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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

"chance" part of it consists in wheth.
er he or the "other fellow" can gull
or wheedle the plowhandle fellow the
most!
Great reforms may be, and are
brought about by masterful minds
But such characters are forced into
the back row while demagogues put
on the gown of greatness. Instances
are everywhere. You cannot strike
a public man on the shoulder with.
out hitting political fraud-hollow
empty dignities who wear the crown
of greatness, while the spirit of great
ness hovers sorrowfully over the real
master-spirits of human progress in
the background.
Take men like Harrison, President
of the United States-a creature OF
circumstance, family name, and an
artificial dignity.
Human power, in statecrait, and
in mechanical enterprise, is an ele-
ment built up of commonplace intel
ligence. You see the owners and
workers of great mines-twenty
years ago they were ignorant stone
crushers or pan-washers. You see
presidents of great railway systems
like Jim Hill-twenty years ago
they were commonplace coal clerks.
You see men as state representatives
getting prominent places on public
works-fve years ago their ignor-
ance was an everyday fact.
Greatness does not exist in public
life as a rule. Craft and cunning get
there-but not broad intelligence,
nor humanitarian love. There are
exceptions. The exceptions live in
memory beyond the grave. AS a
rule, the man who ''gets there" in
statecraft dies tomorrow and the
next day is forgotten.
1t is astounding how the great
masses will be fooled by man who
gets his name before the public. H.
Illustrations are everywhere. All
states furnish examples. Look at
Rusk, of Wisconsin-a man of great
presumption-of vast assumption,
but of the most commonplace abili-
ties, and no real power.
Look at the alliance ticket last
year in Minnesota! A ticket produc-
ed (by the greatest revolution ever
known in history, for state en-
prise and progress. And yet the
masses marched into the jaws of the
schemers, and put up ticket upon
which was not solitary member OF
the alliance from governor down.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

Our good friend C. J. Sundahl, of
Orr, North Dakota, has written us a
plan to carry on alliance work. He
says:
81 will now propose to the editor
of the most valuable paper, the
GREAT WEST, my plan that l have
been thinking OF ever since / have
read it and found the value OF it's
heroic and fearless reform doctrines.
My plan is this:
That the GREAT WEST be repub-
lished in book form from it's first is
sue-that is to say, all it's editorials
and leading articles, including the
great railroad and wheat articles
and elevator exposures, with yalu-
able letters and speeches of Mr.. Don
nelly and others. | believe all the
readers of the GREAT WEST will
heartily endorse this plan; it is my
fondest hope that that most stall
wart of editors, DR.. E. w. Fish, will
take my idea into earnest considera-
ton, and place it before the readers
of the first and foremost reform or
gan OF the great northwest! l believe
in this day of reforms, revolutions
and upheavals that the people have
begun to move down towards the
great shore OF the rolling, appearing
political ocean, and take in the sight
OF the ship of state breaking to
pieces in the storms and waves"
Bro. Sundahl continues, stating
that the work of the GREAT WEST, if
put in book form would instruct the
people. The difficulty is the enor-
nous expense.
The book would have to be in sew
eral volumes, and to issue but few
thousand copies would require a
good-sized fortune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

Paul calling the attention the the the laws Mime
forbid card playing and gambling Saloons saloons
day and after O'Clock night and hargt him
the the
the he his oath Of office politician told that the
policy represented the sentiment That
what want for city ruled by sentiment
We ruled highest
should would
The should the
the office should be above Those who
the ermne must be, rather should be- the
he laws read Nehemiah contained Exodus
hundreds old the appear the OF this
and destroyed by immortality of the people and the vena
public The which led the
cities OF the St. Paul.
and the influence municipality
"The
sentiment city, secondly,
mayor
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
The Globes Folly,
Duluth Evening Herald.


