The record-union., 1892-07-08
Farmers Humbugged by the Alliance

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Farmers Humbugged by the Alliance.
The Farmers Alliance is in full force
here. 1 viii give brief extract from
speech by one of their organizers two
years ago, when farmers were first being
persuaded to go into it:
Fellow farmers the reason why we've
never been able to WELD an influence in man
aging the affairs of our country, and in busi-
ness matters, is because We've not been organ
iZed-haye been divided, even on propositions
OF the most vital interest TO uS-and while l
cannot promise that by organizing Alliances,
in every school district, even, Will develop a
/ lot of statesmen that will assume immediate
and successful control OF political affairs, can
and do promise you that in business matters
/ 1t will ne the greatest helper you have ever
/ had. When nine Alliances have been organ
/ lied in your county we will organize your
! County Alliance One of your number, Sc
iected by yourselves Tor his business Sag2clty
and reliability, Will be your County business
Agent. You Will put him under $4,000
/ bonds He, when you wish 1t, viii do your
! buying ana selling. Beyond the mountains
and this SIDE OF the great lakes III the Score OF
States embraced in that Mississippi Valley re-
gion OF our country, there are already over
! 500 counties so organized. They are all eaters
OF your dried fruits. What do you con-
sumo of their products? MIR. ). here
has just got lot of hickory whit
tietree woods and other timber from the
banks OF the Ohio River, paying for them ten
fold their value where they grew. Mr.. X. has
Just bought q large churn made in an iowa
dairy, the price paid being double the selling
price there with freight added. Another has
paid a similar price for keg OF lard put up
last fall in Dakota. But why part1cularlZe?
You are all eating and using the products OF
| labor east OF the mountains. Every laDoftr
there is eating and using your dried fruits.
You pay 10 merchants here, and they pay TO
merchants there from two TO ten times the
frSt these nrO1nptS Every
County Alliance there viii take your dried
fruit in carload lots, costing them only your
wholesale price; with freight at carload rates
added You will il turn take tneirla hams
bacon, cheese, dried beef, butter and whatever
OF their products you consume, and for this
you will pay only their lowest wholesale sell
ing price, with freight at carload rates added,
saving you more than one-half which you
now pay for such goods.
For this and other promised benefits
Alliance speakers asked only a very
moderate return-a few dollars of our
money to keep up the organization, at
tendance on their meetings, and co opera
ton with them in their efforts. The rank
and file, the great common people, we
hear SO much about among the farmers,
have done, and are still doing their part,
and what is the result?
Nearly two years have passed There
has not been asingle carload or any other
quantity Of our California fruit shipped
East or sold under the auspices Of the
| Alliance. The leaders in the movement
are not trying to do one thing in the dj-
rection Of helping us to exchange pro-
ducts with any other locality. Those who
have forced themselves to the front and
, are leading in everything imagine them
selves a lot. Of Samsons: and, indeed,
! nature has endowed some Of them with
| the same weapon welded by their proto-
, type of old, and they make the Alliance
nothing but CAB factory, where they I'M
load their pent-up ideas of the superb
ority of their notions about everything,
1 and especially matters of government
+. and craftsmanship.
One former member of the Alliance
! here was so anxious to see something
/ done in the way of exchanging commodi-
ties, that he offered to bear half the ex-
!; pense OF printing and mailing to the East
5000 circulars. setting forth the facts OF
3, quality, ETC., of the thousand tons o.
]. dried fruit produced by Alliance mem,
D bers in our valley. And, further, offered
: to mail all specimens of dried fruit tC
4 Eastern would-be purchasers and pay
: half the expense of sending them. Bu
g it all ayailed nQthing-the leaders OF the
Alliance movement here were not work
S ing IN that direction at all.
5 l have recently bought seventy-fivt
pounds of smoked beef, put up in Dakotf
: last fall. 1t sold from the smoke
e house there for six cents per pound. BY
carload lots the freight would have addeC
L! cents per pound to this cost. paid l:
: cents per pound for it here. Who took
5 from me the other d cents per pound?
5 answer, the Alliance leaders, who have j
! in their power and promised to effec
/ direct exchange of commodities--to &C
conplish something besides the mere
a. wagging of their jawbones. | shipped {
ton Of raisins last fall to the Mississippi
4 Valley in four small lotsi they Melted m,
n five cents per pound. Who robbed nut
of the difference between parcel rates anc
e carload rates of freight? The Alliance
It leaders, Thousands of pounds Of large
e luscious. bloom-covered, muscat raisin
were fed TO the hogs in our valley TO
: want Of market. The same quality o
=. raisins cost Alliance members in TIL
northern Mississippi Valley States from
II ten to forty cents per pound. Who is t
n blame for the Alliance members of thos
: northern States not getting a full suppl,
IS OF our raisins at five cents per pound
with freight at carload rates added
a The Alliance leaders. w. A. SANDERS.
e Sanders z. o., Cal.