The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-15
Ada Herald.

Ada Herald.
All OF this is most deplorable. Oh
all things q movement such as this
to be successful must have unity oil
action. The charges of the Great
West Indicate a condition OF cOrrup-
ton and rascality high in Alliance
circles that are simply astounding
and unless these charges are dis
proved the Alliance enters the cam
paign in very crippled condition.
Weekly Nationalist:
The farmers have but just come in
to the labor movement, and are not
necessarily bound to walk upright.
Thus the Minnesota Alliances first
Convention held July 23rd, at ST..
Paul, is characterized as a complete
failure by it's own organ, The GREAT
WEST, which speaks OF it, in con-
spicuous headlines, as GA loose-ioint-
ed Convention, run by fraud and
mastered by the PlutOcrats OF the
twin cities. The labor delegations
are 'snide' in every respect. The
Australian law disobeyed and the
farmers will crushed out. Only $40
alliances represented out Of 1900"
"The Alliance our contemporary
further tells us, "started off in style.
1t started in with headquarters at
the Merchants Hotel, 4 thank you
mid the bloom and blue blood OF the
great politicians of the historic Il. y.
P's"; the admission of delegates and
voting were a farce; bogus fedora
ton OF labor was got up which sent
So delegates, and representatives
from the Union Labor Party, Knights
of Labor Gan organization which
does not permit it's members, as
such, to represent it in any political
Convention), and other doubtful
bodies, were obediently whipped into
line to vote as the managers direct
ed In short if our contemporary
is to be credited, all the old tricks
were played on the unsuspecting far
mer, who, having no definite econo-
mic principles of his own, is neces-
sarily an opportunist, wavering be-
tween the formation of third party
and a hanging on to the old parties
for such crumbs as they may choose
to charitably bestow.
1t is we'll that such Incidents as the
forced resignation of the Rev. Mr.
Foster, who has been compelled to
resign his Cincinnati passionate be-
cause he would drag the social ques-
ton into his sermons, should be sent
the rounds of the reform and labor
press. Mr. Foster is not alone in his
martyrdom, he has many illustrious
fellow sufferers, and, as long as it's
present un-Christlike spirit animates
the Church, he will have many sue
cessOrs. The ministers, as a.body,
are profoundly to be pitied; they are
usually, as men of leisure and educa-
ton. head and shoulders above the
average Of the congregations that
use their churches for convenient
social centres; and as more and
more of them catch the rising light
of the new thought, they will find
themselves in more and more impos-
sible relations with the Philistines
who hold the purse strings. We
should certainly notice all such ex-
pulsions; they are a tribute due to
moral courage that costs no paltry
struggle; they serve to remind us of
how much all refOrmers have in COM
mon.
There is trouble ahead, deep as the
sea and as wide, for the political
bosses of this country. There is a
state OF affairs and it is serious one,
and it seems unadjustable from any
party standpoint. 1t takes thous-
and bushels of corn to pay the tax
on an average Kansas farm and all
the wool of whole flock of sheep,
together with the hides and meat of
their carcasses, to do the same thing
in Ohio. 1t takes ten thousand
bushels OF corn, or the product of
half dozen farms to pay the salary
of single public officer in Kansas,
and the united effort of the whole