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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-19

Particular attention being given to Indiana people
and affairs, the aim being to make it compen-
dunn of all that Indianians wish to know Lib
eral space will also be given Important News from
other States and the world In general, and reGg-
ious commercial labor and theatrical interests will
be fully represented. In addition, a short story,
poetry and carefully selected miscellaneous mat
ter, will be presented and the following special
articles:
THE OPINIONS OF NINE MEN-Last Sundays Jour-
nal printed letters from number of famous women
telling what they would do if they On
the goth il will print letters from Chauncey NJ De-
pew, Bob Iurdette DR.. Talmage, Joaquin Miller and
others, telling what they would do if they women
THE SINFULNESS OF WOMEN-A beautifully writ
ten analysis of feminine weaknesses from the pen of
Harriet Prescott Spoford It is written in an appre-
cative spirit and will be eagerly read by both women
and men,
HOW TO SHINE IN SOCIETY-Bill Nye supplies an
Inqurns, Young Man with Useful Hints Indicating
the proper to pursue when associating with
upper-tendom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-19

The SUNDAY JOURNAL is delivered, at an early
80 miles of Indianapolis and it's popularity rem
ders it, by all odds, the best advertising medium
in the State
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

c. P. Huntington, President of the
Southern Pacific Railway system is
endeavoring to unite all the Wabash
and Gould lines, with the Santa Fe
system, in one grand pool on the
mileage" basis. This would en-
brace above one-sixth of the entire
rail mileage of the country-and
would be a formidable combination.
Meantime the railway employees Of
these very lines are becoming more
and more united and federated.
Slowly but surely forces are being Or
gained which are antagonistic to
each other, and the end, in time, will
be the supremacy of labor among the
powers that be-or the subsection
thereof to a serfage in which it will
take what it can get, from the hand
of the master. Experience tells us
already what that would be, by the
condition Of labor whenever capital
gets the upper hand-as in the min
ing regions!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

Our thousands OF readers may sup
pose that this journal does not ap-
preciate the manhood which man.
ages our railroad systems Such is
not the case. The stern stuff ofwhich
the brainy and brawny sinew Of a
railway management is constructed
can only awaken admiration and re-
gard from just observer. There is
no class of men on the face of the
earth, as a class, more truly great,
more precise and correct in Judgment,
more reliable in act and circumspect
in daily life-than the management of
a railway. Not only the vast COM
mercial interests and the precious
ness of human lives is under their
care-but success of the whole mon
opolistic machinery itself is subject
to their skill and faithfulness. They
are usually self-made men. They are
usually stern. Their comprehension
of duty is generally broad and acute
at the same time. Often they are
tender-hearted. and often they are
most excellent parents and citizens.
We say this of the whole force, from
Superintendent downwards.
Put these magnificent creations of
conditions which railroad life alone
developes, under the policy of chris
tian and humanitarian directorate,
and they would invite the benediction
of mankind.
But unfortunately they are not I'M
der such control. They are the
agency of a gang of stock exchange
Plutocrats-whose business it is to
rob commerce and commonalty of
that which the stock-shark never
earned. The railroad men deserve
larger salaries, for they perform
large services. But the STOCKHOLDERS
who represent the directories of these
vast systems, are but schemers-
ShylOcks-whose mission in life is to
create debts and place them on the
shoulders of other people, directing
the interest, or income into their own
capacious pockets, and drawing
immense salaries for the trouble to
do so. 1t is the stock-grinding ma
chine which evolves the mischief, and
by not one single word would we un-
derrate the manhood or the ability
of the executive brains which moves
the machinery itself
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

One of Minnesota's Alliance "pil-
lars" makes the following remarks
about standing by those who stand
by you:
eff man stands by you, stand by
him. Inevery county there are those
who, by advocating your interests,
have made themselves targets for the
arrows of calumny. Other things be-
ing equal, these are the men for you
to send to the Legislature. Those
who have ably advocated your cause
before the people will best advocate
it in the Legislature. You want earn
est, honest men and no blOckheads.
It is not sufficient to elect a man who
will vote right; he must be able to
plan right, speak right, fight right.
There is no substitute for brains.
Money needs tools. The people want
men.
"Above all avoid those who carry
open hands behind their backs.
"When you nominate man the
Observation-Disclosures, and the hire
lings of your enemies, viii cry out:
"Oh, he wants an Office Well, sup
pose he does? WHO'S better entitled
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

