The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-29
Some SUGGESTIONS.


SOME SUGGESTIONS.
The Ono Rule BY Which to Measure =,
| Acts.
/ The Alliance is adjusting itself anf
settling upon firm and acknowledge
basis. 1t was at first small matter.
but underlying it were great and i'm.
mutable principles that were destined
to develop and support q supor.
structure that for magnitude and
strength would stand without a peer
in the nation. Slowly but surely the
work has been going on building ur
and extending and bracing and
strengthening. till to-day the Alliance
stands forth upon solid platform and
as recognized power in the land.
Now. having sustained ourselves thus
far. we must allow the invasion of NO
foreign element into our territory
We are family bound together bv
the laws OF a common interest saws
the Southern Alliance Farmer, and wa
have established rules and regulations
by which we propose to be governed
and our household regulated, over
these we have appointed rulers who
are to direct our movements look tn
our interests and facilitate our relief
which is the end for which we ara
striving. Now. brethren we want to
sustain our order and place f.
where it will not only be of
enough Importance to formu-
late demands but to have them
answered for our relief and benefit
This matter we have placed in the
hands of men to whom we have en-
trusted the arranging and furtherinp
OF our efforts and the advancement Of
our cause. They are in position to
acquaint themselves with the well
concealed policy of our enemies. and
the surest and best methods of at
lacking or meeting the issues as thew
arise. One of these men may think
one line of policy best and will try to
carry it out; this is just as it should
be; he may be right another NAV
think a different course should be
pursued. this is legitimate; let him
follow tho dictates of his Judgment
his way may be the best So LONG as
they remain true to our demands we
take no issue with them. We bid
them a hearty amen in everything
they do with the interests of our
brotherhood at heart If they make
an error it cannot affect us so serious
ly as an opposition or dissension or
controversy among the brethren
that would end in divisions and finally
In bankruptcy of our order. Anv
strife or distrust has tendency to |
weaken our cause and disrupt our
organization. Nothing is so destruc-
tive to an organization as want of
unity. Brethren be admonished. We
have already suffered enough. The
chains OF plutocracy have CALLED our
neck and we are still chatting under the
bondage. We must not get up strife
or dissension about men, or parties or
we will wear these CALLING chains till
we sink into serfdom. and our nation.
once the pride of the patriot and the
envy OF world, will become nothing
more or less than monarchy with
money and bonds to create kings and
erect thrones, while we poor vassals
Toll on under the lash of entailed poy-
erty and disaster. / admire a noble
man. | cling to pure and beautiful i
sentiment with the ardor of an en-
'aptured poet But this r. not the
lay or time for idle hero worship or
refined sentiments. Truths hard as
meet us on every hand,
stern realities preclude all raptures
ii ideal sentiments. On every hand
We are confronted with the hard and
stubborn fact-if you do not stand as
unity against oppression you are
ost-a break IN the ranks of the Alli-
lnce means utter ruin to our hopes
ind aims We may believe this man
s right or the other man is right, but
10 we know it? Do they themselves
Snow of surety that they are right?
They must act in accordance with
heir best informed Judgment and
cave the result to a higher and wiser
,ounsellor. But as long as they are
n accord, not with your ideas, or
nine, or any one else's but with the
ule by which we propose TO measure
III doctrine presented Ocala
latform-a5 long, l say. as they DO
OF antagonize this. let us accept and
taud by and defend them.
Es'hy Is Et,
Why is it that nearly all the bust
ess men OF Alabama are united in q {
erculean effort to defeat the farmers t
4 their efforts for relief? Why is it {
hat those engaged in businesses di- t
ectly dependent upon the success Of c
griculture, are in this combination j
ontributing money. labor and untir- d
1g energy to assure defeat of all the @
lans undertaken by the farmers for t
elief? 1t can not be possible that all c
nese people are ignorant of the fact
lat upon the prosperity of agriculture
epends their thrift apd success. It
lay be that they ascribe their present
prospects to some other d a