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ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
SIMPSON IN NEW ENGLAND.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, who
is England, pusUng the Alliance cause in New
made a speech at Manchester,
N. U., a few days ago, which was re¬
ceived with much enthusiasm hv an im¬
mense audience of New Hampshire
farmers. Among other things lie said:
“The men who make the best legisla¬
tors do not come from the ranks of your
educated men. Iu Kansas we went to
the cornfields and to the plows, and in
point of intelligence, honesty and ability,
it. was the best legislature the state has
ever had. [Applause.] For the first
time in Kansas a United States senator
was elected without a scandal. The
members whom the Farmers’ Alliance had
elected went there and did what the peo¬
ple told them, and there was not money
enough in the United States to buy them.
There was plenty of money, and
one member was offered KS
high as $10,000 for his vote
and the offer refused. You need to watch
as well as pray when you are iu politics.
[Laughter.] this * * * Mr. McKinley
says that country is rolling in pros¬
perity and wealth, and that its people
are contented and happy. I will meet
this by a speech delivered by John J.
Ingalb, who says that 31,000 persons pos¬
sess one-lialf the wealth of the country;
and under $ucli a condition as this can
the country long be prosperous and
happy? Which of these doctors are you
goiug to believe? I am inclined to think
that Ingalls is right. * * * The sub¬
been treasury plan is the best that has ever
conceived, we believe. One year in
Kansas wo raised 250,000,000 bushels of
corn, which we from necessity sold for
15 cents a bushel, although it had cost
us 21 cents to raise the same. Later we
had to buy it back at 50 cents per bushel.
Under the sub-treasury plan ail this
would have been avoided. We in
Kansas have borrowed a great deal
of your money at a high rate of in¬
terest, the interest, in fact, being so
high dreds that we could not meet it, and hun¬
of our farmers have been evicted
from their farms. Give them a chance,
and they will pay, remembering that youi
interests are ours. A million of men arc
tramping this country to-day, according
to Senator Ingalls, seeking for work, and
all because of the vicious legislation
which has been imposed upon us. You
should study and ponder these matters,
and by so doing you will learn to cast an
intelligent ballot. * * * At the’con¬
vention which gave me my nomination
there was but one white shirt and two
vhit. vv'uAtt iu be seen, and there was
not a lawyer in the entire gathering, al¬
though the distiict covered more terri¬
tory than the entire state of New Hamp¬
shire, aud contained 70,000 voters. When
;WC can hold a convention and not have a
lawyer present we begin to think we are
getting awfully near to heaven. [Laugh¬
ter.] What we want is a condition of
things that will give to everybody an
equal chance and the blessings aud com¬
forts of life, a condition of things that
will admit of the poor man wearing silk
socks and white shirts if he wants.” [Ap¬
plause. ]
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THIRD-PARTYI8M IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
W. J. Tolbert, the state lecturer ol
the Alliance iu South Carolina, sounded
the keynote of the campaign where of ’92 he at
Orangeburg several days ago, granted
made amoral speeches, and an
interview to the reporters. Among
other things, Tolbert said that the Alli¬
ance had endorsed the St. Louis platform
at Ocala, aud did not propose to support
any man who is opposed to the demands of
these conventions. “There is,” said he,
“a movement on foot in which the labor
organizations of the United States are in¬
terested, to have convention in February,
1892. It is a people’s move. The Alli¬
ance of this state is in with this senti
ment. We demand a change in the
monetary system of the country, and if
we can’t get in one way, we will get it in
another. The Alliance is a Simon pure
political organization. We intend to have
reform, or, by the way, we will know
the reason why. We want the good will
of all, but beg the friendship of none,
ana all that a man opposed to us has to
do is to step aside and let us pass, or we
will run over him. The Alliance wants
to bring about a peaceful and quiet revo¬
lution, but if it cannot come by peaceful
methods, it must come by some other
method. We have asked for relief from
one representative at heard, Washington, but there aud
our voice has not been
will come a day when angry people will
appear at the gates of justice and demand
the rights in a mood not to be changed
by reason, or when the flag of retribution
and wrath is raised, it will be for too presi¬
tor reason. My candidate
dent has to support the Alliance plat¬
form.” Tolbert is regarded as the ex¬
ponent of the Alliance sentiment in South
Carolina. It may be regarded as almost
certain that the state will not be on
democratic column in 1893 if there is a
third party candidate in ’no field.
