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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-05-30
The Two Popular Hotels, the st.
Charles and Muller House,

And known as the s.. Charles
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
The Alton Boycott.

The attempt OF the great railway
pool to boycott the Chicago and Al
ton Ry., and thereby compel it to 60
into the combine, and stay in, has
proved failure. The Alton has been
doing a splendid business ever since
the boycott, has defied the associa-
ton, and now it's success threatens
to break up the association alto
gether. Two roads last week refused
to boycott any longer, and they no y
accept the Alton through tickets.
One OF these was the great Grand
Trunk route, with it's thousands Of
miles OF line stretching from Chicago
to Portland, Me. Truly, the rail
ways which thus "conspire' to ruin
each other, are getting their deserts.
And yet, notwithstanding this fail
ure, it shows that the roads could
and did, come within one. road OF get
ting every line into a mammoth
''blind pool'-and it is altogether
likely that the next attempt will en-
brace them all.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

English papers are now discussing
the propositions SO long pushed by
the GREAT WEsT-in regard to
through grain and freight routes
from Duluth and Chicago to Liver.
pool and London. For, singular as
it may appear, this possible and
convenient transit was "bottled up
for 25 years by the influence of rail
ways and steamship lines. And
TO an Alliance paper, the G. w.,
belongs the credit OF arousing the
commercial world to the fact! This
ought, perhaps, to include the "CEN-
TRIAL MINNEsoTIAN," published by
us in Pope County, where the mat
ter was pushed with more energy
than in the G. W. At all events
the taunt that elf such transporta-
ton were so profitable, capitalists
would find it OUT" has retired to
roost-and capitalists have found
it out. Pity the farmers could not
be organized to do this work.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Mu1ler's Mysterious Move

The mystery OF the origin, expense
and dispensation. of that wonderful
grain circular is growing deeper.
That it was neither written by Null
Ter nor by Ayers at Washington is no
part OF this mystery, because it was
gotten up before Muller saw it, and
we know that Mr.. Ayers did not write
it. Although it has many errors,
some important, still it was gotten
up and plated before it ever saw an
alliance man by parties profoundly
interested in the wheat trade. The
alliance, north or south, and the F.
NJ. B. A., has nothing whatever to do
with it. Four days before it was
sent to Muller, at St. Paul, an issue
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
OvereStimat10n of the Wheat Cr0n

The OF both parties utmost
the wheat market by overestma the
nths OF the glowing accounts lies
will be 40 bushels the about
shoots the market No serious break the up to
Monday the Sd inst does OF which would o
from the refusal of
which we hope northwestern farmers will follow.
The TACT u.s. that there generally good
that ALL Some sections highly favored
and that ALL The who estimate bushels
the northwest ascaand feathers woud he f.
testimonial Tor his raaty The crop in
the hands the putes before the place foreign demands
and the farmers they will let the track
until it to fill them with the golden
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
EVEN In THE MIDDLE STATES
Wonderful Country Of Gtterng Prosperity" in which the Public
has to Threaten Officials with Death.

To Their Homes from the Mortgage Mooch and their Chill
dren from Starvation.
the trdng
utionone among dozen the Of single fol-
lowing from the telegraph columns:
of police canod
Notices
be they chanos
against the eve
troubles shelter have
tod with when
lifted will
guonous Shyocks will take the law
have SOULS - wv
Perhaps when the putocrats who have
geenback taken the bonds and mo
their nm
sheahed they will remember few of the warnings above M
small know that the above
somehow threatening the middle
the growl from New Yorand the mutterng
to look though the
which already draws fearuly close to revolution.
What be said against the uh
high odpary officials publicly advertise that they not execute tho
and when roughs character
cond;+;on
the plugs and the politicians
these
those
basement take
will
language Of Shyloc %
when the instruction be "bettered!" ooAoAo'roi
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

