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ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest Alliance
men Everywhere.
TIIE STATE ALLIANCES.
We clip the following from The Na¬
tional Economist: During the month of
July the county Alliances and Unions in
all the States will elect delegates to the
State meetings which are held in Au¬
gust, September and October. It is
very important these July sessions of the
county Alliances be well attended, and
that the questions likely to come before
the State body be thoroughly discussed,
to the end that delegates may be well
posted as to the sentiment which prevails.
Each delegate to the State Alliance or
Union should know the number of male
members of the order in his county, and
should know the amount of fees and dues
reported and the paid State by the county and secre¬ the
tary to secretary,
amount of per capita dues to the Na¬
tional Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union that the county secretary has col¬
lected, and see that the county secretary
has not only sent to the State
secretary what he has collected,
but the proper amount of fees
and the 5 cents per capita dues for every
male member in the county, whether he
has paid or not. It is necessary for dele¬
gates to the State bodies to be able to
show this in order to be sure of being
seated in the State meeting. The only
way for subordinate bodies to avoid be¬
ing liable to the county Alliance or Union
for dues upon members who do not pay
is to suspend such members for non-pay¬
ment of dees and then report them as
suspended. The only way for county dues
bodies to avoid being liable for
from subordinates that do not pay in full
is to refuse them any representation in
tbe county body until all dues are paid
in full. And the only way for the State
body to avoid being liable for dues from
counties which have not paid in full is to
suspend such counties by refusing them
representation until they have paid in
full all dues, arrearages, and per capita
dues for the national.
The 5 cents per capita dues is body. the only
fund belonging to the national It
is only paid once each year, and is due
to be paid by the state the secretary day of to No¬ the
national secretary on first
vember in each year in advance for the
year just commencing. Delegates to
state alliances should therefore see that
the state secretaries have reported to the
national secretary the male membership
of the state on the first day of October,
1890, and paid 5 cents per capita dues to
the national secretary on same. It will
not do for the state secretary to say he
has used the money for other purposes if
it has been collected from the member¬
ship, because all collected belongs in a
special fund, and should never be put in
the general fund; it belongs to the na¬
tional as soon as paid to the subordinate
secretary, and all secretaries handle it as
national money. State secretaries should
also be instructed by the coming state
alliances and unions to promptly make
report of their male membership on the
first day of October next, and to make
remittance to cover same in full not later
than Nov. 1 next. This is very neces¬
sary in order to enable the national
secretary to close his books for the year,
and have them examined by the execu¬
tive board and a full report made out by
the meeting of the Supreme Council, on
the third Tuesday in November. Some
delegates have heretofore held the money
back to bring in person to the national
secretary when the Supreme Council
meets. This disarranges made the business with
and forces the report to be up
such States recorded as delinquents, and
the report goes into the minutes and dis¬
graces the State Alliance for all the next
year. It is therefore a great injustice to
the State Alliance for the report of the
State secretary to be delayed or for the
money to be held back after November 1.
The demands of the Order, and of all
other organizations discussed willing to both co-operate,
should be freely in county
and State Alliances and Unions, and re¬
solutions expressing the delegates prevailing senti¬
ment adopted, resolutions and selected who and fully
endorse such au¬
thorized to elect delegates from the state
to the National body with authority to
select delegates to attend the great labor
conference in February, 1893, and repre¬
sent the Order in agreeing with all organ¬
izations of producers willing to co-operate
iu a set of demands and deciding upon
the most efficient means of enforcing such
demands. The following is an extract
from the report of the chairman of the
executive board as adopted by the last
Supreme Council:
“He cautioned the order as to the
great responsibility resting upon action this it
body at this time as to what
takes in regard could to the political participate situation. in
The order never afiy
partisan political effort, and in the South
it was opposed to giviug its sanction to
any independent or third party move on
the part of the members, while in the
West and Northwest the delegates claim
that the order will retrograde if such
sanction is not given. In this emergency
he thought he had a compromise exactly, to offer and
that would meet the case
that was lor this body to hereby say that
it gives its sanction and call for a meet¬
ing to be. held about February, 1892, to
be composed of delegates from fair all organ¬
izations of producers upon a basis of
representation for the purpose of a gen¬
eral and thorough conference upon the all
demands of each, and to the end that
may agree upon a joint set of demands
just prior to the next national campaign,
and agree upon the proper methods for
enforcing delegates such demands. If :ho pcopb
by coming direct fr m them
agree that a third party move is r.cct S"
sary, it need not be feared. That the next,
session of the supreme council elect dele¬
gates from this order to represent it in
said national Conference of productive
organizations For for political purposes."
