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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The chairman OF the state execu-
tive committee, of Oregon, W. H.
Galvani, uses the following Ian
guage in speaking OF the convention
of the peoples party in that state:
"And what a shaking it was. A
state where the party in power was a
ten thousand majority party has
been reduced to nearly a five thous-
and minority party. just think OF
it! A new party scarcely six months
old Tin Oregon: } with $116.25 as a
campaign fund, getting into the bat
tie field with the well trained armies
and knaves OF the republican and
democratic parties with their Wall
Street sacE behind them, carrying
four of the most important counties
and portions of others, and any
number OF precincts, and missing
some of the principal counties by a
few votes only. 1t also defeated
some of the most prominent tools OF
the party in power and got one Of
the banner republican states fairly
mixed up.
The Oregon campaign just fought
is decidedly a great victory for the
peoples party. 1t is a victory that
will inspire the tax and mortgage
ridden producers OF this state to a
still greater victory next fall, and
one that should inspire the people OF
each of the sovereign states to such
united effort that will forever wipe
out the demo republican monster
that has turned us over to the mercy
OF all sorts of Incorporated and I'M
incorporated thieves, adventures
and spectators.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The silver question, which has been
before the fifty-second congress ever
since last December and had passed
the senate. was set down upon in the
house July Ii. 1t was defeated by a
majority OF %. The anti silver
crowd was headed, by ex-speaker
Reed; the silver men, by Bland of
Missouri, the father OF the silver bill
as introduced this session. Ex-
speaker Reed congratulates the sim
ners (the protested free silver men
who gigged back on their constitu-
ents and thereby killed the bill) in his
usual sarcastic style. He SAYS,
~ do very sincerely congratulate
the democratic party upon it's atti-
tude Of repentance. All OF the time
the gentlemen were proclaiming how
sorry they were for the views they en-
tertained was reminded of a picture
OF the democratic minority declaring
that the one thing the democratic
party yearned for was free silver.
That was when sat in the chair now
occupied by the gentleman Crisp
who himself yearned with the rest,
and when the distinguished gentle
man who, because of his many vir-
tues, has been made leader of the
democratic side (Springer) was also
,yearning for free silver. But all now
is changed, and lam glad to hear the
trembling voices of the sinners re-
turning home. l have honest sym-
pathy for those in the far west who
are advocates OF free silver, for they
are the pioneers of the country
broadening the path of empire, but
cannot vote for their temporary
benefit at the expense OF the real in
terests OF the country"
There is no one so blind that they
cannot take in the full meaning of
Gear Reeds closing words, "the
real interest of the country''-the
plutocrats, Wall Street, and mon
opolies. He admits that for the la
borers and producers free silver
would be advantageous, and they
have his sympathy but nothing
more. That is what the masses have
been fed upon,-sympathy and taffy,
the last thirty years. The diet is get
ting too stale. The stencil is dis
seminated to the uttermost parts of
the nation. The people demand JUS
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
tice, not sympathy. They must nave
men who WILL vote according to
right and not the interest of might.

