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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-08
Are You Going to
ATT

To attend the Convention in Nav?
If so see that your tickets read via
the MoSoN ROUTE louisville New
Albany & Chicago Ry). This is the
only line running solid Vestibule
trains between CHICAGO and C1NC1N-
MATT with Diners and Parlor cars on
day trains and both Pullman and
Compartment sleepers on night
trains. Trains leave Dearborn Sta
ton Chicago at $50 A. NJ. and S:35P.
NJ. daily. Those wishing sleeping
car Accommodations reserved from
Chicago should advise James Baker
Gen'l Pass. Agent Monon Route, Chi
cago or L. E. Sessions, Travelling
Passenger, Agent Minneapolis, Mimi,
stating what space they want and
whether they prefer the Pullman or
Compartment car. Double berths
$500 sections $500 in either car.
Tickets should be purchased through
if possible or at Monon City Ticket
Office, Is Clark Street, Chicago.
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Attention Mcleod County Alliance
SUMTER, Mimi, April 18th, 1891.
You are hereby notified that
a special meeting Of the Mcleod
County Alliance will be held at Glen
.coe, Tuesday, May :5th, at one
O'Clock, at court house hall, for the
purpose OF making arrangements to
purchase Irvine, farm machinery, etc.
Each alliance is requested to send
five delegates, a list of all members
who have paid their dues to the state
alliance, with amount Of Irvine need
Led by each member, and new harvest
.ers needed in each alliance. By the
efforts of the alliance the Irvine trust
appears to be busted" and we can
get our Irvine this year cheaper than
ever before if we will stand together
and buy by the car load.
NJ. CUTLER, Sec'y.
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President Polk on the Elections Bill.

President Polk on the Elections Bill.
President Polk, of the Farmers ALI
ance, speaking of the complications
which have arisen through the action of
some of the southern legislatures in de-
clining to participate in the Worlds fair
in the event Of the passage OF the elec-
ions bill, said:
The truth about the matter is that
the direct results from the Worlds fair
are to come by inducing emigration
and the investment of capital. For
obvious reasons the people of the south
feel that they will get more benefit
from the fair than any other section.
They feel that this election measure,
whatever its merits are, will be convert
ed into sectional issue.
They feel that sectional agitators, both
north and south, will make it bloody
shirt issue for 1892.
If this view is correct, as I believe it
is, its effect will neutralize any effort
we may make at Chicago to induce CAPT
tai and labor to the southern states. It
will thus not only check the material
progress now developing in the south,
but will retard it for years to come. The
views of the great industrial organize
tions of the country are succinctly and
unequivocally expressed in resolution
on the subject of suffrage adopted by the
confederation on Friday, which is broad
enough, just enough, equitable enough
for any American citizen to stand upon.
Washington Dispatch.
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| two million ounces shall be coined
monthly, for the period of one year,
into silver dollars; after that date
only such silver dollars need be coin
ed as may be required for the redemp-
ton OF the treasury notes issued in
payment for the silver purchased.
The silver dollars coined under these
various acts since 1873, although
not containing a dollars worth of
Silver, have been maintained in do
nestle circulation at par with gold
by causes not necessary now to be
considered. The silver question, as
it now presents itself, means ssfree
coinage of silver" in the United
States concurrently with the free
coinage of gold, at the ratio in coin
age of 1 to 16 (exactly to Is. $685.
that is, that individuals may take
silver OF any kind or description to
the mints, and have every 371A
grains stamped, free of charge, into
a dollar, which dollar shall be full
legal-tender. for it's face value, in the
payment of debts and obligations Of
all kinds in the United States. This
is all right as to gold: why not as to
silver? There is an important diff
ference. The minting Of gold adds
nothing to the value of the metal
contained in the coin. It is simply a
certificate to the public of the weight
and purity of the piece. AS a mat
ter of fact, fine gold bars sell in New
York at slight premium above full
weight gold coin, being preferred for
shipment and Industrial uses. How
is it with silver! The commercial, or
bullion, value OF the silver contained
in the silver dollar is to-day 80 cents.
Here, then, is an important differ
ence which did not exist prior to
1873, when we had free coinage of sill
yer. In this difference lies the whole
difficulty. Can it be overcome?-E.
G.. Leech. Director of the Mint in
North American Review for March.
The above presents the sole and
only tenable position of the single
standard men-and it is answered in
q single sentence. Increase the de-
mand for silver by coming $500,
100000 of it-not storing it-and
it's "value" will be it's "coin value"
Gold has been below it's face value
time and again on account of silver
being worth more than gold, STAN
dard for standard. Remove the use
of gold for coin and it would in
stantly sink IN value.
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF Toll
rEnn rrCAc H0rYNu,v


FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm OF
F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business
in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case OF
CATAn1nd that cannot be cured by
the use1pf HALLS CATARRH CURE.
N FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9Th day of De-
cember, A. D. 1886.
A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls .Catarrh Cure is taken in.
ternally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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In speaking of the mission and scops
Of the Patrons of Husbandry, and.out-
lining the results attsined under their
adopted policy, leader of the order
said:
The hull of the grange ship is well
built. Its majestic sides are ribbed by
the mechanism of profound thought, its
spars, braced by fraternal cords, have
never been shattered by the fury of tho
storm. Its sails are still whole, and
have been whitened by the friction of
popular criticism.
Often has it buoyed in turbid watens.
Still oftener has it glided gracefully and
txiunphantly over the pillows Of preju-
dice that lashed 50 furiously over it,
bow. Today it foats in placid wstezA
It's haven has not yet been reached, nor
will it be until every farmer in the lsnd
shall have received some of the benefits
of its launching. The harvest of i'm
provement which the American farmer
reaped during the prosperous era of the
grange, and which is still ripening in
every state Of the Union, cannot be lin
tied to a monetary valuation.
The social elevation, the moral i'm
provement and the educational advance
ment have been beyond comprehension.
These three grand purposes are never
ignored nor forgotten from the moment
the initiate closes behind him the outer
door of the grange hall, until by death
or from other causes he dissolves his
connection with the order. Every pre-
cept of the order is elevating and i'm
proving. The steps taken by the appli-
cant in his passage through the four
degrees that must be conferred upon
him before he is acknowledged to be a
Patron of Husbandry in good standing
all have this tendency. He who enters
the field must begin with the rudiments.
of his vocation, and be taught that che
who will not pillow by reason of the cold
shall beg in the harvest and have moth
ing."-New York Herald.
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Strange Warnings From Some OF On,
United States Senator.


The utterances given below orig
mating from some of our statesmen
is q danger signal, and whether the
authors were sincere or not, the
truth of their assertions are painful
~ apparent, and are fast reaching il
the direction pointed out. Read.
Senator Call:
''It is we'll for the people to form
some idea Of the extent to which the
powers of thegovernment are becom
ing subject to thef control of a very
small number OF people, and the ex
tent to which these powers are be
coming absolute, dsspotic, mon
archical, almost as mulch SO AZ the
power of the Car of Russia.
'The present system places the
control of the wealth Of this country
in the hands of q very small number
of persons, an almost ininitessima
portion of the people; gives then
money to buy those who represent
the people; money. to fill the seats O
this Chamber and of the other House
and to corrupt those who exercise
the judicial functions of the country
money to manipulate railroad char
ters; money to control corporations
OF .every kind, and to place banker.
and money lenders in places of of
ficial power; money to suborn thu
press; money to monopolize anc
gather IN their ownership all thu
transportation and other means O
exchange, and to extort from thu
people the fruits of their labor, unit
there is want, and suffering, and debt
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A student in one of our colleges
writes:
II have read your paper only for a
short time, but 1 am more than
pleased with it, feeling satisfied that
it is just the right kind of a paper.
l will send you the address of two Of
my friends. Enclosed find stamps
for two trial subscriptions"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-08

