The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

OCdUeS cannon Wdke rhUef, Out ClaG C.
cial review. If the right to make ra
once. The final power must exist sol
in the Legislature. Now it is transf,
Henry Ward Beecher's Successor At
tacks the Wage System.
CHICAGO, March 25.-Dr Lyman
Abbott, the successor of Henry Ward
Beecher in Plymouth church, Brook
Ign, made a notable address to a
|good-sized audience at Central Music
hall tonight. DR.. Abbott squarely
attacked the existing wage system.
The audience wildly applauded time
and again. cit is system full of in
herent evils" said he, "a system that
denies the laborer either q chance of
profits or a chance of work. l don't
know how you live in Chicago, but in
New York there are many who are
denied even these three God-free gifts
pure air, clear sunshine, fresh water
and as for the ownership of the
land, why that is a dream to them
unthought of. The wage system is a
system that diffuses poverty, makes
a coffin OF the cradle and a bier of
the bed. 1t is time for US to. learn no
longer how to make wealth, but how
to distribute it. We have developed
in our midst a plutocracy, and the
worst possible government on earth.
Let it not go down to our shame
that we do not know or care to
know that such facts exist and need
reforming" The doctor closed with
an eloquent appeal for the universal
brotherhood OF man-for an indus
trial government, wealth for the peo-
pie, OF the people, by the people.
Dawson Sentinel:
What will Albert Scheffer do now
with his farmer officers of the recon-
structed Hekla insurance company?
Their connection with the Alliance
as high privates in the rear ranks
will not be of much commercial val
ue to the Hekla, and the presump-
ton is that they were not chosen for
their business sagacity alone. This
is another striking illustration OF
how ''the best laid plans OF mice and
men gang aft aglee."
Looking Backward"
Never since the hot DAYS of ''Uncle
Toms Cabin has the world read
book so universally as Edward Bel
lamy's work. Looking Backward"
Not only have people read the book,
but they have organized into politi-
cal associations on the strength OF
it. Every farmer in America ought
to read this wonderful book. 1t is
really a story SO woven into the
matter as to be as interesting as a
novel. But it is not the story that
has produced the wonderful excite
ment. It is the politics in the book
the exposition Of the New Political
Economy to which we are being driv-
en- by the outrages of the plutocrats.
1t is said that there will not be a
man in the United States five years
hence, OF average intelligence, who
has not read this remarkable work
There are now hundreds of clubs
("Nationalist Clubs'') organized for
the sole purpose OF teaching the
views of the work and pushing the
reading thereof. 1t will be a splen-
did work to read in the alliances.
Four such clubs are organized in
St. Paul and in Minneapolis. The
membership is composed of the best
educated and most cultivated citi-
zens Of the cities. Every principle of
the Nationalists is but a re-echo OF
the Alliance platforms carried into
scientific organization.
Farmers, will you read this book?
Let us appeal to all, whether mem
bers Of alliances or not. Buy the
book, men and women, and loan it
to your non-alliance neighbor. You
have our word forit, gentlemen, that
no book ever published in the world,
next to the Scriptures, has so many
readers. today-435,OOO copies are
sold already.
The GREAT WEST will send the
regular paper bound edition for Soc,
the publishers price. This leaves us,
after wrapping, paying postage, ETC.,
and correspondence-together with
our freights, a very slight margin.
The matter of call for Mass
Meeting of Alliance farmers at Spirit
Lake, Iowa, was directed to be pub
lished in the Iowa Homestead and
the GREAT WEST. The meeting will
be held April 2Sth. Minutes OF meet
ing on the 20 ult., next week.