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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

Before anyone denies our state
ment OF the enormous profits Of east
ern financial institutions they better
glance at the business Of the Farm
ers' Loan & Trust Co., of Philadel-
phia. In 1880 the percentage OF
profits to capital was 95 per cent. In
1890 it was 375 per cent! 1t pays a
dividend of twenty per cent only, the
balance OF profit being retained for
"surplus ''-that is, for reloaning pur-
poses, to still further increase prof
it's.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

During the post-election days the
Daily News acted like a bowling
idiot! There never was, in North
America, the equal of that democratic
infamy for lying, assumption and
d-blooded desertiOn of the alliance.
On the 10th it's issue was one COM
r'ete blazon of lies for Wilson and de-
1focracy-not a word OF Owen or the
Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The "Trust Companies of New
York City, for the past ten year, :.
have made an average profit OF 157
per cent on their capital, besides the
dividends paid, some dividends run
ming as high as 80 per cent last year.
We get this by adding up the
amounts of the sixteen institutions
as given in New York Reports.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
Newark Plaindealer:


A few years since congress placed
quinine and the materials of which
it is made on the free list. At that
time quinine was worth from So. so
to 800 an ounce. Since then the
price has declined to 25 to so cents
an ounce. Quinine is used by the
poor, and putting it on the free list
was one of the few wise acts. Sena-
tor Quay moved to strike out of the
free list that clause which admitted
quinine. Moody supported it. Now
how is that for that honest Judge,
the God of republicans of Dakota
A heavy duty on quinine for the
poor. He and Quay must have been
working for a Doodle. or maybe they
wanted to give Pettigrew a chance to
manufacture the stuff and dizzy to
follow.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14


Northwestern Railroader. We pub
fish the extract to show how a pluto
cratic organ can poison the minds of
the railroad men. The three billion
dollars of unproductive stock isstock
which represents no investment,
probably in every instance, and posi-
lively in nearly every instance. The
"bonds" are secured as any other
mortgage is secured, and the use of
the word bonds is quite cunning
pecially as he puts the bonds after
ward at less than one-fourth the
amount. Nor does he mention what
proportion of these bonds are issues
on small roads wrecked and then
combined with trunk lines! Nor what
proportion of them were issued as
the $780, income certificates at less
than 15c. on the dollar, waiting for
"preferred paper" to bloat up and
"bust." His population statistics
are bosh-he probably put in the
bonds to get population! An honest
citizen who would invest in railroad
stock is fool or knave of the low
est order of intelligence. They are
purely speculative bought for the rise
and fall in value:
I'm The year of 1889 there were
rather more than So 800, 900, 900 of
stock and bonds OF American Rail-
roads which received no returns in in
terest or dividend of this amount,
100000 were bonds and the
rest stock. 1t is not easy to grasp
the significance of such figures as
these. The total number OF holders
of the Railroad securities of the coun-
ty were about one million. The in
Productive stock and debt was about
SO per cent OF the whole amount of
stock and debt on all lines in the
country and was presumably therefor
held by about 300, 900 different peo-
pie, q very large portion OF these
800, 900 had virtually of their savings
invested in these necessities and are
looking to the returns upon that in
vestment for an income. On the av-
erage of the population to the heads
of families, those 100000 property
holders represent about 9OO, 900 per-
sons. Under the condition of Rail
road earnings existing in the year OF
1889, there were therefore about
100000 people-or just about three
time the entire population of the
cities of St, Paul and Minneapolis
whose invested capital was absolute
| " prOfitless to them"
Now, Harry, truly, the granger's
ears are no longer than yours!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

Wheat is now getting down to the
necessities of the small profits for the
great elevator profits-the poor fel-
lows who only make from 40 to SO
per cent profit on their investments
every year! The price was kept up
pretty we'll during campaign times y
of course.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

We regret that our little Saltwater
visit-and the time consumed therein
has prevented more complete editor
ial work this week. The total rail-
way bondage OF Otter Tail County
was being tabulated-but it must
now lie over.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

A subscriber, at Concord, Mimi,
now. wants his address changed from
where the paper now goes. But he
forgets to say from where! Our mail
ing clerks would have to look over
10000 names on printed lists and
names to find the name Please write
another card.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
SOUTH DAKOTA.

