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ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Alliancemen Everywhere.
It is said that the independent vote in
Kansas this year was larger by 15,000
than it was last year.
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It will only take a change of 1,700
votes to give South Dakota to tbe Alli¬
ance, and theii organ says that this can
be done in a day.
There is talk of builidng an Alliance
tobacco factory at Greensboro, N. C. A
meeting was held a few days ago and
the idea discussed.
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Andrew Jackson said that the national
banking system should give them a
chance to make money scarce or plenty sold
at pleasure. That is one reason you
your cotton at 7 cents this fall.
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The farmers should look after tho in¬
terests of their organizations. the failure Upon
them depends the success which or they
of the great reforms for ore
laboring.—Standard Farmer.
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In one of our exhanges we notice
a conespondent, ic giving his many
reasons why he is an Alliancemnn, says
for one, that ho calling is opposed cotton, to men wheat, buy¬
ing wind and it
pork or tobacco.
*** income, with
The farmer’s average net
which he must support his family and
pay his taxes and interest, is $373. This
estimate is based on figures given by the
statistician of the agricultural depart¬
ment.—Industrial Educator.
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Tl^e people’s party will continne to
puncture the plutocratic money power
with their ballots until the monsters
will be forced to make a concession that
will permit labor to receive its just re¬
ward.—Washington Republican.
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A higher range of legitimate prices is
the salvation of the masses. Too much
labor and products in the dollar now.
Takes too much sweat to pay a dollar of
interest, a dollar of taxes, a dollar of
railroad charges.—Industrial Educator.
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An exchange says: We pay annually
about $525, OuO, 006 tariff tax. We pay
annually $1,400,000,000 in interest on
bonds and otherwise for the money we
use. Don’t it look like seven hundred
and odd millions of Interest in excess of
tariff tax ought to demand more atten¬
tion than the tariff?
V
The Southern Mercury says the mer¬
chants of Texas ' are failing into line
with the- farmers and will aid them in
every legitimate undertaking. The bus¬
iness men now see that the success of tho
farmers means their success. The failure
of the farmers means their failure and a
general collapse.
An exchange says: The greatest need
we can now think of is an active, effi¬
cient and aggressive workiug force. To
overcome the obstacles that we are bound
to enoounter in our onward march to
victory will require a stronger effort than
has yet been put forth. We hope the
very best talent of the organization will
for the next few days be directed to the
solution of the question of how to put
efficient workers in the field.
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The Progressive Farmer says: We had
farming hoped that the had old chestnut been about disposed “Does
pay?” forever
of. But we see that the newspapers have
taken it up again. We have been be¬
tween the plow handles long enough to
answer the question. It don’t pay the
farmers, the merchants, the mechanics.
But it does pay the crop speculators, the
railroads, the bankers and the politicians.
It is making millionaires out of many of
them.
At a recent meeting of the Pasco
county Florida, alliance at San Antonio,
a resolution was adopted asking the
county commissioners to make an appro¬
priation for an exhibit at the World’s
fair. A committee of three was also
alliancemen appointed to of appear the county in behalf before of the the
county commissioners in behalf of the
World’s fair matter. This sentiment
among the alliancemen has been largely
worked up by the constant agitation of
the necessity by the Florida press.
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The Alliance Farmer says: “We are
now getting the true election returns
from the western states, and they are in¬
deed encouraging. The Alliance has
published gained strength in the everywhere. daily The returns lies
whole papers Tho were
made out of cloth. alliance
vote shows an increase in nearly every
county. In South Dakota the alliance
cut down a republican majority of 50,000
to less than 2,000? And yet a partisan
press says the farmers’ movemeit is
dead.”
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NATIONAL OFFICERS.
President—L. L. Polk, North Caro¬
lina. Address, 344 D. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Vice President—B. H. Clover, Cam¬
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer—J. H. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
St., N. W., Washington, D. Kansas. C.
Lecturer—J. H. Willetts,
Executive Board—C. W. Macune.
Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota;
J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
Judiciary—H. C. Demming, Chirman;
Issac McCracken, Ozone, Ark,; A. E,
Colo, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The presidents of all the Stato organi¬
zations with L. L. Polk, Ex-officio Chair¬
man.
