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The great West., 1890-05-02


Here is an object lesson, given. by
the Knights Of Labor Journal, that
you will do well to study: =
Does the national bank system
tend to the concentration of wealth
IN the hands of the bankers? Let us
look at this a moment. The best
known bank in the United States is
probably the Chemical National
Bank of New York. Its original cap
ital stock was $500, 900, and the par
value OF it's shares was 500. A little
while ago ten shares of this hank
were sold at auction and brought
$45, 900. Now just figure this out.
If ten shares are worth $45, 900. how
much are 5000 shares worth? 3d.
$50, 900, is it not? No wealth con-
eentrated in the hands of the nation
al bankers, eh! Where do you sup
pose the $13, $50, 900, which repre-
sents the difference between the oriei-
nal Investments of $4,000 and the
present value of the stock under the
hammer, came from? Have YOU an
idea that they planted the money in
their backyard and dug it up again
after the crop had ripened? Thirteen
odd millions represent just so much
of the wealth OF the country that has
been concentrated by this one bank.
Another little fact which. it may not
be amiss to note just here, is that
this bank pays dividends of 25 per
cent every two months, and has been
doing SO for years. Oh, national
banking don't pay; there's no profit
in it. Bless you, no, no profit. It's
no profit, it's larceny.
To the State Tarmers' Alliance OF
Minnesota.
GENTLEMEN:-After considerable
correspondence and work I am now
prepared to furnish our members
throughout the state with what
binding twine they need for the COM
ing harvest; and at the lowest pos
sible price. l would be pleased to
have all alliances in thestate cores
pond with me at the earliest posi-
BILE date; as early orders will enable
me to furnish your twine without
fail. First orders will be first filed.
| have spent a great many years
handling binding twine and feel con-
fident l can do you considerable
good. 1t is understood / handle this
department and would kindly ask
you to address all correspondence
relative to twine to me at Austin,
MINI.
All correspondence should come
through the officers of County ALI
ances. In counties where there is no
county Alliance organized, the Secre-
tary or Pres't of local Alliances
should do the correspondence; as it
is impossible for me to correspond
with the members at large. Where
it is possible, order car loads.s By
so doing you can save one-haf on
freights. In all cases when yon
write enclose stamps for reply In
conclusion l repeat, send ,yodf or.
ders to me early. Truly yours,
JOSEPH KEENAN,,
A,1stin MINI
The great West., 1890-05-02

GrulerS TrlGHu
There can. be nos, such. thing as
until every being ON
Gods green. earth has enough, and
to share, of,:the good things of this I.
world. Let us look at things as they
exist, and. not through Shylock
glasses. In his report for 1885 Mr..
Truesdell,. Superintendent of the.
Chicago Ralief and Aid Society, said
that there were IS, 1000 men out sof:
employment in Chicago, and that
10000 of them were heads of famil-
les. Strong men came for relieflwith,
tears in their eyes; 80 per cent. of:
them were worthy of relief; they had.
come to want because they could get
no work., Mr.. Truesdell said, eve.
seldom see bummers or, deadbeats.
now. Their trouble, is, out Of, en-.
ployment.''
The Hartford, Conn., Examiner
says: 'In the severity. of Winter
young girls have tramped from place
to place in search ofwork, have begged
shelter and food, slept in outh0uses>
and barns, and are to day the vic,
Tins OF hunger and exposure. Who'll
~ defenseless they are thrown into,
temptation and the lowest forms Of
vagraney. The males tramp further.
in the State and become. Desperate
anal vicious, while the old people and
infants remaining in the villages, are
starving by inches. Common. neces--
stiles of life are unknown to. hum
dreds of fathers, mothers and chil-
dren. All this in Christian America. -
There is q cause for all this, but it,
Is not over-production.. The present
financial system is radically wrong.
A favored class by conspiring to get ,
the Government to, exempt tn =
greenback from paying duties n
imports and interest on bonds o1 -
tanned a chance to, depreciate tt ne
greenbaek> and speculate in g1 Id
concerning it and putting up its
price, and by converting gold i ato
greenbacks obtained bonds at ali
the way from 35 to Is cents ON the
dollar. In this. way, from 1856 2 to
1868, they obtained of the Go yern-
ment, in round numbers, 81. 600 :
100000 of bonds for 81 ,3Oo, 90 1000
Of coin- In other.words, the e. ,vern.
mens realized 81, 300, 10000 90 in
coin for $2,O0fi, ,OOO, 600 bonds
staading a.shave of $500, 600 900
By the contraction act { + Nav
1856, the circulating mesin i'm was
contracted from near sac 90 600 =
O0O to a little over $500, ,OC " 0OO IN
ten years, causing a. loss to industry
in failures of over ST. 1000 .O0 nnO ~
in eleven years. The NatS mai h.nts
have drawn from, the pe onlo d;nnot
and through tho. GoveFp ment &c ~
terest and upon their MN taxad hnnds I M
and interest upon VIII at thov owo
their bills) the sum Of not loss ~ Nv
2,OOO, 100000. Thee edit tstronm+h [
enng aco a1ae1 over $6O0,OOO,6OO
10 ole. oonanoioers' : ile, and conse-
labor. W
The great West., 1890-05-02
MORRIS, April oath. 1890

