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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
Donne11iana.

The biography OF Ex-Gov. Igna-
titus Donnelly, under the title OF
"Donnelliana" will be issued in about
three weeks. twill be a book of 400
or more pages, and by another week
or two we will be able to state the
price and take orders therefor. 1t is
being published by F. J. Schultz &
Co., of Chicago, and is written by DR..
Fish
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

FLoRITA, Mimi, Jan. 5, '92.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Our alliance is not dead. We had
our meeting Dec: 5, and elected 3
delegates to the county meeting to
be held at Bird Island Dec. 10th, and
also elected one delegate to the state
meeting to be held at Minneapolis,
Jan. 9Th, '92. F. "A. SCHROEDER.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
County Alliance Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Chip
pewa Co. Alliance will be held in
Montevideo, Monday, Dec. 81, 1891.
Each subordinate Alliance is entitled
to three delegates. A full representa-
ton is desired, as besides election of
officers, other business Of Importance
will be transacted. Fl. L. TvEDT,
Sec'y Co. Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
WHITE BEAR, Dec. 9th, 1891
ITOp GpEAr Wrcn.

WHITE BEAR, Lee. SGn, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
l have prepared by request, a table
OF the currency issue by the govern
ment, from such tables as are given
out, which Window prepared to. in
clude the time from 1860 to 1888.
find them only approximately correct
and very misleading. In fact OF all
the tables I have seen there are no
two alike.
On page % of "Statistical Abstract
of the United States, 1885," it does
not give a greenback in circulation
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

Delegates to the State Alliance which
meets at Minneapolis on Jan. S,
will be elected. Let every Alliance
man in the county do his best to
make this successful meeting.
J. J. SCOBBA, Prest.
J. III. GUENfHER. Sec'v
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18


leading democratic papers in the
United States, has this advice to give
to the republicans of Ohio. It says:
SThe republican party in Ohio will
make very poor use of the opportun-
ity which it's recent victory has given
it if it shall fail to reflect John Sher-
man to the senate" What shall we
conclude from such self abnegation
on the part OF democratic leaders, to-
ward their life long political enemies!
Do they love each other more than
OF yore? Has any thing occurred to
bring them nearer together political
ly than they were when the republi-
can party was first organized? No!
Then why this fondling and petting,
this smoothing and caressing of op-
posing parties that seems to be grow
ing throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Simply this,
they have taken up the course pur-
sued by all conspirators-united
their forces against a common
enemy, with the intention OF return
ing to their first love, as soon as the
victory is won, or safety assured.
Every indication points to uniting
of the political ring leaders 81 the
two old parties to crush out the re-
form movement. Keep your eyes
open and do not be struck dumb at
any Developments.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The democrats of Texas are on the
verge of a great split, in fact are al
ready hopelessly devided. Since the
pronunciamento of Chairman Finley,
announcing that those democrats
who belived in, and advocated the
reform generally known as the sub
treasury plan, should not hereafter
be admitted to a participation in the
councils Of the democratic party in
Texas. Since this bold assumption OF
boss ruling on Finley's part, scores
of men belonging to the democratic
party have risen and declared them
selves freemen, and at liberty to vote
according to the dictates of con.
science. And while they do not cal
themselves alliance men, they declare
their belief that the government has
been administered in the interest O.
capital, to the prejudice of labor
therefore they will vote the sub
treasury plan.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The old party sheets keep on
warming over the odoiferous old hash,
that the alliance was split to pieces
at Indianapolis, that the north and
south could not agree on any Sec
tional point and dozens OF other as
sertions just as false. Now it was a
self evident truth to all present that
the north and south did work as
smoothly together as delegates
from any state in the union. When
the question of admitting cotton
goods free, SO that the cotton grow
ers in the south might have great
er foreign demand and better market
for their product, the delegates from
the north voted for it and further,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The returns from Kansas show
that 6, 1888 more votes were cast for
the peoples party in that state this
year than their candidate for gov.
ernor received in 1890. The repub-
ican vote was 1850 less than was
cast last year. The democratic vote
has shrunk from 1857 in 1890 to
81 1873 in the present year.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The talk of war is still kept up.
1t don't scare any one! 1t WOULDN'T
increase prices anyway. If the starv-
ing of 80 million Russians, and the
picking up OF $4,000 corpses of the
starved on the roads of Jaroslav on
one day does not move prices, the
Gillian buster will not.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
MI MN ESOTA
The C0nspirat0rS

