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VOL. 11.
The young men are coming consnicu*
ously to the front in the preseut Con.
gress.
The mines of the world product
twenty-five tons of gold every week, but
the precious metal remains as rare a :
ever.
New York is the leading Irish city it
the world in point of population. Dub
lin contains 254,000 human souls, ana
New York claims to have 300,000 Irish
citizens. „
A short time ago in the course of an
address which he delivered in Denver,
Col., President Eliot said that there was
every reason to believe that within ten
years there would be 4000 students at
Harvard.
The Boston Transcript instances the
following as proof that “courage is al
ways appreciated:” A New York police
man who jumped into the East River
with his uniform on and rescued two
little children was allowed by his cap.
tain two hours from duty in wnich to
get warm.
It is said that many of the German
colonists on the Voiga River who are
sufferers from the Russian famine, in or
der to save fuel, have dug holes in the
ground, subterranean shelters iu which
they burrow like foxes. They form, un
doubtedly, the only instance of civilized
people who to-day aro living the lives
of troglodytes.
The -great growth of cities within the
last few years has the effect of increasing
the demand for easily accessible, pleas
ant and healthful country residences.
The Boston Cultivator believes there is
money for farmers in catering to this de
mand, provided they can get over theii
old-fashioned prejudices against selling
part of their farni3.
B. E. Fernow, of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, ha3 made a
report upon a question of great interest
to lumbermen, whether the witudra waL
af resinous matter from the Southern
pine by the turpentine producers has a
leteriorating effect upon the tree as
limber. The impression has got abroad
that pines treated in this way lost their
irmness and durability of fiber, anil
iccordingly their market value has been
Impaired. Mr. Fernow says “The
lests conducted in the test laboratory at
3t. Louis, in charge of Professor J. B.
Johnson, give countenance to the im
portant conclusion that ‘turpentine’
timber seems to possess greater strength
than timber from unboxed trees.
!Uthough the tests and examinations of
;his series are not yet completed, and
further study will perhaps necessitate
modifications of this general statement,
;he economic importance of the dis
covery seemed to call for immediate pre
liminary publication, especially since the
investigation had to be interrupted for
lack of funds and may, therefore, not be
continued for some time, delaying
verification and fuller conclusions. We
feel, however, justified to maiutain thal
the claimed inferiority of turpcntiue
Umber in strength does not exist.”
“Among those who conspicuously ad
vocate the idea that the National Gov
ernment should take a part and lead in
the matter of road improvement,” states
Harper’s Weekly, “is General Roy Stone,
of New York, the engineer and inventor
The restless activity of General Stone’s
mind has been directed to this problem
for many years, and he has recently se
cured the co-operation of several promi
nent statesmen in Washington in a pro
ject soon to be formulated in a bill to be
brought before Congress. The bill pro
poses the formation of a National High
way Commission, which shall examine
the whole subject, formulate a plan for
a National School of Roads and Bridges,
and make an exhibit at the World’s Pair.
The suggestion that it shall be shown
during the World’s Fair that America ii
alive to the necessity of improving her
interior method of communication is
particularly happy. It is true that the
larger proportion of foreign visitors who
will come to America in 1893 will see
only such highways as railroads and city
streets; but those who come really to
study us and to measure our civilization
and general progress will go further
afield, and they, of course, will see the
disgraceful condition of our common
roads. It will be well worth while tc
show to such as these that we are alive
to the importance of the subject, and
aware of the reproach of our wretched
>wasaJV'
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday.— After the approval of
the house journal and reference of a num
ber of senate bills, Mr. Geary of Oalifor
nia presented the conference report on
the Chinese exclusion bill. Mr. Geary
demanded the previous question on the
adoption of the report, and notwithstand
ing the protests of Mr. Hooker of Mis
sissippi, it was adopted. After some
discussion the report was adopted. Yeas,
185; nays, 28. Mr. Goodnight of Ken
tucky, from the committee on judiciary,
reported a resolution calling on the at
torney general for information as to
whether the sugar trust has violated the
anti-trust law, and if so, whether prose
cutions had been instituted for such vio
lations. Adopted after a brief discus
sion. A dozen or two private pension
bills coming ever from Friday
night’s session were passed. Messrs.
Outhwaite, Mitchell and Belknap
were appointed conferrees on the army
appropriation bill. On motion of Mr.
