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VOL III. NO. 48.
THET YOUNGSTER’S SONQ.
L 'kin't ,t«uK«r, tons mioRs ago has ohauged ou t
'ML Iht. very nothin’ bat the
■WSjBUI hlc town hub
LcsJleit Coe; Camp, and ev’rjr
it Freodam
EjlJmco't in front of old Bill's teat and make
n otiim’ mokes onr sort of men as happy
|y ^ wit" shont in; and crack of gun, we used to
r laSfishtond tail right and try our strength, till
l" race,
L, half tho night, was spent, laugh, drink
.j,,.,, n o'd go, with curse anti to
la old Bill's tent.
L 0I) ly one tkot didn’t drink, er carry on, er
in lickTv,’ air and they’d sont him here for Col-
Hliras orado uigster * only, hut he made ranch-
a vo tie
men’mad lookad solemn when acted
■jssiii.o H extra im had, so we
Hg ■ ce Sunday the catnp night was the stilt, noise eased up, and soon
Bp ■ i«tb ono o'er on the us hill; stood and watehed tho moon
rise happened, but it looked
■ rioB’t know how it so
■ rurc and calm, dropped his
Blteterry I tough ranchman voice
and stayed his atui.
I I jjj then, before a move wrs made, thet young-
stor, thar by me, soft and clear, “My Faith
■ ■ Jigan to sing, to
■ Looks up to Thee.”
jnd in a minute hats was off, and ev’ry head
■ Ipthem was bowed, aud sweet, and
I old words rang true
softouod up thet crowd.
II K tadn’T heard him, the solium tune since X was
|ii(i siithin’swelled young as in throat, aud then
I np my
I my eyes got dim; how brave he thet
I is he sung ou, 1 thought was
I crowd to face, joined him
led so X took a mighty breathl and
with the base.
Ben Denver Dick begun to sing, and soon the
whole rough crowd
fas shoutin’out that good old tune invoices
deep and loud; didn’t
fe hadn’t pretty voices, and some know
a word grandest thing that
But, stranger, it was tho
mortal ever hoard.
Anil when the hymn was done, we Baid good¬
night and wont our way, well deserted
And old bill’s tout was pretty
from thot day; night we’d meet and sing
For ev’rv liyinn Sunday a
or two, ol
And mixin’ hymns and rum, you see. course
would never do.
Yes, stranger, things lias changed out hero;
wo ve got our churches now,
And you could live here ail your life and never
The good has drove the had away, and all this
change, the you chop see, thet sung, “My Faith Looks
is owin’ to
up to Thee.”
T11E REVERSED Y EKD1CT
__
•Tem Blake was shot dead itihis own
doorway by Antonio Gueldo, and the
trial was to come off directly.
The extraordinary interest in the
affair was less due to the murder and
its peculiar circumstances than to the
fact that this was the first case tried
at San Saba in any more fonnal
than the time honored
Judge Lynch. specially
, As there was no place ar-
ranged , for . tins trial, Judge vuthwin Bitblado
hospitably offeredAim use of I ts shed.
Berea rough tab c and chan were
placed lot the Judge, the ot ^
Fary furniture, intended to represent
thcdock, the stand, eta, l^ing eked
out with boxes Horn . lias L.gg.ts
grocery store.
Jake Smith looked at , these .. ^
rations fora time with frowning dis-
content and then strolled down the
road turning into the lane that led
to Blakes. When he reached t ie
door of the shanty he leaned
the iamb and poked his naked head
inside, fanning himself in an
barrassed way with his greasy frag¬
ment of a hat. He had come there
with the intention of saying some¬
thing, but the sight within made him
forget it. had
Blake’s widow sat there, as she
pretty much all the time since the
murder, staring straight before her,
with her chin on her palm. The sun¬
light struck through the foliage of
the red oak trees that grew before the
door, and checkered with the flicker-
ing brightness the floor and the cradle
in which Jem’s baby was sleeping.
Iliere it was, just . . asAt 5* i,»ri liaa hocn i _en
just a 9 H°h-id it ha t been when she
went out that morning to look a c r
the drying clothes ana lertnimsLd
mg in the door by the cradle (.now
fond he was of the baby!) >;, ot
was when she heard the cn ‘ c
pistol and ran in with an awful sense
of suffocating fright—just the■ same
as when she had found hi ni lying ipo
the cradle, dabbling its white linen
with his blood, and the bany piawng
with his hair. She screamed once,
the first and last complaint any ouo
had heard her make; then s .f
quiet and helpful through H
when men came and lifted het iiri ,
when they laid her on the rough >ul
SI? “in» !rm,_
"itt tte baby ID bet ^ d
Jake Smith was ^ ing t ° L
SS lexftv u o5 h some! He
smffed thing—and Hffan th Biake Perplexity ner s widow looke or sc i r
without speaKiDg.
pleasantly lour or five times.
