The advocate., 1891-11-25

able Alliance paper could be found in every
Alliance homO2 Who could estimate the
bower OF weekly visit Of your national
orRsn TO a half million American hOmeee
It's influence would bsirrsSistible and irwin |
Cible. would specially and urgently COM
mend 20 your earnest and favorable con-
gideratiOn Che special and valuable service |
OF our reform press, and recommend that
you appoint special committee TO confer
with representatives Of the reform press
association present, % to the best methods
for increasing the efficiency and for enlarg-
ing Che usefulness Of this most valuable, in
fluential, and most important OF all the de-
partments OF Alliance work.
Do mot existing political conditions
solemnly admonish us that We, aS q people,
should seek to establish higher plane OF
political moralSp What American, imbued
withlovo and pride Of country, can contem-
plate these conditions, but with painful
feelings OF shame and notification He
sees our halls of legislation, state and ma
tional, beseiged with openly organized
Hobbies Of corporate and money power. He
aces Legislative policy dictated and estab-
lished by money power which fosters power
full, but irresponsible pools, trusts, COM
bines and SyndiCates, which are limited
only by their avariCiOuS greed. He see0 the
public domain and the credit Of the gov
eminent lsvishly DQusndered on railroad
corporations. He sees the ballot debauched
through the influence Of money, and seats
in the American Senate purchased by it.
Il boldly and unblushingly stands to-day in
the capitol of o great state Of this union and
impudantly offers 10 purchase the dignity,
the integrity, the honor, and the good name
Of that state for stipulated sum. He sees
IL poEpetEato the great outrage and crime
of demonetzing silVeI through stealth and
fraud. When the manufacturer in the open
field complains TO Congress that he is un-
able to compete with fair and legitimate
competition, that body, in q spirit OF most
paternal generosity, EuShes to lis relief with
a system which forces the people OF the
country TO sell their products in the cheap
est markets, and to buy all articles of manu-
factura needed in the dearest markets.
When syndiCatOS Of ship owners and rail-
road corporations complain to Congress
that their investments have become un-
profitable, that body with paternal mag
nanimity, bestOws upon them lavish subsi-
dies in land, money, and government credit
When the bondholderS and money specula-
tors Of Wall street, oVsr-reaChing even theil
greedy design, become involved in compli'
cations which threaten TO thwart theil
schemes, they have only to appeal to the
, secretary Of the treasury, for him to rush tC
! their relief with liberal loans Of the peoples
money, or grsOiouSly relieve them Of theil
bonds al the liberal premium Of Is per cent
All this, and more, the farmers Of th'
< country have witnessed and endured; and
, yet with 5000 900 Of American homes mort
: gagged, with two-thiEds Of the wealth Of tn
i country untaxed, with the oveRburdened in
: terest Of agriculture paying 30 per cent o
: the total taxes-when farmers in their or
: Ranized capacity appear at the doors o
q Congress and make respectful application
o not for subsidies, not FOR protection, not TO
loans ON fctlciouS values, not for loans oI
: evidences of indebtedness, but for a system
J. of finance, based upon securities Of read
Q and unQusstioned values, they are contempt
+ uously ignored.
Q Az an organization composed Of loyal an
b law-abiding citizens, as American freemen
n We claim the right to enter our solemn an
q earnest protest against this condition o