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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Wheat Slump.

Well, it didn't require a great deal
of foresight, nor a surprising amount
of hindsight, for the GREAT WEST to
prophecy a slump in the wheat i'm
mediately after election.
1t was~remarkable how the margin
beween. Liverpool and Minneapolis
had narrowed down since the great
wheat discussion of last Spring!
Then the difference between Crook
ston and Liverpool was just exactly
100 per cent-60 at Crookston and
$1.20 at Liverpool. On this margin
of Coo. the Elevator men issued that
challenge of $40, 900 to the GREAT
WEST to make a profit of over &c. a
bushel. But within 80 days OF that
time the margin narrowed down to
soc. Crookston, and $1.2O at Liver
pool-with like ratios over the north
west.
Under both contlitions-the differ
ence of 6Oc. and of 4Oc.-wheat was
shipped to, Liverpool every day.
When we laughed at the Manager of
the Union Pacific Elevator Co. over
this predicament, Mr.. Cardin said
eyes, but nograin is being exported"
Well, now Mr.. Cardin did not state
the-faots, and we suggested that if
there were profits with wheat on CSC.
at Minneapolis there must have been
something rich with wheat at soc.
here Liverpool did not change
al. q bushel.
The fact is, the margin was lowered
on account OF the GREAT WEST ex.
posures. And the price was kept up
on,acconnt OF election-to make the
TANNER feel happy! 1t did not have
a large effect. Now farmers, al.
though your price OF wheat has gone
down fifteen cents a bushel OF late
Liverpool remains the same-or a
tpihe higher. No. 1 hard is quoted
in Liverpool this day at Ais. per.qr
or IS, I'D. per bushel. This is, 81. %
without counting exchange.
This paper has been requested
many times to repeat the substance
Of the Great Discussion of last win.
ter. 1t will do so in connection with
the documents soon to be published
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

That sample fool on exhibition in
the columns OF an Alliance SPAWN at
Elbow Lake, says the firm OF Fish ds
Frain didn't want their "books'
brought out at Saltwater. Oh, we
thought it was Lathrop's books!
Our books are wide open for any man
or men to examine-we want them
examined, to show what a magnifi-
cent business we are doing. We were
not publishing a Merriam organ. in
1888, Hosskins-nor aScheffer organ
in 1890. We will state that the
"books'' of John Lathrop will be all
laid before our readers again, togeth-
er with the second report of the Fl
nance Committee. All statements
that the Executive Committee, or
the Finance Committee, have exhon-
GRATED John Lathrop are false. He
is not finished up yet-though at
a recent meeting, nearly 40 days al
ter his removal, he hunted up $145
more money, and turned it inlI How
does that look to a man up a tree?
We have been in Florida the past
week or so-we will try to make it in
teresting for these miserable ulcers
who stand by their tool, ON our re
turn.
John has now turned in 1851 sinc'
the demand was made at the close O
the first investigation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The ssBarings" was the greatest
banking house in the world. 1t had
been in existence a hundred years. 1t
was loaning money when King
George sent CORVALLIS to America.
It was old when Napoleon waved
French banners over the yellow
sands of the Nile. It was grey with
age and rock buttressed with secur-
ity. 1t had a backing of $75,0CO,-
900 in the Bank of England.
But the crash of last week took up
the Earrings and laid them down as
wrecks on the shores of time.
So enormous have been the deal
ings of this house that it will take
three years to close it up-and then
the name will doubtless CONTINUED!
If the house had plunged headlong
into ruin, as other lesser houses do,
it would have ruined the world
That is a large phrase, but it is true.
If the crash of last week had oc-
cured as did that lesser one OF 1878,
had it not heen coddled and pro-
tected by organized plutocracy-to-
day there would not have been an
open bank door in the civilized world.
This is fact. In 1873 the banks OF
this country alone were shut up-but
in 1873 the crash toppled over not
one-fourth the capital flung over the
precipice last week.
Why, even the Bank of England
came to the rescue OF the Earrings,
and the French government, and
Morgan & Co., etc. 1t was a fight
with fate hand to hand. If the Bar
ings were lost suddenly all was lost
and they were held up for a time.
Washburn was held up the same
way, on a small scale of several mil
lions, two years ago.
But it must comet must come
Set something stronger than hope
against the cloud from which the
lightning leaps. The armament is
one vast, gauzy membrane OF ex-
panded debt and capitalized robbery.
To exist, it must issue more and
more.
These securities, mostly in Argen-
tine Republic and America, bursted
the Earrings! The months come on
apace, and Atropos is sharpening her
scissors to cut the thread that holds
the destinies OF plutocracy! Oh, but
think of the poor who will suffer
most!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Capital is now putting on the
The eastern financial press
warns the capitalist against invest
ing capital where grangerlegislatures
are on top. Good enough! That
strikes us as sensible. Keep your
money at home earning nothing, you
old putrid cancers! You will find,
when you get the corns carved down
off your eyes that you can't eat mon
.ey, nor sleep it, nor make fg-leaves
out of it. Let the west tell you, ALI
gator Shylock, Esq, that we can get
along without you 365 days in the
year1 You've been our curse, our
leprosy, our galloping consumption.
We don't want capital to borrow
we want to be let alone on that
racket. Every new mortgage taken
now means death by broken heart.
Let us alone with your capital, you
teu-limbed devil-fishl
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Republican papers are still claim
ing credit for passing the forfeiture
Bill" All yes-great bill-delightful.
1t gave the Northern Pacific Rail-
road another empire OF 46, 900, 900
acres of land! And the directorate
themselves put the value thereof at
$3.50, 900, OOOl Big thing for q par
ty to brag over!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

