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THE ALUANCK.lSDKPKNDKiNT. DECEMBER 21 1893 THE MJAlE-PEPEiEE Oesoildsiion of ta rirxtrs WllisttSStbnsli Indtpecdcnt tvmusbx9 etxbt thcbsdat it The Aixiance Poblishino Co. iiu II Street, Lincoln, Neb. tr i Pm. H. S. Bow. Boe r i' arria, K.C.Rwica, 8CBtCIPTI01 OH DOLLAB PU OMUI HWJMOlBSO. Editor 5HTTfM,:::::::::.i: Business Manager. -If toy mm mast (all tor m to rise, Tbn Mk I no4 to climb. Another's pain I chooM not for mj food. A golden chain, A rob of honor, 1 too good a prize To tempt my hasty band to do a wrong Unto a fellow man. Thla life hath wo safflMoni. wroiucht br man wnanUs '; And who that hath a heart would dar prolong (ir add a torraw to a suicasa oni That MMtk heaUog balm to make It whole V sty beaom own the brotherhood of man. N. I. P. A. PwblUber Anwoemneraent. The anbecrlptlon price of the Aixiiiron-I nuvi la 11.00 per year, Invariably In ad Agents In soliciting subscriptions ahonld be very rsaeliil that all name are correctly amliMi and nroDer Dostofflce given. Blanks for return subscriptions, return envelope, te.. can be bad on application to thla efflce. iiitiTi iim ur name. No matter how often you write u do not neglect this Import ant mailer. verv wvva mm . with Incomplete addi eases or without algna tnrea and it la sometime difficult to locale then. CMA'oior ADDRM. Bubacrlber wishing o change their poetofflee addrea ust alway give tbelr former as well a their present ad- irn whan phanira will be DromDUV made. Address aU letier and make all remltlancea payable to THK ALLIANCE PUB. CO . Lincoln, Neb. The attention of our subscribers Is called to tome special articles and new features in this issue of our paper. We have lo the way of specials an article of very great educational value on panics, tbelr cause and remedy, by J. M. L. Babcock, reprinted from Donohue's magazine. Our Washington letter, by Mr. Thornton, is more than usually in teresting. Prom the St. Joseph Her ald we reprint an article of value on 'Interest and Money." From "The Outlook," an article on the New York city telephone monopoly, giving val uable interesting facts. We have also borrowed "Zeke Bilklns," the North Carolina political humorist, and intro oed him to our reader. We are very serious ourselves, more so than we like to be, but we know a joke when see it, and in future we shall help our readers who need to laugh by means of a laugh ing department. We have also intro duced (in crude form this week) a fam lly department, including Sunday school lessons, puzzles for the young folks and stories. We are glad to announce also that we are negotiating for a serial story to be written specially for our columns, a story which will deal with our reform questions. Show this number to your friends and get us up a club, won't you? According to estimates given in a dispatch of the 11th inst., there were at that time in Chicago, "not less than 117,000 ptople out of work and in sore need." Goverkor LKWEiLUQ of Kawas is getting stacks cf letters, from people all over the United States, commending him for ibbultg his to-calltd "tramp circular," New York City report enormous increase in the demands of charity. There cannot be less than 200,000 people in that city and Bro. k'ya who are un able to find work. t j 'i Texas is all alive, throughout it great length and breadth, with Populist and Farmers' Alliance activltet. Texas will soon be la the PopulUt oonst-dlatlon Of redeem d state. The Pcpulhtsof Oregon are activity at work perfecting their party organi sation. Governor IVnnoyer Is giving them the fu I strength of his It flue no, and ably leads the party, j 1 ' ... , 1 . .' . a In the mining region of northern Wisconsin and Michigan .1 000 mea ar without work and have Wt u for a long time. This means tl at 1 0,000 tit 12V 00) people there ar la great destitution n 1 1 ' i Tiirki TfcunatNtMtf hi townsmen turn,d o'it to greet aid r.tv eg. Ucftral MasWr Workman T. V, IW. d rly wlrft he rlurnd to lis baro In rkraato, I'a, a few days ago, N braver, truer, ol4e ledr of the laboring at a will aver be IounJ. A at Its work U aot jt done, We hope h will put hit wart and brala 1st th tank of tdiK-a'tag U the Wealth pro duonra to tfcsir wbiu) Interval Ud utlW poi.tfcaU; aad ladustrlally t sHjurelt, A WARIISQ TO THE POPULISrS- j We wish to call the at'entien of the Populist and our party prta to sornr very importaot facts which we have la the last month observed. The strengt b the life, the hope of the