealing you blind %
Well, don't get into politics-work
like nigger-keep your wife and
children hard at it-and rest your
financial salvation in letting me, a
big-bug, and the lawyer, and the
banker, manage politics. You cam t
raise corn and think "d-n'' at the
polls. We can do all that for you"
'Coal. is $11.5O? OF course it is.
But better farming will bring it
down. Keep your family at work
and they won't need coal!'
Now we're sick of this. The most
intelligent and magnificent farming
in the history of the world is done
today. There is most splendid breed
ing, wise foretho't in regard to crops,
and much machinery and Journalism
called inland yet 500 farms around
one little western town have passed
into the hands OF the mortgages in
five years! Let us have rest.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
That illimitable-whenceness-o

That le-whenceness-Of-th
who editing the Hector Mirror said
lately that property in the United
States had increased 60 per cent in
twelve years-more than half-as-
much again-and condemned agita-
ton on account of the vast increase OF
wealth. Werefer the old gilded three
balls to the State censuses OF 1885
which say that farm lands DE-
CREASED in value from 1877 to 1856
and the value of farm products DE-
CREASED from $15 an acre to $S an
acre.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
Farmers.

Will you kindly send us accounts OF
any troubles you are having in the
matter of shipping grain or pro-
duce? If you have any complaints
will YOU let us know. We wish a
CORRESPONDENT at Osakis, Douglas
Co. Especially if you are delayed in
getting cars-Or if the agent talks
"deposit" to you. Let us know
without delay.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Every reader OF the GREAT WEST
has noticed the stalwart utterances
OF the "Olive Branch" of Hancock.
The editor has gone to Belgrade and
is now issuing a solid country news
paper at that lively village. Mr..
West is young American OF the type
which "gets there" Farmers, sup
port him. He is "true blue and is
not afraid to stand by your rights.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

A millionaire rode gaily through
the prairies in a grand $4,000 Pull
man private car. He saw an old,
worn-out, thrown-aside harrow ly-
ing in the field. 'There," said he, sis
the cause of the farmers poverty.
Secretary, wire General Manager
Slap-it-on to double the freight rates
from Patch-prairie to Minneapolis! s!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

There are balance sheets and then
there are advance sheets-ask Rob-
insOn about them. Robinson, what
will you take for the advance
sheets" of the Interstate Commerce
Commission Report-from which you
constructed that wonderful PAM
phlet? We are in the market to pur-
chase them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Mr.. Robinson don't want to mon
kew with advance sheets" OF gov
ernment officials until such sheets are
in existence. Mr.. Robinson is build
er of fdreams-but as railroad apollo
pist is in advance of the sheets.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
"Mr. Editor, what's a gulf "

A ''guff'' is a farmer who nevis
around that he won't have nothin'
to dew with the Alliance ef hers goin'
ter chaw up any pollertics sand he
will never unite while Spook, Spectre
& Co. have anything to do with it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

There will probably be a squirt in
wheat about January 1st. Then 3
large amount of options are settled
up and wheat futures delivered. But
another reason is that by that time
the wheat crop will be fairly in the
hands of the gamblers and it will Of
course be a proper time for raise.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Bob Dunn, OF the Princeton Union,
says:
"You are liar, DR.. Fish" We say
Robert is an honest man. Perhaps,
after all, we are both mistaken.
All, there.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Bro. Snow, out in Yellow Medicine
County, says that an Alliance meet
ing would have been larger If Snow
storm hadn't arisen just as he ar
rived in town!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Thirteen millions of dollars go
over the borders of Minnesota an
nually to Boston, Hartford, New
York, etc., to pay skinfiint mort
cages. Eight million more go over
the border on bogus railroad securi-
ties.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

The National Farmers Alliance, at
the St. Louis meeting endorsed the
Hennepin Canal, and the free coinage
of gold and silver. 1t also gave the
saloon a black eye by resolving
that,
"We oppose the liquor tariff in all
fOrms!"
They also decided that the Pacific
Railway frauds should be stopped at
once-that these monstrous mon
opolies should be compelled to pay
up Or turn over the plants to the
so voted against traffic except for
revenue.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Farmers, you in getting at the amount paid
to n OF Bonuses? The roads have
o publish them in their sworn reports!
Write Of County, OF your Township, OF viii
laue O other County, Township
Alliances please take this
cia earliest possible moment
Let personally too;
same section will re better.
~ ~ THE GREAT WEST.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
Robinson, hi there LEND us the
Oan OF your advance sheet 90

The decrease in circulation during
the past year was SIX million-dur-
ing a period of extraordinary hard
times. But at the same time the
government notified the banks that
they would protect them by buying
bonds at any time THEY should feel
the stringency! Protect the Shy
locks anyway.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

