A A- , r
THK ALLIANCE-IN DEPENDENT.
wvttti n th hui
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3IAGNATES 3IUST GO.
THE PEOPLE FAST COVING TO WANT
GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS.
Th Trmc Matlre raderlvlnc the Scneaa
te flalld Road ! the CalfHaw tn
Bm-om Rob the Fee pie Haw t Oct
FeaeeeelM nf (b Railroad.
"I do not think your Chicago corre
spondent ii correct in laying that the
plan for new grain route from the
wt by way of the gulf of Mexico bat
for iti object retribution against the
east," aaid Mr. Charles B. Matthews yes
terday, referring to an article in Sun
day'a Express which purportl to out
line a acheme being pushed by the Kan
au Populist to divert the grain traffic
from Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo.
"The Populists have too much else on
their hands, "he aaid, "to build a rail
road at a loss just to get even with the
east.
"The true motive underlying the
plan." be went on, "ia in the condition
of things existent there which is not un
derstood here as it should be. Govern
ment ownership of railroads is sought,
not retribution. The people are deter
, mined to rid themselves of a despot
which for years has been grinding them
down. I refer to the railroads and their
dependent trusts, which are responsible
for whatever suffering there may be
there. The railroads have been carry
ing the product of the farms for just as
much as they would U ar, just below the
limit at which it would I unprofitable
to raise anything. They came in there
and gobbled up the land by blackmail
and robbery.
"In one town where I lived for a short
time, which had Ix-gun its life 1 fore the
railroad came through and had laid out
enough town lots to build a city as large
as Buffalo, the railroad demanded every
other lot as the price of running through
it. The demand was refused. The rail
road thereupon built a little platform 1
miles from the town, and any on who
wanted to ride Wl to go this distance to
board a train. By this and other tneaus
the town was at lost forced to give in. If
this isn't robbery, I don't know what is,
and it is the feeling aroused by just such
arbitrary acts that prompts the desire to
get from nnder control of the railroads
and have a free exit to the gulf.
"The gulf scheme is reamable as
being the direction of the least ivsist
ance. The present governor of Texas
was elected ',u the platform of govern
ment owrtfship of railroads, and a great
majority of the people west of the Mis
sonri river are well tip on the subject
, 'm- "'and believe in it, Personally, however,
I think they would letter build their
roads through to Duluth and Chicago
and then improve the present water
route,"
"You believe in government owner
ship of railroads, Mr, Matthews?"
"That is the great question of the day,
be replied, "I believe the government
should own the railrouds and telegraph
lines, as some European governments
own them. Let it bo so that every man
is equal to every other man, so that there
shall be no discrimination in rates. No
one believes today that the interstate
commerce law is anything but a dead
letter. It is the railroads, the wheat
trust or combination at Minneapolis, the
meat combination at Chicago, the coal
I combine, that have -m squeezing the
people of the west, and the j-eople are up
in arms against them,
"As it is now, if a farmer has wheat
to sell be must sell it at the combina
tion's price, must sell his meat at the
combination's price, must buy his coal
and flour at the combination's price.
This is not a democracy so much as it 1
a plutocracy, A hundred men are able
to control the elections, to say how much
1 you and I shall pay for ft ton of coal, for
a barrel of flour, how much we shall
get for a bushel of wheat, for a day's
work. And all this can lie practically
done away with if the government owus
the railroads. It would save this country
from becoming like the European coun
tries where classes have become na
tures. "A small shipper would be on an equal
ity with the larger. As it is now, there
ia no defense against the trusts. Presi
dent Harrison did a good deal to help
the trusts, but President Cleveland has
done more in appointing Attorney Gen
eral Olney, the great counsel for trusts. "
"And how would you have the govern
ment go about getting possession of the
railroads?"