*
Among the resolutions passed by the
Indiana State Farmers’ Alliance at a re¬
cent meeting were the following: “Ile
solved, That we are in favor of the free
coinage of silver. That we demand the
passage of laws prohibiting alien owner¬
ship of land, and that congress take
prompt action to devise some plan to ob¬
tain all laud now owned by aliens and
foreign syndicates, and that all lands now
held railroads and other corporations,
in excess or sucii as is actually used b\
them, be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers on'y. That
we demand a law making null and void
und uncollectable bonds, any promissory note,
due bill, stock, m- ch tttle mort¬
gage, or any other evidence of indebted¬
ness held alter the first Monday in June
of any yea-, provided the same shall not
have the assessors’ stamp upon it, show¬
ing that the same has been listed for tax¬
ation. That we are in favor of cutting
down Ihe big fees and salaries of county
and state officers produce to correspond with the
low price of and low wages of
labor, and that we condemn the proposi¬
tion now before needed the legislature to post¬
pone this relief for four year.
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The Santa Rosa (Cal.) Democrat says:
The object of the Alliance should be, and
doubtless is, to discover the cause of their
declining prosperity aud apply a remedy.
Class legislation poor-house, has br. ught and them legisla¬ to the
door of the auv
tion that, has for its object the exclusive
benefit of the farmers at the expense of
others will bring no permanent relief. A
fair chance to all and special privileges
to none is all that legislation can perform
A political organization whose purpose is
to help the farmers without regard to the
rights of others might win one victory,
but not two. The greatest army that
ercr marched to battle is often doomed
’to defeat by a blunder or over-confidence
in its numerical advantage, and the Alli¬
ance will shatter its prospects should it
seek to secure redress through class legis¬
lation. Let the farmers concentrate their
efforts to secure relief by the reduction of
tariff taxes, free coinage of silver, and
other reforms to which the Alliance is
committed, and the people in general
will flock to their support.
***
An exchange asks if all the Alliance
men lull are Baptists. President It seems L. L. that Polk, there the is
a quota.
president of the National Alliance, is a
Baptist preacher, aud so is Superintendent
R. M. Humphrey, of the colored National
Alliance, he being the only white man in
the organization. The president of the
Alabama State Alliance, S. M. Adams,
is a Baptist preacher, and the ex-president
and ex-lecturer of the Georgia State Alli¬
ance, Rev. R. H. Jackson and Rev. J. W r .
Beck, are Baptist preachers. The editor
of the Progressive Farmer, the organ of the
North Carolina Aibancemen, is Rev.
Bayless Cade, a Baptist preacher.
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The seventh section of the charter of
the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
and Co-operative Union of the United
States declares the object of this corpora¬
tion shall be to elevate the colored peo¬
of the United States by teaching
them to love their country and their
to care more for their helpless
sick and destitute: to labor more
for the education of themselves
their children, especially in agricul¬
pursuits. To become better farm¬
and laborers, and less wasteful in
methods of living. To be more
to the civil law. To become
citizens, and truer husbands and
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The Alliance Defender (Excelsior
Mo.) says: “Some people, even
members of the Alliance, oppose the idea
of • ihe government loaning money to
farmers on the ground that there is no
justice in taxing the community in order
to loan money to those in debt. The idea
is not understood. We do not advocate
that anybody should be taxed, but that
the government make a new issue of pa¬
per mopey, full legal tender, lending it to
farmers without the intervention of
banks, thus increasing the volume of
circulating medium, establishing good
prices and restoring prosperity.”
