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g, MANY families keep both kinds on hand. rs
ihey form complete medicine chest.
VINEGAR BITTERS.

The only Temperance Bitters known. II
stimulates the Brain and quiets the Nerves
regulates the Bowels and renders a perfect
blood circulation through the human veins
which is sure to restore perfect health
leans, La writes under date OF Nav 96tb 1888 q,
follows: II have been going to the Hot SprinSs
ARR, Tor fifteen years for an itching humor i'm my
Diooa. 8.a. have just used three bottles Of Vinegar
bltiers, ana It has done me more good than I'M
springs II is the best medicine made"
JOSEPH J. EAGAN, of No. 70 West ST Nav
YORK. says: Have not been without VineSa,
BltterS for the past twelve years. and consider h
whoie medicine chest in our family"
MRS, MATTE FURGU5ON of Dryden. N. Y
says vinegar Bitters is the best medicine
ever tried 1t saved my life"
1. f. BAILEY, of Humboldt, Iowa, SAYS: .'Vin.
egar BitterSS cured me of paralysis ten wears AGO
ana recently it cured me of rheumatism. :"
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

WANTED 100000 Weak Baots fo c.,
w Greatest Discovery Of the Age. Bassett,s
combination Plaster Is the Greatest Cure Known
tIr,Weas tIr weak BACK, Kidney Complaint, etc. Trv
@ lor u 09 w 3. RICH Il CO., Pfoprietors. Sbei,
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
Philadelphia, Wilmington 3 Baltimore Railroad
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after December 10th, 1888 Sundays ex-
epted), trains willleave as follows
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Fear OF q New Party

For two years now the two old
parties have been fighting against
the formation of a new party. hey
know the danger well. Somehow,
through county chairmen and town.
ship committees the old parties are
able to control vast amount of
sentiment in every township in the
United States. Yet, though stating
that all reforms must come through
the old parties, the reforms do not
come. They become more villainous-
ly corrupt every year. But the
spread of non-partisanship is warp
ing'' it to the old parties terribly
and soon there will be a labor party
in the field which will astonish the
nation. 1t is coming. Independent
organs throughout the land are ap-
pealing to patriotism-to righteous
ness-to rise up and destroy the old
political machines root and branch.
A man who will now put party be-
fore country is worse than an anar-
chist.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Mr.. Robinson gets up a "Balance-
Sheet to show what an enormous
expenditure the Northern Pacific Che
does not give the name of the road)
has had in just one year. With 49
miles OF sidetrack, and a rolling
stock equipment for road $50 miles
long, and building new road to the
amount of a hundred miles, building
and charging so ''depot buildings" :"
putting up an ore dock costing $21S,-
600, etc., etc, he makes the road ap-
pear as terribly expensive affair to
keep up" But then when we find
the road doing a business of $4,000
good dollars to the mile last year
and that this vast "balance-sheet"
only calls for 81 ,2O3 to the mile we
feel as though we could carry the
roads financial burdens in our ear
as the Chinaman carries his nickles!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

One or two of the editors in the
state fall back on the childish argu-
ment that railways are an advan-
tage to the farmers and therefore
they ought not to grumble if robbed.
Notably the editor of the Princeton
Union mutilated common-sense in
this way last week. Milk is neces-
sity, therefore the milkman should be
permitted to "water his stock" at
will! Eyes, but you can change
your milk man-competition keeps
him straight" All, but you can't
change your railroad-competition
don't affect a railroad except at
terminals-and there they pool busi-
ness. The argument of the Union is
a poor flabby, old garment which
never did any service to the one who
used it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
To show what terrible tyranny

To show what terrible tyranny
"party" is exercising over men in
this ''free" government, we clip
the following from the Farmers
Friend" a Pennsylvania publication
Joe Howard is one of the strongest
men in the east, and it reveals des-
potism of the political gang existing
all over the country.
"There are not ten men in this
gathering who dare write what they
think about the great moral issues of
the country" said the well known
newspaper writer, "Joe" Howard, at
the Boston Press Club banquet Tues
day night. This is terrible indict-
ment OF the press, but the worst Of
the case is it is more than half true.
And still worse, the public is largely
at fault, and responsible for such a
condition of things.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

