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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

T. L. & J. S. DeLancey's Percherons.
On one of our pages this week we
publish the cut of T. L. & J. s. De-
Lancey's Stallion "Plongeon 1862
(7131)" Which is true likeness of
this famous horse.
Plongeon won first prize as 3
year old at the MINI, State Fair in
1887 and is the horse that took first
prize in the 5 year old and over class
at the same fair last fall.
The following is copied from Messrs
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
CrOOkstOn Journal:

CrOOkstOn Journal:
We claim to be the "Land of the
Free!" ''The Land where the down.
trodden serf of other lands finds relief
from the iron heel of the oppressor, ("
and we come as near being it as any
land under the sun to-day, but the
fact exists that farmers are fast be-
ing reduced to the position OF serfs
which shows that Uncle Sam better
take a look over his farm and see
what the trouble is so that he can
apply the remedy. He has an i'm
mense surplus on hand which the
farmers need. Why could he not
loan it out to them at low rates,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
Progressive Farmer:

Progressive Farmer:
Yes, farming pays handsomely. 1t
pays the railroads.&c. pays the man.
ufacturers-it pays the speculator-
it pays the political tricksters, it
pays the professional men, it pays
the merchandise pays the money
barons. it pays the banks, it pays
almost everybody-exce the farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

store-which has brought down prices
to a singular extent throughout the
little city-for it sells generally about
25 per cent less than former prices.
We investigated the railway by
which people get to Viroqua, but the
examination is given in the editorial
columns.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
FROM TEXAS

Pat. B. Clark, Esq, of Madras,
Texas, sends us a list of 33 names.
Texas is alive and getting ''aliver''
every hour.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
Albert Lea Standard:

Albert Lea Standard:
After having helped to rob the
farmers through the Minneapolis
Millers' Association for a score of
years, Fred c. Pillsbury has got him
self elected president of the state
agricultural society, for the purpose,
it may be assumed, of making partial
reparation for the sins he has com
mitted. But he will hardly restore
to the farmers any of their ducats
when they visit the state fair, and he
is not likely to embody in his annual
address the report of the experts of
the English syndicate on the profits
of the Minneapolis mills.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31

these papers, but one or two in every
Alliance is better than to have none.
In this war the farmer must keep
himself posted on current events, for
in no other way can he cope with an
enemy who keeps fully advised OF
every movement of the farmer. The
two papers we mention make spec
ialty of these matters, and hence are
invaluable to the farmer, for they
are in position to see and under
stand what is transpiring against
the interests OF farming, and are not
a bit backward in exposing every
fraud they see. We can see no better
means for keeping up the interest.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-31
THE BAND GIVES THEM 4
SALUTE!
Mass Meeting at Viroqua, Wis.

