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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-25

The Wichita, Kan, Eagle the lead
ing republican paper ofsouthwestern
Kansas, in a doubled-leaded editorial
pays it's respects to the Mckinley bill
in a manner that may be understood
by reading the following specimen
extracts:
'1t is an attempt to make an angel
OF the devil without abreviating his
tail or saving off his horns. It takes
dollars from the farmers and returns
them dimes. It does not impose a
single duty wich will help farmer.
"What do we care about the duty
on eggs ami hay? This suggestion
ought to render the average Kansas
rooster impote IT, and start the hens
OF every barnyard west of the Mis-
sissippi to Growing. "The additional
duty on wool is but water cruel OF the
weakest sort for the Kansas farmer
upon whose hearts blood the goldite
of Wall street and the combiniteof
New England and the East fatten to
full eyed paucity.
''As the stars in their course fought
against Sisera, so the civilization of
the closing hours of the nineteenth
century fights against the hide-bound
tariff burdens with which the West is
being saddled by the incoirate bloats
OF Eastern manufacturing and At
lantic money centers Saddled, too,
By the men whom the people them
selves sustain and keep in power"
Brownsville news.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-25

:. ITO say the least, it has the merits Of start
ling originality. louisville Times.
1.-THE book points out tendencies which actually
exists and are in need of cure. 1t warns us with
vehemepce and force of the necessity of guarding
our liberties against the encroachments of m on
opoly and plutocracy, and Of disarmng corrup-
ton in government by every device that vigi-
ant ingenuity can supply,"-GEORGE CARY
in New York World
Powerful in the extreme. The effect of an
honest purpose is felt in every line."-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
''The story Is most Interestingly devised and
strongly told 1t is not the work of a pessimist
Or an anarchist, but rather of q preacher who
sees the dangers that all thoughtful men see in
our time, and. approaching the Importance
to humanity of maintaining what is good in
existing systems, utters his warning as q sacred
duty. -Detroit Free Press.
''The author of Caesars Column whoever he
m ay be- is writer of force and ability. Toledo
Blade.
''While find in it evidences OF great literary
ability Astounding, as it does in great wealth Of
imagery and vividness of detail candor compels
me to write that much of the substance Of the book
10 somewhat improbable. Nevertheless, as an
example OF high literary form the book deserves
Unrestricted praise.-J. CARDINAL GIBBONS.
1T is certainly very extraordinary produc-
lion. '-ARCHBISHOP POTTER OF New York.
ga much more powerful book than Mr.. Belamy
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vention held at Marshall on the
10Th, for this district. He is bona
fide farmer and his heart is in the
work. The alliance is gaining
strength here every day.
Our friend Ingalls,, OF Ingalls,,
Mimi, says, "Give it to the monop-
olies, DR.. Fish-you will swim where
they are all drowned!" Good for w
II.
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Twine.-TaEe Notice.

Owing to circumstances unknown
to us, the GREAT WEST can no longer
furnish Pure Manila Irvine at the
figures quoted before. We have sold
and delivered over 100000 pounds
at 14Hc., but the market price to us
has raised, with Indications of still
further increase. So we decline to
handle more. The Jute Irvine re-
mains the same, 9c.-and we shall be
pleased to receive orders.
We also find that freights from
Chicago to points in Minnesota are
somewhat higher that 4 and &c. per
h., Nc. being about the figure
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sk>yHRS |R0 HsS3Va

