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be paid with the bullion, if not, with
commodities.
Trade is not carried on between
nations with money as a means of
circulating medium at all. Get that
forever out of your head. Trade is
never carried on between nations by
means of a circulating medium but
al vays by an exchange of commodi
ties. Always. And it matters not
whether that commodity is pork, or
beef, or wheat or rye, or silk, or gold
or silver, it is commodities, and we
produce enough bullion in our mines
here that if we need bullion to settle
the balances of trade we produce it
here. God, away back in the coun
cils of eternity locked up in the great
safe of the universe, and put his time
lock on it, gold and silver enough in
the mountains of America to furnish
the American people with the means
of increasing the prosperity and civi
lization of this great thriving nation,
and when you come to make money
you want to make it for the Ameri
can people, and you don’t want to
make money to take wings and tiy
away or silently fold its tents like the
Arab and be off to another country.
What is the constitution? Your
fathers, when they framed that won
derful instrument, w ere inspired to
believe that this nation should be a
savior on which should be fought the
great battle of liberty and they un
derstood that Congress should have
the pow er to regulate the value of
money and keep it in the hands of
the people instead of being put into
the hands of speculators and money
changers and manipulators of' Wall
street. [Applause.] The constitu
tion says that Congress shall regulate
its value. It is regulated today by
the money-changers of Europe and
America, and this regulation is that
the value of the silver dollar shall be
taken away from the people of the
United States and put into the hands
of the money-changers of the world.
What we w ant in this country and
what I believe the conservative men
or all parties want in this country is
the 412.1 grains that met with the ap
proval of George Washington, James
Madison, Monroe, the Adamses, An
drew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
For w hose interests were they ask
ing it ? We have not gold enough
to carry on the business of this coun
try, and there is no law regulating the
amount of the production of gold, is
there? It is a mere matter of chance
whether the earth will continue to
produce gold enough to maintain
even its present inadequate attitude
toward the business of the world. It
is a mere matter ot chance. It no
longer needs productions, we don’t
know whether it is in our mountains
or not, but the law governing the in
crease of the human family, of the
population, is the fixed law’, and you
can calculate the increase of our pop
ulation with almost absolute certain
ty. That is no matter of chance, but
the production of the’precious metals,
and gold in particular, is purely a
matter of chance and yet currency
must be based upon gold, and if gold
is a matter of chance then your busi
ness is a matter of chance, and your
success in business is a matter of
chance. Thus you want to subject
our mighty conflict in civilization to
thepporerw r er of accident and chance,
and then wonder that there should
be anything like political discontent
or upheaval in this great country of
ours. Let us then have the unlimit
ed coinage of silver at its present
ratio. Well, but suppose it gives us
too much good gold and silver in this
country? If it gives us too much
money your Congresses still continue
to meet and your Congress can come
to your rescue if you get too much
money as w’ell as if you hadn’t had
enough. You would still be master
of the situation, and it is not within
the range of possibility, ladies and
gentlemen, that you will ever see the
day when either gold or silver, or the
two metals combined and coined up
into money will furnish you one half
of the circulating medium required
by the business of this country.
Compare w ith the wonderful business
transactions, c >mpare the aggregate
business of the United States in their
domestic relations with each other
with the little bagatelle of your farm
property. It is a trifle compared with
it. What you want is a sum of money
that w’ill enable you to conduct your
affairs upon a cash basis. There is
not a lady or gentleman listening to
me here today but dreads in their
heart, to go forth and purchase the
necessities of life on credit. You
don’t like to do it. Why ? Because
your sense of business propriety tells
you it is wrong to mortgage the fu
ture. Tiie good book has said to us
and all generations,
“OW E NO MAN ANYTHING.”
That is sound business. It says
again that the borrowers are servants
of the lender and the rich ruling over
the poor, and w’hen the Bible tells
you to owe no man anything, you
had better take the advice. Remem
ber, my brother, that you are living
under an economical system here to
day where ninety-two per cent, is car
ried on credit and eight per cent,
cash, and I have the authority of the
statistics of the currency in Wash
ington, and the analysis of it made
by President Whitney, of the bank
er’s association of California, w’ho
lives at Los Angeles, and he says if
the banks were called upon today to
pay what they owe to depositors, and
aie confined to pay gold exclusively,
that they could not pay two cents on
the dollar ; and if they pay gold and
silver, they could not pay over three
cents on the dollar ; and if they pay
in currency, gold and silver, they
could not pay over ten cents on the
dollar, and ihat is exactly true ac
cording to the statistics here. And
if the banks were called upon today,
there is not money enough in actual
circulation to enable the people to
pay what they owe the banks alone
ten cents on the dollar.
