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The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08
Thought Some Of Advertising.

An old man, a firm believer in the eff
cacy of advertising, came into this office
the other day and wanted to advertise a
lost mitten for a month. He said the
mittens cost so cents when new, and he
had worn them only three years. When
informed that the outlay would be much
more than the missing article could be
worth, he went off in an undecided state
of mind, resolved, however, to have one
more good look for the mitten before he
trusted its destinies to printers ink
Pittsfield (Ale.) Advertiser.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08

Our Berlin correspondent writes: The
price of beef, mutton and pork has in
creased SO much throughout Germany
that hundreds of households of the small
official class and artisans and laborers
cannot afford to see these meats on their
tables. Recourse is now had to horse
flesh, which is much cheaper, though
the extra demand has run up the price
of this also. In the month of October
816 horses were slaughtered in Berlin for
domestic consumption, an increase of 25
per cent. Is compared with last year. At
Konigsberg, a town with about a tenth
of the Inhabitants of Berlin, $50 horses
went to the butchers. At Carlsruhe the
increase in the consumption of horse
flesh is cent per cent. as compared with
last year, and Dortmund follows suit; at
Cassell it is 90 per cent, and at Bochum
and Stuttgart It is go per cent; at Leip-
sic it is a little over go per cent; at
Brunswick and Lubbock it is over 80 per
cent. The increase is also great at Ham,
burg and Bremen In the former town
the price per pound is now seven pence.
London Telegraph.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08
Behind the Times.

We fear that Dr.. Stevens, of Philadel-
phia, has been imposed upon. He tells
us that he has discovered the location of
the human soul; that it is situated in
the corpus callosum. We are con-
strained to think the doctor has been ex-
ploring in some old-fashioned cadaver,
for we are assured by many authorities
in the social world that it is no longer
deemed good form to wear souls in the
corpus callosum. Indeed, the most
fashionable people, we are told, have
discarded the practice of wearing souls
at all; it is SO bothersome to look after a
soul and a pug dog at M and the same
time.-Washington Post.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08

a Private Adviser iror t!loseco.tem-
plating marriage end Tor me suffer
1ng from Private, Nervous or Chronic
Diseases. Sent prepaid by oSnress
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08

Close connections made in Union Depot with all
trains of the st. Paul, Minneapolis s. Manitoba;
Northern Pacific; st. Paul Il Duluth; Minneapo-
liz, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railways from
and to all points North and Northwest.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-08

In a folklore book, called "Ye Mys-
teries of the Wytchcraft," there is given
a charm 'by which a maid may know if
We man she loves be true" To perform
this, the maid is directed to pluck at
midnight on ALL Halloween two month
ly roses with long stems, naming one for
herself and the other for her lover. She
must then go directly to her sleeping
room without speaking to any one, and
kneeling beside her bed must Irvine the
stems of the two roses together and
then repeat the following lines, mean
while gazing i%ntently upon the rose
named for her lover:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
schedule Immediately preceding the questions

down in the schedule Immediately preceding questions
gard to mortgages
Then the finishing touches the scheme
ready work the began
about the insulting questions
They the people especially
classes who knowing questions
worked almost
even.
Finally before the censustakng
which such had published
pose of the questions printed You need this
What were the questions?
Those relating mental physical defects those relating
mortgages!
mistake the three leading daes OF this city and
the Chicago and Kansas City published the list this This
the readers the Republic which actively
ported the Single Tax League it's efforts have the armmOrtgage
statistics included the reports claim
that it the idea What caused change he?
Not only lists published with questions marked stated
above but the through their editorial advised
unspang
their denuncon claw beakers And they hold hands
holy horror fguav speaking at the dpravy the Western settlers
who e when used by land grabbers and monopots
disposess them their homes Out such hypocrisy!
looks like deliberate conspiracy the
to hide of great
which
Condemnation they There
pie have means OF knowing that
Already the monopoly throwing casual
the effect that Mr. Porter the the country will not
foot what the people have been led that the
really make much better showing than he anticipated,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
Break ON Binders.

