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ACTIVITY IN RAILROAD CIRCLES. For the first time, the corpora tions are called upon to witness the formation of a party which means to -compel them to obey the law, pay their taxes, to tyrannize over the laborer and consumer and to haul freight and persons at rea sonable rates. No man gives up a fat thing wil lingly. It is human nature to fight for the selfish advantage good for tune and successful piracy has given them. Hence the stir among the railroad magnates. They must check the movement of the People’s Party or they may be forced to surrender the regal power, they now have to ex act tribute from the producer and the consumer, the seller and the 'buyer. Therefore it seems entirely natural to read that so many able railroad lawyears are preparing to save the farmer from the dreadful fate of voting as he pleases. Examine the list: Hon. A. O. Bacon, attorney for East Tenn. Va. & G-a. R. R.; Hon. F. G. Dußignon, attorney for Plant Railroads; Hon. J. C. C. Black, at torney for Central Railroad; Hon. Pope Barrow, attorney for Richmond A Danville Railroad; Hon. E. P. Howell, director Central Railroad. This is a neat little pile of cor poration officials, but it is only the beginning. We’ll have more of them later on. The price of all things is fixed by the volumn of money in circulation. This is an axiom in political economy which every one recognizes. If the volumn of money was doubled the price of cotton would go to twelve cents where it is now six and to four teen where it h now seven. Every thing else would advance equally, but st would take only half as much cot ton or any other product of labor to pay the debts of the people as it does now. And that is why the Pluto crats oppose any increase in the vol umn of money. They have got the people in debt so deep that it takes all they produce to pay the interest and if thcj eaa keep it at that they will continue to get everything the people can produce forever. ( And they have hired the big Re publican and Democratic bosses to help them keep things as they are. And the Big Bosses hire the little ones by promising them the petty of fices to help them do their hellish work of deceiving the people. There has been another contest in congress in which Democrats have voted for the Republicans, but we hear no charge of treason and hear of no letters being written by Crisp’s secretaries to Democratic papers in Georgia. Why is this thus ? What are those secretaries doing? Why don’t they jump on to those Democrats ? Moses and Livingston each drew about $225.00 out of the public treasuary while they were in their own districts working to induce the people to send them back to congress and pay them sl4 a day for two years more. $225.00 is more than the average Geor gia farmer will clear in five years at rais ing cotton. Save the Alliance. Do not surrender your charters ; do not take any backward steps of any kind We are going to whip this fight, and show to the world that the farmers of this country are fully capable of run ning the government without the aid of the fellows in the towns, if necessary. One has to put his hand to his ear and listen mighty to close to hear a Demo cratic chirp anywhere about Douglasville Farmer Duncan hit the thing exactly right when he shook his fist at the crowd and yelled ‘You'ns ain't Democrats !” Moses drew a pension of $225 while he was stumping his district recently. His pay as congressman amounted to that during the time he was absent from Washington. How’s that for a pension resolution ? This movement of the producers and laborers is for equal rights to all and special favors to none. Every man who toils for his daily bread, whether in store, shop, office, furnace and field, is equally interested. The success of it means flenefit for all. Its failure means heavier Burdens, more toil and less profit to all. Buckle on your armor and fight for your rights and liberty, the protection of home and the freedom of your children.—Alli ance Herald, - THE RESPONSE. [continued from Ist page.] People’s Party called to meet at same place and on same day. A full atten dance desired. 