There is one item of expense that the
farmer must meet, but which falls upon
him according to quality, and that is
transportation of products to market.
AS pound of inferior butter or grain
costs as much to market as that which is
better, there is consequently less expense
for transportation, in proportion to value,
on good articles than on the Inferior
Otsego Farmer.
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KEEv1LLE, May 2, 1891

KEEv1LLE, May 2, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST.
Continue to send me the GREAT
WEST. think you are doing agood
work. I received some sample cop
pies of the G. W. last week. l have
distributed them and will be able to
get some new subscribers before long.
GEO. w. BORRILL.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-08

The Cincinnati Conference will be
held at Music Hall, Elm Street, be-
tween 18th and 18th st., opposite
Washington Park, and will open at
2 p. m. Tuesday the 10Th.
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est, 1854, lowest go; from Buda
Pesth to Brasso, 452 miles, highest
1884 lowest, 81 so.
These rates are q marked reduction
from. the former ones and have re-
suited Gas the lowering rates in Iowa.
in largely increased receipts. The
number Of passengers carried in
1888 was 5,587, zoo, in 1889 (dur-
ing which year the zone tariff was
adopted) 9,O97, 200, an increase Of
3,5O6, 500. The total receipts from
passengers and baggage in 1880
were So ,S94 $50, in 1889 81, 126, 1884
in 1889 %, 126. $40, increase 1882. :
$50. In Austria the system is much
the same as that of Hungary but
has only been in operation since
June 16, 1890, but already as ap-
pears from q communication from
the Austrian ministry of Commerce,
''the results of the new system are
satisfactory both as concerns the in
crease in the number of passengers
and of receipts. On some lines the
increase in the number of passengers
was as much as 176 per cent. The
increase in the receipts for passen-
gers and baggage was calculated for
July at "a 900 forms, and for Au-
gust at $4,000 forins.-Iowa
Tribune.
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DUNDAs, MINI. Nav

DUNDAs, Mimi, May 4th, '91.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
DEAR SIR & BRoTHER:-I see in
the Farm, Stock & Home a report OF
the Alliance State Central Commit
tee, and statement that they have
been audited by a subcommittee,
and approved, with a detailed state
ment OF the same. Mr.. Owen only
gives q summary of the account; but
one item attracted ms attention
Printing and lithographing. 1 sup
pose the Lithos we're the picture O.
Mr.. Owen. Now, as was one of tn,
candidates in Rice Co., 1 was told by
the Chairman of our Committee, Mr.
John P. Ames, of Mortified, that h,
paid three dollars per hundred fol
the Autographs that we used and W,
paid for most or the other matter
that we got of the State Contra
Committee. I'VE contributed 80 o.
$40 when Mr.. Muller was at Fari
bault, at our nominating convention
which went to the State Central Com
mittee, and we did all the campaign
work and paid for it out OF our own
money. All they did, if anything, was
to send Messrs. Donnelly and Irwin to
Faribault, and the money we contrib.
uted to Mr.. Muller certainly paid all
the expense they went to in Rice Co.
So do not see as they have made a
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CORRESPONDENCE.


G1BBoN, Mimi, Apr. Is, 1851
A meeting of the Sibley County
Farmers AllianceMill be held in the
village of Arlington, May 10Th, 1891 ,
at 1 O'Clock p. M, for the purpose of
electing one delegate, from this coun7
ty to attend the Great Conferencezto
be held at, CINCINNATI, O., May 18th
1891; and to transact such other;
business aa may come before the
meeting. Each sub-alliance is en-
titled to 8 delegates.
j. A. SALoMONsON,
Pres. Co. Alliance,
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RENvILLE, Mimi, Apr. %.
EBInoR GREAT WEST.