We are not pleased to see the re-
cent conservative utterances of our
ex-candidate Owen quoted approving
~ by old party papers east and west.
Even if conservative sentiments were
desirable at such a time as this, it
does not augur well to see the candi-
date OF q distinct party so closely al
lied in sentiment with the agents OF
the plutocracy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Do you know, westerner, that that
boosted silver bill actually demon
etized silver totally? Before this bill
passed, what silver there was was a.
legal tender. Today silver is abso-
lutely no tender unless the party TAX
ing it likes it! Thousands Of mort
cages now require payment in gold
alone! 1t was another of the G. o.
P's frauds.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Jay Gould says the purchase OF
$5, 100000 in silver bullion is equal
to an increase of currency to the ex-
tent of 20 millions! Gould's Arith-
metic is a boss text book to use in
our private business
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The following table, furnished by
Turner's Emancipation, will give
some idea of the awful robberies be-
ing perpetrated against them.
Some day there will be dreadful
awakening among the toilers of this
land-and then what! That's it
what will follow when the slaves
wake up, and find that they have
filed a million barrels with money
and rolled them up to the sluices of
plutocracy, and poured the precious
stuff into their vaults.
Look at France-the most pros
porous nation on the face of the
globe, and the richest! She rules the
world on the gold boards! She has
more than twice the amount of gold
that we have, and yet we produce it /!
And still France supplies, by paper
currency and silver with gold)
$57.36 per capita! And we languish
with less than $40 head:
"France. Population, 31,22O,-
900; gold $9OO,0OO,OOo; silver,
500 700oo,oo00oo'ooo000; paper currency,
$21S4, 100000 per capita $57. 36.
United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Population, 3S,157, 900; gold,
$3.50, 100000; silver, $1OO.OO0,OO0
paper currency, $19O,OOO,OOO, total
circulation, $84O,OOO,OOO; per cap-
tia $4,000
Germany.-Population, 48,OOO,-
900; gold, $5O0,0OO,OO0; silver,
$216, 900, 900; paper currency 1915
100000; total, $99O,OOO,OOO; per
capita, $2O.63.
United States according to Sen
ator Plumb, in speech delivered in
the United States Senate June 6,
1S9O) has about $55O,OOO,OOO in
circulation, or about 50 per capita
This is the result of class legislation
What parties are responsible for this
legislation? The Republican and
Democratic parties"
Think of it, fellow slaves! Think O.
France-with only 81, 100000 PEG
pie, having money like this:
Gold. 5000, 900, 900
Silver-think of this
item ....................... 70o,ooo,oo(
And then behold her is
suing for her peo-
pie, even with those
7OO,OOO,OOO silver
> ST. prices, still more
money as paper
currency. 594 ,OOO, OO'
, And France is the one great, hap
py. prosperous nation-rich il
money, rich in goods, rich in the Low
: OF her people.
s Ireland and England send owe
: their evicted poor-France don't.
t Italy sends over her starved an
e Austria her beggared and Russia he
r hopeless-but France don't. Nc
|. while the evicted homesteader {
Y America is signing over his broke
t hearthstone, the French peasant
n singing over ''harvest home" 1
). the blighted-vineyard region this
q not true-but all other France r,
ioices.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Mondays mail for the G. w. ex-
ceeded anything ever received at this
office. In it were ~ new subscribers
and renewals, and host OF such
good letters that we take this means
CT expressing our gratitude TO the
farmers of the state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

