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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
Secret Sessions.

There can be no question but that
the Farmers Alliance should have
some secresy attached to it. Last
week this Journal would have sent
two important facts by circular to
every alliance in Minnesota if it
would not have been a waste of time
and expense. The ''ritual' of the
Southern Alliance, in it's secret work
is exceedingly simple, and nothing
could be urged against it if any mem
ber will keep his simple word. There
are affirmations where the oath is
Objectionable. Last year the most
important fact regarding the tariff
attitude of one of the old parties
could have been given-direct from
the instructions OF a National Com
mittee to the state committees. Our
opinion is that closed doors at GER
tain times are essential to success.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
There are hearts, and there are

There are hearts, and there are
hearts. But some of them would
take the edge off a trip hammer. We
have seen miners-and heard of 9th
ers-who dig coal for from 73c. to
9Oc. q ton. 1t is known that two
cold boiled potatoes are the feast
in which they dissipate at their dark
noontide meal. But amid the shame
less rascalities of a pitiless system
we have never seen the following ex-
celled in all the cruel histories of the
past. Nero scraped catgut on
Rome's flaming battlements, but
these Internal hellions would have
fiddled on the sizzling corpses OF
the Roman victims. The statement
is verified by the N. Y World:
No fair-minded man can read the
story OF Ausable Forks in the Sun
day World and fail to see that this
little New York mining village is
blighted by system of extortion
and greed which only compulsory
weekly payments can remedy. The
case OF Jesse Poole, who has worked
for an iron company forty years,
who has never known a pay day and
who now finds himself $500 in debt
to the company is more worthy of
Siberia than of the Empire State.
The company store,' the company
doctor, the company system ofcredit
and lack OF pay days have made him
essentially a slave. 1t is notorious
that the prices OF the company store
have always been at least 20 per
cent higher than the current figures.
Had Jesse Poole been paid weekly in
cash and had he made tie same pur-
chases in open market he would have
possessed $2,40O to-day instead of
being 5000 in debt! There are other
Ausable Forks and other Jesse
Pooles.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
ST 90 A YEAR IN ADVANCE ST.
Editor Sheets, of the Todd Count,

Editor Sheets, of the Todd County
Argus takes us to task for our ex-
pose Of the robbery going on in his
county. He fails to touch the ques-
tion at issue. He tells us personally
that their branch road is exceedingly
liberal to shippers.
Now Mr.. Sheets is an honest man
and we fully believe he is a thoroughly
honest editor. He simply cannot get
under the facts located where he is.
Next week we will publish some
sample facts to show that their rail-
road is actually trying out" every
dollar OF legitimate profit which the
farmer should make. tits impossible
to let this robbing go on without
exposure.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

The National Alliance Insurance
Company, now being organized
throughout the states. is both stock
and mutual, mutual to Alliance
members) and is in every detail a
home company. It's business is Who'll
~ confined to each state in which it
locates. The parties who undertook
to deliver the Minnesota State Alli-
ance, bound hand and foot by a paid
official in every suballiance, and
band of four great warehouses sad
died and bridled with paid up stock,
to lead, make the excuse for the be-
trayal of the contract with the Ma
tional Alliance Co., that it was not a
"home" company!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Here is qualification for member
shin in the Alliance suggested for
consideration: "Any person is eligi-
ble for membership who can declare
before the suballiance that he receives
his entire support by the cultivation
OF land, either his own or by rental,
and not by professional or mercan-
tile pursuits-or that he is in the en-
ploy CT some department OF the state
alliance without other means OF sup
port"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

