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VOL. I. ALLIANCE TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM ALL SECTIONS. Items of Interest to Alliance men Everywhere. SIDE-THACKINU ISSUES. Under the above heading the Progres fiire Parmer comes boldly to the front aud says: “The partisan press and the politicians who are opposed to the Alliance are ex trern U anxious to force the order into false positions. They assert persistently that the sub-treasury bill is the ultima tum of the Alliance, when they well know that in every instance where it has been made the issue, it has been forced on us. And we may remark that in every such case the sub-treasury has come out victorious. It is now being asserted that President Polk makes the sub-treasury paramount to all oth.r questions. The enemy puts down his position as follows: 'l hat lie regards as most important— ■‘lst. The sub-treasury bilL “2d. Free and unlimited coinage of silver. lid. The modification of the tariff. President Polk has always held that a change in the financial system of the government by and through which the industrial many are being robbed and ruined by the moneyed few is the great overshadowing paramount issue before the American people. He has always held that free coinage, tariff, sub-treasury and all other questions are subordinate to this great issue. No free coinage act, no modification of the tariff, no increase of the currency—none, nor all of these, can never bring just and substantial re lief to the people, so long as the present unjust and outrageously wicked financial s}steni prevails. The national bank ing system must go. The money of the people must be is sued to the people, independent of all expensive agencies apd in sufficient volume to do the business of country. This, and not the Sub-Treas ury, this, aud not the tariff, this, and not free coinage, is the mighty living issue before the people. The Alliance wants and demands a modification of the tariff, aud it intends to have it. The Alliance wants and de mands free and unlimited coinage of sil ver, and it intends to have it; but it will no longer be deluded and ensnared with the fallacious idea that these are para mount to the money question. The poli ticians of the country have been deceiv ing and side-tracking the peopLe on these false ideas for a quarter of a century, but they can do it no longer. * * * UEGARDING TUE WHEAT COMBINE. 11. W. Ayer, secretary to President Polk, of the Farmers’ Alliance, and man ager of the Reform Press Bureau, which is also known as the Alliance Press Bureau in Washington, is reported as saying that the work of sending out cir culars designed to show the farmers of the country that it was to their advant age to hold back the wheat crop was ac tively proceeding in Washington as well as in St. Paul, Minn., which was chosen one of the seats of operation because of its location in the great wheat belt. Mr. Ayer said there have already been 400.000 of these circulars sent out from Washington, and will continue to be sent out until more than a million circulars altogether are issued. The circular, he said, will also be published in about two thousand weekly papers, with which the bureau is connected. He remarked that he couldn’t say, of course, that it was the circular w'hich nad brought about the result, but he had noticed in a recent market report, lhat as a matter of fact the actual move ment of wheat was 140 carloads less per day than had been estimated. Mr. Ayre also stated that the information that the issue of such a circular by alliancemen was in contemplation became public pre maturely, when the circular in course of preparation was publised in the newspa pers. The final decision to issue the cir cular had not at that time been reached, and many leading .tliancemen were una ware of it, but it has since been finally determined upon. He explained that the executive committee of the alliance had not acted on this matter, and that by the circular no order was given alliance men to hold back their crop, this being contrary to the methods of the alliance. What is done by this circular is to give the farmers information as to the facts in regard to the world’s wheat crop, with the suggestion that wheat some weeks later than the present time will bring a higher price. * The Western New York Farmer , (Ar eade;) says is regard to the Wyoming county Alliance meeting: “The 2,000 members of the Order in this county have determined that the Alliance principles of letting the office seek the man, shall be a principle observed in the nomina tion of all candidates. They have no use for self-seekers and look upon all who ask for office with suspicion. They want a man to lepresent them in the Assembly, the Senate, and in other places of official trust, who will earn his sularyapd be true to those who employ and pay him as a pub lic servant, and they propose to liave such a one even if neither party cee fit to nominate him. Their action at the convention conveys no uncer tain sound. It is brief, but it is awfully explicit and fearfully in earnest. It art vises all members to attend their par y primaries and work for pure and honest men who are known to be in harmony with the Alliance demands. The execu tive authority is