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ALLIANCE AND GRANGE.
farmers and knights.
Joint Convention in the Sixth Conirrea
ulonnl District of Knman.
The Alliance and Knights of Labor
convention for the nomination of a can
(Pldate for Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict of Kansas met in Hill City recent
ly with fifty-six Alliance men and two
Knights of Labor present. Every coun
ty in the district was represented. At
the preliminary meeting it was decided
to hold the convention with closed
doors.
Frank McGrath, of Mitchell County,
was chosen permanent chairman, and
Mr. Wheeler, of Gove County, secre
tary. The St. Louis Alliance and Union
Labor platform was adopted, with some
amendments. After the preliminary
business was disposed of, the nomina
tion of a candidate was begun. The
first ballot showed eight candidates in
the field: C. W. McKee, of Mitchell
County, a minister of the United Breth
ren church and a farmer; Elder Sellers,
of Jewell County, also a farmer; Rev.
Ben Baker, of Lincoln County, also
a farmer; Dr. Holcomb, of Norton
County; E. T. Ellis, president of the
Osborne County Alliance; Rev. Os
borne, of Osborne County, a Congrega
tional minister and a farmer; Rev.
Banta, of Cheyenne County, and A. B.
Montgomery, of Sherman County, a
farmer. On the first ballot Mr.. McKee
received one-fourth of the votes cast,
the balance being scattered among the
others. All are members of the Al
liance except Montgomery, who is a
Knight of Labor and re-submissionist.
After the informal ballot the several
candidates were called on for ten-min
ute speeches, which occupied the time
until the supper adjournment.
After supper balloting at once began,
and on the sixth ballot William Baker,
of Lincoln County, was selected as the
nominee by 41 votes of 57 cast. Mr.
Baker is fifty-nine years of age, a native
of Pennsylvania. He is a farmer, resid
ing near Orworth post-office, in Lincoln
County. Montgomery, the defeated
Knight of Labor candidate, refused to
indorse the nomination, and will fight
the nominee. The platform adopted is
as follows:
We indorse as our National policy the
agreement and platform adopted by the Na
tional Alliance and Industrial Union and
Knights of Labor held at St. Louis, Decem
ber 6, 1889.
We demand a service pension to all hon
orably discharged Union soldiers and sailors
who served in the late war of the rebelion.
We demand a law making bribery a crime,
and making the person who offers the bribe
equally guilty with the one who accepts.
We advocate free sugar,with a reasonable
bounty on home production; free lumber
and free coal.
We demand that Congress make appro
priation sufficient to construct deep-water
harbors on the Gulf of Mexico, for the pur
pose of opening more direct communica
tion and trade with Central and South Amer
ica.
We demand of the press a recognition of
the principles of right and justice during
the present campaign, and the failure to ac
cord fair treatment shall be sufficient cause
for the withdrawal of our patronage.
We demand that every candidate passed
in nomination in this convention pledge
himself to support this platform, and the
nominee, it elected, shall not go into the
Republican or Democratic caucuses in Con
gress.
Resolved, That the Farmers’ Advance, pub
lished by J. E. Garner, at Norton, Kas., be
made the official organ of the F. A. and I. U.
of the Sixth Congressional District.
After appointing a joint Alliance and
Knight of Labor Congressional central
committee of one from each county the
.convent ion adjourned.
' >■ A TALK TO FARMERS.
How Colonel Hallowell Talked to the
Farmers of Barton County, Kas.
Colonel J. R. Hallowell, of Wichita,
accepting an invitation from the farm
ers of Barton County to address them,
spoke to a gathering at Great Bend re
cently. There were present, as various
ly estimated, from three to four thou
sand people. The speaker said that in
Kansas, and, in fact, in all the broad
plains of the West, the people are direct
ly interested in agriculture. The farm
ers had organized to protect themselves
and their own interests, which was
highly proper, and the organization all
over the country would certainly result
in much good.
The speaker took up questions of the
day, having something to say of the
fluctuations of the market fcr agricult
ural products, and reaching the money
question, observed that there is in cir
culation at present per capita 612.70 —
less than at any time in the last twenty
Tears. He took the position that more
money was needed to do the business of
the country, and a law directing the is
sue of 6200,000,000 of treasury legal ten
der notes to take the place of National
bank notes should be passed.
Referring to the silver question, he
said silver is the poor man’s money, and
he had always been in favor of free
coinage and the placing of gold and sil
ver on the same basis.
The adoption of a liberal service as
well as disability pension law, to his
mind, was right. It could be provided
■for by allowing a tax of luxuries to be
increased, and the tax on necessaries
absolutely removed.
The (transportation question was
handled in away that seemed to meet
the acceptance of the crowd. The
speaker favored reasonable income to
transportation lines on the amount of
■money actually invested, excluding
fictitious stock.
The formation of trusts and combines
was referred to as making capital an
engine of oppression, and prompt action
should be taken to prevent injurious
results. The business of the country
should be allowed to conform to the
law of supply and demand, being in
fluenced as little as possible by efforts
to control the markets. On this line
the dealing in “futures” was referred to
as injurious to the farmers and coun
try in general, and any legislation cal
culated to prevent it was highly praise
worthy.
Referring to the tariff question, the
speaker claimed that each State should
handle this question according to its
best interests. The needs and demands
of the West in this particular were
as varied and distinct as in the East.
An Eastern tariff sheet would not suit
the West in any particular, nor vice
versa, but Kansas should look after her
own interests, and through her Con
gressional delegation press her claims
for the msot favorable disposition of the
tariff question.—Topeka Capital.
A NEW PARTY.
The Farmer*' Alliance and Knights of
Labor of South Dakota.
The Farmers’ Alliance and Knights
of Labor held a three days’ session at
Huron, S. D., recently. The most impor
tant action was the decision to organ
ize a new party,the resolution providing
for such movement being carried by a
vote of 413 to 83.Immediatelj’ after the
announcement of the vote the Alliance
adjourned amid the wildest excitement,
and the convention, to take political
action, was at once organized with I.
W. Cosand, of Potter County, as chair
man. A committee on resolutions re
ported in favor of woman suffrage, a
graded service pension, prohibition of
the liquor traffic, a tariff for revenue
only, denounced the acceptance of
passes by legislators and other public
officials. The report was adopted. On
the suggestion of President Louick, of
the Alliance, the new party was named
“Independent party.”
A platform was adopted, which in
cluded the State, National and interna
tional, declaration of principles of the
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
and Knights of Labor, and demands
that:
1. Currency to be issued by the General
Government to be full legal tender, to in
crease in volume with the increase of busi
ness, and to be issued directly to product
ive industries without the intervention of
banks of issue.
2. Railway transportation, telegraph and
telephone service at actual cost, and that
ths Government shall own and operate the
same. '
3. The free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver.
4. The adoption of an absolutely secret
voting system, both State and National.
5. The most rigid economy, consistent with
the safety of our State and Nation, in the
administration of every branch of our Gov
ernment.
6. The passage of laws prohibiting the
alien ownership of land, and that Congress
take steps to obtain lands owned by aliens
and foreign syndicates, and that lands now
held by corporations in excess of such as is
actually used and needed by them be re
claimed by tlie Government and held for
actual settlers only.
The committee on manifesto reported
an address to the people of South Da
kota, setting forth the grievances and
demands of the new party, the motto
of which shall be: “In the Spirit of
Love and Justice, the People Rule.”
A State central committee was ap
pointed, and a State convention for the
nomination of officers called to meet at
Huron July 9.
CUTTING LOOSE.
The Alliance in Kansas Cutting Loose
from the Old Parties.
A secret meeting of representives of
the Farmers’ Alliance from fifty-two
counties of Kansas was held recently in
Wichita, which was attended by B. P.
Clover, president of the organizers, and
it is learned on good authority that one
of the leading questions considered was
the advisability of nominating a State
ticket. It is said that it was thought
best to hold two meetings in this State
on this and other questions, thinking it
would, be the best plan to get a cor
rect opinion from the organization.
