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LLIANCE talks. EWS OF the ORrER FROM ALL SECTIONS. of Interest to Alliance terns Everywhere. men THE FARMEHS’ MOVEMENT. . wrJter jn the American Farm News, tl bn lives at Topeka, Kansas, among ,th rJardS" -hiDffS has the following to the farmers’ movement: tion of the movement have long bel ■ fliipneps in and operation at last they in the have minds taken of shape the | P le, and made themselves manifest n the state in which the 80,000 late election utterly wiped [republican majority was show com¬ out History does not a more pete and sudden brief revulsion a time. of Naturally public opinion in so here well ! people who think, does as it mean? as I elsewhere, are asking what What caused the upheaval and will the B ove»ent continue to go forward, or will it soon pass away and be numbered among the things that were? As to the causes many fiere assert it to be the tar.ff and transportation. Doubtless there were other irritants local, state and national that had their influences, but the people talk here largely of these two points, the tariff and transportation. with republican here who Conversing situation a but laments it, recognizes the ^ expected chauge in public senti¬ “I a prepared for ment but I was not so com¬ pleted reversal. to This be the state fortress seemed of only re¬ two years ago he Gibraltar of the publicanism, i But very in two brief years party in power. see how great the change.” My republican friend seemed to w T arm up as he looked upon the past, and he continued: “The truth is the republican party has somewhat abated its high pro I tec tive ideas in Kansas. The state I is an agricultural district and I the farmers have concluded that I I they have been paying taxes to keep up Eastern manufacturers without K I receiving any of the benefits of the law themselves. My opinion is that the pro I I tective policy in politics will never again hold the same plac$in the politics of the I I state that it once occupied. On this point the farmers have revised their I I opinion and I cannot say that they are in I favor of free trade, but certainly they I are no longer in favor of high protection. Sunflower That era has gone by in the I I State and the sooner the fact is recog nized by Republican politicians the better I it will be for them.” | A Democrat in Kansas, and they are more outspoken now than ever before | says: change “I in do Kansas not see that much in give the late | can any special comfort to the old Democratic. party. In other States the Alliance I men may co-operate with the Demo I cratic party. But here it is not so. They show no symptoms of any such affiliation. They seem to hold the Dem crats as much in derision as they do the I Republicans. Their hatred of Ingalls seems to be deep and bitter. They do not regard him as one of them, but look upon him as one in sympathy with the money powers. I cannot judge of their ! future duration but certain it is that they i are here now and they announce that they have ‘come to stay.’ Perhaps they have. Time will show if in this they be right or wrong.” I fell After hearing from the two old parties in with an Allianceman who was full in the faith. He was free and posi¬ tive in his talk. Said he: “The Alliance will be a factor in politics for years. It has a mission and will not retire until that has been carried out. What is Jhe mission? See our various plat¬ forms, and from them you may gain some idea of the work the Allian.ee has been sent to work out. Be¬ fore its task has been all executed it will have to have control of the National gov¬ ernment. And so swift has been the rise of the Alliance party that I believe that it in conjunction with the labor ele¬ ments in the cities and ’ in the factories will elect a President in 1892. Hereto¬ fore the capitalists of both parties have been able to keep the farmers and the town, politics. factory and mine laborers apart in But that day is past. Norv all these laborers and farmers can unite, and will unite, and there is no reason why this combination shall not drive both of tbe old parties out of the field in 1892, and have a President who will respect the middle classes. Such is the vision of politics as I see it.” From these talks you may judge some¬ what of the recent political change in Kansas. * * The American Farm News (Akron, O.) says: “President Parkinson, of the Wis¬ consin State Agricultural Society in a recent annual address spoke upon the subject of “The Farmer in Politics.” -Mr. Parkinson held to the belief that one - f the farmers first duties was to be a thorgugh politician and use his utmost e orts politically to the suppression t - cv of higher politics and the produc i°n principles and better government in the interest of the Masses. He warned farmers of the ang er arising from the grasping of land urh.lr - m ° no P°i th ,es ? countr an d centralization mad of the unjust 1 tagfislation. legislation, L e possible by un.ess the He lie predicted predicted, that 1 legislation in the interest of me MeaHhTt£ masses aS S00D had half of the trobS hi I h,S ’’huumnd £ 0Untry would ’ by be the cou of of twenty-five men end years. He urged the election of farmers to deplored state legislatures and to congress, and the fact that there were scarcely enough farmers in congress to constitute an agricultural committee. * He The Farmers' Union (Memphis, Mo.,) says: “The Missouri legislature have in¬ dorsed the Ocala platform with the ex¬ ception of the sub-treasury elause and the clause relating to government control of railroads. The legi-lature entire might as well havedenouuced the platform.” Upon which the National Economist com¬ ments as follows: “The above holds good pvrrvwhere. The two old parties are willing to concede to such demands as can be manipulated to seem the one thing and mean another. But when it comes to a frank, open reform measure that can only be used for one purpose, and that one a source ot benefit to labor in producton, the result is the same The as shown by the Missouri legislature. next legislature in that State