The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

be formed in Freedom, an adjoin-
ing town, tomorrow. Your paper is
just the thing we need. FISH is a
good brain food. Keep, the farmers
on that diet until they can think,
act, and speak for themselves.
Serve it up hot. E. E. ABBOTT.
Polk County, MINI.
FROM THE IOWA VICE PRESIDENT.
MILFORD, Iowa. Jan. %, 80.
Ed. GREAT WEST:
/ am heart and hand in the work of
the farmers Alliance, and am no
less in sympathy with every farm
ers' organization, for close organic
alton and cooperation among farm
ers is the only successful way they
can hold their own, and down mon
opoly, for monopoly is nothing less
than organized capital backed by it's
stock holders, viz: party leaders,
who have made party support the
weapon in the farmers own hands for
the defense of their enemies. And all
these years that the farmer has been
waiting for the party he supported,
to ameliorate or better his condition,
these party leaders have been weav-
ing around them the web of monop-
oily and endeavoring to reduce to
abject poverty, the toiling masses,
that have placed them where they
could steal from the state and ma
tional treasures, the monies there
accumulated by unjust and dis
criminative taxation against the
farming classes; and SO far as asking
for investigation at the hands OF the
present congress, and courts; the Or
ganized work of these cooperative
and combined monopolies is made up
OF the very men we would ask to
investigate their own work. | say
let them have the party laurels al.
ready won. call a halt and organize
without delay in! self-defense; consult
together for your best interests, use
their own weapons against them in
organizing and cooperating, for in
this alone lies success. We need
not we must not stop to inquire
what church, what fraternity, or what
political party they belong to that
will come into our Alliance, our
grange or other farm organization,
but gather our hosts, form into line
keep step, present solid, bold front
to the enemy and make demands in
the name OF justice for the rights
that belong to us; that will give to
us, and not the corporate thieves,
the profits of our farms, and our la
bor-and none will dare deny. 1t
is conceded by all classes that if the
farmers were organized, and working
together, they would rule this coun-
try. Well my brother farmers, say
let us rule but not ruin, let us if pos
sible get control far enough to put
shoes and stockings on our own
children, reduce taxation, pay off the
farm mortgage with farm profits,
that when we die we may leave
our homes to our families and not
to the men that seek to rob us and
make slaves of our children. Truly
the farmers OF Iowa are awake to
their best interests, for the Alliance
work is being pushed with a deter
mined spirit, and demands are being
made by them for their rights even
while that old deceptive party organ
called the State Register is bearing
false testimony against alliance
work. But let it kick, it must be near
it's death, if there is one spark OF 10y
atty or self-respect left in the man
that reads it's columns and is a
farmer, for he will at once notify the
publisher that he must now take his
one hand out OF the farmers pocket
and the farmers will help him to take
the other hand out Of the public
treasury just as quick as possible. I
am heartily glad that we have the
GREAT WEST to help us it is SO out
spoken and plain, in it's statements
OF facts, and this is what we farmers
want. Let the work OF these monopa
oily thieves be shown up regardless Of
party ties. s. Nj. FAIRCHILD.