The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-06-19
COMMUNICATION.
EDITOR Sun:

and to the laboring class in general,
50 i hand you this, and will ask u few
questions.
+ Fret, are the leaders of the ALI
ancs working for the good of the
producing ehsssl Or are they as Mr..
Donnelly says "working to feather
their own nest" When leading
and cOntl Olling light in the alliance
talks as Mr.. d. does, of their chief
men, Is 1t not time to hesitate and
consider what tits best to do. lie
tells us that Hodgson and Sprague are
fixed with a $4,000. salary. Fixed by
who! BY the Republican party of
course. the same party that Mr.. d.
helped to put into power. He, Mr.. D.,
talks we'll to the public in the interest
of the common people and has done
30 for years. But what has been his
action? He with Hodgson and
~Sprague, Furlong aud Fish and many
others of the leaders Of the Alliance
have been trying to get fixed, each
and every one of them, and the pro-
ducing class is being crowded to the
wall by the monster high Protective
Tariff, and are writhing as it were in
its embrace; they are in many cases
misleading them, and really helping
10 make their burdens heavier.
These same leaders talked just as
well to you for reform tive years ago.
and what did they do they, Hodgson
and Hlxson, Hall and Donnelly. and
most of their leaders advocated and
supported with their votes the Nc.
Kinley Republican platform, wherein
they said: Rather than surrender
any part of their Protective system"
to cut down the revenue" they wonld
take the internal revenue wholly off
whisky and tobacco to reduce the
surplus. But the necessity of reduc.
ing the surplus will not exist two
years hence. AS the Republicans
have q way of getting away with
such things.
Mr.. Il. says he twas a man of emf
nence and influence before the ALI
ance was born and would be when 1t
was dead" Now when a man who
has done more to build the Alliance
than any other, talks thus; what re-
form can you expect to accomplish
by working with them as party; at
best they are only local party. and
their leaders OF ability know that
they can accomplish nothing that 10
real reform, unless you call it reform
to Feather their nest.
Most of the states know Of no Ali
ancs organization, and to effect re-
form in any line you must act with a
party that is national. You have
two such parties. One has the power
Of the government in its hands en-
tirely. The other having no official
power of control in the halls of Con.
gress, or in the executive chair. but
having majority of some 100000 Of
the voters with them are, ar
been powerless.to shane"
the last Thirty 5eaa>
of the law making power ns-
against tlIetn all of'the time. Now
we know that the Democrats advocate
strictly revenue tariff and always
have, and they would make it as low
as it is possible to do upon the neces
saries of life letting the luxuries pay
a higher duty, and it seems to me as
if it was folly to try to build a party
to do a thing. that it requires a
nation to act on, wnen there is q
national party in existence that is
advocating the same principle, and ]
ask all men, that are genuine in their
desire for reform to pause and think
what they ought to do.
1t ought to be easy for a Democrat
to decide his duty; for to act with a
third party means political suicide, az
it divides the party interested in re-
form and 1t is impossible for this
3rd party to meet with success only
In some local way where they are
powerless to effect any reform and il
others are genuine in their belief in
refom, why hesitate to act with the
party who has a chance to help YOU
Because you have opposed the Demo,
Gratis is NO reason that you should
always oppose them. The only
national question now is: "a Nc
Kinley Reform Tariff Billy or q
genuine reform one, one shaped in the
interest of the mIllionares, and the
other in the interest Of the common
people.
This Tariff question will not down,
for It's sapping the life out of this
people and must be changed or 1t will
lead to revolution.
| Let as try and act intelligently in
this matter and not be led by meu
| who are working to feather their
own nests as Donnelly says. But ]
have already taken more time then
intended 30 close.
- YoURs AS Ar OLD GRANGER.