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gave us the Post Office and Alli
ance which we called for two weeks
since.
VES SIK! SHALL BE GLAD TO GET THE
“CITIZEN” EVERY week!
We are in receipt of the new Alli
ance paper published at St. Paul by
Dr. E. W. Fish. The Great West
is its cognomen, an 8-page paper, at
SI.OO a year and starts out vigorous
ly for the farmer. The salutatory
says: This is a radical paper: fears
God and defies the liars.”
Every farmer will have it after see
ing a sample copy.
E. W., Please give us an ex.
CARRIES A RIP-SAW IN HIS VEST
POCKET,
Ortonville Headlight:
Everett W. Fish, late of Glenwood,
has started a weekly paper in St.
Paul and calls it “The Great West.”
It is anti-monopoly and farmers’
/alliance, and is riproaring and very
/ bitter against capital and the “capi
talistic press.”
Freeborn Co. Standard, (Al
bert Lea:) The Great West
is a large, ably edited and
handsomely printed weekly pa
er just started in St. Paul to
represent the Alliance organ
ization of the state, to boom
its insurance business, and
generally to kick up a rum
pus and make money. E.W.
Fish, late of the Central Minne
sotian, is the editor, and he is
a bright and entertaining writer.
If he cannot prove that every
thing is corrupt and evil in poli
tics and society especially, when
he is tailed up by Donnelly, we
dont know who can. The paper
will win as much and stay as
long as it deserves to.
Bijou Times, S. Dak.:
Vol. 1, No, 1, of The Great West,
published at St. Paul by the Great
West Publishing Co., is received and
has this for a salutatory:
(Salutatory follows).
The times congratulates the Min
nesota farmers that they have a pa
per that will represent their inter
ests. If it continues to publish as
pertinent matter in the future as in
this issue, it will creat a panic among
politicians and monopolistic shy
sters, whether they are found in the
press or elsewhere. We trust it will
give them doctrine from the shoulder
that will burn and burn until the
fanners of this land are willing to
take up the shibboleth and act for
themselves. Organize is the watch
word.
Dawson Sentinel:
The first number of The Great
West has reached our table. It is an
able, outspoken and fearless paper
devoted to “the financial and politi
cal interests of the farmers of the
.r-nerthwest.” It is organized as the
organ of the Farmers’ Alliance and
should be in the hand of every alli
ance man. Its subscription price is
SI.OO a year. Address The Great
West, 758 Wabasha St., St. Paul.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
The Alliance meeting at Stew
art wan a great success.
The State Lecturer has appoin
ted George Mr. Day, of Glencoe,
Deputy Lecturer for the Bth Ju
dicial District. Mr. Day is a very
active and efficient organizer;
and proposes to canvass all the
counties in the Bth District. We
hope there will be no jealousy on
the part of the county lecturers
as to district lecturers. We can
not have too many organizers in
the field. The harvest is whiten
ing and the laborers are few.
A large alliance was formed
among the Norwegians of Spring
Grove, Fillmore County, Oct.
14tlL by-Deputy Ijecturer Allison.
The hereditary
enemies of despotism, and they
are getting their eyes open to the
wrongs practiced upon them
to-day in Minnesota. The Scan
dinavian element is the back
bone of the Alliance. We hope
to see the day when a Scandina
vian edition of the Great West
will be issued weekly and sent to
all parts of the Northwest.
President Sprague, (who is do
ing splendid work in the field,)
accompanied by Deputy State
Lecturer Allison, held an Alliance
meeting, Oct. 19th, at Hesper,
lowa, near the Minnesota bound
ary . A great many farmers from
Minnesota. “Rousing speeches
were made and the representa
tives of the Minnesota Alliance
took the place by storm.
Alliances have just been organ
ized at Mabel, Highland and
Henrytown, in Fillmore county.
The camp-fires are blazing, and
there is a feeling abroad in the
land that will not down or be
denied. The city politicians
must get out of the road or have
their shins barked. “The mud
sills” are rising up.
