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THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1891. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. This ilcp.'irtini'iit of Tin: fcoi'T Is open to nny one who wlshc to rontrihtito nti article on timely topic of intcrc-t to the alliance Write plainly ami on only one side of the iiiiin n.-c-Ipt . ' THE PROTEST or THE FARMER. An Addroan to the Alllanco by President L. L. Pollc. COMTIUtJKD FKOM LAST WKKK. I lmvo thiiH brielly adverted to mimics or tlio promitiuiit causes nnd condi tions which lmvo forced into bi-ing out) of tlio inightnnt revolution! over known to tlio world. Tlio advocation nnd promoters nf thin rcnt reform movement iiinko war on no legitimate in torti.tf and extend tlio cordial right haml of fraternity and friendfhip to all mon who uio earnestly striving to tun ko an hnncft living in the world. Thoy tcok to ieouo ugriciiltuin nnd re Btoro it. to ilK just position among tlio othur great indiihtrit -h of the country. Thoy iiiv not begging for olmrity, but. they are demanding niinple justice. They iihk for no csIubh legislation in fa vor of agriculture, hut thoy doinand for it an open licld and an equal chance with every nthor great interest in the tho racii of pingn'KS. They mju in Ihu norilous oi'jiiditionw eonfrontitii' them in tho ciliiM legislation of congress in thu monopolistic combinations of money power, that, wo have domon- Htratcd to tho world that this govern ment can bo run in tho interest of the fow. They propone to holvo tho ques tion iih to whether it can be run in the inleiest of tho many. Thoy hco it rap idly revolving our population into paupeiH and millionaires, and they propose to protect and presorvo that great middle class which, in all ages, in all civilizations, in all countries, has always proved itself the Hiircst and safest defendor of civil liberty. Ah I walk the avenues of Huh beautiful cap ital city, and look upon its magnificent buildings; as I travel over tho country and see its rapidly growing villages, towns and cities, our wonderful devel opment and growth, our splendid fer tile plains, our forests and beautiful rivers, I tun made to feel that this is truly an! indeed tho greatest country on earth. J!uL as I stand in this pres ence, and look into tho faces of men who have always been the groat con servators of tho peace and liberties of tho people, who have always been tho breakwater against tho surging tides of fanaticism, whether in church or State, and reflect that within their quiet, unostentatious homch are incul cated those lessons of virtue mid patii otisni, which iw tho citadel of civil and religious liberty, 1 forgot our splondid cities, our magnificent plains, and beautiful rivers, and mighty works of internal iiuptovoment, and say in my heart that after all, the greatness grandeur, glory, and power of this country, und of our government, rests in tho homes of the middle obits of our people. In their ominous sur roundings they read not only tho tbroatouud doom of agriculture and the enslavement of labor, but tho rapid approach of dissolution und death, to tho republic. Thoy have formulated and an nouiicod to tho world a platform of principles which thoy buliovo will bring tho gruatestgood to tho groatett num ber, and will conserve tho highest and best interests of all thu people of this great country. Alliance men, demo crats and republican) alike, boliove that those principles embody tho very quintessence of Liucolnian-republican-ism anil Jullersoniau-domooracy. licit wo are told by presumptuous and ar rogant partisans and self-constituted leaders, that farmers und other labor ing classes "should not go into poli tics;" that wo "will ruin parties and ruin tho country." Who constitute parties in this country? To whom do political parties belong; to tho people, or to tho fow who arrogantly assume to control them? Who has a hotter right to go into politics than tho farm ers of this country? Do they not clothe and feed tho world? Do thoy not pay from their hard earnings SO cents of every dollar of tho taxes of thu country? Of tho tea hundred millions of dollars expended by thu last