The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-31
Those Pretended Texas Resolutions.

x0OSo KToCo00o0 xo1aS RESOLUTIONS.
We clip the following from the
National Advocate, a radical Peo-
pies Party paper "way down in
Maine." 1t does us good to see
Maine quote Texas in this mighty
ocean of reform:
The Lewiston Journal last week
in speaking OF the Farmers Alliance
said:
The. Texas Farmers Alliance has
adopted resolutions denouncing the
sub-treasury project, the land loan
scheme and governmental ownership
of railroads. 1t has also put on
record a protest against farmers
who are farmers for politics only
being allowed to sit in the high
places OF the order. The Texas farm
ers seem to be cultivating sound
horse sense.
Now let us pin right on here the
following from one OF our Texas ex-
changes and then you can draw your
own conclusions.
A "scab" Alliance convention was
held in Fit. Worth, last Friday and
Saturday under the management of
U. S. Hall and other nominal ALI
ance men and Democratic politicians
who are making desperate Efforts to
make the Alliance tail to the Dem
ocratic kite. The conventions, not
being called by any Alliance official
having authority so to do. Thus
far not reform paper nor an ALI
ance paper in Texas, so far as we can
find out, has favored the meeting
or printed the call. They regard it
as absolutely unauthorized and un-
called for.
But another convention was held
in Texas last week which we have
not seen mentioned by any of our
Northern newspapers. 1t was the
third Annual Convention of the Tex
as Federation OF Labor, an organ
ization numbering many thousands
OF voters, which adopted a platform
OF principles in perfect harmony with
the Cincinnati platform, and pledged
it's political support only to that
party which honestly espouses the
cause of labor.
Well now, granger, look at that:
A Minnesota GREAT WEST quotes
a Maine Advocate on the facts of
Texas Convention. And it was
about Florida (Ocala) platform!
An Awful Warning.
According to Bradstreet's the num-
Der of failures in this country for
the first quarter of the current year
was 3,4O1, with liabilities amount
ing to over a. million dollars, or ten
and a half millions more than. for
the corresponding period of last
year. This was the most disastrous
first quarter on record. And yet
there was no crisis, no ranic, no
great shock or jar in the capitalistic
machine. On the contrary, it's solid
ity appears to have been strength
ened and it's progress quickened by
this wedding out and sweeping aside
of the rubbish in it's way. For every
small man who ventures into bust
ness and thus dares to enter into
competition with the magnates, two
OF his fellow small men, bigger even
than himself, are mercilessly slaught-
cred. The middle class is doomed,
yet shouts itself hoarse for compe-
tition. "What fools these mortals
be!"-From The People OF New York
City.
How the Alliance is Dying.
Ohio has $4,000 Alliance voters.
Wisconsin has about $50 Allan
ces.
West Virginia has 433 Alliances.
Pennsylvania has over 800 ALI
ances, and is organizing at rate OF
| five day.
Kentucky has 2,4OO organizations,
with over 100000 members. Sixty
new charters were granted in March.
North and South Dakota have
doubled their membership in the
past six months.
Iowa has fifty county organiza-
tions, and is booming.
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kan
sas have each added third to their
numbers since they carried the last
election.
Illinois and Indiana are fast catch
ing up with the procession.
The Southern states are all solid,
and New York and New England are
organizing very rapidly.
Yes, the Alliance is dying-for a
fight at the polls. -Jeffersonian.
Everybody knows that the people
in the United States owe hundreds OF
millions of dollars in England and
the countries of Europe. Nobody
knows exactly how much the aggre-
gate debt is, but it is enormous
amounting certainly to several thos-
ands of millions of dollars .-SiouS
City Journal, July 8, 1891.