People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-15

TO the columns OF your paper The cash win &C.
company each order
The company whose business we have IN
hand desires to close these contracts so thf.t
work may be Immediately begun. Your prompt
reply will be greatly appreciated
Address all communications to be- iOT7, Chi.
cage, Ills. Yours truly,
INTERNATIONAL ADV BUREAU.
An alliance paper has struck the lead
and shows up the scheme in two pages of
photograh reproduction of the bargain
and contract with the Afholds Basunen.
a Norwegian paper published at Hills
boro, n. D. We only give part of the
correspondence.
Here is the evidence. There is no
lodging or equivocation that will ex-
plain it away. 1t is conclusive of two
things: First, that the plan of the re-
publlcans in the northwest is to buy up
all the temperance and religious Jour
mails it is possible for them to get. Sec
ond, that there is one newspaperin North
Dakota, at least, making professions of
great goodness and morality, that has
sold itself body and soul to the Brit
lsh-American gold trust, which fur
nishes the money to push this iniquit-
GUS work. How many more papers
have been purchased in a similar ray
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 by
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 they have
already learned it:
FARGO, Y. D., Feb. g, 1892.
A. Lindele, ESQ, Secretary and Editor Basu.
men, HillsbOro N D.:
Dear Sir: Your favor Of the S)th ult. re-
ceived and its contents carefully noted-but I
had not time 10 answer it before nv departure
Tor Aberdeen. Our South Dakota friends were
yer much pleased TO learn of your valuable
p2.r. and will do all in their power to circulate
it iJng the Scandinavian people in our state.
as The Ekko has very little influence among the
prohiSitionists l fully agree with you as to
the plan and time of circulatin, Basunen as
the work done before and in III caucuses is the
main foundation for the whole campaign, and
am confident that you, on your accord can lay
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 10 in my 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 l would like TO know
then, is
l. Your price per inch for publishing our anti
alliance articles as editorials, about l,O5O
inches.
> Your price for 1000 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 to:close 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 Il 900
for advertising and circulating papers.
l 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.
l thank you very much for the information
regarding Dakota. Ihave no use for that paper.
then Since wrote you last have visited
| jamestown, Brunswick Aberdeen, Valley CITY,
! CoOperstOwn, CasseltOn, Lisbon, LaMoure.
| 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 GOO
subscribers, it might prove 10 be a dangerous
| opponent How do you think the chances would
stand if your circulation was brought IN 10 the
same amount, 5000, which it will be BY our
| sending out 1900 extra: Do you think II 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 you think
that is true: How do you think we should pro
coed in trying TO secure the Normanden? Dc
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 60 TO Fergus Falls
where will stay couple Of days. II you could
answer within day or two, please address let.
tiers to Fergus Falls, or later, address Head.
quarters hotel, Fargo.
Hoping that you will avail yourself Of this
opportunity Of making something in an honest
way, besides booming your worthy paper and
promoting the temperance cause, 1 remain
very truly, JOHN W. WEST
There are two Norwegian papers anxious tC
get the contract for North Dakota-one in ST
Paul and the other in Chicago They are botl
supposed to be strong papers, but we would
rather patronize home trade and use your pa
per, If we can agree 1t must be understood