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    THE FA KM MIS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEH., THURSDAY NOV. 5, lbOi.
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"In the beauty of tbe lillies
Christ Tit born across the sea,
With a glory In his bosom
That transfigures you and me.
At he strove to make men holy
Let s strive to make thero free.
Since God is marching on."
Julia Ward Hove.
"Laurel crowns ckave to deserts.
And power to him who power
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exerts."
A ruddy drop or mamy oioou
The surging sea outweighs."
Emerson.
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lie who will not reason is a coward,
lie who dare not reason is a slave."
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THE ELECTION IN OTHER STATES.
The returns, as we go to press, show
that Flower (dem.) is elected in New
Yoik, Boies (dem ) in Iowa, Russell,
(dem.) in Massachusetts, and McKlnley
in Ohio..
Flower's majority will bo between
20,000 and 30,000. Russell's majority
will be very largo, and McKinlcy's very
mall.
The result of this elootion plaoos the
administration betweon the devil and
the deep sea. Its rebuke in Massachu
setts, Iowa and New York is decisive,
and its victory in Ohio is so small that it
equivalent to a defeat.
OUR ERIEND MR. LAMMERTSOM.
Last Thursday at St. Paul, Neb , Mr.
G. M. Lambertson, of this city, in a po
litical speech, assailed J. Bunows for
receiving a pass. This was a week
after the false charge had been made by
the Journal, and several days after that
paper had stated the contents of Mr.
Randall's letter refuting the charge. If
Mr. Lambertson did not know those
facts hi was inexcusably ignorant.
Mr. Lambertson has tried to make
some political capital for himself by
claiming the merit of representing the
Alliance before the Inter-state Com
merce commission. He personally so
licited that appointment from Mr
Burrows, who secured it for him.
Later, and not long since, he solicited
Mr. Burrows' aid in securing an ap
pointment from the president on the
came commission, which ww given him.
r Now, on the slightest pretext, without
inquiry, on the chance of making a lit
tle capital for a tottering party, he as
sails Mr. P.. in a very tender point ac
cusing him of being recreant to princi
ples he was advocating in his paper, be
coming an ae jessory with a sheet which
he well knows to be utterly vile in des
etninating a base slander. We state
the facts. Comment is unnecessary.
PEOPLE'S PARTY IN CdLIFOR.YI.i.
The first state convention of the peo
ple's party in California was held at Los
Angeles on Thursday, October 22. Del
egates to the nnmVer of 558 were present,
representing all the organized reform
associations of the state. A platform
was adopted nearly identical with the
Nebraska platform of this year, and a
state central committee was named and
organized. By far the largest portion
oi tne convention was from the Farmers'
Alliance, which is on a boom in Cali
fornia. Thus California joins the marching
column. The signal fires are lighted on
her hill-tops, and the slogan of reform
is being flashed over her valleys and
mountains
VILE POLITICS.
The edition of tbe B. fM. Journal con
taining the false charge that Mr. Bur
rows received a railroad pass was circu
lated all over the state just prior to the
election. This was done notwithstand
ing the publishers knew full well when
they made the charge that it was false,
svad after they had received proof of
that fact from Mr. Randall. We have
ever known such vile and dishonest
practices in all our experience before.
The party that is compelled to resort to
it is in bad straits.
THE ELECTION IN NEBRASKA.
We have held our paper back one
day, hoping to secure sufficient returns
to warrant a decbive opinion as to tbe
result. But as it may still be several
days before this can be done, we go to
press sti.l in doubt.
Forty two counties give Edgerton
35,731, and Post 43 804. This leave
forty-eight countie to bear from, the
majDrityof which will give Edgerton
majorities. So as we go to press we do
net by any means give up hopes of
Edgerton'e election.
Tho two railroad theets, the Bee and
Journal, are claiming Post's election by
8.000 to 10.000. Of course the counties
first heard from are the republican
strong holds.
There is a criminal falling off in the
rural sections which should have given
the largest independent vote.
If Nebraska is to be disgraced by
again surrendering our highest court
the very citadel of freedom to the
railroad power, and elevating to it a
moral leper and corporate tool, the
farmers of the state, who are the first to
suffer will be the on3 who are respon
sible.