st. Paul politicians are wholly to
blame for the present depression in
st. Paul real estate and commercial
interests. st. Paul has stood by the
Minneapolis wheat gang and rail-
road interests and Millers' Associa-
ton until a wonderful city has been
built out of farmers sweat, right
under st. Paul's wing Minneapolis
thereby gets an exclusive grain
trade of about II: million dollars a
year, on which by just profits and
by steals she realizes ten millions of
solid gain. She is therefore steal
ing st. Paul's jobbing trade. So the
Minneapolis gang kindly granted to
st. Paul something to balance things
the meat inspection bill! WhOop!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Mr.. Carpenter of the Pennington
Tribune calls attention to the cost of
sidetrack, in the Northern Pacific
''Balance Sheet" Forty-nine miles
cost $264, ,OOO-this is s5,4O0 to the
mile. These side tracks have all re-
quired grading, have mostly had
"brand-new" steel rails laid on them,
and with the frogs, switches, etc., are
more expensive than the average
road. So says a railroad contractor
whom we have consulted. A level
side track is more expensive than a
level road-a cut sidetrack than a
cut on the main line. Dirt must all
be removed and not thrown on the
side, ETC., etc.
How does this compare with our
statement of q cost of $1,000 or $1O,-
600 to the mile.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

The Princeton Union again pitches
into the st. Paul "catchpenny sheet, :"
called the GREAT WEST, because we
did not absorb gratefully it's delicate
compliments. All right, Mr.. Dunn
that catchpenny will take care of it.
self. He says, lone would Judge
from perusing the columns of the
GREAT WEST that it's editor had as
sOciated with thieves all his life. :"
Well, yes-for several years, Mr.
Dunn, we have been associating with
a good many thieves. They were of
assorted colors to. They are, as a
class, fond of SURPRISING THEIR OWN
iniquity.
Now there may be good men
among the wheat buyers-but we
say that a farmer who would vote to
send good one to the Legislature is
not wise man. We don't see how
they can do it. But they can do it
much more sensibly than to send one
or two editors we know of.
The editor of the Union began this
little squib frolic by calling us a
crank demagOgue' on the basis OF a
six-line thoroughly sensible PROPOSE
tion-a proposition which is the only
resource the farmer has to get decent
laws enacted.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

TO show how much it sometimes
Harry Robinson to the Maple Valley
Extension OF the Northwestern, in
Monona County, Iowa. By referring
to the report of the commission we
find that $4O2, 500 ofbonds were issued
for this purpose. 1t is 80 miles long,
through one of the hilliest counties
on this continent, and with one of the
largest dirt cuts in America. 1t cost
$5,2lC per mile to build this line by the
above figure! Iowa papers please
copy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
RObinsOn-Read and Reflect,

ROblnSOn-Read and Reflect.
"The Railroads are improbable
investment. So urges Harry Rob-
inson in his plutocratic pamphlet.
Let us see. The Wisconsin Central
reports deficit of $4,000 last year !
1t is improbable. 1t must stop run
ming it's transit must change it's
Board of Directors and get a less en-
terprising set! Must it not, Harry (?
Let us examine: Just ten years
ago the Wisconsin Central was
worth two million of dollars: Dur
ing these ten years it has kept it's
enormous issue of bonds at par and
above, and added to it's value EIGHT
million dollars! It's issue of stock for
construction was three million only,
and it, floats a bond debt of
TWENTY MILLIONS! 1t earned
two and quarter million dollars
last year on bona fide, capital of
about three million, and a bogus to-
tai of ten million. OF this enormous
percentage of income it paid over
HALF A MILLION for interest on
bonds! 1t paid out for operating
expenses million and a quarter-a
most extraordinary amount in view
of it's length and business. But the
most astounding fact is that with that
enormous gross incOme-which is
quite one hundred per cent of invest
ment allowable by liberal construc-
tiOn-the road comes out $4,000 in
debt! And then the Directors meet
lat 800 per diem for expenses) and
re-elect every man of those Directors
and officials! Surely that must be
wonderful institution-the whole
world wants to know how to do it.
How is it Robinson?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
More Food for Mr.. Robinson