Referring to the Cincinnati conven-
ton that crowded the great music
hall OF that city in which Bob 1nger-
soil made his famous "plumed
knight" speech in rs, the St. Paul
Globe says:
"To such people a humbug like
Donnelly, mounting round sentences
and blowing forth meaningless plati-
tudes with d bellows-like persistency,
seems a John the Baptist preparing
the way for a coming Reverence and
they listen with distended eyeballs to
the wonders of his wisdom. Men of
this sort can never exert any per-
manent influence on the nations
thought, because they cannot secure
for themselves a hearing, even if they
have anything worthy to be said.
But a party with Donnelly
as one OF his leaders, standing on a
platform OF his construction, every
plank of which is OF necessity nailed
with ignorance and ornamented with
lies, has no more vitality than a
weed, and will be trampled under
foot as honest men pass over it on
their way to their daily work"
Can't get hearing? Who is it
that gets a hearing in Minnesota
when Donnelly doesn't? The editor
Of the Globe, perhaps? Announce
their appearance on the rostrum
and see. But the Globe bellies it's
own statement by admitting that
"they listen with distended eyeballs
to the wonders of his WISDOM Sup
pose the editor OF the Globe should
compete with the Sage by writing a
book? No st. Paul paper ever Great
ed anything yet that it could sell
without aid from the legislature.
mailed with ignorance and orna-
mented with lies," sounds we'll, but
when it comes from sheet that
never had any recognized policy and
whose columns are for sale, it loses
it's force and is robbed of it's sting.
Ignorance! You could run several
papers like the Globe on what Don
nelly knows they don't. A paper up
in the fifteenth story OF a building
that it doesn't own can make loft
Ter fool of itself than any other kind.
Donnelly has more honor in his little
finger than, as Senator Kellar would
say, the whole - comeboodle" of
his defamers.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
What are the Great Questions?

This is the query that is PROFOUND
ed to us every day. We give it one
.invariable reply: ''The national Fl.
nancial issue" In it's various phases
it constitutes the one supreme ques-
ton. All other issues of the Peoples
Party are subsidiary. The Finan-
.cial Issue is primary-all Others Sec
,ondary.
The other issues are great and
startling. There is no such thing as
completely separating them, and
many will at first think the land
question and the transportation
question Of equal import. But they
are not.
So wonderful, so comprehensive, so
full OF the most startling crimes and
stupendous robberies, is the land is
sue, that it seems to surmount all
others-as it certainly is the most
burning in it's immediate and individ-
ual effect. But the moment you be-
gin to analyze the land question you
strike mortgages and evictions, and
that brings you to the two per cent
land loan.
The railway syndicates are now
threatening the very existence OF or
ganized labor-and squeezing a
thousand millions a year out OF the
people by an invisible system OF tax
alton which duplicates the profits OF
the middle man.
But the financial issue affects the
stock exchange-and without the
money-gamblers and that vast
brokerage system OF which banks are
the basic stone-the stock-gambler
would become paralyzed.
The money question embraces:
1.-The philosophy OF socalled
Electromagnetic which really is
the only secured paper money ever
issued, if secured on land or purchas-
ed property.
2-The silver question, which COW
-ers the functions OF gold, and the
real value of a valueless standard
,(valueless except for it's use as mon
-ey.)
3.-The national banking system,
and the outrage OF a governments
giving the manufacture OF a rag-ba.
by, unsecured currency-which has
only paper bonds back of it and
which is not legal tender-to a few
rich plutocrats.
1.-The land-loan question.
5.-The Subtreasury matter.
6.-The criminalty OF public debt
which is continued without warrant
of law. when the money lies idle in
the treasury to remove it.
All these issues should be studied
by alliance men with great care-and
you should see to it that every man
you trust is sound on them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

The Estate says that an ''itemized
report" of the receipts and expendi-
lures of the Campaign Committee
have been published. The man who
pencilled that trash is nickle-plated
liar. We haven't seen the State pub
lish the fact that Geo. MuIe1-the
clerk of Bierman-received $500 $3.50
a week. and all expenses for his cam
paigning! That strikes the rest of
the workers right under the jaw!
Those alliances that still owe the
G. W. editor for simply the expenses
ought now to fit us up with a pair OF
'corsets and plug hat! Even things
up boys.
Where will we find that ''itemized
report" Mister?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Great Men.

Great men are dwelling in the
ranks of the lowly. And great men
often live lives of quiet and retire
ment when they could better fill the
doorway OF history, or march with
power and dignity up the aisle of hui
man progress. There is tremen-
dous misconception in the minds OF
the great "middle classes" as to
what constitutes greatness" Man
worship is shamefully, ignobly preva-
lent.
Men become prominent. They see
human faces about them look on
them as men of power-and they see
their power lies in dignity, and as
sumption, and quiet. They play the
card, and the world worships at the
altar OF common talents, common
abilities and, usually, a common
fraud.
There is more greatness, more
breadth of mind, more generous and
high-born impulse, to-day, holding
the old plowhandles than there is
guiding the political craft through
the mazes of statecraft.
The plowhandle head thinks the
political head is guiding statecraft
as he guides the pillow! 1t is an
awful mistake. The statecraft is
"chance?' No, not exactly-for the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
The PulpitS

