Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-24

care OF party machinery, of the response
bil!ty Tor party management, both OF wli''t
are repugudnt 10 our declaration Of pUr.
pose, and as We believe to true Alliance
policy. We had no such declaration.
The feeling among the rank and file OF the
people OF this country is that we have had
too much party politics. The average II&-
payer, producer and consumer feel little in.
terest IN the distribution of the political
leaves and fishes, but since he turned his
attention to the study of
ECONOMIC QUESTIONS
he has determined 10 demand equal prOta.,-
ton and equal opportunities with the priv.
legged classes.
The trouble now is that the prisiegeI
cidSSes-the rich corpora iOns-uIc,a-g Ec
financial policy OF the government, whc,Er.
Republican or Democratic. As ar I.sls-
tration of how it Is done, may be cited Jae
committee of six appointed by the New
York Chamber OF Commerce to present tAs
&c mage committees Of the tIfty-Sacc-I
congress ITO convene next DeCtmoerl pro
les in behalf OF the business interests OF
the country against the passage of the bill
providing for the free coinage OF silver.
There IS nothing partisan about that COM
mittcc Of six, or the body that sends them.
They are Us nOn-partiSan in financial mat
teES IS the Alliance. They, Is Il matter vi
SENTIMENT Oh POLICY
divide on the tariff question; they ma con
either political party in the interest OF the
continuance Of the reign OF plutocrAtlc 81
prcmaCv, but they may be relied LpUn 20
stand together III support OF nIoneycd mo
nopoIy-they never divide on The contest
between the classes and masses
The founders of our noble order saw the
Importance of the financial question, tuat
il Importance it oycrshadowed a. other
political questions ana they saw tGat III
less the masses, like The favored classes,
could be brought
TO STAND TOGETHER
for their mutual defense and protection
there could be no possible hope Of their rt
demption from the expressions of Tho
money power. SO they resolved TO LABOR
for the education of the agricultural classes
III the sciences OF economics. government in
u strictly partisan spirit
The disadvantages under which this
educational work is prosecuted and the best
methods to be employed IN its promotion
deserves the best thought and effort of al
reformers. What IS the actual situation
now. although 50 much has been gained IN
securing the attention of the masses OF the
people; Those vino have been our
POLITICAL LEADERS
whose counsel we have followed without
question, are opposed to demands which
we believe 10 be just, reasonable and nee
essary to them as unworthy of argument or
serious of COnSideratlOn-;lS only worthy OF
ridicule ana Pronunciation. They have
looked at the financial policy of the country
so long through monopoliStic glasses that
the toiling masses may never hope 10 gain
their attention or support.
wANTED-NEw STANDARD BEARERS.
This imposes the necessity Of selecting
new standard bearers-men in full sym
patty with the demands for reform, men Of
spotless character and ability.
How great our responsibility at this
ma no 70 1t1sl-
at this point chat should the few Uhited
States senators and congressman who have
been elected i'll the interest OF reform be
placed at the tail-end Of unimportant com
mittees so as to discount reform influence
and warn the people not to send more of
the same kind II likely will not retard the
honest reform work, and the advance guard
may hopefully await the
ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTs.
In view of what has been accomplished
by the non-partiSan method of teaching the
necessity and Importance Of financial re-
forms. with the very limited means at COM
mdnd for the work of propagandlSm, and in
the face of SO powerful an opera
ton, the fixed financial policy
of both the old parties, backed
by their party-leaders and party press, will
we now attempt to organize L third or amy
other political party with its inyitable
Doodle and dirty political methods Perish
folly. The rank and file of both the old
parties, freed from the binding effects of
sectional hate, race antagonisms and
sLAyIsH PARTISAN WORSHIP
will bring their parties 10 the support of
Just financial reforms, with or without the
old party leaders, and with or without tho
old party press. Yes, bring them back to
just recognition OF the rights OF the
tOiling millions of wealth producers
of this great country. Wit! financial
legislation that would be just and
fair to the farmers and wealth producers
and safely otficered, the Old parties could
return with better hopes Of success To the
work OF tariff adjustment, and thu
people, admonished BY the experience
OF the past, would remain on guard
to see that crooked political methods
and unequal financial legislation shall
never again be permitted to exert holding
Influence in the government of this re-
united and regenerated country.
- Reform is in the air
'Iti in order for political parties to call fol
the recruit and draw out the merccnary.
But our old party leaders and old party
press have one argument that they say,
decide the case against US, our demands are
unconstitutional; therefore they decline to
argue their Importance or necessity. Our
honest efforts to obtain necessary reform
through the ballot box some OF
them class with socialism. communists or
Nihilism; therefore our demands are only
worthy of ridicule and denunciatiOn. In
their Judgment monopoly has so hedged it
self in by constitutional enactment That
It is safe entirely beyond the reach of leg
islative reform, and that therefore it must
be left undisturbed to complete its work of
destruction. This speech closed the morn
ing session"