people's party and the cause of liberty is in the educat ing power of it press, Its party paper. We have not seen able to spread our ideas much in the cities, because the old party daily papers are almost the only papers Uken by city people. But in the country oar weeklies found a field tbat they could enter, afield open and partly prepared for them by the Farmers Alii anoe. Our advantage there, however, has been noted, and the stite and national organs of plutocracy have de termined to crowd us out of that field, If possible. Through the As-ociaed Press news monopoly the Republican and Democratic d allies are able to gsther, mold, suppress and express the news: and everybody must have the general news, the Populists as well as the rest. But less, comparatively little, attention has been hitherto paid by tbe dallies to the people who could not take a dally, the farming clas. This class, because of the value of their votes and thslr.drlft toward tbe Populist party, Is claiming now tbe shrewd, careful atten tion of the old party leaders, and they have perfected a scheme to hold all the votes which we have not yet secured, and to draw hark as many as can, by newspaper art and political tact'es, be led away from us. Our first phenomenal party growth was made before tbe old parties knew we were to be feared. But as soon as the ballot box showed our power floods of misrepresentation, sophistry and ridicule were poured out of tbe daily dragon mouths to swallow us up. But the distance from the cities has helped the child of our hopes, and tbe party, In spite of all in genious lying and the prejudice it could create, has grown. Theonlyway to kill it, it is apparent, is to go Into the wilderness where it is being nour ished till it shall have strength to reign. And this is what is determined on by the great dragon power. Outf their daily issues the old party papers are makinr up t heir best possible wet k. ly newspapers, and at trifling expense thdy are able to tend out papers which, well advertised, they will introduce everywhere. The Republican papers are being advertised with hitherto un heard of Inducements and unparalleled cheapness in Nebraska (It is not a good Democratic field), the Toledo Blade, the Globe Democrat and the Republics state papers. The weeklies will have the same skillful misrepresentation, the matter prepared to prejudice and mislead . This 1b the scheme to hold, capture and divide tbe farmers. And the only way we can prevent this as a party is for the rank and file to stir them- sol ves might lly to In tro ' uce and help our papers. The people sometimes forget tbat a reform paper must have a mighty struggle to live when such times come on us as we are now staggering under. Where individuals everywhere are pinched and poor the paper fighting their battles must not be put off aDd work for it forgotten. It is the single dollars withheld which are its life Its own bills must be paid promptly, but advertisers and subscribers put off what tbey often might pay. Take care of your papers, those which you know deserve to live, and ,when times are hard work the harder to introduce them, and to gather up a few dollars to meet their pressing necessities. Re member, there is a plan to Ml out and croud out the Populist weeklies, to get into homes ahead of them. The life of the Populist party depends on what you do now for your party pre, THE OMAHA RAILROAD ORGAN. Trade and Traffic, "devotfd," it says, "to political economy and railway, fi nancial and commercial interests," has transferred its publishing office from St. Louis to Omaha, and asks of us an exchange. Certainlj ; we exchange with everybody, and read friends and foes. It pays to do It. This railroad sheet, no doubt, also, will watch the state organ of the Populists. "T. and T." gives notice In its first column that "It believes in sound money, sound credit and sound businots methods." Well, so do we, the very soundest and perfectly honest. Fol lowing this creed the editor prints a letter of warm endorsement from S. II. II. I lark; and in his first article argues that Omaha should mo be hauiprtd by the Inter-State Commeice law, but should be given special railroad rates, ra'ts not given to steal ler towns or pro portion d to distant. That la "T. and TV" td a of Justice and "sound busta mvtLods." The ar it article Is "I I l Money, and the Vernier." Its first sen'sms rvads 'it IsttprcUsI that eon it will be flood, d with petitions from the rural dl trloU the west this