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m THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 27, 1891. Vol. 6. No. 36 11 V II FAEMER. II II til ii mil i i i v-vr fi f THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. President--!.. L- Polk North Caro lina. Address. 3U I. St., N Washington. 1. C. Vice President B. H. Clover. Cam-i-hmi-'v Kansas. r.r;.Arv-Tnv-isurer-J. II. Turner, nSr-i-i Address, 239 North Capitol !ft X V., Washington, D. C. Lecturer -J. II. Willetts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. O W. Macune, Washington, D. C. Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da kota. j. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. 11 0. Demming. Chairman. Isaac McCracken, Ozone Ark. A. K. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Presidents of all the State organ izations with L. I.. Polk Kr-ojficio Tiaii man. SOUTH CAROLINA FARMER STATE ALLI ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton, C lN Vice-President T. P. Long, Ashe vi;le, N. C. . 0 p o ,.M-.T,-.vinnT- . S. Barnes. C? ' 1 1 J . Raleigh. V 0. Lecturer-J. S. I11, Brasstewn, N.C. Steward -C. C. Wright. Glass N. , Chap1, ain-Rev. K. Pope, Chalk 1 v i i Door-Keeper -W. H. Tomlmson. Assistant Door-keeper II. K King, .Vaunt, N. C. ? Ser 'eant-at-Arms -J. S. Holt, Chalk ijevei. N. C. . tr T , State Basinet Agent--W . II. W orth. Raleigh. N. C. Trustee Business Agency tuna Vv . A. Graham. Machpelah, N. C. (EXECUTIVE COiLUITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C. Chairman; J. M. Mewbonie, Kinston, N. C. ; J. S. Johnston. Rufrin, N. C. -JTATK ALIJANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. V-. r:1rr A. Tazer. N. M. Cul- breth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. TATrI ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. : N. C. English. Trinity College: J. J. Young, Polenta; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. North Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers T. L. Ramsey, President; Marion But fcr. Vice-President ; IF. S. Ba mcs. S creta ry. l'Al'El'.s. ProTt-ive Fanner, State Organ. Ilaleigh. N. C. Caucasian, ('l.in,,,n' ' ' Rumi h..mh-, y-,,u- V- Wauhm:u,, sall.ui y. N. J . Farmers" Advocate, I arlmm, N . . . Mountain lloiiK' Journal, Asheyihe, N. ('. Allia!:'-- Sentinel, (i(.l(ll)oro, N. i . Country Lite, Trinity Y-llee. N. '. Mercury. "u-k"r'' r. Rattler. V hltilRers. N. t . Agri. i.ltuval Bee, Ooldsboro, N. t . Coluuilni- Weekiv New?, AN Iiitevilie, N. '. Tayloraville Imiex. Taylorsville, N. C. Each of the above-nntned -papers are requested to keep the list standi vij on tlie first pane ami add others. prorih l they arc duly elected. Any jxtjter fail ing to (idroc'afe the Ocala platform vitt be droop- d from thelist promptly. Our peo!e can mac see nliat papers are pubished in their interest. THE MECHANIC AND THE SUB TREASURY. Stovall, N. C. Mr. KihtoR: In my last communi cation I endt-avored to draw attention to the tact that the mechanic, working man an 1 others not interested in farm ing wuuid he henetited hy the opera tions of the Sub Treasury plan, and notwithstanding all that has been writ ten try.:!;; 'a prove to the contrary, lias failed io lu'-idate or explain the objec tion, if then- be any, that are made against the pi.ui. It is always the same ha-:kn r i egressions clothed in dif ferent garbs, class legislation,' inlla tion, it- ii di-in, and bee tuse it has oriina.t d from the farmers and prole tarians l !n say nothing goO"l can conn.' from sii'-h a source. They, the pluto rats and th ir tools, regard us work ing people, farmers and others who make la ic living by the sweat of their brow, a the canaifle, the rablde, and we liac ti, buin.-ss to dictate laws or sugge.-t H'liiedtes. Everything g(K-s on lovely as i..ag as we plow and sow, lig and work ami leave the government to the great moguls who presume to lead 113 in p utiles and thitd;ntg. Jn all their opposition to the plan they have brought out nothing new or sub stituit d. Something better? Xo, they show their hatred of "the reform movement by invective and abuse, an t billingsgate would tdusli with shame to hear the expressions, the epcheis and the siting Hung at the Alliance and its leaders. In an antag onistic press we find long and drearv articFs ;,ii,t communications, condem uator of the farmers' scheme for alle-virCiii-' Ins financial distress : not. m r.uv o explanatory light on the subje ?t, i nottihsg nut vague forbodings flowing like toe river Lethe, from sources dark and gloom v Not even a suggestion of anything b.-ue.- offered that would im prove the situation No. the lack of inventive genius and brain power on that point is n. tide up vigorously man other direct .on. and talents which may be more profitably applied are used to mislead, misjudge, prevaricate, abuse, slander and lie, and methods are used which should not be tolerated m this enlightened age, against the Alliance and its officers, and most particularly the leaders. Advantage is meanly taken of that much abused shibboleth, freedom of the press, to lling their foul and false statements at us. Such a course brings the press into bad repute, the confidence of the people in it are destroyed, and the foul ebulitions of wrath and personality indulged in against either man or party, disgusts every fair-minded, thinking man or woman. Not having the courage of their convictions or