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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-31

No man can be president of the
United States to succeed Harrison
who does not receive the Farmers
Alliance vote, and Grover Cleveland
can't even get the tail end of it.
The American farmer may not be a
Richelieu or a Chesterfield, but he
can mighty easily see the difference
between an idea and a mountain of
manure. The Farmers Alliance
has no need in its business for any
hireling of gold gamblers hibernat-
ing in Wall street or any other
place where they plan and select
agents to ruin the wealth producers.
-Pomeroy's Advance Thought.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-31

Let each meeting be well attend
ed by delegates and others who are
interested in saving the homes of
the people from confiscation by
mortgage plutocrats.
Come and hear something OF
practical interest to all. 1t will be
day better spent than blowing
corn for another to gather.
For full information address Fred
L. Bailey, general manager, room
II, Fletcher building, Wichita,
Kansas. j. A. HAMMER,
President.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

1t looks as if the dissentions of
certain leaders OF the alliance, more
Or less self appointed, were to de-
scend as legacy to the new Peoples
Party. 1t would have been more
to the credit OF all parties had they
been left behind, but then no respect
able, self-respecting man, can be ex-
pected to take kindly to "Doc Fish"
Rock Co. News.
1t is unklnd to drop a seven-ton
roast like that upon our devoted
and unprotected Uranium. Truly it
is hard upon the Peoples Party that
it's interests are championed by so
unpretentious an Individual as the
editor of the GREAT WEST, while the
illustrious editor of the Rock Co.
News devotes his distinguished abil-
tiles to the support of the-of the
well, what party does he support?
Does anybody know?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

anxiety for the safety Of my country
than ever before, even in themidst Of
war. God grant that my fears may
prove groundless.
1t was the power of Wall street
which President Lincoln feared. But
how much more powerful are the
money manipulators of New York to-
day than they were in the great war
presidents time. Lincoln beheld a
Stewart taking advantage OF the war
and making his millions out Of it. He
saw other lesser ones turning the ma
TONS misfortunes and peril to their
private gain, taking advantage OF
the. nations need and purchasing
government bonds almost at their
own figures. If Lincoln could speak
to day, would he not be able to pro-
nounce with the assurance OF a
prophet whose predictions have in a
measure come true, and with almost
a certainty that the remainder OF the
prophecy. will be fulfilled?- Farm
News, of Akron, o.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

One OF our Nebraska subscribers
writes Mr.. Donnelly for information
regarding the subtreasury bill.
Yes, such bill was introduced in
the last Congress.
It was published in full in the GREAT
WEST a year ago, and it's provisions
have been discussed quite fully. 1t
will probably be taken up again
soon.
The benefits to the farmers are too
extensive and inherent to be present
ed in a few sentences. It breaks up all
monopoly in grain, cotton, ETC., and
it furnishes government money to
move crops instead OF borrowed
European capital.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

The Associated Press is sending
over The country a terrific account
of a conflict of authority between
an Alliance District Judge OF Kan
sas and a Judge of the Supreme
Court. The district Judge arrested
a Sheriff for obeying the orders of
the Supreme Court instead of his
own. 1t says parties are going to
swear out warrant from the Su-
preme Court to arrest the District
Court. But it does not say that the
warrant was issued. 1t probably
will not. Perhaps the plutocratic
Supreme Mogul may ascertain that
the Sheriff was bound to perform the
duties OF the District Court until
those orders were nullified by legal
process! There is intense anxiety
there over the matter. But, if the
Alliance District Judge is sound, we
will hear no more about it. The
Associated Press will send us no
more news when it floors the pluto
cratic thoroughbred.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
Samples of English Justice"

If there is any one thing that Eng
lishmen pride themselves upon it is
the fixed and unvarying quality OF
the justice dispensed by the courts
of the United Kingdom. But here
are some expressive facts which raise
a grave suspicion that the British
Bench is far from being the admir-
able and perfect institution that it is
pictured. There are some contrast
ing penalties cited by Mr.. Francis
Peck from the records of the Howard
Association:
For stealing garden fork-ten
years penal servitude.
Confidential clerk for embezzling
$25, 0O0-fvemonths Imprisonment.
For stealing a cup-fve years
penal servitude.
For picking pockets-an old offend
er who had been in prison 20 years
three months.
For stealing watercresses-e EIGHT
years penal servitude.
For violent assault upon his son
OF - years, beating him with coil OF
copper wire-One month.
For stealing a purse containing
two guineas-fve years penal servi-
tude.
An ex-convict for stabbing a woman
-one month.
For a downright travesty upon
justice, it is very doubtful if these
cases could be matched even under
what our English friends are wont to
call the Immature" and "hap-ha-
zard" judicial processes OF the United
States. It is well known that Eng
lish law has always looked with ex-
IRENE leniency on offenses against
the person as compared with offenses
against property; but that will not
account for more than two Of the
contrasts above enumerated.- Bos-
ton Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