The returns indicate the defeat of
Mr.. Loucks by I, 900 majority for the
republican candidate. In regard to
these matters we have an opinion
That if the farmers were acute, sacri-
fcing politicians, and watched all the
returns-the majorities would have
been the other way!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The only reason the Scheffer en-
ployes fling Merriam Organ" at G.
W. is because we would not put our
lips to putlid old-party ulcer! If
there ever was an iniquity on this
earth it was the betrayal of the CALI
ance Party" into the hands OF the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

At the rate of increase of the prof
it's and surplus OF the financial insti-
buttons OF the eastern states, the past
ten years, in ten years more they will
represent property right OF 40 bill
lions. Their capital (original and
"surplus") more than doubles every
year NOW
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

1t will amuse some men who have
bawled about the GREAT WEST s'sell-
ing out" to know that a large por-
ton of the documents to be publish
ed bv us next month were offered for
publication to certain other men-
and that they were not wanted!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The working men of Belgium are
getting their eyes open, and in re-
cent address to the King they made
some very significant statements.
They demanded universal suffrage
and declared ''if we are not voters we
will not be soldiers That is the
sentiment to bring royalty to time
Trades journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
Returns.

We have received a great many re-
turns from counties, kindly sent us
by our friends; but as it is ten days
since election it seems expedient not
to publish extended county and
township reports. That sent by L..
O. Tombler, Town Clerk. was es-
pecially complete, and official.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

slid through the Senate as if oiled.
1t is called 8 land forfeiture bill, to
cheat the country people. It hardly
affects any road but the Northern
Pacific and is land forfeiture bill in
the sense that it makes the United
States forfeit to corporation, land
enough to make a State about the
size Of Iowa.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

arn't we? But it is mighty poor
taste to be proud Of it. Can't you
see why they are poor over there?
The plutocracy are q trifle older but
not much smarter'n we is.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The Park Region Pioneer, edited by
Mrs. Rathbun, at Pelican Lake, Otter
Tail Co., is now freed from it's mort
gage. and we know that the editor
feels as if new inspiration had been
horn.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

Letters from all over the state are
pouring in, rejoicing at the great
vote cast-although regretting the
defeat of the ticket. Every one rec
ognizes that the Alliance is now a
nower-and has come to stay.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
fOrnatOry

1t is not exactly fair thing in our
laws that person can be jerked up
before court miles away ON a war
rant, without time even to consult a
lawyer or friends, on an unknown
charge; and then be compelled to
pay the cost of witness Transports
ton and the securing OF witnesses,
or be convicted by default thereof.
This was not our case, for the Of
ficers were gentlemanly and consider
ate to the last, degree. Not only
were we permitted to spend the fol-
lowing day in Nininger, and Sunday
evening consulting with an Attorney
of Minneapolis, but DR.. Frain being
ill, was not even informed OF the mat
ter. In fact, at Saltwater, the court
was most courteous; we confessed
publication, etc., paid the fine, and
spent pleasant hour with the city
officials unrealizing that there was
any shadow in the nei ghborhood.
Even Johns benign face was absent.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The Trust Companies of New York
City, during the past year, have
made 366 per cent by ''surplus and
undivided profts-which is addi-
tiOnal to dividends.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
Twelve Whys.

/. Why has labor been depreciat-
ing for the last twenty years?
2. Why has the premium on bonds
gone up and up, until they are 30
per cent above par?
3. Why has the purchasing pow
er of money increased?
4. Why has your ability to pay
mortgages and debts decreased?
5. Why has the great bulk of
wealth in our country been concen-
trated in the hands of the few?
6. Why is our country filed with
paupers, while millionaires own the
wealth?
Z. Why has the average yield of
farm land shrunk from SIS per acre,
as it was eight years ago, to $6.75.
s. Why does it pay better for
monied men to speculate with their
means than it does to invest in hon
orable, Industrious enterprises?
9. Why is it that twenty-five
years ago the farmers owned one
half of the entire wealth of the coun-
try, while today they own less than
20 per cent?
10. Why. have 1000 acre farms
increased 800 per cent during the
last twenty-five years?
II. Why have the bondholders
been given special privileges, not
granted to bayonet holders?
IL. Why is it the drones, the
money changers, the board of trade
gamblers, live in afiuence, dress in
broadcloth and gloat over their
wealth, while the honest, Industrious
toilers dress in rags and are the
paupers OF the country?
We say the answer to these twelve
questions is class legislation and
contraction OF the currency. We de-
fy any old party machine to success
fully contradict it.-Newton (Ia.)
Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

vote for the deed. Mrs. Leslie may
breathe easily, for this country is now
teaching Europe the foreigner comes
over here to be educated!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
ST. PAUL, MIMI, NOV. IA, 1890.

