Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 26, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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OFFICIAL PRO AX FOIt CASS COUNTY AND FOR THE FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
VOL. V, NO. 17 LIN-PEN- TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL
m ism.
C. H. NELSON
If > greet our many friends
ami patrons and wish them
a happy, prosperous Neic
Year. Extending our
thanks for their patronage
in the past• we solicit your
trade for 1893, and prom
[ ise, with a. liberal share of
|your patronage to keep
Uvhat the people need.
Our prices, for the cash,
shall he the lowest, consid-
ering the quality of goods,
that can be made in East
I I Texas. Tf 'e tall, knowingly
II I keep no snide or shoddy goods
0ur Department of Men’s youth’s and
Children’s Clothing shall be. complete. Also a full line
of Hamilton rf Brtnvn’s Ladies' and Cents’ Fine Shoes-
Oicr stock of General Merchandise is complete. Such as
Hats• Caps, Ladies’ Dress Goods, Gents’ Furnishing
Goods, Can Goods, Hr idles and a full line of Groceries
and Plantation Supplies to meet the demands of trade.
Respectfully, C. H. NELSON.
EB. FRAZIOR:
Linden, Texas.
Dealer in Dry goods, Groceries
and General Merchandise.
W keen on hand a full stock of every thing to suit
’c and cordially invite all buyers to examine our
** »»ft goods, IT 'ill sell to su it the h a rd-tim es.
ocr*t to be killed by the Czitr for at-
lemptiu!' to rid the worl I of a tnoo-
The Right t»r»rir-tiovrrn
ment-
st. Loaia tirpnbiic iter whose soul is stained with the
j The question presented to the blood of the very noblest of hia king-
American people by the Russian trea- dom, ruthlessly murdered to uphold
ty is the right of any people to so 1 the absurd lie that he is God’s chosen
change their form of government as i representstive, vested by God with
to make it representative. In tbe ; absolute power over the lives and lib- __ _________ < Mtv w
Constitution of nearly every State in erties of millions of people, many of strength sud tbe protection of dishon-
the L’oion it is declared that a people whom arc in every way his superiors est men. Tlie old code of
has this right, and all our institutions ;
are based on that presumption. If it
ing the foundations of public morality
and corrupting the naiinual character.
Our legislators have failed to see,
or for priva'e and corrupt reasons
have winked at the fact, that uhe laws
thst were made to lit oldfaskioned
ides* of honor aud morality, instead
of protecting the public, are the
is false, then all American institutions
are wrong, absolutism is right, aud
the Russian treaty is right.
In Russia the Czar is the Govern-
ment The Senate proposes to treat as
a common assassin any one who en-
deavors to overthrow the government
by driving out or killing tbe Czar. In
the treaty it is made to appear thst no
one will be surrendered by us for any
‘•‘political offense,” and immediately
thereafter it is declared that the of-
fense of high treason—that is, of at-
tempting to kill the Czar—shall not
be considered “political.
We ueed not stop to dwell on tbe
absurdity of this. We wish to direct
special attention now to the one point
that the Czar is the only government
there is in Russia, and that in declar-
ing that attacks made on him by Rus-
sian Democrats seeking to overthrow
despotism shall be treated as common
crimes of malice or love of money,
the Senate is denying to the Russian
people the right to establish a repre-
sentative government either now or at
any time in the future
We venture to
commer-
cial honor is lost sight of m the com
plea transactions of stock-jobbers,,
who remain not of sight while their
work is lieing done by conscienceless
factors; by lawyers skilled in di«cov_
ering loop holes in tbe law und in
juggling with law; by lobbies with’
Read and Refleet.
from the Ontury
He who takes by stealth what be-
longs to auother is a thief; lie who
takes by violence what belongs to an-
other is a robber. The robber is
properly supposed to disappear, with TV*"' ,°f T'** ^
other predatory animals, before the monpy at ^ oMegW.tores, by
progress of civilization ; but this is . **"**■«« Papcr P™"'8*8 U>
superficial judgment. The force that P#>. ;by messages and splat,
unlawfully deprives men of their prop- l,'C facUllie8 °* ,lotk
erty passes tliourgb many transfoima- K
tious, but no force is more persistent. 11 '8 wel1 lbat our ■eg<*l®tors arc
Men are plundered now-adays in tnakin8 least tbe show of inquiring
America far more frequently and fla- jnt0 dlc methods by which the public
grantly than in England in the days '* robbed in the imerestof stockhold-
of Robin Hood; there are men among . er8, *"d the-v‘ in turn- are robbcd *0’
us beside whose rODberies those of the corPorate managers; by which whole.
