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4 THE LIVING ISSUES Published Every Thursday at Atlanta bythe Farmers’ State Alliance of Georgia. M. D. IK WIN, - - Editor. A. W. IVEY, - Secfy and Uu». Man. U. S. LEDBETTER, - Treasurer. Official Organ of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union of Georgia. Subscription: $1 Per Year in Advance. Entered at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga as second-class mail matter. Do you want your paper changed? State also the office at which you have been receiving it. When yon renew yonr subscription, or send in the names of others, write the names plainly and legible, and you will avoid mistakes. Address all communications intended for this paper to Living Issues, Atlanta, Ga. All checks, drafts and money orders must be made payable to Living Issues, Atlan ta, Ga. This is truly denominated the reign of Wall street. We don t t need any silver in our monetary system. —Cleveland. The Atlanta Journal is a “me too” organ of the administration. The fellow who stands to Grover in this fight wont be in the next. Repeal the federal election law and give us the unperverted Australian ballot. Read our open letter to Atlanta workingmen. It is worth your careful perusal. Who runs the government, Grover or congress? Up to the present time Grover seems to be on top. When you don’t get your paper promptly write this office. We will take pleasure in investigating it. No allianceman need apply to this administration, for he will not be rec ognized. This has been given out of ficially. The question now is, who is the big gest, Grover Cleveland or the United States 1 Grover is satisfied at least that he has the advantage. If the Atlanta Journal keeps up its its present fight for the gold standard it won’t have as much influence in the next campaign as a “yaller dog.” Send us a club of ten by return mail. We need them and the cause needs the paper. Go to work to win and let us have the 50,000 by May the first. We now see the need of refering all laws to the people for ratification. Silver would hold up her head if the people could get an opportunity to help her. The alliancemen who represent South Carolina in congress, are not in it at Washington. They are not al lowed to dictate even fourth class post masters. The silver men seem determined to stand by the white metal to the finish. Unless they force a vote in the senate there is no probability of them ever voting. Cleveland gives it out that there will be no compromise. He reminds us ot the Russian Czar, but he will find out when it is too late that he is in the wrong pew. Colonel D. N. Sanders is no longer connected with the People’s Party pa per. We regret this, as Colonel San ders was a conscientious worker and had devoted all his energies to the up building of that paper. Few men would do more and work more untiring than Colonel Sanders. We wish him success in whatever he may under take. Governor Northen will likely be a candidate for the senate and was anx ious to have Cleveland help him, but he didn’t do it much. THE LIVING ISSUES, ATLANTA, GEORGIA: OCTOBER 5, 1893. How to Succeed, The times are hard we know, but this is a strong reason why every working men in Georgia should sub: scribe for the Living Issues. You are more interested now in the discus sion of the great economic questions than ever before and there is no other paper published in the state that deals with these questions like the Living Issues. We will not feed you on long winded articles, but will boil everything down in a nut shell, yet make it plain. You need to support this paper because it belongs to the men who produce the wealth of the nation, yet share little of it You ought to subscribe for it because it is published on the co-operative plan, every dollar it makes belongs to the people who own it. You ought to support it because it is the people’s paper, fighting the people’s cause and standing for the people’s rights. Will you support it and push it? Will you push it? Will you push your own enterprise by getting up clubs and spreading it into every corner and con vert the state to your principles of justice? Then delay it no longer but go to work in earnest and don’t let your neighbors rest until every one of them read the paper. This is the way to make it a success. It cannot be done in any other way. Our New Campaign. Going to open a campaign in mid winter ? Yes. that is what we pro pose. What kind of a campaign are you going to open ? A campaign of education. We want to open a campaign of ed ucation in the lodge room and at the fire side. We want the co-operation of every allianceman in the state to start this campaign. We want it to start at once and never cease until every child that can read understands thoroughly the gov ernment under which we live. Now there is but one way to carry it forward successfully, and that is by reading the Organ and getting all of your neighbors to read it. Keep up the campaign in the inter est of reading until every farmer and laborer in the land reads the Organ once a week. Then you will have in augurated a campaign more powerful than any number of speeches, more potent than all your lecturing. Will you help us in this campaign ? Go to work. It won’t cost you a cent, only a little exertion. Try the Experiment. Is your county lagging in the alliance cause ? If it is, let your county alli ance appropriate all the money it can spare to send out the organ over the