The Brookhaven leader., 1891-02-12
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF The MOVEMENT.

NEWS or THE MOVEMENT.
Money (capitaD is said to be stored.
up labor: yet it is all owned by men
who never did days labor in their
lives.
The difficulty of getting steady work
at profitable employment is increasing
day by day, Something must be done
Exchange.
Ignorance may be enslaved, but one
might as well undertake to bind a
whirl-wind as to enslave thinking,
reading, intelligent people.
Newspaper sentiment and the tone of
correspondence indicate that the Citi-
Eens' Alliance organized at n most pro-
pitious time, and that 1t viii grow at an
unexampled rate.-Economist.
Should the Alliance movement get
strong enough to really brighten the
political bosses in 1892, there win be
but two parties In the field, one the AL
lance and the other the Demprepub
licratican.-National Economist
The National Citizens Alliance, which
is the organ of the order of the same
name, has made its appearance, being
published in Washington City. 1t is
edited by Ralph Beaumont, National
secretary, and is full of vim.-Econo-
mist.
According to the Toledo Blade, not a
Millionaire but six Millionaire has
come. His name is Jay Gould "If,"
says the Blade, Gould owns what he
claims, he is interested in railroads
alone to the amount of six billion dol
lars"
The wolf will not enter Mr.. Russell
Sage's door yet awhile Last week a
decision was rendered in the United
States Circuit Court at st. Paul, which
gives him a clear title to 5000, 900 acres
of land in Minnesota valued at $4,000
O00.-N. Y. Standard.
Some of Missouris delegates forgot
their obligations and misrepresented
the State order. The growing intelli-
gence and zeal of the membership will
not brook such bigoted partisanism
much longer-there will be a general
reckoning at the next State meeting
Butler (Mo.) Union.
The Greenback and Union Labor par
ties, the Alliance, Knights of Labor and
all other industrial organizations, have
been as John the Baptist, crying out in
the wilderness against the evils of the
country and preparing the way for the
great party of the people now being or
ganized. Exchange.
The number of suicides in the United
States in 1890 was 2,640. In 1889 it was
2,224, while in 1883 it was but LAST.
The rate of increase in 1890 over 1889
was, therefore, nearly 10 per cent. The
increase of population during the same
period was, at the outside, but four
per cent, so that the suicides increased
five times as fast as population.
The plea put forth by the National
banks that their business is unprofit-
able, and therefore they must reduce
their circulation, is sheer nonsense.
Every one of them knows right we'll
that they are selling their bonds in or
der to realize the enormous premium
there is on them. They already have
another bond scheme on hand to take
the place of those that are sold.-EX-
change.
The death of the American harvester
combine is announced, but no one has
yet been found who was pail bearer,
Or who was even present at the funeral.
These thirty-five million dollar COM
bines are not SO easily killed. Such an
emphatic protest, however, went up
from all over the country that the Big
Eighteen found it necessary to have
funeral notices printed and obituaries
published in the papers. But let no
one be too certain that there has really
been a Acknowledgements Farmer.
The Farmers Alliance is a protest
against present conditions; protest
against the unequal distribution of the
profits arising from labor in production;
a protest against those economic meth
DDS which give to labor a bare living
and. make capital the beneficiary of all
lifes pleasures and comforts. 1t is a
protest against continual toll on the
one hand, and continual ease and COM
fort on the other. 1t is protest against
forced economy, debt and privation to
the producer and peace, plenty, happi-
| ness and prosperity to the non-producer.
Alliance Tribune
| What the people want and what they
will have, is that the Government take
charge of our whole financial policy.
Have in every State and county sys'
tenn of fiscal agencies, wherein the peo
pie can deposit their surplus money.
and from which they can borrow on
real estate security or warehouse re-
ceipts for non-perishable farm products.
That the Government issue greenbacks
to the amount of $50 per capita of pop
ulation, and more if necessary to do the
business on a cash basis, these fiscal
agencies to pay pensions or any other
| Government debt.-Concordia (Kan.)
Alliance.
TIE REEEREMNIIM