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8 KANSAS F. and I. 2. Reform in speech. A degree of excellence might be attained in raising the moral standard of our Order, in aiding in the suppression of immodest stories, slang, and profane language, more especially from those who are advocating the principles of reform from the rostrum.

During the past campaign, some of our speakers, active in the reform movement, used language reeking in slang phrases, and many times used quotations from the Bible to support some joke or in ridicule. We should confine our speeoh making within the confines of the English language. Let a candidate for political honors address an audience and make use of slang, abuse interspersed with God's holy name, and it disgusts and repels the better class of citizens, and often causes more loss than gain at the ballot-box. Of the numerous speakers heard during the last campaign, we enjoyed the privilege of listening to one perfectly clean, unabusive speech, delivered by one of our own Osage county officials. Women's work in the Alliance means a final emancipation at the ballot-box.

In the words of our poet, Longfellow, Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." Mas. Emma Tboudneb, Pres. Towhead Alliance No. 465. up to $25, in order to facilitate the making of change and the squaring of accounts of various denominations.

These checks shall be registered, numbered uniformly, and issued in series, under the supervision of a oommittee of 12 competent persons, consisting of the State Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, an expert, and eight county treasurers, selected one from each congressional district, and in each case selecting the treasurer of the district who received the largest majority at the last previous election. Each check shall be provided with a place for a gem photograph of the maker, which can be pasted on in case the maker thinks necessary. The seal of the clearing-house shall bo placed upon all checks, and when gems are used the seal shall partly cover the gems. Seo. 7.

These checks shall have two printed sides and constructed on the principle of the "Labor Exchange" checks, so that when they are handed out from the clearing-house to a depositer of oredit the ohecks will be of no value to any one else until properly indorsed, and then can be ordered payable to a certain person orly if the maker so desires. Sec. 8. To cover the expense of preparing these checks, hiring extra help at the clearing-houses, and operating this system in a proper manner, it shall be necessary to charge the parties making use of these checks and credits the sum of 1 per cent, per annum, but in no case shall the amount charged be less than 25 cents at any one transaction. This per cent, charged shall be paid in lawful money and shall be used as aforesaid, and to aid in balancing the legitimate expenses of the county wherein collected.

A bill based upon principles outlined in the foregoing sections is of the most vital importance to the great common people of Kansas. Intelligent bankers can at once see the force of this proposition, and will use every available means to prevent its passage. This one bill alone, if properly framed and enacted, will bring more prosperity than anything a Legislature can do at present. The business of the country is principally done on checks, to the advantage of gamblers and speculators, and why should nofc the honest toilers and wealth producers also make use of the same methods to save themselves frOm the clutches of the gold-bugs and swindlers? Brother laborers, study this matter. See your Representatives, and make a grand effort to save yourselves and your homes.

This is the shortest way to relief. The complete way out is the Labob Exchange. Keep up your organizations and discuss the true cooperative features which must ultimately suoceed. Fraternally yours, E. J.

Ebnst. Olathe, December 21, 1892. WOMEN'S WORK IN THE ALLIANCE. Read before the 4th Dis. Alliance at Osage City.

Never before, in the history of our country, has there been so grand an opportunity offered for farmers' wives and daughters to an equal distribution of knowledge upon the issues that so muoh concern our country as the Farmers' Alliance has opened to us. Women's work in the Alliance is varied, and the opportunities are many for making our Alliance meetings most pleasant and instructive, which can best be portrayed by dividing into the following heads: The first necessity to success is regular attendance, without which failure is sure to follow. with regular attendance as a platform, it becomes women's work to promote sociability among the members as a family gathering of brothers and sisters, working harmoniously together. We must use our ideas in organization, plan and execute them in various forms of entertainments, a nice lunch served during an intermission. A "surprise supper" has a charm about it for the brothers, and stimulates attendance among them.

