Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1891-08-04
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items OF Interest to Alliances
men Everywhere.
kIpE-TRAcKINa ISSUES.

siUe Farmer comes boldly to the frept
and says:
''The partisan press and the politicians
who are opposed to the Alliance are ex-
tretAely anxious to force the order into
false positions. They assert persistently
that the sub-treasury bill IL the ultima
tum OF the Alliance, when they well
know that III every instance where it has
heeh made the issue, it has been forced
on us. And we may remark that in every
such case the sub-treasury has come out
victorious. It is now being asserted Mat
President Polk makes the sub-treasury
paramount to all oth,r questions. The
enemy puts down his position as follows:
That he regards as most important
=. "1st. The sub-treasury bill.
"2d. Free and unlimited coinage Of
silver. -
Sd: The modification of the tariff.
President Polk has always held that a
change in the financial system of the
government by and through which the
industrial many are being robbed and
ruined by the moheyed few is the great
evecshadowing paramount issue before
the American people. He has always
held that free coinage, tariff, sub-tfeasiry
to this great issue. No free coinage act,
no modification of the tariff, no increase
of the currency-none nor all of these,
can never bring just and substantial re-
lief to the people, so long as the present
unjust and outrageously wicked financial
system prevails. The national bank
ing system must go. The money
of the people must be Is
sued to the people, independent
of all expensive agencies and in
sufficient volume to do the business of
country. This, and not the Sub Treas
ury, this, aud. not the tariff, this, and not
free coinage, Is the mighty living issue
before The people. =, .... =
The Alliance wants and demands a
to haye it. The Alliance wants and de-
mands free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer, and it intends to have it; but it will
no longer be deluded and ensnared with
the tallacious idea that these are para
mount to the money question. The poll
ticians of the country have been deceiv-
ing and side-tracking the people on these
false ideas for quarter Of a century, but
they can do it no longer.
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REGARDING THE WHEAT COMBINE.
Fl. W. Aver, secretary to President
Polk, of the Farmers Alliance, and man.
ager of the Reform Press Bureau, which
Is also known as the Alliance Press
Bureau in Washington, is reported as
saying that the work of sending ont cir
culars designed to show the farmers of
the country that it was to their advant-
age to hold back the wheat crop wassac-
lively proceeding in Washington as we'll
as in st. Paul. Mimi, szwhich was
chosen one of the seats of operation
because of its location in the great wheat
belt. Mr.. Aver said there have already
been 400. 900 of these circulars sent out
from Washington, and will continue 10
be sent out until more than a million
circulars altogether are issued. The
circular, he said, will also be published
in about two thousand weekly papers,
with which the bureau is connected. He
remarked that he couldn't say, of course,
that it was the circular which had
brought about the result, but he had
noticed in a recent market report,
that as a matter of fact the actual move
ment of wheat was 140 carloads less per
day than had been estimated. Mr.. Ayre
also stated that the information that the
issue of such a circular by alliancemen
was in contemplation became public pre-
maturely, when the circular in course of
preparation was publised in the newspa-
pers. The final decision to issue the cir
cular had not at that time been reached,
and many leading alliancemen were una
ware of it, but it has since been finally
determined upon. He explained that
the executive committee of the alliance
had not acted on this matter, and that by
the circular no order was given alliance
men to hold back their crop, this being
What is done by this circular is to give
the farmers Information as to the facts In
regard to the worlds wheat crop, with
the suggestion that wheat some weeks
later than the present time will bring a
higher price. kE #EES
The Western New York Farmer, Oar
csdeD says is regard to the Wyoming
county Alliance meeting: "The 2, 600
Of the Order in this county have
determined that the Alliance principles
of letting the office seek the man, shall
bea principle observed. in the nomina-
ton of all candidates.. They have no use
for self-seekeFs and look upon all who
ask for office with suspicion. They want
a man to represent them in the Assembly,
the Senate, and in other places of official
trust, who will earn his salary and be true
to those who employ and pay him as pub
lie servant, and they Propose to have such
a one even if neither party see fit
to nominate him. Their action
at the convention conveys no uncer-
tain sound. It is brief, but it is awfully
vises all members to attend their par
primaries and work for pure and honest
men who are known to be in. harmony
with the Alliance demands. The execN-
tive authority is directed to submit these
demands to every nominee and failing to
secure thespnblic pledges of their sup
port of these -demands, he is instructed
to call, not county Alliance. meeting.
for. the Alliance is strictly secret and
non-partisau, but a political convention
of the Alliance membership to place in
candidates who are in har-
mony with the Alliance platforms. There
is nothing uncertain or indefinite about
this.
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Journal of the knights OF Labor phil
adelphia) says: The enemies of the
Farmers Alliance when they first enter
the lists, by what appears like fatality,
direct their attack upon the sub-treasury
plan. Evidently they think this the
weak and easily pierced joint in the ALI
ance aFmor; but as one after another their
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