OF what use is the U. S. Senate?
Can any one suggest a practical
value therefor If it is but costly
not get rid of it?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Oak Park is all torn up over the
school book question. A new teach
er thew out the state books and SUBJ
stituted the books of Van Antwerp,
Bragg & Co. 1t kicked up an adult
row, and the war is still on. It may
interest the state to know that the
15-year contract by which Merrill fur
nishes school books at SO per cent of
previous rates, is about expiring.
The history of the attempt of the
Cincinnati publishers to control the
school book sales is one of no
little interest At least $4,000
was spent by the ring to defeat the
present contract, in the legislature,
and it was saved only by one man
who got mad because he didn't get
as much money as another one, for
his vote in the matter Some inter-
esting details may be brought out if
the conflict is renewed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

We understand that the U. S. gov
ernment declines to take a record Of
the mortgages in the country at the
coming census?
What is the excuse?
Because it will cost too much!'
Great God, what a government
1t has spent SO million dollars the
past few months to accommodate
bankers-an actual GIFT-a BONUS
a premium on bonds" But out of
the 6 million necessary to take the
census it cannot use One-fiftieth of it
for the poor man! And my friend,
are you a ''party" man now?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

This Republic was founded
upon principles which involved
the Dignity of Labor. To des-
troy the power O1 Labor is to
construct Caste. 4 Caste cannot
co-exist with a Republic.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
The TurnfeSt Comes Here.

Col. Jacob Nunge and several othel
well known members OF the Turner
Society Of this city went TO Allentown
Pa, yesterday as delegates from The
society here TO a regular convention O.
the Turner's Of this district. They re,
turned over the Baltimore & Ohio last
evening, highly elated over the fact thai
they had managed to have Wheeling
selected as the place for the holding
of the next District funniest. They
vent 10 Allentown prepared TO do al
that could he done In favor Of the selec'
ton Of Wheeling, and they had but
little trouble in bringing such an ar
rangement about. The Fest will not be
held till the summer Of 1890, In the
meantime the Society here will prepare
for making 1t a memorable affair.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
BELLAIRE.
Ali Sorts OF Local News aud Gossip from
tho Gins City.


All Sorts Of Local News aud Gossip from
tho Glass City.
Tho Rtua Glass Works will 10 OFT this week,
Thomas Jones IL home from North baltimore
70 buy.
There arc enrolled In the schools hero lrAOC
scholars.
MI. D. J. Murray TAILS to show much Slgu oil
Improvement
John wheolan ia boOkkcCpcr now at rClky
Bros. coal works,
Mi. John Parks and family will sail for Eng
land this summer,
The father OF Prof.. WCnnut died this homoin
Tliiln Thursday morning.
The city lookup for tho past two weeks haS
been vacant, BellAltC being very orderly.
Col. Fred Grant passed through here Saturday,
on his way from Chicago to Washington, D, {.
Frank Hogan passed through here Saturday
night with q thoroughbred horse for Toronto, q.
Colonel poormRn will arrive at home to.mor.
row aud settle down In tho newspaper bnhnetS.
A tfuia load OF agricultural machinery passed
through here Saturday bound for Portland
Oregon,
Everybody who heard Gilbert Walden al The
N. T.. Church were more than pleased, and were
loud III his praises
The new creamery al Glencoe started last
VIVA AAlNA AuH wv ENAAAA AA - w So " "
the engine broke down.
Messenger Ford left for Arkansas City, KaS.,
gRIufday-the land Of the Oklahoma boomers,
lIO says DO will not go down Into that country
for while.
The asphalt walk around the fountain IA, 90.
COfdIng 10 good Judges, not going 10 amount 10
much, but The balance Ia to b. Of liGfea stone,
which will last,
The trains No. a. and " on the Cleveland a
PllhbuHh railroad Saturday night thus iGt have
been q grand success and are vUfy handy for pNf.
Ties going " and from wheeling,
MtI. Charles II. BAlNellA funeral took place
al 10 O'Clock yesterday. A very latge crowd N.
tended, Tho funeral procession went 10 Wheel.
ing, aud the intertneht was ~ the P0nlhIulGt
Cemetery,
Tho Water Works Hoard has elected Mt. usotve
Walters President, J, W, llealherIhgtOn vice
President H. o. Wilson superintendent and
Secretary, Mt. Jennings ID The new member,
Vice MOfd Nelson, retired.
The I. o. o. =. herr are To- build q lafRe build.
lnE on %Thiflylhlfd and Belmont streets he.
ginning soon, H. II 10 be W by iib feet, three
ilOtiCA high, the lodge room 10 20 on the Third
floor and store rooms beneath,
Several pattioS. here have been growing about
tho Street fAlf funds and seem 10 lhInE lhSy
were nllappf0ptlalOdi This u 4 mistake, Th6
statement wa offered lot publication, With TO,
COipta and expenditures ID fill, With Inc bal.
AnGe, The accounts eau he seen IL any (li1e ~
any one calling a. SO Cutntnlhh hardware
store,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
.HHH HEADS Begin 70 FALL
New Federal Appointees to blake
Charge this Morning,
THE WHEELINGITES HOME
From Washington in Good Spirits,
The Lucky Ones Getting Ready
for Duty-TheM Marshal oner.
ed Lots of Material.

