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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
What tho Peoples Party Has Done.

1t has elected 43 congressman and
United States senators.
1t has perfected organizations in
over l5 states, and is carrying ON
spirited contests in Ohio. Iowa, Colo
RADIO. Nebraska, South Dakota, Kan
sas, Massachusetts, Maine. and other
states.
It has polled 10000 votes in Ohio.
1t has polled $4,000 votes in Ken
lucky after a short campaign of six
weeks, and holds the balance of power
in the Legislature.
It has elected SO members of the
Kansas Legislature, and polled a 10
per cent larger vote this year than
last.
1t has secured the balance of power
in the Georgia Legislature, and is no
mean factor at half q dozen other
state capitols.
1t came within 5 200 votes Of beat
ing a republican and democratic fu-
sion in Nebraska.
1t has called into being eight hun
dred reform newspapers owned by
men who have no fear of the old par
ties.
1t has demonstrated that fusion is
bad politics, being league for tenn
porary advantage at the expense of
principle.
1t has forced the old parties to fuse
in several states.
1t has brought the farmer, the wage
worker. and the average citizen upon,
a common platform.
1t has gained a position where it
can, in good time, call d halt upon
Wall street for cornering the metal
basis of the national currency, and
upon trusts for swindling the ublic,
and upon capitalists for forcing inhu-
man and unjust conditions on la Dor,
and upon tax-dodgers for thro wing
the money burdens of state off on the
poorer classes.
1t has proclaimed that the time has,
come to legislate upon something be-
sides the tariff, and that tn elangnage
OF sectional dispute has become obso--
lete.-New Nation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

Now, then, where is that man who
said Liverpool controlled the wheat
market? Where is he?-let us put him
in cage. Liverpool markets Is to
2Oc bushel higher than last year
no Russian exports-and yet Chicago
goes down to 92c. and Minneapolis
to 89Ac.l What a pity that a power
full cyclone does not sweep Jackson
street, at thefoot OF LaSalle, Chicago,
and wipe that branch of hell out of
existence-and take those 11.5OO
gamblers tO-heaven!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
500 AYEAR IN ADVANCE.
IT WAS after THE WAR!
Astounding Fact in Relation to the Development of the
National Debt!

National Debit
The question has been asked When most the interest
ing bonds issued during the after the WARP"
Nearly United
the bonded debt 6OOmons
Incredible as this may seem, it is true
bons beissued the
Why order that the greenbacks might be called and burned
might replaced with
putocrac banks
might produce which could only exist when borrowed from
bank retired burned
The did this The ordered fresh
be bought bankers from 3S
reenback about
oneha
doars With these dollar worth
6O gold the banker ready printed loan back
the people from which had been taken for duon
That honest
And thus brought face to face with the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

Joseph Chamberlain, the English.
radical, is again at work on one Of
his pet ideas, that the government
should pension workingmen in their
declining years. Industry and honesty
are the qualifications required, and
the age fixed at sixty-fve.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

board OF War-that the national debt
made blythe war was a mere bagatelle.
Less than one billion of dollars of
the three billion two hundred million
of debt was made by the war. There
were the 7-3O small denomination
bonds, which foated as currency
middle classes using them in COM
merce. Then a billion and half of
bonded debt was created to take in
the greenbacks and destroyed them!
o ye tears! Oh ye means OF the
broken and the ruined ones! all this
for the purple born and the velvet
coated-while the nation walked down
into the valley of poverty and death!
No shame lives for this depth of in
famy-no language twixt it and 81
1onnof
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
G. o. p. and d. o. p.

At the recent meeting OF the repub-
ican national committee at Washing
ton, there was a great deal of talk
about the union of the two oldparties
against thepopulist movement. These
discussions were notpublic. Aprivate
committee was appointed to confer
with the democratic national commit
tee, Or a sub committee thereof, on
the matter. The national banking
association has a committee of con-
ference on the matter, and it is under
stood that the meetings will be held
at Room 4, 274 Broadway.
This must be interesting to the G..
A. R. boys. The editor of this paper
is one of them-and he has thousand
times more respect for the confederate
flag and it's supporters than he has
for these putrid political traitors.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

by him Tor the Board OF Trade"
The fact is that the lie would never
have been known if some fellow had
not given the thing away.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

7his Rep6DE vas rounds.
upon principles which involve0
the Dignity Of Labor. 70 des-
troy the power of Labor is 10
construct LasJe. A Casn. cannon
co-exist With q Repubhr
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29
Advertise Your Specialstie.