THE PARTY.
Under the above heading the Progres¬
sive Farmer says: “It is all right for their men
to be patriotic, take interest in
party, to defend it if it is worthy of it.
•But there is an end to such things. The
farmer who will work himself, makes his
wife and children work to raise a crop of
cotton or tobacco and sell it at prices
that these products are now bringing, or is
who knows what a crisis the country
now passing through, and still not stir
himself to seek a remedy or aid those
who are earnestly striving to effect this
end, is no man at all. Many sit down
and say, “Ohl if you will vote for my
party and work for it all will be well.”
But unless these parties have a plan to
bring relief and reform what can you ex¬
pect? Don’t be satisfied with a party
that has nothing to bring reform. Make
your party what it ought to be, or make
it surrender its charter. ”
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HAVE GOOD ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
The Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.,)
says: If our members will read Alliance
literature, they will find an antidote for
the poison scatiered broadcast by the
partisan press in the way of lies against
our order and its leaders. You may take
the best Christian in Georgia, deprive
him of his Bible, and let him read noth¬
ing but Tom Payne, Voltaire and other
works of infidelity, and you will even¬
tually undermine his faith in the Gospel.
It is the same way with the Alliance. If
our members read papers which stigma¬
tize the order, they will soon be
convinced that the Farmers’ Alliance
movement was conceived by sin and
brought forth in iniquity. Let them take
a counteractant in the form of some good
alliance paper, and read the answers to
these slanders against our organization,
and they will then discover that this bit¬
ter and venomous fight against the alli¬
ance is waged in the interest of the pluto¬
crats, in order to crush the movement of
the laboring people for freedom of and Georgia pros¬
perity ; that the partisan Wall press and used
are but the tools of street,
as an instrument to crush and enslave the
toiling masses.
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MORE MONEY.
The Faulkner county Wheel says: A
farmer takes five bales of cotton to mar¬
ket. He is offered 8cents, which amounts
to $200. He thinks he ought to get 9
cents for it, so he puts it in the govern¬
ment warehouse and borrows $160 for
one year, if he needs it that long, at 1
per cent. He insures it at the rate of J
of 1 per cent, per month and the storage
is 1J cents per month. The $200 the
merchant had to give for the cotton was
already in circulation. The $160 bor¬
rowed of the government was added to
the circulation and increased the circu¬
lation $16C. Some party papers say that
the storing of the cotton and drawing
money of the government contracts the
currency. We make this statement to
show that they are wilfully mr king false
statements to their readers. The storage
of cotton prevents speculators from
manipulating the the mills market. In three
months begin to want
cotton. The farmers demand a
fair price and say we will hold our
cotton for one year and stop your mills
unless we can get 10 cents for middling
cotton. The mills say well that is nearly
as cheap as we ever get it, and they take
the cotton at 10 cents. The farmer gets
$250 for his five bales of cotton. He
pays $1.12^ for storage and $1.50 for in¬
surance and $1.00 for interest, loss in
weight per bale $3.20 fwhat he was of¬
fered). In all $8.02^. Gain $50. Net
gain to the farmer on five bales $41.97J,
or $8.30^ Middling per bale. This is a fair state¬
ment. cotton is cheap at tea
cents. The man that can make money at
less than ten cents per pound by his own
labor does not live. To make a fair
profit for his labor, middling cotton
should be 12£ cents, and when the Peo¬
ple’s Party gets into power, they will see
to it that the laws are so that the pro¬
ducers who feed and support the world
are paid a fair price for their labor.
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THE ELECTION IN KANSAS.
