St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
FARMERS ALLANCE.I
What the Press of the Countr
Thinks of the New Party.

What the Press of the Country
Thinks of the New Party.
The Philadelphia Times has caught
on very neatly to the drift of political
affairs in this section. 1t says:
The ticket of the Farmers Alliance
in Minnesota promises to be very dis
turbing factor in the politics of that
state. The Alliance ticket is headed by
S, NJ, Owen, Republican, for governor,
and three other Republicans are on the
ticket with two Democrats. Owen is
editor of the Farm, Stock and Home.
and Wesenberg. another Republican on
the ticket, is Swede and editor of the
Duluth Scandinavian, the organ of the
large SWede population in the state, all
of which is Republican.
The Alliance movement in Mime
sofa, with an organized vote OF nearly
IL, 900, and many;other thousands sympa-
thizing with it, is certain to hold the
balance of power between the old par
ties, and general uptumbling of poll
tics in that state NAV be expected. not
only in state officers but in congressman
and the legislature. 1t looks as ii there
would not be any supporters OF the
Mckinley bill returned to congress in
Minnesota.
The New York Times is responsible
for the following: "It iseharged against
the Farmers Alliance of Alabama that
il has been the cause of the decline and
fall off of the HardShell Baptist church
in Alabama. This church opposed the
Alliance and fought it tooth and nail,
acting in accordance with its general
doctrine that secret societies are the in
vention of the devil. The farmers were
given their choice between Alliance and
accommodation ON the one hand, and
no Alliance and communion with the
saints OH the other hand. Being of the
earth, earthly. they generally cleaved to
the Alliance"
The Oshkosh Times says: 1.-THE Min
nesota farmers have decided that it
does not pay them TO put mortgages on
their farms TO enable them to pay high
prote ctive duties on the clothes they
wear and the utensils they use. In
pursuance of this idea they propose
electing state officers to look out for
their own interests and not to be driven
by tariff scare to look out for the in
terests of few protected monopolies
and few selfish politicians at the eX-
peuse of the farmers"
The Detroit Free Press looks at it in
this light:
The denunciation of the Mckinley
bill by the Minnesota farmers is Wig
orous piece of work: and coming as it
does from state where the Republican
majority is due to the agricultural vote,
it ought to have some effectin checking
the demand that the bill in question be
passed as party measure The Pioneer
Press, of st. Paul, has been telling the
party leaders as plainly as it could
without putting the statement into
words, that the passage of the bill would
imperil the party's hold on Minnesota,
but the leaders have sneered at the sug-
geStion as unworthy of attention. Per-
hapS they may pay more heed to it now
that it has been voiced by the most
numerous and important part of their
constituency in the state.
The complaint of the farmers that the
war tariff discriminates against them
is general one, but it might easily
have been given with bill of particu-
lars. The MassachuS etts labor bureau,
in its latest issue, has furnished such
bill, which the Minnesota farmers and
all others interested would do well to
read. The volume, like all those issued
by ethe Massachusetts bureau, has been
carefully prepared and is unquestion-
ably trustworthy. Although compiled
under the direction of Republican Off
Gals, tits apparently free from partisan
bias. 1t certainly furnishes mass OF
facts which make very strongly against
the protection policy OF the Republican
party.