Good advertising consists in the
selection of few strong, quick SELL
ing specialties, to stand as the rep
resentatives of your stock in price,
quality and pattern. Just as you
select one smart, active man from
every 10000 of the people, and
send him to congress as your rep
resentative, so choose good thing
to represent the store, and talk about
that article. Put your whole energy
and force into strong argument
why that should be in every readers
hands; try to talk as though that
article was your entire stock. You
will find it will draw more people to
your store than the mere mention
of thousand articles. If you have
sufficient space, two or three leaders
can be put out at once, but seldom
more than that in an ordinary adj
vestisement. Each day take new
article and treat it in like manner,
and you will soon find that your
leaders will be town talk.
If you are grocer, it won't be
necessary to say that you keep all
kinds of groceries, and itemize them.
If you are an ordinary dealer, the
public know that without telling.
But should you have a new brand
of pickles that is especially desirable
confne your advertisement to pickles
for the day.
No tradesman need lack for o
speciality. If it is a good article it
will pay push to, and if it sells, the
staples will sell with it.
Let specialties sell staples always,
and try to take rank among your
competitors as the one who is the
quickest to recognize a good thing
and the first to sell it.-Grand
Rapids Telegram.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

The same circular tells us that the
excess of importation this year over
the two preceding years has been
equal to about three-months' supply,
but as this excess includes everything
that the Welsh manufacturers had on
hand. the very sweepings of their
ware. houses, there are certain kinds
and grades of which we have not a
three-months' supply. What then
We shall very, soon resume our i'm
portations and when we do resume,
the consumers will be compelled to pay
in duties very nearly as much as the
tin plate costs free on board at Swan
sea. The lowest price on record for
&c 14x20 coke tin {. o. b. Swansea
was $3.50 per box. The Mckinley
duty on the same is s2.37 per box
This nefarious tax was imposed with
the confident promise of causing the
immediate starting of tin plate works
in this country, and the "tin-plate
liar" has been sedulously proclaiming
the existence of such works and ped
ding bogus articles of tinware as cyl
dence of their existance. But the
trade circular before us says: awe
take it for granted, as everybody does
who has investigated the matter, that
it is quite hopeless to expect the pro-
duction Of any American plates to
play any part in the question during
the next twelve months, if at any
future time"
We submit to every fair-minded per-
son that the Mckinley duty on tin
plate was either a confidence game
and swindle from the beginning, or
a faux pas of such magnitude that
every man who voted for it ought to
be driven from public life as a costly
ignoramus-most of them, in fact,
have been.-New York Evening Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29
The Tin-Plate Swindle.

The net purport and effect Of the
Mckinley tariff plate has been to
transfer from the pockets of the
American people to those of the i'm
porters of that article a very large
sum of money. The smart fellows,
like Niedringbaus, of St. Louis, who
pretend to make tin plate and who
distribute Welsh plate in the form Of
tin cups, pans and whistles as the
genuine American article, "loaded up
with the imported article before the
new tariff took effect. They are now
charging for stock on hand about wha,
il costs TO import it with the dut,
added. There is slight difference
due to the competition of sellers. wbt
are loaded up as aforesaid, but tn,
market is quoted by G. S. TRENCH 4
Co., in their trade circular of July ]
as firm, with upward tendency
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

Well write 1t down till everybody sees 1t,
TIL everybody is sick of seeing 1t,
Till everybody knows 1t without seeing II
that DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures
the worst cases OF catarrh In the head
catarrhal headache and "cold In the head".
In perfect faith, It's makers, the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association of Buffa.
10, N. Y, offers to pay $500 to any one
suffering from chronic catarrh In the head
whom they cannot cure. Now il the con.
ditions were reversed-if they asked you
to pay $500 for a positive cure you might
hesitate. Here are reputable men, with
years Of honorable dealing; thousands OF
dollars and great name back of them,
and they say-"We can cure you because
we've cured thousands of others like you
If we can't we will pay you $500 for the
knowledge that there's one whom we
can't cure. They believe In themselves.
Isn't it worth trial? Isn't any trial
preferable to catarrh7
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

