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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
From Kansas to Massachusetts,. !.

From AA01AS to massachusetts,.
While the alliances of Minnesota
are being tortured by their traitor
legislators, Kansas is out in Mace
donna, swinging a mighty sledge-
hammer for the Lord God Almighty;
working loose his thunde1bolts and
treading out his vengeance in the
wine-press of His wrath. A mis-
sionary has gone to Massachusetts
by invitation. The workingmen oil
Haverhill called the laborers and the
farmers together on April I'd, yester-
dav, to organize under the N. F. A. &
1. o., and under the Kansas consti.
tuition. Massachusetts, had enough
farms deserted last year to nearly
make one county-off from many Of
which the buildings were moved
And her commission could give nc
other reason than that farming
"didn't pay!'
And yet this winter has gone. by
here no work done. Your
State Lecturer last year, land the
Deputy at LARGE did not fill a IS a
day clerkship under a Lathrop-gold.
watch official. There's difference
somewhere!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

the Western Union has it's black list
of persons and societies. 1t will on
no account report the vote of the
Prohibition Party. 1t likewise with
holds the news of the Knights of
Labor and other industrial organi-
cations. There is something bewild-
ering about this domination of q
monopoly over the very sources of
information of great people, but it
is perhaps most of all astounding
that the people will put up with It
from year to year. In Germany the
telegraphs and telephones belong to
the government. There would be a
civil war if the attempt were made
to put them into the hands of pri-
vate individuals. The plan works
admirably, and would in any and
every country. Happily, nearly all
the later political movements place
planks in their platforms to the ef-
feet that all means of general public
lOcOmotiOn and communication
shall be operated by the government.
Let the Prohibition Party give no
uncertain sound on this great re-
form. Free speech is impossible in a
country where Jay Gould and his
minions decide what shall go to the
press and what shall not. Even the
news they do send they can "water"
as they do their stock. But every
evil tends to it's own cure. The fact
that Jay Gould now controls all the
trains of the continental railroads is
the most hopeful fact in connection
with the ownership of these roads by
thegovernment, and the more he sup
presses the news along the telegraph
wires OF the Western Union, the
more is he preparing to have those
wires turned into the thunderbolts
OF the modern Jove, whose name
Public Opinion. May they soon,
metaphorically speaking, concentrate
on his own breast!-Frances E. Will
lard in the Voice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

One OF our friendly exchanges
quoted the Natl Banking Law to us
to show that forfeiture did favor the
national bank. We were familiar
with the law. But a national bank
cannot appear in U. S. court as a
national bank to collect farm loan!
And, if it did. and were enjoined from
foreclosing it would have to appear
as a broker before a state court un-
der state laws. We are compelled to
repeat that La Due broke his nose on
the assertion that forfeiture favored
the national bank against the farm
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
Scion Chase SAYS It.

