Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-02-26
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.
Minnesota has an Alliance called 1.-THE
Mckinley Bill Killers Alliance"

Mckinley Bill Killers Alliance"
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The Alliance legislature of South Caro-
lima will hereafter exact a royalty of ~
per ton on phosphate rock, mined in the
rivers, instead of 81 as heretofore. There
is vague report that valuable phos-
plate mine was discovered in the Oke-
feenokee swamp before its recent sale;
but as this property has now passed out
Of the hands of the state, there is no
chance of Georgia ever getting royalty
thereon. Alliance Farmer.
California is pushing ahead in the mat
Ter of organizing sub-Alliances in every
county of the state. The Pacific Rural
Press, of San Francisco, so long the able
official organ of the grange, has also
espoused the Alliance cause, giving it
fine department and becoming its official
and fraternal organ. One feature is COM
mendable and explains why the work
goes on 80 bravely, and that is, the good
women are placed in active positions.
They are not only secretaries, chaplains
and door-keepers, but organizers and
lecturers. State Organizer ]. b. Rigdon
organized thirteen sub Alliances in twelve
days.
The Southern Alliance Farmer, in an
bouncing that the control of that paper
had passed into the hands of Harry Brown
md Il. L. CAN'T, and that the latter had
been made an editorial co-worker, says
Land, transportation and finance are
the three living issues of the day. Aliens
phould not and must not be allowed to
own our lands. Our flag should float
over the domains of American citizens,
not of foreign lords The lines of trans
portation must submit to complete and
just government control, or the govern
ment must own them. The finances of
the country must be run in the interest
Of the people, and not in the interest of
banks and bondholders.
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Bevier (Mo.) appeal asks: "Are you
interested in the work of the Alliances
Do you believe in the demands of the
order as amended at the Ocala conven-
tion9 If you do, it is your duty to sup
port papers that openly and boldly advo-
cate those principles, and help spread
the light by getting your friends and
neighbors to support them also. If you
patronize papers whose chief mission is
to bind you to the truth and teach you
that you must trample on the grandest
and noblest principles if the welfare of
your party demands it, you are an in
crate, ira tor to the cause, false to
your family and your country.
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The Atlanta Eoenang Journal of Tues
day, says: "Senator Gordon will soon be
member of the Alliance. He would
have been regularly initiated into the
mysteries of the order long before this
had it not been that he was unavoidably
absent. He returned few days ago
from New York and informed the officers
of the Edgewood Alliance, of which he
has been elected a member, that he was
ready to be initiated. There is some
provision of the order which requires
members to be initiated only at regular
meetings The ne xt regular meeting of
the Edgewood Alliance will be held on
the sixth of March, and then Senator
Gordon will present himself for initia-
ton. The meeting will doubtless be a
most interesting and largely attended
one."
The rot being dished up to the people
about loans on land by those who oppose
the Alliance demands, is disgustingly
false In statement and dishonest in pur.
pose. The constant reference to the Ar
gentine troubles as arising from land
currency is without a scintilla of fact
behind it. The assignats of the first
French republic were but the shadow Of
substantial currency, as they were
really government issues of money
redeemable FROM the sale of lands.
but they lacked the authority of stable
government. They were promises of the
government to be paid from the pro-
ceeds of lands declared to be confiscated,
and presented no guarantee that those
lands would be of sufficient value to re-
deem the entire issue. The value of the
assignats, was further affected by the fact
that the claim of government to every
rood of the land was litigious, and that at
the time of their issue, and all during
the time they passed current, the nations
of Europe were combined in the field to
overthrow the authority under which
they were issued; that they were value
less as money is amply proven by after
facts. the principal of which is that thew
were never recognized by the national
authority in time of peace. This alone
is Endorsement of the judgment of the
people who refused to receive them in
exchange for the products of their labor.
For shame. that opponents can devise nc
better argument than these false state
ments of history National Economist.
The National Farmers Alliance at it,
annual session at Omaha, Nebraska
adopted the following resolutions:
That we most emphatically declar,
against the present system of government
as manipulated by the congress of tn,
United States and the members of tn,
Legislatures of the several States; there
fore.
We declare IN favor or holding con
vention on February 22d, 1892, to fix ,
date and Mace for the HOLDING of 81 con