Yet we are afiaid. Oh, w’ell;
but if the bullion ow’ner is going to
make the difference between the bul
lion value on the dollar, and the coin
value on the dollar, that is a conces
sion then on the part of the legisla
tion that they are to blame. (Ap
plause.)
It has been legislated down to
seventy cents on the dollar basis, and
what does that enable England to
do ? It enables England to take your
seventy-cent dollar as bullion, and it
is w orth in India a hundred cents,
and on every cargo of wheat that
they buy in India with your money
they realize in London and Liverpool
the difference, and that comes out of
the w’heat raisers in this country. It
brings the wheat raiser of India in
competition with the w’heat raiser of
this country, and has the same effect
on cotton. But, my friend-*, lhe bul
lion owner would not realize the
profit you think he would.
Let me show you. The very mo
ment you have free and unrestricted
coinage of silver in this country it is
true that the coin value and bullion
value will be about equal. If I take
it and have it coined and own the
bullion, then I own the dollar. Then
I have an increase in the circulating
medium of this country to the extent of
the coin that would be realized. That
puts that much coin in circulation.
Whai effect does that have? Wal
ker, one of the best authorities in this
country, says this in his book on po
litical economy: “That other things
being equal, the average price of
all commodities is regulated by the
amount of money in circulation,
and this is as invariable as any other
law in nature.” If I throw a ball in
air as soon as the force that propelled
it is lost it will come down to the
earth. He says that this is as inva
riable as that law. Suppose I have
that coined up. The bullion that is
shipped here, even though it should
reach here, there is not one penny
weight that can come here, but the
very moment that it is coined up
your money is increased to that ex
tent that it brings up the price of
your day labor, your corn, your beef,
your hay, your pork and your farm.
Then if I come and try to buy your
w’heat at the price that we have be
fore the unlimited coinage of silver
you would laugh at me and say : ‘lt
is not 68 cents now, it is a dollar a
bushel.’ Who makes the profit, the
man that sold the wheat or the man
that sold the bullion? This profit
W’ill be distributed among the whole
people. The producers of w’ealth in
this country will get it. And who
are the producers of w’ealth in this
country? Those w’ho toil in work
shops, in mines, in the fields, those of
you who are listening to me here to
day, and who feed the open, hungry
mouth of the world; who feed and
clothe and shelter the world; you
are the men who produce the W’ealth
of the country, and the free coinage
of silver will fall into your pockets
instead of the men who own the sil
ver bullion. Who owns the money
of this country ? The few’.
1 AM NOT OBJECTING TO THE BANKERS.
I am above any assault of that kind
upon any respectable class of our fel
low-citizens. The bankers of this
country are just as good and no bet
ter than any other class of our fel
low-citizens. I don’t make war upon
the men and upon their callings, but
Ido upon the system. I don’t object
to a man being rich. It is his duty
to accumulate w’ealth, if by honorable
means. lam like the Dutchman. I
wish everybody was rich; it would
be so much better for the poor. But
I w’ant to have a system of political
economy that is adequate to our
growing civilization, that has some
respect for the wants of our people
w’ho are lowly and engaged in the
production of wealth. Now, my
brother says, “Germany is opposed to
the free coinage of silver.” Who rules
Germany? The laboring people of
Germany ? Is the financial system of
Germany constructed with the refer
ence to the welfare of the producers
of wealth of that country or to the
welfare of the nobiiity and of the
moneyed interests of that country?
