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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
Jan. 31st, 1890.

Jan. 31st, 1890.
Our application for charter has
gone in, with AZ names. Think Twill
get Is members within 3 months. l
am heartily glad that recommended
Mr.. Comstock for lecturer in Goodhue
Co. He is a success in that direction.
We will be ready to make it warm
for you or any of your assistants
when you get ready to visit us.
Over a month ago l sent a list OF
names to the GREAT WEST for sam
pie copies and they have been sent. l
have also distributed bundle OF
samples and need another that am
placing where they will do the most
good. have sent in a number OF
subscribers, expect to make out quite
q list of them at our next meeting.
w. NJ. FULKERsON.
GOOdhue Co.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

TThe State Lecturer hopes that County ALI
ances will be formed in every county and county
lecturers elected: Or in the absence Of this action
that the name of good men will be sugges ed to
him. as county lecturers, who will take hold and
organize their respective counties.
BY recent amendment to the constitution OF
the State Alliance the initiation fee raised to
so cents for each member, and one-hah OF the
amount thus paid goes to the lecturer or organ
izer This will pay very well for the trouble taken
and expenses Of travel.l
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

J. L. Brown, of Amboy, writes us a
letter full of bonus-news, and con-
cludes as follows:
"Your paper has spoken more
truths fearlessly the three months
past than all the rest of the editors
of the state have in three years."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
DIRECTORY.
National Farmers Alliance.

HI. LOUCKS, President Clear Lake. OAK
H. POWER, Vice-President, Cornell, Nebraska
AUG. POST, Secretary, MOulton, Iowa
HON. j. j. FURLONG, Treas, Austin. Mimi
N B. ASHBY, Lecturer, Des Moines, Iowa.
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union.
LII. POLK, President, North Carolina.
B. H. CLOVER, Vice President, ansas.
j. H. TURHER, Secretary, Georgia,
W. H. HICKMAN, Treasurer Missouri.
BEN TERRELL, Lecturer, Texas.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
CIV MCCLURE, Washington, D. c.
A. WARDALL, South Dakota.
j. F. TILLMAN, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
R. c. PATTI, Mississippi.
ISAAC MCCRACKEN, Arkansas.
EVAN JONES, Texas.
Officers OF the State Alliance will be put in after
the approaching State meeting in March,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

Mankato Journal: Gen. Baker
sounded the tOcsin of war at the
dairymen's meeting last week when
he intimated that the farmers would
hereafter cause the politicians to bow
to the wishes of the Industrial classes.
If the general has experienced a
change of heart we congratulate
him, and hope that his eloquent
voice may be henceforth heard in be-
half of the masses. If he is sincere,
and we have no right to question his
sincerity, the General will do a great
deal of good for the masses.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
'Cushing's Manual

We viii mail cloth-bound copy of
sEushing's Manual on receipt of
54cts. &c. of this is for postage.
This is to accommodate the Alliance
officers who need a parliamentary
guide. Cushing's is the recognized
authority in such matters.
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LECTURERS.

Where Co. Alliances have appointed Lectur
er please inform u.s.
STATE LECTURER-IGNATIUs DONNELLY.
Address 72S Selby Ave-, St. Paul, until further
notice.
PROT John Alison-Depy State Lecturer
Everett W Fish %
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

recommends that IS per cent of bank
note security be silver bullion. When
plutOcrats are getting scared, why
should the people keep supinely still
and let the little value left to their
chattels be crushed out?
But I believe the best thing is to
substitute greenbacks for the Nation
al Bank notes and for this there
should be an unanimous howl.
A. E. BALL.
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COUNTY LECTURERS.

u. W. klnSeDurry, freSUOH'
A. l.. Gardner, Waltham
John Diamond, Mankato.
Eric Olson, Sherburne.
NJ. l.. Snow, Marietta.
jeremiah Mobiles, Glencoe.
Henry Feig, Atwater.
C. D. Tuttle, Fridley.
Fisk & Thornton, Carman.
Q. G. Lyman, Sank Center.
A. F. Ludwig, Bra.2erd.
John T. Wray, Van.
j. A. Solomonson, Gibbon.
H. B. Imsdahl, Big Woods.
II. V. Poore Bird Island.
j. o. Barrett, Browns Val
Qey.
E. Mattson. Breckenridge.
C. s. Bond, WOrthingtOn.
r. G. Comstock. Roscoe.
q 7. Schlattmau. Morris.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

