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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
RESOLUTIONS.
The Atchison and Rocks County ALL
ances Resolve.

The Atchison and Rocks County ALL
ances Resolve.
AT the monthly meeting of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Atchison County, Kas.,
the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, Experience has taught us that
designing and INSCRIPTIONS persons are al.
ways ready to identify themselves with all
farmers and labor organizations. thinking
thereby to gain the confidence and good
will Of the unsuspecting public, hoping thus
to place themselves in public positions
where they may be able to betray the public
trust and thus enrich themselves at the ex-
pense OF the people; and,
WHEREAS, We, the members of the Farm
ers Alliance of Atchson County, Kansas,
believe in the principle of the office hunting
the man and not the man hunting the office (;
therefore, BIO it t....- ,-.
Resolred, That we herewith distrust and
will not vote for any man who has for months
before caucus or convention been commend.
ed to the farmers and workingmen by the
old political newspapers, and has used his
influence to pack caucuses or conventions
in his interest. t.'
The Alliance of Rocks County adopted
the following at meeting recently held
at Stockton: .r .....
Resoired, That we are opposed to the free
pass system as extended to our Representa-
tives and Senators as dangerous to Amer.
can liberty, and we look upon 1t rs a bride
to further stay legislation in the interests of
the people.
ResoIced, That We are in favor Of electing
the President, Vice. President. United States
Senators and postmasters by direct vote of
the people.
Resolred, That we are in favor of electing
Rocks men for Representatives and State
Senators who will favor Alliance men for
United States Senators.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
Glass Legislation.

A bill to prohibit trusts is pending in
the Kentucky Legislature. 1t is so
worded that it might be construed as
prohibiting the cooperative buying and
selling done by farmers through their
Oranges, Alliances and Unions To ex-
cept these orders from the provisions of
the law would be class legislation. Now
as nothing scares the farmers more than
this cry Of class legislation, the bill may
fgil But little class legislation Of
this kind would be refreshing novelty.
Farm and Home. ......
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07

made to enter the lungs In sufficient
quantity to be absorbed from ths lungs
and TO produce by its diffusion through
the blood its specific effects. Lastly, l
have known it TO BIO absorbed by the
skin in so distinctive manner as again
to prove its transmission through the
blood to all parts -Benjamin Ward
Richardson, M. D., F. r. s., in N. Y.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
Eligibility to Membership In the Alliance.


The Farmers Alliance has member
ship Of two millions, one-half of which
are voters Its largest membership is
in Missouri. 1t is secret order, and
will not 90 into politics in the way of
forming separate party, but will sup
port for office those candidates only who
will support their policies. The fol-
lowing persons are eligible for member
ship:
No person shall be admitted as q
member Of this order, except a white
person, over sixteen years OF age,
who is believer in the existence
Of Supreme Being, and has re-
sided in the State more than six
months, and is either, first, farmer or
a farm laborer: second, mechanic, a
country preacher, country school,
teacher or q country doctor; third, an
editor of strictly agricultural paper
Provided, that each State and Territory
shall have the right to prescribe the
eligibility of applicants for member
ship, in reference to color, within the
limits Of the same. Provided. further,
that none but white men shall be elect
ed rs delegates to the Supreme Coun-
cil.-Indiana Farmer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
A New Alliance.

A Farmers Alliance has been organ.
lied at Suffer, Hancock County, H., for
mutual protection and profit. The off,
GERS are: Ed Gillham, president; c. E.
Wallace. vice-president; George {.
Spencer, secretary; Ed Walbrinks, treas
urei
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
I. G. THORNTON 1 Bro, Agents.
INVENTION :: e: e.; ;; , ::;:; d: ::

least among the wonders Of Inventive pro-
gress is method and system Of work that
can be performed all over the country with.
out separating the workers from their homes.
Pay liberal; any one can DO the work; either
sex, young or old no special ability 10 re-
CURED. Capital not needed; you are start
ed free. Cut this out and return to us and
We will send you free, something Of great
value and Importance to you, that will start
you in business, which will bring you In
nero money right away, than anything else
in the world. Grand outfit free. Address
Taux / Co., Augusta, Maine.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
HOLIDAY GIFT.