More Food for Mr.. Robinson
to Digest.
The following article is taken from
the Nebraska Stockman and Cultiva-
tor. Mr.. Robinson complains, in a re-
cent defense of the plutocrats, that
50 per cent of the capital stock"
was unproductive, and also IL per
cent of the bonds. We have already
shown that but little if any of the
stock should draw dividends, because
it represents no investment; also
that One-third of the bonds are
fraudulent on a basis of $4,000, to
the mile expense for building the
roads, when the average is not over
$4,000, and $4,000 is a large es-
innate. Now we find some of the
roads do not pay a dividend even
under the above facts, and also what
an enormous income some of them
do earn:
Two interesting railroad reports
have been put before the public in
the last few days. One report is
that of the Chicago & Alton which
declares it's fourth dividend of two
per cent during the year. The other
is that of the Wisconsin Central
which, after earning something over
two and a quarter million dollars
during the year, comes out twenty
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Nothing could be more surprising
nothing more could be asked.
Now look at this. It's earnings are
over Is million dollars a year-about
5000 to the mile And here comes this
repair, extension, construction, i'm
provement and equipment balance
sheet, including these vast enlarge
ments, amounting to ONLY TWENTY
PER CENT OF INCOME THAT SAME
YEAR!
Surely that right arm of Mr.. Rob-
inson's must be paralyzed at getting
up such a bogus balance sheet as
this!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Let us have LiUht.

The GREAT WEST will undertake
to get the farmers of the state to pc
tition Congress to instruct the Gen.
sus Bureau to schedule all mortgages.
Will our exchanges in the other states
urge the same. 1t will be an easy
matter for a farmer, or several in
every township, to write out short
simple petition and forward to this
Washington.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Graceville Democrat:

Graceville Democrat:
The GREAT WEST, the new alliance
paper published at st. Paul, is of the
opinion that the state officers are
trying to capture the alliance. What
if they do? Worse scOundrels than
they have captured the alliance, and
still the organization lives and ap-
parently prospers.
Yes, and it will, just so long as the
political boodlers are kept out of it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

We have recently published the
averagecost of depots at the stations
at $1,000. Robinson gets into his IA
nous pamphlet-account several sta
ton accounts, of which one junction
station figures at $616!
We will soon be able to give farm
ers figures on these enormous frauds
which will startle them more than
anything yet published.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Wewish our state exchanges would
publish a call to farmers in every
township to get up a short simple
petition to have all mortgages in the
United States scheduled by the Census
OF 1890. The petition can be for
warded to the office of this paper,
and they will be shipped to Wash
ingtOn.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
A prOfane farmer said the other

A profane farmer said the other
day:
'The Pillsbury's tell the farmers
we don'traise hogs enough. 1t looks
to us as though we didn't raise
HI enough"
The whole country is fatting hogs,
ten thousand farmers to each hog!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Thos. w. Lowry, of Nebraska, has
sued the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy R. R. for $145, 900 damages for
delay in providing carsto ship grain,
for overcharges and unjust dis
ordinations. His petition covers
fifty-six pages besides the "ex-
hibits.'
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

The Dakota Hail Insurance Co.
insured l, 100000 acres this year at
precisely one-half of the cost OF any
other company doing business in the
twin states-a saving of $157, 900 a
year.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

%l4,OIZ, ,5U, ,00
At this stage we are
informed that Mime
sofa GOWNS 1--WE
calculate this means
"owes''-a man may
Gown" a debt-but
he hates toy 81 1853, ,292, 20
This, of course, means the Winona
& st. Peter line, beginning at Winona
and ending at the Dakota line, with
it's fork at Tracy.
AS curious matter regarding this
"branch," we will state that the
Northwestern Company, in their re-
port gave a table of "roads belong
ing to other companies" operated by
"this company under LEASE OR CON-
TRACT" After tabulating six such
lines embracing 1915 miles, it coolly
remarks:
"THIs COMPANY HAS NO LEASED
LINEs.''
We have now a stock account of
over seventy-four millions. To this
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
WINONA & ST. PETER r. r.
The Enormous Profit of it's Business.

