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No allianceman has sense enough to run a fourth class postoffice.—Postmas ter Bissell. Unconditional repeal of the Sher man law or nothing.—Cleveland, John Sherman & Co. Senator Stewart everlastingly roast ed President Cleveland in the senate last week. The President has settled the matter as to how he stands on silver at last. He says silver is not in it with this administration. The local fights go grandly forward in Kansas. The alliance army on the one side and the two old parties com bined on the other. The third quarterly meeting of the Milton county alliance will be held with Cogburn alliance on Thursday, the fifth day of October, 1893. Brother W. A. Lewis, of Captola, sends us a club and says he will soon have another ready. This is the way to do it. Send us in a club every week. Editor W. C. Gunn, of the Cn*h bert Liberal Enterprise, is dead. Gunn was an able and fearless writer aud will be missed by the fourth es tate. Don’t fail to renew your subscription when it expires. We will soon have * our list in type and then the slip will show when it expires. Renew now so as not to miss a number. Gordon has written another letter and when it ■was written he was stand ing to Cleveland, but then we havn’t heard from him since breakfast aud couldn’t say where he is now. Every kind of produce has gone down, but taxes still bold their own. Public officials get as much today as they did when cotton was worth twenty cents per pound. Give us the sliding scale for the salaries of public officials. Let their salaries increase and decrease as the average purchasing power of labor’s product increases and decreases. The last campaign in Georgia was pretty warm, but it was not a circum stance to what the next will be. Live ly is no name for it. The people will have their rights in the next fight and “don’t you forget it.” Cleveland intimates that he will veto any compromise that may be offered in the senate. Tie promised Wall street unconditional repeal and it must come, or nothing. This the kind of a presi dent we live under—a Czar. W’hen you meet don’t forget to push your paper. Remember that it is your paper and you should patronize your own paper. It is just like your co-operative store, or the state ex change. It needs your support and should get it first. Don’t forget to send in that club at your first meeting. If you want a paper to fight your battles, you must support it. Times are hard, but you can well afford to sacrifice 75 cents to keep your paper fighting for you. Don’t delay. We want 50,000 subscribers to the organ. Every alliancetnau in the state is a stockholder aud agent. If every one will only send In bis own subscription and that of an outsider the work will be accomplished. Brethren, go to work now and let us have them. Every dollar it makes will be yours. That notorious Col. J. W. Hughes of Kansas National Guard, who re fused to obey Governor Lewelling last winter and clear the State house of riotous republicans, has been tried by a court martial composed of two re publicans, two Populists and one democrat, aud they unanimously found him guilty of the charges and ordered him dishonorably discharged. THE LIVING ISSUES, ATLANTA, GEORGIA: OCTOBER 5, 1893. Pike County Alliance meets on the 13th. Douglas County Alliance meets tomorrow. Jersey is to have a big alliance rally on the 13th of October. Van Alen paid 850.000 for the Ital ian mission. Many others no doubt were bought in the same way. Whitney divides the spoils to the fellows who were most liberal in con tributing to the corruption fund. A congressman that talks about redeeming money is either too igno rant or cowardly to be trusted with the sacred rights of the people. Three hundred thousand in cash aud a free distribution of promises carried Georgia against the alliance in the last election. Some of the farmers are becoming so extravagant that they actually have meat on their table once a day.—Ala bama Alliance News.* Some alliancemen think the object of the alliance accomplished with not a single demand enacted into law. Brother get back into the order and go to work. Let everj’ subscriber to the paper get at least one new subscriber before the next issue. Don’t put it off. We want tho largest list of any three papers in the s'ate. Brother, we know you want to see the order prosper; all you have to do is to send the organ into their homes and it will do the work. Do this at your next meeting. Brother S. H. Lowther, of Amos keag, writes that the alliance is mov ing forward. He reorganized a sub alliance and sends us a club of sub scribers. Keep up the work brethren. Cleveland has given his bait box and fishing taclke more attention during the past three months than he has the constitution of his country and the dangers menacing the people.—Alaba ma Alliance News. It is Cleveland against the people on the financial question with every indi cation of Wall street winning in the first round. On the second round at the ballot box w’e shall see who is the power in the land. There is no improvement in the condition of the finances in the coun try. The newspapers are trying to pull themselves over the fence by their boot straps, but it is impossible. You can’t imagine a dollar in your pocket unless its there. Imagination will not buy bread and clothes for the winter. Even in.good old Douglas the far mers were locked out of the court house by a sheriff who was never elected. Things are coming to a pretty pass when the farmers who pro duce the wealth are to be locked out. Do you want to see Georgia in the hands of the alliance? Then put your organ in the hands of 50,000 people aud you will succeed.' You can do it and the labor expended will pay a handsome dividend. Every dollar made in the enterprise will belong to the alliance. In lowa. The. political campaign is warming up in lowa. Tho alliance is holding large and enthusiastic meetings all over the state and the speakers report thousands of converts. Tho reformers will poll a larger vote than ever before and will carry no doubt many counties. May Gladstone live long enough to knock out the English House of Lords In the meantime, we trust Teller and Stewart will succeed in their efforts to smash the American House of Lords. —The road. Northen and Cleveland. Governor Northen wrote President Cleveland a letter. The