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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Endorsed by the Great Union Con
vention, and its Headq quarters to
be Removed to Washington.

Mr.. Wardall, of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National
Alliance and Industrial Union, in
forms us that the Dakota Alliance
Insurance Company has changed it's
character to a National organization,
and will almost Immediately remove
it's headquarters to Washington.
This will take Mr.. Wardall there,
from which point he will proceed to
organize twenty OF the States under
the supervision OF the Great National
Alliance and Industrial Union. The
capital stock will be Immediately in
creased to 100000. The additional
100000 is nearly all raised now.
The Minnesota Fire Dept. will be
speedily organized. Every State will
do it's own business on it's own basis,
under the National, and all mutual
returns of surplus be made on the
State plan. But each State depart
ment will have the total financial
strength of the whole organization
in the matter of unexpected losses.
The whole twenty States, or ~ for
that matter, will have but one set OF
officers to support, instead of forty
two sets, and the surplus will be a
money-backing much greater than
where a company is wholly local. It
will also remove Alliance insurance
wholly above the intrigues of local
politicians and wire-workers.
The National Company now has
the Life Company on the Aid system,
the Fire, and the Hail and Cyclone.
Within a few weeks the legal forms
will be complied with, and the State
organized for actual practical work.
The National organization has
already been endorsed by over 20
State Alliances and the new fedora
ton.
At last some OF the clouds seem
breaking away. The farmers of Min
nesOta sent off for seventeen million
dollars of insurance last year-and
the losses amount to the beggarly
sum of $4,000! Now let the farm
ers get this surplus back again. The
National Company will return all Of
it's surplus to the insured, over and
above the legal requirements.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Buffalo Journal:

buffalo journal:
The anti-administration papers
have been busy circulating the report
that Vice President Morton has taken
out license for bar in his hosiery
in Washington personally signing the
petition for the same.--This report,
started by St. John, like the most OF
his campaign thunder, is false. There
is no bar connected with the estab-
lishment, nor has Mr.. Morton ever
petitioned for a license. The gentle
man who runs the hostelry, it is said,
serves liquors to his guests when
called for at the table, and it is to be
presumed that he has taken out a
license for the privilege. That is all
there is of "the three black crows"
AS to the morals involved in this
question we do not rise to explain.
1t carries it's morals with it. But for
right journalism we do kick. If tie
editor was not aware that the fac
simile license to sell liquor in the Shore
ham had been published all over the
United States; and that prominent
men had gonein OF late and purchased
liquors at the bar; and that said
liquor is now on exhibition in New
York City why the said editor
should have known it before he fired
off his gun. 1t is too late to get of
the St. John Joke.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The Great West advocates the
building OF railroads by the state
and county, and makes the state
ment that there is not a railroad in
Minneso ia the construction of which
cost $4,000 to the mile. We have
been told by our local men who have
engaged in this kind of work for
years, that ten thousand dollars
mile is about the average cost of
placing the grade in condition for the
ties. We are not in position to
know much about the matter but
suppose that the men who have
graded miles of road ought to know
something about it. 1t is a fact,
however, that the people are made to
pay interest upon two or three times
the actual cost of building the roads.
The matter of having the. state Or
government build the roads is not to
be for a moment regarded as fea-
sible or proper remedy for the pres
ent evils. 1t would greatly increase
the army of officials and furnish more
chance for corruption. The Great
West is now bowling itself hoarse
about the corruption in the public
service and ought not to advocate a
scheme which would largely increase
the opportunities for corruptiOn.-
Todd Co. Argus.
Now there are different opinions in
regard to the cost of building rail-
roads-owing to the dust thrown by
railroad men. But it is a very SIM
pie affair. and we are thoroughly
surprised that an EDITOR should get
off that $4,000 chestnut as above.
The grading for the ties costs from
six to twelvecents cubic yard-and
certainly Mr.. Sheets can measure a
cubic yard, q cubic feet. Surely if a
grade be IA feet wide at top and Is
at base, it is a prism of 16 feet, and
if two feet high contains 80 cubic
feet per lineal foot. This is yd and
feet-make it TX cubic yards. Such
grade costs less than Is cents per
lineal foot and there are $500 feet to
the mile-$7SO. There are expenses
of preliminary survey, and a ''bOss.
But surely no man would think OF
paying more than $1,000 per hundred
miles in such salaries! And yet that
adds only $50 a mile to the $3.50.
"Cuts and fills!" Why bless you,
the thicker the cuts, if not over 500
to 1000 feet long, the cheaper the
grading! Railroads pay NOTHING
whatever for the cuts where there
is not more earth than is wanted for
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
ST. PAUL, MINI, DEC. ~, 1889