A gentleman connected with an
Alliance in Stevens Co., states that
last summer there was an agent ap-
pointed by the Fifth District Alliance
to Investigate the matter of Irvine,
and report to the sub. Alliances.
And then he complains that no re-
port was made; that while other
Alliances were buying Manila Irvine
for 16Hc. those in his district were
left wholly at the mercy of the retail
dealer.
This is unfortunate; but we can
assure the farmers of the Sank Centre
Alliance that many such cases occur
red last summer which were unavOid-
able. We think the agent should
have written them, however, and in
formed them of the exact status.
Had he communicated with us at
Glenwood, Pope County, we could
have given him letters from manufac-
turer's agents begging us to take
Manila Irvine off their hands at Ice.
Every farmer in Pope County who
wanted to could buy for 16Hc. The
majority did not do so. But it was
because the whole Irvine movement
was too suddenly sprung upon the
Alliances. There was no state pur-
chasing agency, and very few county
agencies in working order.
Farmers must transact their bust
ness in conformity with the cOndi-
ton of things. They can't spring
into effective organizations in a
night, like a mushroom; but with
the growth of a giant, and then knock
down their enemies. Trusts have
been developed for years-and at
least one year is required to organize
against them-if not a dozen! If
farmers break away from their unions
because they fail in 80 days to find
men who can break shackels which
have grown during years-why they
do not exercise sound judgment.
There is but one way to do, and that
is to keep "pegging away''-until
out of vast disorganization and dis
content comes order and strength.
Every one knows the Irvine difficult
ty was not satisfactorily settled last
year-but after all, a great deal was
done. Many Alliances saved from
two to four cents on a pound-and
what was encouraging, it brought
the dealers down.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
The armers Getting Mad.

Agriculture has blood in it's eve.
The Farmers Alliance of the South
means business. 1t is after the Jute-
bagging Trust. 1t is only by such
means that the rings can be marked ::
CHARLESTON, S. c.. Oct. 19.4The
war waged by the Farmers Alliance
in this state against the jute bagging
trust is generally involving side
issues of somewhat serious charac-
ter. The Alliance is extending the
boycott not only to the manufacture
ers and the dealers in the jute bagging,
but also to newspapers, towns and
cities. The Greenville News, one of
the five daily newspapers published
in this state, has been boycotted by
the local Alliance, because the editor
wrote something that did not please
the Alliance men. The city of Green
vile, the third in size in the state, is
suffering from stagnation of bust
ness. Spartanburg, the fourth city
in the state, has also been bovcotted
by the Spartanburg County Alliance.
and Charleston, the chief city of the
state, has been boycotted by the
Sumter County Alliance, whose men,
bers are forbidden to send any cot
ton here.
The Farmers Alliance of Minnesota
should establish a Legion of Honor
and Black List. In the former
they should place the name of every
editor who stands by the producers;
in the latter the name of every advo-
cate and defender of the plunderers
OF the people.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
OLIVE BRANCH;

OLIVE BRANCH;
At last we know why, and how, DR..
Fish sold out the Central Minneso-
tian" at Glenwood. He tried to get
the people there interested in the es-
Establishment of large state paper
for an Alliance organ. Not succeed
ing, and being the official organ for
the state, he advertised his plant for
sale in the Chicago Newspaper
Union,' found a buyer, and at once
set to work putting in a journal plant
at St. Paul. He issues alarge SPACE
paper this week, called the Great
West" under the auspices of a pub
fishing company with several thou
sand dollars capital. The paper
looks wonderfully like his Pope Coun-
ty paper! The DR.. is a rust1er-and
generally manages to ''get there!"
Of course his paper is radical" It's
a way the DR.. has.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
The way the ringsters s.come it,

The way the ringsters "come it"
over some of the grangers last winter
was degrading enough to make the
state notorious. Do not be afraid,
boys, we're not going to "peach" on
you yet. But this is the way it was
done, and at least three faces will
turn crimson when they read it.
The "honest legislator" was taken
out on a ''spree." And on that spree
they were taken to a house of ILL
fame; while there they were boldly in
vited to vote for bill for SO much
money! Think you the honest man
would ever give it away? "Not
much" The first question of an in
vestigating committee would be:
MIR. you say they Of
fered you money!"
eyes sir"
''Where did they make that offer?"
Sc
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

VIM. H. Miller, Secretary of the
Board OF Trade of Kansas City,
struck a keynote, in his testimony
before the U. S. Senate, when he said
shippers were afraid of the railroads.
Senator Platt, of New York was ex-
aiming him, and on the question of
prosecuting complaints, Mr.. Miller
said:
"The difficulty will be to find the
individual who would want to make
the complaint. There is feeling
abroad in the country that an in
dividual does not want to do that.
If he does he is afraid that he is lay
ing himself liable to determinations
and prosecutions by the railroad
companies. That is one of the worst
features to-day in this country. 1t
is that fear of the railway companies.
l know there is that fear. Whether
it be real or imaginary, it operates
as aspecies1 Of tyranny, and the oper-
ations of it are just as effective as il
it came from a monarchy, and it
ought not to exist
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

