Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1891-11-10

leaders can't ram Grover Cleveland Wall
street down us with q forty-foot pole,
propelled by steam engine. We are for
the Ocata platform first, last and all the
time, and you needn't talk anything else
to DIS, This is . year Of education,
brethren. Keep your eyes wide open,
saw wood, and say nothing.
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The .'Ocala Demand' is the name of q
new Alliance paper published at Colfax,
La. 10 his salutatory the editor Quotes the
Ocala demands and says: eve invite
dig niled discussion of the great princi-
pies of our creed and will treat all oppo-
nents with fairness and courtesy. We
will hold tho virulent, malignant villifier
and professional 'smud singer" in SUI
preme contempt. We shall endeavor to
direct the minds of our readers to the
pursuit of objects worthy of the dignity
Of rational natures, and to awaken within
them desire for better opportunities.
Believing that the old political orgauiza-
tons have served their day Of usefulness,
and that they have become entirely obli-
vious to the wants Of the people,
the Ocala Demand will advo-
CdGo Lu0 CdOS0 VI GAO OORA0 . 0Aty ouA
urge upon all lovers of reform to rally to
our flag. We will oppose the Louisiana
lottery aud all o'her monopolies in the
country. We believe tho Lafayette
combine nefarious effort to destroy the
policy and power of the Farmers
Alliance in the State of Louisiana, and
will urge the people to keep themselves
aloof from all such cunning devices OF the
enemy of our order. We ask the counsel
and advice off, all friends friendly to our
cause, and will endeavor, to the best OF
our ability. to make the Ocala demand
serve the purpose of its mission.
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In the first issue of the johnson County
| Union (Warrensburg, Mc.J a staunch Al
lance paper appears the following:
''We are now approaching one OF these
periods of reform, but reform OF differ
ent character from any which have pre-
ceded it. All previous reforms or revo-
lutions have had for their object civil OF
religious changes. The one at hand IL
neither religious nor essentially political.
Its leaders, thr ugh the pressor on the ros-
trum, are not fulmir ating denunciations
against religious doctrines or civil institu-
tions, but against a power which has
never been disturbed by social convuI-
sions in the past, yet power far more
potent for veal or woe than government
itself. It is the power of money which
is to-day br ught before the bar
of civilization for trial. In religion we
have reached mutual tolerance, In gov
eminent we lave reached civil equa ity ;
but financially we have permitted mon
ster to roam at large devouring our
homes, be.garing our families and de-
stroying our liberty. It is this mouster
that the m 'sses arr rising to bride and
tame. The central questions with these
masses to-day are: Shall man or the dol
lar rule this country7 Again: Is man
created to serve tho dollar, or is, the
dollar made for the use of man7 And
secondary to these gu stirns comes an
other. Is "ur government instituted tot
the protecfionor the dollar, or for the
promotion of the general welfare Z
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| WHY Is TIT
Why is it that opposition to reform
must use as weapon malignity and false
representations ! Why not lay down
some solid principles, some platform,
and.stend out boldly upon that aud fight
with whatever array of argument it can
find based on truth. Why is it that they
select the leaders of party or a reform
movement and placing them on the
highest point of opposition. Send mis-
siles of all the false accusations aud ru-
mors that can be gathered from the par
ties who make it their bust
ness to defane public character
and to manufacture false records
to pander to popular favor or in the
hope of reward by getting a finger into
the pie of the capitalist, exchequer, or to
gain an entrance into favor hoping for
the appointment to public Office. Self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT instead of national or
political benefit, favor to the few instead
of relief for the many. Why is it that
self so often shakes the wavering bal
lancet Is there no end to malignity, no
voice that can cry out: ''thus far, and no
farther shalt thO1 go9' Must its foul wa
ters flood our land, sweeping over the
purest and most patriotic with its MAIDEN
ing rush7 No, the end is at hand the
dove has returned with the olive branch,
and the green mountain of hope is 10
view.-Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.)
| THE p. n. B. A.
The general secretary of the Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association, has issued a
circular letter to country assemblies. The
circular is a very lengthy one, and covers
the subject thoroughly. Among other
things the secretary says: ''The F. NJ.
B. A., working in conjunction with the
Alliance, has saved the farmers millions
of dollars during the past year in the
matter of buying and selling. In the
grain trade alone, it is estimated that not
less than hundred million dollars have
been savad to the farmers through the
fundamentally of organization-dollars
that otherwise would have gone to fill the
already plethoric Golfers of the middle.
men and grain Spectators. Much has
been saved through our exchanges in the
purchase of supplies; and arrangements
on grander scale and more perfect are
now being completed for q still greater
work in this direction. II any Of our
members or lodges have failed to share
in these bepeGt itris nottha. fault # thl|
organisation; bu Secanse2 they have NOT
properly pleased themselves ia communal
cation with the4e agencles, and made
the necessary loca arrangements. Ade-
quate provision las not boon made for
the epresentation>of lodges and county
assemblies where there are, as yet, no
otate assemblies, but such provision will
doubtless be made at the next General
Assembly. Meanwhile such lodges and
county assemblies will correspond di