The Alliance Bulletin from Harper, Kansas • 1

i i if NO MORE CLASS LEGISLATION, BUT EQUAL EIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. VOL. 2. HARPER, HARPER COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1891 NO. 2 ufafiL A KNOCK-KNEED ATTACK.

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. They Changed The Tone. THE ALLIANCE. 1 Tho National Reformer: Since Mr. PldVeland has announced himself as otpogd to the free coinage of silver, jgffld thus placed himself, with Harri-60n, oil the side of Wall street, would ii not be a good plan for the money power to make their ticket read Ilarri- 80u and Cleveland, for 1892? t-' Labor's Tribune: The agitation and $ie education accomplished by the Alliance, is the seed that will spring up into huge plants and save our nation from ruin, if it can be saved at all.

iever was there a more noble set of workers than the Alliance furnishes, taking the average. Now and then the g. o. p's. try to injure us, but we soon catch on.

ALLIANCE NOTES. The reform movement is boiling all over Ohio. Ths people's party are actively at work in Nebraska. Iowa is holding some big alliance picnics just now. Ottr government now is a ring within a ring, for and by the rings.

Gen. Weaver and Jerry Simpson spoke six times each in Georgia. Michigan is preparing for a number ot alliance picnics on the Kansas plan The iron workers of Chicago have won in their fight for the eight hour day. The paper box manufacturers have formed a combine with a capital of THE ALLIANCE DEFIED. MONTGOMERY, August 7.

Con-pressman 0tes, who represents the Third Alabama district, has thrown down the gauntlet to the Alliance. The Alliances of Bullock and iiussell counties recently passed resolutions calling on Oates to resign his seat in congress. la bis reply made public yesterday. Col. Oates says: "I am responsible for my official conduct to the Denicrats of my district, not to tho Alliance of Bullock or auy other county.

I resect and will heed the voice of tha people who elected me, and the howling of a den or two of wolves can't frighten tne out of it. You claim still to be Democrats, notwithstanding your advocacy of the most centraliziug, paternal and socialistic measures ever proposed in this country, the principles of which the Democratic party has always opposed. I tefuso to swallow this sub-treasury, land-loan medicine ns the panacea for all the cramps, pains, aches and gripes that afflict the body lolitic I have no faith in this nostrum. It was invented.compoHnded and prepared CRUSHED BY THE CARS. SEXECA, August 7.

While A. Burnett and family were out riding thin evening Ins carrine was run into )y tlie Grand Island pns.seuger traiu, coining west. And Mr. Burnrtt and his granddaughter. Frances Fuller, wre instantly killed.

There were four others in the at thel-ime. but nuuo of the others were seriously hurt. Leavf.XWOKTH, Ansust 7. A frightful acc dent occurred on tho Santa Fe railroad about a mile north of this city I his evening, whereby two. perhaps three, lives were lost.

George Lansd.ile, wealthy Salt Creek farmer, iuto the city today with bis wife, his wife's cousin. Miss Sue Power, and a tienhew of Miss Powers, a loy 9 years of iige. About 7 o'clock this evening they started for Creek. About a mile north of the cit v. near the Ft Leavenworth reservation, the roaa crosses the railro track in a alr-p cut.

Not only the railroad trxck, but tho wagon road, is in the cut at this point. As the carriage approached the raiload track. Mr. Iansdale heard the bell of the I ii'y 8 ih locomotive, but did not realize that there was danger and drove on Just ns he diov upon the track a noith-liouud trtiii rubeU upon them, killing Mrs. instantly, crushing A.iss Powers head to a jelly, fracturing the boy's bkull and injuring Mr.

LatiMbile's shoulder slightly. The horses were killed and the utterly demolished. Miks Powers, thuutilt felill alive, cannot live many hours. the aud the boy are residents of Ellsworth. and came here four days ago to visit friends The train which did the mischief is a mixed accommodation, and should have left the station at bin.

for sotiid reason, was three hours leu in i it Ica late. COLLIDING TRAINS. ST. Locis, August 7. This morning the vestibule raiii, east bound, which hauls the New York and Boston sleeper, struck a freight traiu at Homer, b.idly damaging the passenger train's engine find tUe mail and express cars, aud also wrecking four cars of grain.

No passengers were injured, but the following trainmen were hurl: Kngineer Clark, serimisly bcaided aud bruised; Firemau Ojel, severely bruised; A. J. Mourning, mail clerk, seriously hurt, and Iewis Gerke, mail clerk and express messenger, slightly injured. A tramp who was stealing a rido was killed. PlTTSBCRC.