**
The Iowa State Alliance has been regu¬
larly organized and officers elected.
Fourteen county organizations were rep¬
resented at the meeting by men of intel¬
ligence and solid substantial character.
Before and the meeting adjourned between
forty fifty organizers were commis¬
sioned and equipped for the field, and a
vigorous aud earnest organizing cam¬
paign was at once inaugurated. In the
near future, the great state of Iowa, will
take its place in the very front rank of
Alliance states.
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The Farmers’ Alliance of Mississippi is
beginning an active fight to secure the
election of successors to Senators George
and Walthall who favor the sub-treasury
scheme, and to this end are seeking to
influence all the members of the order to
vote against the candidates for the legis¬
lature not pledged to their demands. The
order in the state is composed almost ex¬
clusively their of democrats, in and it is proposed
to do work the democratic prima¬
ries.
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The personel of the new Florida legis¬
lature is a novel and a remarkable one.
The body is composed of 100 members,
in joint session, of which sixty are alli
ancemen. Among the first duties will be
election of a United States senator to suc¬
ceed Senator Call, whose term has ex¬
pired, and who is a candidate for re-elec¬
tion. It is believed that the alliance will
center on one of their own men whose
name has not yet been mentioned.
*** is
The Farmers’ Alliance organization
pushing its way all over New England,
as well as New York and Pennsylvania.
It already has covered a large part of
Maine, find started an Alliance paper at
Thomaston. In New York and Pennsyl¬
vania the Western branch separate from
the Kansas and South' rn branch, has its
organizations. Connecticut is pretty well
organized, and the other states are falling
into line.
***
Southeast Enterprise (Popular Bluff,
Mo.) says: “The sub-treasury plan is
fast gaining ground. It is becoming the
leading principle in the decaloguo of the
national platform. This minds principle and is be¬
coming fixed upon the sentiment through¬ hearts
of the people. Public
out the rank and tile of the Alliance is
becoming so strongly centered on this
question and neither p<rtv will have the
courage to sidetrack it.”
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The Orange Homes , published Grange at Bos¬
ton, Mass., is the foremost organ the
in New England, and k asserts that
Farmers’ Alliance and the Farmers’
League do not find any strong antagon¬
isms in the Grange. The members of the
Grange are taught to cherish in their
hearts every kind feeling towards all other
orders and associations which seek to
promote human welfare.
fit
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It is reported that that is Germany growing has n
Farmers’ Alliance almost
as powerful in that country as its Ameri¬
can prototype has already become in the
United States. Count Von Moltke and
Prince Bismarck, both of whom arc said
to be practical farmers, have announced
their allegiance to the Farmers’ Alliance.
***
The Alliance throughout the issued tobacco call
belt of North Carolina have a
for a convention in Hendersonville on the
28th inst. The objects of this meeting
will be the organization of an association
for the protection of tobacco growers,
and other important matters coi necked
with their interests.
*
The strong movement in the Alliance
to give women a more prominent place in
public affairs seems to have spread to the
Giange. Not a few of its organizations and de¬
have discussed the matter fully
cided to give the women a wider field of
action.
***
The Ohio and New York State Alli¬
ance will be organized this month. Both
start off with an unusually largo mem¬
bership.
STORMS IN THE NORTH.
Fourteen Inches of Snow in
Western New England.
A dispatch of Friday from Boston,
says: The storm throughout New Eng
land is very severe. A stiff northeast
gale is blowing with heavy rain on the
coast and snow in the interior. There is
fourteen inches of snow throughout wes¬
tern England. All trains are from one
to four hours late. The wind reached
the velocity of sixty miles an hour. The
center of the storm passed over Boston at
C :30 o’clock a. m. In the harbor the
tide is highest for six months. Consid¬
Many erable damage lias been done to shipping.
and vessels lost or dragged their anchors
drifted on the flats. A few schooners
were dismasted. Others were badly
damaged by being drivea against the
wharves.
