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

tiful. Top with bull of intense beef
form and well bred. Feed the calf
abundantly to early maturity and
sell when the market is not burdened
with shipments from the plains. But
even then the cry of the market is
still for more. During the coming
winter we intend to put upon the
Minnesota Farmers Institute plat
form one of the most practical men
that can be found, who will from a
long experience give the minute de-
tail of how to produce with profit
the Steer of Minnesota.
O. G.. GREGG.
An Extraordinary Letter to the State Lee
turer of Minnesota.
The following letter was handed
us as one OF the rankest specimens OF
modern nonsense. Better read it, as
the race of such geniuses is rapidly
passing away-and this may be your
last chance! Well wager the little
end of a horn that this writer want
ed to be School Clerk and couldn't:
Dear Sir:-Some circulars relating
to the farmers alliance, together
with a list asking for names of sub
scribers to a paper to be published
in the interests of the alliance. come
to me some time ago, as suppose
| from you, to which [ will now try to
give you an answer. Now from
what 1 know of alliance papers and
the esteem they are held in here lat
least, such as have been published
heretofore with us) l am OF the opin-
ion that there is no man in the state
Except perhaps yourself), who
could get subscribers for a new one
The fact, is the alliance in this county
is in a rather weakly state at
present, only about half recovered
from the strangling it received from
men who had it's interest too much at
heart during the last two Or three
years. Indeed l am not sure but it
would be dangerous for a man in
this county who would venture to
ask for subscribers to any new paper
no matter what or in whose interest
it was to be published, and further
than this know it to be fact that
the prevailing opinion with regard to
editors of papers here is that atleast
one-half of all of them in the
state ought to be either shot or
hanged at once. And you can easily
see for yourself what an undertake
ing it would be to try to solicit sub
scribers under the circumstances.
My own private opinion is that an
Alliance OF farmers to amount to
anything, is a thing impossible until
the time-if it ever does come-that
80 out Of every 100 of them
willnot know their letters. Country
schools are the curse of the farming
community in this country. Now
one half of them can read, and are
crammed and surfeited with the opin
ions and whims of every beef Drained
rascal who thinks he knows enough
to edit paper until they know less
than the other half who care nothing
at all about book larnin' and are
Jealous and suspicious of all who
they think do. This is exactly the
state of affairs among farmers, and
which will always hinder them from
becoming united as other classes OF
men do; they may become allied
enough to defeat the men who have
always been their friends, or to be-
come the dupes of designing scoun-
drels and there they stop, and un-
less there is a law passed making it
a criminal offence for any farmer to
know his letters or to be known to
send a child to school, they will
never p )sper as an organization
l know This is not the popular idea
now, but it will come to it yet, and
hoping the time may soon come,
i / am Yours Sincerely
Europe has been on the verge of a
general war for seventeen years.
reaching back to the Turko-R Russian
conflict. Every nation is an arsenal
and every strong city a magazine
The Drawn and muscle of every peo
4ple are drilled into either active OF
,Sreserve troops for the struggle evi