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mand is founded upon the full knowledge of an outraged equity, 

 and every proposition cemented with the logic that comes 

 through practical application. It is the conservative element 

 of society, the long-suffering, slowly aroused portion, that is 

 now in rebellion against the methods of plutocracy. It is a 

 protest against that which is widening the gulf between Dives 

 and Lazarus, which in the end, if not checked, will engulf 

 the liberties of the people. There is nothing sensational or 

 emotional about it. It is a deliberate conclusion, based upon 

 study and reflection. It is not a theory ; it is a condition, and 

 one that must be met in the same spirit in which it is presented, 

 or the end of the rule of the majority has been reached. 



Let no one be deceived in this matter. Let no one think the 

 Alliance is the creature of a moment. It is here. It has come 

 to stay, until the armies against freedom and humanity are 

 driven without the borders of this fair land. It is the uprising 

 of the hosts of good, government. Its purposes are expressed 

 in the words of Lincoln: "That a government of the people, 

 for the people, and by the people, may not perish from off the 

 earth." It makes war on no one ; it demands justice and not 

 charity ; equal rights instead of special privileges ; and stands 

 squarely upon the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the 

 brotherhood of man. It believes with the poet, who said : - 



" See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow ! 

 Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know : 

 Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, 

 The bad must miss ; the good, untaught, will find ; 

 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 

 But looks through nature up to nature's God ; 

 Pursues that chain which links the immense design, 

 Joins heaven and earth, and mortal and divine ; 

 Sees that no being any bliss can know, 

 But touches some above, and some below ; 

 Learns from this union of the rising whole, 

 The first, last purpose of the human soul ; 

 And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, 

 All end in LOVE OF GOD and LOVE OF MAN." 



Founded upon such principles, and grounded in such belief, 

 nothing can prevent the ultimate accomplishment of its pur- 