sale robbery is cloaked with legal
forms of ‘‘consolidation.” “reorgani-
brigands of Italy and Greece end the
Uedouin8 of the desert are mere pleas-
antries. Of all triumphs of invention
none are more wonderful than those
by which the hard earned gains of
millions are forcibly conveyed to the
z'jtion,” ‘‘receivership,’» and “water-
ed stocks,” by which men may safely
conduct trade rob tbe public by the
artifice of “corners;” by which a man
vaults of the robber-princes. No bu- ‘8 “llowed t0 tontro1 rival or double
siness is more highly organized, more sy8t®m8 °* railways, and with impuui-
strenuouriy pursued, more successful- j ty arr*y one against the other, as
ly managed than the business of rob- suiU hia Tar-V'"« PurPose’ thereby
bery, nothing worse nor better.
The peculiarity of the modern
j despoiling the public with the ease of
a gambler playing with marked
Alliatu'r Di'iiiantl*.
ipted at. Octlt an 1 Reaffirmed at
Indianapolis.
i. We demand the abolition of i.a-
miiul tmiik-.
b. We ilemsiMl that the Govern-
mint shall esiabllsb *uhtreuHurieH in
the several Htate* which shall issue
money direct to the people at a low
rale of tax, not to exceed - per cent per
nullum, on non-pcrisliahle farm pro-
ducts. and also upon real estate, with
jiroper limitations upon the quantity of
land and amount of money.
C. We demand that the amount of
the circulating medium lie speedily in-
creased to not less titan $50 per rap-
Itu.
2. We demand that Congress shall
puss such laws ns will effectually pre-
vent tbe deuling in futures of all agri-
cultural ami mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of pro-
ccedure in trial* that will secure
prompt conviotiou, mid imposing such
penalties as shall secur* the most
perfect compliance with the law.
*. We condemn the silver bill re-lga| ratio of 18 to 1.
ceutly passed by Congress, and de-1
maud in lieu thereof the free and un-
limited coinage of silver.
4. We demand tbe passage of laws
prohibiting alien owuersbjpor laud, and
that Congress take prompt action to
devise some plan to obtain all lands
now owned by aliens and foreign syn-
dicates; aud that all lands now held by
rallrosila ami other corporations In ex-
cess of such as is actually used and
needed by them be reclaimed by the
Government, aud held for actual set-
tler* only
jnient ownership oi*ui-h means of com-
'niiihicaMoii mid transportation.
‘ 7. We dent ••H that tlieOmigress of
the United States submit an ameml-
1 incut to the ('• ustitoiioo providing for
the election of United Whites Senators
ti.v direct vote of the people of cadi
State.
The Omaha Plotforiii.
FINANCE.
First. We demand auatlonal curren-
cy, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by
the general government only, a full
Ugal tender for all debts, public und
private, and that without the use of
banking cor-poiations, a just, equable,
and efficient means of distribution di-
rect to tlie people at a tux not to exceed
2 percent per annum, to be provided as
set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the
Farmers Alliance, or a better system;
also by payments In discharge of its
obligations for publio improvements.
