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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Will They Unite?

All intelligent and thoughtful peo-
pie in this country are observing the
increasing evidences of the decay and
dismemberment of the Republican
party as a political organization, and
the impression seems to be universal
that that party has made it's last ma
tional contest for place and power.
That the Democrats and Republicans
are rapidly gravitating toward each
other, on almost all the leading is
sues of the day, is equally clear and
conclusive. President Harrison passes
by the great legal men of his own
political faith and places man on
the federal supreme bench of an OPP
posing political faith. President
Cleveland, in his efforts to
make up his cabinet, overlooks all
the great Democrats of his faith and
selects a Republican for the most i'm
pOrtant place in his cabinet. On the
tariff, on the currency, on the coinage
of silver, on the increase of the vol
ume of our circulating medium, on
the income tax law and laws discrin-
mating against productive labor and
upholding corporated wealth, the
two old parties stand before The
country as almost entirely agreed.
True, there are exceptions, when we
count faces and men. but practically
and as party political organizations,
they are almost united and agreed
Southern TOiler
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Our Railroad Bosses.

BY means of bribery and corrup
ton the like of which the world has
never before seen. the railroads
make our laws for us.
In his testimony before q commit
tee of the New York legislature years
ago Mr. Jay Gould testified that he
had given large amounts of money
for elections. He testified that he
contributed more or less to all the
districts along the Erie railroad. He
said he had to look after four states.
New York. New Jersey, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. 1t was the custom.
Mr.. Gould said, when men received
nominations to come to him for con-
tributions, and he made them, and
considered them good paying invest
ments for the railroad company. Mr.
Gould said that in Republican dis
trict he was strong Republican, in
a Democratic district he was strong
Democrat and in doubtful district
he was strong doubtful; but he was
an Erie railroad man all the time.
The amounts contributed for election
expenses, Mr.. Gould said, were very
large, but he could not remember the
names or places, there had been so
much of this business going on. Mr..
Gould said it had been so extensive
that you might as we'll ask him how
many cars of freight were moved on
particular day Augustus jacobson
in the Vanguard
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
America Not for the Poor.

There is sort of general idea float
ing about that this is good country
for the poor. 1t will presently be
shown that this comfortable notion
entertained by the prosperous has no
foundation. This is a fine country
for the rich, but almost any other
country is better suited to the wants
of the poor. In France and in Ger
many life on basis of permanent
misery has been systematized so that
something like comfort can be got
out OF it, and SO that misery can get
It's moneys worth. But there is no
such luck for the poor devil here.
If supplemented angel should
come down to study our methods he
would be shocked by nothing SO much
as by his discovery that the unfor-
Inmates who have the fewest of the
good things in this happy land have
to pay the most for what they get.
Anybody who reflects and who knows
about social conditions will realize
that such is the state of affairs.
In New York City the rich man
gets all the good coal he wants for S.
or Sc a ton. and it is put in his eel
lar. The poor woman pays from $40
to 500 for bad coal, and carries it
home herself. The rich man borrows
all the money he wants for five or six
par cent; the poor man gives the
pawnbroker thirty per cent. and the
borl owing process is not pleasant.
The gentleman who lives on Fifth
avenue. if he pays any rent, pays a
small percentage on the value of the
house he lives in. The tenement
house citizen pays so much rent for
his apartment that tenement-houses
are very much more valuable prop
erty than any other.
Charity as it exists does little
toward decreasing the disabilities of
the poor. It is useful principally as
o safety-valve for the feelings of the
rich. Sometimes it takes the form of
spasmodic and demoralizing giving.
It exists permanently in state of
bumptious organization, with accom-
paniment of Office rent, secretaries
salaries. intrusion into private life
which frightens away deserving mis-
cry and the establishment of pauperism
On permanent basis -New York
World
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Tho Farmers, Alliance.

The following is the text of the
declaration of purposes" of the
Farmers Alliance; PROFOUNDLY i'm
pressed that we, the Farmers
Alliance, united by strong and faith
full ties of financial and home in
terests should set forth our declara-
ton of Intentions; we therefore
resolve:
First-For labor for the education
OF the agricultural classes in the
science of economic government in a
strictly non-partisan spirit.
Second-To endorse the motto: In
things essential unity, and in all
things charity.
Third To develop better state,
mentally, morally, socially and fnan-
cially.
Fourth-To create better unde.-
standing for sustaining civil officers
In maintaining law and order.
Flfth-To constantly strive to
secure entire harmony and good will
among all mankind, and brotherly
love among ourselves.
olAtn-1o suppress personal. local,
sectional and national prejudice, all
unhealthful rivalry and selfish ambi-
ton.
Seventh-The jewels which it
gamers are the tears of widows and
orphans, and it's imperative com
mands are to visit the homes where
lacerated hearts are bleeding; to as
suage the suffering of a brother or
sister; bury the dead; care for the
widows; to exercise charity toward
offenders; to- construe words and
deeds in their most favorable light;
granting honesty of purpose and
good intention to others; and to pro-
tect the Alliance until death. It's
laws are reason and equity; it's car
dinal doctrine to inspire purity of
thought and life; it's intention is ION
earth peace and good will to all men"
-The Public Call.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
MILITARY pRoNEs.
Gold-Laced Aristocrats Loading Through
Life In tho Army.