August 7. Tho New York and Chicago limited express on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, due here at 7 o'clock this morning, was wrecked near Est Palestine, O. Kn-gineer Carney and Fireman Kichey were instantly killed, but. as far as known.no passengers were hurt. The express ran into au open switch a nil crashed into a freight tram standing on the siding.

The engine was completely wrecked, the com bination car turned over anil the nrst sleeper thrown from the track. Five cars were de molished. After the accident au unknown man was kiiied white working about the wreck. Svraccse. Auaust 7.

Another body has been found in the ruins of the West bhore wreck. Ibis makes the num ber of deaths thirteen. EMPEROR WILLIAM. LONDON'. August 7.

Notwithstanding the reports that the injury sustained by emperor liitam, when he supped and tell upon the wet deck of the imperial yacht, was slight and that he was able to walk with his leg bandaged, it has beeu decided that he will remain at Kiel where he now is for two weeks, so that his injury may be attended to. This will prevent hiui from attending the review of the guards, but it is his majesty's intention to attend the maneuvers of ivariau and Austrian troops, whic't will le held later iu the seas oik RAINFALL EXPERIMENTS. Foet WoiiTH. August 7. On tlio west-bound Texas aud 1'acilic train this morning was a party of gentlemen, composed of Gen.

Dyrenforth. general director of the work; Prof. Meyers and C. W. Cnsler, balloonist; Dr.

Kosell. chemist; Paul A. Draper, electrician, and Georgs V. Curtis, meteorologist. These men are in charge of the experiments which the government is about to make as to the practicability of producing rain by the liring of explosives iu the upjier strata of tne air.

lie experiments will be ijiads at Mid laud Tex. THE CHESS CONGRESS. Lexington, August 7. At the chess congress lor the championship ot the United Slates. Pollock, by defeating Fick.

completed his score, which stnud-i five won and one lost. Showalter alone can tie Ih Pollock, if the former defeats Hanham. Showalter has four wins and one lost. Mcdemnnu's completed score is two and a half won to on and a half lost. If Showalter ties with Pol lock, they will probably play off for the title of champion.

bhowalter finally tied Pollock, and in playing off the tie won. thus winning the Championship of the United States Chess associati Jor t'e third time in succession. THE OMAHA STRIKE. OMAHA. August 7.

There Is nrac- tically no change iu the strike situation in any of he trades. At a meeting of the smelter employes a threat was made that unless the company came to terms soon, there would be trouble iu tha Denver branch of the institution. 1890. The Purchasing Power of and Now. 31 oner Then Sir: With your permission, I desire to consider with your readers the purchasing power of money say $100 for convenience in 1870, when we had about $40 circulating money for each Individual of our population-r-then about 40,000.000 in number and the value of purchasing power of $100 in 1891.

with about $4.40 for each individual in the union now numbering over 60,000,000, writes a cor. of the Geneva Record. Remembering that the wants and demands of this large increase of population naturally calls for an increase of money pro rata, we may argue safely from the figures and this natural demand, and arrive at a just conclusion, and answer the question, Which is best much or little money? That the proposition may be clear, and its demonstration true, we will suppose that a Geneva county farmer came to town in 1870, and having sold his cotton at 30 cents per pound, found that he had $100 to expend. He buys 1 bbl flour. $12; 30 lbs coffee, 10U lbs bacon.

$18; 25 lbs lard, 1 pair shoes, 1 pair shoos for wife, suit of clothes, $25; 2 calico dresses (20 yards) 30 yards homespun, 3 plow hoes, 1 stock, 2 weeding hoes, 1 pocket knife, 5 lbs tobacco, 1 set plates, 1 set cups and saucers, $1.40. This takes his $100; and supposing that his cotton weighed 500 pounds, he goes home with $50 surplus. In 1891 he returns, sells a bale of cotton weighing 500 pounds at 7 cents, netting $35. Meanwhile the money circulating has been reduced from $40 per each individual to $4.40, and he finds that the shrinkage in values for what he needs to buy has not fallen off in just proportion. For his flour he must pay bacon, coffee lard, 2 pair shoes, suit clothes, $15; 2 dresses, homespun, plows, pocket knife, tobacco, plates, 75c; cups and saucers, 75c.