MORRIS, April Oath, 1890.
ED. GREAT WEST:
should like to ask G.. l. Buell. if a
man is paying taxes on land valued
at 81, 500, on buildings 500, and on
personal property 600, at one per
cent, $4,000, now this $26 must be
paid in order to pay all expenses for
which tax is levied. Now MIR. Buell.
claims that if the land were only
taxed the men would only have to
pay $2O.7O. Now where is the $3.50
coming from: or if Stevens Coun-
ty has to pay ST. 500 taxes on
land and personal property say 3O,-
900 on land and II 500 on personal
property, now will exempting the per-
.sOnal property and collecting the A.
500 on the land be less then it was
when the personal property was pay
ing tax? Mr.. Buell. seems to think it
would, but l think it would be. con-
siderable more-but / am a farmer
and probably don't know. So let
Mr.. Buell. explain single tax every
day and twice on Sunday, for we
farmers will soon have to pay all the
tax anyway or raise hemp for ropes.
NJ. HARRIG.
= While not fully prepared to en-
dorse single tax, we can explain this
question. The taxes on all lands of
equal value would be the same-re-
:gardless of improvements occupa-
tion or buildings. Hence unoccupied
land would largely increase their
taxes..cultivated lands slightly de-
crease. City taxes would be in
creased
ATwATER, Kandiyohi Co., Apr 80.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Perhaps it may not be out OF place
The great West., 1890-05-02

The North Carolina Alliance have
determined to place a full state ticket
in the field-and elect it. They will
also put up men for Congress, and
the United States Senate. They pro-
pose electing the latter ''by popular
vote Of the people," Union Labor
declaration in the X. L conference, !,
and elect men to the State Legisla-
ture pledged to send these Senators
elect to the Senate. Now, let the
KANSAS Alliance do likewise.-Torch
OF Liberty.
Granulated sugar is selling in
wholesale markets at about 6h cents.
The corresponding grade can be pur-
chased in English markets for 3
cents. As we now obtain supplies OF
raw sugar upon as advantageous
terms as the English refners; as our
processes are equal to theirs; and as
American labor forms SO minute a
part in the cost of refined sugars.
why more than double the cost upon
ourselves mainly for the purpose of
supporting a few wealthy refiners,
who have so abused their advantages
as to extort profits upon the actual
value of their plant Of 100 per cent,
in a single year Chicago Dry Goods
Reporter.
The great West., 1890-05-02

The WacOnia Farmers Alliance
will hold a grand county Mass Meet
ing on "Coaey ISLAND OF the. West"
Waconia, on Monday, the 26th day
of May. There will be a Farmers
Brass Band present. and refresh
ments, so that glorious time will
be in order, Orators, Hon. .Ignatius
Donnelly and. the GREAT WEST. edi-
tor. Let Carver County turn out in
force.
The great West., 1890-05-02
Alliance Politician.

A dispatch to the Pioneer Press
from Austin, says:
."Dr. Fish and Ignatius Donnelly do
not probably feel highly elated over
the reception given them here. They
had been widely advertised for adj
dresses to the farmers, but not q
bakers dozen came near. The farm
ers of this part OF the state suspects
more politics than interest in the
farmers welfare, and hence are shy
of the GREAT West and these pre-
tending reformers." To which the
Rochester Post sweetly adds:
When will political demagogues
come to understand that farmers do
their own thinking and as q rule, fol-
low their own convictions? Afarmer
can sec as far into a milestone as the
man that picks it, and he is not the
one who is willing to furnish the
Balm of Gilead salve for sore-headed
politicians. There can be no doubt
that the Farmers Alliance is of itself
a verypr0per organization, but where
it is manned and eOntroled bypol-
iticians who have been thrown over
board by their own parties, the far
mers have every reason to be apspic-
ious. That the iesa ars d think
ing and reading class - proven in
the last campaign. g great cry of
sstariff reform Was raised to make
the Republican farmers bolt their
ticket, but when the votes were count
ed twas found that they had well
grounded opinions OF their own and
voted as they thought. Our advice
to these "Alliance Politicians" would
be to go back into their holes and
draw their holes in after them.
Dear MIR. Posi- We have read the
above, and present you with the
compliments of the 'demagogues''-
suggesting that we can't get into
your PosT-BoLE till youget out of 1T.
The great West., 1890-05-02

