The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-26
ALLIANCE COLUMN.
BY NJ. b. DOoLITTLE.

Agriculture is all the great business
of Iowa.
II the farmers should go on n strike
for ninety days, hunger, starvation
and death, would haunt every home
by day, and prolong the darkest
night which ever enshrouded this
earth.
Why should other men be better
paid than the farmer? Why should
the lawyer charge and collect ten
dollars for six hours, while the farm
er averages TO get less than one dollar
for sixteen hours Of toll?
IL men are valuable on the basis OF
so-called education, why does the
poor farmer in Story county, Iowa,
produce forty-two BUSHELS Of corn to
the acre, while the Agricultural Col
lege farm in the same county pro-
duce only twelve bushels of corn on
one piece and only thirteen bushels
on the second piece per acre? Is the
great lesson they teach there-how
not to arrive at over production?
Unused, or poor quality Of brains
as q fertilizer, has less of value than
the same quantity of barnyard ma
nure.
When the merchant buys q farm
the farmers never object: and patient
ly work the farm as tenant. But
when the farmers want store, the
merchants try to boycott them both
in buying and selling.
Moral-Should not the farmers boy.
colt every merchant who has q farm.
II the farmers should demand goods
never HANDLED by the
boycotting wholesalers, would not
justice, equity and fair dealing be
promoted.
1t is q wise provision Of nature that
the idle, shiftless and vagabond part
OF humanity rots out and 60 to their
graves earlier than those who wear
out by toll. Moral-The true ALI.
ance man will make a hard struggle tC
to have it said of him: BY his toll, by
his precepts, by his care of himself
and those who live near him, he has
earned q long life and the credit Oi
the worlds being better for his hav-
ing lived in it.
Beware of the HARD laboring man
who never labors. IT. v. powderly.
1.-The farmer is queer animal. -
Milton George.
Why! Howl! Does he ever stand
listening to his enemies when SO fee.
BILE q minded thing as a rabbit would
make some effort to run away realiZ.
ing that as he never had any hand in
making prices he was about to he
skinned.
On the first Saturday of April at 1
o'clock p. M, 1891, Cresco Union Al
lance will hold an open session.
Nnsf p1Y IN nd
are invited to be present. Bring your
wives, your essays and your best
thoughts and p.esent them, thereby
helping to make an enjoyable after
noon,
From the Dubuque Herald.
The Alliance Store side of the con.
troversy with Dubuque Merchants.
Cresco Alliance Store, March 10, 81.
Editor Dubuque Herald-You un.
doubleday read the stories about the
Cresco alliance store in Dubuque and
other papers. They are funny tales
and no truth In them. tits too late
in the progress of the rural people to
feed them on such reading matter. !
am in q position to know all about
our alliance store, as am its presi-
uctlt, dAu 1uOIC suuA tu1N, IsA AOA
dollhouse plant. have lived here
thirty seven years; my word and char.
acter will bear inspection. The
Cresco alliance is the largest in the
state Of Iowa, so is the Howard Coun.
ty alliance, of which Cresco Is the
county seat. The farmers have built
up many fine stores here, and been
running theM for a quarter of centu.
ry. Four hundred Of the best farm.
ers of Howard and Winneshiek coun.
ties have made up their minds to have
and maintain one store of their own.
This is what causes the trouble. A.
bout the last of February we sent two
men to Dubuque with &s,50l cash in
their pockets to buy q stock such ~
we wanted. We did not intend to
send our money out of the state, az
Ws always respected Dubuque for its
generous people. ! know different
wholesale men personally. We DOR.
respond with two, before we went to
buy. they have refused to deal with
ns. The letters are ct hand and tell
for themselves. When W6 got to pu-
buque the result was that no whole
sale men would sell us goods, except
clover. We went to Chicago after
two days in Dubuque, bought and
paid for all the goods we wanted.
These are the true facts OF the case.
1t does not matter what Dubuque
men put in the papers. Now, gentle.
men, you have a perfect right to re.
fuse to sell to us, that is your privi-
,ege. We, as farmers, have right
to better our condition If we are able
to do it. We started a stors 10 sell
on profit, not q distributing Office
direct to farmers. We sell to all.
We do not mean to beg for goods, or
ask credit: we have all the money at
co,n,nanl that we need. We started
and Incorporated to do q mercantile
business. We shall buy the goods il
we have to scratch all over the states
for theiu. II trusts are 50 strong that
money will not buy goods, it is tiMe
that we should know it. / have come
to the conclusion that q wei! man.
aged, corporated store is q blessing
to any city. 1t will do away with the
credit System and regulate prices.
Surprising all the alliances OF the
state would unite-there are 2,2et OF
them, more coming every day-the
same as you business men do, what
Them We do not wish harm to any
one; like to live neighborly with all.
Any business man that can not coln.
pete with us and live on honest prof.
It's has the the privilege to step out.
A man that don't want to deal with
us can let us alone. This is q free
country in some things yet.
SCHAEFER & STEINMAN.
WHEREAS, We tho members OF
Pleasant Hill Alliance. No. l44O, dc