AS the mailing of our first issue
throughout the state is not even vet
finished, we thought it better to issue
a light number this week, and get in
to better shape thereafter. The office
is crowded full of job work-and it
will crowd every energy in active use
to get the paper out at ALL! OF
course this is success. But our
facilities were not prepared with a
view to do so much work.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
to it than the man who is your

to it than the man who is your
friend?
"And this cry will be raised by those,
who want the Offices worse than he
does, and who are not your friends.
These rascals would have you believe
that the Offices belong, under the
constitution, to your enemies; and
that any man who advocates your
interests must necessarily take q
back seat. If you sustain any such
doctrine you will drive the able and
ambitious men among you into the
ranks of your enemies. Ambition is
a virtue, if it is directed to good ends.
The right to rise in the world is the
primal right that underlies society,""
These truths are as self-evident to,
day as they were when first uttered
by the Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

The following from the experience
of Ignatius Donnelly, gives a fair
view of the wheat fraud being perpe-
trated on the farmers of Minnesota.
So bold was this fraud that buyers
are forbidden to grade any "No. 1
hard,' under any circumstances, in
some of the best No. hard sections:
l have raised wheat for several
years in Stevens County, which is
really part of the famous Red River
Valley. l was never able to sell a
bushel of wheat as 'No. 1 hard" l
continually complained; but l was
told that mo. hard" could not be
produced in Stevens Co.; that it was
only raised along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad. / urged
that there were only about sixty
miles of distance between the two
sections; and that the Topographic
cal features, the character of the soil,
the climatic conditions-were, in ev-
cry respect, the same. But it was
no use. "No No. 1 hard in Stevens
Co." was the cry! One day l CHANGED
to be visiting the mill of my friend,
Chas. Espenschied, at the Falls OF
the Vermillion, in Hastings, Dakota
County, (south of st. Paul l OBJ
served two cars of wheat standing in
front of the mill. l looked at the
grain.
''That is good looking wheat" l
said, "what do you call it?''
"That is No. l hard" replied Mr..
Espenchied.
.'Where did you get it?" 1 asked.
cat Norris"
Morris, be it remembered, is the.
county seat OF Stevens County.
cat Morris!'' l replied 'Can you
get No. hard in Stevens County?''
"Oh yes,' replied Mr.. Espenschied,
81 buy great deal of my wheat
there. 1t is all No. 1 hard.''
Here was a shameful swindle, which,
had been practiced upon a whole peo--
pie, for years and years. And it had
been practiced not only upon Stew.
ems County, but upon all that line of.
road. Under it, in addition to all
the other countless frauds, extortions.
and swindles, inflicted upon them
from five to ten cents bushel had
been taken out of the farmers. on,
every bushel they had raised. in a
period OF many years by this false
grading: was up there the other.
day and l heard the same story
mo No. l hard in Stevens County"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
The Matter Opened Aqain.

IN ANSSOI OPCI1Co <ASd111.
The apparently vital question as
to the power of the Commission
to make freight and passenger rates
is soon to be settled by the Supreme
Court of the United States. On the
Dist of the month that court grant
ed the motion to advance the cases
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company and Minneapolis
& Eastern Railway Company against
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion of Minnesota, and announced
that the date of hearing would be
fixed when there was a full bench
These are what is known as the
granger cases, and involve the con-
stitutionalty OF the state law giving
to the railroad and warehouse COM
mission authority to fix the tariff
for the transportation OF freight and
passengers whenever the rates fixed
by railroad companies are found to
be unreasonable and unequal.
While this question is important,
it is not vital in any Of it's bearings.
The question of the right of the state
to control rates has been forever set
tled-and the power that unsettled
it would possess a daring spirit. The
grand old Grange carried that matter
through the courts to a successful is
sue. The question here is whether a
state, or legislature, can delegate
that power to commission. AS the
Legislature would delegate it to a
committee under any circumstances,
it seems as though the delegation to
a commission was within the powers
OF legislation. But the people, first,
will fix the rates anyway, and ~
they care precious little about the
railway commission. In fact they
wish the commission had lived in
Sodom when Lot. left it. Fl they
have used their remarkable powers,
the eye of man seeth it not.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
$1.36 on the former and $1.29 on

81. SO on the former and $1.29 on
latter.
This would look as though the
great lines during Ii years had reduc-
ed rates very materially.
But the appearance is a delusion.
These are through rates. The local
rates remained the same, and were
often higher, during the entire period.
In thirteen years local freights were
not reduced-nor would they be re-
duced today but for the Interstate
Commerce law!
Take for instance, Madison, a no.
table city lying between Chicago and
St. Paul. AS late as 1886 the rates
to Madison were SOC. per hundred
the same as in 1871. But more out
rageous still-the company in 1856
SO added FIFTY PER CENT to
that unless goods were shipped 'at
owners risk" But here the greedy
robbers ran up against a snag. The
state law was applied to them-and
the outrage was withdrawn.
Who ever knew a railroad system
to reduce freight to consumers, on &C.
count OF competition? No one ever
heard of it. Jobbers who stand in
with the roads, get the divvys and
the drawbacks-but the consumers,
never!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