tended for the manufacture of Irvine
from rye straw, and by the rapidity
and thoroughness Of it's work is able
to produce aquality of twinesuperior
to MANILA or sisal at less than half
the cost Of those varieties. Mr.. o.
Connor says that the inventor work
ed continuously for Ave years in evol-
wing the principle and perjectiag the
construction of the e-maclsine and mas
tered the process by patents and m
genious experiments covering this
long period. The. company has not
yet decided upon. it's future course,
but the probabilities are that this
years work will be confined to the
production OF a sufficient number of
the machines to establish. their utility
beyond question and give them q
thorough introduction in the agri-
cultural world, with the expectation
OF q sufficient increase in the facilities
OF the plant before next spring to ac-
commodate all the business required.
This of.course is under the supposi-
tion that the machines<will be- man
ufactured for the use of individual
farmers in making their own. Irvine,
which. is not yet fully decided upon.
Whatever course may be pursued
Mr.. O'Connor says that there is am
pie capital interested in the enter
prise and degree ofconfidence in it's
success which assures the. establish
ment OF alarge plant and the through
development of all the possibilities OF
the invention.
The great West., 1890-05-02

to have a communication from this
county occasionally; ! would have
heretofore written you, but as owing
to the multiplicity of communica-
tions you receive / was afraid that
mine might be consigned to that
rapacious tiger, the editors waste
basket, have thus far refrained
from troubling you. The different
local and county alliances should
not fail to properly discuss and dis
seminate the recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court in re-
gard to the switching and miller
cases.
1t is of the greatest moment that
this be done. Discussion moulds
public opinion, and public opinion
molds laws and will even in the fu-
ture mold a different "opinion" from
the highest judicial tribunal in the
land. The stern will of an aroused
people can change anything in this
country, from the illiterate ruling of
justice of the peace up to the mas.
terly written opinions of the Su-
preme Court dignitaries. Public
opinion is cyclone that always has
and always will carry everything be-
fore it, and woe has ever come to
those who either ignorantly or hypo-
critically sought to .obstruct it's pro-
gress.
The wheels of the chariot of public
sentiment have ever been besmeared
with the gore of those seeking to lay
it's onward march.
Let the alliances discuss this in all
it's bearings; and while we are not
lawyers and cannot indulge in the
customary hair-splitting of pettifog-
gers, still we know one thing and
that is: The child of creation can
meyer become too great for its crea-
tor unless some unnatural traits are
developed, and in that case an ap-
plication of the rod generally proves
beneficial. The corporation that
owes it's very existence to the people
tits creatOrs) must not be tOlera ted
to operate on high handed basis,
but be made and kept amenable to
common law reasonably interpreted.
That's what we want and we want
it known too; and moreover we'll
continue to mold public opinion un-
til it sweeps away in one resistless
stream the unnatural attitude as
sumed by the corporations and puts
them where they properly belong
under the complete control of the
people.
just stop and think of it one mo-
ment! A government by the peo-
pie, through the people, and for the
peopleY' How familiar! But note
it's empty phraseology in the face OF
the late ''Edict of Nantes." Ponder
over the glittering generality of the
above, and observe it's vacuum de
facto. l am afraid that even the
fourth Of July orator who indulges
In the old spread eagle phrase will
hence1orth blush when he reaches
this critical point OF his opinion.
And he .ought to blush, and every
body else, too, that is averse to a
reign Of plutocracy and the serfdom
of a free people. HENRY FE1G.
The great West., 1890-05-02
Senator Kel1ar's New Twine Ma
chine.

