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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

If the United States government
canloan money to bankers at one per
cent on speculative securities, why
can it not loan to farmers? Suppose
you were to say, with one voice: 81
never will vote for party again that
will not give me at least a chance in
this mighty conflict between the pro-
Queer and the exchangerr' Why,
you would discover tomorrow that
the world was not the world of yes
terday. We really believe that there
ought to be some one definite plank
upon which the Alliances should
make primal pledge-and liberty
from the thraldom of the exchangel
is that primal step. Talk it up in
YOUR alliances.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

eve don't wholly understand your
opposition to the old officers, and
wouldn't it be better to give your
reason so we may all understand"
One reason was given in issue of
February 7th. If those charges of
corruption are not true then we
ought to be in the penitentiary.
Another reason is that they op-
posed the starting of the GREAT
WEST, because it would break up
their control of the alliance.
Another reason is that they have
hindered the revival of the alliance
by neglecting appointments all over
the state, without any explanations.
Another reason is more profound
than any yet given-but the charges
made Feby 7th are sworn to and are
sufficient. The entire alliance of Min
nesota are with us. But it would
make no difference to us. We have
not entered this field to peddle out a
righteous cause for friendship, Gin
fiuence" or Doodle. Ii the glorious
progress of the GREAT WEST has to
be checked, it will die game at the
last-but the liveliest kind Of a
corpse it is at present.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
Option Dealing.

Gsp. Baker was the ruling spirit OF
the Committee on Resolutions at the
late annual. We handed in a resolu-
ton to that Committee against deal
ing in Cultures" 1t comes out a
resolution against dealing in OPP
tiOns! If Gen. Baker is the man to
hold responsible for this break we
want handful of his hair-if not,
somebody's scalp ought to suffer.
A faro-tiger admits the iniquity OF
puts and calls, and all the general
species of gambling which ''strad-
dies" under the name of "options p
They are low-down gambling Of
course. But they don't affect the
price of grain. It'sthe future that
the farmers are after-dealing in
deliveries yet to be made-and then
tapping the farmers till to accom-
modate the price set. Why, under
this dealing in futures the grain deal
er who loses cent must be block
bead-we refer to the actual buyer
the elevator-purchaser He SELLS
and then sets his price to buy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
WAR ON THE COMBINES
Work for the Legislature.

Work tor the Legislature.
The next Legislature will have work
to do. One of the first things the
GREAT WEST will do will be to see
that a bill is presented making it a
CRIMINAL OFFENSE
for any dealer or combination to re-
fuse to quote prices at any published
list rate to any man or men, if the
same person, firm or corporation is
selling on that published list scale to
any other parties. The law will be
enacted to meet cases like the follow
ing, to a man who wanted car load
lots:
HALL & DUCY LUMBER Co.,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, 2-2S-1S9O,
Mr.. F. H. jerks:
Louisberg, MINI.
DIR. SIR We have yours to hand,
but as We cannot find that you are a
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

= When the American goes over to
old England and drives or walks
along her macadamized highways,
SO clean and bright, and hard, and
level, and then thinks OF the misera-
BILE old sluffs at home-he thinks
And he thinks this: england, we're
sorry for the tea party! Take us
back again. Tie us once more to the
apron strings OF a mother. For we
are shiftless and spendthrift. We
spend $4OO,OOO,OOO every year
to govern the nation. We spend two
millions a year each to govern AZ
states. We spend from $4,000 to
ten times 100000 every year to
govern each county, 5000 in number
We spend, Providence alone knows
how much, to govern municipalities
and townships! Forgive us mother
and chide us gently-or else send us
over to China. She would make 8
rare governess-for does she not
govern 400 million people, sever
times our number, for the fippence o
80 millions yearly-and has good
roads too!
Verify we are stuck in the mud
and is a mud republic worth having
at such q cost?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

