The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-09-18
THE ALLIANCE.

officer was suspected recently of fraud
in Office and he went straightway and
committed suicide. It is a good thing
that the conscience is not SO tender on
this side of the water, for if every
officer here suspected of fraud would
commit suicide what funeral there
would be.
The Rice Eagle: The United States
supports itself, pays its own bills for
food clothing and government and
then sends a great part of its net earn
ings to England to pay for the use of
money which our government could
and should furnish Its citizens to do
business on. 1t is a strange proceed
ing, but tits true. A private individual
who would run his business that way
would be called an idiot; our legis-
lators who compel us to do it are
called statesmen.
The Farmers Weekly: The most
despicable enemy of the farmers
movement is the plug hat" agri-
cultural journal which while pre-
tending to work in the interest of farm
ers, improves every opportunity to de-
nounce the principles for which farm
ers are striving. These papers are
usually printed on fine paper and pre-
sent a very attractive face. We have
known people just like them, and have
been as badly left by their oily tongues
as will the farmers who place their
faith in the agricultural organs of
monopoly.
Dakota Ruralist: No better evidence
is desired that the Alliance is doing
splendid work than is shown in the
fact that the entire partisan press of
the country is unitedly engaged in a
war to break it down. 1t is thorough
ly understood by the power behind the
throne of party, that the success of
the principles advocated by the Farm
ers Alliance and industrial organiza-
tions means the destruction of present
political parties, as well as to take
from money the power it now possesses
to rob production. Brethren. resist
the effort by putting more zeal in your
labor.
Western Advocate: A few days ago
we picked up a copy Of one of our
county papers printed about six years
ago, and in its columns we find the en-
couraging statement that according
to the register of deeds three mort
cages have been released during
the last six months for every one
placed on record" About once year
for the past ten years the same item
has been set afoat and yet in the face
of the assertion, which is always ''ac-
cording to our register of deeds'' the
mortgage Indebtedness of the people
has gradually grown larger and larger,
and the number of homes sacrificed
has rapidly increased in number. Why
is this?
Perhaps the following is also salts
factory reason for the change of heart
by the Citizen:
With the crops of this year, Kansas
farmers could, many of them at least,
again get on their feet did not legisla-
ton Indirectly keep the prices down so
low, that little is left after paying
their expenses and taxes We're we
permitted to exchange our grain in the
markets of the world for those things
the buyers of it have to SELL wheat
would be worth to-day in Kansas much
more than it is. and had not the legis-
lation of the past twenty-five years
been such as to appreciate money and
depreciate farm property and products
OF the soil, our corn, cattle, hogs, in
fact every thing that we have to SELL
would be much enhanced in price. AS
it is however, we have to take what
ever we can get, and God knows that
is little enough.
The Weekly Monitor: The signs
of the times point to a terrified conflict
in the future adjusting of economic
questions, which are destined to for
ever settle some of the questions that
underlie The primary rights of the
American people The legislation
for the past has been solely in the in
terests of a class of people whose an
cestors have since the time of Adam
sought to live at the expense of the
industrial classes by means of class
legal enactments, which favor an I'M
just distribution of the products Of
labor. Not only are the capitalists OF
this country interested in the unjust
distribution of wealth, but the foreign
capitalists as well, and have dictated
the financial legislation of our con-
g-ess. 1t is probably safe to state that
English capitalists take as much prof
its of labor from this country as dc
our home capitalists. If this is true,
then there can be no doubt that the
capitalists of both countries are asso-
ciated together for the purpose of liv.
ing at the expense of American farm
ers and laborers.