Apropos the of the oft published statement
that Alliance has fallen off in mem¬
bership the past year from 140,000 to
60,000, the Topeka Advance says of the
late elections in Kansas: “We have
made a large actual gain in our vote over
that of last year. In a few counties the
actual vote is less than last year, but fully
equal to it in comparison with the total
vote cast. Taking into consideration the
diminished total vote in those counties, it
will be found that we have retained onr
full per cent, of it and in many instances
more than this. Of course ail apparent
losses are seized with the greatest avidity
by the opposition press wherever they oc¬
cur; and without making any analysis
of the vote, or instituting any compar¬
isons to determine how our per cent, of
loss corresponds with the decreased per
cent, of the total vote, such apparent
loss, insignificant though it may be, is
paraded under flaming head-lines as an
infallible indication of the total disinte¬
gration and utter annihilation of the
People’s party in Kansas. Rational peo¬
ple recognize in all this bluster and crow¬
ing of political roosters the whistle of
cowards approaching a political graveyard
in which their polluted carcasses will
soon be buried in oblivion. Placing the
most conservative estimate upon the re¬
sults of the election, it may be regarded
as absolutely in certain without that, iu this “off
year” politics, any systematic
campaign relying such solely as we conducted last
year, upon the educational
work of the past, and the limited local
campaigns conducted by the several
counties, and in the face of a campaign
against us seldom surpassed have still even fully in held a
presidential in the year, we while
our own aggregate, largely our per in¬
cent, has unquestionably We of the been opinion also
creased. are
that not only our per cent., but our act
tual vote cast will be found larger in the
aggregate than it was last year.
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TIIE PRINCIPLE OP THE SUB-TREASURY
DEFENDED.
Qovenor Sylvester Pennoyer, of Ore¬
gon, contributes an interesting and able
argument in tbe last number of The
North American Review in defense of
the Alliance principle of government
loans to the people. Some of his best
points arc contained in the following ex¬
tracts :
The mutterings of discontent, although
heretofore disregarded, have been uni¬
versal. They could find no expression in
the platform of any existing contemned politicial
party, and therefore have been
as well as unheeded. These m tteiings
have at length found voice in a new
political organization, and their long
pent up expression wili undoubtedly be
the great slogan of the coming presiden¬ the
tial contest. Honce it is of
most vital concern to the
party itself, as well as to tho people
whose interests it would subserve, that
its financial policy should be one that can
be defended upon the grounds of justice,
of public necessity and of business prin¬
lated ciples. the If such stripling a policy can be formu¬ will
young of a party
win to its following the honest hearted
yeomanry of the whole country, and may
achieve a political victory unrivaled iu
this country for more than a half century
past. In the first place, therefore, the
currency which is proposed to be issued
should be based upon a perfectly secure
and imperishable foundation, and should
be a legal tepder for all debts, public
and furnished private. Such a basis can only the be
by the real property personal of
country. To ’any accept secu¬
rity, or ' other security than
the improved real property of the coun¬
try, would be to hazard the Iosd, which
the government, in the interest of the
whole people, poor as well as rich, can¬
not do. There can be no safer security
for a government loan than the real
property of the nation. If the loan is
placed upon such property at one half or
one third of its real value, it is as secure
as the government itself,, and the cur¬
rency based upon such a loan is as good
as a government bond or gold or silver.
The main argument against such a
policy is based upon its supposed answered im¬
practicability. This has been
by stubborn facts.
evolved Tbe by next question of importance
the proposed financial system
is: How shall the money be procured by
the government for making such a loan.
If required it could and would be pro¬
cured as it was in order to carry on the
late war, but the amount to be provided
would to a great extent depend upon the
exact conditions of the fiscal policy to
be establish^!.*
If the loans were made to tho people
upon unimproved real property at a rate
not exceeding 4 per cent., and the cur’
rency for such loans, as well as gold and
silver, was changeable at will into gov¬
ernment treasury notes or bonds bearing
interest not exceeding 3 per cent., the
result would undoubtedly be that the is¬
suance of not nearly so much currency
would be required as would be if no such
provision for funding it was made, inas¬
much as investors in government securi¬
ties would largely furnish the required
amount.