The alliance work, direct and clear
cut, has broken the Twine Binder
market all to smash. A carload OF
twine binders was shipped out OF
Minneapolis last week at 800 each
The Deerings came into the market
(southwest part OF state) and offered
to put in the machines against the
alliance purchasing agent, for Is and
$50. each. The alliance staid by
their man, however! Binders have
also been bought by the Fosston Al
lance at 800 and less, in quantities.
The market is broken all to pieces.
1t costs $37 to build twine-binder
complete! These manufacturers
have been charging $500 within the
four years!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
porter was on to the thing. The,
Globe said the next morning:

porter was on to the thing. The;
Globesaid the next morning:
"The accounts of the different men
who were present differ. The story
told by one. whose name is not men
toned for very obvious reasons. is
to the effect that the meeting was
held for the purpose of devising a.
scheme for securing the alliance nom
ination for Mr.. Scheffer. The thing
was to be managed very quietly, and
was not to be sprung until the con-
vention assembled, when "Bill' En-
win and others would put it before
the gathering. Before the opposi-
tion realized the length and depth
and width and height OF the scheme,
Mr.. Scheffer's nomination would be
made. This would be one of those
spontaneous" nominations that he
couldn't decline, etc., etc.
President Halls account of the
meeting differs materially from this,
but when Globe reporter mentioned
the fact that such a conference had
been held, he at once acknowledged
that he had been present, but affirm
ed that it was no conference"
Now, alliance members, this article
is merely to show you what the
GREAT WEST is warning against
and we solemnly aver that this
kind of political fighting is going on
continually in this city. Not a week
passes but these secret conferences
and bargains are going on!
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THE BOYCOTT AGAIN.
Still Another Case on Hand.
"sMITH, LIGHTLY, HELLMAN CO., WATERLOO, low


It that W NJ Hoyt Co., OF Chicago the only firm
following
Worth County Cooperative Association Northwoo where
recently addressed the alliances
NoRrHwooD Iowa, 3Oth 1890
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
the WEST "The boycott
cared We have had of the The following
which received from Smith, Lcht& Hman
that would be
sale grocery house to supply with any more goods'
The above letter written O. Dickinson reliable gentleman
We would like know what the alliances going do about the
matter the boycott One let things live hereafter
kicked scued about the football Another
reaa Retaliation crushing the this
would who dealt in W. Hoys Smith
Hmans goods remorseessy refuse trade nke
that sold them those firms would perish
millions
millions.
this might action the special meeting
the way have heard from another
Lake Countywh the farmers their backs up
travelling told that pound Of butter could be
That farmer would sell there and that the
quiet yard and the citizens leaving 1t
Minnesota farmer don't
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11

Monday afternoon there was con-
ference at the Commercial National
Bank. John Lathrop and Hall were
there. and R. J. Hall, T. C. Hodgson
and four other men who were un-
known to us entered, but we discover
from note in the daily papers that
the editor of the Volkszeitung was one
of them. What took place is of course
unknown. But we have it from a la
Dor man that it was called confer
ence to prepare to put up Albert Schef-
fer as a candidate for Governor by
the Alliance. Mr.. Hall denies this, but
Mr.. Halls relations to Mr.. Merriam
would not permit Of anything else
than a denial!
In the afternoon, at a later hour,
there was a stir about the bank, and
an anxiety as to what the Labor
Confederation, then organizing,
would do. Little groups of conferees
gathered in three or four different
rooms. Mr.. Lathrop was not at the
afternoon labor conference until
about 5 o'clock. The labor men were
not successfully worked on the Schef-
fer plan. They maintained their in
dependence. During the evening,
from 8 to 10 the constants calls of
T. c. Hodgson (who was not in the
labor meeting) upon R. J. Hall, (who
was), attracted attention. After
1920 p. m. three or four gathered at
the. Clarendon. Mr.. Hodgson came
up and took Hall and Lathrop off to
hold another consultation with Mr..
Scheffer. Mr.. Furlong did not go, at
that time at least, as Mr.. II. V.
Poore was with him, and 81. V. Poore
is not a political peddler. But as
soon as Mr.. Poore was out Of sight
Mr.. Furlong struck ont for the rem
devious.
An effort was made to ascertain re-
suits. Our success was extremely
limited, but at one o clock in the morn
ing it was found that the Globe re-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11

