The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-18
THE ALLIANCE.

plan ever submitted to the American
people has been so viciously, bitterly
and willfully assaulted as the subtreas-
ury PLAN but on the other hand no
plan has ever SO steadily and rapidly
gained friends. It will bear the fiery
ordeal and come out victorious.
The Home Sentinel: When you hear
Q fellow say that the government can
not operate a railroad ask him how it
is that when railroad company makes
an assignment the courts appoint
a manager and the business goes
on just the same. The public has the
benefit of the road and it is operated
under control of the government agent.
If the courts can operate one line sue
cessfully, can there be any reason that
all the lines may not be run the same
way?
Arkansas Farmer: Don't think be-
cause your little sub Alliance is puny
and wanting in energy and life that
the order is going down. Read up and
see that it is going ahead with all
steam on. 1t grows at the rate of two
or three thousand a day. Thlrty-eight
states have been organized and all will
soon join the column. Nothing can
stop the great march of the people.
Take hope, take courage, stand true to
your colors. and your principles will
surely triumph. Right will in the
end be the victor
The Toiler: Bold, fearless, deter
mined leaders are needed at the front
now in the Farmers Alliance to meet
and withstand the assaults of the sub
sidized press, and to meet the enemy
on the hustlings There never was a
period in the history of the order
when such united effort was made to
create dissention in our ranks by false
hood and ridicule; but thanks to the
courage manhood and fidelity to prin-
ciple shown by the rank and file of our
order. They are standing by their
chosen leaders, and the falsehood and
abuse only unites them closer together
m bonds of union.
The Leader: A conspiracy against
the life-blood of the body politic-the
money of the country-is the worst
form of treason which can be COM
mitted in republican form Of gov
eminent 1t is a conspiracy to rob
honest effort of its reward; it is con-
spiracy to despoil honest enterprise of
Its profits; it is conspiracy to rob
labor of the fruits of it's toll; it is a
conspiracy to rob the country of it's
honesty. its industry. it's enterprise
and its manhood. For what purpose?
To make the exploiter Weather in
his millions at the cost of the integri-
ty, the virtue. the intelligence and the
patriotism of the country. A race of
serfs and slaves are incapable of free
dom for more than one generation.
A conspiracy to make the great masses
serfs and slaves is a conspiracy against
republican institutions.
The Alliance Dispatch: No civil
lied nation under the sun, from the
earliest history to the present day, has
ever fought a war to successful issue
without the use of paper money in
some form. Never has war been de-
clared by any nation when the declar-
alton was not speedily followed by the
withdrawal of all specie moneys from
circulation, and when specie did not
hide itself away, and remain in deep,
dark vaults away from the sight of
the people until the danger was past,
leaving the battle to be fought by paper
money. Never has a country been
threatened with a serious panic when
gold did not proceed to lntrench itself
behind the ponderous doors of the
bankers safe, and remain there until
prosperity was restored by the free
circulation of paper money. 1t is
equally true that the value of the gold
dollar has been determined not by the
intrinsic value of the gold it contains,
but by the demand that could be Gre
,ated for it by its owners hiding it
away. And yet spectators in gold,
who are the moneyed aristocracy of
the world, would have you believe that
the gold dollar is the only honest dol
lar Bosh! Give us a money that
will stay with us in the dark hour of
financial distress and when war s
dread alarms fill the land with horror.
That is the honest dollar, but it is not
the gold dollarp
The Ottawa Journal: A great deal is
being said these times about Kansas
credit The old party papers are full
OF it They claim that Kansas veal or
woe depends on the favor it finds in the
eyes of the Eastern money lender.
They say that whatever adversely or
depression exists to-day in Kansas is
owing to the bad name that the Peo-
pies party has given to Kansas in
the East. They say to the voters of
Kansas. if you elect Alliance judges,
Eastern money lenders will cease to
do business in Kansas, and misery, ruin
and want will be the result. It was
the chronic threat of the Republicans
in the legislature last winter, If YOU
Alliance men pass this law or that law,
the Eastern money lenders will crush
the life out of Kansas" Now ponder
on this. What does it go to provep