St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-15
THE ALLIANOE MOVEMENT.

THE ALLIANCE MOVEMENT.
The farmers are making themselves
felt more just at this time than ever be-
fore. The spread and growth of the
alliance movement under an active and
Intelligent leadership is resulting in
compact organization Of the agrlcult-
ural interests that will soon be able to
hold its own with monopoly, and which
threatens to inaugurate war OF ag-
gresSion against the heretofore favored
classes. A good deal that is proposed to
be done by the alliance leaders when the
alliance has intrenched itself i'll power
is of a most radical nature, and, if ac-
cOmpliShed, will revolutlonize all estab-
lished industrial conditions. 1t IS
possible, however, that most of
these radical schemes, such as
the VANCE and CULLoM bills,
will be abandoned, and more conServa-
tive views prevail when the farmers
once feel that they are IN position to
dictate national policy. The VANCE
bill embodieS what is properly known as
the warehouse certificate scheme, while
the CULLOM bill proposes to have the
government loan money to the farmers
at per cent, taking mortgage on their
farms as security. Both are long steps
in the direction of socialism and nation
alism, and YET it is not surprise that
what under ordinary circumstances
would be regarded as visionary schemes
should receive the Endorsement of so
important and so intelligent body as
the national alliance. 1t is simply the
swinging back Of the pendulum from
one extreme to the other. All national
legislation for the last twenty years has
been toward the other extreme, toward
the building up Of mOnopOlieS under high
tariff laws, toward favoritiSm for the
capitalistic classes. and in all things
unjust and oppressive to the producers.
1t has come to point that organization
must be met with organization. Those
who have suffered oppression all these
years are organizing against their OPP
preSsorS. and the fight promises to be a
bitter one. There is prospect that the
war will be waged under the black flag.
The favored classes have shown no
mercy to the oppressed; and, now that
the latter are in position to meet the
former on ground approaching equality,
the probabilities are that the same
merciltss policy will be adopted on
their side. The farmers are not
expecting any favors at the hands
of the present congress. They are
not organizing for that purpose. But
they do expect to control the next con-
gress, and to that end all their efforts will
be directed. 1t is an open secret that
the alliance organizations in the vari
Gus states, both North and South, have
agreed to support none but alliance men
for congress. This is to be done re-
gardIess Of what party the alliance
candidate afflliates with. They are
ohrewd enough not to attempt the for
nation of third party, but have
adopted the JAY GOULD idea, with the
slight variation that in Republican dis
tricts they will support Republican, in
Democratic districts Democrat: but,
whether Republican or Democrat, he
must be an alliance man. The party
that fails to nominate an alliance man
will not receive the support Of
the alliance members. 1t is only where
both parties refuse to accept an alliance
man for candidate that third ticket
will be put in the field. This course of
action has been agreed upon in all the
states, and in those where the agricult-
ural interests predominant and the ALI
ances are the strongest a very con-
siderable sensatio has been created
among the politicians. The Eastern
press, particularly the New York pa
pers. express a good deal Of alarm at
the turn affairs have taken. They rec
ogniZe that the alliance movement is
not to be sneezed at, and they affect to
see in it serious danger to the moneyed
interests of which New York is the CEN
ter. They congratulate themselves that
this congress is invulnerable to all
| granger schisms, but they are not sure
that the next one will be. In the mean
time the farmers are going ahead with
| their organization, and in many local
tiles, having effected union with the
| labor organizations, they propose to give
their enemies trial of strength in next
| falls elections.