The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-19
EXCUSES.


issue of our paper. 1t was hur-
riedly prepared in the closing days
of the session. The type is too
small. We believe in good, large,
clear type. We hope to make the
next number, and all subsequent
numbers, great improvement on
this, although not quite so large.
We are also disappointed in an
other respect. We have some very
fine original cartoons in course6f
preparation, but there has beeVde-
lay in the work of engravingfhem.
We hope hereafter to have an in
teresting illustration in each num-
Der. We hope also to largely in
crease our advertising patronage
we have a good deal promised US,
but everything has been hurry and
confusion.
And vet, with all these shortcom-
ings the printers declare that this
is the best weekly paper ever issued
in the state. It is certainly full of
meat We hope that every person
who receives a copy will read it care
fully from first to last, especially
those legislative reports; and then
rise up and send us 81 for one years
subscription, and S. for a share of
stock and as soon as this is done
collar every friend and neighbor
to get him to subscribe.
If each of our l, 100 Alliances will
send US five subscribers that alone
will give US a circula ton of $500
copies; and we hope for as many
more outside the Alliances, especial
ly among the labor organizations of
the cities. Take hold friends, and we
will have a Peoples paper for the
Peoples party to work in the inter-
est of the People. And so we will
build, from the foundation up, for a
great work hereafter. 1. D.
GREAT FAMILY.
The Alliance is great family cir
Gle, all actuated by the same spirit
and all working together for good
Let there be peace in the household!
If anv man insists on kicking up a
row, take him by the back of his
neck and his waistband and pitch
him out of the window AS the
| Irishman said, 1--WE must have
peace, if we have to fight for it,
The seeding will soon be done and
the pleasant weather will be at
hand Call your local Alliance to-
gether Organize an Alliance Ii
brary company. Make up club
for your paper-for remember it is
your paper and no one else's-take
share of stock for S. if you can.
Then write to Robert Eckford, the
State Alliance business agent, and
arrange about your Irvine at the
lowest possible prices. Then talk
over Alliance life insurance and AL
lance fire insurance and Alliance
hail insurance. Then appoint COM
mittees to talk to all the farmers
in your neighborhood who are
not members and get them
to Join at the next
meeting Then don't forget to col
lect your back dues and eend them
" OuJ SCClOLdL ~ IL W Jill OSA
at Forest Lake, MINI. and if any Of
YOU want to start new Alliance he
can give YOU the necessary papers
and information. Remember that
old Alliances which have fallen out
of line, and are in arrears, can revive
by paying one years dues. for seven
or more members; and the dues are
the Insignificant sum of 20 cents
year. Correspond with L. G. Long,
Magnolia, Mimi, our State Lect-
urer, as to speakers.
There must be a general advance
all along the line. We must get the
insidious poison of misrepresenta-
ton out of our Blood and we must
make 1899 the greatest year in the
history of the Minnesota Farmers
Alliance, because for the first time
we have a state paper distinctively
our own The next annual meeting
of the State Alliance must contain
one thousand delegates.
Rekindle the fires on the affairs.
Let US be up and doing. We must not