The heads begin to fall. To-day
Charles Bickerton succeeds Thomas Fee
as Custodian OF the Custom House here,
and Charles W, Bachman succeeds James
NJ, Todd as Superintendent OF Repairs
on the Custom House, Mr., BaChman's
appointment has already been an.
nounCed, Mr., Bickerton's commission
arrived last evening, but will not reach
HIM until to-day, a postofice official hay.
ing declined to give it to him when he up
piled for It last night, He will assume
charge all the same, Custodian Fee hay,
ing been notified to that effect. He will
make a good Custodian, having had
experience, and being faithful and intel
llgent,
The new United States Marshal, H, S.
White, was in town Saturday, He says
he has received sixty-lve applications
for appointment as deputies, OF which
twelve are from Wheeling, He has also
some recommendations that Democratic
deputies be retained, Mr.. Whites APP
pointmept as Marshal gives universal
satisfaction,
Hon, G. W, Atkinson, 7. O. Moffat
and Frank Bowers returned Saturday
from Washington,
MI. Atkinson says there Is nothing at
Washington which demands his atten-
ton just now. He will return there in
a!week or SO, and make some further re-
concentrations,
Mr.. Bowers was industriously engaged
Saturday and yesterday In resting, He
will remain here a week or two, and then
90 TO New York and report for duty.
The Register OF yesterday contained an.
article full Of misstatements. Its refer.
ence to Major j.. v, l., Rodgers as acandi.
date for Surveyor Of the Port receives
his personal attention elsewhere in this
mornings INTELLIGENCER, Its state.
ment that DR.. Baird Is retained on the
Board OF Pension Examiners "for the
benefit Of his experience" Is equally
untrue. DR.. Stathers, ono OF the new
appointees, served three years In the
same capacity when living in Tyler
county. DR.. Baird's retention is under.
stood to be only temporary, and in all
probability before the Board Is ready for
business D.s Jepson and Stathers will
have q third Republican as their col.
league on the Board. All three ut. the
late members; Drs, Baird, Hoge and
Stifel resigned April !,
The committee Of ex.soldiers appoint
cd to assist Mr.. Senseney in his canvass
for the postmastership held a meeting
Saturday evening. &. W, Raggs, who
returned from Washington on Friday,
reported the result Of his visit to the
Capital, and expressed himself as en-
Couraged over Mr.. Senseney's prospects.
The committee was in session for two
hours, but the result Of their delihera'
tons was not made known,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
Francesca Kid Gloves.

The leading foreign house
exporting Kid Gloves to the
United States is that Of Mag
gioni francesca, Of Milan. Its
now some fourteen years since
the business carried on under
this style was established, and
for years past the Gloves have
enjoyed a high reputation in
this country.
For about forteen years the
eminent and popular house OIL
P. Centimeri & Co. have been
selling agents for the Gloves
in this country, but in August
last Mr.. Maggioni established
a special agency in New York
for the sale Of his renowned
Gloves, and a full and COM
plete line can always be found
at our Store, in Black and
Colors.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
INC Way oi nc Tran.gres.or.

Twenty-Five of the Indictments found
by the recent Grand Jury were settled
Saturday, Pleas Of guilty were entered
as follows;
Grace Andrews, three indictments FOL
selling liquor withouta license; fined $lC
and costs in each case, Nellie White
two indictments for the same o%tFenseI
same inei Josephine Boyd, two cases
and Nan Morrison three, same fine
ia each instance Laura Rosetwo charges
same fine; Jennie Lee one, same fine,
Indictments for keeping houses Of Ill
fame; Laura Rose, Elite Ditty, Minnie
Zulauf, Ida Robinson and Carrie Palmer
each fined $50 and costs and sent to jail
James Cahill, NJ. o'Neal, Thomas
Halpin, Thomas Howley and Patrick
0'Neal, gambling, $l5 and costs each,
Martin Chisnell, exhibiting q gambling
device, $50 and costs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
ABIa REAL p%STATRDsAL.
The BroGkunlsr Properly, on MArkststrset,
Sold.


Sold.
The lot on Market street, on the east
side, above Twelfth, belonging to the
Brockunier estate, and containing two
old residences high on a sand bank, was
sold on Saturday by O, A, sChaefer &
Co., for the owners, to ex.Mayor ], A,
Miller, representing the Peabody Insur-
ance company. The consideration il
stated at Sl5,500, about S2S5 q front loot,
the lot being sixty.six feet In width,
Mr., Miller was asked last evening
what the company would probably do
with the lot, He said it was bought to
make money, and probably a fine bust
ness block Of three store rooms on the
ground floor would be built on 1t. II ID
understood that the insurance company
will occupy a part Of the building, and 4
will probably be known as "the Peabody
Block"
Judging from the old city hall lots just
south, the bank on which the two houses
now on the lot stand is composed Of fine
building sand. 1t is said before the site
OF the old city hall was seld to Mr.
Schmulbach, the city took about 5000
worth OF sand oft.