S00oC0r A041orS . New JW1A0 MA.
chine.
Farm Implements and Hardware:
State Senator Henry Kellar has re-
comfy returned from Washington
where he succeeded in perfecting his
patents on new machine for the
manufacture of binding twine from
rye straw, and the Keller Manufac-
turing company will Immediately
commence it's manufacture in Sank
Centre, Minnesota, where q small
plant has been established. ID.
O'Connor. travelling representative of
Moline, Mlbdrn & Stoddard, Mime
apolis, has taken considerable inter-
est in the new project, and tells Farm
Implements and Hardware that it is
sure to revolutionize the twine busi-
ness. The machine was invented by
Geo. Files, who lives at Crookston,
Minnesota, and first brought to the
notice OF Senator K eller by Mr..
O'Connor, who believed it to be an in
vention Of great promise. 1t is in
The great West., 1890-05-02
Austin, MINI.
ORDERED PUBLISHED.
BY THE RED RIVER co. ALLIANCE,
TEXAS

BY THE RED RIVER 20. ALLIANCE,
1st.-That the Co. Alliance will
support any newspaper which may
be established in our country to
champion the cause OF the farmers.
That the Co. Alliance desires to see
such papers established 1t requests
the Brotherhood to give it material
aid and support.
2d.-We recommend to every men,
ber to subscribe for and read as
many papers which advocate the
farmers cause as he can afford. We
recommend, the National Econo-
mist,'' Washington City, organ of
the N. F. A. & I. u; the "GREAT
WEST" Saint Paul, Minnesota, Or
gan OF the Mimi. State Alliance; the
"Southern Mercury" Dallas, Texas,
organ of the Texas State Alliance;
and the peoples Signal" Marlin,
Falls Co., Texas.
3rd.-We call on every member to
take Stock in the Alliance Cotton
Platform, and to givesit undivided
support.
4th. The Legislative Committee
shall interrogate Candidates, State,
District and County on the present
political issues.
5th-We endorse and vote in fav-
or OF the State Alliance consolidat-
ing with the State F. A. and l. o.,
formerly known as the State Ag.
Wheel. And for the State Executive
officers to send up joint application
to the National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union for State Char
ter. w. B. TERRY,
Chairman of Committee.
RESOLVED, That the foregoing
Resolutions be sent to the county
papers, the GREAT WEST, the South
ern Mercury, ETC., for publication.
w. NJ. BARNETT,
G. W. HUFsTEDLER, President
Secretary.
April 18th, 1890.
The great West., 1890-05-02

Pres't Hall. and Secy Lathrop are
now east lookingup the twine mat
ter-On the committee work. men
toned last week. The outlook is
that a plant can.be put in, $3.50, 900
less than the. Governors Committee
reported last, year-or about $780,
900.
The great West., 1890-05-02
Baldheaded Compliment,

Wadena Tribune:
The Great West sings hot shot in
to the wheat buyers right and left
again this week. Brother Fish talks
nothing but facts and we are glad to
see that in that line he occupies the
bald-headed row.
The great West., 1890-05-02

The Edgerton Enterprise publishes
q magnificent speech Of E. L. Rorke
at the PipestOne City alliance.
The great West., 1890-05-02

The'Appleton Press reprints Mr..
Hodgson's beautiful. tribute to the
GREAT WEST, with. much gusto-but
it does not refer, to- Mr.. Hodgson's
labors to force Mr.. DOnnelly off the
Farm and Labor. ticket in 1888.
The great West., 1890-05-02

The price of hard wheats in
England was -9dy or 1Sc. above
the quotations @oE.the daily papers
ten days ago!
The great West., 1890-05-02

Il have an opinion thata preacher
might as well run a church without
3 Bible as for. thu Alliance to get
along without, the GREAT WEST"
LEVI MONTGOMERY, Tracy.
The great West., 1890-05-02
Jay Gould's Prayer.

Our 1atner VINO art IN England,
Rothschild be thy name thy financial
kingdom come to America, thy will be
done in the United States as it is in
England. Give us this day our
bonds in gold, but no silver; give
us plenty of laboring mems votes
to keep monopoly in power and their
friends in office. We know, our ia
ther, we have done many things
that were wrong; we have robbed
the honest poor, and brought dis
tress to many a door. We know it
was wrong to refund the bonds and
make them payable in coin; weknow
it was wrong to demonetize silver;
we know it was wrong to water our
railroad bonds, but thou knowest we
made money by that. Now, our
father, thou knowest we abhor pol
itics. It is the same to us whether
democrats or republicans rule, for
thou knOwest we are able to sway
all political jobs in our favor. Lead
US not into the way of the strikers,
but deliver us from the hands of
the insane Knights of Labor and
the Farmers Alliance. Thus shall
wehave the. kingdom, bonds, interest,
power and gold, until the republic
shall end. Amen.-DakOta Ruralist,
Perhaps Overlooked.
The state immigration agency in
New Hampshire has completed it's
exploration of the depressed and
decaying agricultural interests of the
state, and has issued Ii printed vol
ume of 100 pages, giving list of the
abandoned farms and the attrac-
tions they offer to those who would
have homes already built, and lands
in conditions to till at but nominal
cost. As rule, the buildings on
New Hampshire farms are large and
well adapted to comfort. Fuel is
convenient and inexpensive, and the
condition are favorable for the devel-
opment of a rugged physical estate.
Still, it is intimated that no sudden
influx of rushing homeseekers, native
or foreign, is looked for. 1t is per-
haps singular that no effort seems to
be making to induce colored people
from the South to come there and
make the waste places bloom again.
Some of them are dissatisfied and
wanting to go where they can have
larger political and public areas.
They were raised in agricultural ac-
tivity, and certainly no more mex.
haustible fields for industry calf be
found than these lands. Peahaps
they have been Oyerlooked.-Ex.
The great West., 1890-05-02