Mr. W. G. Bowers, Viola Grange,
Olmsted Co., No. 466, is one of the
first to respond to the suggestion in
the circular letter of the State Lec
turer. He writes that Viola Grange
is ready to listen to a Deputy Lec
turer ; and he will guaranteess.oo to
cover his expenses. This is the way
to talk. Now let leading men all
over the State follow this example,
and we can have series of meetings
all through the state, this winter,
that will be a source of pleasure and
profit to the farmers. Some one
asked—“ Why should the devil have
all the fine music?” And we do ask,
why should the city the have all
intellectual entertainments? Be
cause a man lives in the country
should he know nothing of what is
going on in the world of thought
and action ?
Who will follow Mr. Bowers’ exam
ple?
In McLeod county they had, three
months ago, but two of the sickly
alliances—covered with flies. Now
they have seven—probably eight by
this time, full of life and zeal—and
the good work is progressing and
every town in the county will be org
anized.
In one county in this state there
are some towns settled almost alto
gether by Germans. Some of our
timid friends said: “Oh you can’t
get the Germans to go into an Alli
ance . Americans, Scandinavians,
Irish, etc. are all right, but the Ger
mans are too slow. “Notwithstand
ing these doleful prophecies an inroad
was made with the German towns
and the result was large and success
ful Alliances. The Germans are just
as wide-awake to their own interests
and the necessity of organizing them
selves against the robbers as any peo
ple in the state.
Wanted. A couple of bright young
Scandinavians, with some capital, to
start a Scandinavian Alliance organ,
and work in concert with The Great
West. There is a big opening in this
direction, and it will not be long un
til it is filled. The Alliance will have
50,000 members in Minnesota, before
many months and one-third of them
will be Scandinavians; while in the
two Dakotas the Scandinavian Alli
ance men are legion.
There are numbers of capable
men among the farmers, with good
brains and lots of ideas. Don't let
the rings and the monopolies do all
the—talking. Write for The Great
West. You may set others to think
ing and writing; and thus the hon
est men will naturally assist each
other in the long sore battle with
the thieves. You know how men
who are lost in the dark encourage
each other by calling out, and how
cheerful the voice of a friend is un
der such circumstances. Let the
voices of the farmers be heard
through the fog of corruption that
is settling down upon the industries
and the interests of the people.
Arrangements are being made to
have Deputy Lecturer Allison make a
series < f speeches in McLeod county,
during November.
Our friends in Kandiyohi County
must not forget Mr. Allison’s meet
ings from Nov. 4th to 9th inclusive,
in that county. The President of
the Alliance, Geo. W. Sprague, Esq.,
probably will accompany him and es
pecially discuss the Insurance busi
ness of the Alliance. Mr. Sprague is
an able speaker.
If there is any feeling of soreness
or the part of any Alliance men, as
to this or that man! —or as to this or
that matter of detail, these paltry dif
ferences must be over looked and all
forgotten. Nelson ran up to his
masthead when entering the greatest
sea-fight ever fought, the message:—
“England expects every man to do his
duty.” An Irishman who was on one
of the vessels wittily remarked, that
—“the admiral didn’t say anything
about the Irish, because he knew the
Irish would do their duty anyhow:’'’
The Alliance is prospering and grow
ing beyond all precedents. Let the
little misunderstandings die. Think
of the good that can be done to the
cause of the people if we all stand
shoulder to shoulder and present an
united front to the common enemy!
Union and harmony are the first re
quisites of success.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly spoke in
the court honse Tuesday afternoon
to the farmers of the county. There
was a good attendence, but not
nearly so large as there would have
been had a different time been selec
ted, as the fair drew away a good
many. Mr. Donnelly confined his re
marks almost entirely to alliance
matters, explaining the work that
had been done and the desirability
and necessity of the farmers combin
ing under the alliance to secure the
rights they are entitled to. His re
marks were listened to with great
interest. —Willmar Republican Ga
zette.