Our readers must not think we urge
a union with the Prohibition ticket.
We presented the matter in favor
able light-that is all. In fact, the
Prohibition Party did not ask us to
unite, or even take the usual steps
to secure such union. They held
their convention first, and a confer
ence of committees might have been
asked for. Personally we feel kindly
towards all their candidates-but
somehow there seems to be no avenue
towards conjunction.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11

The great and mighty Corbin,
President of the Reading Railway,
and the head OF the great coal COM
bines-and the bone and marrow OF
labor oppression in Pennsylvania,
has been compelled to resign. His
hotel at Coney Island has also failed.
We did not get this from the daily
papers-but from the New York
financial journals.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
GOT HIS WORK IN.
The Scheme Unfolds itself at Full
Length.
The Great Vests Course Justified
by Astounding Events.

Monday there was to be a mighty
cataclysm in Minnesota politics.
The profound and invisible elements
of the great double-act, goodman
m-we-go-a-twine-fshing drama
in which the conferences are at the
state house, but the child is born at
Scheffer's bank, eliminated Monday.
The GREAT WEST was on deck. A
member of our staff who doesn't put
his name on the door-plate, wrote a
note Sunday stating:
keep your eyes on the Clarendon,
because must be at Minneapolis un-
til evening. If there is conference
at Scheffer's Bank keep it in view.
They will not stand by Merriam now
If Scheffer will come down to them.
l don't believe they will give up the
Knute Nelson declining scheme unless
-- objects to it on account of a
bare possibility of Knute's coming
before the republican convention. l.
[Irwin] is not in this last move.
Merriam is hot over things1 am told,
but can t rely any more on ---.
He has already given evidence that
he is in the swim. and probably will
try to fool With me. The game will
be Scheffer's unless. you break it up
and get a solid and straight two
thirds vote. of men who will fight
against both sides. Merriam and
Scheffer.] Perhaps the daily papers
will expose the whole thing, and OF
course get it upside down"
It is unnecessary to say that the
man who writes this. is reporter
who has been there before-not q
farmer, nor an alliance man, but a
straight out and out employe and
"pencil shower"
The GREAT WEST took the cue.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11

Just as we go to press our atten-
tion is called to an official communi-
cation signed by R. ]. Hall as presi-
dent, and John Lathrop, as secreta-
ry, of the State Farmers Alliance,
published in little one-horse st.
Paul evening daily-a paper owned
by Albert Scheffer and run by Todd,
one OF the most consummate gang
politicians in the northwest.
1t is an invitation issued by these
two men to the labor organizations,
some $50 in number, to send dele
gates to the meeting OF the State Al
Eance and sscommunicate their views"
on independent political action! VI
course neither the entire Executive
Committee nor the State Alliance it.
self can extend such an invitation!
This is special meeting, and the Al
lance still has a constitution!
This looks like last resort to ov-
ercOme the farmers movement. Mr..
Hall and Mr. Lathrop have been in
consultation with labor leaders here
for days. We also have talked with
them. They are opposed to indepen-
dent action. But ten thousand real
laborers will vote the new ticket.
In the recent Federation" of Labor
organized with the aid of Hall. Fur
long and Lathrop the Alliance is al
lowed no representation whatever!
We have no word as yet in refer
: ence to railroad rates to the State
Meeting-a hundred inquiries have
been made by letter.
We have carefully examined the re-
ports of eighteen railroads and rail-
road systems from May Is to July
1st, and every one of them shows a
great increase in receipts and net
profits.
The Northwestern Railroader, a
paper which calls us the Fools
Friend" whereas we are no friend at
all to such cooperative wind-plows,
publishes entire several of our arti-
cles. It is the first time many OF his
readers have ever heard the truth
and even the editor, the Harry Rob-
inson OF fame, does not seem to re-
cognize it. Keep on Harry, and you
will be able to learn something yet.
You do not seem to get on to our
late Kansas Report. Minnesota will
come next.
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The loo. Half-and.Ha1f.