Now, gentlemen OF the gang, you
have the condition of the country be-
fore you-what say you OF another
two years like the past?
One more year of down grade like
the past twelve months, and the
great republic with it's flags on the
schoolhouses, will drop into the
most terrible money crisis ever
known in it's history. Our CORES
pondence, of a financial character,
extends throughout the northwest
and it is our firm conviction that
another drop like that OF the year
past will break up business in the
country. This may be the cry OF the
alarmist-but he is a fool who,
knowing danger, does not endeavor
to avert it. These ten western states
are sending over their borders $780,
100000 annually, shorn off their
crop receipts. Three years ago, in the
central MINNEsoTIAN'' we gave
tables to show that no country, nor
policy under heaven could stand this
terrible drain-and defed any ac-
countant to show how a crisis could
be avoided. Now look at the vortex
we are rapidly approaching! Farm
receipts have, in the meantime, drop
ped from SIS an acre to 1878 an
acre. Nearly half of this decline has
been in four years. And beef has
dropped from five to two-and-a-
quarter, and from three to one
ninety!
A man three years ago sold 200
acres, 25 miles from St. Paul, for $50
an acre. Yesterday it was offered
for one-half the price.
And yet you will find a lot OF
ignorant political harpies figuring
out a wonderful prosperity! The
prosperity wears wooden shoes!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The prohibitionists of Iowa have
called a political convention to meet
at Des MOines a week before the leg
islature assemblies. They propose to
fling back the lie in the teeth of the
plutOcrats, that prohibition caused
the political landslide at the recent
election. They will inform his ma
jesty, the devil, that it was a war on
plutocracy and railway oppression
which did it-and it did.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Industrial Age:

lnQuSUr1al age:
Our Four Per Cent Bonds,
The bill creating the four per cent.
thirty year bonds, now being pur-
chased by Secretary Window at a
premium of 20 per cent. was changed
after it's passage, SO as to make
them payable after thirty years,
instead OF for thirty as provided
in the original act. During Mr..
Cleveland's administration this fraud
was exposed and investigation de-
manded. The investigation was re-
fused but the charges were not re-
futed Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Win
dom are fully aware of these charges,
which, if true, make the thirty year
bonds forgery, and yet they go on
paying one hundred and twenty
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

You farmers who think we are too
radical, and don't have ground for
our fears, read the following-it is
from the pen of the secretary OF
the National Bankers Association,
James Buell., Esq:
eve have arranged the program
for both parties, and are willing to
let the people exercise their choice OF
men,
Then add to this the boast OF
Louis Schade, Sec'y of the Brewers
Congress, that he dictated and the
parties Obeyed!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The following is clipped from
the Dawson Sentinel, and dis
cribes the growth OF a very
healthy infant:
MONTEvIDEO, Dec. 9, 1889.
FRIEND COGHLAN You will re-
member the beginning of things
relative to the Alliance in Monte
video. The meeting on the side
walk and the hostility of certain
parties, and the meeting in the
hotel (the Dunn House) where we
formed the infant Alliance.
Christ was born in a stable; Jay
Gould's grandson was rocked in
a golden cradle. The Monte
video Alliance was born in Joe's
hotel; it weighed % pounds, now
it tips the beam at 4S.
Furthermore, the coffee lunch
we enjoyed that Sunday after
noon has resulted in forming the
Camp Release Alliance. J. A.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

