Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-11

but a. companion and helpmeet-the Ire
Titled to the support Of all good citizens.
That Is the kind Of an alliance man am
today. / favor those principles; am inter-
ested in the welfare of the farmer; / amin
tcrestcd in any legislation or anything that
can be done TO make him more prosperous,
and for this reason: Whenever the farmer is
prosperous, Whenever he has plenty OF money,
every other business and every other trade
throughout the country is prosperous every
where, / do not believe in the farmers ar.
raging themselves as party against all other
classes of industry. do not believe a man
should 90 TO Legislature or congress TO enact
laws simply for one class of people | believe
that if a mans views are not broad enough TO
take in his whole constituency he ought not
10 go where laws are to be made at all.
believe If man is elected to the state
legislature he should not only take into con.
sideration the counties he represents, but lac
should take in this vast empire and stop and
study the wants Of the whole state, and
should feel that he is under the most solemn
obligations to do the very best he can for the
Interests of the state rs a whole.
Hence it seems to me that no man is quail
fed TO have the position that takes the mar
row view that he goes there TO do the very
best and all he can for single class of peo-
pie, forgetting and leaving out all other
Glasses of people with their varied interests
And find also that with reference to this
nllianCc movement i am in harmony with
three or four different states. Here Is some
thing from the state of Indiana. 1t may be
well 10 state that there are two organizations
jn Indiana entirely distinct, one known as the
National alliance and one formerly known as
the Northern alliance organized at Fort
Wayne June D. The policy of the National
has always been to push It's reforms within
the various parties, thus making it available
10 the farmers interests in the political in
fucncc of its members.
And then in the state of Ohio, with over a
thousand farmers, probably as intelligent
farmers as could be found within the bounds
of that state, assembled together to study
and acquaint themselves with some way by
which they could further the interests of the
agricultural people of that state, and here ir
few of the declarations from them: 1--WE
must agree upon either one or the other
course. that is, that we either act independ-
emily as a party, or act through the other
parties" and it says the farmer must be
factor in politics. Can this condition best
be reached by the formation of an alliance
party, or by making its influence felt in the
control of existing parties. ut is the sense Of
this convention that we should first test the
alliance, and we hope we shall not be com
PEELED TO resort to the alternative" That IS
true Of this large and intelligent body of
farmers in the state of Iowa, they should act
through the existing parties, and also have
their resolution here passed by the Farmers
association in the same line and IN the same
direction. If the farmers will act together,
and whenever anything comes up touching
their interests and they can agree upon 1t to
act together, l tell you what it is, with such
force as that no party would dare to op
pose IT,
They hold too big an influence in this
country for them to dare to do otherwise
The committee on the tariff bill state that
farmers came in, democrats and republicans
and all sorts of political belief, and asked
them to do certain things with reference to
the agricultural interests, and ! have some
statements here, l don't know whether it is
best for me to take the time to read them, for
want to give most of the time this evening
TO Mr. Rosewater in which these farmers de-
mandcd that something should be done, The
committee, as you all understand, invited
everybody to come before them and present
their wants and stated they would do the best
they could by them We imported last year
100, $40 bushels of wheat The farmers found
this out, is what the committee says, and
asked that the duty on wheat be increased
from 20 to35 cents per bushel. Now, it was
said by MIR. Burrows when he was at Fair
bury, that the senate of the United States
was made up of rich men and would not
legislate in the interests OF any other class
but rich men. Now, when they put the
tariff on wheat, who are they to benefit! Not
themselves, for they are consumers of wheat
it is the man that raises the wheat, and in
order to remunerate him that much
ai'i year s1s,as6 ~ bushels @ afp'' of potatoes, s
and the request of the farmer was that the
duty should be raised from l5 cents to % cents
bushe. The object of that was to benefit
the farmer and to benefit him alone, Who
raises the potatoes in this countrys Where
do they ccme froms Are they not the pro-
ducts of the toll and labor Of the farrnerl
And has not congress said in this BILL 'We
are willing to add this much to help you that
you may get better prices and may have more
money in your pockets, and therefore help all
other business by being able to disUri butte that
money among the business industries of the
countryf' a man who lived on the border
heard that they sold hoes for 30 cents apiece
in Canada and ins the United States they
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question he thought he would go and see.
He found hoe for so cents, and it was very
poor hoe, but he said to the hardware man on
the other side. "Why do you sell hoes for rs
centsl l bought this one for 80 centsn The
merchant told him that he would sell him a
hoe like that for 40 cents, but he wouldn't
have it.
have come to this conclusion 1 may be
wrong, but If | am wrong i want to be
righted. Ipresume felt the same as a good
many other farmers. L was feeding cattle
and | wasn't getting much for it; l was
working myself for nothing, and thought it
Is possible that these monied men do control
the cattle market and we are being ground
down to toll and labor for nothing because
they have the power to buy the cattle at just
such prices as they want to, got to study
ing the thing over and says to myself: III
Mr.. Sweet and Mr.. Armour did not have
millions of dollars invested in that cold stor-
age, what in theword would become of our
cattle Ifthey had not had the cold storage we
because they could not take care of them and
am glad that there are men that have money
and can take care of our products when we
are little overstocked with them.
Hence, for these reasons have felt justified
as farmer, as a tiller of the soil, to expect
relief If relief was to come at all, from the
republican party sooner than from any other
organization that could be made. So far as
the farmer is concerned they are all right, the
most of them, but they haveno settled or fixed
policy by which they are to accomplish any
thing and when they come to get together ir
alliances, you will see that in less than ten
minutes 1t is almost utterly impossible to gel
them to agree upon anything. There are d
few more conservative that can agree, but
am salts fled that if the republicans have 6
majority in the legislature this winter, We
can pass the Iowa railroad law | believe
this alliance has done good in this state; II
has started people up and set them to think
ing about these great questions, which
believe after all will work out for good, ano
1t will make the old parties more careful tC
seek to do justice throughout the country.
Hence, L feel like staying with the old
party; there are a great many things that
Cau be said about what it has done it has q
grand history. l think there never was
party since the world began that ever accom-
plished so much for nation or people in q