There is not another pound OF the
ten cent standard twine to be had.
1t was secured through Montgomery,
Ward & Co., who thought they had
enough to last till July 10Th. 1t was
all gone two weeks before that.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
Mortgage Frauds.

Read the letter in another column
from a man who caught the enumera-
tor in the very act of perpetrating
the mortgage census although
himself an honest man. How's your
pulse, Mr.. Farmer?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
The Boycott!!

Get ready, gentle reader, for anoth-
er blast next week-a correspondence
from our own state which will make
you squirm! Get ready this time
for trouble right at home-in our
own alliance. 1t is going to be Min
neap0lis VS.. Farmers much sooner
than anticipated.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
The Federal Election Law

The Federal Election Law
Is now soon to be statute of the
government. On one side it appeals
to justice, and especially to Northern
prejudice. On the other. it is the
cloud, much larger than a mans
hand, which looms up in the national
horizon. No destructive laws, threat
ening to overturn a peoples liber-
ties, were ever known to violate at
once all the sanctities of history. All
laws which form the substrat of
tyranny have an original and prom
inent appeal to human interests, on
their face. As surely as there is a
future for America, so surely have
the foundations of destructive power
been laid in this wonderful law. And
yet we say it with supreme regret.
We would gladly believe that it was
otherwise.
The law surrounds the polls, on all
occasions when national officers. con-
gressmen, for instance, are to be
elected, with a Gordon OF federal Off
cials. Though not soldiers, they
have soldiers powers clothed with
the higher functions of civil courts.
These men are Judge and jury in by
far too large sense Not that the
law itself, today, overthrows republi-
can forms, but the slightest aggrava-
tion of it's powers will put the nation
at the mercy of dominant party!
1t is ostensibly to secure ballot re-
form in the south.
The republican party made ter
rible failure of it's reconstruction
after the war. For twenty years and
more, it had supreme control of all
reconstruction matters. 1t had the
force of arms and the prestige of VIC
tory-and it most miserably failed.
We utter this in grief, for during all
those years the writer was republi-
can. But it takes time to view his
tory with justice. During all these
25 years there has never been an
honest election, or a just apprecia-
tion of the situation, in the south.
Reconstruction was a miserable fail
ure.
The story is too long. 1t involves
the deeds of the army of ras-
calls whom the party sent down there
because Of party spoils, and political
corruption. 1t involves, during all
those years, the mastery of fraud,
and carnival of civil vice.
Now, to close a mighty ulcer, for
which the old party is wholly respon-
sible, a biting, burning plaster is ap-
plied-in which is every element of pro-
gressive aggression and surely-de-
veloping tyranny. 1t is a critical
station in history. At the rumble of
unseen chariot wheels the heart
ceases to beat-so before the opening
portal of an unseen evil, we feel what
we do not sea- danger to human
ity, threatening the near future,-re-
volution, war, destruction.
1t is not prophetic vision. 1t is
a revelation from the records-bold,
Interchangeable, distinct-written in
the fervid glow of the battlefield. on
pages red with blood.
1t is a dangerous statute, with all it's
apparent necessities and advantages
"a heritage of evil destiny for the
generation unborn.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11

Father, what is pup-politi-
cian?"
"My son, pup politician is a man
who wags when his party whistles" "
What, does he wag for?"
"For money, usually"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
CRUSHING STATEMENT
AS to the Census Mortgage Frauds.
An Open Letter to Superintendent Porter and De-
1nand for the Statements.