con gress, did not eight hundred millions of it come from their jiookuUT With out tho farmers nil our mighty net work of railway would grow up in gnitis and weeds In ninety days ; with out Ilium all pixigre would ho par ulyml mid all tilvillxution would pcrlili, It U not only their right, hut ono of their lilglntrfl dllllon tu tiltUnm, to fcjtuly poll Uio vuleni'ii of goveni WWH, llittt I buy limy ilUoliurgo Ihu r j4Hlrilc of (.'Ulieiiklilp liiUHiKUM' ) and wJi)y. Dm tf (! kmum ; needs of tho times in more genuine politics and less corrupt partyism. I Tho organization of the National Farm . ers Alliance and Industrial Union is ( not, nor can it bo, partisan in its char acter; it docs not and cannot interfere . or abridge in any manner tho most perfect freedom of its members ns to their political action. It seeks to in culcate a proper conception of tho ' great and important responsibilities of citizenship ami those essential princi tiles of free covernnicnt, which arc founded in equity and justice, and leaves the member to follow the dic tates of his conscience, and judgment, and patriotism, as to the best meth ods for securing the supremacy of these principles. Our Order has no more right to say that a member shall or shall not bo a democrat, shall or shall not be republican, shall or shall not be an independent, than it has to say that he shall or shall not be a Hap tist, a Methodist or Lutheran. But while it is not partisan, it is emphatic ally and essentially political in tho broad and liberal sense of the term. Hut if the picture I have portrayed of tho condition of agriculture be not oveidrawn, and if it be true that this condition is chiefly due to discrimina ting legislation, it is a duty he owes to hiniself, to his family, to his country, and to his God, to go actively and practically into politics with the deter mined purpose of securing these great ly needed reforms. Ho has appealed to congress for relief, but bis appeals have been in vain. Ho has been be guiled with false promises and had his conlidonco and his highest interests botrayed and ignored. Hundreds of thousands of farmers during the past sessions of congress sent in their peti tions and demands for relief, but all in vain. Heicafter ho propofos to place his petitions, and resolutions, and de mands, whom thoy will be felt and re spected ho proposes to placo them in tho ballot box. In vain have tho people plead for relief. In vain lmvo they sud'ercd and endured patiently, submissively, un complainingly. Over one thousand years ago tho old Sheik Ilderim, of Medina, said to certain Roman ni gral es : "Do you dream that because tho prophotof Allah dwells now beyond the bridge of Al Sirat, that therefore he is deaf, dumb and blind? I tell you by the splendor of (.Soil, that a tempest is brooding on his brow there is lightning gathering in his soul for you." Do men dream that because the sovereign and oppressed people of this country lmvo thus sud'ered, thus en dured, that therefore thoy have become deaf, and dumb, and blind? I tell them that the friends of freedom and of liberty will marshal their forces and come forth "more terrible than an armv with banners," and led bv the llaming sword of the avenging angel of outraged justice, as "a pillar of cloud by day und a pillar of tiro by night," they will rebuke treason und hurl from power those who lmvo thus trilled with their dearest and most sacred rights and interests. Had tho heart and pen of tho im mortal Lincoln been divinely inspired, ho could not lmvo portrayed in moro vividly truthful coloring tho heartless ravages of tho money power than was given in his wonderful prophecy. "I seo in the near future," said he, "a crisis arising which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for tho safety of my country. As u result ot uio war, corporations have boon enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and tho money powor of tho country will ondoavor to prolong its roign by working upon tho predjudices of tho people until all woalth is aggro gated in a fow hands and the republic is destroyed. I fool at this time moro anxiety for tho safety of my country than evor before, even