The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-13

end OF the war Whatever else may
be said of General Butler, he has 8
way OF keeping himself within hard
gritty facts.
/ The truth about the husbandman
is the saddest that can be told of an
American citizen. Tax-ridden, op-
pressed, the victim of Federal laws
enacted Tor the enrichment of favored
manufacturers, the farmer is carry
ing on a business which every year
plunges him more deeply in debt.
Gen. Butler was correct and mOder-
ate intimating that 1924, coo. 900 of
illinois farm mortgages in 1887 have
increased to $134 100000. It is
known to be a fact that the tendency
OF the times is toward tenant farms.
SO much for Gen. Buffers statis-
tics. So far from being really ex-
aggerated they do not tell the whole
OF the dismal truth. Hundreds Of
farmers, unable to live by tilling the
SOIL, have simply abandoned their
farms in Virginia Fertile lands in
Wesechesttr county, within twenty
miles OF New York, do not pay their
expenses. If a first rate Western
farm well stocked and appointed
and unincumbered, were to be given
to a careful farmer, in three years it
would bring him in debt at present
prices OF farm products.
There are more evictions in New
York, more cruel evictions and more
causeless evictions, than there are in
unhappy Ireland. Hard to believe,
1T is? Well, it is true, and it can be
easily proved. There are landlords
here, as there, who have men to
manage their property. They don't
wish to know how bad it is, and leave
1T to heartless agents, the slave
drivers Of the North, to do all the
dirty business for them. Some of
them are churchmen. Some are
churches, for it is fact that gilded
sepulchers own some of the foulest
dens in New York. Tell the owners
that they are keeping pest houses,
and ought to be shut up in striped
clothes for manslaughter and they
hold up their holy hands in depreca.
ton. "Oh, no! 1t is the dirty ten
ants! You cannot force them to be
cleanP' A lie, this: a foul, dastardly
SANDER, as every owner OF a decent,
we'll kept tenement will tell these
hypocritical monsters. 1t is a cow
ardly attempt to shift blame on to
another's shoulders which belong to
them. And-shame that it can be
saba laggard, lazy and inefficient
board of health indorses their excuse.
New York World.
The following was found rambling
around the columns of Harry Robin
sons ''Railroader
Visitor lin court room: What
dastardly crime was committed by
the prisoner who was just con-
victed?
HE stole ride on a railroad"
"And the man who got free?" .
"He stole the railroad" -Life.
The farmers have voted themselves
under ground all but their heads and
/ hope that the next time they vote
for old parties they will go a head
and all under ground never more to
rise, for it will serve them right.-Ex-
change.
This looks as though somebody
was getting mad. 1t is clipped from
the Kansas Alliance Union.
American manufacturers are sell
ing their goods abroad for less
money than they sell them to our
home people. There is in this fact a
remarkable lesson to those deluded
men who believe a higher tariff is nee
essary to develop our home indus
tries, and enable them to compete
with foreigners.-Des Moines Leader
FL. A. Swain, Of Rice county, has
entered the field, organizing with a
fist doubled up in each hand.
Bro. A. A. Odegard, OF Houston,
Minn., has sent us sample of a
weed which we will also have an
alyzed for it's fibre qualities. At
present no opinion can be expressed,
as we have another "weed'' under
careful ivestigation. But Brother
0. may rest assured that we will
put on the tests and report.
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ID. Bunker, Esq. secretary of Rose
Creek Alliance, sends us the eleven
resolutions recently passed by that
Alliance. They are good, sound sub