Mass Meeting at Viroqua, Wis.
''Last week Saturday the farmers in
the vicinity of Viroqua turned out in
force to listen to the editor of the
GREAT WEST at the court house.
The town was crowded with teams,
and bv two o'clock the streets were
so full that it was almost impossible
to pass. At one o'clock the brass
band came out and played upon the
streets for half an hour, and any one
would have supposed that it was
''circus day."
At two O'Clock the hall was filled,
and at a quarter past two from
twenty to thirty farmers were stand
ing.
Col. Butt, the State President, in
troduced DR.. E. w. Fish with q short
speech, when the DR.. began with a
good deal of force to strike out
straight from the shoulder against
the monopolies. The best part was
where he explained the "bond-sys-
TEN" and what bonds and stocks are.
He was listened to until evening
when farmers from a distance had
to go.
After the speech there was bust
ness meeting. Several new members
Joined the Alliance, and stock was
added to the Alliance store. The
farmers about Viroqua will remem-
Der this meeting a long time"
Viroqua is a pleasant little city
about So miles east and south of La
Crosse. We found, before arrival,
that a Teachers Association was in
session-so we went at once to the
handsome school building, and
heard the teachers discuss the ''Word
Method of teaching children to read.
The Co. Supt., Mr.. Mahoney, called
on us for our views, and forgetting,
for the moment, the editOT-we
crossed over the bridge of years and
became again pedagogue-forgot
bogus stock and took up the bogus
ness of eleven out of twenty-six let
tiers of our wonderful alphabet.
Meeting on the street the young
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that rivets our chains.
Thus the struck eagle. stretched upon the plain.
Never mid rolling clouds to soar again,
Sees his own pinion on the fatal d0rt,
Itwinged the shaft that quivers in his heart. "
Every year our legislatures be-
come more and more rotten. Why
Because every year the amount
stolen from us becomes larger. To
stop the robbery is to insure purity.
If all the world combines against
us we must combine against all
the world. But our motive is nObler.
They unite for purposes OF plumber
we unite for purposes OF self-defence.
The farmers of America to-day are
like lot of sheep surrounded by a
Gordon of wolves, tigers, lions and
jackals, who are decimating them.
The sheep only bleat and die.
The landowners of America ought
to be the aristocracy of America; they
are rapidly becoming its paupers.
Five hundred farms, surrounding one
town in South Dakota, have passed
by mortgage foreclosures into the
hands OF tenants. The New England
States are importing foreigners to
occupy the deserted farms, once the
happy homes of the bold yeomenry
who started the American revolution
OF 1776. The producers of the
United States now pay interest up.
on five billions of watered stock Of
railroad corporations, which never
cost the owners dollar; which does
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Que Minnesota County.

The Alliance in Yellow Medicine
county is srrong-stronger even than has
been reported; but rs no complete can
vass has been made Of the county its ex-
act strength can only be estimated.
The causes for the Alliance movement
taking such u strong hold here are just
as hard to determine as in other coun-
ties in the state where such Il condition
of affairs exists. Perhaps the tariff
question cuts larger figure here thanin
many other counties, but there IS no
more actual knowledge on the subject
among the farmers Of Yellow Medicine
than elsewhere.
The prime cause Of the movement is
to be found in that feeling of restless
ness which has been instiiied into the
farmers mind by the Alliance agitators,
and he is now prepared to kick over the
traces and fight shy of the old parties
Letter in St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
The Chinese as Farmers.

A year ago sold for a friend in San
Francisco Il lot of land in then unbuilt
western suburb a Chinaman had been
using it as Il garden. The land was
sandy and had not more than 800 by $50
feet surface. The Chinaman therefore
had the full use Of about two and one
quarter acres. For this specil of ground
he regularly paid $50 Il month, and he
lived on it with an assistant. lie used
the land to grow vegetables, which he
sold to Cinnamon to be peddled through
the city. Despite the high rent he was
masin:; money. The Rev. MIR. Vroo-
man, HOW Chinese interpreter IN the
California courts, who was for twenty
five years Il missionary at Canton, and
was subsequently, among the Chinese in
Melbourne, Informed me that he knew
of two Chinese in the latter place who
made Il living for themselves and horse
from Il quarter of an acre OF land. In
addition to thus supporting themselves
and the horse they each sent $50 yearly
to their relatives at home.
Chinese now rent at least 10000 acres
Of fruit and bottom lands within q
radius of 100 miles of San Francisco, for
which they pay from four to ten times
what white lessee could afford to pay
for the same. Thomas Magee in Forum.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16

The Mckinley bill threatens to fore
close every farm mortgage. That is
what it was intended to do. That is
what it will do The proof of it is as
clear as the monday sun. If any man
doubts it after reading the facts and Civ
ing them candid consideration let him
give his reasons or hold his peace.
This is the simple truth. It is not ex-
aggerated. 1t is condition, not a the
ory. that now confronts every free and
Independent farmer who owns the prod
uct of his hands. Any exaggeration is
purposeless. for there is no escape. Farm.
ing in the United States is ruined in
dustry. The decree has gone forth. The
bill has been signed. There is no repeal
of it possible.
The farmer must sell out at whate:er
price hs can before the sheriff sells him
up He can gain nothing by voting one
way or another. The time for voting
has passed. He voted in 1883 for his own
ruin, and now it has come upon him. He
has been buncoed by the mill owner out
of his foreign exchange market. and
now he must pay through his nose. Let
him meet his new condition gravely,
soberly. thoughtfully. To howl, to ask
for assistance, to appeal for mercy is not
only undignifed but useless. No one
will lift a finger to help him out Of the
pit he has himself digged, and the mill
owners will have no mercy.-T. E. Will
son in Omaha World-Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
The G.. A. A. q.