Uncle Scion Chase publishes the
following, which We clip from the
Joliet (nl.) News:
''The hand that cuts coupons is
strong enough, and the time has
come to strengthen the hand that
steers the pillow. 1t is said the free
coinage of silver will impair the pub
lie credit. By that is meant the
bonds will be paid in silver. Why
not. That is the law and the con-
tract as printed in the bond. When
the public debt was refunded and the
bonds had all passed out OF the
hands of the government, new con-
tract was made which provided that
the bonds shall be paid, principal
and interest, in coin Of the standard
value OF July IA, 1870. At that
time we had the free coinage of silver,
the same as gold, and the ratio OF
silver to gold was Is to 1.-The same
as now. The price of silver was fixed
at the mint, and not measured by
gold. The price OF gold was fixed at
the mint and not measured by silver.
The coin dollars were each their own
redeemers and each was redeemed by
the other and both a full legal ten
der. Silver bullion and gold bullion
stood
ON THE SAME FOOTING
at the mint and the gold dollar and
silver dollar had the same functions
as money. When the bonds were re-
funded it was known by everybody
that the option to pay the bonds in
silver dollars of 412H grains nine
tenths fine or in gold dollars of 25.S
grains, nine-tenths fine, remained
with the government and the public
creditor made no objection. After
ward, it was seen if silver was de-
monetized the value of the bonds
would be enhanced and in 1873 a
bill, demonetizing silver, went
through both houses OF congress and
nobody, except John Sherman,
knew what they were voting for.
Subsequent legislation has restored
to the silver dollar the same func-
tions as money as the gold dollar,
but with limited coinage, and the
government has regarded silver as
token money-not good enough to
pay bonds. Why should we limit
the coinage of the silver dollar of
which we owe one thousand mil
lions?"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Some good-but-erring men think
hostility to state-hou clerks and
Globe reporters running the alliance
is going to ruin the alliance-but
they don't think an utter disregard
of the organic, fundamental, basic
law that an official must be men,
Der will hurt anything. Why don't
the Knights of Labor put on their
prime high tribunal a man not q
Knight-Or why don't the Church
put in few Bishops who are not
members of the organization?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
The Story Of The Rear Guard.

The Story Of The Rear Guard.
To this day the truth about STAN
ley's ill-starred rear guard is not full
" known. Both sides of the contro-
versy have been overwhelmingly
a little weakly-but the public is no
wiser than at first. The friends of
Barttelot and Jameson have had a
good deal to say, and their state
ments have been of such a positive
and credible character as to make
them far from easy to refute. The
public, therefore, is puzzled and at a
loss to know which way to decide,
the circumstances being so manifest
ly peculiar. The public, however, is
positive of one thing, and that is
that The Saint Paul & Duluth Rail
road is the shortest and best route
to take when the tourist desires to
60 from Duluth and West Superior
to St. Paul and Minneapolis, or vice
versa. The road-bed is smooth, the
equipment the finest obtainable, the
service the most modern, the sched-
ules conveniently arranged, and the
trains fast. For this reason it is al
ways wise and profitable to take The
Duluth Short Line, which makes close
connections for all points. Informa-
ton cheerfully furnished by Geo. w.
Bull, General Passenger Agent, or G.
C. Gilfillan, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, St. Paul, Mimi.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
PENNSYLVANIA Has a Hot Iron.

Kansas has her. News of this
character from her egaureGoy Highest there's
balm for
"e judiciary reported vorabv
which
that from and after the OF this all obligations
acted to be paid bullion shall payable to
the contrary either notes silver
favored by both republicans manufacturers
and by men in active business pursuits anespeciay
This all while
stamp haggng and barterng their privileges
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

That cry OF withdrawing capital
from the state is a cruel and mean
fraud. The same cry was raised in
Iowa years ago. Local agents
wouldn't loan-that is, said they
wouldn't the granger legisla-
ture went right along, and money
was Just as free as eyer. There is no
process by which money can be with
drawn from state. Wherever a
man wants to be loan agent, there
is a man who will get the money and
loan it according to law, if compelled
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

S. NJ. Owen has come out squarely
against forfeiture OF principal for
usury-and he uses the most con-
temptible argument which has ever
been thrust under the noses of the
over-bled farmers: That forfeiture
will drive out respectable" money
loaners and invite the other kind;
that the nonresident is made the in
nocent victim of the local agent. We
suppose that if the McCormicks sold
S. M. Owen worm-eaten Irvine bind
er through a Minnesota Agent, that
it would be cruel to hold the McCor-
micks for reparation! Besides, the
bond-execution of loan agents pro-
vides for such things-and this rare
alliance man, who called the revival
literature of the GREAT WEST silly
business, knows it.
This document from the F. S. & H.
was quietly distributed, on slips, to
every legislator, but a few days ago.
As Mr.. Owen does not believe in radi-
cal legislation-nor ''fiat" money,
nor forfeiture, nor pitching into the
grain ring, it is trifle difficult to
tell in what respect he is an. alliance
man. And Mr.. O. should call off all
the party press now praising him in
such grand and glowing tributes!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
Western Union Despotism.

