The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
THE ALLIANCE.

prosperous times the 1acCS WarranC Lnat
statement only so far as it relates to
coupon clippers and loan brokers.
From all over the land comes the re-
ports of failures. and in many in
stances even banks are included.
The Southern Mercury: To demand
of a member of the Farmer Alliance
that he renounce the principles of the
organization to which he has volun-
tarily attached himself before he will
be recognized by the bosses of any
political party. is an insult to his man.
hood. Such demand never emanated
from Democrat, nor was submitted
to by one worthy of the name of a
freeman.
The Virginia Alliance News: A half
dozen men have been running political
conventions and debating to the peo-
pie whom they should vote for in the
past and now when the people see fit
to name their own candidates, these
self constituted leaders get way up IN
G, and say that it is preposterous for
several hundred voters to dictate to
the majority. Oh! come off and be
consistent.
Pioneer Exponent: The Alliance
and the people have everything to
gain and nothing to lose by a full, fair
and honest investigation of the Ocala
demands in broad open daylight with
open doors. and it courts such an in
vestigation. The Alliance supporters
in Comanche county have done more
in one month to promote FULL fair and
free discussion than the so-called
democracy ever did.
The Iowa Tribune: An idea of the
small amount of money really in act
i've circulation among the people may
be gathered when it is known that
the amount of standard silver dollars
outside of the treasury Oct. l was
$780, 1914, It's subsidiary silver, sos. 664,-
446; total, silver in circulation, $119,
858, 621, less than 81 per capita.
When it is considered how large per-
centage of the daily transactions of the
people are conducted with silver coin,
the real state of the money famine
will be understood.
The Montezuma Record; Don't be
caught by the Estate bank" fraud pro-
posed by eminent Democratic states
men and pretended friendly papers.
Our money must be full legal tender
government money. The national
bank system is far preferable to State
bank frauds. The state bank cry is a
side issue to catch the Alliance with
and thus enable the money power to
keep its death hold on the people. It
is such palpable fraud that we think
it will not deceive many. but its inten-
ton is to deceive and rob the people.
The Peninsula Farmer: There is
now an open field in the cause of true
journalism for rival to the Associated
Press in the matter of news dispatches.
1t is not only untruths about the Ali
ance that is circulated by the associa-
ton, but a vast mass of sensationalism
and manufactured incidents, which are
pure romance and never happened,
are palmed off upon the public. Our
big dailies had better publish with
less pages and more truth in their
makeup, or there will come journal
istic cyclone one of these days and
paralyzers of truth will get sent to
kingdom come by popular revolt
against fiction for fact in their news
papers. .''All people can't be fooled
all the time
The Alliance indicator: In spite
of the opposition to our order and
the war upon it's officers by the politi-
clans and the plutocratic press, the
Alliance still lives, aud moves, and
grows, and is destined to make the
world feel the weight of its mighty
tread. If one were to believe what he
reads from the partisan press, he
would think the Alliance had fallen to
pieces, by reason of the heavy weights
about its neck, and the corrupt de-
signing, thieving, scheming, unprin-
cipled demagogic officers at it's head.
We hear them say the SUBJ treasury
scheme is dead, the Alliance had to
drop it. The facts are: Every state
Alliance that has convened this fall
has adopted it with practically a
unanimous vote. They say the officers
are corrupt, but the Alliance don't be-
lieve. There has not been a resolu-
ton passed in any state Alliance con-
demning any officer whom they have
pointed out; but the very men they
lauded to the skies have been con-
demned as unworthy of our trust and
confidence.
The Alliance Herald: The Alliance
is composed of machine Democrats,
Republicans, Independents and Third
Party men. AS an organization it is
not in partisan politics. that is to say,
it does not espouse any party. 1t es-
pOuses measures and advocates pur-
poses. 1t has aims. and seeks to &C.
complish them. 1t has mission, and
expects to fulfill it. 1t came into ex-
istence at the demand of memorable
necessity. 1t continues in existence
and will ever continue to live, because