The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-03-24
WELL DONE.
How the Conference Looks to Il Few of
of Our Exchanges.

OF Our Exchanges.
IGNATIrs DoNNELLY's preamble to
the industrial convention says The peo-
pie are demoraliZed." We beg leave 10
correct Mr.. Donnelly on this point. 1t
is the politicians who are demoralized. /
-Emporia Standard.
THE action is the necessity of the .
hour. No hating now, but onward.
right on. must be the cry. There is no
compromising grounl for any man 10
stand upon but must be either for uS or
against us.-Princeton 1nd.i Light,
THE labor conferences was in dead
earnest and the way they pitched cor
poration tools" into the steeet was re-
freshing indeed. The old parties failed
to get in their work and the Peoples
party will now call a national conven-
tion and put ticket in the tield.-Ihe
Road.
As WE have said ali along, the
strength of the third party will depend
upon the Democrats themselves. If We
submit to the control of the Eastern
plutocracy, the third party will be made
a power in the Ian atlanta Constitu-
ton.
THE . per cent. National Union Cord
age Company re bait is not catching
Alliance farmers as easily as the one
half per cent commission on the gross
sales in the State caught the business
Unconstitutional Ecformer.
The time for holding the Peoples
! Party National Convention has been set
for july 4th AS this is the second dec
laration of independence, the time is
| very ropriate.-Farmcr's Friend
| WaynesborO, Ga.
| EVERY one of these conventions is a
! step forward toward united action on the
| part of the oppressed farmers and labor
| ers, and the time will yet come when
! the reign of tyranny that the country
! now groans under will come to an md,
/ and capital will take a back seat.-Cali-
I fornia Messenger.
T, THIS action will bring the sunshine
of renewed hope into almost countless
homes of the down -troddcn and OPP
! pressed of our land. The knights OF
Labor, as the advance guard and pioneer
workers in this movement. have done
noble work in bringing about this union
of forces.-Industrial Republic.
But tell us, you fellows who are so
ticklcd at the idea of a split in the ranks
of labor organizations, when in all the
history of the country We're so many
different organizations and elements
SO harmonized that the adoption of
a great platform was met with but one
single opposition vote? - Washington
Ind.) Herald.
MORALLY every laboring man and
every business man outside the pluto
cratic ring is under the most solemn
obligation to support the new movement.
1t is rlutocracy or the money power
against the rights of the people. The
question is on which side will you be
found. Let patriotism, not party
prejudice, answer.-A!liance Standard
, ! (TeXas).
"HowLING MOB" is the headline an
nOuncing the proceedings of the st. Louis
meeting by the plutocratic press. When
, a lot of scherning demagogues-Rep
licans and DemOcrats-meet to arrange
for Systematically robbinS the people
I and formulate platforms never intended
to be carried out. but only to hoo1winl
$ the unwary. these men are called states.
= men G)-Voice, Wellington, Kan.
t THOSE men that We're ut the cOnvrn
$ ton at st. Louis were the best inen o
= the nation and h We the welfare Of ON
d beloved country at heart, are the bone
d and sinew of the American Government
t and are well calculated to see that thu
II justice Of the cause OF all laboring mel
o shall b protected AID the United State
of America free from pools and trusts
The Libcrator, Texas.
THE conference was not oppO scd t.
temperance and universal suffrage, bu
II they were not considered the para
Il mount issues. The question was not St
/. much whether a man went home drum
g or sober, but whether he had IL home t.
II go to. The money power is back OF tn
T. saloon business and every other schem
= fer ensiavinS the people, and this is tn
e power which must first be met ard over
.r come.-Tarkio (Mo.) Independent.
= LAST week, at Concordia, Kansas, tn
=, local militia had to be called out to quel
, disgraceful row between rival faction
y. ~ of the Republican leaguc, and no.
- comes dispatch from Indiana Stain
- that John Danforth was fatally shot i
~ q disgraceful riot that occurred in Il.
publican convention at Westfeld in tina
~ State. Oh, but they are nice lo
=. Think OF such cattle lying about Pee
20 ple's party conventions, in which ther
10 has never yet occurred single disturb
n ance of any kind.-Oklahoma Lance.
,u THE strength of the platform is in ii
IN breadth-not that it treats OF so man
rs subjects, but that the object is the benz
nd fit of mankind. 1t is comprehensive
g. that it treats alike the laborer in til
ct country and the laborer in the city