The McCook tribune., 1891-01-09
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

Tramps should have an opportunity
to work and earn a living and be COM
PEELED to do so, if they shirk, and so
should Gould and Vanderbilt.-Ne-
braska Independent
The labor reformer of single purpose
has thorny road to travel. Hated by
the rich and betrayed and neglected by
labor reformer must expect martyrdom
as reward.-Paterson IN. j. Labor
Standard.
1t would not be loss of time for
some of the Alliance men who are turn
ing up their noses at old Greenbackers
to read the old Greenback platforms,
beginning with that of 1875. They will
find such striking similarity between
the old Greenback platform that they
will be surprised. Sentinel.
The Peoples party was organized on
the 23d of September in Indiana. In
six weeks it cast II, ,345 votes. With but
little time and very little effort that
many voters at least voted for what
they thought was best and with the sue
cess elsewhere to stimulate us we have
no doubt Indiana will do her full duty
in 1892. 92.-Indianapolis Leader.
A man is no better than other men
simply because he is a farmer; but be-
ing a farmer, he more thoroughly un-
derstands the needs of that great ma
jority class, and if he possesses ordinary
ability, can be more implicitly trusted
to work for their interest than pro-
fessionl politician. That is why the
people are asking for the farmers to fill
their otfices.-Western Advocate.
Quite number of merchants, me-
chanics and other classes don't seem to
have sense enough to see that to bank
rupt the farmer is to bankrupt his own
best interest, hence he goes on antag-
onizing the producers of all the wealth.
If you bankrupt the farmer you but
bankrupt the Nation. The interests of
all classes depend directly upon the
farmer. When all greed that is against
the farmer has bankrupted him, then
will grass grow in the streets of our
cities.-Harper (Kan.) Bulletin.
The Chicago Express says it has it on
good authority that the Spontaneous
uprising of the laboring men is the chief
topic of conversation" in Washington.
That paper, if it had been thoroughly
posted, might have added that it is all
the talk wherever you go, whether in
town or country. Sooner Or later this
same Alliance movement will swallow
up all other movements, political or
what not, and their ears will not have
to be pinned back nor their heads
creased to enable it to do it, either
Labor Journal.
Politicians who argue that overpro-
duction is the cause of low prices Of
products and consequent hard times
have failed to explain why last winter
the Kansas and Nebraska farmer was
suffering for fuel with plenty of col
lateral in the shape of corn to purchase
with, and at the same time the Penn
sylvania miner was starving for corn
with plenty of collateral in the shape of
coal to purchase with. Was it because
these two commodities were eaten up
by eXtortionate transportation rates, or
DCCduSC CllC lloiiSy dlo olOCh JODUClS
juggled the markets to such an extent
that products were drug? At any rate
the poor man had to suffer and all the
people cried hard times, the same as in
this year of famine. The over-produc-
ton liar must get to work if he would
reconcile these facts.-Nebraska Inde-
pendent.
The Knights of Labor, at their recent
General assembly, came to an agree
ment on the question of a union with
the Farmers Alliance. This move was
inaugurated several months ago, and
last week delegates from the general
assembly met the Supreme Council of
the National Farmers Alliance at
Ocala, Fla, for the purpose of arrang-
ing to hold National Reform Indus
trial convention in the near future. The
united action of these two great Or
CARNATIONS is bound to bring about a
state of affairs in the political manage
ment of the country very different from
what now exists. The farmers and
workingmen of the land have submitted
to the grinding heel of monopoly to
their utmost limit of endurance, and
propose to do so no longer. 1t is very
apparent that corporation plutocracy
has reached it's zenith and is declining
beneath decidedly hazy horizon
Sexton (Pa.) Herald.