OF the Twncit have degree duty
the about long
trick assaulted the city St. Paul allowing gambling
defiance OF wwithout effort correct the evils He practically
stated that corruption ruled the cty-whch is
papers
that his he
grand ury Buck them at their word Even the
saloon keepers letters defyng him. The
only brought the matter before grand
ments Then the miserable mnons Of the political hierarchy the ode
fants off by showing gambling
door between the bar and the skin game.
And Rev. Morrill, made fierce onslaught on the outrageous defiance
law Minneapolis the
down him. But Rev enough for them After finishing
ing he night
home loaded with evdences bottles otherwise
twenty witnesses ready for subpoena.
Sunday preached sermon general
est Paul needs mayor The following portion report thereof
large assembled at the First Baptist church hear
the Mr. tan sbgy the
That Hebrew term which about equal
% hsd
tE hen were for Us
learn how did He first all sought the office
that sought Not with Nehemiah
society the salary attasd the
suggest St. Paul in
pu pr M + z would offer himself as
m act fss ss no ast r and
Tos a TIVE HE BY pgt with few
have selfish the continued corruption the who
he wept over the degraded condition its affairs Think
it, mayor of St. Paul weeping our eys corruption
people reform First the cooper
archbishop him
the various clergy against door possibly with
his cosmopolitan the
enlisted the heads the would correspond
upheld by
the people, he began his O
Before long he found the city who read in the Bible
exceedingly the welfare
Israeli Doubtless they the Of the city to defend the judges
Then
they laughed Nehemiah declared that might
would have alliance
begin investigation
the methods the He that they had forgotten that they
public They
and unlawful Whether the debt OF Jerusalem was
brokers' Offices the people cha
a rates
the methods proceeded inform the their
rights Heca the %
hundreds throughout Think It'll The ST.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

Some time since we stated that one
OF the great labor organizations Of
the country which bears an intimate
relation to the Citizens Alliances or
gained by the Phelps contingent in
the Twin-cities, had been PROVED to
be in corrupt connection with the
railways and plutocrats. We have
not yet given these revelations to
the public-but they are in posses
sion Of officials Of the New Party. We
write this, now, lest our readers
think we overstated the truth.
When the proper time comes these
documents will be published. They
involve very PROMINENT OFFICIALS
and our only regret is that our
means of investigation were cut off
before we had sliced one OF the MONS
ter's tenticles right in Minneapolis.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

Proceedings of the Alliance farmers
OF Pipestone at meeting last week,
sent us by our good brother Johnson
published next week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

We extend thanks to Daniel Jack.
man for his club of subscribers paid
from his own purse.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
THE RAILWAY PROBLEM"
A. B. Stickney on the Grain Elevators


Speaking of the necessity elevators that the railway
contracting with the railways should build hem Mr. skny
that the original contracts burdend the necessity
considerable period.
been high 60 OF capital invested annually The
conditions spoken have existed
were the result of highhanded robber system
Then Mr. S. to the the railways with the
elevator companies:
eeVaos
p ths% s @ s:sn &
they % a ef SaSs
fs @ o% ao
ad sn d. that a s1 5; @ s
than furnish the published tariff
We suggest that the rival line fake the grain
been utterly exploded Villages and townships have been worked
only to find that the rival instantly dodge
eghts remained the five times that lines
citsand than that with Chicago
After partially excusng the railways
grain coal, he says:
@ faa t se
railways and by practically
The most the great
5 5 'tF sn and f es
tine ra 5e S GF heir 4R
1s th fhss s s% s
S{ s 5n1
Now here another serious by stickney:
eon rss go3 s % Of the being
the Sy @ @ s sSsa5
tered every mind Which desires comprehend the
The freight charges compared rates. have been
the bone Of warte coming later And we de-
positively following beginning end an error Mr.
Stcney ought thinking of large cities
The "Pumpkinvls do not reductions competition:
and at aea5 h 6 LEGAL b
5udng or by enco"rsgng
nss Pssa 1 cs es v snS G" s
", n:i s9 5s
there @@ea as doppd on ns
each the different delighted ~hen
n s ys traffic
%shR sg s
AND a Gs bo
cure T the bSa sa e 5 ne rule
st. s pse & ss tts am s % 6c
half This OF the nn o OF h %
Unfortunately the phenomena annual ecpses Of the sum
invisible Europe American is an error The
railways almost always pooled the business.
The relations the prohibition
the most difficult matters put fairly
people, The prohbionst been an earnest nroh
bon advocate for many At Cincinnati led the
revolt against the brewers attempt to f the
with we felt that bo
justified We still think the Convention have had
the prohibition reform recognized by resolution not the
believe that it will cost tho
people million where they woeuy It will also
from many fearless and enthusiastic workers.
Now having stated that side the other Ills
not possible Tor reform party to shoulder reform
true that the hquorcue terbeev Do know every
the graduating sleeps sleep of shame in
the Potter's Field or the yard?
But we could not get the party take yaand
therefore let push the mighty
prepare the great party greater usefulness future We
fully believe that sevneghhs the delegates would have voted
straight prohibition to popuar vote W.
believe the peculiar controlled hernd that
the convention had been oneha the the time nroh
btion would have been fully recognized
1t not true stated in the old invitation 70
visit the beweries and ell refused nv ono 90
most unanimously spontaneous upeavas
And that wild temperance refoer that
ciple dwet in the hearts of the who there
Let gather around the banner the peoples Of evo
ton to it's PLATFORM and begin the mighty will break all ]
from struggling humanity. ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-01
ITWASA GREAT RELAY RACE
IRON HARTFORD TO THE SUN OFFICE
IN HOURS 30 MINUTES.