By ALL means read. the review OF
Caesars Column on the second
page of this issue.-
The great West., 1890-05-02
From Wisconsin.
Ed. GREAT VEST:

SIR-I see in your paper of the
18th, Mr.. c. j. Buell's figures show
ing how single tax would work to
the advantage OF the Land owners
on whom the whole tax must fall if
personal property is exempted. He
takes Dakota County as sample
Real estate assessed. .....$7, ,664 ,4S5
Personal and structures. 2,S85,569
Total ...................$1O, $40, ,O54
And shows thus if the total tax
was assessed on the 81 ,644 ,485, it
would be 81 .38 per cent on the Land
instead of one per cent. 1t strikes
me that this would be over 33 per
cent heavier on the land, and now
suppose one set of men own the land
and another set the personal prop
erty. The tax is 1 per cent would
make him pay 7,644,285 cents OR
$7,644,485
The personal property would be
1855, ,567 cents or 8,556.67.
But put it all on the land and then
the whole business of tax 10, $50, ,054
cents or $1O5, ,3OO.54 would follow
the land and were it 1.38 per cent
would not the owners of land suffer
$28, ,556.67 additional burden, while
the others would be saved same
amount and would make difference
of $57 1884 in favor of the person
al class. Pray tell me what that land
owner is to gain. No, his farm is
more heavily taxed therefore less
valuable while the personal property
becomes more valuable because ex-
empted. l can only see in this a
dodge by which land owners OF which
farmers are most numerous are to
have, when this is adopted. an ad-
ditional burden on the shoulders.
Mr.. Buell. in his problem makes what
to me is very serious and inexcus-
able mistake when he takes the 1.38
per cent to multiply his 81 500 by.
He should have taken 1.73h per cent
on 1900 whole property, divided by
/ 500 real estate as his proceeds of
taxation instead of 1 SO per cent and
then Mr.. Buell. would have seen what
must be evident to any one who will
correctly solve his problem, that the
land would pay it all to the manifest
detriment of the owner thereof. Is it
not plain that if Jones owned the
81 500 in land and Jenkins the 81 1
in personality, would only put more
tax ON Jones realty!
OF course ! agree that once this
single tax is adopted you can "build
| n new barn. or t.natch I'D Your hen
Arizona republican., 1890-11-15
PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
REDONDO HOTEL
 Redondo Beach, Cal.

This new and magnificent hotel was opened to the public May 1st. It is the most thoroughlk equipped and best furnished house on the Pa cifc Coast Two hundred and seyenty-ave rooms, replete with every convenience: fire place, hot and cold water, incandescent lights, electric call and return system. Standing n the center of a twenty-twO acre tract, under high cultivation, two hundred feet back from the ocean bluff. Arc lights on the grounds. Finest surf bathing in America. The house has fine Otis elevator and by far the handsomest music and dancing hall in California. The dining room is perfect gem of artistic perfection, su- perbly furnished and 80 arranged that every seat commands a view of the ocean. There is a gallery at ono end, where fine band plays for the eveinng dances alsoplaying on the veranda in the morning, in the music and dancing room at night Morning germans will be feature O nent factor The house and surroundings are simply perfection-new, sweet and clean-and must be seen to Oe appreciated. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe runs six trains daily from Los Angeles. The company own their own rail road, running to Los Angeles, connecting with the Grand Avenue cable system, running twelve inely-equipped trains daily each way, landing passengers right back of the hotel. There Is a pier, where boats from San Francisco, San Diego and other points make regular landings. Steam and sailing yachts can be had. The fishing is the finest on the coast There is a bluff and in terior drive, commanding fine view of the ocean. San Gabriel valley, Wilson's Peak, Old Baldy, Sierra Madre range of mountains. Terms same us other Arst-class houses. Special rates for permUnents and families. All letters address to the manager.
 k. W. ROOT, Manager.
Arizona republican., 1890-11-15

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