History, like a ball thrown in the
air, moves by successive impulses
We are now at the initial point in a
new impulse or epoch in history. 1t
marks the development of the indie
pendent element in the relations of
labor and capital. The full develop
ment will end in the absolute equality
of both in the political economy of
the race.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

We have been asked, by cores
pondent, how we stand on the tariff?
The question was asked in a
surly tone; but We can be equally
Grabbed in reply:
We don't believe in tariff on the
protection principle. AS to the mi
nor divisions of the question, it is a
matter of no moment whether we
adhere to customs duty" as a
method of taxation, confined to lux
uries, ETC., or not If the laboring
men could receive any OF the benefits
of a protective tariff there would be
some reason in it. But he don't, and
every one knows it,
Last year the National Committee
of one of the parties sent word to the
Minnesota State Committee an
nouncing the policy of National
Platform pledged to protection, with
a low tariff state platform in every
state west of the Mississippi river.
In these same instructions was the
advice to have county conventions
adopt low tariff views, with the ex-
PLANTATION that country voters cared
more for local and state platforms
than for national.
We were publishing a country
paper and had a "friend at court
on the National Committee. On this
basis we advertised a wager of
a silk hat that the county convention
would not endorse the national plat
form? That local convention ap-
pointed a committee on resolutions in
the afternoon. 1t sat all the after
noon-and at eleven o'clock at
night, after peremptory order, it re-
ported-but it did not endorse the
national platform-and the plug"
hat did the most excellent service
during the campaign.
To show more fully the political
skullduggery on the tariff issue, the
editor was delegate to republican
state convention in May year ago.
1t was that convention when dele
gate 1--WE suppose it was Myers),
arose in the midst of the read
ing of the state platform and de-
nounced it. He Their exf2stasii;,,,set, .sA43q, T..
the tariff plank was word for word
that of the DEMOCRATIC platform of
four years previOus-Of course low
tariff-and of course the wording
was Immediately changed! The tar
if has been meat and drink and heat
to the mOnOpOlists. They have
grown obese on it. Party ties alone
have preserved it. 1t must go.
That is our opinion-the correspOn-
dent has a perfect right to his own
views
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25

Has Competition Accomplished Any
thing.
A paragraph taken from the St.
Paul Globe last week stated or i'm
piled that the natural competition of
roads would reduce freights, and
that government interference was an
injury. We have been at great pains
to investigate the truth of this state
ment and call the attention of the
Globe to the facts:
In 1871 the freight rates, per ton
per mile, on the C. NJ. 4 St. P. were
1854. c. & Nv, $2.87-on through
freight. In 1884 it had dropped to
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-09
THE TRAVELLING EXHIBIT.
Quantity OF Produce Shipncd
North for IL.


The travelling exhibit known es the "Cali-
fornia on Wheels" will probably leave San
Francisco next Tuesday, and will pass through
this city about The middle OF next weak. The
Secretary OF the Chamber of Com nerce re-
esiyed word from ], N Davies. the Secretary Of
the State Board of Trade, informing him that
he must hurry up with the exhibits from this
county. as the start was to take place next
week. As Mr.. Higgins had written several
times in the past three weeks for information
about the plans of the party and had never
been able to get any reply out of Mr.. Davies, he
was somewhat taken aback by his abrupt state
ment. fortunately, however he and Mr. q. J..
had already collected the produce which was
needed to represent this section, and it was
Immediately started north. n
MI. Mathes went north last night to Join the
The exhibit from Los Angeles county viii
cover lost of The different lines of production
ana manufacture. 1t should be noted that the
xrester part of all the stuff collected b ad to be
psi9 ior pJ subscription raised in the Chamber
q commerce Hoyle Bros, and +. N. Barclay,
o. Monte Vista, contributed dried fruits; L.
A1chtenberger, some corn. j. M, Stewart of
tnls CITY. and NJ. Holman, of Downey, con-
mlDnted the psmpas plumes.. The 3O5:pound
pumpkln was furnished by Mr.. Merry.
y. M. Miles, OF Fullerton, also Contributed
9 large pumpkin The big watermelon comes
from W. Il McFadden, of Anaheim Ellwood
Cooper sends SORE Of his sants Barbara Give
OIL The dates were furnished by ]. ]. Rodri-
guez. The Lankershim ranch SENDS two boxes
out irrigation.
The rest of the exhibit includes bananas. lem.
varieties Of wine. dried fruits ARA nsed in
large case, ounces, honey, pears, apricots and
number OF Photographic views.