THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1891.
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
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on timely topic of intcrc-t to the alliance
Write plainly ami on only one side of the
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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.
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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
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Making close connection at Hunt's Junc
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North Yakima. Pasco, tiprague, Cheney,
Davenport, Spokane Fulls. Butte. Helena.
St. Paul, Minneapolis.
AND ALL POINTS EAST.
Passenger Train, making above connec
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Through Tickets Sold to all Points East
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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. July i. 1HU1. at 1 Ui j.,
in. of kid dy, all the rilu title mid mtfi
mu uf In Mild to llio at dtiTilMl pii'iu
tlut ill ld J I '. flat I. uru bat! lUrri-u,
uii Hi tltli U i oi tk-loV.r, ItMtt or li
vlUuoitetiuirttl ill. iet. uod Mil)' au.l all
tionoiit t'iikiiutiiit i ih' "jili or ui.d. r h m
by rlahl aeii ivd .iid Utli tla He
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Just Received, Direct from the East, a Large Invoice of LADIES' and
SUSSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, tho Best Ever brought to this Market.
Also n Fine Assortment of
GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS.
My Prices will suit the times. Drop in and see me.
C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or.
tt rs ti . f i i r
Lr6 ion ItOH1Io Piani an urcnarar
Of Payette, Ada County. Idaho,
Has tho Largest Gonoral XTursory Kloek in the Mountain Country 125 Acres.
Tichih from Pyetti' Nursery will roauh Grando Rondo valley in six
hours from the time, tin y uri taken fmm tho ground.
Mountain CSrowrs Trees are SMarcty, Vigorous
and Heaithy.
The Go?e Drug Store
JASPER G. STKVENS, Propr.
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PURE DRUGS,
Patent Medicines,
Perfumery, Paints and Oils.
I'roscrliitioiiH Cnrofully Prepared.
ALSO DKALKB IN
SPORTING GOODS,
Consisting ot
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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,
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0 J. GOODBROD, - Proprietor.
, Kftcognliod ty all a Utu
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