The Brookhaven leader., 1891-05-28
THE ALLIANCE.
Its Objects and Purposes and
its Relation To the Politics
of the Country.
The Subject Clearly Defined by
STATE Lecturer Burkitt.

The Alliance is nOn-p partisan or
nauizatiou but it is not nOn-pOlitical.
Its object is to educate its members
in the science of government, and its
purpose is to correct the various
abuses in legislation. which has brought
bankruptcy and financial ruin to the
door of millions of the wealth pro-
duccrS in this country.
While it does not attempt to make
Democrats out of Republicans or Re
puhlicians out of Democrats, and
while there is no obligation on any
member to change his political ASSOC
Citations, it is the duty of every good
Allianccmcn when policy of reform
is agreed upon by the majority to do
what he can to impress that policy on
the political party to which he be-
longs.
The Allianccmam loses 10 right he
possessed as II citizen by becoming a
member of the organization, nor does
he change his political affiliations.
He is simply informing himself, so
that he may more intclligently dis
charge Lis duty to himself, his family,
his ncighbors, the political party to
which he belongs and his country, and
this leads him naturally toinvestigate
questions in political economy and
post himself on the leading issues of
the day. In the prosecution of his
studies he learns that politics is the
''sciCncC of government: that part of
ethics which has to do with the regu-
latiOn and government of Nation or
State. the preservation of its safety,
peace and prosperity the defence of
its existence and rights against for
cign control or conquest the augmen-
tation of its strength and resources,
and the PROTECTION OF ITS CITIZENS
IN THEIR RIGHTS and lie understands
full well that in Il government like
ours it is the duty of every good citi-
zen to engage in politics. TO the ex
tent above indicated, the Alliance is
political, but it does not propose to
organize II separate political party,
nor can it legally assume to make
for Office
Surely it is the right and duty of
every good Alliance man to do what
he can in the political primary or con-
ycnti0n to secure the nomination of
men, agreeing to the
policy he advocates, just us it is the
right and duty of any citizen to vote
for the man, whose opinions are in ac-
cord with his own. This is practical
politics, for it is the Yeriest folly for Il
man to avow set of principles and
then work and vote for some one to
him, who opposes them.
But, we would have the outside
world to know, that in making our
selections at the primary, we are not
confined to candidates who are men,
bcrS of the organization. We know
there are men whose avOcation, or
profession render them ineligible to
in the Alliance, whose
hearts beat in sympathetic accord with
our own, and these being of us and
with lis have equal claims upon our
support.
Nor, is it the purpose of we'll in
formed Alliance men to erect any 9TH
CT standard than fitness and capacity
for county and district officers. 1t
makes little difference what the sher
if, clerk or any other county officer
may think of the practicability or
constitutionality of the Sub-Treasury
bill. The only question proper to be
asked is; Will you prove faithful, ca
pable and honest if elected!
Let it be fully understood, too, that
i'll Mississippi the contest over Con-
gressmen and members of the Legis-
lature, must end with the nomination,
no matter whether the friends of the
Alliance OF their opponents are sue
cessful. We cannot afford to fight
one another in the face of a common
enemy.