Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-30

no possible excuse for the farmer to ass
the government to loan him money. lie
would not need assistance; be could and
would help himself 1t is the persistent
determination of the government to en-
courage monopoiios and money brokers
Chat works, disastrously to the rural ins
tefests, and makes the producer feel war
ranted in asking for share Of the loaves
and fishes that are btihG so .lavishly dis
tripured among the non pf0dHcers. That
is the gist Of the whole subject.
A writer in the Farmer and Fruit
Grocer makes broad distinction between
the man who joins the Alliance to get
Office ana the man already in who takes
one. IF, !" he says, ''any man has come
Into the Alliance for the sake Of Office he
should not be in the order; but when
offices are lying around loose like big
July watermeions in the shade, nobody
can blame poor Allianceman if he STUN
bles over on to- one Of them. It is the
prerogative and the duty Of every Ameri-
can citizen to We politician, nor is there
any reason why he slSoHld be rascal.
lie can be rascal if he tries, but he is
not obliged to. Don't damn the poll
tician--I mean the Alliance politician
The Weekly 1oiler Nashville, Tenn
has the following terse paragraph:
she that is not for the Alliance princi-
Piles is against them. There is no mid
ale ground, and we have no use for
straddlers. The time has come to draw
The line, and we must draw it. A half
hearted support of any principle never
succeeds If You are with us, hoist your
colors that everybody may know where
you stand. The wishy washy, milk and
cider fellows, who are trying TO hold
with the hare and run with the hotfhds,
will have to be dumped on the trash pile
Of worthlessness, and the sooner we dump
them the better.
The Alliance Tallahassee, Fla.) says:
The object of the Allan oe is to elevate
and improve the farmer morally, socially
and financially. What farmer desires to
prevent itG What farmer should obstruct
Or impede it, Where is the farmer who
does not desire the full and complete con-
summation of these laudable purposesa Is
It reasonable and natural that the farmer
should join in with our enemies and seek
TO keep himself and his fellows bound
down in the chains of industrial servi-
Jude, and to remain the hewers of wood
and the drawers of water for eternitys
Such is not the prompting of reason.
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The Effingham County Ca, Alliance
has arranged for the grand annual mass
meeting on the 4th of July. At the same
lime the alliance resolved that IL was to
the best interests of the members of the
alliance to purchase their guano direct
from the manufacturers, ana thus save
to themselves the commissions, which are
charged when purchased through local
agent. They further advised all alliance
men not to buy their gnano from any
local agent, but to patronize such firms
Or corporations as will recognize them in
aividually, and ell sell to them directly
and at the manufacturers prices.
X.
The president of the North Carolina
state Alliance has issued call for meet
ing of tobacco growers at Henderson, N.
O., on April 9th, to consult with the
Alliance tobacco growers of Virginia, the
object being to organize an Alliance to-
bacco growers association for self-pro-
lection. All persons interested in tobacco
culture are invited to operate.
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The Alliancemen of Arkansas have Sc
cured the passage of joint resolution in
the legislature of that state in favor of
the election of United States senators by
the people, and the governor has APP
proved it. The constitution OF the
United States must be changed to secure
this desired object.
All over Kentucky the Alliances are
passing resolutions to vote for no man
who uses whisky and money in his can
vass. The state organ says resolutions
are good enough, but too much time is
given them instead of to the work of sup
pressing the evil condemned.
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Liberty Alliance, in North Carolina
publishes an appeal for the curtailment
of the cotton crop this year from thirty
five to thirty per cent. and the planting of
the land thus reserved in cereals and pro
vision crops.
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1t is reported that some of the whole
ing to boycott the Alliance Business Ex-
change of Kentucky, but the Alliance
men are getting ready to ''block the
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