Upon summing up he finds that he is just $13.50 short of money enough to pay for the same goods bought in 1870, which, added to the $50 surplus carri'. home that year, shows a loss of purchasing power of money then and now of $63.50, or nearly 100 per cent. Or, to be plainer, the difference between prices then and now would have enabled the farmer to have doubled his purchases. Of course this is an extreme case a case where cotton was exceptionally high, due to some extent to the short crop about 4.500,000 bales, but was more largely due to the abundance of greenbacks, which at that period were in the zenith of their popularity and good results. The records of congress show that from 1867 to 1877, continuous war was waged by bankers, corporations, syndicates and by foreign capitalists against a monetary system which gave liberty and profit to the laborer, until by a succession of crimes against the people and greenbacks (Lincoln's exceptional clause, the redemption and funding bill, and a half dozen infamous schemes for making gold paramount).

the circulating medium has dropped to $4.40 per capita, trade is restricted. progress, enterprise, and ability to consume are handicapped, while pro stimulated, that much may be made to meet the redemption in value of our chief product. By a little examination of the history of our financial system, it will be found that commercial success, and the success of the farmer, have been measured as much or more during the past twenty j-ears by the amount of money in circulation than by excess of production, which will be claimed by those who may not have considered the matter from the records and the facts. From a study of these elements of knowledge, any one not willfully blind to truth must arise satisfied that had the financial policy of the government been to the improvement of the 'greenback system ignoring national banks and the clamor of Interested capitalists and shrewd speculators much of that public distress and private suffering which now hang 60 threateningly over the land, so abundant in fertility, so blessed In resources, would not be found paralyzing industry, crippling endeavor and blighting the erstwhile prosperous and happy homes of the people. A Gentle Reminder.

The Economist would respectfully call the attention of President Harrison to the following paragraph from the inaugural of William Henry Harrison, his grandfather, fifty years ago. After calling attention to the fact that congress had been intrusted with the power to originate appropriations, the address continues: Connected with this subject is the character of the currency. The idea of making it exclusively metallic, however well intended, appears to me to be fraught with more fatal conse-qtRsnces than any other scheme, having no relation to the personal rights of tht citizen, that has ever been devised. If "any single scneme could produce the effect of arresting, at once, that mutation of condition by which thousands of our most indigent fellow-citizens, by their industry and enterprise, are raised to the possession of wealth, that is one. If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true Republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards, and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency.

Or if there is a process by which the character of the country for generosity and nobleness of feeling may be destroyed by the great increase and necessary toleration of usury, it is an exclusive metallic currency. "Why Is It. What right has Mr. Foster to extend those bonds at 2 per cent? Why does every secretary run up to New York and consult the Wall street bankers in the United States treasury? Does the monev in the treasnrv helnnir to p-ct tho Ti th What rights do the great mass of the people of the United States have anv- i way? Do the people belong to tke officers, or the officers to the people? Just think? Alliance Farmer. 1870- As long aa the alliance was willing I to stay in the Dack ground and talk about farming it was called all kinds of pet names by the political bosses, but when it began to investigate economic subjects, tbenit became one of the vilest organizations on earth in the eyes of these wise men and no manner of abuse was too bad for them to use.

The trouble was that that their record was so bad that if the Alliance decided to investigate it they new they would be thrown out of a job. The Virginia State Alliance will be held at Richmond on August the lot?" The Washington County Alliance of Ark. has resolved in favor of the People's party. The coffee crop is double as large as it was last year, yet we will hear of a short crop and higher prices, The trust does this. The Citizens Alliance organizers have attacked California and are going to make a vigorous campaign of organizing in that state.

Talk about the alliance dividing upon the sub-treasury plan. It's all bosh and every attempt to divide it will meet with failure as the Texas meeting did. If pluck and energy will win, the alliance will succeed. Sucli earnest political work in an off year was never seen as the lecturers of this organiza tion are doing. Leavenworth times.

Only a little while ago and wheat was $1 per bushel. Now it is worth 65cts. Why this great fluctuation? Will some of the partisan papers, who claim that demand and supply regu lates the market, please explain this. We do not often realize the greatness of the wealth of some of our people, for instance, if Adanicould have lived up to the present time and have re ceived a salary all that time of $2,000 per month he would yet lacK over fifty million dollars of having as much as John D. Rockefeller has made of the American people in the last twenty years.

Such an amount is almost past comprehension. There is where our money goes. TnE Topeka Capital is just nov un dertaking to prove two things to the people of Kansas that times are good and no mortgages to any great extent exist in the state, and that money has an intrinsic value. The job will prove about as difficult in one case as in the other. In its piesent shattered condi tion that paper should have judgment enough to undertake something easy.

Rational Economist. The Bush school house alliance of Georgia held a meeting recently with 40 members piesent. The question was asked how many were in favor of a third party and every member arose to their feet, and yet we are told that the alliance intends to destroy the republi can party and place the democrats in power. That's not the trouble, the political bosses are afraid that the people will be able to control legislation and that would put an end to their rule of ruin. Ox account of some wheat being damaged in the flooded districts of Kansas, the grain buyers and speculators are grading the entire crop of the state low.