We wish to correct an error made
last week in reference to alliance
membership. In naming those who
do not live on their farms Mr.. Don
nelly was mentioned. Mr.. D. does
live on his farm, and cultivates it-or
portion OF it. Besides that he has
Just lost a farm under a mortgage
and 81, , 100 Judgment.
Since writing the article on Mem
bership it has occurred to us that the
matter should have full discussion at
the state meeting; and every one
should be prepared to accept the
verdict Of the majority. AS a work
er in Alliance matters for years, and
fully believing in it's wisdom, we feel
that those who are employed by the
alliance, and those who are devoting
all their time to alliance work, should
be members. Still, there are two
sides to the question-and this paper
will stand by the Judgment OF the
annual meeting. The decision should
be clear and unequivocal as to
whether the applicant should live on
his farm.
Perhaps a clear line can be drawn
on the main source of income-a loan
agent might own farm! And yet
no one would consider a loan
agent as proper person for
membership. Some loan agents
are doubtless kind hearted men and
upright. But the business would not
could dnot-harmonize with alliance
work. At least, we so understand
the sentiment of the Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

An alliance friend asks us what are
the state dues of an alliance of 18
charter members and 80 present
membership?
They owe soc. for every member or
$50 for the membership of 80. If any
members fail to meet the dues pay
ment the suballiance can carry him
If they chOOse-but the state secre-
tary must get the dues on the books
at this end all right.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
We are afraid it is Ignorance.

we are afraid it is ignorance.
We dislike very much indeed to
speak OF SO courteous and cosmopoli-
tan a journal as the New York "Finan-
cier" in words even surmising the
above sentence. 1t surely is not said
Tin the language Of the southern or
ator,) as an "insinuendo" or an in
ference that in all things this able
journal is trife shadowy-for in
general it commands respect. But of
all heel-and-toe polkas among facts
on the waxed floor of corrupt his
tory-the following is the most re-
markable for general hyperbolical
tumefactionO:
THE LITERAL SUPPRESSION OF RAILROADS I'M THE
STATE OF IOWA.
We would like to know Iowa's conduct to-
ward it's railway service ID not sufficiently serioua
to warrant National In reference.
State rights may not permit such q course but
IN the interests Of the people it would seem az II
an amendment to our Constitution would be in
order. making it SO.
That State IL allowed to obstruct traffic that
Is national In character and seQuester it's proper
ty, as late Iowa State court decisions command
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

The Odious MiIIers' Association
Has concluded to subside under the
brush. Its place is taken by new
organization to be known as the
GRAIN RECEIVERS ASSOCIATION.
This will include every man who buys,
CANDLES in, or grinds, grain. Its
headquarters will be on the floor OF
the Chamber of Commerce, Minneapo-
lis. Farmers, look out for this! You
will soon find that it will get it's
claws into every granary in the
land. 1t will have excuses for it's ex-
istence. We can give you the real
cause of it's existence. The informa-
ton and education of the farmer by
the GREAT WEST is slowly but surely
ripping open the present methods.
This new association will need atten-
tion-and it will get it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

We have been informed that the
Secretary's minutes of the Blue Earth
County Convention were abstracted
in some peculiar manner-and that
in the published report the name OF
Mr.. P. McGrath, the delegate, was
omitted. The object has not been
discovered as yet.
We hope this loss OF records, etc.,
was the res ult of some error, and not
by design. Our correspondent, how
ever, thinks certain personal inter-
ests were involved, and says there is
a feeling there that personalinterests
will work for the mastery March 4th.
We can assure our friend, from a
correspondence OF from 80 to Is let
tiers day, that the loyal feeling of
the alliance all over the state is over
whelming, and those who have been
seeking to use the alliance for per-
sonal advantage will be-not slaugh-
tered exactly-but forgotten!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Hon. Ignatius Donnelley, State
Lecturer of the Alliance, is now alb
sent for the state, lecturing in
Ohio, Indiana, etc. He speaks to-
night at Cincinnati on the question
of the authorship of the Shakes
peare Plays" He will return, how
ever, in time to attend the great Al
lance meeting at Hastings on the
9th inst.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
copies.

