The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-14
81 90 YEAR IN ADVANCE. s.
Who Prints the Great West.

Who Prints the Great West.
The Pioneer Press never set type
nor printed sheet for the GREAT
WEST.
Among all the miserable, low-lived,
contemplate and infamy-brewed
assaults made ON the GREAT WEST
by the hired agents OF the unright-
eous gang who are robbing the
farmers Of this state, we have
reached the final concoction. They
are now stating that this paper is
printed by the Pioneer Press-or by
the Northwestern Newspaper Union,
with hint of some more dangerous
complications with "the enemy
Dhe editor of the Granite Falls
journal attended the late editorial
cenvention-at least it is supposed
that he did, from the following:
The visit OF the editors of the
State to the Pioneer Press rooms,
Thursday last, was untimely for DR..
Fish, the editor of the GREAT WEST,
which pretends to advocate the in
terests of the farmers. In a recent
issue he claimed he had a $4,000
plant, when the facts are he has no
plant at all, all his work being done
in the Pioneer Press Office. Ii he will
fully lied in this matter how are we
to believe anything else he may say?
The best thing the farmers can do is
ITO let the GREAT WEST alone.
To add to this a lot of the politi-
cal web-fOOts who are in the alliance
to down tor use it-men like the
Chief Deputy Grain Inspector for the
past three years-T. c. Hodgson-
have scattered the chaff Industrious
.ly. This has disturbed some of our
good friends, even the delegates, to
the extent of kilograms sent in to
delegates to see if it were true, like
the following:
BUFFALO LAKE, $500.
To A. ARMSTRONG;,
delegate TO SU1Ue Alliance.
st. Paul.
Ask DR.. Fish how it is about
the Northwestern Newspaper Union
claiming to do the printing and
presswork of the GREAT WEST?
FRANK WARNER.
Now for our riend's sake we will
state that the GREAT WEST rents the
20 it. front, ground floor, at 1853
Wabasha St., Dunlap Block, city Of
St. Paul, Minnesota, U. s. A., and
the second floor of 76O Wabasha.
The Printing Office owned by us is in
a room 2Ox6O feet, with basement
full length. 1t owns it's own plant
Of the value OF about 81, 500. 1t has
"a force OF eight attaches, without in
.cluding a "devil.' In common with
almost every printing office in the
large cities of the United States it
has it's press-work done on the large
presses of what is known as press
rooms for "trade-work." In Chica-
;go, there are such "press-houses' oc-
cupying an acre OF floorage, without
"a type in the building, but filed with
presses. And some run night and
day on trade work. In place of hir-
ing a pressman and investing $500
more in presses for use one day in
the week. all newspapers like our
own get their presswork of the
~.lnrade." Our business will compel
us to put in a press, however, very
s0s.n.
The Northwestern Newspaper Un-
lon, which occupies the Pioneer
Press Building, but is a separate
business and with separate presses,
does. our trade presswork-and does
the.same for two hundred other pa
pers.
The type material of the Office
does not make up the. total cost of a
newspaper, plant. Thessample copies
alone, which have been sent out the
past five months have cost us ST.
$50. Our 'ueporter work, getting
documents, facts, ETC., have footed
up full $500. Our other editorial ex-
penses have been large. Postage
makes a huge item. And it has. to
support it's large force.
When q man figures on running a
newspaper for the state or country
with simply plant and no other re-
sources, be is going to get left. The
GREAT WEST used up $1,125, other
than stock expenses, the first month.
There is no other way in this WOE
derful age to sustain a newspaper