Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-15
ALLIANCE MATTERS

The Goffs News, the All ance organ
of Nemaha county, is to be moved to
| Seneca.
From Scott City: The Scott Coun-
ty Farmers alliance has nominated a
ticket. The nominees are all either
democrats or union labor men.
From Columbus: The Farmers ALI.
ance and portion Of the Knights Of
Labor met in convention and nominal
ed county and representative ticket.
The convention virtually endorsed re-
submission resolutions, although the
prohibitionist party took part. The
convention was large and enthusiastic.
From Clay Center: The Peoples
Union Labor Farmers alliance party
held county convention here and
nominated full ticket and passed reso-
lutions severely censuring the action
of certain republican members OF the
alliance for calling mass meeting Of
alliance republicans, and soundly con-
demning the Clay Center Times for it's
outspoken criticism Of the leaders Of
the political movements in the alliance,
Lyndon letter: The alliance people
o. this county have Just effected the
purchase of the Quenemo Leader
The press and material will be moved to
this place at once, and will be the organ
of the alliance and labor organizations
of this county. Rev. A. q. Easter Of
Dragon township, this county, will be
editor-in chief, with Geo. Rogers. tho
present editor of the Leader, as bust
ness manager.
From Garnett: The peoples party
| held county convention in this city
and nominated full county ticket.
Nominees for representative and pro-
bate Judge have heretofore acted with
the greenback, union labor and prohi-
bition party. Nominees for county
attorney and clerk of court have always
been staunch democrats. A lady OF
this city was nominated for county SUI
psrintendent. Resolutions indorsing
the ST. LOUIS platform and denouncing
Senator ingalls, we're adopted.
Augusta Journal: The Alliance press
| committee selected Walter Holcomb as
editor and proprietor of the Alliance
paper, 1.-The Industrial Advocate" Mr..
II olcomb bought an interest in the
News and the News will cease to exist
after this week, Ms place being taken
by the Advocate" The press commit
tee had decided to establish the paper
at ElDorado but reconiidered SO far as
| to allow the Advocate to remain in Au-
gusta until the County Alliance meet
ing and then allow it to designate the
location.
What remedy do these Pennsylvania'
ideal farmers propose for the depression
they are laboring under? Their action
at this meeting answers the question:
They all signed petition to congress
asking for the establishment of sys-
tenn of free money by establishing a
bureau Of convertible national currency
for the purpose of furnishing a full
legal tender currency to all citizens
who can give a proper security. at a
charge not exceeding one cent per an
mum. Now, l am not Directing to this,
Tor 1 welcome any proposition that
looks to tho breaking Of the bond that
usury has entailed on civilization-or
rather on humanity. We have in labor
saving invention, in cheap and rapid
transportation. in the discoveries Of
science, and in the diffusion ard growth
Of popular intelligence, the conditions
of an ideal prosperity and happiness,
such as the world has never known,
but for one or two disabilities. They
may be condensed in an economic sense
into two things. The nature Of money,
and the right to its acquisition and
holding And every movement that
goes to a reduction or the abolition Of
usury is step in the direction OF free
dom and relief to the massss.-R. T.
Van Horn.
That is the point to which the organ
ization and management Of these trusts
are gradually and silently educating
the people. We have only few So
called maxims to unlsarn, and We are
ready for the change-only to wait on
the inertia of the mass Of mind. We
have been told that competition was
the life Of trade,-which meant that
one fellow would sell cheap what he
beat the other fellow out of, or beat the
labor employed in its production. But
these trusts don't compete any more.
So they dry up that old stock-in-trade
maxim. Another is that individual
ambition is the germ of progress. But
individual ambition in trade or Iroduc-
ton is simply the manifestation of in
dividual selishnsss, and has always
boon exercised to pull down in one d.
rection as theoretically as to build up
in another. These trusts however, do
not even encourage individual enter
prise-but repress it. SO at last We
have actually outgrown the very max
inns Of the wisdom Of the old conditions.
Finally, these corporations, these asso-
Citations OF labor, Of capital, and their
management have demonstrated that
even the selfishness of man has not
been able to suppress the underlying
law OF his nature-the social function
but is demonstrating age by age the
controlling forces Of naturs-that Or
ganic life u gregarious, and that the
highest development Of humanity is to
b under the law of association. When
the time il ripe, society will step into
the places Of these trusts, and then the
labor employed viii b the trust This
may sssm Utopian, bat it il Just "a csr-
tain . that nature u simply cause and
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