The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-21
THE ALLIANCE.

THE ALLlANCE.
Faulkner County Wheel: What
rights have the farmers and working
men that railroads and other corpora
lions respectp None. Yet when the
paid attorneys of these corporations
come around and tell the people how
to vote some farmers are fools enough
to believe them. Never thinking that
they are talking for the men and cor
porations that pay them for their SER
vices.
Farmers Advocate: An honest dol
lar! Why should people who are SO
manifestly dishonest be SO clamorous
for honest money? Strange their hon
esty never suffered shock when they
dishonesty took from silver and added
to gold. This is fact they seem to
have entirely forgotten. They abso-
lutely stole from the producers and
laborers the difference between the
gold and the silver, and now when a
demand is made for the stolen goods
they answer in howl about honesty.
The independents: Business men
ought to be shrewd enough to see
where their interests lie. The Is, 900
failures of Last year should teach them
that the road to bankruptcy is grow
ing easier every year. The business
mans interests are in common with
those of the farmer and laboring man.
When these prosper, the business
mans day of prosperity is also at hand.
Their political interests, too, are iden-
teal. The farmer and laboring man
are on the right side. When will the
business man get there.
Peoples Farmer: Some one sup
posed we were so sacrilegious as to
wish John Sherman dead and con-
signed to the region of torment. No,
we do not wish John SherDan any
such fate. We would have him live
till the effect of his financial policy is
fully understood by the great masses
of our countrymen whose sacred inter-
ests he has betrayed; till he has ex-
perienced their just contempt for what
he has done. This would be his proper
reward: Stunned, pitied and no one
so poor to do him reverence.
Independent Citizen: That the two
old parties mean to pool their issues
in 1892, if they become convinced that
the new party recently formed at
Cincinnati stands a chance Of success,
may be inferred from the recent re-
marks of ex-United States Senator Ed
munds, who is reported as saying
''that if the farmers and labor people
run candidate for president they will
not be able to succeed, but they will
throw the election in the house of
representatives, and the house being
Democratic they will elect a Demo
GRAFT which would be much better than
to have a labor candidate" This
surely shows which way the wind is
blowing.
Peoples journal: Wall street has
begun its attack upon the Alliance
leaders. From this time on the old
party papers will publish all kinds of
lies to injure the Alliance officials.
This is the programme mapped out by
the heads of the money aristocracy.
They believe If the influence of our
leaders is broken down that the ALI
ance as an organization will go to
pieces. The fight against the Alliance
is now begun. The old parties-the
servants of the millionaires-see that
the Alliance is bound to grow into a
powerful organization, and thereby
check these money usurers in their ne
farious business; hence the scheme to
destroy US.
Labor Review: Our government
furnishes money at / per cent con-
tracts the currency and cripples indus
dustry, that the bankers may exact a
premium from the toilers, on idleness,
penury and want and deprive the in
dustrious OF their homes. When de-
prived of their homes the nation is
without the means of self defense.
They give the public lands and issue
bonds to railroads that the corpora
lions may more effectually rob the
people. They enact tariff laws for the
protection of trusts and combines, and
to keep goods out then enter into
reciprocity agreements for free goods,
and subsidize ships to bring in the
goods. They spend one billion of
dollars during one session Of congress,
and advise the Industrious to be more
saving. such is craftsmanship.
Western New York Farmer says in
regard TO the Wyoming county ALI
ance meeting: The 2. 900 members of
the order in this county have deter
mined that the Alliance principles OF
letting the Office seek the man, shall
be principle observed in the nominal
ton of all candidates. They have no
use for self-seekers and look upon all
who ask for Office with suspicion.
They want a man to represent them in
the assembly, the senate, and in other
places of official trust who will earn
his salary and be true to those who