Kansas F.A. and I.U. from Topeka, Kansas • 3

SUPPT KANSAS F. A. and I. U. physician, 1 clergyman, 1 real-estate dealer, 1 banker, 1 planter, 1 marble quarry man.

No farmers or wage-workers! yet the farmer represents over 75 per cent of the nation, and we see little disposition on the part of Kansas to elect a farmer Senator to represent them. First of all, let every Alliance man demand a true representative of labor. In the House there were 200 lawyers, 43 farmers, and 30 other occupations represented. What chance has labor in such a gang? Little or none. Let Kansas commence to reform.

A SUGGESTION. Every Alliance man in Kansas should read President Hanna's first message, outlining the polioy of the Alliance, which should, in his opinion, be followed, in order to build up the Order in this State. He has struck the key-note of success, and doubtless will stimulate our people all over the West to renewed energy in the work. The irrepressible confiiot has just begun. Let some one read the address before every Sub and County Alliance in Kansas.

Yours, L. T. Yount. H. N.

GAINES, State Superintendent of Public Instruction elect. EMINENT 0PIN0INS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. In the progress of civilization, woman suffrage is sure to come. Charles Sumner. Woman's suffrage is undoubtedly coming, and for one, expect a great deal of good to result from it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I go for sharing the privileges of government with those who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women. Abraham Lincoln. I think there will be no end to the good that will come by woman suffrage, on the elected, on elections, on government, and on woman herself. Chief Justice Chase.

In the administration of a state, neither a woman as a woman, nor a man as a man, has any special functions, but the gifts are equally diffused in both sexes. Plato. I take it America never gave any better principle to the world than the safety of letting every human being have the power of protection in its own hands. I claim it for woman. The moment she has the ballot I shall thnk the cause is won.

Wendell Phillips. You ask my reasons for believing in woman suffrage. It seems to me almost self-evident, an axiom, that every householder and tax-payer ought to have a voice in the expenditure of the money we pay, including, as this does, interests the most vital to a human being. Florence Nightingale. For over 40 years I have not hesitated to declare my conviction that justice and fair dealing, and the democratic principles of our Government, demand equal rights and privileges of citizenship, irrespective of sex.

I have not been able to see any good reason for denying the ballot to women. John G. Whittier. PRESIDENT'S WORK. Since installation we have traveled about 2,300 miles in our work, visited six different counties, attending four County Alliances, laid out work for the year before the Executive Committee, planned to divide the lecture work among seven State officers; made a three days' trip to Brother Biddle's, conferring with and learning from him about the Aid Degree, which took nearly all his time during the last half of the year.

Meanwhile, we have edited the paper, and taken lots of subscribers, run two farms, sold and shipped some 15 breeders, written about 100 letters, and talked Alliance matters with nearly a thousand members privately, and yet we suppose there are members who think our officers have nothing to do. PRESIDENT L0UCKS AND PARTIES. President Louoks, of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, in his late annual address, criticized severely the blindness of idolatry to party, and criticized as severely those members who voted for party iristead of for the good of the organization and the country. He is reported to have urged the duty of members to vote in any event and under all circum-stanoes for the Alliance demands. In this President Loucks is clearly right.

It is just what the National Alliance, the F. M. B. A. and every other farmers' sooiety will demand of its members.

If any party, no matter by what name, adopts and labors for the farmers' demands, it only proves that such party is the right one to vote with, and in no sense commits any Alliance as the tail to any party kite. The Alliance men were on the ground first. Let parties follow their lead or suffer. NOTICE. Will the officers of the Subordinate and County Alliances see to it that every member takes the Kansas F.

A. and I. and forward the subscription immediately. It will be the life of your organization. This putting one copy on file to an organization means a very poor support to your organization, and is a sign of sure decay.

Surely such an Alliance man does not do his whole duty. Attend to it now, or we shall be compelled to cut off your name from the list. bbothbb scott's appointments. Harvey County. Walton Braddock S.H., December 19, 7:30 p.m.; Emma Hesston S.