All sr the. Fastest Riders IN This Part .
the Conntry Take Part In the Attempt u
Prove tho Superiority or che bicycle Ove,
the Horse for Courier rurposes-weo,
Nekee . New Road Record.
A notable bicycle contest took place between
Hartford md this city yesterday. To illus
tratc the practical usefulness OF the bicycle al
all adjunct to tho equipment Of an army I'm,
been tho hobby Of military men and wheel
mon for some time. The success which hns
atteudcd tho introduction Of tho bicycle into
military mnnnuvrcs abroad has suggested
to tho military mon Of this country the
possibility Of admitting tho bicycle to tho train
OF army auSiliaries rs a valuable acquisition
which may In time superscdc tho horse.
Tho bicycle Ii acknowledged to be- fnr snpe-
sior to the qundruped for tho purpose OF long
distance riding. In fact. MS courier In tho
army the wheel would provo Invaluable. and
far moro satisfactory thHn tho horse.
The consideration Of the probable usefulness
Of tho stool stccd has boon well weighed. but
no solution to the problem OF Its genuine usc-
fulness had ever been demonstrated In this
country
For the purpose Of displaying the utility Of
tho bicycle as DIES patch carrier. in the event
Of Its securing footing in military circlcs.
relay race from Hartford to this city was ar
ranged.
The racs was held yesterday. The weather
was favorable. and the test WAS an unqualified
.surccss.
Tho distance from Hartford to this city BY
road is 12BS miles. Yesterdays race was
started from the Office Of tho, american CEclis
in Hartford and terminated at the uptown
Office OF THE Sun. Every preparation to Insure
a successful elimination Of the race had pre-
viously been made. and nothing occurred to
mnr tho success OF the experiment 1t was one
Of the most important cycling events Of tho
season. In order to avoid the possibility Of
poor time being made. tho fastest and most
export road racers in this vicinity participated
In tho event
Twenty-o riders composed the relays.
They included Charles w. Wood and J. NJ.
Grant. Hartford Wheel Club. Fred Herman.
Columbia Cycors. and william Harding. Hart
ford Wheel Club: + I. Ives and J. +. Brainarll.
Mcriden Wheel Club: W. i. Ballou and
Haven neT ieycls anu cub; IL s Mills S anT
g T.. Ellison. Bridgenort, Wheolmon;,. W. ,.
Middlebrook and ". NJ Richnrdtson Norwalk
seeley. New Haycn Bicycle. Club; William II.
Keller and C. NJ. Murphy New York Athletic
Club. and W., I: Murphy and Lester W. Beus-
ley. New York Athletic Club.
Grant. They loft Hartford at z o'clock A. NJ.
from the q dveIIss 2flioe ovor 15oo persons
All the riders were mounted on safety pneu-
road costume. wearing upon, their arm an In;
ribbon. upon which was painted:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-01
Football mt Lehlnh.