winter asking, or rather dmanding, frv silvr cUge, and perhaps othisr kinds of t tutMMry ' "T, a't't T." sd tilt tbe right of irttUoa and thinks It loJUaU frwd-ru, but shows the folly of It It thsa says, "Nu! po:l'Ul outaltt, wha ha give aaf though at all to the q'miios, will div lUat the ot t ralslt g farm pn4at It out tt alt roportloa to what thty I for la th rfMuuaptbn marks'. " (Our eyes hibII at lot, (a "Trade and Traffic," sukt tro as pretefctag!) A4 it went oi f show tbat this was brint inf the farmers into debt, whereas each producer ought to hve a surplus, -fu-r living. "And it is tbe violation f this econom'c law," says T. and I'." "that gives rise to petition to congress for fiat money when there is mony enough, and to s'rikers f.r bifber wge wbea wages are on a parity with other commodities" We here began to wonder what the T. and T remedy could be., Jt was simply this: , If the consumer, makes hi cost of living: mre than his lnoonie; if be a pi re to social or other current Ci life that are higher than the results of his iroductlvti can react), be a.ut get dm m into the currents Uat are in harmony with tbe corfomlo law of adjuatmem, or be cr us -ted out of all cut rents, save one leading to the jail, or tbe on lead Ing to tbe pror house And tbis a uiie to all kinds anu condiu n of nu n. sli ce it is ustural law luat txpeod.turts ex-edi g income is the down giado to bankruptcy. The succeeding paragraph preach so plainly aod intertstlngly to tba lazy, siiftless, too ldxuriocs farming class that we print them entire Now, it is the violation of this very law tbat makes the cost of raising farm produce out ef proportion to what is obtained tor it in the markets. Tbe methods which a great many western farmers employ in condoeilBtr their farm operations Inevitably lead tofinan clal aistrestf. There arc many uonects sary factors in farm operation. which have crept In from time to time until tb y now, and have for several years, exerted a most powerful inliu nu In tbe direction of making tbe cost ol production overlap the iacome. Thus mo percentage oi the cost over what It should be Is ia ratio to the sum btr of unnecessary "help"' empioytd; to the c ire taken of farm muculuerv: to the number of non-supponir g, much lessprouucing, staoie, oujry, and car riage horses, and to the number and kind of "city ways" tbat bave been in jected into the eooi.omies o.' farm life and farm operwtion. Renewal In farm Implemrnti is an other important item in tbe c st cf the product, ar. d yet tbe majority of west ern farmers never think of housing or otherwise caring for thf m. The rule is to leava plow, barrow, reaper, thresher and, la fact, every other implement right on the spot where its work was ot mpleted until the next season's crop r quiremenis uemana their employ ment; but meauwbile the buizifv. tue carnage, the piano, and th fuion aud sporiing papers receive careful atten tion. Another laige and unnccessnry item of expense is lionse serynnis and field hands to do woi k that should b done by the farmer and hii family. I bis kind of farming is f uggesled by the sptctes of pride which is invariably succeeded by a humiliating fall, and (be fall always begin with mortgaging th farm to provide fr it fictis,or the dlfft r enco between the cost of production and the value of the produco. 'I be remedy that U demanded for these ills is free silver coinage and other kinds of fiat money, but tbe pro position is too ab urd for thoughtful consideration. It is nonsensn to sup pose tbat flat money, or war upon the railways for lower rates of transporta tion will bring relief from conditions that bave been brought about by tbe employment of unnatural and hurtful business methods. If the farmer of the west will give proper encourage uitnt to capital to come and establish factories, mills and other kinds of in dustrial enterpr ses. and thus help lo bui'd up home markets for their pro duce, and. adojt a more economical policy in caring for farm machinery; give up ornamental hired help and other kinds of uujustiflable habits of extravagance into which they have fall eu, they will soon see tbelr farms emerging from the clouds of financial distress. Sound huslne-s principles are needed just as much la conducting a farm as in conducting a bank or a rai way. How do you like tbat kind of talk, farmers of Nebra-ku? Take notice, too, that S. H. H. Clark tays of the writer of it that "his articles have the refuta tion of standing in the front rank of