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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-11
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-11

A gentleman living In Noble county, ohie, who
had been troubled with loss Of power and want OF
NY power is al right, my appetite is good and feel
good In general. afE 81
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
worth as follows

And for four years a steady drop in
price until even the Chicago price has
been as low as 66%c. for No. aspiring
But what of Live Stock during these
years?
The price has been for years at
from 81 to 7Ac.-and for the past
two years at from IL to Az. And yet
Yesterday the wife of the editor went
to the retail market OF St. Paul and
paid 15c. for beefsteak!
If, with such prices as farmers re-
ceived for nineteen out of the twenty
three years, this thrifty, careful, in
dustrious, provident, fortunate far
mer, with a fine family to relieve him
from hiring labor, could accumulate
less than s., 900, what of the future
under these crushing surroundings?
Five years ago we hired help for
$15 month on farm-what do
you have to pay now?
-Four years ago you paid $275
for a Irvine binder-you get one now
for $3.50. Why? Because the Oak
ota Alliance "busted" the trust.
Now, did this man make 1880?
Why no-he was given 100 acres OF
land, and that will take 81 800 out
of his "a, 500. Then we'll bet Smith s
$3.50 farm against a pigeon that the
boys in that ''fine family and the girls
in that "fine family paid wages
during ten years of solid scrubbing
and blowing, have made the old man
all the balance-and run him in debt !
Whoop'er up Smithy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
The Constellation, etc.

The Constitution, Bylaws, Decla-
ration of Principles, Proceedings OF
Exec. Com, etc., are now issued in a
32-page pamphlet, in English, ready
for distribution. Alliances wishing
them will please send us word-5O
copies weigh 2H lbs. So it will gen.
orally be cheaper to have them sent
by express. The office will express
packages OF so on order of Secretary
or President. Small alliances better
order 20 to 25 copies, and send ten
or twelve cents for postage.
The difficulty in getting the Ger
man, Swedish and Norwegian edi-
lions was unexpected, and has
caused great delays. 1t will be a
week or more yet before they are
ready for delivery
Orders may be sent in, however.
Do not send for more than is actual
ly needed, as there are but $500 in
each language. Secy Lathrop and
Pres't Hall have the English edition
also for distribution, and will have
the other editions.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
Some More Beerboh1n.

Beerbohm is the man who cables
the grain markets for the American
press. The granger gets his reports
in this way. The large dealers get
their own private quotations.
Beerbohm gives Liverpool wheat
Saturday May 1Oth,) at less than
before the late "rise.''
"Mark Lake Express" and the
DAILY Financial Times" quotes it at
Sd 12c. advance!
The market on English wheats is
quoted at 29s. Cd. to 3Os. Cd. per
or. OF 8 bushels-8SAc. to 9Oc. per
bushel-on actual returns
While Beerbohm quotes stagnation
for first week in May, Mark Lane Ex-
press quotes:
Foreign wheat during the past
week has been in noticeably i'm
proved request, and the activity of
business has stretched from big deal
ings in cargoes to a decidedly aug
mented sale OF lots and parcels of
from one to five hundred quarters.
The Continent has not been dearer,
but America quotes an important
rise by which the British Exchanges
have been much Influenced. The
Atlantic ports thus far have shipped
l ,461 900 qrs. of wheat to the United
Kingdom, against only 678, $50 qrs.
in 1889, but 2,273,OOO qrs. in
1878. California shipments have
been heavy; 2,347,OO qrs., against
2,274, 900 qrs., and 1 100000 qrs.
In the same period of the two previ-
Gus shipping campaigns"
And then in another page, we find
that while Beerbohm was quoting
California wheat at Sd. lower the Ex-
press was saying:
''The trade in cargoes on passage
and for shipment has been fairly
active, and an advance of Is. on
American wheat and maize may be
quoted, with Sd. improvement on
other sorts OF wheat and maize, and
Sd. advance on barley"
Mr.. Pillsbury seems to buy on
Beerbohm's figures and sell ON the
actual market
Great and useful is Beerbohm, and
the Associated Press makes a fine
ornament-for your mantlepiece!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
Read I'll Read Il! smithiana!

