The Louisiana Democrat., 1890-09-10
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE,

organs-Grinders Have Nothing to Say.
1t is not so very long ago that the Re-
publican organs of the North were max
ing great to-do over the attitude of
the Farmers Alliance in the South.
They were extracting good deal OF
comfort out of the situation in South
Carolina, and out of the general move
ment on the part oil, the alliance in nom
mating new men for the various offices.
They were predicting, indeed, that the
alliance was to be the wedge by which
the South was to be divided and disor-
ganized, and they were SO busily en-
gagged in coniuring up this spectacle
that they had no time to pay any at
tention to the movement of the alliance
in the West and Northwest.
Tho great trouble with the average
partisan editor of the North and East is
the fact that he is densely ignorant of
the drift and trend Of pablic sentiment
outside OF those who are as partisan and
sectional as he is, and he seems to re-
gard his ignorance as in the nature of
an accomplishments phase Of special
culture-to be paraded in public and to
be proud OF. Facts aud object lessons
are of no Importance whatever to the
partisans and sectionalists who edit the
Republican organs. They seem to be
utterly unable to appreciate the vitality
of the Solid South; they seem to be ut
terly unable to understand that the
unity of the white people here, in the
alliance and out Of it, with the alliance
and in spite of it's above all merely
political issues, and that the people in
order to preserve it, and thus preserve
themselves from negro domination
under Republican manipulation, will
make any sacrifice and any compromise.
This is true of all classes; but the parti-
san editors OF the North ignore this
fact, and pretend to believe that the
South can be divided, to the profit of
the Republicans, by the ordinary polit-
ical methods and issues.
But their ignorance does not end
here. While the Republican majority
in Congress, assisted by the organs,
have been hammering away at tariff
bill framed solely in the interests of
the monopolists and the manufacturers,
and intended as bait for contributions
to the corruption fund, the Northern
and Eastern organ editors have wholly
ignored the tremendous change that
has been going on among the Republic
ans of the West and Northwest on the
tariff question. The papers of these
sections are full of the subject. The
alliances of the different States have
taken the matter up, and, in co-opera-
tion with the labor organizations, have
made strenuous protests against high
tariff.
But it is chiefly by means Of the alli-
ance that the reformation of public
opinion has been carried on. In Kan
sas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebraska
the movement in opposition to the pet
doctrine of the Republican party has
created a profound impression among
the politicians, but the drift and
tendency of the masses of the people
have been entirely ignored by the
Northern and Eastern organs, and the
New York Tribune, to 60 no further, is
still nagging and abusing Senators be-
cause they refuse to give merely a hasty
consideration to the Mckinley bill.
The Kansas Senators, Ingalls, and
Plumb, and Senator Paddock, of Ne
braska, have already demonstrated by
their votes on certain sections of the
Mckinley bill that they have heard
the news from home. The $4,000 alli-
ance men in Kansas have already
warned Mr.. Ingalls, that he was sent to
Washington to do something else be-
sides making stump speeches against
the South, and recently the Seventh dis
trict Republican convention of the same
State has adopted platform indorsing
Mr.. Blaine's reciprocity scheme, and
favoring 'such reduction of the tariff as
shall cheaper the products of the fac
tory and shop in ratio with farm prod
ucts." The platform of the convention
absolves the nominee 'from dictation
of the party caucus on all economic
onestiOnS "-Atlanta Constitution