The Enormous Profit of it's Business.
There were a hundred things desira-
BILE to say in last weeks review OF
Robinson's late Railroad pamphlet.
Among questions deserving atten-
ton which he brought up was the
profitable operation of the North
western Railway. He said: Gas a
matter Of fact the lines of the Chica-
go & Northwestern Railway in Min
nesota were absolutely unproduc-
tive"
AS the table prepared by that road
and placed in the Annual Report of
the State Commission shows but 13
miles in Minnesota, it would be lit
tie difficult to figure the matter.
Farther over, however, we ascertain
that the 13 miles have extended to
414. Evidently the table did not get
much care in preparation! But as
the same table gives us cline from
Chicago to Council Bluffs 491 miles;
proportion thereof in Illinois 731.SS
miles,, we concluded that they don't
worry much about the report any
way.
Mr.. Robinson says the Winona &
st. Peter branch showed an actual
deficit of $3.50, ,0OO," last year.
Now this road is a 'leased line''
with subsequent absorption. The
most astounding thing ever known in
human folly is this leasing of lines by
great financiers, which run them in
debt to the extent of $3.50, 900 a year!
Either the financiers are droves of
donkeys or Harry Robinson does
not tell the truth-and Harry GER
tainly would not write pamphlet
to sustain drove of money-lOsing
imbeciles. 1t is a fine thing to reduce
the value OF property before absorp-
toni. Now this WinOna & st. Peter
line consists of seven different COM
panies or railroads consolidated
and OF course consolidation means
bonds and stock expansion. No
road ever is consolidated without
taking opportunity to issue more
bonds and stock-that is what "con-
solidation" is for-f1nancially speak
ing.
The Northwestern gives a fine op-
tunity for skillful work, because we
have the following memorandum in
the report:
capital STOCK AUTHORIZED, NOT
FIXED"
That enables them to ''fix it," So
we find, on examination, that we
have some stock issued-a trif1e:
Common Stock common
stock is what you
pick up on the street
such as Erie distribut-
ed for years at sc. on
the dollar. 1t includes
all the original stock
of the original compan-
ies,) ........................ So, ,546, 1866. 81
But now you see the
consolidation" fel-
lows want to issue
stock-but if they
add to the above
pyramid of 50 mill
ions and 81 cents their
"darned old rag
baby" will be worth
no more than "cOm-
mon stock"-in fact
thev wOuld simnlv he
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Again we aver that it has cost less
than ten thousand dollars to the
mile to build the railroads of Mime
sota-and defy the production of
the contracts. $500 is actually
above the cOst-and it will include
the complete equipment of most of
them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

We say now, and say with all the earnestness of
who is not ignorant of the consequences the
Farmer who will not stand by h fellows under the wrongs
and expressions weighing him down. either ignorant of
the facts he is knave unfit to live in free country
1t is impossible that toing man can know even
gmmer of the truth-or shadow or a suspicion-and
not join his fellow in finding and applying the remedy
i if he is honest man.
We say further:-That any farmer who paliates ex-
Defends silently submits to, the existing con-
don OF his commercial AFFAIRS that these recent
exposures have been made unworthy respect Of
his felow-men. The brave should let the towards
know that the upright and honest toler can have nothing
in common with traitors who VIII the comfort of life
taken from them and theirs to build palaces for foreign
Shylocks, to make domestic monares out Of their
daily toll!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

The Monticello people say the In
stitute will be welcomed with two
halls, and a church for evening use.
1t is estimated that a thousand peo-
will be in attendance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

The following sentiment was uttered by this
paper recently. Bre'r Dunn, OF Princeton Union,
and Sheets, Of Todd County Argus, call US
demagogue for it's utterance. We propose now
to keep it where it can be seen for a few weeks:
No farmer should ever vote in primary or at
the polls for middle man, a wheat buyer or
even railroad sympathzer, for the legislature
We don't zee how you can do it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
THE RAILROAD BONUS.

Farnaers will you aid US in geing at the paid
to railroads in the shape Of have
declined to publish them in their reports!
Write OF County, your Township, Of your viii
lage or clty-or Of other County, Township
the State. Will Alliances please
cally--at earliest possible
Let each
section be better.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

This Republic was founded
upon principles which involved
the Dignity of Labor. To des-
troy the power Ol Labor is to
construct caste. A Caste cannot
cO-exist with a Republic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
$74,S72,32O,53

..22,a25, 5,454,56
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
TITLES FOR The MOB.
Decorations Lavishly Be-
slowed Upon Alsatians by
the Ruler of Germany.
Residents Of England'S Me-
tropolis Prefer Gas to
Electric Light.
Whitelaw Reid Opens His
House to Seripps League
Wopkingmen.
A Bavarian Count Nabbed by
Algerian Authorities
as a Spy.