"Pooty chipper, asked m.
Blake’s widow smiled 8 ® a B
over the sleeping child anu smooine
the clothes with a tender touch.
“They’re agoin’ to try nun ilia
court,” Jake went on, ‘an 1 110,11
believe-”
who—Antonia? . bee ,, turned
“Try Iu the door
toward the burly figure her Muck
with a flash of interest in
eyc»- ..
out all right, but it seems like giving
lie'll "
oughtn't ter have.
■•He can’t get clear, can her’ she
asked, rocking the cradle gently and
nattinff doAt'see the coverlet
“I how but lies got some
kind & of a law cu6S ter speak for him—
»
two ago on Lis way 10 1
and it makes me kind o’ nervous.”
Blake’s widow did not appear to
notice the lust remark, for the child,
disturbed bv the talking, had awak-
I >;-bo!o*k nPin ' ,,St ' r;UliCWlth:l
wo' ‘Toot vf Vi Mr he?" «aki Jake, re
the small figure with
THE
1
jest. “Looks just like—altotu—you.
Poor little—1—a—” he stammered,
treated his hat like a mortal
enemy. “Of course he’d had—you’ve
got—there's nothin’I can do fer yer,
maybe?”
She answered with a grateful look,
hut It was accompanied with a shake
of the head.
•Jake bent down, and with his big
forefinger softly rumpled the hair, of
the baby’s head. Then he went out
and left them, Blake’s widow sitting
as he found her and the baby star-
ing down the path after him.
He walked on until he reached the
top of the little hill, where he could
look down upon the roof which cov¬
ered tho piteous scrr.a be had just
left. Hero he seemed to have half a
mind to turn back, for be hesitated
and stopped; but he changed his par¬
tial intention after lingering a mo-
ment, and walked meditatively on¬
ward, with the exclamation: “Wal,
some women do beat the d—1
amazin’.”
Of course, everybody came to the
trial. The arrangements were soon
found to be altogether too meager.
Pitblado’s shed was filled to overflow¬
ing, and Bagget made a clean sweep
of every empty box in his store.
Antonio’s lawyer, a sharp-eyed,
sharp-featured fellow from Galveston,
had bustled about with surprising
agility on the day previous, holding
mysterious conferences with ill-con¬
ditioned fellows of Gueldo’s kidney.
The court was assembled, the jury
had been chosen, and the witnesses
were all present save one—Blake’s
widow.
Pretty soon there was a stir at the
door, then a murmur of surprise ran
through the crowded room.
“May I bed—d!” said Jake Smith,
audibly, “If she isn’t brought her
bob!”
What reason she may have had for
not leaving the little thing in charge
of some sympathizing woman—and
there were plenty who would have
been glad of the trust—was not ap¬
parent. However that might he,
there it was, clasped firmly in her
its bright red cheeks contrast-
Big with her whiteness, ana its
father’s sunny hair mingling with her
dark locks.
With some difficulty way was made
through the throng to her seat, which
had been placed on one side of the
Judge, directly opposite the candle
box, on the other, where Antonio sat.
She took her place and never moved
. . , f th tria , eKcent .
jnf{ ag ghe wa8 required to testify, and
once when the baby tugged at some
glistening thing that lay hidden in
the folds of her dress, at which she
took pains t0 dtetract its attention
wjth & chip % from the floor. As for
lhc babv - it at there wita its big
blue eyes f open £ to their fullest extent,
entlre y ab rbed m the novel scene,
sav0 at the momcn t when that tr¬
reg j 8t j b i e gutter caught its eye.
Every one being present, the trial
ffont on , n g 00rt earnest. A number
Qf witnesses we ro examined, whose
testimouy showed that Gueldo had
had trouble with Biake , an d more
thaB once threatened his life; that
GueWo , e Digtol wa8 one charge empty
QU thQ evenln(f of the day of the mttr-
whereas in the morning it had
been full; that he was seen that
morning around Blake’s house, and
more than that, Blake’s widow had
heard Gueldo’s voice just before tho
fatal shot, and had seen him retreat¬
ing as she ran out
At this last point the Galveston
lawyer asked the witness a few ques¬
tions regarding how she knew it was
Gueldo’s, and how she had recognized
the voice for his. She didn’t know
exactly, but was none the less sure
for that.
There had been a rumor about that
gome Qnc had heard Antonio make a
boast of “ havin S d(jne for Blake this
time,” but if there was a witness for
^ couH not be foimd Dow .
And so the prosecution closed.