directed to submit these demands to every nominee and failing to secure the public pledges of .their sup Suite [if pdi If A fWSL port of these demands, he is instructed to call, not a coumy Alliunce meeting, for the Alliance is strictly secret aud non-purt'sun, but u political convention of the Alliance membership to place in nomination candidates who arc in har mony with the Alliance platforms. There is nothiug uncertain or indefinite about this. * jk Journal of the Knights of Labor (Phil adelphia) says: “The enemies of the Farmers’ Alliance when they first enter the lists, by what appears like a fatality, direct their attack upon the sub-treasury plan. Evidently they think this the weak and easily pierced joint in the Alli ance armor; but a* one after another their spears shiver to pieces while they fail to pierce the joint, they realize that, if the sub-treasury plan is not invulnerable, at any rate the enemy has not yet forged the weapon that can pierce it. So far all the attacks upon the sub-treasury plan have only resulted in making con verts to the idea and in con firming the faith of those who already believe in it, Essentially it is the same system as wes in vogue in the old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be fore the Revolution, of which Edmund Burke said, on the floor of the British House of Commons, that under it the Commonwealth had enjoyed a prosperity greater than that enjoyed by any other community in the world. It is no cause for wonder that the money power and a 1 who do its bidding denounce the sub treasury plan and rail against it. It would permanently retire them from the business of devouring industry and com pel them to live by their labor or starve. * sk PRESIDENT POLK TALKS. A Washington dispatefi says: Presi dent Pol;<, of the Farmers’ Alliance, has returned from his southern tour, aud in a short interview said the alliance was not losing ground anywhere, but was pro gressing beautifully. All talk about a split on account of the sub-treasury idea, he said, was absurd. What difference of opinion there was. was as to the form of the measure and its de ails. 'lhere was no difference of opinion as to principle aud every Farmers’ Allranceman had the same object in view. He stated that he had beeu quoted incorrectly as saying that the great issues were the tariff and free coin >ge, and that witli th se issues the alliance would all rally around the sub treasury bill. “The issue is not the tariff, the free coinage of silver, nor the sub treasury bill. The issue is the reform of our entire financial system. Neither'the issuance of more money, nor the collec tion of less taxes, will alone do the peo ple any good. The entire financial sys tem of the government must be changed before anything else that maybe- done can correct the existing evils.” * * * sub-tileasuky— TIIE ISSUE. The sub-treasury is the only real issue. We don’t want any half-handed espousal of the Alliance cause. When a man says: “I am with you and tlTuk you are light, but I can’t agree with you on the sub treasury,” you may know he is a slave to the national banks, or is not with us. The sub-treasury is more money, cheaper money, and money for the people. No other plan has ever been suggested that would put fiie currency in CUe proper chaunei. The people have no diamonds, bullion or stock upon which to back currency, but they have lands and crops. No other plan will meet the ends lor which a people’s money should be is sued. The rich need no money, they have enough, the laboring class need the money and the only money that can reach them is the sub-treasury money. We need not expect money for the people from banks or from money manipulators, for it is contrary to their interest to have a people’s money. We, the agricultural, laboring and industrial classes, backed by the sensible aud liberal element in the trades and professions must carry on this reform. Money for the people is the watch word and sub-treasury money it must be.— Southern Alliance Farmer. * * * Virginia’s state meeting. A Richmond dispatch says: The Vir ginia Alliance “tate convention will meet at Richmond August 18thand noton the 14th, as has been stated so often in print. The question of agreeing on a bill for the creation of a railroad commission prom ises to be one of the most interesting topics to be discussed. The free coinage of silver is, however, almost sure to occupy the most prominent place among the subjects considered. It is believed that the planks of the Ohio Democratic platform on this subject may be urged upon the convention tor adoption. The idea withsome is that having met with the approval of the leaders in Ohio and other states, it can probably be pressed with more certainty of approval than a brand-new one. Some of the Alliance leaders are outspoken and fearless in advocacy of the adoption by the con vention of strong free coinage resolu tiens, whether they be the Ohio idea or some other equally as comprehensive in expressing their views. * * ik The Galveston (Tex.) News says: “It is refreshing to note from time to time in the utterances of the labor organizations or of their recognized representatives a dawning sense thst the true remedy for the economic evils of which they com plain is to be found in the