The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

been from 8 to 12c higher. The
northwest had marketed it's crop be-
fore the mistake was discovered!'
One ofour exchanges asks ifthis were
stupidity or rascality?"
If business men in cities pay from
$50 to $500, and even 5000 a
year for Life Insurance, why could
not a farmer pay from 5 to $40
year therefor-in National Associa-
ton. Write J. j. Furlong, AUSTIN,
Mimi, for particulars.
The editor of the Lac qui Parle'
Press was also secretary of the Lac
qui Parle County Fair this year. He
advertised Mr.. Donnelly to address
the farmers at the Fair-in flaming
posters, stating that he would
make things red hot. He has since
been "seen"-he since writes in his
paper:
We doubt the wisdom of sailing
about the country as a sort of tail
to the Donnelly kite, or blindly fol-
lowing the lead of a man who is so
thoroughly tinctured with the essence
of demagogism as that gentleman.
We all know what the trouble is, but
what is to remedy the evils? There
is a golden opportunity for the man
who can suggest a good, business
plan for meeting this open market
question, to immortalize himself, but
it can not be done by serving as a
bobber on the Donnelly fish line.
Don't kill us off before we have a
chance! This man makes us think
OF the minister who changed the To-
cation of two letters: ''Prethren let
us all bray!'
Speaking OF the restitution in some
parts of Dakota, Mr.. Bracket, a
correspondent, wrote:
The greatest difficulty which l en-
countered is the money sharks. They
are sapping the likelihood of the
country and impoverishing the poor
farmers, who have given them chat
tie mortgages on their horses and
stock on runious terms. For in
stance, one farmer had given a shark
a mortgage on a fine team of horses
Tor $3O, and it has already cost him
over $50, in payments of interest
to enable him to float for year,
while ne still owes the principal. The
poor farmers are completely in the
hands OF these sharks, and this will
eventually depopulate the country.
Mr.. BRACKETS idea, which is a good
one, is that after supplying the needs
OF the people in the way OF food and
clothing, the next thing to be done
is for the business men and capital
lists OF st. Paul and Minneapolis to
form a trust company which will
loan the poor farmers money on
their chattles at a legal rate of in
terest and secure them from the
clutches of the sharks.
WE FEEL LIKE OLD ACQUAINTANCEs
TOO!
Morris Sun:
The "GREAT WEST" is a new cham
pion for the farmers. 1t is an alli-
ance paper from the first water. We
are not personally acquainted with
the editor Or. Fish but after look
ing over a few numbers of the paper.
we feel like an old acquaintance. He
goes in with vim to roast monopo-
lies, especially the great railroad cor
porations who look upon the farm
ers as so many laborers in their en-
ploy. This is what they really are,
and the Doctor is putting in his
heaviest ticks in their defense
Every farmer in the county ought to
take this paper, it only costs $1.OO
per annum. We may be able to club
with the "Great West" at more adj
vantageous rates, if so, we will soon
let the farmers know. The Sun is.
not strictly an alliance paper. but
we are willing to go in for all the ALI
ance that's in it, for the good of the
farmers.
We will say this for the Morris Sun:
During an acquaintance of three
years with the paper, we have never
known it to fail when the farmers in
terests were involved-and often it
has come out "red hot" for Justice
when injustice was in the air. Farm
ers, take it-take the Sun-and it will
warm you in the winter of discon-
tent!'
POPE COUNTY IS NOT ASLEEP.
Two clubs are received from Pone