1t is possible that, in dropping out
a large list OF Campaign subscribers,
some errors may have occurred.
Should any subscriber miss his paper
or should any of the lists ordered by
the alliances fail to arrive, we trust
no time will be lost in notifying us OF
the fact.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

One hundred and sixty-eight out OF
.219 members to the state Legislature
Of Georgia have been elected by the
Farmers Alliances of that state
Workingmen, how long will it be be-
fore you will show as good a record
as the tillers of the soil?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Across the Manitoba line, wheat is
worth from five to eight cents a
busllel more than on this side. Oh,
sweet Manitoba-fair-haired tariff
beautiful Minnesota! Brave party
patriots!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

A farmer living near Wichita can
lift an average-sized mule. A Kan
sas farmer that can lift a mule may
some day accomplish the hercnlean
task OF lifting his mortgage.-Ex.
That's nothing. We know q good
many mules that can lift an average
sized farmer-provided hestands just
right.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
ST.. PAUL, MIMI, NOV. %, 1890.

Remember the State Meeting on
the both. Do not neglect to have
your alliance meet, appoint a dele
gate, and instruct him.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

In the documents" which the
GREAT WEST will present in Deem
Der, concerning the grain robberies
OF the MISUNDERSTANDING bear
ing the signatures of the Elevator
Lines-private correspondence with
European banks, etc., will also be
found statements as to the profits
<Of the mills.
Get your spectacles ready.
We will follow these astounding
facts with a general resume OF the
celebrated wheat discussion of last
winter and the great $4,000 chal.
lenge! Get the GREAT WEST as many
subscribers in your neighborhood as
possible. Subscribe in Clubs!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Still the trusts continue to organ
ize! How that national antitrust
law did work! Yes, it works in the
District of Columbia-a space ten
miles square.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The fact that the G. W. pied guilty
and escaped from $4,000 worth OF
litigation on the Lathrop business
troubles the party press wonderfully.
The trap did not get us that time.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Harder Timer

Alliance Tribune:
That times have been srnwip o
harder for ten years past no wellin.
formed person can deny. Ono of the
best Indications Of the fact is the
number of failures in the country
The number of failures was nearly
Sc per cent move in 1889 than IN
1879 and the amount Of MONEY in
volved was an increase Of about 30
per cent. The following table gives
the figures from 1879 to 1890.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The National Economist of Wash
ington, D. c., and the Progressive
Farmer, of Raleigh, N. c., are two OF
the most stalwart reform journals in
this country.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The address OF the Secretary of AL
lance No. 1922 is called for. Will he
or some one acquainted Herewith
kindly send the name in to us. 1t is
not given correctly by ex-Secretary
LathrOp.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The weekly Nationalist" former
~ published at Los Angeles, CAL, is
now located at San Francisco, 1896
Market St. It is a splendid organ OF
the new movement.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
The Great Combine.