will doubt, pass a different resolution, without as the Alliance is about done with such treatment. * * Farm View (Porterville, Cal.) says: “It is a privilege often granted by the capitalist to let the producer eat bread Irom the crop he has raised, and it is a privilege some men are grateful for. It is difficult to get some men to understand that they have any rights, and to discern clearly what those rights are. Until the masses do see it and exhibit a determina¬ tion to defend it, the overthrow of any tyranny by which they suffer can only be of temporary duration. There are plenty of people acting automatically with the exploring classes who see the wrong of the present system, but they will let the exploited classes suffer so long as they suffer willingly and without resist¬ ance.” * * In a speech before the convention of the National Farmers’ Alliance of Iowa, President L. L. Polk said: “The farm¬ ers ought to elect more farmers to con¬ gress, oecause the petitions of farmers for relief had been disregarded. The Alliance intended to go into politics but not partyism. He suggested the possi¬ presi¬ bility of a new party in the next dential campaign and said the principles of the Alliance would triumph as early as 1896, if both the old parties had to be swept away.” General James B. Weaver and Labor Commissioner Sovereign and Congressman-elect Otis, of Kansas, de¬ livered similar addresses. The Farmers’ Alliance will play an important part in this year’s campaign in Iowa. * * Arcadia (La.) Herald says: “One of the demands of the Faimers’ Alliance is that United States Senators be elected by a direct vote of the people. This demand is worthy of a careful consideration, and w r e know of no good reason why it should not be granted. And there are many reasons why Senators should be elected by the people. It will place .them iu a nearer relationship with the people, and have a wholesome influence upon then official acts. It will prevent millionaires from buying seats in the Senate or brib¬ ing members of the legislature.” & * At a recent meeting of the fourth con¬ gressional district of Texas, held at Sul¬ phur Springs, the following resolution was passed unanimausly: “Resolved, That this, the Northeast Texas District Alli¬ ance, in session assembled, in the city of Sulphur Springs, indorse in full the Ocala platform and the sub-treasury bill, and a copy be sent to D. B. Culberson demanding him to accept the same and do all in his power to have it enacted into law. -Jf The Alliance Vindicator (Sulphur Springs, Tex.) says: The sub-treasury promises to give the producer a chance to get something near the value of his pro¬ ducts. W r hat chance has he under the present system of getting it? Yet some fools stand up and argue against it and still offer no substitute. ■p The organization of district alliances all over the country is being pushed vig¬ orously. In this form of organization a means is made available for practical order ef¬ fort in securing the demands of the through national legislation. Maryland *** is booming. The Alliance in TAXING INCOMES Does not Seem to Go Well With North Carolinians. A dispatch of Saturday from Raleigh, N. C., says: There is great surprise and indignation at the discovery that the revenue bill, as passed by the recent legislature, has imposed a tax on all in¬ comes. Heretofore incomes not exceed¬ ing $1,000 were exempt from taxation, but under the new law incomes, from whatever source derived, • and however small, must be taxed. It is very evident that laboring people will not stand any such legislation, and it may be necessary to call an extra session of the legislature An to right the great injustice done. amendment to the bill was slipped in the senate, and was overlooked by the house. ALL TO HIS WIFE Is the Provisions of Senator Hearst’s Will. The will of the late Senator George Hearst was filed at San Francisco Thurs¬ day for probate by his widow, who is made sole executrix. The will states that Senator Hearst recognized that bis wife is legally entitled to one-half of bis entire estate, it all being community property, remain¬ and he also bequeaths to tier the ing one-half. If Mrs. Hearst marries again, one-half the estate reverts to her. son William R. Hearst. Varieties. A bill is being prepared in England to strike at the adulteration of manures and feed stuffs. The measure of a man’s real character is wl.at be would do if he knew it wot Id nevir be found out. To have to hoe the same row over and over every day takes all the poetry out of life, and kills the good angel in many people. It may be that your wife would rather have a kind word and some new clothes now than silver handles on her coffin and a grave stone with big letters on it by and by. The man who is curious to know how the world could get along without him. Cun find out by sticking his finger into the Ohio river, then withdrawing it, and looking for the hole. Germany imported during the eleven months ending Dec. 1, 23,700,000 bush¬ els wheat and 30,000,000 bushels rye, against 17,700,000 bushels wheat and 86,- 100,000 bushels rye during same months of 1889. The Kansas agricultural department has been making an investigation as to the flax crop in Kansas, and finds that it has been one of the most important received crops raised in the state. Figures yield from each county show that the this year was 2,173,000 bushels, nearly double last year’s products. In Allen county 171,870 bushels were grown, and the figures say it paid them much better than any other crop. A Business Woman. Miss Antoinette Knaggs, a young wo¬ man with a good collegiate education, owns and manages a farm of 200 acres in Ohio. She says she made money last year, and*expects to make more this year. “I have tried various kinds of farming,” she says, “but I find I get along best when ~i manage my farm myself. I tried employing a manager, but found he man¬ aged chiefly for himself. Then I sublet to tenants, and they used up my stock and implements, and the returns were unsatisfactory. 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