The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-16
THE ALLIANCE.

rent Is 0aClng Inc uI0 Out OI tHo
business enterprises not under the fos-
tering care of monopoly in almost
every city. The percentage Of our
people living in tenement houses
Is yearly increasing. The mortgage
foreclosures are daily wrenching from
Woodworking, honest farmers the
homes they love. There are 1900
600 tenement farmers in the United
States. There's occasion for alarm
The Peoples Forum: Merchants,
are you prosperous? If SO, we con-
graduate you. Are not collections
difficulty Is the tariff the reason the
people can't pay their debts. or is the
reason to be found in the fact that the
debtor does not have tie money! Do
you think the reason you make small
sales owing to the people having an
overproduction of comforts, or to their
lack of means to purchase? Are the
reasonable demands of the people for
food, clothing and shelter all satisfied?
II so, you may expect to effect few
sales and the people, of course, are
prosperous and happy.
The Milton Star: Quite number Of
uniformed farmers labor under the
,delusion that the Alliance movement
Is of very recent origin, and will have
but an ephemeral existence. Such is
not the case. Texas, the state of it's
birth, has held her twelfth annual
state Alliance, and the order in Texas
is much stronger in numbers and more
united in purpose and more deter
mined in resolution than ever before.
The order, however, IN many of the
states is young in years but strong in
spirit and growing fast. The order
now in the United States numbers
about four million members.
The Free Press: Most of the So
called farmers or agricultural papers
are nothing but partisan papers,
clothed in garb calculated to de-
ceive the people. The farmers can
not afford to support papers that are
opposing their interests. For years
these papers have taught the farmers
that they should let politics alone, and
that working harder and harder was
the keynote to success, and most of
the mischief that bad legislation has
brought about must be attributed to
this attempt to keep the farmer out of
politics. 1t has been the schemes of
money kings and it is time that the
people were opening their eyes to the
true situation of affairs.
The Peoples Journal: Alliancemen
as well as others should not believe
one-half the reports of Alliance doings
that are telegraphed to the city dailies
from the east They are generally
framed to suit the schemes of the enc
mics of the Alliance movement, and
if they can cause discussions in the
ranks of the Alliance on this coast or
deter farmers and laborers from Join
ing the organization the object aimed
at will be accomplished. The leading
organs of both the great political
parties either sheer at or boldly an
tagonize the Alliance movement and
the smaller fry copy their remarks as
SO much solid truth. From this time
on till after the election next fall Al
lance men may be on the lookout for
all manner OF yarns in certain
class Of papers, calculated to iniure a
movement that is becoming a terror
to the capitalists and monopolists
whose golden riveted collars the con-
ductors of such journals wear.
Alliance Herald: The people want a
cheap way of getting money. and one
with which they can comply. They
ure at the mercy of a combination of
capitalists that can not be defeated by
any power not as powerful and pos
sessing as great means as it can con-
troll. There is no other power that
can defeat them, except the govern
ment; for no combination can be made
that possesses the facilities and abili-
ty to compete with them except the
government 1t is called paternalism
for the government to accord this pro-
lection. A government that does not
exert enough paternalism to protect
its people is wanting in the essential
purposes for which it was organized
and for which the people pay taxes to
support The government ought to
discharge every function it has or
can command in order to protect its
creation. That is the purpose of its
existence. That is the intention of it.
In fact that is all the use the citizen
has for government It has the pow
er to compel him to hazard his life
in battle for its perpetuity. In return
it ought to hazard it's life to protect
him in all the essenti tails of liberty.
The Western Call: Government
bonds converted into legal tender
treasury notes would be only changing
the form of the credit of the govern
ment from one class of security to an
other. The legal tenders would be
equally as COED and safe as the bonds.
In the one form it represents idle CAPT
tai bearing interest; in the other CAPT
tai employing labor. building up the
industries of the country in place Of
dragging THEM down. The nations
credit should never be in the form Of
bonded interest Bearing debt. The
people will always accept the govern