widest econo mic liberty equally for them and for all other classes and conditions of society. Light has long been shining in the midst of a sort of systematic and incorporated darkness impenetrable to its rays and intolerant of its intrusion. At last, however, it may be hoped that this darkness will be dispersed or will cease to be followed by millions as a mislead ing pillar of cloud floating over mirages and morasses of essential fallacy and fatal impracticability. Let sincere, cap- TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1891. able and studious Leaders of labor, orga nized for political action, manfully marshall their followers for final depar ture from every rut and every trend of protective and prohibitory paternalism and strike out in a campaign for the ac complishment of economic liberty.” * * * The National Economist says: “The order need have no concern about the recent anti-sub-treasury meet ing held in Fort Worth, Texas. The pa fiers that are trying to produce discord n the Alliance made a great fuss over it. They inaugurated it for that very purpose, and therefore had to make a fuss over it, but it was a great failure. It has, how ever, demonstrated one thing that will delight all true Alliancemen, and that is that they might rake Texas with a fine tooth comb and they could not find one' hundred Alliancemen iu good standing who would be willing to go back on their obligation and fight the Ocala demands. Whan such are found they are generally renegades, who, claiming membership, are using that claim to help th i enemy produce discord in the order.” * * ★ A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says: The Washington County Alliunce in con vention assembled has passed a resolution declaring for the nomination of a com plete Alliance ticket in the gubernatorial campaign one year hence. It is under stood that delegates from other counties to the State Alliance will also favor such a step, aDd that the regular Democratic ticket will be opposed by Alliance candi dates for all the State offices. '1 he action of the Alliance of the county named, which is one of the most important in the state, has caused a ripple of excite ment in political circles. The State Alli ance claims 75,000 votes, four-fifths of whom are Democrats. * -k if The Kansas Farmer , organ of the Farmers’ Alliance of that State, pub lishes tables whose figures show that the liabilities of the State exceed its re sources considerably more than two to one —the lorinei o m i go, oou, ui U, .i.v. the latter only $301,000,000. Among the liabilities is the i em of “capital stock of railroads $450 000,000, but •without this item the nsouices barely exceed the liabilities, 'i he > mount of farm mortgages is placed at SIOO, OOO, 000, and the assessed value of farms $168,000,000. Objectors to the Alliance sub-treasury plan are asking: How will your plan help the tenant farmer who must have assistance to make his crop? We reply by saying, we uropose to take his crop out of the dominion of the and speculator. This will enable him to save 20 per cent on each crop, and in five years he will be able to pay as he goes. See the cut?— Southern Mercury ,' (Dallas, Texas.) ▼ •if. -*e Faulkner County Wheel , (Conway, Ark.) says; “What rights have the farmers and workingmen that railroads and other corporations respect? None. Y<t when the paid attorneys of tliese corporations come around and tell the people how lo vole, some farmers are f ols enough to believe them. Never thinking that they are talking for the men and corporations that pay them for their services.” * * + Thirty-four county Alliances have gpoken out in their July meetings, clear ly, and unequivocally for the Deals de mands and the sub-treasury. Not one has been heard from that opposes. There never was more unanimity on any ques tion presented to Alliancemen. * * * All true Alliancemen stick to the Al liance as long as it works to carry out the principles of the order. All traitors fly the track. A WHEAT TRUST To be Formed by Alliancemen for the Farmers’ Benefit. St Paui, Minn., has been made the headquarters of a national movement by the United Farmers’ Alliance of the country to corner the entire wheat crop of the United States. At No. 317 Wa bash street, for several days a larije force of employes have been engaged in send ing out circulars with the view <>f hav ing not only the alliancemen of the Uni ted States but nil classes of farmers keep back the wheat crop until prices have been advanced to a high point. The alliance press bureau, re form press bureau and state press bureau are working together endeavoring to unite the farmers of the United States in a gigantic wheat trust. A circular re citing the benefits of the combination and urging the formation of the trust has been made public. The circular estimates the wheat crop in 1891 in the United States at 500,000,000 bushels. The pro moters of the trust believe thatfour-fifths of lhis wheat can be held back by the farmers for from four to eight weeks and high prices secured. THE HUNGRY FLAMES Devour $290,000 Worth of Property in Dallas, Texas. Shortly after midnight Saturday night fire broke out in J. B. Cowan & Co.’s big liqfior house, on Commerce street, Dallas Texas, and spread rap : dly to the Pen Brook School Furniture Company’s place, Brewer’s Storage Company’s warehouse, and Wolfe & Co.’s cotton gin. Five hundred bales of cotton in the gin be longing to Sanger Bros, were destroyed. The loss foots up $290,000; insurance, $200,000. Seven hundred barrels of whisky were stored in J. B. Cowan's wholesale liquor house, where the fire originated, and the barrels exploded at intervals, making the fire extremely dif ficult to handle, and causing it to quick ly spread to neighboring buildings. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The official census of France gives the population as 38,095,150. West Doin', Neb , was almost com pletely submerged In the business poition of the city Thursday. Thirty-two Russiuns, who are assisted passengers, arrived at New York, Thurs day, but will be returned as paupers. The United States treasurer, on Thurs day, shipped $300,000 in small notes to Chicago for use in the movement of crops. The cotton and woolen mill of Camo bell & Elliott, at Philadelphia, was burn ed Friday night. Loss between $600,000 and $750,000. The fatal “yellows” have made their appearance in the peach orchards of Maryland and it is said the crop will be shortened 100,000 baskets. The world’s fair commissioners met Lord Salisbury in London Thursday Mid were informed that the names of Hie royai commission would soon be gazetted. A lengthy appeal, with regard to Russian Jewish immigration was issued Thursday by the Jewi-h Alliance of America, accompanied with a plan of action. A Philadelphia dispatch says: The strike among the plush weavers of Dob son’s mills, Falls of Schuylkill, which has been in progress for the past ten weeks, was declared off Monday. A London cablegram of Thursday says: The Urquharts, parents of Mrs. James Brown-Potter, telegraphed from Paris a denial of the report that Mrs. Potter had married Ivyrie Bellew in Chius. A cablegram from Lisbon, says: The tmployes thrown out of employment be cause of the dull times caused by the McKinley law, set fire to the cork factory at Evova, Portugale, Sunday. Great damage was done. Over two thousand steel strikers at Harrisburg, Pa., turned out Monday af ternoon to parade and to listen to speeches from leaders. They counseled quictuess and patience, and prophesied victory for the men. A dispatch of Thursday from Evans ville. Ind., says: Nelson, Morris & Cos., the great meat dealers of Chicago, after a long aud bitter fight with the local Butchers’ associati m. have abandoned the Evn®Hlle field. It is claimed ihey were driven out. The big textile mill of Campbell & Elliott, at Philadelphia, -w r as totally de stroyed by fire Friday night. The total insurance is place 1 MOO,OOO. The value of the plant is placed at a half million dollars. The loss on the stocked raw material is variously estimatedut from $150,000 to $250,000. Sirs. Mark Hopkins Searles, wife of Edward F. Searles, the New York archi tect, and widow of the millionaire, Mark Hopkins, of the Pacific coast, died at her mansion in Methuen, Mas 9., Saturday morning, as the result of an attack of the grip. Her first husband left an estate valued at $60,000,000, and Mrs. Searles’s wealth is estimated at $40,000,000. Ad spatch from Dayton, 0., says: A Hamilton and Dayton excursion train at Middletown was run into by a freight train Saturday night, causing a fearful wreck. Three persons were killed out right: Wra. Matthew, aged thirteen; Miss Lydia Freyer, aged twenty two, and Ftank Simoner, aged seventeen. Taveuty excursionists were wounded, four of whom will die. At Omaha, Neb., Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme court, Mon day morning, announced his decision in the famous Union Pacific-Rock Island bridge case. The decision is against the Union Pacific, and holds that the con tract entered into by the Union Pacific with the Rock Island and Milwaukee roads, permitting trains of the latter to use the Omaha bridge, is valid. Exports of specie from the port of New York during the week ended July 25th, amounted to $3,209,590, of which $2,- 812,229 was in gold and $487,307 in sil ver. Of total exports, $2,131,369 in gold and $483,307 in silver went to Eu rope, and SOBO,BOO in gold and $5,054 in silver to the West Indies. Imports of specie amounted to $790,726, of which $700,584 was in gold and $90,178 in sil ver. On Monday five hundred coal miners at Duquoin, 111., marched in a body to the Tiugley House and served notice on Robert Cummings, an anti-labor agi tator, to leave town. Cummings is a coal miner, but is against the locked-out miners’ attitude there in not resuming work. Sheriff Clark is on the scene to prevent any trouble. Cummings says he won’t go. The miners say he will. A Loudon cablegram says: The house of commons, on Saturday in committee of supply, voted $200,000 as salaries and expenses for the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland. The chief secretary for Ireland, Balfour, made a detailed state ment in regard to this relief, saying that it was the government’s intention that the works should be a permanent means of promoting the welfare of the inhabi tants. A Reading, Pa., telegram states that the West Hamberg rolling mills, operated by the Pottsville Iron and Steel Cottf pany, which has been idle several