IN NEW YORK.
A New York telegram says: The heavy
storm which swept over this section Fri¬
day night did considerable damage,
particularly to the east of New York.
The storm outside of the city was accom¬
panied in many places by heavy, wet
snow, and this, aided by the high wind,
demoralized the telegraph wires to a
great extent.
HEAVY DEFALCATION.
A Trusted Bank Cashier Goes
Wrong and Suicides.
Thomas Gadsden, the cashier of the
Merchant’s National bank, at Savannah,
.Ga., committed suicide by shooting him¬
self in the head at his ehild’s grave in
Laurel Grove cemetery in that city Friday.
An examination of his books revealed the
fact that he was an embezzeler to the ex¬
tent of over $100,000. Every cent of
this money has been taken since the 1st
of January. His defalcation was to the
tune of $1,000 a day. Every cent of it
went in speculation in cotton and grain.
Gadsden had been with the bank for
twenty-three years, the larger part of
which time he was the trusted cashier.
Unlimited confidence was placed in his
integrity, and up to this year there is no
evidence that he had ever violated the
trust placed in him. The bank’s net loss
will be about $70,000. Gadsden was
under a $30,000 bond in the American
Security Company, of New York. The
story of the defalcation created great ex¬
citement. As the bank has a surplus of
over $250,000, its credit will not suffer
in the slightest.
They are Regular Crooks.
A special of Friday, from Fayetteville,
Ark., says: Developments in the case of
Judge Baker and Dr. Howard, who
swindled Captain W. F. Dowell, alliance
treasurer, out of $3,000, go to show that
the men have been operating quite ex¬
tensively. Monday a farmer named Black¬
burn, fiom Callaway county, Missouri,
put in an appearance aud identified the
juflge and doctor as the same men who
swindled him out of $7,500 about a yeai
ago. held for the grand jury in
They were Sheriff Hoxie, of Waterloo,
$8,000 each. morning with requi¬
la., arrived Saturday
sition papers for the swindlers, and has
gone to Little Rock to present them to
Governor Eagle.
They Were Slick.
At Barnurn, Ill., two saloon keepers
have a new scheme for evading the li¬
quor law. During the holidays they had
constructed a saloon building in sections,
so that it oould be taken apart and stored
away. ^Recently the district court
granted ati in junction against the saloons,
aud the other night the proprietors tored it took
down their building and > away
in a warehouse, so that when the sheriff
of Webster coun y comes to serve the
injunction he will find no saloon.
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Nice Muffins.—T wo eggs, butter size
of an egg, one cup of sweet milk, one
tablespoon baking sugar, one heaping stiff teaspoon bat¬
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ter; bake in muffin rings or gem pans.
Pastky fob One Pie. —One heaping
cup pastry Hour, two teaspoons lard, one
salt. teaspoon baking powder, baking ono teaspoon powder
Sift Hour, salt and
together, ltub and chop in shortening;
make quite stiff with cold water, ouo
quartcr cup or more.
Ciikere Sticks. —One cup of cheese
grated fine, one and one-half cups flour,
butter size of small egg, salt to taste.
Poll out like pic dough, cut in strips,
and roll round about the size of lead pen¬
cil. When baked, cross the sticks on a
plate, pig-pen fashion.
of Kentucky Roils.— Put thr, e quarts
flour in a large crock, scald one quart
of buttermilk and pour over the flour;
beat well, then add one cup of yeast and
one cup of butter or lard. In the morn¬
ing mix one teaspoon of salt, one table¬ stiff
spoon of sugar, and flour to make a
dough. Let it rise twice, kneading thor¬ in
oughly, then make in long rolls, put
pans, and bake when very light.
A farmer, calling on a neighbor, ob¬
served that his clock was not right.
“Weil, you see, sir,” said the latter,
“nobody don’t understand much about
that clock, but me. AVhen the hands of
the clock stand at twelve, and it strikes
two, then I know it’s twenty minutes to
seven.” ~
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