the purpose of carrying out this
proposition introduced by the Brother following Guice. resolution of Louisi¬ was
ana, and by the body referred to the joint
committee on confederation:
“Whereas, We have already adopted the
report of the chairman of the executive
board in part, and whereas said report
did recommend that this body authorize
a call for a convention of all labor organ¬
izations to be held in February, 1892:
Now therefore be it
Resolved, That this body elect a com¬
mittee composed of one ■from each state
here represented, to be known as the na¬
tional executive committee, for the spe¬
cial purpose of conferring with like com¬
mittees from other organizations, and
deciding questions as to time and place
of meeting, oasis ot representation and
to submit to their respective states the
demands of all such other labor organi¬
zations as will probably be represented
at such labor conference, each member to
be ex-oflrcio chairman in his state and te
have authority chairmen, to appoint in congressional
district who turn shall ap¬
point county chairmen for the purpose of
bringing our demands and those of other
labor oiganizations (luring squarely before the
people the coming year, and se¬
cure an expression from them in as to what
concessions they will make order to
secure general co-operation and what
methods they will adopt to secure the
same.
The joint committee on confederation
met with a like committee from the
Knights of Labor, the National Colored
Farmers’ and Alliance and Co-operative
Union, the National Citizens Al¬
liance, in January last, and organized
for perfecting this plan, State,
district and county chairmen
of central committees have been pushed appoint¬ inde¬
ed, and the work will be
pendent of the Alliance as an organiza¬
tion. The meeting will be held Februa¬
ry 22, 1892, and the National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union will be al¬
lowed representation in the and conference. discussed
This should all be known
and kept in view in the selection of dele¬
gates from the primary organizations to
the national. Let all the preparation for
organized and efficient independent ac¬
tion go rapidly on, not as a menace to
present political parties, but as a precau¬ parties
tion against the unwillingness possibility of such give the
asserting an to
people the necessary reforms.
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CRITICISM WILL NOT AVAIL.
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.,) says: “It is surprising with what
confidence each opponent of the sub¬
treasury essays to condemn it and give
his reasons for opposing it. Any well critise in¬
formed writer can attack and
any plan that could be offered. There is
nothing smart or wise about it. If these
opponents will answer the question then that
the sub-treasury is offered to meet,
they might boast of something. That
question is: What way can be devised
to prevent a syndicate or combine of spec¬
ulators each year from forming for the
purpose of controlling the price of farm
products, which syndicate or com¬
bine gets the crops at cost of
production and sells them to consumers
at an advance of from 20 to 100 percent?
Selling crops at cost of production en¬
forces another vital question: How can
a man grow wheat, corn or cotton at cost
of production, and from the profits from
his farm, which is nothing, pay his mort¬
gage on his home? The sub-treasury is
offered as a remedy that embraces two
strong points—enough money to defeat
the trust and an adequate means of ac¬
complishing the end sought, at the same
time assuring to consumers protection
from fictitious prices created and enforced
by speculators to make themselves rich
at the loss and damage, above reasonable
compensation for handling the crops, to
the consumer, who, if he could get these
commodities at reasonable prices would
save from 10 to 50 per cent, of what it
now costs hinr to make these speculators
millionaires. Don’t catch at the shadow,
but strike the substance. Argue the
question, not the remedy proposed to
solve it. Solve the question in any other
way, and the alliance is ready to accept
it. But its members cannot be made to
slave it any longer for speculators, be¬
cause the remedy is liable to criticism.
