Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-01
THE NATIONAL ORGAN.

ence is by many of the partisan papers
regarded as the signal gun of an active
campaign This is important from an
alliance standpoint, because both par
ties give as a reason for their early
activity that they "are conducting a
campaign of education and that it
will take time and money properly and
legitimately used. The reason this is
of great interest to alliancemen, and
should receive more than a passing
notice from them, is that the education
proposed by these active partisan pa
pers of both sides is one in direct
antagonism and opposition to the
principles of the Farmers Alli-
ance. With the exception of the
Atlanta Constitution and few others,
the great metropolitan press of the
country is actively opposed to the sub
treasury plan, the land loan bill, the
free coinage of silver, the government
control of railroads to the extent of
ownership if necessary, and the elec-
ton of United States senators by di-
rect vote of the people, and consider
them all subjects to be educated"
against. In fact the machines of
tinue to pretend, to love the farmer
while the object of their fight will be
centered on his declared principles
This sounds strong, but it Is fact, as
is now shown in Mississippi and Ohio
In the former state the democratic ma
chine has been worked to the utmost to
demolish the sub-treasury and 'other
heresies of the alliance" and in the lat
ter the republican machine is adopting
the same methods.
The unmistakble evidences every day
presented that party fealty is losing its
power among the rank and file of the
people, and the fact that with one ac-
cord the great common people in all
sections of the country are announcing
determination to vote their principles
regardless of party lines, does not indi-
cate any change of principle on the
part of the people. 1t is rebellion
against tyranny and oppression, because
it is tyrany and oppression for the party
machine" to stifie free thought and
speech by prescribing a political plat
form that must be adopted under PEN
atty of expulsion. Reason and Justice
should be the only guides to party pol
icy, and when they are supplanted by
the machine" the legitimate fruits of
machine methods must follow. The
fruits of the mild sway of reason and
justice are prosperity and happiness,
while the fruits of machine methods
are corruption, crime, hatred and vio-
lence.
The National Economist is the official
organ of the National Farmers Ali
ance and Industrial Union, and it is
therefore it's duty to contend for the
principles of the order, and in such con-
tention finding the chief adversaries to
be the machines" of the two political
parties, conducting in concert bitter
war upon the order as above stated, it
becomes the duty of the national organ
to fire back at these enemies of the
peoples great cause. This Is an un-
pleasant task, and leads to h conflict
fierce and terrible, in which the Econ
omist on account of its devotion to its
plain duty, is assailed and DETAINED
in every possible manner. The
Economist has thus far withstood
these attacks and fought simply on the
defensive, contending honestly for the
principles of the order. The ma
chimes" have in the north denounced it
as democratic agent to disrupt the
republican party, and in the south as a
republican agent to disrupt the demo-
cratic party. They have from both
north and south accused it of trying to
lead the alliance into a third party
movement, and denounced its editor as
corrupt, venal and ambitious, and the
h.. r.
all these attacks, have sustained the
Economist and its editor throughout all
this persecution for devotion to prin-
ciple, until to-day the Economist is in a
more prosperous and more popular DO
sltlon than ever before, and it hereby
announces determination to fight in
this holy cause from this on, not onlv
In the defensive, as in the past. but In
the aggressive. twill attack the ina
chimes" Of both parties, not the princi-
pies OF either party, but the machines
This will be done for three reasons:
First, 1T Is the machines that are
fighting alliance principles; second.
they are corrupt and without principle.
and being so must be vulnerable and
subject to complete destruction by the
sword of reason and justice, and third.
it is the duty Of the official organ to re-
turn th.e fire that has been quietly
borne until the objects of the assaii-
ants are exposed as determined on the
complete destruction of the liberty of
the people,
The indictment hereby brought
against the machines" of both parties
is Corruption, Tyranny, and Oppres-
sion! The specifications viii require
months to describe, and the evidence is
SO voluminous that 1t will be presented
daily for years. What brazen effront-
cry for the machine" of either party
TO come before an honest public and.
hldlng It's corrupt carcass under the
transparent cloak of assurance. con-
denim the principles of eternal truth
mbraced in the demands of the Farm
ers' Alliance.
The first specification against the
machines" IS that they spent as cam
Paign fund during the last presidential
election about twenty millions of dol
lars, that Is to say, about ten millions
OF dollars each, and that neither has
ever dared TO make a showing to the
public as to what they did with the
money. or who donated it. 1t is a
well established fact, of which abun-
dant evidence is on hand to prove,
that each machine requires from seven
to ten millions of dollars ta conduct a
4 Is hereby further alleged
legged that this large campaign fund is
not donated by the rank and file of the
party; that in fact the great common
people give none of it They are not
called upon to contribute to campaign
funds. The bulk of this fund in each
party is donated by less than one hou-
sand men. The men who donate this
money to the 'wachinen are not actu-
ated by philanthropy, but give it as
business investment. kfhe proof OF
this viii bs etrsumstantial unless some
ai them confess. Those who have fur
hished the campaign funds in the past
have made IL