The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-29
| THE ALLIANCE.

Inc Lake County Independent:
There are many earnest souls now
wrestling with the great economic
problems The great question is:
How can we best present the truth to
the masses; how reach the tired, over
worked millions who study little, think
little. are prone to trust to the leader
ship of the wealthy and prosperous
spending their leisure, when they have
any. in light amusements or dissipa-
ton. while their trusted counsellors
and leaders lead them to ruin?
The Arkansas Farmer: The anti
sub-treasury committee turned up at
Indianapolis as expected. A CON-
mittee was appointed by President
Polk from the national council to
meet them. Livingston. of Georgia.
was the chairman, and respectful at
tention was given to DR.. Yeamans in
his presentation of objections to the
4 Ocala demands. When he was through
Livingston informed him that the
'committee was ready to listen to a
better proposition. if they had one to
Offer" This seemed to puncture the
anti sub treasury bubble, and the doc
tor said The had none to offer" This
is about the result of all such contro-
versies. They can object and con-
denim. but do not suggest or propose
something better
The Plow and Hammer: We rocog-
nize this fact. that the Farmers AL
lance is not a political party. We
recognize another fact that the de-
mands made in the Ocala and Omaha
platforms are political. and demand
legislation. We are cognizant of still
another fact that the old parties re-
fuse to embody the demands of the
Alliance in their platform. We know
that the demands of the Peoples
party is in line with the demands of
the Alliance and kindred organiza-
tions. Now. the question naturally
arises. if the members of the Alliance
are in full sympathy with their plat
form and hope and expect to see their
demands enacted into law, how do
they propose to do it? Through party
dulLbIlOuS OudU I0luSO W CIuUOuy
these reforms in their platforms?
The Home Sentinel: How much
more of our products will the dollar
of to-day buy than the dollar of TWEEN
ty years ago? How much more of
your debts. your taxes. your officers
salaries. your interests. your mort
cages. or your doctor or lawyer fees
will it pay? That is the way to look
! at the financial question. Look at the
relation that you have to sell, as pro-
ducers. sustains to what you have to
! pay for the items which enter into
your daily and yearly expense ac-
count. Have salaries decreasedo
Has interest been reduced? Are taxes
lower? Have mortgages been cur
tailed. How does the price of land
OF wheat and corn. Of cotton of
everything you raise. compare with
the value of the purchasing agent
money? Interest taxes. mortgages
salaries and professional fees are as
= high as ever; while wheat, corn, cot
ton and all other agricultural pro-
ducts are from 100 to 200 per cent
lower - v.
+. The Alliance Dispatch: The cleo
tions this year have given us one use
full lesson. They have clearly demon
strated one truth that it was we'll for
us to know. They have demonstrated
beyond the possibility of doubt that
whatever the leaders and press of the
old parties may say in regard to the
farmers and laborers' movements
however they may try to flatter us by
the assertion that our demands are
mostly just; that they are our friends
and if we will just be patient and wait,
they will bring us the relief we ask
they are and will be our persistent and
implacable enemies, and will do all in
their power to defeat us and to pre-
vent the enactment of our demands in
to law. By what logic can you be led
to depend upon the favors of either
the Republican or Democratic parties
after it is known they joined them
selves together bodily in two
great states for the express and avowed
purpose OI defeating the farmers
movement? Away with such foolish
ness! If we mean to be free, if we
mean to unlock the shackles that the
despotism of a. moneyed aristocracy
has fastened upon us. we must rely
upon our own unaided efforts, opposed
by all the cunning and ingenuity of the
money kings acting through both Of
the old parties.
The Advocate: We have been tol6
by every plutocratic paper in this fail
land that the national bank was the
safest banking system that the country
could devise. In view of the numer
Gus national bank failures within the
past few months. have these state
ments been substantiated? We say
rot After national banker has
failed why are his outstanding bank
notes good? because of the guarantee
of the government that they will be
accepted as money. That is no more
than the greenback possesses to in.
Nspire the confidence of the people,
nd yet the financial bosses tell u: