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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-12-23
THE MARKET TURNED.

How akYoung Man, Who Waited for.
Prices to Drop, Got Fooled.
One day, while George Mace was
walking through one oftheside streets,
just off Broadway, he saw a pair OF
vases in the window of a little shop.
They were large and hideously Japan
csc in design, and therefore appealed
strongly to his uncultivated taste.
The inspiration flashed across him
that here were the very things to give
Nellie for Christmas; they would look
well on the mantel Of her room, with
out destroying the effect OF the other
decorations, which were of sort to
stand good deal OF killing. Theprice
was only five dollars, and they GER
tainly made great show for the
money. ...a: 4. -. Il. s.s. d.
This was in September i. *.
In October, George walked around
and looked at the vases again. They
were still there, but had been 'Reduc-
ed to $4:93."" 1870 '@5$
"Wonder why they knocked off the
seven cents?" thought he; "probably
for luck" s.-. 49,. 49,. = : 49,.
Along in November George took an
other look in thewindow. This time
the vases were placarded: ."Cheap!
1851" ...~.. .... ..s.. ...........'-
"Better yet,' he unused. ~ guess !
won't buy now; they may take an
other drop" And he turned and
walked away. -: 5-rn ...s,.. .r~t
|, A few days before Christmas, George
strolled around to the little shop,
fully determined to make the. pur.
chase. -,
AS he drew near a bright blue sign in
the window caught his eye: -
NEW IMPORTATIONS
| HOLIDAY GOODS. >'-
At first George was afraid his vases
might have been cast aside to make
! room for the new stock, but he soor
saw them in the old corner.
Before entering the store he stopped
to read the figures on the ticket, anG
received a shock which ne arly dislo
Gated his nervous system.
'"This pair of Rare Old Japanese
Vases-Tou Hi Period-Only SIT, OO.'
Puck
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Cincinnati Convention.

EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-Inotice in the
last two issues of your paper call for
a National Convention to be held on
Feb. 23rd, in Cincinnati. Each con-
gressional district is entitled to one
delegate and there are two at large. Al
so Ibelieve provision is made forcoun-
ty and local organizations to have
representation. But at this time
l believe it impracticable for the ALI
ances of this state to send more than
the seven delegates. would suggest
that each congressional district make
their selection in the least expensive
way that a representative of our
principles can be sent The delegate
should be known to be true and of
known ability.
An equally important matter is the
raising of sufficient funds to defray the
reasonable expenses of the delegates,
which will no doubt be about 500.
For a starter, here is one dollar to-
wards that expense for the 3rd dis
trict.
HAMLN V. Poor.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
EDITOR GREAT WEsr:-Dear

EDITOR GREAT WEsr:-Dear Sir.
There is quite long time now since
I had the honor to have any COM
munication in the most valuable
newspaper there yet has been issued
in any part of the United States since
the time the national EZRA" from
Washington was issued in 1854-5-6.
1t is such papers l like, when we have
a hellish slave oligarchy to combat
against.
We have now only $4,000 capital
lists and millionaires, bankers and
railroad kings, Wall street men and
gold gathering institutions of what
ever description, here in the United
States. They are now controlling the
whole government and are the law
giving power of this nation to-day.
This subject is what you have shown
up in the GREAT WEST, and for this
work you have been both hated and
dreaded. l am glad that Ignatius
Donnelly was so handsomely elected
president of the Minnesota Farmers
Alliance.
STRoMNlE.
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German Edition.

BRowNroN, Mimi, Jan. 18th 1881.
DRs FISH & FRAN
Dear Cir: l have request to make
about that petition in regard to an
edition of the GREAT WEST in German.
1t was resolved that each Alliance
should pay $500 to help start the
GREAT WEST in German and the ALI
ance should get in return as many
copies as they furnish money, and if
there is any Alliance who are able to
add more we should like to have them
do so; as the resolution was read by
the president, and no action taken
upon it, we would like to have you ad-
vertise the resolution in the GREAT
WEST, once more. l think it would be
the victory of the Alliance in the flu
ture, as we have so many Germans
in the country.
FRED FORCIER.
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FRED FORCIER.
"Of All the Journals"
BARRY, Jan. 18th.