The Pennsylvania Steel Company
have an immense plant at Steelton.
The men were preparing for strike
against over hours and inadequate
pay therefOr-to the number of
1000. The officials found how the
ground lay, and just before the con-
templated strike, shut down the
works. The matter now is purely a
case OF sandwich can hold out
the longest? The men are backed
by the richest and most substantial
labor organizations in the world,
the National Alnalgamated Associ-
alton, and the contest will be BIZ
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

The editor of the GREAT WEST
started for a business trip to New
York, Philadelphia and Washington,
yesterday, to be gone about 20 days.
On return he will take the lecture
field, and alliances may address him
on the matter during his absence.
Mr.. A. L. Stoughton, his Assistant,
will make arrangements.
The Washington trip is to protect
his patents on the new mailer" or
addressing machine, which will soon
be placed on the market. In the
meantime he will write up alliance
matters if flying trip will permit.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
THE WHEAT RACKET.
Tables Which Tell the Farmer Something of Value.

Tables Which Tell the Farmer Something OF Value.
Its doubtful whether
wheat influence the market immediate
thing certanhe tremendous downward which this
would have produced At writing Saturday
l there tendency thing
that the holding OF wheat winter will be paying
there hardly
lions prices will be advanced above those August deliveries
The daily press making tremendous bear spurg by flash head
lines over the immense being harvested They reports
richest yields and magnify them the fullest possible The
that whole the yield but e above that
country at large not quite arge The where wheat
good but not so large The
nuene OF the against the and for the
h present used the until
bulk
and overcome this that keep down the visible
10 not I'LL the elevators
There
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

Nearly $50, OOO,O 900 of government
money is always deposited with GER
tain bankers without interest charge.
The bankers loan this money, and
may be said in the language of the
street, to have ga softsnap." Mean
time the proposition to use less than
$30,OO0,OOO to build warehouses in
which to store the basis OF all wealth,
is met with terrific opposition.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Some Advice to Strikers.

The natural course of events in
spires men to strike against wrongs
like that of the employment OF
women in the iron works of Pitts
burg-during dull seasons. By far
the best time to strike is in the busy
seasons, when the surplus labor is
quite all employed. Prosperous
years and months are the times to
assert the rights of toll.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

Well, Mr.. MCGEE did not succeed in
hoodooing more than the few who
subscribed for his paper. The paper
is, as the Indians would say, "pupy-
cedunck." 1t is quatty-la-voo, it
has ''set down." His postmaster
money did not hold out. Now, as
Mr.. MCGEE is a member of the Execu-
tive Committee would it be proper to
ask why he left the ministry? He
need not let us know any more about
it, but he might explain to the Ex-
ecutive Committee, as his friends
will he very anxious about the ac-
count.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

that the man Muller, who is at work
here, is unfit to represent the ALI
ance or the wheat movement, and
we feel sure that some corruption is
underlying his sudden conversion.
Muller belongs to a plutocratic sec
ton Of the Alliance, very distinctly
allied to the Democratic Party, and
he was until a few days ago a Demo-
cratic employee in the State House.
Muller and all his crowd are op-
posed to the l. e. Alliance organize
ton and his paper is not in the Re
form Press Association. Mr.. Don
nelly is as thoroughly interested in
the farmers holding wheat as is any
man living, and 'The GREAT VEST
started the holding BOOM while
Muller was persistently silent on the
subject until suddenly employed by
doubtful agencies"
This is the way editor Paradis, OF
the Midway News, feels:
The mouths of the GREAT WEST,
the State, Eric Olson, Bill Erwin and
Ignatious Donnelly, couple OF humid
red years ago, if permitted to wag
as they wag now would have stirred
up an armed rebellion inside of a
week. Now they buzz around all
summer, and when election time
comes are about as conspicuous as
the flies in winter. By the specks
lett on occasional politicians you can
see that they have been there, but
that's all.
The Editor of the GREAT WEST
thought he had been accused ofevery
offence against good morals, good
sense, and the welfare OF the people;
but the foregoing has not before ap-
peared and we cheerfully give it
room i'll the GREAT WEST. 1t hath
summit o'truth ABBOTT it!
Next!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