How little do our people know
about their relation to the Western
Union Telegraph Company. We alb
solutely read at our breakfast tables
in the daily press just about what
that company chooses to have us
know? 1t is Republican, capitalistie,
monopolistic. Labor reform, tenn
perance reform, the woman move
ment, can by no means get a hearing
along its wires. 1t is loath to send
out the date and place of meeting OF
a national association of any one OF
these workers. l am told that Al
ONO B. Cornell, Republican ex-Gov-
ernor and politician of New York
State, is the business manager.
There can be no question but that
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
News:

Brownsville News:
The "GREAT WEST" fails to reach
our exchange table lately. What's
up! Have we in any way trodden on
the Doctors toes? Send us that pa
per, 'Doc," so we can keep track OF
you. If you wish we will send you a
dollar. We are small, but oh, my!
After our exchange list reached
nearly one thousand-more than any
editor can possibly examine, we did
cut off five hundred of them. We will
make half rate to any exchange,
however.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

While the party press are bowling
over an increase of circulating cur
rency, the opposite is the truth. Dur
ing February the currency decreased
$7,316,932. During the same month
there was an increase of $3,969,OS2.
But the increase is quoted as "money
and bullion!' What has bullion (un-
coined metaD to do with currency?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

If there were $24O 000, 600 more legal tender cur
reucy in the country there would be $24O. 600 O00
less borrowed Of the national banks.-GREAT
WEST.
Whom would you borrow it of,
then?
For $40, 100000 of bank notes
government holds on deposit bonds,
the property OF the banks, amount
ing in round numbers to 1886, OOO,-
900. Suppose it called in the notes
and paid off it's bonds to the owners
by an issue to them, the national
banks,-then become state banks, we
will suppose,-of $266,O0O,OOO OF
legal currency. How are you going
to get dollar of it otherwise than
as you can now get the national cur
rency?-Red Wing Advance.
Or, Mr.. Advance, suppose they run
a rams horn through the nose OF
Mt. Pisgah, and repeated the 18th
verse OF the 266th chapter of the
Koran in Cinghalese dialect to the
chant OF Johnny get your gun-how
under such circumstances could a
boy on skates kill the man in the
moon with a pea-shooter? And
when it was, which was the where?
Which means that your PROPOSE
ton is not pertinent to ours, but, oh
star-gazer, to pay the BANKS 266
millions-and other holders none-is
the full revelation OF a past policy OF
plutoc1acy!
Reflect upon our question in all
seriousness.
Meantime, would you kindly in
form us if the people wouldn't Dor
row 24O millions less if there we're
$24O,OO0,OOO more in circulation
like as to gold, silver, or treasury
notes?-which increase OF circulation
was made by the governments pay
ing it's own debts to it's own citizens
in it's own money-and not money
which the victims had borrowed to
pay into the government NAV
again as taxes-tariff or otherwise.
Or, elsely, mediate on your mar
row-bones, this proposition: The
less real actual money in circulation
mot borrowed bank rags the more
must be borrowed to transact bust
ness!
Or, this: Paying of the bonded
debt of nearly one billion (not
$24O,OOO,OOO only would give the
National banks, sure enough, the
24O million. But the other $780,
100000 would put few people in
condition to ship a kernal or two OF
grain and not borrow, after all! Oh,
if you are bound to ring Mt. Pisgah's
nose, why that ends the discussion.
But we thought there we're a few 9TH
er people on earth besides national
bankers!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
THE SUM OF ALL VILLAINIES.
The Taking of Usury is Reprehensible.

