The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-18

cts. for which they had just de-
manded 20 cts!
A similar experience was had by
the farmers at Lake Crystal, Blue
Earth Co. The local dealers wanted
20 cts. per Id. for the best MANILA
Secretary Haigh came to the rescue
OF the farmers and told the dealers
he could get the same Irvine in Chi
cago for 16K cts. per lb. Two deal
ers spoke up and offered to furnish
it at the same figures cash, or at IT
cts. and wait until October for their
pay.
DR.. E. w. Fish, editor of the new
alliance paper, The GREAT WEST, who
was quite active in Alliance matters
in Pope county, tells us that he be-
lieves the alliance saved the farmers
of that county, in the Irvine alone,
during thepast harvest, notices. than
$5, 900.
1t is by such means as these that
the farmers are to get out of debt
and obtain some of the blessings of
life.
Next winter, it is proposed that a
special committee shall beappointed,
by the State Alliance, to take charge
of the question of Irvine, and they
will make arrangements in advance,
that will give members of 1.-THE Alliance
their binding Irvine at the lowest
possible figures. In this item alone
they may save the farmers over
500, 900 year.
Coal and Wood.
The question of fuel is one that the
Alliance must take hold of. 1t is a
disgrace to human nature that
many farmers in this state of Min
nesota, are compelled to warm their
houses in our dreadful cold winters,
by burning hay, straw, weeds and
manure. The price of wood in the
prairie regions is vastly greater than
it should be. The Legislature should
regulate the cost of the transporta-
ton Of this necessary article and put
it down to the lowest possible figure.
Ii the railroad corporation had eth
er sense or humanity they would see
that their dependent populations
were supplied with fuel at the nomi-
nal cost of transportation; but they
seem to have but two policies :
1. To draw people into the country
to buy their lands by glaring and
lying advertisements. 2. To drive
out those already in the country by
robberies and impositions of all
kinds. They should understand that
the best immigration arguments in
the world are the happiness and con-
tentment of the people already dwell
ing in that region Of country.
Coal is being transported from
Buffalo, New York, to Duluth, at 40
cents per ton! With such rates it
should be put down on our frontier
at prices to enable the poorest to
buy. But it is hoped the State ALI
ance, at it's next meeting, will take
special steps to secure cheap fuel for
the farmers of the state.
An Alliance Newspaper.
There is another matter that will
be talked of by those lecturers, and
that is a newspaper to represent the
cause of the people, as against the
monopolies, AS it is to-day, thepeo.
pie are without a state organ.
Mr.. H. L. Loucks, President of the
Farmers Alliance OF Dakota Terri
tory, in recent circular to the sub.
ordinate Alliances of that territory
quotes a passage from a letter
formerly issued by the association Of
national bankers of the United States
} to each bank:
'Dear Sir:-It is advisable to dc
all in your power to sustain all such
daily and prominent newspapers. es
pecially the agricultural and religious
press, as will oppose the issuing O
greenback paper money, and that
you also withhold patronage or fav
} ors from all who will not oppose the
Government issue of money"
We can afford to learn something
from this body OF shrewd and able
J men; and we should encourage anc
} maintain only those papers that art
our friends; refusing to pay one cent
to our enemies.
1t is well known that the leading
dailies of the state, are, as a rule, thu
shameless hirelings of the corpora
tions, always ready to defend rascal
ity and mislead the people; and 6
farmer had better import small pc,
, and diphtheria into the bosom of hi
family than subscribe for the weekly
: editions of either of the them. HI
really pays $1.OO per annum to en-
able the rings and railroads to poul
poison into his ears during a Who'll,
year, as to men and measures, an(
to cajole and deceive him while tn
work of robbery goes on. The cor
> porations ought to be willing to pa,
+ you $40 year, for such a chance tt
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