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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
Immigration.

Granting that immigration as now
conducted is not advantageous to our
side. the question may be asked:
does this country perform the Samar-
itan act in receiving it? Suppose we
drain off every festered spot of over
population in Europe for one genera
ton. conditions remaining the same
there as they have for centuries
would not single generation fill up
the vacancies and wretchedness sur
vive as triumphant as ever? So long
as we perform our present Office will
the demand for a different state of
affairs be likely to be made of those
European powers partially RESPONSE
BILE for popular misery? 1t would
seem a surer benevolence for this
country to attempt to help others by
the power OF example. Among our
boasted tenets are.those asserting the
responsibility Of labor and the gov
erning right of the common people.
How long can we maintain such claims
if continually importing elements fatal
to them? It is almost a question
whether we dare further endanger
our institutions by lofty Indifference
regarding the members of our national
household. Our government among
all is unique. 1t is to be fervently
hoped that whether we restrict the
immigration OF classes now admitted
or confine ourselves to perfecting the
execution Of existing restrictions. we
shall act in such q way as to main
tain our proud place as an example
of free government by intelligent
common people. The Chat;luquan.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
The People Pay the Piper.

Whitelaw Reid's paper the New
York Tribune. year or so ago. in
congratulating the money power upon
its most thorough organization said:
The time is near when they (the
banks) will feel called upon to act
strongly. Meanwhile a very good
thing has been done. The machinery
is furnished by which. in an emer-
gency. the financial corporations of
the East can act in a single days
notice with such power that no act of
congress can overcome or resist their
decision.
What do you. reader think of
glorying over the fact that lin an
emergency. the financial corpora
tions of the country can act in a
single days notice with such power
that no act of congress can overcome
or resist their decision.
1t is no wonder that John Sher-
mans picture Costing $1O OOO)
hangs upon the walls of the Bank Of
England. When Lombard street
whistles Wall Street dances; when
Wall street whistles. the John Sher-
man. Whitelaw Reds. Ben Harrisons.
and the Grover Clevelands get out
and dance-and the people. WELL they
have to put up" for the music. -
Sentinel
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
High Interest.


The money loaning leech has bled
the West numerically. He has cut
away his pound of flesh with extreme
relish. Many of our Western states.
in their liberal interest laws. allow
the fellow his full pound. but in many
cases dissatisfied with the generos-
ity of the laws provisions the fellow
has demanded even more than pound
and has taken it. We presume that
there have been millions of dollars
paid in usurious interest by the far
mers Of the West When it has been
safe to charge usurious interest out
right it has been done. When there
has been some danger in collecting
the interest openly. it has been done
by hook or = crook. The laws
against usury should be Sc.
we're. In most of our states the
legal rate is entirely TOO high. When
money can be borrowed by municipal
corporations at even from two to
three Per cent there is no sort of
justice In permitting the money grab
bers to charge the unreasonable in
terest that prevails through the rural
districts of the West There are
mortgages drawing such a frightful
rate of interest that the payment of
the principal is utterly out of the
question. Farm property is good
security. 1t is the very best of secur-
ity. There need be no fear of capital
refusing such security much lower
than the present raLe of ;nterest
Capital is very glad to get six per
cent interest Our legislators should
cut down the rates. Farmers Voice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
Working Reform.

No reform was ever worked by :
man or set of men making senseless
grimaces at the wrongs that are
sought to be reformed. Bombast and
denunciation alone will never accom-
plish anything. Bombastic mouth
ings may startle the ignorant and
stupid into some sort of action. but
the ignorants and stupid are not de-
'pendable in a conflict between right
and wrong. The work in hand to-
day is a work OF education. The
great public needs to be taught in
what respect and to what extent the
producer has been wronged by other
classes and in what respect and to
what extent he has been neglected by
government There is no trouble in
demonstrating that for years his
rights have been invaded by concen-
trated capital and that legislation has
been antagonistic to his interests.
These newspapers that find it to their
interests to attempt to make it appear
that the farmer has nothing
to complain Of are usually
journals of influence. and what
uA0y ody LIDS Wo1SuG Will tuolf
readers who need to be reached and
shown that these journals are deceiv-
ing them. But they cannot be reached
and educated by bombastic exhibi-
tions OF tongue or pen. They cannot
be induced to calmly consider the
problem of adjusting the respective
rights of different classes by long
winded editorials distinguished for
their astounding stupidity. They
must be approached in a business-like
way. facts laid before them and the
injustice imposed upon our farm in
dustries shown. When this is done
the whole work of reform will be &C
complished. for the American is lover
Of fair play. It is only handful that
with malice aforethought and heart
less depravity are robbing the masses
according to cuhningly laid plans for
plumber. The great mass of our peo-
pie are in pretty nearly absolute ig-
norance Of the terrible wrongs which
the handful have perpetrated and are
perpetrating upon the people. Farm
ors' Voice
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
A Warning.

Extract from Lincoln's message to
congress in 1861: In my present
position l would be scarcely justified
were to omit exercising a warning
voice against returning despotism.
There is one point to which | call at
tention. It is an effort to place capt.
tai on an even footing with. if not
above labor in the structure of the
government 1 bid the laboring
peopla beware of surrendering a
power which they already possess.
and which. when surrendered. will
surely be used to close the door of
advancement to such as they and fix
new disabilities upon them until all
of liberty shall be lost" ,,..,..,.x.,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
Their M0thOds.

The leading organ of the boards of
trade and the exchanges says that
the daily course of the market
manipulators is to break the market
just a few minutes before the close of
the days business in order to affect
the tone Of the cables from Europe
for the following day. To accomplish
this the quantity of wheat (contracts)
sold in this market would be small,
as one set of brokers were employed
to buy in what another set soda
wash sale to make prices.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16

Christianity and Good Citizenship.
Terrific forces of evil menace
Christianity and even society itself.
The fostering masses of vice and
crime in our large cities. growing in
bigness and badness every decade; the
enormous increase of wealth for the
most part totally Indifferent to the
claims Of poverty. and often reckless
~ defiant of them; shameless political
corruption in the shadow Of hundreds
of church steeples; the steady and
rapid growth of socialism tinged with
anarchism and hurting dynamite; the
seeming failure Of the long continued
efforts of the multitudes of good men
and women to make head against the
awful evil of the drink curse; and the
steady forward march of the saloon
power. corrupting legislatures. buy
ing courts and debauching politics;
these and other allied forces of evil
show the need OF reforming the lines
OF Christianity SO that 1t shall face
the foe. We cannot afford to be
fanked or struck in the rear. The
Christian forces must change front
and lock their worst enemies straight
in the eye. Rev. Cyrus D. Foss in
North American Review. ~
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16


The Arena: Another recent exhi-
bition of the arrogance of plutocracy
was seen in the action of the Carne-
gle iron and steel company in fortify-
ing their works in time of peace; in
building and fitting up barges even
lining them with Steel for the pur-
pose of safely conveying to their
works armed bands of men from other
states. without the permission of the
governor of Pennsylvania thereby
pursuing a course we'll calculated to
incite riot. Cn this point General b.
II. Butler has recently made some OBJ
servations which seem to me worthy
of thoughtful consideration. in that
they are the unbiased opinion of one
of the ablest lawyers IN New England.
and because they answer the question
so frequently put by friends of mon
opoliea as to the methods of pro-
cedure which should have marked the
action of the Carnegie company.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
Strike Bills.

SCrlk0 kt1llSs
Government statistics show tina in
seven years. taking all together. there
! were, in the United States. nearly 20. :
600 strikes of workingmen or en-
ployes of various sorts and that
these strikes cost the strikers nearly
$50. 600 600. What they cost the en-
ployers is not known. but probably it
was not less amount.
The number and costliness of
strikes increase from year to year.
and as they become more frequent
and more expensive they also become
more bitter and harder to settle.
The last summer has seen the SOL
diery called out in four states at the
same time to suppress riotous dis
turbances in some way connected
with strikes. Probably the total
strike bill" of the year 1892 will
surpass in magnitude any which has
been incurred before.
1t is impossible to settle the rights
and wrongs" of strikes off-hand.
Sometimes employees are 'exacting, un-
reasonable and unfriendly to their
goad their workmen to open resist
ance by injustice. grasping policy
or overbearing insOlence.
But nothing could be clearer than
that the cost Of strikes. in the long
run, is just SO much taken away from
the general wealth of the community.
Nothing could be more wasteful of
the resources OF both parties to a con.
troversy. No doubt it would be less
harmful because less productive of
bitterness and hatred that leads to flu.
ture trouble if the millions of dollars
which strikes cost were taken out and
publicly burned rather than spent in
the way they are
Let us hope that the practical sense
OF the American people will, before
many years. hit upon some satisfac-
tory means by which this frightful
and menacing strike warfare can be
prevented. Youths Companion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
GoId-Bug Patriots.

The banks OF New York. when the
government begged for money. prac.
tically put knife at the throat of the
nation and threatened to assassinate
it unless II yielded to their
thievish demands. The government
yielded It issued bonds and sold
them to the money sharks of the
country for fifty cents on dollar.
taking its pay in deprecated paper,
and then agreed to pay them in gold;
and yet these men have always been
counted as patriots. They were the
biggest traitors that the world
ever saw. and We would ask the
people to whom we have referred as
being thoughtless. if we had them
before IA II the people had not a
right to complain of such treatment
BY the mobsy power and by the
treacherous Representatives in con-
gress who permitted the injustice?
!. Progressive People: Honest dollar
H. The sort that made John Sherman
. millfo4aite on sc. 600 year. Tariff
Something that always needs fixing
when cdnross has nothing else to do.
Men would Be very wise if thew
oould on1y learn - much as their bows
tl1i1k $500 teach them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-01

the degree which the public has learned
to expect. The leading paper. reviews
the art work of Munich; and other for-
eign subjects are brought home with
the winning suggestion that one may
travel most comfortably in library
chair, without luggage and without for-
eign tongues) in the articles which give
intimate views of society in southern
Spain and Persia. The intense pracu,,
cal interest of home things will be found
in Nathaniel 7. Taylor's article on An
Old Southern School, and President Ii.
B. Plants article. Other contributors
are Thomas Wentworth Higginson, u. b.
st. John Rosa, Louise Chandler Moul-
ton, Charles f. Lummis, Edgar FaWcetu,
John Vance Cheney and Jonathan
Sturges. Bovesen's Social Strugglers,
the first part of which attracted such
wide interest in the September number,
is continued in several attractive chap
tors. Mr.. Howells will begin in the No
vember Cosmopolitan, department UNI
der the attractive title: A Traveller from
Altruria. Those who have seen the first
two papers think they will equal in IN
terest and in their wide appeal to all
classes, the Breakfast Table Papers OF
DIR. Holmes. In order to give the neces-
sary time to this work, Mr.. Howells has
turned over the detail editorial work TO
Mr. Walker.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-01
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

Very well informed people have but
little conception OF the ten great railways
whose network of rails covers the United
States-several of them have a length of
more than ten thousand miles each. The
first of a series by President Plant, the
head of the extensive Plant system of
Railways and Steamers will appear in the
October issue of the Cosmopolitan, COW
ering the system of railways east of the
Alleghanies and south Of the Potomac.
Perhaps vigor and freshness is most con-
spicuously displayed in the three articles
contributed by Henry Cabot Lodge, John
A. Cockerill and Murat Halstead, of
which the themes are, respectively, AS
to Certain Accepted Heroes; Phases of
Contemporary journalism, and Liberal
Tendencies in Europe. In these, we
venture to say, the reader will find new
thought, in phrase that cuts its way and
Insists on being quoted. But, after all,
this strong individuality is noticed
throughout the current number. in about
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-01
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A despatch to the London Daily News
from Vienna says that it is announced
from st. Petersburg that Prince Krapot-
kin, wealthy lieutenant has committed
suicide, but that the newspapers are not
allowed to refer to the case. sn gssissssasssA
The wife of Ye Cha Yum, the Corean
Charge d'Affairs at Washington, has be-
come convert to Christianity and joined
the Presbyterian church. 1t is thought
her husband will be recalled in conse-
quence, as his government is opposed to
changes from the State religion by mem
bers of the higher classes.
Archduke Albrecht of Austria, who is
living critically i'll in Vienna, is looked
upon as one of the best generals OF the
Austro- Hungarian army. His military
talents became apparent in 1866, when he
commanded the Austrian army in Italy
and defeated the Italians at Custozza.
After the battle of Koeniggratz he be-
came commander in chief of the forces
employed against Prussia, but he never
entered the field in that capacity. For
MANY wears after the war with Prussia
the archduke declined to have anything
to do with the court of Berlin. Emperor
William l., however, gradually overcame
his preiudices and induced him to be
present at a parade Of the guards few
years before the old Kaiser's death. The
archduke was born August3, 1877.
The New York Iress says that Chaun-
cey M. Depew is deeply affected by the
death of General Hu4ted. The attach
ment which existed between these two
men was an unusual one. The only other
similar relation in the city is the affec-
ton which has for forty years existed be-
tween ex-Mayor Cooper and ex-Mayorr
Hewitt. In their youthful days Hustled
was regarded as perhaps man of more
promise than Depew, and both. OF them
were believed to be sure to have very
brilliant careers. In the race Depew
passed Hustled, and yet no man in all
Depews spontaneously SO thoroughly
rejoiced in the honors which came, to
Depew as did Hustled, and it seemed at
times almost as though he felt that he
himself shared in measure these dis
tinctions. gxg .4
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-01
Pom 1oss Dem. loss.


1t will be seen that the greatest differ
enees in the proportional falling OIL IN
the votes of the two parties are in An
droscoggin, where it is 10, Franklin,
where it is II 1.-THE Democrats made an
actual gain in this county, Hancock,
where it is 26, Kennebec, where it is
over IA, and Somerset, where it is nearly
u. All these differences are in favor OF
the Democrats. In three counties the
differences are in favor of the Republl.
cans; namely, Waldo, where the differ
ence is three, Cumberland, where it is
about one, and York, where it is three.
The greatest relative Republican loss
was in Hancock. 1t will be seen that
the falling off of the Republican and OF
the Democratic vote was very different
in different counties, but what the causes
of this unevenness were it is difflcult
to say. Why the Republican vote in
Hancock county should show shrink
age of rs per cent, while Washington,
which is similarly situated, showed re-
duction of only half that amount, it is
hard to determine. Probably the fight
over the sheriff explains why the
vote of both parties in Cumberland was
SO well kept up. The figures show pref
| ty kconclusiyely that there must have
been local causes at work, Independent
of any general cause. The Australian
ballot cannot explain it, because that
would have operated with about the
same force all over the State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-01
The Attention Of Investors

Is invited to the Securities Of the Northwertern
Guaranty Loan Company OF Minneapolis,
MINI.
This company was founded in 1872, incorpo-
rated under the laws of Minnesota in 1884,
and had ON Jan. 10th 1892, according to the re-
port of the public Examiner and superintendent
Of banks OF the State of Minnesota.
Capital Stock paid in....- Isl ,250,oOo.oOO
Additional ditto Liability Of stock
holders under laws of Minnesota 81, 26O, OoO,oO
1t has never passed a dividend, or defaulted
a payment. In a letter written by Its vice
President to us on the 27th of June. he says,
"We are today mailing checks to our stock
holders, the seventeenth 17th) semiannual
dividend at the rate OF eight 49, per cent per an
num- We will add Twenty-Five Thousand
dollars to surplus account July 1st'
We are offering for the present, at par and
accrued interest, The Gold Debenture Bonds
of this company, issued in denomination OF 500,
500, $500, $1,000. bearing interest at the rate
of per cent, payable semi-annually.
of real estate and other loans. with It's trustees
and also by guaranty fund.
We also offer Prime Commercial Paper,
Guaranteed by this Company, in every case
secured by ample collaterals, at current rate
of interest.
We have handled large amounts of this paper,
and in every instance it has been promptly PAID
at maturity.
into the methods and affairs of the company,
as when ever this has been made it has been
greatly to its advantage.
CHAPMAN BANKING CO.,
1877 Middle Street.
inc eodtf
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