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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
st. Louis Republic:

~. AOuIS hepuDllc.
Who will Work 1t Out?
A friend asked me to multiply S.
by S.. do so and announce the re-
suit as $25. Now multiply 500 cents,
give the answer in cents, pure and
simple, not us fractional parts OF a
dollar. | do so and am surprised to
see the figures climb up to 100000
cents, which is $2,5
AS S. and 500 cents are equivalent
the result is pulling. 1t cannot be
urged that decimal marks should be
used. A cent, as such, is as distinct
a unit as a dollar, and as the result
is to be announced in cents the deci-
NAL cannot be pleaded in extenua-
ton of the rather surprising result
But there is clearly something wrong
What is it?
It is somewhat painful to see a
great blanket daily struggling with
this problem-and our friend of
North Dakota, the Capitol, reprints
it unanswered.
You can't multiply IS by $5!-any
more than you can multiply two
sticks by two sticks. You can multi
ply S. by five but not by S.. You
can't multiply 500 cents by 5OOcents
but you can multiply 500 cents by
five hundred! For instance, you can
have a row of five men and give each
man Sand you give $25.
You can have a row of 500 men
and give each 500 cents-and you
give $4,000.
In one case the multiplier is 5. In
the other 500. Your multiplier is
100 times greater. and the product
($2, $500 is 100 times greater. The
$4,000 would be no less if you called
it dollars instead of cents. Give 500
men S. each and you give 50, $500
or 500 cents each. and you give the
same. The decimal point makes no
difference.
Give us something easy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
Dawson Sentinel:
And They Grew And Null
tinlio6

Ana 1hey Grew And Null
tiplied.
Ed. Sentinel: The above gives but
a faint idea of the interest manifested
by the farmers of our county in
their fight against injustice and op-
preston.
Ina former communication stated
that the next missionary labors of
MIR. Snow and your correspondent
would be at Cerro Gordo on the 10th
inst. On our arrival we were gener-
ously and courteously entertained
by Mr.. Charles II. Holtan. At the
appointed hour we repaired to the
school house near his residence, and
addressed an intelligent and attentive
audience, after which they proceeded
to form an Alliance.
The 18th we went on our way re-
ioicing and were domiciled at Lake
Shore with Mr.. 1. L. Philley, chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners, the right man in the right
place. In the afternoon we drove to
Louisburg, the place of meeting,
where we found a goodly number of
farmers gathered for the meeting
EAGERLY DISCUSSING
the difficulties that surround them.
Immediately after the addresses they
proceeded to organize an Alliance:
the banner town in the county at or
ganization, electing live men as their
officers.
The 18th We sped on our way to the
town of Agassiz, bringing up at the
home of August Middlestadt, or as
he calls himself
REAL LIVE DUTCHMAN,
and thoroughly in earnest in the
work of the Alliance They COM
pleted an organization with officers
good and true.
The 10Th good start and good
roads soon brought us to the hospit-
able home of DR.. Won Eschen, in
Yellow Bank. Here we found one of
the most
INTELLIGENT AND SOCIAL
men your correspondent has met in
Minnesota, ever read y to do anything
honorable for the benefit OF his coun-
trymen. No wonder he has the I'M
limited confidence of all who know
him. Organizing an alliance with
the Doctor as president and live
John F. Rosenwald as secretary, we
left them in good shape for an ag-
gressive campaign.
The Goth we started for the town
of Walter; here we met our first fail
ure. Mr.. Walter, who was to have
given notice to the town, was absent
in Dakota. As we found no one ex-
pecting a meeting we rounded up the
week as above.
The 23d Mr.. Snow goes to the
town OF Freeland for the purpose of
organizing that town-so the good
work goes on.
Yours for the Work,
w. S. G.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
WASHINGTON COUNTY.

A meeting OF the County Alliance
of Washington County was held at
Saltwater on the 9Th inst. About
100 farmers were present. DR.. Fish
made the address. He was followed
by Hon. J. J. Furlong, who talked
to the Alliance on Insurance.
Report of Committee on Irvine was
read and the same will be published
in the GREAT WEST.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
Appointments for DR.. Fish.

