Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-19
The Craz,est OF the Alliance.

The Speaker pro tenn. of the Kansas
Legislature exalts his horn over the
) triumphs of the Alliance in the Sum
! flower State. THE election of a Unit
ed States Senator and five Congress
men before the party is a year old -
ne says. lis a greater victory than was
ever achieved hv new party in any
State. 1t puts Kansas to the front i'm
this great movement, and this State
may be called upon to furnish the
Presidential candidate in 1892. If
Kansas names the leader in 1892. IL ia
probable that it will be the new Unit
ed States Senator ~ So the boom of
Peffer Long beard has been let loose AL
ready, even before the name of the pro-
posed new party and the time and
! place for introducing il to a world
which will have no particular use for
it. have been fixed upon.
While the Kansas Alliance is puff
| ing Itself up aud making ready to start
out and possess the land, persons in
Kansas who still cling to the old-fash-
ioned habit OF keeping a cool head NAV
have time TO try and find out what
reason the Alliance in that State has
to be proud of itself. II has elected to
the national House Of Representatives
four obscure men of no known fitness
for political lite, and one man whose
qualification consists in very red and
volcanic mouth and in the the legend
that be refuses to wear stockings until
the duty on wool is knock I'd off. 1t
has elected as Senator In Congress i'm
succession to a statesman of national
distinction tangle.witted fanatic with
beard that reaches to his waistband.
1t has elected State House of Repre-
sentatives whose chief pleasure and
It,of 70, t<.t 4 -,
1t has abetted the forcible dispossession
of tenants of the mortgage on farms
sold under foreclosure. 1t has finan-
cial programme of which the greater
part is crazier than Bediam. 1t is an
oath bound secret organization which
does not scruple to use threats and in
timidation for the purpose of forcing
its political agents to execute It's will.
1t is as intolerant as it is silly, and it
seeks by many means, mostly not in
telligent, the prosperity of a class at the
expense of nation.
The farmers Alliance of Kansas is
wilder than the farmers semi political
organizations in any other States, and
its policy of confiscation has been fiat
ly laid down by the sockless Socrates
of Medicine Lodge:
1.-The railroads are yonrs; the wealth Of
this country is yours: these building are
yours, Don't ask for them; reach out and
take them. This Is your right"
If the Kansas Alliance is dreaming
of playing a great part on the political
stage, it is just as well that the country
should understand what kind of a con-
Germ the Ka nsas Alliance is. 1t Is
composed in the main of honest but
wrong men, who are doubtless
at home at the plough tail, but. who
are as helpless and clumsy as strand
ed whale when they take to political
economy and financial reform and the
regulation of transportation. Their
leaders seem to be foo!ing them to the
top of their bent and stuffing them
with mconshine; and 1t is probable that
before 1892 there will be good many
and angry farmers in the
Kansas Alliance. which is now so
tickled with its power.-NeW York
Sun,