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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02

A hog is a filthy four legged ami
NAL. but in the matter of railroad rates
and transportation favors he Is plain
ly the prince of good fellows" He is
taken from his muddy. befouled and
awful smelling. pen. where he has been
surrounded by sanitary conditions not
particularly conducive TO health, and
loaded into cars the floors are not
only comfortably bedded down wi th
straw. but which because of their ele-
waited pos ,tlon, enables his hogship to
drink in huge draughts OF life-giving
elixir which he had heretofore re-
ceived in limited quantity and highly
contaminated condition. On his trip
across the continent he is treated with
the greatest possible respect by the
transportation corporation which may
have his valuable carcass in charge.
The time when the company can keep
him fastened in the car is limited to
such length as is in the minds of
humanitarians and wise law max
ers most likely to accord with
the we'll known and thoroughly con-
sidered law of hog hygiene. When
his nature requires that nourishment
without which hog-life would be a
burden. the railway company very
considerably switches his car on to a
side track where he is unloaded and
amply provided with provision and
water The echos of the conductors
autocratic cry of twenty minutes for
dinner do not lead him to bolt his
food whole. because the cry Is never
uttered. the process of mastication
deglutition and assimilation goes
calmly forward until such times as he
has fully answered the demands of his
nature. when he is carefully reloaded
and assisted on his triumphant way.
For all this service. all this condescen-
sion and these privileges he is taxed
the nominal sum of less than cents
per pound for transcontinental ride
of more than 8 900 miles while for a
ride of the same distance without
'stop-over privileges and with all
the horror of threatened impair
ment of digestion consequent upon
hastily swallowed meals. even so great
a man as j. j. Ingalls, would be CON-
PEELED to pay at the rate OF dollar
pound. 1t is time that the people
instead OF the hogs owned the rail-
roads
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
The Alliance,

The Alliance has been and is to-day
the great lever by which these great
reforms now before the people for solu-
ton have been priced into prominence.
No organization has ever accomplished
such work in so short time as this
noble order. Let us not think that
half of its work has been completed
The dawn is just beginning to break.
but the order will never cease to be a
necessity and it's Importance will never
be more felt than it is to-day. When
the government has been restored to
the hands of the people it will still be
necessary for this great organization
to remain intact and solid to stand
and watch over the party in power
and to educate the people in the
science of economical government.
No organization can take the place Of
the Alliance Every man VINO loves
his country his home and fireside
should be q member and help to keep
up the grand work of education.
No intelligent people can be en-
shaved. They will break the chains
oho Sluon 'no 'yron' WIZ aotouptS W
bind them.
Do not let interest in your SUBJ
Alliance weaken. Keep up your
meetings and the discussion of the
great questions of the day.
There is no place where so much
can be learned as in the lodge room
OF an active working Alliance.
Do your work honestly and in
non-partizan spirit deliver only the
truth and it will convince.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
Harrison and Cleveland.

Had the Minneapolis and Chicago
conventions left the selection of their
candidate to the Peoples party they
would have gotten just exactly what
they now have Harrison and Cleve-
land!
These are the two men of all men
whom the Peoples party wanted they
should nominate.
Both men have been tried.
Both men have been found willing
tools of Wall street.
Both men have proven themselves
abject slaves to millionairism.
Both men have bowed their necks
to the velvet yoke of Corporate Greed!
Both men have records-and if
those records do not damn them in the
estimation of the American people.
then the American people themselves
ought to be damned.
Both men have We'd with each
other in their efforts to suppress free
coinage of silver; to further the in
terests of the national banks and
bondholders; to protect the corporate
land thieves; to foster gigantic
monopolies; to do the bidding of the
shylocks and gold bugs of both
Europe and America.
They are we'll matched pair.
There is no difference between them.
II the people submit to the election
of either of them we may as we'll
haul down the Stars and Stripes-and
acknowledge that a republican form
of government Is failure. Chicago
Express.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02