From every part of the State we
hear of the growth of the Alliance :
north, south, east and west the good
work is progressing.
A. L. Gardner, Deputy Lecturer of
Mower Co., writes: “I received the
first number of The Gbeat West
yesterday, and must say that I am
well pleased with its appearance. It
speaks with no uncertain voice, and
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if conducted in the same able manner
it will be a power for good to the
cause.”
Blooming Prairie, Steele Co., has
a subordinate Alliance recently or
ganized. They are making arrange
ments to order coal, with the help of
President Sprague, of the State Alli
ance. The officers are President, C.
D. Lake; Vice-President, C. E. Symes;
Secretary, G. A. Peterson; Treasurer,
Ole Erickson. The Alliance is made
up of the most intelligent farmers of
Blooming Prairie and vicinity. P.
O. address, Blooming Prairie, Minn.
The Ha.yfield, Mower county (?) Alli
ance, just organized, is flourishing
like a green bay horse. The follow
ing is a list of the officers: —Presi-
dent, J. E. Ingalls; vice-President, L.
Lewis; Secretary, A. L. Gardner;
Treasurer, Charles Menig. They hold
meetings every alternate Saturday
evening.
The German farmers of Waltham,
Mower Co., have just organized a
subordinate Alliance with Charles
Faher as President, Chas. Baumgart
ner as Treasurer, and B. Baneke as
Secretary, whose post office address
is Lansing, Minn. It starts with
thirteen members, leading Germans,
but it is expected will rapidly increase
its members.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We have received the following
from an lowa paper, and sever
al very much like it. This is the
ring of the independent news
paper:
Publishers Great West :
The first issue of your paper
is upon our table, and after ex
amining it carefully we write you
for clubbing rates.
We want it in the hands of
every farmer in this locality.
We are flooded with papers that
tell them how to raise wheat and
eorn, things they already know,
but none that tell them how to
protect themselves from the
trusts and combinations that
are sucking the life blood out of
them. We hope you will succeed
in rousing the farmers to their
own interests. Respectfully,
Jenness & Hills.
Dear Friend Fish !
Hello! old friend and well
met! Glad to see you once more
in the field! Knew you could not
keep your hands, pen and ink
quiet any longer. Wish you suc
cess and a long life together with
your new enterprize!! I shall
do all in my power to help you
and paper along. Please send
“posters” if you have any and
making, namely, a cow especially adapted to the economic production of millr which
can be most profitably converted into butter. This is the first paper, I think, in
which I have ever touched upon this subject, and I have refrained from so doing be
cause I was aware that self motives would be attributed to me; but I could not close
this subject without doing so, and do justice to it. To such as would attribute sel
fish motives to me, I would say that all breeds of cattle are opening to me to choose
from in conducting our dairy business at Oaklands, and as it is carried not as a
“Philanthrophic Society,” but as a business enterprise, were I not convinced that in
Jerseys we have the cow best adapted to butter-making, we would purchase what we
considered were better. When it is further borne in mind that I could have disposed
of my herd for at least SIOO,OOO, credit must be given me of a firm conviction, that
for cream and butter the Jersey is to our minds the most profitable cow to use.
Mr. Fuller again referred to the enormous strides that Wisconsin had made in
butter production, and stated that after careful inquiry he found that one of the
most important factors producing this result was owing to the introduction of Jer
sey and Guernsey blood, and the displacement of the native cow by the progeny of
thoroughbred Jersey and Guernsey bulls. That cases were constantly being reported
from the Farmers’ Institutes of people who had increased their production of butter
per year from 150 and 200 lbs. a cow to 250, 300 and 325 lbs. per cow per annum,
and that the statement was constantly made that the cost of the maintenance of
these animals did not exceed the maintenance of the common cow.
