The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-18

70 1851, over IS per cent The erops
o1 isos brought less than per cent
more .nan the crops in 1866. The crops of 1857.
ss1ousn less than half rs large those in 1857.
brought the farmer s79 5Op. .ooo more. Two.,hi,a.
70 Aas count-y's wealth is not assessed for taxa
I'LL yet ths farmer, possessing only - per
een.s pays 10 per cent of the taxes With
moasln facilities for transportation and i'm
ploseu machinery, the farmer finds himself
conpeneo to sell produce at prices barely
sousnns so,,As tne cost Farm mortgages are fright
n., ,uas aafse, In Iowa the mortgage Indebtedness
vv1.nx WA Per capita; in Kansas, $l65: in
-A1neiss viu0; and everywhere the farmer Is
vverA1raened with debt. Therefore the farmer
= aoW appealing to the supreme tribunal of
the ballot box
foik then took up the demands of the farmers,
on 'nion ne spoke at great length. The sub
treasury Idea, he said, has grown until 1t is the
ssn'lment of the order in thirty-four states
me constitution declares that congress shall
nave power to regulate commerce Among
osneis money, transportation and transmission
Vi inssilgence are essential elements in COM
iNeloe' Does congress regulate these? Organ
ized capital has demanded of congress and OBJ
taineo control OF the volume OF currency This
has resulted In fearful augmentation of the
.1su s. money power, to tho
Impeachment and robbery of honest
industry. In 1851 the amount of currency was
saoV,No'ooo, with 100000 population. Today.
with 100000 people, the volume of currency
ID re1uced TO $600,000,00O resulting in high
pricea money and low priced articles, entaiIing
distress, poverty, suffering and ruin The
supreme question before the people is financial
feior n The TWO great parties have evidently
sounsied truce, and, as in the past, this oues-
tion viii be regarded as neutral ground between
them, In this crisis 1t Is the duty of every true
member OF the Alliance TO stand firmly by our
principles and to demand of all aspirants for
our sunrages an unequivocal definition of their
position on this great principle.
Polk said the growth of the organization was
very encouraging. A recommendation was
made that conference be held with the Reform
Press Association to discuss the most available
means OF disseminating reform literature A
powerful auxiliary force in the service of re-
form literature is found in a well-regulated
lecture system. The demand for speakers is SO
great that it is impossible to supply it. The
speaker closed with remarks upon politics in
the Alliance. He said the organization must be
kept free from ENHANCEMENT with any party.
ut would utterly fail in its high purposes if de-
graded into mere party machine manipulated
by designing men. When il shall fail to elevate
the membership above the arrogant domination
OF party mandate, the hour for decay, dissoiu-
tion and death will have come"
w. s. McAllister, of Canton, Miss,
chairman OF the national executive COM
mittee of the Anti-Sub-treasury Alliance,
heads committee to induce the Alliance
to steer clear of the sub-treasury scheme
and the third party idea. He said:
We will present q protest tomorrow against
the sub-treasury and third party schemes and
certain irregularities within the order 1t is
the intention to adjust tie matter within the
Alliance if possible, but if we do not
get hearing, or grievances are
not respected, the organization of the
ant1-sub-treasury Alliance will be extended to
every state. The Texas opponents of these ideas
are not awaiting the result of the convention.
They arc already organized, and the anti-sub-
treasury Alliance embraces so per cent. of the
total Alliance strength. The sentiment is also
strong in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan and Illinois.
The Irregularities alluded to are en-
braced in resolution adopted at the anti
sub-treasury Alliance convention held In
ST. Louis, denouncing G. w. McCune, his
lords, henchmen and corrupt practices, as
a disgrace to the order and a stencil in the
nostrils of all honest men who know of
their corruption and villainy.
The air is thick with rumors tending to
implicate certain Alliance leaders in con-
nection with certain combinations and in
relation with the National Industrial Com
pany, formerly the Union Cordage
Company. 1t is with state agents that
this alleged scandal has to deal, and Alli-
ance men are here for that purpose. They
state that they will make charges within
the next few days that will create tre-
mendous sensation and shake the Alli-
ance from center to circumference.
The former state agent of the Florida
Alliance dOmiciled himself in New York
and became the agent of the Union Cord
age Company, it is said. The plan was to
get monopoly of the Alliance trade. Sc
ductive inducements were held ont to in
duce members to procure Endorsement by
their Alliance of the Union Cordage Com
pany. In some states the negotiations
were successful, but in others contracts
by which Alliance stores are supplied had
already been let.
Rumors also connect certain Alliance
leaders with deaf with the Louisiana
Lottery Company, by which a third party
was placed in the field in Louisiana.