The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-02

both parties now pretend, and will con-
tinue to pretend, to love the farmer
while the object of their fight will be
conferred on his declared principles
This sounds strong, but it is fact, as
is now shown in Mississippi and Ohio.
In the former state the democratic ma
chine has been worked to the utmost to
demolish the sub-treasury and "other
heresies of the alliance" and in the lat
ter the republican machine is adopting
the same methods.
The unmistakble evidences every day
presented that party fealty is losing its
power among the rank and file of the
people, and the fact that with one ac-
cord the great common people in all
sections of the country are announcing
q determination to vote their principles
regardless of party lines, does not indi-
cate any change of principle on the
part of the people. 1t is a rebellion
against tyranny and oppression, because
it is tyrany and oppression for the party
machine" to stifle free thought and
speech by prescribing a political plat
form that must be adopted under PEN
atty of expulsion. Reason and justice
should be the only guides to party pol
icy, and when they are supplanted by
the machine" the legitimate fruits of
machine methods must follow. The
fruits of the mild sway of reason and
justice are prosperity and happiness,
while the fruits of machine methods"
are corruption, crime, hatred and vio-
lence.
The National Economist is the official
organ of the National Farmers Ali
ance and Industrial Union, and it is
therefore its duty to contend for the
principles of the order, and in such con-
tention finding the chief adversaries to
be the machines" of the two political
parties, conducting in concert bitter
war upon the order as above stated, it
becomes the duty of the national organ
to fire back at these enemies of the
peoples great cause This is an un-
pleasant task, and leads to conflict
fierce and terrible, in which the Econ
omist, on account of its devotion to its
plain duty, is assaulted and DETAINED
in every possible manner. The
Economist has thus far withstood
these attacks and fought simply on the
defensive, contending honestly for the
principles of the order. The ma
chimes" have in the north denounced it
as democratic agent to disrupt the
republican party, and in the south as a
republican agent to disrupt the demo
cratic party. They have from both
north and south accused it of trying to
lead the alliance into a third party
movement, and denounced its editor as
corrupt, venal and ambitious, and the
people, recognizing the utter falsity OF
all these attacks, have sustained the
Economist and its editor throughout all
this persecution for devotion to prin-
ciple, until to-day the Economist is in a
more prosperous and more popular po-
sition than ever before, and it here by
announces a determination to fight in
this holy cause from this on, not only
in the defensive, as in the past, but in
the aggressive. 1t will attack the ma
chimes" of both parties; not the princi
pies of either party, but the machines
This will be done for three reasons
First. it is the machines that are
fighting alliance principles; second
they are corrupt and without principle
and being 50 must be vulnerable ant