The Brookhaven leader., 1891-06-25
THE FIGHT IS ON
The Battle OF the People Against the Plu.
tocracy-But Two Parties.


tocracy-But Two Parties.
Nothing could so clearly demonstrate
the wisdom of the action at the recent
Cincinnati conference as the fact that
the declaration of principles there
agreed upon is enthusiastically In
dorsed by the leaders of the great in
dustrial organizations throughout the
country. Hon. John II. Powers, presi-
dent of the National Farmers Alliance,
was a member of the platform COM
mittee and ably assisted in shaping the
action of the convention. DIR. Macune,
editor of the National Economist, the
official organ of the N. +. A. & I. u,
eulogizes the convention In the highest
terms, in an editorial Grand Master
Workman Powderly, through the
Journal of the Knights of Labor, in
dorses the action of the convention, and
is delighted with the platform. In fact
there is not jar, not discord within
our ranks from one end of the country
to the other. Unity of purpose now
charactizes the movement from the
lakes to the gulf, and from the Poto-
mac to the Golden Gate. Now, breth-
rem, let there be no more halting. The
fight is on--the battle of the people
against the plutocracy. There are now
but two parties, the money power, in
whose behalf are arrayed all the mo-
nopolies, beneficiaries of class laws,
corporations and plutocrats in the land;
and on the other the plain, resolute,
long-suffering people. Thank heaven,
sectional hatred is thing of the past.
The era of fraternity and brotherhood
has at last been ushered in, and it has
been ushered in to stay. There is no
longer any room for laggards or for the
faint-hearted The watchword is now:
Up and at them all along the line!
We are living in an era of anxious
thought and solicitude. Not day
passes but men with serious, honest,
sunburnt faces ask us this question:
"What are the farmers of the south go
ing to do-are they with us? Will they
join hands with the west in the great
work of rescuing this country" These
and kindred inquiries are constantly
heard among our toilers, and they are
uppermost at every meeting among in
dustrial people. TO these anxious and
earnest friends we say, dismiss your
fears The industrial forces of the
south, the members of the Farmers AL
lance and Industrial Union are with you
to a man. Their hearts beat in unison
with yours, and they are as true to the
grand cause in which you are engaged
as the needle to the pole. The grand
confederation of labor now includes
the toilers of every section and of every
state and territory, and they are unit
for the st. Louis, Ocala and Omaha de-
mands as re-enunciated at Cincinnati.
Both sections will stand like pillars of
granite against all who assail them,
and against all who seek to engender
sectional distrust, and against all who
seek to thrust upon this country des-
potic force bills and kindred infamies
The hope of the plutocracy lies in
keeping the sections apart-in dividing
the great army of industrial emancipa-
ton. But they will be mistaken. Mis-
sissippi and Georgia will vie with
Kansas and Nebraska, North Carolina
and Texas with Iowa and Minnesota,
in lifting the whole country upon a
plane of fraternity and progress which
the petty bloody shirt fingers have
never dreamed of and which they will
not even be able to enjoy unless speed
lily regencrated.
We say to the brethren in the north,
confde implicitly in your brethren In
the south. They will suffer martyr
dom before they will forsake you; and
SO we say to the brethren in the south,
the great west is with you in love, fra
ternity and purpose. The storm center
is rapidly moving eastward and the
middle states and many of the eastern
States will be with us when the bugle
calls to battle Tribune.