The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07

AAAAO OOAoCA AAA1CACC, SATURDAY ULc
25th, and are adding to our num-
bers every meeting. The prevailing
feeling among u he farmers in this
vicinity is that we have got to- act
together or go under. The GREAT
WEST is doing a good work. Success
to you. Yours truly,
en-. PERKINS,.
Mcleod Co..
WseoNA, Mino., Jany 1890
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
II is an established fact with any,
body that alnRailroad Companies i'm
common, are nothing but a gigan-
tic swindles and monopolies, and for
that reason our government or con-
gress, should at once purchase some.
lines, for instance the onion Pacific.
(Which we have paid for twice al
ready, )'the Wabash System and all
those roads which are under Re-
ceiver's< hands, lat their present value.
lit bonus given; with that deducted
that the government might expert
ment for some time with them.
Then, as soon; as possible buy all
other lines needed, only not the COM
peting lines, as we do not need them.
All that is necessary is one line
through the same section of the.
country.
All readers OF your paper have read
the item (Jhn. Ill., on Hungarian
Railroads and as your paper states
it, SO it is candid fact and why
can't our congress- do the same.
REINHoLn ZEGL1N.
We are sorry to cut this good let
ter short, as we are doing with all
but we have a huge pile to print!
MYRrA, MINI, Jan. 20, 80.
Ed. GREAT"WEsr:
The GREAT WEST has come to this
office for some weeks and l am
free to say tile more, l read it the.
better l like it. 1t is red hot on all
monopolles and'it ought to be read
by every farmer in the west.
''The truth will make, them free"
l fully sympathize with your noble
efforts to pull the scales from of
farmers eyes and hope you will sue
coed in educating them to see who
are their friends, and who are rob-
bling them. "There, are none SO
blind as those who can see but wont
see."
The idea OF farmer being a high
tariff advocate is something SO ride.
ulousay inconsistent with his sur
rOundings and | may say his very
existence;. sometimes think they
"can see but won't see.7
High tariff and railroad bonuses
are but synonyms for robbery,-in
either'case you lose Nour money and
when your last cent is gone. the
plundersTs greed is 30 great that.
like poor Oliver Twisa, they hold out
their hands for more. Notwithstand-.
ing the people of Minnesota have do
mated to the railroads of this state
over IA millions of acres of land
which is more than one-fourth the.
area OF the entire saate-and some
thing like $75, 900 600 in municipal
aid in the form OF bonuses, the Chica-
go, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
railroad company had the cheek to.
ask OF this town (Vermont Center.
Blue Earth Co. to give them 81, 800
in bonds to run 20 yards at Z per
cent, and in order to be sure to carry
the vote in favor of the robbery, the
r. R. company caused men to be.
shipped in, ostensibly to cut wood.
but in fact to- gain a ten days resi-
dence to enable them to vote the
bonds. This was actually done. and
the very day of the election, after
they had voted, these same parties
left for new fields to plumber and so
far as know, have never been in the
town since. The town has paid in
terest on those bonds for II wears
amtg to IS, IT'S and reduced the prin-
cipal $500. Garden City, the town
north, voted $12. 500, the same time
and the same infamous scheme was
resOrted to in that town to carry tho
vote in the rail roads favor. / am
asked if l am in favor of repudia-
ton? l say yes; in favor of reprd;-
ating thieves and robbers, There
can be but one of two conclusions
High tariffs and bonuses are either
right, or they are wrong.
| claim the latter, and the man
who advocates either, is either q fool
or a knave. The same princinIe
which would cause my neiehbors to
vote dollar of my money from NV
pocket to put into his, would laad
that neighbor to my granary to rob
me OF my wheat. Because the law law
say ne can, don't make it any the
less steal, or to use a more correct
term, a robbery. <