If a policy be adopted of changing the
currency into bonds and the bonds into
currency, at the will of the holder of
either, under the necessary restrictions,
the whole financial business of the coun¬
try could be adjusted to the proposed
system without any greater enlargement
of the volume of the currency of the
country demand. man its actual Such Business policy require¬ would
ments a
place the currency of the nation upon
the safest foundation possible, and would
entirely preclude those extremes of con¬
traction business interests; and expansion for if there so hurtful should to
be
in circulation more money than could be
advantageously used it would seek in¬
vestment in government securities, while,
if there should be an urgent need for
more, the bonds would be changed into
currency. the
The loaning of money would by govern¬ that
ment at 4 per cent, at once fix
rate throughout the country without any
other or further legislation, and the capi¬
tal now employed leeches at ruinous the people, rates thereby of in¬
terest as upon
exhausting the life-blood from all of our
industrial pursuits, would, by the condi¬
tions confronting it, be invested to a
large thereby extent furnishing in government portion of securities, the
a cur¬
rency required, or, if not so invested, it
would terprises be compelled employment. to seek out Thus new the en¬
for its
accumulated wealth of our plethoric
capitalists, now overburdening our na¬
tional industries with its ruinous exac¬
tions, checked in its unlicensed power,
would patiently and ellectively subserve
the common weal.
PRESIDENT POLK
Says That the Third Party Was “Hot
In It*’ at Indianapolis.
President Polk was in Raleigh, N. Indi¬ C-,
Monday for the first time since the
anapolis convention. When asked about
the report of the “splits,” going over to
the third party, etc., he said there was
no truth in the statement. The conven¬
tion was large and enthusiastic, and a
more harmonious meeting was never held
in the United States. He further said:
“The third party was not mentioned \'a
the convention at all, and the body
never gave it a single thought.”
VERY FAVORABLE
Is the Report of Business for the
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout reported
the country during last week ns
to R. G. Dunn & Co. number, for the
United States, 227; Canada, 59; total, week
295; against 285 last week. The the
broken by a holiday, has shown
usual characteristics—weak speculation, whole¬
active retail trade and moderate
sale business. But the great factors
which go to make national ample prosperity supply, are
unaltered. Money is in
with no sign of loss. The industries are
fairly employed with some improvement. and in
Crops are moving with freedom
wonderful quantities, and exports are
remarkably heavy. of
Even the approaching little apprehension, session con¬
gress gives rise to parties will as
it is felt that the opposing
havo to act cautiously in view of the
coming general election. There are signs
that the distribution of products to con¬
sumers is improving.
SOUTHERN TRADE HEALTHY.
Southern cities report better: Savan¬
nah alone reports present trade light, and
money no easier, but prospects bright.
Speculation during the past week has not
been active, but the corner at Chicago
has put up corn for immediate delivery
six points, and pork is 25 cents higher.
Oats 1 1-8 and wheat 5-8 cents per bushel,
while corn and sugar are heavy. Receipts
of cotton exeeed those of the same week
last year by 50,000 bales, and exports by
92,000 bales, but stocks in this country
are 521,000 bales larger. In the great
industries the outlook is improved. iron, and
There is a better demand for
sales of pig are met with astonishing
steadiness in prices, considering the
enormous output. Some Virginia iron is
offered very low, and $16 at Providence
for No. 1 is quoted.
MONEY IS EASY.
Money is comparatively easy, and col¬
lections generally fair. The treasury
has taken in but $500,000 more than it
has disbursed, against an issue of $800,
000 new treasury notes. Exports of
products in four weeks at New York
have exceeded last year by $8,461,482 in
value, indicating an aggregate for the
month probably exceeding $95,000,000,
and at the same time there is a decrease
of 10 per cent in the value of imports.
There is certain to be a very large balance
probable on the merchandise account by
Europe, and much anxiety appears in
some quarters as to how the strain abroad
would be met, but thus far there are no
sjgns of real trouble except in specula¬
tive quarters.
AT ALL HAZARDS
Governor Buchanan Says that the Con*
victs Must be Sent Back.
A Nashville dispatch of Monday states
that in an interview. Governor Buchanan
says that “the convicts shall be returned
to the mines if it takes every able-bodied
man in the state to do it?”
“When will they be returned, gover¬
nor?” he was asked.
“That I don’t know yet.”
“Will you send a military guard with
them?”