The Co-operator, OF La Crescent,
Minn., clubs with the GREAT WEST
and q live Farm Journal-all three
for $50! The Co-operator is an
out-and-out local alliance paper, and
is the kind OF papert to have in every
community. Mr.. Brown, the Editor,
ia a staunch man whom the farmers
should stand by-even if they don't
agree in everything.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
THE RAILROAD BONUS,

Farmers, will you aid in getting paid
railroads Of Bonuses?
declined to publish them in their reports!
Write Of County, OF your Township,
age cty-or Of other County, Township n
Alliances
ciallyat earliest possible moment
Let each write personally
section will all the
WEST.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Every week we have laid by some
splendid communications, not having
room for all-but this week we stuck
our fist into the pile midway, and
took fresh start. Keep on writing,
brethren-there's a mighty sight OF
comfort in them even if We can't set
all the type in st. Paul.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

The proxy blanks furnished by
Prof. Allison in Ada County were Civ
en- on request to avoid the expense
of travel for so great a distance
The new regulation had not then
been adopted in reference to proxies
They are detrimental to any organ
izatiOn.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Next week we will give the cores
pondence of c. P. Huntington, OF the
Pacific Railways-an exposure laying
bare the Internal purchase and sale
of the United States Government.
The issue will also be filled with "cam-
naipn literature" An edition OF 25,-
600 will be issued. Send for sample
nonioS
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Who will sit calmly down and write
the history of the financial legisla-
tion of this country for twenty-five
years? Wonderful nerve it takes to
go through with it! Shades OF Wash
ingtOn, and Jefferson! If the wrongs.
of toll could rise like ashadowy cloud
and overspread the nation, there
would nothing remain but withered
leaves and broken lives where the
glorified promises OF the young re-
public of '76 bloomed in earlier
years. What a historv-what a tale!
What crimes against the common
wealth! The blood, and bone, and
muscle, OF the nation left at the
mercy OF the Exchangers-those who
only make money by selvidge on
those who toll! All the Jurisprudence
of the nation-all the protection of
the government lowering about the
banker, the financier, the lawyer, the
legislator, the money-loaner! Even
the price of his produce is dictated to
the producer-and the cost of his
purchases gauged by pools of the
most infamous nature
Yet this is a republic in which the
poor man can vote as many times
as the millionaire.
This is all true-,a ~ .o
stand it c"' 'A .
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
THE MANFRED ALLIANCE RESOLVES.

Resolved, That we appreciate the
stand taken by Charles Coghlan in
the Dawson Sentinel in behalf of the
Farmers Alliance and heartily rec
ommend his paper to the patronage
of the farmers OF the county and
state.
Resolved, That we will stick to
the GREAT WEST as long as DR.. Fish
breaches from the monopoly text
whether the Madison Press likes it or
not. JOHN LATHROP,
S. II. HOOPER, President.
Secretary.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

1t is good time now for the r. RS
OF this state to take warning. "By
the eternal it won't be many years
before every system in this state will
have to shell out their robberies of
this yea1-just as the gorgeous Rock
Island & Pacific is now shelling out
in Iowa for their piracies of 1880!
How wonderful it is for these roads
to discover that the Iowa Alliance
has a backbone! The actual fact is
that SO long have these roads been
the masters of the people that they
do not realize their iniquities.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

One OF the most corrupt men in
Minnesota, who boasts ofhis earning
his boodle, says the least said of the
insurance matters" by any one, the
better for them. Why, man, that is
an old racket-too old. Lay your
ancient alliance sell-outs on the shelf.
and please don't hurt us with any
wisdom.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Our reduced rates extend into Iowa
as far south as the Rock Island road.
and throughout the Dakotas. Any
one can get the reduction.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

In buying your ticket to the State
Alliance do not forget to get your
certificate of the local agent. This
must be done to get reduced rates.
Anv one coming to the meeting can
uet the reduction-even from north
ern Iowa and the DakOtas.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
Notice..

We are informed that if any SUBJ
alliances are organized too late to
get their charters by mail they can
receive them at the state meeting
and their delegates will be admitted
as others.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
The headquarters of the Secy OF the
Alliance, Mr.. Haigh, will be at the
Clarendon Hotel.
The headquarters of the GREAT
WEST, beginning Tuesday morning,
will be at the Clarendon.

