The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-24
THE ALLIANCE.

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National Economist: If the people
stand firm and united, the enemy can
only retreat as a pack of wolves van
ish before the horny handed tiller OF
the soil, as he advances on the wilds
of new and unsettled country.
The Pa, Farmer: There is some
thing more than a mere secret organi-
cation back of the Farmers movement.
It is a breathing, thinking, something
called the common people. They are
marshalling their forces for the COM
ing conflict Those who believe in
America as Gland of the free" should
lose no time in helping to fill the ranks.
Southern Mercury: Four hundred
and thirty-four farmers advertised in
Lonoke county, Arkansas at delin-
quent tax sale, for taxes due for the
year 1890. Still, plutocrats brag
ABOUT the prosperity of our people.
No wonder the people are kicking.
The same state of affairs will come to
Texas, and that soon, if reforms don't
Stop the system.
The Alliance Dispatch: A limited
volume of currency increases the pur-
chasing power of money, and conse-
quently brings low prices. Foreign
capitalists are taking advantage of
these conditions in our country, and
buying largely in stocks, etc. And
now, in place of having simply to null
tiply the millions of. American CAPT
talists, the suffering and toiling peo-
pie must begin to pile up millions for
the foreign capitalist. What do you
think of this, ye toilers from dawn
till dark for bare living?
The Farmers and LabOrers Friend:
When the Wall street bankers were in
close circumstances on account of loans
on real estate in the West, the govern
ment opened the vaults of the United
States treasury and supplied them.
When expositions are talked of, our
legislators vote large appropriations
to them. When railroads are to be
built our legislators loan them the
credit of the nation, besides giving
them large tracts of land; but when
the people. who are in distress on ac-
count of the failure in crops or lower
prices for their products ask for "a
loan, then a howl is made that it is
unconstitutional
Alliance indicator: The Farmers
Alliance is neither dead, dying nor
divided. It is unit upon the Ocala
demands, and the poor miserable few
Who set themselves up against the
whole order, who are conspicuous in
the partizan press for their opposition
TO Alliance demands, are neither ALI
ance men nor Democrats. TO be a
Democrat is to be willing for the
majority to rule: hence, they are not
Democrats because they still kick over
the traces after the great body of the
Alliance has endorsed the Ocala plat
form. They are not Alliance men, be-
cause they do not endorse the motto,
lin things essential, unity; and in all
things charity"
Alliance Herald: Be not deceived by
oily offers of platform concessions.
They cost nothing. They mean little.
What if one or both parties in final
panic next year incorporate all the
Alliance demands. in it's platform.
What will it amount to, provided the
same men and influences still control
the party? 1t is no unprecedented
thing for party to be false to its plat
form. Indeed, it has become so COM
mon that it excites little surprise, and
if the people in disgust turn to the 9TH
er party, the goldbugs behind the
scenes laugh and rub their hands and
say to each other What fools these
mortals be-" What cares Wall street
which party is in power as long as it
controls both?"
Arkansas Expositor: The bloody
work of the mortgage has begun. Out
in Kansas a constable went to
a farmer to take possession of some
mortgaged horses. To give up the
horses meant to give up all hope-to
give up all means of making bread for
his dear wife and little innocent babies,
and in sheer desperation he refused to
let the horses go; and when the con-
stable undertook to take them by force,
the farmer opened fire on HIM. Sew
eral shots were exchanged and both
men fell mortally wounded. This is
the first one; others are bound to fol-
low. AS the producers wake up to
the fact that the terrible financial con-
dition of the masses is the direct re-
suit OF enactments by unprincipled pol
iticians, they will not remain quiet and
be feeced.
News Reporter: The gold base for
money is like standing church on it's
steeple. The base is too small, how
ever well balanced. Every jar or
thunder storm is liable to bring either
the church or the gold basis money
system down to wreck All Europe is
in money panic, and on account of
which the business interests of the
United States are in distress, because
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