He said that it was a great fallacy to state that the Jersey cow was not a good
milker; that while she did not give so large a flow of milk when freshly calved, her
continuity or habitude of holding her milk was well known wherever she had been
handled, and that the cross showed this characteristic. He stated that from twenty
five to thirty pounds of milk are, as a rule required in this country from the ordin
ary cow for the production of one pound of butter, whereas in the Oakland’s herd,
fifteen to sixteen pounds of mixed milk of a whole herd have often produced one
pound of butter on winter feed; and that the reports made at the Farmer’s Institutes
and other meetings in Wisconsin, in the discussion of dairy matters, showed that
whole herds of three-quarters and half-bred Jerseys were producing a pound of butter
from seventeen to twenty pounds of milk. He advised strongly the purchase of
thoroughbred bulls of either of those strains for the production of butter, claiming
that experience in the United States, not only in Wisconsin but in the East, showed
that where a farmer had used grade Jerseys or grade Guernseys, butter-making had
become a profitable industry, and cited cases where such had been done.
I reiterate what I conceive to be the most important factors in making the but
ter industry profitable:—
1. A better knowledge of the art of butter-making and marketing in all its
branches; and in this connection I conceive the creamery to be the best educator.
2. An increased production of milk per cow obtained by a proper regard to the
feeding, caring for and fixing in the cow a habitude to a prolonged flow of milk, and
as an encouragement to this end, winter dairying in creameries.
3. More economic feeding of our milch cows. An important factor in the use of
more corn fodder and ensilage.
4. The use of grade cows got by a pure-bred sire of a breed of cattle especially
adapted to butter-making; or of our native cows that, by testing, have been shown
to be profitable butter-makers, and from whom not more than twenty pounds of
milk is required to a pound of butter; and as the Jerseys and Guernseys have as a
race proven themselves profitable butter cows, the use of grades of these breeds.—
Report Dairy Association of Ontario, 1888.
lots of ‘ ‘samples’ ’ for distribution.
Now is the time to reap a harvest
and to make the Farmers’ inter
ested. Hurrah for the Dakotas
and our cause! Are sure to win
if we keep in the direction com
menced.
The following letter tells the story
that men are sometimes unselfish,
and that the alliance work has
friends who will make a sacrifice for
it:
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find
one dollar, fqr my subscription for
time specified and change the name
to . I am go-
ing to get it out amongst the farm
ers, on the prairie, that they may see
what they are doing. I believe it is
the best way I can spend a dollar.
Yours truly, Levi Davis.
The following letters give an idea,
of the feeling abroad. The writer
says, “not for publication,” so we do
not feel at liberty to publish his
name:
Dear Sir.— Please add my name to
your subscription list. I hope to
send you a good list. The papers
have the right ring in them—wish
you had sent twenty copies so as to
have got one in the hands of each
member. If appeals like these do
ndt arouse the farmers, then nothing
less than an explosion of hell-fire in
the midst will startle them from their
slumber.
A Good Worker.
The State Lecturer, in his recent
address, which has had by this time
100,000 readers in Minnesota, North
and South Dakota, etc., quoted ex
tensively from an admirable docu
ment, which appears Aug. 10th, 1889,
in the Park Region (Otter Tail Co.)
Pioneer. He told us at the time that
he did not know who was the author
of it. He has since learned that it
was written by A. L. Gardner, Esq.,
Waltham, Minn., Deputy Lecturer of
the Alliance for Mower county. Mr.
Gardner is one of the most zealous,
as well as one of the ablest, Alliance
workers in the State. He has in the
past two weeks organized three sub
ordinate Alliances in Mower county,
and has two more nearly organized.
A man who can write such an a ddress
as that, and work as effectively for the
people as he has done, ought to be a
member of the next legislature.
That’s the kind of men we want there:
—men who know what is right and
will be heard from. Every member
of the next Legislature outside the
great cities ought to be a farmer and
a member of the Alliance.