hERh SEA Wonders exist in thousands
REP of forms, but are surpassed by the
marvels Of invention. Those whe
are in need Of profitable work that Gun be done
while living at homo should ut once send theiI
address TO Hallet Co., Portland, Maine, and re-
ceive free, full information how either sex, Of
oil ages chn earn from % to $5 per day and
upwards wherever they live You are started
free. Capital not required. Some have made
over $50 in single day at this work. All succeed
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

and it's style, only, betrays it's gen
GRAFTON; he wears it after it's useful
ness is gone. simply because he has
got it on and has not independence
or manhood enough to tear it off; he
wears it to his work, wears it to
church, wears it to his meals, wears
it to bed, and would finally wear it
to the other world We're it not that
death has more respect for him than
he has for himself, and breaks the
shackle that has bound him through
life. He don't know what the prin-
ciples OF his party are, don't know as
they have any more than he has
don't know what the platform of his
party is; he could not tell it from the
platform OF the opposite party if it
was not labeled; all he knows is. that
some time in the dim past he put on
a collar marked ANDREW Jackson"
or Abraham Lincoln" leaders of
parties that in their day represented
a principle. He don know that these
leaders are both dead and the prin-
ciples they advocated have been
trampled underfoot by the hordes of
politicians that have come after
them. The clank of the party collar
has kept him from hearing of the
death of Jackson and Lincoln, and
SO he goes on year after year casting
his votes without asking any ques-
tlOns, expecting to see them once
more elected President.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

A good deal of fuss was made a
few weeks ago about ''barnacles. y
Now the barnacle business did not
pan out well.
But there are barnacles all the
same. The politician who quietly
works the alliance racket-has for
years been a member of some
shadowy alliance, but is always con-
nected with some paying branch OF
the SINNERS Combine in St. Paul or
Minneapolis-isa a barnacle He holds
himself up by the boot straps as an
old warhorse OF the Alliance, but
gets his feed from the combines.
He is always gently-spoken war
horse-and sort o'stands in between
stealages and the victim. About
next March will be the time to shed
these barnacles. They are old enough
to brevet, and ought to be rich by
this time.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The money-crash which we have
stated as inevitable, unless steps
were Immediately taken to give the
people more circulating medium or
exchanges, came awfully near the
country last week, and was averted
solely by the action of one bank.
That bank was doubtless secretly
bolstered up by the government.
On Wall street caI loans rose to
the enormous rate of IS per cent
a height unheard OF in the history
OF commerce; IS, 100000 We're issued
by the government, but it had no ef.
feet. In twenty-four hours a crash
would have been precipitated but for
secret help. AS it was a single bank
entered the arena Offering short loans
at 6 per cent.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
He Will Not Down.

Glencoe Enterprise: The manner
in which I. Donnelly comes out for
Merriam should be evidence enough
for any man in this state to use his
influence to defeat him In the next
gubernatorial fight. The people of
TINS state, and especially this dis
trlc:s, nave learned by sad experience
that Donnelly or his men are hardly
the tn ones to tie to by either party.
The sooner that Donnelly is politi-
cally buried the better it will be for
the welfare OF this state.
Yes, but this genius who has
climbed a liberty pole to expose his
brain to the sun, will find that Mr..
Donnelly carries that in his heart
which keeps him up with the level of
his age. Think of the forgotten truck,
drifted into the autumn tide of time,
lying around the memory of the
Sage OF Nininger-in the tomorrow! |!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
in the two ends of the route OVER AMI
ABOVE THE FREIGHT.