APPOINTMENT for DR.. Fish.
Everett W. Fish, Deputy State Lecturer, and
Editor OF THE GREAT WEST, will hold Alliance
meetings follows Every body is invited to
turn out. Meetings will begin at 1880.
IGNATIUs DONNELLY,
State Lecturer.
Appointments for Otter Tail Co.
Luce Wednesday eve, Jan. 8, $780,
School Dist ll6 Thursday
P2S.nusSan'S
German twp. Friday 40
Perham Saturday I" II
RENvILLE COUNTY.
Bird Island Friday Jan. 3
with Hon Ign. Donnelly.)
saltwater Monday jan 9Th
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
MAGNOLIA, Rock Co., MINI


Dec. 1853.
EDITOR GREAT WEST
DEAR SIR:-DOn't be afraid of
giving it to them too strong.
If the farmers of Mimi, don't
like your style then they deserve
to be serfs.
Our Adrian, Mobiles Co., Alliance is
booming right along-over 60 men,
bers-and applications still coming
in. Yours Truly L. G. LONG.
Secy Adrian Alliance.
P. S. If no one from Adrian has sent
for extra copies, please send me afew
to circulate We must try and get
that first 10000 soon as possible.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
RENvILLE COUNTY AROUSED.

Cold Day but Warm Crowd.
Last Friday was a red-letter day
in Alliance work. But a few short
weeks ago the Alliance sentiment
slumbered in this beautiful section of
fertile State. But shortly after the
GREAT WEST started the little miser-
able spirit which broods like bad
smell over the local newspaper at
Bird Island, wrote lot of stuff
which awoke the spirit OF resistance
in the breast of every live farmer in
the county. A meeting was called at
Bird Island, and Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly went down there with DR..
Fish. There the farmers took us in
hand. They did not come the est.
Paul dodge''-they dined us, and
slept us, but there were no thousand
dollar expenses for champaign. In
the forenoon there was a meeting of
the local Alliance, and in the after
noon a County Alliance was organic
ed. Then Mr.. Donnelly addressed
over 200 solid, intelligent, energetic
farmers for an hour and half. He
was followed by the Doctor for an-
other hour-and the enthusiasm was
beyond all bounds. The Doctor felt
quite at home under the protecting
arm of that delightful farmers
friend''-the Renville Co. Union.
Mr.. Dean, of the Hector Mirror,
was present. He is fine, intelligent
looking young man of % years, and
if he in his early manhood let's his
better nature rise above the sordid
opportunities of the hour, he has a
brilliant future before him. We sup
posed our attacks were directed
against some sour old curmudgeon
whose brain had been warped into
tea leaves under the writhing flame
of PARTISAN feeling.
Lorraine was there for a time, but
the grape-shot of Mr.. Donnelly was
too much for him, anu = withdrew.
However he left a man, a farmer,
there to turn on the hose
When DR.. Fish said the Treasurer
OF Pope county cut off enough money,
as interest, from the bonds of the
county to pay every dollar of ex-
penses for running one train a day
and provide one station agent, on
the Little Falls 4 Dakota, this young
American cast some reflection. So
the speaker called upon him to take
the items:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
CoMFREY, Mimi, Dec. q, 1873!

COMFREY, Mimi, Dec. u, 1889.
GENTLEMEN:
Although am subscribing formore
papers than | can find time to read,
1 feel that ought to help you along
to the extent of $1.00 as see from
the copies you have sent me, that
you are on the right side OF the pro-
ducing class; and as far as can see
and understand, that side of the
House needs all of the most con-
scienticus and fearless writer, in the
country to defend and educate them
at the present time. May you glory
in the work and have success in your
noble undertaking. Respectfully
Yours, ANDREW w. Peterson.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
St. Peter Herald:

St. Peter Herald:
John Kramer of Madison Lake
complained to the board of rail
way and warehouse commits
sioners that he has not been treat
ed fairly by the Minneapolis & St..
Louis Railway company. Kra-
mer is a wood dealer, and he is
denied, he alleges, sidetrack fa-
cilities for shipping his product.
He fortifies his position by alleg-
ing that Messrs. Alloin & Tuller
have a sidetrack near hesitation
OF Greenland, and that he, Kra-
mer, is denied the use OF it by the
ST. Louis road. The commission
has taken the matter under adj
visement.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Appointm'n Of Prof. Allison,
MP cTATE TECTTIRER

