The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-07-09

Dtot. All communications lDf lnlS Ot-
partment should be received by Tuesday.
each week.
The constitution and bylaws of
the new Peoples party, as revised
and changed by Secretary Schilling,
have been made public The articles
call for the organization and regula-
ton of local clubs to be conducted
under the auspices of the national
body. Stated meetings shall be held
by every club, and president shall
be elected at each meeting Any
citizen of a town or the country ms
become Il member by signing the
declaration of principles and the plat
form of the national body, and pledg-
ing himself unqualifedly to support
the principles as enunciated. ANY
member who makes motion to en-
dorse candidate Of, or enter into
fusion with any other political party,
shall Immediately cease to be a mem
Der of the club and the new party.
There are many who imagine that
the demands of the Farmers Alliance
are for class legislation in their in
terest, and that their interest is to
take up war with all other classes.
Such unreasoning persons should ask
themselves what benefit to the farmers
would national telegraph system be
II run at cost as they demand.
Those corporations, merchants, and
manufacturers, whose telegraph
service runs up to the thousands every
month, and not the farmer, who
perhaps, does not expend on an
average over so cents year for such
services, are the ones the Farmers
Alliance are fighting for. In freights
and the fares for their army of
drummers it is the same. The farmer
of all classes, is the most stay-at- home
and where a dollar is saved by the
farmers on freights and fares, thou
sands are saved by those who
lgnorantly are arraying themselves
against the Farmers Alliance on
partisan grounds. In common with
the rest of the country the farmers
would b" greatly benefited in reduced |
taxation if the government rates. in
case of its control of these systems
were not reduced. 1t would not be
long, however, before these anti
Alliance classes would howl for
reduction, claiming that they were
supporting the government, which,
Judging from the present net EARNINGS
IL telegraph and railroad corporations
would beat the case. The demand
Tor governmental control or ownership
If railroad and telegraph systems.
md running them at cost, coming as
t does, from the Farmersi Alliance
stamps that organization as the most
lnselfish and progressive body ever
'ound together for the general welfare
If the country
Pacific Rural Press. The farmer
has at last broken the spell that bound
him. He has smashed the tradition
II centuries. He has kicked out of
he shafts and is running away, and
he men who have driven him with
light reins are hurled into the ditch
md crushed beneath the wheels. It
has been so sudden they hardly know
What struck them Some say it is
'yclone and will soon blow over Old
nan Tradition rubs his hands, forces a
mile though his chattering teeth says
he knows it is cold day, but then he
ooks for warmer weather tomorrow
Gut he is notsu of his own prophecy.
The trouble is, the people have begun
o thlnk-the masses of the people,
he old farmer, the patient beast of
who has toiled for ages shat
'thers might reap