People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-17
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

ample or vest, IN defeatlng Jne Will Vi
the people.
My brother democrat, how do you
succeed in working reforms through
the old party?
The anti-option bill has been de-
feated in a house Of representatives
overwhelmingly democratic St Louis
Monitor
"A. high as $4,000, 900 of gold in
single year has recently gone across the
ocean from this country to fill English
and German Golfers
Cleveland and Harrison, Foster and
Carlisle, democrat and republican,
hand in hand to destroy silver, and the
leaders of both old parties struggling
to Guido each other in perpetuating the
'crime of the century. looming Crisis
Carnegie has refused to employ men
in his steel works until they will with
draw from their labor unions If Mr..
Carnegie were in France, instead of
free America, he would be arrested as
criminal for such an act San Francis
co Press
1t has been figured that Mr.. Cleve-
land received a smaller percentage of
the popular vote cast than was polled
by any democrat since 1872. He re-
ceived less than 46 per cent of the vote
cast Harrison less than "A per cent,
and Weaver, So per cent
The national executive committee
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
union have declared the National
Economist to be no longer the official
organ of the order. They also declared
the office of national secretary vacant
but made no appointment
Before election, tariff reform was
the great war cry of the democrats.
Since election it hasn't been heard of.
The only measure Of reform (?) Cleve-
land is exerting himself to put forward
is the repeal of the Sherman law, and
the complete decentralization of silver.
The Kansas City Times dem has
at last Topped to Wall street 1t is
fighting silver for all that is out. We
noticed a short time since that its man.
ager had been to New York and had had
a consultation with Mr. Cleveland. He
likely consulted the bankers there,
also-Missouri World
The scheme of English bankers to
withdraw gold from this country and
thereby cripple the national treasury
and force the demonstration of silver
and the issue of more bonds, for the
time being may have failed, but let
there be no relaxation of vigilance.
They are not conquered. Iowa Farm
ers' Tribune.
Long before the next congress ends
Cleveland will wish the 80 democratic
majority in the house were reduced to
9, or swept away altogether. For the
financial legislation that he wants he
will have to look to the republicans and
the handful of democrats from New
York and New England. St Louis
GlObe-Democrat (Rep.).
Mr. Olney, the encouragement I'M
der Mr. Cleveland, has had an extensive
training for the work he will be called
upon to do, in his capacity as counsel
for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad companies These big corpo-
rations will be well pleased with Mr..
Cleveland's selection of their own Mr..
0lney
The democratic party had control
Of both branches of congress and the
executive when President Buchanan
was in the White house-civil war fol-
lowed. The democratic party now has
control of both branches of congress,
with another New Yorker as president.
We hope the inevitable revolution will
be confined to the ballot box.-Nash-
vile Toiler.
There are brotherhoods and BROTH
erhoods, and they are all to some extent
amutual help; but the brotherhood that
will set the people free is brotherhood
of voters. Who will begin its organiza-
ton? The labor organizations of the
cities will effect nothing for the perma-
nent benefit of their members while
they act on their present selfish lines -
Midland Journal
Step out the old, step in the new, is
not the way Tennyson said it, but that
is the way they do in Washington 1t
Is pretty safe to say, however, that the
corporation and money power did not
step out: In the olden times. on the
death of a king, they cried in the same
breath, The king is dead-long live
the king. Now we say: THE money
power goes out-The money power
comes in."-Exchange.
Prosperity to productive labor is
absolutely the only guarantee of pros
perity to business. Labor is the goose
that lays the golden egg. These kind
OF eggs will cease to exist for the bust
ness classes to struggle for when labor
Is subjugated A hint to the wise ought
to be sufficient The lower the price
that the farmer is compelled to take for
his produce and the more interest he
has to pay, the less is he worth to the
merchant as a customer Alma Kan. J
News
The machine democrats of the here.
tofore solid south" have PLAYED their
last successful desperate game to re-
tain control The people in the south
are quietly, but surely, preparing to
maintain their rights They are de.
termined that there shall be free hal
lot and fair count. 1t is not polit-
zeal division on the color line, but the
white voters of those states contendinc