We demand free and unlimeted coin
age of silver ami gold at the present le-
io say that of all Hit . , • ' , , ' ------- cards
Senators wno voietl for tin* treaty be-! "M!th,,d of robbcry is U,e employment
h.,,.1 closed doors there ....... „ni who! bv l,ie r”bbw8 "» tbc 8ta*« 88 1T ^ *
will opc.lv argue before tbe American ! ‘■|‘,orued aRe,,t a,,d complice. * * * ,UM rhey d° cot aPPfar*
people that tbe Cz.r is rightfully the j •S°,nWi,nu<- h"1 ‘hey orga- Je ’ 10 ba'e an-' hla« lo “>• fbe
ruler of the Russian ptmjc, or'that! niw‘heif olka,U aud ^,he C0VeU:d 1 f ^ , g '
bis claim! to a divive ri riit to do as luxl b<*°' v’ combl"inR ‘° ,,ave t^
pleases Al. them is anything m .re' wnaf,n VoMon. But the force on ’d . I*W*
than a II 1 nhsurditc ....... whMt they prefer to rely Is iha quiet ‘ 0 8 01 d 'm t> Rrovel at lbelr
than a bald absurdity. From every 11 - Pr,',‘‘r ,u rt‘ly 18 U,u q""-’1
standpoint,of America., law fmH con- i a,‘d u"i8llf''8 f,,lcfc <>r »<» '«»• “»'l
slitutional [principle every one of the t,,c Bv arlf,llly ,-‘oulrived )<:-
thousand* if executions t-a.tsed by i Ra‘8lW* U,eV COH,lr#in ^rla t0 ............ . . .
the RussianpCzars in their attem .ts!'1,0 ,htir '’id(,i^ ^ j-dR-nay be J* n *
to uphold Gmir absolutism against the ,,nwilll"J-' instruments, yet they are neighbors are held up as shining
people is a murder, pure and simple, j bo,,ud 8anution< i,nPartia**y. lb«
If this is not true, then it must he worki"« 0{ le*al ProtL'MC*- ^
true onjCcontrnry that the Czar is wb»t shall we say wheu weak or cor- ' * f T......
— - - by which great corporations arc W tr-' 011 a6tt,08t them. Bu. tbe
day is sure to come when plain meo-
sec that no ouc tnan can
senURive of God because, of his birth
feel; if any Mordecai refuses to bow
down before them his name has not
been reported. Men whose riches
have been increased by despoiling
tiliors are held up
examples for the imitation of our
youth. So long as teachers of moral-
ity silently endorse such iniquities, it
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i/Ttl.atlie is authorized by God lo ’ WrCcked or ^WlRsted, as suits the JJ
i.m o_________....... purposes of the couanirators? i wl“ tlearl>
We demand that the amount of nir-
culatiiig medium be spedily increased to
not less than $50per capita.
We demand a graduated income
tax.
We believe that the money of tbe
country should be kept as much as pos
sible in the hmidsof the people, and
heuce we demand all State ami nation-
al revenue shall he limited to tbe neces-
sary expense of the government eco-
5. Believing in the doctrine of equal 1 “0",lc8"-v ",,d ^ministered,
rights to all mot special privi'egos to '•8 demand thst postal savings banks
none we demand_ be 'ftnbllsbed bv the irovernment for
a. That our national
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shall lie so framed in the future as not
to build up one industry at tbe expense
of another,
b. We further demand a removal of
the exiHtlng heavy tariff tax from the
necessities of life that the psir of our
land must have. * ‘ *
e. We further demand a Just ami
equitable system of graduated tax on
incomes.
il. We lielieve that the money of the
■country should lie kept as much as
tHMwibie in the hand* of the people, and
hence we demand that all national
and State revenues shall be limited to
be established by the government for
the safe deposit of the people, and to
facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Second. Transportation being _
mean* of exchange and a public neces-
sity, the government should own und
operate the railroads lu tbe interest of
the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
post office system, being a necessity for
tlie transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by thegovernraeut
in the Interest of tbe people.
LAND.
Third. The land, including all the
natural sources of wenlth, is the heil-
the necessary expenses of the Govern- tsge of the people, ami should not be
jnent economically und honestly ad- : monopolised fur speculative purposes,
ministered. ami ali-n ownersliipof land should he
0. We demand tlie most rigid, hnn- prohibited,
eat and just State and ••atioiiul gnver- All land now held by railroad and
mental control and supervision of the other corporations, in excess of their uc
menus of public cooniiiinieatlon and tual needs, all lamts now uw.itl in-
kill ami destroy as lie pleases.
The Senate has taken that posi-
tion in executive session, and noto
man of them all will have the hardi-
hood to maintain it openly.
The only position that any Ameri-
can can hold with honor or safety is
that every people lias a divine right
to lie free and to govern themselves.