“I cannot tell you that. I can simply
say that the convicts shall be returned to
the mines if it takes every able-bodied
man in the state to do it. Is not that
enough ?” the reticent,
Although governor information was gath¬
from other sources was
ered concerning the matter. The lessees
have made a demand upon the state for
the convicts. This demand was answered
promptly that when the convicts had
been captured they would be returned
if supplied with a sufficient guard
and proper quarters. Proper will quarters take
will be built at, once. This
about two weeks. The question of guard
required not a little consideration. It
comes pretty straight that the present in¬
tention is to provide about fifty men each
for Briceville and Coal Creek and 100
men for Oliver Springs. AU of these
will be in the pay of the lessees. Twen¬
ty-five at each place, it is thought, wili
be militiamen deputized to do guard
duty.
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OVER SEVEN THOUSAND
People Were Killed by the Earthquake
in Japan.
A cablegram of Thursday from Van¬
couver, B. G'., states that advices from
Japan, via steamer Empress of China,
gives later news regarding the great
earthquake of October , 28th, Careful
figuring now places the number of dead
at 7,560, and the injured at 10,120, with
87,630 houses wholly, and 28.625 partly,
destroyed. Over 440,000 people have
been rendered homeless and destitute.
Many curious freaks of the earthquake
have been noticed. In one place a fissure
swallowed up four persons, who have re¬
mained visible, but whose rescue has
proved the weather to be remains impossible. mild. Fortunately, Rain cold
or
weather would cause terrible distress.
Dynamite Factory Demolished.
A dispatch from Nyack, N. Y., says:
Tbe dynamite factory at Haverstraw was
blown up Wednesday afternoon. The
shock was felt for many miles. The en¬
gineer and three workmen employed in
the building were blown to pieces, and
another man who was in a boat on the
river some distance from the wrecked
building, was also instantly killed.
KNEW HIS BUSINESS.
Mr. Lamun—Why do you always
question patients so closely about what
they eat? Does the information you get
help Doctor you to diagnose their cases ?
Einde—Oh, no ! But by so
doing I am enabled to guess what their
station in life is, and how much fees I
can probably get out of them.—[Puck.
The Modus Operand!.
Wife—“My dear, I left my thimble in
the pocket of my new dress, and I wish
you’d run up stairs and-”
Husbsnd—“Now, see here, I’m not
going on off on any such job ai that.”
How foolish you are 1 Nothing is eas¬
ier than finding the pocket in a dress.
All you havo to do is to slip it on.”
“Blip what on?”
The dress, of course. But you needn’t
try to button it, you know.”
“Oh, I needn’t 1”
“No; slipping it on is enough."
“Well, then what?”
“Use common sense of course. All
\ou have to do after the drc9s is on is to
dive down crossways and a little slanting
nud up and around, just a9 you see ladies
do in the street car when the conductor
comes along, and your hand will go
straight into the pocket.”—New York
Weekly.
A Change for Sunday.
Minister—“Were you sick last Sunday?
I did not see you at church.”
Deacon Holdfast—“Naw, I wa’n’t
sick. I hadn’t no change to put in the
contribution box, an’ I jest says I to my¬
self, says I, ‘The Lord don’t wan’t no
empty worship,’ says I. “He wants
good deeds; and as I forgot to prepare
myself for doin’ those good deeds when
the contribution-box come around, I
might stay to hum,’ says I. Fer a pillar
of the church like me to be seen lettin’
the plate pass would do more harm than
good. Guess I was right, to.”
Minister—“Maybe you were. So you
found yourself last Sunday entirely with¬
out change, eh?”
Deacon Holdfast—“Yes, sir. I hadn’t
nuthiu’ less than a quarter.”—New York
Weekly.
The Philanthropic Shoe-Man.
Irate Customer—“Those shoes I bought
for my boy last week are half worn out
already, and I found a thick piece of
pasteboard in the soles. What have you
to say to that?”
Dealer—“My dear sir, the pasteboard touching
is put in to keep the feet from
the ground when the leather wears out.
You wouldn’t want your little boy to
catch cold and die of consumption, Good
would you?”— Street & Smith’s
News.
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