Now or never, the two parties
must come up to the issues of the
hour. There will either be a
revolution in party action before
another convention meets, or
else there will be requiums sung
over the dear departed. The Da
kota and the lowa conflicts
point unmistakably to such a
condition.
If there is not immediate re
[FROM THE SECOND PAGE.]
We would advise the farmers to in
continently boycott every newspaper,
that, by slurs or innuendoes, or open
attacks upon the Alliance, or its offi
cers, or its leading friends, seeks to
prevent the farmers from defending
their rights or improving their condi
tion. It is not a question of revenge,
but of class-safety. Those who are
against your advancement and pros
perity—have no claim upon your
pockets. Let them look for support
to those they serve. We have not seen
the Journal article referred to above
and therefore cannot say how far it
may deserve the indignation of the
farmers of Houston County. We can
judge of that ourselves. We know
the The Co-operator is a zealous
worker in behalf of popular rights.
A review of a recent article in the
Dispatch will make good Saturday
night reading in next issue.
paration done in Dakota over
the [Edgerton outrage the far
mers of the new state will
shake things there in a way
never heard of before in poli
tics. We are only premising—
but just wait on us six months.
A Mend sends the following clip
ping, with the comments which fol
low. In case a journal is distinctly
under the rule of the gang, or is too
cowardly to “come out,” it should
be treated as any other political foe.
But there are a great many papers
which have not taken up the issue as
yet, but at heart are on the right
side:
HOSTILE NEWSPAPERS
The Co-operator, of West LaCrosse,
in its issue of Oct. 25th speaks as
follows:
The slurs in The Journal on the
Farmers’ Alliance would seem to be
rather out of place for one who has
been so liberally supported by farm
ers, and the blatherskite method of al
luding to it does not show a very
deep friendly feeling for their inter
ests. Very few would have so abso
lutely misrepresented the simple facts
that the deputy state lecturer for the
state Farmers’ Alliance, came to
Caledonia to work for the farmers
and organized a County Alliance:
that he likewise got enough to ask
for a subordinate organization to
secure a charter for one. That sev
eral of the best and most intelligent
farmers in the county signed that
petition. He forgot to tell them that
there were now 700 alliances in the
state and that it is being worked up
through the nation to an extent un
equalled by any other farmers’ or
ganization. Now in the face of these
simple facts, slurs of blaguardism are
out of place and will not remove the
necessity for an earnest and mutual
effort on the part of farmers to re
move the cause of their complaints,
which they can see plainly and feel
too. Farmers can see who work for
them and deserve their support; and
how far those who work against
them, by slurs and innuendoes,
deserve support, will bear examining.
Farmers have rights if they will take
them and strength if they will use
it, sufficient for all their require
ments.
ANNIHILATION.
Twas evening; and the rain was Csllinc
In torrents, so it seemed to me,
A* I was plodding home from calling
On her who's all the worid to me.
At least, that's what I'd just been breathing
In language soft Into her ear.
And by the smiles her face en wreathing
I knew she felt I held her dear.
Ah, just ahead a form was flitting
With airy grace the way along.
So I—for what could be more fitting?—
O'ertook this theme of poet's song.
Exposed she was to the vicious weather—
Umbrella none had she to shield
That costume, topped by fluffy feather—
It was my duty, unooncsaled:
I proffered her my storm defier—
She spoke her thanks in accents low;
My kindness seemed she to admire—
This was a very jolly got
We tripped along—l was in clover!—
Sweet speech was I 'bout to unbar,
When she laughed out—my bliss was overt—
“ Why, Harry, how gallant you are I"
Amazed was I, but closer peering
I gazed into her merry face.
Half mystified, yet partly fearing—
The deuce!—it was my sister Grace!
—George Chinn in New York Sun.
She Was.
A man who was driving on the north end
of Beaubien street the other day passed a
man who was in his shirt sleeves, bareheaded
and breathing after a hard run. Two squares
further down he met a woman with flushed
face, bonnet on the back of her head and an
ax helve in her hand.
