The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
THE ALLIANCE.

THE ALLIANCE.
The Light: AS soon as the people
come into a general knowledge of their
condition then the great unanswerable
jury OF public opinion will bring in its
verdict educate and agitate.
The Sentinel; The Alliance has no
fear of either old parties springing any
new issues, and it is determined that
no old issue like the tariff shall be SO
manipulated as to divide and distract
its members.
Alliance World: Brothers, settle
your disputes, and never let the world
hear an unkind word fall from your
lips about another. If one brother
speaks evil of another, it is no reason
that others should also do wrong by
speaking evil of him. Let US watch
the pen, and watch the tongue!
Alliance Farmer: The tOiling mass
es of our great country are on the
verge of a rebellion, that will make a
sweeping change in the politics of this
government. The few men who have
so long controlled the millions will be
swept from power, and new officers.
fresh from the hands of the people.
chosen in their stead.
Alliance Star: The farmer lis GER
tainly treated unequally, and unjustly
in the financial system of our country.
There are two remedies for this wrong.
One is political, the other is personal.
The political remedy is to send men
to the halls of legislation, who are
willing at least to try to secure equal
and exact justice to the farming class
es. The personal remedy is to unite
together and secure as soon as possible
all the benefits of the present system.
The Alliance indicator: And the
Democrats are to commence organic
ing. What for. do you suppose?
Why, to combat the Alliance move
ment; to check, if possible, this swell
ing wave of intelligence that is fast
rising and threatens destruction to
every form of corruption and in de-
stroying that cuts off the supplies from
whence political quacks of both parties
draw their daily rations, this being
stopped, as a natural consequence the
parties must die.
Alliance Reporter: The farmer who
has been standing aloof and wishing
the Alliance godspeed in it's undertake
ings, but has never attached himself
to the order nor done anything toward
securing the results accomplished
had best begin to hustle or he will not
get in the procession until the victory
shall be won and the people will be
indulging in loud huzzas over the tri-
umph. The order needs you; it wants
your aid and your influence. 1t de-
sires the encouragement your presence
and aid would afford.
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Free Press: The most dreaded class
of people at this day, are the very rich
and the very poor. One is made POM
pous and over bearing by the posses
sion of wealth, while the other is made
vicious by hunger, cold and the plead
ings of furnishing family. Although
both are to be dreaded, they cannot be
amalgamated, as liberty and slavery
are too foreign to each other to allow
blending together. Thus we have the
very rich to fear by their superior
financial advantage, and the extreme
ly poor to fear by inferior financial
conditions. More of an equality is
what will save the nation.
Dakota Ruralist: It is well that
the plutocratic press of the entire
country is now swelling one grand
chorus of abuse upon the Farmers
Alliance. Republican and Democrat
alike have buried all their minor
differences at the dictation of the
lordly aristocracy of Wall street.
They see now but one enemy-the
brown-faced and hard handed sons of
toll. who are gathering in their might
to defend the last remnant of their
rights. They cannot do our cause a
better service than they are now do
ing. Lay on. gentleman, and fight
the Alliance to death. Let us see who
will die first.
The Modern Light: All over the
country the Democratic and Republi-
can politicians arc saying that they
must send to the homes of the voters
millions of tariff documents to divert
the minds of the laborers from the
financial question, and to divide them
again, if possible, on party lines, or
this farmer movement this labor
movement " will sweep the country in
'92. They have kept the people fight
ing over this tariff question for nearly
one hundred years, and are 20 nearer
a solution of it now than then, and the
people are not going to he fooled by it
any longer. They have been investi-
eating why it is that those who pro-
duce all that wealth are growing poorer
every year, and those who do not pro-
duce a dollar of wealth are growing
richer every year.