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THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. JANUARY 4, 1894 THE CensoUdaUoa ol tte ftiEtn illiisct3!5tbtasli ladcpcndent Puiusexb Etekt Thcmdat bt The Alliance Publishing Co, i no M Street, Lincoln, Neb. i if rM a Ptm. H. 8. Bows, Secy sYrui, k.c.Bswic, SUBSCRIPTION 0 DOLLAA TO YA G bo koi Hewaan Giaeos, ij;f fi!Sr ciiTT. Uaims Business Manager. J.sThtait. Advertising S' at any man must fall (or ma to rise, Taea seek I not to climb. Another'! pain I ohooM do for my good. A golden chain, Arobeof honor, U too good a prize T tempt my nasty band to do a wrong TJnto a fellow man. This life hath woe BaBeleni, wrought by man'a satanlc fee; And who that hath a heart woald dare prolong Or add a sorrow to a stricken aool That seeka a healing balm to make It whole? My bosom own the brotherhood of man. N. X P. A. Publishers Anaoanoement. The subscription price of the Aixisiios-Ii;-DirMBiR Is 11.00 per year, invariably In ad- TA0Mri In soliciting subscriptions should be very careful that all names are correctly pelled and proper postomce given. Blanks for return sahecrlpllons, return envelopes, le can be had on application to this office. Alwats sign yeur name. No matter how Often you write us do not neglect this import ant matter. Bvery week we receive letters with incomplete addresses or without signa tures snd It is sometimes difficult to locate ' ChsVob or aodbbss. Subscribers wishing o change their postomce address must always five their former as well as their present ad rees when change will be promptly made. Address all letters and make all remittances payable to TUB ALLIANCE PUB. CO., Lincoln, Neb. Owixo to the large space occupied by Alliance matter and report of the Popu list conference, we are compelled to bold over till our next issue a timely valuable communication from Mr. Mart Howe, bearing on the refusal of the state treasurer to obey the law regard ing state warrants and Investment of the state school funds, and comparing the work of the Populist and previous legislatures. The editorial matter is greatly cut down this week in order to make room for the address of President Powers before the annual meeting of the Nebraska Farmers' Alliance. We call attention to the earnest, able paper read by the newly elected Alliance sec retary, Mrs. J. T. Kellle, before the Alliance mass meeting at Hastings. A letter from the newly elected president, Hon. W. F Dale, and dates of Alli ance meetings, are elsewhere printed, which see. Bead on the first page, "Clipped from Our Letters." BY report in the annual number of The Economist the Fall River cotton mill corporations have distributed divl dends to idle stockholders, in this worst of years, amounting to from 10 to 25 per cent on their Invested capital. They call it the earnings of capital. It is in fact the robbery of laborers, the tribute which the factory operatives were forc ed to pay monopolists for a place to work. It was taxation without repre sentation, the Very same tyranny which led to the American Revolution. This 10 to 25 per cent dividend in justice plainly belonged to those and those only whose labor of brain and bodily exertion entered into the marketed rCuuut. How the rich and the daily papers which speak for them howl over tie proposed income tax! "Stamp out the income tax Infamy," cries the New York Herald. The Times says, "The Democratic party cannot reimpise the most odious ot the war taxes aodescspe general condemnation." Our good wishes and encouragement go with llryan in this matter, but there is not enough democracy in the Democracy to make the passage of the bill posslMa. And II It, for political reason, were Allowed to pass, Graver the Flrtt would veto it. l ..3 Tue Republican party of Pennsyl vania It Its state convention last week declared that, "The simple anticipation of the Wilson, bill hu closed thousands of workshop. It has reduced t ld!' nets 2,690,000 workers, aodnup houses ow displace former hives of Industry. It has reduced values to an amount greater than the national debt" And Alt the while this sinbly of politicians kner tbey were Ijleg llkedevlls. Ill flood Uh at suck a tint to dnwlve, to make politic! catltal out of tie usury, robhvd millions Therw U no mors (HAM Ion between. tbeJapOferUbfeeal ol a workers and the Wilson bill, than there Is between calamity and comet's tail. Hut so loaf u political superstl tioa eotliaus through Ixaoraaos, polUiotaos UI feast opoa the miseries of the suaitituJe, and make men bar diss of Ilea. i THE STATE OOSrEEESOE 'The State Conference of the Populists f vk-.tW belli at usstisss I" IS a tlCVI mo mrnrnt ew- meetlnu of historical im portanoe, and it date will mark the Vw.tnnnr nf sn era of party success and service which will secure the over throw of all the monopoly fores. The one thin which made this meeting important above all others since the rational convention at Omaha, was the plan to reform the