The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-18
THE ALLIANCE.

meeting of the National Alliance at
Indianapolis passed resolution to
have placed on the free list all cotton
goods imported in the United States.
Will our enemies and misrepresent-
ers please COMMENT Will any Texas
congressman come out for such radical
reform on tariff? No. they fear they
will lose New York.
The Farm and Factory: When
potatoes are scarce you pay more dol
lars for them when money is scarce
you pay more labor for it. Debts
contracted when money is plenty ruins
the debtor when he must pay it and
money is scarce. The rich make
money plenty by law and induce the
poor to invest in property and then
make it scarce by the same process
and ask them to pay up and thus
scoop their property and all its
improvements.
The Farmers and Laborers Light:
To the political ringsters and bosses
we will say your days are numbered
the pomp the glory of the past will
never come again. No, gentlemen,
your following is gone your whip has
lost its sting and will paralyze the
hand that attempts to use it hereafter.
Men have resolved TO be free and in
dependent and vote for men and meas
ures rather than parties. Your polling
and canvassing the votes before they
are in the ballot box will be very
uncertain business henceforth.
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The Coquille City Herald: Reform
principles grow apace in this meek
O. the woods" The secretary of the
Oregon State Alliance. in his report
from the County Alliance of date No.
vember 20 last had enrolled sixteen
ub.Alliances from Coon county, num-
bering 800 members. During the few
days intervening the local secretary's
report and that of the state. County
Lecturer Edmunds organized five more
thrifty and promising sub Alliances
and has other appointments when the
weather will justify. A voting strength
of 800 will dictate who shall serve the
people.
Colorado Weekly Herald: The le-
Ultimate results of stock gambling are
beginning to show up in a way that is
creating alarm among the heartless
wreckers of lives and homes. All the
cranks and anarchists are now found
in tho c1,,rvoc IF cd ho
most dangerous class being now among
the men of small fortunes, whose all
has been swallowed up in the greed
and dishonesty of boss gamblers.
Gambling in futures. like all other
corrupt practices. must eventually die
of internal rottenness- The days of
the gambler. especially in breadstuffs
and provisions and all the products of
labor, are numbered.
California Farmers Alliance Many
of those who laughed at the Associa-
ted Press accounts of the convention
of the Farmers Alliance at Indiana
polls. and were in high glee when
they heard that the Alliance had split
and that it would fast go to pieces
after the convention, which they be-
lieved was failure are now wearing
faces as long and as serious looking
as an undertaken at funeral
when they learn the truth
through the reform press. They
begin to realize now that the conven-
ton was grand success instead of a
failure. and that the split which they
thought would break up the Alliance
did not amount to anything except in
purifying the ranks of the Alliance by
wedding out the undesirable material
that had found its way into the Or
ganlzation. 1t worries the enemies OF
the Alliance considerable to think
now that they are learning the truth
that instead of the Alliance going
to pieces it is increasing in member
ship and gaining a stronger foot
hold every day. They know that the
success of the Alliance means death
to monopoly and a speedy ending Of
the unjust revenue that are now being
derived from the honest labor of the
farmer mechanic and laborer. So il
is not to be wondered at that those
leeches of humanity who are enemies
of the Alliance. go about wearing q
long and serious looking face, fol
they have a good cause to look wor-
ried.
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The Plow and Hammer: Is it posi-
BILE in a free land for men with fami
lies to work half time see their chill
dren deprived of proper educution
live in rented property without an op
portunity to &C 4uire home, be de
prived of the necessities of life (nevel
enjoying the luxuries. without giving
out murmur of discomfort? VIVA
can old party leaders be thinking
about that they are not giving heed t.
this discomfort? Will they shut thei
eyes to the inevitable and cry. peace
peace. when there is no peacer' /
standing army. a Pinkerton detectiv,
gang and a militia are only a menace
to arouse the demon of hate in tn
breasts of the workingmen, who ar
the victims of injustice and unhol,
greed. Let the leaders recollect tina
1.-The devil finds work for idle hands t,
do" as well to-day as he DID twelv
centuries ago. and that the millions O
idle men now roaming the land are