in the two ends of the route OVER AND
ABOVE THE FREIGHT.
II called upon to prove these state
ments we are prepared to do it
with the expense Of the testimony
provided for.
Again, and still more severe on
Clausen's statements, we can show
by q cloud of witnesses, the follow
ing facts:
lst.-That when the difference on a
lalmile freightage was from % to &c.
bushel, farmers alliance wrote
and wrote again for remedial help
from the Commission and John L.
Gibbs assures us that the cOrrres-
pOndence was turned over to Clau-
sen.
2d-That at last a letter came, af-
ter a well-known political wreck had
examined the letter in that county,
and o. KID. it, stating that the local
dealer had stolen any difference over
nine cents (which of course was a
rank Misrepresentation.
AS remedy for the farmers diff.
culties the inspection system is a
vacuity-an emptiness.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The market quotations of wheat
at Liverpool must get into a terrible
fuss in coming over the wires. In
four days we have collected the fol
lowing quotations from daily papers
rs, Cd, without stating the quaint.
ty, GENITAL supposed, which would be
$1.12 per bushel, equal to $1.19 for
No. 1 hard.
As, Id per GENITAL, which would be
Gle. per bushel.
5s, Sd, without specifying amount
1870. per bushel.
6s, 9Kd, (No. 2 SPRING. $1.O1 per
bushel, $1.0S for No. hard.
And no quotation at oil in two
dailies during the period.
We quoted Liverpool last week on
No. hard at 81. .2S on daily press
statement of $1.21 for No. 2 Spring.
The next dayit was reduced to $1.O8.
At the lastmoment before going to
press we take the dispatches as fol.
lows:
Pioneer Press-4s, Cd per Genital
which is equal to &c. per bushel-
sheer nonsense.
Dispatches, I'd, which is $1.Os
for No. 8 Spring grade. No. J. hard
would be $1.15 to $1.2O. We took
the quotation of $1.21 from an
English Financial paper.
We commend this condition of af-
fairs to the Renville Union man. who
quotes Liverpool wheat down among
the 9Os.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The GREAT WEST has been wonder
ing why it did not meet with more
opposition from certain quarters.
Was it possible that the monopolls-
tic powers did not care for it's at
t;tude. and it's wonderful success?
They did care, and they have been
at work-and this paper is hot on
the trail. Go on gentlemen-go right
on! But if we don't trip you up on
that little scheme then our name is
McGinty. Our farmers need notfear
The enemy has silently entered the
bonse of our friends-but that trail
was left. The GREAT WEST has the
love and confidence of the toiler-
and will keep it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

Elsewhere in this paper will be
found an extract from a weary old
party eyesore calling the material in
i; the GREAT WEST "rot" from the
sewers. That is just the way we
want the boodle-corruption, soaking
out of these organs, to speak of us.
The GREAT WEST has employed more
men, and dspent more money in three
short months, to get facts, docu-
ments, records from public Offices, etc.,
on the robber-agencies of our COM
mercial system than any paper in
Minnesota, daily or weekly. has spent
in the entire history Of the state. And
we now have work under foot which
will make howl go up from the en-
tire gang and it's hackers.
The great majority OF the country
press are with us in work-and the
majority are honest earnestjournals.
But any man Of sense knows that a
country journal cannot undertake
this work-and the daily press will
not.
We have received letters from edi-
tors stating that they were with us
heart and soul-but they were so
dumbfounded by our statements that
they must wait until they could
realize their truth. That is all right.
But to those half dozen sheets that
have spewed their hireling smut upon
us we can truthfully say
"Go on-we expect it. We care as
little for your ignorant SLAYER as for
any other powerless spite. The
GREAT WEST is anchored! Ithas no
politics, and no Offices in view. You
can no more shake the confidence of
the Farmers of Central Minnesota in
the former editor of the Central
Minnesotian" than you can pierce
Erebus with glass-eye. Go on, and
after your miserable treason to
your suffering constituencies is
properly rewarded. we'll take our
chances of being well remembered.
The press is a powerful factor.
With an honest press, rings and des-
potism are impossible. The press of
Minnesota could sweep away the
cobweby net work of fraudulent rail-
road bonds in two years. A press
which could shake off every fear and
every enticement would be invinci-
BILE. tits because a lot of heartless, un-
principled knaves are sustained by a
sprinkling Of papers in the state that
public sentiment is depraved.
As to the dailies, they all have
a bankers clutch around their
throats anyway-and when they
break out betimes in one spot that
spot is carefully excised with the sur
geon's knife
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The Graceville Transcript says:
''That great alarmist and pessimist,
E. W. Fish, Dep. State Lecturer, who
fills his columns mainly with trash,
ETC., pitches into Comstock. Well
now you can count on it every time.
The man who voted against the In
ter-State Commerce law Memorial,
and worked against the granger leg
islation of Minnesota, and is the paid
hireling OF the great robbers-and
helped our high-tariff Reed for
Speaker-yes sir, we work against
him for all there is in us.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The Chaska Herald is one of the
papers that dare publish the facts
in the Iowa conflict. 1t says:
The railroads in Iowa, have final
ly come to time, and have complied
with the Granger laws, relative to
charges for freight traffic and pas
senger rates. They have notified the
Governor to that effect, and ask to
be relieved of past penalties for dis
obeying the law. 1t is a great vic.
tory for the Farmers Alliance o1
that State, who have fought the
battle to successful issue.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
CrOOkstOn Journal:

Crookston Journal:
There are a lot of wrathy wheat
growers in the Corinne neighborhood,
in Stutsman County, Oak. An ex.
ceptionally good grade OF wheat was
raised there this fall. Dazey and
Hannaford are this community, =
nearest elevator points. A farm.
er, George Wright, q reliable man,
was in the city to-day, delegated to
consult with representatives, as to some
legal protection, if possible, to pre-
vent the occurrence of the confidence
game that he states has been played
on the farmers of his township by ele-
vator companies. He says in his
own case, that he raised 4 900 bushels
OF fine wheat. He hauled the first
load to Carglls elevator. at Dazey.
1t was graded No. 1 hard. He was
paid for it. and the rest of the crop was
contracted for at the same grade.
The second load, after delivery, was
graded No.2 northern, the agent
stating that he had received instruc-
tions to so grade it. Wright refused
to sell at that grade, and took the
wheat to Hannaford, where there is
only a small warehouse. The first
load went No. ], but the next load
was cut to No. 2. AS the wheat
came from the same field he declined
to accept this offer, and hauled the
wheat back to Dazey. The same tac-
tics were worked there. The second
load was never as good as the first.
Wright then ordered cars, and had
no trouble to get them promptly
from the Northern Pacific road. Be
fore shipping, but after the wheat
was loaded, the agent of the North
ern Pacific elevator company appear
ed on the scene and offered Wright
the price of Mol hard for all he had
and two cents per bushel higher than
the market price. Wright refused to
have any more to do with them, and
shipped to Duluth, making on each
car some $35 over elevator company's
offer. 1t is reported that many
small farmers have been worked the
same way, frequent complaints being
made over orders to lower one grade
on all wheat for that locality, which
was done in one day.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

We wish to extend our thanks to
exchanges who have so kindly pub
lished our denial of the accusation OF
the Wadena Pioneer in reference to
starving our young lady compost
tors on $3 or 81 a week. Most Of
them state the fact that we are pay
ing the highest wages in the city
from $3.50 to $40 week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
THE RAILROAD BONUS.

Farmers, will aid getting amount paid
to railroads in the shape Bonuses7
declined to publish them in their reportsI
Write aus Of your County, OF Township, Of
age cityor OF other County, in
Will Alliances please up this matter of-
cially--at earliest possible moment.
Let each write personally, too Several
section
GREAT WEST
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

