The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-07-31
what Does the Alliance want


"The Alliance has changed liz consti-
tuition four times and its creed oftener,
and each time for the better" They
have blundeTed in every attempt at re.
form. And yet the Alliance lives, grows
and is to be power for good. The very
fact of its existing through SO many dis
asters, gives us faith in its ultimate sue.
cess in relieving the oppressed and much
abused producers. The true Alliance
men do not wish to Cypress any class,
or to wage war on any honest craft or
profession. They have combined for
the simple purpose of protecting them
selves against moneyed shylocks who
lend money at usury and and then pass
! laws to relieve themselves of taxation,
against railroad oppression and against
trust combinations 1t is neither just,
honest, nor christian like for one class to
Cypress another simply because they
have the power to do SO. The farmers
have listened to politicians and newspa-
pers owned and controlled by these
moneyed powers, and they have been
robbed of their substance and cheated
of their rights, until they have become
well nigh hopeless. The producing
class are at last rising in their supposed
might and demanding redress, but the
money producing class have grown SO
numerous, and the moneyed power 80
strong, that it is a serious question
whether or not they have the power to
make good their demands for justice.
The Alliance does not ask for unjust
laws to be passed for their benefit they
ask for justice, simple justice. They
ask that banks, bond-holders, mortgage
and note shavers pay taxes like them
selves.
AS it is now, the farmers have to pay
interest on money borrowed, and also
pay taxes on the same. Besides 10 ma
tional banks, they have to pay an extra
three per cent interest through the gov
eminent.
Is it right for the government to fur
nish the bank with money and pay
them three per cent interest, the bank
then lending it to the people, charging
them one per cent month, and then
such banks being relieved of taxation ?
Thus they get some fifteen per cent in
terest and pay no taxes, while the
farmer, who does not clear five per cent.
on his investment, has to pay not only
his taxes, but the bankers part, too.
Is it right for the railroads to take for
freight three-fourths or more Of our pro-
dnse? And last, but not least, is it right
for our paid lecturers to talk for buncom
and tell about the glorious victory over
the bagging trust, of Georgia and Kan
sas Alliance doings, and in short bay at
the moon and bark at jack 'olanterns,
but when 1t comes to banks, bankers.
railroads and recreant lawmakers, why
they deal in generalities, beat around
the bush, but never tackle the game l,
for one, want these bowling lecturers to
let up on the glory of our National Al
lance and come down to home work,
and tell US what they have done, how
many unjust laws have been righted,
how much they have reduced freights,
and such like.
But we do want the government to
give US a national bank system, not
banks ouned By private indigiduaLs, to |
whom the government furnishes money |
for nothing, and they to lend it to the |
people az usury. No sir. We want real
national banks, banks that viii lend It
direct to the. people at pretty much the
same interest that they get it from the |
government. Say, let our government
lend money to our farmers on the same |
terms as it now does to bankers, only
taking real estate as deposit, instead of
United States bonds. You say 1t can't
be done? Well, We simply differ with
you. Let the government lend money,
paper money, to the State, and the State
to the country, and the country have real
national banks, worked on about the
same plan as they are now run, only
lending money at two per cent, and
taking good real estate for security.
Then each farmer could hold or sell his
crop at will, in fact he could be his own |
warehouse keeper, and would require
no bonded warehouse" That idea |
was taken from Alfred Aver, who prom |
ises soon to publish the details of his |
plan. That plan would relieve the SUBJ |
treasury bill of that thorn in its side |
called "details" 1t won't do to ask for |
the sub-treasury bill, or something bet |
ter, and the silver bill or money |
money, on same terms. The very I'M
certainty implied in the request kills |
the bill. Argue and discusses matters,
amend and change bills, until they are
just, practical and exactly what the Alli-
ance wants, just that and nothing less,
nothing more, aud then all unite in
working to have them enacted into laws.
When We have national banks, honest
taxation and just railroading, then we
farmers can farm for profit, grow fat and
happy, and the railroaders. bankers and
meneyed shylocks can say Now Lord,
come in thine glory, for mine hand
gathereth in no more the unrighteous
mamm0n.
l.. NJ. AVER,
LakS Weir, Fla.