The North Star Labor club OF Min
neapolis sent an address to the Re-
publican convention containing these
passages: Capital Is only the fruit OF
labor. and could never have existed II
labor had not first existed. The
policies of political parties since tho
war have contributed to q reversion
OF this natural order: by placing cap
ital above labor in the structure OF
government and, as result labor is
greatly disadvantaged and. to q de-
plorable extent divorced from the
means of gaining q likelihood.
Therefore we declare that the primary
object of good government with the
help of all good men in the nation.
should be to restore the equilibrium
which has been lost and that there is
immediate and pressing necessity for
such restoration it the republic and
our free institutions are to be pre-
served As representatives OF organ
lied labor in this city. firmly believ-
ing that we express the mature views
OF our fellow-workers thro lghout the
land. we declare that privateyowner-
ship of the means Of tfansportation
and communication is menace to the
liberties OF the people and incompati-
BILE with the preservation of a govern
ment by and for the people.
Experience has proven this to the
satisfaction of citizens in every walk
of life; evidence given before national
and state legislatures justifies their
conclusion. and government officials
confess themselves powerless longer
to preserve these conditions in which
liberty. happiness and the general
welfare are promoted. Needing not
the frivolous objections OF ignorance
nor the abuse of conservatism. we
/, declare that public interests and
good government demands the ma
tional ownership of the means of
transportation and communication as
well of all natural wealth, as coal,
timber. iron. gold and silver and the
Issuance by the government direct to
the people without the Intervention
of private persons or institutions of a
medium of exchange adapted to the
actual needs of the country. Every
consideration OF public safety points
to the adoption OF the policy here
outlined as the true defense against
the encroachments of capital upon the
rights of the people and the only one
promising the final deliverance of the
nation from abject dependence upon
a privileged class.
I'VE. therefore. urge upon your
convention the adoption of such a
policy and its incorporation in the
platform. as evidencing to the nation
that the Republican party of Abraham
Lincoln-a party of the people. -
New Nation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
\ Rit of Logic.

Uncle Sam will carry $50 pounds of
paper from New York to San Fran
cisco for ST. On the same train
the corporation carries a 15O- pound
man, but charges him $50 for the
same distance. Can any sane man
give any good reason why there
should be such great difference in
the price of hauling $50 pounds of
paper and a man of the same. or less
weight. One is inanimate. the other
an animate being. but feeds and
takes care OF itself. Both weigh the
same and occupy nearly the same
space, the only difference being that
the man has little more expensive
apartments than the mail sack. The
mail sack is under the especial care
and attention of the corporation. The
man goes and comes gets off and on
the train when and where he pleases.
the company giving him no further
attention than to see that he pays his
fare. 1t is not expected that rail-
roads will ever carry a passenger
across the continent for ST. but
reader don't you think the difference
in the cases we have cited. and they
are true is too great? In view of the
fact that the postoffice department is
practically self-sustaining with our
cheap letter and newspaper postage
it Is strange that the people will toll
crate the exorbitant passenger and
freight tariffs exacted by railways
The remedy lies in government own.
ership of railroads. and it is coming
as sure as the rising and setting OF
the sun. New Forum.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02

The Topeka Tribune: One can
hardly understand why the people.
after having kept their eyes closed tc
this greatest of all questions for sc
long, should so suddenly open them
and grasp the situation. 1t is indeed
marvellous. For years and years
honest intelligent men and women
have been stigmatized as anarchists.
socialists and cranks because they
dared to protest against the system
of coercing and robbing labor, with
the aid of corporation armies the sys.
tenn which is just now being de-
nounced by large majority OF the
newspapers. And because they in
sisted that protection was failure as
far as it concerned the wage worker
they were called the political idiots
Now the truth has dawned so sud.
denly on the defenders of these time
honored fallacies that they are
knocked silly and some of them are
bowling louder than the most ardent
calamityite.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
IT STUCK IN HIS CROP.