in tho midst of tho war. God grant that my fears nmy prove groundless." Wo road its terrible, translation on thu lintels of tho homo of every farmer and laborer in tho land, und wo hear it on ovory breeze in tho heart-rending wuil of poverty und distress. Tho Fifty-first congress, but recently adjourned, was in session thirteen months. During that time it expend ed in round numbers ono billion dol lars of tho people's monoy a sum equal to $77,000,000 per month, $17, 500,000 per weok, $2,500,000 per day, $101,000 per hour, $1,7M per miuuto, and $28 per second! Iot us hour steadily in mind that 80 ounts of every dollar of this viut sum came from thu agriculturists of tho uouutry. Thoo sulloring millions bttoiegud the dour of thu Oupltol during that tinui, planting for icllof. Thoy vviro turn! away empty handed, their iiupurtmiltio dU reguided, their untiimtlu IkuuiuI, mid (buy woiu InxiliHilly udinimUliitd tu "ki)0i out uf M)li(lu." to "live idiMt'r uii'l vvuik hauler Tln7 juli''l for (lit fn wid iihhmu cd coinage of silver. Democrats in the alliance, and republicans in the alii ance, simply asked their party friends in congress to redeem the pledge which both these parties had made before tho world in their platforms, and in the most fcolemn manner. Wo know the result. At the dictation of Wall and Lombard streets, men of both parties stultified tliouiielvos ami their parties before the world and defeated the just measure. Tho people asked that na tional banks be abolished anil gambling in futures bo prohibited, by issuing money direct to tho people at a cheap rate of interest and in siillicient vol ume to meet the demands of the legit imate businesM of the country. They formulated and presented a plan by which this might be done. Promptly it was met with the assertion that "the government has no power under tho nonstitution to loan money," and there fore our bill was unconstitutional. It was asserted that it was "class legisla tion" and that tho bill was "impracti cable." "Class legislation!" Why, our statutory records are crowded with class legislation in favor of all classes, except the agriculturists. "Impracti cable 1" If true, whine duty was it to correct it? "Unconstitutional 1" If true, whose duty was it to frame a bill that would be constitutional? What are the duties of modern congressmen? ro they to te confined continually and forever to tho manipulation of parly schemes by which to gain party supremacy, and to the neglect of the great interests of the country? It is pericctly constitutional to loan our money to banks, corporations, exposi tions and whiskey rings, but it is un constitutional to loan it to the wealth producer of tho land. When Wall street, through its heartless gambling on the brain, and brawn, and sweat, and muscle of honest labor, becomes entangled in tho meshes of its own wicked devising, it has only to look to oui secretary of the treasury and say : "Help us, Cassius, or we sink," and immediately that official flies to it. re lief on electric wing and pours into its lap .$10,000,000 of tho people's gold. But it would bu grossly unconstitution al to come, in response to the piteous appeals from eight millions of panic stricken homes all over tho hind, and provide relief. It is perfectly consti tutional, in order to gel $180,000,000 from the vaults to the banks, to pay thereon $12,000,000 in advanced inter est, $.10,700,000 in premiums, and in order to get it into the pockets of the people to charge an additional 10 per cont of $18,000,000. Perfectly consti tutional to pay to speculators and mo nopolists $00,000,000 in premiums and interest, to put $180,000,000 in circu lation, but it would be shamefully un constitutional to adopt our plan of a direct, issue to the people of this $180, 000,000 at 2 per cent, at a cost of only $11,(500,000, and which would go into our treasury to diminish taxation from other sources und thus save in the one transaction the sum of $7, 100,000. lint n bill could bo framed that would not bo lejeeted by politicians as uncon stitutional if it provided for an ade quate amount of circulation at a low rate of interest. Money must not bo issued direct to tho people at a cheap rate, a that would always be "uncon stitutional," and therein lie the ob jection to the sub-treasury plan with politicians. fO.NTIXUKI NHXT WKKK.j ;An nounce m e n t. ;THEf in fmn pitv rmrpniii Ho lot. us 1 1, uiiLUusy Haye on the way anil now arriving, seycr.il ar oc Ag ricultural Implements. Tho Company M hereafter carry a full anil complete stock of UTliis department will ho under the management of Mr. Kilpatrick 2-W-tf. TB-SE M. & M. a a Co. -DEALER IN- .A-ILSriD Latest Styles. 