What's the matter with building
township mills on the railroad plan ?
Never invest a dollar and make the
Plutes pay for them!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Parties who get two papers will
please let us know-as we have agen-
eral list on which frequently we find
subscribers names. Meanwhile hand
the extra copy to your neighbors.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

1t is amusing to hear some OF the
party organs tell about reform! AS
little as a bob-tail bluebird knows OF
botany it is more than a Doodle
boomer knows OF honor.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

A communication from Mr.. Brand
borg, OF Henning, was put over last
week-and now we are compelled to
postpone again. It's the editors fate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES.

To the Annual to the Cy Monday even
get Tuesday morning remain over until
Thursday evening.
When buy ticket get of agent
cae which to third neglect this
wish help the matter Of getting boarding place you
get street either Sts
OF Fifth and Robert Fifth and Jackson
1853 Wabasha St. to the Office Of the GREAT
the ground floor the Dunlap Block above the
o will be Monday night until probably later
Tuesday morning from o'clock throughout three days
the Headquarters the GREAT WEST the
First Floor (above ofice) OF the Clarendon Hotel
We have made arrangements during
low Parties direct hotels are
attending the Alliance they
full information The following is the schedule arranged
Regular Rates To Alliance
Windsor Hotel so to 81 90.
Clifton House. 2OOto 200
clarendon 2OOto 3OO.................. 15O
Central l5Oto
Elite Boarding opposite Capitol Bldg rates Alliance 81 90
Ten other boarding houses within Capo
$1 90 per day
The following the capacities of above rates.
At 50. 90 day, 300 persons. '
At ST. day, $50 persons.
At $1.25 day, Is persons.
At ST. day, $50 persons. ~Ef
Letters be sent to us requesting to locate places at
day, at our Clarendon Headquarters afterward.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Men may shout and fools may
sneer, but all the same no mortgages
are taken on real estate now for less
than 15 per cent straight, besides
commissions. Under the develop
ment OF our currency relations after
the resumption of specie pay
ments, ten per cent meant certain
portion OF the production of land.
Seventy-five bushels of wheat paid
the interest on a thousand dollars.
and often far less than that. Today.
by design and special legislative con-
trivance, it takes over 16O bushels.
This is in fact-in real truth, a twenty
per cent interest.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

The orator who said "Let Patriot
ism hold it's sway is now quoted as
saving: LET Patriotism hold its
swag."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21
Iowa BACK Dues. 4"

The Iowa Courts are still turning
out decisions at the suit of the state,
backed by the Alliance sentiment.
It does make the money organs
howl though.
Those eastern journals should 60
out to Iowa apd tell the people what
harridans they are out there.
They would discover that the rail
roads have made a million dollars
more money this year than last.
They would discover that western
alliances propose to make robbers
shell out their Doodle even many
moons after the theft-they would
find that they look upon railroads
as they do other pirates and cut
throats, pretty much-only a trife
more cowardly.
The idea that there has been no con-
struction there of railways the past
year is a good one to circulate.
This fact has done more to encourage
immigration to Iowa than all it's
other advantages. At last we have
one state in which there is let up
in railway bonding. Praise God for
his manifold and boundless blessings.
He chastises many times and with
great severity-but he always let's
up when the victim shows a prorcoor
spirit in the line OF duty. II II the daily
papers will adr;ortise the fact that
for a =nnole year there has been no
railway bonding or building in Iowa,
her population will double in single
year. The rest of these eastern edi-
tors lunacy we can forgive-because
jobbing houses don't mortgage
their patrons farms in advance Of
the purchases every railway
bond is a mortgage in fact.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Do not let any one say to you that
the National Alliance Insurance Com
pany is not a ''home" company. 1t
is. 1t is made National SO that $780,
900 OF capital will meet the legal de-
mands of all the states. Otherwise
there must be 100000 in every diff
ferent state! There are enemies OF
the Alliance who want to control it
and if the grand movement, with a
paper and companies gets beyond
their reach. they can no longer con-
troll it, or sell it out. That is tho
secret of that quarrel at st. Louis,
and it is the secret of that "going
back" on a written contract with the
Dakota alliance. A few politicians
do not control the Dakota Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