There is too little corn an too much husk
an cob.
An it sticks in my crop.
And folks that work hardes' git least for
their job,
An it sticks in my crop.
It takes big tree to perduce small
Ant it needs large bush fer tarnal
small berry,
An man must git wealthy afore he can
marry
An it sticks in my crop.
An the men who earn bread by sweat Of
their brow
ct sticks in my crop.)
Git the wust kim of bread that there is,
anyhow,
An it sticks in my crop.
But the men who dress up like dude or
dandy,
They eat nothin' worser than puddin' or
candy,
An reach out an grab jest whatever comes
An it sticks in my crop.
An the poor man, like me, who digs in the
dirt,
It sticks in my crop.
Never wears tailed coat, never wears a
billed shirt,
An it sticks in my crop
But the swell chaps who never do toilin'
nor spinnin'
But divide up their time betwixt sleepin'
an sinnin',
Go aroun' like men peacocks in purple an:
linen
An it sticks in my crop. a
1t sticks in my crop, can't swalleri it down,
1t sticks in my crop)
That hard working woman must wear a
coarse gown,
It sticks in my crop;
While the gals who're too nice to let the
ole cat in
An all study music an paintin an Latin
Never wear nothin' poorer than Sealskip
an satin
An it sticks in my crop.
An it sticks in my crop that me and my
wife,
Gosh it sticks in my crop,
Hev pressed sour juice from the wine press
of life.
An it sticks in my crop.
Fate seems ter delight just to kick US an
cuff us,
An the world doesn't care how much either
one suffers:
If we jaw it exclaims, ssWhat ungrateful
ole duffers,''
An it sticks in my crop.
IS. w. FOss in Yankee Blade
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
WILL WE VIM .
Went We Just-Come and Garry the Poo
ple'S Banner.

Went We Just-Come and Garry the Poo
pies Banner.
Many people are trying to excuse
their nom action for the Peoples party
by saying we can't win In 1892. Yes
and ii the men whose sentiment is
with this cause continue to pander to
popularity at the sacrifice of princi-
pie we will never win. this nation
will go down after its brief struggle,
an inglorious failure. If mon are to
pander to the popular side with all
its iniquities turning their backs
upon their own consciences then we
will never win. This reform move
ment requires nothing less than the
spirit which prompted our fathers to
rise up in arms to resist British DOM
ination. We certainly have more
grounds for complaint Will the
great mass Of American freemen lie
inactive while the ravenous clutch of
home and foreign monopoly is tight
ening about the throat of American
liberty? asks the Toiler of Tennessee.
Will the people feel the gradual en-
croachment upon their rights and not
raise their voice in complaint for fear
our plea will be refused? That is not
the spirit of our fathers it is not the
determination which wins. Some say
let us wait until '96. Why wait when
we are convinced of what our coun-
try needs? Wait four years longer
and watch the vast boards of wealth
accumulated on the one hand and see
the ignorance, poverty wretchedness
and crime increase upon the other?
Wait and see our people the masses.
gradually lowered in the scale Of ex.
istence while domineering aristoc-
racy not OF blood. but of money. is
gradually fastening its grasp upon our
institutions? To walt four years may
be dangerous By the end OF four
years the iron bands of mortgage will
hold fast many homes now free. You
will be less able to educate your chill
dren. you will be driven nearer to
recklessness and such is not the con-
dition for American citizens Let US
strike now while we yet have the
privilege. Four years more will mean
four years spent in forging the chains
OF serfdom about free people. Capt.
tai is alarmed. it is confused. so let
us strike CONSERVATION IN the ranks.
Can we win? We have all to win
and nothing TO lose by an effort; now
will it be worth tie effort to secure
balance of power in both houses OF
congress-? This we can do if nothing
more. Democrats and Republicans
alike second the possibility OF such
success. About $13O 900. 900 of our
national debt falls due during the
term of our next congressman. Shall
it be refunded by the issuance of long
time bonds or shall it be paid off in
treasury notes, full legal tenders in
such denominations as will circulate
performing the functions of money.
thus increasing the currency? If the
people fail to appreciate this point
they are surely deaf to their OWE
interest. A balance of power in
either house of congress can thus
stop an interest bearing bonded debt
OF $3.50, 600 900 and give the people
that much addition in circulating
medium. Is that worth striking for?
To accomplish this we must swing
into line under the banner of the
Peoples party.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
HORACE GREELEY.