The farmers Of New Jersey have a
new organization, based upon the fol-
lowing resolutions:
"Whereas, adversely has overspread all
American agricultural interests; and
whereas, there seems to be no betterment
for the fortunes and conditions Of farm
ers outside of their own individual and
collective resources in manhood, will,
wisdom and strength; therefore, be it
Resolved. That we organize our
selves into a deliberative, Intelligent and
unswervingly resolute national union,
to be known as the Great American Ag-
ricultural union, loyal to all constitu-
tional and patriotic principles of our
great republic, strengthening and ce-
menting the bonds Of sectional union
north, south, east and west by our COM
mon cause and sympathetic interests,
so adjusted as to leave no conflict OF
sectional competition and estrange-
ments.
"And further, be it resolved in this,
that our moral force, by sublime con-
sistency of symmetrical integrity IN
Tr;nciples, in motives and results, shall
be felt and approved throughout the
whole nation: and whereas, we till the
land, feed all mankind, and are in truth
tie source and dependence of all pros
perity, mechanical and commercial, be
it therefore
Resolved, That we know henceforth
but one party or purpose politically, and
only vote as one man for the good OF all,
rs agreed by the union"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Eayseed Is Risin'.

We k1r nh oS ,rs remember how along about Sep.
tembCr
The papers used ter tell about the caucus or the
f.ir,
End them fcllers frum the city used ter git aI
n.;Lty witty
. On the rc!ler with the duster what had haysced
in lis hair.
They he'd fun in Legislators with the man what
raised pertaters,
If Ey airy hook or crook or chance elected and
End tha rcportorial friskers used ter comment on
the wiiiSlc"S
End the carpc!sack Of Billson, what had hay
seed in his hair.
Yes, b'gosh: he rid his pass out END he used ter
blow the gas OIt
End he lscd trT drink hard cider when he wen.
End lie rIi"d ter pinch q dollar TIL the blzzard
used t. hocr,
End the ilum cut up ree-e-diklous what had hay
seed in his hair.
But, by gum! eff you've been readn you observe
strange purceedin-
It's the Teller with chin whskcrs that is slowly
gittin' there.
End 1t won't be too surprisin' CT by slowly organ
izin'
Old parties may wake up tew find the hayseeds
in their hair.
When the fashions change you fcllers will all
carry green umbreliers
End trousers wide across the scat to make the
dudelcS stare;
In them times ef you pass muster you Ilust wear
linen duster,
End ef you wunt tew throw on style put hay
seed in your hair.
"A. T. Worden in Judge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Their Platform.

The Franklin County Farmers ALI
ance, which was organized at Gahanna,
O., recently, adopted the following series
of resolutions:
"Resolved, That we demand that there
shall be return of politics to the peo-
pie, so that they, and not politicians,
shall manage public affairs.
"Second-That the people in their pri-
mary meetings shall have supreme con-
troll over all public servants the same as
business firm: that they (the people)
shall. when in their judgment their
servants are derelict and corrupt, recall
them from position and place others in
their stead by simple majority vote in
their primary capacity.
"Third-That the income of officials,
both state and county, shall be reduced
to a fixed salary, the fee and commits
sion system abolished. covering all such
into the county treasury, and that no
county official shall receive over 800 per
month.
"Fourth-That all personal property
in the form of notes, bonds, mortgages,
stocks and other evidences of indebted
ness shall be listed by assessors and
stamped, and where any owner of the
same refuses or fails to report such the
said notes, bonds, mortgages. stocks and
other evidences of Indebtedness due said
owner shall be exempted from all laws
for the collection.
"Fifth-We hold that whoever con-
trolls the public highways Of country
is master of that country, and that the
function of railroad is to carry freight
and passengers as expeditiously and
cheaply as possible, and not for the sole
purpose of running the distribution Of a
country to put big dividends into the
pockets Of few.
"Sixth-We hold that the instruments
Of production and distribution belong Of
right to the laborers and workers (the
people), and should be under their sole
control and for their benefit, and not to
put big profits into the hands Of the
idlers.
"Seventh-That the members Of the
Franklin County Alliance will vote for
no candidate at the election in November
next unless he pledges himself to vote or
use his influence in every way in opposi-
ton to rings and trusts Of every kind
whose object is to limit production, de-
stroy competition. create artificial scare
ity and enhance prices"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
READING THE KINGS LETTER.