Throughout the stato the democratic
vote has gone with tbe republicans.
This, in the face of Broady's withdrawal,
the endorsement of Edgerton by Mor
ton, Boyd and other leading democrats,
and his support by the democratic organ,
the World-Herald, is very significant.
Democrat io endorsement of several
candidates in Lancaster county was a
positive Injury. If a straight demo
cratlc ticket bud been nominated it
would have been much hotter for the
independents. The only officer we
elected in this county, viz: clerk of the
district court, had two opponents. The
lesson for the independents is "keep in
the middle ot the road." No old party
fusions er complications.
The democrats of the state have
practically endorsed the rcpublico dem
ocratic combine of last winter.
We believe that the cutting dovrn of
Past's estimated majorities, which Is
sure to take place as tho official returns
come in, and tho majorities for Edger
ton iu the counties yet to hear from
will secure his election. But it will
take soveral days to decide these points.
In the majority of the judicial dis
tricts the independents will probably
win. Bush iu tho First, Allen in the
Ninth, Boal in the Tenth, and Tib
botts in the Third, are elected.
Tho slowness of the returns under tho
now law will make it impossible to give
full results in less than a week.
THE. DANGER OF THE FARMERS'
ALLIANCE.
The above Is tho title of an article in
the November Forum, by U. S. Senator
John L. Morgan, of Alabama. This
article is a very incomplete, loose and
disjointed review of the causes that led
to tho formation of the Alliance, the
mistakes in its organization, and its re
lation to the agricultural industries of
the southern states. It is mainly valu
able as showing how narrow a view of
the great movement now going on In
the country may bo taken bv a man oc
cupying the exalted position of United
Mates senator. However, some of the
views expressed by Senator Morgan
entile hltu to be classed among the
calamity howlers;t the samo time tho
iistiuguished writer could not suffi-
ciently divest himself of the shackles of
bondago to tne democratic party as to
take any but a partisian view of the
movement in the southern states. Mr.
Morgan is not only a democrat, but
he is a state rights democrat of the Cal
houn school, and believes that relief
from "tho power of capital" must come
through state legislatures rather than
through congress. It seems to be the
naraest tning in the world for an old
school state rights democrat to realize
that this is a nation. But after assert
ing that remedial measures must bn
reached by state legislation, Mr. Mor
gan makes the following admission:
"The corporations charted bv the
states were all intended to be primarily
for tho benefit of agriculture as the
foundation and support of all other in
dustries and vocations. Their proper
regulation and restriction by the states
would have secured that purpose. Bui
when congress thrtw the might of national
legislation in their favor they became the
oppressors and destroyers of the agricul
tural class and of other industrial people."
How state legislation can remove the
'oppression" of national legislation
Mr. Morgan does not undertake to in
form us.
Mr. Morgan's estimate of the char
acter, responsibilities and patriotism of
the farming class is a very just one, and
may be gathered by the following par
agraph:
The farmers hnn luwn nlnn.lt.
steadily forced into th's attitude against
their common aversion to all forms of
ciass legislation. Their vocation, In
which there are elements and incidents
of personal riorhra mil rnnn.:i.:i::...
- - - r " " iciipuuniuiubico
that are not so fully observed in the closer
buu more intimate associations of men
who labor in shops and in gangs, gives
to them an independence of thought
and action that makes them conserva
tive, Blow to act, and considerato of
the general welfare. They act in con
cert only on piessing occasions, for the
reams of grievances or for the common
defence; avd hence they remember with
sacred pride that it was in their blood
that America: liberty received its bap
tism, and that their power has decided
every vital event of our history, in war
and in peace. No great political event
has been accooiplithed la oor country
without thecoawntof theagricuIturisW;
though some great evils have been en
dured, because of their patient patriot
ism, until they were iio longer to be
tolerated.
He speaks of the industrial changes
of the last half century as a "complete
revolution which has placed them the
farmers under mortgage to the con
ceut rated money power."
He also says, "It was not the aboli
tion of sUvery that caused this revul
sion in the firming industries.