If they remained away often they might miss some interesting feature. An exchange of visits with neighboring Sub-Alliances is productive of good results in an exchange of ideas better still, go prepared to entertain, with recitations, songs discussions, and that will be sure to please. Good music everybody enjoys, and by a little exertion there could be a good glee club in almost every Sub-Alliance. In the Sub-Alliance which recognizes the equality of the sisters in all Alliance work you will find the most active and prosperous conditions. They feel that there is something to do; some object to be attained: the ultimate success of that Alliance.

They may have worked their way through their school days with two or three declamations, "Mary had a Little Lamb," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," and "I Like to See a Little Dog," and now, in matureij years, they take up the lost thread and again cultivate memory in declamations, dialogues, assisting in the debates and discussions, which should always be a part of the programme. Look around us at the many Alliance organizations that have ceased to even struggle for an existenoe. A post mortem would reveal the fact that it was too one-sided to afford proper development; the brothers doing the soaring and the sisters were to be seen, not heard. Women are not all public speakers, but they very often deliver lectures to a small audience. One of the needs of the present is excessive lecturing; the brothers need it, and women never shirk their duty, in that line, to an audience of one.

Now, the time has arrived to speak out in meeting for the good of the Order. "Reform" is our battle-cry, and under the heads of "reform in dress," and "reform in speech," we will confine our present lecture. 1. Reform in dress is greatly needed; we want to see our brothers have more pride in their personal appearance, enough to be neat and clean. The farmers are the bone and sinew of our land.

They needlessly make themselves targets for insulting epithets by the extreme carelessness of personal appearance. This lack of neatness has gradually come upon them, as they advance in years, imperceptibly, like gray hairs and wrinkles. We want to feel more pride in our farmers, but we think you ought to abide more closely to your marriage vows, wherein you promised to "love, honor, and cherish." The word "honor" please reflect upon. Do you honor your wife, or her skill in providing clean raiment, when you go to town or city in your soed working clothes? and when wife says, "Now, John, do, please, put on a clean shirt, and do n't wear those overalls, they are so dirty," and, man like, you reply, "They are good enough for me, and if other folks do n't like the looks of them they can look the other way." Our Alliance is working for reform; let us commence the good work at home, and broaden our possibilities as occasion COOPERATION OF LABOR, No. 4.

THE EXCHANGE BILL. Be it enacted by the State Legislature of Kansas, for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of products and thereby increasing prosperity, promoting and enlivening business throughout the State in every department of industry, and to avoid the enormous drainage of interest money continually paid by the producers which is a heavy burden upon the wealth of the State, and to protect people against the avurice of outside capital: therefore, the following sections shall be used as a foundation to place upon the statutes a law known as the State Exchange Bill. Section 1. Every county treasury and the State treasury of the State of Kansas, upon the passage of this act, shall be created a clearing-house to do a regular line of clearing-house business for the exchange of local credit paper, and also to transact suoh necessary clearing-house business between counties, and also between the State treasury and the several counties, as will be necessary to form a complete circuit of exchange within the commonwealth, besides the business transacted by the various treasuries in the past. Seo.

2. That any person being a resident of a county and will give first-class security in real estate, personal property or such as is properly indorsed and secured by one or more j-ersons who are ample security for the same, shall be allowed to place on credit in the clearing house these securities as a deposit on bond, and for collateral to secure a credit upon which can be checked at will, until the amount of such credit shall be exhausted or the time for balancing accounts may have arrived, as provided for in section 3. Seo. 3. Credit shall not be given for more than one-half of the assessed value of the securities given, nor shall there be placed to the credit of any man or woman a sum representing less than $25 nor more than $2,000, and in no case shall the balancing of accounts be deferred longer than three months from the time of placing the credit, and at the end of which time a balance may be deolared and the account continued, or, if necessary, a new security given and a new transaction begun.