"By the some means they gave the
right to them. I do not think the gov
ernment had a right to say to a railroad,
'You may take this or that man' land at
its true value if you need it.' But just
as that was done I would have them
bought back. Let appraisers be ap
pointed to ascertain the true value of the
property not the estimated value, but
the actual worth. If terms cannot be
agreed upon, let the government build
its own roads alongside the present roads
and drive them out. It would be rob
bery to pay, as the English government
did, 150.000,000 for 110,000,000 worth of
telegraph lines. If the railroads were
operated at government txjwnse, and
only enough was charged to meet the
tijiensea and a fair interest on the in
vestment, we could ride to Chicago first
class for instead of for 19.50 at ex
cursioo rates and accommodations,'4
Do yon U'lirve many jtvple think
yojl do about this1
"Many tnorl tS&tt most peoide Iroatrio,
Hundreds of wi n in Buffalo today are
in favor of the government owning the
railroads. Judges ai.d lawyers have told
IU they believed it was the best way out
of the present diftkuUU-,"
"And jou thiok the day is near at
hand when the railroad Mtafe'liatvs will
I out of a jobr
"It Un 1 15 year a wny." Buffalo E-
!
"(i.lt.nep th Sew Volk
World I A fair Sample of ht "NH-Ht."
will do lr nun. Ihi lh H. Unn 1U
puMuj h on his pnr as a atlvtr .
, hUy he U a full flawed goldbuf the
toulio svu4 TulHier strn. iHuver
LAKE ACASSI2.
IIww a Ciatt fcutlr of Water Vis'shtd
lor find.
If you look at a map of the Domin
ion o( Canada you will see near the
center of its southern border the fer
tile province of Manitoba, containing
the greater part of l.&ke Winnipeg,
and embracing a vast extent of rich
prairie land, whose abundant harvests
and bountiful pastures have won for
the province a world-wide fame, not
withstanding the long, cold winter
that it has to endure.
(ieology bis an interesting story to
tell of the former condition of Man
itoba, says the Youth's Companion,
and of the origin of its productive
solL A great lake, exceeding in ex
tent the whole chain of what we now
call the Great Lakes once existed
there, and to this vanished lake,
which no man ever saw, though the
evidences of its former existence are
plentiful enough, the name of Agassis
has been given.
The present Lake Winnipeg is only
the shrunken and dwindled remnant
of the great body of water whose
oo.y bed bu now been turned into
thousands of harvest fields.
But perhaps the most interesting
thing about Lake AgHSslz is that it
was formed, so to speak, by a tremend
ous dam of ice which shut it in on its
southern side This was near the
close of the so called Glacial period.
when the great sheet of ice that had
covered more than half of North
America was beginning to dissolve
and retreat
As the glacial ice melted away, and
the bed of the lake slowly rose with
the diminished pressure, the waters of
Lake Agotsiz were gradually drained
off, leaving only, the Wlnnpeig of to
day, the basin of the lied river of the
North, and the brood prairies of Mani
toba as tokens of its former existence
and evidence of its vat extent
LIFE WAS VALUABLE.
If Could Kot Alfont Tu Threw Away
oo4 Tin ii i.
Some men have more than others
to live fora fact often take,n into
account in timet of extreme perlL If
the exigencies of war, for instance.
make it necessary that some one shall
undertake a peculiarly hazardous
piece of work it is customary for an
unmarried man to be chosen. An
instance in which this principle re
coivod a ludicrous application is men
tioned by Mr. Montagu Williams in
bis reminiscences.
Mr, Williams had rone to a place
of entertainment with a young man,
Lord -, who had Just lent his
father aid succeeded to his title. In
the course Of the piuy one of tho cur
tains caught fire. It was soon put
out and no great harm was done, but
at tho first instant Mr, Williams'
companion jumped from his seat and
bolted like a rabbit out of the build-
inc.
Ho did not return,
Williams got back
and when Mr,
to his club he
found the man there,
"What on earth male you bolt hi
that way?" said Mr. Williams. -You
seemed to be frightened out of your
wits. Don't you know that, on such
an occasion, if every body got up and
rushed out, a panic would ensue, with
dreadful consequences, Why on
earth couldn't you sit s t ' 11 as 1 did?
There was nothing serious the mat
ter." With a patronizing air the young
gentleman replied:
.)h, yes; that's very well for ypu,
but you haven't jut succeeded to a
peerage and twenty thousand a year. "
Youth's Companion.
The Peruvian Capital,
A late census of tho city of Lima,
Peru, shows it to have a population
of 1O3.0H of which 4M.'.U are males
and o4,106 are females; 70,061 of the
inhabitants can road and 32. Ui3
can neither read nor write. A singu
lar reversal of the rotative proportion
in numbers of the sexes is shown by
comparison with previous enumera
tions. In 1866 the census showed the
city to have 4,42'i more males than
females, while the present census
shows that the females outnumber the
males by 4 766.
