The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17
THE ALLIANCE.

classes can direct the destinies of this
country for good or for evil as they
elect, but they must unite and work
together to direct it for good alone.
Chickasaw Messenger: Some of the
Georgeites are saying that Barksdale
backed down from the joint discussion.
1t is unnecessary to deny this state
ment to any one who ever heard the
two men on the stump, but for the bene-
ct of those of our readers who are not
conversant with the forensic ability of
Messrs. George and Barksdale. we will
simply say there is no truth in the as
sertion.
The Alliance Advocate: Never be-
fore was such an effort made to edu-
cate the masses as since the Inaugural
ton of the Alliance of farmers. The
leaders who are responsible for this
work are the objects of attack by the
city press, and are classed as hood
lums and degraded Office seekers.
Verify, the people should read these
attacks with big grain of allowance
for the men who inspire them.
The Alleant: The farmers and la
borers have for years sent lawyers to
represent their interests, because the
lawyer could talk good and was a
smart fellow. The lawyers looked
after their own interests so we'll that
1t takes a lawyer to interpret every
law and sometimes court and half a
dozen lawyers can't do it until the
clients are ruined. This is why the
farmers and laborers are distrustful of
the lawyer-politician.
Home Advocate: Whenever any re-
formation is urged tending toward
equalization of taxation, the hue and
cry is at once raised by the hired OPP
position, that it will drive capital out
OF the state. The question is never
asked will it drive the honest farmer,
the industrious mechanic or the patient
laborerp OF course not. The state
could exist and prosper without these
classes but without capital it would
soon become an efete institution.
The National Economist: I under
stand Democracy to be government by
the people. Then if this be true,
why should minority persist in try
ing to change the views and control
the great majority of the people. We,
the masses, have been waiting long
and patiently for some measures of re-
lief, but instead thereof, as the years
roll by, the grip seems to tighten, and
the condition of the wealth producing
class appears to grow worse than bet
ter.
Alliance Advocate: The farmer who
has not the independence to assert the
right to decide for himself when his
fealty to one or the other Or both of
the old parties is detrimental to the
interests of himself and family, and
act upon that conviction, is not true to
the Republican form of government
under which he lives. Free thought,
free speech and free action are guar
anteed every citizen, and he who fall
ters because of the ridicule of hirelings
is unworthy Of the right of suffrage in
free country.
Peoples Messenger: Business men
ought to be shrewd enough to see
where their interests lie. The Is, 900
failures of last year should teach them
that the road to bankruptcy is growing
easier every year through the agency
of the old parties. The business mans
the farmer and laboripg man. When
these prosper the business mans day
Of prosperity is also at hand. Their
political interests, too are Identical.
The farmer and laboring man are on
the right side. When will the bust
ness man get there?
Pioneer Exponent: In recent
speech of George w. Clark, of Waco,
at the Watterson banquet among 9TH
er things, he said: What we lack
and must have is circulating medium
commensurate with the needs of the
people, and some constitutional meth
cd must be adopted to relieve the dis
tress of the farmer and furnish him
an equal chance to utilize hisScredit
that is afforded the tradesmen of the
town." His last words in this speech
were: THE day of political promises
has gone; the day of performance has
come"
Oregon Alliance Herald: A promi-
nent loan agent said to us the other
day that one good crop with fair prices
would destroy the Alliance. Ha ha!
that's good. The farmers have been
having good crops on the average for
many years, and yet the Alliance be-
came necessity. We should like to
ask if one good crop, with fair prices,
will destroy railroad extortion? Will
1t equalize the burdens of taxationsp
Will it stop usury extortion? Will it
do away with child-labor? Will it give
work to the millions of idle men in
the country at remunerative wages?