LONDON, Aug. 24.-The kaiser was
particularly lavish in his bestowal of
decorations during his visit to Alsace-
Lorraine, and nothing can be said in dis
paragement OF. the devotion to the en-
pire of the recipients of these numerous
orders: but whether the Reichland, as
a whole, is any more loyal to the i'm
perial crown as the result of the en-
peror's visit is question which must
be decided by future events. Ger
tainly his action at Strasburg was
not calculated to inspire enthusiasm
among the ultra-French portion of
the population, and the French element
remained passive, and kept themselves
within doors while the welcoming feS-
tivities were in progress both at Metz
and at Strasburg. On the whole the
Berlin authorities are very well salts
fed with the emperor's reception,
though the enthusiasm was not as great
as most of the reports have represented.
The emperor sent two wreaths, one of
palm, the other of laurel, to be placed
OH the coffin of Crown Prince Rudolph
of Austria. on the occasion of the ami
versary of the latter's birth, last
Wednesday,.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
ANOTHER COURT NEEDED.
One Good Result ofthe Celebrated
Maybrick Case.

LONDON, Aug. 24.-Ofe result of the
Maybrick case has been to strengthen
and make irresistible the demand for
court of appeals in criminal eases.
Leading members of parliament of all
shades of politics state that they will
gladly put aside party strife and unite
in the creation of an institution, the
absence of which from the English legal
system is, they say, gross scandal.
Where the most trivial interests of
property are concerned, verdict or
Judgment may be subject to review, and
the merits of the case discussed afresh,
but where human life is at stake the
verdict, however mistaken, cannot be
set aside by any process known to Eng
lish law After a person has once been
pronounced guilty by jury of twelve
fallible men, the most complete proof of
entire innocence cannot remove the
stain that has been affixed in error.
All that even the prerogrative of the
crown can accomplish is to grant a
Free Pardon" for an uncommitted
crime. A court of criminal appeal
would provide substantial safeguard,
and make it more difficult than it is
now to send innocent persons 10 dis
honorable graves.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
MARINE MATTERS.

AsHLAND-Arrived: allula, coal Cleared :
City of Cleveland, Neosho. Topeka Louis
ana, Caledonia, Wadena and Couch, ore,
Cleveland.
DULUTH-Arrived: Propeller Osceola, Port
Huron. merchandise: steamer Bell Stevens
propeller North Wave, Lake Erie ports. coal..
Departed: Propeller 81. Il. Dixon, Port Ar
thur, coal: propeller Hadley, Two Harbors,
ore; propeller Veshota. Ashland ore: pro-
peller Jay Gould, Chicago, merchandise !;
Steamer Coach, Ashland, ore.
WNoNA-Boats Up-Henrietta, Tenbroeck,
Lily Turner. Jennier Hays, F. C. A. Denk-
man. Natrona, United States Alert, Juniata
Robert Harris. Boats Down-Lily Turner
Juniata, Tenbroeck, Robert Harris. Henriettal
Iowa, Helen Mar. United States Alert. Ma
trona, f. c. a. Denkman. Water two feet six
inches
SAULr STE. MAR1R-Down. D. m: Owen,
Michigan, Nicholion, $50; City of Duluth,
10; Tice, Knapp, Oneonta, IL. A. M.-Rob-
ert Mills, 2:4o; Ketcham. APO; Kasota,
Peck. 6:35: Badger State, 8; William CHS
holm. $50: Sheldon, Ely. Fayette. Brown,
10:15: Pontiac, 1l:15. P. M.-Bulgaria,
Northwest, $50. Up, p. NJ: Sheldon. 9:15
a. M.-Fayette, Brown, $50; China, 800;
Specular. Continental, Grace Holland. 1915 !;
Spinner. Shawnee. Godfrey, Drake. L.
P. M.-ltalia. Stevens. 1923; Columbia Com
rade, Queen of the Lakes, 2:20: Owen, 40;
Robert Holland, Sherwood, Stephenson, Ro-
anohe, $40.
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
NEW YoRK-Arriyed: UmbTis. from LiV-
erpool; Snevia. from Hamburg
LoNDoN-The steamship Hammonia, from
New York for Hamburg, passed Scilly.