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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. pMR POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never vanes. A marvel of purity, strength mid wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with-the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Baking Powdkr Co., 106 Wall street, New York. nov!3-ly GRIFFIN FOUNDRY AND' * Machine Works. I \Tc announce (o the Puhl'c that we are IV prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take orders tor all kinds of Boil ers. We are prepared lo do all kinds ol repairin'; on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery. generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam linages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. OSItOIQ A WAM'OTT. rlt OFESSIO SA L CAltltS. | |IC. G. P. t A tII'BUM., DENTIST, McDonough Ga. Any one desiring work done can he ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. Perms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W. Buy an j W.T. Dickkn. IlItVA> A mCKI«< attorneys at law. McDoNOrmi, Ga. Will practice in the. counties composing the FJint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. ° apr37-ly jAHt. 11. Ti inwt. attorney at law, McDoxoosn, Ga. Will practice in (he counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District C ourt. fnarlC.-'y J ( t It DAG t>, attorney at law. McDonough. Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. j 1 IV A 1.1., attorney at law, McDo.nouuh, Ga. Will practice in the counties composingthc Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme ami District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. oct.*- 7J a7i« KO HA. * attorney at law, McDoMornii, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. rin’-ly [j A. IM.KI'MS ' ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court ot the United States. -Special ami prompt atten tiongivento Collections, Get 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewaet. j It, T. Daniel. STEWART A IIAMEI., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. j|lt. It. J. AItVOMI. Hampton. Ga, I hereby tender mv professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal’s night and day. join 1.. TV I). ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, . Atlanta. Ga, Practices in (he State and Federal Courts. For Sale or Kent. TTFE have a splendid farm of Dili acres IT lying 4 mill's from Stock Bridge, Ga., near Flat Rock,known as the Nancy E. Crumble, place, f«r sale oi rent, "ill sell for $1,200, one tenth cash, and the balance in ten equal annual installments, 8% inter est on deferred payments, payable annually: or will rent for third and fourth lo good parlies. Apply at onee to C.M. Spef.r, McDonough.Ga. FOR MEN ONLY! nlliWWGenf-ral and NERVOUS DEBILITY; rrJHlij JlWaakneMof Body and Kind, Effect! i4<kl t llll of Error* or Exc-aae* in Old or Y oung. Subset. BAR HOOD ffolly Restored. How te vnleree ead ‘‘trtutikt* k. ISDEVKLOPKD OKhaNSA FARTS Of BODY. Ab=ci*t«lT oatalM* : HOIK TKKATlKM—H*>aeise ta a 4mj. frM " and Fere iso Caaatrlae. Writ* then*. I'Mcrietb* Hawk, *ipl**itlcn aad proof* Halted (Mated, ma HddrtM ERIE MEDICAL CO.* BUFFALO* M* V. TAXING WHAT THEY OWE. Pennsylvania Farmers Protest Against Taylng Taxes on Their Mortgages. The Norristown Herald, speaking of the present agitation among the farmers, says: The movement is general throughout the farming districts of the state, and the object is to influence legislation in the direction of the equalization of tax ation, and wherever else the Interests of agriculture can be promoted. There are a number of specific griev ances by which farmers are inflicted that they are resolved to get rid of, and their determination is not to be wondered at. One of the reforms desired is that all liens on real estate shall be deducted from its assessed valuation in imposing taxation, the levy to be made only upon the difference between its value and the amount of mortgage. If a man owns a ** ~100 dwelling or farm he i>ays tax on that iunount even if his mortgage indebtedness is I)*),.100, as is often the case, especially with beginnors in life who are working to get a start on small capital and are naturally anxious to secure a home. Common sense Would indicate that the tax should Ixi levied upon SI,OOO in such a case, but legisla tors have hitherto taken a different view of the matter. It is a serious hardship to pay a tax of 1 or 2 per cent, on the motley you owe, but this is the way the law works now. The agitation on the subject a year or two back led to the appointment of a revenue commission which has held a number of sessions but is apparently just as far from accomplishing anything of practical benefit to farmers as the first