The Galveston lawyer began by in-
70 i v ing in a whirlwind of helpless
contradiction the witness who had
fj t() having se en Gueldo near
c>g hoU3& Then he expatiated
thc case witb which one person
may be raista ^en for another, and
broughtw jt n esses to show how Gueldo
^ a , ready been 8a j d to resemble
one in the village. Finally he
produced three of the lil-conditioned
fellows before referred to, who swore
t j ia t Antonio was with them on a
j )un ^j nf , expedition during the whole
»< «■«< ;« «" ' rt * h «“™
»1«» CM. of allbt M
Smith’s astonishment at the ease with
the thing had been accom-
pli5hed was unbounded. He threw
;i d . s g ugted ]f0k -toward Pitblado, but
the Judge was nonplussed and dkln t
seem to be interested with things in
Jake’s vicinity. jury,” said he,
“Gentlemen of the
"the trial took a turn I didn’t alto-
gether expect I don’t know as there’s
to be said. I s’pose you’ve got
to g0 t, y the evidence, an’ that don’t
anv explainin’. Ef you kin
" that, that
Ill;lko otlt accordin’ ter
VntODl0 Gueldo killed Jem Blake,
t m „ ll!e , t that’s what yer
here fur.”
^i te smau a»»ut M bq
U* and cs ^* of
rd tbe clump
utin«. /
uudertonc AuU/nio talked with and hi- lauded touusvj, ... iu and an
Blake’s widow sat staring at them
with compressed lips and a stiong ex-
Kiris 0 ' ' icwmi “ u “ ‘” w
I, ,//;/ wasn’t long before the jury Died
in a q ^eating themselves but
‘
the spokesman, , and judge Pitblado
iw, wiping Lis loghead with his
Sh ' r sShtcnrd Lev .ve?”
it out.
mkc:i he. nodcRng tu the_ spokesman-
The man nodded io retain. - -
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE FRANKLIN CO., GA„ FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2.1892.
“Yer see,” said the spokesman,
with a hesitating and disappointed
air, “ef yer hadn’t a-eorralled us with
sticking ter the evidence we might ’a’
done better, but accordin’ to that
Antonio wasn't thar when the mur-
der was done, an’ ef he wasn't thar
he couldn’t ’a’ done it, an’cf he didu’t
do it, why—then~of course he’s—not
guilty. ”
Pitblado didn’t dare to look at any-
body, he stared up at the rafters,
down at tho table, nowhere in pan
ticular, and then turned half way to-
ward the prisoner.
“You kin go,” said he at last, aud
with great deliberation, “but don’t
stay around here too long.”
There was a dead pause, during
which nobody moved.
Jake Smith exploded a single cuss
word which he had held in for some
time past, and Blake’s widow stood
up. through, Judge,”
“Have you got
asked.
“Waal—I—s’pose so.”
“And there is nothing else to be
9 ”
“I am afraid there ain’t.”
“And he’s free to go?"
“Y-a-s.”
Antonio Gueldo arose with an inso¬
grin and picked up bis hat.
The baby crowed, for it saw the
thing again.
There was a sharprepirt—Antonio the
pitched forward in a he .p upon
door and Blake’s widov/ stood with
the pistol pressed to her breast,
A line of thin blue smoke curled
from the muzzle of the weapon and
formed a halo around the child’s
flaxen head. The glittering thing
was quite near the little hands now,
and they took It from the yielding
grasp of the mother.
Blake’s widow looked steadily at
the figure on the lloor—it was quite
motionless; then she turned and went
through the wide passage opened for
her by the silent crowd, holding the
baby very tenderly, and the baby car¬
rying tho pistol. delight; it
The child laughed with
had got its shining plaything again.
tin welcome Passengers,
Professor Troost, of Nashville, was
a great geologist and ophiologist, the
great gun (at one time) of the State
of Tennessee. ITis private room at
his house was full of snakes, fossils,
turtles, birds, fishes, Indian relics,
etc., all thrown together in the great¬
est confusion.
Everything of the serpent kind he
had a particular fancy for, and always
had a number that he had tamed in
his pockets or under his waist coat.
To loll back in his easy-chair, to talk
about geology, while patting the head
of a large snake twining itself about
hi6 neck, was to him supreme felicity.
As may be conjectured, the professor
considered every one must be, as little
afraid of his crawling pets as himself.
One day he mounted tbe top of a
coach, with a hamper not over well
secured, which he placed near a Bap¬
tist preacher. Tbe latter was just
about falling asleep, when a slight
rustling awoke him. He turned, and
lol beside him two rattlesnakes raised
their crests from the basket, Over
went the preacher on to the driver,
who jumped from the box as soon
as he caught sight of the cause
of tho reverend gentleman’s alarm.
Out, too, turned the inside passengers
as soon as’ the origin of the emmiU
was known; whilst the professor, all
alone in his glory on the roof, quietly
slipped off bis great-coat and tied it
down over the basket, with this con¬
solatory advice to the startled pas¬
sengers: only don’t let desa
“Shentlemen, dey won’t
poor dings pite you, and
hoortyou.”