The republicans of Kansas, are
trying to form clubs to be known as
the kansas Redeemprs." Kansas
knows her "redeemer liveth" but he
will never be found in the republican
party.-Oneida Journal.
The postoffice department pays
1854 cents per mile for pulling a
mail car that will hold forty people
This shows that government rail
roads can haul people for \ cent per
mile. Reader, if you want to see
that universal fare, vote the peoples
ticket.-CriSis.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The monumental hypocrite OF the
nineteenth century is dubbed Baron
Carnegie. He has been posing for
years as the working mans friend
purely for effect-the laborer's friend
in theory but his most deadly foe in
practice. He has written sundry arti-
cles upholding workingmen's rights,
for journals-for which he received
liberal pay. How magnanimous!
Now when the test OF loyalty comes,
he falls as did Judas, a traitor to
his professions. In the Forum for
the months of April and August,
1886, he said:
Peaceful settlement of differences
should be reached through arbitra-
ton. 1 would lay it down as a
maxim that there is no excuse for a
strike or a lock- out until arbitration
of differences has been offered by one
party and refused by the other
Now note how the hypocrite car
ries his precepts into practice. In re-
ply to the proposal that the present
Homestead trouble be submitted for
arbitration to board composed of
Messrs. Pattison, Powderly and Nc
Kinley, he answers through his lieu
tenant:
cit is not question for arbitra-
tion-we will not accept this mode of
settlement"
In his magazine article he says:
''The right Of the workingmen to
combine and to form trades unions
is no less sacred than the right of the
manufacturer to enter into associa-
ton and conference with his fellows,
and it must sooner or later be con-
ceded."
Henow refuses absolutely to recog-
nize the. amalgamated association,
and orders that every applicant for
work be required to renounce his al
legiance to all labor organizations
before work is given him. How SUI
preme is the hand OF monopoly. He
feels secure in his position for he has
the administration back of him. He
contributes thousands and thous-
ands of dollars to the republican
campaign fund, and feels confident
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The peoples party convention OF
Murray county, held at Slayton,
July 30, put up a full county ticket.
They resolved, that all candidates
nominated in this convention shall
publicly obligate themselves on their
word that they will support the prin-
ciples OF the peoples party and the
ticket in full.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
How the Old Parties are Made On

How the Old Parties are Made Up.
Here is the makeup of the Nebraska
delegation to Metropolitan national
convention at Minneapolis. Six law
yers, seven bankers and money loan
ers, five newspaper men, five real es-
tate men, two merchants and one
physician. Going to make plat
form in the interest of farmers, dom
you see?-Union. Lamars.
Last year in Minnesota they had a
convention OF republican clubs sever
al hundred we're present and we did
not recognize the name of q single
farmer or mechanic in the whole list.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The hosts OF the people responded
to the touch of justice and right
eousness. That's why the toiling
men and women of the nation break
out in song when they hear the new
gospel OF liberty. "Cempaign Songs
is the title of little booklet by P. R.
Crosby, Verne, Mich. and is the lat
est contribution we have seen TO the
literature of the new movement.
Send him zoe for three copies.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
Secretary Stromberg's Report.

Secretary Stromberg's Report.
FOREST LAKE, Mimi, Aug. 8, '92.
EDITOR GREAT VEST:
The following cash amounts have
been received from local alliances
during the week just ended:
Alliance No. 636, A. J. Eng
lund, Englund, dues. 81 20
Alliance 14O1, .. R. Penney,
Worthington, membership
ice OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. on
Alliance 1906, w. L. Whitley,
Birch Cooley. dues. 100
Alliance SS4, Frank T. ProhI.
Howard dues. 200
Total up to date. ...........$4 70
A. L. S-Ro.tBERG. Sec>y.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
CALLED ON HILL.

OFFICE OF THE MAGNArr
II Jim Hill wanted to banquet Nelson he
them to close
asked one leading republicans the Sixth Merchants
Yesterday That dinner
1884 thought sense than to do +cI
like " - - w :" 'iN0n
conference with Messr Nelson the p
ca topic the politicians yesterday
leaders would laugh at the thing public taken
and Sear had their campaigns with
OF the dinner party at the club Friday the
out interesting information
Seare and Nelson the Great building to President
earlier in the day = ~ no LII
had occasion to go to the Great Northern building yesterday
noon said well known republican yesterday I'd to Mr. Hills
ana found both Nelson and Seare there waiting
morning" - - - ~ 0oiDe - Ono
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Millionaire Rockefeller got a little
nearer to heaven and the throne last
week by givingI$50. 900 to the Taber-
nacle church, New York city. When
Mr.. Rockefeller dies the church will
lose one OF it's best friends, the people
one of it's worst enemies and the re-
public one of it's foremost robbers
Age of Labor.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Not one in ten thousand know that
the democrats and republicans were
united in combine against the
peoples party in Alabama, and the
peoples party licked them both by
10000 majority!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
The St. Louis Republic says:

"Chauncey Depew has gone to
Cluny Castle to intercede with Lord
'Cluny. The intercession is ostensibly
for the locked-out steel-workers, but
really for the republicans, who fear
that they will be locked out next
March. Mr.. Depew should attend to
this the first thing after breakfast.
1t is impossible for him to be serious
after dinner"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
MOTT ICE.