The ST.. Paul Daily Globe has pub
Iished long Associated Press dis
patch giving an interview with an
Australian nabob. He shows up a
terrible state of affairs in that coun-
try owing to strikes. The deplor-
able condition is a mass OF fimsy
lies. Rich mines undeveloped, cotton
fields unpicked, and the whole coun-
try reduced to waste places because
labor will not be reduced to-servi-
tude!-though he does not use the
word "servitude." The whole thing
is fraud. Ofcourse there are unde-
veloped resources in a vast CONT
nent with only 100000 inhabi-
tants. But that is nothing com
pared to the mine-slavery id Penn
sylvania, where the mines are Or
dered to be idle, and the miners re-
duced to perjury by the low wages
during the working months. The
UTOuUlc WILL UlllS dOu. drlSUOCrdU
is that he cannot get labor for two
shillings a day to make him a bill
ionaire. He says the national debt
will reach the enormous sum OF L.
OOO,OOO,OOO for 100000 people
and this debt is made "by the con-
struction OF railways, telegraphs,
public buildings and schools!'' !.
Well, is that all? Why bless his
nicktrplated soul, the "National"
debt of the United States for these
same items is larger than that! For
in that one billion OF Australia is
included it's monetary system-just
as we would include the greenbacks
as a debt.
Take our railroad Debts, public
building debts, telegraph debts,
school building debts, actual nation
al debt, state debts, state building
debts, etc., on every one of which the
people pay interest, and it will be
found that Australia is ahead OF us.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

People who hold western farm
mortgages may be treasured OF the
value of their investment by the
statement OF Prof. James Wilson, of
Iowa Agricultural College, that the
rise in value of Iowa lands within
the past year is equal to the entire
mortgage Indebtedness OF the farms
of the State, and that the rise in the
coming years will be as great as that
of last year.-Glenwood Herald.
The foregoing doesn't seem to
harmonic with the assertions SO in
dustriously bruited by interested
parties that drastic railroad legis-
lation has paralyzed the Industrial
and commercial interests of that
state. The idea, however, that the
rise in value in two years equals
$2OO,OOO,O0O, is ludicrous. Wehave
land there we would like to sell for
the purchase price OF five years ago!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
Where Does It Come From ]?

With uddnness which takes away there bursts nnon tho
world national organization renting St.
millions circulars costing thousands
postage and labor This is all get the
object worth all OF But where money from
from whence the And Geo Muller doubtful Ait
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binary tendency the people public
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
Mailing the Lie.

Last week the Gazette-Tribune
copied the following resolutions from
the Windfall Dispatch:
"Whereas, The south was not rep
resented in the late Cincinnati con-
vention, and whereas, we believe the
third party will desrupt the repub-
lican party to the benefit of the dem
ocratic party; therefore be it
Resolved, That we abandon the
third party to return to our past
affiliations
These resolutions purported to be
from the Cloud county Alliance Of
Kansas, and the Tribune gives them
editorial space and endorsement and
endeavors to make out that at least
one county in Kansas has gone back
on the Peoples party. Now the lit
tleness and vileness of the Trib. is
seen when the fact is made known
that just following the above resolu-
was printed:
CHOW listen to D. W. Coffee, presi-
dent OF the Cloud county Alliance:
Let me say the resolution is entire
~ false. We have had no meeting
since April Is, and. at that meeting
elected Hon. S. C. Wheeler and W. Q.
Slavery, as delegates to represent us
at the Cincinnati convention, which
duty they performed nobly. Our
people are well pleased with the ac-
ton OF the convention and will no
doubt ratify it's actions at our next
meeting. have written to the To-
peka Capital that it acknowledge the
lie or publish the name OF the
author"
The Tribune knew when it pub
lished those resolutions that it was
publishing a lie and it did it willfully.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

The great railroad strike in Paris
continues. The army is on the alert.
The depots were filed with large
bodies OF the strikers, and the troops
after great efforts, managed to dis
lodge them. The strikers are very
orderly, and abandoned procession
lest it incite to violence. The labor
struggle there now is not the "can-
allie communism OF former years,
but a mighty struggle between in
telligent labor and capital.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
When the Earth Was Young,