1 am taking several other papers,
but cannot depend on them for re-
liable news. If it were not for the
GREAT WEST and I. Donnelly we
would be sleeping yet. By being
united we divided the Irvine trust and
binder trust. 1 hope the Lord will
spare you and keep YOU in good
working trim. VIM. POWERS.
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Scenes of Beauty.

Have you made up your mind that
you can afford to take a week or two
this summer from business, and 90
somewhere for a pleasure trip? If
you have, don't wait till the last OF
July or the middle of August, when
the summer heats have taken all the
energy out OF you. June is the
month for pleasure in travelling.
Where are you going? To the East?
Did you ever try trip along the Up
per Mississippi-from st. Paul to
Rock Island? No? Then you have
missed one OF the most enjoyable
journeys possible. Nowhere on our
continent is more charming scenery
nowhere is the country richer in his
torical associations. 1.-The Burling-
ton" runs close beside the river from
st. Paul to Rock Island, and is incon-
testably the scenic line of the North
west. For tickets and maps call on
any ticket agent, and for further in
formation address w. J. G.. Kenyon,
Gen. Pass. Agent c. B. & N. R. R. st.
Paul, MINI.
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inc S11v0T Q001t100 a. It L..
The present law (act of July IA,
1900 requires the purchase, monthly
at the market price, of four and a
half million ounces of silver, of which
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New York already has Is, OOOfarm-
ers in her alliance, and the movement
is spreading with great rapidity.
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GRAFTON, N. D., May 4th. 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST.
The GREAT WEST can not be with
out. Keep the bali rolling.
GILBERT P. SLETTE.
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BRowNTowN, May 9th, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
. Please send copies OF the GREAT
WEST to the following names for four
months.
Yours for the right. love your
paper. On with the fight. God speed
the grand work. M. C. ROGERS.
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Chicago Times:
AMONG all the delightful things
said at the Mckinley banquet in New
York was this utterance of Million
aire Cornelius N. Bliss, who presided
at that gathering ofeminent patriots
and legalized plunderers of the pub
lie:
cit appears to me that the assump-
ton by the few who have usurped
the title of tariff reform-that title
really belongs to us-that the intelli-
gent people of this country require
education on economic question by a
body of closet students, who, how
ever honest in their convictions, are
without practical experience, is an
impertinence.
There is humor in this worthy of a
comic paper. It will be appreciated
most by those who are lying under
the heavy weight of the monopolies.
1t is true-blue republican sentiment
in it's scorn of scholars. damn
them literary fellersp' It is a true
blue republican expression OF indig-
nation that the people should dare
to assert an ability to see through
pierced milestone, and should impu-
IDENTIFY challenge theright OF a favored
class to arrange matters to suit
themselves. 1t was a worthy utter
noteworthy of the occasion"
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RENvILLE, Mimi. April 80, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
At a meeting OF Renville sub-alli-
ance No. 675, held April 25th, the fol-
lowing resolutions were passed, and
ordered sent to the GREAT WEST for
publication:
Resolved, That we the members of
Renville sub-alliance, No. CTS, do
hereby agree not to deal with any
business men-when it be avoided
who works against us, and sympa-
thizes with the plutocrats; neither
will we subscribe for or uphold any
newspaper, that is working against
the farmers alliance and their inter-
est.
Resolved, That we most heartily
congratulate Senator Donnelly upon
the grand work he has done in the
late legislature, and that we tender
him, and our own Senator, Mr.. Bor-
ebert, as well as Representative II. A.
Peterson, our most hearty thanks,
and will assure them Of our support
in the future; as our motto is, sup
port the men who honestly thy to do
their duty. j. c. JEPsoN. /.
Sec'y Alliance No. 675.
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very fair. showing of the funds yet.
Those farmers at the State Alliance
were pack Of fools to pay in that
$559.69.
I refused to pay a cent. 1t was
throwing money into the hole. Re-
spectfully Yours, GILBERT FISH,
Sec'y Home Alliance, No. 1880, and
President Rice Co. Alliance.
I'VE would say that the ''sub-com.
mittee" is supposed to be from that
Central Committee. The report was
wholly unsatisfactory to to the Exec.
Com. OF the 400 odd dollars paid
for speakers Muller received $50 q
week $4,000, and expenses. The
Autographs at 50 a hundred $3.50 q
thousand were about twice the legit-
innate cost. The Jumping off of the
account is, OF course, no report at all.
ED. 6. WI
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MADISON, Mimi, April 30, 1891