December 20, 2 p.m.; Highland Shady Side S. December 20, 7:30 p. Newton, city, A. 0. U.

W. hall, December 21, 1 p. Darlington, Ging-rass S.H., December 21, 7:30 p.m.; Sedgwick City, December 22, 2 p. Halstead, December 22, 7:30 p. Burrton, December 23, 2 p.

m. Brother Scott will hold meetings in Chase county: Toledo, the 12th; Elmdale, 13th; Homestead, District 27, the 15th; Matfield Green, 16th; Cottonwood Falls and Bazaar, 17th inst. SUBSCRIBE NOW. We wonder if our readers know that their time of subscription is out, and that the Kansas State Alliance was highly pleased that our paper sustained itself the first year; and now we ask you to promptly renew, as we expect you can nowhere else get such important Alliance news, and much of which will appear nowhere else, all for the trifling sum of 15 cents a year. Not that it costs more, but because somebody else pays part of the cost, and you get the benefit of it but this help we must have in order to have success.

Do n't be so siow about! it; subscribe now. We will soon have many new postmasters who will let this paper go through the mails, thank the Lord FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE. Whebeas, There exists in Kansas and other States a merciless combine, called the "Undertaker's Combine," dealing in the important trade of undertakers' goods, who have always and do now make war on any and all business men in this line of trade who do not join them; and Whebeas, We now learn that J. M. Knight, of Topeka, is not in this heinous trust, and has commenced criminal actions against all such membership: therefore, be it Resolved, That the Franklin County Alliance send greeting to Mr.

Knight, and promise him our moral and material support, and commend his nerve and good designs to all other Alliances, with the earnest recommendation that all Alliance men and women patronize him in preference to any other house in Kansas; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary send these resolutions to the Advocate and Kansas F. A. and I. U. for publication.

Wm. E. Kibbe, Secretary. INTERSTATE RAILROAD. At the National Alliance, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions to the State and national legislatures to build a Government railroad from the north line of the United States to the northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexioo, crossing 15 lines of railroad which will act as feeders, which it is estimated wil raise the price of Kansas wheat 10 cents a bushel.

An offer has been made to build and complete the same for $15,000 a mile. The committee ohosen were, Robinson, of Texas Leonard, of Missouri; Sutton, of Arkansas; and Scott, of Kansas. Texas has $1,000,000 of school money lying idle in her school treasury, and offers to build her part through Texas. We are indebted to the Western School Journal for the portrait of Mr. Gaines, printed on this page.

SHAWNEE COUNTY ALLIANCE. The Shawnee County Alliance adopted the following resolutions, by a vote of 22 to 17, at its regular meeting, December 2: Resolved, That we request the State Legislature to amend the liquor law so as to destroy the monopoly now enjoyed by the druggists, and provide for the sale of intoxicating liquors for medical, mechanical and scientific purposes through State agents, such agents to receive a stated salary, based upon the number of inhabitants of the distriot assigned, without referenoe to the amount of liquor sold, that the people may be supplied with pure, unadulterated liquors for lawful purposes at actual cost connected with the purchase and sale of the same, and that the various abuses of the present drug-store system may be abolished. That we invite all County and Sub-Alliances of the State to join in this request, by forwarding resolutions on the subject to the Advocate, Topeka, at the earliest date possible. The State Temperance Union, at its recent convention, adopted resolutions of like import, and appointed Amanda M. Way, J.

R. Detwiler, J. A. Murray, I. O.

Pickering and Riohard Wake as a committee to bring the subject before the Legislature. ANTI-OPTION BILL. The anti-option bill now remains under the unfinished business on the calender of the United States Senate. Doubtless the people have informed their Senators that they wish that bill passed, that they may be protected from the rapacity of the grain and produoe gamblers. Chicago governs the price of the wheat through a series of gambling speculation that is ruinous to the farmer, and sells more wheat on paper never handling a single bushel in a week than the world produces.