A new era is not far off-it glim-
mers-let her glim thro' the glume.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-21

Practically, the State Alliance of
Minnesota is a unit. There is really
no division or strife in it's ranks.
There has been, it is true, some
what infamed local spot on the
body polite, which was gently, and
we trust wholly, removed. The habit
OF monkeying with professional poll
ticians, and selling out so much in
fluence for so much cash or so much
office-fat, had become pretty well
fastened upon some of our older al
lance officials. The rapid and loyal
growth OF a faithful spirit through
out the state demanded that such
tumors should be ''excised'- off.
But beyond that there is not rifle
on the surface-nor underneath.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-21
CLEAN BEDS,
idaho City. Aug. l2, iss7---ti
Order to show Cause WY Order
OF Sale of Real Estate Should
not be Made.

In the Probate Court Of the County OF
Boise, Territory of Idaho.
In the matter of the estate of \. Hoover,
dec, ascd.
5 {. Silsby, the administrator Of the
estate of n Hoover, deceased having
flied his petition herein praying for an
order of sale OF the real estate of said de-
cedsni for The purposes therein set forth
II is therefore ordered by the Judge OF
said Court. that all persons interested in
the estate ot said deceased, appear before
the said Probate Count OF
Thursday, the % Day Of Janury, 1890,
Al 10 O'Clock in the forenoon OF said day,
at the court room of said Court at idaho
CITY, in said County at Boise, 10 show
cause why an order should not be granted
Ia The said administrator To sell sn much
of the real estate of the said deceased as
sha be necessary.
And that copy of this order be pub.
lished ut least four successive weeks in
the lDAuo WORLD, a newspaper printed
and published IN said Boise county.
I. 5. HART,
Judge of the Probate Court
Dutcd December -, 1882.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-21
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AdYiee to ilOlnern.

Mas. WINsLow's SooTHISa SYRUP, for
children teething, is the prescription OF
one OF the best female nurses and physi-
clans in the United States, and has been
lsed for forty years with neycr-tailing
success by millions OF mothers for Their
children During the process of teethinp
lis value Is incalculablc. 1t relieves the
child from pain, cures dyseniery and di
arrh9a, gripping in the bowels, and wind
collie. BY giving health to the child il
rests the mother. Price, 25c. a bottle.
Feb %. lss.-yi.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-21

Congress has been asked to appro-
pirate several millions for the pur-
pose of building postofiices in wes-
tern towns. 1t is claimed that suita-
BILE buildings cannot be rented ex-
cept at a great expense. Many are
in favor OF bill which proposes to
appropriate sufficient to put up n
building for every postotficc, the re-
ceipts OF which are over $4,000 pei
annum, the said buildings to cost be
tween $4,000 aud $4,000 each &C
cording to the size and Importance Of
the respective towns.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-21

heated ~ the owners OF the Princes $
Midren; then comes the Sarah Ann
and further on tho Lavere. These
placers are all remarkably rich, a
plain gold finger ring being made
from two pans of dirt. This locality
is very easy Of access, being only
four hours drive from Boise City,
over the main Overland road to
Blacks Station, thence up Black
Creek five miles
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-21
To Delinquent Tax Payers.

Notice is hereby given that I have
this day levied upon the following DIES
cribed property in accordance with law,
and that on Tuesday, February A, 1890
between the hours of 10 O'Clock n. m. aud
3 O'Clock p. m. Of said day, in front Of
the court house of Boise county, | will in
OBJ dieuce To law in this case made and
provided, commence to sell the following
described property, or so much rs may
be necessary to satisfy the taxes and costs
thereof