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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

The Free Lance, of Minneapolis,
writes a column editorial, and theen-
tire column says this and nothing
more: A government cannot give
any value to any material, for mon
ey purposes, unless the value is in
the material used.
That is strange doctrine for
bankers to read! We will warrant
that Editor Maben' cannot find a
man in Christendom who has ever
dealt in money, stocks, bonds, or
general brokerage, who would read
that editorial and treat it respect
fully.
How about bonds? Or mortgage
secured notes? Or deposit-secured
checks?
Then if the government owns a
100000 lot in St. Paul, and builds
a million dollar improvement, what
is the matter with the government
depositing a bond in it's treasury
and issuing bills or notes to the
amount OF $55O,OOO on that proper
ty? Or, if the government owns
800, 100000 acres OF land still avail
able for agricultural purposes, what
is the matter of circulating $780,
100000 for the people on that land
by issuing It's notes therefor. Or, if
a farmer has 800 acres of improved
land and it is worth $15 an acre,
what is the matter with issuing notes
on a mortgage security for $3.50 an
acre? Or, if the elevator-syndicates
loan 80 per cent of the value Of crops
when stored in their elevators, what
is the matter with the government
loaning Is per cent OF the value
when stored in government eleva-
tors!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
From Illinois.
set of men?
MOLINE, ILL.,, June "a, 1891

MOLINE, ILL.,, June "a, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
In regard to your paper I will say
that it is dandy, and it is paper
that should be in the hands of every
farmer and laboring man in the
country for they would then learn
the naked truth. Hurrah for the
Peoples Party-aud may it grow
and prosper and spread to every
hamlet in the land; and may it in
1892 bury the old demo-republican
machine. CHAs. A. LARSON.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

J. F. Schuch says: Labor. and
Capital! Labor the creator, capital
the created-which is the greatest?
Is there room in this world for the
humble and weak creator alongside
the naughty and greedy created?'
He also says: eve begin to hate
the rich and complain of our deplor-
able state of affairs-and the loss OF
liberty and equity-but if we
wish to be practical we must do more
than grumble!"
Now We submit that in those two
expressions, Mr.. Schuch "gets there"
with a great deal of skill. 1t states
two truths, one irony and the other
harder than iron. He also writes
that it is his conviction that labor
ers should build factories and ope-
rate them themselves.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
The 4th.

GLENCOE, June %, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Mcleod Co. Farmers Alliance will
celebrate the Fourth of July at Sill
yer Lake, and we expect to have a
big time. We will have, as part Of
our Programme grand street pa
rade, we have fixed MP different kinds
OF banners, representing our organi-
cation and nothing would do me
more pleasure then to have some
kind Of banner representing the
GREAT WEST. want to assure you
that there will be nothing in our pro-
gramme that will receive more hearty
cheers, as we radical alliance men be-
lieve in the G.. w. Doc, Mcleod Co.
Alliance believes in the G.. W.!
A. C. WEIGH,
Co. Lecturer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
Fusion.

We had intended writing up our
views at length, this week, on the
subject of the fusion of the Alliance
with the democratic party in this
state. But it appears wisest to hold
off until such an article can be put
forth to much greater advantage.
A somewhat peculiar interview" oc-
Cured on the streets of St. Paul re-
Gently, a somewhat prominent demo-
cratic politician doing the ''inter-
viewing" After ascertaining that
we were strongly opposed to COM
bines of any character, he asked the
plump question:
Now, Dr., do 1 understand that if
the Peoples Party in this state
should decide to fuse with the Demo-
cratic party that you would desert
the combination?"
"Well," we replied, "that is lead
er-very early in the day. But you
can rest assured that under no cir
cumstances will the G.. w. weaken on
the Peoples Party. 1t may not pur-
sue the best policy, and we shall try
to prevent such mistakes. The
GREAT WEST was thrust bodily out
of the late campaign, and our dona-
tions, even, declined without thanks.
But we went into that campaign just
the same, and did not get any $50 a
week either!'
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

