The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
THE ALLIANCE.

The Advocate, Topeka: Tie broad
and generous system of insurance now
vigorously pushed by the National
Farmers Alliance is educational in the
direction of homogeneous work. 1t
will be found Adaptable and ready to
go into the nationalistic provisions for
the society and the comfort of the
nations labOrers.
The Advocate, Topeka: In this
country of boasted liberty of conscience
and freedom of expression, there are
thousands who dare not openly speak
their honest sentiment nor vote their
true convictions, and thousands more
who know this to be true. The tyran-
ny, the deception and the hypocrisy
that is so commonly practiced by many,
is really deplorable.
National Economist: The toiling
masses have been in the habit OF al
lowing their enemies to divide them
and set them to frightening each other,
but change has taken place. They
are thinking, working and acting more
unitedly together; they are reforming
themselves and they are going to exer-
else in the reformation of society, of
government and of more equal dis
tribution of the accumulative wealth
of the country.
Alliance Herald: Every intelligent
railroad man must know that there is
no clash in reality between the farm
ers and themselves, and that this new
practical reformation which will soon
sweep this country is not confined to
the farming communities, but that
thousands of laborers in cities, and
business men as well, clearly see the
need of it, and join in the just de-
mands that the people have made of
the law-making power.
Alliance Farmer Atlanta: Our fore
fathers fought in the revolutionary war,
making sacrifices that will forever per-
petuate their names in history to eman-
cipate productive labor from the power
of a monarch to Cypress. Their battle
cry was liberty" Our monarch is a
false unjust and statutory power given
to money, which calls for conflict on
our part to emancipate productive
labor from the power of money to OPP
press. Let the watchword again be,
Liberty"
Kansas Farm Record: Over in Har-
vey county, the bank at Newton re-
fused to take good farmers note
because the farmer belonged to the
Alliance. Proof being sufficient the
county Alliance passed resolution
against having anything to do with the
bank; and further, not to trade with
anyone who patronized the bank. OF
course the bank in about four months,
busted. 1t don't pay to be too smart
just because you are a banker and
handle other peoples money.
Lincoln Neb., Beacon: There are
1862, S65 mortgages in the United
States, SO Superintendent Porter says
and he ought to be good Republican
authority. Had it come from any
other source the Republican papers
would have denounced it as false
hood. But here it is: One mortgage
for erery seUen people in the nation,
counting men. women and children.
There will be shaking up of the dry
bones in 1892 that will open the eyes
not only of this nation, but of the
world.
Farmers Voice: The financial sense
of our people has been befogged and
deluded by the nOn-essential fact that
trade balances between nations are
settled by gold bullion. This fact has
no legitimate bearing on the currency
question of the country. All this talk
regarding an irredeemable money is
arrant nonsense. The United States
government and all state governments
counties, towns and municipalities
would most effectually redeem paper
dollars when they received them for
dues and taxes.
Southern Mercury: The farmer has
carefully titled his SOIL raised his STOCK
carried his produce to market, and just
at that point he has turned over all
regulation, supervision or adequate
understanding OF business to Transport
tation companies to spectators, grain
gamblers and beef combines, and these
in conjunction with vicious financial
legislation have at length impoverished
the farmers. Using the phraseology
of the devout, one might call it provi-
Dental that the farmers of America
are awake to the danger of their sit
uation; that they are coming to an
understanding as to the remedies.
Ohio Peoples Press: 1t is a noto-
rious fact that the discovery and COL
losal output of gold in California and
Australia, cheapened that metal in the
marts of the world and deprecated the
purchasing power of all paper money
based upon it, and thus did untold
good to humanity. And to-day it is
equally true, that the vast consumption
of gold in jewelry, plating, gliding and