The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-14
THE ALLIANCE.

THE ALLIANCE.
Labor Tribune: In 1867 the average
<alue of all crops per acre was $40,
Snd in 1877 it was only So. One
thousand bushels of wheat would pay
= mortgage of 81, 600 in 1870 but now
Il takes 1000 bushels. Can you tell
She reason why?
Journal of the Knights of Labor:
The men who took the places of the
Homestead strikers complain bitterly
OF the miserable pay they are receiv-
4ng and of the treatment that is
melted out to them. There won't be
much sympathy wasted upon them.
The People: These events Cat
Homestead and Topeka) will go not q
little way to instruct the masses; to
prepare their minds for the class of
people they will have to deal with; to
cause them to adapt their tactics to
the exigencies of the case; and to en-
Tighten them upon the necessity of
promptly voting themselves out of
The exposed position they now gener-
ally occupy-in front Of the guns
into the right position-behind the
guns-holding these in their own
hands, as the Kansas Populists did.
Topeka Advocate and Tribune: 1t
takes a woman to formulate a bust
ness proposition to suit the world.
Kate Field says: s.In view of the
fact that it costs more to bury and
eulogize a dead congressman than to
pay the two years salary of living
one, | think that all candidates
should submit to medical examine
ton before being allowed to run for
congress, and that permission to pro-
coed should be granted them on ex-
actly the same basis that q reputa BILE
insurance company would take risks
on their lives"
The Vanguard: The truth is, the
"power OF the PRESS has ceased
because the press has become the
tool of a class and is no longer a
weapon welded in the cause of truth
and Justice The people have learned
that the daily press will support a
bad cause and misrepresent good
one, governed by motives that are
beneath the consideration of honest
men. Now where, perchance, a
truth is told, a good cause upheld,
and q paper makes vigorous fight
on the right side, it is distrusted and
it's work is without result.
Farmers Tribune: When the people
Of Rome were furnishing for bread
and there was abundance in Egypt,
rather than supply his people, Nero
employed his ships in conveying sand
for the use OF the wrestlers at the
games. While American agriculture
and industry languishes and thou
sands suffer for the want of life
necessities our lawmakers employ
the resources of the government to
convey opportunity to the operators
Of the great game of monopoly and
then stand idle on-lookers and in
many instances participators in the
profits Of the game.
Virginia Sun: Mr.. kenridge at
the Democratic banquet said the late
election was triumph of Democratic
: principles, rather than of the Demo
cratic party This was said in the
way of an apology for the recognized
and boasted fact that Grover Cleve-
land was greater than his party
Now, in the name of Andrew Jack
son, what Democratic principles were
involved in the slate election" but
the Offices? Office is the grand prin-
ciple of the modern Democracy. To
the victors belong the spoils, and the
banquet was intended to celebrate
just that and nothing more
Edward Bellamy in the New Ma
ton: AS we have said many times
in this paper the present and coming
social crisis in this country is the
result of an attempted seizure of the
government and of the country by a
plutocratic revolution, and of the
resistance Of the people to the at
tempted usurpations. One phase of
this crisis is the open brazen-faced
attempt to prostitute the militia SER
vice to the interest of the plutocrats
against those who resist them, and
the boycotting of the militia service
by the workingmen is the response
OF the people to this attempt.
Farmers Voice: This country
would be feeble, bankrupt nation
to-day if it were not for our farmers.
The Chicagos, the Bostons, the New
Yorhs. the Cincinnatis, the St. Louis
and the San Franciscos have been
built and adorned by our agriculture.
Our railroads, churches, colleges,
schoolhouses and our art galleries
have been created by the wear of the
farmers muscle and the intelligent
farmer of to-day knows it. Knowing
it he wants recognition for his
rights, and it shows good sense upon
the part of the politician to recog-
nize the fact that if old parties will
not give the farmer equity, new
political party will arise to make
this country what it claims to be, a
nation of equals.