machinery of the party, after the perfect model oi me nld nartv political organizations of Indiana. By this plan the chairmen of the county central committees will t mA PT-nffMo members of the State central committee, and the members of the county central committee will be of the town committees. This will furnish an unbroken chain of com municatlon between the lowest school district committeemen and the head of the State central committeemen. With such perfected organization, reaching into every school district, the entirs state can be polled in three day's time, and educational work by means of party literature, or alrect personal influence, can be directed with utmost wisdom and economy. Hitnerto our State political organization hai been very loose and disjointed, and, in me matter of actual work, at least, a large part of the 8tate has been without or ganization. We have been fighting in a hap hazard, Indian fashion, without union or direction, wastlr g our strength, and through lack of organization un able to use A large part of our political and educational forces. It is no wonder, therefore, that we have been defeated in the past, especially when the Demo cratic machine stood ready to throw Its votes to the Republican candidates, when they were seen to be needed In In order to defeat us. Education must be joined with and perfected by organ ization to succeed. We all see this, and have adopted the methods which multiply power and which will enable ue to direct every available force where it can do most good. Nebraska Populists have, we believe, led the way, and set the Populists of other states an example of political wisdom in this matter. In all other states our plan will be adopted, without doubt, by our political brethren. Another evidence of sagacity and grasp of the situation was manifested by the expressed need and determina tion to push the circnlation of our papers and party literature, papers especially. The eloquent speaker who dwelt upon the vital Importance of in creasing the circulation of our Populist papers as earnestly and unanimously applauded, and when he asked all the Conference who would go home and get new subscribers for our state and county papers to raise their hands, all hands were raised with a will. We call at tention of the tens of thousands of equally good, earnest populists who could not attend the Conference, to this plan of immediate and state wide work. Jt Is work for all. Club raising for the Allianca-Indefendent is the work of the days and weeks to come. And right here we wish to express grateful .acknowledgments for the many mott hearty hand grasps And warm words of praise and appreciation given us for The Alliancb-Independbnt. It 1j growing In reputation with every num ber, we are assured by the party lead ers, and its work of education, and solidification of the party, pleases all. We should be encouraged to work harder than ever, if we were not al ready as bard-worked as we can bo. But with the kelp of a largely increased circulation, which we confidently look for, and the improved state of finances which it will bring, typographical im provements and new, valuable depart ment features may soon be added. The future of tho Populist party is bright with piomtse this year. We are going to sweep the state in November and plana truo, ab'e Populists in all the state offices from Governor down, electa sweeping majority to man the lawmaking body, And send Senator Allen a Populist colleague, in placo of Maodorson the im-nopsllst. JUSTICE. LOVE ABD OUAEIIY. Ckarlty in these days is being made to cover a multitude f sios. "Society" is dinclog it; tho church is preaching it; the people are practicing It In un usual numbers and degree. It is meas uring tho sacrificing spirit In the church and tho world, and what we shall Is Intended to in no wise obstruct or dis courage itt exercise in this time of ds perate netd. Bat with millions refund work and faclrg starvation something mora than the bitter bread of depen dence is deraaojid. We have aga'n and again noted the expression la the polpll and the religious press that this ll the churches' oi porluolly to relieve, to Iniuceco, to sue. We think so. in deed, end we give largj nuat.ltig to lie word salvation. But d'V the church se aid seise up on the dvtl of tie bourr Oely the least part of those duties. It is dealing weakly, Inadequately wilfc effects, aot Is susklsg aa vs mt nation el th usjust, stafui reuses of the pr entdiitms. The rrovlilooal (Vmml'les for Aid for the Hungry hate made a lav li gation which shows the' esteat of Bt4 1 in New Terk, and they ka? railed fur charity to teed HJ.W-J people la tkat oHy who a dsiUUts and table ta lad i work. Like conditions of enforctdlJle- D"fi and destitution prevail everywhere Individual and social (legislative) sins are the cause of all this Infinite suffer ing. And the church docs not know what thoe sins are; it is not trying to learn who snd what originated