Holman, the house went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Hatch of Missouri in
the chair, for the consideration of the
general appropriation bills. The first
bill on the calendar was the sundry civil
appropriation bill and Mr. Blanchard of
Louisiana, in the interest of the river
and harbor bill, asked that the bill be
laid aside, but Mr. Holman objected,and
the facts were reported to the house,
which decided, 122 to 40, to lay the
sundry civil bill aside and the committee
resumed its session. The postoffice and
fortification bills were also laid aside.
After a little filliblistering between the
house and the committee the river and
harbor bill was takeD up. Mr.Blancbard
and Mr. Haughen spoke in favor of the
bill, and pending further debate the
committee arose and the house adjourn
ed.
Thursday.— After the reference of a
few senate bills, Thursday morning, the
house went into committee of the whole
(Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, in the chair) on
the river and harbor appropriation bill.
Further general debate was limited to
two hours, and Mr. Holman, of Indiana,
took the floor in Opposition to the meas
ure. He attacked the bill as being an
extravagant one. It not only appropri
ated more than $21,000,000, but it au
thorized contracts to be made which
w- uid mmke the government liable for
$20,000,000 more. In connection with
the bill, he sent to the clerk’s desk and
had read a letter from W. E. Leonard,
of Port Huron, Mich., to Representative
Whiting, thanking him for his opposition
to the proposal to make a twenty-one
foot canal across lake St. Claire, a dis
tance of thirty miles. This channel
would have to be made with a pier of
wood or stone on both sides. It would
cost at least $72,000,000, and, if the
piers were of stone, it would cost $300,-
000,000. Mr. Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, bad too short a time accorded to
him to attack the bill in detail, but he
said that, ’f the democratic house
wished to pass the bill, it should act
frankly with the people, and tell them
that the measure involved an appropria
tion of $47,000,000, and not of $21,-
000,000. If $47,000,000 was fair and
just, let the democratic party go before
the country and say so, and not declare
that this was an economical congress, and
had appropriated only $21,000,000.
Friday .—ln the house, the urgent de
ficiency bill was debated.
Saturday. —Although the house does
not imitate the example of the senate by
adjourning from Friday until Monday,
Saturday is usually a dull day. An early
adjournment is always expected, and
consequently many members devote that
day to the transaction of their depart
mental business. But the prospects of a
final vote on the p-iver and harbor bill
had the effect of bringing, together an
unusually large Saturday attendance.
Several requests for unanimous consent
were denied, but Delegate Harvey, of
Oklahoma, was fortunate. He secured
the passage of a bill donating to Okla
homa City, for school purposes, a military
reservation at that point. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the river and harbor bill. The
pending amendment was that offered
by Mr. Whiting of Michigan, striking
out the appropriation for a ship channel
twenty-one feet in depth connecting the
waters of the great lakes between Chica
go and Duluth and Buffalo and inserting
in lieu thereof a provision authorizing
the secretary of war to appoint a board
of engineers to whom shall be referred
the report of Colonel O. M. Poe upon the
subject of a twenty foot channel from
Duluth to Fuff ilo, through great lakes.
The board shall also report as to the prac
ticability of raising the water level of the
lakes and connecting the harbors by dam
ming up the Niagara river.
Monday. —Almost an hour wns con
sumed in the house Monday morning in
the consideration of unimportant reports
submitted by the committee on accouuts.
The house then proceeded to a further
consideration of the river and harbor bill.
The pending question was on the recon
sideration of the vote by which the house
on Saturday agreed to the amendment
providing that in cases where authority
has beeu grunted to the secretary of war
to make contracts for the comoletion of
certain works if no bids be received
which are deemed by the secretary to be
advantageous then materials may be pur
chased and work may be done other
wise than by contract. Reluctant!*, hut
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MAY 13,1892.
recognixing that by so doing that they
would escape a day of filibustering, the
advocates of the bill voted to reconsider,
and the amendment was then rejected.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, moved to re
commit the bill, with instructions to the
committee to report it back with the
amendment, striking out contract pro
visions. Mr. Outhwaite moved to amend
the instructions by requiring the com
mittee to strike out all appropriations
which are for new works or for further
extension of the works now under con
struction, so that the bill shall includa
only appropriations for continuation or
comuletion of the works now in nrogress.
(he amendment was lost—yeas,o9; nays,
70. The question then recurred on Mr.
Holman’s motion.
