The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09
THE ALLIANCE.

There is no complaint on that score as
the plutocrat papers want to make it
6ppear. The complaint is that the
people who create it do not get the
benefit hut that it nearly all goes into
q few hands. by methods that are no
better than robbery.
The Alliance indicator: The tariff
is not the only wrong under which the
American citizen has to labor. The
national banking system and the want
Of q larger circulation of good cheap
money, are two of the greatest evils of
the present day, and every farmer
should bear this in mind and in cast
ing his vote should support the man
who offers relief along this line.
Farmers Advocates: The Alliance
has done more to educate the people
than any other organization in this
country. Men who took but little
interest in the affairs of the country
in the past are manifesting great in
terest in them now. Then again. to
show its power as an educator. you
will find more men who were entirely
ignorant on important questions, who
now understand them very well.
The Alliance: If any man thinks
that all the Tories are dead-the men
who fought our forefathers, he is
badly mistaken. They are here to- day
and as active as they ever were.
Whenever you hear a man talking
about the necessity of strong gov
ernment;" the inability of people to
govern themselves and that God
Almighty made the only money" you
can set that fellow down as a Tory
he is built wrong.
Leader: Let's see-doesn't Missis-
sippi have to elect seven congressman
next year? 1t seems to us she does,
and when that time comes. some of the
present incumbents and some of those
aspiring gentlemen who have sided
with the opponents of the Alliance
this year, will be found calling upon
the hills and mountains to hide them
from the Indignation and wrath of
betrayed people. The fight hasn't
ended yet 1t has just fairly COM
menced.
The Farm Ranch The object of
the sub-treasury plan is to store the
grain and the imperishable products
in the section where they are produced
until demanded for consumption, in
stead of crowding them into two or
three grain centers to be controlled by
grain spectators. By this means we
will avoid the depressed price caused
by throwing the crop onto the market
after harvest and the farmers will get
the benefit of the rise in the price in
stead of the grain spectators.
The Oxford: Homes under mort
cages cotton below cost of produc-
ton, our children in rags and out of
school. public fund concentrating, tut
ton climbing, twenty-five years broken
promises, lower wages. more officers,
higher salaries, no money, no effort
for relief, public works closing up.
banks breaking, officers fleeing, cor
porations and syndicates forming, poll
titions fighting, parties dividing while
the wealth wagers are demanding
equal rights to all, special privileges
to nOne."
Atchison Champion: Since neither
of the two old parties are entitled to
any credit whatever for the improved
and improving condition of agriculture
in Kansas and the west generally
the improvement having come despite
their obstructive policies, and through
causes that lie wholly outside of parti-
san political action, it is certain that
neither of them will be able to make
any capital out of the situation, and
that politically, the farmers will feel
under no obligations whatever to eth
er of them.
Industrial Union: Let us suppose,
for the sake of the argument that the
proposition of the Democratic party,
that the nine million mortgages on the
homes of the people are the result of
the ''robber tariff" the question then
is how many mortgages could be paid
by a 5 per cent reduction? This is
the relief offered by a party that
stands and bowls that the country is
going to the devil through a 'robber
tariff, !" and when asked what it pro-
poses to do about it, says: "Oh. we
will reduce it per cent" Great re-
form that.
The Elk County Citizen: Several
times day we hear the remark, You
can not legislate money into a mans
pocket. F" The fellows who so freely
use this expression are the ones who
are opposed to an expansion of the cir
culating medium and who tell us that
we have plenty of money now if .'peo-
pie would only work more and talk
less, and SO earn it. The people have
long ago learned that it is very easy
to leglslatc money OUT of a mans poe
ket, and several of the fellows who
talk so much about the present "good
times" are so reduced financially by