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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

than five nor more than ten years, at
the option of the borrower, and shall
bear interest at the raLe of 2 per cent
per annum from the date of the loan"
Here is q proposition that would
benefit the legitimate farmer and
protect the homestead, and at tho
same time eliminates the fear that now
obtains of an over-issue of money. It
also eliminates the land speculator and
virtually puts an end to his business.
The difference between these two bills
is SO pronounced as to admit of no
mistake; the one favors the specula-
tor the other the farmer. The Al
lance need not hesitate as to q
choice. The Stanford bill has already
been published, and commented on
extensively by the reform press, and
it is hoped that the Featherston bill
will be considered with equal care.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

til the Executive Committee found
itself able to suggest some
reasonable arrangements to the stock
holders, and not them, unless the
stock holders were satisfied with those
arrangements. Instead OF. carping at
and criticing the Executive Committee,
and attributing to them unworthy
morives, let us try to work together,
as band of brothers, and take such
steps as will save our noble organiza-
ton from the dangers of the future.
l commenced this letter as q reply
to yours, but it has occurred to me,
as progressed with my anewer, that
it might be we'll to furnish copy to
''THE GREAT WEST" that all Alliance
men might read and consider it.
1 have the honor to be, with great
respect. Very truly yours.
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
President of the Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Our good friend Nichols, of Fertile,
writes kindly letter which makes
our hand banker after "his'n". He
regrets the matter of the sale of the
GREAT WEST coming up at all. So do
we. When it came, it was supposed
to be part of that blamed old char
mony racket" Miss Mcdonald her.
self being the torch-bearer. But it
evidently changed it's color very speedi-
ly. Why we consented to make re-
turn proposition will doubtless appear
too soon to our friends throughout
the state. But the reform movement
will go on, and on, no matter who falls
by the wayside. Mr.. Nichols makes
one point which we wish to publish:
"Do you know, Dr., that the hard
times have caused the farmer to be-
come unneighborly? We used to have
an occasional oyster supper, invite our
neighbors in, have a good friendly
time-but lately there has been none Of
thatl Why? because not cent could
be spared for such festivals, and neigh
bors that should visit and swap stories
and ideas have become almost stran-
GERS"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

DR.. Fish spoke at Kenyon last
Thursday afternoon. To his extreme
regret at night he failed to keep his
appointment at Fairpoint. It is the
first Alliance appointment he has
made straight failure on. But the
blizzard was bowling, the roads lost,
and the wind straight in the face, so
that the farmers where etook supper
would not listen to the venture of a
four or five mile drive.
At Claremont he addressed the AL
lance Friday, and this probably
closes his Alliance work this year.
His spinal trouble is aggravated, and
it is doubtful if he will remain in St..
Paul the remainder OF the winter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
THE WISCONSIN ALL
ANCE,
Blaine VS.. Mckinley,

There is without doubt, a wide diff
ference between the policies of the
two persons named, on the Tariff
question. Still, both agree at heart in
one thing, tarifffor protection. Blaine
insists that our manufacturers must be
protected against manufacturers of
other lands, and therefore we must
have q tariff on man ufactured goods
and at the same time our manufact-
urer must have cheap raw material
and we must take the tariff Off of that.
You will see the manufacturer is thus
doubly protected. But what is the
effect on the farm laborer?
LIST. They have to pay the en-
CHANGED price of the manufact ured
goods, which is blister No. one.
End. The farmer is thus bro ught
in competition with the pauper la
Dor of Latin America, Africa, India,
Australia, the Islands of the Pacific
and Canada, and the cheap products
of that labor, which is blister No.
two. So Blaine would doubly pro-
tect the manufacturers and doubly
bleed the farmer.
1t is not all raw material which
might be brought in duty-free, which
will compete with farm products, but
many things will compete and l, as a
farmer, insist that while such compe-
tition affects the farm products of
our land the farmer should be pro-
tected, if he is to be bled for protec-
ton to manufactured articles. It
appears to me that Blaine's plan is
all turkey to the manufacturer while
it is all buzzard to the farmer and la
borer. We ask if reciprocity to get
cheap raw materials is good for the
manufacturer, would not reciprocity
to get cheap manufactured articles be
good for farmers and laborers?
+ Why shear the farmer, both spring
and fall, and the fabric maker not at
all? Please, Mr.. Blaine, can't you give
us farmers fair shake?
The Mckinley plan has the merit of
a pretense to protect the farmer. Of
course we know there is no protection
for such things as the farmer produces
largely for export, and that as to
these products even the Mckinley bill
works the same as Blaine's; but as
to the products which we do not ex-
port, the Mckinley plan operates
for the farmer, and that too though
the farmers lately so heavily sat
down on the Mckinley plan. We
think they will as heavily sit down on
the Blaine plan when the time comes.
n Il
able to us when it extends to most
countries. We, as farmers, do not OBJ
ject to even prohibitory tariff, if it is
applied to such countries as refuse to
trade with us. But trade is what
America wants. She should not be
compelled to pay more for an article
than it is worth in the markets of the
world, and if she is so compelled, she
is just so much the poorer, as she pays
too much. G. NJ. BUTT.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27


