The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

The company whose business we have IA
} mana desires to close these contracts 50 that
work may be Immediately begun. Your prompt
: reply VIII be greatly appreciated.
Address all communications to box fO77, Chi
cago, Ills. Yours truly
INTERNATIONAL ADV BUREAU.
: An alliance paper has struck the lead
ana shows up the scheme in two pages OF
pnotograh reproduction of the bargain
ana contract with the Afholds Basunen,
2 norwegian paper published at Hills
Ooro' n. u. We only give part Of the
correspondence.
J Here is the evidence There is no
lodging or equivocation that will ex-
plain it away. It is conclusive of two
things: First, that the plan Of the re-
pupilcans in the northwest is to buy up
all the temperance and religious Jour
nails 1t is possible for them to get. Sec
ond, that there is one newspaper in North
Dakota, at least, making professions Of
great goodness and morality, that has
sold itself body and soul to the Brit
lsh-Amerlcan gold trust, which fur
nlshes the money to push this iniouit-
GUS work. How many more papers
have been purchased in similar wav
cannot be told. That there are Others
cannot be reasonably questioned. That
all OF them are bound up by such con-
tracts as was signed by the Basunen
is very doubtful. The future alone can
reveal the extent to which the press Of
the northwest has been corrupted bv
this baleful influence Meanwhile the
people whose labor produces the wealth
OF the northwest will do well to read
carefully and believe sparingly of every
article appearing in the press which
smacks OF the arguments of the gold
trust. One editor, at least, has learned
the lesson that ''you cannot fool all the
people all the time" Perhaps others
will learn the lesson later. 1t is to be
hoped, for their own interest as well
as that of their readers, that thew have
already learned it:
FARGO, N. D., Feb 8, 1892.
A. Lindele, Esq, Secretary and Editor Basu.
men, Hillsboro N, D.:
Dear Sir: Your favor of the 3Oth ult, re-
celved and its contents carefully noted-but I
had not time to answer it before nv departure
for Aberdeen. Our South Dakota friends were
very much pleased to learn of your valuable
paper, and will do all in their power to circulate
1t among the Scandinavian people in our state,
as the EkkO has very little influence among the
the plan and time of circulating Basunen, as
the work done before and in the caucuses is the
main foundation for the whole campaign and
am confident that you on your accord can Law
our cause before the people in very able
manner-but nevertheless the South
Dakota people ordered me to secure your SER
vice in printing as editorials, if possible thirty
anti alliance articles referred to in nv last let
ter. There will be only one Scandinavian
paper besides yours in the whole northwest
that will get these articles to print, and as the
other one is published in ST. Paul, the papers
Will not be likely to interfere with each other
in many places What would like to know
then, is
l. Your price per inch for publishing our anti
alliance articles as editorials, about 1850
inches.
2 Your price for 5000 copies of Basunen
from March to July lin all seventeen weeks
don't think we could afford to send out YOUR
paper in the busy harvest months of July and
August-more perhaps than one issue following
the convention.
must ask you to make your figures as low
as possible, taking into consideration your
chance of keeping most of them as permanent
subscribers, besides the fact that YOU will be-
able to secure higher prices for advertising.
The reason why ask this is tosclose the con-
tract without too extensive correspondence as
we would like to know very soon on what pa
pers we can depend, and also for the fact that
the amount allowed for your journal is vi 900
for advertising and circulating papers
will say, though, that if we carry the day in
the state convention we will be able to raise an
other sum for your paper to cover the contract
between convention and the election
thank you very much for the information
regarding Dakota. have no use for that paper
then. Since wrote you last have visited
jamestown, Brunswick, Aberdeen, Valley City,
Cooperstown, Casselton, Lisbon, LaMoure, I
Wahpeton, and other smaller places and find
that leading Scandinavian republicans praise
your paper very highly. But they say Nor
manden, OF Grand Forks, is hurting our party
IN many localities, and as you say, it has 5000
subscribers, 1t might prove to be dangerous
opponent. How do you think the chances would
stand II your circulation was brought up to the
same amount, 5000, which it will be by our
sending out 5000 extra? Do you think it would
be policy to try to win the
Normanden over to our side, and in such case
DO you think it could be done? Some say it is
supported by the democrats. Do Won think
that is true? How do you think we should nro-
ceed In trying to secure the Normanden? Do
you know OF any good, influential republican in
the state who is a friend of the editor and one
that we could get to negotiate with him in the
matter?
Tonight shall have to 20 to Fergus Falls
where will stay couple of days If YOU could
answer within a day or two, please address let
tiers to Fergus Falls, or later, address Head
quarters hotel, Fargo
AAopilS Ii1I you Will avail yourself of this
opportunity OF making something in an honest
way. besides booming your worthy paper and
the temperance cause I remain
very truly, JOHN w wEsr
There are two Norwegian papers anxious to
get the contract for North Dakota-one in ST.
Paul and the other in Chicago They are both
supposed to be strong papers, but we would
rather patronize home trade and use your pa
per, II we can agree. It must be understood
mat we cannot use as many as 5000 papers for
TOUR months unless we can have our articles in
serted. Hoping to meet you tomorrow night.
remain yours for true republicanism,
JOHN w. WEST.
CONTRACT.
we hereby agree to furnish the republican
campaign committees, Of North Dakota, South
and Minnesota, 5000 copies each week
u Afholds Basunen for period of four months
rom March l, 1892, to July !, 1892, for a consid-
eration of 32H cents per copy. And we also
agree to publish as editorials or communica-
ions, as we may judge it wisest, in said Afholds
3asunen 1000 inches, more or less, of anti-alli-
lnce articles. copy of which is to be furnished
~ the republican committee, without any extrasA
'harge. The payments for the above to be
made every month in advance.
lSlgned1 AFHOLDS BAsUNEN.
By A. LINDELIE.
The Time Past.
The time for quibbling and hair split.
ing has passed. A man to now COM