The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-12
THE ALLIANCE.

enemies of reform, and we do not pro-
pose to timber till we shall have swept
the field of every enemy to our cause.
There are some in our ranks who are
traitors to the cause, who are pretend
ingly refor-~ers, but by secret and un-
demanded means are striving to dis
rupt the order. Murder will out, !"
and, like the ass in the fable, their
true character will appear after a few
movements.
The Alliance Herald: Some mem
bers of the Alliance may think that
both the Democratic and Republican
parties are veering toward Alliance
demands, but it is not true The lead
ers of both of them belong as thorough
ly and wholly to plutocracy as If it had
a bill of sale to them. The rank and
file of both parties are opposed to
plutocracy. 1t remains to be seen
whether the rank and file will control
the leaders or the leaders the rank and
file, or whether they will agree to dis
agree.
The Living Truth, Georgina Ala. ::
Money we are told will buy more than
it ever did before. And this is said to
prove that the demands of the farmers
are extravagant and unjust. That is
all right for the man who happens to
have the money, but how is it for the
poor fellow that hasn't got it. but must
have some. He must sell what he has
got to get small amount of what he
hasn't got and can't get without a
sacrifice. Scarce money makes dear
money, and dear money makes cheap
horses, cattle, lands and merchandise.
This is good for the man that buys,
but tough on the poor fellow that has
to sell. Give the poor man chance.
Labor Review, GladbroOk, Iowa: The
farmers of our entire country are be-
ginning to realize the dangers which
threaten the future well-being of our
free institutions, brought about by the
centralizing of wealth and the corrup-
ton of the ballot, as they never have
before. This interest is being mani
tested in the rapid organization of the
toilers which is going on in every
state. They demand justice, equal
rights and the abolition of banks of
issue. and gambling in farm products,
the retaining of unearned railroad
lands and the control Of the roads by
government. These issues are coming
longer.
The Alliance: The greenback has
been treated by the government as
a debt instead of money, and when
returned to the government treasury
it was destroyed. Interest bearing
bonds were created to take it up and
thus reduce the life blood of the ma
ton. AS the heart throws supply
of blood through the arteries into each
part of the body and it returns through
the veins and is sent out afresh, so
should the money of the nation be sent
out Let THE heart hoard the supply and
the tissues of the body are withered; let
anation hoard and destroy it's life blood
and it's peop1e-the minute particles of
nation-are withered in means and
resources
The Home Advocate (Mapleton,
1owa) condenses the issues of the
day into the following: t'Land, labor,
transportation and finance are the liv.
ing questions of the day. Land is a
common heritage 1t is essential to
patriotism, to home. Labor is the
producer of wealth, of honest man
hood. 1t is the motive power behind
the mighty wheel of progress. Trans
portation is the outgrowth of civiliza-
ton. Upon it depends the welfare of
the producer and consumer. It is not
private concern, but public neces-
sity. Finance is the measure of val
ues. 1t is the artery of trade. 1t
places a premium upon labor when
unin1uenced by corporate greed or
selfish cunning. And now remains
these four-land, finance, transporta-
ton and labor-but the greatest of
these is labor
The Liberty Bell (Sioux City, Iowa)
contains a strong leader on the
u,
solid common sense of the American
people, when they have fully deter
mined upon doing what their con-
science and their judgment tell them
is right, that they will not long allow
them to be kept from uniting to carry
out that purpose They are now
firmly convinced their demands are
right and hence every effort to prevent
it only unites the more firmly, and in
spite of all that politicians may do or
attempt to do, the sound common sense
OF the great, plain people" will pre-
vail. We repeat, that in our opinion,
the Alliance has been strengthened by
thus showing its ability to foil the at
tempts of its enemies to divide and set
to warning each other it's two princi-
pal divisions.
The Arkansas Expositor, Eureka
Springs, is fully alive to the situation
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