We never took Mr.. Irwin to be a
friend of the GREAT WEsT-but we
had never known him to do an act
toward us which was discreditable
until the following appeared, in an
interview with the Pioneer Press:
"The iniquities of the Duluth eleva-
tor companies may be covered up
for the present and their crookedness
obscured temporarily by the cloud of
dust which attorneys are raising
over trifing discrepancies in sched-
ules. The gates must be open, the
THIRTY-SEVEN cents bushel
which it costs the farmer from Du-
luth to New York must be reduced to
6 cents, what it now costs the eleva-
tor companies, and the producer
must have the benefit of the
THIRTY-ONE cents per bushel which
now goes into the bottomless, insati-
able NAV of this monster mon
opoly."
Now we submit to the farmers of
Minnesota if it is a square deal for
Mr.. Irwin to refer to that great rob-
berry in connection with the late
Wheat-Investigation farce. We want
even the semblance of justice. The
Hallswindle did not refer to the
above margin-it absolutely avoided
it. There was not one word of it be-
fore the late committee. Hall and
Irwin never dreamed of that robbery
until DR.. Fish Numbered it out in the
State Capitol on that memorable
March 4th! Mr.. Hall and his other
minion-tools of the Sprague-ring had
us assaulted for the statement
we proved it at cost Of hundreds of
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

It seems that Sec'y Foster hest
tates somewhat about that matter
of extending the bonds due in Sep
TENDER at two per cent, when there is
money in the treasury to pay them.
Perhaps he has discovered. that the
U. S. Congress should have some
thing to say about creating debts on
the part OF the United States govern
ment! All the same we'll wager a
plug hat against a kingdom that he
will obey the instructions of Wall
Stl eet-or get out.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

OF course we like to have the far
mers take the GREAT WEsT-and
support it until it's future is above
doubt. But at the same time, when
you have sound alliance papers
like the Mankato Journal, OF Blue
Earth county, and the Brown coun-
ty Herald, Of Sleepy Eye, the farmer
should support their local paper
first and the GREAT VEST afterward.
The latter has the world for a field.
The county papers look to every
lover OF the country in the county.
Leave no stone unturned to sustain
the local alliance paper
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

The national bank circulation now
is only about $125, 900, OOO-just
one-third the amount out when we
we were robbed of 1926, 100000 OF
silver money! In other words, while
the population has increased 49,
100000, silver and bank currency
has decreased about one-half billion.
Silver certificates, etc., reduced this
loss to some extent, as well as recent
coinage of silver.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
From the st. Cloud Journal Press:
Donnelly's Cabinet.

Ignatius Donnelly was in New York
the other day and confded to a re-
porter the information that the Peo-
ple's party would elect the President
in 1891. In the event, Mr.. Donnelly
himself will be the man, and the
Journal Press ventures to suggest
the following names for his cabinet:
Secretary OF the treasury, Eric Oh
son.
Secretary of war, Doc. Fish.
Postmaster-general, Henry Plow-
man.
Encouragement, Bill Erwin.
If Eric handled the funds where
would the rest us of be? As Sec'y oil
War we appoint Mitchell, OF the j.,
Press to be Big Gun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

If any man wants to know why the
GREAT WEST is fighting men who
have been a power in the alliance in
the past, let them read an article in
this issue headed, 'Look Out!' It is
taken from the Chicago Express, and
it is almost sublime in it's conception
of things in Minnesota. The men
whom it describes as tools fought
against forfeiture, and are now
travelling over the state to destroy
the faithful sentiment. What did
that Wyoming MCGEE go to Adrian
dor? Read the article on this page.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
A Kansas Record!

