Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-29

recent well written article in the Atlanta
| Constitution. he labors to show by plaus-
| lille augmentation that the Alliance
movement is really In the line of Demo-
cratic progress, and indeed q most pow
erful factor IN furthering that progress,
aud strengthening Democratic lines in
the West.
The objects of the Alliance, he claims,
are. ''fhe overthrow OF sectionalism,
the reduction of taxation, state and in
terstate control-and not ownership-of
railroads and o sound, stable and fiexi-
BILE currency based on the great staples,
wheat and cotton, and controlled by the
laws of supply and demand.
The first of these, the overthrow of
sectionalism, he deems prior and essen
tial to the reduction of taxation. and
that the latter will not be had until the
former is a fact accom- plished. Upon
the Industrial, economic, and political
union of the South and West depends the
overthrow of sectionalism. How can
that union best be had? Through the
fellowship and brotherhood of the Farm
ers' Alliances so numerous in both Sec
tIons. When the farmers of the West
aud south fully realize that their inter-
ests are identical, and their welfare and
prosperity dependent on the same agen-
cies and causes, their political affilia,icn
Is at hand.
II can not be denied that there is q
great deal of truth in these statements
OF Mr.. Calhoun, concerning the exist
euce and best method of exterminsting
the sectional spirit that has been prolific
of untold injury and damage to the
South. The East has prospered marvel
ously because the West and South were
divided. On the other hand and for the
both those sections have suffered
infuite damage, and are to-day
woefully handicapped. The flames
of sectional luminosity kept alive
by the East, have blinded the farmers OF
the West TO the double fact that they
were being constantly fieeced, and that
their Interests were as one with those OF
the South. OF the Western and South
ern farmers may it he SAID that while
their enemies joined IN hate, they never
joined IN love. Discord, blind and un-
reasoning autipathy, and puerile spirit
of sectionalism worthy only of children,
have kept them divided, and made both
n prey to the common enemy. United.
they would be invinoible; they W uld
moraDts down few pegs and put au end
TO thievish taxation, monopoly and ras-
cally discrimination. That the East
knows this perfectly well, and fears it,
is evident enough from the clamor raised
in behalf of the force bill. ingalls,, whose
instincts are all with the East, is at this
moment waving the bloody shirt frantic
ally in Kansas, and by Violent and ar
rant demogogy infaming the sectional
bitterness of the Jayhawkers, and for
what purpose? Plainly to destroy the
morale and weaken the cohesiveness of
the alliance organizations which threaten
to knock the props from under the Re-
publican machine in that state. Else
where the same political incendiarism
and refianism is rampant, and for like
purpose.
If. according to the views of tGeorg-
ism, - the Farmers Alliance can estab-
lish such fellowship between the agri-
cultural classes of the West and South,
and can bring about a unity of interests
political as well as Industrial, such as the
natural order should exist between them,
they will have accomplished more of good
for the masses of the country than all
that las been done since the war. They
can well afford to set themselves to the
accomplishment of that task alone and
leave the settlement of the financial
question and other matters to some one
else, or TO some other time. Reforms
can not be had 10 patches.