Clover and most of the State workers
urged strongly in favor of a State ticket.
The question finally coming to a vote,
there were 81 in favor of the State
ticket and 17 against it. It is said the
negative will abide the result.
The question of Congressional can
didates was disposed of by favoring a
candidate ir. every district, and the
meeting determined that there will be
Alliance candidates in two districts.
It was also decided to work earn
estly for a county ticket in each county
in the State, as well as a candidate for
the Legislature in evbry Representative
district. It is claimed that President
Clover and the leading men of the or
ganization will attend a meeting in the
eastern part of the State, to be called
within a few days, to take action on the
same question.
Clover addressed a secret meeting of
the Alliance and Industrial Union, there
being about 600 present. Great enthu
siasm was shown when in the course of
his speech he told what had been done
by the meeting of the Alliance dele
gates in the afternoon.
Combining for the General Good.
A State delegate convention of Farm
ers’ Alliance men and Knights of Labor
was held recently at Northwood, la.
The purpose of the meeting was to ar
range for a combination whereby the
different organizations might give their
entire patronage to the party or parties
selling to them the cheapest. It is un
derstood that in some localities the
grocery men are making big discounts
to Knights of Labor where they get the
entire patronage of a lodge. Knights
are provided -with cards, and in this
way make themselves known to dealers.
The movement is full of significance tc
retail dealers throughout the State.
HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES.
—Cherry Catsup.—One quart of sour
cherry juice, one pound of sugar, two
teaspoonfuls of cloves, two of cinnamon
and a very little cayenne pepper. Boil
until thick, bottle and seal.
—Carrot Chops.—Mash finely some
boiled carrots with butter, pepper and
■alt; add a beaten egg and mix well;
shape with the hands like a chop; dip in
an egg and bread crumbs and fry brown
in butter; serve with gravy or melted
butter.
—When cutting bread for the table,
■ave all the crumbs, which in the course
of a year amount to considerable, and
are useful for stuffing, puddings, etc.
You can put a handful into your rice
puddings occasionally and no one be
any the wiser.
—Some persons like strawberries sug
ared and set away on ice a little while
before serving, and when they are not
very ripe or a little tart it is a good way;
but they do not look so pretty, and, un
less all the family like it so, it is better
to let each one add cream and sugar ac
cording to taste. —Demorest.
—For a summer sitting-room nothing
can be cleaner, sweeter, or more whole
some in every way than furnishings of
rattan or willow ware. Tables, chairs,
and a variety of other articles, such as
work-tables and baskets, as well as
bureaus and escritoires, can be found in
this ware in the shops of our prominent
dealers.—Christian at Work.
—Let a person, not overstrong, sub
ject to frequent colds from the slightest
exposure, the victim of chronic catarrh,
sore throats, etc., begin the practice of
taking a sponge bath every morning,
commencing with tepid water in a warm
room (not hot), and following the spong
ing with friction that will produce a
warm glow over the skin, and then take
a five minutes brisk walk in the open
air.—The Household.
—Pie-plant Pudding. Slice as for
pies, spread slices of bread on both
sides with butter, remove the crust.
Put a layer of bread in the bottom of a
pudding dish, then a layer of pie-plant,
abundantly sweetened, a few bits of
butter, and a very slight sprinkling of
flour. Fill the dish with alternate lay
ers of pie-plant and bread, cover while
baking. After thirty minutes remove
cover and brown the top, serve with a
sweet sauce.—The Housekeeper.
—Broiled Steak with Mushrooms. —
Broil your steak over a clear fire. Be
fore you put it on, open a can of mush
rooms, take out half of them, and cut
each mushroom in two. Saute them in
a frying-pan with a little butter, unless
you have a cup of bouillon or clear beef
soup or gravy at hand. Let them sim
mer in this for ten minutes, and when
you dish your steak, pour gravy and
mushrooms over it. Leave it covered
in the oven five minutes before sending
to table. —Harper’s Bazar.
SAVE THE SCRAPS.
How to He Economical in Practice as Well
as in Theory.