the manhood to tight the Alliance as an organization, thev shield themselves behind a Polk, Livingston and Maeune and others prominent in the cause, and with as smine presumption and gravity, as sume to be judge and jury of their ac tions. Alhancenien, umierstana tne situation. Insults and false statements Made against your officers are directly personal to each individual brother and sister. You have elected those officers and the fight is not so much against these leaders as it is against you. It is only one of the ways they hope to disrupt the A liance and create dissatisfaction. If Polk and the others were not faithful to the trust reposed in them by the Alliance, would we hear much in opposition to them? I think not. They tell us poor working men to have nothing to do with the Alliance, but w hen a bill is brought before the legislature to make ten hours a legal day s work on all public and municipal works, and also a bill to prevent convict labor from coming into competition with free labor and other bills to relievo the workingman, did those howling dervishes utter a sound, or was a scratch of the pen made to relp the laboring class i And now they are so solicitous and so sym pathetic. Can the mechanic and others afford to deny their support to the AJli ance? The average increase of wealth for the last ten years is said to be 4 per cent., but the average increase of those engaged in agriculture is only 1) ner cent. That being the case and farming being an uiiremunerative busi ness, has it not a tendency to cause those engaged in that business to aban don it and enter some pursuit more profitable? They are doing it at the present hour. The young men won't stay on the farm. They crowd nto the mines factories and workshops; they enter the trades, also the professions. causing a fiercer competition, wages are lowered and all the combinations and trades unions in existence cannot keep up wages to a living price under these existing circumstances If the condi tions on the farm were more favorable and profitable, this would not be the cas In this land of ours, with resources unlimited and where all the products of the temperate zone can bo raised abundantly, with cities which surpass ancient Koine and (i recce m splendor, magnificence and prodigality; a repub lic wdnch guarantees to every citizen equal rights, which furnishes the world a greater part of its gold and silver, supplies England, France and Belgium with cotton exports, cereals, cattle and meats suilicient to support millions of human beings, and still in the face of this apparent prosperity ti e farmer's increase in wealth is only i per cent whilst that of other classes is 4S per cent, tluring the last decade. We have a plutocracy established which drains the life-blood of the nation, subvert our democratic institutions, in fact control the government, buys legisla tures, elects Senators and Congressmen at will. We have the poor growing poorer, millions of tramps and imein ploved, scattered till over the country; farm mortgages and bankruptcies in creasing, the great noddle class dwind ling away, and with a vengeance we are travelling the same road and fol lowing the same course which annilul iated the ancient civilization of Egypt, Pome and (J recce, and if there is not a change made we will have only two c buses the extremely rich and the ex tremely poor. What will become of our boasted liberty? Herein lies our danger. Where extremes meet and a government of universal sull'rages and theordical equality may, under condi tions which impel the change, become a despotism, for there despotism ad vances m the name and with the might of the people. The single source of power once secured, everything is se en red; and when tli ' desparity of con dition increases, so does universal suf frage make it easy to seize the source of power; and thus the extreme poor, tortured by want and embruted by poverty, are realy to sell their votes to the highest bidder or follow the lead of the most blatant demagogue. Cive a community with republican institu tions in which one cl tss is too rich to he shorn of its luxuries, another so poor that a f--w dollars on election day will seem m re than any abstract con sideration in which the few roll in wealth ; the many seethe with discon tent at a condition of things they know not how to remedy. The power must pass into the hands of jobbers who w ill tmy and sell it as the Proetorians sold the Roman people into the hands of demagogues. We are drifting into a similar stae of tilings, and if fanners and working elasses do not unite, the collar will be j riveted around our necks, lme the eMXon thai!, and we will be slaves to a money despotism wdio will grind us to the. erv (ltlst, levr-v nruii uf ic is fin- puded to to keep the working classes apart and divert them from the issues of the hour. Revolutions never go backward, but there is a grand upris ing of the masses; a seed is sown which is germinating rapidly, a spark is kin dled which is forming into a blaze, and the time is not far distant when, with irresistible forces the banner of the Al liance will lead to victory. Stand by your colors, Alliancemen. He is a craven who falters. Robert J. Coen. j ----- . j i w WAV I v v- M -" ' RAISE YOUR OVJU SUPPLIES. Shelby, N. C. To the members of Rock Cut Alli ance, No. 1,119, and also to the farm rs of Cleveland and adjoining counties: As I am a