The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-29
TO SAVE THE NEW PARTY.
Kansas Alliance Opposition TO Shallow
sub-Treasury scheme.

The agitation within the Alliance ranks
over the sub-treasury scheme has brought
forward opposition from unexpected
sources. Colonel w. A. Harris, of Leaven-
worth county, candidate before the Peo-
pies party caucus for United States sena-
tor, has written a long communica tion-op-
posing the scheme, and G. w. Shull, cam
didate for lieutenant governor on the Peo-
pies ticket last fall, has also come out
against it. 1t is known that Presi-
dent Frank McGrath, Of the Alliance,
does not regard it with favor,
and the prospect for big fight is i'm
minent. The sub-AlIiances throughout
the state take action upon it this month,
and their decision will settle the question
as TO whether there will be a sub-treasury
plank in the Peoples party platform in
this state. II Kansas repudiates it, q. 8.
Hall, president of the Missouri Alliance,
will receive great vindication in the fight
being made upon him by DR.. Macune.
The answer by Colonel Harris is the ablest
which has yet been presented against the
sub-treasury scheme. After reviewing the
legislation which made the farmers move
ment necessity to protect the industrial
classes against unjust legislation, he says:
"After a most brilliant victory was
nearly won, by some strange means an
additional claim, feature or demand was
added to the broad principles of true and
just government, under which we had
fought, and the; so-called sub-treasury
scheme was brought forth, a scheme in its
essential features modelled after all the
most vicious and corrupt practices which
We had condemned; scheme patterned
after the Legitimate loaning of money by
the government TO the national banks and
TO railroads, and the warehousing and
storing of goods for importers and distil-
lers: scheme to tax the many for the
benefit of the few, and of even the
most doubtful benefit to those few. 1t
would be confined in its operation to the
wealtnier localities and would benefit the
few who would be located within few
miles of the point of location, utterly ig-
noring the laboring man, the mechanic,
the tradesman, and, in fact, every class of
men save those who raise grain for sale.
Some even have gone so far as to assert
that loyalty to this monstrosity is a test of
true Alliance faith, when ia fact it gives
the lie to every principle of pure, just gov
ernmentt, of, by and for the whole people,
which we asserted as our motive and pro-
claimed through the st. Louis plat
form. Today the good men, the
honest men, the intelligent men, all
over the country, are pausing and
asking themselves: "Are these only new
swarm of hungry and selfish self-seekers?
Is this the way the new party of patriots
proposes to use its power2 If SO, wherein
are they different from the old crowd?
What has become of the high-sounding
motto, Equal rights to all and special
privileges TO nonep Is it only sound and
fury, signifying nothing and pretext to
get and then abuse the power of the peo-
Pile?
"Such are the reflections that are heard
and felt everywhere and that are causing a
rapid revival of the spirits of the two old
parties, which are gleefuliy congratulating
themselves and preparing vigorously to
take advantage of this grave mistake"
Addressing the Leavenworth Alliance
he says: "May I beg the Leavenworth
County Alliance to consider how great
disaster to our cause such doctrine must
bring about? Special privileges we deny
to others; let us not disgrace ourselves be-
fore all mankind by Fastening to claim
them for ourselves. Rather let us show
that we can be trusted with power, that
we can use it fairly for all, and that the
welfare of the whole people is what we
seek. The farmer and iaboring man need
and ask only a free market and fair
trade for the product of their hands and
brains, fair and equitable division of the
rewarks of labor and capital and an honest
and lust utilization of the country. They
ask no more; they should be content with
nothing less. On the st. Louis platform
every patriotic American can and will
stand and fight. The sub-treasury scheme
will be fatal net, binding their arms and
laying them PROSTATE at the feet of the
swordsman."