J. X. Funk, chairman OF the public
meetings committee of the National
Prohibition Camp Grounds Assolia
ton, requests the GREAT WEST to
announce that the Conference of the
friends Of the Farmers Alliance and
OF Prohibition that was called to
meet at Prohibition Park, Staten
Island, N. Y, on August 10th has
been postponed. The announcement
of this meeting will be made later.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

of the Estate" came out, and, like its
predecessors, had not one word to
say on the subject we had urged so
seriously-the holding of wheat!
Now, for the singular feature: "The
State" has always been 'shard up"
for its expenses. Eleven hundred
subscribers and practically no ad-
vertising, will not pay the running
expenses of such journal for six
months. Mr.. Muller stated that it
would have to have help or go under.
Suddenly it changes Office comes
out in that big block on Wabasha
between 4th and Sd, St. Paul, ground
floor. This week it issues
THIRTY THOUSAND COPIES.
and employees three extra men, sever
al young people, and puts out wheat
circulars without stint. All this could
be done only with the aid OF thous-
ands of dollars! From whence comes
this? It would not be right to call
Mr. Muller an adventurer. He came
here utterly without means, and the
labor interests helped him-not only
by temporary means, but by taking
him into the fold which has always
antagonized the radical element.
That campaign committee gave him
$50 week and expenses for eight
weeks. They secured him berth in
the State Auditors Office. Now he
blooms with unwonted splendor in
his downtown Office. But that may
not constitute an adventurer!
We are staggered by these changes.
1t is impossible for us to advise the
farmers to go back on the doctrine
of holding wheat-because tits right!
No matter who else advocates it, or
what means are taken to ''work it, "
or whether the bulls are loaded and
must get out even or 'bust!"-
matter what elements surround it,
the doctrine of holding back your
wheat is the one great duty you owe
your purse and your bank account.
But we doubt the source of all this
expenditure OF money, which, taking
the country at large, cannot be less
than 100000. And, after what has
occurred editorially, we should be
afraid to trust a journal built up by
mysterious cash advances, lest an
other time, the wind may change and
the doctored compass lead us on to
the shoals.
We are exceedingly thankful now,
that the matter OF holding wheat was
never taken up by the alliance Of
ficially.
If in anything we do injustice to
Geo. Muller in this matter, we GER
tainly regret it. But the facts are
given, and every man must draw his
own conclusions.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

We agree with the Dakota County
Tribune that $4,000 is enough for
Minnesota to spend on the world
fair at Chicago. Let Chicago build
her own city. The stealings out OF
that $4,000 will be somewhat
cramped, it is true-but $4,000 will
build quite nice snuggery if it is ap-
piled as man applies his own dol
lars to his own real estate!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
ST. PAUL. MIMI, AUG. Z, 1891,


We exceedingly regret to charge for exchanges
and in all instance Of distinctly Peoples Party
papers we do not. But so extensive berame our
exchange list-at one time over 900 papers-that
we were compelled to put some limit thereto
We cut OF about 500 from the list, and since then
have received half rates from several local pa
pers. The receipt OF this is exceedingly disagree
able to us, and probably equally 80 to the pub
Usher sending it. We therefore offer the follow.
ing substitute.
Local papers inserting the following advertise
ment for one month will be placed on the list
The Great West.
This powerful Peoples Party journal, the Jour
nal for Official Publication OF the Minnesota
Farmers Alliance, is published ut st. Paul at
he low price OF 81. 90 year. It's remarkable his
cry and phenomenal growth attest it's influence
has clubs in Texas, Louisiana. Mississippi
and even in Connecticut. Every live Ieforme1
should take it. 1t has been called the m ost pow
erful reform journal in the world. Four months
trial for Csc. Address Everett W. Fish, go Wa
basha St.. st. P aul, MINI.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