The central and western portion furnishes the bulk of the crop this year and throughout this entire section the crop is No. 1 in all respects. Only a very small per cent in the state was damaged and that very slightly. This discrimination is a great wrong and should at once cease. An earnest pro test should go up from the farmers against such methods.

There were some wise politicians in the last congress foreseeing the wise provisions of the sub-tresury plan would appeal strongly to the good sense af the people, they concluded to steal some alliance thunder and so they adopted some of its provisions in the aew silver law. The mine owner is allowed to deposit his silver bullion, the government provides a warehouse for it, charges no storage and issues certificates of deposite, called silver certificates, to the depositor. And yet the same fellows who uphold this plan are fighting the sub-treasury plan. The post office building at Kansas City, is used for warehouse pur poses particularly for the storage of whisky. Act of congress approved April 29, 1S78, chapter 67, page 39, vol ume 20.

U. S. Statutes at large, and section 2962, Revised Statutes. The act referred to provided for the purchase of suitable grounds on which to erect a building to be used as a post- office, custom house, bonded warehouse and office of internal revenue collector. Section 2962 of the Revised Statutes as follows: "Any merchandise subject to duty, except perishable articles, also gunpowder and other ex plosive substances except firecrackers, which shall have been duly entered and bonded for warehousing, in conformity with existing laws, may be deposited, at the option of the owner, importer, consignee or agent at his expense and risk, in any public warehouse owned or leased by the United States, or the private warehouse of the importer, the same being used ex clusively for storage of warehoused merchandise of his own importation or to his consignment, or in a private warehouse used by the owner, occu pant, or leased as a general warehouse used by the owner, occupant, or leased as a general warehouse for the storage of warehouses merchandise: such place of storage to be designated on the ware such merchandise at the cntom house.

The above citations com tit te the au thority by which the government at this present time purchases land. builds waiehouses and receives deposit for storage. Grand View (Tex.) Senti- nil. of all An Eastern Paper Thought It Had Foand a Weak Spot. The following discovery and suggestions are taken from the Philadelphia Record, which proves conclusively that the methods of tho Alliance are bearing fruit: "Some cf the Farmers Alliance advo cates in the West foolishly and fanatically insist that no utterance in print or in speech ehall be tolerated unless in favor of the "principles" of their organization.

The farmers are to hear only what is said in their meetings, and read only what the Alliance newspaper press may deem suitable to their palates. All the rest is evil and leads to doubt and error. This is very much in the spirit of the sultan who captured Alexandria and burned its great library. He said that the books in the library that agreed with Koran were superfluous, while those which disagreed with it were dangerous, and therefore all should be destroyed. Possibly the Farmers Alliance leaders fear that too much daylight may be let in upon their hairbrained schemes of government warehouses for corn and cotton, and of government issues of irredeemable paper upon land mortgages.

Hence their anxiety to supress freedom of thought and opinion." The Alliance does not prohibit its members from reading what they please or speaking their minds fully and freely. But it doe3 insist that its members should support Alliance newspapers in preference to others, and read Alliance literature carefully and studiously, that they may be prepared to defend its principles against such unfair and untruthful assaults as the Record and other papers of the two old parties may at any time make. The idea is good, and no matter if the partisan press may not like it, that fact will be a matter of total indifference on the part of the Alliance. The time has passed when, under the false plea that "both sides should be heard," Alliance papers will devote space to propagate the cause of their enemies. The periods of childhood and timidity have also passed with the Alliance, and the time for manly independence upon all matters of principle and a determination to use all legitimate means to accomplish such purposes has come.

No doubt the partisan press and -politicians will vigorously contest this rising force, but it will be of no avail. It is here and has come to stay. Let this be remembered. National Economist. MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD.

With Gold Going and Immigration Degrading the Standard. One thing not generally considered about tho vast immigration of degraded foreigners is, that in spite of all our efforts to the contrary it reduces with the best of us the sense of the brotherhood of man. No matter how strong a man's feeling of fraternity it weakens as he gazes upon a crowd of low Chinese, negroes, Huns, Italians or Polish or Russian Jews. He instinctively draws back from the idea of continuing to 'lay down his life" for such brethren as these. It is only by keeping up the general tone of our population that we can make America a permanent home of the free and brave.

