The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-20
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n. NJ. MURDOCH Editor
WHERE IS THE ALLIANCE ATa

& very suggestive set of resolution!
were published in the EAGLE Tuesday
morning. They were the expression O.
a meeting held at Rising Star schoo
house, of men who once supposed they
belonged to something when they joined
the Alliance. They say that they have
heard there is combine among dealer:
in implements, seeds, &C., and they OBJ
iect to it and will not patronize anybody
concerned in it.
This is now an old, old story. Com
bines control everything. They contro
the price of the grain the farmer raises
and the implements and seeds he buy:
TO raise it with. This is no more true
now than it was three years ago, when
the Farmers Alliance began It's vas
strides of organization. The Alliance
was organized for the express pur
pose of combating, counteracting and
overthrowing the very combines the
Rising Star resolutions complain Of
The Alliance was the outgrowth of q
conviction that the only way for the
farmer to cope with and protect himself
against the combines was to secure a
general organization of the entire farm
ing interest in one compact body,
whereby their entire force as a
productive and commercial factor
could be brought TO bear at each
point where their interests were en-
croached upon. 1t was recognition OF
the fact that as individuals or isolated
communities they are the helpless prey
of the combines and grain gamblers,
but as an organized body of the whole
they are capable of debating terms to
every interest affecting their own in.
dustry.
The organization was well nigh
complete and ready for action.
Never had an organization such
a marvellous growth, such noble
aims, or before it such splendid
possibilities. But in an evil hour the
gates were permitted to be open. and
horde of political adventures of the
Kies, Simpson, PETER, Lewelling and
Doster stripe were permitted TO
steal in. From that moment
the usefulness of the Alliance
in the farmers fight for industrial indie
pendence was paralyzed and ended.
The whole power of the splendid organi-
zation was turned away from the noble
aims it was founded to accomplished,
and prostituted to the ignoble purpose Of
getting offices for this miserable gang of
plotters and tricksters. And PETER with
his whiskers and Jerry with his dia-
monds, AMI Lewellilg with his gun,
and kieS with his gall and
Doster with his grab have all got their
fat takes and Joined the grand combine
of flying high. But the farmer, where
is he? And the Alliance, where is it ?
SVhat use have this band Of political
sreebooters for the Alliance now, eXcep:
to beg contributions from it for cam
paign purposes? What have they done
TO perfect the organization of the Alli-
once, or to aid the farmer in
his struggle with the combines? Where
was Jerry when the grain gamblers
called him? The Rising Star resolutions
tell the whole story. the Alliance and
the farmers have been betrayed. If the
farmers succeed against the combines,
they must do it without the aid of po-
litical montebanks. The Kies-Simpson
combine have reaped the sole benefit OF
the Alliance organization, and now
drive fine rigs, array themselves in fine
linen and fare sumptuously every day,
but so far as they are concerned the
farmer is not in it-until the next cam
paign.