Several letters OF Importance were
laid over last week and again this
week-among them the report OF the
Dodge County Alliance.
LA CRESCENT, July IL, 1890.
ED. GREAT WEST:
You call for more evidence that
the mortgage census is not correct.
''Chaff shows which way the wind
blows
After the census taker was through
asking me questions, as he had asked
nothing about mortgages, asked
him if he did not take record of the
mortgages? of which there $1,000
on my farm. He replied, Eyes, but
some take offense and think l am in
truding their private matters, SO l
don't ask"
What record of mortgages
Hope the state convention will
nominate good Independent ticket
OF true Alliance men. l shall try to
aid the campaign fund, but can not
contribute much for Scheffer & Co..
A. H. BRAYTON.
U.Senn, OF Ellington, writes us that
their alliance has just elected new Of
ficers:
Pres.-H. j. Wright.
Vice Pres.-L. ID. Ballard.
Secy.-Ulrich Sem, Sr.
Treas-JOhn F. Gibbons
Mr.. Sem gives the monopolists a
roast-and the farmers good advice
in a letter-next week.
PIPEsToNE, Mimi, July 10, 1890.
ED. GREAT WEST:
We organized an alliance in Troy
Township tonight. There were elev-
en- members. Our members will
double in another week. Some ere
afraid it is a political dodge of the
old parties, and will Join as soon as
they are convinced that it is not.
Will you send few extra copies for
distribution I will distribute them,
as soon as received. The Alliance is
moving rapidly in this section of the
country. A. E. WOoDMAN,
Secretary.
DODGE CENTER, July Sd, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
An Alliance County Convention
was held at Mantorville July LIST,
1890, all OF the sub-alliances in the
county were represented and COM
plete harmony prevailed.
VIM. Edison OF Milton township
was nominated for Senator and Asa
R. Green OF Concord for Representa-
tive; full county ticket was also
placed in nomination. Mr. Donnelly
addressed the people for about an
hour, interrupted frequently by ap-
planses. The court house hall was
filled to OVERLOOKING. The Express
says it must be conceded by all that
Mr.. Donnelly's array OF facts in rela-
ton to the situation of the laborer
andpolitical situation of the old par
ties are true. Respectfully,
NJ. R. DREsBACH, Secretary.
MILAN, Mimi. July Sd, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
A meeting was held at Montevideo
June Oath, to organize county alli-
ance. Five sub-alliances were repre-
sented. The following officers were
appointed:
John Korh, President.
H. W. Hagy, Vice President
H. l.. Tvedt, Secretary.
Fred Lund, Treasurer.
C. O. Christensen, Lecturer.
A committee on constitution and
bylaws was appointed, consisting of
the following members:
Frank E. Bently Julius Rodhe Nels
Iverson, O. j. Rollovson, and E. E.
Stensland. Next meeting to be held
on the first Saturday in September.
H. L. TvEDT, Secretary.
MOUND CITY, Mimi, July 10Th.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
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Progressive Farmer:
The war obliterated old Mason g
and Dixon's line. 1t is a thing of the
past. 1t is history.
North of the old line a majority of
the voters favored one plan, one
method. one idea. South of it a ma
jority favored the reverse.
The farmers Alliance is now OBJ
literating the old line by giving us a
new policy. The new line, the new
Mason's and Dixon's line, or the
Farmers Alliance line will be
drawn from Toledo, on the western
extremity of Lake Erie, to the mouth
of the Potomac East, north and
northeast of this line plutocracy has
it's seat and center. 1t is the manu-
featuring end of the United States.
All south and west agriculture pre-
dominates. The United States has
an area of over 100000 square
miles and less than 100000 square
miles OF it lies east and north OF this
new line
About one-eighteenth part of the
OulOCO oOdUCS 10 Ullc Ufttl UuU III ways
the dog. Less than 20 of the IS
millions OF people live northeast of
this new dividing line. Of the 60
billions OF dollars of wealth in the
United States one-half or 10000
millions of wealth lie east of this line
The platforms of the Dlemocra tic and
Republican parties are formulated in
it's center.
Will the people longer allow tie
tail to wag the dog? The great
struggle for the supremacy of power
lies between the interests of the peo-
pie on either side OF this line. On
the one side is the concentration of
the money power Of the country. On
the other all those resources and in
dustries and interests upon which this
money power has grown and waxed
fat. What will the issue be? If the
people are true to themselves, to their
country and to their God, the days OF
plutocracy are numbered, Let the
people watch and be prudent.
OLD FOGY.
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MOUND CITY, Mimi, July 10Th.

