Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
OUR MAIL POUCH.
An Interesting Statement of the Aims and
Status of the Alliances.

An Interesting Statement of the Aims and
Status of the Alliances.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
You have recently published several arti-
cles in regard to the Farmers Aiilanee,
some of which are, think, incorrect. For
the benefit of your many readers would
Ike to give short history of the Alllance
and make few corrections in your article
OF the 9Th inst.
There are two national organizations in
the United States, viz. "The National Farm
ers' Alliance" organized october IA, leeO at
Farewell Hal, Chicago, which is the SO called
Northern or Northwestern alliance, ana
"The National Farmers Alliance ana INDUS
trial Union," which organization dates from
October l, 1889, and is the so-called southern
organization. 1t is consolidation OF TWO
orders, one of which was the NaIIonal
Farmers Alliance and Cooperative Union
of America" and the other was the ma
tional Agricultural Wheel"
The methods and personnel of the two,
Northern and Southern) orders are widely
dlfferent. The Northern Alliance IS
strictly anti-monopoly, ANTITRUST organlZa-
tlon, and is working for anti,monopoly iegis- 2I
lation, and by their efforts have passed the.
Iowa State Railroad law, conceded to pc the
best yet in force. During the Congressional
session of 1890 and the spring of 1881, the
Northern Alliance concentrated all Its ef-
btlls-the meat inspection bill, the pure lard
bill and the anti-Option bill. They succeeded
in having passed the meat inspection bill,
but failed on the pure lard bill, simply be-
cause the Southern Alliance did all they
could against it, as it would injure the sale
of their cottonseed oil. Nor should it be for
gotten that to the Northern Alliance is due
the fact that the head of the Department.
of Agriculture is Cabinet officer.
The Southern Alliance, on the other hand,
is highly centralized organization. 1t is an
n hnr
troll of the organization. DR.. Macune when
he was the nominal head of the order, as he
still is its real head, declared in one OF his
annual messages "that the organization was
q monarchy" He also declared in his mess
age that the Southern Alliance was organ
lied for the distinctly avowed purpose OF
forming one of the most gigantic combines
the world has ever seen-to establish mo-
nopoly of the cotton market of the world.
While the farmers and farm organizations
of the North and West are irrevocably op-
posed to monopoly, the man who is styled
"the brains" of the Southern organization,
and who now occupies three of the most eX-
alted and influential positions, used his own
influence, the influence of the Alliance organ
he controlled and that of the order in which
he Is all powerful, to defeat anti-monopoly
legislatio in Georgia, and try to elect from
that State one of Jay Gould's attorneys as
United States Senator.
Now in The DISPATCH of the 9Th inst, an
article says that the organizations of the
Northwestern alliance in this State are not
rs great in number as they were six months
ago, and that they are going over to the
Southern Alliance, which is great mistake.
They are stronger now than ever before.
They have no notion of going over TO the
Southern organization. The Southern Or
ganiZation instead of going into unoccupied
territory is continually trying to induce the
members of the northern branch to come to
them, but they have reached their limit.
One man from Kansas writes to our State
President, G. d. Brown, that they have had
enough of being ruled by "Rebel brigaders,"
and wishes to join the Northern organiza-
tion. Another from Maryland wrote stating
that their whole county organization wished
to come over to our branch of the Alliance.
The arrangements were made and they did
come over. Here in this county
Uawrence) we have As sub-alliances
now organized and more to follow. Those
who wish to belong to an order that is work
ing for the best interest of the individual
farmer should join the Northern branch.
Nebraska has the greatest membership, fol-
lowed by the following States in the order
named: Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin, Washington, Pennsylvania, Min
nesota, Missouri, etc.
We are growing. We have a membership
that we are not ashamed Of We are in the
fight to the finish. All the talk of the South
ern Alliance swallowing US up is merely
balderdash. Our organization held its
eleventh annual meeting at Omaha, Neb.,
January, 1891, and is in splendid working
order. W. W. G.
PULASKI, PA, July "a.