The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
AGAINST SUBTREASURY.
Kansas Alliance Men Opposed to the I'm
practicable Scheme.


TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 5.-There are
many Alliance men in Kansas who
repudiate the subtreasury plan. The
Kansas Farmeri is collecting the views
of the leading men on that question.
w. A. Harris of Linwood, who was a
candidate for United States senator,
writes a communication to that paper
to be used this week in which he says:
ga year age the Alliance, through
the peoples party, entered the polit-
ical arena. 1t was a general wide
spread awakening by long suffering
people to an active realization of the
necessity of protecting themselves
and their interests against the en-
croaching and overwhelming care of
corporation and class legislation and
assumption of power. The basis of
this movement and it's declaration of
principles was the st. Louis platform
with the key note equal rights to
all, special rights to none. AS these
demands became known and studied
and fairness were felt and appreciated
by the great mass Of honest, intelli-
gent and fair minded men all over the
country. The clamor of opposition
was rapidly narrowing down to the
bitter anathemas of those who saw
their ill-gotten, ill-used powers sweep
ing from them. After the most bril-
liant victory was won by some
strange means an additional claim,
feature or demand was added to
the broad principles Of true and
just government under which we
have fought, and the so-called sub
treasury scheme was brought forth, a
scheme in it's essentials modelled
after all of the most vicious and COR
rupt practices which we had con-
DENIED, scheme patterned after the
| illegitimate loaning of money by the
government to national banks and
railroads and the warehousing and
storing ofgoods for importers and dis
tillers; scheme to tax the many for
the benefit of the few-and even of the
most doubtful benefit to those few
confined in it's representation to the
weather. localities, and to benefit the
few who would be living within a
few miles of the location, utterly
ignoring the laboring man, the
mechanic, the tradesman, and, in
fact, every class of men save
those who raised grain for sale, only
those excluding large part even OF
the farmers or horticulturalists, stock
men, gardeners and many others, all of
whom would help to carry the burden
of expenses, loss, fraud and corruption
which would inevitably follow so gross
a prostitution of the power of the gov
eminent. Some even have gone so
far as to assert and claim loyalty to
this new monstrosity a test of true
Alliance faith, when in fact it gives
the lie to the very principle of pure
and just government of, by and for the
whole people which weasserted as our
motive and proclaimed through the
st. Louis platform. Today the good
men, the honest men, the intelligent
men all over the country are pausing
and asking themselves: Are these
only new swarm of hungry and sell
fish office seekers? So this is the way
the new party of patriots propose to
use it's power? If so wherein are they
different from the old crowd? What
has become Of the high sounding mot
to, Equal rights 10 all and special
privileges to none? Is it only the
Dry signifying nothing, and pretext
to get and then abuse the power of
the peOple?'