economic literature " More than that Two pages of its space are filled with the most flattering and appreciative letters commending Trade acd Traffic, its tone, ability and teacbing, letters written by more than twenty of the high up (fficials of the principal railroads of the west, with a few addi tional from bankers, brokers, and board of trade commissioners. The Congregatlonalist of Hob, ton re ports that a careful Investigation of the situation in that city reveals that Bos ton has, approximately, 33,3D0 person unemployed. Thrse figures of course do not Include those who draw Inoomts, the clans whose absorption and accu mulation produoes all the unjuat, unlo v.ted poverty of the workers. TutRK has been another great ex posure of Republican rottenness, this time la Hamilton county, this state, wht-ru the po.ltlolaas and oftluial took the naturalisation law Into their own baud and imtd v.-ters at their own pleasure lo don the Independents. Judge Wheeler has undoae their UWfal work. Hat It I a crime against popu lar government which drv the sovtrtst Rallies. The lUpubicaa party must be overthrown. i 1 . loltTV lot between I. and 100th rest la New Yerk City which sold at !!) a lot la 111, ar now worth ovr llt','Ml. that money bavhg jitt btn refund for them. The father of the present ownr bought trvra U Who vari ed thtrvatiy Iwrvasetl value tWy avw iHtatlu? No labor ha n a vl)4 ' thent. 1 atv'lety esrtted It, It hrb'Sgs to and should have he a tttrd httt the tressury tt K'tty, If the tadk'lJusi (without labor) red it, i ;y hasaorliUt by a dlmt r gta.Ua 4 l(Koie ti to tak a dollar tl ltay Uvm him. MrH5 8PIEIT OF PARTY" It Is said that "the father of hi country," a most reverent worshiper of Jehovah, a man of faith aod prayer, at a critical period in the revolutionary struggle cursed terribly a man upon whom much depeaded, who yet failed in duty. And were Washington here to day, fighting for human freedom, he wou.d not lea fearfully and justly ciuse the man whom we quote below; - The Silver scare" by which Mr. Cleveland s nirbt to direct attention from the disaster which threats of revo utlonary tariff change were brio? ing on the country 1 over: Indeed, so rap'dly do event succeed each ether, it is well nigh forgotten. But tbat resto ration of prosperity that the Democra tic prees promised as tbe result rf tbe repeal or tbe bberman bill is notat-par ent. I he stagnation of trade continues No other reuse than tbat of dread of tariff re volntion now can be assigned Mon-y is pLnteou. The banks are full to repletion Inter Ocean. In a succeeding paragraph this Chi cago edlter, with a sickening afsump- tiHO of moral t uperlorlty, calls on the Populists and others who believe "more money In c'rcula loa" is necessary, to contemplate tbe present bank holdings, and "te meditate upon their share of rerponslbility in driving the money out of circu'afion and Into the banks by a -t votes tbat contributed to the election of a Democratic president and a Demo cratic majority in coneres " the writer of this quoted paragraph Is in dally practice a most dangerous partisan liar, in spirit he is a monarch 1st, and to the extent of his ability he Is a betrayer of bis country, and promoter of slavery and anarchy. He is all this, because it cannot be that be lacks intelligence. He is a Republican partisan. A D.mocra'ic partisan Is no better; but he is a Republican partUaa All national evils which have cursed the country under Republican rule, such as the panics of '73 and tbe sue ceeding years of busiFers paralysis, when the tariff was of its own making, he convenient ly forgets. The Ifcpubli can pirty can do no wrong;" the oppos Ing party can do nothing right. At this time, when millions who bave been "protected" (?) all their lives by a Republican tariff are either starving or kpt miserably alive by charity, not having betn abU out of (heir Republican tariff wagtt to accumulate anything, tbi cursed hypocrite declares work every whfru has stopped through fear of the Wilson bill, a bill that reduces the tariff on the whole but slightly, and wi icb tho New York Sun rays McKinley him self might be proud of, had be made it. It is actually a Republican measure, a "protective" tariff, and if the Republi can psrty bud framed th bill it would bave bepn enthusiastically supported by all the Republican politicians and prefg. And be says Cleveland sought to de tract attention from the evils of a pro posed tariff reduction, (which secured his election) by a "silver scare!" It a silver "scarf, gotten up by the goldbug bankers. But the Repub llcans, including this unprincipled partisan, did their full part making tbe scare effectual, and showed themselves mere completely tbe tools of the bank ers when the vote against silver was taken. It is not the Democratic party alone, but the Republican party also, that bas abominably deceived tbe peo ple and by their lies and leglslatio brought th workers into this most dreadful destitution and dependence A week ago Sunday night, with the thermometer almost at zero, 1,500 house less, bomelees, landlord evicted people crowded into the City Hall of Chicago and lay down for sleep on the dagstones in tbe hallways. "The scenes witness ed every night in the police eta' ions and in tbe corridors of the City Hail defy description," says The Advance, reli gious paper of that city. And it further ays. "It is b.lleved to be a conserva tive FBtlmate, that there are not les than one hundred thousand working people (of Chicago) without work, who hunger for work ard can find nothing to do." It U no worse in Chb ago ihuu ewhere, everywhere. And while the working millions, whose earnings of many years bave been absorbod by capitalists and landlords, are suffering untold torture and perishing of co d and h'ingi'r, men sock to make selfish political capiul out of their agonies, and turn the popular attention away from the cause of distress, away from the legalized robtorl4 which bave placed the millions under the life crushing heel of avarice. This editor (who, If Intelligent, de serve banting) knows, doubtless, that the panic was planned and brought on by the gold monopolists, the banking fraternity. The New York Sun, the Chicago Kttcord, the Chicago Trlbun and wthr metropolitan pperstud to April last that the punishment of the s-'Uth and s'. was about t) begin. On the last Saturday la April th Mew York Sua printed the (allowing: Pre I nt Cleveland advisor have hda Mot that the only w y to indiusj the urn n4 southwestern senator and t ntri sien to lonsoot lo a repeal of Ui Hnvrinsa law I to demonstrate to th tr nM .Ut u nU that thry ar to n" i uoiitty every ,1 y that this iw la rp. tUm The utiMtoaary wstk luthst limitin hit rwa started by a numrwr i f th Maters la th solid tmwrttualtle iif th east. Tb ir are dally rf -! vroiU loth south, stntthwest and V TM Mosl'g i f trre'lts by th utBy mono IUU wo what began the aU. Prvsldeat CUvs Und' "aitlters" wr the Ne Yerk bkrs who vm la forvBee with I'ariUie a the day or the day before the above prlswd, an4 one of the speakert atthtt ennfrrence sttd that ihe bankers of Chlcvo were carrying out tbe same m"ney-locking-up credit-refuflng line of policy. SecreUry Carlisle, a reported, also made hi statement to phase tbe b inkers clear and emphatic, that there was to he heroic treatment ail the way through: and be predicted that by virtue of this beroic treatment tbe adherents of silver in tbe bouse and senate would be ready when c ingrs mot to conse nt to a re peal uf the S term an law This is the history of the cause of tbe ptnic. The tariff question had nothing at all to do with it, and Intelligent, thoughtful people, all financial wr.vers atlast, kne. while tbe repeal-prop-rlty lies were circulating. tbat the business paralysis which follows a panic is a slo disease to deal with, a disease which it takes years to cure. The panic was tbe weapon the bank ers ust d to secure tho downfall of silver, and shows their fearful power. But the destitution which a short period of en forced idleness has brought to millions. proves tbat tbe workers have for years been.robbed by land, money or capital, transportation and trut monopolists. Theje tribute-enforcing kings are fast concentrating the necessary capital and natural resources iato their hands. And snam tariff issue demagogues are the worse than Arnold traitors who have misled ard sold the people Into an al most hopeless slavery, G d give us men to lead who will not lie, "tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog" of every where diffused partisan sophistry, and who can face the demagogues and damn their treachery THE EUROPEAN ANARCHISTS Anarchistic violence is caused always by injustice, and the high and mighty who think they can repress it by govern ment force leave human nature out of consideration, xne way to prevent . t HI anarchy is to remove tbe cause, the gross injustice unner which those at bottom suffer till they are made deeper ate, so de-perat3 that legal