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whom I think we could all trust, perfectly competent to deal with 
the questions at issue. Since I have been here I have had an in¬ 
terview with some gentlemen, and I find that there is an opening 
here for such a paper. I telegraphed to the gentleman to come 
here and meet me to-night, and he writes, among other things, 
“but I think I comprehend this subject in its length and breadth 
tolerably well, and I think I can edit a paper satisfactory to all 
concerned. Now, if you can make any arrangements by which a 
business of this nature can be carried on, and I can have the man¬ 
agement of the editorial columns, I will wait for any compensation 
until all other necessary expenses are provided for. I will leave 
that compensation, as well as any interest I might be entitled to, 
entirely upon the growth of the concern. If } T our business this 
evening is in the nature of a consultation, you may act for me.” 
That is about as liberal as a man can write. I am not at liberty 
to give you his name to-night, not because I want to keep it from 
you, but other parties outside of us are watching, and I don’t want 
to put anything in their hands to use against us. This gentleman 
spoke to me, when I went home from the consultation we had the 
18th of last month, and made me the offer I have told you, and 
he asked me if I could feel that I could depend upon the farm¬ 
ers of Wisconsin to stand by me, and support a paper that was ed¬ 
ited in their interest; and, my friends, I am sorry that I could not 
look him in the eye and say that I could. Now, it is painful for me 
to feel that in truth I cannot say that the farmers of Wisconsin 
would pay a dollar or two to support a paper of that kind. I don’t 
know how you feel on that subject, but it is painful to me. I have been 
since that in Chicago—I have seen how Mr. Noonan, of the Industrial 
Age, is distressed for money. I have seen how the poor man sits 
on a grid-iron, heated red-hot, all day long. I have seen his heart 
almost torn out of his body by people coming there and dunning 
him for money. He has been in that position nearly three years, 
yet all the States in the Union barely give him enough to pay his 
expenses, which are five or six thousand dollars. 
How, in God's name, can we expect to succeed when we starve the 
men who are working for us, in that way. He tells me that he has 
sunk $8,000 there. He tells me that he has had his wife sell an in¬ 
surance policy on his life to put in there. I know that he has a 
friend w r ho has given him $750. I find he has been forced to draw 