In fact, the destruction of
the property value of southern slavas
was not a lofs of wealth to the United
States; it was simply a transfer of that
wealth from the southern fanner to the
northern and European capitalists. Iu
tho speculations ot our bonded d.'bU;
viz: in tbe changing of the standard in
which it is to be paid J ir. the speculative
dealings iu gold, in the protiU of
national banking, in the war features
of the tariff, and in interest, the value
of every emancipated Negro has been
more than twice paid by the taxes
levied indirectly on agriculture."
And the senator uiigbl have added
that as a further result of these occult
forces the producers of the nation are
now in debt to the capital class in the
enormous sum of thirty thousand mil
lions of dollars, and that tho national
debt, if estimated in products, is a
much greater burden than the day the
war closed. As to financial matters
Senator Morgan sayu:
Then, in financial matters, the farm
ers feel that they have been surrepti
tiously deprived of a clear constitu
tional right to have the free coinage of
gold and silver, on a ratio of value to be
tixt-d by congress, iu accordance with
the historical experienceof the country.
They insUt that the silver dollar has
never done any barm to any industry
of our country; that it was innocent of
any dishonesty, until its alleged hidden
sin was discovered by countries that
produced muca gold aud no silver, and
by men who could control, through the
concentrating agencies of baukiug and
other corporations, the major part of
the entire volume of gold in the country,
and so regulate all prices. Thoy further
insist that it is uot needed that we
should have only a gold coinage to pay
balances that we do not owe, and will
never owe; that gold is only needed to
pay the gambling balances of the stock
brokers; and that we should use in our
own country tha hundred million dol
lars of precious metals that we get from
our mines every yenr, as a basis of re
demption of national promises. They
insist that it is illogical and unjust that
they should pay taxes to enable the
United Matus to issue to them through
the national banks tho mouey with
which to pay those very taxes, givi.ig
to the banks a large profit for a need
less business routine, and large exemp
li f - . . . .
hums irum mxuuon.
These objections to our present sys
tern, enhauced by tho fact thjit there is
no legal means lor increasing the vol
ume of the currency to meet the rapid
increase of our population and busiiess.
aro potent with the farmers, as they
are, also, very grave iu the minds of
our wisest financiers. They reason,
and logically, that there is not a wide
margin of difference between the i-sue
cf "flat money" and our plan of making
$000,000,000 of national bank notes re
deemable in $340,000,000 of greenbacks,
and those, In turn, redeemable with
$100,000,000 of gold, kept for that pur
pose in the treasury, $80,000,000 of
which Secretary Sherman bought at par
with silver certilicatos. The farmers
have been taught some very loose
lessons, in the direction of "fiat money,"
by statesmen who hare "climbed the
goldin stairs" late in lifo.
Those and other grave wrongs have
at l3t called the farmers Into com
bined action, and, when they so act,
declarations of independence such as
they made at Mecklenburg in 1775, and
battles such as they fought at Concord
in the same year, are not to be regarded
as unexpected events when justice is in
need of defenders, and oppressions are
to be chocked.
Wo have made tho above extiaats
partly to show the drift of Senator
Morgan's article, and partly to show
that conservative men in very Ijigh
places are using language as forcible aa
that which mvtitesthe anathemas of the
old party press upon the Alliance men
of Nebraska.
The only danger to the Alliance that
Senator Morgan points out is the inva
sion of it by "selfish politicians who
have crept into its counsels." There is
no doubt much forco to this criticism.
This danger is more threatening to the
Alliance in Nebraska at this time than
ever before. Of course Senator Mor
gan more especially applies his criti
cism to the southern Alliance, lij not
only criticises the Alliance for admitting
improper persons, but also for exclud
ing "tried friends engaged in other
pursuits." The difficulty of drawing
this line in exactly the right place has
not occurred to the eenator; but there is
no doubt more danger in opening the
door too wide than in the exclusion
which may result from it.
In the main Senator Morgan's article
is a good one. While it does not take a
very broad view of the situation, it
proves that there is more in the sena
tor's mind in regard to tho questions
involved than he chooses to reveal.