Gold-Laced Aristocrats Loading Through
Life In the Army.
There are two circumstances con-
nected with the show which accom-
panied Mr.. Cleveland's second inaug-
uration which should make every
patriot and true Democrat in the
land profoundly solicitous for his
country's future.
One is the meretricious display
and profigate extravaganza which
our plutocratic magnates have
pushed into Washington official life
The very rich dominate it-as they
do about everything else in the re-
public-and their domination is
closely allied to degradation.
The Other sinister circumstance is
the growing power and prominence
OF our military aristocrccy, says the
Vanguard. The regular army officer
is a greater creature to-day than
ever before in the history of the re-
public, and, astonishing to relate.
these gold-laced gentlemen are now
more numerous than at any proceed
ing time.
The Indians are all gathered into
reservations. Mexico is a favorite
field for our millionaire investors.
and OF course any fight with her is
out OF the question. The South
American republics are so little they
promptly fall on their knees and beg
when we threaten them. In fact, a
foreign war is not even remote con-
tingency, and yet we have steadily
growing standing army.
1t is an outrage that these drone
officers should be supported in luxury
by the toll of a community of pro-
ducers whose worldly condition is
steadily growing worse. It is the
greater outrage because these high
and mighty officers Of this unrepub-
lican force have again and again
shown ferOcious anxiety to shoot
down freedom-loving farmers and
working men.
And it is reasonable crime to
tax the workers 81, 1000, 900 year to
keep up regular army that has be-
come threat against the life of
democratic institutions on this con-
tinent.
Ii the great American republic is
to endure, as Washington and Jeffer-
son wished and planned, two evil
things must be banished: A plutoc-
racy that has gained unholy wealth
through Ubiquitous franchises, and a
regular army commanded bv naughty.
undemocratic officers who should be
more at home in Russia than in
America.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Bidding FOR Doodle.

In q recent number of the Chicago
Daily News the editor of that paper
speaks of the Kansas Populists as
mostly illiterate and of dull UNDER
standing. =.
He never told a bigger lie in so
few words, and he knows it; but he
had to say something to please the
millionaire advertisers of Chicago
lest they cease to patronize his pa
per, which, like other daily papers
OF Chicago, is run for revenue only.
Anyone who knows anything about
Kansas knows that its inhabitants.
are among the most intelligent and
enterprising people to be found on
this green earth.
Particularly is this true of the
farmers and others who make up the
Peoples party of Kansas
They are kickers to be sure; but it
takes a smart man to find out what
ais him and have something to kick
about.
The Kansas Populists were not 50
''dull of understanding" but that
they readily ascertained the cause of
their hard times and proceeded to.
apply the proper remedy.
They were not so .silliterate" but
that they knew how to overcome Co.
600 Republican majority at the polls,
and set reform wave rolling that
has spread dismay throughout the
ranks OF the gold-bug plutocracy and
their lying, sniveling newspaper hire
lings, and threatens to engulf the
whole land.
They are not so dull of UNDER
standing" but that they understand
to the fullest extent the real aims
and objects of the Republican party
OF Kansas and it's Wall street hackers.
And we'll bet four cents against a
pin fishhook that any one out of nine
ty-nine in every 100 Popnlists of
Kansas can tell the editor sof the
News more facts about the money
question in ten minutes than he ever
knew before
When the editor of the News calls
Kansas Populists fools he is talking
through his hat, and few of his read
ers are so ''illiterate and dull of un-
derstanding" that they will not see
lt.-Chicago Express.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Set The to Work.