De-rota Castlgrada.
cq r william Thomas has calculated
that the quantity of fuel required for
each square yard of the solar surface
wou j d be no less than 13,500 pounds
of coal per hour, equivalent to the
W ork of a steam engine of 63,000
horsepower. This enormous expen-
d j tU re of fuel would be sufficient to
me it a thickness of about forty feet
o( tce per minute at the sun’s sur-
face, says the Gentlemen’s Magazine,
Sir j obn Herschel says: “Supposing
a cylinder of ice forty-five miles
Jn d j ame ter to he continually
dart ed into the sun with the velocity
of j iK ht, and that the water produced
by its fusion was continually carried
0 fr the heat now given off constantly
by radiation would then be wholly
">
tte otter, U» 1 C.
tua l temperature at its surface would
unde rgo no diminution.”
A s to the actual temperature at the
9Un , 88ur f ace) various estimates have
^ eea lna( j c different computers.
gecchi supposed it to be about 10,-
000,000 degrees of the centigrade
thermometer and Sporer 37,000 de-
j, reeS of the same-scale, while M.
p ou iilet thinks that it lies between
j 401 arid 1,761 degrees. G M. Bee-
’ Langley and Sir William
q uere l, Prof
Thomson consider that the tempera-
t ure of the solar photosphere cannot Ac-
CXC eed 3.000 degrees centigrade.
c ., rdjn „ t o >1. Saint Claire Devilie
the j<m temperature Us is somewhere about
di V. a800 degree s.
Au luEenion contrivance Is shortly
expected to endow street life with
-sd a/UHr.n-il t 1 Interest t . The machine is
u appeaia comtortaUe cab]
Sing , . . *
’ a tncvcTe to
- be.
as h \ metal box or cistern
oil, from which, while the machine
i? in motion, the gas required in the
motor is generated. A quart, or
about three cents worth, of oil is ail
that is required for a drive of ten
miles, which can be accomplished in
Lour. The Vehicle beflds feWr per-
ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
Hatters of Moment Wtiioli Concern tHo
Order and Its Members.
To the Alliance: Get together. Par¬
tisanship marching liaa done its worst. the The balance cause
goes on. It will be
of power in the keystone of government
—the United States Senator in 1898.
Now the election is over. Bury your
political differences and let’s got down to
business. Let all true Alliance men, no
matter how they organization. voted, take more political inter-
eat in the All
campaigns tend to the injury of the Al-
liance, but the right kied of efforts will
always reunite us. Let political discus-
sion stop for the present.—Exchange.
*%
J. H. McDowell, president of the
Tennessee State Alliance, deserves much
credit for the able, direct, and straight¬
forward manner in which he has met
and answered all the campaign false¬
hoods that have been flooding his Stae.
Brother McDowell can console himself
with the reflection that under the best
apple tree tbe clubs and stones are most
abundant.—National Economist.
***
The estimate according to latest elec-
tion returns of seven senators, represent-
ing Farmer’s Alliance principles, and
acting independent of the old parties, ia
conservative and may be exceeded. It
will be readily seen that the reform sen-
ators will be tho balance of power in
this, the most important branch of the
government, and will hold a position in
the aff.irs of the nation of vital impor-
tance; most of the greatest outrages ever
perpetrated upon medium a people legislation, of a nation, have
through tbe of
emanated from this branch of congresa,
and it is well that reform it grafted in
the keystone of the government,
***
ENORMOUS LAND HOLDINGS.
The Vanderbilts own over 20,000,000
acres of land. Some one has recently
said that “in the early years of the
twentieth century there will be a billion-
aire in this country, and it will be a Van-
derbilt." Should things go on as they
are get Tag at the present time, there
will be more than one billionaire in the
coming century. Lees than thirty five
years ago millionaires were as sca’ce aa
“hen’s teeth” in this land, but, through af¬
the mismanagement of Government
fairs. under cl «ss legislation and corrupt
politicians, and the machination* of Wall
street, they have multiplied as thistles in
a wheat field in the form of corporation*,
combines and syndicates, until, in every
city of any considerable size ia this coua-
try they are counted by the scores, hund¬
reds or thousands. There is one man,-
Mr. Disston of Pennsylvania, who
owns over 4,000,000 acres of
land. The Standard Oil Company
has 1,000,000 and Murphy, of California,
an area equal to the State of Massachu¬
setts. There are 31,000,000 acres in the
hands of foreigners who are no friends
to Republican form of government, and
owe allegiance to a foreign power. And
last but not least, tbe railroad companies
own 211,000,000 acres of land, which
has come into their hands through the
land grant system, and which could be,
under the law of “eminent domain” re-
stored to the people of these United
States for settlement. In other words
that one corporate system alone controls
enough “earth” to raako six States as
largo as the commonwealth of Iowa.
