San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-12-23
Hays County AlIIance--InsIde Scenes.

The farmers TO TINS uhte, nave peoh u piS
pack of small dog cur canters. always ready
to join with their neighbor, in, Its just
useless to try such thing as that, we farm
ers can never do it, its impossible. we are
TOO poor. we are too much in debt. The
fact is, brother Jones, we can't do anything,
our doom Is sealed, and as in years long
gone by, we must submit to our worse than
negro bondage, for we are all sod TO Monop-
o.i,ts. Banks, Railroads and Merchants, the
ST, onp baud of capital in the hands OF Syn
dicates. and Monopolies all over our own
free and independent country, headed BY
bad designing men, has wound around US,
its cords 10 tightly that we have no hope,
we can't do anything, no nothing in Gods
world. The idea that we, set OF green,
uneducated farmers, to make strike Tor
Justice, or our sacred constitutional right /,
is presumption akin to idiocy. We'd
Just as well let things let things rock along
in the same old channels, till Gabriel toots
for us. Not till then, brother jones' can
the farmer expect to be relieved from the
unjust oppression, the almost entire seclu-
sion. from both State and National repre-
senting and at home, verify dogs, let's be
content, we cant help ourselves. This ter
rible cloud, that glorious and should be.
happy freside, my brother, is q Frity and
rs we have quietly submitted for so many
long years back to the gradual lightning OF
these chains that are now drawing from our
veins, lifc's purest blood gone as "lamb to
be slain" We have no right to complain,
''too late," TO pray now the Devil has
come.' SO you see am clearly right, but
any effort in the part of the farmer to better
his social or financial conditions will only
tend to increase the cloud, tn t God knows is
dark enough now. I've studied this ques-
ton thoroughly, and see that we have MI
been led in the wrong road so long, grown
old, working against ourselves so long, that
we are too blind to 60 back and find the
right road aga II, the one Our fathers
trod." when men were honest, when all
men had free and square rights and could
..worship under their own vine and fig
tree" These are things that used to be,
they are among the 'bygones," and its no
use to ''kick against the the pricks." If we
have, anit kicking. for there is no use in it,
the more we kick aud try to help ourselves
the worse it is So you and me, brother
Jones, will agree upon this point, and that is
as OuT Nity Va fS'hSV hs' p's'e
and as such, we can't do nothing but quietly
submit to the s'powers thnt be-"
Brother Brown, you may be in that place,
and if you are determined to stay there till
father Gabriel toots, all have to say, il
you love II steady slow certain ride to the
city of moral intellectual, social and finan.
cial destruction,go 80 on. y,u can't get out; but
by the eternal gods, be it this day and for
ever understood that Deacon Jones, don't
belong to the farmers party known as Gan
tprs," and in not a passenger in that boat.
My passage is paid on the steamer "Alii-
ance" now at the wharf; here's my through
ticket on the farmers line, aud rs your dug
ont is going down streapl and steam's, now
blowing oil aboard, for the Excursion to of
the bright green Island, of Truth. Justice
and Right" must say goodbye, and if
forever brother Brown. still, farewell" :"
God help the ''canters."
We were silent locker on, with an 'ear
to hear" and did hear. matters of vital in
terest to the farmer, discussed, all too,
without an exception tending to that OF
Education. of the Farmer, the good Of the
masses, the upbuilding of the whole coun-
try. all tending to lead us, morally, socially
and intellectually, to the rock that Is
higher than l." Yet the Dugout passen-
gers, IN boat. the Oarless Cant" assaiied
the efforts in tine right, with such argu-
ments, as those of Alexander Stephens
Brown, delegate from Hills Point Kansas-
Deacon Jones, the noble standard benrer Of
the sacred truths taught in the Alliance Code
of Laws, aud Rtueiistic work, stood firm at
the helm, and few hot-shOt sunk the frail
Cant" dugout. During the session one
by one of the ''Canters" crew and her pas
sengers, swan up, and after confessing their
sins were taken aboard and the right hand
of fellowship extended to them, and l am
glad to say before thss ession closed of love,
which was about one o'clock yesterday
morning Dec. 10, the entire crew of the
Cant" were saved from the wreck and are
now with us on board of Steamer Alliance.
sailing quietly to the land CT Justice ;.na
right. On the flag floating from the main
mast of the "Steamer Alliance" there were
written iu plain letters of the old farm
style, SO that little boys and girls could read
it.
sOur motto is ''Justice 10 all man, In
things Essential Unity, and in all things
Charity"
Viii st there was O little sharp shooting
during the sinking of the Dugout, the wa
ters soon became calm, and the body went
in in their deh erations in perfect harmony.
and before ITS close was constrained TO say
"it is good to be here" and the seed sown
during this session Of Hays County Alliance
will bring forth plentiful harvest, and the
efforts of some of the old gray heads, that
for the faith we delivered to
The '.FarD,e1s in each other will be as bread
upon the waters seeing its fruits many days
hence" Let us all go in in this glorious I
work of Education in all OF its branches Of
reform, aud if needs be hint to the churches,
hat in the way back yonder days mans
walk and general department told where he
belonged, but now the churcbman and man |
If the world are so nearly allied, that you
,an Only tell them apart by the amen corner
If the churches on Sunday. This is n bad
tx 10 be in. brother church members, TO
ielp us poor struggling farmers. successfully 4
o battle against the food Of in.emp france I
hat daily aud hourly is carrying down TO n
Eatery and whisky grave. the noble and best /
,f our land. Come ont ye church "Cdnc'
Members and stand boldly with us in the
luesfian Of Prohibition. You brethren that
az we can't doth nor that. in this ques-
ion, will stick TO It. and thus continue to
rush ard ruin in this and comiIg genera-
ions as long a. you persist 10 taking your
Oddly in the morning, with little qniuine,
" nloes in Il aud call ]; hitters- Its not
he Aloes OF quiniDe you are after but that 1
sietter part" the whisky or alcohol II
ieeds b. eat the aloes &c. leave out the Gus
ed, Life and love destroyer. and come go
zith us honest farmers and I'VE vii 10 Jon 1
bat eOod.- This word farmer just reminds
ne Of that I am nov % that bard hsted
raft. AMI have tre~passsd upou yOurspace.
wen IL you allow this any At all Anre Of
his sort IL your readers like Il. snon-
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