All alliances that have raised money
for the prosecution fund and now
have it on hand will please forward
the same to Louis Hanson, Sec'y,
619 Wabasha ST., to be used in the
campaign work.
By order OF the committee.
-se LOUIS HANSON, Sec'y.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Chris Jensen, of Renville, Renviile
Co., sends us a check for a. subscrip-
tions to the GREAT WEST, and in
forms us they are paid for by Rem
vile alliance No. CTS.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

The big strike at Stevens Point,
Wis, has been adjusted. The working
men who receive less than $3.50 a
day have been given an advance OF
q shilling.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

It is a fact that when private Iams
was cut down at Homestead, from
his "thumb-hanging," be was uncon-
scious, and the doctors had to work
over him half an hour to bring him
to,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Hon. Knute Nelson. of Alexandria,
has been nominated by the republi-
cans OF the state as their candidate
for Governor and the republican press
is trying to see which can extol him
the highest, Brother Pease of Anoka
Union excepted. Ii the alliance par
ty had not taken off the most of
the Scandinavian vote from the
republican party, Knute Nelson
would never have been heard of for
Governor, but it was necessary that
something should be done to stop
the stampede and Mr.. Nelson is Sc
lected with the expectation that he
can accomplish it. The Scandina-
VANS will not be gulled by such clap
trap. They left the republican party
because OF it's abuses and they are
too intelligent to believe that because
Nelson might become Governor he
could or would change the policy of
the republican party one ota. Knute
Nelson as Governor would Just as
surely advocate and carry out every
theory and policy of the republican
party as though not drop Of Scan
dinavian blood coursed in his veins.
The sar"e causes would exist for them
to try and defeat that party were he
ten times it's candidate for Governor.
1t is principles they contend for. No
matter what man is put at the head
of a party's ticket, he must stand
upon it's platform, advocate and car
ry out all it's measures and bow to
the dictum of it's leaders. 1t is not
likely that Mr.. Nelson can lead his
countrymen back to the party which
they left on accountofits expressions,
simply because he is a Scandinavian.
The same system ofoppression would
be none the less severe because a
Scandinavian administered it.-Ava-
lanche, Sank Centre.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
= = = =

by natural progression aggregate as
follows, at simple interest:
one year.................... $loI ,S94,OOO
Five years...............931 ,231 900
Ten years. .............1, 2O6, 1924 900
Twenty-Five years....,2, 1854, 956, 900
The republican-democratic aggre-
CATION, supported by such men as
these, prate about protection to Ia
Dor. Where is the protection?
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.
In the Forum, November 1889.
Thos. G. Sherman gives the follow
ing table showing the distribution OF
wealth among four classes:
. 100000 g g $500. 600 900
8 10000 " 6,015, 00O, 600
Let us place them into three class
es the "plutoc1 ats middle classes"
and working people,:
$4,000 families worth s4s.ss 600 GOO
100000 8. 1900. 900 600
8 120.oC0 60 +" 6,015.000,0 90
Comment is unnecessary. The
masses who do the work of the fields,
shops, forest, factory, mine and store
are simply the victims OF the gigan-
tic conspiracy OF the few to rob the
many. 1t is brains and conscience
less lawmakers against industry and
conscientious law abiders.
The system must be changed or re-
volutiop will shake America as it did
France. Those who are in favor Of
justice, equity and liberty must unite
to overthrow at the ballot box by
due process of law the legalized
wrongs generated and fostered by
the republico-democratic policy or
the oppressed and robbed will sooner
or later unite and despoil those who
now seem the masters by an appeal
to arms and violence. This is the
warning of history and. of truth.
Choose ye, this day, between the two
alternatives. It is the people or
plutocracy.-Advance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

that the leaders will stand by him.
But how is it about the people-they
no longer see through glass darkly,
but are brought face to face with the
monster.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
NO CRIME,
And the Man Who Says it is, Fool and Marplot,
and is Injurious to Society.