all this evlL But what Is the church for If It is not to preach against sin, all sin, commercial sin, and save men from it? Here Is appalling, unprecedented, most dreadful destitution on the one hand, and abundanoe of focd, clothing and everything in the markets, while the money to empty the markets and warehouses la locked up in the banks and hoarded by the people whose needs are abundantly supplied. The wages paid the workers are exhausted. They have long been unable ta buy what they needed, or evea the usual amount, and their under cousumpiou has of necessity stopped production to it very great ex tent. How is It that the products of labor are la the bands of thoii who do not need them and will not use them, and the money too, while the people who produced all the goods navo no money, or were found with insufficient money to buy back their products? It is because all production and the work of getting goods to market is car rled on by the net profit method that labor, labor products and money do not pass in equal value exchange, aid trade preserve an equilibrium of forces. The men who work for wages must earn their wages and more, that is, a profit for their employers; and If a capitalist stands behind the employer the wage earner must earn another profit for him Hardly anything is put on the market without adding ono or more profits to the whole labor cost, The landlords must first bare a net profit; the capita lists must have dividends on their stock, and the money loaners must have inter est. Kent, profits, Interest, these have been drawn off in the shape of money; and every dollar 90 drawn from the pro ducers and accumulated has tended to glut the markets, has taken from tke wealth producers power to draw out of the market, and has given to the usurer or monopolist class power to buy up land, capital railroads, mines, etc., and to so increase their power and the peo ple's dependence. Kent, profits, inter est, destroy the harmony of tho commer cial world. They are the sole cause of panics and periods of business deprcs slon. They are monopoly tribute paid to veritable kings, taxation without representation; and they furnish pres ent monopolists an ever-increasing en slaving power. The church cai see all this if it be gins to think and examine monopoly questions. If it will not It stands con victed "and condemned by braver, nobler, more unselfish moral leaders. We must bo just before we are gener ous, "ihougn 1 bestow an my goous to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love (agape), it pVoflteth ma nothing." Love cannot take more for less, profit, some thing for nothing. There is no love that is not just to all men. Love can not accept that net profit which is an other's loss, or another's earnings. Equal love for our neighbor prompts us to divide our earnings equal ly with him. "Every valley of poverty shall be exalted, and every mountain snd hill of wealth shall be made low," else 'the glory of the Lord' cannot 'be revealed' and 'all llceh see it together.' "Ye cannot sorve God and Mammon." The mill men at the Carnegie iron works, Beaver Falls, Pa., are possessed of tho idea that rents ought to he re duoed when wages are reduced. Tho men who have recently been reduced in wages insist that it is impossible to contlnuo paying high rents on low wages, and tlfit tho cut in rents must correspond with the cut in their wagfs. So they have joined togethtrand will demand a general reduction of routs. Iu McKoesport a Blmllar movement has burn started among tho business men aid working men and dating the week a demand will bo tnado on all Uudlordi for rent reduction. Bat what landlords 01 ght to do and will do, aro two very dlffeicnt things. It is a matter of it gal right and selfishness with thrui, and might mak'S rlyht In trade. Tho peo ple may ma force to rcklat tho yy nittnt of tribute to land monopoll', tut It they do It the stato ' militia will be railed out to subdue or kill them. No, the landlord is a privileged character, Ills property I always in demand, a steadily increasing detnaad, and n V.h lag short ot a dcpoptla'lng paUleee can letscn the demand for It. ant the rent he will force from the occupant. However, wo are glad that whole com munities ant seotsf how unju.l and crukklng'y burdens-! Is laodlordUra. t. 1 1 11 "J E00S8 RECEIVED. f'nm Tkimtti Crurtlt 4 C , A't 1mI ''PkoniKMa or To Dat," by I'rwf. It T, K!y, Ph. IX, UL.l., Prof of Political Ikoeowy la WUctta is tittle L'aiwrslty, I'o. it. Cloth It &X rut LAitOM MOYIMKNT IM AUKM fA, by tho same author and putlUh r. i3t Cloth ll&a. rm Tkt Jfi it- (V. Mm: "Et itit IUskki Victim." by T. A. Illaad. a.nhc.r cf 'iUIgs of Mo pel," "IU to drew Blck,- 1 10S. Paper ti eU. A TEAS OF BOBBER EULE U5PAB- ALLELLID. Neither retrospects nor forecasts afford material for cheerful contempla tion jut now. The record fori S93 was In many particulars one of unprtccdent- t-A dlB&fctr. and it would tut nttprlv nn reasonable