An Upen LeIIeT 10 superintendent fOIteI anu De-
mand for the Statements.
A Campaign Brand Blazing at Both Ends"
Mortgage supendous fraud
cumulatng this Office and call for The agencies o. supend
caps using schemes and outrageous methods
control of the This
country three billion dollars The
port will make it about onehalf OF one billion
investigated how the work being done
Two different sections stand ready testify that the
having that the living the farm owned las mort
gagor,) asked him the straight question
"Is your farm morgaged"
is'' the
No more questions departing
the farmer asked,
"Dont you want know the mortgage for?"
No business merely to ascertain whether your farm is
mortgaged or not-that is ALL
failure OF nonesdents
onefouh the most
western states, are nonresident investments in land.
damg testimony have received is
contained in the following letter:
CLARKsv111E Iowa, June oath, 1890.
ntmaton the t GarAr ys fraud
Well he along aborng
and t1 o % d
W what about the mortgage part OF this buns
s S do 9S live % Y srT The
land classed farm Although % the
family no % fe %
Well thn' suggest mortgaged unless the
only controls besides
h sesd a ss e 9y e
Then the three mortgages these two farms will never become
No never he replied You see have no place for them in my
Then we 90 in for his opinion and get it too
think about the reliability Of the
there will truth in it whatever :,+ We cannot possibly get
and he said he believed it. although he was
stGusion o1sr
% back
his sn w s' @ the It
Washington to know about those We wanted Porter ana
$ $
t eeed S have Examined
much than half Of the farm mortgages will be counted
h wnsrn Go in Dskqtss and Mnnss9
s1ty 0cs god afs hsp oss us a %mn
letter Importance in the nation the
present omitted But the public that the
same will be given at any time called for
kindly this office the private public
x ~ % BY p lie
by the documents We haye secured
nds Ss % a nS of a e
executive related to the foreign department and the
might the examination documents pertand
solely & % es o pe but at
service for commentator or criticism ,,;. o
designing
action deem best
publish which documents furnshed & bear relation
very Truly YOURS Pubs GREAT GREAT VEST
75S Washaba St.. Paul, MINI.
To the append article from St. Louis journal called
Freedom, which is lying our exchange table,
Single Tax League adopted resou
Census to the
Indebtedness OF the
fearing result of such showing refused
tain the Single Tax sent petitions all
calling
that the gather @ the required orma
members Congress became frightened
likely favoaby
tion attempted sque the proceedings by declaring that the
this
trick failed alarmed the decided language which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13

this purpose. The wheat. which was
tramped out by the horses and burros lust
after harvest, is now receiving final win
moving by being tossed up in the breeze
with wooden paddle preparatory to be-
ing sacked up for the MILL
The weather of that portion of New
Mexico south Of the Glorietta mountains
begins to be almost perfect at this season
of the year and, with the exception of an
occasional ''blustery spell, may be expect
ed to continue so through the winter. The
season which is known in the north as
''wlnter" Is hardly worthy of the name in
this country. In the Rio Grande Valley
the whole season through the weather
more nearly resembles that of Indian
summer" than of winter in the east.
WITH the exception of stormy day now
and then (blizzard from the north) there
will be no time between this and spring
when health man may not sit down on
the sunny side IS the house at all hours
and read his Newspaper Ill comfort. The
natives do not use any fuel for heating
purposes as rule 1t is warm enough in
the sun during the day. and when night
come 1t Is time to sleep. The mild dry
all Of this region will make it great
winter resort in time for those affected
With lung diseases. The Rio Grand
Valley at Albuquerque is 5000 feet above
the sea level, and the climate at this alti-
tude has proven of lasting benefit to many
businessmen who come here as invalids.