With taxes so high, and the burden of
them falling upon the producer sharks and la-
boring man, with the money so
eager to oppress the weak, and the rapid
growing tendency toward landlordism,
it is, indeed, a vital producers, question, who for con- the
trols the American
toilers of the land to ponder, agitate and
vote over.—Great West (Minnesota,)
A
TOILING ON.
The masses of humanity today are
toiling nnd pinching and saving from
one year’s end to the other, and they re-
ceive only a miserable and nothing pit ance is upon laid
which to subsist, this iu
aside for a rainy day. We see our
immediate neighborhoods—men with
families to support, who barely earn the
food they eat, and are unable to procure
sufficient clothing to keep them comfort-
able. The outlook is dark to them, that
their children must inherit only hard-
ship and toil growing mwe severe with
each succeeding year Wh-re shall rebel
be found? W,» the plutocrat release his
grip on tbe taroat of the toiler, or the
bondsman grow weary of turning in o
his coffers the earnings of his slaves.
m.. a
P hI
, Sft4 its warning voice, a’n crying
from tbe shores of Ireland alarm
mildo more terrible by contrast with
the h( , ppy past . p a „per labor pre-
v«ils throughout the old countri «, and
the tendencies in this country are in
the same direction. Aliens are con-
stantly securing immense tracts of land
in this country, and every effort is being
made to control legislation in the inter-
est of the plutocrat, and against th*
small farm-r and tbe laborer. Toiling
on, day a f ter day, the laborers have a! -
lowed these wrongs to p.s* unot ced,
until now their removal wtll require
herculean efforts. Tbe wisest counsels
must prevail and organization must he
SJiSX
can people have weapons ail powerful in
'be b.l,ot.lb., nokl »
cast. It is no longer a question wins, but o(
whether this or that par y
human liberty fe at stake, and a rcvolu-
tion must take place in order that labor
may receive the hire of which it is de.
8erv * r 'g. Laboring men, before you is a
t.
( {of th9 wor ^ tt0W . to delay means tbe
aW £ U j arbitrament of force. Wait not
for the resolution will bora be of ballots; despair. To-
da y your blows to mor-
r , m you ma y a ow dragons’ teeth in fui-
rows of a present opportunity—Alliance
Advocate.
¥
\way with it
which th® farmer* haa brought of the sotuh. nothing but evil to
The cduor of the Observer has a right
to express lus opinion about the Alliance
l'iahir to Im ndst^ken > ' r 'The'Alliance has
or charge that the Alliance has caused
the fanners to lie discontented, aud many
of them have gone so far as to . reak
away from former pol tical associations.
O’ 1 iImi. tfi>h 'n m tp d live
Alliance has done great things. Its work,
its value would last for years if tho or-
ganiz-tioo was dead. As an educator
and moulder of opinion it has worked
wonders. In dollars and cents it has
been worth ten times what it has ever
cost ita membership. It has benefited
those who have taken any interest. But
a good many have joined for the tbeir order for
selfish purposes, some own par¬
ticular schemes, and others for tho pur¬
pose of holding the membership in their
respective parties. Some of them have
church beeu disappointed. ana not benefited. Many joia The fact the
are
that they join is no evidence that they
are or will be benefited. Often they are
not, but that is no proof that the Christian
church is a failure.
For years the plutocrats and those who
live in the aunahine of their smiles, have
wanted to see the Alliance killed. Jmt
now there seems to be weak places in the
lin< a. They are going to make a rush in
the next few weeks to break through,
But we think we know the farmers of the
country too well to fear the results. If
shoit prices, unequal laws, bold extor-
tion, abuse enough, bus not already beeu
heaped upon the farmers of this country
to arouse them to their sense of danger
and to the importance of building up the
Alliance, we do not unaeie and why.
Very few sane men will deny It. Now
the question ia: Will the farmers of the
State and No ion allow the plutocrats to
by tbe prejudices of the people call it a
crime for a man to channe hi* political
View*. “A wi*e man may change; a
fool. never.” By that quotation because we he do
not mean that a man is a fool
never changes his way of votioir. But
common sense teaches that any and
all men can, if not satisfied with one
way, change to what they believe is bet-
ter. It makes no difference whether the
peraon doing so makes a mistake or does
not.
But what do the farmers think of the
assertion that the Alliance has done no
good, but much evil? True ihe organi-
zation has made mistakes. Its members
individually have. So his the editor of
the Observer. We do not boast that the
utterly ruin their orcaniz .ti .n and ulti-
mately the farmers themselves, or will
tbey be true to their owu interests and to
their country? Brethren, the carnpa.uu
is over. Lay aside your partisan preju-
aices and get together.