Seo. 4. These credit securities shall be as binding upon individual persons, personal property, or real estate, as are personal securities, chattel mortgage or real-estate mortgages in any other oase, and. are as an encumbrance upon suoh person or property until the account with the clearing house is balanced and the credit removed. In case the depositor of credit should fail to comply with the requirements, the necessary cost of prosecution and recovering of loss, if there be any, shall be charged to the credit depositor who has been in default, and the same shall be dealt with in accordance to the laws of Kansas in similar cases where fraud may be perpetrated.

Seo. 5. The combined credits of the persons who have credits deposited in the clearing-house at the time shall form the basis upon which the clearing-house can issue credit checks; but at no time shall the clearing-house issue more ohecks than to amount to one-third of the average credits deposited. The clearing-house checks, from county or State, shall be honored in any county of the State. Individual checks must be secured by individual securities, and when presented by the proper parties as designated upon their face, they shall be placed against the maker and in favor of the presenter.

In oase the presenter has no account at the clearing-house and does not wish to open an account, then the clearing-house shall pass over its check for the amount which shall represent full-face value in any part of the State, upon proper indorsement of the person to whom it was made. Seo. 6. The checks needed to transact this system of exchange shall be conveniently arranged in books for pocket use, containing amounts from $25 up to $1,000, and in fractions of 25 cents SILVER. Extract from a paper read before the silver convention, by John Thompson, vice-president of the Chase National Bank, of New York.

By throwing silver out of the category of money into the condition of merchandise, the specie foundation of all credits and currencies has been reduced fully one-half. That was a contraction of 50 per cent. It required no far-sightedness to perceive that such unheard-of contraction of the precious metal foundation of all credits and currency would be followed by a decline in the value of all properties approaching 50 per cent. This is the condition of things at the present day. This is why wheat and other farm products are worth only two-thirds of what they would have been had silver remained as money.

This contraction affects the mortgagor, making him apprehend approaching bankruptcy, and gives the mortgagee an undue advantage. It gives the creditor an advantage over the debtor, which is so discouraging that he feels like becoming a bankrupt rather than making an effort to continue on a financial paying condition. Therefore, I say that the demonetization has been and is a wioked preference given to the creditor over the debtor classes of our entire population, and it is this preference that is driving our middle classes into poverty, and enabling millionaires to multiply their millions. Nothing, in my opinion, will save our people from a social revolution so surely as the full re-mouetization of silver, and giving it all the advantages we now give to gold, both in law and in the ruling of our Treasury Department. In short, the mono-gold standard is a stepping-stone to anarchy nay, it is more, it is a flight of stairs reading to the chamber of horrors bankruptcy, panics, suicide, repudiation, agrarianism and universal poverty among all real wealth producers, for whose welfare the best minds, the best statesmanship and the best representatives of all legitimate business interests should ever be enlisted.

The wheat crop of the world is estimated by statisticians to be 45,000,000 less than it was last year, and yet the price of wheat is about 30 per cent, less than it was a year ago. Farmers will learn some time that other causes than supply and demand affect the price of their products. The last week of December having disclosed a thieving olerk in the United States pension office at Topeka, also a rascally one in the State Auditor's office, it begins to look as though there is more truth than poetry in the people's cry of Tubn the Rascals out Men who contribute money to buy the people's representatives are deadly enemies of the republic. They are masquerading in the garb of righteousness, and address the people in the language of patriotism, but their virtues are assumed, and they are hypoorites and assassins of liberty; they would welcome a dynasty rather than shed their blood in defense of popular government. W.

Q. Oresham. General Weaver has 29 electoral votes. Daniel Webster received 14 electoral votes in 1836, having only carried one State. In 1860, Stephen A.

Douglas polled 12 votes. In 1864, Geo. B. McClellan carried three States and got 21 electoral votes. The first time Thomas Jefferson ran for President he only got four electoral votes.

More than one-fourth of the gold and more than one-third of the silver produced throughout the world in the year 1891 was mined in the United States. The South Carolina Legislature has passed a bill forbidding the sale of liquor except for medical, scientific and sacramental purposes..