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the storm is coming.
The Washington Post says: “The
spirit of reform in the shape of revolu¬
tion is undoubtedly abroad, and the suc¬
cess that it may here and there achieve is
likely to be contagious. It will be well
for the politicians to put their houses in
order. By wisdom they may break the
force of the storm, but the storm is in
the air.”
In the course of a two-column com¬
ment on the above paragraph, a writer in
the Progressive Farmer says: “No half¬
way dubious course will shelter the polit¬
ical parties from this popular uprising.
They have a cause—a good cause; they
have issues which cannot be laid a-ide or
overshadowed by any other issue
available to the parties. They
cannot make the tariff interest¬
ing enough, being so stale and
thread-bare, to distract attention from
the new issues. ‘So it would be well for
the politicians,’ says the Post , to put their
houses in order.’ At this writing we
know of only one State which can easily
divert this furious deluge, and that is the
State of North Carolina, We are inform¬
ed that the Democratic party of that
State has adopted essential the demands St. Louis of the platform F. A.
or all the
and I. U., and this places it on the side
of the people and not antagonistic and quietude. there¬
to. This will give it ease
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ALLIANCE vs. MERCHANTS.
If the mov< meat Inaugurated by the
Alliance is right, and wc believe it is,
none should be more rendy to give it
their junction than our merchants, who
are aware of the fact that anything that
will redound to the good of our farmers
will be of good to them also. If the
sub-treasury idea will, as a means for
which it is intended, get more money in
circulation in the country, no one will
feel the go< d arising from it more per¬
ceptibly than the merchant, And it is
offered by the Alliance as a way to
get more money inlo circulation, and
ut a low rate of interest which the pro¬
ducer can stand. If the Alliance is the
means of getting $50 per capita in circu¬
lation there will be more to spend and
more goods will be bought. No one
will question this statement. Then would
not the merchant profit, by it? He most
certainly would, and we believe that in
a majority of cases the farmers and la¬
borers have the good will of the mer¬
chants in their endeavors to bring about
these measures.—Union City (Tenn.
Commercial.
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GROWTH OP TIIE ALLIANCE.
More than 1,600 voters join the Color¬
ed Alliance every day that the sun rises.
Suppose, then, that twice us many join
the Farmers’ Alliance. Total, 5,000
daily. Remember all these ,are commit¬
ted to the sub-treasury, and with¬
out exception favor a new political
organization. Not one man would
join us now with anything else
in view. Surely the traitors who
are trying to stay among us and oppose
our demands will take this hint and pull
out. Politicians who have mocked pre¬
pare to stay at home, and partisan news¬
papers who have spent their energies to
throw contempt upon us may prepare for
earnest work. Ministers of the gospel
who have left their sacred calling to heap
scurrilous remarks upon our members and
officers because we tried to help and to
save the downtrodden poor may find
their mads to the warm climate they
speak of shortened many league..— Nat¬
ional Alliance, (Houston, Tex)
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The Alliance Bulletin (Harper, Kan.)
says: “An effort is being made to divide
the Alliance in the south by forcing pro
hibition upon them as a political issue,
but, like their brethren of the north
they have refused to be sidetracked in
any such way. The action of the Kansas
Alliance upon this question should be
duplicated by all other statis, for should
we espouse such outside is-ues it would
prove suicidal to our main issur-. Let
nothing but the St. Louis, Ocala and Cin¬
cinnati demands cause us to do battle. It
is an indisputable fact that many differ¬
ences of opinion exist upon the questions
of less importance, heuce the effort to
force them upon us if possible, for by so
doing a division would be created aud
Shylock given a t ghter grip «>pon the
people. We are united in our demands
for more money; then let that issue stand
paramount to all others until we gain an
issue of circulating medium equal to $50
per capita.