A large part of our correspondence
is "laid over" having been written
before election. Our friends will for-
give us!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

The worst enemy that the Ameri-
can people have today threatening
their peace and prosperity is the
American congress at Washington.
Wanting brains, wanting patriotism,
wanting integrity, a majority OF the
members OF the lower house, obedient
to the demands of their masters, the
bankers of Wall street, New York,
and the executives of the huge trusts
that hold our county in thrall, are
enacting wicked force with no mo-
tive but self-aggrandizement, and
blind to the evils they are bringing
upon the nation.-Industrial Ameri-
can.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

Will some of the bowling dema-
gogues please inform us why the
government should not loan money
to the farmer at 2 per cent year as
to the banker at l per cent. Be hon.
est gentlemen, and explain the why
fOres.-UnknOwn Exchange.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
The Suffering Poor.

Mr.. Jay Gould manages to supply
his wants with an income of$7, $50 a
day. VIM. Astor Revels in the prince
ly income of 1913, sos for each day in
the year. John D. Rockefeller man
ages to exc out an existence on his
income of $18,715 a day. Cornelius
Vanderbilt keeps the wolf from his
door with the $4,000 he receives
each day of his life, yet these men
would rather die than raise a labor
er's wages two bits a day.-Labor
Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
The Silver Bill.

The most damnable piece of brazen
impudence and insult to an intelli-
gent American people (if there is such
a people, is the clause in the silver
bill stating that it is the policy of
this government to keep silver on a
parity with gold. This Infamous lie
follows the sections which stop it's
coinage after July LIST demonetizes it
by this clause, "the certificates shall
be legal tender, except where other
wise expressly stipulated in the con-
tract Could anything better show
the utter contempt which our con-
gressmen entertain for the American
voters intelligence? Demonetize it
and then assert that it is the policy
of the government wall street) to
keep it on an equality with gold.
The very least punishment every con-
gresham who voted for this imam
GUS bill should receive would be de-
feat at the polls.-Ex.
The Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tun-
mel Company now driving a five mile
tunnel for railway use and mining
purposes as well, straight through
the Rocky Mountains, 5000 feet be-
low their snow-capped crests, sixty
miles due west from Denver, is really
making a success of the great work
to the satisfaction of more than four
thousand men and women already
interested as share owners in this CO.
operation Of labor and capital to un-
earth immense wealth from the gold
and silver mines owned by the COM
pany. The tunnel is already in 5000
feet on the east side, and 1, 400 feet
on the west side, and at the depth of
/ 800 feet below the surface in the
east end they are bringing ore out
from an eight foot wide vein that
yields 1854 per ton of gold and sill
yer, and from another vein five feet
wide, silver and lead ore worth near
~ $2OOper ton. When completed for
railway use-as it will bet will be
the greatest and most profitable hon
est enterprise in this country. Those
caring to know particulars will re-
ceive a large descriptive pamphlet by
enclosing cent stamp to MARK NJ
PoMERoY, President, No. 234 Broad
way, New York City.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14
New York Herald:
OF Course We Were RIGHT.

New York Herald:
OF Course We Were Right.
The great bulk of the people are
with us in our uncompromising de-
Tense of the laboring classes right
to organize for mutual protection
and benefit.
We knew it would be. SO, for the
bulk of the people have a very de-
cided love of fair play.
We told the New York Central that
it had blundered in attempting to
crush the Knights because a few fools
had brought temporary discredit on
the order. We were right in our
Judgment, because we looked at the
naked facts without prejudice or
bias.
This time it is in trouble. The con-
ductOrs, firemen, switchmen and en-
gineers declare that ten hours is
long enough to constitute a DAVIS
work and that for extra time they
ought to receive extra pay. That
seems to be reasonable.
Now, suppose half dozen wild cat
rogues among the strikers should
get drunk and resort to acts of vio-
lence, what ought the Erie to do?
Arrest the offenders? Most assured
ly. Send them to prison for as long
a term as the law allows? Most as
suredly again.
But would it be wise to follow the
president of the Central and declare
that no engineer, or switchman, or
conductor shall be employed unless
he Immediately resigns his member
ship in his organization? Not by a
jugful. That would be the excess of
folly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

