The great West., 1892-04-01
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

bA6eutAuV06 NOU60s
The work Of the St Louis confer
ence seems to take well all over the
country.
Money. OF the people.
Transportation By the people.
Land ............. For the people.
Pillow and Hammer.
BY giving their countenance and
support to the peoples party, the
women of America will hasten their
acknowledgements burgh Kansan.
The paper legal tender poison"
that Hill wants to get rid of is what
the people want and more of it. It is
poison to Sbylockian systems
souri, World
Organize at once for your ratifica-
tions. Spring work will soon be upon
you, when only the politician can hus-
tie. Lose no time. The harvest is
ripe. pe.-Nonconformist.
The tug of war is upon us. Let
every man be bold and true to his
cause. Not only that but let him be
willing to sacrifice time for the cause
of reform. Weekly Toiler
Under the national bank law the
bankers draw orders on the people.
bearing interest, and the people are
obliged to cash over. Best system for
the bankers the world ever saw.-Iowa
Tribune.
The two per cent. National Union
Cordage Co. (re) bait is not catching the
alliance farmers as easy as the 'tone-
half per cent. commission on the gross
sales in the state" caught the business
agents. National Reformer.
-"When the trumpet gives forth an
uncertain sound, who shall call to
arms?" But there is no uncertain
sound in the demands of the great in
dustrial conference. The call to arms
is distinct and clear; so clear that every
patriot in the land will wake and hear.
Exchange.
Now is the time for the loyal alliance
man to keep his mouth shut. but both
eyes and ears wide open. Every scheme
that the partisan mind can design will
be put in motion to distract and con-
fuse the membership. Keep in line.
brethren. Don't be decoyed into the
enemy's camp. There will be plenty
of time for you to determine how you
will vote. Don't be led into an organi-
zation and tied!-Southern Mercury.
Intrinsic value is no more an essen
tial to money than a dead locomotive
is to train of cars. Get up steam and
apply it to the locomotive and it will
pull the train. That is fat, or power.
A mountain of gold would not satisfy
the cravings of one single hungry pau
per. Of course it could be exchanged,
swapped Or traded for many things;
but it takes law, fat, the power of the
government, the will of the people, to
make it money.-Southern Mercury.
This movement of the producers
and la aborers is for equal rights to all
and special favors to none. Every man
who tolls for his daily bread. whether
in store, shop. Office. furnace or field,
is equally interested. The success of
it means benefit for all. It's failure
means heavier burdens. more toll and
less profits to all Buckle on your
armor and fight for your rights and
your liberty. the protection of home
and the freedom of your children. -
Alliance Herald.
-"I feel sure that the readiest way
to turn public thought and effort into
this channel Il. e., to abolish the pres
ent appalling inequalities) is for the
workingmen to organize a political
party. No social question ever gets
fearlessly treated here until we make
politics turn on it. The real American
college is the ballot box. On questions
like these political party is the surest
and readiest if not the only, way to
stir discussion and secure improve
ment. wendell Phillips.
The st. Louis gathering was an in
dustrial conference, not political
convention. This fact should be borne
in mind by the people who are asking
why it didn't nominate ticket 1t
set forth the reforms that the wealth.
producers need and are determined to
have, and it served noticed on who
ever it may concern" that if political
funerals are necessary before these re-
forms can be gotten, then the tillers
and the toilers are ready to get the
corpses ready.-Journal of Knights of
Labor.
The Kansas City Times says: ''The
peoples party should remember that
the government has not dollar and
cannot obtain dollar which is not
taken from the people by taxation. -
We would like to ask this metropolitan
educator on finance if ''the government
cannot obtain dollar which is not
taken from the people by taxation"
where the people get their dollars?
We opine it will find the question as
difficult of answer from its standpoint
as the question (which was first, the
hen or the egg?" is to the denier of the
scriptural theory of creation. Iowa
Tribune.
Omaha is the place and July 4 the
time for the nomination of the next
president and vice-president of the
United States The convention to as
semble on the anniversary of American
independence has very plain duty to
perform. The st. Louis convention of
industrial organizations has agreed up
on platform that is satisfactory to all,
and whish ali are pledged to stand up
on. The convention should plant itself
squarely on that platform without any
change, nominate It's candidates and