to expect this great wave of aepression 10 disappear in a lew tain weeks or month. It mut ha recog nized that the United States is not tee onlv anffurnr. All Eurnrw. &nr1 CI rent Britain with whom we have the closest trade relations, are passing through a general prostration of business, which has continued ever since the Baring failure in 1U0. Nor is the distress con fined to these countries. It still exists In South Amsrlm and AuatXAlIft. and now there are symptons of Its having spreaa 10 uninaana japan So says the financial writer of the New York Independent Observe, the hole commercial world Is paralyzed, ad consider what it means. The ut terly unprincipled partisan press first agreed that the panic and consequent ouaines aepression was caused Dy too much money, by silver coinage under the bherman law; and we were assured confidence would be restored, gold would flow back from Europ?, Ameri can securities would bo in demand, and business would boom u soon as the mints were clostd against silver. But there was no visible good effect folio wed the passage of the Wilson bill. In fact, the .business paralysis got worse im mediately, prices of everything fell, and as it was unsafe to do business on a falling market a greht many more man ufacturing houses stopped work. Mill ions of men are out of woik And the suffering is dreadful. Almost a quarter of a million of unemployed in New York city alone, the Aid Society re ports, must be fed by charity, or starve. And all this evil, this hunger and cold and agonv. the Beoubllcan Dartlsan demagogues declare now is the result of a Democratic tinkering with the tariff, notwithstanding the fact, well known to them, that the business depression U world wide, affecting equally free trade and protective tariff countries. According to Bradjitrect's failures among individuals, firms and business corporations (including banks which reported liabilities ia excess of assets) amounted to $403,000,000, nearly four times tho corresponding totals of 1892. There wero 15,560 failures against 10,- 270 the year before. The liabilities re ported by Dun's Agency are given at $331,000,000 for commercial houses, 210,000,003 against banks and financial Institutions, and against the railroads $1,212,000,000. Prices of the following staple articles have fallen, with one exception, and a trust controls that. Tho opening and cHsirg price of the year is given below: Wheat M Corn 48 m Pork , m.ib $11.75 lard 11.00 8.M) Sugar, ref 04 11-36 .04 8-16 J,''lJn 09 .07 1316 Wool 9 .24 Iron. nlB 14 so 14 if. fiwei rails ro.oo 84.00 nn. iHO 20 m Lead flHa 31 I!r 1825 10.SJS Print cloihs...... 04 .08 15-10 Url Is o!4 ,00 Dunlins .12 .11 Prims f ,05Ji .05 Olughams OT .(5tf Carols f,'i .65 l'euroleum 2 85 25 Turpentlae 30K .'.Dtf All the while obligations, mortgages, notes and bonds, have not shrunk in the least. Tho reduction in price of eoods has increased the valufe of every well secured debt. It amounts to an enor mous robbery of the debtor by tho creditor class. And the people, if thev will not think this wholo matter out, understand it, and with their ballots put a stop to it, must remain subject to money monopolists, panic makerp, and unrestrained robbers of the working class. We are reading for review that re markable book, "Al; a Social Vision," and that point in the story whore Judge Rue resigns the ermine hec&usa "Ihn un just laws wlSch he was bound to enforce proved too much for his nerves," and where it is added that "ho is going to the legislature as a missionary," led us into a FomewLat new aid profitable train of thought. A man with nn en lightened conscience must nof ds refuse to enforce many of our laws; and cer tainly be who wou'd lave mankind from selfishness (tn) at.d its result, must see that a'l uttatlonary effort la mostly watted which leaves men unprotected and for self preservation obliged to be cldfeh. Tho unrighteous laws which o the defense of monopolies make 'the gospel" a mere matter of word and promise to the pw r, to the over bur Jo or d, the bickun-hearted, the bruls:d and the bound. Tho real gos pel to all such must be love enacted, kwe iVal shall break every yoke, Ttuty, the grnat placti to do tu!elocary work U where our Uwtare made. D. 11. H, A Let, partlJent of the Nationalist Club of U aool a, has surfed a new monthly nagaitae 'dvotd P'l marlly to domestie modlcla and by gteae, seeondsrlly to the cau of tta tlofttltetH and all pftgrU ideas. The first number Is is all rvepscW i ellal, and the rare ge atus of the lVH-urwli make allyucjdlag sum-h-ee equally attraeUte a4 valwatlt. Tb ant t! the naasliwt Is "The Cuaueslor Ttit llopublloaa papers are floating over the alleged Uklttieal Quarrel f two prumlasat IVpultaVt, Gtf. laiU lie Mrs- Ijsam- ADDRESS OF THE EETIEI52 PKEEI- EST Brothers and Sisters of the Alliance As we have men again In our yearly meeting it is welf to take a retrospect of the past year; Ao take counsel of our exrerlencee: ; W