Who organizing the Minnesota Alliance
entering peoples party platform
well study the standing of the great o. 1t
least thirty of the States and represents four million
already captured southern states the
cratic cohorts:
meeting the visitors requested the privilege of voting with
delegates There anvoe the hall In the evening
meeting held F. NJ B. A. organizations
meeting taken the two great specific prn
without single
dissenting vote!
democratic the alliance
There split The peoples party platform
royal without break and without weakness.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

McKinley's per cent of the popular
vote in Ohio this fall was less than
that of President Harrison in 1880,
or of the Republican candidate for
secretary of state in 1890.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
Todd Co. Alliance.

The annual meeting Of the Todd
County Farmers Alliance will be held
at l O'Clock P. NJ. on Saturday, the
Goth of December, 1891, in the village
OF Long Prairie, county of Todd, for
the election of officers for the ensuing
year, and to elect one delegate and
alternate to attend the annual meet
ing of the State Farmers Alliance to
be held in the city Of Minneapolis, on
the 9Th day Of January, 1892. And
to transact such other business as
shall come before the meeting.
Each local alliance will be entitled
to three delegates. c. F. BoHALL,
President.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The state of Indiana is laying
claim to the city OF Chicago, by virtue
OF false survey of state boundary
limo
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

The alliance members OF Congress,
Kyle OF S. OAK, Halverson of Mimi,
PETER, Simpson, Otis, Glover, Davis,
Watson and VIM seem strong and
cheerful since their arrival in Wash.
ington, feeling hopeful that some
good may come to the people
through their efforts, although the
opposition have majority. They
will struggle earnestly to convince
the people that the minority have
rights which the majority are bound
to respect.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

Absence and want of time prevents
the editor from writing up his recent
trips in the campaign field.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
Pope Co. Alliance.
GLENwooD, Dec

EDITOR GREAT WEST:
The annual meeting of Pope Coun-
'ty Alliance was held at the Court
House hall at Glenwood on Monday,
Dec. 9TH, 81. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
Pres't.-W. R. Holly, Willard.
Vice Pres't.-G. w. Stewart, Vii
lard.
Sec'y.-Ben Peacock, Glenwood.
Treas.-J. T. Egan.
Purch. Agent.-L. B. Canterbury,
Willard.
Organizer.-D. W Brainerd, Glen
wood.
Co. Lec.-G. W. Stewart, Willard.
On motion G.. W. Stewart was
elected delegate to attend the annual
state meeting at Minneapolis Jan. 5,
6, Z, '92. He is in favor OF the head
of the Minnesota State Alliance.
Yours truly, BEN PEACOCK.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
Secretary Stromberg's Report.
FOREST LAKE, Dec. Ia, 81

Secretary StrOmberg's Report.
FOREST LAKE, Dec. Ia, 81.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Please find the following report:
Cash receipts from local alliances.
for the week ending to day:
Greenbush Alliance, No. 1853,
Thos. P. Kerr, Princeton,
membership fee $3.50, dues
6Octs.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S $40
Erhards Grove Alliance, No.
1882, Alfred Tornander,.
Pelican Rapids, member
ship fees. ..................... 1.5O
Flora Alliance, No. 932, F. A.
Schroeder, Florlta, member
ship fees $1.25, dues $500. 1926.
Union Alliance, No. 1916,
Geo. May, st. Clair, Dues. l3O
Total. ....................... 1915,
A. L. STROMBERG,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

until the year 1864, and thenpluDges
into the currency:
Greenbacks 80. .......$447, 300, 200. 90
Fractional Currency 1884, 877.25
Total.................$47O, 1875, O8O.25
On page 6 it gives
interest debt. 455 ,637, 271. 81
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
The State Meeting Ian. eth.