Monday. —After the routine morning
business of the senate, Mr. Frye, from
the committee ou commerce, reported
back the house bill to encourage Ameri
can ship building. He said that the re
port whs unauimou-, aud that he had
been instructed to move its present con
sideration. He made that a motion nnri
it was agreed to. The bill having been
read in full, Mr. Frye stated that al
though it was general in its provisions,
two ships only were to be admitted tq
the American registry; they were to be
excluded from coastwise trade, and might
oe used by tne government (by charter or
purchase) in case of war. After some
important discussion the amendment
offered by Mr. Mills to strike out of the
bill certain words that might allow two
ihips to avail themselves of the postal
subsidy was rejected without division,
and the bill just as it came from the
house, giving the American registry to
the City of New York and the City of
Paris, was passed—yeas 40, nays 10.
THE SENATE.
Wednesday. —After the routine morn
ing business, Wednesday, the senate took
up the calendar and passed the follow
ing bills, among others: The senate bill
tor the disposal of the remaining public
lands in Alabama for the promotion of
technical education. The senate bill ap
propriating $50,000 for public building
it Charlottesville, Va. The senate then
proceeded to executive business. And
liter the reference of some nominations,
the senate adjourned.
Thursday.— At the opening of the
senate Thursday Vice-President Morton
announced that he had signed, among
ether bills, the amended house Chinese
exclusion bill, which now goes back to
the house and thence to the president for
his approval. The senate commerce com
mittee by unanimous vote decided to re
port favorbly the bill granting Ameri
can register to certain foreign buit
ships of the Inman line, of a ton
nage of not lees than 8,000 tons and a
speed of not less than 20 knots, which
passed the house on Monday. Senator
Frye, the chairman of the committee, was
authorized to urge immediate considera
tion by the senate, and this he will do
at t. - first opportunity. Secretary Tracy,
in a letter to the committee, expresses
the opinion that the bill is second in im
portance bnlv to the naval appropriation
bill, aud urges passage.
Friday.— The senate spent Friday in
listening to eulogies on the late Senator
Wilson of Maryland.
NOTES.
The president, on Thursday, nominated
to be postmasters: Florida—JohnAE.
Davidson, Quincy. South Carol!*—
Edward O. Sawyer, Bennettsviile.
Charles Emory Smith, of
United States minister to Russia formally
tendered his resignation of that office to
the president Monday in order to resume
his journalistic duties in Philadelphia.
The river and harbor bill finally passed
the house Monday. There were three or
four score of opponents, who fought the
measure, but it went through practically
as reported from the committee.
Senator Colquitt, having been pressed
by his alliance constituents to favor the
sub-treasury idea on the ground that the
government might as well build ware
houses for the farmers as for the distill
ers, sought information from the com
missioner of internal revenue. The offi
cer replied that, contrary to the general
impression, the distillers are compelled
to build their own warehouses, which are
taxed by the government.
The newspaper correspondents of
Washington are going to investigate the
charges made by the senate against Mr.
James Young, the executive clerk. It
will be remembered that Mr. Young was
removed under the charge of having be
trayed executive secrets of the senate.
No effort was made to prove the charges,
and he was not even given an opportuni
ty to prove his innocence. Mr. Young
is a newspaper man and the correspond
ents have taken up his case, and will in
sist upon their right that any one of their
number shall have a fair hearing when
charges are preferred against him. The
senate removed him to shield several sen
ators, and the newspaper men, knowing
him to be innocent, are going to have an
investigation, and bring out the truth of
the matter.
A Protest from Railroads.
The proposition made by the house
postoffice committee in the postal appro
priation bill to reduce the compensation
of land grant and subsidized railroads
for carrying mails from 80 per cent of
the rate allowed to non-aided railroads,
as the law at present provides, to 50 per
cent, has awakened, various opposition
from land grant railroads and they are
protesting against the proposed legisla
tion as unjust and unreasonable. On
Tuesday representatives of a number of
these railroads appeared before the com
mittee and stated tho reasons for their
opposition. Major K. B. Stahlman, of
Atlanta, Ga., commissioner for the South
ern Railway and Steamship Company,
spoke for the roads in the south. The
present compensation for carryinsr mails.
he said, was not equal to the amount
the company would receive if it
collected fare from a single
mail messenger at the rate of 3 cents per
mile The Louisvile and Nashville at
present lost by means of the reduction of
20 per cent mad der the existing laws
between $12,0 an ’ $15,000 per year,
which was equa, 4 per cent on the
amount the road had received by reason
of the government land grant. Repre
sentative Clark, of Mobile, Ala., district
read a letter from the president of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, protesting
against the reduction. Representa
tives of several western lines of raiiroad
also opposed the contemplated action of
congress.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
He News of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
A report from western Kentucky is thal
buffalo gnats are causing gieat loss. It
is estimated that SI,OOO horses have been
/rillel by them.
