The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1890-07-30
and could not realize on it just at
that time.
TIE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE.

TEE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE.
The cooperative stores did not
do well. Then the manipulators OF
the alliance b. ,LoasL. them of an,
other scheme. It was an alliance
exel.anca for the state. The idea
was &c have = great wholesale and
whaytAouse establishment. This
was stn5",' nn stupeudous scale.
Farmers Il, Over The state were ask
q - 80, funds to inaugurate
i. ' i hut somehow it
!;er.seA: ,e-.'. -.,~nev was needed, the
'......,. yea, v;.,.' ;.is,l i, was given. SO
+, II 5-.@ H. demands from
- re- 80, octopus that it be-
60, !" H. s,*g -..:s,! that something
W.: ::r-as. Investigation showed
tha1 the :"tu,ega who had put up
tie money 1;J not own a dollar Of
stoc!, il it, and The managers coolly
told them DO. It was so far as the
farmers We're concerned a cold-blood-
ed, heartless corporation. The al
iali . u 'he eoncerh were has'iiy
"ouho up, aIa soAg e, ol tue mana
gers leiS the sta!e' Inc protector
anu leaa1ng spltl1 OF inns enterprise
IS no" IN washington CITY eo1tng
paper calieu m ,, Tue Nationa' .,,. Icoho,
'hist' ne il''ie Aii'ance s'oles ail
over the state also succumDeo' III
TINS way the farmers OF Ie&as were
nu,m,ouggea INTO throwing away
miilions OF money Iney were
swindled ana ROBBED by the very
men VINO insisted that other classes
were useless ana asked them to as
sert thelr manhooo ana declare
tnel! 1noepenoence.
inese nnancial reverses gave the
alliance black eye, SO to speak
MANY OF Its best paying members
became weary OF we'll dong, and
their faith became weak. But the
order Still lived. Every little coun-
try school house still remained a
renezvous Tor the faithful.
ANEW SCHEME.
This year those theoret;cal farmers
who had prospered by the former
misfortunes Of the order and who
lived in fine houses in town with car.
peted floors and such furniture and
surroundinos AZ becomes the wealthy
be thought them a new scheme.
8 Thew had made monev easilv enough
: out of the alliance whv not satisfy
, the lonpinps for public life by Gal.
vanizine 1t into life and play UPON
! the credulitv of their former vic
1 Tins in another wav. Agitation was
r begun. The farmers who belong to
t the alliance were told in the strict
" est confidence that their temporal
s redemption Law in their political
/ emancipation. Information was
8 given oracularly and authoritatiyely
g so that it could not be gainsaid
They were told that other classes
o were ruling and pillaging them, and
: as they were in the majority they
should assert their rights and elect
4 men of their own rank to make and
e administer the laws. The farmers
5 were told this and many believed it,
u in the face of the fact that his in
u terests are better protected by the
9 laws of Texas than those of othe,
o pursuits. He is allowed 200 acre'
n of land and all the improvement,
u thereon; all farming implements h,
; may require or desire, two horse
u and u wagon, five COWS and calves
I twenty head of hogs; twenty heat
s of sheep; all household and kitcher
u furniture; all provisions and feet
= necessary to maintain his business
10 all wearing apparel; all books AM
ie pictures and many other things to-
IL numerous to detail. All these thing
are exempted py tne state constltu
y hoe can;tal invested IN marchand;e
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