Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-21
THE ALLANC CE IN I'OLf TICS,
The Supreme Folly Of Deserving the
ReptI bic an Party Dem onst rated.

Hon. o. P. Mason, Cx Judge Of the supreme
court of Nebraska, spoke as follows;
1 will tell youthe mason why L am not an
alliance man, and w by no republican should
the epu blIcan party and Join the ALI
ance NOV ement, / have endeavored to con-
siderwith deli berati ION thepurposeS and aims
Of the alliance movement In the United
States. With large majority of the MEM
berS com pOsin & this organization the motives
are good, their aspirations pure and patriotic.
Theyare hon eStlY looking around for rem
edy for what they regard as existing evils.
They complain of railroad domination, of the
combination of capi tal in the organization of
trusts OF the financial man agement of the
cou ntry in the Establishment OfUnited States
banks The proposed remed Y sug ggested for
what they regard as an evil is to convert the
federal gOvernmen I into a kind OF parental
and financial guardian for every citizen who
OwnSa piece OF Ian d or passes muster as a
farmer by securing him n loan on this land at
lowrateof interest from the federal gov
ern ment, but what of the millions who own
no land Ortoyvn lots. S'he la borers who live
by their daily tOil-the blacksmith, the car
penter the contractor, the turner, the hod-
ca rrTer, the briCkla Yer, the millions upon mil
| lions of laboreT outside of the farmer class
VIII at proysi onis to be made for them! In
| civi society every class is alike entitled to
| civil pro tectionin person and property from
| the government And nogovemment s hOuld
| as sumo The guardia nship of any class of its
citizens orrendcr them fnan cal aid except
| for services rende red 10 that govern ment.
Tn sol q iers fall wi thin the class who have
| rendered serv ice to the government but the
farmer as suchno more than the day la bOrer.
would araly2e the energies of the
class aided destroy individual effort and
strike fatal blow at the great and substan-
| tial Industry upoII which the nations pros
perity in great de gree depends.
| EOu have Nvitnes Sed this a2ardous result
| n a
| Two farmers live neighbOrs surrounded by
| like circumst ances and cOnd itionS, each h has
| a son of the same age equal in physical and
mental siren 9Th and energy, One of these
boysis sent out the world to rustic for a
| living, tomal<ehis way, as we usually say
| He becomes mstl er among men, selfreliant,
energetic cmOuldlng business and trade around
him, strong IN power and influence in city,
| council and state, a strong factor in every
department Of the civil and social fabric, IN
school district, in church and in state, i'm
| parting 10 his child rem and TO his ehold
the same elements Of character ne himself
possessed, He pays bis debts, he lifts his
own Mortgages, he has no time to complain
| and find fault for he is engaged in mould
| ing the whole web and warp of the social
| fabric, in lding up, not in pulling down.
| TheSon Of the other man is the special de-
| light of his parent. He relies upon the
| parent, he turns TO him for aid in every
| emergency of life and he receives it, he be-
comes and is amere cipher in society. He is
| helpless q floater drifted by every current,
| can do uOthiu g wit hOut parental aid, Ee is
| a useless factorin the social fabric Parental
aid has pral wed effort and ruinedhim Sc
| you by The fostering care of parental gov
ernment would make pulling infants
| of the former class, helpless and use
| less, without self-reliaAce, will or capacity
| for effort No gentlemen, this will not do
Nothing must be one tOcripple or paralyze
individual effort, but everything 10 en-
IL
NlOneys not wealth. II is the standard
| by whichwe measure wealth, Spain has
| been a hunte rOf precious me tails and directed
all her energies to ac4uirethe precious metals
| gold and silver She is poor England di'
| reced her en- ergies 70 INDUS try, agriculture
maui fa Cturies and commerce.. She is nch
NJ oney isnot land and houses By the com
| pendu IN Of the cen,us of lSN, there were
| farmers, planters, male and female landOwn
| erS ,22545: Of the producers engaged IL
| other occupa tiOns, B, l66l54- The entire pro-
| ducing labor population was S6,I6l ,GO1; o.
thisnumber 4,225, 9b Were engaged in agri
| culture as owners Of land from one acre anC
| upwards, There We're of the laboring clas:
of farms in the United States of three acre:
andupwards was 4,OOS, 9O7 Now how is this
| alliance party going to supply these thirteen
millions Of labOrers with money who have M
| lands tomortgage. These alliance men pro
| pose and advocate class legislation favorin 6
| four millions as against thirteen millions
| This is not fairO tits nOt honest
1t is admittedi that wide and sometime!
| painful contrasts in the social and financia
| condition of men suggests su splcioR thai
| thepurpOses Of nature have been thwarted
| a nd it ought not TO occasion surprise tina
those who suffer from social ineq uality some
times demand more equal share in th'
| world 5 pos sessions, or even assert the righ
| of the majority to confiscate the property o
| the few who are very rich, But the land
| owners, above all classes, are bound by theil