public possibly may never know just what was in Northeu’s letter for it is said to contain some information which it would not be best for the public to have. It is said to contain something very important to the party that especially concerns Grover and Billie and the rest of the office holders and prospect ive office holders including 11. W. J. Taylor, colored. It is said by those who ought to know that the Governor’s letter told Mr. Cleveland very plainly that the democratic party in Georgia had gone over lock stock and barrel to the alli ance hayseeders and he must do some thing quick. lu the language of the immortal Evan Howell, “For God’s Sake Do Something.” He pictured how the blasted hay seeder had captured all of the recent elections and then told him he should say silver whether he wanted it or not just to save “us down here in Geor gia.” The public are not left in the dark about Cleveland’s views. He sat upon the governor with a decided thud. The following is Cleveland’s reply: Hon. W. J. Northen—My Dear Sir: I hardly know how to reply to your letter of the 15th instant. It seems to me that lam quite plainly on record con cerning the financial question. My let ter accepting the nomination to the presidency, when read in connection with the message lately sent to the con gress in extraordinary session, appears to me to be very explicit. I want a currency that is stable and safe in the hands of our people. I will not knowingly be implicated in a con dition that will justly make me, in the least degree, answerable to any laborer or farmer m the United States for a shrinkage in the purchasing power of the dollar he has received for a full dol lar’s worth of work or for a good dollars worth of the product of his toil. I not only want a currency to be of such a character that all kinds of dol lars will be of equal purchasing power at home, but I want it to be of such a charter as will demonstrate abroad our wisdom and good faith, thus placing upon a firm foundation our credit among the nations of the earth. I want our financial conditions and the laws ralating to our currency so safe and reassuring that those who have money will spend and invest it in busi ness and new enterprises, instead of hoarding it. You cannot cure fright by calling it foolish and unreasonable, and you cannot prevent the frightened man from hoarding his money. I want good, sound and stable money, and a condition of confidence that will keep it in use. Within the limits of what I have •written I am a friend of silver, but I be lieve its proper place in our currency can only be fixed by a readjustment of our currency legislation and the inaug uration of a consistent and comprehen sive financial scheme. I think such a thing can only be entered upon profit ably and hopefully after the repeal of the law which is charged with all our financial woes. In the present state of the public mind, this law cannot be built upon, nor patched in such away as to relieve the situation. I am, therefore, opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this cotmtry alone and independently; and I am in favor of the immediate and un conditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the co-called Sherman law. I confess lam astonished at the op position in the senate to such prompt action as would relieve the present un fortunate situation. My daily prayer is that the delay occasioned by such op position may not be the cause of plung ing the country into deeper depression than it has yet known, and that the democratic party may not be justly held responsible for such a catastrophe. Yours very truly, Grover Cleveland. Fayette County Alliance will meet at Fayetteville Saturday, the 7th. M. D. Irwin will speak. Cleveland and his cabinet clerks have been in power since the 4th of last March, and about nine-tenths of the offices are still filled by republicans. That seems to be Cleveland’s way of saving the country. But maybe the republican hold-overs are Cleveland democrats, like Gresham.—lshmalite. General Evans will be the war candi date for governor. Fortunately the war is over.—Cherokee Advance. Brother, this paper is yours, wih you sustain it or not? Partisanship. Jefferson declared, at the foundation of our government, that under its ad midistration, there would be no ex tremely rich nor extremely poor people. A hundred years of the republic’s exis tence has clearly demonstrated that it is not in the form of government, but in the administration, that the liberties and happiness of the masses are pre served. Doubtless the founders of our Republic intended that there should be no extremly rich or poor people, and doubtless they believed that, with the ballot in the hands of the common peo ple, the adoption of the nation’s wealth by a few men would be impossible. Our fathers clothed the people with the power to have the government admin istered in their interests, and the peo ple have wofully failed. And why ? Simply because partisanship, prejudice and passion have reigned supreme over reason, in the casting of the ballot, for at least half a century. In looking back at the history of men who have legislated for the people, and who have administered the government, the common people’s friends have been few and far between, and men have reached the zenith of position and pow er who never drew a patriotic breath in all their lives. The election of such men would have been impossible had it not been for the blind unreasoning of partisanship. So long has this unac countable evil presided that men elect ed on well-defined issues deliberately violate their pledges to their constitu ents ; then, when their term of bffice expires, manipulate the nominating convention, and receive renominations over and over, relying upon partisan ship and prejudice to re-elect, and are not disappointed. As a result, all the substantial benefitsof a republican form of government are well-nigh lost, and the partisan, in a death-like stupor, drifts on to certain destruction. The awakening must come soon; or, when it does come, it will be too late to re store liberty by the use of the ballot. ■ Since liberty cannot long exist in any form of government where the masses are extremly poor and the few own and control all the wealth, it may safely be assumed that liberty has been well-nigh slain in the house of its friends, all be' cause the weapon of defence has been so unskillfully used. Partisanship must die, or liberty must die. Which shall it be ?