Read 1t Road It! Sm1tnaano!
A writer asks us for sample OF G.
L. Smiths nonsense. Well, though
we hate to give it space. here is a
sample from one of his long-winded
stretchers:
IA Martin county farmer said, in
St. Paul: ave are robbed right and
left; our crops are good; our soil
and climate are all right; the laws
are all wrong" Was he mistaken?
Let the reader Judge. Twenty-three
wears in America; came with nothing;
secured 100 acres free; bought 16O
more; has raised a fine family; has q
good house, 100 head OF cattle; 20
horses, besides sheep, pigs and chick
ems; sold 81 500 worth OF grain and
produce last year; will send his two
Oldest boys to college next winter.
But he will stay at home, contrasting
his hard earned thousands with Jay
Gould millions and swear that farm
ing dosen't pay
Now let us examine this thing.
Twenty-three years-that covers
some space. Counting in his ''fine
family this man must be worth
about "a, 5OO-ast the product of rare
thrift and good luck for % years!
And during that time wheat was
N.Y. >rt 4 q @ fo1loyuc.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

A former alliance man, or one who
signs communication as such, asks
us if E. H. Atwood, Secretary OF the
9Th Congressional District Alliance,
and who has sent out a call therefor,
is not the real estate and loan agent
OF st. Cloud-and is actually without
a farm?
We do not know how this is, but
Mr.. Atwood can reply in our columns
if he wishes. Also, if he really went
from Alliance to alliance to break up
the Farm & Labor Party" as &C
cused by this writer? This notice of
the matter is not written in hostile
spirit-but when called upon to pub
lish much more severe criticisms
from a 9Th District farmer, it is no
more than right that such straight
out-and-out accusations should be
attended to. Especially as the party
writing states that farmers like him
self left the alliance because of such a
condition of things!
And, by-the-way, another well
known gentleman, a 5th District Al
lance man, asks us by what kind of
reasoning the District Alliance calls
upon Erwin, a noted criminal LAWYER
OF the Twin Cities, to deliver their an
nual address land who it was that
extended the invitation?
We do not know. But even if
these things are not wholly right.
go to the meeting and make it as
successful as possible. In our own
Judgment the less that the alliance
has to do with others than farmers.
the better it will be.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
Dust in the Eyes.
HOkah Chief:

A1ohCNA OIlC1s
The democrat" is always parading
the statement that Liverpool fixes
the price of our wheat. Careful study
develops the fact that short crop
advances the price and a crop or two
above the average depresses the mar
ket Eliminate our surplus alto
gether and prices would rise at once.
Our present supply of wheat is suffi-
Gent for 100000 people and the
logical conclusion is that we raise
too much wheat. s'We cannot force
foreigners to buy our bread. Of the
average four bushels consumed by
each inhabitant of Europe, only half
a bushel comes from other continents
and nothing but war, famine, pesti-
lence, or change of crop distribu-
ton. can relieve the prevailing stag
nation and advance the price of
wheat"
1t is difficult to discover any con-
nection between our protective tariff
and the decline in the price OF wheat.
People who think Liverpool has
anything to do with the price of
American wheat simply do not keep
track of the markets. We have
stated the facts a dozen times-and
will have to forty times again. just
as good an illustration now as ever
wheat went up ten cents in America,
didn't it? Was it dragged up by
Liverpool? Not exactly-for Liver
pool, in the same Identical two weeks,
dropped four cents, according to the
cable reports.
The idea that we raise enough
wheat for Is, 100000 people!! Why
Mr.. Chief, we only raised 6h o. daily
last year for 65,OOO,OOO! Six and
one-half ounces!-and yet the con
sumption in years before run up to
ounces, and private soldiers ration
is 20 ounces daily!
The price of wheat is the gauge O
poverty. When times are good more
people get enough to eat-and the
well to do use more for fancy baking
and for entertaining. There arr
whole counties in this country where
q white biscuit has not been bakeC
for six months. There are three mil
lion tramps eating pickups. There
are five million basement DOOR"
The wheat price is made by gam
blers in the nine-story gambling
He'll on Jackson St., Chicago. The
stomachs of a short fed generation
are the dial plate which make TIL,
supply and demand point.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
Two Items of Business. :,

