St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-20
ITS FATE IN DOUBT.
VIII the Good Crops Prema-
tureIy End the Alliance
Party?
a Question Just Now SerI-
ously Troubling Repub-
lican Leaders.
The Doughty Blue Earth
Statesman Ridicules the
Idea Of a Bolt.
Chippewa Indians to Be Prop
erly Cared for by Uncle
Sam

"WilI the good crops of this year kill
the Alliance party?" is question that
IS being discussed with more or less ar
dor by those especially interested in
having the new party die premature
death. Such well-known thick-and-thln
Republican organs as the Philadelphia
Press, the New York Tribune and the
Chicago Inter Ocean have already de-
voted columns of space to demonstrate
ing the question in the affirmative, while
leaders of the Republican party in TINS
state like ex-senator Buchanan have al
ready convinced themselves that the
Alliance party will be completely
wrecked by this years great crop.
The reasoning Of those who argue
this question in the affirmative Is de-
cidedly weak, always starting out with
the premise that it was hard times and
general hard luck that caused the Or
EaniZation of the new party, and that.
therefore, better times will destroy 1t.
To a certain extent the rapid
growth of the Alliance was due to
the depressed condition of agriculture.
but the farmers soon discovered what
was wrong, and they placed the blame
exactly where it belonged in last year
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battle against that most pernlclous
Economic Wrong.
the American system of protection.
Good crops and good times will help
them. but it will not persuade them
that they are benefited by taxing them
selves, AS Gen. j. Ii. Baker, OF Blue
Earth county. well SAID yesterday:
Because the farmer can make money
occasionally by phenomenal crop and
an extraordinary foreign demand IS no
reason for their abandoning their OppO-
sitiOn to protection. The idea that the
farmers Will attribute the good crops OF
this year to the Republican party and
the Mckinley tariff is absurd. | Ger
tainly do not think the Alliance will be
affected by the great crops"
The history of the rise and fall of the
old Greenback party is daily cited and
prOphesies made that the Alliance VIII
follow it. This it may do if the leaders
of the movement continue to thrust the
financial question into the foreground
as they are now doing. This is unsafe
ground for the new party to travel, and
last fall the speakers steered clear OF It,
talking tariff and little else.
Kansas is probably the widest and
woOliest Alliance state in the union,
having given to the country Senator
PETER and several more moulded after
him. Considering this, the views Of an
Intelligent Kansas farmer are interest
ing. Such a man is f. B. SOuthwick, Of
Barker county, Kansas, where he oper-
ateS a large farm. In answer to the
question. what effect this years crops
will have on the
Alliance Movement.
MI Southwick said:
1t is difficult to say what effect the recent
rapid rise in the price of wheat and cereals
generally will have on the Farmers Alliance.
Opinions are divided as 10 the result even
among members of the Alliance themselves.
Some of the leaders seem fearful that the
prosperity TO the farmer which viii follow
the great advance in prices and the plentiful
harvest will make him forget the incOn-
venieuces and discOmfOrts that urged him TO
seek remedy in political agitation. There
is no denying that the herd times of the past
few years for the agricultural classes had
much to do with the success of the Alliance
propaganda. Whether the principle will sur
vive the exciting cause that started it into
action remains to be seen.
''0thers of the Alliance people contend
that the prosperity of the farmer viii rebound
to the advantage of the Alliance. One Of the
greatest drawbacks TO the work of spreading
the teachings of the order has been the lack
of money. The farmers had no cash. and