It is reported that even Senator Sherman, since the late political cyclone, has expressed an opinion that, in his judgment, the bill ought to and would be passed. Write a letter to your Congressman to stir up the Democrats and give them one more chance. We want to try the effect of passing that bill. The Kansas wheat raisers ought to be interested enough to see to this. FARMERS SHIPPING THEIR GRAIN.

It seems strange that farmers in disposing of their grain should continue to haul it to their nearest station and accept whatever price the local grain buyer sees fit to offer for it, when they can just as well ship it themselves to the primary market. By so doing, they save the grain buyers' profit and secure all there is in it themselves; they also eliminate several middle-men, and the producer and consumer are thus brought closer together This paper has for months been advocating this plan, and believes its general adoption by the farmers would result in their very material benefit. That farmers may know to whom they can consign their grain with confidence, and the certainty of getting good prices and prompt returns, the Kansas F. A. and I.

U. calls attention to our regular Alliance grain agents. ALLIANCE NOTICE. Leavenworth county F. A.

and I. of Kansas, holds its next regular quarterly meeting at Fairmount, January 14, 1893. The question for discussion is Government Ownership of the Railroads." Hon. W. A.

Harris, M. will be with us and take part. Let each Sub-Alliance in the county be well represented at said meeting. O. W.

Bissett, County Secretary. TO MEMBERS OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. The following resolution was passed at the last State Alliance: Third, That we recommend the organization of a State reading circle for Sub-Alliances, under the supervision of the State Executive Board, and that the plans and necessary information be transmitted through the Kansas F. A. and I.

U. At a meeting of the Exeoutive Board held November 23, the following line of work was decided upon: That each State officer and member of the board take a separate route, spending not less than one week in each county visited, and fully explain the following cooperative features of our Order. First Reading circle. Second. National Aid Degree.

Third. Farmers' Alliance insurance fiire, lightning, wind storm, and tornado, including the hail department. Fourth. Land loan features. Fifth.

Information and exchange. They have selected text-books for use in the Sub-Alliance, consisting of the following: "Hand-book on the Money Question," by Maxson and Hebbard; "Sub-Treasury, Land Loan," by S. M. Scott; Bondholders and Breadwinners," by S. S.

King; "Seven Financial Conspiracies," by Mrs. Emery. The above books can be secured for the small sum of 60 cents, including the F. A. and I.

U. for 75 cents. This little paper is published every month by the Exeoutive Board, containing the official reports of our officers. Brother Scott was assigned Chase, Marion and Harvey counties; Neville, Anderson Hanna, Franklin McNaughton, Leavenworth, Jefferson, and Douglas; Oliver, Bourbon, Linn, and Miami Mrs. Clark, Shawnee; Miller, Republic.

Brothers Hanna and Neville have so much work now that they can hardly leave their office work. SOME WORK. Your President has already traveled over 2,400 miles since his election on Al-lianoe work, and seems to have work enough ahead for two common men. Next week, he takes an 500-mile trip after the books of the Life Insurance Department, and has to bring up two weeks of baok work occasioned by the sickness of Brother Biddle, who came near losing his life by his devotion to the cause by attending the last State meeting. This insurance work alone took nearly or quite all of Brother Biddle's time, and I have assumed much more work.

There isn't a millionaire, a banker, money shark or speculator in the land that wants a change in our financial system. It is good enough for them. It made them rioh and is making them richer. They would rather talk about tariff. OUR RULERS.

Our 84 rulers in the United States Senate have the following avocations: 64 lawyers, 4 capitalists, 3 journalists, 2 lumbermen, 2 railroad officials, 2 manufacturers, 2 merchants, 2 public officials, 1 miner, 4 1 miner and stock-raiser, 1 oar builder, 1 The intrinsic value of 20 nickels is only 15 cents, but they will pay 100 cents' worth of debt and buy a dollar's worth of meat, because the Government builds them that way..