Inc Alliance house passed the
mortgage, the usury, the bribery,
the Australian ballot, the election
Dy the people of railroad commits
sioners, legal tender, stay of execu-
Iion, women suffrage and the salary
oils as promised in their platform.
and everyone of them was killed in
republican senate, the only excep
zion beng the alien land bill which
ran the gauntlet.-Kansas Common
er.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

The following sublime morsel comes
from the Buffalo Journal Wright
Co..: All we can say that if farmer
will take that paper after reading it
he is fool, and deserves to be rob-
bed and whipped by the town strap
per:
Sin looking over our exchanges we
cannot but help notice the fact that
in counties where the Alliance ele-
ment was the strongest last year
the papers are full of mortgage fore
closure sales. Otter Tail and Big
Stone counties are examples. Prob
ably If the owners of those farms had
paid more attention to their farm
ing operations and less to politics
they would have had more wheat
last fall with which to have helped
lift the mortgage. While they are
getting in their political work (wast-
ing their time) the mortgage was
getting in it's work"
The man who penned that article,
in America, should be promptly
tarred and feathered and driven
over the border. He is a knave and
a shallow-pated idiot. Think ofsnch
a reptile editing a newspaper for
citizens OF republic. Think OF him!
You can't think OF him. There isn't
a mind on earth who can compre-
bend such contemplate littleness oil
intellect. Vacuity is not compre-
hensible.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
From the People, New Yory City.
Some years ago William D. Kelle-

OOHle yodfS ago WLIldIu II. helley
moved Congress deeply-so at least
it seemed then-by referring with in
dignation to the employment of wo-
men in British rolling mills and nail
factories. There was no such blot on
the industries of this country" ex-
claimed our Fourth of July orators.
But what do we see today? "Wo-
men," says a Pittsburgh paper,
''have invaded the great iron found
ries of this city and over five hun
dred OF them are today Gaping nails
and bolts at one-third the price FORM
erly received by men. It is severe
physical labor, and it took strong
men to do the work, but the girls
must either work or starve, and their
supply almost doubles the demand. :"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
New Post OAioe for the G. w.

FREELAND, Mimi, June 9th, 81.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
I must let you know that we have
a brand new post office in the town
of Freeland, Lac qui Parle Co., MINI.
We are thankful to Onkel Sam'l for
favoring us. We had from 10 to II
miles to go to the P. O. hope the
GREAT WEST will be well represented
at this Office. The farmers alliance in
our town is prospecting and with
good hope for the future.
A. HAUGEN.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
LOOK OUT.
The Enemies Of tho Alliance ar,
Never Sleeping.


The Farm View wisely says:
''Look out for the man in your ALI
ance from the little crossroads
schoolhouse sub-Alliance to the Ma
tional body who opposes any de-
finite declara tions or actions; who
figures and schemes to prevent the
order from speaking too plainly;
who thinks consideration of usury,
taxation and labor reforms should
not be handled without gloves; who
prevents, binders, diverts. Look
out for the enemy within. He is get
ting into position everywhere to tor
pity you that the enemy may swarm
over your battlements."
"The Philistines are upon YOU,
Samson!' They will try new ropes.
green withes and the beguiling lock-
shearing Delilah-not forgetting the
whisky and segars. Real Havan-
mas" by the way, though made of
Connecticut leaf, might have upset
Samson without Delilah's help. New
er, from the foundation of the world
were mortal men SO begirt by willy,
subtle, treacherous, cunning, adroit
enemies as will be the farm and labor
men of this country during the next
two years. Ignatius Loyola, Ma
chiavelli and Talleyrand were babies
in cunning deceit to the men and
women who will be set to work to
"decieve the elect" s'He who en-
dures to the end shall be saved"
"Unless these days be shortened,
but remnant shall remain" In no
age OF the world were the means and
facilities for seducing men from the
path of duty so numerous and
efficient.
Never did a ruling class have so
much at stake. In no preceding age
were the prizes set before the greedy
clutcher after power and pelf SO gilt
tering and attractive. Thousands
OF those who possess riches now have
within their grasp luxuries such as
only few monarchs in past centur-
les could enjoy. Like Edmund Dan
ties, when he grasped the Jewels of
the Island OF Monte Cristo, thew can
exclaim in delirium ofdelight' "The
w OllO 10 1DIuc.
They can live here in their palaces
summoning to them all the good
things OF the ends of the earth Or
they can live in any great city in
Christendom, and by telegraph-like
James Gordon Bennett-transact
American business.
Or they can take their steam
yachts and go from one earth para
disc to notwithstanding what eli
mate and surroundings they will.
They can loiter in the balmy air of
Bermuda while. poorer Chicagoans
perish with Pneumonia. Or they can
lounge along the Florida shores
smiling the orange groves. Or thew
can cast anchor in the Bay of Naples
or dream in the gondolas of Venice
by moonlight. Or if ambitious of a
wider range, they can float with
Stevenson over the perpetual sum
mer seas of the Pacific Ocean. tarrv-
ing long in Samoan paradisaic
islands. ''''
Hayseeds and Mudstills look ont
for them! The perpetuity of these
enormous possibilities for them de-
ponds upon their keeping you pinned
to the earth, with their feet mon
your necks.
viii they willingly let you up?
Not a bit OF it! Chicago Express.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

