Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-24
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND Tps
MEdBERa
What II Being Done in the Various
Sections for the Advancement
OF the Great Organization

the Ocala platform of the Farmers Ali.
ance whether it be known as the first
party or the third party, and that oul
worthy State President be instructed to
stand upon it, even if it be called first or
third party.
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The Prog,essioe Farmer says: 1T is
now pretty certain that many of the
farmers who oppose the Alliance are not
at all acquainted with its doings or OBJ
jects. They accept the biased statements
OF partisan papers without making any
Investigations or without studying the
matter. This is very unfair"
The Milton CIV. Va Star says "Quite
a number of uniformed farmers labor
under he deusion that the Alliance
| movement is of very recent origin, and
will have but an ephemeral existence.
| Such is not the case. Texas, the State
| of its birth, has just held her twelfth
annual State Alliance, and the order in
Texas is much stronger in number and
more united in purpose and more deter
| mined in resolution than ever before.
The order, however, in many of the
States is young in years but strong in
! spirit and growing fast. The order now
in the United States numbers about four
| million members u
The Free Press (Wintield, Kans. } says:
! ''hlost of the so-called farmers or agri-
xcutural papers are nothing but partisan
papers clothed IN garb calculated to
| NQnaIxro bo 11oorlo n he aan
| afford to support papers that are oppos-
ing their interests. For years these pa
pers have taught the farmers that they
should let politics alone, and that work
| ing harder and harder was the keynote
to success, and most of the mischief that
bad legislation has brought about must
be attributed to this attempt to keep the
farmer out of politics. 1t has been the
schemes of the money kings, and it is
time that the people were opening their
eyes to the true situation of affairs
Dakota Ruydtist Huron, s. D. says:
Zone can hardly pick up republican
paper of the North or democratic OF the
South without finding one are more edi-
torials or copied articles smiching the
Vial dCtCt VI VIC hlllduCC lCddClS- OuSh
papers are not considered faithful unless
they can show their ardor in that partlc
ular line. No word Of commentator
for the Alliance or the principles it adj
vocates is ever seen in their columns,
hence, what rot it is for men who are
laboring to extend The principles of the
order to still cling to the filth that is
poured in upon them weekly. Fight for
your own and your enemies will respect
you for your manhood. The fight is now
on. The question is, shall we be free
men or wage slavesa Shall the citizen
or the dollar ruler"
The Alliance Monitor Falkville, Ala. }
says "The Alliance comprises a major
ity of the voters of Alabama. These
voters have the right to their opinions,
to their policies, to their plans and their
purposes. They are simply exercising
the right of citizenship in all they have
undertaken and all they propose to ac-
complish. They have ali their material
interests and the welfare OF their chill
dren involved in the result 1t is not only
their right, but their duty to do all they
are undertaking. They would be recre-
ant to the demands of manhood and
every obligation incumbent upon them if
they should do less. A majority of them
regard the union of the West and South
as the easiest, best and safest plan to be
pursued, and those who claim to be their
leaders should seek that consumma-
| tom
The Peoples Journal, Uompac, Cal
| saws. "AlliaDcemen as we'll as others,
should not believe one.half the reports of
| Alliance doings that are tclegraphed to
the city dailies from the east. They are
generally framed to suit the schemes of
the enemies of the Alliance movement,
and Il they can cause dissensions in the
ranks of the Alliance on this coast, or
J deter farmers and laborers from joining
the organization the object aimed ut will
be accomplished. The leading organs of
both the great political parties either
sneer at or boldly antagonize the Alliance
movement, and the smaller fry copy their
remarks as so much solid truth. From
this time on till after the election next
fail Alliance men may be on the lookout
for all manner of "yarns" in certain
class of papers, calculated to injure a
movement that is becoming terror to
the capitalists and monopolists whose
golden riveted collars the conductors Of
such journals wear
The Independent Grand Forks, n. d.
saws 1.-THE opponents OF the sub-treas
ury plan ought to address themselves tt
the task of showing how much preferable
il is for the farmers to sell products a
cost Of production and pay the syndicate
which purchases them from so to 100 PEI
cent. profit when they are consumed
That is the condition now. The elevator
trust is on top. The question Is, shoulc
this elevator trust robbery continue, o.
had the government best provide protec
tionY HOWE The Alliance offers thu
sub-treasury If there is better o
more efficient plan to meet the demands
and requirements. let it be brought forth
But the present robberies ought not Il
continue, nor ought the government Il
hermit them to continue. The farmer
want the government to perform II
function to protect the citizen from
robbery. They pay for the protection
They want it; they are entitled to 1t