Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-02-02
The Farr1le ers [ eader
The ALLIANCE NOTES.

THE ALLIANCE NOTES.
ED1ToR IaEADER:-An article printed
among the Dakota matters on the inside
of the LEADER, and copied from the
press reports concerning the notes given
5by farmers of Dakota to the Farmers
Alliance Company, is highly misleading.
Said repsrt seems to be one of sthe many
circulated by enemies Of the Farmers
|.AIiiance under the guise OF truth. Ss5. The
author, in his eagerness to poke fun at
members Of this organization, makes
himself guilty sof gross misstatemcnts.
Among other false statements, he utters
this villifying statement: THAT those
taking stock in this company were to get
ii in shares of SIC. 90 by the payment OF
SO CO., and then goes on to say: BY
this means hundreds Of farmers became
stockholders in the company, each ex-
i Iecting to get something for nothing. !
These STATEMENTS are nothing more or
less than direct lies. The writer OF this
reply was one among those who took
stock and gave his note to this company
with the distinct understanding and
written stipulations that besides the $500
cash paid on subscribing for the stock, OF
the eremaining So 90; So. 90 was to be paid
on or before December 1st 1889, ard $500
on OF. before December lst, 1890, and was
thus paid il full
Why then come out In public print
and ridlcule honest intelligent men with
such bald-faced lies and say we are to
get something for nothing. Further on
this blatherskite says: 1T soon tran
snired that the managers of the company
had made contracts for machinery at
prices considerable higher than the same
goods were purchased by general deal
ers. and the came the kick. Z
This may serve to beguile and amuse
those who like to hang their hat on the
Farmers Alliance, while every intelligent
farmer knows, that at that time, great
many farm machines could not be
bought from the general dealers nor from
the manufacturers for less than twice
what they were worth, because of q COM
b,ne between manufacturers and dealers.
and that the Farmers Alliance and its
purchasing company broke that combine;
hence dealers came Go "I even below. the
Alliance purchasing company. Aad be-
cause of the eyer existing selfshness in
man, this maneuver succeeded in effect
I. - ~,tI hn c1S Of
those guilty. Still The whole farming
community had the benefit of the reduced
prices. So 6much for the Farmers Alli-
ance on that deal. "A
Says the contributor further: "Poli-
tics entered into the ranks of the Alliance
more extensively than ever before and
split the organization in twain. The
rupture has not yet been healed Yes,
and it split the old parties into many
fragments and keeps right on splitting
and widening a crater that the Farmers
Alliance will bridge over victoriously.
AS for the Alliance Company being
swallowed up, several causes beyond
human control, combined to do that.
Several business concerns and even towns
and settlements up in central Dakota
have been swallowed up during the past
drought period, aud this accounts for the
large amount Of notes not redeemed.
These notes being i'm the possession of
Lu,hy Il Co., is 4 matter that should be
cleared up and presumably will be,
though it is of little concern to this writ
er But the wholesale lieing and miss
representation upon matters of the Farm
ers Alliance are SO com mon, thai a refu.
tation is seldom considered worth the
while; it just happened that the article
referred to, was noticed by an
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