“I know whom you are after,” he said at
she came up.
“Who?”
“The old man.”
“You bet 1 am, but he’s run me out of
breath!” was her hearty response. “Did your
see him!”
“Yes; he’s only two blocks ahead.”
“All right—keep quiet I”
And she took the middle of the road, spit
on her hands and braced up for a last effort*
—Detroit Free Press.
Evidence to the Contrary.
Yellowly—Didn’t you say the other day"
that Whitely was a man of remarkable in
telligence!
Brownly—l did.
Y. —Then I think you are mistaken in your
estimate of him.
B.—What makes you think so?
Y.—He has just been accepted as a juror
in a murder case.—Boston Courier.
An Optimist.
An old peasant on the south shore of Long
Island was telling his visitor how pleasant it
was. “But,” asked the friend, slapping his
face with his handkerchief, “don’t you have
a great many mosquitoes and sand flies!”
“Ya’as,” said the man; “but, then, we sorter
like them.” “How can that be!” “Wa’al,
you see, we feel so kinder good when they go
away.”—New York Observer.
An Unkind Cut.
Miss Sere—l suppose you have heard that
Mr. Short is paying his attentions to me?
Miss Fresh—Yes, I heard of it.
Miss S. —He has proposed.
Miss F.—lndeed?
Miss S.—Yes. Now I wonder if it is my
money he is after?
Miss F.—What else can it be?—Boston
Courier.
Tlie Though,, of. His Creditors.
Lieutenant (over head au* ears in debt,,
gazing dreamily at the hand of a wealthy
heiress) —Ah, how many persons this charm- %
ing little hand is capable of making happy I
Lady—Many? I should think only one!
Lieutenant—Oh, if you bestowed it on me,
I assure you a great many persons would be
rendered happy!—Fliegende Bluetter.
Vague.
An esteemed contemporary heads an item,
“A woman slaps a child at the point of dy
ing.” This seems the very acme of cruelty,
yet, from a physiological standpoint, is as de
lightfully vague as the announcement that
once appeared in a Pittsburg paper to the
effect that a dog had been “shot on the South
Side.”—Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Way to Do It.
Perturbed Mother —Little Johnnie is bawl
ing upstairs with the toothache.
Experienced Father—Take him to the den
tist’s.
P. M. —Where’s the money?
E. F.—Oh, never mind the money. As soon
as he reaches the dentist’s door his tooth will
stop aching.—Boston Courier.
Equally Unpleasant to Contemplate.
“Father,” said Mr. Skinnphlint's eldest son,
with blood in his eye, “that horse of ours is a
treacherous beast. He’ll be the death of me
some time or I’ll be the death of him.”
“Then I’ll sell him,” replied Mr. Skinn
phlint, gloomily. “A funeral would cost me
every blamed cent the animal is worth.
Chicago Tribune.
In the Adirondack*.
Tourist—l thought you knew where all
these ditches and gulleys were?
Guide—So 1 do. I’ve been in this ditch a
dozen times before.—Life.
A Reminder.
Old Man (at the head of the stairs at 2:30“
a. m.) —Susie, what time is it?
Susie (with a second look at Reginald, who
loosens his grip)— A few minutes past 10,
papa.
Old Man —Don’t forget to start the clock
again when you go to bed.—San Francisco-
Wasp. -
Kind of Her.
Little Flaxen Hair—Papa, it’s raining.
Papa (somewhat annoyed by work in h«™q
—Well, let it rain. Little Flaxen Hair (timid
ly)—l was going to.—Clothiers’ Monthly.
Caused His Death.
A. Have you read the “Last Words of
Jeremy Jallupf’
B. Yes, and I don’t wonder they proved
fatal.—Harper’s Bazar.
"Sweet Violets," Probably.
First Hand Organ Man—How goes it, Gari
baldi?
Second Hand Organ Man—Same old grincL
—Hew York Sun.