The broom factory of the Goodman
Manufacturing Company at Richmond,
Va., was partly destroyed by fire Monday
night. Loss $25,000; insured.
Huntsville, Ala., will have a third cot
ton factory, costing SIOO,OOO, to be
located in West Huntsville. Work be
gins at once on the erection of the build
ing*-
The Georgia Odd Fellows’ Orphans
Home will be built at Manchester, near
Atlanta, Ga. The site embraces fifteen
acres offered by the Manchester Land
company, and ten adjoining acres offered
by the East Point Land company. A
$25,000 brick buildiDg will be erected on
the site.
At a meeting of the Confederate vet
erans in New Orleans, Monday, notice
was given that they will insist upon the
passage by the legislature of the pension
law giving all confederate veterans crip
pled, disabled or otherwise incapacitated
of supporting themselves, a pension of
from $6 to sl2 a mouth. The demand if
granted, which it probably will be, will
cost ihe state somewhere from $50,000 to
SIOO,OOO a year.
There has been considerable interest
’VLwakeifta'llfraTtFbad 'isTMe-rby~ the re
port that H. B. Plant, president of the
Plant railway and steamship lines, had
recently visited. Jacksonville, Fla., for
the purpose of examining the books of
the Florida Central and Peninsula Rail
road company, aud that he#had sub
sequently purchased that pro®rty. J he
management m the latter cejfipany was
seen on Wednesday and denied the rumor
as false and absurd. 0
The Trust company, of New
York, wants to vote the majority block
of Central railroad stock at the election
at Macon, Ga., on the 17th inst. A peti
tion has been presented to Judge Speef
asking him to grant an order allowing
the Central Tiust company to vote the
42, m shares of stock. Thifi block is
now under an upon it
Mariffi 25th, when Judge Speer directed
thaaKo votes should be received at the
coming election on behalf of the major
ity stock unless upon a bona fide transfer
of the same, approved by the court.
Friday the comptroller general of
Georgia received the payment of sleep
ing car taxes for 1889 and 1890. Tnefi.
fa. was issued in 189 by authority of
the legislature’s act taxing all sleeping
car companies doing business in Georgia.
The fi. fa. was not pushed, however, for
the next session of the legislature the law
was repealed. The constitutionality of
the law was questioned, but when the
United States supreme court decided in
a similar case for Pennsylvania that the
law was constitutional then the collec
tihn of taxes for the one year up to the
repeal of the law was urged. The check
from Pullman covers the whole amount,
$3.145.79.
THROUGH A BRIDGE.
An Express Train Crashes, Wreaking
Death and Disaster.
A disastrous accident occurred Thurs
day on the Atchison, Topeka and Kansas
railroad two miles west of Fort Madison,
la. A vestibule train crashed through a
bridge and seven persons were killed
outright and twenty-three injured. The
engineer and fireman aro among the
killed.
The official statement made later at the
Santa Fe general offices at Kansas City,
gives the list of the killed as follows:
Leon Markle, Kansas City. Mo.; Luther-
Cornelius, Kirksville, Mo.; §. E. Berk,
ley, West Point, Mo.; John C. Greens,
Macon, Mo.; one lady and two children,
names not known. The number of in
jured is given at fifteen, some of whom
may die.
The train was a through California ex
press which left Topeka at 2:40 o’clock
Thurday afternoon. Near Revere the
train struck a pile trestle bridge which
had been oat of line. The train went
through to the river thirty-six feet below.
The wrecked cars were the engine, ten
der, baggage car, coach, chair car, a
tourist s eeper and Pullman. The dead
and injured were taken to Fort Madison.
A Cincinnati Blaze.
Fire at Cincinnati Sunday night de
stroyed iie Crane Lumber Company’s
stables, Klecker’s saloon and dwelling,
Smith’s dwelling and saloon, Dugan’s
planning mill, and over 500,000 feet of
lumber belonging to Crane & Cos. The
loss is $30,000, covered by insurance.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
FOR ALL! A NOE MEN.
Notes and Current Comment Regarding
Its Great Reform Movement.