It is announced that a lot of rich
Europeans and Americans will buy
10000 acres somewhere in the<West,
fence it in and use the land for sport
ing purposes It is pity that this
class of tramps and idlers cannot be
put to work. Some of them would
be at work with an armed guard over
them if justice did not sometimes 60
fast asleep. Farmers Voice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Enterprise, Conn: The little band OF

Enterprise, Conn: The little band OF
Populist patriots in the last congress,
have done the people more service
than either Of the old parties or both
combined. They have saved to the
people already the sum Of $50, 900, 900
in appropriations and private bills by
keeping their eyes on snap legis-
lation when certain boodlers wanted
to get their hands into the public
treasury. Give US a few more MEM
bers in both branches of congress
and then you will see the fur fly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21

Brick Pomeroy, in writing of the
suspension of the St. Louis New
Forum, says: at is hard work to
keep any reform paper alive. It's
editor has to do more begging for
support than the help is really worth.
The moment a man sees even one
item in such paper that he does
not like, he becomes cold as for or
hot as against it, and forgets that
the general tone and effort of the
publication is of Importance, and
that no one man can have every thing
in this world all his own way. Many
persons seem to think it is the duty
of an editor to think only as each
subscriber thinks, even when the sub
scriber does not always think. The
chairman of the congressional COM
mittee on ways and means has less
to worry over and to think of than
four-fifths of those who publish
papers, and who are doing as they
think to be the best for the welfare
of all the people, Brick has been
in the business over forty years, and
every editor knows he is right. -
Progressive Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Fraud on the Face of 1t.

The spectacle of the United States
issuing interest-bearing bonds with
which to buy gold for redemption
purposes when the vaults are burst
ing with silver (Which can be legally
and equitably used for the same pur-
pose) is an unique one.
The man who would contract the
volume Of money, thereby increasing
the value of his investments is as
much of knave as one who would
cheat by the use of false scales and
yard sticks. Sentinel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-21
Our Demands Are just.

There is not demand of the Farm
er's Alliance and it's confederates
that is not necessary to the preserva-
ton of the republic! None of these ar
guments presented by the advocates
of these demands have ever been ans
wered. Ridicule has been hurled at
them, but argument, never!
There are only two sides to the
matter. If these demands are wrong
or impracticable the country would
have been posted by those who OPP
pose them, but when one begins to
argue the question he becomes con-
victed that they are not only feasible,
but the panacea for the evils that
now affect us.
These demands are destined to sift
the wheat from the chat. array the
liberty loving people on one side,
and the tyrannical plutocracy on the
other. Day by day the separation
continues. Southern Mercury.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04