There are a great many persons who
are economical enough in theory but
who waste a great deal in practice. It
requires patience to separate the bits of
fat from a cold roast, to try them out
and lay them aside for use in the store
room. For this reason many house
keepers throw away the remnants of a
roast after it has been served up twice.
A woman who will sew industriously for
many hours to save paying a seamstress
half a day’s work will sometimes
thoughtlessly throw away more than
the equivalent of the seamstress’ wages
in these scraps. The fat of beef nicely
tried out is equivalent to butter and
equally valuable for frying. Try the
experiment of saving every scrap of
beef, veal and chicken fat, strain and it
weigh it, and its value will be a cause
of genuine astonishment if you have
never undertaken the experiment be
fore. Save every scrap of mutton and
other strong-flavored fats and try them
out for soap. It takes only a few
moments to prepare good home-made
soft soap, and the saving from this
source alone will be found nearly equal
to the saving of butter from making use
cf the scraps of fat suitable for cooking.
No scrap of meat or vegetables should
ever be wasted. Bits of meat, however
inconsiderable in quantity, can be com
bined with some other, put in an omel
ette, made into croquettes by addition
of rice or some other meat and re-served
in many ways that will leave no hint
that it has previously appeared for per
haps a third time. It is a little more
difficult to know what to do with vege
tables that are left over. The most ap
petizing method of disposing of such as
can be used in this way is in a salad.
Spinach, string beans, beets, bits of
turnip and potatoes can be used in this
way. The next method is an omelette.
Cold asparagus, peas, bits of fried egg
plant, oyster plant and other vegetables
are delicious served in this way. Most
mashed vegetables, like parsnips or
mashed potatoes, are delightful served
in balls. In preparing all rechauffes it
should be remembered that the food is
already cooked, and any further contin
uation of the cooking will impair its
flavor. It should therefore be heated
to the point of cooking, but not beyond
it. A little boiling-hot sauce is a great
advantage to these dishes where it can
be suitably used. Steaming is one of
the best ways of heating food which is
re-served. Not one crumb of bread in a
household need be w r asted. Each week
after baking, all stale bread should be
collected, dried and sifted to serve for
breading meats, for croquettes, pudding,
stuffing to fowl, or many ether dishes.—
Ji, Y. Tribune.
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
THE LIGHT OF CONTRAST.
African Slave Trade and The Convict Mine*
of Kara.
Some of the most important lessons of
life are learned in the light of contrast.
We know the sweet joy of health, as we
never did before, after days of pain and
Buffering. We paint our pictures on a
dark background, and appreciate the
beautiful only so far as seen in contrast
with the deformity, and the good as re
vealed by the shadowy form of evil
ready to touch us with its gaunt fingers.
A succession of pictures will help to
focus the thought now in our mind.
The first is taken from a sketch of the
African slave trade, as recently seen by
Mr. H. F. Moir, of New York. We give
it as nearly in his words as space will per
mit. When slaves are captured, a yoke
is placed upon their necks and is allow
ed to remain day and njght. The yoke
is the forked branch of a young tree,
and is generally about five or six feet
long and weighs about 28 pounds. Re
fractory slaves are often placed in yokes
of more than 50 pounds. The end of
the yoke is lashed to the corresponding
end of another yoke that holds another
slave. They are then started to the
East coast traders, marching all day and
all night, and the slaves that fail to
keep up are dealt a terrible blow on the
nape of the necks that ends their life.
Children are often torn from the arms
of their parents at the slightest sign of
fatigue and their brains dashed out
against a tree.
The second picture is taken from Mr.