I need not answ’er that, for you all
know the answ’er. Is the financial
system of England adapted to their
monarchy and aristocracy ? Cer
tainly, it works to it like a charm to
the advantage of the nobility. It does
not w’ork to the advantage of the la
boring people. And yet w’e have in
this country the exact English system
of finance; the monarchical system
of finance in a republic ; the devil in
| side of a body of a saint. Who is
j here today who will contend for a
moment that this growing republic of
i ours w’ould today, were the motto,
i that glorious motto of the Farmer’s
Union that says : ‘Equal rights to all
I and special privileges to none,’ suffer,
if that were carried out. That is the
I spirit of the golden rule, my broth
ers. What is the golden rule? “As
yen would that others should do unto
you, do ye even so unto them.” That
is the motto of the Alliance. “Equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none.” That is the golden rule in a
new setting, and that is all it is in the
w’orld. Nobody’ w’ishes to change
upon revolutionary lines. Nobody
wishes to do it hastily, but what this
country 7 needs is that it should be
done upon conservative lines. A
republican system of finance that
shall be in harmony w’ith our republi
can system of government. [Cheers.]
And w r e believe in the use of two
metals, as Washington did, as Madi
son did, as Franklin, and Monroe,
and Abraham Lincoln did ; and ev
erybody did until a few purse-proud
European capitalists put it into the
minds of a few 7 weak-minded Ameri
can statesmen that idea of inaugurat
ing a system for the benefit of a class
of people who lived by usury and not
by 7 the sw 7 eat of their faces. [Cheers.]
Now, my friends, “With charity for
all and malice toward none,” I abjure
you and I appeal to you, w’ithout dis
tinction of party, to investigate these
questions, and to investigate them
honestly 7 , and, for the sake of human
ity, for the sake of your families, and
for the countless posterity that is to
follow In this country, I ask that you
shall lay aside in this great political
contest in this year of our Lord 1892,
that you
LAY ASIDE POLITICAL IDOLATRY ;
that you shall establish strength;
that you shall investigate, and hav
ing found the truth, that you shall
show the world that you have the
courage of your convictions, and that
you will have the courage to go to
the polls and cast your ballot on
honor and not timidity for any 7 man
or woman on the face of the earth.
I ask you to take these matters
into careful account for in my judg
ment we are nearing a fearful crisis.
The republic today is a tinder box,
the train is laid by the long operation
of our past laws and aristocratic
financial system that may be ignited
by a single spark, and in a moment
W’hen you little look for it, in an hour
W’hen you think not, this republic
may be hurled into atoms and led to
bloodshed. As I talk to you this af
ternoon scores of human bodies lie in
the morgue in one of the labor cen
ters of this country; a veritible bat
tle has been fought, and the recur
rence of these things should be
dreaded and avoided by 7 all good men
and women, and it is our duty 7 to
bring to bear upon the solution of
economical questions all the best
heart and best knowledge of this re
public that w r e may bring the ship of
state through the stormy billow’s
safely 7 to the dock, and honor her a
true ship of state upon which w 7 e can
surely 7 embark w’ith our human
freights and destinies and avoid all
the breakers of civil war, and better
than tha 7 , avoid the crushing into
hopeless poverty the great mass of
the laboring poor.
God has reserved to himself the
pow’er and the right to punish those
who oppress the poor, and has said,
“That nation which oppresses the
poor, I w’ill judge.”
Alliance Notice.
To Secretaries of County Alliances:
Brothers : You will please for
ward the credentials of your dele
gates to the State Alliance as soon as
possible to the undersigned, and on
the printed blanks of our order.
You w’ill also write to the State
Secretary 7 and learn from him the
standing of your county Alliance
w’ith the State Alliance, and at once
adjust any 7 claim that is against your
county, so the name of your delegate
can b'e promptly enrolled by the
Committee on Credentials and seated
in the meeting w’ithout any delay to
the meeting or embarrassment to the
delegate.
The committee will meet at the
Farmer’s Alliance Exchange Build
ing in Atlanta, at 10 o’clock a. m.,
on Saturday the 13th day of August
next, and will remain in session until
on Tuesday evening following, when
they W’ill go on to Gainesville.
Attend to this matter suggested at
once. Yours fraternally,
W. B. McDaniel,
Chm. Com. on Credentials.
Faceville, Ga., July 22, 1802.
PLEASE REMEMBER
That Col. C. C. Post having de
clined re-election as chairman of the
executive committee, Brother M. D.
Irwin has been re-elected to that
place. All correspondence intended
for the chairman of the committee
should now be directed to M. D.
Irwin, care Alliance Farmer.
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
State Platform, Adopted at Atlan
ta, July 2Cth, 1392.
