The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-02

= The Independent New Britain.
Conn: The government now loans its
money to the national banks at one
per cent Why kick wheDthe farm
Or wants to pay2 per cent and give
gilt edge securityP
The Oregon Alliance Herald: The
most dreaded class of people at the
present time are the very rich and the
very poor. The former because they
will become pompous and tyrannical,
while the latter become desperate
through want for themselves and fam
flies
The Peoples Paper: The Weekly
Union, Butler. Mo-, published the re-
vised list of Missouri reform papers.
These make formidable array. OF
the whole force there are but two or
three which are not solid upon the re-
form platform. The good crop year is
here, but the people are not sliding
back into the old parties as the false
prophets have said they would do.
The Jacksboro Sentinel: The specu-
lator cries out that the sub-treasury
won't do; that it will benefit nobody
but the Spectator. Did they cry out
against the national bank act, or the
decentralization of silver, or the con-
traction of the currency? Why are
they so anxious that the sub-treasurY
shall not pass? Because they know
It is not in the interest of the specula-
tor, but of the masses. The devil
don't fight any one who helps him.
Peoples Journal: The old party
press throughout this section, talk like
the fight is between the two old par
ties, whereas, the real fight is between
the people and the money power. The
money power is entrenched behind the
two old parties, and in its fight
against the people 1t hopes to be able
to win, promising, as it does. position
and gold to its workers. People, this
is the truth. The old parties are
simply tools in the hands of the pluto
crats-tools to destroy the liberties of
the people-paid tools to fasten the
chains of bondage upon the toilers, are
the party leaders of the old parties.
National Alliance: We have notice
from many of the white Alliance
lecturers and leaders that the colored
Alliance members will be welcome at
the camp meetings, and will receive
all possible attention and instruction.
We hope that a great many of our
people will avail themselves of these
opportunities. Applications come to
us daily from the Alliance who want
lecturers. In most of the states our
lecturers complain to us that they have
not been supported and cannot con-
tinue work without better pay. We
therefore rejoice at the invitations ex-
tended our members to attend the
white peoples camp meetings and hear
them. We beg you to attend. 1t will
do you good.
The Kansas Commoner: This is the
time of the year that you can see the
average politician of the old school,
vending his way over the hills and
through the corn fields and taking the
early morning trains out to our neigh
boring towns. informing the dear peo-
pie that they want this Office or that
Office, some of them going so far as to
write to certain Alliance men that
they would come to their school house
to speak, provided they would come
out to hear them, why of course the
Alliance boys will 60 and hear them,
for no doubt they will make good AL
lance speeches just now, but the AL
lance men will keep on saving wood
and when convention day comes round
they will let the office hunt the man.
The Farmers Weekly: The New
York Mail and EXPRESS paints dole
full picture of the deplorable condition
of trade and finance, and lays all the
blame to the Farmers Alliance, which,
it says proposes that the money lender
shall lend without reasonable security,
blldU lie SHALL U0 enforced TO accept a
mortgage upon a farm and take his
chances of being able to collect it.
Then they call upon the railroads to
adjust the rates SO that they can make
profit regardless of the cost of trans
portation. This being attended to-
they pass resolutions that every one
shall be criminally liable if he chooses
to make engagements in advance or
sell a single bushel of wheat" What
wonderful rascals these farmers are
any way? We trust the good Shep-
hard will place at the head of his
editorial columns the scriptural quota
ton, Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour"
The Midland Journal: To hear the
callow politicians of the day, mere
boys. as it were, shaking their heads
and expressing doubts about the
policy of free silver coinage, one
that knew no more about political
economy than they do, would suppose