penalties for violence can add nothing to their misery, and hence loe their terrors, Here in America one of two things in mure win follow, we shall grant justice by law; or an upheaval of social violence will leave us without law. The New York Tribune's Paris corre spondent iu a very long article on "An archy in Europe" has some interesting introductory wrds concerning, and quotations from, a French lady, Mme Severlne, which we give below; Mmi. Severlae a daughter of Purl tanic bourgeois and a woman of high talent, who Is succeeding t ) tbe place of Mme. Adam in French politics pleads tbe cause of the Barcelona Anarchis s lu tha "Echo do Paris" of November 17. She speaks of the stupor mide up ol uneasiness, frigb, wrath, that ha-i in vaded the world "la which people eat " "mat wonu, wnen usees the Anarch tut thunderbolts falling, has in its eyes the look which the men f the ancient civilization must have had when they saw the barbarians coming in horded, uncouth and frenzied, rusningon to the assault of the old Europe." This lady, who knows whereof she speaks (she has served soup at tbe anarchist conferen cts), amid much sentiment which is not all hysterical, puis a few questions which those who love society as it is cannot afford to neglect, in view of the future. First, the explosion of Barcelona, the aitemp'ed assassiuation in Paris, are but "incidents of war, episodes in a strife without mercy." It is worse than idle to protest against such words. "U it not better to face the situation firm 1)? Is it not even a duty, for every person of good faith and good-will to examioe tbe evil and seek a remedy for it? Utopia! cry the politicians. But whyr. . . .JLo you not kno that every beast driven to bay becomes ferocious? ....You will exercise repression by means of terror. The terror of what? Of death? Vulgar assassins nowa days laugh at it And then, a man who has caused death usually holds his own life cheaply. Here facts speak In all the States of Europe the suppression of Anarchists during late years has not found one who asked for grace and died as a coward. Philosophically, I do not beli-jve that any intimidation cin be brought lo brartn them. Will you ap peal to their p ty? Tbey can have none. the letter ol L,eauhler (published in 1 bursday'a "Figaro") explains this ell. This youth, whm all that knew him assert to be of gentle nature as IUva rhol was also sets forth this theory of massacre with a calmness and lucidity to make tho leant clear-sighted reflect. You will cut ft his heat. I Very well, do so. And after? Will you have suc ceeded in putting under lock aid key all the knives and all the dynamite in the uulveis? Will you have guillotin ed or strangled forever the spirit of re volt?..,. I he history of the last ten years I there to say you no. Ctro paulon take th place of companion. lUvachol s no sooner judged than Very Is blown into the air; then it Is the turn of I 'alia, and then of LeeutbUr M A German farmer living la Sard county, a subscriber of lh patter, was om tlm tine la an a'torne;' office at Roward. and th lawyer had the In- dUcreMoa to flv the farming class a gaeral raking over, similar to tha' found In another column, tph-d from th Unthi railroad pr. II got oo to the B.atU)f of the faraer wanting boggle to rid In, and e di.d It a a, f r them, noo lUss (usury; but tl(bl ton the slow-rUlvg wrath of U, ItWgnatU Ui.aa brtke fotih la od and work of violent tu (!(. lie wanted to know hiott tiod' earth bad a rtaffet to ltd In a buggy If th hard wutklsg (invr should not, and be for the atura7 n,,tv' gesticulating entphtsts, la a way th lawyer will But forget, UU Wst WUh fktf i t rlstB M RE8ULT3 OF CLASS LIGISLATI0H. Inene home visited by the Flying Post representative (in Paterson, N. J I was a baby ia a cradle, covered with. traw, which was tied over the tiny form with a string. 1 he applications for relief grow more numerous as the Flylr g pot's relief fund becomes better known, and the number of people feeling the pat gs- of poverty Increase. Frm early morn un til nightfall thry come, old and young men and women, but aimost all have the hectic flush of starvation, fever and despair npun their fsces. .