4
* *
the national meet i.No
The annual national meeting at Mem¬
phis from was fully attended, of the union representatives being in
every pari at¬
tendance. accomplished, Much which important work was
we will touch upon
later.
In tbe election of officers H, L.
Loucks, of South Dakota, was re-elected
president; Marion Butler, of North Caro-
line, vice pres dent; L. H. Taylor of
Nashville, secretary; Ben Terrell, of Tex-
as, national secretary; members of the
executive board: L. Leonard, of Missouri;
Mann Page, of Virginia; I. E. Caun, of
New York; H. C. Deming, of Pennsyl-
vania.
Other officers chosen are as follows:
j^rion Butler, of North Carolina, vice
; president; Benjamin Terrel, of Texas,na-
tional lecturer; L. K. Taylor, of Texas,
editor of the Toiler, secretary and treas-
urer . Leaverett Leonard, of Missouri,
Mann, of Virginia, H. C. D mining, York, of
Pennsylvania, J. E. DenB, of New
members ot the executive committee,
The following demands were adopted
by the national alliance:
FINANCE.
We demand a national currency, safe,
sound and fl xible, issued by the govern¬
ment only, a full legal tender for all
debts, public or private, and that with¬
out tbe use of bankingcorporations; distrib¬ just,
equitable and efficient means of
uting direct to the people at a tax not to
exceed — per cent., to be proviUed plank of as the set
forth iu the sub-treasury
Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system;
also by payments in the discharge of its
obligation We demand for public improvement. and unlimited
(a) the free
coinage of silver and gold at tho legal
ratio of 18 to 1.
(b) We demand that the amount of
eircula’ing medium be increased to at
least $50 per capita, exclusive of legal
reserves.
(c) We demand a graduated income
tax.
(d) That our national legislation shall
be so framed in tbe future as not to build
up one industry at tho expense of
another.
(e) We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as pos¬
sible in tho hands of the people, and
hence we demai d that ail national and
state revenue shall be limited to the nec¬
essary expenses and of the admini-tered. government eco¬
nomically honestly savings
(fl We dimand that postal
banks be established by the government
for the safe deposit for the earnings of
the people and to facilitate exchanges.
LAND.
The land, including all natural resour¬
ces of wealth, is the heritege of the peo¬
ple and should not be mononoliz- d for
speculative purposes, and alien owner¬
ship of land should by be railroads prohibited. and other All
lands dow held
corporations in excess of tbeir setual
needs, and lands dow owned by aliens
should now be reclaimed by tho govern¬
ment and sold for actual settlers only.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation being the means of ex¬
change and a public necessity, the gov¬
ernment should own and opperate rail-
toads ia the interest of the people.
(») Telegraph and telephone, like the
post office system, being a necessity for
the transmission of intelligence should
be owned and opperated by the govern¬
ment in the interest of the people.
WILL ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Dr. Macune is preparing an address
which will be rigned by delegates from
every souiliern state, and which seta
z±t>£s&i£S2% the political faction of the
.(eleg^to* as .ml'under his leadership
third party
, ho wi „ endeavor to swing the
organization, as a body, into line with
tho leaders of tint third party, and the
Wf—If*- ”*»
bo lo9t -
P1?f|PT liJUlJJlJU fix PuniV lfiilil I UUfJUltli,. fllillMN
Current Comment Concerning Hie Great
Crusade Against Oppression.
The siimy monster of capitalism of this fi ts
now almost entire possession wrapped coun¬
try. Iis piebald tail is com¬
pletely around the press, aud thu free
] Reboots and tiie stump will go next.—
Cleburne Piowboy.
* *
President Lincoln coco said: “They
(tho politicians) will work upon tho prej¬
udice* of tho people until tho republic is
ruined." That danger still threatens.
The recent campaign was full of sugges¬
tions along that line.
* #
Tho money robbed from the working
people by the corporations and tiusts, is
! being used iu pan “v flooding them with
| Every lying sheets, trying to is deceive paid for them. with
paper sent out
blood money.—The Coming Cri is.
Be of good heart, ’ ye men of the fields
and men 0 f t j, e dl0 Pi vv ) 10 j mV e pledged
yourselves to keep this nation a govern-
, Ile ut of the pc pie, by the people aud for
the people I The spirit though ot the ago fight
jn ttli , r nks Wltll U ju, all unseen,
says the Chioago Vanguard.