member of Rock Cut Alli ance, No. 1,411), Cleveland county, N. C, and Treasurer of the same; am a man of 70 odd years of age, and have been a farmer all my life; have been a citizen of Cleveland county for the List 21 years; have been a close observer of the value of the dilferent kinds of crops adapted to our soil I would advise our farmers of the Piedmont section of North Carolina to diversify their crops. My corn, wheat, oats, bacon and ai other supplies necessary for myself and workmen have been raised on my own plantation. My surplus, of course, has been in cotton, but what cotton i raised has been over and above my necessary means of living, conseuuei't ly my cotton crop was clear and I b.r e had its value to place in my savings bank. Our soil is adapted to the growth of all our necessary suppli more so than it is to cotton; and I would advise all farmers in our Pied mont section to rais- their own sup plies, and then let the surplus be in cotton. It takes fourteen months ui the year, if you will allow me to make the ironical expression, to raise and gather a cotton crop. Consequently an entire crop of cotton will deprp e tiny farmer from raising his home sup plies, which we can not afford to lo-e m our section of country which is -o well adapted to the growth of our lie..' essary supplies, and not so well adapted to the grow th of cotton. We cannot raise a full crop of cotton without the use of commercial fertilizer, which i.-. required to the growth and maturity of cotton in our section of country; which, of course is admitted to be detrimental to the farmers of our sec tion who use it to tin excess; and all farmers in our belt of country whose crops have been chiefly cotton, have used commercial fertilizer to an extent. 1 would say to the farmers of our sec tion of country (and think I am speak ing from experience) that as long us they continue to make cotton their chief crop and buy commercial fercil lzer to raise it from, the' may expect to have to live on scanty means and he enthralled in debt, the burdens of which will never be subdued on such a process of farming. Not only the ex tensive raising of cotton and the ex cessive use of guar o has been injurious to our people, but living above their means of ability has been nearly as fatal. Farmers who are oppress d with debt, .-diould be more economic d in their wa of living, ra;-' their cuY. supplies, plant less cotton and make more, not by using commercial fertil izers but by improving their cotton land by lu memade fertilizer. Feeling confident, from experience, that a practice followed which is outlined in this article will benefit our farmers, and hoping that this article will not be totally disregarded, I am Yery respectfully yours. .1. Rkasley. --- - Waiirenton, N. C. Mr. Editor: The Xeiesand Observer was titter the loaves and fishes when he sent out the noted circular in quest of subscribers, promising to advocate the Sub Treasury plan and other Alli ance demands. To be sure lie never intended or would dare to take sides with 1 he people for reform, much less openly advocate their measures of re lit-t". That would beagainst the dictum of the self constituted statesmen and blue blooded bourbons who assume to control the destiny of North Carolina. Capt. Ashe well knew that if he did cany out the programme .as promised, he could be u longer their mouth piece, .and that in case of a national Democratic victory, there would be no int.) re post master's j. .band no ot her jobs for bun. .and the flesh pots would be put out of his reach forever. The cir (hilar was sent solely for the purpose toplea-eand hamb ozle the bate Alli ance legislature into the belief that he wa in favor of the Ailian e demands, so that by this aitilice he might secure the job of public printing. The trick, however, did not w ork. The Xeirs a nd ( 'serrer ha ving opposed the Alliance from beginning, his sndden conversion was taken to be spurious, and he was left in the cohl. I le has since resumed lusoid business of llymging mud and traducing her leaders. Quite diil'erent with the State Chron ich That paper has hobnobbed with the Alliance from the start and ha.s sought to straddle both the Farmers' Alliance and the Democratic party. Mr. Daniels always has expressed un bounded love for the welfare .and lxst interests of the people, .and would have ti most reverential regard for the Alii ance if f-hc- just would confine her dis cussions to the building of chicken coops, the raising of turnips, .and kin di ed subjects. That she should assume to discuss politics and be bold enough to make demands for herself without the consent of the bourbon element of the Democratic; party, is a thorn m his flesh and gives him much uneasiness, lie does not wish to break with the Alliance. Unlike his neighbor, he don't indulge so much in open calumny and malicious slander, but in a gentle, in sinuating and coaxing way he attempts to disabuse the minds of the farmers of their wayward and undemocratic demands. Yes. whenever be can give the Alliance a stab or hit her a telling blow over the head of some one else, he never misses the opportunity. If any Allianceman wishes to distinguish himself in the eyes of the Chronicle, just let him oppose the Alliance plat form as unconstitutional and undemo cratic, and his intelligence and patriot ism will forthwith be foaded to the skies. We are naively told that the peasants