day it met. The propositions submitted to it are so radically different and so many diverse interests are to Ik) consid ered that even the members of the com mission are understood to have pructi tally abandoned the hope of presenting a satisfactory measure for the considera tion of the legislature at its approaching session. It is the old story', and leading farmers, aware of the undue burden of taxation, general mid local, now pressing upon real estate, propose to strike at the root of the mutter by electing to the legisla ture only those who are known to be fully committed to their views. It is be lieved that thcmhTort will lead to the se lection of caimidut os for these positions who are right on the main question—the enactment of laws that will directly lighten the burden of taxation. Beware of the Wooden Horse. Ex-Senator Van Wyek concluded an address to the farmers at Grand Island. Neb., recently as follows: De true to yourselves, lie honest to your convictions, mid you cannot fail: n triumphant victory awaits you. Have the manhood to step boldly forward and take it. You are reminded of the defeat of the grange. The times and circum stances are now dilNttiut. That was a gentlo shower as dom pared with the rushing, sweeping torrent. The grange did not fail of independent action, but because men who were smuggled in as sumed leadership and from the inside plotted its destruction. The same tactics are now being tried with the Alliance. Be vigilant and watchful. Men who are suddenly converted and just having visions of the great wrong and injustice by corjKaations and combined capital will hem' watching. The history of ancient Troy-can be read with profit. The strength of her walls and the brav ery of her soldiers withstood for years the attacks of the Greeks, when cunning secured what courage could not. The enemy filled a wooden horse with armed men and withdrew the army from sight. The Trojans sallied out, were pleased with the huge work of art and innocent ly rolled it into the city, and at night the armed men quietly came out and opened the gates and the city was de stroyed. Corporations Imvo more than the Grecian cunning. Already they have created a wooden horse und, filling it with schemers and tricksters, men with smooth faces and broad phylacte ries, and are ambushing their motley army and watching from afar. Remem ber the past and do not be deceived. Deserters from railroads will not make soldiers to fight your battles. No traitor from that camp with all the blandish ments of power and wealth deserts ex cept by their permission and for their gain. Bo careful that the Trojan horse be left outside your gates. Tlie Chained Farmer. As Prometheus was chained to Cau casus so is the farmer chained to the earth. Thero he stays, immovable, while the vultures of trusts, combinations, syndicates, speculators and strikers are feeding on his vitals. Ho cannot drive them away. He can only groan, and his outcries of bitter suffering, faint at first, are now resounding throughout the land. How shall he burst the chains that bind him? now sliall ho share with the city people in tho good things that are going? How can he have a chance to sell dear and buy cheap and get even with the merchants, compelling them to give him goods and wares costing a day's work for his production of f<>** and fiber of a day’s toil?—Chicago Tribune. Correct. Some people seem to have an irresisti ble penchant for criticising unfavorably the actions of others. No matter what is done, nor how well it is done, these envious, ill grained folks are bound to Und fault with it in some respect. They never do anything themselves, because they can’t, and then they get oat of humor with those who can and do. and belittle their labors. Two or three such characters are enough to disturb the peace and thwart the good intentions of any organization.— Farmers’ Friend. A Topeka (Kan.) special says: “The first Farmers' Alliance convention in which an attempt was innve to deal with national politics has been held, and the Sixth congressional district gives notice of what the farmers propose to do iri Kansas. It is evident that they intend to abandon the ol 1 parties, at least for a time, and nominate men of their own for every office." McDonough, ga.. Friday, -june 20, isoo. Then anti Now. A recent authority, who is not a “broken down politician” nor a dema gogue, but a thoughtful and able man, has written: “Farm mortgage is com paratively a new disease with the agri culturists of America, Fifty years ago the farmer who was obliged to put a mortgage on his farm was considered next to insolvent” This authority, Mr. J. R. Elliott, has collected statistics bear ing upon the subject, and his conclusion is that the power of position is passing from