MADISON, Mimi, April 80, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST.
I must have the GREAT WEST.
Please send back numbers for the
last three weeks if you can. I think
l shall go to the Cincinnati conven-
tion-what will be the R. R. fare from
st. Paul. j. j. DALEY.
TAbout $31, St. Paul to Cincinnati
and return.
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John B. Copeland writes: els it
right that the state should raise the
prices on land? Is it not each and
every county that does this? Is there
a State Assessor? Then what is the
use of 3 Town Assessor; then get
away with State Assessors. There are
fellows here who are going to sell
Irvine cheaper than the Alliance!
This is only a bait for the farmers
to catch on to. But next year the
farmers will pay their price for Irvine.
Bro. Farmers, stick to the alliance.
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ately preceding 1T, all distances eX-
ceeding 40 miles from the starting
point are included in a single zone,
Passenger rates are fixed, not per
mile or per kilometer, but at so much
per zone; the charge for every frac-
ton of a zone being the same as for
a full zone. As each zone constantly
increases in length over that imme-
diately preceding it the effect of
the system is evidently a constantly
diminishing rate per mile in proper
ton to distance Travelled. The re-
port to the commissioners give ex-
tended tables of rates much like rate
sheets which are now by law CON-
PEELED to be posted in our stations.
We have space for but a few instances
from these tables. which will afford
striking Illustrations OF the superior
ity of the Hungarian system over
our monopolistic one.
Six classes of rates are given in the
table of which we will give but two,
the highest and lowest: From STA
ton (A) to points within the first
zone, 16 to 25 miles, highest rate .4S
lowest 20; to points within the fifth
zone So to 50 miles. highest rate
$1.A, lowest so; zone tenth, 100 to
1O8 miles, highest 1854, lowest
81. 10; zone thirteenth, 40 miles
and beyond, highest 1884, lowest
81 so. But the most marked fed
lures of this system are shown in dis
tances above 40 miles. From Buda
Pesth to Kolozsyar, 247 miles, high
The record-union., 1891-06-12
CAPITAL TURF CLUB.
a Proposition to Make 1t a Permanent
Organization.

a Proposition to Make 1t Permanent
Organization.
c. A. Luhrs, T. b. Hall, J. w. Wilson,
Robert Hale, w. o. Bowers and several
other leading spirits of the Capital Turf
Club, under whose auspices the late sue
cessful spring meeting was given, held a
consultation day or two ago, and all
agreed that it would be to the interest of
Sacramento and to the encouragement of
good horse-racing to perpetuate the club.
1twas argued that to jump up, mush-
room-iike, every year, reorganiZe, go
begging among the citizens for funds and
get ready for the races in a hurry, was
not the right way to do business. Other
cities had their turf clubs, and most of
them were now wealthy organizations.
The idea now is to interest the business
men of Sacramento, form a permanent
club and when racing time comes
around there will be no hurrying and
skurrying. The club has about 81 900 left
over from the last meeting, and this will
be turned over to the new organization.
Clubs of this kind are always self-sus-
tanning, so there will be no drain upon
the members for money after it gets
started.
The gentlemen above referred to have
called for meeting of business men for
next Monday evening, at the Golden
Eagle Hotel, when the matter will be
thoroughly discussed and the organiza-
ton perfected.