Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-21
GEN. RICE AND THE ALLIANCE.

GEN. NICE AND THE ALLAANOEs
Gen. Rice of TT. Scott, the stronges
leader the Alliance had in Kansas, ha
broken loose from the Peoples part.
and in a two-column letter denounce
PETER, Simpson, Lease, Clover, Poll
and others, calling them calamit!
howlers, demagogues, cranks and an
archists. The general upheld the or
iginal principles of the Alliance, bu
could not endorse the attacks made Oh
Kansas. Every man In Kansas should
read General Rice's own description Of
Kansans and then compare his flatter'
ing eulogy with the abominable sland'
ers OF the hired orators who went from
Wall street to the Alamo promising
deliverance through SANDER, repudia.
ton, socialism and disgusting non-
sense. He says;
They went forth, as II were, upon the
the wings of the wind, to New York
they were brave-and bearded Wall
street in its own den. Then to
Georgia; away to Ohio and Indiana ;
then to Texas and back to Kentucky,
and so OIL.
Kansas, their own home; Kansas,
that made them ali they are-that
gave them all they have, was SANDER
cd and traduced, until "calamity"
hung like a pail over her beautiful
prairies and she became sneer aud a
by-word. "Kansas, today is the gar
den spot of the world, redolent with
the fragrance of the orchard and the
field; teeming with the homes of over
million people; pulsating with the
vim and vigor of progress land OF
fruits and flowers; a land through
which the busy farmer passes with
delighted senses and breathes an at
mosphere as balmy and sweet with
odors as in the Garden OF the Gods"
This earthly paradise was by her
own citizens-sOme of them honored
with seats in the councils of the nation
deliberately stripped of all her
"bright robes of glory" They flew
from state to state, like a bosom of
destruction, to bring disgrace upon
Kansas, the "queen Of the west" and
to make the world believe she was
only a characterless harlot. This can
not be gainsayed.
Senator PETER said, in Cooper insti-
tute. New York: "One-half the homes
in this country are mOrtgagcd for more
than they are worth. If the whole
state of Kansas was put up at anction
at thirty days notice it would not
bring enough to pay her Indebtedness"
Jerry Simpson said in New York:
'sKansas property would not sell for
enough to pay the debts of the people"
PETER said in speeches in Texas and
Kentucky (or was so reported and
never denied), that 100000 homes in
the United States were mortgaged."
And DR.. McCune, editor of the
Economists catching the scent Of this
.'calamity howl" published to the
world: "The people of Kansas owe
ON mortgages, bills of sale, deeds OF
trust. ETC., $464, 100000. The facts are"
said he, "Kansas is bankrupt and her
people ruined" :,
All the smaller fry, Tray, Blanch
and Sweetheart, reiterated these
sbominable falsehoods all over the
land, until the credit of our people
was ruined. Another representative
of this insane calamity howl, Mr..
Glover, congressman and vice presi-
dent of the National Alliance, dis
graced himself by writing to the Trav-
elers' Insurance Company, of Hart
ford, Conn, who holds a mortgage on
his farm, upon which several install :
ments of interest were due: II don't
expect to ever have to pay your mort
eage-the legislature will relieve me
of it,"
While Gen. Rice still claims some
thing for the Alliance he says the
Peoples party has been loaded down
with every crank, shyster demagogue,
socialist, anarchist and repudiator in
Kansas, and in order to effect anything
must get rid of all these birds, who
"foul their own nests" and 60 back to
first principle.
Perhaps ths most important medical
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