Mr.. Albert Warren and Eric Olson
are the Alliance men at the head of
the Industrial Age now. Mr.. Muller
and John Lamb represent the labor
force. It will doubtless survive it's
financial distress under the new
regime. It undertook to raise $685.
900, but started with few hundred.
Eric is one of the stockholders-thou
whether he willpay up the paper stock
first, or the elevator stock 81, OOO]
is doubtful. Poor Mr.. Loucks bears
Eric's burden on that matter.
The Industrial Age" is no more.
Warren, Olson, etc, have named it
"The State"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Norman Co. Herald:

The GREAT VESTS disclosures OF
the grain business, are continuing
to awaken a great deal of interest.
In talking with a few of the elevator
men, they one and all claim that
there is nothing in the statement
that there is any profit in exporting
wheat. They don't deny but that
they pay all the way from 20 to so
per cent. dividends They claim
that they sell their wheat on the
Minneapolis or Duluth market.
One party claimed that his company
lost a great deal in exporting last
year and that now they would have
nothing to do with the export bust
ness. It would seem with a margin
of from 20 to 25 cents the export
business would be in great demand
and that the companies would be
exerting themselves to the utmost
to forward the whole crop OF 1
HI and l N wheat The editor of the
GREAT WEST told the writer personally
that twenty farmers could club to-
gether and ship 900 bushels ofwheat
each and clear 20 cents bushel above
all expenses by shipping to Liverpool.
We wish the experiment would be
made. If there is any way to get
more money for our wheat we want
to know it. What bothers us is why
are the exports not greater than they
are with such a margin of profit as
claimed. G.. w. please answer.
We can assure Bro. Hampson, of
the Herald, that 6O,OOO,OOO of wheat
are exported. OF that wheat immense
quantities are northwestern hards
mixed into two grades, Duluth" and
"Canadian." Cargoes average up so
to 100000 bushels a day from New
York alone.
Then, again, FLOUR counts as wheat
in all this traffic, so far as the "con-
spiracy" goes.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

A bill is now before the Judiciary
Committee of the state legislature, to
compel writer's for the newspapers to
sign their names in al instances-at
least where there is any reference to a
human being, living Or dead.
This bill meets with our hearty ap.
prevail. It is one of the great steps
necessary to secure just and truth
full press. The depravity of the public
press is we'll known, and any move
ment to curb its responsibility will
be welcomed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Mr.. Axel Jorgenson writes us long

Mr.. Axel Jorgenson writes us long
and earnest letter in regard to the
quarrels in the Alliance. He regrets
that there should not be harmony,
and yet he is equally earnest that only
true men should be put at the head of
the Alliance. There is only one way
in which to prevent the monopolists
from running the Alliance-fight! 1t
is fight to-day and fight tomorrow.
Mr.. J. is one of the true men, and his
wise words are appreciated.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Minus a Money Plank,