dealer we must decline to make you
prices, as we sell only to dealers.
Yours Truly,
HALL & DUcY LUMBER Co.,
Copy Simpson, Secy.
Now the farmers throughout the
south and in parts of Kansas have a
remedy for such business land there
comes in the advantage OF the
secret work. They
USE THE BOYCOTT
with tremendous effect. In North
Carolina they brought IL city OF
$500 population down on their
marrow bones.
Let the Executive Committee OF
the State Alliance declare a boycott
on any yard selling lumber from GER
tain firms refusing to deal with an
alliance or a number of it's members
land in 80 days the great Lumber
Combine of Minneapolis would lick
the dust. That the alliance now is
strong enough to do this may be a
matter of doubt-but organize-join
hands with your friends throughout
the world unite with the K. OF l..
through the National Industrial
Union-and see what kind Of stuff
you are made OF.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

'"The farmers never did a better
thing than when they refused to
make that arch-traitor and politi-
clan, 1gnatius Donnelly, President OF
the Alliance"
The Fairmont News is author OF
this choice morsel. 1t simply shows
how awfully ignorant and awfully ir-
responsible men may be. Mr.. Don
nelly is comparatively a. poor man
who for 25 years has fought monop-
oily, and never was nominated on
any other platform; who never was
nominated by a democratic conven-
ton. though endorsed by them after
nomination. Who has yielded up
a power almost unreasonable to
stand often alone in his work. No
man ever accused him of an immoral
act. No man specifies a mean act.
Will the Fairmont News mention the
treason SO rashly averred?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

"But don't you think even q brave
man may over do it J? Isn't harmony
better thandiscord ?"-From aletter.
No, Bro. Kearney. Harmony is
not better than discord- between
wolves and the lambs. The GREAT
WEST knows better what it is fight
ing than many OF our delegates did.
With less than a dozen exceptions
the delegates we're honest to the core
but they did not know what a tire
mendous effort was being put forth
to hold the sway of the politician.
Mr.. Donnelly's sentimentw was clear
ly uttered:
''The alliance was to be hung
to the coat-tails Of neither Gov. Mer.
Ram, would-be Gov. Scheffer, or Elk
Gov. McGill." But no effort has
been made by any one but Scheffer-
and he was closeted with the Sprague
element in the Capitol building, dur.
ing the conflict, and we all know the
exposures the GREAT WEST made.
On this insurance matter the Eye
says:
Its quite the fashion among the
politicians now to organize an insur-
ance company. Albert Scheffer
started it to capture the alliance,
and Gov. McGill has followed suit
The GREAT WEST is for war-all
the time-until it is impossible to
make peace with robbers either in the
alliance or out Of it. This pandering
to enemies in convention, and shak-
ing fists at a safe distance, never
won a. battle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

The crediting OF Mr.. Donnelly with
an assinine speech, by Mr.. Hairy Rob-
inson, in last weeks N. W. Railroader,
does not throw a glimmer OF respect
ability over that peculiar individual.
As a prevaricator and endorser OF
frauds this man has been heard OF
before-but as baby-creator of wit
less speeches, for men whose literary
and OratOrical abilities at least are
above reproach, he makes his first
bow to the public. Mr.. Robinson is
not on a very lofty plane just now
not above the sewer and the rat
trap.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

A miserable fool in the Daily News
got off mass of lying rot in Tues
day evenings issue. Any man could
see that it was T. C. Hodgson dis
guised as GAN OTTER TAIL Co. DELE
GATE" There never was a estate"
by Mr.. Donnelly's friends. Mr.. AL
lison never was dreamed OF even, for
State Lecturer, unless he dreamed
himself DR.. Fish had three or four
men engaged in writing ballots for
John Lathrop 80 minutes before bal
loting for Secretary. Gen. Baker
never suggested Mr.. Lathrop, but
fought his election like a tiger
equipped for carnage. Such a mass of
falsehoods bespeaks the ass. The
Alliance is harmonious, united and
satisfied.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 18th, 80.
To WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
The Pioneer Press Co. does neither
the press-work nor the composition
on the "GREAT WEST" The North
western Newspaper Union does the
press work the same as in all trade
press establishments in the Cities
and much the same as for all the To-
cal papers throughout the state.
The GREAT WEST" has a complete
printing Office of it's own at 75S Wa
basha St., this city.
NORTHWESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION.
By JOHN J. DoBsoN, Supt.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