Alliances should remember thaby the Constitution Sec Art ILL.,
the alliances delegates the State
Meeting Also that alliances than hundred miles from the place
meeting minneapolis this Year, appoint member Of alliance
standing which meeting No such appointed
delegate than three alliances Under this provision
every good standing should send their delegate
The meeting at 10 O'Clock Tuesday JAM 5h
year" think that than
delegates the alliances that the
already there dangers
which call for presence every alliance by delegate
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
Bill Merriam.

noted Minnesota politician whose the lever to the world
suggested When Bill there history
forth We election by the words et
nomination all nominate the Banker Governor
Minnesota the O. p tcke will be worth campaign
fund OF two million dollars to the peoples party.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
notice.!

Cor. Sec'y Renville Co. Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18

A. L. STROMBERG,
Sec'y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

years of 100000 acres in the vineyard
area, and of over $40, 100000 a year in
the capital invested. California alone
has $50. 900 acres of vineyards, including
81. 600 acres of raisin grapes. Its total
capital invested in winemaking is nearly
S7s,OOO,O0O 1t is stated that between
10000, 900 and 40, 100000 gallons of wine
will be made in the United States this
year, of which California will produce
more than half. 1t is also stated that
sevcn-eighths of the grapes of California
go to the wine.press, and that four fifths
of the grapes grown in all the rest of the
United States are for table use.
This large and increasing production
of American wines, with the very large
aggregate of capital already invested,
and increasing during the last decade at
the rate of $1O,O0O,OO0 a year, should
suffice to arouse all friends of temper
ance throughout the land to full rcali-
cation of the Importance of genuine
and general revival of total abstinence
temperance teaching, especially among
the young. With a consumption of
wines, native and foreign, amounting to
nearly gallon q year. and of beer about
twelve gallons, for each of our sc, 900, 900
of people, there is indeed most urgent
need of an effective popular appeal
AGAINST all beverage use of intoxicants
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16
Rum in Africa.

In the Bible Standard md GOSPEL Rec
ord. under the head Of Notes from the
African Field" Rev. II. W. Johnston
writes:
1t is a lamcntable fact that some
church members on the West Coast not
only use intoycants themselves, but
that some of them sell the stuff. evan
men high up in some of the churches
Particularly is this true of many who
trade up the rivers. Shocking as it
seems that they who have received the
light would thus deal out damnation to
their brethran sitting in the darkness.
yet they mentally excuse themselves
with the subterfugc probably learned
from the white trader, that it is a neccs-
stE OF the trade. Shortly after our ar
rival we We're panied to learn from
brother prominent in St. Johns Church
that ne had been in the habit of thus
selling under the excuse of ncccssitv
when trading up the river. We talked
the matter over plainly, and the Holy
Spirit was left to do its work. Well.
praise the Lord! that brother has lust
informed me that he has prayed over the
matter. and that the more he prayed the
clearer the matter became. until he dc.
termlned never to handle another drop
OF rum. With earncstncSs Of speech he
declared: "If | do not do ten shillings
worth of trade this trip I'll not trade in
rum" God bless him!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16
A Costly Habit.