The ''Mark Lane Express" is un-
doubtedly the most influential agri-
cultural journal in the west-in a
commercial sense. In the current
number are two articles of great i'm
port.
The basis of the first is a letter
from a Kent farmer. Kent produces
the highest grade of English home
wheat Kent or Essex. 1t seems
that they are arousing to the miser-
able sucking-pig qualifications of
their politicians. We give the letter
entire, and warn our American pigs
that if they don't take warming and
retire 1--WE don't want "conversion''),
they will yet be dragged at their
horses tails with mouths full of
grass-a Ia French statesmen in
'9S:
WHO ARE THE TRMERs' FRIENDS?
S1R.-After reading your excellent
paper each week since Parliament
opened, also the daily papers, fail
to find any Acts about to be passed
by the present Government likely to
be of any real value to the poor
farmer. / have been a Conservative,
until now, all my life, but unless
something is done for the real, not
the bogus, benefit of farmers l vote
Liberal next election. The following
should be studied by my brother
farmers:
~. The conservatives cut out
every useful clause in the 1883 Agri-
cultural Holdings Act, brought in
and passed by the Liberals.
! (2) The Conservatives refuse now
to amend that useless Act.
81 The Hares and Rabbits Bill
is the best Act ever passed for the
farmer. 1t was passed by the Lib
erals-the Conservatives are now
tampering with it.
az. The Conservatives passed
that most unjust Act called the Ex-
traordinary 1.-THE Redemption Act,
whereby the man who grows no
hops or fruits pays for him who
does.
(5). The Conservatives are tinker
ing with the 1.-THE question.
l could add considerably to this
list, but will not trespass more on
your sp ace. A KENTIsH FARMER.
March 9th, 1890.
| The other article was an editorial
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
BOYD, Mimi, May 9Th, 1890.
N GpEAn WEcr,.


On May LIST, l shipped two cars of
wheat from here consigned to J. r.
Falls & Co. Minneapolis. On the
9Th | received a letter from said firm
that the cars had not arrived. Yes
terday the It'll, wired them, ask
ing if the cars had arrived. Today,
the 9Th, have received answer that
the cars have arrived and sold for
9OHc Now, Mr.. Editor, if those cars
had got to Minneapolis when they
ought to have been there, this wheat
would have sold for 93Ac. or 94c.;
but 1 have been told that private
cars were side tracked at Morton. to
give elevator men better chance to
rush their wheat on the market be-
fore it dropped. Now: if you can use
this letter or any part OF it you are
at liberty to do SO.
Our Alliance here is doing finely;
had rousing good meeting the 3rd.
Five new members joined.
A. J. NEwHALL.
P. S.-You will see from the above
that we lost about $50 on those two
cars by their not getting there in
time.
/. Yes sir-you lost $3O-and fortu-
nate indeed that you got out with
anything. The conduct OF the rail
roads in these matters is not only
contemplate, but it is alarming.
This is the third or fourth complaint
made, during the last two weeks, Of
this character. Your wheat was
probably sold at 93hc. all the same
and you know then it made no diff
ference to the broker at Minneapolis
how long the delay was-but it did
to you. We expect to be out in your
county on the 23d and oath, and
will give you pointers on this bust
ness The broker had a dead sure
thing on you when he knew the grain
was in transit, and sold on futures
to make if the market went up-to
turn it off on you if it went down
This is one of the beauties of a
Board of Trade which bushes for the
virtueless Bucket Shops.
But we won't have to wait long be-
fore the American slave will open up
the highway for better things.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Our friend Pillsbury stuck to it
that Exchange was worth but $3.50
to the pound sterling. He has never
acknowledged his error, when we
quoted it at $4.SS for the past sew
eral months. Our attention is called
to it by friend who found exchange
quoted at 81 80 both by the Express
Companies and the United States
government, at the Post Office.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