11. L. Peeples, Chm. Ex. Com. People’s Party. JEFFERSON COUNTY. At a meeting of the Jefferson county Alliance held with Brassell Alliance, April 7, the following reso lutions were adopted : Whereas, The Hon. Thos. E. Wat son, one of Georgia’s purest and nob lest sons, has issued an address to the citizens of this State, which, in our judgment, is the grandest politi cal document ever issued to the citi zens of this State ; and Whereas, The People’s Party Pub lishing Company of Atlanta, Georgia, are now offering said address for the small sum of seventy-five cents per one hundred copies, Resolved, That we, the county Al liance of Jefferson, in convention as sembled, do hereby earnestly request each sub-Alliance in the county to purchase one hundred copies and distribute the same ia their respec tive communities. Resolved, That we ask each sub- Alliance throughout the State to take similar action, in order that this able address may find its way to the home of every citizen in the State. Resolved, That we hereby express our unqualified condemnation upon the insidious conduct of our State president, vice-president and execu tive committee in failing or refusing to have our lecture system thorough ly organized, and we request that lecturers be put in the field, required by authority of the order in this hour of its peril. Resolved, That we hereby ratify and endorse the action of the St. Louis convention which we believe to be of such a nature as the present time demands. B. S. Carswell, President. J. L. Rains, Secretary. Bethesda sub-Alliance of Greene county sends us the following: Resolved, That we will not re scind our former action endorsing the St. Louis platform, neither will we under any circumstances surren der our charier. Resolved further, That we hold President Livingston and his execu tive committee to be guilty of treason against the Alliance in trying to force the brotherhood back into a party that has answered every appeal for equal rights and justice with con tempt and ridicule. Resolved lastly, That we endorse and commend the action of C. IT. Ellington, M. D. Irwin and H. C. Brown. Reform papers requested to pub lish. Thompson sub., of McDuffy county, revokes the resolution condemning the Southern Alliance Farmer under the management of Mr. Gantt and ap proves its course since it has fallen into the hands of Brother Irwin. Clayton county farmers in mass meeting, declare their political inde pendence, adopt the St. Louis platform and pledge their |upport to the P. P. tickets in the coming elections. Villa Ricca sub. lifts its hat to the brave Tom Watson, and will hence forth vote for no man who cannot swallow the Ocala demands without choking. Brother J. H. Moore writes us that Whitfield County Alliance has de clared for the St. Louis platform. We regret that want of space has compelled us to condense so many splendid resolutions. The date of the Chattahoochee county mass meeting has been changed from the second Saturday in June to the first Saturday in May, and will be held in Cusseta. Those interested will please note the change. Liberty Alliance, 193, endorses the action of the St. Louis conference. Brother W. 11. Rampley writes us that Franklin county is falling into line. Brother Sam Walker has been sowing good seed up there, and it has fallen on good ground. Brother G. S. Farmer sends resolu tions of the Jefferson countv mass meeting, from which we extract the following : ‘•Resolved, That we endorse the plat form of principles as enunciated at the St. Louis conference, and we here by pledge our undivided support to that grandest of living Southern men, Hon. Tomas E. Watson, hoping that he may live to see the full fruition of his la bors.” Brother A. M. Mememishon writes us that Paulding county is solid for the People’s Party. Brother J. B. Hudgins writes us that the farmers of Hall county are organizing and that they will vote for no man who does not stand squarely upon the St. Louis platform. Miss Annie E. Chenoweth of Con cordia, Kansas, writes us an encour aging letter assuring us that the hitherto Republican farmers of the West are putting the dead past be hind them and are ready to lock shields with the sturdy yeomanry of South in the coming contest between the citizens and the dollar. They have discovered that there is more in home and liberty than in a party name. We beg to assure our West ern friends that we also are growing somewhat wiser as we grow older, and will certainly join them hereaf ter in casting our ballots in defense of home—for “Molly and the baby.” COMMUNICATED. Livingston has been home to fight for Democracy. This high-cock-a lorum, who at one time was so anxious for independent political action, is\ now vainly trying to smother the flame that he himself has helped to kindle. Mark his utterances two years ago. Review his course. See how eagerly he watched every turn of the wheel. How active he was to shape the poli cy of the Alliance. His heaviest guns were turned upon the Demo cratic citadel. He gloated over the incipient revolution, knowing that he would ride on its wave into position and power. This was the goal of his ambition. This, according to his idea, was the sole mission of the Alliance ; and this being accomplish ed, the order should now disband. No independent action now ; no need for the Alliance yardstick now. Two