Show THE FARMERS ALLIANCE no political m etter in the united states attracts so much attention at present as tho the farmers 1 alliance movement it is regarded as tho the basis of a third p airty movement and in several states it has in recent elections eleu tiona shown a greater power than either of the old parties parti cs ij ia kansas where it is said to havo one hundred and forty alio thousand bisand in members embers it recently elected a united states S ta I 1 es senator e and controlled the acts of the lower ionae branch of the legislature at its last session sas sion it his has definitely entered the field of politics r operating cooperating co bo with other association 1 such su hatai agthe as the farmers ajea gued h abc objects we will endeavor to set forth the state of tho the case as it appears to the alliance without expressing an opinion ionas as to either eit herthe the grievances or the remedies proposed looking atthe at the movement in the most general way the cause of th fon formation nation and growth of the alliance is is the unsatisfactory condition of the agricultural interest and the conviction of a great many farmers that legislation state taie and ana national has been directed toward helping on the elopement developement dev of all other industries except C X agriculture and the government has bas indeed so shaped matters that the expense of all this elopement developement dev has come out of the farmers the farmers complain that the prices that oat the prices that are paid for their products do not pay the expense of handling them that the high cost of transportation and the necessity of farming after improved methods in order to compete with their neighbors has forced farmers to go into debt and that the conditions it n trod produced or permitted by legislators have forced farmers to pay exorbitant and ruinous rates of interest they believe that money abound te he made as plenty RS as possible po sible nud mud to that end favor free coin coinage afre t of silv silver C r A gr grant t many members of the alliance aho dav jr some moans of lending landing the farmer govia go asi ment money at cl clemp eap rates of inanc int nc t r tile the alliance my may also bo said to to favor tho the govern government meat ownership of railroads the alliance state platforms in in general i have demanded the prohibition of the owners ownership bip of land by aliens these are in the main the grievances and 1 purposes of tile the Far farmers farlien nien alliance their purposes the members pi propose omose to accomplish by electing their own representatives to legislatures isla tures to congress and to call all poc positions irions the print principles of the Alli alliance lanco are undoubtedly in opposition to the geni gen era eral plan spoil which government in the united states has boon been administered in the pa pait t which is that legislation should interfere as little as possible with tile relations of citizens one with at another iother and that government should 1 leep beep out of bust busil ness enterprises so far as possible alie TI ae fi farmers arnieri however believe that those i 1 caples have been perverted to airy and therefore they demand tho the change cin go that have been described companion |