VO0 1hOoO COuA CCOuO3 VIC COulCS0cu
publication, etc., paid the fine, and
spent a pleasant hour with the city
officials unrealizing that there was
any shadow in the neighborhood.
Even Johns benign face was absent.
The strongest New York financial
journal, the 'Financier" is out with
a strong article exposing the means
employed by railroad magnates to
control roads, without any invest
ment of their own. The article is full
of astonishing facts, indicating the
awful looseness with which the public
relations of such corporations are
conducted! 1t seems that many
roads are keptfrom paying dividends
on stock, while paying interest on en-
ormous blocks, and paying the most
princely salaries-for the purpose OF
having a vast number OF stocks
change hands without Registering"
the change. Then the magnates buy
up proxy "rights'' to vote shares OF
stock for small sum. In this way
men have controlled railways who
did not own a share OF stock! This
is only one exposure OF the loseness
in regard to these matters. Stock
holders live in scattered sections OF
the country. Hundreds OF them, rep
resenting millions of stock, do not
know anything about the meetings
called for election of trustees never
hear OF them and never go. Insthis
way Jay Gould obtained possession
of his vast sy stem, and Jim Fisk, his
former partner, became railway
prince out OF nothing.
1t shows more clearly than ever
that the government should take the
railroads under control.
Well, the independent party has
tried it's hand under the manage
ment of the bankers, and the demo-
cratic party. It began leaving out
the great agencies Of Alliance organ
ization. 1t then put in a democratic
daily, the News, as it's official hybrid
organ. 1t secured democratic aid in
various ways, and combined on
many tickets with them. 1t began
the trade of abuse by declaring that
the GREAT WEST was owned by Mer-
Ram, because it would not combine
with Tom Wilson and E. G. PAIL,
President of the Millers' Association.
Its lies and abuse of the GREAT WEST
have been continuous and uninter-
upted. The policy has been tried.
The loyal vote of the alliances was
grand-but the great beating heart
OF the state could not respond. Are
not the farmers, now ready to try
new deal? Are they not ready to
hew close to the line? In what other
state have bankers and bankers en-
ployes, and old-time politicians, run
the campaign for the alliance?
Nowhere else.
Mr.. Erwin is a great lawyer, and a
brilliant orator. We believe him an
honest man, but in a campaign
against the rule of lawyers a lawyer
could not inspire the masses with
confidence. The bitterly democratic
Daily News could not inspire them
OF course the hostility OF a hundred
political minions in the State who
are members of the alliance, and Of
plutocrats in our midst, shook the
faith of some. But only for a mo.
ment. Now, let us go on for 1892
with a determination to uplift the
cause out of the control of traitors!
Whoop,
The Mark Lane Express comes tc
us this week with canadian grade
in Liverpool, ex-granary, marked
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

EVERETT w. FISH, EDITOR.
Deputy State Lecturer Minnesota Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-14

JL STACK & CO., ADVERTISING ACTS
a. German-American Bank Building. st. Paul.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-02-16
BBZENAH RELEASED.
No Law in Texas Under Which He Gan
BE Indic.ed

No Law in Texas Under Which He Gan
BE indicted.
ST. LOUIS, February 15.-A special to
the Post Dispatch says that Bezenah, the
lightweight pugilist, who killed Tom
James in a srarripg match, night before
last, at Dallas. Tex has been DISCHARGED
on the ground that there is no law under
which to indict man for killing another
in a licensed exhibition.
Mrs. Kilrain this morning received a.
Baltimore a telegram from Dallas, Tex,
stating that Jake Kilrsin had been dis
charged from custody, he having been held
in conn ,tion with the killing, Thursday
night, of Tom James, of that city, In a
sparriug bout with Bezenah, OF the Mul'
doom Kilrain Athletic troupe.
The following is the verdict Of Coroner
in the Bezinah-Js James inquest yesterday.
After viewing the dead body OF Thomas
James and after hearing the testimony OF
the witnesses. 1 find that said James
came to his death in boxing or
suarrinQ contest with Louis Bszi-
nah in the Dallas Opera House
on the night of February 13, 1890, the said
James had with said Bszipah boxed three
rounds of three minutes each, with one
minute interval between them. While
boxing, in the fourth round, said James
received blow from said Bszinsh, with a
soft glove on the neck, and fell. This
ended the contest. No one supposed
James to be more than stunned, but de-
spite every available effort by in
dlviduals and two physicians he remained
unconscious, and died about 11;3O during
the same night. l find further that no
undue advantage was taken, or unusual
blow in such contests struck; that the ex-
erciss in question Is licensed by State
law. The deceased solicited permission to
take part in this particular issue in the
programme for a prize Of $25, and was
granted the privilege.
The evidence of the doctors show thai
that be died from combination of causes,
such as great excitement and exertior
pending the contest, and finally by q
glsncing blow on the neck.
Benzinah was greatly pleased with the
verdict. He was set at liberty and TINS
evening, accompanied by Clesry and Wolf
departed for New Orleans to join the COM
bination at that place.