LUrd Uoo4 Life.
On the occasion of the death of an
old colored "mammy" in Lexington,
Ky., recently, her remains were laid
In state in tho parlor ot her mistress'
handsome home, and many white
mourners followed the body to the
final resting place, During the last
days of her illness it wns customary
for the ladies of the family to hurry
home, whenever they had had occasion
to go out, so that the old auntie should
not get lonesome.
The Loopard.
The leopard U an Inhabitant of Af
rica, India and the ' Indian Islands.
Its height It about two feet These
animals aro ao ustomed to live much
on trees, and on that account are
called tree-tigers by the natives. They
are easily tamed and become very
fond of their keepers, and they like
perfume as well a most girls do show
ing a decided preference howenr, for
lavender water,
rkictiil the Funeral,
A gentleman sent hl servant to in
quire about a friend who had been ill,
In eao he should b dead And out
the date of the funeral" were the
girl's parting Instructions.
Half an hour later she came back.
The geiitieman Is very much bet
ter, sir," she sall. 'and they have not
yt decided oul I he funeral"
K. Y. Herald.
f.el I f ls tturlJ,
CitpU n i f A i bona UfffuUtom (ad
justing the i)Oo). uian of jour
tutenU sir, U 'nid to r.
I IliltiflillU d lltl' tithtttl Yt. I
seem to I r gUX In the line of pro-
iitotlwn. i&i'anpoUs Journal,
m m II I II IIIIVIMlM
THE POLITICAL REVOLT.
Jt Bcgis Xjut Tear la the TVrt and Is
Spreading Tbi Year la Srw England.
While this is an "off" year in the elec
tion calendar, only four states choosing
a full set of officers, it. is anything but
an "off" year politically. The blindest
partisan cannot be unmindful of the
deep tide of discontent sweeping over
the country. Men are beginning to lose
faith in the political economy of the
books. They see monstrous aggregations
of wealth and widespread distress among
producers, which are the direct result of
Republican and Democratic legislation.
Under such conditions the birth of a
new party was inevitable. Nor is it
true that the political revolt is a peculiar
western or southern product. It is more
general perhaps than many are willing
to believe.
The Advertiser of this city began an
editorial this week in this fashion: "The
depression of the past summer bos had
one very evident effect, from a political
view, in rousing the Populists into a vig
orous campaign in the south and west
Reports from those sections as brought
to leaders of the People's Party in this
state indicate an unusually determined
agitation among the voters in many
states, with the result that the Populist
leaders are very sanguine as to the re
sult." The economic condition of the coun
try is of as vital importance to Massa
chusetts as to Kansas, and those in a
position to know Massachusetts senti
ment declare that at no timo since the
war have the people been more dis
turbed in mind over public affairs than
this summer. There is not much noise
being mode. That is not the New Eng
land way. It appears, however, since
the People's Party in this state nomi
nated a full ticket at Lynn, inquiries
and demands for literature have come
to the committee from all parts of the
state.
A feature of this new r.nd significant
interest in Populist principles is the
number of converts among the wage
workers, especially the trades nnionists.
The jieople of the wef t reached the part
ing of the ways hint year, and MasHO
chusetts, in our opinion, will see the
same crisis in the near future. We huve
entered upon a grand campaign, and the
pcoplo will capture the monopolies.
New Nation.
Can It Ever lie I'aid?
Frederick C, Waite, late statisti'-ian in
the census bureau, furnishes some start
ling figures upon the indebtedness of tiio
country. He says: "The funded debts of
the railroads during the past 12 years
have increased 129 per cent, while the
current debt Um nearly doubled iu the
last seven years, During the same Vi
years the loans and overdrafts of na
tional banks have increased from
000,000 to 13,171,000,000, while , those
of other bonks, exclunive of private
banks and real estate mortgages, have
increased from :J7H,000,000 to 11,183,
000,000. "The most antoiiWiing increase of all
is in the real estate uioi tgnge indebted
ness. In 21 states for which Jhis indebt
edness has been tabulated the aggregate
at the close of 1880 was $4,547,000,000.