We endorse and reaffirm the preamble,
resolutions and platform adopted by the
People’s Partv in national convention as
sembled at Omaha, July 4, 1892. We
indorse the ticket nominated and
pledge the party when it shall come
into power in the State to frame and
administer the laws in the spirit of
the Omaha platform, which is equal
justice to all, and special privileges to
none.
2. We condemn the convict lease sys
tem.
3. We demand rigid economy in all
public masters and inist on every pos
sible reduction of taxation during the
present impoverished condition of the
people.
Ana w’e call public attention to the
fact that the producing interest in both
city and country is bearing more than its
fair share of taxation.
National Platform, Adopted at
Omaha, July 4th, 1892.
Assemnlcd upon the one hundred and six
tecnfli anniversary of the declaration of inde
pendence, the People’s Party of America, in
their first national convention, invoking upon
their action the blessing of the Almighty God,
put forth in the name of the people of this
country, the following preamble and declara
tion of principles; 13
The conditions which surround us best
justify our co-operation; we meet In the
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin. Corrup- j
tion dominates the ballot box, legislatures,
congress, and touches even the ermine of
the bench, *
The people are demoralized ; most of the
states have been compelled to isolate voters
•at polling places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery. Newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled; public
opinion silenced; business prostrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor im
poverished ; and the land concentrating in
the hands of capitalists. The urban work
men are denied the right of organization for
self-protection; imported pauperized labor
beats down their wages ; a hireling standing
army, unrecognized by our laws, is estab
lished to shoot them down, and they are
rapidly degenerating into European condi
tions. The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
for a few, unprecedented in the history of
mankind; and the possessors' of these in
turn despise the republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice, we breed two great
classes—tramps and millionaires. National
power to create money is appropriated to
enrich bondholders; a vast public debt pay
able in legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby
adding millions to the burdens of the peo
ple. Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold by decreasing the value of all
forms of property as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enter
prise and enslave industry. A vast con
spiracy against mankind has been organized
on the two continents and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not met
and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible
social convulsions, the destruction of civil
ization or the establishment of an absolute
despotism.
We have witnessed for more than a quar
ter of a century the struggles of two great
political parties for power and plunder,
while grievous wrongs have been inflicted
upon the suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influence dominating
both these parties has permitted the exist
ing dreadful conditions to develop without
serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us any sub
stantial reform. They have agreed togeth
er to ignore in the coming campaign every
issue but one. They propose to drown out
the cries of the plundered people with the
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de
monetization of silver and the oppression
of the usurers may all be lost sight of.
They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
and children on the altar of mammon; to
destroy the multitude in order to secure
corruption funds from millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation and filled with the
spirit of the grand general-in-chief who es
tablished our independence, we seek to re
store the government of the republic to the
hands of “the plain people” with whose
class it originated.
We assert our purposes to be identical
with the purposes of the national constitu
tion —to form a more perfect union and es
tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the bless
ings of liberty for ourselves and our pos
terity. We declare that this republic can
only endure as a free government while
built upon the 1 ove of the whsle people for
each other, and for the nation ; that it can
not be pinned together by bayonets; but
the civil war is over and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are in name, one united brotherhood.
Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there are no prece
dents in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions amount to
billions of dollars in value, which must
within a few weeks or months, be exchang
ed for billions of dollars of the commodi
ties consumed in their production.
The currency supply is wholly inade
quate to make the exchange. The results
are falling prices; formation of combines
and rings; and the impoverishment of the
producing class.
We pledge ourselves that if given power
we will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation in accordance
with the terms of our platform. We be
lieve that the powers of government—in
other words of the people—should be ex
panded as in the case of the postal service,
as rapidly and as far as the good sense of
an intelligent people and the teachings of
experience shall justify, to the end that op
pression, injustice and poverty shall event
ually cease in the land. While our sym
pathies, as a party of reform, are naturally
upon the side of every proposition which
will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous
and temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions —important as they are—
as secondary to the great issues now press
ing for solution and upon which not only
our individual prosperity but the very exist
ence of free institutions depend, and we
ask all men to first help us to determine
whether we are to have a republic to ad
minister, before we differ as to the condi
tions upon which it is to be administered,
believing that the forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move for
ward until every wrong is righted and
equal rights and equal privileges securely
established for all men and women of this
country.
