The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-22
THE ALLIANCE.

The Toiler: Political ringsters have
been digging q grave for the Alliance
Tor the last three years. The hole is
not big enough for single plank of
our platform. yet the clods are rolling
back on the ringsters and it looks as
though they have dug their own
grave"
Alliance indicator: The very fell
low who yells, keep the Alliance out
of politics is usually the man who
knows that if the Alliance goes into
politics it will turn him out and there
By GUST him from fat job It is like
the wolf asking to keep the shepherd
away from the sheep.
New Nation: The statement is
made by Boston broker that half
the banks of Boston have cashed
notes made out by clerks and Endorsed
: by officials. Then half the banks of
Boston have broken the law. It will
not require many more failures like
the Maverick to sweep away the en-
tire national bank system.
New Nation: Failures, defalca-
flOns suicides and trust combinations
multiply. We are the richest nation
in the world and yet we are not happy.
That we are wandering along the
brink of deep gulf goes without say
ing. The sun of prosperity shines
upon the few. The principle upon
which business is prosecuted is i'm
moral. unchristian and unjust and it
cannot endure.
Pacific Union Alliance: The profess
sional politician may as we'll under
stand without further questioning.
that the Farmers Alliance and other
reform organizations are sure of their
position and do not intend to be driven
from it They will continue to stand
square upon all their demands. and
defend them to the last The recent
meeting at Los Angeles leaves no room
for doubt upon this question.
Southern Alliance Farmer: It is all
very well to sheer at the farmers
movement and yell calamity howl
ers." Old Noah was calamity howl
er. Jonah was calamity bowler.
Christs chosen apostles were calamity
howlers The signers of the Declara-
ton OF Independence were calamity
howlers. There were calamity howl
ers just before the war begar-plenty
of them. Yes, and there are calamity
Z WI! bo To,
1ty howlers just as long as there is
danger ahead. and there will be dam
ger ahead just as long as there is a
great wrong to be righted. Now then,
yell again!
Alliance Tribune: It is said that
John Sherman's portrait has been
hung in the directors hall of the bank
of England. No place in the world
could be more appropriate. For more
than twenty years he has been the
faithful tool of the English money
power. and is the acknowledged head
of English toryism that is again rear
ing its head in this country. John
Sherman has been the main prop in
support of the English system OF
finance foisted upon this country by
the money power the headquarters of
which are in Lombard street London
and the greatest curse to our own
country of any man that ever lived in
it.
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The Sentinel: Rev. Thomas Dixon
of New York says: The movement is
in its last analysis the religious nature
of millions Of the under masses who
compose its rank and file. Not a
single one of the problems that gave
birth to this movement has been met
as yet They have not even been
given a hearing. They have been
hooted out of court by hired assassins
of thought in the older parties who
fight not for principle but for Office.
In spite OF good crops gambling in the
bread OF the starving world still holds
its hell on the floor of your exchanges
Conservatives may boot and pooh and
bah, but the movement is one of re-
sistless power You had as we'll try
to sweep back the sea with soose's
tail feather as to try to stop it with
the pen of ridicule. You had as well
try to dam Niagara with an anathema.
The Alliance: The highest injunc-
ton that rests ON every Allianceman
is to dispell the gloom of ignorance
that envelopes the minds of his fellows
In Republican form of government
where the sovereignty rests with the
people. there can be no prosperity.
no justice. no liberty unless the
minds of the people are enlightened
The people can never maintain their
rights until they know them. The
pail that hangs over the Industrial
classes of this nation to-day is the
direct sequence of ignorance. Look
upon that royal edifice with its Gothic
attics and spires pointing heavenward.
that is the abode of the nabobs of the
nineteenth century. Every brick in
that structure is the fruit of human
effort, every sill. beam stud and tenon
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