If we are to be swamped by all the offscouring of the earth we shall simply fall to their level. But the most frightful effect of this increasing flood as yet is upon the rich and powerful. The average of them find their highest delight in contrasting their condition with tlfat of their inferiors. The sight of a degraded fellow being, instead of exciting pity and compassion in them, fills them with fiendish joy at the thought of the vast distance between them and this forlorn creature. Such delight to see hordes of barbarians pushing into this country, making labor cheap and degrading the native laborers.

They feel as southern slaveholders did about the black man, that they were not this in the jailor sense. 'The idea, says a Pennsylvania mine-owner gazing upon a crowd of Huns "of my regarding these people as brethren. I have no duty but to get what I. can out of them." We were told of old of a time when a man should be "more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." Such a time can never come in this country as things 1 go. Gold is becoming continually more precious under the manipulation of the gold bugs; and man more degraded by this incoming flood of foreign miserables.

Stop it for the world's sake! The Sentinel. Where Paternalism Flourishes. In these days when paternalism is so much discussed it is interesting to note just one act of absolute paternalism that these true blue Democratic congressmen have been indulging for many years without ever uttering a word of protest. It is supplying the people with garden seeds, free, as a gift of the government. Not one of them has ever failed to employ this instrumentality with which to elec tioneer with the people; but that paternalism was for their individual benefit and did not violate the great principle, because of that fact.

There is not a single principle embodied in the Ocala demands, but has a precedent in the action of congress to sustain and justify, and nearly all have also the endorsement of the supreme court of the United States that what has been enacted into law, in consonance with that principle, is constitutional. Alliance Herald. The Real Enemies of the People. The real moulders of party policy are men who neither ask nor desire office. Their interest in politics is pecuniary and sometimes quite large.

They would no more run for office than would the millionaire turfman consent to mount his own entry for the Derby or the organizs of a baseball league pitch in a game. And as the ttufman may be largely winner though his' horse be beaten, or the league manager reap large reward whatever club carry the pennant," so may the machine manager be the gainer by failure to succeed on the part of the party he "apparently champions. The caucus is the inner circle, and the average party man has no means of learning what its decisions are or that its aim is not to defeat the party it pretends to serve. It la Coming as It Came Before In the Tear 1840. Indeed, the year of jubilee is at hand.

The Hebrews held their year of jubilee every fifty years, but in this case it seems to be fifty-two years from 1840 to 1892. In 1840, the farmers and other producers held a session ol jubilee, as a protest against the wirepulling and extravagance of the Van Buren administration, and the result was. Van was laid on the shelf, while farmer Harrison, from Tippecanoe, was triumphantly elected. And now, again, in 1892, the signs are rotten ripe for a repetition of those stirring times, when log cabins arose like mushrooms in the night, and hard cider flowed like water. In 1810, the great issue was between the common people and the extravagance, wire-pulling, bossism and general corruption of those in power.

In 1892, there is, addea to all these, the most gigantic system of paternalized corporate oppression upon the common people, any nation ever witnessed. Indeed, all signs point to more than a repetition of the campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." Then a real farmer lead the hosts of freemen to victory, so now a real farmer with hayseed in his hair must be called from the plow, like Washington and Putman in the American revolution, and Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer, to hold aloft the banner of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." The women, in their constant attendance upon the meetings of the Alliance throughout the length and the breadth of the land, are becoming well informed and well drilled to take their places in the ranks of this great army of veteran toilers who. like the Athenian hosts under Miltiades on the plains of Marathon, will drive the corporate combines of Persian plutocracy from the shores of Columbia's soil. Among the records of history are found great seiges and contests, like the seige at the gates of Thermopylae, the battles of Hastings and Waterloo fought either in defense of country or in the interest of conquest yet, when considered in the light of the enormity of the conditions to be removed, and in the far reaching benefits that will accrue r.o the living and to posterity to this great contest of ballots in 1892, if successful, will eclipse the grandest victories found within the cycles of antiquity. And.

now, what can be said to arouse the enslaved of America from their despondent indifference to the impending woes that await them? We shrink with horror from the cruel edict of a Pharoah to kill aH male infants lest the Israelites should overrun his kingdom? Was that more cruel than that the infants of to-day should be doomed, in their youth, to a life of servitude. in which their tender bodies are to De worn out to enrich the office of manufacturing barons? As Moses raised up the brazen serpent in the wilderness, that all who were bitten by poisonous reptiles might look to it and be saved, so men brave and true, raise up the demands of the oppressed everywhere, that all may look to them as a sure avenue of escape from plutocracy's evils. Maria Theresa. Empress of Bohemia and Hungary, after being banished from the capital of Vienna, fled to her Hungarian subjects, and holding up her infant son before them, said: 'Abandoned by my friends, persecuted by my enemies, attacked by my nearest relations, and having no other resource than in your fidelity, in your courage and my own constancy, I commit to your care the son of your king who has no other safety than your protection." With one voico they exclaimed: "We will die for our Queeu." American freemen, the infants of our land, born and unborn, who must inherit the evils you complain of unless they are removed, are committed to your care. AVill you act inthis crisis? Will you put on the armor now? May God help.