—Kansas Agitator. It was for the purpose of breaking down prejudice and destroying parti sanship that the alliance was bom. If the great principles of the alliance shall be accepted then partisanship must die and liberty be restored to her former position in the nation. Every man who loves his country and his family, should stand by the alliance principles and contend for their establishment. A Disgusted Democrat. Seaborn Wright talks out in earnest. In closing a letter which was written to the Journal and published in the Constitution, he says: “In what matter of finance does Mr. Cleveland differ from John Sherman? They both favor the uuditional repeal of the Sherman law. They both favor a further extension of our banking mo nopoly, by permitting the banks to issue bills to the full amount of their bonds. “Do they differ as to the repeal of the 10 per cent restriction on State banks? “Does not Mr. Cleveland stand as unalterably opposed to any serious change in our financial system as Mr. Sherman? And yet, my dear sir, see to what our financial system in a quarter of a century, has brought the masses of the American people. Twenty-four thousand out of sixty-four million of the American people have absorbed one half the wealth of the country. Where is it to stop? After all these years of patient toil and labor for democratic success, is the victory to bear no fruit? Is it to go on until the few are masters and the many serfs and slaves? “I may be a crank aud fool, but as God Almighty is my Judge, I believe that Cleveland honestly, perhaps, is doing more today to wreck the republic and bring the people either to servile pauperism than every professional wrecker in the land. “What an opportunity for the man. With his control of the democratic party, what could he not do? And all the people ask is simple justice, a faith ful carrying out of the pledges aud spirit of the party. If this is dnne, how pregnant the future with relief? If not, do you think the mere name of dem ocracy will control the people? “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Taylor did not apply for the Bolivia mission. Cleveland tendered it to him. This makes it still worse. The Journal Swollows. The appointment of Charles H. J. Taylor, the colored lawyer, formerly of Atlanta, but now a resident of Kansas City, to be minister to Bolivia, calls at tention to the fact that President Cleve land has broken the color line in office holding to a greater degree than any of his predecessors. He is not followi the policy of the late James G. Blaine who openly declared that, in his opinion, the time had not yet come when a re publican administration could afford to send black men to represent this coun try in white countries. Mr. Cleveland is not only sending black men to white countries, but he is sending white men to black countries. A few weeks ago he appointed Henry Clay Smith, an Alabama negro, to be cfinsul at Santos, Brazil. Within the past few days Henry M. Smythe, a white Virginian, has been appointed minister to Hayti; C. H. J. Taylor, a colored man of Kan sas. has been sent as minister to Bolivia; Mr. E. T. Wetter, a white Georgian, has been appointed consul to Tamatave, Madegascar, and Henry C. C. Astwood, a bllck New’ Yorker, has been appoint ed consul to Calais, France.—Atlanta Journal. From the above extract from the Journal it will be seen how they swal low everything offered by the “stuffed prophet.” Last year the Journal went into hysterics for fear of negro supremacy and the force bill, but now social equality is taken under the tongue as a sweet morsel. The Journal will have to do more lying and bigger lying before it will get the people to swallow on “Cleve land’s social equality policy” and we doubt if the Journal is equal to the task. Life Insurance. It wuuld seem particularly appro priate that the national executive committee of the N. F. A. & I. U. should recommend the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, as its standard Mutual Company; when the institution so recently celebrated its semi-centennial or golden wedding. In this issue will be seen the national executive committee’s hearty recom mendation of this, the greatest Bene ficent Philanthropic Institution that the world has ever known. Let us look at the grounds on which this company was selected from a large number of other leading com panies of the United States. First. We find it the largest and strongest company in the world. Second. It is the oldest company in America. Third. It is run on lines similar to the alliance, being strictly mutual solely the property of its membership, which numbers several hundred thou sand. Fourth. It is the largest dividend, or profit paying company in the world. Fifth. It is the strongest financial institution, its assets amounting to nearly two hundred millions of dol lars, every dollar of this vast sum be ing the property of its policy-holders. Sixth. Its accomplishments equal ing those of the next two largest com panies in the world, having handled and disbursed for its members over six hundred millions of dollars. Such potent facts as these would certainly indicate that the executive committee had acted with their usual good judgment and wisdom. Says the Chicago Daily Journal (Re publican) in defending Cleveland’s pol icy of bribing congressmen with gov ernment pap to induce them to vote for the repeal of the silver law : “In this Cleveland is not doing evil that good may cume, but he is doing good to ac complish a most desirable end. The means and theend are both justifiable.” This is a sample of the moral status of the editorial conscience which sacrifices patriotism, principle and right, to ad vocate the greed of the money barons and security holders in their efforts to contract the currency to a gold basis. It is easy to see what school this edito rial conscience was educated in. A journal which will openly justify bri bery, calling it good, and such means justifiable, must have become calloused to its iniquity by long practice. The facts are, neither the means nor the end are justifiable, but both are dam nable.—Farm, Field and Fireside. Silver is in a bad row for stumps in the present congress. If it comes out n any shape, except killed it will do well. 5