years ago he was called by one great daily a “thirty dollar states man,” by another a “dirty dog” and a “political trickster.” Now he is the brave and and dashing Leonidas— the saviour of his party. Oh I Tempous I Oh I Moses ! Ver ily the times do change and men change with them. J. E. Rhodes. Dawson County, Georgia. A laige and enthusiastic -‘.L citizens of Dawson county was helc in Dawsonville, April 16th, and a full county committee elected. Speeches were made by J. C. Richardson, Henry Houser, and others. The St. Louis platform was endorsed. As also Tom Winn’s action in coming over to the People’s Party when he sav* there was no relief to be had from the Democratic party. John P. Smith, P Strickland and J. C. Richardson were elected delegates to Xinth Congres sional District Convention of the Peo ple’s Party. Cwinnett County, Georgia. Gwinnett county formally organized the People.s Party on the 16th, and passed resolutions endorsing Hon. Tom Winn and placing his name before the people for re-election. Gwinnett is Winn’s home county, and the people are reported enthusiastic in his sup port since he announced himself on the St. Louis platform and for the Peo ple’s Party. They will have a rally May 21st, to which everybody is in vited. CLAY COUNTY ALABAMA Organizes the Peoples’s Party and Asks Other Counties to Join In. Editor People’s Party Paper: Clay County Farmers’ Alliance met with Lineville Primary Alliance April 6th inst. The platform of the People’s Party was adopted with two dissenting votes. On April Bth inst. a mass meeting of citizens of Clay county, embracing four or five hundred, unanimously adopted the People’s Party platform and organized a People’s Party, ask ing the several counties in the state to meet them in a state convention and also in a congressional conven tion to put candidates in the field. The Linn County Torch of Liberty sug gests Judge Gresham and Congressman Watson to head our national ticket. The Torch is on the right track, but we un derstand that Gresham has lately writ ten a People’s Party leader, and after ex pressing a kindly interest in the welfare of the Reform mouement. wished that the use of his name be discouraged as various reasons would prevent his ac ceptance. Watson is a good man for either first or second place, and we iiopt** he will get one or the other of them. Attaway (Kan.) Journal. The same thing may be said of Watson as of Gresham ; he will not be a candi date on the presidential ticket. The peo ple of the Tenth Georgia District wish him to remain in congress. Ed., P. p. P. ’92. One hundred years ago the people of France arose and overthrew their opposers. 179’2 was a great turning point in the world’s history on this account. It marked an irresistible move ment of the people towards freedom. This mighty pent-up force hurled back the allied armies of Europe which we gathered in the interest of keeping the people under oppression. It flashed its thunder from the guns of Napoleon in defiance of the convention and on a hundred battle fields till the thrones of Europe were shaken to their foundation. Grand as was this movement, we are yet to have a far more grand and glorious movement of the people in the cause of liberty.. 1892 will witness the downfall of the oppressor and the beginning of the establishment of true freedom if the people will stand up for them selves and no longer place them selves in bondage with their own hands. The people can make use of the gifts which God has given them for their own benefit, or they can make ure of them to build up the money power; for the money power is de pendent on the people for its ex istence. The very day that the people say that it shall no longer be, that day it ends. The people should wake up to the truth that the real issue before them to-day is between man and money. The question is, shall the people rule, or shall money rule ? Shall the family be secured in a home, or shall it be driven here and there at the mercy of the moneyed man ? How long shall the shameful spec tacle exist of one man, by means of money, holding hundreds and thous ands of acres of land that the Lord has freely given to all ? Did God place man in domination over the earth, or was it money that He placed in dominion ? Wake up! If God did not place money in domination, then the people have a right to the land, and each family to the undisturbed pos session of a home. It is the people who believe in God, and not in money, who are to take the kingdom. “The saints shall take the king dom.” Dan., 7 : 18. Understand that it is either money or the people that must rule. If the people rule, then money rule ends. There are just two rules, and one of these is not really a rule but ex ists because the people are under a delusion and God permits them to believe that there is power in money. But no man ever saw money do any thing, nor ever will. The people are under a tremen dous delusion, and one the result of which is a scene of woe and horror. They have pleasure in unrighte ousness, or in seeing people deprived of their rights, and so delusions are sent on them that they should be lieve a he, that there is power in money. (See 2 Thess., 11-12. It is simply unrighteous or unjust that money should control the land, and this should be clear to every righteous man, and, acting on this righteous basis, the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his do minion, to consume and destroy it unto the end. Dan., 7 : 25. Daniel says: I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the ancient of days did sit. The thrones cast down are the present rights claimed under money. The ancient of days is the family government which God set up in the beginning, and which is the govern ment or kingdom, and to which money rule is deadly hostile. But they shall sit every man un der his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. (Heb., 4 : 4.) And hath made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. Rev., 5:10. The people are the rulers or kings and priests, if they will be. Officers are not required except as servants of the people unless money is in power, and then they are, as a rule, bosses, and seeking for money and plate. See Luke 22 : 24, 30. I will also make thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders. Is., 60, 17, 18. Jesus gave us an example of the kind of officers or bosses we need. He labored to restore and relieve the distressed. Men have compiled an immense volume of laws under the rule of money or unrighteousness. Paul says the law is fullfilled in one word—Thou shalt love thv neighbor as thy self. By this, no one will be without a home or out of supplies. Behold, I set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. Rev. 3 : 8. This year the people may enter on an erea of freedom in the true sense if they will. The ballot box is an open door by which each man may possess a home, he has only to vote for the land to be free, as God made it, and by this door he enters his home. Free Homes. J Cherokee County, Ga. HOW IT IS IN TEXAS. Will Livingston Go For Their Char ters. W e have got Texas and she is out to win, and we are going to “Kan sasize” her this fall. The long pent up feelings of the people have been turned loose, and’are given vent too in no uncertain measure in the en thusiasm which characterizes the large gatherings that are being held daily in every town and village and hamlet in this state. Every sub alliance in Texas has indorsed the St. Louis demands and resolved in favor of independent political action. We believe that a grand reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veter ans should be held at Omaha July 4th, wherein the blue and the gray might march arm in arm to the grave of sectionalism, thus exemplifying in fact what the politicians would only have in theory—a united country one and indivisable forever. J. P. Robinson; M. I. Branch, for Speaker. The Democrats have two candidates for Speaker of the next House of Representatives, to-wit, W. A. Flem ming, of Richmond, and John T. Boi fenillet, of Bibb, and they may yet have more horses in the field. I haven’t seen any announcements, as yet, on part of the People’s Party. Why not Branch, of Columbia county? No man in the State has done more for the reform movement than he has. He is fully competent and qualified in every way to fill the position with honor to himself and credit to his party. I have understood that his friends and friends of the cause are pressing him to make the race for the Legisla ture. So why not Branch ? Cherokee. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS GETTING TOGETHER IN NORTH CAROLINA. A dispatch from Raleigh to the St. Louis Republic (Democratic), states that the Democrats are dis cussing the propriety of an alliance with the Republicans to defeat the People’s Party. This, it will be remembered, was the policy adopted in Kansas and Nebraska last fall, and which met the hearty approval of Mr. Crisp. How will the following pass for democratic doctrine to-day ? “Con gress has no power to charter national banks. We believe that sush institu tions are deadly hostile to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the lib erties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country with in the controlof a concentrated money power, and above the laws and will of the people ; that the separation of the money of the government from banking institutions is indispensible for the safety of the funds and the rights of the people.” Reader, the above is a part of the national demo cratic platform of 1856, and in essence a part of the St. Louis demands of 1892 formulated by the Industrial Confer ence that convened in that city on February 22nd. Now, tell us who are democrats and who are not?