E. IL Belden in National Economist. Be Alliaiicemeu or Quit. There are a few men in cur state, perhaps one or two in each county, and sometimes more, who have never been in sympathy with the Alliance and have never considered it other than a kind of agricultural society, who although some of them are taking advantage of the organization to light into petty, offices; they are always whining that we should not get Into politics. These men have never been in harmony with the reform movement which we had, but are in the way of everything like progress in the order, and.

whenever an effort is made to take a positive stand upon the Alliance platform, they will immediately cry out that we will interfere with the Democratic party. To this we say either be an Allianceman or get out of the way. You are not only a reproach to the organization, but you are in the way of this movement, which is destined to reform this country, from the power of money to oppress. The Alliance must be a unit, and the man who will not go witfi the majority of his Alliance brethren, and having opposed a movement in the sub-Alliance, and will not abide by its decision, is unworthy of the name of Allianceman, and should be put out of the ranks. There are sub-Alliances in Georgia, who are not afraid to turn such renegades out of their ranks, and in many cases these men have a number of friends who will not follow them in anything, but who like them too well to turn them out of the order.

Whenever this is the case, and it becomes known to the country Alliance, the lodge should be suspended by the county Alliance until it purifies its ranks. can better afford to fight a thousand on the outside of. the order, than one on the inside; and yet these emmissaries are the people's enemies, and are in our ranks, the brethren are afraid to turn them out because they hate to offend a few good people. We believe that the Alliance is the only hope for this country, and this hope should not be crushed in any such way. Purify your- ranks; have either Alli-ancemen or none.

Southern Alliance Farmer. The Thedford, Tribune: The people are no longer interested in party for party success or party they are more directly interested in that party, without regard to its name, that is advocating measures that are favorable to their own material interests. if? Ill 1 i I- f. 1 I I is lor ne stoniacn uy a noreti quaes doctor. For thus refusing and warning my peopla of its promiscuousness I am denounced as a disorgauizer who is seeking the disruption of lie Democrat ic part r.

For my efforts to keep out of this maelstrom, 1 am threatened by your chief bot and your trumpeter with dismissal and ostracism from the Democratic party. The threat is iraiotent and simply vaporing. I have always known and duly appreciated my relation to the people as their representative and have never for a moment ceased to feel a deep sense of obligation for the honors, trust mid confidence they have so often conferred upon me. On the other baud, I have not been self-seeking, truculent or cowardly enough to hold my breath every time I heard a stick crack, or, like a moon-eyed horse, to dodge at every black stump. I saw a mm once, when a bullet sung through he air twenty feet above him, dip his bead so violently that skinned his nose upon a stake, 'That want of moral courage which causes liieu to abandon honest convictions and to straddle every policy enpposed to be popular to try to ride into office, or to I Hi with the grratest crowd, is the most lamentable feature iu the politics of our country.

Iu he northern slate Alliance men fight 1ml old parties. They know-that they are not iu accord with either, nor are you in accord ith Democracy in the south. You would have declared your independence long since, but you are con-frouunt with the race quest iou. which yon know would blast your prospects if your purpose was known, uniil more beat is generated. It would be much more manly to come out lioldly for the third party, like the Hon.

Sockless Simpson. The Geneva county Alliance and the little editor of tho little Geneva Itecord Iihvo done nothing more than to tight behind a masked battery aud under the cover ot false pretenses, ns many of your men are doing. I believe in a fair fight, never want to mistake a friend for au eucmv, aud vice versa. Come out from your hiding places, gentlemen. ana show your colors, it we can agree and act together ns brethren let us draw the line like gentlemen who have the courage of their convections aud fight it out to a finish.

Let the regulars aud the stalwarts rally to the old leniocratic flag; the mugwumps, half-breeds aud camp followers will go where they fee the least danger aud find the most plunder." It is likely that Congressman Oates has drawn the line of battle for the coming campaign in Alabama. QUADRUPLE LYNCHING. Birmingham, August 7 Tho news of a quadruple lyching, from Honey county, near Crosby, last Friday, has leeii received here. The residence of W. 1.