the agriculturists of America. There is * ‘a growing dependence for cap ital on the successful men of other occu pations,” The rate of profit on farm products has declined. The New York state agent reports that many farm* bought ten years ugo and mortgager! for deferred payments will not sell for enougli to lift the mortgages. If Judge Mott, of Now England, and the New York state agent are light, at least one-third of the farms in the rich est sections of tho Union will not sell for more than the cost of buildings and other improvements. Once the farmer was landlord, capitalist and laborer. If lie began with nothing and worked indus triously on fairly good land he was sure to be independent liefore he rea: lied middle ugo. He paid off the mortgage for deferred purchase money and te came, if not wealthy, a citizen brave and comfortable in the knowledge that ho was free from gnawing obligations. He is rapidly becoming a mere laborer. Yet transportation facilities capital and markets are far superior to those of the earlier days. It is true that farmers get some com modities more easily than they did fifty or thirty years ago. Tho mechanic of tho Nineteenth century is better housed, fed and clothed than the kings of the Eleventh century. That only proves that we live in an age of vust industrial improvement. What is at issue is the relative power of the fanner in the pres ent industrial situation os compared with the power of his class before the war. The farmer is rapidly descending to a position of inferiority in political power and in wealth sharing. His ability to pay his debts is being brought under sus picion by the. expert investigators. The gloomy truth is that there is doubt whether the American farmer is solvent —whether his obligations to other classe. are not greater than he can discharge.— Kansas City Times. Summing; Up. The whole subject can bo summed up in this: Farming is and always has been done on so narrow a margin of profit that, to quote the old saw: lie that by the plow would thrive Ilirrisclf intuit either «*r drive. The owner must bo the owner in fact, also the superintendent, and likewise a “full hand in the field,” and that too on an estate every acre of which is familiar to his own eye. Now with a long studied, carefully matured system nt land piracy in full force and effect, de signed to destroy tho only profitable type of farming that is possible without the employment of pauper labor, move ques tions of reform than tho simple abolish ment of drunkenness will have to bo dis cussed and that intelligently and with out delay. Any attempt to hoodwink farmers by talk of bonanza or co-opera tive farming will servo best among those who farm on square feet of ground with a lawn mower. Obstructionists,doubters, trimmers and tricksters may try to di rect the tornado or concentrate the lightning if they want that kind of amusement. They cannot prevent tho formation of a now party and a broad gauge party for 1892. —Chicago Express. DcmundH of Itelawnre Fannei’K. Delegates representing tho Farmers’ institute', tho State grange and subordi nate granges of Delaware met at Dover June 3 and adopted resolutions calling for tho taxation of mortgages, bonds, stocks and all other revenue yielding in vestments; den.. Hiding reduction in leg islative allowances; condemning appro priations for militia encampments and excursions; demanding that the cost of feeding prisoners be cut down to 20 cents per day, and that convicts bo mads to labor on the roads or public works; indorsing stringent legislation to pre vent bribery at elections, and pledging themselves to inquire into the fitness of candidates placed in nomination by poli tical parties, and “recommend the election of such only ns in their judg ment will represent the jieople’s interest.” —Wilmington Dispatch. Hitttory of tho Alliance. The organization, which started in the state of New York in 1873, moved west ward, then southward, and then up aluug tlie Atlantic coast status, until its mem bership embraced officially a few weeks ago 2,600,0001 and alliances are forming at the rate of one a day in some of the states. Over 1,000 alliances were formed in a single year in Georgia, which now has 2,500 local organizations, und Texas near ly 8,000. It is said that Kansas has the largest membership of any western state, numbering over 100,000 farmers, farm ers’ wives, or their sons and daughters.