The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-02

zatlons to unite, while those who, from
~selfshness or ignorance, oppose their
demands are divided about equally be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
parties. -HisSOWri World.
HOW H ALLIANCE IS DYING.
Ohio has IS, 900 Alliance voters.
Wisconsin has about 300 Alliances.
West Virginia has 433 Alliance.
Pennsylvania has over 200 Alliances
and is organising at the rate of five a
day.
Kentucky has 2,4OO organizations,
with W 100, 600 members. Sixty
new charters were granted in March.
North and South Dakota have
doubled their membership in the past
six months.
Iowa has fifty county organizations
and is booming.
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas
have each added a third to their mum
bers since they carried the last cleo
ton.
Illinois and Indiana are fast catch
ing up with the procession.
The Southern States are all solid, and
New York and New England are or
ganizing very rapidly.
Yes, the Alliance is dying-for a
fight at the polls.-Er.
THE PARAMOUNT QUESTION.
receive on an average 200 letters a
day commencing the bill I introduced
in the Senate by which money "a be
borrowed on land from the government
at 2 per cent. per annum. 1t is impOs-
sible, of course, for me to read themall,
but 1 do the best I can. The interest
shown everywhere in the bill proves
that the financial question is really
paramount to all others now before the
country. The farmer, of course, will
be benefited by my bill should it be-
come a law. Any one who has tillable
land or ever buys it on a credit will be
ableto borrow money from the govern
ment at such a low rate of interest he
can afford to go into debt a little.
Some asked me what would be
done in case a land owner should be-
come insolvent and unable to pay the
interest to the government. That is
very easy to answer. There would be
plenty of men ready to buy land, Dor
row money at 2 per cent. from the
government and go ahead as if the in
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Sub Treasury bill advocated by the
Farmers Alliance simply hipothecates
products. Ny bill, if it becomes a law,
will not bring about the millennium,
but it will give the people money and
forever do away with money panics.-
Senator Leland Stanford.
A THIRD PARTY.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the
most prominent and influential Demo
cratic papers in the nation, in a lead
ing double-leaded editorial, thus dis
cusses the prospects of what it calls
"The proposed New Party" and the
Conference of Nay 18th:
The party politicians may make up
their minds that their future is as un-
certain as a game of chance. Con
fronted by the Farmers Alliance and
kindred organizations last fall they
were admonished that a political revo-
ton was in progress of no trifing mo-
ment. The Alliance was as much sur
prised at its success as were the Demo
Gratis and Republicans. Encouraged
by their victories, securing as they did,
State legislatures, United States Sena-
tors and Congressman, they have been
stimulated to make greater exertions
in the future.
A new organization styled "The
Citizens Industrial Alliance " is quietly
at work as an auxiliary to the Farm
ers' Alliance. It was founded in Kan
sas during the last campaign, and its
membership and organization are now
extended to nineteen States. On the
10Th of May next a conference of the
delegates will be held in this city to
take steps to organize al Independent
political party. On becoming a mem
Der of the organization the initiate
solemnly ~renounces allegiance to the
old parties and commits himself against
fusion with either. Recent events
have been contributing to make the
proposed new party a great power in
this country, unless the evils of which
they complain are speedily corrected.
It may become an all-important factor
in the election for president next year.