The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10
THE ALLIANCE.

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The Citizen: Twenty years ago It
was estimated that the producing
classes owned three-fourths of the
wealth of the nation: to-day only about
pne-fourth of the nations wealth is
in the hands of the producing classes,
yet the wealth of the nation has been
doubled in the same period They
have lost in comparison to the in
crease of wealth, two-thirds of their
wealth in the last twenty.
The Faulkner County Wheel: Why
fs it that the metropolitan press have
maintained graveyard silence on the
issues presented by the Farmers ALI
ance? Because they plainly see that
a simple discussion of them would open
the eyes Of the people and they would
quickly hurl some Of their demigods
from place and power. They will
never discuss issues. they only throw a
little tariff sand to blind the people.
Plain Talk: Edward Atkinson,
che political economist for Jay Gould
and the Rothchilds, has spent nearly
all his life inventing bills of fare for
laboring men and their families which
should be cheaper and more frugal.
Would it not be good idea for Mr..
Atkinson and his fellow sharks to be-
gin figuring on a reduction in the ex-
pense of their own diet as a relief for
the hunger of some other people just
as good and great as themselves
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Alliance: We know that We have
been charged with fanaticism. but we
know that we are not living under any
imaginary evils, such as we demand
through legislation to be rectifed.
And when we write this we are under
honest convictions that such policy
as ours would prove beneficial to all
classes, except the moneyed kings that
control this government and who are
sapping the foundation of general
prosperity, and accommodating their
millions yearly from the ashes of the
peoples ruin.
Virginia Alliance News: The
Farmers Alliance is not socialistic
organization. We are no anarchists,
as some of our enemies would have you
believe. We only want the fruits of
our labor. All we want is fair
chance in the great race of life. We
want no advantages and we ask that
no one shall have the advantage of us.
Let the manufacturer and the farmer
stand on the same level. Let us all
start under the wire at the same time;
then let the best man win That is
all we demand. and we will be salts
fed with nothing less.
The Lantern: If the Alliance &C
complishes nothing else than the
emancipation of the farmer from his
partisan bondage it will have done
most remarkable, useful and patriotic
work. One of the great uses of all
labor organizations is to work this
very emancipation, although it was
not their primary purpose. The Alli-
ance and its kindred organizations
will be the most useful of all in this
work because its membership will be
the most numerous and has probably
been the most strongly partisan Let
the good work 60 on till partisanship
pure and simple shall be reckoned
among the relics of past barbarism.
Free Press: Could the Alliance
people appreciate the value of unity
of action, as the present state of finan-
cial, social, moral and intellectual
affairs demand, they could in a very
short time create civil and economic
al revolution in the affairs of our great
commonwealth. There will never be
a unity of sentiment until our people
are educated through system that all
may be made to see alike and feel the
weight and power Of such teachings.
The system by which the Alliance is
conducted is one of the most econom-
ical educators that can be practiced.
Time and perseverance is all that is
necessary to bring about this great
revolution of thought and action.
Alliance indicator: Farmers you
ought to quit talking politics so much.
You are creating disturbance. The
politicians are very uneasy and you
ought to have sense enough to know
that it is wrong to disturb a man. Don't
do it farmers, you are liable to throw
some of these fellows out of job and
you know they won't work-they don't
like to, no how. So just hush up and
again allow the political atmosphere
to get still. OF course the stencil and
filth will emit a rather unfavorable
odor, but then your olfactories are used
to such, so you don't mind it much, do
you? Then again you will ''bust up"
the organization if you don't stop so
much racket. Talk about how to
farm, how to carry in chips slop the
hogs, etc.
The Sentinel: The scarcity of the
dollar is what makes the farmer so
slow tn mart with r.. II 10 MT ,.c+;co;