county. This is the only plan that you can fall upon to spread the gospel of light. It will build up the order and will build up your paper also. If you have a little surplus in your treasury try this plan. You will be pleased with it. Remember this is your paper and if you will push it there can be no ques tion about its success. It is every allianceman’s duty to take his own paper first and then get all of his neighbors to take it. Every dollar that you will make your paper by push ing it is yours. It does not go into the pocket of any individual. Re member this, and push the paper. Get up a club at once. Will Speak in Georgia. Mr. J. B. Osborn has decided to re main in Georgia awhile longer and is open to engagement to make labor speeches or alliande addresses. He is a splendid speaker and a true friend of labor. His address is 150 Chapel street, Atlanta. 50,000 Subscribers! How the alliance can get them to Living Issues. First. Let every county alliance raise at least a club of ten at the Octo ber meeting. Second. Let every sub-alliance in the state raise a club of ten at its first meeting after the county meeting. Third. Let every subscriber form a committee of himself to raise at least one new subscriber before his next sub meeting and then consoli date iut j a club and you will have an other club of ten. Fourth. Continue this work be tween each meeting until every man in the community is a subscriber. WHY YOU SIIOULE DO THIS: First. Because you own the paper. It is your property. Second. Because if you will do this the paper will be a grand success and will build up the alliance cause. Third. Because it would command a good advertising patronage and would make money for its owners. Fourth. Because every dollar that it makes belongs to the alliance and not to any individual. Times are hard, but every alliance man can afford 75 cents for his organ and can afford to work to spread it. In spreading the truth our demands will succeed and relief will come. Will you do it? Will you start the ball now? Don’t wait for somebody to com mence. Go to work for the 50,000 subscrib ers and we will have them by the first of May. Tenth District Alliance Meetings. Brother S. L. Roney, district lectur er will meet the alliance of the tenth district as given below. Brother Roney’s address is Gibson, Ga., and the brethren should do all they can to make the meetings successful. Stellaville, Tuesday, Oct 17th. Hood’s Chapel, Richmond Co. Oct. 18th. Powell’s Church, Columbia Co., Ucf loth. Marshall’s church, McDuffie Co., Oct. 21. Norwood, Warren Co., Oct 23rd. Greenwood Church, Lincoln Co., Oct. 24. Chatham county comes to the front with a new alliance and reports the cause prosperous in that part es the moral vineyard. The Pooler alliance is the name of the new lodge. Bro. Miller is doing splendid work in old Chatham and it should encourage the brethren over the state. The Augusta Herald has also discov ered signs of a conspiracy to capture the democratic party of Georgia by a deal between anti-administration democrats and populists. A number of mysterious meetings have been held in Augusta be tween democrats from other cities. In one instance a prominent official, and one of the populist leaders who resides in Augusta, were present. The plan is to form a “free silver democracy,” and take control of the politics of this state. If there is any such conspiracy brewing the loyal democracy of Georgia will be equal to the emergency.—Dawson News. We don’t know what the News has seen in Augusta, but we do not be lieve there is a Populist who is fighting for principle who would entertain such a proposition for a moment. The great reform which is spreading in every quarter means more than free silver. It means a home for the labor ing man and a fair return for the wealth he produces. It means pros perity to all the toilers and to all legitimate callings. Free silver is only a factor in pro ducing this and no man who is fighting for the establishment of justice would for an instant combine upon a single demand. However, it is well enough to keep your eyes opened. Does the Atlanta Journal endorse Taylor’s appointmenu to Bolivia? We should like to have the Journal’s posi tion On this appointment fully Bet forth. A Black Lawyer. The Alliance Exchange had n suit in the city court of Atlanta against one McCaslin, who had failed to carry out his cont raj tin delivering sewing machines. The Exchange was asking for two thousand dollars damages. In the case against the Exchange was employed a lawyer by the name of Black, and from his argument his heart must be as black as his name. During his tirade of abuse on the alliance, he gave for his reason for a verdict against the Exchange, that the rock-ribbed democrats of Georgia had ■ sat down upon the alliance last year I to the tune of 70,000, and now it was I the duty of this jury to set down on it again. How it is that the court will allow itself disgraced with such half breeds we can’t understand. But we are sorry to say that this same feeling is entertained in every little town in the state. It is felt not only toward your Exchange, but toward your paper as well. Now, are you going to stand by and help these little gully snipes to crush your own enterprises? Are you going to assist them to do the work they so much covet by failing to trade with your Exchange and to support at.d work for your paper? If you do you do not deserve to be freed from the yoke that is. now upon you. Let