Ortonville Headlight:
A. Hoidale, postmaster at Daw
son, Lac qui Parle county, an I'M
compromising Farmers Alliance
man, was a caller at The. Head
light Wednesday.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

eight cents on the dollar for them.
The part taken by General Weaver,
Of Iowa, and his co-workers, in this
Exposure" led to the capitalistic
combinations and trickery that pre-
vented their reelection. Evidently
Mr.. Harrison entertains no fear OF
the question being brought up in the
present congress. We hope that he
is mistaken. Among the hundreds OF
representatives and the mighty in
terests at stake, it is hard to believe
that there is not a single one among
them that will raise their voice in fa-
vor of the tax-burdened and usury
robbed people.
We are afraid that from the pluto
cratic nest not a voice will be heard
to protest against the wrong.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The Alarm.
In Jerusalem, A. D., "a.
"Well, Isaac, the sedition is sup
pressed, the demagogue crucified, his
ignorant followers driven, like rats
to their holes.'
Blessed be the God of our Fathers,
Rabbi Abraham; law has been sustain
ed and order preserved. 1t will be a
fine warning to upstart 'reformers.
"Aye, Isaac, the holy temple will
not be again profaned by the dirty
rabble. The pharisee may worship
in peace, the Levite receive sacrificial
gifts, and the scribe expound the
sacred law"
"Truly, PLATE hath served us well
for an unbeliever. Think yon hereto
has many sympathizers?"
"Nay, none dare SO much as peep
in the twilight. Had Plate shown
clemency the common people would
have been encouraged to raise new
demands. Not content with calling
us hypocrites, they might even have
proceeded to desert us. Verify, the
cause of righteousness and of our
civilization then at stake, are now
secure. Will you be at Caiaphas
grand banquet this afteroon! All
the sanhedrim will be there
Verify, Rabbi Abraham, l will be
there to rejoice that the God of Israel
reigneth. But / am now in haste. /
60 to set up my money-changing
table in the holy temple. Peace be
with thee!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

As to these abandoned farms, they
have been deserted either because
they were too poor to furnish their
tenants a living, or the latter did
not understand their business we'll
enough to make living off them.
In either case, the best thing for
them to do was to go. The trouble
was more with the farmer than the
farm. Now the best remedy for that
may be summed up in one word,
education. Education of the farmer,
to help him understand his business,
is the aim of our agricultural schools,
experiment stations, press, boards,
societies and organizations. They
can all help, but after all, the most
depends on the man himself.-Farm
and Fireside.
Now that we are kindly told that
the farms are deserted by hundreds
because the farmers are such ALFRED
poor farmers, will that sheet kindly
mention why some one else don't take
the places Of the botch farmers and
get rich by good farming. Yes, we
want to see some of these stalwart
buckstraps who farm in a fine office
with a lead pencil, get out, and get
rich raising carrots, wheat and
things! Why is it that farmers have
grown to be such miserable cultiva-
tors in the past fifteen years! Won
derful, isn't it?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
OrtOnville HEADLIGHT:

The Farmers Alliance meeting.
advertised to take place at this
place this week, was not held. for
the reason that the speakers did
not arrive. The cause of the
speakers not arriving was the
taking off of the day train on the
H. &. d., which circumstance had
not been taken into consideration
when the appointments were
made. This one disarrangement
should not deter the operation
OF the cause in this county. 1t is
highly necessary that the farm
ers should come togather and
take measures for the advance
ment and protection of their
business. The railroad and eley-
ator companies are soulless cor
porations and they need to be
looked after, else they might take
not only theirshare of the wealth
ofthe country but the whole OF it,
as they have in some cases been
known to do. But for the per-
sistent agitation by the labor
and producing element of late
years the railroad fares and
freight rates and elevator charges
would be much higher than they
are at present, and are high
enough now. There is no reason
Tor believing this good work
finished it is everneeded.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