George Kennan’s description of the Con
vict Mines of Kara, in a recent number
of the Century. Speaking of the place
where the Czar works his State prison
ers, he says: “A person who has once in
haled that odor can never forget it; it is
so unlike any other bad smell in the
world, that I hardly know with what to
compare it. I can ask you to imagine
cellar air, every atom of which has been
half a dozen times through human
lungs, and is heavy with carbonic acid;
to imagine that air still further vitiated
by foul, pungent, slightly ammoniacal
exhalations from long unwashed human
bodies; to imagine that it has a sugges
tion of damp, decaying wood, and more
than a suggestion of human excrement
■ —and still you have no adequate idea of
it.” In this black hole, in the cold Si
berian winter, men and women are com
pelled to live and sleep on rough benches
without blankets or fire, packed in rows
and fed on the coarsest food. The first
picture is a glimpse of an industry now
carried on in the wilds of Africa, and
the second, a peep into a Russian State
prison. Well, of what value can such a
vision of woe and wretchedness be to
us? No such evils would be tolerated
for a day in our happy land.
Walt a moment. It is true these pic
tures are taken from a region far away
and from a social system now happily
fast becoming obsolete, but there are
other pictures that show what is taking
place under our social system, that con
sidering our relative position are quite
as painful to contemplate. Here is one:
A little ragged urchin is timidly watch
ing a number of well-dressed boys play
ing ball. A kind gentleman approaches
and says: “You seem to be enjoying the
fun; would you not like to take a part?”
“They won’t have me, sir. The good
man what preaches in the little old
church behind the livery stable, said
last Sunday, we are all brethren. See,
sir, these boys have nice clothes and 1
am in rags; they have plenty to eat and
lam always hungry. It don’t look like
it, sir, it don’t look like it.” And yet
there are thousands of boys in all our
large cities that are being educated in
that school of poverty and wretchedness.
If they grow up atheists in religion and
anarchists in politics, would it be
strange?
Here is another. The scene is laid in
New York, but may be duplicated any
where. A workingwoman tells us how
she and her daughter manage to live en
gaged in making clothes:
How do we live? It’s all in this little
book. It’s foolish to put it down, and
yet I always liked to see how the money
went, even when I had plenty, and it’s
second nature to put down every cent.
Take last month. It had 27 working
days—s22.9s. Out of that we took first
the 810 for rent. I’ve been here 11
years, and they’ve raised a dollar on me
twice. That leaves $12.95 a month for
provisions and coal and light and
clothes. ’Tisn’t much for two people,
is it? You wouldn’t think it could be
done, would you? Well, it is, and here’s
the expense for one week and for what
we eat:
Sugar, 23; tomatoes, 7; potatoes, 5 JO 35
Tea, 15; butter, 30: bread, 12 0 57
Coal, 12; milk, 15; clams, 10 0 37
Oil, 15; paper, I; clams. IO; potatoes, 5- 0 31
Cabbage, 5; bread, 7; flour, 15; rolls, 3.... 0 30
Total *1 «>
You see there’s no meat. We like it,
but we only get a bit on Sundays some
times. The coal ought not to be in with
the food, ought it, unless it stays be
cause I have to use it in cooking; we
oughtn’t to spend so much on food, but
I can’t seem to make it less. Really,
when you take out the coal and oil and
the paper —and we do want to see a pa
per sometimes—it is only $1.62 for us
both, 81 cents apiece, almost 12 cents a
day. If it weren’t for Emmy’s missing
me it would be better for me to die, for
I’m no use, you site, and times get no
better, but worse. But I can’t, and we
must get along somehow. Lord help us!
Now what are we to say of an indus
trial system that permits women to
work 14 hours and live on 12 cents per
day? Do not tell us these are excep
tional cases, that the average is far bet-
ter. God help us all if this were not »».
But that is a pitiable philosophy that
consoles itself with averages. These
extremes are possible because wo have
a system that says “get all you can and
pay as little as you can for it,” a speck
of Obe old brutality that still clings to
our civilization in spite of our splendid
progress—a state of things that
that the gray dawn of the millennium is
not yet on the sky and can not be paint
ed there by any leveling process of pa
ternalism of government, but only so
far as we all come into earnest fellow
ship with the idea that all are children
of one common Father and bound to one
common destiny.—Pacific Rural Press.
THE TAX FOR THE WORKER.
How Every Laborer May Learn What
It la.
