Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-06-14
Don't Be Unreasonable.

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of the lodges around the state, to
the effect that they will not support
for Office any man who is not an actu-
al member of the alliance, seems to us
to be rather on the small minded
order. The editor of this paper
claims to be as good an alliance
man as there is in this district, yet
because he happened to live within
the limits of an incorporated city he
can not become an actual member of
the order, and there are scores of
good men in Kansas who have the
welfare of the alliance at heart, and
who work for its interests, and yet
are in eligible to membership. We
hold that if a man shows by his
actions that his heart is with this
great reform cause, he is just as
much entitled to the friendship and
support of the alliance. 1t is all
right to give the Offices to the
farmers and members, but if a case
should arise wherein some man out
side the order is better fitted for the
position than any member on the
inside, why then we must hold that
in such case he ought to be put up
by the alliance and elected. Just
because SmiGh is member and
Jones is not, is no reason Jones is
not better fitted for the work of
the alliance in congress than Smith.
There would, in our humble opinion.
be Just as much sense and judg-
ment for the sixteen hundred
alliance men who are on our sub
scription list to come in here and
say, we like the Kansas Herald and
we know it is fighting our battles,
but we cannot take it because its
editor is not an actual member of
the alliance.-Glen Elder Herald.
The Herald claims to be the
organ Of the alliance. 1t seems to
be impelled solely by a sense of the
lack of common fairness in resoiu-
tions Of this nature to expostulate
against them.
The Farmer is not advised as to
whether these resolutions meet with |
the endorsement of the alliance as a |
body. The members who do endorse
such resolutions simply resolve, in
effect.
First, That we deny more than
one half the American voters the
privilege of joining the alliance.
Second, That we, to the extent of
our ability, disfranchise for holding
office every one of these voters
whom we deny admission into the
alliance.
The Farmer believes that the
alliance, as an educator, occupies
solid ground. It believes that the
alliance, as a political force, will
occupy solid ground whenever its
members undertake, in an earnest
manner, to shape the action of the
existing political parties. The re-
publicans of the west are in favor
of just such legislation by the
congress and the state legislatures
as will benefit all our people the
most. 1t is not the farmer alone
who suffers in the west. Other
western people suffer for the same
reason that he does. Believing, as
we do, that the interests of all our
people are identical, and that the
actions of the national congress and
of the state legislatures can, by |
concert of action, be controlled by
the Western Republican element,
the Farmer acts upon its conscience
in standing by the party through |
evil, as well as good report. We
aim to assert with all possible en-
phasis that if the laboring class of
the United States had been attend
ing to its own political business for
the past ten years, instead of per-
hitting the money power to fasten
more and more firmly its fangs in
their flesh, the present financial
crisis would he a StranOer II is