Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-02
Alliance NOTES.
NEWS on THE ORDER AND IT'S
MEMBERS.
What = Being Done In the Various
Sections for tho Advancement
of che Great Organization.
THE FARMERS MOVEMENT.

A writer in the American Farm Neus
who lives at Topeka, Kansas, among
other things has the following to
say regarding the farmers movement:
1.-THE political upheaval in Kansas is fire.
quently referred to as revolution, but it
may more properly be said to be an evolu-
ton OF public sentiment. The formative
influences of the movement have long
been in operation in the minds OF the
people, and at last they have taken shape
in the state and made themselves manifest
in the late election in which the so, 900
republican majority was utterly wiped
out. History does not show a more com
plete and sudden revulsion of public
opinion in so brief time. Naturally
people who think, here as well as
elsewhere, are asking what does it meana
What caused the upheaval and will the
movement continue to go forward, or
will it soon pass away and be numbered
among the things that were2 As to the
causes many here assert it to be the tariff
other irritants local, state and national
that had their influences, but the people
talk here largely of these two points, the
tariff and transportation.
Conversing with republican here who
recognizes the situation but laments it,
he said:
81 expected change in rublic senti-
ment, but was not prepared for so com
plete u reversal. This state seemed only
two years ago to be the fortress of re-
publicanism, the very Gibraltar of the
party in power. But in two brief years
see how great the change"
My republican friend seemed to warm
up as he looked upon the past, and he
continued: 1.-THE truth is The republican
party has somewhat abated its high pro-
is an agricultural district and
the farmers have concluded that
they have been paying taxes to
keep up Eastern manufacturers without
receiving any of the benefits of the law
themselves. My opinion is that the pro-
tective policy in politics will never again
hold tine same place in the politics of the
state that it once occupied. On this
point the farmers have revised their
opinion and cannot say that they are in
favor of free trade, but certainly they
are no longer in favor of high protection.
That era has gone by in the Sunhower
State and the sooner the fact is recog-
nized by Republican politicians the better
it will be for them"
| A Democrat in Kansas, and they are
more outspoken now than ever before
says: II do not see much in the late
change in Kansas that can give any
special comfort to the old Democratic
| NJ IT,, al a.
men may cooperate with the Demo
cratic party. But here it is not So
They show no symptoms of any such
utilization. They seem to hold the Dem
Gratis as much in derision as they do the
Republicans. Their hatred of Ingalls,
seems to be deep and bitter. They do
not regard him as one of them, but look
upon him as one in sympathy with the
money powers. l cannot Judge of their
future duration but certain it is that they
are here now and they announce that
they have come to stay Perhaps they
have. Time will show if in this they be
right or wrong"
After hearing from the two old parties
fell in with an Allianceman who was
iull in the faith. He was free and posi-
tive in his talk. Said he: "The Alliance
will be factor in politics for years. 1t
has mission and will not retire until
that has been carried out. What is
the mission2 See our various plat
forms, and from them you may gain
some idea of the work the Alliance
has been sent to work out. Be-
fore its task has been all executed it will
have to have control of the National gov
eminent. And so swift has been the
rise of the Alliance party that believe
that it in conjunction with the labor ele
ments in the cities and in the factories
will elect President in 1892. Hereto
fore the capitalists of both parties have
been able to keep the farmers and the
town. factory and mine laborers apart in
politics But that day is past. Now all
these laborers and farmers can unite, and
will unite, and there is no reason why
this combination shall not drive both of
the old parties out of the field in 1862,
and have a President who win respect
the middle classes. Such is the vision of
politics as see it."
From these talks You may judge some,
whit of the recent political change in
Kansas.
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The American Farm Neecs (Akron, o.
SAYS: president Parkinson, of the Wis
consin State Agricultural Society IN
recent annual address spoke upon the
subject of "The Farmer in Politics. !"
MIR. Parkinson held to the belief that
one Of the farmers first duties was to be
a thorough politician and use his utmost
efforts politically to the suppression
of evils in politics and the produc-
ton of higher principles and better
government in the interest of the
masses. He warned farmers of the
danger arising from the grasping Of land
by monopolies and Capitalization of the
wealth of the country, made possible by
unjust legislation. He predicted that
unless the legislation in the, interest Of
the masses was soon had, half of the
wealth of this country would be con-
trolled by ten thousand men by the end
OF twenty-five years. He urged the
election of farmers to state legislatures
and to congress, and deplored the fact
that there were scarcely enough farmers
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