compare Present Conditions and HE
Definition Of Slavery.
In response to an invitation to at
tend an anti-slavery convention. IN
1916. Horace Greeley wrote the COM
Mittee as follows:
What is slavery You will proba-
bly, answer The legal subsection OF
one human being to the will OF an
other But this definition seem to me
inaccurate on both sides-too broad
and at the same time too narrow. It
is too broad In that it includes the
subsection founded in other necessities
not less stringent than those imposed
by statute. We must seek some truer
definition. tIHE AfSef
Il understand by slavery. that con.
dition in which one human being ex-
lists mainly as convenience for other
human beings-in which the time.
the lexertions. the faculty OF part of
the human family are made to SUBJ
serve. not their own development
physical intellectual and moral put
the comfort advantage or caprices Of
others In short wherever service is
rendered from one human being to
another on footing of one sided and
not mutual where the re-
lation between the servant and the
served Is one not Of affection and recip-
rocal good Offices but OF authority,
social ascendency and power over
subsistence on the one hand. and OF
necessity. servility and degradation
on the other-there IN my view. is
slavery.
Il. Wherever certain human be,
ings devote their time and thoughts
mainly to oDeying and serving other
human beings and this not because
they choose to do So but because
they must there Il think) is slavery.
p. Wherever human beings exist
in such relations that part because
OF the position they occupy and func-
tons they perform, are generally con-
sldered an inferior class to those who
perform other functions. or none.
there q think) is slavery.
%. Wherever the ownership of
soil Is so engrossed by small part of
the community that the far larger
number are compelled to pay what
ever the few may see fit to exact for
the privilege of occupying and cult.
waiting the earth. there is something
very like slavery.
II Wherever opportunity to labor
is obtained with difficulty, and is so
deficient that the employing class
may virtually prescribe their own
terms and pay the laborer only such
share as they choose of the product.
there is a very strong tendency to
slavery ", sagE,
IS. Wherever it is deemed morg
reputable to live without abor than
by labor: so that a gentleman would
be rather ashamed of his descent
from blacksmith than from an idler
or mere pleasure seeker there is a
community not very far from slavery.
And
rs. Wherever one human being
deems it honorable and right to have
other human beings mainly devoted
to his or her convenience or comfort
and thus to live diverting the labor
OF these persons from all productive or
general usefulness to his or her own
special uses while he or she is rem
dering or has rendered no corre-,
spending service to the cause Of
human we'll being. there exists the
spirit which originated and still sus-
tains human slavery"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
A Matter OF Wages.

If a mob cannot be subdued by
men who are paid So per week it can
certainly be put down by men who
draw $13 per month.
Thus saith the Chicago Herald
Which simply means that the federal
government should take the matter in
hand and keep a standing army to
suppress riots.
And in this direction are things
tending. The issue is going to be
made up and it will be: Shall we
keep standing army at $13 per
month to maintain order and protect
property for the benefit OF million
aires. and tax the people to defray
expenses?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02

The Faulkner County Wheel: The
real honest thinking sensible men.
are joining and will join the Peoples
party, and the fools can stay where
they were born.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02
money in Account with the People.

BY burning greenbacks and de-
monetizing silver. by contracting
the currency from $50 to S. per
capita By 1900. 900. 900 in gold
paid to bonders instead of lawful
money. according to lawful contracts.
By making Is. 600 national bankers
and 1000 millionairies. Total-A
curb-stone aristocracy.
DEBIT.
To 2. 500. 600 tramps. To 200 900
suicides. To 200. OUO widows. TO
l. 16e. 600 orphans. To shrinkage OF
values. So. 900. 900. OOc. Balance
An almost ruined agricultural nation.
-Tulare Citizen.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-09-02