In our paper this week is an adver-
tisement of the Princess Strawberry.
Mr.. Kramer writes of it's history as
follows:
In 1882, l planted seed from four
different varieties of Strawberries
among the plants produced from
these was the early Princess
which is recorded at the summer
meeting of the Horticultural Society
at Minneapolis, Mimi, in the year OF
1885. The said Early Princess has
has fruited for six seasons. The first
year it
YIELDED ONE BERRY,
in which l perceived some good quail
tiles. 1t has improved from year to
year without care, being run out by
the growth of grass, until the spring
of 1887, when l took up the few
plants that were left and planted
them in a cultivated patch of ground
and took good care of them.
In the winter of 1878. when the
other kinds were nearly killed out,
the Princess held it's green and bright
color and came out in excellent con-
dition, yielding such crop this year
as has never been known before.
J. S. HARRIS,
of the Horticultural Experimental
Station here, came to see them, and
declared that he had never before
seen such a crop of strawberries as
this was. Mr.. Harris took some to
the Summer meeting of the Horticul-
tural Society at st. Paul, and they
received the first premium. They
also received the first premium at La
Crosse, Wis, and Rochester, MINI.
Mr.. Harris came again to determine
the yield Of these berries-I had kept
no account and had picked all but a
small strip two rods long and five
feet wide-setting stakes defining this
strip, from which four of us picked in
one hour
sIxTY-ONE QUARTS
of berries from the first picking
twenty-five from the second and four
teen from the third. This will equal
one hundred and sixty five quarts OF
berries to the square rod. BY actual
count OF three quarts of these berries
it was found that one quart contained
eighteen, one twenty and the other
twenty-five berries.
These berries were all sold for 12A
and Is cents per quart.
WI \ l exhibited the Princess
stra rry the first time there were
fit seedlings competing for
TIL, The Princess took it
without a question, and was then
and there named the Early Princess"
by the Horticultural Society. Since
that time ! have left it wholly to
Others, not being present myself at
any of the many exhibitions except
La Crosse, Wisconsin, last summer,
and it invariably took the first
prize. 1t has yielded with me one
quart to the square foot, or 43, $3.50
quarts to an acre, equal to 1,361H
bushels. JOHN C. CRAMER.
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Clark County Democrat (Dak.):

LOucks, Wardal and Cum
mings are doingsome good work
for the farmers with the present
Legislature, Judging from the
great howl going up from the
ring organs over the state, the
best evidence in the world that
the farmers Alliance is having
effect. The farmers over the
state thought enough of Mr..
Loucks and Wardall that they
were elected to the highest posi-
tions in the gift of the organiza-
ton by a two-thirds vote of the
actual delegates present. And
now who is it that is trying to-
have the farmers believe these.
men are traitors to the cause
they champion? We ask again
who are they? We will answer
the question ourselves and if
wrong, call us down. Thew are
the men that have never lost an
opportunity to deliver the farm
ers into the hands of monopoly.
Every bankers paper in the state,
are fighting Loucks, Wardall
and Cummings, not that they
believe them to be traitors to
the farmers, for no man can
think that), but they expect to
get enough farmers to become.
SO prejudiced that a break
will be made in the Alliance.
But such schemes have been
worked upon the people SO often
that we predict a surprise for
the banks and railroad schemers.
The farmers have changed their
minds and are now of the opinion
that their lot could not be.
made worse and therefore all is.
to gain and nothing to lose by
a change in the manipulation of
affairs. Nothing will givea more
complete understanding in re-
gard to the scheme than to,
watch closely what papers raise
the howl. Farmers should stay
out of politics." and farmers
can't combine" are the pointers
that monopoly tools want to in
still into the minds of the farm
ers. Watch who they are, farm
ers, and see if they are not papers
that have always worked for the.
interests of the railroads and
banks.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Old Goodhue Waking Up.