When the Earth Was Young,
Says DR.. Ball, astronomer royal for
Ireland, it went around so fast that
the day was only three hours long.
The earth was liquid then, and it
spun around and around at that fear
full speed, and as the sun causes ever
increasing tides upon it's surface, it
at last burst in two. The smallar
part became the moon, which has
been going around the earth ever
since at an increasing distance. The
demand for speed is one which no in
vention OF man seems to satisfy
Ocean steamers now cross the Allan
tic in week, but the public clamors
for a shorter voyage, and some of
the companies are holding out a
hope OF three days. Perhaps the
speed indicated above, when our old
globe whirled around at the rate of
5000 miles an hour, would satisfy
the people who travel, but as the
world is getting on in years now, and
is little slow, they will have to be
cOntented with such a gait as the
railroads can strike. When they
want speed combined with smooth
running and safety, those who are
posted select "The Burlington" the
favorite low grade, smooth track
line from Minneapolis and st. Paul
to Chicago and st. Louis. For
tickets and any further information
apply to your local ticket agent, or
write to W. j. C. KENYON, Gen.
Pass. Agent c. B. & N. R. R., St.
Paul, MINI.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

Mr.. A. L. Soughton, a gentleman
of experience in the publishing bust
ness, has entered the GREAT WEST
office as an Assistant Editor, reliev-
ing "Doc" of much of the. labor
which has almost annihilated our
time in the past. In August the
editor will take a trip east to New
York, look over the field there, and
in Michigan, and return ready for fall
campaigning.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

E. Evans, one of the prominent
temperance men in the Cincinnati
Convention has published and scat
tered over the country circular
"open letter" to Robt. Schilling,
accusing him OF being the direct
cause of the exclusion of all anti
liquor resolutions in the platform.
The circular is very strong one.
and gives to the light many facts
hitherto unknown to the masses.
1t is excessively long, too long for
these columns, even if it were wise to
encourage hostile arrangements of
this kind. We trust that the conven-
ton of February %, '92, will rem
edy the evils referred to.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
The Crisis which Lincoln Proph.
esied.

Was Abraham Lincoln true or a
false prophet when he said: II see in
the near future crisis arising which
unnerves me and causes me to trem-
BILE for the safety of my country. As
a result OF the war, corporations
have been enthroned, and an era of
corruption in high places will follow,
and the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong it's reign by
working upon the preiudices OF the
people until all the wealth is agitated
in few hands and the republic is de-
stroyed. feel at this time more
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

BEARDsLEY, Mimi, July II, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
The farmers are all anxious that
we should succeed in our efforts, but
they are watching our proceedings,
which they get through the pluto
cratic press, which is generally mean
to say the least.
Would to God that there might be
q GREAT WEST published in every
county in the state. God speed the
G. w., through the land.
President FISH,
Creek Alliance, No. 600.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
Pleasant Hill Alliance.

R1DGEwAY, Mimi, July IA, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
| send you two more trial subs. l
wish it were 1000. The glorious
news from the east, west, north and
south, tells OF the uprising of the peo-
pie against the oppression OF the
money lords. / hope it will be peace
full; but peaceable or not, the revo-
luton is on. 1t is here to stay until
the laboring peoples wrongs shall be
righted. Your paper is doing splen-
did work for US. May it long con-
tinue in it's present course.
JOSEPH COOPER. Sec'y.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

In France the Extremist party
the radical republican elements
growing in strength, and the late
repression OF labor meetings by the
military has not strengthened the
government
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

doctor, wish your views on the
Hill Banking Scheme said a friend
on the street this week.
We are we'll acquainted with Pro-
lessor Thos. E. Hill, of Chicago, and
have worked with him shoulder to
shoulder in reform work for years.
He is the author of several valuable
works, and an exceedingly pleasant
friendship exists between us. Yet, we
cannot fully endorse his banking
scheme. We do, partially, or tenta-
lively, if it is used to gradually bring
about greater changes. 1t contem-
plates a national bank in a real or
actual sense. All banks to be ma
tional, owned and operated by the
government, give 3 per cent on de-
posits and loan at 4 per cent, the
postoffices being made part of the
system. Our single objection could
be removed if all currency were orig
inally put into circulation by pay
ment on government accounts, and
not by original issue over the bank
counter And that modification
could be provided for. We published
the prospectus several months ago,
and will soon do so again.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

In Belgium the labor questions
are by no means settled. The troops
still exercise a close surveillance over
the factories.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
Twine.