The following is an Interview -
of the N. Y. Voice with the editor OF
the 6. w.:
St. Paul, Mimi, July "a Especial
Dispatch).-I an interview with
''The Voice" correspondent the edi-
tor OF "THE GREAT WEST" the Off
cial organ OF the Alliance in this
State, said to-day: "Mr. Donnelly
does not oppose the movement to
hold the wheat for a rise. THE
GREAT VEST has urged it for two
years. Mr.. Donnelly is opposed to
any man foisting the thing upon the
Alliance as an organization. He
also feels, as does the official organ,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

1t is quite noteworthy that this
year wheat nearly holds it's own.
Scarcely any is coming from Kansas,
and instead OF drop to SO and 6Oc.
in the west and north west, as expect
ed, it holds up to 20 and SO-and
more. The "holding wheat" doc
trine, originated and pushed by the
GREAT WEST, and tagged by Muller,
has taken effect. Now if Minnesota
can only fall in line, and send in only
about one-fourth OF the usual
amount, there will be a tremendous
skurrying among the bears in Chica-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

Who would have dreamed that the
republican party, which elected Har-
rison declared in it's platform for free
silver coinage! All, look out that
you do not nominate men in your
(our) party who do not believe in
living up to your platform!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

If there is one man who has been a
traitor to his convictions, a curse to
his country, and a tool OF plutocracy,
that one man is John Sherman. But
he made millions by it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

Cleveland declines to enter the Ohio
fight. His views on the silver quest
ion and those enunciated in the Ohio
platform are wide apart as the poles.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

ter one. This is especially the case
as there are numerous strikes now
in all parts Of the world, SO that the
surplus labor cannot be hurried from
one place to another.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
The Great West.

Eight county conventions met in
one day in Kansas, and all passed
resolutions against fusing with any
party.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Greatest Political Issue

The Ohio Press insists that the
greatest political issue that could
be brought before the people would
be the adoption OF some theory that
would compel congress to stop the
rapid Capitalization of wealth in the
pockets OF few companies and Or
CARNATIONS that combine to rob toll
I ers.
And then, to bring about a practi-
cal test and make it's words mean
something more than mere words, it
has this to say, further: ''It is evil
dent the farming and laboring inter-
ests must unite and demand protec-
ton through the influence and power
OF their own votes" Gin union there
is strength" This expression en-
bodies the underlying principle of the
peoples party. Followed out, it will
tell for the advancement and success
of this party.-The National View.
For years our government has
been loaning money to the banks,
but when the Peoples Party in their
platform asked that Uncle Sam loan
direct to the people, these same bank
ers say it must not be done. 1t will
ruin the country. Railway corpora
lions have borrowed the peoples
money from their agent, Uncle Sam,
but the producers, when in dire dis
tress, ask for a loan or intimate that
he should be allowed to ask it, they
tell you it is unconstitutional. Ex-
positions, organized for the purpose
OF individual profit, have borrowed
money from our treasury, but when
the farmers proffer the most stable
security on earth and ask the gov
eminent to loan them money, the
partisan press, the bankers, the rail
road presidents and the Shylocks OF
Wall street brand you as-fools.-
Ind. Review.
A few months since the Secretary of
the Treasury went into market and
purchased millions of dollars of
bonds at a high premium to save
short Wall street gamblers from
the legitimate results of their specu-
lations, and it seems to be generally
admitted that the $50, S6O,2OO of Az
per cents due September 1 will, at the
request OF bankers now holding the
notes as a basis of circulation, be ex-
tended indefinitely at rate OF 2A or
2 per cent, notwithstanding the de-
mand OF every Industrial organiza-
ton in the United States that the ma
tional debt be paid off as speedily as
possible. Can any one doubt that
Wall street dictates the financ ial pol
icy OF this country?-Iowa Tribune
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

Even the bankers of Wall Street
informed Secretary Foster that there
was not money enough to do the
business of the country. And yet
for saying this in the Kansas cam
paign Alliance men we're called "fiat
lunatics. Pike Co., (Ark.) Sentinel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Prom Stunnervtlle." is Good.