has been president of the Dakota AL
lance for four years, and is now
the President of the National AL
lance. He is a practical business
man and is thoroughly imbued with
the principle of cooperation. The
company has branch Offices at Du-
luth and Milwaukee, and will soon
open one at Chicago; is now in it's
second year in business, and though,
as might have been expected, it met
with heavy opposition, they have
been enabled to do steadily in
creasing business. They are pre-
pared to handle all kinds of farm
produce, and have made arrange
ments for anything farmers need in
the line of farm supplies as rapidly
as possible.
We think it advisable for the pres
ent to unite with this company,
whose business is already established.
The books of the company will at
all times be open to the inspection of
such members of our Executive Com
mittee as may be appointed by us to
examine them.
We would cordially recommend to
our farmers that they take as soon
as practical at least one share of
stock in this company. For further
information write direct to the AL
lance Elevator Co., No. IS Chamber
of Commerce, Minneapolis.
GEO. w. HAIGH, Secretary.
GEO. w. SPRAGUE, J. j. FURLONG.
IGNATIUs DONNELLY, ANDR. RICHMOND,
j. S. SHIELDS, JOHN n. JONES,
MATTHIAS NACHBAR.
Executive Committee.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

1t looks as though there was a big
storm brewing in the West, but that
body of bloods at Washington can
see nothing.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
The FalsehOods Of the Rail
road Press.

Inc FalSenOOQS OF the KALI
road Press.
The daily press have been abusing
the granger for three or four years
in behalf of the railroads-howt the
roads have been crippled by legisla-
ton. Yet in Iowa, under the ruling
of the Commission, reducing rates
remarkably-sufficiently to cause
nearly a hundred suits at law from
the railways-the profits this year
increased nearly $1,OOO,OOO. And
in this connection we clip the fol-
lowing from the New York Finan-
cier:
The railroad prospects continue as
good as ever, at the expense of vest
ern shippers who at many points
find it next to impossible to ship
merchandise. One road has ordered
5000 new freight cars. Such orders
are likely to increase in the early fu-
ture and start that industry into ex-
ceptional activity.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

We thank Bro. Carpenter, of the
Tribune, for his fiattering notice OF
our Alliance work in Dakota County
We did not design making any note
of our own lectures in this work, but
we will observe now that in the three
points, Pennington, Lakeville and
Castle Rock we had three audiences
composed OF the bone and sinew OF
the land. If any good were done by
our talks we are glad of it.
Forest Lake, Chisago City, Wyom-
ing and Centre City, also turned out
we'll, in some instances crowded
houses. New Alliances are to be Or
ganized at most of the points. At
others alliances already exist.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
ALLIANCE INSURANCE WORK.

The National Alliance Insurance C
Fairly on its Feet.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17

DR.. Christ, of As p. V. ", Capt. Ac-
Kerson of 81 N. Y. ", and NJ. l..
Schoch and myself remained and
visited the Stone Bridge where our
Regiment and the 81 n Y, suffered
so terribly in the famous charge
made on this Burnside's Bridge.
We also visited the right of the line
where Sedgwick, Mansfield, and
Hooker did such hard fighting Mt
the Dunkerchurch Mumma house,
Rouloff house, and Sunken Road,
now called the Bloody Lane. We
noticed many marks of the conflict
and found some bullets and pieces OF
shells denoting the amount of de
struction caused by the armies here
The people of this region are and
mostly were loyal to the Union
only five Confederate soldiers wer,
furnished by Sharpsburg, town o.
over one thousand inhabitants. TIL,
National Cemetery at this place ii
beautiful and tastefully laid out ant
adorned by Natures choisest'shrub
berry. 1858 soldiers are buried here
223O graves are marked unknown.
The L. S. Government takes care o
those cemeteries, and deserves honol
for this act to dead comrades.
q O. GtrTrr ttrs
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17
THE SUN
FOR
1889
AND FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
FOR
4 2Lh