Last year, after turning the scale at pi,
000.000,000, Mr. Waite says the mortgage
indebtedness continued its upward flight,
being contented with an increase of 220
per cent, or nearly four times the in
crease in the true value of real estate.
The total net private indebtedness of the
American people equaled in 1880 but
18,750,000,000, and lust September it
amounted to $10,700,000,000, an increase
of 13,0OO,O00,O00 in tho short period of
13 years."
Btmpfon Too Much For Him.
Hon. Jerry Simpson is making a grand
campaign in Virginia. Ho captures the
Kople wherever he goes ami fills the
emocracy with dismay. Congressman
Marshall of Virginia, called "The Cy
clone," has been f o) lowing 8i m pson about
for the purpose of breaking the force of
bis meetings. On two occasions he has
held joint debates with Jerry. He won't
do so any more. The last one at Chatham
proved such a disaster that old line
Democrats congratulated Simpson on
the gentlemanly manner in which he
used np Mr. Marshall, Marshall is a
windy demagogue, with neither logic
nor argument, and could not stand be
fore Jerry's clean cut statements of pres
ent troubles, their cause and remedy,
National Watchman.
BU Day M ill Cone.
When Senator Peffer addresses the
senate, all the Democratic and Republic
an members begin readiug, talking and
imitating sleep, and he is studiously
snubbed. All right. The day is not far
distant when Peffer will have a majority
on his side, and the traitors and sell ouU
will be kicked out of Washington, and
many of them sent to the penitentiary
for their crimes, where they ought to ba.
There is a commotion amoug the masses.
Peffer can afford to stand it. Coming
Nation,
Tate lllaa Oak
TWrt'i dfuion Id tt laodi
Vot lil in out!
Des'.lnf dath on tvery l.kodi
Vote lit m out!
Io his train eonia famine slow, ,
Kulu, bligtil and tliKnly ww,
And lbs uUiu'i overthrow) j
YuU btin out) ,
"
TWtf and jillllw I 1st
Vuta fclm out!
f.'ai'lial.tinmuil)fl
Vol hint uutl
Nanytil for ronu ln- trlU fca,
JilMU r, truth or ImliMlf,
Kaiirf mui rui ttr
Vwta liiu out!
!. SauitKHiii Tia ur loiiri
Vota htm out!
Hla and a )imr it trait, d )wtri
Vuta I, 'in i.iiil
(Vr in. I llil rt.ill.ilne't fni Hi
rj'xll hi in ut 1.U iiiirti r hi
Tear lilt U ldlt trml duttl
Wiii,' bii.i out;
IU ( r ttauit of ihhiii t arm
V ; Uinuui!
Nm-M tii I wit UI l.i h lit ftarai
V I t I IUI Mill'
W i,d i'lrak ll.u Uui. n' 1 1 niiii
V..U tiur lot 4 tu rltfM t ti
Vote tuur kiaiil i4 km a aatbi
Vi la aim tmit
-I. Nrttnabaw Is I
SILVER AND GOLD.
A. Correspondent Who Weald Sobmit tba
Uoeatioa t n I'opular V tu.
I have a suggestion to make about the
silver question. The newspapers talk
about public sentiment, about silver
"lobbies," and abuse senators for delay.
Every well posted man in Washington
knows there is practically uo silver lobby
here. They also know that the whole
influence of the administration is thrown
against silver, which amounts to tenfold
more than any lobby could do.
They also know that the farcical meet
ing of the business men just held was for
the express purpose of influencing con
gress to vote for repeal. Boards of trade
and bankers' associations easily pass res
olutions, write letters, send out peti
tions, etc. But the farmers and the me
chanics neither write many letters nor
pass many resolutions. They work and
vote.
The public sentiment of the United
States, I believe, is three-fourths or
more in favor of a double standard of
silver and gold; in favor of it now; in
favor of an exact equality before the
law and at the mints of the United
States at a ratio of 16 to 1. Now, I pro
pose that congress at once provide for
the submission of this one question tc
the people of this country at a nonpar
tisan election. It could bo done in 00 or
00 days and the result made known. In
other words, give us a chance to put np
or shut np, and the other fellows can do
the same.