TUB OPTION AND SILVER BILLS—THE
lIAILUOUD DEBT—CHEAP ADVICE —
REFORM PRESS COMMENTS.
Patronize the papers that advocate your
demands. You cannot afford to build
your enemies up to pull you down.
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T7u Farmer's Friend (Waynesboro,Ga.)
says: Some papers that have been adopt
ed by the alliance as county and district
organs are so far from being reform pa
per* that one might mistake them for
Wall street circulars.
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The Alliance has declared against
“dealing in futures” time and again.
Yet the politicians want us to swear that
we will support any and all platforms
they make and any and all candidates
they put out. Gentlemen, let us see your
candidates and your platforms. Then,
if they are all right, you may swear us.—
Ex.
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Industrial World (Spokane, Wash.)
says: Principles without practice are as
barren as a mule, and almost as bad as
iractice without principles. When you
see a man advocating the Alliance as an
educational organization, and allying
himself with the enemies of the Alliance
in the political field, there is something
wrong with him. Principles and prac
tice must go hand in hand to get good
results.
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The Grand View (Sentinel. Tex.) hits
the nail squarely when it says: Some office
seekers never forget to tell that they were
raised up between the plow handles and
were educated in log school a house. In
act, they speak so highly of their rais
ing, and have such a hankering after
farm life that we wonder why they don’t
quit asking for votes, refuse an office and
ask the dear people to let them go back
on the farm again.
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The recent election in Louisiana, sav
an exchange, was a victory for the Allie
ance by about 30,000 majority on the
vote for governor. Four candidates were
run against Foster, but he beat them all
“clear out o’ sight.” We have been
wailing for the political newspapers to
blow about it, but they don’t blow. So
it becomes our duty to tell the people
that the Alliance won the victory and
rascality is again below par.
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The Birmingham meeting of Alliance
officials from the states of Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, convened at Birmingham, Ala.,
on the 3d of May. The object of the
meeting was to consult as to the best
means of preserving the order from the
disorganizing effects of the coming polit
ical 6trife.
It costs from S6OO to S7OO to send a
car load of strawberries from Florida to
New York, a freight car cost about SBOO.
When we consider that the road is only
out of the car about five days and gets
nearly first cost for one load of freight,
it looks like an argument in favor of
government ownership. But never mind
about that. The fool who raises straw
b rries, corn, wheat, oats, cotton and
such things ought to be fined for it, any
how. We expect it will become a peni
tentiary offense after awhile. —Progressive
Farmer.
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The present move of the people is not
a spasmodic or convulsive effort, as the
two old parlies and hired allies do vainly
hope. It is but the philosophical result
of existing conditions; it is the voice of
the great, mighty people; it is manifestly
and unmistakably a result of educating
the popular mind in politics and econo
mic measures. Our people are a reading,
intelligent people, and when their will is
recognized, and the power of money and
to rule, oppress and enslave
"Ta broken, such results will be succeeded
by an era of peace and prosperity unpar
alleled in the history of a nation, The
People's Cause.
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Anew People’s party paper. “The Na
tional Watchman” has appeared in Wash
ington, D. C. In its salutatory it says:
“This paper is issued under the auspices
of the congressional committee of the
People’s party, with a firm conviction
that it is a necessity to the growth and
final triumph of that organization. It
will be the organ of no one man, but will
aim to be a fearless exponent of the
principles which underlie the present re
form movement. Being national in its
character, and published at the national
capital, It will not compete or detract
from any other reform paper, but hopes
to be of much service to ail. It will un
dertake a field of action now unoccupied,
and in that capacity render valuable aid
and assistance in the great contest for
industrial reform. It desires the friend
ship of every reformer and reform paper,
and will do its utmost to make such rela
tions of mutual benefit.
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THE OPTION BILL.
The option bill cannon was aimed by
Hatch, of Missouri, and it has hit the
tender spot in monopoly’s carcass plum
center, and the air thunders with their
howl; the earth trembles with their prep
aration for strife. The wires are kept
hot with messages; the mail bags filled
with letters. They say, “Write your
Congressman, ami nave every influential
man in your section to write him, that
the option bill if passed will ruin the
country, lower the price of wheat and
cotton, defeat the party (cither to which
he belongs), etc.” “Wire your Congress
man at my expense, and have leading
businesss men wire him that his constit
uency is overwhelmingly opposed to the
bill; especially get preachers and the
kid-glove ‘agriculturists’ to do so.” This
is the tenor of the work the opposition
is doing. — Economist.