Appointments Of Prof. Allison,
DEP, STATE LECTURER.
10 Willard, Pope Co
IL
13 Crookston, Polk Co
10 Polk County
20 Ada, Norman Co
81 GAINESVILLE, Clay Co
% Rothsay, wilkins Co
"a Campbell IS Z"
% Osakis, Douglas Co
Friends of the cause are requested to see that
Mr. Allison is entertained free of charge, and
helped on his way to his next appointment. It is
suggested also that collection be taken up to
defray his travelling and other expenses, as he re-
ceives salary, and his laboris "alabor oflove :"
Prof. Allison has several very interesting lect-
ures. 1.-The Battle of Gettysburg, "The Yose-
mite etc, which he will deliver, upon request,
and thus be enabled to meet the expenses of the
campaign he is making. We hope our friends
will help him.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
Chicago Tribune:

st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. o.
Especial. "A secret meeting of
millers doing business in and
bout St. Louis was held yesterday
to decide upon a scheme OF con-
solidation of interests. The sue
cess that has attended the local
Brewery Trust, the United Ele-
vator combine, and various other
local pools has suggested the
trust scheme to the millers.
There are nineteen mills controll-
ed in St. Louis. The estimated
value is $3,OOO,OOO. Alexander
Smith, an ex-President of the
Merchants Exchange and a
prominent miller, is the father of
the trust scheme. He submitted
a plan several months ago, but
at that time it was opposed by
several millers. Since then a
Minneapolis man has asked for
an option on all the mills, and
Mr.. Smith Immediately pushed
his plan, showing the st. Louis
ans that they could themselves
reap the profits that the Mime
apolis capitalists do by Joint
stock company and is now under
consideration by all the millers.
Ii the plan is adopted it will have
great effect on the Southern and
Southwestern flour trade. Com
petition will be removed and
prices fixed by the trust. The
only competition will be from
country mills, the capacity of
which will scarcely affect the
combine. The millers, while ad-
hitting that the matter was I'M
der consideration, refused to talk
on the subject.
Mr. Richard Smith, of the Cincin-
natl Commerica-lGazette, expressed a
great deal of truth in very few
words the other day when he said.
"Do you know this thing of sending
millionaires to the Senate is becom-
ing serious business? Some of these
days we will get back to my old
theory, and allow the people to elect
the United States Senators. One
party is as bad in this respect as the
other. All the Senators from the
new States are representatives of big
corporations and not Representatives
OF people. There are very few poor
men the United States Senate. For
this reason you always find the Sen
ators standing shoulder to shoulder
on questions in which the interests
OF corporations are involved. Party
lines count for nothing in such cases,
and this is what they call Senatorial
courtesy"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10

E. r. Blegen, of Houston Co., says
he not only thinks a great deal of the
GREAT WEST, but he loans it to his
neighbors, and they like it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10

Mr.. Menme, OF Hendricks, Mimi,
gives us some truths respecting the
highway robberies of the c. NJ. & St.
p, when it was built through Wis
consin. We will refer to it again.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
A SPLENDID MEETING.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:

In your issue of Dec. Goth, E. E.
Abbott asks advice on the milling
question, and you give him a remedy.
l should like to give him another,
with your permission. My way
would be for the Farmers to build
Mills of their own, say four townships
to join together, and build a mill as
near the center as practicable. Then
grind all the wheat that they have
to sell if possible, and sell the Flour
which will bring 93 cts. per cwt. more
than the wheat would that it takes
to make one hundred weight of
-four.
The bran and shorts are all profit.
This estimate is made from having
wheat ground by the bushel for cash.
Every farmer that has one hundred
bushels of wheat to sell could afford
to put thirty dollars into a mill, and
he would get it back in the profits
the first year, and have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that he was getting
the profits that others have been
making out of him for years.
G. M.
GOOD THUNDER, Dec. 26th, 1889.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
I have received your paper ever
since it was born. I like the child
pretty well.
We have fourishing Alliance here
in our district. But the country is
not we'll organized. Mr.. Thayer is
doing some good work. But we have
some stubborn people here who will
bear considerable talking to. 1 in
tend to meet Mr.. Thayer tomorrow
evening to assist him in organizing
for a few days. But prophets are
not honored at home. We want
strangers and good speakers in the
County for while. Mr.. Editor, 1 see
complaints from all over the state in
regard to grinding and tolling of our
wheat. The State Alliance should
take up this matter without delay,
and see whether we have any custom
mills in the state or not. Ifthere are
none by changing one word in the
present law will make them all GUS
tom millers.
Let the State Alliance bring a test
case before the courts, and call on
the members for funds to carry it
through. Then we will know wheth-
er there are any custom mills in the
State or not. One fourth is just
twice what the law allows. But that
is about what they (the millers) take
all over the state. Mr.. Editor, I
hope that you will never catch the
gold fevOr. P. MCGRATH,
President of Blue Earth Co. Alliance.
TYNER, North Dak., Dec. 10, 1889.
DEAR SIR:
l have been fortunate in having
copy OF the GREAT WEST sent to me.
l need not say that like it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
Appointments Of Dep. Lectur-
err A. L. Gardner.