via 0OoOnue waxing up.
An Alliance has been organized at
Roscoe, Goodhue county, with a
membership of AZ names; they ex-
pect to soon make it Is. The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Comstock, as coun-
ty lecturer, gives great satisfaction !;
he is an able, honest man;-the
kind OF man in fact that old Goodhue
should send to the Legislature. Mr..
w. M. Fulkerson, who is one of the
leading spirits OF the new Roscoe al
lance, is hard at work increasing the
circulation of the GREAT WEST.
That is the right way to get at it..
If the GREAT WEST was in half the
farm-houses of Goodhue county there
would soon be an alliance in every
township of the county.
Eric Olson has been making some
effective speeches at Belgrade and
other points in northern Minnesota.
Eric is RATHER. He now goes to
Otter Tail county
NEW ALLIANCES.
An Alliance was organized on the
Oath of January, at Campbell, Wilkin
County, with fifteen or more charter
members. At the next meeting, Feb.
8th, they hope to swell this number
to forty.
The new Breckenridge Alliance
started with fifteen members, and
will shortly increase it's membership
to twenty-five or thirty.
County Lecturer Madison writes us
that he will soon organize an alliance
at McCauleyville and at other points
in that county; and that Wilkin
County will have five live alliances
and a county alliance before the 4th
of March next.
Mr.. Allison has organized a new
alliance: at West Union, Todd Co., with
twenty-four members; and probably
by this time has started organizations
at Long Prairie, Brownsville, Eagle
Bend, and other points in Todd Co.
Mr.. Allison complains that the mer-
chants and money-loaners at Long
Prairie "hate the Alliance and the
rest of the town is hanging on to the
coat tails of the railroad company"
Mr.. Allison speaks at GAINESVILLE
on the 18th inst. He is doing good
work even while afflicted with "la
grippe" and the thermometer below
zero.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

promised by the high protectionists
that the tariff would make them SO
independent of all other than the
home market that, no matter what
the values of their products in any
other country, their purchasing pow
er would steadily increase in the
United States. The above prices,
and the purchasing powers thereof,
are the practical results of the entire
system OF protection as now en-
forced"
Couldn't the farmers OF Renville
County buy new suit OF clothes for
two of their editors?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
PUBLIC LECTURES.

Hon. j. O. Barrett, of Browns
Valley, Mimi, County Lecturer of
Big Stone County, and a very able
and interesting speaker, consents to
lecture before Subordinate Alliances,
for the sum of five dollars each and
local entertainment. Parties desir-
ing such lectures, are requested to
correspond with Mr.. Barrett. The
lectures will have to be arranged so
that his engagements will not be too
far apart; and, whenever possible,
the friends of the cause are request
ed to help Mr.. Barrett to his next
appointment, otherwise his small
compensation will he consumed by
the expense of travel. Mr.. Barrett
will also lecture on Forestry, and
other practical subject connected
with agricultural and horticultural
interests.
IGNATIUs DONNELLY,
1920 State Lecturer.
A SCANDINAVIAN ALLIANCE
SPEAKER.
We are glad to be able to announce
to our Scandinavian friends, through
out the state, that Deputy State Lee
turer, J. o. Solomonson, of Gibbon,
Sibley County, will soon begin series
of meetings in the state, and willspeak
especially in districts where a Scandi-
navian is desired. Write to him at
the above address. Remember, he is
working without q salary and paying
his own expenses, SO don't let him
depart with empty pockets. He will
probably publish in the GREAT WEST
q list of his appointments soon, and
parties needing his services can write
him at such places. There are calls
for Scandinavian speaker from all
parts of the state.
IGNATIUs DONNELLY,
1929 State Lecturer.
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DISTRICT LECTURERS,
,orrnaaionol niafricf-A

1st CONVERSATIONAL DlBUrlcU-A' u UaTu"oI'
Waltham, Mower Co.
I'd Cong. Dist-Hon. Jas. H. Baker Garden
City, Blue Earth Co.
I'd Cong, Dist.-Geo W. Day, Glencoe, Mcleod
County.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
IupICIAL DISTRICT LECTURERS.