now, is: what was the consideration
by which these gigantic discoveries
we're whitfield down to night ship
ment OF 10000 bushels of wheat in
six years! Those Investigators are
partly fools-and partly worse-be..
side which the Committee is a band
of polished ivory seraphim!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

1t is now practically impossible to
put any faith in any statement, OF
any character, made in the old party
press. They are under the keen CEN
sorship of plutocratic villains who
will lead the country to ruin rather
than tell the truth if it exposes their
schemes of greed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
Yours truly,
FpANK n TT

AOuIS CIuiJs
FRANK H. IRONS.
Why, farmers, is there a man in
this country who can read who does
not know that prices are thus made
on wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco,
oats, pork, etc., etc.
When the GREAT WEST published
those wonderful documents which
TOLD SOMETHING NEW AND STRANGE
and gave the hitherto unknown facts
in the matter, where we're the corrupt
Olsons, and where was Hall-and
these wheat-buyers whose partners
swear that they are in this combine
that they did not THEN demand
investigation?
The greatest mystery to be solved
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

How would it do to make honor
the basis OF money instead OF metal?
Would it take a large mint.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
ST. PAUL. MIMI. JULY 3, 1891.
The report of the Lincoln County
Alliance, Mimi, in another column, is
exceedingly Interesting.

So far as our observation goes the
fusion s'idea" is exploded, and it
killed the inventors.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

That the old parties are frightened
A'goes without saying!' But they
will be more so in 1892.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03

The question to be settled is:
"Does education make more honest
set of men,"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
POSTAL CARDS!!

so that every postmaster and clerk
and carrier and chance visitor could
see them! Mystery of mysteries!
Here's a sample OF the postal cards
sent by Irons every day:
Minneapolis, Mimi, June 4, 1891.
GEO. FILEsTON & Co.,
st. Cloud, Mimi.
Your prices, taking effect to-mor-
The Irish standard., 1891-04-18