Dakota "Knights of Labor"
The Minnesota Alliance finds itself
without the principle plank of indus
trial organization. Through some
hokus-pokus arrangement by which
the daily papers OF the twin cities
get at alliance work the platform on
the money question has been trimmed
to suit Wall Street and not the indus
trial people in whose interestsit is sup
posed to be made. The GREAT WEST
claims to have found a full sized Al
rican sneaking around alliance head
quarters in the pay and employ of the
money bags OF St. Paul and proposes
to uncover the animal We expect to
hear something drop in our neighbor-
ing state ere many weeks, for when the
G. w. rolls up it's sleeves to uncover
rottenness you may be sure the matter
will be stirred from the bottom;
there is no doubt but some
thing mighty crooked is hanging
around the Minnesota Alliance. The
sooner the schemes are shown up the
better for the industrial movement,
for in the conflict of '92 we cannot do
without Minnesota. We await
DEVELOPMENTS.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
On the Sale Of the Great West,
EDyroD Gprar Wrcr.


The proposition submitted to the
subordinate alliances by the Executive
Committee, owing to the extreme
anxiety of our friends, the daily press,
and others, that farmers will be duped,
they have put slurs on your price for
the GREAT WEST plant, ignoring the
Business Agency being combined with
your offer of the G. w. Owing to the
prominence given this matter by our
recognized friends [who for $4,000
will eternally bankrupt us!] when they
are ever ready to lend their aid in
preventing something being done to-
wards having Irvine made at Saltwater
thereby saving to the farmers of the
state hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, we ask you to explain little
further.
Will you please state the value you
place on the G. w. plant without the
Business Agency, SO the farmers can
get an idea of the value OF the two
separately?
l am more thoroughly convin ced of
the reasonableness of your offer to
the Alliances of the state when l see
the fatherly anxiety of our (?) dear
friends, fearing we will accept it.
We have been forced by unjust leg
islation to pay thousand times more
for something that was known by it's
promoters to be nothing but curse
to the farmers; yet these dear friends
never exhibited an atom of fear for
our welfare! consistency thou art
a jewel" HAMLIN V. PooRE.
Well, if the State Alliance wished to
purchase the GREAT WEST, independent
of the Agency, but under the contract
by which the Business Agency can
have advertising to the amount of one
page for three years, the amount
which it was placed at by ourselves, in
constructing the proposition, was
$4,000, and of that We agreed among
ourselves las stated in regard to the
$12, OOO) to provide for 81, 900 of
stock, making 81, 900 for the G. w.
The statement by the partizan press
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
The Vacant Chair.

There was so large an attendance OF
alliance men at the Dodge County AL
liancelast Friday, at Claremont, that
they resolved themselves into a mass
convention. The Opera House was full.
Among the matters discussed was a
resolution declaring the office of State
Lecturer vacant, and calling upon the
Executive Committee to fill the same.
The resolutions passed by an almost
unanimous vote, not more than six or
eight voting against them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

and our enemies, and by Miss McDon-
aid at a county Alliance, that we were
still to remain in controlis untrue. The
proposition distinctly stated that
DR.. Fish would still edit some heavy
departments until the next state meet
ing. DR.. Frain does not care to man.
age the business even for time. The
general editorial control we refused to
take. We believe that the views Of a
majority Of the Executive Committee
were correct in the matter-that the
State Alliance should have one strong
non-personal organ, just as Dakota
has-and just as the I. US have in
the Economist. And we believe
$40, 900 would not duplicate the bust
ness of the G. w. with the G. w. still
in the field. But they could take this
journal with its reputation through
out the country, and make it q mighty
power in the land. Those are our
convictions, and it is not a matter of
our suggesting or pushing. When we
say that Miss Mcdonald came with
committee to make us a proposition
of which we were totally ignorant we
speak the absolute truth.
We have consulted with DR.. Frain
and the Business Agency, and so long
as the advertising contract remains
undisturbed, they are content to re-
tain it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Turns on his Trad uCerS.
come.
WahpetOn Times:


The gang of political scroundrels
and public plunderers of Minnesota
who have for rs years showered q
steady stream of abuse and misrepre-
sentation upon Ignatius Donnelly
have at last, we believe, gotten their
heads into. a halter. In 1880 Mr..
Donnelly opposed Washburn for con-
gress and contested his seat, out of
which grew g. very malignant letter,
written by the notorious Bill King,
charging Mr.. Donnelly with all the
crimes known in political bribery,
which Mr.. Donnelly denied, and un-
dertoOk to prosecute his defamers,
but was defeated. And on Monday
the Pioneer Press reproduced this
letter, when Mr., Donnelly at once in
stituted another suit for 100000.
retaining w. w. Irwin to conduct the
case.
The chances are, the Sage is in bet
ter shape financially to defend HIM
self than before, and will do all in his
power to bring his systematic traduc-
ers and blackmailers to deserved
punishment. Of course the political
patronage of Minnesota and that from
Washington will be arrayed against
Mr.. Donnelly in this stupendous
undertaking, but he in addition to
more money has more friends and q
good sentiment to back him, which
will help.
The very fact that Mr.. Donnelly has
been shamefully treated these manv
years, and the disgraceful way he was
miSrenreSented in the late contest fo-
the presidency of the Alliance, all
tended to really aid him in the election;
so that instead OF these poisonous
lies having the desired effect they serve
as boomerang, and it is hoped that
the last onslaught will land the Sage
into the United States senate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

We clip the following from the
Pioneer Press, in its "Query Column"
Q. ~ Is it proper for Miss Eva Nc
Donald and Treasurer Bjorge to use
the envelopes printed and supplied at
the expense of the state for the men,
bers of the legislature for sending out
Alliance circulars? Ans. ~ Strictly
speaking, state stationery is intended
for the use of state officials in transact
ing public business exclusively.
All there, Mr.. Bjorge!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Mr.. Gilmore of Fillmore county,
states that his vote against the sus-
pension of the rules to pass the Gil
dea anti-pass bill, was not intended
to be against the bill itself; that he
voted against suspension because he
thought the bill ought to 60 through
al it's readings, and be closely exam
ined. He also states that he was sus-
picious of the motion when made by
Bell. Mr.. Gilmore states that he does
not use passes at all, and is opposed
TO their use. .:... III.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
People don't usually get Globe pass
es as lecturers for the Farmers ALI
Bill King.
ANGEL!

Mr.. Amos Wetmur, of Frazee City,
writes us letter in regard to Bill
King, the refugee politician who wrote
letter II years ago denouncing
Donnelly-the letter for the re-publi-
cation of which Mr.. Donnelly has
sued the Pioneer Press for 100000
damages. Mr.. Wetmur gives King a
terrible send off as to his own charac-
ter. 1t is almost too severe a letter
to publish.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

We understand, but will not vouch
for the information, that Mr.. Bjorge
introduced bill in the House re-
quiring all county auditors to employ
women for assistants if they employ
any help at all! This is special legisla-
ton with vengeance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Alliance No. 20, Fillmore County,
has sent us the vote on the matter of
purchasing the GREAT WEST. They are
opposed to the purchase of any paper,
stating that it is step in the wrong
direction.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Geo. E. Purvis: The most reliable
forign market reports are in the "Mark
Lane Express" a weekly published in
London, under the head, Foreign
wheat, Ex-Ship and Ex-Granary."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Murray County Republican:

The Lakefeld Farmers Warehouse
which opened when the new crop began
to come in last fall, had made SO Der
cent on the capital invested Jan. LIST.
They did not bull the market and
the profits went to the warehouse in
stead of to the farmers direct.
The GREAT WEST is giving the people
OF the northwest an inside view of the
way the wheat combines" get rich go
fast and has clearly shown how thev
are making 20 cents and over on every
bushel Of wheat raised in this north.
western country.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

We regret to learn that Mr.. Loucks
is now confined to his bed, and is low
er than ever before. Probably the
surgeons summoned have decided by
this time whether he could survive an
am putation of his limb. The result
of the conference is awaited with anx-
iety by his friends.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

