The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
large extent united with the Republi-

THE BIG CROPS AND THE ALLIANCE.

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THE BIG CROPS AND THE ALLIANCE.
''How will the big crops of this year affect
the Alliance party, Mr.. Simpson" said L.
Senator Sherman told me few weeks ago
that the Alliance party was a calamity
party. He said it was made by the hard
times and that the big crops of this year
would wipe it out. How is that?"
John Sherman does not know the farmers
of the United states" replied Mr. Simpson.
HE looks upon them as q set of blank fools
and this is the view of your leading states
men. The Alliance has growth of fifteen
years. 1t was never so strong as it is to-
day and it is growing. 1t is not political
party and it is more like a secret society or
a fraturnity than political party. Its aim
EEas to accomplish its ends by the efforts of
its Individual mem bers and it is the combi-
nation of the farmers of this country for
their own good. This is an age of combina-
ton. The railways, the insurance interests,
the bankers and all the trades of the United
, States are now working in combination for
the respective good Of the classes to which
! they belong. Agricultural conditions have
changed and the farmers find that his GLASS
must combine In order to secure its rights.
You may be surprised of the size of the
Alliance. We have about three million
members and judge we have at least two
million voters. l had talk with the head
of the colored alliance of the United States
the other day. He is a white man, but he
tells me there are one million and half
members Of the colored Alliance. These
men are in the south and they will vote
with US. L have travelled over large part
Of the south within the past few weeks and
can tell you that the Alliance is growing
very largely there"
THE PASSING OF INGALLS,
1.-THE thing which knit the farmers of the
north and south together was the defeat of
Senator ingalls, for election by the Ali
aRce,' contin ded MIR. Simpson. 'He was
the Doody shirt element He wanted to
continue waving this garment in the face
Of the people of the next generation. Now
the west and the south naturally ought to
work together. Their interests are largely
the same, and in the south about 20 per
cent. OF the people are farmers. In Kansas,
Nebraska and Minnesota about 60 per cent.
are farmers. 1t was only this agitation
that kept US apart. and our defeating In
gals made the farmers of the south reach
out their hands to Us and we are now TO-
| gether."
What will the Alliance do in the next
Congress!"
Il can't say what we will be able to do.
Ten of US will, think, stay out of the eau
cusses OF the two parties and we will do
what we can to further our interests. We
will meet together and form bill looking
to the bettering of the financial and agri-
cultural condition of the country. Money!
should be SO regulated that it will not bring
more than per cent. at interest When
it brings more than this, it begins to eat uu
the increase of the wealth of the country.
At present there are in the United States
about sixty-two million dollars worth of
property and there are thirty-two billion
dollars worth OF debts which pay an inter.
est Of 10 per cent. We pay over thirty-twc
hundred million dollars worth of interest
every year or nearly fifty dollars in inter
est for each man, woman and child in the
country. These figures speak for them.
selves. The farmers understand them and
| believe that we are on the eve of party
revolution. There will undoubtedly be :
third party in the next presidential cam
paign and believe in the far future parties
will change in this country, and the two
great parties will be, one consisting of the
friends of the great corporate interests o.
the railroad, and monopolies run by large
capital and Of capitalists, and the other VIII