We declare, therefore:
1. That the union of the Labor forces of
the Uniled States this day consummated
shall be permanent and perpetual. May
its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva
tion of the republic and the uplifting of
mankind.
2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it,
and every dollar taken from industry with
out an equivalent is robbery. “If any will
not work, neither shall he eat.” The in
terests of rural and civic labor are the
same; their enemies are identical.
3. We believe that the time has come
when railroad corporations will either own
the people or the people must own the rail
roads : and should the government enter
upon the work of owning and managing all
railroads, we. should favor an amendment
to the constitution by which all persons
engaged in the government service shall be
placed under a civil service regulation of
the most rigid character, so as to prevent
an increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addition
al government employes.
We demand a national currency, safe
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, a full legal teuder for all
debts, public and private, and that with
out the use of banking corporations; a just,
equitable and efficient means of distribu
tion direct to the people at a tax not to ex
| ceed 2 per cent per annum be provided as
' set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the
1 Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system;
also by payment in discharge of its ob
ligations for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of the cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the coun
try should be kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand,
that all state and national revenues shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
the government economically and honestly
administered.
We demand that postal savings banks be
established by’ the government for the safe
deposit of the earnings of the people and
to facilitate exchange.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity, the govern
ment should own and operate the railroads
in the interest of the people. The tele
graph and the telephone, like the postal
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and op
erated by the government in the interest of
the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the
people and should not be monopolized for
speculative purposes, and alien ownership
of land should be prohibited. All lands
now held by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs, and
all lands now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and held foj
actual settlers only.
Supplemental Resolutions.
Whereas, other questions have been present
ed for our consideration, we hereby submit
the following, not as a part of the platform of
the People’s Party, but as resolutions expres
sive of the sentimr nt of this convention.
First—Resolved, That we demand a free bal
lot and a fair count in all elections and pledge
ourselves to secure it to every legal voter
without federal intervention through the
adoption by the States of the unperverted
Australian or secret ballot system.
Second—Resolved, That the revenue derived
from a graduated income tax should be applied
to the reduction of the burden of taxation now
resting upon the domestic industries of this
country.
Third—Resolved, That we pledge our sup
port to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union
soldiers and sailors.
Fourth—Resolved, That we condemn the
fallacy of protecting American labor under
the present system, which opens our ports to
the pauper and criminal classes of the world,
and crowds out our wage earners; and we de
nounce the present ineffective laws against
contract labor, and demand the further re
striction of undesirable immigration.
Fifth—Resolved, That we cordially pympa
thize with the efforts of orga tized working
men to shorten the hours of labor, and demand
a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour
law on government work, and ask that a pen
alty clause be added to the said law.
Sixth—Resolved, That we regard the main
tenance of a large standing army of mercena
ries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a men
ace to our liberties, and w*e demand its aboli
tion ; and we condemn the recent invasion of
the territory of Wyoming by the hired assas
sins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officials
Seventh—Resolved, That we commend to the
favorable cons.deration of the people and the
reform press the legislative system know’ll as
the initiative and referendum.
Eight—Resolved, That we favor a constitu
tional provision limiting the office of President
and vice-President to one term, and providing
for the election of Senators of the United
States by a direct vote of the people.
Ninth—Resolved, That we oppose any sub
sidy or national aid to an private corporation
for any purpose.
“The People’s Party at the outset to secure
permanent control of the party organization of
the people unaffected by the interests of those
in public service does hereby in national con
vention assembled at Omaha on the 4th of
July, 1892, establish this ordinance as funda
mental law of party organization, viz: No per
son holding any office or position of profit,
trust or emolument under the federal or any
state or municipal government, including Sen
ators, Congressmen and members of the Leg
islature, State and local, shall be eligible to sit
or vote in any convention of this party, and a
copy of this ordinance shall be annexed by ev
ery call for any future convention of the par
ty.”
RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY.
Resolved, That this convention sympathizes
with the Knights of Labor in their righteous
contest with the tyrannical combine of cloth
ing manufacturers of Rochester and declares
it to be the duty of all who hate tyranny and
oppression to refuse to purchase the goods
made by said manufacturers or to patronize
any merchants who sell such goods.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The chairmen, secretaries and
others friendly to the People’s cause
in the various Militia districts in the
several counties of the Fifth con
gressional district are requested to
send their names to me at once, so
that we may put ourselves in close
touch and harmony for the approach
ing campaign. Immediate action re
quested. L. P. Barnes,
Sec. Fifth Cong. Dist.,
E. Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga.