Our people could not buy English
goods unless they could sell their sur.
plus agricultural products. Neither
could the English buy our agricultural
products unless they could sell their
manufactured products.
What is the inevitable result of ar
resting the importation of their pro-
ducts2 Our surplus agricultural pro-
ducts increase on our own markets.
The demand being the same, the price
falls. Our population is rapidly in
creasing. Our productive forces are
increasing at an equal pace. Our
surplus must also increase, and being
locked in by tariff prohibition it is
anxiously sinking in price toward a
lower bottom. The prices of leading
agricultural products are now 20 per
cent. lower than in 1880. 30 per cent
lower than in 1883 and A per cent.
lower than in 1857, the year of the
great panic, that Republicans tell us
was produced by lowering taxes
But this is only half of the story
Manufactured products which the far
mer has to buy have been increased
in price. That improverishes the
farmer by prohibiting him from reach
ing his competitor, and it enriches the
manufacturer by prohibiting his COM
petitor from reaching him.
Selfinterest is the great motive
power that moves all men. The
Western farmer is not an exception.
Turn on and intensity the light
knowledge is power. Truth is
mighty and it will prevail"-after
awhile.-Roger @. Mills.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

Official reports show that in 1880
we exported of wheat and wheat -four
to the value of $211 .O35.472. and in
1889 to the value Of $SS.747.141.-
Russia exported wheat in 1880 to the
value of $1,000 1922. and in 1889 to
the value ofS99 271.840. This shows
us that our exports have fallen off
more than half, and Russia has in
creased hers nearly double. The
strange part of the story is that for
every year since 1880 our wheat was
cheaper than Russian wheat.
The inquiry Involuntary arises in
the mind, why did not the foreigner
take our cheaper wheat instead of the
dearer wheat of the Russiani The
report shows that he is increasing his
purchases Of the dearer wheat and de.
creasing his purchases of the cheaper
wheat Great Britain is the great
market of the world for foreign bread
stufs, and in 1880 we supplied 65 per
cent. of all her imported wheat and
-four, and Russia supplied 4 per cent.
and in 1889 we supplied 3s per cent.
and Russia % per cent. Our exports
fell off nearly half, while Russia in
creased hers 600 per cent. Great
Britain obtains her wheat and -four
from the United States, Russia, Swe.
den, Denmark, Germany, France,
Spain, Roumania, Turkey, Egypt
Chill, India, Australia and other
countries. Of all these countries we
produce the cheapest wheat, and we
ought to supply the whole English
demand. Why do we mott
Because England cannot take our
surplus beyond the extent to which
we take hers. When she reaches that
limit her trade with us stops and she
goes elsewhere. And the same rule
obtains with all other countries. We
have erected wall against the ad
mission of her products and we have
been industriously building it higher
and the more of her products we KEEP
out the more Of ours we keep in
And from 70 to 80 per cent. Of
them are agricultural products, ano
whatever injury is wrought on tn,
country by arresting its exports, from
70 to 80 per cent. of the damage fall
on agriculture.
When we see Great Britain travers
. ing all seas and lands and obtaining
, her wheat and flour from others a
higher prices than from us we see
demonstration that all trade is barter
, and that at the bottom it is but tn
} exchange of one mans surplus for tina
} of another.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

greater than the discipline of the gov
eminent in any part of its military
force. The societies for military be-
nevolence, of course, have their men,
bers all through the army. If those
societies are really entering the polit-
ical field, and are entering it for the
avowed purpose of supplanting the
Manchurian intruder by an Emperor
of Chinese stock, there is no doubt of
their ability under proper leadership
to set on foot tremendous and deter.
mined war. Even If the first step
prove to be failure, a better policy
may be adopted and succeed. The
society has shown its ability to raise a
mob where it will, and maneuyre as il
chooses. The late outrages were not
simultaneous, becuse the work was put
in charge of committee, something
like our walking delegates" who went
from place to place and ordered the
mob out when it wanted it. There il
an evidence of power here which is
ominous for the young Emperor
Will they get leader? Political life
is as selfish in China as elsewhere. -
There are hundreds of officials who
think they have not been treated
fairly. The prize is brilliant one,
and the recent events have drawn the
veil from one of the dangers of the
throne.-N. Y. Times
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