We have received somecriticisms o
our estimates of the cost of building
railroads in which the cost is based
! upon the figures of 1S777-S-and even
as far back as '73-when the cost OF
iron rails was three times the cost OF
steel rails during late years. We can.
not accept such figures. Minnesota
estimates, outside of say 1900 miles
belong to a later period. And at
that time the roads We're not built
well, ties were cheaper, and an i'm.
mense amount of old iron rails i'm.
ported into the state. When we
estimated the Winona & st. Peter it
was for the period of consolidation
and with value of plant. We put the
width OF the prairie grade at what
we find it. In no case have we
guessed. Our compositor made an
error for us in one place by which a
nine became a six, but the result-a
prism for grading of one to one
and a half cubic yards of dirt for a
vast prairie mileage, was correct. 1t
formerly cost 15c. per cubic yard fcr
grading-wherei it costs &, 8 and 1Oc.
now. But we allowed for that. At
two cubic yards per lineal foot, and
15c. yard we have SOC. cost per
foot. $500 feet would amount to
81 $50 per mile in those days. Now
put on the other expenses and get
SIC, 900 per mile if you can.
Our correspondent puts on $4,000
per mile for stations and buildings
full ten times the actual cost of such
construction. With $3.50 to the mile,
and full stations every eight miles
you have $4,000 for stations, a sum
vastly III excess of cost. An average
station, passenger at one end and
freight at the other, with office be-
tween, such as describes three-fourths
OF our stations, are built for $500 and
81, 1000. Sidetracking is another es-
innate.
Parties may fume and sweat at
our statements as to cost of railway
building, and call it ''rot''-but when
the figures are SO easily obtained by
the plutes, why don't they bring
them out. We repeat, on the es-
Inmates already given, and on the
figures taken from the books. that
the railways of Minnesota did not
cost $4,000 to the mile-nOr average
81, 900 per mile to equip. "Thous-
ands" of miles were built and equip
ped too for that sum.
We arc willing to admit that some
of our statements ''stOlen" from
books in Iowa show up u purchase
of old rails. OF course that is some
thing we cannot know. But our to-
tai is large enough-$1O,O 600 per mile.
We don't have to go back fifteen
years to compute the bulk of Mime
sofa rOads-that material was long
since used up and replaced.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
A Boomer Next Week.

Don't miss next weeks paper. We
have been out on the roads for some
facts-and "got 'emr' Besides the
CLEANER, the arithmetic machine is
all creased up for action, and the
market differences In different Sec
tions of the country have broken
loose. Next week the GREAT WEST
will be hummer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

Everybody knows that there are
abuses which ought to be corrected
and burdens unnecessarily placed
upon the farmers OF this state which
should be lifted, but when the GREAT
WEST refers to the tillers OF the soil
as a lot OF stockingless, wood-shod
citizens, the editor of that paper is
simply advertising himself as an ig-
noramus or a liar. If there are any
such wooden shod people in this
section, we hope they will have the
good sense to spend their dollars in
the purchase OF proper and more
comfortable wearing apparel, rather
than in subscribing for paper which
fills its columns from week to week
with such rot US is run through that
sewer commonly known as The
GREAT West"
The Editor OF the Lac Qui Parle
Press gets off the above. If he were
not extremely ignorant hewould have
written differently. More farmers have
gone from their farms broken-hearted
and hopeless, and without an under
shirt than would havegone butfor the
hireling editors like this who disgrace
the name of man. Eight hundred
farmers have within it's history left
one county in the state, driven out
by the unreasonable extortions ofrail-
ways and loan brokers. We have
this from one of the oldest bankers
in the interior, who offered to give
us the names from his books-he
was just having a row with the
Manitoba. AS to wooden shoes-it
was no fgurative expression. You
can find wooden shoes hanging by
doorways like punches of grapes
overgrown, in the great northwest OF
this state. And Jim Hill told the
then President of the Alliance that
he would supplant the present popu-
lation Of Grant County with that
kind OF poverty-stated on the au-
thority OF Gen. Barrett. We add to
this that if the editor of the Press
doesn't know that his section OF the
country is being plundered, and the
farmers growing poorer, then he is
an imbecile. If he does know it and
talks in that silly way of the only
paper in the state making a business
OF the exposure of wrong-then he is
a kaave. And is it not possible for a
fool to be knave?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

We have great admiration for
the papers that undertake to "down"
the work of the GREAT WEST. When
the real estate of one county just a
few miles south of St. Paul has lost
two-thirds of it's valuation in two
years, it is time for a radical press
and to starve out the miserable ours
who bark ut it's heels.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17
S1 90 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. S.
There will soon be 1000 alliances ir
Minnesota.

The Tracy Trumpet criticises our
advertising-and we cannot say un-
justly. Our advertising is under q
blanket contract, and unfortunately,
unless it be of an unlawful character,
it cannot be refused. This condi-
tion will be changed just as soon as
possible. We have twice before no.
ticed this fact.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-17

The New York Financier comes out
with a scheme to put $5OO,OOO,OO0
of greenbacks on the market to hire
laborers to build macadamized roads
or turnpikes throughout the coun-
try. At first we believe the plan to
he a good one. Will write more OF it
next week.