Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-16
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND IT'S
MEMBERS.
What is Being Done in the Various
Sections for the Advancement
of the Great Organization


Is pushing the Alliance cause in New
| England, made speech ut Manchester,
N. H., few days ago, which was re-
ceived with much enthusiasm by an i'm
mense audience of New Hampshire
farmers. Among other things he said
| The men who make the best legisla-
tors do not come from the ranks of your
educated men. In Kansas we went to
the cornfclds and to the plows, and in
point OF intelligence, honesty and ability,
It was the best Legislature the state has
ever had. Applause, For the first
time in Kansas a United States senator
was elected without a scandal. The
members whom the Farmers Alliance had
elected went there and did what the peo-
pie told them, and there was not money
enough in the United States to buy them.
There was plenty of money, and
one member was offered as
nigh as $4,000 for his vote
and the offer refused. You need to watch
as well as pray when you are in politics.
| Laughter Mr.. Mckinley
says that this country is rolling in pros
perity and wealth, and that its people
are contented and happy. will meet
this by speech delivered by John J.
ingalls,, who says that 81, 900 persons pos
sess one half the wealth of the country;
and under such condition as this can
the country long be prosperous and
happys Which of these doctors are YOU
going to believer am inclined to think
that Ingalls, is right. The sub
treasury plan is the best that has ever
been conceived, we believe. One year in
Kansas we raised $50, 600, 600 bushels of
corn, which we from necessity sold for
ID cents bushel, although it had cost
as II cents to raise the same. Later we
had to buy it back at so cents per bushel
Under the sub treasury plan all this
would have been avoided. We in
Kansas have borrowed a great deal
81 your money at high rate of in
terest, the interest. in fact, being SO
high that we could not meet it, and hun
oreds of our farmers have been eyicted
from their farms. Give them chance,
and they will pay, remembering that your
interests are ours. A million of men arc
tramping this country to-day, according
to Senator ingalls,, seeking for work, and
all because of the vicious legislation
which has been imposed upon us. You
should study and ponder these matters.
and by so doing you will learn to cast an
intelligent ballot. At the con-
vention which gave me my nomination
there was but one white shirt and two
white collars to be seen, and there was
not lawyer in the entire gathering, al
though the district covered more terri
tory than the entire state of New Hamp-
shire. and contained 70, 900 voters. When
, we can hold a convention and not have a
lawyer present we begin to think we are
getting awfully near to heaven. Laugh
ter. What we want is condition of
things that will give to everybody an
equal chance and the blessings and com
forts of life, a condition of things that
will admit of the poor man wearing silk
socks and white shirts if he wants. APP
plause.
THIRD PARTYIsM IN SOUTH CAROLINA
w. ]. Tolbert, the state lecturer of
the Alliance in South Carolina, sounded
the keynote of the campaign of '92 at
orangeburg several days ago, where he
made several speeches, and granted an
interview to the reporters Among
other things, Tolbert said that the A Iii
ance had endorsed the St. Louis platform
at Ocala, and did not propose to support
any man who is opposed to the demands of
these conventions. ''There is" said he,
"a movement ON foot in which the labor
organizations of the United States are in
terested, to have convention in February,
1892. 1t is Il peoples move. The Ali
ance of this state is in with this senti-
ment. We demand a change in the
monetary system of the country, and if
we can't get in one way, we will get it in
another. The Alliance is Simon pure
political organization. We intend to have
reform, or. by the way, we will know
the reason why. We want the good will
of all, but beg the friendship of none.
anu ali rnat man opposed to us has to
do is to step aside and let us pass, or we
will run over him. The Alliance wants
to bring about peaceful and quiet revo-
luton, but il it cannot come by peaceful
methods, it must come by some other
method. We have asked for relief from
one representative at Washington, and
our voice has not been heard, but there
Will come day when angry people will
appear at the gates of justice and demand
the rights in mood not to be changed
by reason, or when tho flag of retribution
and wrath is raised, it will be too late
for reason. My candidate for presi-
dent has to support the Alliance plat
FORM" Tolbert is regarded as the ex-
ponent of the Alliance sentiment in South
Carolina. 1t may be regarded as almost
certain that the state will not be on the
democratic column in 1892 if there is
third party candidate in the field
#F*
Among the resolutions passed by the
Indiana State Farmers Alliance at a re-
cent meeting were the following: Gre
solved, That we are in favor of the free
coinage of silver. That we demand the
passage Of laws prohibiting alien owner
ship OF land, and that congress take
prompt action to devise some plan to OBJ
tain all land now owned by aliens and
foreign syndicates, and that all lands now
held by railroads aud other corporations.
In excess of such as Is actually used by
them, be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers only. That
we demand law making null and void