Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-02-14

creation is a failure, and human ex-
istence a curse.
The HeEaId'sEview on the Farmers
Alliance.
! II Dngue we're TO tell his sentiments he would
say, am in favor of the Alliance but believe they
! can best accomplish 10 through the republican
/ party. Capt: Coviugton would say the same Tor
! the democratic party. We diner from both and
| believe it is all FOt-LOgRn Freeman.
Now let Dague re-state his own pO-
sition. We have for years publicly
and privately advocated organization
among farmers and working men,
and the HERALD, since it has been IN
der our editorial management, has
published more matter favoring such
a movement than any other paper in
westesn Kansas. We have, ever since
/ the Farmers Alliance movement be-
gan, advised all our farmer readers
to Join it, whether they be republicans,
democrats or union laborites. Our
advice has been for members of all
parties to keep political differences
in the back ground, and to not raise
the partisan war-whOop, and thus get
up inharmony and strife and weaken
the order In this way we have
shown that the Alliance might be
made a powerful organization for
good if wisely managed. While its
constitution declares the order to be
non-part:san, it can and ought to
make the wants Of the industrial
classes known, and should unhesitat-
| ingly demand of every party, and es-
peclally the party in power, such leg
tislatlon as is needed. Farmers should
organize as farmers not as mere po-
Elibcal partiRans, but as men pursuing
a certain avocation. Editors of all
political parties are organized as edi-
! tors, and they look after the interest
of the printing business; SO are bank
ers thus Orgaaizedi SO are lawyers; so
are doctors, and when thus organized
they pull tremendously together for
their mutual interest, never abiding
to their partisan differences. We
! have ADVISED, and now advise farmers
TO do like wise. Let republicans,
! democrats. union laborites, men of all
parties and of no party organize. Dis
regard the vehement, spluttering
demagogues who want you to turn
the Alliance into a recruiting Office
for their political party, but keep
down partisan prejudices and stand
for your common interests as indus
, triaIists. There is legislation needed
z That Legislation you can secure if you
will, as a solid organized body, de-
: mand it, IF you will but ignore pet
/ ty partisan differences, and unitedly
, make intelligent demands for such
legislation as will subserve your in
terests, as will Tighten your burdens,
} that will correct existing evils, at the
same time that will work no injustice
: to any other legitimate business, all
. political parties will make haste to do
} your bidding, or if they do not, will
/ speedily be disintregrabed and de-
? stroyed as they ought to be. Let the
, members of the Farmers Alliance
. now manifest as much good sense and
/ discretion as do the non-partisan
3 Bankers Association, Printers Union,
f and hundred other organizations
: composed of men Of all political be-
, liefs, and pay no attention to the po-
f liticaI shysters who go yawpIng about
I that If you become a good member OF
{ the Alliance you can't longer be a
: member of either of the old parties.
They might just as consistently say
r the same thing to members of any
: other of the hundred and one associa-
3 tions formed for the purpose of pro
S tecting the mutua. interests Of those
: who constitute the membership OF
{ such organizations. Every profes-
t sion or calling, nearly, except farmers
2 is organized into non-partisan associ-
r atlons, and when they want laws
t enacted they demand their passage.
{ Now let farmers emulate the example
2 of other professions, and let them de-
> mand such legislation as is needed
s and let vociferatng, ranting, hot
: headed, Flp-rOaring reformers, who
t damn all who differ with them pOliti-
] cally till the air Is blue, and who want
4 the Alliance to damn them too-let
q such reformers be curbed slightly, or
: invited to take back seats till the Al
lance gets into working order.
= Soma eo,nnnnfcations stand over