err A. L. Gardner.
DODGE COUNTY.
Thursday " 9, Bennington &c
Friday 49, Clayton
Saturday "ll, Marshall
Monday 3d. Window
Tuesday IA, Lyle
Wednesday Is, Nevada
Thursday ''l6 Adams
Friday "l7
Saturday SIS, Leroy
Saturdays 2 p. m; .others,7 p. m.
Mr. Gardner writes:
ut is my intention to form an Alliance in each
township If we form an alliance in the villages
the members are usually compelled to pay big
rent for a place to meet ill., and then are taken in
hand by profit managers who infest the places,
and are treated to all manner OF sophistry and
Encouragement
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10
FROM A STALWART.

Browns VALLEY, Mimi,
Dec. 80, 1899.
ED. GREAT VEST:
Am glad you say, 'Let the govern
ment take every dollar OF the loan
ing business into their own hands,
and forbid land mortgage to indi-
viduals or corporations"
The sooner we reach that goal the
better for all concerned When the
loaning business is in the hands OF
the State, and the interest reduced
to the lowest safe minimum, our
farmers, and every body else needing
money, or in debt, will feel at last
that the prison bars are broken
down, and Shylock with his "pound
of flesh'' is socially quarentined. Ag-
itate this reform with all your force,
and ring the changes on it until it
lodges in the understandings of men
as a common sense policy. Down
with respectable robbery-up with
the inalienable rights of labor!
And on the eve of this reform push
forward to the next, correlate with
1.-THE transfer of the elevator sys-
TEN into the hands of the State, and
have a state supervise, as custodian,
the prices and sales of all our pro-
auctions; and the produce gamblers
step down and out to learn in the
''sweet by and by" that no man is
entitled to compensation until it is
earned. J. O. BARRETT.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19
THE CROPS.

The month of June closing with one
of the most dattering crop prospects that
the average Dakotan could wish for.
The frequent showers during the past
two or three weeks have sent grain of all
kinds up at a rapid rate In fact every
thing is further along and there has
more rain fallen in the Hills coun-
try than for number of years
past, up to present date. Several farmers
report fine stands of wheat from twelve
to eighteen inches high and other crops
doing equally as well. If some of the
forty-acre farmers in the East would
drop into Meade county at the present
time and see the magnificent foliage that
nature and a rich soil has covered the
foothills with and the prosperous farms
scattered throughout them, they would
be apt to forget in what direction the
East is. In Eastern Dakota, although
no heavy rains had fallen up till the last
of May, the outlook at the present time
is quite promising.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19
WITHOUT AN ORGAN.

The honest and true democrats of
Meade county who pinned their faith to
certain alleged democratic newspaper
less than two years ago with the belief
that it would lead them out of the wild
erness, are now in worse pIedicament
than ever. This great political apostle
was going to revolutionize the universe;
he was going to perform greater miracu
lous things than Christ did when upon
earth-he was. But what has he done?
He has led the democracy to the edge of
the precipice and is now ready to kick it
headlong into the bottomless abyss be-
low with as little feeling and respect for
the men who made it possible for him to
get a foothold in this county as though
he were killing dog. The ADVERTISER
is prepared for this sudden change of
heart that comes over the person in
question. In fact the files of the AD-
vERT1sER will show that this paper long
since told the people of Meade county
just what Knowles was and what they
could expect of him. Ifheis man of any
principle his most intimate friends have
failed to find sparkle of it lurking in
his putrid political system,
Those who attempt to fellow him in
this Independent movement will soon be
left as unmercifully to shift for them
selves as have the democrats at the pres
ent time. A leader without principle is
a dangerous element to society, and a
man who has never made a success of
anything whatsoever that adds to the
wealth, prosperity, morality or society
of a country, is character that wise
men avoid counseling with.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19
No Republican Paper in His.