*
_ Last year kunsas „ had . 00,000,000 „„ bush- . ,
el " of wheat* which sold at about an nv-
j of 7o cents per bushel, wide i
i amounted to $4o,000,000. ih is year c
have 70,000,000 bushels of better wheat,
winch sells, we m*y say, at 50 cents per
Dushi-1 amounting to $85,000,001). Coal
18 tho higher, taxi a no lower, officials interest all safe, jus
same, salaries of
freight rates all right Who pays tho
bills! Beacon, Great Bend,
No sentence in Blaine’s Ophir speech
rends more significantly than its close,
“It is interesting and mggestive to look
j over the platform of tho two parties and
; how much alike tbey are in several
vital men ures after the realand decisive
* 8KWl 8 bttVe b( I en 8,t d ec l- R parties
» ira to discover and define those
subjects on which thire is a vital differ-
w ." co of opinion and would define discus-
sion to those issiu-s, it would not only
simplify the contest and bo a welc me
relief to the candidates, bat would also
greatly help in arriving at the truth,
which is the ultimate object election.”—Ex. of popular
discussion and popular
THE AORE8BIVENES8 OF CAPITAL.
Capita), in the midst- of ever increas¬
ing wealth, refuses to allow labor to
share in the wealth produced. them down It con¬ tho
trols wag's and keeps to.
mere subsistence point. Labor resist'';
it s rikes for higher wages; it is locked
out, and non union or competitive This is labor the
is employed thumb-screw in its place. of torture f<
turn of the r
labor; it is work at tho wages ■ ffered
or starve. Labor, knowing that its life
depends upon organ zation, attacks ns its
deadly foe non union labor; then capi¬ of
tal calls toils aid t’ie military powers
State ami nation, and labor is coerced
and rendered power! ss. Peace, under
such circumstances, is ' elusive; it is the
ponce of p'ostration—of subjugation—it
is If peace capital enforced succeeds by in bayonet. breaking labor
up
organizations and enslaving the workets,
the decline and fall of the Republic is
certain. An overpowering monopolistic through
civilization, doomed to perbb its
own weakness and corruption, will be tbe
next stage in tho growth of society. If,
however, t he people nrc sufficiently strong
to terlocked resist the and aggressiveness intertwined of capital, is in¬
ns it with all
the p wers of church and state; if, though
political methods and the introduction ol
industrial co-operation, an entire ehang
of wealth the industrial becomes system equitably is iff'-cted, distributed, and
then the future prosperity of th- nation
is assured. The turmoil of war wil! cease,
and peace and prosperity will be the
common heritage of aii the people,—The
Sociological News.
GEN. WEAVEIl ISSUES AN ADDHESS.
General Weaver has issued an address
congratulating the People’s Party on the
splendid work during the campaign and
in the presidential election. He sounds
a note of warning as to whnt vicious leg¬
islation may be expected from the party
in the ascendancy. The address further
says;
“Unaided by money our grand young nnd
party has made an enviable record
achieved surorising success at the polls.
We are but little b hind the republican carried.
warty in the number of states
Not being formed on sectional lines, our
partv in a single campaign has gained a
largo and influential following in every
stHte in the south. The conritry is to be
congratulated upon the fact that the lead¬
ers of oue of the heretofore great parties
have been abandoned and overthrown by
the people and their organization well
nigh annihilated. The accession of the
other party to power is a result of vio¬
lent reaction, and not, I am sure,, of
the deliberate judgment of the Am rican
people. The new administration will ig-
nore three great contentions of modern
times, relating to land, money and trans¬
portation, and will not attempt to solve
either. 'I he urgent demand of the peo¬
ple for the fr<’o coinage of stiver is to be
disdainfully ignored aud gdb of the most
valuable results of the late civil war,
that of a uniform legal-tender is currency be sacri¬
is-ued by the government, to
ficed and abandoned and serious attempts
made to force the peopie to return to the
fraudu’ent svatem of state bank i-suea.
“Our party has not made its advent too
soon. Its mission fe to restore to our
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—03P THE—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
government ila original and only legitl-
sjrs.'xr^rai
we must occupy it without delay.”
PRICES AND QUALITY.
Wheat ia now lower in ihe market*
than evor in the history /.hi.h of the country,
.«0h.. e . t .l,o Pro-
gresslvo farmer adds:
Cotton has been down to five cen s a
pound, and is now only about seven cents.
Sheep and cattle are selling at a lower
(iguro than has ruled far twenty five
years. Silver bullion is lower than it
has been in a hundnd years. What is the
cause of these l<-w priced and anomalous
conditions, wo may say, when wo con¬
sider ih" great demand there is for all of
these commodities? Is th.re too much
bread In this country? Are all the peo¬
ple plentifully supplied with make-up? goods in
which cotton enters into tho
Are tho tables of tho country overloaded
with mutton aud beef? Would not free
coinage of silver relieve the silver glut?
We are constantly reminded that “over¬
production” is the cause of low prices.