The Alliance has been in active ex
istence about twelve years. It began
with the plainest and humblest of the
farming class, well-to-do farmers as a
rule holding aloof from it at first. It
is remarkable what a change has come
over public sentiment iiince its forma
tion. It is only quite lately that the
questions which it took up and began to
agitate twelve years ago have excited
the attention of the classes who assume
to be the leaders in politics and lite
rature. Now, every magazine is vieing
with its fellows in its efforts to present
the ablest articles on the questions
which the Alliance has long been con
sidering. These classes followed the
farmers in these discussions, instead of
leading them. They will probably also
follow them in their conclus.ons. The
farmers of the country are the leaders
of public sentiment, and are the most
progressive as well as the more safely
conservative portion of our people.
"Money is an idol, worshipped in
every clime without a single temple."
From a Piohibitioiiit.
Papillio. Neb., Oct. 5f2.
Editor Alliascs.: As one who cym
pathisea with tbe people's pary, and
tbe independent movement generallf, I
ak a l.ttle space in thd columns cf Tut
Alliaxcx to present some of my views
regarding the present rt volution in pol
itics Let us go back to where the call
was issued for tbe great Cincinnati con
vention. When I read the call for that
convection I locked frrwaid to the
event as the dawning of a latter day,
and hoped that a new party for reform
comphte and thorough was to be the re
sult of that couveutiou. The 19th of
M:iy came and the hosts of honest toil
from every part of the country a'neui
bled at Cincinnati. With g!adnes I
welcomed the lUlh of May, 1501, and
hoped for the grandest results. I
watched the convention. Oa the 20th
it got fairly down to woik and the new
party was bcrn the people's iudepen
dent party. But the largest task before
those delegates was the formation of
tbe platform. The woi k commenced.
Onf plank after another was adopted
amid bursts of patriotic eulhusUsui.
The plank touching on the mouey ques
tion was adopted, u 6uited me. The
alien ownership of land was touched
upon, and w as my idea exactly. One
great question after another was
brought up and treated in a way that
met my mo3t emphatic approval. The
evils touched were handled rightly and
no compromise was made on any of the
leading evils. I hailed such a course with
delight. FinaLy the prohibition ques
tion was brought up, and a plank favor
ing tbe suppression of the liquor traffic
introduced. Out of 1,454 delegates
present only three favored the adoption
of the prohibition plank so I aiu in
formed by a leading independent who
was a delegate to the convention. I
wan disappointed! I stepped bark irom
the ranks I had so nearly entered and
said, "Never!" The new reform partv
was for reform until it came to the
liquor question, and there the reform
work ended. 1 was a reformer, but
I could not hold aloft such questions as
tho free coinage of silvir. the- alien
ownership of land, etc. and say they
ncic mu Kteaiesb questions Deioie lie
American people, when I knew that the
liquor question involved more millions
than did any three combined questions
haudled in tho Cincinnati platform
no, I couldn't do that. I couldn't say
that such questions were greater than a
question which meant either the rule or
ruin of American politics. When 1
read tho action of the Cincinnati cou-
ierence in tho prohibition nlank f was
disappointed. The prohibition senti
ment of that convention (which seemed
very small) was defeated unmercifully.
and the people's party was muzzled by
tho liquor triilie in the first hour of its
existence. And this was to be the re
form party!
Muce the Cincinnati convention I
have read of a number of proposed
schemes by which the new party pro
posed to control the liquor business,
oue of which was published in The
Alliance. EHorts at "control" aro
useless aud futile. Control aud regu
lation of the rum-trallio have been
tried, and you well know with what
results, if. you can coyoi the liquor
evil by some ingenious plan why don't
you handle the other evils by some
"plan!" You, as a true represeutative
ol the people's party otter no comprom
ise to trusts, combines and' .the other
evils handled in your platform. Now
it you can't compromise with such evils
why compromise with the saloon? As
I look nt the matter, these schemes for
regulating the saloon are ottered to
hold the temperance vote in the inde
pendent movement.
hie alliance favored prohibition
in Nebraska last fall. It did a grand
work for the amendment. When it
saw the action of tho Cincinnati con
vention it endorsed the platform
adopted there, and began its work for
tho new parly. Has the saloon tri
umphed aud tho temperance people
given up the fight? Have we surrend
ered? I say no! A thousand times no!
