The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-18
from one daily paper, of q recent

from one daily paper, of recent
date:
''Creston, Iowa, Sept. 15.-W. G.
Black, a prominent stock man and
farmer of Lincoln township, has fail
ed for large amount. A real estate
mortgage for IS, 1915 and two chattel
mortgages for 81 900 each, have been
filed by the First National Bank of
Creston, which is also assignee. Liza
bilities and assets are unknown as
yet. Nearly every large stock dealer
in this locality is complaining of close
times, and they say the beefcombines
are threatening them with ruin by
suppressing competition and fixing
their own prices for beef CATTLE"
The Alliance should discuss and
determine upon action touching this
dreadful condition of one of Jour great
industries.
There, too, is the possible gain to
farmers by the erection of their own
warehouses. On this point note the
remarkable testimony of a writer
in The Dakota Wheat Farmer:
II wish to call your attention to
the. fact that the difference between
Minneapolis and Webster, Oak, mar
kets on the 9th of July was 81 cents
on a margin of IA cents, and it has
been very near that ever since the
Farmers Elevator has been closed;
while the margin did not exceed Sets.
per bushel while our house was open.
Little competition makes difference
to us farmers here of from ten to
fourteen cents a bushel. Now farm
ers, stop for a moment, throw away
all of your prejudices, and ask your
selves if we should not get together
everywhere, organize farmers ware
houses and elevators, and so save to
ourselves the enormous sums of
which we are being robbed every year
by elevator combines. | am inclined
to think that the mortgage indebted
ness in Dakota today is not larger
than the amount stolen from us since
the territory was settled. In other
words, if we had been honestly and
squarely treated all these years we
would now be out of debt"
Organize through alliances to sell
your own wheat.
The farmers and workingmen of
this state must take bodily posses
sion Of the next Legislature, or stand
by and see republican institutions
overwhelmed in a sea OF corruption.
There is no middle course left. The
Dakota Alliance has just resolved
that the Legislature of the two new
states of North and South Dakota
shall be made up principally of farm
ers. We must follow their example.
The eyes of the whole country are
now upon the Legislature of the four
new States, North and South Da-
kota, Montana and Washington.
The farmers have got the power to
elect eight farmers and anti-monopo-
lists to the United States Senate.
Such an Eruption OF the people, into
that body, would be almost as start
ling as the invasion of the Roman
Senate, of old, by Brennus and his
Senonian Gauls. The corporations
will make desperate effort to obtain
eight tools and serfs, to reinforce
their other abject slaves in that most
important body. The issue is
squarely joined and every man should
be watched and his vote noted, to de-
eide his future career. In South Da-
kota the Alliance has elected as it's
candidate. Alonzo Wardell, a man
who has been the means, with the
other Alliance leaders, of saving the
people of the two Dakotas millions
of dollars-an able and honest man.
His election would be a triumph of
the farmers and the Alliance; and
would prove that the lease of life Of
the Nominations of the corporations
is drawing to close. The whole
Northwest expects every farmer in
those new State Legislatures to do
his whole duty; and their actions
will be watched with the greatest
solicitude.
And so, in conclusion, ask the
farmers of Minnesota to join with us,
and help us make the State Alliance
a triumphant success, full of good for
the whole people of the State.
IGNATIUs DONNELLY.
State Lecturer of the State Alliance
| of Minnesota.
The Farmers Alliance Co.