— Philadelphia Record. W. W. Wilson, of Texas, has been or ganizing Alliances throughout Indiana during the last year. He makes his head quarters at Anderson. He says they do not seek for members in the incorporated cities, but they take in farmers, country laborers, country doctors and country school teachers. In several of the south ern states, he says, the co-operative stores liave been very successful. Agri cultural implements are sold mostly. It is also urged uj<on farmers to buy on a cash basis and do Hway altogether with the credit system. Excepting its foreign commerce, no industry of this country is so paralyzed today as that of farming. It is fast be coming a business of the past, not only in so far as to hardly enable a man to make a living for himself and family, but in every respect. History is repeat ing with the farmers the experiences of the sailors.—Philadelphia Record. aMA TE . A FARMERS’ MANIFESTO. A FtimuoiAl Schcuio Before Con grcHH — Extracts from tho Mr. McClammy, of NoftS CtimHna, is one of the half doze *^puor s congress men of this house, fid Is a zeal ops Alii ance man. Recently he if%vc evidence of that zeal by introducing and indorsing the most remarkable financial scheme yet brought before congress. This meas ure provides "for tli# forming of legal tenders based on the IhimJb of tho United States and the alloUhenf of the same.” The proposition is that the government shall issue legal tender notes to the amount of S3O for each tnan, woman and child in the country. „ Tlie money ts to be turned WS-states in pro portion to the populatioti, and the states are to loan it at 1 JhA cent, upon real es tate only. Counties? und townships qre to have their shares, apportioned accord ing to the number of The interest derived froituthe 1 per eeuMgill go to the school I'upds. No loSn is to exceed $2,500, ‘ In presenting tins bill Farmer Mc- Clammy stated to the house that it was “indorsed by every Farmers’ Alliance in the country.” After declaring that the land is full security for this issue of legal tenders the preamble proceeds: “When this parental government of ours considered its dignity insulted, and called on its childr en to surrender to the parent the dearest of all earthly posses sions, liberty and life, with child like obedience the people went at the parent’s call; for the tine being thoy gave up their liberty, they endured privations, suffered discomforts such as only tho soldier knows, an< thousands of tho peo ple, from Bunker Hill to the last Indian campaign, lost limb or life to save the parent, the government. These patriotic children yearned for wealth, for the com forts and joys of home, but they loved the government more than all these, more than life; surely, then, whatever we have, all that we are, wo owe to the people. “Thousands of our people cannot find employment; tnillions are working for a bare pittance on field or farm, in factory or mine; the mothers of the bohs of the republic are stitching, starving in our city garrets; the sturdy farmer, who in the past has been our boast, comes to congress in person and i>etition telling his sufferings, his losses, how, work ever so hard, yet ho cannot save the home where his children were born; our sisters, wives and mothers by petition appeal to you to aid them: they, too, have economized at every turn: they have for years known not of luxury; for other years want has stared them in the face, and we ask of you, our representa tives, who is benefited by all this suffer ing and want? “We beg of you on your return home to visit, not your wealthy friends in the cities, but instead go rather to the house of the honest laborer, who has but little food, and that the poorest, to give, his little ones: we beg of you to gf) aiming the farmers, not among tlitefl «-fio are known as *lO per cents,’who griu4 the poor even worse than the shylocks, we ask of yon to go among those tlmt toil in factory, farm or mine, not those who live on others' toil, and then say who is benefited by all the want amf misery you will have seen. The shytock may accumulate more property, but will he be benefited thereby? “As individuals, by brooding over wrongs, grow insane, so donations. Let France during her revolution illustrate the case. Shylocks will not be benefited if Anarchists are evolved by all this suf fering and want. “Armies have never and will never hold in abeyance the rod liand when the people grow infuriated and insane. The farmer, the laborer, our wives and mothers appeal to you to aid us while yet you may. We have in the past shown our devotion to the government; we ask that the government sliall uow show the same devotion to us; that you shall extend tho same aid to us tliat we have in the past extended to the government In 1774 and 1775 our then parent govern ment heeded not our prayers, our peti tions. Will you not profit by their mis takes? “We come to you with the best se curity that God has given ns, a security that needs no custodian -cur lands—and ask you to give us a currency based on these lands, and that the currency so given sliall be a legal tender for public and private