1 am a reformer and am almcst a peo
ple's party man. but I value tho homes
of America aud the lives of our people,
more than I do the free coinage of sil
ver, the government ownership and
control of railroads or the prohibition
of triists aud monopolies. If the new
party is truly a reform party, why not
make it a reform party complete and
thorough? Aud why don't the reform
press advocate reform in truth and in
deed? When the people's party adopts that
prohibition plank in its national plat
form, then I am an independent from
the ground up. Until then ( am a pro
hibitionista party prohibitionist from
teeth to toenails.
If you can give me any light on the
relation of the people's party to the
prohibition question, I'd be glad to read
il or are they any relation? You have
my hearty thanks for the use of this
space. With best wishes for your sur
cess, I am yours for reform complete
aud thorough.
A Party Pkoiub.
We cheerfully accord to our friend
the space asked for.
We will now ask our friend if the
fact he states as to the overwhelming
opposition to the adoption of a prohibi
tion plank was not very remarkable?
Tho patriotism, temperance and morali
ty of 1403 delegates composing that
convention cannot bedoubted. Neither
can it be supposed that the convention
was in any way packed against prohi
bition. Thoso things being true, our
only conclusion must be that the dele
gates almost unanimously agreed that
it was unwise to adopt a prohibition
plank. Their reasons for thus agreeing
may have been various. It is not neces
sary to discuss them. But suppose that
the abstract question of prohibition had
been presented to the convention, dis
connected with the party question,
w ould the vote have been so overwhelm
ingly against it? That is, was it- not
probably true that while a vast majori
ity of the delegates were opposed to a
party on the sole issue of prohibition,
that an equally large majority would
have favored prohibition as an abstract
proposition? In this state last fall
nearly eighty thousand electors voted
for the amendment, whilo only about
six thousand voted the party ticket.
Isn't that fact a very striking illustra
tion of the actual condition of public
sentiment on this subject?
Our correspondent probably very
well understands that the power which
defeats prohibition is the money mak
ing power of the saloon. If the politi
eal Influence of this power was out of
the way if tbe element of profit in
whiskey selling was eliminated, does
our coi respondent for a moment doubt
that prohibition would be adopted in
Nebraska the first time it could be sub
mitted?
Now the independent reformers have
made a proposition which would not
only destroy the saloon as a money
making, but as a social institution as
well. This proposition more than any
ever befc re made opens the way for
prohibition in fact would make pro
hibition absolutely certain as the next
step forward. And yet amazing as it
may seem, the leading prohibitionist
orators and organs denounce it un
sparingly. We admit we cannot un
derstand it. It lock as though they
wers not sincere reformers, aud cared
more for party agitation thin for the
destruction of ths saloon.
When the national independent plat
form is adopted the proposition we
have alluded tc, viz; to make all the
liquor Iridic a government monopoly,
will be incorporated into it. It will be
the grandest step in advance ever
taken on this question, and the begin
ning of its final solution. If all party
protectionists will join all the others
who are sincerely in favor of prohibi
tion without the party this could soon
be accomplished. That is the only
union of forces that we consider possi
ble. The mountain will not go to the
mouse, so the mouse must come to the
mountain.
THE WORE OF THE ALLIANCE.
The excitement of the election is past,
and the shortened days and lengthened
evenings, when we have more leisure
for reading and thinking, are upon us.
One of these evenings, at least as often
as once in two weeks, should be devoted
to the Alliance meeting. The Alliance
has been a great educator in Nebraska.
There has been a great increase in the
past five or six years iu the number of
ready debaters on nearly all public
questions, and a great advance in cor
rect knowledge of such questions aad
the way in which they affect the inte
rests of farmers. The progress in these
directions is the direct result of Alliance
work. This educational work should
be continued most zealously. All bit
terness, if there is any, arising from di
vergent political views, should be ban
ished, aud all members should unite iu
an effort for still higher achievements in
the educational direction. Nothing will
so surely remove political differences,
and the acrimony arising from them, as
a knowledge, of the true interests of the
farming class. When ic is realized that
the interests of all farmers are exactly
the same that what is an injury to one
is an injury to all, and that what bene
fits one benefits all political differences
aud political acrimony must of necessity
disappear. And partisanship must dis
appear with them. The politics of the
farmer must be the advancement of him
self and his class to a higher plane, so
cially and commercially. There is no
higher politics in this country than this.