August Mueller will probably be
heard from next week.-Mrs. let
ter is interesting. He says Don
nelly's interest bill ''thrusts a spear
into great big wasp's nestn'
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Mrs. Imogene Fales is Editor OF the
"Sociologic and Cooperative News"
published at York, Me- tits an excel
lent journal in it's field, and costs SO
cents year. Sample copies free.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

The "reformers' are catching grape
shot and canister from the country
press for voting for passes for legisla-
tors! Good enough; shake, party pa
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Our friend Howe writes us hearty
letter-next week.
j. T. Montgomery's letter has been
fled for use-thanks.

The Daily News makes no comments
on it's exposure as the mutilator of
the Alliance platform. AS a mutila
tor it is a success.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

1t is withgreat regret that wechron-
icle the death of the weekly Nation
alist," published at San Francisco,
Cal. Want of funds caused it to sus-
mend.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

in my hands. Any fool can blunder
headlong into folly; the reasonable
man looks ahead and tries to provide
against dangers of the future.
If for any reason your people are
not satisfied to purchase 1.-THE GREAT
WEST" at. the price suggested, but
still believe that the Alliance should
own it's own organ, then l would sug-
gest that you make canvass of your
members, and find out how much
stock they will take towards the es-
Establishment of A new paper, or the
purchase of a controlling interest in
s'THE GREAT West" if such thing is
possible. You must remember this,
that the proposition, as presented by
the Executive Committee, can be re-
duced down to this simple plan: Are
there eleven thousand members of the
Alliance, or any lesser number, that
will advance one dollar each, with the
understanding that twenty-five cents
of that sum, shall, every year for four
years, be credited on their subscrip-
ton for the paper so to be bought or
established? If the Alliance will take
up this matter in the proper spirit, the
Executive Committee would know in
the course of the summer, just how
much capital stock in shares of one
dollar each, we could depend upon;
whether it were two thousand or
twenty thousand dollars. With this
knowledge, we would have something
| to negotiate with. No money
would be required to be paid I'm.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-29
a NATIONAL QUESTION.

That the subject of immigration has
resolved itself into a live, national ques-
ton which must be met and solved by
some one of the great political parties is
fact, apparent to all. 1t is bound to be
a fighting issue Ill the next campaign,
and present indications are that the Re
publican party will have to lead off, as
it has in every great reform movement
that has occurred during the past third
of a century. The Democratic party
will not make the question an issue, for
obvious reasons; and as for the Peoples
party, it viii be too much engrossed
with other and more important C) mat
tiers.
The time was when foreigners sought
these shores from intellectual rather
than mercenary motives. Until a recent
period Europeans came to America be-
cause it was a Gland of the free" and
they were moved by a patriotic senti-
ment III seeking a new home where
kings and aristocrats do not rule. The
descendants of such immigrants are
found in every state of the union. They
are foremost among American citizens
in all their qualities of genuine patriot
ism. This is their home, and, from
whatever source they sprung, their ex-
patriation was real and left no regrets.
Its motive was ethical and not material.
But the same thing cannot be said of
the greater number of people now find
ing a refuge in this land. They are
driven away from their original home
by starvation; they come in the noisome
steerage of great immigrant ships, and if
they do not Immediately find employ
ment upon their arrival, invent servile
occupations or pursue their former
career of vice and crime The expatria-
ton of this class of foreigners is unreal.
1t proceeds from the meanest motives,
and will result in a continual and rapid
degradation of labor in all the great in
dustrial centres of our country.
We have heard much about the Amer
lean wo:kingman being protected"
from the pauper labor of Europe But
here come the European paupers by the
shipload to compete with free labor on
its own ground. There is not an indus
try in the country that does not begin
to feel the effect of this cheap and de-
graded labor from over the sea.
The immigration problem, therefore,
is one of serious import, and its solution
must be sought quickly, if America is to
remain long an asylum of free, inteli-
gent and patriotic people.