Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-08-06
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS Pr THE ORDER AND Ivs
MEMBERS
What is Being Done in the varion.
Sections for the Advancement
OF the Great Organization
SIDE TRACKING ISSUES.

N@'~A~fA'-NN ASSCLSr
Under the above heading the Progress
size Farmer comes boldly to the front
and says
The partisan press and the politicians
who are opposed to the Alliance are ex-
lremel5 anxious to force the order into
false positions. They assert persistently
that the sub-treasury bill is The ultima
tum OF The Alliance, when they well
know that in every instance where it has
been made the issue, it has been forced
on u.s. And we may remark that in every
such case the sub-treasury has come out
victorious. 1t is now being asserted that
President Polk makes the sub treasury
paramount to all othyr questions The
enemy puts down his position as follows:
hat he regards as most important
list The sub-treasury bill.
sgd, Free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
Sd. The modification of the tariff.
President Polk has always held that a
change in the financial system of the
government by and through which the
industrial many are being robbed and
ruined by the moneyed few is the great
overshodowing paramount issue before
the American people. He has always
held that free coinage, tariff, sub-treasury
and all other questions are subordinate
to this great issue. No free coinage act,
no modification of the tariff, no increase
OF the currency-none, nor all of these,
can never bring just and substantial re-
lief to the people, so long as the present
unjust and outrageously wicked financial
system prevails. The national bank
ing system must go. The money
of the people must be Is
sued to the people, independent
of all expensive agencies and in
sufficient volume to do the business of
country This, and not the Sub Treas
ury, this, aud not the tariff, this, and not
free coinage, is the mighty living issue
before the people.
The Alliance wants and demands
modification of the tariff, and it intends
to have it. The Alliance wants and de-
mands free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer, and it intends to have it; but it will
no longer be deluded and ensnared with
the tallacious idea that these are para
mount to the money question. The poll
tlcians of the country have been deceiv-
ing and side-tracking the people on these
false ideas for quarter Of century, but
they can do it no longer.
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REGARDING THE WHEAT COMBINE.
II. w. Aver, secretary to President
Polk, of the Farmers Alliance, and man-
ager of the Reform Press Bureau, which
is also known as the Alliance Press
Bureau in Washington, is reported as
saying that the work of sending out cir
cuars designed to show the farmers of
the country that it was to their advant-
age to hold back the wheat crop was ac-
lively proceeding in Washington as well
as in st. Paul, Mimi, which was
chosen one of the seats of operation
because OF its location in the great wheat
belt. Mr.. Aver said there have already
been 400 600 of these circulars sent out
from Washington, and will continue TO
be sent cut until more than a million
circulars altogether are issued. The
circular he said, will also be published
in about two thousand weekly papers,
with which the bureau is connected. He
remarked that he couldn't say, of course,
that it was the circular which mad
brought about the result, but he had
noticed in a recent market report,
that as matter of fact the actual move
ment of wheat was 140 carloads less per
day than had been estimated. Mr.. Ayre
also stated that the information that the
issue of such q circular by alliancemen
was in contemplation became public pre-
maturely, when the circular in course of
preparation was publised in the newspa-
pers. The final decision to issue the cir
cular had not at that time been reached,
and many leading alliancemen were una
ware of it, but it has since been finally
determined upon. He explained that
the executive committee of the alliance
had not acted on this matter, and that by
the circular no order was given alliance
men to hold back their crop, this being
contrary to the methods of the alliance.
What is done by this circular is to give
the farmers information as to the facts in
regard to the worlds wheat crop, with
the suggestion that wheat some weeks
later than the present time will bring a
higher price.
The Western New York Farmer, GAR
cade J says is regard to the Wyoming
county Alliance meeting: HThe 1900
members of the Order in this county have
determined that the Alliance principles
of letting the office seek the man, shall
be principle observed in the nomina-
ton of all candidates. They have no use
! for self-seekers and look upon all who
ask for office with suspicion. They want
a man to represent them in the Assembly,
the Senate, and in other places of official
trust, who will earn his salary and be true
to those who employ and pay him as pub
lie servant, and they propose to have such
one even if neither party see iii
to nominate him. Their action
at the convention conveys no uncer-
tuin sound 1t is brief, but it is awfully
explicit and fearfully in earnest. 1t ad-
vises all members to attend their par y
primaries aud work for pure and honest
men who are known to be in harmony
with the Alliance demands. The execu-
tive authority is directed to submit these
demands to every nominee and failing to
secure the public pledges of their sup
port of these demands, he is instructed
to call not county Alliance meeting,
| for the Alliance Is strictly secret and