The statement that Mr. Donnelly,
or the GREAT WEST, designed to
push Mr.. Allison for State Lecturer
at the State Alliance was absolutely
false. We have heard this stated so
many times since, that this denial is
"a necessity. Mr.. Allison had taken
the pledge recently, and we held up
his hands as far as possible-and not
only by moral encouragement, but
financially. But any statement that
there was a estate" made up for the
Offices is absolutely false. Mr.. Don
nelly's friends never held a caucus
or even a private meeting
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

C. P. Carpenter has interviewed by
letter the Minnesota Congressman in
relation to the Pacific Railway bills
to extend the time for payment OF
past due mortgage bonds. After
carefully reviewing the matter, Mr..
Carpenter is fully convinced that the
bills are an outrage upon the nation,
and scheme to further the ends OF
robbers who deserve no sympathy
at the hands of the government. So
SAY We
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
ANOTHER BOMB BUSTED
Haul Down Another Kite |!


G. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis
miller, published a strong article
on the "Bucket Shops endorsing the
Chicago Board OF Trade in suppress
ing them.
Now it seems to be the mission
of the GREAT WEST to occasionally
pull down a kite when it flies too high
sometimes to the discomfort of our
friend Gen. Baker. 1t is very sad to
have thus to yank at the kite-string
on the right track.
Now, Mr.. Pillsbury-what is a
Board OF Trade? And
What is a Bucket Shop?
We boldly aver that a Bucket
Shop never did the
FARMER ANY HARM.
They are a small fry gambling
shop of course. But how can they
affect the farmer? Why, Mr.. p, you
know if you know anything about it,
that the Bucket Shop" does not gam
bic on making or unmaking a price
for grain-has nothing to do with it.
The
GAMBLING IN GRAIN
is all done on the Boards Of Trade
We will wager a hundred dollars that
there never has been one instance OF
gambling in grain in a "Bucket
Shop" The ''B. 81 is room, gen
orally near the Board of Trade, (but
sometimes in a distant town. where
the same kind OF a "ticker" (tele-
graph instrument or dali quotes
with rapidity the prices made by
the gamblers on the Chicago Board.
Instead OF going in and monkeying
the prices up and down by bidding,
auctioneering, or intriguing, as on
the Board, the habitue of the Bucket
Shop merely goes in and bets that
the dial will go up or down! He wins
or loses accordingly! The only
harm the Bucket Shop does, other
than being a genuine gambling den, is
to take the trades &c. per bushe
on the deal) out of the hands of the
boss gamblers upstairs! This wal
on the Bucket Shops is selfish at
fair-merely to keep the little dial
plate fry out Of the way of the big
fry on the Bedlamite Board.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

i, During the past five months the edi-
tor has been out in the field lecturing
more or less every week. He eased-
up on editorial work by publishing
hundreds Of letters from our patrons.
Now there are score of avenues call
ing for editorial work, and with more
time to do it, and great questions to
discuss with you, let us ask you to
permit us to publish but few letters
until the editorial work has Caught
up" And yet we thank you all fol
your kind words.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

Our friend Maxwell, OF Worthing-
ton, corrects our report of the State
Meeting in the matter of the com
mittee to visit the State Agricultural
school. There were fifteen on that
committee, but owing to some delays
only six made the visit, viz: Albert
Warren, Daniel Bowerman, Henry
Feig, j. H. Maxwell, Mr.. Anderson,
and either Mr.. Graves or Mr.. Carter.
Thanks for the correction.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

We have received a valuable pam
phlet entitled, can Open Letter to
the Citizens of Wisconsin on Legisla-
tive Control of railways" 1t is writ
ten by Geo. C. Butterfield, of Column
bus. 1t is radical document filed
with substantial facts, and in the
near future we propose to give some
of these facts to our readers. Let us
say right here that he puts the ex-
pense of building western railways at
from 81, 900 to SO, 900 per mile
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