EDITOR GREAT VEST:
There will be a meeting OF the
Mound City Nationalist Club at
Bartletts Hall, Mound City, Sunday,
August 3rd, p. m. The meeting
will be addressed by Ex-Governor
Austin, of Mound City, and Eva Nc
Donald, of Minneapolis. Subject
Social and National Problems of the
Day
The speakers will be preceded by
songs from the we'll known Hoishing-
ton families, six in all.
S. &. G.. BARTLETT.
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G.. n. White was nominated for
Representative by the Alliance Con-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-25

CuOSc WIZ nave lue power duu lue SOOU Will 10 re
"A wonderfully fascinating book.
Will hold the attention of the world as no other
book has held it for years. chicago Saturday
Blade.
81 was unable to lay it down until had finished
reading it. 1t should be read by every farmer in
the land."-H. L. LOUCKS, President National
Farmers Alliance
THAT our people in this country needs arous-
ing is unquestionably true, and you have
brought forward a Gabriel's trump."-FRAN-
CTS E. WILLARD.
"Beliamy looks backward upon what is impos-
sible as we'll improbable. Caesars Column
looks forwards to what ia not only possible, but
probable. "--MILTON GEORGE, Founder OF the
Farmers Alliance
VI have read Caesars Column twice and am
convinced that it has been written in the nick of
time. predict for the book an immense
sale and worldwide discussion. '-CORINNE s.
BROWN, Secretary Nationalist Club, Chicago.
Peculiarly timely at the present time, and
should have wide reading among thinking peo-
ple."-B. o. FLOWER, Editor OF the Arena, Bos-
ton.
Intense, stirring and eloquent. No such book
has ever appeared in the annals of literature.
Its story js here and there frightened by the
sweetness of a pure love, but the general tone is
one which should make every honest heart SILVER
for the future. The truth peers from every page.
No man will read this book without new sense
of duty and responsibility to his Countrywide
GREAT WEST.
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CO-OperatOr:

CO-OpefaIOf
We now have Houston county very
we'll organized, and where the officers
do their duty, they gain at every
meeting. We will soon have a county
Alliance called, that all may work in
concert; and every town in the coun-
ty will be in line. Several are doing
extra good work. We have organ
stations at La Crescent, Hokah,
Union, Mound Prairie, Houston,
Blackhammer, Spring Grove, Will
mington, Mayville. Winnebago and
Crooked Creek. Have enough names
to petition for a charter in Browns
vile for three organizations, and will
get them in shape before we have the
meeting of the county Alliance. Sew
eral towns have two organizations,
and all should have, on account of
having meetings where it will be con-
venient for more to attend. We have
fourteen Alliances in Houston county
now and need six more which we
will soon have.
r. RI White WAS nominated for
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Convention Call.

A resolution was sent us instruct
ing the President. of the Renville
County Alliance to issue call for a
Convention at Hector, on the I'd
Tuesday in September, at II a. M,
to nominate a full county and legisla-
tive ticket. Signed by c. G. Johnson,
Secretary of County Alliance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
TIE JIBOOSE.

John L. Butler, of Harrisburg, is figuring
as political phIlologist. He has invented
q new word, a sort of mate to mugwump.
Here is the word and Mr.. Buffers defni-
ton:
''Ji-boose, n. A professed Democrat, who
is better and purer than his party, in his own
estimation, and is loaded with set of prize
package principles which can never be put
into practice. CT. Mugwump."
1t is tolerably certain that Mr.. Butler is
not Jiboose. Nothing that we have heard
of him would lead US to suppose that he is
burdened with principles of any Sort and if
he has party we do not suppose that he is
in his own estimation, or the worlds, better
or purer than that party. There would be
no need to define Mr.. Butler if he had not
gone out OF his way to instance the Hon.
Robert Z. Pattison as a Jiboose. The prin-
cipIeS with which Mr.. Pattison is loaded
may be correctly termed ''prize- package
that is worth prizing-but the fact that they
were put into practice when he was Gov
ernor constitutes at once his chief recon-
mendatiOn and the principal cause of his
OtfenSe,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
A COROLLARY TO GOOD ROADS.