dues. We ask of you to is sue us currency to supply our needs, and we offer $35,000,000,000 real taxable se curity. But as individual indorsers we propose to secure the state school fund by $5,000,000,000 real projierty. If this country really belongs to the people then we ask that the amount provided for be divided pro rata to the states for the people, for their use ; nd benefit. “Of late we, the people, have heard mnch of the constitution. Wo ask you who made it —did congress or the people? Is the created superior to the creator? But why this unusual love? On the one hand in 1800 tills love. Hits devotion did not prevent very many from doing What they thought was best for tlieir people but unheard of in the constitution.’’— Washington Letter. Federate, Fqflerate. Readers will recall the proposed co operation between the farmers' and la bor organizations in Illinois. The result of the convention made up of delegates from such organizations is set forth in the following resolutions: We, the representatives of the agri cultural and labor organizations of tho state of Illinois, in conference met, ex press onrselves in unmistakable terms that our future success and welfare must depend on concerted action, and thut we recommend to the different organizations as their representatives that steps should be taken as speedily as possible to ac complish a consolidation or confedera tion of the same. —Grange Bulletin. A Jefferson City special to The Kansas City Times says: “It looks very much as though the fanners of Missouri are about to have their innings: they are playing a big liana in politics, and from present in dications there will be a great many farmer* in the next legislature,” SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE: AND WORTH IT. T!io Fight for Silver. In a r; cent speech in the senate Henry M. Teller made same pointed statements which were so th w Highly uu;»artisan ns to entitle them to the consideration of every fair friend of honest money. Mr. Teller went on to charge Mr. Sherman and his friends with having by tlie law of 1873 added $1,0X10,000,000 to tho public debt and 33 jK'r cent, to pri vate debts. Tho complaints of the peo ple, Mr. Teller declared, must bo heed ed. The sophistry and falsity of the senator from Ohio could not keep tlie people in ignorance of that economic crime and of its legitimate and logical results. The speaker was willing to admit that there were great finaneial considerations involved in the question. It might be a question whether free coinage could lie proceeded to promptly. Honest men might differ about it. But the man who stood liefore the senate arguing fqr the .single standard was either dishonest or Ignorant and had nw right to represent the interests of the American people. If the people could put In the White House and in the treasury department men who wanted to conquer the single standard influences, they could be con quered, but never until then. Mr. Teller went on to speak of the silver plank in the Republican national platform, and said that if he had supposed it to be mere claptrap tho Republican ticket would not have had snch support from him, and would not have received the groat majority that it did in the state of Colorado. Mr. Teller went on to say that the bi metallic principle had had its worst enemy, its most effective foe, tho man who hail done it the most harm, in the treasury department, It had lH>e:i within the power ot the administration to relieve the people, so that what the people suf fered was “at the door of the adminis tration.” But there was no feeling favor able to bi-metallism in high places, and would not lie while Wull street could in fluence political pal-til's. Each party had been met by the declaration thut con gress must legislate so as to gain the good will of the business interests of the country. That meant Wall street. He remembered the ease of a president (Mr. Cleveland) addressing a crowd of people in Wall street, and saying that he saw liefore him tho representatives of the great interests of the country. Bnt tho fact was. Mr. Teller said, that he did not see before him a single man who had ever done an honest day’s work, ever produced an ai tide of commerce, or ever promoted the industrial pursuits of tho country. In conclusion Mr. Teller declared that, no mutter where tho Republican party or himself should lie left, his vote should be given for that measure wlrich would loosen the burden put upon the debtors of tho country, and do it without detri ment to tlie creditors. A .Solid J’liitform. Tlio Farmers’ Alliance and Knights of Later of South Dakota, in joint con vontiem revent)y lipid in Huron, adopted' a platform which demands that currency to lie issued by the general government te full legal tender; to increase in volume with tho increase of business, and to te issued directly to productive industries without tho intervention of the hanks of issue. It continues: Second —We demand railway trnns)>or tation, telegraph and telephone service at actual cost; and that the government shall own and operate the same. Third—We demand tho free and un- limited coinage of silver. Fourth—We demand the adoption of an absolutely secret voting system, botli state and national. Fifth—We demand the most rigid economy consistent with the safety of our state ami nation in the administra tion of every branch of our government. Sixth —We demand the passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and that congress take stejis to obtain land owned by aliens and foreign syndi cates and that lands now held by cor porations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them te reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. , Kudlntl Resolution*. At a large and enthusiastic mass meet ing of the citizens of Ottawa and Cloud counties, Kan., the following resolu tions, preceded by a lengthy preamble, were adopted: Resolved, That after the first day of December, 1890, we will pay no more taxes, coupon interest or mortgage in debtedness unless tlie government aid us in procuring the money, as above mentioned, or in any other manner equally favorable. Resolved, That this organization of home defenders should be general throughout tlie United States, and that every honorable means should be used In pushing the organization. Resolved, That the success of this or ganization is the only hope of a mort gage cursed and tax ridden people, and wo appeal to our brother farmers, labor ers and other producers to join us in our efforts to te free. —Advocate. Hunker, und Lawyer. liar red. Tlie following resolutions were adopt ed at the last meeting of the Leaven worth county Fanners’ Alliance, lield at Toiiganoxie: Resolved, That we, tlie Farmers’ Alli ance of Leavenworth county, will not support any man for congress or the United States senate who is an officer of any national bank or a lawyer, and that notice te served on both tho Republican and Democratic Jiurties, and that these resolutions be given to the press for pub lication. J. Lea Sun-sox, Secretary County Alliance. —Leavenworth Cor. Kansas City Times. There arc now about 1,025 Alliances in the state and about fifty applications for charters in the hands of the state secre tary’ This means a vote in the member ship of the Alliance of about 25,000 to 30,00© bn a very conservative estimate. As new Alliances are being formed al most daily, the latter figure is more like ly * c lw. the correct, one by the time that the votes are to te cast.—St. Paul Pio neer Pres*. North Dakota Formers. A telegram from Jamestown, N. D., gives the following condensation of tho resolutions adopted at the farmers' state convention: Wo recommend tho passage of the sub-treasury bill or something better by our national'representatives; we demand that our legislature pass tho Australian ballot bill: we favor tho speedy passage of tho Buttcrworth bill; your committee recommend tho unlimited coinage of silver; we heartily and unanimously in dorse the action of our executive. Gov ernor John Miller, particularly on tho lottery question; also wo approve his course in the appointment of the need wheat commission, believing he acted wisely and honestly under existing cir- cumstances; we are favorable to giving employment to tho prisoners in our state penitentiaries which will make these institutions as nearly as possible Bclf sus taining, but we do not approve the let ting of the priiiou labor to outside bid ders to the detriment of honest labor, as wo believe tho state should te tho re cipient of nil profit from snch labor: we recommend the provision of copies of the legislative journal mailed direct to par ties ordering and paying for tho tament actual cost of production: we reaffirm the prohibition plank of our Alliance platform, and are unanimous in l'avor of a strict enforcement of tho temperance law passed by our last legislature. A Slßti’inont About Nebru ilia. “Tho truth is that tho actual degrada tion from poverty of tlio farmers of Ne braska admits? of no exaggeration in the depicting of their misery.” This is tho conclusive statement of J. E. Darbelluy, who has just returned to Wisconsin after something more than a year’s experience among the farmers of Nebraska as a collector for one of the most extensive agricultural implement firms in tho country. “It has been almost impossible to make collections from Nebraska farmers, for tho sufficient reason that they have nothing with which to pay obligations. I do not speak from assertions of politi cians, but from actual personal inter course with the farmers themselves. I have visited their homes, and for busi ness pur;vise's have ascertained their real condition. (Jo where you will you will find tho majority of farms mortgaged to their full value. You will also find the personal property upon these farms mortgaged to tho fullest extent upon which the owners can realize cash. And so soon as tho crop is in the ground you will usually find the mortgage has been placed iqMin that.. The situation is one which should ularm even tho monopo lists who have brought it aliout.’’— Mil waukee Cor. Chicago Herald. -A Mild Lectur#!. There is just now a lull in grango work. This, of course, was to be ex pected, because tho nature of tho farm er’s occupation demands at this season all his time ami attention. Grange meet ings. it lield at all, are poorly attendtsL Tho press of work is a sufficient excuse for what can scarcely te regarded as anything else than a neglect of duty. Patrons, we know, are too much fatigued by the lalxirs of tho day to give an hour or two one evening out of tlio w'eek to tho work of the meeting. We find no fault with this conduct, but confess that it is difficult to sec how men who cannot spare an hour lo attend to duties that intimately eo.uv.n them can find plenty of time to participate in apilitii al parade. How aro wo to account for this strange conduct? Do men thus act because they love the grange less or because they love the patty more. The farmer has in it ldng to expect from either political organiza tion; tho grange is the only medium through which those interested ill ‘agri cultural pursuits can strike an effective blow.—Orange Advocate. Whttfc tlie Fuim 1« About. The question may te asked by tho av erage reader. What is all this fuss about; for considering the price wo have to pay for butter, flour, etc., the farmers ought to te bloated bondholders rather than iiiqiecumous agitators? The farmer, how ever, points to tho small proportion which reaches his own pocket, to tlio closing ont of tho mortgages on lands in tho west and in tho east, to the selling in one day of fifty-eigljt homes of farm ers in Connecticut, and says there have yon proofs of the unprofitableness of fanning. How much of this is owing rather to the profits of tho middlemen and the high rates of railroads soems to te overlooked, hut anyhow the farmer feels he lias a grievance and proposes to redress it. —Christian at Work. It I. m*h Time. “What is mine is my own and what is now yours will soon te mine, too,” is the way monopolists address the fanners of tlie country, and every indication leads to the belief that they mean every worjJ of what they say. How is It proposed to treat this inqieriou* demand? Will the agriculturists, the stay and liojio of the nation, stand tamely by and see their rights taken from them without uttering a single word of protest or making any effort to take care of themselves? That policy l#working ruin and has been pur sued far too long; it is high time some other methods aro employed.—Farmers’ Friend. There - is uneasiness in the minds of representatives from other states. South Carolina, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Ar kansas and Kansas are also states in which the Alliance lias great strength. Party lines may te obliterated in many states, and the Affiance te able to dic tate nominations, if not win, on a ticket of its'Own. Conservative estimates give the Alliance ten or rnoro members of congress in the next honse, and there will probably te several times that num ber of congressmen who are elected with the aid of the Alliance votes. —Washing- ton Special. It has teen stated that a single law firm in Kansas has 1,800 mortgages to foreclose. A local paper of one of the agricultural districts contains no less than ninety sheriff's sales in a single is sue. —Bt. Joseph Gazette. Th« Farmer ;ia a Target. In tho last number of The New Eng lander Professor W. 11. Brewer, who holds tho Norton professorship of agri culture at Yale university, has an article deploring tho growing tendency to re gard the American fanners as a degraded and ignorant class. To prove that this tendency exists Professor Browor cites, among other evidences, tho increasing volleys of humor shot by tho “funny men” of tho newspapers at the farmers, and in general the derisive treatment that tho farmer is receiving from the writers in our journalism, particularly through New England. All this, in Pro fessor Brewer’s opinion, is chiefly the outcome of the grafting on American opinion of the foreign idea of the farmer. Professor Brewer points out the .old view of the farmers h\ Europe as a de graded class, and the origin of the words “churl," “villein” and “peasantry" in feudal or later times. Immigration oi foreigners to our eastern cities, and the ideas they have info «1 into public opin ion through The newspapers, have, in his Ix'lief, created quite a wrong impres sion of the real condition of the Amaru can fannor—of tho sociaj pesjlti<J£ fhAJ ho rightfully holds and or Ids of character. * The jKiint raised by Professor Brewei isaninteri'stingone.aud isexpauded skill fully in his article. But ho probably much overestimates at least wo should say so as a matter of observation—the influence which tho imported writer or imported ideas exert in forming the popular conception of the American farmers ns a class.—New York Post. Th«»r« In Alioiid. I beliovo we are nearing tho dawn oi a brighter and liettor day for our peo ple. Tho struggle has been a Ibng one, ami tho road has been rough anti un even. Let ns not grow weary in well doing or faint by the way, for we will succeed if wo but "hope and persevere.” 1 believe that tho dark cloud that has hung over our moral horizon for years, and seemed to shut out every ray ol hope to a sutiering and long oppressed people, has a silver lining, and from be hind its dark sun light is dawning on the sons of toil. Therefore, brethren, let us gird on our armor, renew our faith, strengthen our good resolve and press the battle to the very gates of Iho enemy’* stronghold, and never think of giving up until perfect and complete \m tory is obtained. Whenever an honest, toiling people has been oppressed beyond measure then they have been relieved—that is when they sought relief as they should and as it was their duty to do. It has been so from the l>eginning. All of the burden under which the votaries of agriculture groan today are tho results of willful neglect of duty on their part. And now that these burdens are becoming intolerable, and seriously threatening tho happiness and welfare of our children, let us turn from the error of our ways, avail ourselves of tho moans that are at our command, and a Moses will come to lead us out. —Texas State Lecturer Kellar in Texas Parmer. A Quvullonublo Opinion. A movement has been started to or ganize tho fanners of Pennsylvania in tho National Farmers’ Alliance. Such organizations are capable of doing much good, but politics usually act as a blight upon them. The moment they fall under tho control of demagogues, who seek to use them for their own political ad vancement, their power for good is gone. Tho Patrons of Husbandry had that ex perience, but, having profited by it, suc ceeded with reduced numbers-in pro moting the material interests of those who remained in the order, through the medium of schools, lectures, fairs and agencies for the purchase of goods. As a political power, however, tho Patrons of Husbandry never accomplished any thing more than to give the old party managers a scare, from which they soon recovered, except that in a few western states they gained power. If the Farm ers’ Alliance can keep clear of politics, which is very doubtful, it may bocomo a power for good in tho land.—Philadel phia Lodger. Tli«ir Conviction. Wo have been compelled to pay. 71) and a fraction i>er cent, of tho stato taxes. Labor has been hcaVily taxed and ro doced to whut is termed, and we believo to lie, starvation prices. We are all heavily taxed and have no representation of our own selection. Our petitions to former legislatures, largely composed of bankers and lawyers, have been disregarded or entirely ignored. We are convinced our only redress for existing wrongs must come through legislation. We are also firm in the con viction tliut bankers and lawyers ig-i- not proper persons to represent the interests of agriculture and labor.—lllinois Grange ManiflWflo. s* wr • —' . .. Now Knglaml Vanns. The announcement of the whoJpsalo'l abandonment of fanning lands in soup*- parts of New England was revived at first with some incredulity. The state of Vermont hits undertaken, however, to secure reliable statistics on the subject, and the result of the investigation shows a surprising condition of affairs One thousand farms, aggregating one hun dred and eighteen thousand ;icres, have been practically abandoned, and can be bought at from throe dollars to five dol lars per acre. —Louisville Courier-Jour nal. To Ilorrow from Luglinh Capitalist!!. A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch contains the statement that at a meeting of the executive committee of tho Minnesota State alliance a scheme was considered for wearing large loans from English syndicate capitalists at low rates of in terest. The syndicate offered 6 percent., but the Alliance wants 5 per cent, and gave the syndicate thirty days to come to that figure. It is estimated that the fanning ele ment in the United Slates ccmpnaeo SI per cent, of the population. NO. 44