That which will elevate and enlighten
and raise to a higher level the great
producing class of America will be of
inestimable value to the nation and all
its people
Therefore we say to the Alliance,
push your educational work. Organize
discussions and literary exercises. For
ea:h evening some economic question
should be made the leading subject, and
some person appointed to prepare a
paper upon it. Theso articles should
be written out in full. After their
reading the subject should bo discussed
pro aLd con, information sought and
doubtful points settled. Where this is
impracticable for one evening the sub
ject should be continued until thor
oughly understood.
Not to make meetings dry by too ab
struse questions the entertainment
should be varied by a short paper or
two from the younger members, and
all should be encouraged to take part.
Music should be in the programme for
every evening. A trained glee club is
the best, but the organ and violin do
very well.
Ia addition to the above a study to
be carried on at all times is the theory
and practice of parliamentary law. The
meetings should be conducted in ac
cordance with parliamentary rules,
and thus be a valuable practical school
in this indispensable accomplishment of
legislators. The farm is to furnish
more members of our legislature and
congress than hitherto, aud the train
ing should begin on the farm.
We suggest one or two topics: Was
any nation ever injured by too much
actual money!
W hat is the nature and proper appli
cation of the Gresham law?
What aro the proper relations of
farmers to each other, and to persons
engaged in other pursuits?
To what extent is debt justifiab.e?
how does it affect debtors, morally and
materially, and how can it best be
avoided?
An Earthly Paradise.
Prof. George M. Grant, writing of
New Zealand in Harper's Magazine says:
"One is tempted to ask, for what
other spot has the Almighty done so
much? For no where is there a fairer
land. Nowhere is labor more sweet, or
recreation more shared in by all classes,
Every township has its park, race
course and play ground; the cities have
these and every thing else tnat can be
imaginod. rio-nusare universal, ire
long bummers and bracing wintors
make open-air amusoment delightful
Sports are taken up eagerly, from cour
sing matches over rough ground and
pig-stalking to cricket, foot-ball and
volunteering. From the beginning
generous provisions were made for
schools and colleges, the people in the
South Island especially having the
spirit of the men who colonized New
England. No one with eyes in his head
can fail to see that the New Zealander
of to day is laying the foundation of a
mighty state, though be may not be
abie to believe that one of his descend
ants is likely to sit on a broken arch of
London bridge and sketch the ruins of
St Paul's."
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Not To Be Read Unless You Have Time
to Thick.
If You Would Do Yourself a Service and
Us a Favor Study These Points
Carefully.
When the w jrking voters of the couu
try come to fully understandtbe money
question they will do this: Demoue.
tize silver and gold, and by constitu
tional amendment provide for the issue
of such an amount of noa-redeemable
treasury notes as shall rr.ise the price of
goous in general to a level previously
ueiermined r.pjn, this level to be maiu
tained by a regular increase of the cir
culation to any amount that may be
necessary, tn;s currency to lie a lull,
Mid the oniy legal tender, and receiv
able by the government for ail dues.
e
Is the present standard dollar a just
dollar? No. A just dollar is a station
ary dollar, one that neither appreciates
nor depreciates. Our standard dollar
has been steadily appreciating for the
past fifteen years, it will never be a
just dollar until it has depreciated to an
equal extent. It can only be depreciat-
eu oy wnat is caned an lnllatiou of the
currency. Inflation is the natural and
only remedy for appreciation. Remem
ber that money is not wealth, but only
the tool that exchanges it.
How much money is required by the
people of this nation for the most eco
nomical exchange of products, and for
all business purposes? No Vicing man
can tell.
How shall we find it out?
By experiment.
Determine first what shall be the pur
chasing power of a dollar as measured
by all staple commodities.
Then turn on a supply of legal tender
treasury Botes until the proper level is
reached, and maiutaiu it in the same
mainer.
Thus and thus only can this most im
portant fact be determined. -
The advantage of money is derived
wholly from the using of it. It is worth
less as a possession; of no use to him
who cannot spend it. Therefore, all
that we can desire in money is that its
buying power shall bo constant and
continuous. If money be redeemed we
lose the use of it. Redemption is uot
the life of money, but the death of it.