Sth Jud Dist.-Geo. W. Day, Glencoe, (Em
braces Carver, LIE Sueur, Nc Leod and Sibley
Counties
10th Jud Dist.-Robert Eckford, Dexter, MINI
Embraces Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and
Mower Counties.
18th Jud Dist.-M. L. Snow, Marietta. [Em
braces Chippewa, Kandiyohi. Lac qui Parle
Meeker, Swift and Yellow Medicine Countess
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

Eric Olson has been making some
effective speeches at Belgrade and
other points in northern Minnesota.
Eric is a RATHER. He now goes to
Otter Tail county.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

KassOn Republican:
'"The man who cannot make farm
ing pay, would starve to death in
well filled pantry" says a writer.
Now friend, come off. You are a fool
or a knave. The man does not live
on the face of the earth who can grow
crops at profit at present prices.
Pretty nearly the only thing in the
country that is paying, is publishing
a county newspaper, and running on
rates with some Jealous rival.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

army of non-producers, who live,
more or less directly, upon the de-
creasing force of the impoverished
producers?
What is the remedy?
We must eight the devil with fire. "
Others have used their intellects to
rob us; we must use our intellects to
stop the robbery. Others have COM
bine to Cypress us we must combine
to defend ourselves.
We have to meet two classes of enc
mics in our ranks. The first is the
man who has been created with all the
instincts of serf Aslong as he can,
by the hardest labor, get enough OF
the rudest kind of food to maintain
life, he is satisfied; even though he
knows another man is taking three
fourths of all he produces. This man
represents the hereditary instincts
of the peasant. He is slave by
foreordination. If there were no op-
pressors in the world his existence
would suggest their creation to the
Almighty.
Than there is another class,-more
acute than theformer,-whose hearts
tell them that robbery is right; and
whose only regretis that they cannot,
themselves, devise some plan where
by they can get Jay Gould or Phil
Armour cinch on their fellow men.
They throw cold water on all efforts
of the farmers to defend themselves,
or improve their condition. They
hang around the county-seats; they
flourish on party committees; they
! are paid by the village politicians to
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Officers of the State Alliance will be put in after
the approaching State meeting in March.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
LACREscENT, MINI, Feb. 8, 80.

LACREscENT, MIMI, Feb. 8, 90
Mr.. A. X. FRAN.
DEAR SIR:-The farmers gave the
FLUTES a surprise party here yester-
day, Feb. 8. The Farmers common
ced gathering in the forenoon and
quite a crowd gathered before the
train arrived on which DR.. Fish was
expected. The DR.. arrived on time
and we were at the depot ready to
greet him. Although no one here eyer
saw the Dr. before, we instantly rec
ognized him when he alighted from
the train, and the next moment we
were greeting each other as old famil-
lar friends. Mr.. A. III. Brayton, Pres
ident of our Alliance, took the Dr..
home with him to dine and chat until
time for the afternoon meeting. The.
hall was crowded by the time ap-
pointed. Soon the DR.. was intro
duced by the president and at once:
opened his lecture, and held a full
hall of farmers ''spell bound, as it.
were, for over two hours.
Farmers are astOunded at the rev.
Citations the Dr. makes, and seem to-
begin to see the necessity of organic
ing to protect themselves. After the
lecture we had about ascOre OF appli--
cants for admission to the Alliance,
and many more promised to come in
soon.
AS the farmers live at q distance
from the village they did not attend
the evening lecture, nor did the adult
villagers attend as expected. Is it.
not strange that a little country
village should feel so cold and indif-
ferent-and some of the citizens bit
terly oppose the Alliance of the
farmers to regain their rights?
But there was one thing encourage
ing about the evening attendance,
for while the older villagers general
ly ignored the meeting-the young
people generally attended and were
attentive and respectful beyond ex-
pectation. The young folks and the
farmers did nobly, and merit the
highest praise and respect.
The evening lecture, though great
ly abbreviated, was excellent, and l
should be glad to hear it again.
The Doctor is a good one, in a
good cause and may he prosper be-
yond our most sanguine hopes.
j. M. Brown.
P. S.-Just before going to mail, l
have ascertained that the Pluto and
the Go-slows are regretting that they
did not attend the evening lecture.
Since they learned what it was, they
say they did not suppose farmers
crank knew anything but a farmer.
Sank Centre Avalanche.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
lInion
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

C.. w. MCCLURE, Washington, d. G.
A. WARDALL, South Dakota.
j. F. TILLMAN, Tennessee.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

Sauk centre Avalanche:
Mr.. Allison of the Farmers Alliance.
talked to a large number of farmers
in this place Monday afternoon, and
then organized an alliance of %
members. The following officers:
c. F. Bohall, president; Arch Meyers,
Vice-president c. B. Smith, Secretary,
and Byron King. Treasurer, In the
evening Prof. Allison delivered lee
ture on Utah and the Mormons.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIGs.
Pith and Point of Miscellaneous New
Dispatches.