Reprehenslble
It we'll known usur the taking
w The % a6a n ties
inspired spu ase1 aSse
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not BY employing purpose Which it in
d n than respect preh
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them only to be spwrecked shoals
Bishop Jewell 1885 gain and work
the Wealthy e be pae1
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these these and you may know for
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ns BY law
9s until in France according"
BY bills eaehange charging
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WAS mp sp g s
% snd sa wines and rich
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OF the p sats E1 s
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system OF banking and usuryRe gsy
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Northern people used to sneer at
Southern thrift. But if our legis-
lators were to meet the N. Carolina
legislators about now, the N. G. men
would hold their noses! They wan
ted railroad law and they got it.
got it radical, cratic. and all that.
The south is on a move into the
next higher life-on earth.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

We have referred to the contempt
ible things done by the Twin-City
dailies. But all that has been said
sinks into nothingness when intro
duced into the mephitic atmosphere
of stencil which surrounds the treat
ment of Ignatius Donnelly, in the
Pioneer Press, in regard to his debate
with Prof. Freeman, on the Bacon
ian-Shakespeare question. People
who take that sheet must be glad to
know, when they read it, that per-
haps Zone to ten) they are reading
the truth, and perhaps (ten to one)
they are reading a most wretched
Misrepresentation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

In regard to letters and resolutions
sent us for publication the past week:
We could not edit them and prepare
them for the printer, owing to al
most continuous sickness.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

The number of families in the
United States is estimated at - mil
lions. OF these 9 million carry
around with them a bleeding ulcer.
1t is called real estate mortgage.
Those are census figures, so we may
calculate that about 1Oh millions
have the disease.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Even the Bank OF England gets up
respectable profits. Its half-yearly
dividend was 5H per cent. LIZ per
cent is a healthy dividend for Eng
lish funds in their own market! And
yet the poor of England excite the
sympathy of the world!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

State Secretary N. E. Moody, o.
Viroqua, Wisconsin, published an
able address in the columns of the
Northwestern Mail, Madison. 1t is
full of the strongest arguments fol
the organization OF the farmers o.
that state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Judge Cooley, at the head OF the
U. S. Interstate Commerce Commits
sion warns the country of it's danger
in falling into the hands of the rulers
of 500 railroads!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

In 1872, silver being demonetized
in France, England and Holland, a
capital of 100000 was raised, and
Ernest Seyd, of London, was sent to
this country with this fund, as agent
of the foreign bond holders and capt.
talists, to effect the same object (de-
monetization of silver), which was
accomplished Magazine,
August, 1878.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

An article in a recent number OF
the Financier takes up the matter of
banks using bonds and collaterals
held in trust for others to borrow
money on. How is it about the gov
eminent bonds deposited in trust be-
ing sent to Washington to maintain
circulation. A deposits $4,000, B
$4,000, and C $4,000. The bank
adds $4,000 of it's own-sends the
100000 to Washington, and draws
100000 for ''circulation.' The in
terest on the trust $4,000 is OF
course diverted to the trustor. But
the bank gets the benefit Of $45, 900
to loan without the cost of a nickel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
The Columbian Cvolopedia.

The COLUMBIAN CYCLOPED1A is the
new name and new form of what has
heretofore been known as Alden's
Manifold Cyclopedia, and which has
won great popularity by it's high
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low price.
The COLUMBIAN CYCLoPED1A will
comprise 80 volumes, of about 500
pages each (the Manifold was 40
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about equal in size to Appleton's
Cyclopedia, and about SO per cent
larger than Johnson's. The entire
set will contain about 1000 illustra-
tions; it is very handsomely printed
and bound, and, like the Manifold, is
almost fabuIously cheap, the entire
set being furnished in cloth binding
for $500, with easy installment
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course, subscrip tions to the Manifold
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Whoever is interested in cyclope-
dias will do well to secure (free) spec
linen pages of the COLUMBIAN PUB
LISTING Co., 1913 Pearl St., New York,
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

We thank the Pipestone Leader for
it's generous article on the financial
relations of the G. w.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