June 28, 1892.
NOTICE.
♦
The Congressional Convention of
the People’s Party of the Eleventh
district of Georgia will meet at Jesup
in Waycross county, on August 3,
at 10 o’clock a. m., tor the purpose of
nominating a candidate for Congress.
Let every county in the district be
represented and come prepared to
perfect the organization of a com
pany for the purpose of establishing
a reform paper in the district.
S. L. Bishop, (By request.)
Carroll County.
All People’s Party men are hereby
requested to attend a mass meeting
to be held at Carrollton on Monday,
the first day of August next, for the
purpose of electing delegates to at
tend the Congressional convention
which meets at West Point on the
third of August next. Other busi
ness of importance will come before
the body.
J. W. H. Russell,
Chm. Ex. Com. People’s Party.
iWhitfleld County.
There will be a mass meeting of
People’s Party at Dalton, Ga., on the
second Saturday in August, for the
purpose of electing delegates to go
to Cartersville to nominate a candi
date for the seventh congressional
district.
Hon. Thus. E. Watson’s Address
Should be Read by the Millions,
The friends of Reform cannot do
a better thing for the cause than to
circulate the address of Hon. Thos.
E. Watson, which appeared in the
People’s Party Paper of March
17th.
In order that it may be circulated
at very small cost, we will put it into
a two page supplement form and fur
nish it to the people at 75 cents per
hundred copies, or in smaller num
bers, not less than ten, at one cent
?ach.
Send in your orders.
Bring the matter before your Sub-
Alliance, union or lodge, and have
the Secretary order a lot.
This address places the whole sit
uation clearly before the people, and
wherever read will greatly strengthen
the People’s cause.
Address orders, with the money,
to People’s Party Paper,
Atlanta, Ga.
SHEARER MACHINE WORKS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Engines, Boilers and Mills.
Also repair locomotive engines and all kinds of
Machinery, Engines. Boilers, Mills,
Gins, Pumps, Presses, Elevators, Etc.
Repair machinery at your place and furnish
plans for mills.
Send in your portable engines for repairs.
All orders filled promptly.
FOR SALE.
One 5 horse power Woodtaper and Moss en
gine on wheels, good as new.
One Stationary engine, 12x18, very cheap.
SHEARER IS AN ALLIANCEMAN.
435 LUCKIE ST. TELEPHONE 1418.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
FRICK COMPANY.
ECLIPSE ENGINES
ERIE CITY IRON WORKS ENGINES AND
| BOILERS, AUTOMATIC STATIONERY
EN G INES.
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GINS FROM $2 TO $2.50 PER SAW.
Boilers, Saw Mills, Moore Co. Corn Milla
Pratt Gins, Seed Cotton Elevators, Cane Mills,
Cotton Presses, Wagon and Platform Scales, Foos
Scientific Grinding Mills, Hoe’s Chisle-Tooth
Saws, Shingle Machinery, Wood-Working Machin
ery, Shafting, etc.
MALSBY & AVERY,
Southern Managers.
81 South Forsyth Street, ATLANTA, GA.
Catalogue by mentioning this paper.
THE CORN BELT
Offers the greatest opportunities to actual far
mers and homeseekers of any section in the
United States. The soil is unexcelled for fer
tility. Water good. Climate temperate and
very healthful; settled by intelligent and
{progressive people, with the best of social, re
igious and educational advantages.
Land is now rapidly appreciating in value,
but the best improved land can be bought
at from $6 to $lO per acre and good improved
farms from $lO to sls per acre.
Fifteen years residence in this section, five
of them spent in locating settlers, has given
me a thorough acquaintance with the land in
this section.
Full information as to the country with
{prices, terms and description of a large list of
and which can be bought yery cheap, will be
given by addressing
E. S. JOHNSTON,
„ Mitchell, S. D.
Third Congressional District.
Chairmen of county Executive
Committees in third district are re
quested to select delegates to the
Congressional convention at Ameri
cus, on the 2d of August. Send
large delegations—ten or more.
Each county is entitled to twice as
many votes as members in the lower
House.
W. T. Christopher, Chm’n.
J. D. McGhee, Sec’y.