Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30

Constitution, he labors to show by plaus-
ible 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. ''the overthrow OF sectionalism,
the reduction of taxation, state and in
terstate controI-and not owuership-of
railroads and sound, stable and fexi-
bic 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, aud
that the latter will not be had until the
former is fact accomplished. Upon
the Industrial, economic, and political
union of the South and West depends the
overthrow of sectioualism. How can
that union best be had? Through. the
fellowship and brotherhood of the Farm
ers' Alliances so numerous in both Sec
tons. When the farmers of the West
and south fully realize that their inter-
ests are identical, and their welfare and
prosperity dependent on the same agen-
cies and causes, their political utilization
is at hand.
1t can not be denied that there is a
great deal of truth in these statements
of Mr.. Calhoun, concerning the exist
ence and best method of extermuating
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
same reason the agricultural classes in
both those sections have suffered
infinite 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 fleeced, and that
their interests were as one with those OF
The South. OF the Western and South
ern farmers may it be SAID that while
their enemies joined IN hate, they never
Joined IN love. Discord, blind and un-
reasoning antipathy, and puerile spirit
of sectionalism worthy only of children,
have kept them divided, and made both
prey to the common enemy. United,
they would be iuvincible; they uld
have the power to take the Eastern car
morants 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 intlaming the sectional |
bitterness of the Jayhawkers, and for |
what purpose? Plainly to destroy the
and weaken the cohesveness of |
the alliance organizations which threaten
TO knock the props from under the Re-
publican machine in that state. Else
where the same political iucendiarism
and reffianism is rampant, and for like
purpose
If, according to the views Of "Georg-
ian Z" the Farmers Alliance can estab-
fish such a fellowship between the agri-
cultural classes of the West and South,
and can bring about unity of interests
political as well as industrial, such as the
order should exist between them,
they will have accomplished more of good
Tor the masses of the country than all
hat as been done since the war. They
IAN well afford to set themselves to the
of that task alone and
cave the settlement of the financial
question and other matters TO some one
Use, or TO some other time. Reforms
an not be had in patches.