Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-08-16
ALLIANCE MATTERS.

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The COTS News, the All ance organ
of Nemaha county, is to be moved to
Seneca.
From Scott City: The Scott Coun-
ty Farmers alliance has nominated a
ticket The nominees are all either
democrats or union labor men.
From Columbus: The Farmers aill-
ance and a portion of the Knights OF
Labor met in convention and nominal
ed county and representative ticket.
The convention virtually endorsed re-
submission resolutions, although the
prohibitionist party took part. The
convention was large and enthusiastic.
From Clay Center: The Peoples
Union Labor Farmers alliance party
held a county convention here and
nominated full ticket and passed reso-
lutions severely censuring the action
of certain republican members of the
alliance for calling mass meeting of
alliance republicans, and soundly con-
demning the Clay Center Times for its
outspoken criticism of the leaders of
the political movements in the alliance.
From Garrett: The peoples party
held county convention in this city
and nominated a full county ticket.
Nominees for representative and pro-
bate Judge have heretofore acted with
the greenback, union labor and prohi-
bition party. Nominees for county
attorney and clerk of court have always
been staunch democrats. A lady Of
this city was nominated for county SUI
perintendent. Resolutions indorsing
the st. Louis platform and denouncing
Senator ingalls, were adopted.
Augusta Journal: The Alliance press
committee selected Walter Holcomb as
editor and proprietor of the Alliance
paper, 1.-The Industrial Advocate" Mr..
Holcomb bought an interest in the
News and the News will cease to exist
after this week, Ms place being taken
by the Advocate" The press commit
tee had decided to establish the paper
at ElDorado but reconiidered so far as
to allow the Advocate to remain in Au-
gusta until the County Alliance meet
ing and then allow it to designate the
location.
What remedy do these Pennsylvania
ideal farmers propose for the depression
they are laboring under? Their action
OF chic r,aoofinor tho rY11ocfinn.
They all signed a petition to congress
asking for the establishment of sys-
tenn of free money by establishing a
bureau OF convertible national currency
for the purpose OF furnishing full
legal tender currency to all citizens
who can give a proper security, at
charge not exceeding one cent per an,
mum. Now, 1 am not Directing to thi
for I welcome any proposition that
looks to the breaking of the bond that
usury has entailed on civilization-or
rather on humanity. We have in labor
saving invention, in cheap and rapid
transportation. in the discoveries of
science, and in the diffusion ard growth
of popular intelligence. the conditions
of an ideal prosperity and happiness,
such as the world has never known,
but for one or two disabilities. They
may be condensed in an economic sense
into two things. The nature o. money,
and the right to its acquisition and
holding. And every movement that
goes to a reduction or the abolition of
usury is step in the direction of free
dom and relief to the masses.-R. T.
Van Horn.
That is the point to which the organ
ization and management of these trusts
are gradually and silently educating
the people. We have only a few So
called maxims to unlearn, and We are
ready for the change-only to wait on
the inertia of the mass of mind. We
have been told that competition was
the life of trade.-which meant that
one fellow would sell cheap what he
beat the other fellow out OF, or beat the
labor employed in its production But
these trusts don't compete any more.
So they dry up that old stock-in-trade
maxim. Another is that individual
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individual ambition in trade or lroduc-
ton is simply the manifestation of in
diTidual selishness, and has always
been exercised to pull down in one d.
rection as energetically as to build up
in another. These trusts, however, do
not even encourage individual enter
prise-but repress it. So at last we
have actually outgrown the very max
inns of the wisdom of the old conditions.
Finally, these corporations, these asso-
Citations of labor, o; capital, and their
management have demonstrated that
even the selfishness of man has not
been able to suppress the underlying
law Of his nature-the social function
but is demonstrating age by age the
controlling forces of nature-that or
ganic life is gregarious, and that the
highest development of humanity is to
be under the law of association. When |
the time is ripe. society will step into
the places of these trusts, and then the I
labor employed will be the trust. This |