The Alliance Business Agency has
already sold the enormous amount
of one million three hundred thou
sand pounds OF twine-all the way
from 51I to LIZ cents. Every pound
of this Irvine was guaranteed with
capital to back the guaranty.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24

Says the Blue Earth City Post:
"Good times and good sense killed
the Greenback party. The same con-
dition will kill any third party that
may be organized by any Similar
class Of demagogues."
You can fool some of the people
some of the time but you can't fool
all the people all OF the time, was
Lincoln's saying, and worthy of all
acceptance, and the farmers of
the country are not fooled by the
kind OF sophistry contained in the
above quoted paragraph. For more
than twenty-five years the tendency
of legislation in this country has
been toward the Capitalization of
wealth in the Golfers of the non-pro-
ducers, while the laboring classes,
the mass OF the people, have wit
messed the gradual and sure decay of
their prosperity through the opera
ton of unjust laws. So self-assured
have become the benefciaries of
those laws that they seem to regard
it as an impertinence for the pro-
ducer to lay claim to the proceeds of
of his own toll, and if he protests
against existing social conditions or
points out the inevitable result of
their continuance, he is branded as a
"demagogue."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
ORGANIZING.

There are twenty planks in the
Iowa republican platform. Seven of
which "point with pride" to the re-
cord OF the republican party and six
condemn, denounce. and protest"
again the wicked democrats. The
other six are glittering generalities
which mean any thing you want
them too. There is not one word
concerning the real live issues before
the country.-Union Labor Gazettl.
OF course there isn't. The old line
parties are so completely in the con-
troll of the plutes that any meas
ure that may be brought before
them looking to the amelioration
OF the condition OF the people is
promptly throttled. Their hope of
success lies in exciting the passions
OF the people. Waving the bloody
shirt, appealing to race prejudice,
ETC., to divert the attention OF the
people from their schemes for plum
der has long been the tactics of the
old parties. But the people are at
last thoroughly awake to the fact.
The farmers are thinking, they know
they have not been honestly dealt
with. Perhaps they do not see all
the abuses of power from which they
suffer, but they see some OF them,
and are going to hit them, and hit
them hard.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
FITZIMMONS-H

FIIZlMMUNS-HALL.
Disgusting and Dsgraceful Malfeasance in Office
testimony needed to add to the constantly recurring
the old and the puocracy
DAadNABLE ANARCHISTS
fight very
The has
hood many northern sections in
prize they
degrading unchstan we'll they
Mississippi
gagged disgrau
found the protecting of the Mayor of St.
revolving
spectacle each other
other senseless That obon fools spend their this
outraged respectable St. Paul that an attorney
visited the inquired he intended
mayor promptly replied that he woudhe law allow
gloves e gloves
the old law The attorney then retired
not what he ought to
knowhat fighting prize fight aiding promoting
one a mdemeanor
The cooy replied that he would not awtere was
no "sentment" of
Good God when partypute chooses sentiment
he nufes it. does he? He's legislature urv and
carcas OF this democratic
OF democratic St. PauSt Paul Sunday Saloons
open houses Of shame, and her international bruemils!
rampant politics corrupt-whn
the offspring the bote and srumpey przerng
the city and guide the nation!
The his interview off the following weched parody
why these ministers and some of those religious peo
@e e Do tno 1 m
me a jo os Club
Merriam has also Fm-
showing the pr9esants that
self the subjects OF the pulpit oratory'
aggressive action We
of
the parties organizing this fight will literally
have government
Tuesday evening meeting Market Hall to
denounce the outrage.
emphaa governor that the law against
pzefghlng should be enforced. afterwards revokedl
THE GREAT MEETING.
Tuesday evening citizens and women surged into
Market Hall until $500 people packed within
who could not get in Addresses
the plugs
dies produced and motion capitol de-
mand OF Gov Merriam that he exercise the
Smith hrong after voting this
concluded goin body So sugng crowd
which gathered the south capitol D. m and
the had gone home Several among
Court Justice Mcmillan his down But
the Gov made stated that he would Attorney
General in the morning, and report
opinion Minnesota had been rocked in
met those three thousand citizens.
for the Of the fobno ont
morning proclamation calling upon all
officers o enforce the law.
under as 9s %
around the erected
r I s ss s s s e s T ss old %
so s 1eome Think OF meeting decent citizens
having called ns MILL
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1t editorial that
words that k" be-
Where Does 1t Come From?
With suddnness which takes
world national St. Pau
millions of circulars costing thousands dollars printing stationary
and labor This all the their
object worth all OF the But from
from whence the nspiraton Muller man Of donb a
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