The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-06
Important Matters.


There are matters now before the
Alliances of the most profound import.
Every member will be called upon to
vote upon questions which should re-
ceive the most serious consideration
from every one 1t has been said that
farmers are peculiarly subject to
whims and notions, and will sacrifice
politics, friends and even farms to
back up likes and dislikes. We have
not found this to be true. But the
farmers is, in his isolation, a thinker,
and when he thinks, he thinks mighty
hard, and so, often thought becomes
a hobby, a hobby a rut, a rut vital
principle to him.
In the consideration of these great
questions to be placed before you by
the Executive Committee lay open
your mind as you would new book,
and weigh every thought in the scales
OF Judgment before you adopt them.
The great question to be voted up
on is one upon which the Executive
Committee is a unit-friend and foe
alike. OF course we except Miss Eva,
who has entered upon serions and
exceedingly reprehensible warfare up
on Mr.. Donnelly, and nearly every
body else.
The following is concise and COM
plete statement of the proposition
put before you by the Executive
Committee:
We are all preparing for the mighty
struggle of 1892. The alliance work
ers, OF every belief and faction, are
anxious to establish powerful organ
in the northwest which will be wholly
devoted to the Alliance party interests,
and in no sense a personal organ-one
to which EVERY alliance official and
worker can lend his support, and send
into fifty thousand homes in Mime
sofa alone.
Other organizations and other
branches of the Alliance have such
organs. And yet, to place such an organ
in the field and have two papers to sup
port would be to weaken both.
There should be but one
The firm of Fish & Frain were taken
wholly by surprise when a committee
first suggested to them, at their office,
such a mission for the GREAT WEST,
Mr.. Bohall being the spokesman. We
declined at first to even consider the
matter. A few hours after we were
invited into the Committee to state
our views on the matter. We there
distinctly stated that we could not
give up any control of the paper, the
Committee being unit on the desira-
bility OF our doing so.
In the evening another sub-commit-
tee, this time officially sent, with Miss
Mcdonald on the subcommittee, visit
ed us with written proposition from
the Executive Committee, asking for
at least a partial control of the GREAT
WEST by the Alliances, and requesting
us to make proposition ourselves if
the one they sent were not satisfac-
tory.
This we did. and the Executive
Committee endorsed the proposition
unanimously-exc as mentioned
above, and the proposition will be
sent to every Alliance in the state to
consider.
All we can ask is that the Alliances
weigh the matter we'll Especially do
we ask you to give the Business
Agency careful attention. The paper
and the Agency must stand together.
The advertising is necessity as abso-
lutte as natural law. There is a whole
state to advertise in. The GREAT
WEST is now carrying the Agency on
its shoulders, and it's business is al
ready becoming immense. 1t will I'M
questionably do business of sur
prising extent this year. The State
Agency OF Kansas last year did bus
mess of 100000
Ii asked whether the present pub
fishers are willing to part
with their interests, we say:
eyes, for it has become the united
wish of friend and foe. The DEMAND
for one general organ is unanimous.
We will still aid in the most import
ant specific departments, and the
general work will be directly under the
charge of the Executive Committee"
AS to the value of the plant you can
safely leave that to the Executive
Committee who are men Of Judgment.
The primary question to be settled by
them, when they are ready to purchase
is as to the business done here and it's
income producing powers.
After the most careful considera-
ton of this matter ON our part, in
Guiding the evident misfortune of hay
ing two rival organs, we candidly ad-
wise the Alliances to raise stock to the
amount of from one to three shares
at $50 each, and report a. once to
the state secretary.
On the part of the Committee we
feel at liberty To saw that tho1- No NOT