weeks because of a difference between the em ployes and lessees, who refused to sign the amalgamated scale, resumed opera tion Monday. The furnaces are in blast with non-uuion men, and strong efforts will be made to increase the number. A New York dispatch says: Monday morning ail parties having iead trust certificates Handing in their names re ceived copies of a circular, signed by the president and secretary, announcing that a special meeting of stockholders would be held on August 27th for the purposa of acting ou the proposed plan of reor ganization. The plan provides for the scaling down of the capital from $87,- 000,000 to $30,000,000. A dispatch of Thursday from Colum bia, 0., says: The democratic state executive committee has extended a forma! invitation to ex President Cleve land to deliver not less than six speeches iu behalf of Governor Campbell during the coming campaign. Governor Hill, General Palmer, Governors Peck and Boies, with Senators Voorhees, Vance, Vila 9 and other representative demo crats will be asked to aid the campaign. On Friday a committee on civil and religious lights of the Union of Ameri can Hebrew Congregations throqgh thqjr officers resident at Washington—Simon Wolf, chairman, and Lewis Abraham, secretary —have presented a memorial to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Net tleton in behalf of Russian refugees, lauding in New York designed to show LUiit Uey are not paupers nor “assisted" immigrants. The department* it is un derstood, will take early action. A Washington dispatch says: Ship ments of currency to the west to move crops opened up lively Saturday, $038,- 000 in small notes being shipped from the treasury to Cincinnati and Ohioago in exchange for deposits at New York. The department has been preparing for this transfer for some time with the view to meeting the demand for small notes for the purpose indicated. According to present indications the demand Will be unusually large this year, one official es timating it at $15,000,000. BUSINESS"OUTLOOK As Reported by Dunn & Cos. for Past Week. R. G. Dunn & Co.’s trade review for week ended July 28, fays: Some im provement in the business situation is still noted. There is more actual trade in most of the leading branches, and more general confidence as to the future. But the monetary situation does not grow clearer, and the decline is strong, notwithstanding the great dullness, and with enormous crops coming, marks the feeling of Wall street that difficulties may be not far ahead. Reports of the condition of ■ trade are generally more favorable than a week ago, as the western crop prospects are stimu lated everywhere. In the south little change is noted, and money is generally tight and trade inactive. But crop pros pects decidedly improve in Alabama, sugar is active and firm at New Orleans ana trade holds its own at Savannah, The suspension of a bank at Palatka oauaes some depression in trade there, but heavy purchases of tabacco at Key West show unusual activity in cigar making. Business is Florida is more promising than last year. Cotton has (alien three eights to 8 cents for spot, with sales of 608,000 ba’es, an enormous trade for the season. The average prices of all com modities have fallen per cent during the week. Great industries show an im provement in wool and leather manufact ure, but no signs of recovery in iron and coal. The depression in iron is serious though prices are, on the whole, hut little changed. In the wool trade larger salts at eastern cities and continued large re ceipts at the west reflect the improve ment which the better demand for dry goods naturally causes. Leather is awakening and manufacturers are laying in stocks more liberally. The boot and shoe prospects at the south and west are excellent, and Boston shipments again exceed last year's. But the money mar ket at the west show an increasing de mand, at some points approaching strin gency, and collections are not, on the whole good good for the season. Business failures Occurring throughout the country during last week, as reported to R. G. Dunn & Co.’s mercantile agen cy, number, for the United States, 231; Canada, 23; total f54, against 274 last week. THE WAR ENDS And Tennessee’s Convicts Re turned to the Mines. A Nnoxville. Tenn., says: The convicts were returned to Coal Creek and Briceville mines by Governor Buch hanan Saturday. The governor, the guards, twenty strong, and the convicts were received at the mines quietly and pleasantly, and during the governor’s so journ at the camp he was treated not only courteously but as royally as the Tennessee miners could treat him. The happy solution of the ugly problem was gladly received by the people in and about Knoxville. On the governor’s re turn to Knoxville, the troops saluted him, and, in a short but feeling speech the governor thanked the military boys for the many sacrifices they had made, and the faithful work they had done. A Colonization Scheme, The bureau of American republics at Washington is informed that an associa tion called “The American Colored Men’s Mexican Colonization Company” is plan ning to establish a colony of negro farm ers, coming chiefly from MississipDi and Tennessee, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, and has arranged for the purchase of a tract of 100,000 acres about twenty miles south of Yqina, Arizona, on the Southern Pacific railroad at the place where the remains of the Laredo colony, founded by Gandrade, of San Francisco, still remain. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming* an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. The last of the jury bribery cases was tried iu New Orleans Thursday and re sulted in an acquittal. The boiler of a steam thresher ex ploded at Litchfield, Ky., Thursday, killing three men and fatally injuring three otheis. The comptroller of currency has ap pointed Col. John C. Goodloe, of Barton, Ala., receiver of the Florence National bank, of Florence, Ala. A Memphis, Tenn.. dispatch says: Proceedings of the motion for anew tiial in the King murder case were re sumed Monday muiuiug lu the criminal court. Judge Cas i auy, of the Anniston, Ala., city court, on Monday, appointed Capt. A. P. Agee receiver cf the defunct An niston Saving aud Safe Deposit Company. 1 his was done at the request of the de positors, who held two or three meetings recently to devise some way for obtaining amounts due them. Friday night the Citizens’ bank of Jeffeison, Texas, made an assignment. The bank closed business Saturday morn ing, not having funds to mdet their credi tors. Liabilities, $100,000; assets, $125,- 000. It is believed the depositors and creditors will receive the full amount of deposits aud the bank will be able to pay all its indebtedness. A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says; Governor Holt lias decided, on the ad vice of the attorney general, not to pay the world’s fair commissioners any part of the $25,000 voted by the general as sembly from the direct tax fund. The governor does not think he would be justified in carrying out the act, as it re quires him to make inroads upon the funds held in trust. One of the richest and best paying gold mines in the country is the Pine tucky mines in Cleburne county, Ala., about thirty miles from Anniston. The nuggets mined there, yield an average of $63 a ton. The mine is operated on a limited scale at present, bat the owners contemplate increasing the-output by an additional force of laborers in the fall. A Raleigh dispatch says: Dr. Henry V. Wilson, director of the United States fish commission, stationed at Woods Hall, Mass., was, on Monday, elected professor of biology in the University of North Carolina. Ho will be scientific ex pert to the North Carolina shell fish com mission. His election makes a valuable addition to the faculty of the University of North Carolina. A dispatch of Friday from Sacramento, Cai., says: State Controller Colgan has refused to draw his warrant for t>o amount due as office rent for California’s world’s fair commission. He doubts the constitutionality of the legislative act appropriating $300,000 for the California exhib.t at the world’s fair, and wishes to have the question decided by the supreme court before he pays out any money. A run began on the People’s Home Savings bank at San Francisco, Monday, and several thousand dollars was paid back to the depositors. The bank com missioners have begun an investigation of the bank’s affairs. According to its report July Cth. the People’s bank has a capital stock of $1,000,000, of which one-third is paid up. There is due de positors, who number about eight thous and, the sum of SIOO,OOO. The bank officers state that the institution is per fectly solvent. AN ADDRESS Issued by the People’s Party to the General Public. A Cincinnati dispatch of Thursday says: Robert Schilling has made public the address of the national executive committee of the people’s party to the citizens of the United States. It occu pies four closely printed, small octavo pages. It set out with a general state ment of grievances which occupies about one-fourth of the document. In this statement are such phrases as the follow ing: “The declaration of independence from the arrogance of British politicians must be supplemented by a declaration of independence from the frightful power of concentrated wealth. We con sider violence in settling disputes as un worthy of a civilized nation, and for this reason we have organized the party of the people to overthrow tyrants who have robbed and are continuing to rob us of that to which they have ho moral right.” The document then goes on with speci fications of evils in matters of iands, labor and money, and in conclusion sug gests a remedy. The concluding para graph appeals, in the name of the lib erty for 'which the fathers of the republic pledged their lives, for the aid of every honest man in this struggle by joining the party of the people. William Hester, ot b'jwing Ai.'l. Penn., has a large brown bat which he has trained to carry messages like a ca - rier pigeon. Yesterday Mr. Ile-lcr took the uncanny bird to his place of business in New Castle, and having made arrange ments at home to note the exact time of its arrival, .let it loose. The iat flew a mile in 27} seconds. When libi rated ihe quickness with which it starts for its cage at home is something ama/.iug Mr. Hester will take the bat to Young-town and try its homing powers from there. He is confident it will outstrip a homing pigeon. NO. 14.