01WXR.R. .inn" X In Connection with the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILR'D Forms the Quickest and Best Route Between Kastern Oregon and Washington anil l'lliret Sound rmints. nn wll n and Pugct Sound points, as well as tlio j'omtiiir anil Direct Line to all POINTS BAST and SOUTHEAST rULLSL SLEEPING CARS, SUPERB DINING CARS, and FREE SECOND CLASS SLEEPERS Through to Chicago via this I, Inn. Passenger Trains of this Company are rim ing regularly between DAYTON, WAITSBURG, WALLA WALLA, WASH., and PEN DLETON, OR.. Making close connection at Hunt's Junc tion with Northern Pacific trains for Taco ma, Seattle, Victoria 15. C, Ellensburg, North Yakima. Pasco, tiprague, Cheney, Davenport, Spokane Fulls. Butte. Helena. St. Paul, Minneapolis. AND ALL POINTS EAST. Passenger Train, making above connec tions leaves Pendleton daily, at 7:t0 p. m. Through Tickets Sold to all Points East at the Lowest Rates. W. F. WAMSLEY, Ocn'I Fr't and Puss'gr Agt. Walla AValla. Wash. G. W. HUNT, r i resilient ami uuin Aii'iiajjer. ILL. DEACON, Tieke it. Union, Or Subscribe for ami tu1wrtio in Tn oox Scout. Oku SlU!Kiri', SAI.1C. XIO'P'H Is IIHKKBY 01 VliN THAT -L by virtue of an execution anil order of sail) Usui'tl out of the Honorable Ciivuit Court of tho State of Ori'itou, for I'liion county, hearing ilnto the Uil duy of ,Iune. lSill, and to mo directed and ilulivoroil up on a judgment ami decree of forooloMire ami sale therein entered on the Till day of Mareh, Is'.'l, wherein tho A. P Howling Co. is phdntitr, and .). C. Cluvhurn ot al are defendants, for thu sum of Fifteen Hun dred Dollars with niton-xt thereon at the rate of S per eeut. por annum from theCth dav of October, 1SMI. and tho further sum of 'One Hundred and Seventv-tlvo Dollars attorneys' fees, together with eots and dis bursements herein and dix-reeing tho sale of the following deerihed mortgaged real estate, to wit: Coinmeiieing at the north east corner of lot number twelve U2) in block number one hundred mid fourteen (111) iu Chaplin's addition to lu llrande. Union county. Oregon, runnuiK thence southweterly along the east line of tutu lot twelve, twenty-two (22) feet; thoneo at right angles to said tirst lino In a north westerly direction ninety-four (01) feet; thence at right angles to aid hut line lu a northeasterly direction twenty-two (.'.') feot to the alley tine of said block out hundred and fourteen (111): thoneo t right anglon iu u southeasterly direction along said alley line ninety four (t)l) feet to the pUee of be ginning lit Mttisftictlou of xttid judguuMit and dwroo. Now, ihoruforv. under and by Utile of aid execution undurdrr of L an ufuiVMiid 1 will ell Ht publW aurtioii al ihe eourt Iioumj duor at I'nioii, I'uloti rtint . Oregon, on Monduv. 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Mountain CSrowrs Trees are SMarcty, Vigorous and Heaithy. The Go?e Drug Store JASPER G. STKVENS, Propr. nCALEK IK PURE DRUGS, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Paints and Oils. I'roscrliitioiiH Cnrofully Prepared. ALSO DKALKB IN SPORTING GOODS, Consisting ot Itilles, Shotguns, Pistols and Cartridges. Do not order until y u huve visited our nuritory, our prices. Wholosule mi l ivtail. seen our agent or got G-2(i-yl I liavo now on tlio road from the east two car loads of K U R N I T U R E , Which will arrive About March 15th, and in connection with what I now have on hand will comprise the LARGEST AfW FINEST STOCK of Furnitmv ever Brought to Eastern Oregon. $p3gKDo not fail to call and select before the rush. S. C. MILLEll. The Centennial Hotel, Union, Oregon. 0 J. 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