If we lean be assured that a certain peice
of money will never be redeemed, but
will bo renewed w hen worn, nod that
its buying power shall neither increase
nor grow less, but remain constant, we
have then a perfect piece of money, no
matter what it is made of. The buying
power of money cannot remain constaul
unless there be a gradual, lawful ami
systematic increase of the quantity in
circulation equal to tne increase oi
business transactions; that is, occasions
for the use of money.
Silver and gold coins manufactured
at the mint, of required weight and
fineness, are a constitutional currency.
United Slates Supreme Court.
Except in speculative and gambling
transactions, all loans are loans of
wealth, accomplished by means of the
instrument called money, and ail debts
paid aro paid with wealth, mouey being
used mi-rely to transfer the wealth from
the debtor to the creditor.
So long as the debtor class conhnes
itself to the labor of producing the
wealth out of which it must pay its
debts, and leaves to tbe creditor class
the business of making the money which
must be used in debt-paying, tbe aggre
gate amount of their debts will never
be smaller.
It has been found necessary for those
who vote to attend also to the counting
of the ballots. It is just &s important
that those who pay the debts should also
attend to the making of tho money.
The most momentous fact in the
world. It is entirely within the right
and the power of those citizens who
owe THIRTY BILLIONS of DOLLARS, to
make the money which they shall use in
paying this enormous sum, and to de
termine its purchasing power. How to
do this at one and the same time pre
venting extortion and doing justice
can be learned by reading The Farm
ers' Alliance.
LET YOUR SOUL SPEAK.
And Your Arm be Bared for the Mighty
Work that Awaits You.
Great West.
The veil which has been cast over re
cent events in current history by a party
collar press is too thin to obscure tbe
mighty movements of the race. The
associated control of the telegraph sys
tem cannot conceal it. Tho pulse of
the toiler throbs with the birth of new
ideas and the inspiration of a new gos
pel. A new fire has lighted the hill-tops
of human experience and a new alter
is erected within the vale of human
suffering.
The souls of the toilers of a hundred
generations were buried alive and
they have turned in their coffins.
Through the telephone of a new civilza
tion Labor speaks to the awakening
present from the centuries of a cruel
past! The party power which shackles
the press through associated elements,
and by purchase of editorial conciencts,
can but thinly cover the tense muscles
of man, uplifting its arm universal. A
voice thundering frcm its new Sinai
cannct be suppressed. A new light up
on the vast coast line of human entor
terprise emerges from the fogs of social
sophistry, and insists upon its right to
shine.
Every intelligent man and woman
fro-a tho shadows of the Pyramid
from the hither-Ural from the base
ment dons of the mctropoli from the
prison windows of hopelessness from
the prairies ef a conquered wilderness
from behind every bank counter and
syndicate railing from the depths of
woe and the stricken homes all and
everywhere the human race trembles
and t trills upon the very portals of a
SOLID
mighty change; and on every heart is
written bath Aaxiety and Expectancy.
W.at are the notes which corns to us
with prophetic power?
It is the tread of toiler, beatirg with
wonderou rytbni up tbe avenue of
Time, unto that higher life, through the
por.als of Self Government, whete La
bor takes from the hand ot Greed do
minion over the destiny of the human
race! It nofolds a future of broad edu
cation, eniigbtned development, scho
lasticism, moral and intellectual power,
wisdom from culture and contact icr
the Angel now dwarfed under tLe pov
erty of hell.
That Voice proclaims that an earth
quake urghtier .ban the cataclysm at
tne planet's birth, is about to shiver the
gnat social fabric under which humani
ty has been crushed. The cunning of
knavery and the bravery of deceit shall
no longer plume the wings of Hope for
higher flight. The soul of Man gives
birth to a new generation of statesmen,
w ho already stand in the vestibule of
tbe nevv epoch.
Laboring men before you is a strug
gle as sure to coine as the revolutions of
the earth. Bare ye your arm for the
work! it will be peaceful if you do
your duty NOW to delay means the
awful arbitrament of force. Wait not
for the resolutions born of despair to
day your blows will be balloti, to-morrow
you may sow dragou's teeth in fur
rows of a present opportunity. Dc6tiny
waits upon the hour.
Man where will you be found?
Speak to the Soul within you of the
morrow near to come! Take your
stand this moment and from the
bights sublime, where the love of Christ
iliumes tho darkness of our history,
reach up to the promise of God and
gutner in the destiny that awaits. There
is no heaven for cowards.