and the best thing that can be read OF it
is found on its tombstone. Hc wants to
go west, he says, where hope fires the
eye and warns the heart, and where wet
eyed and somber memory is perpetually
out of a job.
No, it is not encouraging to know, as |
do, the woes of the great who are i'll our
set. If the reader could come with me
to my bright, warm library, where the
glowing fire lights up the rich carving
and inlaid work that delights the eye on
every hand, and read over my shoulder
Of the cark and care and cankering sor-
rows of those elnperors who are intimate
with me, and who thus pour out their
whole sad hearts to me, and ask me over
and over again to get them places on the
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@xA AW
-

The Definition Is What the Quality Isn't
Teacher Gn Chinese missiont1 won
der how many of you know the meaning
of mercy" iAl hands up.) Very
good. Now you, Chang, may give us
an illustration of its meaning.
Chang-Melican lady give Chinee boy
glishes to wash. One plate fall on floor
him blake in Thousand fifteen pieces.
Mclean lady ely loud, "Oh, mercy!-
Puck.
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paper, he would understand that it Is
not everything to have brass band Of
your own that plays what you like all
the time. nor all joy to be so great and
so powerful that you can have slrup
twice on your cakes if you choose. or get
excused from jury duty on the grounds
that you have to reign on that day
Seriously. hope that this car scare
will blow over. and that we MAY use our
bombs for nest eggs in the spring. and
that all may yet be well. | have too
much faith in the great, strong heart OF
tine American people to believe rGat they
are in favor of czar. and ] :;!ao fee!
that if could have an hours Nulat :alk
with Mr.. Reed, after the members had
gone home and the sergeant-at-arIrs is
sweeping out, could convince him that
GEARING is no kind of a way to live, and
that there is feeling against it. espe-
cially at Wateville and Kendalls Mills.
Somehow feel it in My heart that as
soon as Mr.. Reed looks the situation in
the eye and reads this piece be will be
man enough to say to himself, What
ever betide, ] will not be great coarse
czar."
While his constituents ut home dld
not jump OH him with that fervor which
many of us had expected, Mr.. Reed, !
am sure, would not knowingly become
hateful tyrant, with blood on his boot
legs and back yard full of fostering
corpses
Let us all. SO far as we are able, throw
every lender, gentle influence around
him, and we can save him before he mas
got taste Of human blood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Alliance Victories.

The victory tho Alliance has gained
in Georgia will undoubtedly make it
more aggressive and determined to &C
complish it's purpose. 1t has captured
the regular Democratic organization in
South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia,
ard nothing in that party seems to be
ablo to stand before it.-Philadelphia
prnsc
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16

Here is an actual fact occurring at
Phillips academy but few days ago:
Professor giving lecture upon the rhi-
noceros)-I must beg you to give me
your undivided attention, gentlemen!
1t is absolutely impossible that you can
form true idea of this hideous animal
unless you keep your eyes fixed ca me.
Lawrence American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Two Points Of View.

EcncIict--A baby asleep always makes
me thin,; Of heaven.
Bachelor-lt always makes me think
what blessed thing sleep is.-Munsey's S
Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Theatrical Note.

Little JOHNNY say, pa. what does a
star mean?
. Pa (who is an actor and has starred)-
1t is an abbreviation of starvation, my
sou.-Texas Siftings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16

Fauntleroy OIL the Birth of the Diamond.
L. l.. Fauntleroy-Dearest. don't jew
elers set big diamonds?
Mrs. Fauntleroy-Yes, Cedric.
l.. L. Fauntleroy-Well, dearest, de
the big diamonds hatch out little ones:
Jewellers Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Parried.