To every man interested in the sub
ject of taxation, and in these hard times
there are but few who are not so pressed
by the pinch of poverty as to find any
taxes a heavy burden, I have a word or
two to say. You may be a regular sub
scriber to and attentive reader of this
paper, or it may have fallen into your
hands casually. If the first, let me urge
you to read the “Single Tax Depart
ment” attentively every week, and if
the system of imposing taxes advocated
therein meets with your approval, write
to the editor about it, calling his atten
tion to the way unimproved land in your
neighborhood escapes its proper share of
the public burdens, thus making heavier
the load that the improved land has to
bear. You will find plenty of striking
instances all around you, and maybe
your paper will stir up the tax assessor
to do his duty. If you are not fully sat
isfied about the single tax from what
you see in your paper, write to me and
I will send you some tracts explaining
the whole subject.
If you have merely happened to pick
up this paper and become interested in
knowing more about the single tax,
and if your own paper is not publishing
a Single Tax Department, write to your
editor and request him to do it. The
Memphis Single Tax Association has
made arrangements whereby all papers
published in the West and Northwest
can get their articles from the houses
that supply “patent outsides,” and at no
extra cost to the paper. The editor of
your home paper is not only willing, but
anxious to print what his subscribers
want, and if you write to him that you
and others want to know what the Sin
gle Tax means and how it will affect
you, you may depend on it that he will
supply the demand. If he don’t, then
subscribe for a paper that will. Wo
have sent out circulars to nearly all the
country papers published in the West
and Northwest offering our articles to
them, and the “Single Tax De
partment” is now being pub
lished in about seven hundred'
of them. If the readers want informa
tion on this topic, which is the burning
question of the day all over the civilized
world, if they want to know the true re
lations between land, labor and capital,
if they are interested in the question
why it is, that in the midst of greatly
increasing wealth throughout the
United States, there is so much poverty
and suffering among the people, and
why it is Hiat the lot of the toiler is so
much harder than it was in former
years, then the remedy is in their own
hands. We think we have solved the
problem; we think we have discovered
the seat of the trouble to be the monop
oly of the land by the few, thereby
compelling the many to labor
for a bare sustenance; and we
are satisfied that we have found the
remedy in the single tax. which wilt
force all holders of land, mineral, forest,
ore and agricultural land, to use it or to
let it be used by other men. The single
tax will not be a burden upon any man
who uses land; but it would make all
the land grabbers, syndicates and “in
vestors holding for a rise,” let go their
holdings. In short it would kill specu
lation in land, give a farm to every
farmer’s boy, 4nd homes to the millions
of homeless men, who can not now lay
claim to a place to lay their heads.
The following letter, written to the
New York Standard, shows how ready
the papers are to give space to our
articles, and if the readers of the rural
press want to know about the Single Tax:
and will take the trouble to write te
their local journals, the Single Tax De
partment can in a short time be found,
in seven thousand papers.
H. C. Niles, Denver. —After the article
by R. G. Brown, of Memphis, Tenn., ap
peared in the Standard, explaining their
method of supplying country newspa
pers with single tax matter, our club
here got the Memphis club to circular
ize the State of Colorado and adjacent
Territories.
I called a few days ago at the office oC
the Western Newspaper Union to learn
as to the successor failure of our efforts.
The replies they had received were*
twenty-four, twenty-one asking for sin
gle tax matter and three declineing to
have any thing of the kind published, in.
their papers.
N. D. Dresser, Independent, Rock
Springs, Wyo., wrote: “Am glad to
learn you have taken up this, matter,
and hope you will get numerous orders.”
Miss Carrie Byrd, Journal, Lyons, Col.,
says: “I shall be pleased to have single
tax matter published in <*ir Journal.”
The Dillon Enterprise (?) said: “I don’t
want any of this truck in my paper.”
The State Herald, Holyoke: “Don’t
want it. Want your republicanism in
my paper.”
The papers already taking the matter
are well distributed all over the State,
and we are much 'encouraged with the
result and expect to see an evidence of
a change of in our “pagans” to
ward the Singly tax. Write to your paper.
R. G. BnoVY-N.