on the banks of the Yolga, in Russia, are starving and have to ttike to the woods and dine off the bark of trees to keep life in their bodies; and then refreshingly reminded that the people here have abundant cause to be thankful, while this is still a land of plenty and nobody that will work is compelled to eat bark yet .awhile. How kind and considerate to call the mortgaged farmer to this fact ! There has always been too much sickly sympathy for the suffering and oppressed in foreign lands. When thousands of miners in Pennsylvania or Indiana .are every year reduced to starvation by the insatiable greed of the robber barons or thousand, of farmers lose their all through the avarice of the Shylocks, than the gos pel of contentment is preached and parallels from Russia or Ireland im ported If there are any laws oppres sive and detrimental to the best in terests of the people, we are advised to seek the remedy through the Demo cratic party. The Alliance, the Chron icle says, is lead by narrow men, whose object is to punish their enemies mid eventually will sell out. as Democratic leaders have done sometimes. It seems to be tremendous silly to assume that any man or number of men would join the Alliance for the base purpose of punishing their enemies If any one should be fool enough .and attempt to do so with the aid of the membership, be will find out that he has no follow ers in !iis malicious undertaking. With the hired scribes of the enemies the loaders of the Alliance, Col. Polk and Dr. Macune are the proverbial bad men that mislead the farmers and eventually will sell out. These constant insidious .attacks on them are ample proof that they are the most hurtful to the boodle hunters of both parties. And it is this fact t hat has strengthened the confidence of Alliancemen in thir leadership. There is no reason to doubt their sincerity of purpose and their devotion and loyalty to the Alliance cause, and the brother hood is willing to trust them to the end, for better or for worse. But if t hey want to sell, or can be bought, and the Cn ronicfe thinks they can lead the membership of the Alliance en masse into the Republican or Demo cratic camp; why then don't the Pemo era 'io party make a bid and buy ? She certainly needs badly repairing her broken front. TI at the Democratic leaders have sold out. is old ami bad news. If they had nor, there would be no need for the M:;- Tii.-v have so! 1 out. but the people don't want to coulirm the bar gain. They kick in the traces and don't want to be chained any longer to the chariot of the money devil and his angels. The Chronicle cannot see a single reason why Alliancemen should le ive the Democrat ic part y, and hopes that all the wie and intelligent will in time come to see likewise. Alas, no amountof brilliant speeclu s, vague nroimses or sleek newspaper articles," no matter how flattering or persuasive, will bring about the desired union between the Alliance and the Democratic party. Who. may I .ask, is the Democratic party in North Caro lina.. The party by necessity is com posed of members. The membership is the rank file of the party. The will of the majority of the members should be the will of "the party the greatest good to the greatest number. That is Democratic, is it not? The majority of the party being op posed to the existing rule of the money power, it should be the duty of those authorized to speak for the party, to at least tell the truth and iv-t on all occasions try to misrepresent the ex pressed will. And these same fellows are how ling at the possibility of a third party. They are foolish enough to be lieve that those who are most out spoken on the subject represent nobody but themselves, and that if the leaders could be disposed of, the Alliance would die. The farmers are not agitated by sentiment, but by stern necessity. They seek relief and must have it. The members of the Alliance, with few ex ceptions, are slow to renounce their allegiance to the Democratic party. Put w hat else can they do. if they do not want to remain the willing tools of the lying politicians and flesh-pot hunt ers, and the slaves of plutocracy ? The demands of the A liance, without doubt the majority in North Carolina., how were they received? With howls and with hiss s, with ridiculeand calumny. Does common sense expect themajority to acknowledge to be incompetent and bow before the assumed superiority of the minority ? Must the majority yield to the dictum of the few? The majority will never yield turd the minority must be responsible and take the conse quences, whatever that will be. In regard to Senator Yance, the Chronicle, may know that if it had been the privilege of the Alliance of North Carolina to elect a U. S. Senator, the career of Senator Yance would have been at an end. But ho pledged him self to advocate ind support the Ocala demands, and thereupon was re elected. Now why cannot trie Chronicle and other papers do likewise? They are always after the dollar's of the farmers tuid it scorns reasonable to expect that policy would dictate to he in harmony with the sentiment of the masses in stead of persistently trying to break it I down. The State Alliance did not pro scribe the literature of the enemy be cause she would have no means to en force a resolution of the kind. Yet I common sense suggests to every Alli anceman to discard all papers that dare not stand for his cause, to