Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-02-07
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The Status Of the Alliance PcO-
pie More Favorable 10 Pro.
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As might reasonably have beer
expected from the beginning, the
Farmers Alliance has split
There is every reason to suppose
now that One-half of it will &c
to the ProhibitiOnists, and the
other will simply be an annex to
Democracy, or a subdivision OF
Democracy that wants special
legislation for the farmers.
These Alliance people who en-
dorse the resolutions lately passed
at Ocala, Florida, form one sec
ton and those who combined
with the Prohibitionists to- elect
KEN and Helvorson to Congress
from the West lately, form the
other party.
The cause of the rupture was
the decision of the Ocala party
that no negro could be a member
of the Alliance The call of the
other party for a meeting at Chi
cago, on the other hand invited
the COlored Farmers Alliance to
meet with them.
Of course the discrimination
against the negro as q race was
unjust. 10 discriminate against
the uneducated, regardless of
race, is right, and a charity to
the negro to induce him to edu-
cate himself.
The National Prohibition plat
form asks an educational qualiti-
cation for female votes. 1t should
have demanded it tor both sexes.
Prohibitionists could not SYM
pathize with any organization
that would refuse fellowship to
such q man as our "BlaCk
Knight" Hector.
l talked with George Clark a
few days since, the George liar:
,71s ID nrHCf1 Toms CABIN !, fk6
man who told the story of Gun
Gle Tom" to Mrs. Stowe. lie is
a good Prohibitionist.
1 talked a few days since with
a mulatto, reputed to be the son
of one Of the most prominent
Presbyterian clergymen of this
State. lie was a Prohibitionist,
and his tongue indicated the
probable correctness Of his dis
tinguished clerical descent.
l could not consent to endorse
any organization that would de
bar such men because they are
not white.
The Western body of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance has en-
dorsed Prohibition and the indi-
cations are that they will fuse
with the Prohibitionists.
Such labor leaders as Powder
", Beaumont and Travellick are
pronounced tor Prohibition, aud
are in full sympathy with the
Western body of the Alliance
men.
1t seems to me that a fusion of
this Western division and Pow
derly's people and the Prohibi-
tionists, is almost a fOregone con-
clusion. The fusion will not re
quire the Prohibitlonists to mod
crate in the least, their position
on the liquor traffic, but may de.
mand of them some sympathy
with some OF the more conserva-
tive principles of the Alliance
people.
Though we have never urged
any of these, our National plat
form will allow this.
l have always doubted the ex-
pcdiency of but two planks in
our platform; one is prohibition
of the liquor traffic and the other
is woman suffrage.
/ object to any class legislation
for farmers or anybody else.
l am opposed to debating rates
to railroads because it is unjust.
The railroads are the private
property of those who own them,
and | think they have the right
TO vary the fare from New York
to Chicago from $l3 to 81, as the
New York Voice complains that
they have done; and on the same
principle they have the right to
charge 800 tor that fare or to
take people for nothing.
Over the turnpikes OF our coun'
try the law should watch with Il
Jealous eye, and dictate the terms
upon which they shall conduct
their business, because the turn
pike companies take the roads
that originally belonged to the
lublic and compel the people to
ray for travelling over them II
their improved condition, whil'
The right OF free locomotion was