St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-07-23
TsAs, La, SATURDAY, July %, 1892.

tains and field officers, acting as file closers
Now, my brother, asa Senator, made s.
t by the Alliance, you occupy the positio,
r of captain. Are you sure that you are lead
Y ing us in the direction Of the enemy
: works? Or are you not Commanding a0b
stacle left oblique march, and carryin,
j us off at an angle from the right line in or
: der to avoid some things that we must ant
can surmount2 Or are you in the rank O
the "fle c1esers2p As editor, you aeeup,
the position of teacher. Are you certaiff
that you are giving us sound doctrine?'
Are you sure that you are carving thu
j class through the book, or are vol no
, keeping it in the alb abs, Wren farqe ma
: jority of the other teachers are giving out
and millions of the pupils are spelling
progress" conquest and svietory?n
IL you are sure you are right then il
Gods name, ''go ahead = bat if you are MOI
quite sure you are right then for the sake
of suffering humanity. pause and reflect
again.
I. In the Vidette of the 14th inst, unde,
the caption, ''To the Alliance. Some
/ Thoughts That Should Have Serious Con.
sideration," you say some things that had
i better remained unsaid, when viewed in
i the light of the present situation in the
/ United States, as regards the financial con-
dition of the people. the. condition of the
4 two old parties, their rapid disintigration
the almost unanimous desertion OF both of
i them by the Alliance, as well as hundreds
of thousands of others.
| In your first paragraph, you say: "For
| two months past, / have been in position
to see and judge of what's known as pub
lie opinion, and have studied the situation
carefully"
You must be mistaken, brother. res
pectfully submit, that the discharge of your
very arduous duties as Senator, made it
unlikely that you would be able to study
the situation carefully, and be able to sssee
and judge" ofnpublie opinion except that
uery small part of the public, with which,
as office holders and Office seekers, you
were surrounded at.the State capital
| You say, that the Alliance s'has never
said, that the correction of certain abuse
| es." can only be accomplished through q
certain party. | believe yon are wrong If
/ am in error, please correct me-
] believe th4 National Alliance at Ocala,
| called for a z,,stional conference of all the
labor organizations in the United States, to
consider that very question "The advisa-
bility of forming new party" to correct
those very "abuses,n by having our demands
made into law. VIII you publish the
names of those 0cala delegates who oppos-
ed that call? 1t will not take much space
in the Vidette.
The Industrial conference of last Febru-
God by our grand Order. That Industrial
conference decided that the formation of
new party aras necessary in order to correct
these certain abuses" VIII you please
publish the names of those Alliance dele
gates from the South, who opposed that de-
cision? They will not take up much space
in the Vidette
Indeed, the Alliance has stoutly declared
another party to be necessary to carry out
its Demands
You say, "We need to hold the Alliance
to the principles announced in its eonsti-
then by acting up to
those principles and standing together in
support of them, make our 0rderrespected
by all etc, etc. If we do not stand to our
Demands" three times unan imously made
in National meeting, and a fourth time at
st. Louis last February; affirmed and re-
affirmed by every State Uniap, and almost
every sub Union, s1ncesDec. 1889: if, / re-
peat, we do not stand by those Demands
after all this hubbub ofresolutions, by sup
porting the nominees and electors of that
party which has our Demands" for its
platform; and instead, support those of the
G. 0. P.'s, who ridicule every one of our de-
mands, then instead of being respected
by ali, we would scarcely be worthy of the
contempt of "those who oppose us!'
You say, "Just now, the whole trend of
national politics seems to be towards .
ernment in the hands of a few favored
ones,' etc, etc. just now2 Well. then
you and l and whole lot of folks, have
been "hollering before we were hurt!" We
have all been proclaimlng, that for long
years Favored few were having it all
their own way; while 1t ssoap appears. that
there is as get only seeming tendency
trend-in that direction! Well! WellI
But then you mend matters some and
tell u.s. that for aThirty years, through un-
just and discriminative tariff enactmentsa
we have suffered these ills! And all the
time our Demands" have not word about
tariff, except inferentially in the opening
paragraph of the 9Th seetion What a
pity there were not one or two arise men in |
the Alliance at st. Louis in Dec 1889; or at |
some of the National or State meetings
since, to have given an opinion on the mat
ter and to have corrected this serious hia-
tus BY the way, brother, were you not a
of several of those National and |
State meetings?
1.-THE Alliance YOU say sis all right in |
its Demands That is what several nilIi- |
ons of American citizens are saying to-day; |
and their consistent and aeise course i'll form |
ing a party pledged to their enactment in |
to law, has guaranteed their self respect |
and that of even those opposed to them !"
and is "fast bringing the country to an agree
naent apifh them along that line, y
And you actually believe there is danger
of negro and earpet-bag rule. Well, those
Of us. who have been reading the reform /
papers, don't think sol We get the news
all along that line; and 1t is our opinion
that the day will never return when any
State of this Union will be dominated by
negro votes. And we are borne out in this I
opinion, by the Legislature just adjourned
which refused to pass the Australian bal
lot law, which would have put the State
beyond peradyenture, in the hands of its
intelligent and honest white citizens Or
did the Legislature want to keep the mig
ger in the wood pile" to scare us fellows
with? Perhaps, Well, we don't scare at
that. We've got the news from Omaha and
other places : and q Union general and a
Confederate general have been nominated
for President and Vice President, by One
Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-Six
delegates, representing erery tfhe interest ia
the ta,,d by Its oma proper represeAtdtircsi
And the Bloody ehasnn is closed and
the aBIoody Shirt" WASH t in it; and it
won't be if the Southern Democrats will
only quii Haunting the old rag!
And the lance, born on Southern soil,
has done it; and you and [, brother, have
contributed to the God blessed work Let
rs not quit the grand certainty of Industri-
al and National redemption, as eo-srorkers
IN the Grand Army of Reform, in which
we were the first enlisted army corps, for
he desperate chance of becoming .The
of the land" We poor devils can never
control party which you and I know is
owned by Wall and Lombard streets.
Finally, my brother, to people who are
rot refy acise, it appears as If all this talk
against connecting ourselves with the Peo-
1le's Party; and against "entanglements
With partisan politics. is not very eonsfs-
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