San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04
The Farmers Alliance.

Ed. FREE PRESS Il assume the privilege
Of writing n short communication for pub
lication in reply to an article in your last
weeks issue.
Your correspondent writing over the
name of observer" assumes to himsen 10
discuss the principles of the Farmers Al
lance, from what some good. and inteiii-
gent farmers tell him about the order WITH
ont knowing, SO far as he is concerned,
whether or not his misformants are men,
hers of the institution. They may be men,
beers of the Alliance, or may not. The hrst
proposition our friend discusses is that by
so organizing they expect to obtain better
prices for what they sell, and expect to buy
what they consume cheaper. Now my
friend this is business proposition the
world over, and all men of business recog-
nize this right to sell to the best adVant-
age and buy in the same way. In the hrst
Mace the Alliance teaches the mode OF rid
ding the people of the horde OF cormor-
ants and vampires who are subsisting up
on the farmers and laborers OF our country.
This can only be done by combination ana
organization, hence the necessity OF inc
Alliance. BY this combination the farmers
can get the first prices by selling directly to
the manufacturers and ignoring these leach
es and those who subsist upon their labor.
The Alliance is designed to accomplish
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g, ,e%y viii. Their first great prlnci-
nle teaches to get out of debt, pay as you
90, if you can't pay don't go. Now l ask
the question, why can't the farmers Go 'ills
as we'll as any other class? Ii it be conced-
ed that they cal, then why can't they reach
the factories and sell their produce to the
manufacturer direct and get nrst PriIeas
| Therefore you see the producer "ouio 1non
have more than he now gets, and the spec,
L., n.'tC nnl,es off of him too. will remind
Ny Observer, that this is one way we eA-
meet to get more for our produce. Railroad
romnanies will give the Alliance the same
rebnte that they give the larger cotton BUY,
ers. if they refuse we will have laws passed
nrohib,tinp any discrimination between GU
izens Now think have answered the
FIRST proposition. Second, the Alliance VII
Of the factory buy at first prices, thereby
savinp all that il made off the consumers OF
PRODUCERS, by another horde OF cormoran,i
and spectators. Now, Observer, woule
not these profits you and other SPECTATOR
make off the farmers, rattle just as nicei.
in their pockets as they do in your own O.
other spectators? l say your own, for
imagine from the way you write, that yo'
are Spectator, or some one else VINO op
noses the organization of the farmers; nov
this is the way they will buy cheaper.
T consider | have now answered tairly an
squarely the two propositions you nave 81 h Az
down. unless you are like those who beileV
farmers havn't got the intelligence 10 trans
act their own business. Now in regard I
! the Kansas farmers, who folled 10 g
enough for their bacon, the same RUE up
niles to them; all they have to do Is 10 Ri :,
| ont the middle men, such as you, and fhli
Armour and sell directly to the people an
tbe Texas people buy directly from then
The general objects of the Alliance are nc
r. mil anv people down, but to build a
q persons up who are following lawtui We
cation. ,o. -
find. Mr.. Editor, all other classes O.
, oanized. and prospecting and co-operatin
;ntelIipently together; thus one would thin
thew had found the key to cooperate
from the way they prosper. But when u
v farmers and laborers presume TO organic
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