The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-05
THE lola REGISTER.
FRIDAY. JUNE ), 1891.
A ROYAL UkASE.

General L.. Il. Polk has issued
Royal Ukase which is printed in full
in the Topeka AdrOcdte Of May 18th.
This general order tells Alliance men
to stick to the ship; to swallow every
thing and to go out of the house when
they feel like gagging. Then it goes
on to define the limited rights all AL
lance man is supposed to have. The
president Of the Alliance says:
mo member of our order has the
right to dSsda another member pub
licly, through the press or otherwise,
20 long as the names are OH our roll of
membership. Such an offence is CiO-
idtiOR of his obligation and should
merit expulsion"
In other words, you north Butler
fellows who think Jones misrepresent-
ed you at the legislature:
Shut up. Stand by Jones;
You fellows who have manhood
enough to revolt at the leadership of
Elder, Sam Wood, and the Vincents
keep still and let these fellows run the
machine. And you fellows who OBJ
ject to Todd making a farce of your
principles by going over to Green's
burg and freezing your Alliance ed
itors out for SD, keep still and let the
hypocrite go on.
And the Polk circular continues:
mo member, while his name re-
mains on our rolls, has right to as
sail the principles of the order pub
licly."
BY its sub-treasury scheme the Al
lance is committed irretrievably to
fiat money. Therefore Judge Denni-
son, Judge Shinn and the rest of you
hard money Alliance men:
Shut up,
And be blamed sudden about it,
You "have no right TO dssdH tic
principles Of the order publicly"
And further along in the circular
Col. Polk continues:
"If he cannot acquiesce in the de-
cision of the majority, and feels that
he is conscientiously impelled to go
before the public and assail our prin-
ciples, he should first divest himself
of his Alliance uniform"
In other words this circular says to
Dennison and Shinn and Randall and
a dozen of the leaders of the Alliance
in Butler county who are not believers
of fiat money and kindred lunacies:
Shut up;
Or get out;
Take your choice.
Be a hypecrite;
Or a man;
We don't care which.
But don't stand around the post
Office and "assail our principles"
Speaking of the party lash, did the
Republicans ever lay it Oh as hard as
that? Did the chairman of any na-
tional Republican Central Committee
ever say mo Republican has any right
TO assail another Republican public
ly?" Did any Republican national
organizer ever threaten any man with
expulsion from the party who doesn't
swallow each and every party dogma?
And speaking of newspapers the
Polk circular continues:
NO paper vested with authority to
represent our order officially has the
right to dssdH oar principles or any
member of the order while acting in
such a capacity. Such an offence
should cause all true Alliance men to
rep"didtc such paper prOmptly."
Did any National Republican chair
man ever issue circular telling Re
publicans to "repudiate," (boycottl a
paper which refused to support every
Republican measure or candidate?
Was there ever such absolute party
tyranny, attempted by any party i'll
America as is now being practised in
the Alliance to-day? And yet there
are hundreds of men i'm Butler county
who will read this article, with man.
hood so far gone, that they will de-
nounce it as 'cowardly attack on
the farmer" these men left the old |
parties because they imagine their |
condition will be bettered and now |
they are not even allowed TO rea son |
for themselves Oh the question of
whether they are better off or not. !
They are not allowed TO speak fer
themselves; TO act for themselves nor
even TO think for themselves. Cattle;
why cattle are free moral agents COM
pared with Alliance voters to-day.
And this is the movement of 1.-The
people, 4" "the great plain commoners"
"the down trodden and oppressed"