We see our friend Hairy Robinson,
OF the Northwestern Railroader, is
not satisfied with our exposition of
the Kansas Railroad Swindle. The
pressure of convention work has de-
laved our further reference to his last
astonisher. If he will kindly wait an
other week we will make mild at
tempt to show him some Granger
arithmetic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

If every inhabitant of the United
States used 4 ounces more of flour
per day-or if Gods poor used as
much as a soldier is allowed-it
would take. 125 million bushels OF
wheat to accommodate the in
crease! This is more than our aver
age export! All, perhaps poverty is
a scorpion sting-it strikes the body
which bears it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
Exemption From Sale

"The GREAT WEST, the official Or
gan of the Farmers Alliance and pub
lished at ST. Paul, gives directions how
to secure candidates for the legisla-
ture who will prove true to the inter-
ests of the district and farmers in the
event of their election, and not be bull
dozed or led astraY by capitalists,
spectators and rogues. No doubt
is entertained of the GREAT VESTS
motives and sincerity, but as it's edi-
tor came from Michigan it is feared
that he has not been in Minnesota
long enough to be considered a
"broke in" political war horse.
Last winter the legislature was
largely composed of tillers of the
soil, SO much so that the session was
styled Farmers Legislature.
Senator Washburn is reported to
have declared that body Of lawmakers
the most corrupt ever convened in
Minnesota, and. he ought to know.
since he trained with it's large ma
jority Farmer Gov. Merriam, farm
er Senator Washburn, and the little
trash senators and representatives
got tangled so badly especially the
Republicans that it looked very like
"eyery man for himself and devil
take the hindmost." Didn't the
Doodle fly around, and were not far
mer members turned inside out by
lobbyists? Who can say no?
The GREAT WEST may as we'll know
it now as in the future, that the men
who have barrels of money are able
and will carry their ends. No mat
ter who is elected, nearly every man
is susceptible of being charmed by
gold and greenbacks. Any man or
newspaper who invents a plan to
separate Doodle from official station
will be remembered by the unborn
millions as entitled to med of
praise only to be equalled by the
man who brings perpetual motion to
light
| Now it is hardly fair to call a legis-
lature a farmers legislature when
out Of $50 members only So signed
themselves as farmers, and a great
many of these were really something
else. For instance, there is Sen. Geo.
Thacker-farmer- at the time he
was Washburn's lumber agent at
Glenwood, getting his bread and
butter from the railway wreckers.
We do not believe the public con-
science is destroyed, and the greatest
factor in such destruction of politi-
cal honor is by treating the subject
in the above uncomplimentary man
ner. No such legislature as that OF
last winter ever has been known be-
fore, or will be known again.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

The alliance is in danger OF being
used by lot of sorethroat politi-
clans for domestic purposes. But if
they will all OF them be careful to
make a few first class blunders on
the start, the Alliances can do no
worse than to stumble over their
skinny corpses and sail on.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
What the Dorsey Bill Means.

The Bankers Convention of Ne
braska knows what they want-and
they want the Dorsey Bill. Several
hundred million of bonds come due
in few years. These bonds will
soon
LOSE THEIR PREMIUM.
And hence the desire to refund
while the premium exists!
Let us see how it works:
A banker changes 100000 of 4
per cents for these proposed 2 per
cents:
Face of his 4 per cents. .......$1OO,OOO
Premium-26c on the dol
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. $4,000
Two per cent for II years
(the unexpired time)
without any interest
on interest. 1900
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

We are corrected in regard to the
tellers appointed at the selection OF
officers at the State Meeting. Mr..
Feig was one of them-and was not
one of the Scheffer' Insurance ring.
We remember Mr.. Feig's presence,
but believe he was closely confined
taking the tally.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
$4,000
1000
$143,OOO