BARRY, Jan. 10Th.
EDITOR GREAT WEsr:-Your postal
informing me of the expiration of my
subscription to GREAT WEST duly re-
ceived. Be assured l was not aware of
it, for of all the Journals on my desk
none is more welcome. The noble
stand taken in advocating the cause
of the poor down-trodden farmer is
duly appreciated. lam pleased to learn
that the GREAT WEST has been made
the official organ of the Farmers Al
lance. It's no more than just, as it has
been the means that secured the end
of organizing an Association that
promises in the near future to politi-
cally secure for the farmer in our leg
islature the enactment of laws that
will give the producer a portion of the
wealth earned through the sweat Of
his brow.
Enclosed please find one dollar. I
am Fraternally Yours,
VIM. NASH.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
In the Homes of EveryFarmer.
GLENCOE, Jan. 10Th. 1891.

GLENCOE, Jan. 10Th. 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-Please send
me sample papers, as Alliance No.
900 is going to have a meeting
in JAM, Saturday the 10th, 1891.
l am sure after they read it over can
get you subscribers. I would like to
see that paper in the homes OF every
farmer. Mr.. Editor, I must say or
gained No. 996 and did it simply by
reading a few editorials. Radical is
what we want up here. Keep on dig
ging the roots and by the time your
paper gets among us farmers we will
carry the State. Alliance men out
here consider the Alliance out of the
hands of the politicians. Donnelly
heads it safely.
Oh yes, we paid 5000 of the blind
horse debt, and Unjust say as delegate
at the State meeting l demanded an &C
count of said debt. We were entitled
to an accounting for said debt. One
Lathrop is enough for me. / had talk
with Warren chairman of the old state
committee and he said we used the
money for printing and sending out
speakers. l asked him if he did not
send a speaker to Mcleod. Yes, we
sent Mr.. Taylor, and yes, by We gods
he delivered solid democratic speech
in Plato, and by said address Mr..
Owen lost SO votes in our town.
A. C. WEIGH.
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us. We do not believe in Gen. Bakers
financial views-and we believe Miss
Mcdonald will do well. But that is
no excuse for the farmers. We with
drew simply because we will not be q
candidate for office in the Alliance un-
til the Alliance gets growth OF re-
spect for law It is built for a pur-
pose and it undermines its own pur-
pose. We have not said a word
against Miss McD.- we will not. We
will aid her if called upon. But she is
not, and cannot be the State Lecturer
of the Minnesota Farmers Alliance.
That may be hard, but it is true.
That is all there is of the matter The
constitution said in so many words
that the officers must be members of
a local Alliance. Miss Mcdonald is a
salaried reporter for one of the most
contemplate plutocratic sheets in the
world-the St. Paul Globe-and is
not, and cannot be a member of a To-
cal alliance. Her ability may be SUI
pernal and her power God-like, but
the farmers want rock-bottom consis-
tency and abide by the law unto them
selves. That is our position and it is
buttressed with granite sense.
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Mist Cleared Away.
MADISON, MINI,

EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-My three
last papers are not yet arrived,
and disappointment is no word to
express my feelings at the time more
than all the rest of the year that l
wanted the GREAT WEST, in the mighty
conflict for the right. My people say
that 1 am going '1ooney' over the
GREAT WEST, and the grand old man, |.
D. But who got the noblepeerin posi-
ton where l trust, in the name OF God
and humanity, he will shake the dry
bones of Minnesota? Doctor, for seven
teen years l have been a reader OF the
would-be teachers of the wealth-pro-
ducing classes, and the more I
read and study the trash the
more l am in the mud. Since read
ing the GREAT WEST, some of the mist
is being cleared away and the sky is
looking more clear. May your life be
spared for the long fight is on.
THOMAS STAMP.
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From Wisconsin,
VIRoQUA, Wis, Jan IA, 18

VIROQUA, Wis, Jan IA, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-Can I afford
to get along without the GREAT
WEST? Well don't think I can, so
here is the dollar. l sometimes
have thought that you were a
little prematurely excited and said
things you ought not to say, but when
all the evidence is in 1 find you about
right.
Our Alliance work is active here
We will have the state covered by
next spring.
l have sent out questions asking if
the Alliances favor a third party?
The answers to-day foot up just As
in favor!
We will send a delegate to Gin
cinnati. There is nothing under
Gods Heavens that will stop the Sd
party movement except for Congress
to pass some of the principal measures
we ask for. l fear a little that they
will give us is little taffy to check the
movement.
N. E. MOODY,
Secretary of Wisconsin State F. A.
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The Ring of Metal.
HENN1NG, Mimi, Jan. 10Th


EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-Hurrah for
the Sage of Nininger, the au-
thor OF "Ragnarok," Atlantis" the
"Great Cryptogram" and Caesars
Column" Aye, so mote it be. May
right and justice prevail, though the
heavens fall! To tell the truth, I
haven't had much faith in the future
of the Farmers Alliance-nay, did not
think it had future even, but it now
appears as if brighter days were dawn
ing. May the rank and file Of the Al
lance all rally around and be true to
your present chief! Above all beware
of the serpents' "plait-il, Madam"
Don't listen to the plutocratic press
and hirelings. They are always so
ready with their advice. Tell them to
mind their own business.
The GREAT WEST deserves great cred
it for it's manly and straightforward
course in "steering clear" of men identi-
fed with monopolistic corporations.
The Leaf Lake Alliance No. 336, at
it's regular meeting on January 10th,
1891, elected as its officers for the
next six months the following:
John 0. Smith, president.
Martin Ellingson, V. president.
A. p. Onsdorff, secretary.
Eric Allenson, treasurer.
Yours for the right,
A. P. ONsDORFF.
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Nc Quarter to Money BAGS.

EXCELSIOR, Mimi, JAM, 18th, 81.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-Find inclosed,
$1.OO to pay for your journal. 1t
came without call, and don't just
know when it began coming, but like
the paper, and when time is out will
renew, as l want to keep track of
Donnelly. But all honor to him, if at
the end of the term he is found on top.
H ope he will give no quarters to old
Money-bags. We expect him to
weaken the back of old monopoly. We
anticipate grand results if the Al
lance members and his bed-fellows
stand by him. If he fills the bill as
we anticipate, we will try to boost him
up to the top in 1892.
PETER M. GIDEON.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
From an Old Comrade.

LIE SuEuR CENTER, Mimi, Jan. IL, 81.
EDrToR GREAT WEsr:-Dear Com
rade. Please find inclosed one dollar
to continue the G. w. for me another
year.
Twas agreeably surprised when l
noticed that you are one of our old
friends and companions of the 9th
Mich. Inf. Had known the fact last
summer we would have "shaked" as
only comrades of 81 and '62 can full
ly appreciate. If your many readers
could have heard the racket you boys
of the 9th kicked up at early dawn on
that blessed Sabbath morning, July
13, 1862, at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
when old Forrest introduced himself
to you at that untimely hour, with
that accustomed and familiar "rebel
yell, "they would not wonder that you
sometimes now get on the same strain
in the G. w. when you tackle that
other enemy ''corruption''-more
dangerous than that willy old "confed"
ever was Perhaps you were of
that gallant little band, who cooped
up in the Court House, kept at bay for
nine hours nearly the entire force of
the enemy, until in desperation the
"Johnnies" succeeded in kindling fire
under the stairway and smoked them
out-like boy would wood chuck.
Keep up the racket as of old, comrade..
for the good of our common cause,
now that we have leader worthy OF
the name.
p. SHIPPMAN..
Late 3rd Mimi. V. Vol. Inf.
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From Oregon--A Necessity in
Our Home.

INDEPENDENCE, Ore, Jan. 8, 1891,
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-I have been
an interested reader of your valu-
able paper the last year, and it
has become necessity in our home
here on the coast. We have moth
ing here but the Plutocratic press,
and we cannot rely upon it for in
formation. I am glad to learn by
your paper that you are going to
nationalize it somewhat, for it has
seemed to me for some time that the
talent engaged in publishing the G. w.
ought not to be confined to locality or
one state. When the demand was so
universal for just such paper, as we
feel confident we shall receive if the
above course is taken May album
dant success attend your effort to
give the people the whole truth, no
matter where it strikes.
T. C. W1LK1N.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
A Beautiful Catalogue.

L. l.. May and Co.'S catalogue of
Northern Grown Seeds for 1891 is
nearer perfection than any ever issued.
This firm being located in the North
Star State where their seeds aregrown
and tested received thousands of Or
ders for seeds from farmers, declaring
that they want nothing but Northern
Grown Seeds, claiming they are the
best and hardest. Mays Catalogue
contains over thousand beautiful IL
Illustrations and many suggestions
which are both needful and useful to
farmers and others ordering seeds or
plants, also thirty-two pages of nov
elites never before issued by any seeds
men. Do you want one, if SO see their
offer in this issue. Address L. L. May
& Co., st. Paul. Mimi.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Ringing Resolution.

