The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-11-17
JED E'I &
Cents Year is Now the Subscription
Price of the Great West.
The Size Of the Sheet Reduced, but
the Amount of Type Setting
Remains the Same.

An Effort to Reach the Masses of the
People in Times of Poverty
and DeStituti0n.
The hard times have struck the newspaper profession
with great force This especially the with thos
circulating among the farmers Over forty newspapers
have suspended in Minnesota within three months and
it said that fifteen hundred journals have suspended
in the United States during that time.
The letters have been coming into the GREAT WEST
office for months stating their devotion to the cause
and their love for this Journal but that their family
and the mortgage required the dollar Hundreds have
asked to be continued until the hard times
But so cruel is ignorance and powerful party
ties that there is hope of better times for least
two years. However, carrying list fully
$50 who are behind and the burden becomes great
that we have taken step avoid the danger of such
delinquency in the future In this matter have fol
lowed in the footsteps OF the Ruras and other state
journas have cut the size in two both to paper
and price, As to original reading matter there will be
no material reduction-in fact whatever. We will
still, every week, set more type
THAN ANY POPULIsT JOURNAL
nOrUnWeSU.
advs the large ad of 'The Power Behind the Throne
a page OF plates and the page of standing matter.
Now then friends get down to work. Will you get
us 2 900 and women to try the paper six months
for 25 cents-or three months for Is cents?
We make special appeal to the cold Guardl"
MEN AND BRETHREN will you give us solid day
in your neig hborhood- your team-to try to get
us a few more subsc ibers in neighborhood-for
six MONTHS if not for year? There is always tire
mendous argument in favor OF the GREAT WEST: 1t
has been faithful to the platform OF the peoples
party No treason, fusion, subterfuge folly has
been able to begue it, 1t is true today to those mag
nif,ent elements of governmentand if the peoples par
ty should turn deaf to the cry OF the oppres
sed then the GREAT WEST will be found with the ch'l-
dren of misfortune 1t time now for US to cry for
aid We have Court house back OF get any
$3.50 and expenses from populst mining syndi
cate-nor are we a "statesman and "Ajax," in the
columns of the pluto press. No, have nothing but
the love OF fellow men to sustain us. When that
fails the GREAT WEST expires. Give day of your
tme-and let those hours be sancted to you with the
precious thought that generations yet unborn will be
happier and wiser for your efforts.
Subscribers who have paid 81 90 within the last
three months will have their time extended Though the
label may not indicate it for week two. Persons
who have paid ST. 90 within the past month either
have their time extended, receive copy of 1.-The
Power Behind the Tbrone In sending word which you
refer please inclose &C. in stamps the book is to be
sent.
Ten wears ago. at least the farmers began to feel
the of school account of the continual
dropping prices but they felt fears for the educa-
ton of their young By the time the pressure of 1885
and came, especially upon the stock MARKET actual
shortening of school tems took place in thousands Of
districts STILL the effect upon education regarded
as temporary. By 81, however, great had become
the distress the farmer and necessary the work of
the older children the farm, that the schools Ian
pushed and the ambition to educate largely died
ont in the country districts But terrible is the
dition now that th existence of the school system and
Of American education is only threatened but is al
ready being extnguished.
WHAT THE SCHOOL
the press is the adult The press is the educator of
trv are in full possession OF the daily press
f properties and by ownership of the OF all tel
eeraphic news-by the "press associations"
But there the weekly reform press, watching the
enemy OF Humanity with Argus eyel But one way
ieted to the reform presto starve it out by
the impovershment of the country The work may not
have occurred to them at first but they see it now
A our commercial tables set in wide measure we
put them over on the 4th page. We do not propose to
sgbs these domestic and foreign markets and foreign
narket-facts.
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