BY one of those unaccountable
freaks of a disordered pencil, we
wrote Mr.. Lightly's name as a man
who was not very "farmerous'' in
his occupation. That was grievous
blunder, for friend Lightly is gen
uine farmer, all wool and a yard
wide-that is, we wish he might ex-
pand and prosper to that extent.
If he will forgive us we will never,
never repeat the error.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Nothing exhibits the subseryiencv
OF a large portion of the country
press, to party" and to plutocracv
than their absolute silence over tho
crushing defeat of Mr.. Pilsburv in
the wheat discussion. Over half the
papers in the state published that
rash $4,000 challenge. But only
ten have published the crawfishino
when we proposed to take it nm
And yet, if Mr.. Pillsbury had known
that wheat was going to 90 up when
navigation opened, as he claimed
he could have continued the chal
lenge much more safely-for within q
few hours wheat went up ten cents
here and down five thereby the
daily cable quotations. Mr. pills.
bury. knows that the cable ouota-
tions are frauds. If he don't = ;s
time that he looked into his hus;ness
II the country press won't stand hv
the farmers what use have tho farm
ers Tor the country press.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

A little sentence in the great Eng
lish grain journal doesn't sound as
though Liverpool controlled the
grain market. 1t says:
America quotes an important
rise by which the British Exchanges
have been influenced" was said
in accounting for the rise in wheat in
Liverpool. At the same time Beer
bohm quoted a drop OF two or three
cents in cable reports!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

1t is only recently that the Ameri-
can people have discovered that the
silver was demonetized by fraud, to
compel people to take money as
loans from banks for exchange pur-
poses.
Of course, as soon as the new use
of demand for) $2OO,OOO,OOO Of
silver a year, and a half-billion in
circulation from previous coinage,
was removed, silver dropped in value
land we are now told that the silver
is not of full coin value!
There is not a fool in the world
who is SO profound a fool, as to
think that there is gold enough for
circulating coin. Any intelligent
man who says so is a falsifer OF evil
intent.
The submissiveness OF this school
on-every-hillside people is past find
ing out. Surely are we become a
soft-hearted and mellow-pated race.
The following, from the New York
Witness, shows how extremely ignor-
ant some Of our metropolitan edi-
tors are:
'"The simple truth of this whole
matter is that Government cannot in
any way augment artifcially the
supply OF currency without doing
mischief, and that if it could do so
there is no possible means by which
it could distribute the additional cur
rency on an equitable basis.''
If this editor would rub little
western hayseed over his Uranium he
would see how it could be arranged
on an equitable basis"
About one hundred million dollars
will be spent by this congress on pub
lie buildings. Over one hundred mil
lion on pensions. More than fifty
millions in the internal department,
rivers, harbors, etc. Probably an
other hundred millions on the navy
and the civil list.
All this money will be raised by
taxation. The government let's
banks issue fresh money on private or
corporate loans only-while it taxes
us to raise it's own funds
Suppose now the government letrup
on taxes and issued $25O,OOO,OOO a
year, shut ups some banks, and loosed
the leash on silver! Suppose the
governmet acted with an eye to the
poor!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
WASHINGTON, d. c., 5-7-1S9O.

WAsHINGTON, ID. c., 5-7-1S9O.
ED. GREAT VEST:
DEAR SIR AND Biol send YOU
copies OF our paper, Progressive
Farmer, some articles marked. Your
paper is a jewel.
We want to meet Bro. Loucks,
Donnelly and yourself. am coming
to South Dakota soon-would come
up into your state, but do not want
to do SO unless it is thought best by
you all. | would love dearly to meet
you. Fraternally yours,
l.. L. POLK.
AS soon as we ascertain at what
time Pres't Polk will be in So. Da-
kota we will extend to him q call to
meet alliance workers in this state.
Judging from the somewhat fam
boyant publication of several wheat
buyers on the Minneapolis Board re-
Gently, those gentlemen were ready
to back up the market with about
$4,000 that Minneapolis was al
ways, from one to two cents ahead
OF any wheat market in the north
west. Now we were not disposed to
question that statement as every
man is anxious to think well of his
home Institutions 1t was therefore
with considerable regret that the
northwest beheld the Chicago fell
lows rush wheat NO. 2 Spring tool
up to the dollar point-while Mime
apolis, alas, hung down it's head
among the COS. In fact, we have
been looking in vain to see Mime
apolls get the persimmons--but it
don't. And yet Chicago is no nearer
Liverpool than Duluth.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

The GREAT WEST wishes a list Of
all sub-alliances whose No. is less
than SIT. Please send at once, name,
number, Secretary, and P. 0. adj
dress. We wish to mail circulars,
ETC., and send other printed matter.
Do not delay this. A postal card
will be sufficient.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