Davis, a prominent farmer, was burned and the family narrowlr escaped with their lives. On Sunday Ella Williams (colored) wa arrested aud confessed to having sal urn ted the house with oil and set fire to it, out of revenge. In her confession she implicated lizzie Lowe, Willis Lowe and Dili Williams. Yesterday tho sheriff started from Crosbv to Abnevillo jail with the prisoners. List night was overpuwered by a mob and the prisoners taken from him aud shot to death.

Tne bodies were thrown Into the river. The finding of two of the bodies today revealed the story. A JOINT FIGHT. Leavenworth, August 7. A tough named Jim Green went into a joint on Seventh street this evening and called lor the drinks.

After drinking he refused to pay and got a fight witii the barkeeper, Jihj Pahn. A friend of Green's named Charley Green (no relative to Jim) interferd to help the other Green, when Fahn ixcd a cheese knife and gave Charley trieen an ugly gash in be left side, just, Ih low I lie ills. Green will ro-cover. 1'ah it is in jail. THE BARCELONA OUTBREAK.

Maiiciu. August 7 As a result of the attack uti the sent lies at the barracks at Barcelona, by a baud of armed men heavy operator in government securities lias beeu arrested on the charge of being a party to the conspiracy. The police, upon searching prisoner, found in bis pos session letters which prove beyoud doubt that he was concerned in the attack, and that the affair was not a revolutionary inoveiueut, but simply a novel and most desperate scheme to originate startling rumors and thus allow the operators concerned to "bear" tho market. SEBASTIAN, 11. 1- Gsnl Tlckst i Ax Pacific Union Alliance: To break the yoke of the railroad and let the oppressed go free is the great mission of the Farmers Alliance.

It proposes to move at once upon the enemy's works, and it will win. The moment the attention of the people is diverted from the dead and buried issues of a generation ago and centered upon the vital questions of the day, victory will coma like an electric flash. Dublin, Progress: The leading newspapers throughout the state, as well as a multitude of similar lights, are just now discussing the third party movement in chorus. As to what effect this third party lately organized will have on national politics, we are unable to surmise, but the cause which gave rise to its organization will be fresh in the minds of the laboring people of this country until the reforms for which they have so long been praying are obtained. Alliance Farmer: The enemies of the Farmers Alliance claim that it is a political annex, the Republicans claim it to belong to the Democrats, and the Democrats that it belongs to the Republicans, yet they both combine to overthrow it.

Strange inconsistency; If the Alliance, as the Republicans north claim, was organized to secure the ascendency of the Democrats, why ehould the Democrats help the Republicans to defeat it, or when the Alliance appears to be getting too strong in a Republican place that the Democrats have never failed to come to the rescue of the Republicans? Then why all this twaddle about the Alliance being an annex when the fact is so plain that it is nothing of the kind? i Southern Mercury: Loyal Alliance men everywhere have reason to feel encouraged, especially in Texas. The order is gaining in numbers rapidly, and it is for the first time in its existence practically a unit upon the demands of the National Alliance. The membership in every nook and corner of the state are wide awake, and in many localities men unknown upon the stump or forum are challenging- the enemies of our order to debate the points at issue. Ere the kalends fl January, 1892, nearly every county will be able to furnish a competent exponent of our principles, who will fce able to meet the average political bumtner on the hustings successfully. The Mercury office is flooded with letters asking for books, pamphlets, circulars, on political economy, discussion of the issues of the day.

j(Ve have been unable to supply the demand, but we are arranging so that at an early day we may meet the demand for any economic publication. i People's Advocate: Three million farmers in the United States pay to corporations and private parties a rate of interest for the money they use, ranging from 6 to 20 per cent, and when they ask for a government loan at 2 per cent, the little street corner politicians howl, class legislation. Do these same little political demagogues ver realize that every separate enactment that graces our statute books is class legislation? If an appropriation ii made for the improvement of the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, it is class legislation. The loaning of money to the banks at 1 per cent is class legislation. So the old familiar howl of class legislation will in no way answer the demands of the Farmers Alliance.

Three million people are asking for relief from the tyrannical power of money. They are not only asking but demanding relief and no power under the sun of heaven can check the onward march of this great industrial army until labor receives therecog-nitl6n it justly deserves. The Labette County, Statesman: About this time of year the farmer and his boys climb out of bed at o'clock in the morning and work until 8 o'clock at night. The old party bos3, the tool the men who gamble on the product of the farmer, dozes until 8 in the morning, then arises and puts on" his moraing gown, has his coffee brought to him, sips it at his leisure, then lolls back in his chair, closes his eyes to think a moment, and then takes out his pencil to write an editorial in the Republican press, beginning, "If the Alliance doesn't keep out of politics it will drive capital out of the state. The farmers should work harder and practice economy." All farm organ-izatidns have been listening to and fallowing this advice for twenty years, apd things have gone worse with them all the time.

