The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-11
Friday, Sept. IL, 1891.
Organize an Alliance.

been isolated from the world. They heard
truths uttered by Mr.. Whitehead and Mr..
Dunning, and views advanced of public
affairs they bad never thought Of before.
The purposes of the Alliance and Grange
had 10 many been sealed book, and the
power exerted by those organizations had
never been dreamed Of. Numbers who
attended the meetings are ready TO unite
with these orders who had scarce given the
matter though in the past, and failed to
conceive any useful purpose to be- snbserved
by them. A prosperous Alliance could be
readily organized among the intelligent and
influential farmers of that section and there
should be no time lost in bringing together
the material and forming sub alliance. An
organization composed of dozen solid
farmers and other eligible parties would
rapidly increase to powerful and useful
sub-alliance, and some of the brothers
nearest that section should cast about among
their neighhors and appoint meeting to
which sufficient number was invited to
form a fair working alliance, procure a
charter and place for regular meetings.
This preliminary meeting might assemble
at private house, with sufficient number
Of Rising Sun Alliance members TO perfect
the organization and give the necessary
instructions. Who among the farmers Of
that section will invite dozen more or less
eligible persons to meet some evening
and notify few members of Rising Sun
Alliance TO attend and start the association?
In this way every district in the county
might be organized in few months.
The possibilities ofthe alliance and grange,
for they are virtually the same in their aims
and methods. are we'll nigh limitless. In
their political instruction they lend to break
sp rings and party slavery which have
wasted the substance of the people, peryert-
ed justice, made mockery OF repu blicau
government and brought popular elections
+ 10 shame. They have filed official positions
with blacklegs, incompetents and thieves,
and made politics generally kissing and a
reproach. These organizations of the honest
country people are designed TO cure all
such public eyils and destroy all party big
otry which is as deleterious to public inter
est as superstition and idolatry are to moral
and material interests Of the human family.
There should be no party divisions on any
thing but we'll defined principle of polit-
ical economy. Such public measures could
their merits in those associations, stripped
of all party bigotry and demagogue decer-
tion, land reason and judgment be Installed
as nmpires, in place of ignorance, bigotry
and passion which are the arbiters of public
measures under our present corrupt system
OF party politics. Of the eight offices to be
filled in the county the present fall by
popular election, sever of them should,
nnder no conditions ever be debased by
partyism. Their requirements are entirely
executive and clerical, and the candidates
for those offices should all be on the same
ticket and not arranged under party beads.
Reform ia this direction in public affairs
is The urgent need of the times. The liar
md thief have cut out political business from
the ordinary duties Of the people and de-
bauched them TO such an extent that it is
easier for camel 10 go through the eye OF a
needle than well fitted man 10 be placed
in public Office by popular vote. An
occasional one of this sort slips in but unless
be fraternizes with the Captain Kidd's who
cruise in political waters he is soon ship
wrecked and abandoned TO his fate. In
social and business development the grange
and alliance invite 10 a field whose horizon
is limitless. The vista Of cooperation has
scarcely yet appeared to the most far reach
ing eyes, of those in the orders. Seven bill
lions of wealth are annually drawn from
the soil by the hand of industry, which
should all be turned oyer TO the consumers
of that produce by the people whose toll
produced it, or their appointed agents. In
place Of this being done specializing class
rake possession of it and derive profit on
lis handling of Is 10 40 per cent, all of
which comes out of the producer and con-
sumner. To break up this piratical practice
is one of the direct objects of the alliance
ard grange and other similar industrial
organizations. We might pursue this line
ofthought through an almost limitless Geld
and as we progressed we would still find
that
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Every other class who are engaged in a
common business whether that business be
speculative or useful, or partaking of both.
as many lines of business do, we find are
knit closely into fraternal bond by asso-
citation. Every member is aided by the
combined power of the whole operating
together, except the agricultural class.
This, the most powerful of all, occupying
the widest and richest field for cooperation,
alone is fragmentary. The surplus products
Of the soil should be shipped by the pro-
ducers, to foreign lands and delivered 10
the consumers by agents Immediately under
their eye and control. This may seem
Riopian TO persons who have never given
the subject though, and consider the crude
methods in vogue the perfection of human
wisdom, but nothing could be more simple
and easy Accomplishment. Neighborhood
organization is The first step, SO that the