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The Farmers' Advocate (Charlestown,
W. Ya.) says: “The government issues
money to national banks. It is issued to
them not for the banks to do as they
please with it; they cannot deal in real
estate, in live stock, in merchandise;
they cannot engage iu manufacturing,
railroading is issued or them any enterprise. The money
to to loan, to loan to the
people. The banks are virtually loan
agents, and the government is practically
loaning money to the people. The loans the
are at 1 per cent, plus commissions of
agents (the banks). The commission is
too high, being from 5 to 11 per cent, per
annum, equal to loan. 25 to Now 55 per cent,
on a five-year dispense with these the propo¬
sition is to costly
loan agents.”
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Rural Home (Wilson, N. C.) asks:
“What is the difference in interest to the
people under the present banking system
and that proposed interest by the sub-treasury
plan? A direct of not less than 8
per cent, an indirect interest from 8 to
G00 per cent. Why is it then that the
politicians of both political parties favor
the present backing system? Because un¬
der this system the money is kept for the
benefit of the bankers and their favorites;
those who speculate on the product of
the land, those who speculate on the
land, the protected manufacturer, politician and inon
ied syndicates—the
subsidized press.
The Richmond County (Ga.) Alliance
at a meeting in Augusta a few days ago
adop'ed the following resolution:
“Resolved, That we endorse the bril¬
liant administration of President Liv¬
ingston, and present him for re-election
to the office, the duties of which he has
perfoimed with commendable zeal and
marked ability. We commend him for
re-election not only in recognition of past
services, but because we believe that his
continuance in the presidency of the
state alliance will give him deserved
prestige in the halls of congress.”
*** (Wytheville,
The Virginia Alliance the United
Va.) says: “The farmers of
States received $48,000,000 less for rais¬
ing 76,000,000 acres of corn in 1886 than
they did for raising 68,000,000 exceeded acres the in
1883, though the former
latter 116,000,000 bushels. In 1884
there was sown 1,000,000 acres more
oats than 1883, and 12,000,000 more
bushels raised, but to the farmers $26,
000,000 less was realized. An increase
in acreage every year, but a decrease in
the amount realized on the bushel.
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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh) ^ says:
Senator George, of Mississippi, vigorous has been
engaged in a most warfare on
the Alliance. He employed the whole
force of the enemy in his State against it.
Rut be was unable to stand against the
tide and bus just pub isbed a long letter,
endorsing tbe Alliance platform except
tbe sub-treasury bill and the land loan
plan. lie sees that bis people are in
earnest and has backed down from bis
high position, “While tbe lamp holds
out to burn,” etc.
Nashville dispatch V Saturday
A of rays:
Tbe regular monthly crop re port for Ten¬
nessee lias been issued by Commissioner
dition. Goodwin. Wheat is reported in fine con¬
The yield is 01.d quality. of a full aver¬
age crop and of excellent Corn
is improving rapidly, and the prospects
were never better for a full yield. Con¬
dition 88.5, The acreage of cotton is
largely decreased, the reduction averag¬
ing 10 per cent. The condition has much
improved, and while not yet satisfactory
the fanners are more hopeful. The con¬
dition, compared with the fall crop is 73.
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The Alliance Advocate (Louisburg,
Tenn.) says: “Never before was such
an effort made to educate the masses as
since the inauguration of the Alliance of
farmers. The leaders who are responsi¬
ble tor this work are the objects of at¬
tack by the city press, and are classed as
hoodlums and degraded offieeseekers.
Verily, with the people should read these at¬
tacks a big grain of allowance for
the men who inspire them.”
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The Citizens’ Alliance is being pushed
ahead by Farmers’ Alliance organizers,
and it now covers a large part of the
country from Maine to California. The
San Francisco Cal., Daily Report gives
an account of the establishment of a
Citizens’ Alliance in that place, and
notes the fact that it is an ally of the
Farmers’ different Alliance, although including a
far class in its membership.