The following Is list of real estate
sales recorded during the past week, fur.
nished at the abstract office of O'Brier
& Sleator:
Emily E. Oliver to Owen Fox and
Louisa Deadnan, $50. 80, 4.02 acres In n
W corner Of Of %, 81, 8, city.
Annie Dupuis to Florence M. NJ. Bar.
deem, 5000, 8 ! Of W 1, so, 8, Alpena
township.
Ture Olsen to Antonina Ortowska, $685.
lot /, block 10, Beebe's addition, Long
Lake avenue.
Antonina Ortowska to Frank Mulava,
$3.50, same as next above.
F.C. Folkerts to Geo. w. johnson,
$500, lots 10 and IA, block 8, Folkert's
addition, Commercial street.
Lanatz Peorewski to Herman Lechet,
1926, I lot on Fletcher street, (part OF
water power No. ~
Eliza E. Robinson to John Roe, $S5,
fri 81 in block 8, Williams addition, and
fri 10, block 18, Tuttle's addition, q full
lot), Ninth street.
Julia F. Farwell to o. L. Partridge, 81,
fri lot 8, block "a, Hitchcock's addition,
Lincoln street.
@. N. Fletcher to Alex Coture, $3.50, q
! lot 3, block OF, Fletcher's addition,
Clark street.
Albert Legners to Catherine Egenreath'
er, $176, lot A, block Q, Hueber's addition,
Hueber street.
Margaret Goodrich to David Mulvana,
1926, W ! Of Q 83, 81, 8, Green township.
Thos. Collins to Union School District
Of Green township, $15, 1 acre in " COR
ner OF g W Of sw 80, 81, 6, Green township.
G. N. Fletcher to Eliza Manning, g..
500, Q 4 ofe Of WI Of sw 20, 81, 8,
Green township.
Mathew Champagne to Elizabeth Kram'
mer, 5000, 80 feet off n side lot 2, block
IA, Chisholm street.
Matilda Gerland to Jos. Cote, $3.50, Z
W 1 lot o, block 118. Fletcher's addition
Tawas street.
O'Brien & sleator to Alex Coture. 81
g l lot 8, block 97, Fletcher's addition
Clark street.
O'Brien & Sleator to Mathew Cham
payne, 81, 80 feet of n side lot Q, bloch
IA, Chisholm street
McInnis d Moffatt to Jos. Cote, $1.00
small piece Of land lying between TswaI
street and lot 3, block 116, Fletchers ad
dition.
Celsnire Pamerleau to Jos. Cote, 81
I lot 8, block lie, Fletcher's addition
Tawas street.
Jos. Coteuto Celanire Pamerleau; 81
W lot o, block 116, Fletcher's addition
Tawas street.
, Auditor General to Charming Whitney
&80.58, taxes of 1885, lots 8 and 2, blocl
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29
The Farmers Burden.

The applications for sugar bounty
this year, fled with the Commission
err of Internal Revenue by the Louis
lana planters alone, show that to pay
the two cents a pound voted them out
of the treasury on their product will
cost the people about 100000.
Add to this the amount voted out of
the pockets of northern farmers by
the wool tariff and it looks very much
as if their burdens were largely in
creased by the late Congress. Jack
son Patriot.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29
Five Thousand Living Arguments

There are still some people who cling
to the old.fashioned idea that it is a
waste of time for boys, youths and
men to practice athletics. They re-
gard it as mentally designating, as an
interruption to the serious business of
life, and some of them even doubt its
moral influence. These good people
should make it point to walk the
streets of this city while the wheelmen
are here and study the visitors who
crowd the streets Their ruddy com
plexions, erect figures, elastic move
ments and general appearance Of
royal good health are pleasant to look
upon. Then, too, while they are off
for a holiday and so many of them
gather together with no restraint upon
them, there was meyer better behaved
company ofmen in this city. The fact
is, that the practice ofathletics directly
antagonizes dissipation, and the man
who has ridden a twenty.fve-mile race
and then put in a ten mile parade in
addition, is not the one who is apt to
make the night hideous and himself
irresponsible by reason of drinking
The wheelmen were welcomed because
they came as our guests, and the selec-
ton of Detroit as the place of holding
the meet was an honor to the city
They are now doubly welcome, for our
people have found of what stuff they
are made and both respect and like
them. Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

