New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-01
ALLIANCE PICNIC.
The Annual Meeting is Held in the
Groves Near Iberia. ~
DR.. Fish Talks and the Cincinnati Plat
form is Endorsed. ~


all parts of the county in the groves
near Iberia last Saturday and indulged
in their annual meeting and picnic. Al
together there were between two and
three hundred people present.
The business portion of the meeting
occupied about an hour and was trans
acted in the Iberia Hall. President
Ahlness called the meeting to order and
Chas. Cutting acted as secretary. Up
on motion OF Mr.. Marschner, creden-
tlals were ruled out of order, and twen-
tyfour delegates answered to roll call
of the various alliances. The introduce
ton of resolution by Lars Frederick
son, relative to the collection of dues,
called forth lively discussion, which
was taken part in by Marschner, Plath,
Halvorsen and Frederickson, but the
resolution was finally adopted, and
hereafter no alliance will be permitted
to send delegates to the county meet
ings unless it is evident that it is 0. X.
with regard to dues. Then followed a
report by Lars Frederickson of the do
ings of the Cincinnati convention. This
gave rise to resolution by Clement
Halvorsen, asking for an endorsement
of the Peoples platform, and before
passing the resolution several of the
delegates, principally Marschner and
Bellig, gave it their Individual endorse
ment in speeches that bristled with at
tacks at the bonded plutocrats, the rail
road magnates and the millionaires in
whose hands the wealth of the country
is fast becoming concentrated. These
appeals IN behalf Of ''equal rights to all,
and special privileges to none' left lit
tie room for variance in the minds of
the delegates, and the convention went
on record with unanimity for the ap-
proval of the work of Donnelly at the
Cincinnati gathering. The old officers
were then re.instated, and the meeting
was declared adjourned.
In the grove several local speakers
and DR.. Fish of the Great West enter
taine the throng with addresses of the
usual calamity order. That, of DR..
Fish was labored effort and extended
over an hour and half Among other
things, he said:
The great fort which ou are to cap.
ture in the future is the finance question.
Yet there are other issues, of which the
wheat and transportation questions are
of more than usual local interest to you.
Then there is the land question. There
are 100000 evicted farmers, and the
bleaching bones of those who fell on
the Des Muines, and the children of
those who have been fiIched of their
lands by the railroads monopolis, and
are left to wander homeless orphans ap-
pesling for change of laws. There
are 225,0O0,000 acres which are
a bed of roses to railroads and bed of
thorns to you. You know, we Farmers
Alliance people are set of cranks, who
feed on lot of shin-plaser money fal.
acies! The great cry raised by our
critics is that of fiat money" What
is fiat money? The only fat money l
know of is the national bank bill, back
of which is no property and which does
not promise redemption in gold. It is
not a legal payment of debt. You
evicted farmer, with the tears yet wet
On your cheeks and those of your fair
wife, 60 up to your magnificent court
house, and offer this money to the
sheriff to pay your debt and he can re.
fuse it. A bond is but the wind thai
blows across the free and open prairies.
The national bank law is so defective
that the bank cannot rest its credit on
real estate. The national bank curren.
cy is really issued by Shylock himself,
and brings interest back with it wher
it goes to fill the hole made by its is.
suance. These plutocrats make their
riches out of you, who must fill that
hole. AS everybody must pay back
more than he receives, and if all debts
were paid, the last to pay woulds not
have solitary dollar with which to pay
even if $1,000,000,0O0 were issued il
currency. When they tell you thai
fiat money ruined the Argentine Re
public, tell them that it was the national
bank bills. They had to keep issuing
bills to keep up the interest. The issue
of national bank currency is SO degrad,
ed in the eyes of all plutocrats that il
is not legal tender. The national gov
ernment says that greenback shall be
good to pay debts between men aid
men, but not for the men to pay theil
! debts to the government The speaker
next attempted to refute the generally
accepted idea that gold is the standard
money value. Then he went back tc
Babylon, Rome, Alexandria and other
ancient cities to show tllat the degrade
ton of public conscience has existed
since the time Of Adam, and continuing
said: You must watcn your interests,
laboring men. You are the men te
look out for your interests; city men
won do it. They are living off Of yor
farmers, partly justifably. Neither
of the old parties will help yon. Botl
haye had their golden age, but politics
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