not too late even now to save you from
the consequences Of your rashness.
Hasten to your horse and away as fast
as YOU can ride. Treachery is all
around you. I, even l, have dug the
pitfall for you. Fly, if you would save
ness: for your grand devotion has
touched my heart and [ could almost
love you.'
'Almost! thought
"Hush!''
But the warning came too late;
dozen stalwart forms, springing from
the shadows of the trees, surround the
young man, who, stunned 10y the girls
revelation, yields without a blow for
freedom.
'Another captive to your destinations,
Miss Lascelles, +" the officer in charge OF
the party says, with more mockery than
sincerity 'sYour be01r yeuc are more ef~
fective than our rifle-bullets.'
ssAnd just as cruel!" she muttered,
bitterly, as she watched them lead her
victim to the house. ''F'Ool that l am.
If after all, t'were him and not the other
one love-"
Once more Charlie is on the road, with
his horses head turned not to Nashville
but to Murfreesboro, and not alone
now, but with gay company OF jolly
fellows who, though they guard him
| we'll. treat him with a consideration that
would rob it's capture Of it's sting, if he
were not SO dazed with the discovery
that he was delivered into bondage by
the girl he loved; and, poor, infatuated
| lad. he felt that even now he could not
| shake himself free from the chains Of
| her fatal fascinations.
That night Charlie Fulton slept at a
plantation close to Murfreesboro in a
small, dark, low-ceiled room, whose
! gloomy aspect was increased by its
heavy antique furniture and old-fash-
ioned presses, carved in the grotesque
taste of the last century. Morning
dawned cold and gray, but with its Gi.,t
CLEAN he sprang from his bed and ran
to the narrow easement. The sight be
low riveted the CALLING thought that he
was indeed prisoner, and that the ad-
ventures of the preceding night were
not hideous dream. A squadron of
dragons, who seemed to have passed
the night beside their horses, lay
stretched or seated in all the picturesque
| groupings of a bivouac; some already
up and stirring; others leaned half-list-
lesslv upon their elbows, and looked
The Irish standard., 1891-04-18

early november evening Gle A5 AIC VI q
horseman might have been seen riding
at steady trot along road which led
in southeasterly direction from Nash
vile. Ever and anon the traveller
looked back over his shoulder with an
expression of anxiety at the fair city he
was leaving, and then grasping his
bride with more determination and
spu1ring his horse to greater effort, as
though he were there instigating him
self to the accomplishment of some
thing he was undertaking in only a
half-hearted manner. fixed his eyes on
lights which glimmered in the far dis
tance and steadily pursued his journey
without permitting any regret he might
have entertained to distract him from
his purpose In the trim figure and
handsome features of this solitary
horseman it is not difficult to recognize
our young friend, Charlie Fulton-but
not the gallant, gay, light-hearted lad
Who marched from Columbus with high
hopes and spotless soul, for in the rider
,o-night we see one whose face is drawn
with care, one who would even now
turn back from the fatal errand he is
bent on if something stronger than his
sense of honor did not drag him for
ward; and this something was the siren
figure Of a woman, for whose favors he
felt at that moment as if he would
barter his very soul. AS the mariner OF
ancient days looked on Scylla and
dreaded Charybdis, he knew that he
was rislzing two imminent dangers
being caught as a spy and hung, or
arrested for treason and shot-but she
had sent him word to come, and If a
hundred deaths stood between him and
her. for her sweet sake he would dare
them all. Hour by hour he rode, each
mile alternately as he neared his goal
tortl1ring him with remorse or thrilling
him with expectation.
All! there is the signal-two lights
burning in a garnet window Of the
house he is at last approaching Has
he been there before? 1t seems SO, for
he disnounts and, leaving his horse
tethered to a tree, advances up the very
orchard path down which one memor-
able midnight Frank Besant fled SD
hurriedly.
And she meets him.
Radiantly beautiful in a dress so per-
feet that it allows the rounded lowell
ness of her exquisite figure to show it's
graceful lines and stir to the depths OF
his soul the innpassioned youth as he
gazes at the undulating form. worship
ing with the fervor OF IL first love.
''You are come" she says, in an &C
cent TREMENDOUSLY musical. 'Yet hard
ly thought you would dare another
visit
She permitted him to draw her to his
breast and imprint a kiss upon the up
turned face
Gomez he said. ':When you say
come, my sweet one, there is no dam
ser would not dare to do your bid
ling"
She tremblad under his ardent gaze.
Pity for a moment broke the spell that
bound her better nature, and disenggag~
ing herself from his embrace she @zied,
IL. earnest tones: "No, poor boy, it is