The laborer who pays the saloonist
twenty cents per day for four glasses of
BEER or two glasses of whisky, spends
seventy-three dollars annually for the
beverage. With this money, as prices
now are, he could purchase six barrels of
flour, two hundred pounds of sugar.
twenty-five bushels of potatoes, ten
pounds OF tea, and twenty-five pounds of
coffee. So far as these several articles are
concerned, the above amount would be
an ample annual supply for family of
six persons, perhaps a family of eight.
parents and six children. Now, which
had he better use, the beer and whisky
or the groceries? Which would be eco
nomical and proof of real paternaI
affection? Suppose he belongs to
the knights of Labor, can he plead
for strike consistently so long as he
wosse than wastes seventy-thrce dollars?
Must he not. strike against the saloon
before he can strike for higher wages,
If he would challenge the sympathies of
thoughtful men? 1t was this thought
that completely changed the life and
purpose OF a bootmaker in Norfolk Coun-
ty, Mass, few years ago. He was a
very moderate drinker-stepped from
his shop into a saloon near by only twice
day. and paid five cents each for two
glasses of beer. cover thirty dollars a
year," he said within himself. II could
buy three barrels of -four, five pounds of
tea, ten pounds of coffee, and fifteen
bushels of potatoes with that money. /"
he took his pencil and cast the figures
on Il piece of leather. "My family need
it, too, he thought. and the outcome of
his thinking was: II will never spend
another cent for beer as long as / live. /"
And he never has.
Was he not wise? Is there any dis
count to be made on his Judgment?
None at all, especially when the reader
learns that his decision became an era
to his family. From that day, a lauda-
bic ambition, desire for better education.
love OF books and journals, and aspira-
ton for higher social life, grew in that
family: and at the end of ten years the
members of it moved in the most ntelli-
gent and influential circles. There is
nothing like a good, commanding idea to
llft father and his family into a nobler
ME And this is what is needed. and all
that is needed, in thousands of families
IN our land to-day. The total abstinence
idea is butsOne idea. and it NAV seem a
small one to many men; but it is big
enough and strong enough to save a mul-
tltEde OF laborers whom nothing else can
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

GEN: BoorH's capacity for organic
ation, his integrity, and the general ex-
cellence of the plan he has outlined for
the relief of poverty in England are &C.
knowledged by all. So far as criti-
cism goes, about the only objection, if
objection it can be called, that has been
advanced is as to what will become Of
the work after Gen. Booths death or
incapacity for oversight. What pro-
visions can be made for the perpetuity
of the organization over which he is
chief and by which Gen. Booth prom
ises to carry forward the work to sue
cess, and how will his successor be cho
sen? These seem to be the only qnes-
lions as to the future of Gen. Booths
scheme that occur to the cool-headed
critics who have passed his plans under
review, and surely they are not of q
kind to discourage the friends of the
enterprise. An army confident in it's
generalship does not stop to inquire
what will become of it in the event the
General is killed. It is satisfied to
press on to assured victory, taking all
chances with the leader in whom it
trusts. 10 ask more would be folly
and give evidence of determination
to skulk and not to fight.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

Down in South Carolina there is q
woman who knows what to do with q
burglar when she catches one. Find
ing one under her bed one morning,
she covered him with pistol, sent one
of the children after the neighbors,
who live half q mile away; and while
help was coming utilized the would-be
burglar by making him do the milking
and other chores. This is woman OF
the old heroic type, plus modern prac-
ticality.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16
Wine-Makine in America,

Wine-making in this country assumes
large and increasing proportions. The
Special Agent of the Census for wines
and grapes, in Il recent interview with a
representative of the New York sun.
states that there are invested in vine
yards and wine-cellars in the United
States over S155, 100000. There are in
round numbers 100000 acres of land in
this country planted to vineyards. of
which 300, 600 were in bearing this year.
This is an increase during the past ten
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

The females of Ecuador are proverb-
ial for beauty, those among the arts
tocracy being said to have the fairest
complexion of any in South America,
while all possess large, soft and ex-
pressive dark eyes, the blacklist and
most abundant hair, the whitest teeth,
well-rounded figures and small hands
and feet. Like all women in tropics,
they mature early and fade quickly,
but perhaps their average span of forty
years includes more bankruptcies
than comes to women of colder climes
in three score years and ten, for these
are harassed by no @carking cares" or
high ambitions.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