Men are now working for about half what they received twenty years ago. Is it not high time to discard all advice from the authors of our calamity? (food Times rot- Oar Masters. The Kansas City Star says editorially that there are "good times ahead." It don't just know how far ahead, but it's surely ahead. The Star admits that a "season of sweating" must intervene between the harvesting of the crops and the good times that are coming. The sweating process will last 6everal months, it thinks; at least "until the flow of gold is turned back this way from Europe." Just who is to come in for a share in the good times the Star does not state, but surely it 13 not the farmer, for by the time the sweating" process is through with End the 'flow of gold" sets in the Crops will be out of his hands and resting securely in the hands of the big dealers and gamblers awaiting the loosening of the Wall street purse strings that shall send the price up to the desired notch.

The Mankato 250.000. The Farmers' alliance in California has 20,000 members and is having a vig orous growth. Did you think Ohio was not organ ized? The alliance in Stark county has 3,000 members. bee call of the people party con vention of Montgomery county in an other column. Lorillard's tobacco factory at Jer sey City is closed and 4,000 laborers are out of employment.

The Detroit trade unions are after the aldermen who voted against the eight hour ordinance. The Montgomery County Farmers Alliance will meet hereafteron'the last Saturday of each month. Prom all the county meetings so far beard from none have refused to en dorse the Ocala platform. TnE elevated railroads of New York city which cost $17,000,000 are stocked and bonded for $60,000,000. If ere comes another; the Fullerton Neb.

Post (Dem.) has come out a ful! pledged people's party paper. The present conditions is but gam blmg with human beings as counters and human happiness at stake. Over 100 People's party speakers will take the stump in Ohio after Aug ust 1st. Then look out lor fun! Another syndicate has in vaded Alabama, buying up lands and iron works. It has a capital of 000.

The Alliance is a philosophy, the people's party is a device to forward or put into practice the alliance philoso phy. AN alliance convention and picnic was to be held cn the 29th by Warren county, O. They intended to ruu it on the Kansas plan. TnE wonderful growth of the alli ance movement can be partially attributed to the fact that women are ad mitted equally with men. TnE wealth of the country i3 over 70 billion of dollars, and thirty thousand men own nearly two thirds of it.

We are all free and equal, eh? The people's party of the state of Washington has been organized. The platform endorses the eight hour system and the sub-treasury plan. The Knights of Labor and the alliance held a grand meeting at Adrian, a few days ago. The speakers were enthusiastically cheered. TnE real cause of the low price of wheat is found in the fact that we are caught now in the London and Wall street financiaHemon squeezer.

Talk about gold being an honest dollar. It is a fraud. An honest dollar would not run off to Europe when it is needed so badly at home. TnE alliance -men in Ohio say it is their ambition to emulate Kansas, and they intend to Ingalls-ize John Sherman. It would be a public blessing.

It. is said tha. a lot of New YorkV "abl financiers" have raised a purse of several million dollars to fight tin alliance with. Who gets these dollars" During the strike in the Pennsylva ma coal regions, ten men were killed aud thirty wounded, ami one thousond families evicted. All this was in Anier ica, too! The colored alliance tne south is waking up.

Its national president. M. Humphrey has nvule appointments for thi ty meetings, distributed in nim different states. Judge McKay, whom the politicians' say don't know anything about law is making some of the great moguls a big lot of trouble and he isn't getting left very bad either. J.

he governor oi one oi tne li'issiau provinces has warned the people that any persons found upeculating in gram will be bamshed from his province This in uncivilized Russia! We would respectfully invite the people to step upon the platform of government ownersnip or me iiqn business and see how it looks to them, then report their thoughts. i.nE international Brotherhood of Canada has promulgated a platform which demands government ownership railways, and land reform on the lincslaid down by the alliance. Prior to the days of Moses there existed no middle classes; society con sisted of master and slave. Mosrs abolished the worst form of slavery, "usury. Southern Mercury.

Lven the business men Cincinnati have caught the People's infec tion. One of them advertises, "Come and buy a pair of my superior specta cles so you can see what the People's party is doing." People's party club3 are organized over Cincinnati. On account of the defection in the democratic ranks there causea by Campbell's nomination foi governor, the People's party expects to carry the city and county. A Jhigh Chinese oniclal nas oeen condemned to death for swindling hi creditors. How lucky for some thousands of men in this country that they are not high Chinese officials.

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