- There 1 no levity la the shocking scenea of despair, of these emaciated men and women, and crying, wailing Swidre ktffcTinfcT their parent for the food which they are quite incapable of providing. Babie are now failing. . tarente cannot afford to buy milk for them, and tradesmen will not give any trust. There is nothing in prospect for them but starvation and death, and the poor mothers are weeping the galling tears of bursting heart. There can be no tco lurid painting of the present con ditlon of the poor in this city . , This Is the sltuatien in not one city alone, but tttru citv: and tht. .r.,i suffering extends to nearly all the villages and smaller townx. anrl m. farming regions of the west. Charity associations can not obtain means to relieve a tenth of the dietress, and the poor and self-re pectinire dvfnir with.- out a sign. A dispatch from Indianan. oils dated Dec. 2nd says: T,Im.h W?d' wlfe of Beatemln Weed Of West fnlanon I. Jl day morning of starvation. The hus band bad been out of work for nearly six months. ' Another family of three, adults, ithout food or fuel, rather ihn k or steal, went to bed. lav r1nm At- The neighbors in the same tenement iouna mem three days later. Are we dreaming? Ii this lust a horrible nightmare? or has all thl. occurred in America, in onr fra America, a country whose mrAhn. and storerooms are ever full? Look on these starving ohm. theaa home'.ees, respectable multltiufee .h packed together like swine, lie down on the stones to sleep: look elated mothers whose breasts ar9 dry, ana at their wailing infants; see the vast army of American citizen. whm thirty years of monopoly oppression uas reaucea to beggary, see the six millions who can now find no work- t. support them: look at all th politicians, plunderers, traitors! look, and tremble, tor God is iust. A STUDY OP SOCIAL OONDITIOKS. Civiukatiok s iNriKno. By B. O. Mower. author f "LeKgons Learned Lives," etc. For prices la paper and cloth una ur selected book list advertised on paie Ave. The suffering poor, the wronged and wretched millions who must be sweated and starved and tortured to nrocura rent and profit for the landlords and capitalists, tbe people who at the bot tom are crushed by the weight of the social structure, who toil in poverty that the idle may live in luxury, and that the brutally despotic may heap up mountains of wealth, the people who create civilization's heaven, but who are crowded into civilization's hell, have a most Chrlst-llke, devoted frl eid in B. O.Flower, of Boston. His love is more than charity; he does not mock the defrauded class by giving back to it a part that he has drawn from it. He does not rob a hundred, and then ease his conscience by giving to one. He loves most those who most need love, and so has been led into the slums and social cellar of Boston to see and hear and feel and smell tbe conditions of its swarming residents. His visits to the tenement districts of tbe proud, wealthy, most Civilized city of this most civilized nation, the impression of which he gives in Civilization's Inferno, were made, take notice, .before the panio came, before the present business paral ysis crept over us, before commercial confidence was shaken; and his book portray, therefore, the ordinary life, the best times of those at- the bottom. of the social fabric The Inferno which Mr. Flower saw in '91 and '92 has slnoe swallowed up myriads who were living above its banks. In the opening sent eno of his book Mr. Flower said, "The dead sea of want is enlarging its bor ders in every populous enter." He re ferred to the steady spread of poverty which he then saw; but this ytar we bave had an Inundation that ha tent bitter want and whelming anxiety over million of new thresholds. In Civilisation's Inferno we have the life of tbs poorest wa;e slaves, and over against tbe delineation of Iheir sacrifi cial toll aod temptations the author kas hung pea pictures of clvllliatlon's para- diae, tbe pleasure-pursuing Uf of th Income-drawing rich. and It it Ward MoAllitter.the Udr of New York' 'four hundred," who proudly furnish on of the "ftoclety" silhouettes. The contrast between th ctae Is fright ful, whsa fta consldar that it I brutal ajustloe and soullei eelflihavs which hot separated them. W cannot look ate lb future, whe we remember ow the strong hav vr fought for tselr legal poeeloas and prerogatives, with it serious forvbodiag. 1U. Mr. liow- r ! strong faith la th' lNl'ty of spreading th truth, and he I aobly lerting blmf not outy to make vt oa!0oka ia, but to show the great eu whU'k divortt wealth frvm ltvr, pUasur from work, Independent frvrn Imtu'try, Uli took Blast aroa aU ihw Btwhoo4 it rdrt pa, ad it la- Igorate fUU till bo muuautla seem im great la rvmvv. Ittft every butt I W iisItm th eaoft f huanatilty, r 4