The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-28
THE ALLIANCE.

example of borrowing the livery OF
heaven to serve the devil in is the
Republicans Of Colorado trying to
elect Harrison electors on free silver
platform. 1t is astonishing what
transparent schemes they willsresort
to.
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Rober: 6. Ingersoll said recently
Both parties are engaged in figuring
how they can defeat their own candi-
date and not elect the other fellow.
The question arises whether the
colonel means by this to encourage
the Peoples party.
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Mrs. Lease: When Scottish baron
can make $40 O00 600 from American
labor. and. because he cannot extract
moro blood he brings in armed Pink
ertons to trample down American la
Dor it is time for the laboring party
to assert its manhood and rights at
the ballot box.
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National Economist: Alabama, Wire
GINA South Carolina One by one
Southern states are following III the
footsteps of Western sisters. cutting
loose from the triple domination of
the East espOusing the Ocala demands
and marching beneath the spotless
banner of the Farmers Alliance.
Ocala Demands: PA, what is an
archy?" Why my son. when those
Peoples party fellows threaten to
fr,S~ -. all -
have to get it with shot guns that's
anarchy" But pa sometimes the
Democrats use shot guns to prevent
fair play; what do you call that?"
That my son. is perpetuating
Democracy" .
Chicago Express: When Manton
Marble wired Samuel j. Tllden for in
,structions as to, how to word the
financial plank for the St. Louis con-
vention. the word came back: Make
it so nearly like the Republican plank
as to give them no advantage over US
in pulling Wall street." That is the
. sort of tricks both old parties have
been playing ever since.
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The Peoples Exponent: This is a
country of equal rights and demo-
cracy. or is SAID to be-the greatest
good to the greatest number" you
know. 1t has just been proven by
Congress giving away s, 500. 900 o. the
peoples money to enable Chicago to
make $40, 900. 900 while many thous-
ands OF our people in Southwest
Texas are living on mesquite. berries.
cactus and horned frogs. Let US
pray.
Alliance Guide: Let it not be for
gotten that the militia of New York
state was not called out to enforce
the law or to see that it should be en-
forced It was called out to sustain
the railroad companies in the viola
ton OF the ten-hour law. Let railroad
men bear this in mind and remem Der
that what is possible in New York is
not only possible but altogether prob
able in every other state in the
union under plutocratic rule
Topeka Advocate and Tribune:
President Harrison in his letter of
Mckinley bill little boom by the
statement that 'Our exports in 1892
exceeded those Of 1890 by $172. 900. :
600" and Republican papers speak of
this as a heavy fact" There is an
other heavy fact also to which we
would call their attention. Our ex-
ports in 1890 exceeded those of 1888
by $751;. 864. 1T. How will our
Republican friends account for this?
Is the Mckinley bill retroactiveae
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Chicago Sentinel: All. ha! Our
Idiotic wise acres have begun to
scratch their heads over the fact that
our exports OF petroleum have fallen
last year from l37 million gallons of
The year before to III millions Even
the sapient Chicago Tribune, says:
1.-The fall in the price of silver is
named as the chief cause of diminish
ing exports on the whole. The reason
for this is that merchants find the
prices of their products do not at once
rise Gin siIver) as silver declines in
value. The demand falls Of so much.
owing to the diminished purchasing
power of the silver as to badly dis
courage our export trade"
Journal of the Knights of Labor:
With Alabama lost beyond redemp-
ton and Texas split beyond all
chance of being reunited. with little
or no hope in Georgia and North
Carolina and not much in Florida and
now with South Carolina literally
swept by the thoroughly aroused
farmers things look pretty s3ually
for the party of Where was at9'
Yet as misery finds consolation, in
companionship the Democracy may
extract modicum of comfort from
contemplating the plight of the party
OF protection 10 plutocracy in Kansas.
South Iakota and the silver states.
If the Democracy is foundering in
the deep sea. the Republicans are
going to the-tO the other alternative.
Speaks the Truth.