The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-28
THE ALLIANCE.

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Gov. Tllman championed the farmers
cause; and the opposition papers
fought Gov. Tillman fiercely. Yet
those papers protested to the love OF
farmers. This year Gov. Tillman OPP
poses the only measure that promises
TO break the power Of few men to rob
the farmer; and these same papers now
champion Gov, Tillman. Yet they all
love the dear farmer to death.
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Alliance Herald: Measures for re-
lief of agriculture is the demand.
Pledges that will be fulfilled which
will assure redemption from debt is
what is wanted. An administration of
the government in the interest of the
people, is what is exacted. The
trusts, combines and syndicates must
60. The great basis for them-the
national banks with power to control
the volume of the currency-mustr also
turn their toes to the daisies. The
people must rule for the benefit of the
people.
Clarion Ledger: An eloquent anti
Alliance stumper was asked the other
day how he proposed to increase the
circulating medium? He answered by
the free coinage of silver. He was
told that it was good as far as it went;
but if the silver output was all coined
it would not add twenty cents head
to the volume of currency. But there
Is doubt about having free silver coin
age. Carlisle, Mills. Cleveland and
other bosses are now saying that the
free silver issue must be kept in the
rear in the next presidential canvass;
but the masses must have their say as
well as the bosses.
Weekly Monitor: The government
by class laws enables the bankers and
spectators to buy non erishable farm
products and store them in elevators
and warehouses. And now when the
farmers ask for the option of doing the
same, the cry Of Constitutionality is
raised. If the present Constitution
will only serve the capitalists, it should
be annulled, and adopt one that will
serve the whole people. We suggest
in the next CONSTITUTION" that especial
attention to be given these 'liars,
'thugs' and thieves. The present
Constitution is good enough if only
honest men are allowed to construe it,
and the way to procure honest men to
construe it is to spot politicians in all
elections.
Alliance Dispatch: Every article
in the old party press, every express
sion from the politician, and every
published interview but strengthens
the one only conclusion, that no re-
lief can be expected from either of the
old fossil parties. They are both al
lied to the kings Of capital. and their
very expression but adds force to the
assertion. Are we men, and continue
to vote with parties that we know are
arrayed against our interests? Or,
shall we like the brave sons of heroic
fathers, use the brains and the free
dom that God has given us, and use
our prerogative in our own best in
tcrests. and in the interest of a COM
mon humanity? Unborn generations
cry out to US to save this country from
its inevitable tendency, the rule of the
plutocracy and the slavery of the peo-
pie! We must respond like men, and
the unholy schemes of men entrenched
behind capital must be thwarted!
Labor's Tribune: The attempt by
the old party politicians to break up
the Alliance is very significant at this
time, showing wicked design to de-
feat reform. It has come to this and
people may as we'll get ready to meet
It now as later on. The moral char
acter of the old party leaders and pol
iticians is so bad that reform sounds
like the trump of death in their ears,
and if meanness, lying and slandering
can do the work. the cause of the peo-
pie will be ruined. It does not re-
quire much foresight to. determine
what those things will lead to. and we
will not suffer ourselves to be blinded
by promises of any kind from men
who have ruined our nation. They do
not intend to suffer the people to have
a good popular government, by and
for the people, these old traitors will
sink the movement ii they involve us
in war. What better proof of a de-
termination to ruin the republic do we
want than we have in the legisla-
ton of the last twenty years, and the
attitude of the leaders of the old par
ties toward the people? Beware, be-
ware, ye people, for our freedom is in
danger.
The Alliance Farmer: The excessive
rates for transportation are crushing
producers and imposing grievous bur-
dens upon consumers. They are
serious restraints upon enterprise. and
unless some relief is afforded produc-
ton will not only be greatly reduced
but the surplus wealth OF the country
will continue to pass into Il few hands.
The fortunes which have been accumu-
lated in railroad building and oper-
ating are beyond anything known to
history, and accommodations will in
crease and oppression Of the people
will continue unless some decisive and