The advancing Niagara River oddly
enough causes the constant receding Of
Niagara Falls. Horseshoe Falls, for
instance, has reeeded two feet per
year since 1842. The maximum recess
sion at one point was 27O feet and the
mean recession of the American Falls
80 feet 6 inches. And all this we know
on account of advancing science and
scientific observation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

The report OF the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue shows that New York
State last year manufactured over one
billion of cigarettes, North Carolina
made 619,o62,5oo, and Virginia $780,
100000. Other States helped out the
aggregate. What hope is there for
people that smoke cigarettes at that
rate
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

The proposition on the part of citi-
zens of Texas to raise ST., 600, 600 for the
proper representation of the industries
of that State at the Columbian Expo
sition shows spirit that is worthy Of
emulation. Probably no other State in
the Union is SO little understood out
side of its own borders as Texas. The
first in area, it is now seventh in
population among the States, and ere
many years shall have passed it seems
destined to enter into competition with
Illinois and Ohio for third place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

A CABLE dispatch from St. Peters
burg states that st. Petersburg ply
sician claims to have discovered that
injections of the stimulant lately dis
covered by DR.. Brown-Seluard will
cure consumption. 1t is not impos-
sible that this may be true. The effect
of the Brown-Sequard elixir was re-
ported to be the rehabilitation of the
degenerated tissues, and it is quite
conceivable that tissues restored to
vigorous health may be uninhabitable
by the bacilli of tuberculosis.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

Mr.. BALFouE passed a measure in
Parliament for loaning s25, 1000 worth of
seed potatoes to the people in the fam
ine-stricken districts of ireland. Ac-
cording to the statisticians this is the
third time within ten years that the
potato crop has failed in that country.
An Irish Parliament might not be able
to Danish the blight, but it would be
an absurdly incompetent government
that could not do better than prevent
the periodic picture of famine with its
accompanying free gift of seed pota-
toes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16


The prevailing fashion in French
duels is very pretty and inexpensive,
and the distance between the combat
ants is cut longer than last year. Our
English great-grandparents were &C
customed to settle their little difficult
ties across handkerchief. This prov.
ing unwholesome the distance was
made ten PAGES, but now the gentle
men across the border are setting their
bad marksmen at a range of twenty
five PAGES, marked off by long-legged
man, and allowing but one shot to each
contestant. 1t is safer thing to fight
French duel than to eat French
dinner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

THE proposition to establish flax in
dustries in the Northwest is straw that
shows which way the wind is blowing
The wind has blown flax straw to the
dogs heretofore. 1t will be good
thing for the farmers of the Northwest
when the straw which rots in the field
is turned by manufactures into useful
FORMS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

AN increase of about one million
people in thirteen years in Spain is at
tributed in great measure to the sue
cess that has attended the chang IS in the
hygienic condition of the cities and
large towns.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

A MISSOURI farmer set trap on the
edge of pond for muskrat. A goose
gotta foot in it and then an eagle dropped
down and seized the goose and couldn't
carry her away. The man was near by,
of course, and all he had to do was to
grab the eagle and run him into coop
and sell him for S25.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

AN Indiana man who has followed ND
the work of the White Caps has learned
of thirty men who used to loaf but are
now at work, twenty wife-beaters who
beat no more, and over hundred petty
thieves who wouldn't keep chicken
now if it few into the house and asked
to he baked
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

Ii is proposed to improve the mail
service between the United States ard
Great Britain by having sorting clerks
on tile mail steamers, SO that when the
ports of destination are reached the
mail will be ready for distribution.
This plan is simply an extension of the
railway mail service SYSTEM and there
Us good reason to expect that the carry
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

The man who is effusively pleasant
with everybody usually makes himself
a nuisance, but the man who endeavors
habitually to make himself nuisance
never succeeds by any accident in
being pleasant.