The Great Comhins.
The Irvine binder manufacturers 81
the United States have recently
sprung q combine on the country
which for extent and influence exceeds
anything heretofore attempted in
the implement line.
1t includes nearly every Irvine bind
er factory in the United States-but
not all. There are a very few still
out, but there is no telling how long
they will remain out.
There is a capital of $35, 900, 900
back of this trust. The business will
have to pay an income on this vast
capital, whether real or unreal. 1t is
claimed that the price of the ma
chimes will be greatly reduced. Prob
ably, after having bled the farmers
for from $500 to $13o, for a machine
which costs $35 to construct, they
will now let the granger have the ma
chine for a profit of about 800 per
cent-or even $1OO-and still grow
rich and fat.
At the same time the works will be
opened up, or shut down, to suit the
"Committee," and thus the workmen
be at the mercy of the combine.
This combine was constructed at
Chicago last week. 1t is the largest
corporation OF it's kind in the world.
The name is
AMERICAN HARVESTER COMPANY,
and the directors are Cyrus HI. Nc
Cormick, VIM. Deering, Walter A..
Wood, Lewis Miller, A. L. Conger, A.
s. Bushnell.
Thefollowing are the companies in
volved:
Mccormick Harvest Machine COM
pany, William Deering & Co.,. both of
Chicago, ILL.,; Piano manufacturing
company of Rockford, ILL.,. Mime
apolis Harvester works, Minneapolis,
Mimi; Milwaukee Harvester COM
pany, Milwaukee, Wis; Ames, White
ly & Co., Springfield, O.; the Ault-
man-Miller company, Whiteman &
Barnes company, Empire Mower and
Reaper works, Akron, o.; the Walter
A. Wood Mower and Reaper COM
pany, Hoosick Falls, N. Y; &C. Ault-
man & Co., Canton, o.; Johnstown
Harvester company, Batavia, N. T.;
d. s. Morgan & Co., Rrockport, N.
Y; Adriance, Platt & Co., POUCH
keepsie, N. Y; the Richardson manu-
featuring company, Worcester, Mass;
Sieberling, Miller & Co., Doylestown,
o.; Hoover & Gamble, Miamisburg,
Ohio.
A secondary object of this vast cor
poration is to control the price and
sale of binding Irvine. How far they
can do this is a question impossible
to answer at this time. The claim of
course, is that the cost of Irvine will
be lessened by this move. At all
events, if they succeed in getting con-
troll they can do as they see fit about
reducing cost.
We believe that the Business
Agency OF the Alliance will still be
able to. furnish Irvine at wholesale
rates.
The fact that all the various ma
chimes will still continue to manufac-
ture their particular styles shows
clearly that it is a trust-and moth
ing less nor more. 1t is a crushing
scheme to prevent competition from
breaking down the enormous profits
made on the machines.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

1t is the policy OF our present eco.
nomical form of government of the.
treasury department to buy bonds
at a high premium, and even pay the.
interest on other bonds year in ad-
ance'every time the money market.
becomes close in Wall street. Ola
recent date, among the bondholders
OF government bonds to whom inter-
est was paid before due, were the.
Standard Oil Company, 500, Ooo,-
600. the BECKER Savings Bank. So
OOO, 900, the vanderbilts 500, OOO,--
600. This was getting money, into.
circulation among the people with a.
vengeance. Rob the treasury to FILL
the millionaire's pocket, and then.
when the toiling masses ask for this.
wholesale robbery to be stopped by-
legislation, broad grin will come
over the faces OF these legislators,
and they will only say, "Poor devils,
What are You going to do about it,
Men, men, are you blind and cannot
see, are You willing to bow in. mute.
humility to these money kings, as.
though your strong right arm had
dropped paralyzed to your side. or
are You going to the polls in Novena-
Der and show these Shylocks that bv
your. vote what we poor devils can
do about it, with a strong arm and
a stronger vote.-LabOr's TribNne.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

In 1892 there will be no talk OF
fusing."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

A good deal of commenS has been
made of late about the completion
OF exact copies of The Egyptian
Book OF the Dead" from the num-
mifed remains exhumed in Egypt.
Our visitors at the GREAT WEST Of
fee have not been aware that the
dirty looking red "something'' franz
ed over the library was copy of
Chap. to xiii OF Book Xxx OF this
ancient text! 1t was secured by us
about ten years ago when writing
the work on the Great Pyramids
and is given as written ALTO B. c.
Although we spent several years in
Egyptology the text is almost Who'll
ly MISUNDERSTANDING largely taken
up with Apis or Flood worship-with
it's wonderful November mysteries
reaching to our Halloween.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

In the Mckinley bib, common lime
is raised from ten per cent under the
old law to $500. per cent; window
glass from 6, to 8 per cent. Cotton
cloth from 52.23' to 6O.93 per cent,
wooden and worsted goods doubled;
ready made clothing raised from
54.98 to 94.72: peg cent; carpet,
common, is raised by the Mckinley
bill from A 80 to- 10 per cent,
and SO on with a host of other ar
ticles. 1t adds to the existing duty
on tin plate 100 per cent, thus in.
creasing the tax upon every utensil
made Of tin and used in the kitchen.
and on packagesof canned goods.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
PinkertoA Thugs.

