Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
The Farmers Alliance ano ,nous,r,,,

The Farmers Alliance ana Industrial
Union ID built upon the ideas which lie
at the beginning of all these reforms
labor land, transportation and money.
Every person who is interested in any
one OF these is interested in all of them.
The farmer, by reason of his calling.
is directly interested in every one Of
them, and no worker can say that he
has no interest in any of them. It is
meet, therefore, that farmers should
take the initiative in movement toward
union of all the working forces There
Is nothing that the wage worker needs
that does not concern tie farmer, and
there IS nothing which the farmer needs
that does not concern the man or woman
who works for stated wages Upon the
prosperity of the farmer depends the
prosperity of all other classes. When
agriculture is depressed for any con-
siderable length of time, all other in
dustries are affected, bus ness drags and
labor lacks employment Look at the
situation now Farming is unprofit-
able, farm values are depreciating,
prices of farm produ is the last six years
have been below the cost line All
other productive industries have suf-
tered in sympathy, and manufacturers
appealed successfully to Congress for
aid in their line. The new tariff law
will not only not help the farmer and
laborer, it will actually injure both of
them in the way of increased cost OF
many articles used in every home
Now we find that the farmers have al
no -
Louis, last Decem Der, the first great
step was taken, and at Ocala, Fla, next
December, the second step will be taken,
and that will have advanced US far
enough to make the way clear to the
battle-ground of 1892 The Alliance be-
gan this grand work of union and it
will continue it until all the working
forces of the country are united in one
great National body for political pur-
poses. We are now at the dawn of the
new day which that union of labor will
bring to US The Alliance will grow
larger, stronger more courageous, bet
ter equipped every way for giving aid
and comfort to any National movement
begun for the emancipation of labor.
There is no longer room for doubling
the mportance-aye the necessity, of a
combination of the masses if we will
impress our views upon the legislation
OF the country and secure perma-
nent relief from burdens which
we can not bear much longer.
The part which the Alliance must
take in the history which will be
made in the coming years will be lead
ing 1t can neither avoid responsibility
nor evade duty in the promises. What
1t has already done has fitted it for the
still greater work yet to be done 1t is
the grandest organization on earth. La
Dor is the foundation of all wealth, and
the Alliance will move the workers into |
line for the upbulding of an imperish-
able union. Peace comes from harmony
among communities, and the Alliance
will obliterate sectional prejudice in |
this country and nationalize the people. |
Prosperity comes from the enjoyment of |
an unfettered tizenship and the Alli- !
ance will be the instrument through |
which the emancipation OF labor will be |
effected. Permanent freedom can bs |
maintained only through the dethrone-.
ment OF the money power and the estab-
lishment OF rule of the people, and - -, !,
accomplish that is the last 1reat work
OF the Alliance. Zen that victory is
won the Alliance will dissolve, but not |
Farmer.