St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-01
THE MONEY POWER.
This, Says President Polk, Is
Keepin@ the People Down.


OCALA, Fla, Nov. 3O.-The annual
meeting of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union will open in this city
next Tuesday. The convention Will be
composed of about 100 delegates. from
thirty-tive states, representing an aggre-
gate membership of over 100000. Be-
sides the actual delegates, there will be
large representation of Alliance men
from all parts Of the country, with
many ladies. The aggregate at
tendance is estimated at 500.
Already the hotels are filling up, and
| rived. President l.. l.. Polk, of North
Carolina. arrived last night. In an i'll
terview to-day he SAID: Il cannot out
line the exact nature of the delibera-
| tions of the convention, but will say
| that they will comprehend many topics
affecting national legislation. The ma
tiOnal Alliance stands squarely on the
platform adopted at ST. Louis. 1t has
not receded one jot or title from the
position which it then took, and it
means TO win on that declaration of
principles and those demands for re-
forms.
''lt will be the aim Of the national Al
lance at this meeting to so direct all it's
shall be universally recognized as one
of national fraternity and unity. We
desire to make it thoroughly national in
its character. We desire to break down
sectional lines. We have had enough
or bloody shirt. We have had enough
Of sectional animosity on both sides.
Prior to last December the Alliance was
practically unknown north of the Ohio
river, but at the ST. Louis convention
we made Il grand break across Mason
and DiXon'S line. We took the farmers
and labOrerS of the North, and OF the
East and of the West by the hands, and
to-day we are all trampling sectional
ism under our feet"
cause of the result at the recent cleo
ton, President Polk said: 81 am NOR
ally certain of the reasons for it. We
shall have to look beyond the Mckinley
tariff bill-iJ was not that. We must
look farther than any and all of the
political questions which have been OBJ
scuring the real issue for nearly twenty
years. 1t was the oppression of the
financial system of this country upon
the masses of the people. They
have just found out what the
matter is. They are thinkers to-
day, if they never were before.
They have scratched away all the rub
blsh of the negro question, of the bloody
shirt, of the tariff, and of the federal
control of elections, and they have at
last got down to hardpan. It's the dol
lar that is keeping the people down to-
day. 1t is the money poWer-the rule
OF plutocracy. And the people will have
no more of it. The slogan hencefOrth is to
be financial reform. The national bauk-
ing system must go. The farmer and
labCrer must be given chance to get
what money they need upon the security
OF their real property-a privilege which
is denied them to-day. The issue from
now on is to be square one between
the manhood Of America on one side
and the great American dollar on the
other. And l tell you right now that
unless the leaders of the great political
parties come to recognize the real issue
and make it. there are going to be terri
bic times in this country. The people
will not suffer the real issue to be OBJ
scured any longer. The people of this
country are going to rule it. SectiOnaliSm
cannot pull them apart any longer. Why,
If my own father were candidate for
office to-day, and if on the stump he
should abuse Yankees | would refuse to
vote for him if 1t were the last act of my
life. I'm sick of that rot and rubbish
heartily sick and tired of it, The only
men who can secure popular support
are those who understand the great
economic questions of the day and who
are in full sympathy with the people in
| their battle for their rights against the
oppression of the money kings"
Among the distinguished members of
the national body now here are DR.. G..
w. Macune, chairman of the executive
committee: Secretary Turner, Con-
gressman-elect Livingston, of Georgia;
President McGrath. of the Kansas state
alliance; j. F. Willitts, of Kansas, re-
Gently defeated for governor by
Humphreys (Rep.), and Congressman
elect B. F. Glover, af Kansas.