The Czar will never surrender the
power he holds by usurpation—by
force, which he calls divine right.
He rules as the representative of force
and it is to a trial of force that be
challenges every Russian Democrat.
When he finds them working to dis-
seminate Democratic ideas among the
oppressed people of Russia, he kills
them, men and women, as if they
were dogs, and our Senate wishes to
deny to them the right of self-defense
From tbe standpoint of tbe Senate
the Czar, when he knouts a delicate
woman to death, is only doing bis du-
ty as the divine agent, but the hunted
Rnssian Dem .crat who, to save his
own life and the lives of thousands,
turns on the Czar aud kills him, is a
common assassin who must be hunted
down at the expense of American tax
payers and delivered up to be put to
death with no other process of law
than such as is fixed by the will of sn
absolutely irresponsible tyrant who
claims a divine right lo kill all the peo-
ple of Russia if be likes.
But in spite of every Plutocrat in
the Senate the A mcrinau people will
tint deny the light of the people
purposes of the conspirators? i - —---—
Of the gigantic fortunes now held ‘ Ret wilh u,ean 1,aud8‘ in an ordinary
in this country, not a few have been li,elime- 8 hundred million dollars;
gotten by legal robbery. Twenty Illiat 8Ucb an cr,ormous Pi,c 80 sudden-
year* ago our millionaires could be collected must be loot, not profit,
counted almost on the fingers of four ' Tbat wil1 68 * day of reckoning, in-
hands. TmUy their enumeration deed‘for lhe roRne8 and ,or lbe
would carry us into thousands. Since •)udRCS and lbe 'eK'dalor* 8nd the
- public teachers who have been their
the new system of robbery was per-
fected, about twenty men have amass-
ed fortunes, which, taken together,
accomplices.
Meantime these facts arc to bu kept
exceed the debt of the war. Twenty mind—that we have among us a
years ago many ot these men were class of men who in their rapacity, arc
poor. Some of the new millionaires on enriching tbemse'ves by for-
have grown rich honestly, but some cibly seizing the properly of their
of them have led a raid upon the pro- neighbors; and that they have learn-
duclion of the accumulated wealth of cd now 10 use for this purpose the or-
the country. So Napoleonic in its force of the state. Somo
boldness and success has been the “cans must be found of putting a
method of the master robbers that 8'°P lu them. Unless Ibis be done
rich men of better instincts have been 8l*ccdily, the respect for tbe law upon
dazzled by it. Lave adopted it openly which social order rests will not long
an.I independently, or have lent iudi- survive.
rect co-operation and social credit lo --——— -
to the robber chiefs, and have shared T» Alliance Workers,
in the plunder. Men of honorable Now that the April meeting is pass-
reputatious, who have been crowned ed let us go to work with a will to
with public honors, hsvc counteuanc- build up the waste places and push
ed these crimes as affording the surest our principles to lbe front in every
wsy of adding to their unsatisfying p»rt of the county. Our July meet,
fortunes of ten, twenty or even thirty ing at Sprindale will be tbe grandest
million*. It is by no means our pur- rally we have ever had. We
pose to throw discredit upon tbe pur- will have speakers there that will be
suit of wealth. Honest production able to instruct tbe people and we
and honest gains of wealth tbat is cm
ployed in the service of society are
the bulwarks of civilization. But we
do aay thst lbe examples of private
greed ere sapping lbe sources of pub-
look for tbe largest gathering of far-
mers eveu seen iu Cass County. It
will be an idle season and the grand
rally will he protracted two or three
days. Bend us in reports and push
rdw*yibv;Rbi°f ib* w* * «««••«—pi**^ u..u r.p<,ru .ud pUsb
•uperviaiwn doe« not mnnvp the *hit»e * rnm©at sud held fur actual cutlets ******* lo ** »* g'^rnmeut, imr will lie hn,i«u ; examples pf gigantic and tbe work from now untiltbeuinevfr*
Uuw existing, w«* demand th# Uovern- . ly. i tliej cvi;c nuitsur »u/ APi$UQ Dtig* uuu.ii it juried robbtry arc u&demm- ty bub AUiaacv.
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Erwin, J. W. Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 26, 1893, newspaper, April 26, 1893; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523155/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.