The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-04

Inc Alliance herald: Inc S.It0
secretary of the Alliance reports the
order in the best possible trim. gradu-
ally increasing in membership and
with an average of three new sub
Alliances a week. The brotherhood is
solid on its demands and unwavering
In determination to see them enacted
into law.
The Herald: No party will ever be
successful that is dominated by one
class. Platforms must be constructed
and candidates selected with an un-
derstanding that there is both a city
and country, and that the interests of
a very large share of the people are
Identical
The News and Standard: Be per-
sistent Cling with tenacity to the
principle of the cause of reform, econ
omy and Justice. Let past achieve
ments stimulate and incite you to pres
emit activity and aggressiveness. And
res: assured that success grand and
glorious will ultimately reward us all
for the parts we played in bringing it
about.
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The Alliance Leader: What a spec
tacle to see the secretary of the treas
ury use his high position as an officer
of the people to further the interests
of the moneyed classes by trying to
deceive the people every three months
in regard to the amount of money in
circulation as compared to what it was
twenty-five years ago. Does he think
the masses are all ignorant upon this
subject?
The Alliance Tribune: Powell
Clayton, the Republican boss of Ar
kansas is not so certain of Re-
publican success in the coming cam
paign as might be. In recent inter-
view in Chicago in reviewing the situa-
ton, he is reported as saying: There
fore, l don't hesitate to say. looking
the situation squarely IN the face with
the prestige that the congressional
elections of 1890 gave the Democrats,
that the election OF a Republican
president is matter of reasonable
doubt in the strictest sense that the
term is used by the courts"
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The Public Ledger: The Alliance.
at its Indianapolis meeting. passed
resolution asking congress to place all
cotton manufactures on the free list
as one way to secure some advance in
the price of cotton. by increasing the
ability of the masses to consume it.
If there was no tariff at all the farmer
would not only get more for his cot
ton, but would have to pay less for
many articles that he buys because
the most of our cotton is sold in for
eign markets. and when the goods we
get in exchange for cotton reaches this
country q big tariff has to be paid on
them.
Topeka Advocate: We cannot con-
ceive of any proposition that is more
absurd than the assumption that money
should possess an intrinsic value equal
to the value of the products. the ex-
change of which it is designed to
facilitate. There is no more reason
that the material in a dollar should
have an intrinsic value equal to
dollar than that the yard stick should
possess an intrinsic value equal to the
value of the cloth that it measures
Money as such possesses neither
length. breadth nor thickness, and its
only value consists in the fact that by
law and custom it is the medium by
which debts are paid and wealth ex.
changed.
The Peoples Tribune: The govern
ment takes an interest in those classes
which takes an interest in the govern
ment. The lesson of the old lark and
the farmer is as applicable to politics
as anything else, yet the bosses tell us
that the farmers must stay out Of poll
tics. 'If the Alliance goes into poll
tics the order will break to pieces"
is the admonition of the rascals who
fear the honest farmers in politics.
and who desire nothing ON earth more
than that the Alliance should break to
pieces If the farmer desires his in
terests looked after by this govern
ment. he must be the factor in the
government to look after that interest,
and not trust to lawyers bankers
merchants ETC., for experience has
taught that they look after themselves.
The Alliance Farmer: Politicians
and their organs never tire of aver
ring that the Farmers Alliance is a
movement the outgrowth of dissatis-
faction incident to temporary hard
times, and that with single season
of full crops and prosperity complaint
is dissipated. general satisfaction re-
asserts itself and the Farmers ALI
ance receives its death blow. or at
least remains in the abyss of indiffer-
ence. only to be resuscitated by an
other spell of hard times. We rise to
remark that this sort of argument is
as fiimsy and as premiseless as any of
them concerning the Alliance move
ment OF which the old party press are
at present SO full The states in which
farmers are relatively in greatest
comfort are Kansas and California, in
Kansas the farmer is staggering under
mortgages with interest leeches sap
ping his life; in California. with a
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