National Economists: Congressman
John Davis of Kansas. in the House
of Representatives February Is. 1892
said. Il would reinstate the old dollar
as it was The silver in the silver
dollar has not deprecated one particle
as compared with the general prices
of other property. The bullion is the
silver dollar which will buy as much
of the products of Labor TO day as it
would in 1873 when it was worth
three cents more than the bullion in
the gold dollar. 1t has not depreci-
ated. but by cutting of silver you
have doomed" gold and put it at a
premium. would restore silver to
its ancient status precisely as it was.
and let the two metals fight it out
One gentleman remarked here that
every body preferred gold. Why. sir.
in my desk at my room have a cir.
cular issued in 1885 by the associated
bankers of New York wherein they
voluntarily proposed to pay ten mil
lions in gold coin for the same amount
in silver coin. The government
agreed that they might have it. Did
they take the heaviest dollar? The
government had trade dollars of 42O
grains. it had dollars of 412a grains.
and it had subsidiary coin of 385
grains to the dollar and when those
bankers made that bargain they vol
UNFAIRLY took the lightest silver coin.
and after they had made the first
trade they wanted to make another
just like it. /"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09
How the Million Voter Pledge
is Working.

The other day l was walking
up the middle of. West Third
street in Lexington. and was en-
joying the perfection of our new
brickts streets aud was looking at
two pretty cherb faces that a sculp-
tor was cutting in bower of vines
and flowers in the stone front of a
beautiful house, in process of con-
struction. when one of the hand
soonest men in Lexington, big
and strong, started from the pave
ment out to meet meat ME. l
recognized him as a brother of a
recent member of the Lexington
City Council, and as a member of
the same church as the Judge who
recently notified me that he is 60.
ing to kill me if l ever put his
name in my paper.
The party l met on the street
we will suppose to be named Mr..
John Yellman. He looked pretty
serious and formidable, aud it oc-
Cured to me that / had another
row on my hands.
He walked up to me and said,
"Mr Moore, / am not going to
treat you like the judge did. l
have not paid you for my paper
vet, but let it come on, and L will
pay you before long. l have
signed that million vote pledge
and 1 am with you, and l have
told Will (his brother) that | have
voted for him the last time"
He and l together described
some men that have been voted
for by the Christian aristocrats OF
this city, and Mr.. Yellman said
81 would rather vote for a mig
GER
Now there is vote that De-
mocracy has lost and Prohibition
has gained, partly l suppose, as
the result of that Judges language
to me. But the papers OF the city
that claimed to publish his report
of it, represented him as c9rsing
me. He did not do that. but l
am glad they said it, for it shows
their animus and makes their
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

I print this letter of Brother
Winslow not because he is
right in his views of the "Keeley
cure" but because he is absolutely
and wholly wrong, and because
the position he occupies makes his
error all the more dangerous.
Neither Keeley nor any other
man that ever lived ever cured
single man of the thirst for liquor,
and there is no visible probability
that any man ever will. Any lie
does harm. 1 have had men to
say to me that if they believed the
Christian religion to he false they
would never tell anybody, because
they are certain it is doing 30 much
good. Such men have neither
common sense nor common hon.
esty, and will swindle you just as
soon as they think it will be to
their business interest to
do so.
Koch, the "lymph" man, Bishop
the "mind reader" Tice the
"weather prophet" Dyrenfurth
the "rain MAKER" and all these
hypnotism, mesmerism, spirit
rapping, slate writing, and spiri,
Undertaking. fellows are simply
humbugs, whose principle harm is
"getting money under false pre-
lenses" and intoxicating general
principles of superstition; but
Keeley's lie is much more vicious
than any of these. lie says to a
Young manor old man or old
woman or young wOman-you can
indulge IN the most dangerous of
all the excuses on the earth right
up to the point of ruin and then
tor $500 worth of my medicine l
will set you up all hunky. Bro.
Winslow and good DR.. Kelley,
are saying to the world the time
has come when there is not any
special necessity for "sad mothers
hearts" to beat with solicitude
about their boys going to club
rooms and hanging about saloons;
when the worst comes $500 will
fix him up all right, and almost
anybody can raise $500, or get
somebody to do it for them.
If Jesus Christ knew all things,
he knew about the bichloride of
gold. 1t the bichloride of gold
cures the love for liquor then
Jesus knew it. Ifhe knew about
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

In Massachusetts We noties the sane
tendency on the part Of our voters 70
sut the head of the ticket. Il 10 safe to
say that many prohibitionists voted for
Russell. the democratic candidate. ON
account of his personal popularity. We
aops they will learn the necessity Of
voting the entire prohibition ticket ~
ire next slsstisn Ohieago LsvsA