make room for such that will. Jax. FRENCH FINANCE. Mr. Editor: The French nation has he best political economists as legisla tors in the civilized world. No other nation has shown such aptitude to ex tricate herself from a financial dilemma. This was brilliantly illustrated at the close of the war between Germany and France. The French nation lay bleeding at the feet of Germany. She was robbed of two of her richest prov inces and c impelled to pay German j an indemnity of one billion dollars in gold. Her territory had been devas tated to the extent of one billion dol lars. Germany occupied a portion f French territory as security. Did the French nation pass an act to resume specie payment in four years? Labor produces all wealth, so she increased her full legal tender paper money to nearlv seven hundred and fifty million dollars. This did not depreciate over 2 per cent, and soon went to ptir. Behold the result! This money put every man, woman and child to work that was able to labor. They produced more than they coiusumed; this sur plus they sold to other nations; the balance of trade was in her favor, and in a few yeai-s she had paid this im mense debt, restored her waste places and was richer than when the war be gun. Germany, the proud victor, who had humiliated France, at the instigation of the money power of Europe, demone tized silver. With one thousand mil lions ot French gold she considered herself financially invulnerable and could afford to demonetize silver. The Fiench financial system continued to stimulate production. She produced more than she consumed; this surplus sold to other nations has brought to the French coffers more gold than is held by England .and Germany com bined. France owes her success to issuing her own credit as money and putting it into circulation without the intervention of banks. She did not persiio tiie policy of this country vice loan her credit to corporations tit 1 per cent, and compel the industrial class to pay V to 1(1 per cent, to g -t money to carry on the commerce or the nation. Tlie French nation is too smart to allow her financial ' legislation to be controlled by a robber creditor class. Pursuing this course her debt sure held at home and she does not pay tribute to the money lords of other countries. The French debt is in small denomina tions and is held by the farmers and mercantile class, and as they are ail directly interested in production, they will not permit their finances to be con trolled by unfriendly legislation, such as exists in litis country and .r.her Lav. pean Stab s. Had we pursued the course of the French financier, our debt would have been a circulating medium or have been held by the industrial class. There cannot boa single reason given for continuing the present credit finan cial system. Contra-t the course pur sued by the French nation and the course pursued by our legislators in ISTa. SCKCIE RESUMPTION IN 1S7D. It is to be hoped that this nation will neve." pennit itself to pass through the horrors of another specie resump tion act to secure a human ideality. In resuming specie resumption we throw two million men out of employ ment for four years. At one dollar per day, three hundred working days in a year, they would have produced and added to the wealth of the country two billions and four hundred millions of dollars. A small portion of this sold to ot her nations would have enabled us to resume spcie payment. During these four years hundreds of millions of capital lay idle. Our best business men were bankrupted, arid during this time they lost one thousand millions of dollars. Hundreds of thou sands of tramps were made, and for the first time in the history of this country the professional tramp was known the product of specie resump tion act. The amount of sulfering en tailed upon the people cannot be esti ma?ed in dollars and cents. The re sumption act was the hideous creation of a small minority holding the balance of power and dictating to the two old political parties. Specie r sumption could not have been engineered through in the form it was if it had not been for party spirit engendered by the war and reconstruc tion. That there was no need for this act is too plain to require any argu ment. To resume all that was neces sary was to do as the French nation did vice issue a few hundred mil lions of full legal tenders and put them into circulation by pa ing a portion of the expenses of the government. This money would have put the idle millions to work as in France. We woul 1 have produced a surplus, and this sold to other countries would have brought the gold into the country and we would have resumed specie payment as easy as the French nation paid her gold debts and resumed. As it was. we locked up the specie for four years, giving notice to all that we did not intend any gold coming into the country should go into circulation until the end of four years. Every business man who was .acquainted with financial legislation knew there would be a steady shrinkage of values until we resumed and the specie com ing into the country went into circula tion. Hundreds millions of capital lay idle and millions of men and wo men remained unemployed. The spec ulators, the creditor chiss, the promot ers of this hydra headed monster locked up their money and awaited results. When every industry had been pros trated and the wreck of business houses strewn