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CHEAP TALK.
The Alliance is receiving a great deal
of cheap advice just now trom the par
tisan papers. With pens still wet with
the ink they have been heaping all man
ner of abuse upon our officers and friends,
they declare themselves to be friends of
and well-wishers to the cause. They
admonish the brethren to beware of pol
itics. Avoid politics as you would the
sting of death! If you suffer the or
ganization to go into politics, disinte
gration and Heath will be the certain
doom of the Order. So say our pretend
ed friends. Now we would just like to
ask these self-constituted advisers one
question. What do you suppose to be
the object of the Alliance? If it is not
to look after the interests, political as
well as others, of the farming class, then
it has no mission aud should die as its
enemies say it will. The Alliance, if we
understand it, is political to the core. It
is not partisan, it is pledged to no party,
but it is political in the true sense of the
word.— Alliance Echo.
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READ AND REFLECT.
The following, taken from Bradstreets,
will bear a caretul reading by all those
interested iu the future welfare of the
human race:
The national debt of foreign countries
amounted in 1890 to $26,621,222,135, an
increase of $1,136,729,256 for the de
cade. The national debt of the United
States amounted to $891,960,104, a de
crease of $1,030,557,260. The state and
local debt of the United States,
on the other hand, amounted to $1,135,-
210,442, an increase of $11,931,-
795. In each case there has been
a decrease in the debt per capita.
The nationat debt of foreign countries
fell from $35.62 per capita in 1880 to
$32.88 in 1890, the national debt of the
United from $38.38 per capita in 1880 to
$14.24 in 1890, and the state and local
debt of the United from $22.40 per cap
ita in 1880 to $18.13 in 1890. These fig
ures indicate that while the absolute
burden of the debt of the w T orld aa a
whcle his been increasing of late years,
the amount of debt per head of popula
tion has been on the decline.
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THE SILVER BILL.
The silver bill has apparently seen its
best days. The large majority which it
was thought would support it dwindled
away to a tie tbe other day on a vote to
make it a special order. The tie was de
cided by the speaker in favor of the bill,
but with the present well known means
of obstructing legislation there is but lit
tle hope of pushing through a measure
which can only command a majority of
one. This state of things will be a great
disappointment to many of the western
senators and representatives, but it would
seem of little real importance to the na
tion at lurge. The need is for legislation
more radical and far reaching. The sil
ver bill with the five millions which it
would add to our circulating medium
would be but a drop in the bucket. The
demands of the various farm organiza
tions for a circulation *of SSO per capita
are the demands which every month sees
backed by more influence and more
voters. The people will be satisfied with
nothing less and the sooner that fact is
discovered and the less time spent on
compromise plans, the better.— Farm,
Field and Stockman.
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RAILROAD debt.
The Farmers' Voice is asked to give
the names of railroads that owe the gov
ernment, and to state the amount that
each owes. The following roads owe the
government, as principal, the sums set
opposite to each:
Central Pacific $26,885.130 00
Kansas Pacific , 6,303,000.00
Union Pacific 27,236.610.00
Central Branch, U. P 1,600,000.00
Western Pacific 1,770,560.00
Sioux City and Pacific 1,628,320.00
Total $64,423,510.00
And every attempt that has ever been
made by the government to collect a
debt that a railroad owed it has proved
an utter failure. There have always been
enough railroad puppets in congress to
defeat any effort that was' made to com
pel the Pacific railroads to pay their hon
est debts, and perhaps what is still more
discouraging, whenever a member of
congress has set earnestly to work to col
lect this debt or to compel railroads that
have received favors from the govern
ment to act decently and earn what had
been granted them, the people have per
mitted the great, bloated, defiant mon
opoly to retire that member to private
life. But we believe that the time has
come when the people will stand by those
who stand by them. One reason that the
corporations have been able to slaughter
the friends of the people has been that
the people have not been organized, and
hence could not act reflectively. There
is now not only good organization, but
it is growing stronger every day, and
whatever official will be true to the peo
ple in their conflict with monopoly need
have no fear of being deserted.
Parkhurst Endorsed.
At the regular weekly meeting of the
Presbyterian ministers of Baltimore, Md. t
Tuesday, resolutions endorsing the meth
ods of Rev. Dr. Parkhurst passed with
out dissent, and a copy ordered sent to
New York.
NO. 11.