The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
The Crookston Journal comes to

us this week Loaded With alliance
matter. Bro. Cooke is a working
force in the north part of this state.
He gives the following description of
the recent wheat controversy with
Mr.. Pillsbury. It is true in general,
only the millionaire did not come
himself to our ofice-it was his as
sistant, Mr.. Osgood, very fine gen.
tleman whom it is pleasure even to
'argue" with; and of course there is
a little ford coloring to make it in
teresting:
eff there is a farmer in Polk Coun-
ty who does not know to what ex-
tent he is annually robbed, he should
at once subscribe for the GREAT
WEST and, if he don't find out
enough OF the injustices OF the sys-
tenn under which farmers are irving
to do business exposed in every issue.
then (if he is an intelligent man) he
may have our head for football.
For years our farmers have been
trying to solve the oleaginous soph-
istries of Mr. C. A Pillsbury, but in
vain. for what Mr.. Pillsbufy don't
know about the present system of
wheat buyers us little fellows need
not try to find out. He will SO COM
pletely mix the ordinary mortal that
when he says, "behold the moon is
made OF green cheese, and here are
the books and the figures to prove
it, 10, the o. IN. straightway swal-
lows the statement, hook, bob and
sinker.
The GREAT WEST had the audacity
to question that statement, so Mr..
P. says ''Hello, what manner of
Fish is this who dares to investigate
this matter and to question what l
say? Verify l will bait my hook for
this minnow and add him to nv
string of suckersv'
So he got him into his gilded car
riage and rode over to the office of
the GREAT WEST and invited the
editor to ride to Minneapolis and he
opened up the great books in child
like glee, showed all the wonderful
simplicity of ''the SYSTEM" showed
the wealth OF the city made by hon
est ~ toll, saying: "Lo, all of
these things will l share with thee if
thou wilt accept the 'green cheese"
racket and publish the same in thy
paper" But the fish would not, for
he was a whale and not thek that
is commonly taken with silverhook,
and he dashed the water so furiously
that friend Pillsbury was fain to try
some other racket. And he took to
writing long letters full of tender
sympathy for the ''poor farmer" and
the more he wrote into deeper water
did the whale take him until he had
not a peg left whereon to hang the
remnant OF the green cheese racket.
And 10, these things are a matter of
record in the GREAT WEST that every
farmer may read if he will send for
copies thereof. Every issue of the
GREAT WEST since it's first issue is
we'll worth the price for one year,
and if your friends find themselves
getting lonesome in this great war
fare, would advise them to subscribe
for that paper. We cannot expect
to get interested in a subject we
know nothing about, and the con-
slant changes of the situation, needs
the services of just such a faithful
mentor as is the GREAT West. Every
farmer should have it in his house,
but the next best thing is for some
member of the alliance to read from
it at each meeting. If this course
does not keep up the interest of
farmers, why they have all died pref
ty dead. that's all we can say"
Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the
Knights OF Labor Legislative COM
mittee addressed a terrific roast to
Repr. Mckinley on the silver legisla-
ton. Speaking OF the proposed use
of certificates OF deposit OF silver as a
basis for issue of national bank cur
rency, he says:
"Now, sir, l desire again to ask
you, on what grounds OF equity and
justice does your party caucus say
that these silver certificates shall be
legal tender fer the use of reserve for
national banks in that county, while
it is denied to the mortgage debtor
to meet his interest and principal to
these same banks?'
Sir, this bill creates money for the
bankers and notes for the farmers.
| insist that it is not notes these
farmers are in need Of; they are al
ready burdened down with notes. 1t
is money that they want with which
they may liquidate their indebted
ness to their bondsmen, and not
notes that the bondsmen may refuse
to take when rendered to him. I in
sist, sir, that if you, as a leader Of