— Mercury Don’t be afraid to take this paper out of the office. It has either been paid for or it is sent to you as a com pliment. GATHERED FROM OUR LETTERS., Brother W. F. Cannon writes us that a full organization of the Peo ple’s Party in Wilkinson county was effected on the 21st instant; also that the county Alliance has voted for an immediate session of the State Alliance. We cannot see any press ing need of an extra session. Any of our State officers whose conscience will permit them, may go over to the camps of the enemy; but no man or any set of men can deliver the Al liancemen of Georgia to Tammany and Wall street. The very moment that they forgot their Alliance vows they become powerless to hurt any thing save their own reputations. L. E. Potter of South Bend, Kan sas, the son of an ex-Union soldier, wants to pair off with the son of an ex-Confederate and mutually agree to vote the People’s ticket straight from top to bottom. We wish to tell our young friend if he could only be in Georgia for a week and see ho w the old soldiers and their boys are rushing for the St. Louis platform, he would’nt own that he came to pair with anybody. Brother W. L. Gray of Norton, Kansas, writes : “I am well pleased with the People’s Party Paper. It is all that a wide-awake People’s Party man or woman can wish for. We thank our Western brother for his kind words and beg to assure him that we will ever be found in the front rank until the word monopoly is expunged from the American vo cabulary. Please do not send stamps when it can be avoided and when you do send them rub the gummed side over your hair to keep them from sticking “closer than a brother.” Morning Creek sub-Alliance of Fayette denounces the Fayetteville News for claiming to be the official organ of the county Alliance without authority. They Order a Halt. Associated Press Dispatch. Denver, Col., April 26.—The State convention of Colorado silver leagues met here yesterday, representatives to the number of 500 being present. Delagates were selected to the National silver convention at Wash ington May 26, and resolutions adopt ed I hat in the event the Democratic and Republican National conventions failing to nominate for President and Vice-President, men with pronounced silver views, it will be the duty of the voters to support any party that may promise the speedy reinstatement of silver “and this silver convention, rep resenting, as it does, the people of Col orado, irrespective of party, pledges our faithful and unequivocal support in favor of the political party that will faithfully carry out the purpose of free coinage of silver.” It was also resolved as sentiment of the convention that the Colorado State Conventions should instruct their del egates to the national conventions to withdraw from the conventions if they do not succeed in getting free silver planks in their party platforms. A Rush for Homes. Portions of the Indian Territory west of Oklahoma w’ere thrown open to homesteaders on the 19th, and it is estimated that thirty thousand fami lies rushed in to secure homes. Os these about one-sixth were negroes. The land was not well known by the settlers, and reports are to the effect that most were disappointed with the selection and outlook, as the country proved to be much less rich than was expected, much of it being alkali land with poor water. Land Owership. The following is only a partial list of lords, dukes and earls who own real estate in America, together with the number of acres owned by each, and the list is said to be increasing as fast as quiet purchases can be made or mortgages foreclosed: Name. Acres Marquis of Aylesbury . . . 55,051 Duke of Bedford g] o<S5 Same (other lands) . . 87’508 Earl of Brownlow . . , 57’799 Earl of Carlisle .... 78’540 Earl of Cawder 51*538 S Uk i e ? f C le veland Earl of Derby 56 698 Duke of Devonshire .... 148*626 Lord of Londonsboro .... 52 655 Duke of Northumberland . . 191’460 ? Uk i e 2* Portland • • • •-" 55,259 Earl of Fowls 46 095 Duke of Rutland 70 039 kady Willoughby . . . . 59’912 Sir W. W. Win 91652 Earl of Yarbrough 54,570 Now, brother farmers, what does that mean? Ask history. Ask Ire land. Ask Egypt. Askßurmah. Ask the astonished ghosts of the American colonists of more than a hundred years ago. and of the revolutionary fathers. —Farmers Light. The Ft. Worth (Texas) Advocate says : P. P. stands for People’s Party and also its leading characteristic, purity of politics. Just what we need now-a-days