What Does it Mean?
Great West.
How little the great masses of the
American people understand the mean
ing of the present revolution in politics.
There is little question but that ninety
nine out of every hundred measure it
solely by tbe immediate effect upon
parties. It comes to them merely as the
necessary removal of parties made cor
rupt by power by the substitution of
another with better principles. This Is
truo but it is not the whole truth. It
is a glimmer of the truth the practical
and immediate effect to be sought.
But above and beyond is a wonderful
revolution in human affairs unseen by
tne masses, out ciearty visible to the"
keen eyes both of the statesman and of
the crafty financier. The fortuer is im
doubt as to the effect of the approaching
change, if it come, upon his profession
of statecraft office getting. The latter
is n in doubt as to the effect upon his
profession of finance money getting.
He knows full well that the silk-vested
ten million who deal solely in the profits
of labor, must if the change come do
something protective and useful for so
ciety, or else joia the army of the
tramps.
This seems a severe, a singularly se
vere, conclusion; but it is the solemn
truth. When it gets so that fifty mil
lions no longer borrow of the ten mil
lions the profession of the money-craft
Is gone forever and profit will accrue
solely to those who do something for
some of the human race.
This is true It is too truo for many
to believe, it is too brilliant r.n era iu
human history for labor to look upon as
real.
Hat the result is as positive and im
mediate as tho revolution of the planets
in their orbits.
For sixty generations most of the
money has been made in such a manner
that it had to be "borrowed" before it
Could exist. It could not circulate un-
til some one borrowed It. Ic did Hot
have real valuo behind it, except by as
sumption or pretonso. In all nations it
has been the product of a bank, and
hence has been a debt creator by virtue
of its having gone over the bank cou:-ter.
And it has ever been a cancer, eating
out the heart of toil inasmuch as more
money must return over that bank
counter than was issued therefrom for
interest.
And singular as it may seem, this
"money" has always been "fiat," or un
secured money just aj with the present
United States National Bank money,
Bank of France paper, etc. There
neyer was a greater fraud practiced up
on the human race than the claim that
this bank currency is "secured." It is
always unsecured. The national "bond"
or national credit given to a bank, is al
ways an unsecured promise. Astonish
ing as this may seem, it is absolutely
true. What secures a United States bond?
Why, a simple promise to pay which
would be absolutely worthless in case of
war or internal strife! No property
pledged btck of it? Not an item. The
"revenues" are pledged but the "reve-nues'-'
could not be alienated for that
purpose in case of trouble that only
trouble which would cause demand for
payment danger!
The whole vast fabric of money-maliinqh
a crafty plan, developed through ages of ex
perience, to make toil yield of its profits to
money makers, in order to get exchange. It
is a stupendous crime resting upon ignorance
weakness, superstition and power for its four
pillars.
The removal of a debt-creator from the
shoulders of the human race, and the sub
stitution of money as a debt-lifter will be
one of the s'tupendous changes waiting upon
this People's Parly. It will be so vast in
its revolution that only the broadest minds
can measure it.
Awake, oh minstrel of the race and
sing a new song! The great chords of a
divine harmony are being swept by the
fingers of the God and the groans of
Christ upon Calvary have become the
orchestrion of the" universe. Destiny
awaits the human race!
Notice to People's Party.
By request of all the members of the
National Executive Committee of the
People's party, I call a meeting of said
committee at tho Bates House, India
napolis, Ind., Nov. 16, 1891, at 10 o'clock
a. m.
I have also been requested to invite
the three members from each state con
stituting the National Committee of tho
People's party, and all other friends of
our cause to meet with us on the above
date. Let every ono be present.
Reform Press Association please pub
lish. H. E. Taitbeneck.
Chairman.
Marshall, 111., Sept. 23, 1891.
All the difference between the land-
loan plank in the Alliance plan and the
present system of borrowing money
on lands from the banks and capitalists
is a little matter of ten per. cent inter
est on the loan. This little item is
what makes the people prefer the Alli
ance plan. The money mongers de
sire to continue to pocket this ten per
cent, and this is precisely what the
fight is about. Southern Mirturu.