The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
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THE ALLIANCE.

little fire that has been so long
smouldering at Homestead and other
manufacturing and mining centers Is
not extlnguished. And it never will
be unit the people adopt system by
which millionaires can be prevented
from robbing their employees
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Southern Alliance Farmer: When
you give your vote to lawyer for
congress you place that man in temp
tation' way. Should he be elected.
corporations and railroads will hasten
to retain him" This is what to-day
prevents any legislation inimicable to
combinations. The lawyers of the
house and senate are retained"
Kansas Peoples Party: This thing
OF answering argument with eggs is
one OF the good old conservative ways
in Kansas and Georgia one of the
ways TO keep up the credit and good
name of the state. By the way did
you ever hear of public meeting
being disturbed by Peoples party
men. or even Logs of that persuasionP
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National Waterman: Fob Ingersoll
Is reported to have said: Il believe
IN protecting what are called infant
industries. but after these infants
get to be six feet high and wear No.
II boots it is about time to stop rocking
the cradle especially if the infant tells
you if you stop rocking he will get out
OF the cradle and kick your head of. :"
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Southern Alliance Farmer: Free
dom of speech is denied to an Ameri-
can in the capital of. Georgia. What
kind OF Democracy is this? 1t is an
insult to every wealth producer who
paid his taxes to build the capital.
Our country people have been de-
MED the use of the capital to hear
their own man speak. Their repre-
sentatives have been insulted in their
own house-not allowed to speak in
their own building.
National Economist: On the defeat
of the silver bill General Weaver
telegraphed President l. L. Polk:
The waters of the Red Sea have
parted. Speak to the children of
israel that they go forward" The
answer came: See Exodus xiv. l3 :"
which reads: land Moses said unto
the people. Fear We not stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord,
which He shall show you to- day; for the
Egyptians whom We have seen to-day
Ch0ll fhnpo M
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National Economist: Switzerland is
the model republic of the world.
Fifty years ago she faced the problems
confronting the poor of the United
States to- day. Her patriots were equal
to the emergency, and established a
government bank. The public credit
was printed on notes and these notes
were loaned to the farmers on mort
cages running thirty years at 81 per
cent interest the borrower to pay
one-thirtieth of the principal back
annually. The old mortgages were
taken up. Prosperity smiled upon the
people Shylock was banished; usury i'm
possible. and the little nation went up
ward and onwardto its happy destiny.
Journal of the knights of Labor:
Humanity has been threatened
through hundreds of centuries by
pestilence costing millions of victims.
Science has enabled lis to trace the
origin of pestllence. and it gave us
the means to prevent and stamp it
out But as humanity is organized
upon the foolish plan of individ ual-
ism, we continue falling the prey to
cholera and other terrible foes to hu-
man life. Jndlvidualism must go or
humanity will perish! Universal
brotherhood. scientifically organized.
is our own salvation. Away with the
idiocy of the past! Give US the COM
monwealth of the universal republic
Of labor and fraternal reciprocity!
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Chicago Sentinel: It is simply
monstrous that capitalists are allowed
to use convict labor; so monstrous
that no self-respecting community
could possibly tolerate it. Excepting
the Russian and German monarchs
no men in the world are clothed with
greater power than American railway
magpates. Things come to pass
where the whole people have to con
sidetSwhat is to be done with the rail-
ways 1t is impossible to allow the
owners to do as they please. There
is no solution except the putting forth
by the state of its undoubted supreme
authority to exercise a rigid control
under which the managers shall be
quasi state officials instead of private
servants of Goulds and Vanderbilts
Philadelphia Record. Dem: The
railroad coal companies which are
anthracite coal have kept the
literal promise made at the time of
the combination affected by the Read
ing leases in not advancing freight
rates. but they have broken. an in
ferential pledge given on that occa-
sion by permitting their creatures
the coal companies to extraordinarily
advance the price of coal at the pits
mouth. thus affecting with their left
hands what they agreed not to do with
their right hands. The price of coal
has thus been raised 30 cents per ton
higher than it should be. When it
can be sold at retail in Philadelphia
at %5 per ton there is a fair profit in it
for the miners producers carriers
and retailers Anything beyond that