The following letter is from our
dearly beloved, and warm-hearted,
friend, w. s. Morgan, author of the
great work, History OF the Wheel
and Alliance" and Sec'y of the Ma
tional Reform Press Association.
His letter brings the red blood to the
surface, and is an inspiration to
greater effort. Mr.. Morgan is also
editor of the National Reformer, of
St. Louis:
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July p, 1891.
My DEAR BROTHER FISH:
Say, you're cutting a wide swath
with the GREAT WEST. "They're
Outside of Heaven" in the issue of
the 18th is sumner from Sumner
vile. Yes, indeed They're outside OF
heaven They're in a political hell
and worst of all they have voted
themselves there, and now we have
to bend Heaven and earth to get them
to vote themselves out. Press on,
good brother, you are making a no.
BILE fight. "The eternal years OF God"
have said truth shall triumph. With
best wishes for the success of the
GREAT WEST and kind regards for
it's able editor, l am yours for the
war, w. s. MORGAN.
The Sioux City, Madison & North
ern according to the Dell Rapids
Times is experiencing much difficulty
in securing right-of-way from farmers
between Garretson and Dell Rapids.
The farmers hold their acres too high
for the new company. They must be
either black republicans inflated with
the balloon idea that this country is
wonderfully prosperous and farm
lands of high value, or else they are
ingrained anti-monoply democrats.
No independents could be found so
unreasonable. They would sell their
whole farm to railroad company
for a song. In fact, most of the
farms in this state have already been
given away to the railroads and
their nearest friends. and they might
just as well have the balance. Lake
Co. (Dak) Independent.
Yes, and by-and-by the land will be
condemned and taken from the farm
ers by force of law at a valuation
by a board OF appraisers. What
moral right has the state to sieze AS
property and establish the title
thereto in B. to the end that B. may
establish lucrative business enter
prise? The fact that BIS business
may be that OF public carrier does
not answer the question.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

crop OF 1868 started In at &c. In October
ed 81. " $500
Our article compelled will follow nm the mat+e
another We call that the above arc
where there has never been the slightest
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-02
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.
Some Pertinent Suggestions Made by
Commodore Wilson.

Some Pertinent Suggestions Made by
Commodore Wilson.
WASHINGTON, Dec. L. Commodore
Wilson, chief of the bureau of con-
struction, in his annual report recon-
mends that the Galena be sold as useless
to the government, and source of ex-
pense. Touching the old wooden navy,
the report says: "The vessels are
rapidly disappearing from active SER
vice. Only twelve are available for
cruising purposes, and they within five
or six years will be mustered out"
Concerning new constructions, the re-
port speaks of the usefulness OF torpedo
cruisers. such as engaged and sunk the
Blanco Encaldao in the Chilean war,
and after recounting the fact that the
department is unable to secure bids for
the construction of such vessels within
the limits OF the appropriation OF the
last congress, recommends that the spec
ifications be limited I$512,000. At
this price a vessel of $50
tons may be obtained, capable OF
running rs knots per hour and keeping
at sea.
Stress is laid upon the significance o
the contract made for the construction
of torpedo boat No. 2, with the Iowa
iron works, as it indicates the possibil-
ity Of building these valuable craft at
safe inland points.
The report states that contracts have
already been made for II ,2l0 tons OF the
15,945 tons of armor required for vessels
now building.
Attention is called to the fact that
with the advent OF modern steel vessels
comes pressing necessity for large
increase in the machinery departments
of the navy yards to make unavoidable
repairs. To this end appropriations are
recommended as follows $25.0O0 for
Portsmouth navy yard; $150,000, New
York; 1900, League island $4S,000,
Norfolk, and 100000, Mare island.
Seizing the opportunity afforded by
the unfortunate experience of our steel
cruisers in Chilean waters, the report
treats at length of the necessity for
sheathing the bottoms of steel vessels.
1t says: "The Importance of the preser-
walton of the bottoms of steel vessels
from corrosion and fouling, can hardly