LEXINGTON, Mimi, Jan. 10th, 1891.
The following was unanimously
adopted by Lexington, Alliance No.
1865:
Whereas the "Le Sueur News is
published at LIE Sueur in the interest
of "Boodlers and Bankers" by a hire
ling stranger who has never let an op-
portunity pass to ridicule the Farmers,
Alliance movement,
THEREFORE,, Be it resolved by Lex
ington Alliance No. 1905, in regular
meeting assembled, that we ask all
honest people interested and in, sim
pathy with the farmers independent
movement to shake off the yoke OF
oppression, to scorn said scurrilous
pub lication, and let the hireling get
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23

Vice president. Bernard Kellehan,
p. O. Granite Falls.
Secretary. B. Day, P. 0. Gran
tie Falls.
Treasurer. Jacob Cook, P. O. Gran
tie Falls.
Mem. Elk. Com.-Peter jefferson, P.
@. Granite Falls.
The F. AS of Yellow Medicine coun-
ty are now hard at work, canvassing
for subscribers to an Alliance news
paper to be established in Yellow Medi-
cine county provided enough names are
obtained to induce some one to put
in the plant. We up here are tired OF
furnishing the music for the N'dance
of the plutes' and propose taking q
s'change" ourselves. Things look en-
couraging too, as several applications
are already in for editor" Look
out for the Big Injpn from the Yellow
Medicine. Fraternally yours, E. B.
DAY, Secy. F. "A. No. 534.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
his living from the s3boodlers'' whom

his living from the "boodlers'' whom
he serves.
RESOLVED, That a copy of this
resolution be furnished the 1Great
West" for publication.
PETER SHIPPMAN, Pres't.
GEORGE G. EARL, Secretary.
The following is an extract from a
but respect the Alliance for it's right
eOus wrath:
''The Alliance movements in this
state is tidal wave of ignorance, and
like that other scourge of few years
ago-the grasshoppers-will disappear
before the prayers Of the people,"
By the way, there are revivals being
held all over the state at the present
time.
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ELLINGTON, Dodge Co. Mimi, Jan.17'91

ELLINGTON, Dodge Co. Mimi, j an.17'91
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-About our
meeting you tell us in your last paper
l received that we made a mistake by
electing Miss Mcdonald for lecturer.
Now don't say it was a wise thing,
but l and others prefer her, (until it
is proved otherwise) than Mr.. Baker.
You take Baker and Furlong and
Page, of Olmsted, they are all working
hard to hurl the Alliance into the
democratic fold. Now if you would
not have withdrawn in favor of Bak-
er, you would have been elected.
ULRICH Sem, SR.
Bro. Sem may not fully understand
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Insurance Matters.

MONTEvIDEO, Mimi, Jan. 10, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-At a meet
ing of the Camp Release ALI
ance, No. SCI, held to-day. The
following suggestions were offered, to
be brought to the notice of the Board
of DIRECTORS of the Alliance Hail ms.
Co. considering the great expense that
must necessarily have been connected
with the adjusting of Hail Losses last
year, by sending adjustersfrom head
quarters or other points distance
out into the country. We would sug-
gest have local adjuters in each sub
alliance.
For that purpose authorize each SUBJ
allianceto elect three of their members
as such adjusters, on their action being
subjected to the approval of the board
of Directors, also, the respective Sec
retaries to act as agents to solicit ap-
plications, wherever practicable. We
would like to have the GREAT WEST
publish these suggestions and invite
discussion among the members about
this matter. Now brothers, let us
hear from you.
A. F. SCHULZ, Secy.,
OLE A. LoE, Vice Pres.
In only two instances did the Alli-
ance Storm association send an adjust
er from headquarters and then at time
when it it was difficult to get any one
to do the adjusting as all the farm
ers were busy harvesting, and refused
to leave their work. The Sec'y left
the Office twice, went SO miles and ad-
justed 40 losses at cost of $36.85.
In all other cases adjusters were ap-
pointed as near the loss as possible.
With two or three exceptions the ad-
justments gave entire satisfaction.
R. ECKFORD, Secy.
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Grand Prairie, Alliance.

ELLSWORTH, Mimi, Jan. 81.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-At our last
meeting held Jan. 10th, 1891, we
elected new Officers for the next term
ending July 18th, 1891, as follows:
For President, John Mcfarland; Vice
President, T. A. Thompson; Sec'y F.
D. Brantner; Treas, Henry Nolte. I
must confess to the GREAT WEST that
our Alliance is growing vigorously at
this present time. / would like to ask
one request of the GREAT WEST and
that is for the Editor to send me as
many copies as he can spare of the
GREAT WEST as samples, and l will
try and get all the subscribers l can
for your valuable paper.
F. d. BRANTNER, Sec'y.
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From Dodge County.