in There trial.
who shot Frickv'
Is that a crime?
What crime is it
g
Where do books?
who
Halifax couldn't It
would perhaps
abhor it. But the who finger
that yell better put a plate shirt!
yes Revolution! Anarchy!
Oh wartz!
cavalier besides strikers
aly eda brassb Ito
Revolution! Rats
ought be ynched human
ynching justifable
repeat any who says Iams committed fool But
he tried for the if it
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12


splendid board the purecad lutoccy
flows
minnesota palace of regal spendor on tho -
4th St. Paul. The the arc
comparison with people, con and de-
ceilings costly ware and CRYSTAL mon it's
the foot m
nabob glide through the crimson chairs
urs down her uds With
winnowy comfort.
The G. O nominate farmera lawyer-rme raroadawyer
guy n He wss once an
Nelson before and after this
quiet the of the leader and 1sm]on
dollars in syears king Jim Hill He oes into 1i
he finds Lord Sear Judgecandate Of Tim Hill
There they Sit and Sit and stand smile sweat and lave their
arynxes with ubaoueous the famed vnta A
There they Look at emn the abstract in the
yet they tell us that Nelson to
marble Apollo Bede the moment he m
Railroad democratic boss and Banker
Mendenbal Of Duluth and D. B searle the candda+ M m
Hill, to the splendid Minnesota Club
DINE THERE HoURs
devcrab CLANS and spoiv tho
exhaustedand the steps nimby
forth the Merchants country const
waiting to candidate!"
Knute Nelson your is Dennis!
Once before, in the political history of this country
BELsHAMAR's FEAST
spread costly we're it's
tries clutch and destroy the reve That
The victim
spdy twenty other monaies
That feast cost Blaine the presidency.
the 9 vans sSss
at Once although the
e a % @ 1S Tso bs sgs
farm to St Paul the
Msndnha and udge s o.
s $
the ticket deal
candidates
Joined their the Merchants lobby looking CHEEKY
hopeful though their certificates
No. the Minnesota club not farmers society," although
and Farmer Hill and Farmer
During the Sixth district fight the Kendall
the Great Northern behind Judge
denied at the Duluth
present from the counties this
these between Judge the
particular SURPRISE the addition
party does the reason that Mr. Nelson's friends been claiming
position
and has devoted himself to farming
Hill
and his ability recognized by all
he has hand Those who at
the OF politics railroad building
Nelson
Hill yesterday with the idea
cept place on the Republican state central committee.
That the
which Mr. Nelson returned his handhaking
chants"
And again. read the following:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Montana has put in nomination a
woman for attorney general OF that
state on the peoples party ticket.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

Nowhere on earth are individual
fortunes SO great as in America and
thirty years ago those witha million
could be counted on the fingers of
one hand. The richest man in
Europe, duke of Westminster, is
worth only about 100000 and
this is an entailed estate in which he
merely holds a life interest. The
queen of England is worth no more
than $15, 100000, but there are nine
men in the United States according
to the most reliable and conservative
authority worth from so to $50 mil
lions, as follows:
William Waldorf Aston $3.50, 100000
Jay Gould. 100. 600, 900
John D. Rockefeller. 80, 900 900
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 80. OOO, 900
VIM. K. Vanderbilt.......SO, 600, 900
Henry NJ. Flagler......6O 600, 900
John J. Blair. so 900 900
Russell Sage.....................5O, OOO,O 900
Coils P. Huntington. so, OOO, 900
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
Tom Carter.

The farmers of Burt county, Ne
braska, have been refreshing their
memories concerning one Tom Carter,
formerly a swindling book agent, bnt
now chairman OF the republican ma
tional committee. Some ten years or
more ago Mr. Carter dropped down
into Burt county, and created a regu-
lar craze over a book called "Foot
Prints OF Time which he was selling.
As general agent, he sold territory in
all parts of the United States, to am
bilious would-be agents taking farms,
or goods and chattels of any descrip-
ton in return. He was then demo-
GRAFT. Since then he has changed his
politics, but his business is substan-
italy the same, i. e., guhing and rob-
bing the people.
The republicans doubtless are very
much ashamed OF their chairman, but
then they had to have somebody you
know, and no one else would under
take the job. So Tom Carter, the
swindling book agent, must be swal-
lowed.-Sun, Lincoln.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12

These incomes are reckOned at the
rate per cent. their investments
yield.
Ii these nine fortunes were in silver
they would aggregate 1900 tons;
ifin gold 1858, 200 bounds. If these
fortunes were in ST. bills combined
they would cover 26,S9S acres; if
placed end to end they would extend
1922 miles or three and a half
times around the globe.
II allowed to Increase at present
rate these combined fortunes would
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-08-12
1920. 900, 900
Total.

AOOeEI' '''s.s.e' W 51O.OVO.OVO
Nine men are worth one-ninetieth
of the total wealth OF the United
States and each fortune, with one
exception, made since 1860! Consid-
er their incomes!
Per Year. Per Day.
W. W. Aston. so, 1876, 900 $25, O27
Jay Gould.......4, 100000 HOGS
j. D. Rockefeller 5 $4,000 16,OO3
c. Vdnderbi't.....4 ,554 900 12,477
H.-K. Vanderbilt 4, O4S,OOO 1000
Fl. NJ. FIagler 3'O36, 900 S.3lS
j. j. Blair. ........3 O45, 900 S,342
Russell Sage. ,045. 900 S,342
c.. Huntington 100000 4,137
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-05
FEMININE FANClES.

Mrs Gladstone has an orphanage at
HawarSlen with thirty-fve or forty boys
five OF six years old in it, and she gives the
lads her personal attention.
The late Baroness Rothschild was the
leader of society in Berlin, and she was adj
mitted to court by the special favor Of the
emperor. She was thirty-four years old,
and was at the head of the Rothschild
family.
Miss Nancy Cornelius, an Indian, has
Just completed full course in the Hart
ford Training School for Nurses and re-
ceived her diploma. She is the first of her
race to prepare herself for such service by
scientific training.
Miss Howe, the woman who won the Sec
ond prize in the competition for designs
for the Woman's building i'm the Columbian
exhibition, was classmate of Miss Hay
den, who won the first prize in the Boston
Institute of Technology.
Louise f. Francis, editor and proprietor
of the Castroville Enterprise, writes every
line that goes into her paper, is her own
business manager, keeps her own books
and solicits all the advertisements She is
only twenty-five and started her now sue.
cessful paper with little money.
Alice NJ. Bacon, Of New Haven, has for
nearly ten years taught without salary
in the normal school for Indians and ne
groes at Hampton, besides caring for a
little motherless japanese girl, supervis
ing the new Dixie hospital and training
school for colored nurses, which she has
founded. and doing editorial work.
A famous beauty in Paris, the Countess
de Castiglioni, of whose loneliness most
| fabulous records remain, has lived foI
many years in the closest seclusion in the
heart of Paris. As soon as she saw the
traces Of fading charm in her face she
pulled down the Venetian shutters in her
dwelling and allowed no one to approach
/ har
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-05
EXPOSITION ECHOES.

Arguments for and against Sunday open.
ing Of the exposition will be heard by the
national commission on Oct. 6
Great Britain has added e35, 900 to its
Worlds fair appropriation, making it now
10000 or approximately 100000
Applications for space in the exposition
buildings now aggregate more than 4,O00,-
600 square feet, little over one-third be-
ing from foreign applicants.
The French chamber of deputies APP
proved by a unanimous vote the credit
asked by the government to be expended
for the French exhibit at the exposition.
The appropriation amounts TO S715,5OO.
General Schofield has informed General
Miles that four battalions Of cavalry, five
batteries of light artillery and five regi-
ments Of infantry will participate in the
opening ceremonies Of the Worlds fair.
Mr.. Noble, of Cambridge, Mass, is mod.
cling for exhibition at the Worlds fair a
bronze statue to represent a man OF per.
feet proportions, according TO the ideas OF
Harvard's physical director, DR.. Sargent.
Mr.. George De Haven, Of Grand Rapids
Mich, general passenger agent Of the Chi
cago and West Michigan, and Detroit
lansing and Northern railways, has con
sented TO undertake the task Of making
collection Of railway tickets for exhibition
at the Worlds Columbian exposition