When the happy days of reform arrive,
and, under some magical management, our
rural roads are made passable, it will be we'll
to put up sign-boards at crossroads. There
is nothing more bewIldering to the stranger
than to come to the meeting of several ways
where there is no guide-board to point out
the direction in which he should continue
his journey. And yet one may get into
some such dilemma within twenty miles of
Pittsburg. There are miles upon miles of
railway near this city which are absolutely
without sign of their direction or OF the
towns to which they go.
Who that has frequented strange parts
has not wandered about unknown and un-
discoverable ways for many hours? And
how many dinners and tempers have been
ruined BY this very absence of sign-boards !
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
SOME TRUTHS ABOUT STRIKES.

In the correspondence between General
Master Workman Powderly and Master
Workman Lee, which has been made public
at the hearings berore the New York State
Arbitration Board at Albany occur many
significant passages. Mr.. Powderly seems
to have seen what the end of the New York
Central strike must be far more clearly than
he chose to tell the public at the time.
In mis- letter of April 10 the General Mas
Ter Workman predicted the failure of the
strike. He then said to Master Workman
Lee: "By all means do all in your power
to prevent strike, for it will prove a fail
ure." Again, on August 2, be wrote: "My
advice to your men is to stand firm and
avoid a strike at all hazards" And, two
days before it was entered upon, in disre-
gard of his intelligent counsel, he said: "I
very much fear that history is about to re-
peat itself and that the disaster of the Read
ing Railroad is to be repeated.
Brother Lee, it is madness for the men of
the New York Central to think of striking.
They cannot win, and you know it as well
as do. Only the enthusiasts who never
COuuI buS CVSA VIII Say Ilat SIrlke on
system of railways can succeed in these
days"
Mr.. Powderly was right. The New York
Central strike ended disastrously for the
men. If bis advice had been taken the
strike would have never occurred. The
Philadelphia Ledger, commenting upon Mr..
Powderly's words already quoted, says
very wisely that strikes upon great railways,
the system of which embrace great conti-
nent, in the continuous operation of which
the entire country, its most important ma
terial interest, its business, convenience and
pleasure are involved, cannot be carried
out to successful conclusion,
not only because every other
company must, in respect of its own inter-
ests, give moral and physical support to
that one against which the strike is made,
but because the country, its agriculture,
commerce, manufacturers and finance can
not permit the power which gives them
prosperity to be destroyed or temporarily
suspended. 1t is fact too often lost sight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
POsTMoRTEM ORATORY.

Speaker Reeds speech at Boston last night
contains much with which we heartily dis
agree, but on the utter emptiness and folly
of devoting the time of Congress to obituary
orations THE DISPATCH is with him. In
the present session no less than twenty
one working days have been given over
by the House of Representatives to
windy mourning for the dead. Ten Repre-
sentatives and one Senator of the Fifty-frst
Congress have died, and month of the ma
tion's time,has been devoted to eulogizing
them. These funereal speeches are gener-
ally delivered to empty benches or to mat
tentive audiences. Even in the case of such
a distinguished statesman as Samuel j. Ran
dali 1t was so. The dead men are not bene-
fted, and the living constituents OF the con-
gressmen, who jump at any excuse for neg
lecting their work, suffer by the resulting
delay in legislation. The postmortem ora
tion ought to be abolished.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
THE EXPOsITIoS,s MISSION,

1t is extremely satisfactory to hear that
impartial critics declare the Exposition to
be a credit to Pittsburg. Mr.. Byron, who
has for many years managed similar expo
sitions in Minneapolis, expresses his admira-
tion OF the Pittsburg institution in generous
terms. Others of equal authority confirm
this favorable decision. The general public
testifes its interest in the exhibition by at
tending in tens of thousands. Already, too,
there are evidences of the beneficial effect OF
the Exposition as a show room for Pitts
burg's manufactures. The stranger from
afar is already in attendance. and we hear
of the Exposition persuading him to patron
Ize Pittsburg stores. The value of the Ex-
position is indubitable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
PARABLE FoR THE MARINES.