The Estate Trust Company" stock
is now worth from It's to 200 cents
on the dollar! Surely someone has
to pay this! Now, dear friends, who
is it?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Willard Press:
1t is said that Donnelly's letter was
read in Sunday school in Douglas
county: Probably twas thought the
principles therein contained were
good enough for Sunday lessons to
instruct the rising generation in the
ways OF right questions of govern
ment.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Axel Jorgenson gives Mr.. Dean q
little granger philosophy in the col
umns of the Buffalo Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

The Nationalist of Rhode Island
are political party-and opened
the pluto eyes at the last election.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

Winona Herald: There was quite
a dramatic scene in the Nebraska
legislature yesterday. A bill was
passed declaring it to be unlawful for
any railroad company to give a
pass to any person over eight years
OF age except to employees. It is also
unlawful to accept a pass or ride free.
One of the legislators, Church Howe,
arose in his place and suggested as a
browning OF the great reform that
all the members come forward and
publicly destroy passes. He empha-
sized his suggestion by tearing up
his own. If such a scene was enacted
in the Minnesota Legislature, there
would be more weeping than is gen.
orally seen at a first-class funeral.
The world at large knows we'll
enough that man who will accept a
bride is no patriot.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03
MINNESOTA LOSES HER HEAD.

Fol- northwest
advance guard Of the anmonopoy Here
took it's giant growth Here the alliance
in 10000
anaconda of corrun
ton ntwne the
the mah limbs parayd lot political shyer
who want only harmony good will
must get OF this treason
choiceradcas ufs?" Which shall you
ont issue? - 'N
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-03

THE CURRIER BILL.

The Currer R. r. bill voted to be reconsdeed the
week. again Tuesday, together with the Seae substitute M
9O2 apparently Of the railroads. The House had been
petitions throughout dropped
Then n committee the whole the Curr bill to
gratifying Amend
M s the real and substantial need of the hour
TAWNEYS BILL.
BILL to the Hompe un
the able Wnona republican passed the Senate Monday by
vote OF 81 to 1. The Marsh.
Mr. Donney for it after forcing through
while roads should abide reduction
This is the only bright spot in the bill.
It carried by 81 lit be awful good bill for
1t received finishing touches the lawyers and satisfies Everybody"
it must be an awful good bill for somebody.
1t tckes half death they will
bill for somebody!
Not spent bill some
body!
WELL, ISN'T A
1t we'll But it fraud duon
gum for Hompe
1t present warnings decs
of the Supreme Court recently thin the
makes the ring around the
There R. bill presented year-and
that Donne Amendment the State Constitution There
veal that 1t root basic 1t fundamental
something!
And therefore the opened against wss
overwhelmingly defeated Donneys fight
against the pyramid 1t defeated
drawn the pluto fist under the auspices
ionand peases everybody
Don't blame Tawneyt kind and good and quite
adicalof him. He republican lawyer and gentleman
faithfully Hompe couldn't buy party gumevn chamanf
But the party Hompe with genuine old Tamarack
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-26

hand in gratitude, and close their
eyes as a silent little prayer went up
for this woman who, so bountifully
blessed herself, did not forget that
there were others less fortunate. And
this is not an exceptional case, but
one which you can see in the hospitals
and institutions of the great cities Of
our land almost every day. Many a
millionaire's wife is today sustain
ing the hands of the noble band OF
women who are striving to bring
sunny spots in the lives of our work
ing girls. or course, there are women
of vast worldly means who live within
themselves, regardless of the want
which exists at their very doors. But
because such women-fewer than the
oma believes-unfortuna-
tely exist. it is unfair to judge all rich
women alike. Because the church has
within its doors people who it would
be better were they on the outside, Is
no criterion by which to judge the
thousands of God-sainted men and
women who are benedictions to the
world at large. Too little credit is
given the wealthy classes for the good
which Is often done with the riches at
their command.-7he Ladies Home
Journal.