The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-08-20
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


64, 900, 900 bushels of surplus wheat for
export this season. This is only two
thirds of her annual export for the past
four years.
The late state convention Of Mis-
sissipli was composed largely of law
yers, almost wholly of professional
men, and not farmer on its important
committees.-Nationa Economist
democrats and republicans will
make common cause against a common
enemy, and the life of that organiza-
ton (the peoples party will be short" !"
Col A. A. Harris, Dem. Boss of Ft
Scott, Kan.
The Kansas democrats came out in
an address stating that they cannot
affiliate with the Kansas peoples party.
This, mind you, was after the peoples
party had refused to fuse with the
democrats Alliance Watchman.
The Southern Mercury says: Thirty
days ago wheat was selling at S1.05 per
bushel; now it is selling at IS cents, and
still going lower. VIII some sleek con-
gresham, whose salary never fiuctu-
ates, please explain why this decline,
and how to prevent it?
And now silver is going to England
under orders for purchase. This does
not correspond with Mr.. Sherman's
prophecy that America would be the
dumping ground of the silver of Eu-
rope. There is evidently miscalculs-
ton somewhere.
The brethren in Mississippi are con-
tinuing the fight all along the line. No
one need have the least uneasiness
about the unity or growth of the alli-
ance in that state. The mendacity of
the opposition only serves to strengthen
and encourage. National Economist
1t is entirely legitimate for the
farmers to unite in holding wheat, and
other crops to get the highest market
prices obtainable. 1t is a question be-
tween the producer and the speculator,
and the producer has the right to all
the consumer pays, less the necessary
cost of handling and transportation
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
The Capitals special from Morris
county, speaking of the judicial cleo
ton, says: THE entire republican vote
of the county will undoubtedly be cast
for an independent candidate, as we'll
as that part of the democratic strength
that is not in the alliance" 1t is very
evident that southern re bells are getting
in their work among republicans out in
Morris county in the interest of the
democracy.-Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.
Says the journal of Agriculture:
"All farmers cannot hold their wheat,
but if those who are able, hold their
wheat, those who have to sell will have
the benefit of the increase in price"
Just so. And the journal might have
added that if the sub-treasury plan
were in operation those who were not
compelled to avail themselves of its
provisions would be equally benefited
with those who did so avail themse Ives.
Gov. Campbell, of Ohio. says "the
alliance and democratic party will pull
together" Northern republican papers
howl that the alliance is a southern
democratic annex. Liston to these en-
dearing pet names applied to southern
alliancemen by the Montgomery Adver,
tiser, the democratic state organ of
Alabama: "Bastards," "mutineers."
epirates," "conspirators" and "trait-
ors." The Mobile Register says ''amen"
to the above. Rather an inharmonious
''annex." The pulling together" seems
to be over a very rocky road.-Weekly
Union.
Republican editors should get to.
gether and come to an understanding.
While the Capital is telling its readers
of the solidity of the democratic party
of the south and the futility of the hopo
of northern alliancemen that the peo-
ple's party will gain any strength
south of Mason and Dixon's line, the
Clay Center Dispatch correctly sizes up
the situation and shows that there is
the same danger of the overthrow of
democracy in the south as of republic
anism in the north. This will never do.
Get together, gentlemen, and arrang to
all tell the same story.-Advocate.
Thus far SO counties have held their
July meetings, and without exception
every one has denounced officially, in
severest terms, the Fort Worth scab-
alliance-anti-sub-treasury gang. The
scabs palmed off a huge fake on the
press outside of the state, by the use of
the telegraph and mails. Thirty-seven,
all told, was the sum total of their
corpuses. They dragooned Texas far
and wide and failed to produce cor
poral's guard The subsidized press
blowed and puffed the meeting for all
it was possible, but no one is deceived
Dallas (Tex.) Southern Mercury.
While some of us can hardly re-
strain a smile as we watch the reform
in the old parties waiting ex-
pectantly for the republican Ethiopian
to change his skin and the democratic
leopard his spots, we cannot help re-
specting even mistaken loyalty to past
traditions. There must however, be q
limit and an end to such waiting. The
time is at hand when all true men must
shake the dust of the old parties from
their feet and take their places in the
ranks with those whose chosen task it
is to free American industry from it's
oppressors- No party attachments or
preferences must be allowed to stand In
the way of this. journal of Knights OF
Labor.
President Polk, of the Farmers Al
lance, who has just returned from his
southern tour, said he had been quoted
incorrectly as saying that the great issue
was the tariff and free coinage and that
with these issues the alliance would all
rally around the sub-treasury bill
"Now," said he, 'the issue is not the
tariff, the free coinage of silver or the