avoid in future the mistakes we hvV made In the past and to adopt mor-Tefflcli ;ent methods, if pos sible, than we have tised to accomplish the ends aimad t bjr our organization At our Ux annual meeting an at tempt was adelo systematize the educational efforts of the Alliance. An amendment io the! constitution was adopted reoAiirlng tftie executive com- mittee to f repare a manual for the use oi me Alliances I the state, and a further amendment! requiring its use in tne Alliance meetlcas. A reduction of ta Initiation fee was also made in view f the depressed financial condl'ion If farmers in our state; thus endeav lng to encourage the recruiting of Abe membership of the Alliance. The manual was prepared under the direction of thti and was published, and a copy was fur- numed to the subordinate and county Alliances of the Mate. So far as I have heard the manuatl, where examined and used, has met vilth general approval. It also attracted) much attention from the Alliances ia other states and several orders were sent to the state secretary lor supplies of it, from those states But on account lf the dnnlAtAd nn, ditlon of the treasury he was unable to fill tbem. A rpsfilllt Inn was dlan naiwil at. 4 Via last state meeting uniting the Nebraska State Alliance with thn Nation! Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union. While this union Aid not require acv change In the Alliance constitutions of me sutie, it aia maice it necessary to change the ritual and secret work. xnis, with the Introduction of the use of the manual, rendered it desirable, aHd really necessary lor the prosperity of the order, that thelAlllances In every county should be visited by an officer of the state Alliance land Instructed in the new plan and work. This dutv would naturally devolve on the lecturer ar and President. Bat these officers wiere both poor men with families dependine on them for support, ana couia not give up their . A J . - M - whole time to the work without ade quate flnanoial support. As a consequence the lecturer was obliged to quit the field because his salary could not be paid. Your president, besides preparing the new secret work snd assisting in the preparation of the manual, has visited a counties during the year, holding from one to ten meetings in each, and counselling and instructing the breth ren. A resolution was also passed at the State meeting recommending the Alli ance Aid Degree to the Alliances of the State. In accordance therewith the State was visited by Bro. Alonzo Ward- all, tho National Guardian of the De gree, during the month of May; holding a number of meetings in connection with Bro. Wright and the president and awakening considerable interest in this new feature of the Alliance work. Bro, Wright was appointed State Guar dian of the Aid Degree in this State, and has had the oversight of that spe cial work since that time. The Btrength of the Alliance consists in the co-operation of its members; and this can only be maintained by frequent and regular meetings and conforeuce. Tho circumstances which led to the resigns tlon of the office of stcretary and treasurer by Bro. J. M. Thompson, and the subsequent appointment of Miss Elsie Buckman to that office, will be fully explained by the report of the Executive Oommittoe. Miss Buckman seems to have fulfilled the duties of the offlco in an able and satisfactory man ner and I think deserves the warm thasks cf tho Ailianco for tho pat 1c ceo and perseverance with which she has met and surmounted the difficulties which have surrounded the office ever since she asumod i'.s duties. Oc account of tho fact that the Aid Degree cannot from tbe nature of its constitution bo Introduced except to actlvd Alliance In good standing, Bro, W. F. Wright of Lancaster county was authored to re organUo old Alliano and to organ li) new ou throughout tbe State. He will djuMl during the progress of iho meeting render a report of the w ork accomplished la hi special department during the lime U has been ergagvd in It, There are inany p.u;.!o ouUlde ihe AliUnre, acd a few who er ocei members, who ait thul ha Farmers' Alliance Las ,y ctpli'ud Is objects fir which It a c U-d and louul therefore Ik glna up la vU vf this assertion, pKmll ata li roiuldar what the objects of the Alliances are, and what prvgreee ha beea made la their SAH'idii'shateat. Tb bjtw!t of the AlMasto are Urii, and rla lp!ly,t Juv Vtt4l. (iraaj as the eun selil tjtUni 4 out XUle Is, and ab'e and toital a the high er nttW'.Uof Waraing may bo, they KotiJ vt taetti la.l kU 4iatt0 la m! Ileal dull, A buy if girl may atWttd the e.mB.ca icii nils during tke whul porM of 1U wrsild by law, my Ihea graduate at m, or all vif tte higher laslluiliMts 4 learaiag rwvf Ud as sueh by taw, sad tUU kav so isftalM UsAfl what laws svr 44 to protect the people In their God given rights, or to assist and render efficient their efforts for prosperity and happi ness. This U so apparent that It re