The organization of the Farmers
Alliance is a sign ofthe times. Every
social or industrial movement that in
wolves q considerable body Of the
people and persists in its demands is a
sign Of the times-and the Farmers
movement is certainly phenomenon
of this kind. It indicates that the
political conditions of the country are
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29

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hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem'
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs
splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stiles, sprains
all swollen threats, coughs, etc. Save
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most wonderful blemish cure ever known
Sold by Edward g. Spense, druggist, Alpe
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unsatisfactory and that the vast body
of the people engaged in tilling the
soil for living are discontinued. The
country, as a whole, is prosperous In
the last decade the population has in
creased 12.500,0O0, and six new States
haye been added to the Uuion. One
bountiful crop after another has added
its increment to the general wealth.
The railroad mileage has Increased
from $4,000 to 10000, and the inter-
nal traffic of the country is estimated at
S25, 900, 900. 000-fgures so vast that
they can only be stated. not compre-
hended. We produce more gold and
silver than any three other countries
in the world; we make more iron than
Great Britain. or any other country /;
and Hon. VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio,
told nothing but the plain truth when
he said: ave lead all nations in ag-
riculture; we lead all nations in min
ing, and we lead all nations in man
ufacturing."
Why are the farmers discontented
in the midst of this phenomenal pros
perityi Why is it that the largest
class of workers in the land, and the
class which contributes more than any
other to the general wealth, finds it
necessary to organize in alliances, hold
conventions and thrust its grievances
before the publici Never before in the
history of the country did the farmers
as body talk so much about mort
cages, low prices of crops, scarcity of
money, the pressure of debts, the diff
Guilty of finding a crop that will pay
for raising it, the impossibiIity of sell
ing their farms at any reasonable price.
and the general hardships of their con-
dition. Why is it they do so nowG-
What is the matter with the farmers :?
The real cause of farmers hardships
is to be found almost in single word
protection. Other agencies have
something to do with the trouble, such
az extrava gance at Washington, ca
cessive land grants to Eastern cor
porations owning railroads in the
West, and manipulation ofthe national
debt and finances during the last
twenty-seven years in the interest of
the moneved section and the creditor
classes. But the pre.eminent and over
shadowing cause is that the Govern
ment has exalted manufacturing over
all other interests and fostered it
at the expense Of other producing in
terests, particularly that of agricul-
ture; that certain kinds Of manu-
featuring, found chiefly in the North
eastern States, have been favored and
protected by the Government by a
system of tolls and exactions that fall
most heavily upon that class which,
being the groundsill of the social
structure. is incapable of charging
them against class next below it
the tilers of the soil.
Somebody must pay for the protect
i've favors which have made the man.
ufacturing interest and the manu-
featuring section so enormously rich,
for it is impossible to protect one class
except at the cost of others. 1t has
been estimated that the sum that every
farmers family in the land pays to
protected manufacturers in the shape
Of excessive-prices for articles of nee
essity and comfort is $50 year; and
that is what hurts the farmers.-St
Louis Republic.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-29
4, Hitchcock's addition, State street. Al.
30 ga. 93, taxes OF 1887.
Meteorological Report

The meteorological report OF weather
at Alpena city, is as follows for the weel
ending Monday, July 27th, 1891.
Highest temperature, 70 degrees, on the 2srd.
Lowest temperature, 43 above zero, on the 2ist.
Average temperature, 81 degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, soS54 inches.
Lowest barometric pressure, 29.s49 inches.
Total rainfall, OILS inches.
Prevailing wind, from the northwest
Total movement of the wind. ,49s miles.
Greatest daily rain fall O Is inches on the 26th.
Highest velocity of the wind, 20 miles, from tn,
southwest on the 22th.
NJ. Nc p. BALDWIN,
Observer, W Gather Bureau.