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Chickasaw Messenger , (Okolona, Miss.,)
in a recent issue said: Polk and Living¬
ston North are Carolinian, in Mississippi other now. One is a
the a Georgian,
and both were Confederate soldiers.
Both are Southern men and Democrats,
yet the mouthpieces of plutocracy have
commenced to villify and abuse thems
because they favor “equal rights to all,
and special favors for none,”
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The Fanners’ Alliance in Texas has in¬
augurated a Life Benefit plan, which is
called the Co-operative Degree of the
Farmers’ State Alliance of Texas. If the
other states follow this plan, it will be
known as the National Alliance Aid
association. The president and execu¬
tive committee of the State Alliance ap¬
point a manager for this department.
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D. A. 115, Knights of Labor, Seattle,
Wash, has issued a call for a conference
of all labor and other reform bodies with¬
in the State, at North Yakima, July 18,
for the purpose of “considering how labor
can best use its power at the polls in it,
own interest.” Representatives will pre¬
sent credentials from their organization.
**v Carolina,
The AlliancemeD in North
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia are
building or operating their ow n tobacco
warehouses. The latest move of this
kind is in Nash county, the Alliances of
which are preparing to build a ware¬
house at Nashville, the shares of stock
being put at five dollars each.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
As Reported by Dun & Co.’s
Mercantile Agency.
Dun & Co.’s review of trade for week
ended July 4, says: Dependence on the
crops is the reliance for renewed activity
in business and an improvement in the
monetary situation, and the crop pros¬
pects are still very satisfactory. General
rains in the wheat and cotton-growing
regions have given much encouragement.
The course of the market favors an early
heavy movement in breadstuffs. The
money market appears a little less easy,
with stringency at a few southern points.
There is less anxiety than of late about
gold exports, and there is a prevailing
confidence in the speedy recovery and
expansion of trade. The iron market is
dull, and while prices are gen¬
erally a shade stronger than in
May, a vague fear of the future check
purchasers. F ictural and plate i.on
are fairly active, but of rails no sales are
noted, and shipments for the half year
are placed at 440,000 tons, against 775,
000 last year. Coal has been advanced
by dealers, but independent operators
make no change. Business failures for
the week number for the United States,
210, and for Canada, 27, or a total of
237, as compared with 234 last week, and
253 the week previous to the last. For
the corresponding week lust year the
failures were 199.
A STEAMER SINKS
And Seventeen Lives Reported
Lost.
A London cablegram says: The start¬
ling intelligence has been received that a
large steamer sank off Dover some time
during Sunday night. Dispatches say
one mast of the vessel is visible above the
wates. The steamer Kinloch has landed
at Gravesend with a part of the crew of
the sunken steamer, which was the Dun
holme, from Middlesborough lo Rio
Janeiro. The Dunholme was sunk at 2
o'clock in the morning, two minutes after
a collision with the Kinloch. Seventeen
persons are misting from the Dunholme.
Georgia’s New Bishop.
The diocesan convention met in Ma¬
con bishop Wednesday for the purpose of electing
a for Georgia to succeed the late
Bishop Idaho, Beckwith. Rev. E. O. Talbott,
of received the unanimous vote of
the convention and was chosen for the
bishopric. It is thought that he will
accept.
NINETEEN DEAD.
A Scene of Horror on the Erie
Railway at Ravenna.
ful At 3 o’clock Friday, occurred morning a fright¬
railroad wreck at Ravenna, and
Ohio, on the New York, Lake Erie
Western railroad. Train No.. 8, fast ex¬
press, bound for New York, while stand¬
ing at the depot waiting orders, was
ern-hed into from the rear by a freight
train. A day coach on the rear of the
train was completely telescoped and nine¬
teen passengers killed and thirty-eight
badly injured. Tbe day coach and two
sleepers lor ward took fire aud were burned
up, burning many of the bodies so that
they were almost unrecognizable. The
wreck is the most disastrous that ever oc¬
curred on the Erie road.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
Many of the passengers on the train
were asleep when the awful crash came,
aud a number were crushed to death in
their berths. A terrible scene followed.