quires no argument, fur Among those who have enjayed, and made the most assiduous use of these advantages, will be found all shades of political opinion and the most diverse views in regard to their political duties; while they sub stantially agree in regard to what they have been taught in the schools. The public press, wonderful as its educational power and Influence is, does not produce any more satisfactory re sults In the way of political education. i nis agency cannot be made efficient without great expease, and so it hap pens that to a great extent it is under the Influence of the rich and unprinci pled, who use it to advocate their own selfish schemes, and by the most skill ful sophistry mislead the people in re gard to the best means of retalninr their liberties and defending their rights. It is true that a email, but In creasing number, are earnestly trying to instruct the people in the polities.1 rights and duties, but it is bo difficult for the good to supplant the vicious and unworthy, so as to reach the ear of tbe many, and requires such constant alert ness to meet the skillfullv wrought iiurciiwui bdu BUDtie out raise argu ments of the unscrupulous advocates of the people's oppressors, that it is doubt ful whether the public press is, on the wnoie, any advantage to the peonle ex cept in disseminating the current news oi passing events. And aa a nnlftlmtl educator it tends to bewilder and mis lead them rathnr than aoi.winv them in correct political principles, or lead them to appreciate their responsi bilities and perform their duties aa citizens of a people's government. Neither do the speeches and writings. of our statesmen and lnvmin o-t tbe people tbe necessary political edu cation. Those who ronri t.ha delivered In congress and the record of the proceedings there, find that our lawmak-ers are further from sf?reW on the questions which most affect the. welfare of the people than the people themselves; and show that instead sf Delng reliable political educators th have not, as a class, attained the knowl edge necessary to appreciate the po litical duties of the ordinary citizen. second. (Jo-operation in the man agement of their own business is as ab solutely necessary to the prosperity of the farmers as any other business class. and there is great weight to the re proach so often uttered, "If farmers would attend to their own business closer they would be better off." The attempts of farmers toco operate in business hitherto have been mostly in the line of mercantile or grain ship- jnuB uuBiuebs. in tnese, on tne whole, they have not bee successful. The reason of this is apparent. When per sons try to co-operate in carrying on a business without understanding its de tails, tho chances must be against suc cess. T.-A t iarmers unoouDieaiy d9 under stand farming in all its details, and should be jealous of the interference of others in the manacemcnt of it When the farmers intelligently and justly set the prices of all the products or tnelr industry, as the merchants do of their merchandise and the manu facturers do of their products, or cret them established by law, a9 the pro ducers or possessors of geld have done; then indeed, and not till then, they may be said to be minding their own business, and will hare attained one great step toward emancipation from industrial slavery. Until these objects are attained let no farmer say, "the objects of tho Alli ance are accomplished." " No. The work of the Alliance is not finished. So long as the farmers of oHr country permit a few speculators to ab sorb the most e.f the wealth their labor produces, so long aa they are depend ent on the caprice, or cuululty, of a few soulless corporations for the money that i- .I. i . is uuvcti-uij lur vuo VAuuanjje oi ineir produota, and the pajmont of their dolts. So long as the political conven tions, the elections, legislatures, con gress, tho higher courts and even tho highest eiecutiro officer of the govern" meut are controlled by tho money power, there U much, very mack for the Alliance to do. So long a Uvre Is one farmer, or farmer's wife, son. or dai ghur who dot s not know what laws are necessary t iwt sH urt the wlfr and dtfmd the right ( all the puople, and how U soUvl and tttet, the best men, to enact and txecuto suta Irws, the work of the Al.Unco Is not ai'com pthbvd. And If in aucwed'.pg genertMiti the dutksand rpontb!tltU f lf gov ernment shall still rt ut a the people as God grant that thry aieaja uay, u same td4tlo asd cMperattaa f th far oirs will be cvaUaail y tvsry at at ! at; and the Al:inc, vt s ws similar vrrai U n. must eil.l, or ta f.rtten will ba Ud. U I ra!lm for wrtiiUf the ol :iuas must run par!l with the e swso t4 htm dsiUs. aad W pvritw The Ailiaa las s t U A feJ'.wrw, It "Us, dttrlag the short tla it ke a Uted, frak4 among tie trmr . this tt, a4 tki thra'atsl wkkli tl kM beea eeUhlUked, a kUker dgre 4 laUUigw u Ngaril u law 4 lvraal, aaj a sleerer wa4erstw4