AN ~ YIN DlJhlONylNAS u
TuE SuS believes that the campaign for the
election OF a Democratic Congress IN 1890 ana a
Democratic President Ia lsg9 should begin ON or
about the fourth OF next March. THE Sun Will
be- on hand at the beginning ana until the end
of the most interesting and important political
conflict since the war doing itS honest utmost,
a, ever. 10 secure the triumph Of the Democratic
party and the permanent supremacy ot the prin'
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The great fact Of the year II the return 10 abso.
lutte power Oi the common enemy Of all good
DCmOcrdtS--the political organization Tor whose
overthrow THE SUS fought at the front for fiftecn
years the memorable years OF Grant ana the
Fraud Hayes. and GARFIELD and Arthur.
II Is the same old enemy that Democrats now
confront, and he viii he lntrenched In the same
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with The Sun that the thing can be done again
Wait and see
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OF past differences In non-esSentials, forgetting
everything but the lessons OF experience, ana
that victory is n duty.
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT

Every person, excepting the Justices of the
Peace and Aldermen, Notaries Public and per-
sons In the militia service OF the state, who
shall hold or shall within two months have held
any office or appointment of proht OF trust un-
der the United States, or of this tate and city
or corporated district, whethera commissioned
OIlcer or Otherwiie, n subordinate otficer or
agent wac IL or shall be employed under the
Legislature, Executive or Judiciary Depart
ment of this state, or Ofany city or OF any In.
cOrpoTated district, and also, that every mem.
her of Congress and of the state Legislature,
and OF the select or common council OF any
city, or commissioners of any Incorporated dis.
trict, are by law Incapable Of holding or exer.
cising at the same time the office or appoint.
ment of Judge, Inspector or Clerk ofany cleo
tion of this Commonwealth, and that no In
spector, Judge, or other officer of said elec
ton shall be eligible TO bc then voted for.
by the act of Assembly of July 1889, II IL
also made 1.-THE duty oi every Mayor, Sheriff
Alderman, Justice of the Peace, Constable, O
every city, county, township, or district with
In this CommonwealtS, whenever called upon
by any otiicer of an election, or by three quail
ned electors thereof, TO clear any window ol
avenue to the window or avenue to the plac'
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17
A UDITOR'S NOTICE.

IN THH ORPHANS Court or SNYDER COUNTY.
The Undersigned Auditor appointed 10y the
Court To distribute the funds In the hands " the
accountant David Blckhart administrator Uf
the estate Of Henry Bickhart. decd. Will meet
the parties Interested. for the purposes Of his
appointment AT his Oflice In Middleburgh. Pa.
on saturday, Nov. 9th. at o A. NJ, when all
claims against said estate properly authenticate
ed. must be- presented or be debarrcd from com
ing In on said fund.
JAY g. WEISER,
Mlddcburgh, pa, oct. /, 50 Auditor.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17

election will be held in the said eountyot
snyder, on
Tuesday, Nov. 9Th 1889.
for the purpose OF elccting the several persons
hereinafter named, To wit:
one person to MI the office of state Treasurer
OF Pcnusy lyania.
One person to MI the Office of Surveyor for
snyder county.
l also hereby make known aud give notice
that the place Of holding tho aforesaid election
In the several townships and boroughs within
the county OF Snyder are as follows, to wit;
At the public school house In and for Spring
township.
At the Odd.FeiIows Hall, in and for the Bor.
ough of Selinsgroye.
At the House of Daniel Hoyis In and for Perry
township.
At the house of David II. Horrold. in and for
Chapman township.
Al Boycrs Town Hall in and for Washington
township,
At Bowers School House in and for Franklin
township.
At the OddsFcllo~s Hall in Peayertown in
and for Beaver township
At the house OF III III House In aud for West
Beaver township,
At the house Of James d. Long in and fol
Centre township,
At the house OF 5. Rumbaugh, in and for Mid
| dlecreek township.
At the House Of sarah A. Miller in and fol
Penn township.
| At the school house in Kratzeryille, In and FOL
! Jackson township
! At the school house at Shamokin Dam In ant
| for Monroe township
! At the house Of Christian =, Graybill, H. ant
| West Perry township,
At the Court House In and for the Borough o
| Middleburg
At the house oT-Blosser IN and for Uniol
tOwDship.
At tho house of the heirs of Charles Mattern II
Truxleylle, in aud for Adams township,