The great West., 1889-12-20
THE WARNING VOICE.
Editor Lorraine Gives US a
Nut to Crack, and it is
Promptly Cracked.
A Sample Right Of Way

UREAT VEST was writing up the
gang-inspired editor of the Renville
Union, that genius was inditing the
following:
We hardly wish to warn our read
ers against newspaper, but occas-
ionally circumstances require it; and
we think the circumstances require
that farmers should be warned
against ''THE GREATWEsT," a paper
recently started in St. Paul, pretend
ing to champion the cause of farmers,
but in reality working through the
most gross falsehoods to make
farmers miserable, and in no way
aiming to better their condition. We
are also sorry to learn that it is try
ing to usurp the leadership of the
Farmers Alliance of the State, and
if it does, good bye to the benefits OF
that organization. This is another
reason for warning against it. We
find in it columns about the cost of
building railroads but not a word
about farm buildings; volumes
about elevator profits but not a syl-
liable about how to increase the prof
it's of the farm. Even this might be
overlooked if the truth was told re-
garding the railroads and elevators,
but the editor knows as little about
this as he does about farming, and
his lies should be rebuked. AS an ex-
ample, it gave the price OF wheat in
Minneapolis as IS cents when the
true price was "a cents; and the To-
cal price as IS cents when buyers
were paying 68 cents, and thus by
pure falsehood, makes the difference
in the markets 20 cents when in truth
the difference is but 6 cts. Again,
last week they pretended to itemize
the cost OF building the w. & St.
p railroad, and put the item of right
of way as mot one-half of 500 per
mile" Aspur track is being built by
thatcompany, 2h miles from Kasson
to Mantorville in Dodge county The
right of way costs them $2,65O.OO,
or about one thousand dollars mile.
This is an authentic item, while that
is the GREAT WEST is simply a
"Fish'' story. The whole aim OF the
paper appears to be to stir up dis
content, and try to make farmers be-
lieve they are being robbed by rail-
road and elevator men when it is on
~ the GREAT NEST that is after their
dollars. It's one redeeming feature is
the plate matter of the inside pages.
-Renville Union.
[Since receiving this precious exhi-
bition OF servility and fraud, we have
undertaken to ascertain the facts in
the matter of the right-of-way on the
Mantorville ''spur." If the figures OF
the Renville Union man are correct
($2,65O) the railway does not pay
one solitary cent for the right of way,
and the statement is a twenty-six
hundred dollar falsehood! But the
figures are nOtcOrrect. The right-of-
way was valued at 5000. Then the
"bonus" of Mantorville was $2,7OO-
which comes from the village as a
whole. The other $500 doubtless
represents right-of-way grants from
property The entire right
of-way is either village property, or
subdivisions.]
[Since writing the above facts, OBJ
tained from village officials of Man.
torville, we have received other facts
showing that not only did the
right-of-way cost the railroad moth
ing-but the town actually paid
more bonus than the So, ,25O. We pub
lish a letter from one of the village
offcials]:
MANTORvII.LE, MINI, Dec. Is, 'S9.
GREAT WEST PRINTING Co.:
GENTLEMEN -
Yours of the 11th inst, at hand
and noted. The right of way from
Kasson to our Town cost $500, 80
without condemnation costs which
were about $500 working a total of
So, $50. The Town of MantOrville
pays the right of way and gives 10
acres of gravel bed as an inducement
for the building of the spur.
Good farms are worth about $1S
to $50 an acre, between the two
places. Yours Respectfully.
The above delicate reminder that
the GREAT WEST flayed this reptile
three weeks since, till his hide was
lurid, is very picturesque-no,
Romanesque!
Brave ROman-here him, eve are
also sorry to learn that he is trying
to usurp the leadership. etc." Oh,
what this mules "call' was) don't
weep those crystal tears over our
ambition! Wipe your nose and dry
out your ears!
eve find in it columns, etc., but
not a syllable about how to increase
the profits of the farm!' Come upon
our knee bub, and We'll tell you all
aho11t If The GREAT WEST is not