Asa Dow, president of the Chicago
board of trade, is dead.
William Walter Phelps, United States
minister to Germany, is home on a
visit.
A man was found nearly cut in pieces
and robbed of $130 on the road between
Santa Rosa and Windsor, by tramps.
A shipment OF 1000 cases of canned
peaches has been made from San Jose
direct to London. The shipment re-
quired special train OF twenty cars.
Three Chinese have been arrested at
The Dalles, Ore, charged with being
implicated in the robbery of the First
National bank of that place week ago.
At Harrisburg, Pa, the wife of Carl
Hopsmith jumped in the canal with her
infant son and was drowned. The wo-
man was homesick to return to Ger
many.
John W. Latin, aged rs, Wilson Van
dewater, aged AZ, and Mrs. Vandewater
were killed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y while
trying to cross the railroad tracks in
a carriage ahead of an express train.
At Omaha, Ed Wiggard, a teamster,
fatally shot Allie HORNE and then blew
out his own brains. Wiggard left note
saying the woman had promised to
marry him, but had been unfaithiul.
Before the German Catholic congress
at Pittsburg, Rev. DR.. Buecheler, of
New York, said Catholics had no use for
public schools. Roman Catholic. child
rem ought to be brought up in their
parents. faith.
At MARTINEZ, Cal, William Martin
dale, who shot and killed John Burke,
near Clayton, two weeks ago, pleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree, and
asked the judge to hang him and not
imprison him for life.
The Galveston Athletic club has tele
graphed Jack Dempsey, at Portland,
Ore, offering a purse of $l1, 900 for a
fight between him and Bob Fitzsimmons.
A similar notice was wired to Fitzslm-
mons at the Bay of st. Louis, La.
Arch Bishop Riordan has purchased a
tract of seventytive acres near San
Rafael for $4,000 1t is proposed to
establish a catholic College where young
men can be educated for the priesthood
The cost of the buildings will probably
reach $500 900.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-24
BRIEFS.

Supervisor Thomas +. Rowan yester-
day stated that he was candidate for
denomination.
A call for public meeting this even
lug has been issued by the Municipal
Reform Association.
The first social of the season by the
Illinois association will be held next
Tuesday evening, September 3Oth.
All high school alumni are requested
to meet next Thursday evening, 80, at
the city hall, Broadway, rooms of the
city board of education.
The Crown Hills association at it's
meeting last night, decided to ask the
council to give that part of the city a
sufficient water supply at once.
The American Federation of Trainmen
will hold a four days convention and a
grand ball in this city beginning October
21st. Illinois hall has been secured for
the occasion.
The ladies of the w. R. G. union fair
will meet in Masonic hall, No. 1851 5.
Spring street, Wednesday,, September
oath, at 2 p. m. All members are
requested to be present.
Good Will lodge No. 313 1. 0. G. T.
will give musical, literary and dra-
matte entertainment on Saturday even
ing, 9th inst. at o'clock, in the G.. A.
R. Hall, No. 612 South Spring street.
The management OF Robinson's circus
wish it made public that Mr.. Robinson
extends an invitation to all the orphans
in the city to visit the show free of
charge. Matrons should make applica-
ton SO seats can be reserved.
John A. Logan post and corps will
hold joint open meeting this evening
in their hall, No. 612 South Spring
street, near Sixth, at 7 AS sharp. All
members of the G. A. R. and w. R. c..
and friends are cordially invited.
Several of the prominent liquor deal
ers of this city have received telegraphic
advice from the east to raise all imported
champagne $500 a case. They have also
been informed to mark up other goods
in their line. This is due to the McKin-
ley tariff bill.
The council on Monday amended the
ordinance in reference to saloons, by in
cluding carpet beating establishments
among those for the esta blishment OF
which it will be necessary to receive the
permission OF three-fourths of the res
idents in block. The amendment was
brought about owing to the fact that a
party intended to put an unsightly
shanty for a carpet beating concern on
Pearl street.