Is this true? Is not this so-called over¬
production an artificial—an unnatural
one? Have wo rosily an over-
production of commod tie»—that is
more than we can consume? Is not
this overproduction caused by undercon¬
sumption? Arc the people consuming all
the food, clothing and "thcr commodities
they ought to h»v< ? Certainly rproduction th y are
not. Then why talk of ov.
until cv, ry man, woman and child in this
country is abundantly supplied with not
only ihe necessaries of life but tho luxu¬
ries as well. As long as hunger stalks
the lan<’, why talk of an overproduction poorly
of food? When millions are going of
clad and poorly shod, why talk an
overproduction of clothing and shoes?
There is no overproduction of anything
m this country except foolish peopie who
will accept as I gio this overproduction
fallacy, when observation, common sense
mid reason ought to teach them better.
Give the country a monetary system in
harmony with the demands of our great
commercial interests and that will cou-
forin to our ninetie th century ndvance-
DM iits, and this talk demand of overproduction double the
w II vanish in the for
amount of our productions to-day.
VOWDlUlLV’s ADDRESS.
The annual address of Grand Master-
woikman Powderly to the MXteentli gen-
»rat assembly oi the Knights of Labor,
at St. L uis,” was ex’remoly lengthy, oc¬ He
cupying over an hour in delivery.
urged unity ns against the present dan¬
ger of dis-ension in labor organ /, dions,
an I arum d iu favor of the restrii tion of
immigration, ltofeiring to the strikes
ind lockouts, he mid during the last six
months the people of the land li ,d wit¬
nessed such attempts at making the
power of aggregated wealth su -remo as
was never dreamed of before. Whether
it was at Coeur d’Alene, at Homestead,
at Buff tlo or in Ttnmsseo, the instiuct
which guided ins rap ci us lmud was
the sami'. The underground wires
which directed these attacks all ran to
tiie same cent'r from all these places,
the organ z itio'i of labor will, if they
have sense, tnko tip these questions for
consideration. The railroads are public
highways, belong to the people, and the
wnole peopie should know it. The cam¬
paign just closed Witnessed an interes¬
ting, it not very intelligent discussion
of the tariff, hut there is more of revo-
DUO illegally drawn from the pockets of
merchants, manufacturers and workmen
in one mouth of the year by the railroads
and telegraphs than we pay iu tile tariffs
in a yeur connected
These, ami all questions tbe attention
with them, industrial must organization occupy of the fu¬
of tire
ture, and the strike of the future roust
be the strike for the rule of tho pleased, people,
t hey could decry politics ns they
but they must he politicians or be tho
slaves of politicians. They might
evade tbeir responsibilitj s as c t-
zens, but they are piling big t the writh
which follows neglect • f duty. In a word
they must be law makers or law brenk-
i r»
BIG MONEY AT STAKE.
Litigation to Recover Hie Purchase of
Georgia Central Stock.
At Balt more, Monday, United States
Judce Bond signed an order authorizing
Walter G. Oak man, receiver of the Rich¬
mond and West Point Terminal compa¬
ny, to institute proceeding' to which secure the a
cancellation of the contract hy
Terminal company purchased $12,000,000
of tlie capital stock and $3,553,000 of
(lie collateral trust bonds of the Georgia
Central company.
Mr. Oakmiin is also authorized to in¬
stitute suit to r, cover the money tbe
Tcminal company is alleged to have lost
in the transaction. The order is similar
to one previously passed in New York.
The stocks and bones iu question have
been deposited with the Cential Trust
company of New York as part security-
for t >o issue off$l 1,50(1,000 five percent,
bonds by the Terminal company.
TIIE TKANSACTION.
'Jhc petition alleged that the Terminal
company naid over $7,000,000 for these: that
curiiies of the Georgia company, but
at the time of the purchase they wete
worth only ha)f that sum. It is also al¬
leged’that the purchase was made from
a syndicate, composed in large part of
the directors and officers of the Terminal
company, at least three of its directors
being interested in the syndicate. This
syndicate, it is further alleged, had but a
short time previou-Iy purchased the sc-
(urities at ab ut half tho price received
from the Terminal, nnd in the transac¬
tion tiie Terminal company was repre¬
sented by directors and officers who were
themselves selling to tbe company as
members of the syndicate. So, the peti¬ the
tion declared, tbe sale is voidable «t
op;iou of the Terminal company and that
the directors in question may be called
upon t<>account for their profits and make
good the loss suffered by the company.
The new Marmii Asr rifle, used by Aus¬
tria. drag 120 rouu-is a miuute aul bora is sighted than
at “700 yards. It is.- ot smaller
previous M^nnhcbers. The bullats have in¬
creased veipcity, the weight of the card
ridgei is isjsaned and t-tra recoil is reduce-:
to the minimum. Tnough it rours out »
haiibtoriu of tgjllets it done not become tot
hot to handle.