all around them, they step in and load up at fifty cents on the dollar. Had we pursued the French plan im mediate relief would have come. With prosperity, immediate relief would have come and an influx of gold and wo would have resumed. We would have saved the four hundred millions lost by this act. If the French nation could pay one billion indemnity in gold in so short a time, restore theVastage of ti great war and give immediate prosperity to her people by adopting a financial system that gave employ ment to all, how much easier we could have done the same and resumed specie payment by pursuing the same course. It is a disgrace to this nation that it permitted a small, selfish minority to dictate this tict worst; than a crime. This act could not have been imposed upon th French people, for the weilth producers are the government credit ors. The French creditor class are the industrial class. The two tire one in interest. In this country and all other Euro pean Suites the two classes are separate with interest diametrically opposed to each other. This resumption act of 1S75 was copied after the English resumption act that reduced the land holders from three hundred and fifty thousand to thirty thousand and para lyzed every industry during the four years and filled England full of tramps, poverty and crime. The industrial class of the United States must choose between the two systems; the one that prostrated the business of this country for four years and is annually robbing them of one thousand millions, or a system similar to that of the French that gave em ployment to all producing a surplus, selling this for gold and bringing peace and prosperity to all. Reader, have you made up your mind which you will choose The system that makes tramps, impoverishes the wealth pro ducers. makes men idle, locks up cap ital, fills alms houses, jails .and peniten tiaries, adds taxes to the one hundred tax-payers and checks production of wealth Will you choose the system tint gives employment to all and brings peace, prosperity and happiness to all? If you want the first, keep the pros cut system. H you want the other, choose the industrial financial system. You cannot secure ;m industrial financial system as long as the indus trial class tire divided, one-half voting the Republican ticket and the other half voting the Democratic ticket. The money power in the two old po litical parties are united and ill vote the party ticket that represents their interest. ln't be fooled. Nefther j parly can (c anwlr.ng. even : he ugh the holders e.esired to do so. themoney power can control l wo millions of float ing votes. The money power in the Democratic party can carry one million votes from the Democratic party to the Republican party, and rice versa. Don't be deceived. The money power means business. They will not surren der one iota of their advantage except it is wrung from them by sheer force. No force can down them but .a united industrial class. Give no heed to the politicians of either party. They an1 not to be trusted Oflice and spoils tire all they are after. Beware of pretended friends of the Alliance. You are asked to go into the conventions of bath parties and submit your claims, and if defeated then submit and continue to be robbed. Let it he distinctly under stood that you intend to stand by your principles, party or no party. No re form ever came from old parties, His tory does not furnish a single example. Both parties tire divided on every lure of issue. "A house divided against itself must surely fall." Divided you are a source of weakness, reconciled you .are invincible. Inaugurate into iaw the spirit of your principles .and you will soon double production and consumption Resolve to be free. All reforms must come from the people. Reforms never come from politicians, and from the nature of tilings caTiiiot come. Be true to your convictions; be firm; be just; ask nothing but what is right and accept nothing less. Study conditions, ally yourself with them and productive capital will come to your aid. Remember, there is no conflict between labor and productive capital; it is between labor and produc tive capital on one side -and non pro ductive capital on the other. Capital (productive) and Labor should be friends and not enemies. Labor ;.nd productive capital must unite against the creditor clas and destroy the sys tem. There must not be a vestige left of it. All cardial must Ik; made pro ductive. A financial system where every dollar is guaranteed and every transaction cash, then; can bono panics and we will pay one hundred dollars to any of the advocates of the pr"sent system that will show how a panic can be precipitated. The present financial system is re tained in the interest of non-productive capital, speculators and gamblers. The creditor class can precipitate a pan le af: short notice under the present finan cial system. Stand by your guns and don't desert the ship. If you do you are lost. James Murdo. -k. RESOLUTION OF ELBETHEL AL LIANCE. We. the members of Elbethel Alli ance. No. 2,052, now in session, believ ing that the Shelby Aurora is working to the detriment of the Alliance, do re solve that we will no longer patronize it, and do hereby advise all true Alli ancemen to withhold their patronage from said paper. C. D. B. Ware, C. S. Elam. D. A. Fulton. Committee.
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