The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

ling before being spun except to keep
the ends straight so it will feed more
smoothly. The treatment after
wards for removing the color and
keepingit soft is the only item Of any
moment and even that is onlya frac-
ton of the cost of retching and de-
corticating or preparing any of the
fibers. A ton OF grass turns out a
ton Of bagging while a ton Of straw
or stalk only yield asmall percentage
of fiber.
There are thousands of acres OF
this marsh or slough land in most
states in the Union, and althouhg
there are nnmberless uses besides
bagging, binding Irvine and rope to
which this will yet be put, it is not
likely that the demand will ever
drawn close enough on the supply
to make the crude material OF any
particular value.
Ex-Governor Gear is President OF
the new organization, and if he is as
successful in this as he was some
years ago in his crusade against the
barbed wire monopoly, the jute and
Irvine trusts will have good reasons
to wish him farther away, and the
farming community throughout the
country to wish there were more men
like him.
We don't like to mention it, but we
have had reason in the past to sus-
pect that these 'trust-busting
plants are visions put on the wall to
make local companies afraid to put
in machine plants-lest some new
methods reduce their value!
In regard to the Independent
movement the ''Presto Change"
says:
''The move means a good deal
more than the politicians are willing
to.admit. The alliance has grown
to be a numerous body, and the
votes Of it's members cast solidly IN
any direction will cut an important
figure in state politics. 1t is pretty
we'll understood that an arrangement
will be reached by which the united
labor vote will help to swell the in
dependent movement. There is like
wise a probability that the 10000
prohibitionists will be added to the
column; SO that altogether the indie
pendents present a very formidable
organization, and will naturally pro-
duce more or less dismay among the
machine politicians. Including the
alliance membership, the Knights of
Labor and the Prohibitionists, lead
ers OF the independent movement
estimate that they will start off
with nearly 100000 voters in line"
Pipestone Star:
The alarm exhibited by many Of
the political organs Of both parties,
for fear that the farmers alliances
being organized all over the country
means the organization of a new
party, is truly pitiful to behold, and
the sympathetic advice that some of
these gushers offer to the farmers
not to do anything OF the kind,
shows that their nerves must be
seriously unstrung. ''No rogue e'er
felt the halter draw but had a poor
opinion of the law"
That the people nave awakened to
the falsity of political promises is
not to be wondered at. They have
been promised relief from time to
time, by the numerous demagogues
and their organs that have led and
controlled the political parties. At
each successive election for years the
people have been urged into lines by
tales of dire disaster that would fol-
low the elevation of this or that
party to power, told through the
organs and preached by demagogues
from the stump. When too late,
they have found that they have been
deceived. Relief has not been forth
coming, but instead a horde of
hungry office-seekers has secured
a place and grown fat at the ex-
pense of the people, and that was
all. This sort of thing has become
tiresome, and from appearances, the
people are simply organizing for self
protection, even though it destroys
the power Of party organs and pol
itical bosses.
We arenot prepared to say whether
or not the organization of a new
party would be just the wisest course
to pursue on the part of the alliance,
but we do not hesitate in saying
that the farmers have the power in
their hands to secure representation
in. office, that their rights may be as
we'll looked after as are those of
monopolists and bondholders, and
that when they ask for bread they
will not be given a stone. If the far
mers will demand of the old parties
that none but honest, capable men
be put to the front for Office, shun
political tricksters, chronic office
seekers and political bosses-who
work only for votes for themselves
and have no further interest in the