sourH BETHLEHEM Oct. 31--The football situation at
Lehigh Is in . peculiar position Everything depends
upon whether the faculty will grant the petition for
more time to devote to athletics. which will be placed
before them oil next Monday.
college mass meeting WAS held to-day and the Pc
tition revised aud Of its weak points strengthen
cd As It now stands. morning reci,ntions will com.
mence at O'Clock and end at IL. and afternoon
recitati0ns will begin at ! O'Clock and end
at four yrewrttcn letter has been enclosed with
COPY OF the petition and sent to every member of tho
faculty. ASKING them to consider the matter privately
before discussing II at the faculty meeting net.
ton ~ considered favOraby Ieigh will take boom
IN al her athletic sports. but especially in foot.
BALL IS the roster OF recitations 10 now arranged tie
Football men nfs unable to be the field until after
O'clock. and this in tho fall of the year but half
an hour actual practice before dirk Lehigh's over
whelming defea. by the University OF Pennsylvania
nay. were good as those who played upon Penn
sylvana team hut they defeated simply because
they did not play good team game
Lehigh has this material and Blunt makes an excel
lent captain. ana TOR tho time he has had nut
tile team he has Inhtc excellent progress Ills task
tins year has been t!cGt one II is true that from
centre I" right end his rush line II occupied by tho
same men who ncd those positions last year but TIE
LETT tih. or centre - occupied entirely by new men
And behind the HE McClung. who is putting up
ceHei game ms J ear ri quarter. 10 the only man In
ms OLD position Johnson who ID playing lett half
6ack mad always played left end. and Mcqueen; Tho
was n'ovcd from lis Old position At half 10 that OF fu
back,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-01

The stations were besIeged by curious ,rl E Per
sS rnq sS GssSsiFs
arrived Ct Milford at Sc,oGHE v Tm1 t thhsy
TsstSs sssSS
in the %a sc hf' speed. 50 Messrs Mills and
Ellison. tho fresh tenn which started from rom
sg ns sSesy t s ats s qp SF
time. but oh!y succeeded 4, reaehing, bridge.
port ct l059 9sl Sn tbs E Tas s ain9
seemed as though tho entire town was gu. out
T. sec the race MI Calh2HD Math h1h ne ts
charge o. ths race at that end The b. police
sssa s Srg Ssst Go RGsssrto Ok
s fe s They carried 4 ts sta%isrd ieS
| miles, which was reacncl NJ il;Sa y. NJ.
IRON tils p9 ror oapreS tba o.na%a 10
Stamford, where he was relieved by ". II.
Kecior. who. rode with IL to Port Chester. At
tho latter place young G.. Kirk took the do
SasSf Nfuhy ., sss ss% aSEk At%sss Sa
Nsw fSssGs GsisSf u' nc a'a not
Murphy tried to make up for the lost timo by
speeding to Westchester. whore no met his
brother. w. (. Murphy, md Lester W. Benstey;
rmccr -. Wy SWw n az r;ons,v ts
arrival Of TRE Sun St DESPATCH and were much
chngrined mt tho delay lry rs they would.
tMhsyn sonli pot make NJ tic lott time a.:
m4,ntaJ IN thc IN cip,- nrmonan used 6v Edo
the Engjjsh croct Tho man crosscj 1,t5th
strcat ~ Joron," ov.nnn over Nct,nn,L's dam
an,I down Snvnnth nVenue 70 flo PARK.
AT 123th stroot they met President A; q.
Mills and a party of New York Athletic Club
members on Il tallyho going to tho football
I mitch Te EhSSip,Gn 5esoivH srsat S SyS:
the riders found that fast time was at OF thS
street entrance ut 3;M5 o'clock. Down Eighth
avenue they rode to Thirty-fonrth street. Hero
again their progresswas mpeded bywagons and
carriages. In addition TO the many carriages
n s t at THE ss se OK Boaa
why; l mar Thjrty-second street theywero COW
They, arrived at THE Sun office at 1922 o'clock.
and delivered their despatch: Accomranying
Bridgeport Wheel Club.
Both letters follow:
THE MrssAoE.
~ ,,,r rr,ron on T,,r s,,m-s;r. s,o,,d t,.
girdlc, that Stevenson. Morse. and BELL have
d acr1 tDtir ns stnS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-01
An On.r TO Austin Gibbons.

James T.. McCurdy, Secretary Of the Rhode Island
A. g. or Providence, yesterday sent word to the Illus
hot.i Nec. to the effect that the club would give
liberal purse for ffteenr round bout between Austin
Gibbons of Paterson and Jack Falvey OF Providence.
MrCurdy wanted to know how much Gibbons would
spar for. falycy isa l2Spound man. whom Gibbons
expected to get on u match with year or Tue
question OF weight was not touched upon in the secre
tnI US communication.
The same club has matched Eddie Connolly and John
A. sullivan ut ldO pounds fora 5000 purse. and the
members expect to great go between the men.
they arg Gnth strong and clever. ami lnite evenly
doubtless a new ,wtIter.wGight champion" will he
heard from after II Is over. Tho Rhode Island il the
the umteh STATES to-day 0ntsiic OF Now Orleans and
san francisco unless Jark Fogarty's Ariel cub. IN
lhiladc ipLia. CuE be 30 called.