We have letters from the state at
large stating that they have received
requests to send "proxies' to GER
tain officers of the Austin Hail Insur-
ance Co., for coming reelection of
officers, and asking if this is all right
what to do, etc?
Well, we don't know. That is q
case where man must tumble hack
ward on his own Judgment and take
his chances. Proxies are not a very
safe bent pin to practice on.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

France and Germany maintain
vast standing armies on a constant
war footing.
The total cost of the French army,
according to the sStatesman's Year
Book" is Sill $40, 900.
The total cost of the German army
is $91, 726, 293.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

1t is a noteworthy fact that the re-
cent Supreme Court decision permit
ting free Importation of liquors into
a state is a terrific blow at high
license. The man who pays high
license can't stand the opposition of
the wholesalers who paw none.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Grain rates in London and Liver
pool still continue at 80 and 4Os,
"Ex-ship and ex-warehouse, or
81. 20 a bushel, counting an English
shilling at only 24c. Mixed grade
quoted at $1.11. Calcutta No. I,
96c.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Wheat at Crookston, has taken a
lump to 73c.-at Mcintosh, same
county, it is 60 Wonder if the
"Wheat Racket" has made any DIFF
ference with Crookston? We hope
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

headed "The Rum Budget which
we refer to from the fact that it is
the first instance we have known of
a powerful metropolitan journal
taking strong ground against the
great increase of the drinking habit.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

No one ships wheat by rail and
ocean to Liverpool to any extent.
Not when -four can go from Mime
apolis to Liverpool for Ale. a hun
dred BY rail and water.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

The Fergus Falls Ugeblad is doing
good work in the German language
in the north centre of the state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Ed. Baisden, from Lester Prairie,
writes: 81 want to help along the pa
per all l can, for we need your help"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

e., "A gentleman At who wishes to keep a
hie OF the GREAT WEST for binding.
wants a No. IL, tissue Of Jan. 3rd1
we will pay 20 for a copy sent us.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

More men have read the wheat dis
cusslon than anything published in
twenty years
Then why don't the country papers
take more notice of it,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16
ST. PAUL, MIMI, MAY. 16, 1890.
Grain Charters.

Grain Charters.
Grain freights are again quoted
FRIDAY, May 81 at only 2h c., New
York to Liverpool.
Monday, May 18th, New York to
Liverpool, steam, $4,000 bu. grain
at I'D. (2hc).
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

We say that a Judge who carries a
free pass on the railroads is not fit
to be Judge. That is short and
sharp, and will hit some of them
mighty hard.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Does Minnewhooperloverliverpill?
No, but Minneapolis loves Liver
pool.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

All that wheat in the elevators now
was bought at the rate of 6Oc. for
CrOOkston.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-16

Whenever we see q man who says
that the greenback was pronounced
unconstitutional we want to eat him
while he is innocent.
Now, brethren, dom let any one get
off that old joke on you. The green
back has been in the Supreme Court
three times, and pronounced constitu
tional, legitimate, just and righteous
every time-and in peace or war
any time when Congress sees fit to
emit ellis of credit! Knock the first
man down who gets off such a chest
nut-if you are big enough!
What a glol GUS lot OF sleepy heads
We are. The only thing we can ap-
preciate is ''bloooy shirtv Here we
are paying indirect taxes to raise
$6OO,OOO,0OO to pay the govern
ment debts.
''Debts?" says some drowsy farmer
TO pay debts-why dom, the gov
eminent pay it's debts with the mon
ey it manufactures for the National
Banks?'
Why, Hayseed, don't you know
why? Because if the government
itself issued these legal tenders it
wouldn't have to tax-nor would the
poor starving, living-skeleton mil
lionaires get interest on every dollar
OF currency abroad-and you know
that wouldn't do!
G. L. Smith opened up again in the
Pioneer Press last Monday morning
Mondays paper is one which they
have to hunt up gulf to I'll up
with-that accounts for it. Smith
evidence that the farmers are more
prosperous than ever before consists
ia O high-tariff argument-that the
Irvine tariff was a good thing as it
stin. ulated home industry!