Mr.. Henry Watterson's Star-Eyed God.
dess of Reform is in q deliriously joyful
state over the dissensions in the Republican
party. The Louisville Courier-Joorndl de-
scribes at great length in a parable how the
Republicans scrambled from the sinking
ship of Protection to Mr.. Blaine's Reci-
procity raft. 1t includes Senator Edmunds
among those who hurried on board the raft,
which is not exactly truthful, seeing that
the Vermont Senator has spoken against
Mr.. Blaine's reciprocity scheme. But when
the Star-Eyed Goddess and Mr.. Watterson
fall to talking in parallels such little things
as facts are ruled out.
The parable winds up with this beautiful
passage:
"When the Star-Eyed Goddess passed the
raft, the discussion was still raging. Boats
were sent to the relief of the doomed men,
but they declared they would sink with the
raft rather than get aboard any white
winged ship like the Star-Eyed Goddess;
our consort. they said, is Free Trade, and
we will wait for her. That is the last heard
from the wrecked pirates, and it's all we
care to hear"
But if the Courier-Journal has no desire
to hear any more, great many people
would like to know what the Star-Eyed
Goddess means by floating about the politi-
cal seas away from her consort Free Trade,
for which the Republican statesmen on the
reciprocity raft are represented as waiting.
The Star-Eyed and Free Trade We thought
were lashed together.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-05
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY, SEPT. .. 1890
OUR NATURAL GAS SUPPLY.

Whether the natural gas supply of this
city is soon to be exhausted, or whether it
will continue good is matter of the utmost
Importance. The recent action of the Phila-
delphia Company in increasing the price to
manufacturers was construed by many to
mean failure of the supply. A fairer in
depreciation would seem to be that the
company found more profit In the supply of
domestic consumers at the higher rates
charged for that service and left the manu-
faeturers the choice of paying similar rate
or leaving the gas for the better paid domes-
tic use.
But The DISPATCH is not satisfied with
any mere indefinite Interpretation. 1t has,
therefore, set on foot another exhaustive in
vestigation of the subject, conducted by a
staff writer who is a competent authority on
all matters pertaining to the production of
natural gas and petroleum. An investiga-
tion was made several months ago with
satisfactory outcome But lest there might
have been some sudden change in the situa-
ton this second inquiry is made.
The first article OF q series is presented
this morning. The facts therein presented
are gratifying. Diminution OF pressure is
noted at the old wells, but the new ones
show up as good as their predecessors. 1t is
not to be expected that gas we'll will last
forever with such enormous pressure as some
in this vicinity have shown. That they do
not exhaust themselves quickly is encour-
aging. New territory is in sight and the
outlook for a continued supply seems good.
Other articles will follow, however, giving
the facts fearlessly and frankly, and they
may not be so favorable. Men closely
identified with the natural gas business will
be interviewed and their opinions given.
In short, every effort will be made to as
certain the present status of the gas supply
and its future prospects, that the question
may be settled finally. Either we have an
abundant supply for some years to come, or
we have not, and it is better that all should
know the truth. If the natural gas supply
is good we may rest in peace and content
mens get awhile. If it is about TO fail us it
is time to move in the matter of q substitute
The boundless coal beds in the Pittsburg
region give assurance of plentiful cheap fuel
in any event. Pittsburg can afford to wait
the outcome with cool calmness, allowing
her envious contemporaries to do the iretting.