1 am glad to hear that Mr.. Donnelly
is in for president of our Alliance.
The prospect for thefuture looksg good.
We are not living at the time of sixty
one, nor at the time of seventy-one,
nor eighty-one, but we are living in
the time of ninety-one.
Although we can look back, we
can't look in the future as far as we
can backward, things don't look quite
SO dubious as it used to. Times and
things are changing somewhat. 1 hope
the farmers will be blest with a good
crop this year throughout the United
States that thepo may be blest with
the comforts of life, that they may be
blest in q cause which is for their good.
This is the cause of all causes.
JOHN B. COPELADD.
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Letter from c. J. Coghlan.
OCosTA, WASH, Jan. 8, 1891

OCOSTA, WASH, Jan. 3, 1881.
FRIENDS FISH and FRA1N:-Here I am
in a new town on Gray's Harbor with
in five miles of the Pacific Ocean. l
have the plant for 7-col. folio pa
per which l expect to issue in the
course of few weeks believe that a
good town will be built here, as it will
be the Pacific Coast terminus of the
n. P. R. R. and this harbor will be
the ocean outlet for an immense lum-
Der trade. A great share of all the
valuable timber of western Washing
ton is tributary to Gray's Harbor. It
is estimated that there exists in this
region the extraordinary total of one
hundred and thirty billion feet of lum-
Der in the tree. One million, seven
hundred thousand acres of land dense
ly covered with red and white fir,
spruce and cedar, all of which will find
an ocean outlet here, must in time
build up great city at some point on
this harbor. There are a half-dozen
tons laid out at different points on the
harbor, Ocosta being the nearest to the
Ocean and lying in well land-locked
bay, with water deep enough for the
largest ocean vessels But enough of
this. l started out to say that | am
lonely without the GREAT WEST. I
was pleased to read the other day in
a Tacoma paper that Mr.. Donnelly
was elected president of the Alliance
by large majority. would like a
copy of the G. w. containing report
of the convention. When you see Mr..
Donnelly give him my kindest regards.
and tell him that l regretted having
to leave last fall, and would have re-
manned at all hazards but the con-
dition of my wife's health made a
change ofclimate absolutely necessary.
Please put my name on your list of
subscribers and If an exchange will be
sufficient in payment well and good,
but If not let me know and will re-
NIT. l must have the G. w. anyhow
thrust DR.. Fish is fully recovered from
his electric shock and that you are
both enjoying good health and pros
perity, and equal to the grand task
you have undertaken in the cause of
the oppressed. l Twas not surprised to
learn that Mr.. Donnelly was the
author Of Caesars Column. When l
read it told my wife that detected
q resemblance in many parts to Mr..
Donnelly's literary style, was there
fore prepared for the announcement
that he was the author. Wishing you
a happy and prosperous new year l
remain, Yours Fraternally,
G.. J. COGHLAN.
Mr.. Coghlan was until recently the
editor of the Dawson Sentinel, a nd
took an active part in the Alliance
work.
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Can't Sleep Nights.

OSAKIs, Jan. 18th 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:-That friend
to the farmer, the GREAT WEST,
/ have missed now for two weeks, and
cannot sleep nights on account of it,
admitting it to be the paper of all pa
pers. Enclosed find order for one dol
lar for one years subscription. Il
you have one of last weeks papers ON
hand send it to me and oblige,
TACK STOKES.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Murray County Officials.

WOODSTOCK, Mimi, 18th Jan. 1891.
EDITOR GREAT VEST beg to re-
port the election of the following Off
GERS of the Murray Co. Farper's ALI
ance, at a meeting held at Slayton on
Sat-, 10th Jan:
President-B. F. Warren, Lake Wilson.
Vice &C. F. Norwood, Balaton.
Sec'y-James Jackson, Woodstock.
Treas'r.-L. NaillOux, Currie.
County Lecturer-C. M. Renshaw,
Iona.
Resolutions were passed in favor OF
the Conger Lard Bill, and the anti
option bill.
JAS. JACKSON, Secy.
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From Wisconsin,

WAUMANDEE, Wis.,, Jan. ~, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEsT:-We congratu-
late YOU and the Alliance of Mimi,
cordially on your success in electing
Donnelly for your president.
Inclosed find resolutions passed by
our Co. Alliance. We intend to have a
copy presented at the National con-
VentiOn.
Success and long life to you and the
GREAT WEST is our sincere wish.
JACOB ANGST: