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THE LIVING ISSUES. 'l'ae Naiiulio Fiirn.eis’ Alliance iuul Industrial Union. Pres’lent—H. I*. Loucks, Huron, 8. D. Vice-President —Marion Butler, olds !>>ro, N. C. Sec’y-Treas.—D. P. Dunean, Columbia, 3. C. Lecturer—Ben. Terrell, Washington, 0. C. EXECUTIVE BOARD. H. L. Loucks, Chairman. H. C. Detaining, Secretary, Harrisburg, Penn. Menn Page, Brandon, Va. I. E. Dean, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. L. Leonard, Mt. Leonard, Mo. JUDICIARY. E. A. Cole, Chairman, Fowlerville Mich R. A. Southworth, Denver, Col. R. W. Beck, East Lake, Ala. GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE. President—C. H. Ellington, Thomson. Vice-President L. O. Jackson, Bainbridge Secretary—A. W. Ivey, Atlanta. Treasurer—W. A. Broughton, Madison. FINANCE COMMITTEE. James Barett, Chairman, Augusta. J. W. Taylor, Seet’y, Lutherville, W. R. Kemp, Swainsboro. W. Y. Carter, Hartwell. J. S. Davitte, Davitte s. State Lecturer—S. A. Walker, Thomson, Ast. S. Lecturer —H. G. Edenfield. DISTRICT LECTURERS. First District—H. L. Smith, Merritt’s, Second “ W. E. Smith. Third “ Allen Kenyon, Weston. Fourth “ J- W. Wilson, Hamilton. Fifth “P. B. McCurdy, Tucker. Sixth “ C. F. Turner, Brent. Seventh” J. W. McGarity, Day. Eighth “ W. Y. Carter, Hartwell. Ninth “ J. T. Barnwell, Alpharetta. Tenth “ S. L. Roney, Eleventh “ A. S. Atkinson. Brunswick. OFFICERS OF STATE EXCHANGE. Wm. A. Broughton, Pre. Madison. L. S. Ledbetter, Manager, Atlanta. directors. W. L. Peek, Conyers, State at large. W. H. Wood, Manassas Ist District, C. W. Simmons, Damascus 2nd “ W. A. Wilson, Leslie, 3rd “ D. B. Wells, Draneville, 4th “ J. T. Davenport, Douglasville, sth “ W. E. H. Searcy, Griffin. 6th “ L. S. Ledbetter, Cedartown, 7th W. A. Bronghton, Madison, Bth “ H. P. Riden, Cumming, 9th “ Jno. T. Lingo, Commissioner, 10th “ S. A. O’Quinn, Graham, 11th ” Brethren Take Notice. At the last meeting of Pike county alliance, it was agreed to hold the next quarterly meeting with Mountain Gap Alliance at Meansville, on second Fri day, 13th of Everybody in vited and especially the ladies. G. A. Mathews, Sec. P. C. A. Sept. 20,’93. Meriwether County, Editor Living Issues: The next quarterly meeting of the Meriwether county alliance will meet at Cedar Rock alliance on Wednesday, the 11th day of October 1893. A full delegation from all the sub-alliances desired. Please insert this notice in your paper and you will greatly oblige your friend and brother. W. H. Partridge, Pres. M. C. A. I - * — ——— Floyd County. The quarterly meeting of the Floyd j county alliance will meet in the City Hall, Rome on Thursday the 12th day of October. Let there be a full delega tion from every sub-alliance in the county; in fact we hope to see every allianceman of the county present to participate in the business which is im portant to the success of the order. Let us lay aside business one day and come together in order that we may be mentally henefitted. S. J. Whatley, Pres. County Alliance. Screven County Alliance. Whereas. At a meeting of the county alliance of Screven county, Georgia, this day held, this body beg leave to congratulate the Hon. A. H. Colquitt, United States Senator from Georgia, on his stand upon the silver question, and, Resolved, That we petition said sen ator to use his utmost endeavors to pre vent the ‘unconditional repeal of the Sherman bill, and, Resolved further, That said senator use every effort to give us the free and unlimited coinage of silver at its pres ent ratio 16 to 1. Resolved further. That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the Hon. A. H. Colxuitt under official signature and seal. H. G. Edenfield, President, Screven county Alliance. S. E. Bolton, Sec’y Screven county Alliance. A preacher it popular with his money loaning pew holders when he tells the poor that their poverty is almost en tirely the result of their vices.—Nation al Spectator. CHE LIVING ISSUES, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 5, 1893. $50,000 For An Office, A considerable noise is being raised over the appointment of Mr. James J. Van Alen as minister to Italy. He seems to be a sort of John Wanna maker for this administration. Van Alen gave $50,000 to the cam paign fund. It is said that the money was paid with the understanding that Van Alen would be sent to Italy, and that after the election Mr. Cleveland, for a time let Mr. Whitney’s promise go to pro test. Nobody pretends that Van Alen is fit to be minister to Italy, but the main objection is to the way in which he se cured the office. Campaign committees need money but the more money they use the worse for the people and the worse for good government. The tendency of late years has been to the use of vast sums and unless this is checked by a whole some public sentiment the ballot will be more debauched and the honors of office will go to the men who can buy them. The American ministers should be selected on account of their qualifica tions, if they are to be of no service there is no reason for having them. To appoint a man on account of his contri bution to a campaign fund is discredita ble to every man concerned and to the people. It is dishonorable to sell an office, and a bought office conveys no honor.—Atlanta Herald. There should be no surprise at the appointment of Van Alen. It cost §6oo,oooJto nominate Cleveland, sever al million to elect him and the public should not be surprised at trades by a man who purchased his own office. Standard Oil Whitney and Attorney Grover Cleveland and all such charac ters will have to be retired to the rear of the party before an outraged public could look upon it with any degree of complacency. Give us purer men for public office. The Wrong Impression. The New York Advertiser says the Atlanta Constitution is urging congress to “give tne country free coinage, state banks and free trade to appease the wild populists.” So far as the masses of the people of Georgia are concerned we do not believe /hat they are looking out for a policy which will ‘appease the wild Populists.' They are democrats and have no notion of going into the Populist camp. Many of those who strayed last year have come back, resolved to wander no more. The Georgia democracy believes in democratic principles and does not in terpret the democratic platform into a declaration for the unconditional free coinage of silver. Our people have great confidence in President Cleveland, and are not deceived by those who tell them that he has gone back on his party and trampled onitsplatform. We have had a good deal of such talk in certain Georgia newspapers, which for one reason or another are disgruntled but it has not shaken the faith of the demo ciaaic masses. These same papers saw nothing very bad in the Ocala platform and even praised it as being truly dem ocratic in its provisions, but the people of Georgia repudiated the Ocala plat form and stuck to the democratic stan dards. They are not ready now to make concessions to the Populists. Straight democracy is on top in Georgia and will stay there.—Atlanta Journal. If the Journal thinks the adminis tration, or Cleveland democrats are in the swim here it is very badly mistaken. In our opinion the people will be on top in the next fight and the boodlers won’t be in it. Down, Down We Go. We cull the following authentic facts from the organ of the New York Stock Exchange: During the month of August, 1892, 13,243,830 bushels of wheat were ship ped from this country to foreign ports. During August. 1893, 13,669,293 bushels were shipped. By calculation we find that 425,463 bushels more wheat were shipped in August, 1893, than in Au gust, 1892. Yet the total amount brought $1,552,820 less money. There has been an increase in many other articles and yet the money received for them is less. For the first eight months of this year, ending Sept. Ist, the money re ceived for wheat shipped to Europe was less by $4,874,499 than for the corres ponding period last year. During the first eight months of this year the money received for cotton shipped to Europe was $67,926,330 less than was received for the first eight months last year. National Executive Committee. To the Membership of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union. The National Executive Committee of the Farmers’ Alliance and indus trial Union having had referred to them from several alliances the question of the organization of a life insurance company on the regular standard plan or the recommendation of some organization that would be known to be a good, reliable and safe company, and the members of the ®<£ecutive Committee having given the subject due consideration, reach the conclusion that a new association at this time would be neither politic nor wise. We believe, however, that we will fully care for the interests of the order by recommending some life insurance society, conducted on the mutual plan, with a good record, and a sound and safe financial policy, at the same time offering insurance at lowest rates con sistent with safety to the insured as well as the insurer; and we unhesita tingly and cordially recommend for the insurance of the lives of the mem bers on the mutual plan “The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.” We do so, because after careful study and investigation, we are led to believe that The Mutual Life Insu rance Company of New York is the largest and strongest mutual life com pany, and paying the largest amounts in dividends of any insurance organi zation in the world. It has been test ed in the crucible of finance for more than fifty years, and has always, so far as we can learu, treated its mem bers with the utmost equity and gen erosity and been prompt in the pay ment of its every obligation. Being a purely mutual organi zation, the ownership of its vast assets, amounting to more than $175,000,000, is strictly the property of the membership. It has in its membership a very large num ber of the most careful, prudent and farseeing men in the nation; and being founded ou lines somewhat simi lar to those of the alliance, for mutual , benefit, assistance and protection, we i btfieve that our membership, by in suring therein, would have the best and safest protection for their money, and leave a sure benefit to those in whose favor the insurance is made. In times like the present, with so much uncertainty in every walk of life, it becomes the duty of every far mer to make safe provision for his wife and children in case of sudden removal from this life, and especially if his property is at all encumbered, so that in the exent of his leave-taking, the family remaining may be sure ot a home, free and untrammeled by debt, and not open to foreclosures aud sale; the first steps to ruin and want. 11. L. Loucks, Chair. H. C. Demming, Sec. Mann Page. I. E. Dean. L. Leonard. wo Authotlties. We invite the attention of our demo cratic friends to the following: “I undertake to affirm, without fear of contradiction, that a paper issued by the government, with the simple prom ise to receive for all dues, would be as uniform in its value as the metals them selves.”—John C. Calhoun, (dem). “Our government cannot make its fiat equivalent to intrinsic value nor keep inferior money on a parity with superior money by its own independent efforts, Bor is it justified in permitting an exaggerated and unreasonable reli ance on our national strength and abil ity to jeopardize the soundness of the people’s money.”—Grover Cleveland, (Plut.) The railroad companies own 211,000,- 000 acres, enough to make six states as large as Iowa: Vanderbilt owns over 2,000,000 acres, Dr. Disston, of Penn sylvania, over 4,000,000, the Standard Oil Company 1,000,000, and Murphy, of California, an area equal to the State of Massachusetts. The Schenley estate owns lands from which the heirs have received annually $1,000,000; 21.000,000 acres were owned by foreigners, who owe no allegiance to our government, and are not friends to a republic. What will our children own? A right to pay rent.—Tulare Valley Citizen. ■ Plso’s Remedy for Catarrh Is the K? Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest, ■ Bold by Druggists or sent by mall. ■ SOo. k. T. Haseltlna, Warren, Pa. ■ An Appeal t° AlUancemeti, Straws tell which way the wind blows and by watching the friend of legisla tion in congress, we can preceive with terrible certainty the outcome of the magnificient display of forensic force both in the house and senate. The final outcome will be the classes get the earth and the fulness thereof, while the producers will have the satis faction of working harder, economizing more and find at the end of the year his rents and taxes harder and harder to pay. Now the great cry, rush your cot ton to market and save the credit of the country will get the cotton. The producers have always come up promptly and they will do so this year. They will show no better sense, the trend is grind the producing class. You will realize soon how fine you have been ground. Wnile the classes are running this great government to suit themselves. “When the wicked rule the people mourn” is a truism aud never more impressive than now. Surely there is mourning abroad in the land, debts, DEBTS are piling up mountain high, our government falling behind 180,000 a day. The next step in finance of our repub demo congress will lie an increase of our bonded indebtedness. To such a con clusion do the straws now bent show the direction of present legislation. What a spectacle our country, the grandest the su:i ever shown on. and gel nearly 30 years of peace, a financial scheme has been fastened on us that now the country can be saved only by more bonds. Will Shylock ever be sotisfied; will his appetite be ever appeased? never, never! Shylock once set up as king and there is no hope for the people, for greed is the only patriotism that the most of our present law-makers have. Elected as our servants they have de manded the right to be masters instruc ed by the people who elected them- They have discarded their teachings and sold out their birthright to those whose interests are not our interests, whose God is not our God. All things, so far as the people are concerned, go to show that they have no rights that our servants are com pelled to respect. Motion made to ascertain if any members in the senate are stockholders of national banks raises a storm of opposition, and as in all cases where the people desire to know something about our financial condition, it is either buried in the committee room or tabled. Surely the people have no rights that our servants are willing to respect. The people are not respected. They are maligned, abused and brow-beaten, and it will ever be so until we can learn some sense. How many true alliancenien who have fought in the ranks of our army in fair weather, who, just as soon as there was a little hard fighting to do, left us and have been and are now fighting with all their might against the very measures they promised so solemnly to support. They now have their reward. They will find that it takes honor in political life just as well as in every day’s transaction to accomplish good for our fellow men, good for ourselves and, more than all, good for our country. The present status of statesmen we now have on the field of action, are as men away below the true standard of patriots, taught from their youth, the most of them, that success is the ob ject, regardless of methods. They have carried their methods into practice and are now riding on a wave of seeming prosperity. They have been able to do it, for the great wave of humanity have formed out their political responsibili ties. Now, thank God! the people are awaking once more to the necessities of the hour and are beginning to rea lize that no one is going to attend to their interests, and if they want to be taken care of they must do it them selves. The people can never expect to have equal rights to all men and special privileges to none until they rise in their own political might and put the very class of men in office who suffer as they suffer; who know from bitter experience the financial bondage that class legislation has bound this great country. Classes will never benefit this country. This people must take this country by the throat and undo the vicious class legislation that have accumulated on our statutes. Edu cate each other. Educate your neigh bor aud educate your friend, so as to be ready should your country call to give the best s -vice that can come from a knowledge of our condition and its remedy, from a willing hand and heart. The best place to educate and strengthen each other is to take up the work of the alliance and reorgonize her, strengthen her, for in organization there is strength. Many good alliancemen think the peo ple’s party has taken the place of the alliance. Those who think that err in judgment and not the heart. A .ffl little while and every old political and y court house ring who think the chances of the people’s party to succeed is cer- M tain will desert the democratic party ■ I as rats desert a sinking ship. They ! will come in such numbers that they -‘h will dominate the people’s party, unless H you come to dispute the ground with a them. u Friends, never was there a time that I the alliance, as a farmers and laborers 1 organization, was more important than jj now. Let us all put our shoulders to ■ the wheel and see if we can’t move her ■ forward so as to be ready in the fall of | 1894 to place our stamp of approval on the material that shall stand in our legislative halls. Let ns measure them | by their standing as men, remembering ’ in all cases it is principle above party measures, not men. And we must have men whose principles are indelibly stamped in them, that our interests are safe in their hands, for they will be compelled to pass through the firey fur nace of censure, abuse and downright lying. Let ns all do onr best to prepare for •• the great struggle for humanity that ’ is before us. and place our trust iu the hands of Him who has said, “Whoever he loveth. he chasteneth.” E. E. Parsons. Washington, Ga. ]ical'nes* ’ ’anno, be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, ami that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. * When this tube gets inflamed von have a rumbling sound or imperfect heari.ig, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tulie restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroy ed forever, nine cases out of ten are caused by cattarh, which is noJiing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by cattarh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Cattarh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO..Toledo, Ohio, Sold by Druggists, 75c Push Forward the Work. Editor Living Issues: 1 enclose you notice of the meeting of our comity alliance, which 1 hope to see in “Living Issues” our organ. Would that every true allianseman in Georgia could feel his personal responsibility in its success. If so we would all go to work and try to put it into every house hold of our noble order, thereby giving it an influenence for good beyond com- *** putation. We should nevqr forget that in order to render our organ useful we should use its colums, extend its circu lation that it may become what its founders intended, to-wit: A medium of communication for the brotherhood of the entire state. By so doing will in crease its usefulness and enable it to more effectually build up our organiza tion as well as uphold and strengthen the principles which are so dear to the formers. Our order is building up in Floyd county. Old subs suspended are being reorganized and expect ere long to see Floyd county in the front ranks again. Snccess to Living Issues and its noble editor. S. J. Whatley. Nannie, Floyd Co. Ga., Sept. 26, 1893. Ba, Bajaf! —FOR— SPAULDING -HAS OPENED HIS- WMBKB —IN— MARIETTA, GEORGIA. WANTED Work of some kind from someone who will pay in lawful money. I was discharged for offering an Atlanta Clearing House certifi cate as deposit with my employer. Address Engineer Machinist. Care Living Issues. sep 28-2 w