mittee is trying to ascertain how the tax
money collected has been expended and
desires to know the reason for the pres
emit debt Of that county.
The Rev. DR.. Burtzell must be restored
to his parish in New York or, in case he
is not nxious to return to Epiphany, q
him within the city. This, in substance,
10 the order Of Mgr. Satolli, the apostol-
lie delegate, in regard to DR.. Burtzell and
this order must be obeyed.
The treasury department has ordered
the arrest OF James N. Doroling, cashier
of the United States mint at New Or
leans, subject to the approval Of the dis
trict attorney. The arrest is due to the
mysterious fire which occurred in the
mint some weeks ago, and which de-
stroyed $50, 900 worth Of greenbacks.
w. G. Boyd, editor Of the Eastern Ore
gon "Herald," who was in Portland, in
an interview tells the Telegram" that
Receiver Hadley told him that the Ore
gon Pacific would surely put belt Of
steel over the Cascades and across the
expanse of Eastern Oregon, and that
possibly 65 miles might be built this fall.
Four hundred and fifty-four ounces oil
silver were offered for sale at the treasu.
ry Wednesday at Washington City at
$0.7l50 to 73. Seventy-fve thousand
ounces we're purchased at 80 715O, the
balance being declined and the same rate
rendered. This makes the total purchase
of silver for the month, thus far, 1923,
600 ounces.
I At San Francisco Harry F. Thorpe,
who was placed under arrest on suspi :
cion of being one Of the masked men
who robbed John Gibson, treasurer Of
the Judson iron works, Of $15, 900 on the
Berkeley train, but who was sub.
sequently released from custody, bias
brought suit against the company for
$25 900 damages.
The Santa Fe management has un.
earthsd extensi We frauds in their pay rolls
in that division included between Topeka
and Chicago. The frauds, it is said
have resulted in q loss to the road oil
81 900 per month. The conspiracy in.
cluded, 1t lie said, various officials from
assistant division superintendeuts down
to section foremen.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Dennis Willard, an old-timer, died at
Waitsburg, WASH, last week.
The Reyroldsville, Pa, wooden mills
were burned Thursday morning. Loss,
100000.
A trunk containing 23O tins of opium
was seized on the steamer Walla Walla
by San Francisco officials Tuesday.
The board Of penitentiary commission
ers, of Walla Walla, have reduced the
price of grain sacks to six cents each.
r. T. Rokeby, cashier of the CONNER
cial bank of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is mis-
sing. He is short in his accounts $780,
900.
An engine on J. r. Browns place,
Redwood City, Cal, blew up Thursday
morning, fatally wounding John Ora
ham.
Allen E. Jones of Texarkana, Ark,
killed his wife and three children Sun
day, and then committed suicide. He
was insane.
At Columbus, Ohio, Monday, DIR. Her
man Firshberg shot and killed 7. F.
Meisse, q butcher. He claims Meisse
assaulted him.
Four hundred and eighty-fve thousand
ounces Of silver and AZ, 900 Mexican dol
lars were shipped to Europe from New
York Thursday.
At Blsckfoot, Idaho, Friday, Charles
O'Niel, q prisoner in the county Jail,
while attempting to escape, WAS shot
dead by deputy sheriff.
At Pottstown, Pa, three persons were
poisoned Thursday by eating cheese. No
deaths have occurred but the condition
of the victims is serious.
Governor Markham of California has
appointed Ex-Governor Geo. Clement
Perkins United States senator to succeed
the late Senator Stanford.
The council of Boise City, Idaho, mas
appointed J. H. Chinn, Presbyterian
deacon, chief Of police, and G. A. Clarke, q
pillar in the Baptist church, magistrate.
Among the appointments of naval
cadets for the Annapolis military AGA J.
They are r. F. Mocine aud G. A. Bour-
den.
Lightning struck q rubbish pile in
New Orleans and started confagration
which caused the death of 7. E. Nc
Donald and damage to the amount oil
$3.50, 1000.
At Waupaca, Wisconsin, Thursday
Sam Stone, A. D. Pryor and Edward
Bronson we're acquitted of the charge Of
numbering Banker Samuel Mead about
ten years ago.
An unknown person fred through the
window of Leonard Fritche's house al
Burlington, Ia, Tuesday morning, shoot
ing Mrs. Fritche through the heart al
she lay in bed.
William Bowden, convicted OF the
murder of Mrs. Walker at Eureka, Cal.
who was to have been hanged Friday
has been granted sixty-day reprieve by
Governor Markham.
Since January nearly 200 nationa
banks have closed their doors against
less than so in the same period last year
OF the failures this year, five have beer
United States depositors.
A fire in West Berkeley, Cal, has de
stroyed two two-story buildings owned
by J. M. Cassabebe, containing bakery
butcher shop, grocery and saloon. Lose
about $ll goo; insurance 5000.
Lucien Jobert, aged 10, and Emf
Coley. aged %, Of New York, employees
in the United States hotel, we're drowned
Monday while rowing on Saratoga lak'
by the capsizing of their boat
A mail train on the New York & New
Haven railroad was ditched near Dodge
vile, Mass, Tuesday. A mail clerl
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04

d r. FULTON,
attorney at LasU.
Legal papers carefully and accurately
drawn. Collections given prompt
attent ton. VIII practice In
all the courts OF the ID
Judicial District
Of idaho.
GRANGEVILLE IDAHO
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04

THE PRESENT outlook
indicates that 1884
will be a period of the great
est advancement in the Cam
as Prairie county as we'll as
the mining district lying back
of it; and those who wish to
profit by the development of
this section cannot find a bet
ter investment than
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04
Grangeville

Is only two miles from tim
Der and has unlimited
quantities of Granite, Mar
BILE, Lime aud other build
ing material close at hand.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04
Grangeville

Is the center of the live stock
and wool producing Sec
tions Of Idaho Co.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-04
Grangevil1e

Is located in the most pro-
ductive agricultural section
in the state of Idaho.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1893-02-20

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Sabre.
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lbrn BON Der Understanding alferlegten
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ltttlcben @laubens.
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burb Summer tiefer; Sbrdnen Der Gorge
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lcben, benz iibli6en tpie bem nDrbliben, 10
lleb unb tpertb getporben, unb 6ieie 2iebe
uno WertbibdBung tptrb INNER mebr 3uz
nebmen."
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1893-02-20
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Ser. Staaten an ben Sanbtpicb- Snieln elm
gr0Beres Sntereiie bGtten, alS ale an0eren
Nationen, miiiie au6 leBteren flar fem.
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getbeit benuben, um iicb bas ge6itbrenoe
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cine rationale unb humane 8oLitif un6
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StaatSminiiter Sti6 nit San Domingo
iiber belien Nnglteoerung an Die Ser. Staae
ten abgei3loiien bate.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1893-02-20
5oad5sntItd1e suttota staata- 8etnatn, aanetaa, 20, gehratar 1898.

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elm aufri9tig fr~etiinniger Mtann lit.