Read what Judge Pfeffer, editor OF
the Kansas Farmer, has to say con-
corning the crowned Kings of the rail.
II the American people allow this
PinkertOn business to- continus much
longer it would seem that it could be
truly said that we are ''degenerated
sons of noble sires."
"Last week some trouble arose be-
tween the management Of the New
York Central railroad and the men,
AS usual, the company employed the
Pinkerton detectives to help them
out, and among early results was.
the firing on crowd by the detec-
tives and wounding of several per-
sons. Why is it that the press OF
this country does not cry out against
this infaray? 1t is the most shame
less crime OF the age. If the poor
men who toll day in and day out for
barely enough to live upon were to
employ company of men with arms
to defend them and their rights of
person or property, they would be
imprisoned as rioters and condemned
as anarchists. It would be treason
in a common laborer to bring an
armed companion with him to work.
And yet the whole country will look
on silently while a railroad or a
manufacturing corporation carries a
gang of. cut throats to it's place of
business and. there sets them to
watch men who: have served faithful
ly long, long years. What an out
rage? It, is q crime against liberty
that will not'long be suffered to ex-
list. These men are murderers; they
are hired and paid to kill his fellows
if so directed by q citizen without
authority. The state provides Of
ficers to protect citizens and proper
ty. Cities provide officers for the
same purpose. Poor men are con-
tent with this; but tire rich and ar
rogant, the strong and powerful do
not ask assistance from lawfully con-
stituted authorities; they hire a
horde of ruffians to overawe men
who would cause no. trouble If they
were paid one-half SO much as these
mercenary wretches receive for play
ing the role of murderer This in
famous business must be suppressed.
Some day men drivers to desperation
will slay dozen or-so OF Pinkertons,
then another dozen OF so a hundred,
thousand if need be, to get rid OF
them, and that will be the end OF the
Pinkerton business.-Kansas Com
mOner.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-25
Western N. c. LIST SIS, guar. c. 9sH 100
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. II, 1890.
OFFERINGS.
sALEs REPORTED TO SECRETARY

Wheat-2.0l2 bushels.
COrn-l.520 bushels.
Oats-5O0 bushels,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-25
stocks.-Yirgipia 3's, Gi@G6.


NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Cotton.-Mess
Hubbard, Price X Co., in their cotton cir
cular tonight say THE Liverpool cot
ton market this morning failed to respond
10 our improvement OF Saturday. At noon
these prices were a shade below last weeks.
The market at the opening was weak at a
decline of thirteen points in near positions,
and at one time, under the announce
ment Of the death Of August Belmont,
an important failure on the stock
Exchange, the market looked decidedly
weak. As, however, the Southern mar
kets did not give evidence of weakness, and
values on the Stock Exchange continued 10
improve despite the uniavOrable news, above
referred 10. a reaction of about three TO four
points was effected in cotton, the close being
steady" Receipts at ports to-day
estimated al 5000 bales against as, j3j
bales last week, and 56,02i last year.
Middhng uplands, 1-lG. sales l,O32
bales. Transactions IN futures Ij.OO
bales. Futures closed steady As fol
lows: November, 9.2s0929: December 9.3c
Q9.3I; January. 9A@942; February. o 30
d9.j1; March, 9.5I@95S; April, 9.GG@9.67
May, 9.7i@9.75; June, 9.s2@9.S3; July, 800
Q9.9l; August, 9.Jj@9.6.
In Liverpool spot cotton steady; mddling
uplands, 5 3-l6d; sales, 10000 bales. Flu
lures closed steady; November, 500;
November December, 5.OS@5.O9: December
January, 800; January-february, 913@
GA: February-March, 5.l1.
Produce Flour closed steady: fine grades,
spring. 81 75M$3.2j; Southern firm: trade
ana family extras, S3.90@S5. Wheat firm A.;
spot sales No. 2 red winter, Si.05; do. No
yember, Sl.O4L. Corn firm; spot sales
No. 2 mixed, 6Ossc.; do. November, GO5.c.
oats steady; spot sales No. white, 5lc.
No. 2 mixed. December, 5O7sc. Pork duh;
mess, $llg$l2. Lard irregular; Noyem.
Der, $685.. Sugar-Refned quiet; cut Loaf
and crushed, CSC. Coffee steady; fair Rio
cargoes, 201+c. Spirits turpentlne steadiei
at 4O4c. for regulars, and iOAs. Tor ma,
chine barrels. Rosin is in demand at full
prices; common, Sl.45; good strained, $3.50