Talk about your rainy days, your land
slides, your revolutions the past would
be nothing. The single gold standard
men could not carry three states in the
Union, I do not believe.
Submit the question not only of dou
ble or single standard, but whether this
natic.i should go it alone und do so now
or wait for the never ending methods of
international monetary conferences to
get other nations to agree with us. Yes,
let ns vote, and if you want the two
thirds majority let that go in. Either
bury silver or give it fair play, Compel
Cleveland to go to the country for a vote
of confidence. The American people can
be trusted. Let us vote. John H, King
in Washington Post.
The Lion and tlic Serpent,
Mr. Davis of Kansas: "The iieople of
this country lrnve had to struggle with
the black demon of chattel slavery.
There is another slavery. Slavery is a
means by which the uianter enjoys the
earnings of the man. If its require
ments are enforced by the lush and the
bloodhound, it is called chattel slavery.
If the roblicries are enforced by means
of bonds and mortgages created through
the manipulations of taxation and
finance, it is slavery all tho same. Chat
tel slavery is a system of physical force
after the manner of the lion and the
tiger.
"The slavery of the purse is after the
manner of the serpent. It is mildness
itself in tho beginning. It charms, en
tices and slimes. Then it crushes and
devours by slow processes through the
mortgage, the bond and other devices,
but the day of judgment finally comes
with merciless certainty and relentless
savagery. We have beaten the lion's
process on the fields of Lexington, York
town and New Orleans and at Appo
mattox. The God of battles inspired
the people with patriotism and sent us
leaders worthy of the great occasions.
Our history has been a proud one, sur
passing that of the greatest nations. The
lion is beaten on American soil,
"This is a contest, not of swoi and
guns, but of brains and ballots, Ood and
his people against Shy lock and his gold!
Every man must take sides. Wo cannot
escape the responsibility of action , nor
the verdict of posterity upon our acts.
Either we will stand with Jefferson and
Benton and Jackson and a long line of
noble patriots, or we must be classed
with Nicholas Biddlo, the defaulter and
corrupter of men, Mr, Speaker, let each
for himself make such a record that the
muse of history will speak kindly of us,
and that our children may read the story
of our deeds with enthusiastic pleasure
and not with shame." Congressional
Record.
A Genuine Pcople'a Government.
"The true solution of the great social
problem of this age," says Professor Les
ter F. Ward, "is to be found in the ulti
mate establishment of a genuine peo
ple's government, with ample power to
protect society against all forms of in
justice from whatever source, coupled
with a warm and dutiful regard for the
true interests of each and all the poor
as well as the rich, If this be what is
meant by the oft repeated phrase 'pa
ternal government,' then were this cer
tainly a consummation devoutly to be
wished. But in this conception of gov
ernment there is nothing paternal. It
get rid entirely of the puternal, the pa
triarchal, the personal element, and be
comes nothing more nor less than the ef
fective expression of the public will, the
active agency by which society con
sciously and intelligently governs iu
own conduct."
Senia DenallUns,
If a jtoor man advocates the division
of the wealth of the rich among the poor,
he is called a socialist, but the rich man,
who by the aid of his wealth secure leg
islation which enable him to appropri
ate to his own use the pittance of the
poor, is called a financier I The poor wan
who take anything by force is called a
thief, while the rich tuau who by legis
lation wonM double the debts of the
poor W railed a lm f.wtor! The msit
whu wants the people to destroy the
Kovrrmiieut t called an anarchist, while
the nmn who htltors to have the govern-im-utdfstrvy
th ivpl l patriot.
Southern Mercury.
Tbe y ete Ibrnwn ,.
A man w hu Villi I. r hla in.htii-.il 1 nil.
i rtph, rewirvlb of the ipu-alion ft sue
teas or tie-feat nt tlirow l vol
a wy, iHil whin h voM for twu who
do nut reprew'itt hi principle he throw
away hit vil. U'b't be foded any more
f tl.s cry of thrxwlag away your vole,
tVvrUnd IV Hit,
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Quills any color each. 5c
Fanny feathers 10c and upwards. -
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Dinner, Tea and Table ware.
LAMPS Decorated, Shade and Fount 9.3c, worth $1.50,
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Picture Frame, .15 Cents and
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