Now this $143, 900 will then be on
interest at 2 per cent, and will be-
come the basis of circulating bills
loaned at from eight to 20 per cent.
Lest we do the bankers injustice we
quote their words-by the press re-
port:
s'They also recommended the pass
age by congress of an act which shall
allow the refunding of the present is
sue of bonds by an issue OF bonds
bearing two per cent interest to be
redeemable at the pleasure of the
government, the first issue being the
last subject to call, the holders OF
four per cent bonds offered for re-
funding to be allowed in settlement,
the present worth of the bond cal
culated on the basis of two per cent
per annum for the time unexpired."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

Our printers, last week, made
"Pres't'' La Due to read "Priest'
La Due. Bro. La Due has not yet
taken orders-though his kindly
countenance would honor the pulpit
if he ever "gOt there!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

Every alliance man in the United
States is in sympathy with Pres't
Loucks, on his sick-bed at Minneapo-
lis. 1t has been over two months
now since he has been able to attend
to business.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

The Sunday Sincher'' is new lit
tie journal just stated at Hutchin-
son, Mimi. Its first number has a
communication on the wheat ques-
ton from P. E. Barrett, which advo-
Gates not only the election of the rail-
way Commissioner, but also the
chief wheat Inspector. Good!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
This is the Most Awful Yet

eve suppose a state could enact
laws and make stock-watering IL
legal, but until they do, it is legiti-
mate business; and no man in that
state can look Upon such process as
a robbery of the people, as many are
so fond of doing. A road has ten
owners; no bonds, but all stock,
that represents 100000. Those
owners vote to increase that stock,
which may represent the roads cost,
to 100000, and they divide the ad-
ditional 100000 shares among
themselves, pro rata. Now this is
strictly an affair of their own, so
long as each owner participates in
the division; that is, so long as each
stakeholder has received his share of
the increased stuck. 1t is nobody's
business but their own whether their
road is capitalized at 100000, or
100000; nor does such a proceed
ing enhance or depreciate the roads
actual value one cent; nor does it
take a dollar out OF the pockets of
those who live along the line of this
road and patronlze it.
Therefore, stock-watering honest
ly conducted as described, is aperfect-
ly business-like transaction and af-
fects nobody but the roads owners,
who are at perfect liberty to man.
age their private business as they
see fit."-New York Financier.
This is terrible. Why, Mr.. Finan-
cier, that is not stock-watering
That is not what is meant by stock
watering. The above plan would be
good enough if the stock only de-
manded dividends on the original
stock, or on the capital invested.
But you dear soul-that is not the
game.
Eight men organize a railway COM
pany A will put in $4,000 in
money. B, $4,000, c $4,000. Five
others will put in $4,000 each. total
100000. Now they print 500, 900
in stock-and divide it up as above.
For money?-Oh no! Then they is
sue 100000 in mortgage bonds
drawing 6 per cent.
A takes 5000, 900 for his $50, 900.
B takes 5000, 900 for his $25, 900.
C takes $4,000 for his $4,000.
Five others take $4,000 each for
their 81 900.
Now, not one cent has been paid
for stock. But the bonds issued are
a mortgage. They are saleable-and
go on the market. They must pay
their interest-24 per cent on the in.
vestment now-that is 100000 at
6 per cent for 100000 actually in
vested-24 per cent on the 100000
Every dollar paid for dividends or
this stock is cool robbery Every
dollar OF interest on 100000 of the
bonds is a steal. The farmers pay
the interest. The farmers pay thu
principal. The farmers give one por
ton of their land as highway by
which to thus mortgage the othe1
portions-for the bonds are O
course practical mortgages on thu
contiguous domain.
This is the ideal scheme. And il
practice, there hasn't been 500 in
vested in a railway in this countr,
in ten years. We challenge the Fl
nancier to show up the fool who dit
it!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21

H. V. Poore, OF Renville County, is
on the war-path again. He has Or
ganized alliances already since the
State meeting, and sent in reports.
Mr.. Poore has genuine enthusi-
asm in the work-and Renville COun-
ty feels the impulse.