There were cries for help from all parts
of the tiain, mingled with the dying being
moans of others whose lives wero
crushed out. Steam was escaping from
the monster freight engine, anu crowded soon the
wreck caught tire aud the flames
upon those who were fast in the debris.
The few persons who escaped without
iujury worked with almost superhuman
power in their efforts to rescue the more
unfortunate ones. In several in¬
stances persons slowly burned to death
while pleading with their last breath
for help, which could not he rendered.
The wreck was most complete. Cars
were piled upon and across each other
almost in a solid mass. The following is
believed to be a correct list of the killed
so far ns is known : Henry Gilda, John
McAvary. Patrick Ryan, T. Hauaf, F.
Burns, J. Kimball, Owen Hardeman,
Thomas Nolan, TboinRS Kcville, George
Gilda, David Oelehiau, J. Coyle, W.
Newcomb, D. Ryan, D. Cas>idy, Findlay. Henry
McGill—all glass workers of
O., and Corning, N. Y.— f
Brooklyn, N. Y; A. Gunthrop, ..rook- Y.
lyn, N. Y; W. Kane. Brooklyn, N.
Among the large number injured die. are
many whom it is thought will wille
SUSPENDED PAYMENT.
A Montgomery Bank Fails for
Half*a Million.
Moses Bros.’ batik, at Montgomery,
Ala., suspended payment Monday morn¬
ing, bills and all real estate, personal property
and of exchange have been included
in the assignment to II. A. Saver, R. B.
Snodgrass and S. M. Levine. They say
their assets will amount to more than
their liabilities. Neither figure can yet
be approximately estimated. The failure
is due to the stringency of money. Their
liabilities are said to be about half f
million dollars. The firm stands verj
high for integrity, and few believe
that there is anything ugly about
the suspension. Each individual has in
eluded his home, all real estate and per
sonal property* in the schedule jl
signments. The failure 'a blow to
the people of the city. Zn early every la¬
boring man, clerk and sewing woman in
Montgomery, who was trying to save
money* had deposits in the suspended
bank. Among the depositors are hun¬
dreds of negroes, who have deposits
ranging dred from five or ten to fifteen hun¬
or two thousand dollars each.
It is estimated that the amount due
depositors is between $350,000 and
$500,000.
The members of the firm have surren
dered everything they possess, personal
and real, without any claim for exemption
or dower being jSut in by the wives of
the married members.
wnERE THE MONET IS.
The failure is a topic of gossip and
wide spread consternation among the peo¬
ple. It has leaked out that some of the
bankers met a few nights ago offering
their aid in a substantial manner, but the
offer was not accepted, the amount being
but about one hundred thousand dollars,
while the liabilities as estimated are near
if not over half a million. It will take
the trusstees some time to ascertain with
any degree of accuracy the true state of
affairs, there being perhaps over three
depositors ranging in sums from
two dollars to manv thousands.
THE COMMISSION’S FINDING
Jn Betterments Claim Approved
by Governor Northen.
Governor Northen, of Georgia, on Sat¬
urday, approvad the decision of the bet¬
terments commission in the case of the
Western and Atlantic railroad. This an¬
nouncement has been awaited with in¬
terest for some time, for while it was
generally expected that this would be
done there could be no final settlement
this vexed question until the governor
L rmally approved the* commission’s
finding. The decision of the commission
was ratified immediately by an
takable popular sentiment. The
thorough and careful examination
been made. There was no room for
jection, the but every reason to approve.
finding was approved.
A TOURIST’S HORRIBLE FATE
He Tumbles Headlong into thi
Crater of Vesuvius.
A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says
On Wednesday Two Brazilian travelers
in spite of the warning of its danger, as
cended to the mouth of the crater o
Vesuvius accompanied by a guide. Th®
were watched through glas-es and wer
seen to become enveloped in a cloud q
sulphurous smoke, One toppled
the crater and was lost, The other
dragged out of danger by his guide
saved.