Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-18

Economist has seen fit to publish sc
many of these conflicting views, that il
now seems necessary the Economist
should, before partisan strife becomes
again fierce, define the position of the
order on this important question, and
outline the course it will pursue as the
official organ. This is also necessary
because large majority of the com
municatiOns received and published by
| it are in favor of the third party move
ment.
! The Farmers Alliance is a strictly
farmers organization, for the purpose
of securing mental, moral, social and
financial improvement" AS in the
plainest terms expressed in its organic
! and fundamental law, it has been
strictly non-partisan from the very be-
ginning. With that understanding of
its object everywhere taught by every
member and every alliance publication,
the order has had phenomenal growth
and prosperity. Experience has shown
that this conception of the objects of
the order is a solid and acceptable
foundation, ample for the largest and
most durable superstructure. All this
being true, it follows that it would be
very unwise to change the policy. More
especially is this true when the antici-
pated policy is one that has so often led
to failure, and the present policy has
been attended with greater results and
rewards. Why then any necessity for
a change? 1t should be remembered
that nothing succeeds like success, 4"
and that it is always well to ''let well
enough alone" The ORDER as a nom
partisan organization, can stand the de-
moralizing effects of the coming cam
paign of 1892 and continue to grow, even
though its members agree individually,
and practically all act as partisans in
the same party, whether that party
shall succeed or fail But should the
order participate in partisan strife it
would be damaged by defeat and per-
haps destroyed by success. Whatever
the order is the Economist must be,
while it is the official organ. Every
thought and idea 1t has must come from
the order, and every word it publishes
must be for the good of the order
The course pursued by the order up
to date has been very wise. Measures
have been Endorsed and advocated. A
meeting has been called for February,
1892, for the purpose of comforting with
all organizations of producers willing
to cooperate with the order and agree
ing on such demands as all are willing
to indorse, and to decide on the method
of enforcing these demands. This is
perfectly right and proper. 1t could
not be said that the demands had the
Endorsement Of the people unless they
come from delegates elected by the peo-
pie and instructed on those points. The
time intervening between the notice
and the meeting gives ample time for
such election and instruction. The de-
mands would amount to nothing unless
some plan or power of enforcing them
is known to exist. But many fear that
the plan for enforcing the demands will
be third party. Such fears are ground
less, because should that course be
pursued there is no ground for
apprehension. Whenever the rank and
file of people land they will surely be
represented at that meeting) say a
third party is necessary it will come,
and it should come, and all good citi-
zens can afford to hail it with Joy as
citizens, because it would for time at
least abolish corruption. But the
Farmers Alliance as an order could not
have such political party as branch,
or a so-called side show in the
alliance. The very existence of the
order would preclude it from accepting
a subordinate position in the party The
party and the order could not both be
supreme over the same subject at the
same time. Both are organizations, and
must be kept separate. The members of
the order, when they have
received that degree of education as to
the principles of the reform movement
that causes a unity of sentiment which
cannot be disturbed by agitators, will
naturally all vote alike, and it matters
not whether they do that as democrats,
republicans or reformers, so they do it
and secure the needed reforms The
order should preserve its high position
as a great reserve force always sup
porting the right, strengthened by de-
feats and solicited by success. The
official organ should and will advocate
the order and its interests above every
thing else. 1t will closely observe the
individual acts of the membership
in partisan politics and encourage
or condemn as the best interests of
the order demand Among the worst
enemies the order has to-day are those
brethren who are so blinded by partisan
zeal that they fail to see the truer and
higher mission of the order, and would,
to secure peace with the partisan press
and stop its false and unjust attacks,
compromise by removing the objection
able features from the sub-treasury
plan and the other alliance demands, so
that the democratic, or the republican,
or the union labor party could swallow
it. Nothing could be more false to the
order; and he who would make this
movement branch of any party is a
traitor to the cause and should be in
trusted with no authority in the order.
Let the third party come by all means
if the people say SO. But let it be a
peoples movement, and not an alliance
party. Let it embrace in its ranks all
classes of society and protect and serve
the interests of all, but let the alliance
pursue its great reform and educational
work on plane of responsibility to
God and duty 70 man that calls for eff
fort as long as evil shall exist to be met
and neutralized.-National Economist.
More Money.
More money! Call it imitation, if You
please. But this is what the people
want and must have. Through all the
west and south this is foregone con-
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