actions be your answer. Col. Tom Barrett, of Pike, was >n the city this week and reports the Clevelandites awful sick down in his section. He says he is satisfied that they havo “black vomit” since Cleve land has appointed the negro Taylor as minister to a white man’s country. Will Crash the South and west. In an interview with the New York Sun ot a few days ago, a prominent member of the Eastern Loan Associa tions said that they bad decided to cal in all western and southern mortgages and refuse to renew all farm mortgages south and west on account of the growth of the alliance sentiment in those sections. This only shows the greed of these eastern money sharks. They fear that the time is not far distant when the 1 just demands of the alliance will be adopted, and they will be brought to justice and stopped in their robbing scheme. They not only propose this, but they think that they will subjugate the farmers of these two sections by clos ing them out during the panic. They know that men will not take up arms to defend boarding houses, and i f they can only get their homes they will be more ready to surrender and become willing slaves. They will carry out these schemes l if the people just shut their eyes to justice. There has nothing been presented equal to the alliance sub-treasury to prevent money panics like we are suf fering from now. Let the hoarding go on, but under the sub-treasury sys tem the man who needed funds could get them. Congressmen now get one hundred dollars per month extra for a clerk to keep the people fooled at home. W hen our congressmen were honest and represented the people who sent them, they found no use for this clerk and extra expense, but now it takes a great deal of “correspondence” to fool the people. Congress has been in session since the 7th of August. The country has lost more in the shrinkage of values than the civil war cost and yet nothing is done to save the people’s property. Congress needs a rest and the country j a new election. Selling Public Office. The appointment of Van Alen as Minister to Itally, is the most outra geous bargain and sale known in American politics, unless it was John Wannamaker’s purchase of a cabinet position. It now turns out that Van Alen did not contribute to the campaign fund, but the fund to secure Mr. Cleveland’s nomination. How manv such sales were made the world will never know, but this is one that has come to light. It should, po litically, damn the president in the eyes of all honest people. Van Alen is hardly an American j citizen, living most of his time in I England. • This way of doing business is get ting outrageous. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle have violated the Biver law with impunity and should be im peached. It is the only course to be pursued. We want every county alliance in the state to start the ball with the pa per. Get up at least ten and start the work forward grandly. Send down the tidings to the sub-alliances and let us have an organ that will be an honor to the order. Start the ball to rolling. The campaign is warm in old Vir ginia. The alliance cause is sweeping things before it with a good prospect of victory. Golubugism will not go down the throats of the working peo ple. The latest is that Hon. J. S. Hogg is to join the people’s party, with the view of succeeding Coke in the senate A man entertaining the principles that he does regarding reform meas ures, is out of place in what is now styled democratic party, whatever may be his aspirations.—West Texas Sentinel. When men learn to lay aside preju dice and vote for principle we will have legislative bodies that will do the will of those who elect them. We need never expect to improve the condition so long as men vote ignorantly. Let reason dictate the ballot instead of prejudice. It was the “love of party” that Washington foresaw would ruin the republic. It is to bring back principle and patriotism in politics that the al liance was organized. It has accom plished much in the short time of its existence, but there is still much to be done on this line. So long as there is a ballot cast in ignorance or influenced by prejudice., the work of the alliance iis not complete. When we restore I the government to principle, then the j alliance should remain as a political ! school for the rising generation. There are not enough men in Geor gia who agree with Grover Cleveland . on the silver question to run a camp meeting. Cleveland simply says to the 1 great mass of people that you are a set of ignorant fools and don’t know what ! you want. One thing needed in Atlanta politics • is a system ot voting whereby the boss ‘ and the word politician will be out of . a job. Only one method offers that ( advantage to the public and that is the Australian ballot. It is suggested in : our open letter to “Atlanta working , men” that the city inaugurate this 1 system. We fully endorse this, and I believe it would be a good plan to get • up a petition to the general assembly > asking for an amendment to the char- I ter giving the city the Australian bal ! lot system. It would be fought only I by that class of ward politicians and : heelers, who having robbed the city l of thousands of dollars through con j trolling it politically. *Let some one i put the ball in motion,'and the length of the petition would surprise you. Send us a short report of your coun 'ty meeting, brother secretary. Send ■ with it a club of ten subscribers to the I * organ.