G. s. Branch, Of the Minneapolis Jour
nal, was in town one day this week, and
as usual with all newspaper men was
setting forth the merits of his paper,
whereupon one of our blunt, outspoken
citizens said he was democrat and
didn't want any republican paper in his.
Mr.. Branch good d-naturedly said that he
reminded him of the following story:
Once upon time an old man died
among strangers, and as no relatives or
friends came to claim the corpse the
town authorities ordered him to be buried
in a pauper's grave. The undertaken
nailed few hemlock boards together
and putting the old man in started for
the potters field. As he was nearing the
resting place of the dead the undertaken
espied young man riding with horse
afoam and rolling in the spurs. As the
young man approached he yelled
Hold on there, Mr.. Undertaken.
think you have father in there where
upon the undertaken wheeled around
and returned to the morgue. AS he
knocked the boards off of the old hem
lock box the young man with tears
streaming down his face said: Yes, yes,
that is father and turning to the under
taker said, sTake the old man out ol
there and put new shroud on him, and
put him in one of your best coffins. ]
will give father decent burial
AS the undertaken with velvet hand
and gentleness of a child was lifting the
deceased from the old hemlock box tc
tile new mahogony coffin the old mans
! jaw spread apart and d set of false teeth
slipped out The young man seeing
this, with beaming eyes and spreading
smiles, exclaimed No, DO, there is some
mistake here This Is not father father
never used false teeth.
The undertaken becoming Disguised
and disappointed seized the old man BY
the heels and hair of his head and threw
| him back into the old he1nlock box and
said; There, il you had kept youl
| a a mouth shut you might have had I
! decent burial. !"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19

The ADVERTISER is pleased to notice
that the proprietors Of the Sioux City
Journal have commenced the publication
of Monday morning issue. The Jour
nal is not only first-claas newspaper,
but one Of its principal features is the
interest it takes ID all Black Hills mat
ters and ii giving the most important
South Dakota news ITS circulation in
the Hills should be largely increased.
We hope the Monday morning paper
viii be as successful financially as II Is
ii tho way 81 4 No. pexspaper.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19

The ADVERTISER is in receipt Of a
speech delivered short Time since in the
senate by Hon. John z. Jones, of Ne
vada, on the free coinage Of silver. The
senator makes a strong plea in behalf Of
the measure, which no doubt made many
friends Of the bill. The West demands
the free coinage Of silver, and if Western
men in congress will stand as q unit up
on the question success will surely fol-
low.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-19
POLITICAL BJsHWHAoKERs.

The Journal OF this city in its issue Of
Saturday makes a syenemous attack on
Senator Moody, declaring among other
vicious things ..that should his candi-
dacy again be an issue the republican
ticket will suffer defeat in every Black
Hills county, The Journal names a
score or SO Of republicans, beginning
with Edward VanCise and winding up.
with John P. Belding, either Of whom it
declares to be the equal or superior Of
Senator Moody. This is paying high
compliment to the gentlemen it names,
which will no doubt be fully appreciated,
for our senator, through his ability and
energy. stands foremost among the rep
resentatives of the new state. During
his brief term he has already received
many marks Of distinction from the SEN
ate, having been the recipient of signal
honor hitherto in ths sistory of the sen
ate accorded only til three instances, and
then to such statesmen as Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster and Roscoe Conkling
that of the craftsmanship of committee
during his first term of service. Every
true republican in the state feels proud
Of the status acquired by their senator,
not only as a matter of sentiment, but
|
because they realize in it their senator
being placed in position Of greater in
fuence and power to serve the state;
which feelings are no doubt participated
in by every patriotic citizen of South
Dakota-save and except few sordid
misanthropic souls whose mission is to
tear down instead of building up, who
are either being consumed by pent up
ambition, or are blinded to all proprie-
ties by ranking jealousy and personal
hatred.