Wife-Did you notice Mrs. Summers
bonnet in church this morning?
Husband--No, indeed. 1 was lost tn
admiration of your own.-New York
SrD
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16

Ted-That girl loves me so she is al
most nuisance.
Ned-Do you think she is in her right
mind?-Epoch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
Was 1t in New Jersey or on Staten Island;

Aren't you afraid to leave your win
dow open? The mosquitoes will get in"
mo fear of that The mosquitoes
here are too large to come through that
window. ."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-16
THINKS ON ROYALTY.
BILL NYE TRIES TO DISSUAOE Mr..
Red FROM BEING A CAR.

2o Cites Instances Showing That It's No
Fun 10 Hare to Reign Ten Hours Every
Day. and Assures the Man from Maine
That He wou!dn't Really Like 1t.
tCopyriShr by Edgar w. Nye.l
The terrible suffering and the pitiful
condition oe The working classes through
out the country, so easily traced to the
acts of that tieal in human form known
as Thc1aas y. Reed, of Maine, who has
been very properly called by free. fear
less. brt pcrpetually outraged press the
Gar Of America, leads us to inquire what
is car and whittier are we tending. Ii
had been told forty years ago that amid
the citron groves and spruce gum Vine
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-02-13

For hours we strolled along the intermna-
BILE avenues, now and then seating ourselves
on the terrace steps or upon the vcrdant sward.
OF all the thousands and tens of thousands of
visitors to Paris we alone seemed TO have
chosen day when St Cloud was deserted and
all that b0undcss demesne of glory was ours
to enjoy in coutempativo possession. The
second Sunday afternoon of each month the
fountains play, and throughout all of the last
three Sundays in September, during the Fete
OF st. Cloud, at which times great crowds as
semble The Partisan knows no such thing as
solitary enjoyment. He wants all of his own
and his wiie's relations along whom he seeks
recreation in rnra shades
Our hours of quiet were not without their
significance It gave us ample time to con-
slider the advantages of free Republic, which
opens all the palaces and parks and gardens to
tho people, over the old kingly rule, which
walled IN all that was rare and beautiful for
the personal qualification of few spoiled
favorites OF Gckle fortune
From the gardens we entered the woodland
avenue, or ieafy arcade which leads from the
palace of st. Clond TO the porcelain mauufac-
tory of Sovres, a good 10 minutes walk, NOV.
ing briskly. Overhead the venerable old trees
met with branches so interlocked aud inter.
laced as to form canopy of green so dense as
to Keep oil the raindrops of passing shower
Notified ivies cIopt along the stone walls and
mp and around the moss grown trees.
In the uudulatiug wales below were bright
parterres Of flowers, with children playing
among the glossy .lcavcd lick aud holly. Nurses
in white caps, with broad blue ribbons reach.
ing below the waist carried infants wrapped
IN ilcecy rodingotes. up aud down the grayeled
walks. All was quiet aud sylvan and of ideal
felicity.
IL WAS hard TO conceive that along this ave-
nuo once dashed the giIded chariots, with tho
borsomcn and fooimen aud outridors of "A Marie
Louise or Empress Eugcnie. Or that here. in
the cohorts OF 4" "Unser Fritz" the conqucring
Teutons bawlod forth The Wacht am Rhine,"
aud placed the double eagles of United Ger
many in the keeping Of Kaiser Wilhelm.
When we came % the great gateway. on whose
massive stone portals the sentincls Of royalty
once stood ever on the alert for approaching
danger. we found the gates wide open and some
little wooden tables spread with glasses and
sweoties, in front OF n rustic lodge. We were
very warm, and asked the old woman in attend
ance. in PEASANTS short gewp, for some lemon
adc, forgetting that iIi France there was no such
luxury as ico in common places.
She brought ns n bottle OF the patent article,
warm as new milk. according TO the French