The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-17
THE ALLIANCE.

capital or money employs labor is one
of the vagaries Of the present accepted
economic philosophy that needs rele-
eating to the rear. Labor employs
capital, and labor alone makes capital
valuable
kentucky Standard: A platform
rigidly confined to the supreme issues
of money and transportation reform,
will command the support of all honest
and wise citizens because when those
reforms are made every class and con-
dition of people will participate
impartially in the general prosperity
which will be sequential to their adop-
ton.
Alliance Leader, Bolivar N. Y,
When generations shall have passed
away and others taken their places, the
principles of the Alliance shall still be
before the people, as they are equality
and justice between man and man in
all cases whatever. Study them and
consider them, they will ever be
worthy of your attention and consider
alton.
The Alliance Sentinel, Rogers, Ark.
The Alliance does not expect to get
every reform that is needed at once.
but it sets out what is required to be
DONE and will keep them prominently
before the people, pressing forward
turning neither to the right nor to the
left, but pushing for the prize at the
end of the contest, good government
for all the people.
Rural Workman in Little Rock.
Ark: Land, transportation, and
finance are the three living issues of
the day. Aliens should not and must
not be allowed to own our lands. Our
flag should float over the domains of
American citizens, not of foreign lords
The lines of transportation must SUBJ
NIT to complete and just government
control, or the government must own
them.
Farmers Journal: The powers
once granted to corporations have
given them opportunity to dictate to
political parties, and the party that
does not court their favor, or that
draws upon itself their enmity, has
but a small showing for success.
1t has come to the point that either
the people must curtail the powers of
corporations or the corporations will
take all power from the people.
The first essay of the Farmers Ali
ance proves its power and the justice
of it's action. The very strongholds of
monopoly and privilege rock before it's
fierce and determined assault. Legis-
lators have quaked in their seats be-
fore the issues so clearly and unmis-
takably presented them. Politicians
are confused and at loss how to deal
with this new assailant. The very
forces of our centralizing government
are stunned and blended by the unex-
pected and massive opposition of the
''clodhoppers.
Farm View. Potterville, CAL, says:
1t is a privilege often granted by the
capitalist to let the pro Queer eat bread
from the crop he has raised, and it is
privilege some men are grateful for.
1t is difficult to get some men to UNDER
stand that they have any rights and
to discern clearly what those rights
are. Until the masses do see it and
exhibit a determination to defend it,
the overthrow of any tyranny by which
they suffer can only be of temporary
duration. There are plenty of people
acting automatically with the exploit
ing classes who see the wrong of the
present system, but they will let the
exploited classes suffer so long as they
suffer willingly and without resistance.
The Progressive Farmer, Mt. YER
non, ILL.,: We do not wish to get in
anybod--'s way. but we do want the
people to read reform papers. They
must do that or remain in bondage.
The party papers will not, dare not,
discuss reform questions, They say
nothing about the financial distress of
the people. They entirely ignore it.
Hence they have neither cause to pre-
sent nor remedy to propose. They
teach only what the politicians teach,
and wish things to remain Just as they
are. How can those who read these
papers and nothing else be expected to
understand the situation? They strug-
gle with the hard times, and know
there is something wrong. that there
is something different from what it
used to be, but they havo no means of
knowing what it is why It is or how
it can be remedied, because their pa
pers never tell them anything about
it. Hence we urge the people to read
reform papers; if not the P. F., then
some of the other reform papers that
are now being published all over the
country.
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