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! A i ----------- TBS ALUABCE-INDEPENDEUT. CenaolidaUoa of the Finals inUacesSetjrasIa Independent Publuhbp Etui Twcvbdat IT The Alliance Publishing tiso M Street, Lincoln, Neb. Co oa n ns niaaorwaa. J woi.vb.Ptm. H. B. Boweee, 8ec"y. JIM mm. E-C.BIW1C1. 8CB3CKIPT10N OH DOLLA Ptt YlA n....nr.imm KdltoT "II any men mut fell for m to rise, Then seek X no to ellmb. Another's rein Xehooeenotformy food. A golden chela, A rob of honor, U too good a prize TO tempt my hasty heed to do e wrong Cnto e fellow men. Thle Ufe bath woe Sttffletent, wroucht by man's tetanic fee; Aed who that bath e beart would dare prolong Or add e sorrow to e strlcksn eoul That seeks e healing balm to make It wholer My beeom owne the brotherhood of men. N. L P. A. Pwbllehers Annoonoement. The subscription price of the ALMai-oB-Ie-MFMDSMTla 11.00 per jeer, invariably In ad trance. Aoiirrs In soliciting eabeerlptloni should be Terr careful that ell namee ere correctly palled and proper rtfMtoOce given. Hienks lor return aueecrlplioiie, return envelope, etc.. ceo be had on application te tbu effloe. Axwavs iltrn yeur name. No matter bow Often you write ua do not neglect thle Import ant matter. Every week we receive lettera with incomplete addreeiiee or without slgna tnree and li le eometlinee difficult to locate 1 CBevoi or ADDBBte. Subscribers wlablng O Cheng e their poetofflce addreea must elwaye give tbelr former ae well ee their present ad. Ireee when change will be promptly made. Address all lettera end make all remltteacee ejableto THK ALLIANCE FOB. CO., Lincoln, Neb. Wi call attention 6( all Alliance men in Nebraska to the authorized report of the Alliance State Executive Commit tee, containing corrected a copy of the resolutions and report of all action taken at the recent annual meeting at Hastings. No other copy of the pro oecdlngs will be printed, and every eeretary of local Alliancea should bo care a copy for preservation. We make earnest request that a club be secured, gathered up at once, in each local All! Mce for The Aluancb-Imdependimt. One of the Alliances in Saunders county aent us in a club of 20 names, yearly subscribers last week, and it promises more soon. Will not other Alliances do as well? We shall print all Alliance news, and, the successful prosecution of Alliance work depends much on circu lating this paper. A good many hands went up at Hastings promising to push the circulation of this paper, with others. We hope they are not forget ting that pledge. The very full, lengthy report of the Alliance meeting this week crowded out eur Washington letter and news matter, state and national, which we wished to print Next week we shall discuss editorially the liquor plank of the Alli ance platform. This is a full number of the paper in most features. Look it over carefully, everybody, and induoe others to subscribe for the paper. In Mexlao, which freely coins all her silver, the general industrial condition was never better or more promising, and the credit of the country was never higher. David A. Wells, writing in the Jan uary Forum, from what figures are at hand estimates that the aggregate loss produced by the panio and period of business paralysis a' ready exceeds a thousand million of dollars. John Sherman made a speech la the Senate la May 1870 in which he declar ed the income tax to be "the most just and equitable tax that is now levied in the United States of America, without exception. Keep this In wind and see whether he goes back oa hts record when the Bryan Income tax act is de bated and voted on to the Boast. Till rail Mall CuetU of London, reviewing the trad of (treat Britain, says. "General trade has beon worse than ta 1692. Last year ended with aa enor mous lo of Import and of ei ports; but aa draws to a eloee, Wt see rut brighter whea compared with the present gloom over the country's in due tries." Usury ronte, Internet, ot profits-It the periodical eeue tf It, ae. unuu..-. ixjuu'i. it ii AT the preeeel time at cording ta rffi. tsi returns Jut issued by the govern meat authorities "there are ao Ue thaa ba'.f a million poopteoulot work la Un V atone; and taaex.uvh ae the relief eVpartmeste, bvth puUto and private, are tetany Inadequate t iet so great It detnaud upon their rtir-.w, the itualloa has Ncosm very erUkaJ. and ftawttrea uf great tppreteasU a'ikt ta 0X4 attirtU tad to the wi UhIo gmlmBk A REPOSTES WHO WAS SUt i PEOPHET. The Nonconformist owes the Popu- 11 it of Nebraska a eornction of the serious misrepresentation of us given in its news columns last week. Wi Aid not da or decide to do at Hatlngs what its Nebraska correspond ent said we did. We are not as a bod; the kind of people which its report of our Conference proceedings .'-"Hcatee We are Populists of the whole-hearted, out-and-out, oprweed-to monopoly-of- every-sort, Omaha-platform variety. We stand on the national platform solidly, squarely, conscientiously, proud ly, and will not allow the principal part of it nor any part of its principles to be knocked from under us. It is an egregious conceit and blunder for any man, it matters not who he may be, to suppose he can speak, for us and say any thing less or different. We have no political bess to direct us, no ring of politicians icho can report our proceedings beforehand, Yet that seems to hate been attempted, was attempted. The Nebraska Populists who attended the recent Conference, as well as tens of thousands who were unable to be present, have read or will read with amazement the Nonconformist report of what we decided to do. The part surprising, and untrue, Is this, viz: "Decided to push next campaign on free coinage of silver, railroad control and retrenchment and reform la state government" In the first place the Conference was not delegated body. Those attending it were not regularly chosen and sent there to frame a new platform for the party. ' The object of the Conference, as shown In the language of the call, was to consult regarding means and machinery "to more effectually pu-h forward this educational work," the work of disseminating the ideas and principles of our national and state platforms. There was an effort made by a few men under the leadership of Lawyer Greene of Kearney to out us loose from distinctively PopuUstlc principles and send us to sea on what we should call a mere splinter of the money question; and a motion was made and seconded that a committee on plat form be appointed. But Prof. Hyatt of Custer county, we think it was, in a one minute speech made it so clear to all minds that tho Conference had no authority or right to do this, that the motion was almost unanimously voted down. The Conference bad no authori ty to make a new platform, neither did it have the disposition, if we were able to judge from appearances and all that was said. It would seem that Mr. Greene came to the three state meetings, the mats meeting of the State Alliance, Inde pendent Press Association and State Conference, with the great missionary purpose in his heart to induoe us to cut eft the "carbuncles" and "excresoetces" of our platform, to drop "side issues;" and he was sure if wa would be thus advised by him he could lead our hosts to victory. He addrersed all three bodies; was the one man not a news paper man whom Mr. Edgerton as pres ident invited to address the Press meet ing; and he spoke with all the eloquence and superficial reasoning for whioh he is noted. In the Press meeting his proposal that our papers simply advo cate a five hundred million dollar in crease of the currency, silver and green backs, that we call that the great prac ticable remedy and drop the teaching of all else as being Impracticable at present, called forth Instant interrupt ing objections and resolute criticisms from quite a number of editors present. Jn the Conference he talked more in definitely, but in the same line; but no one speaking supported him, a ad Judge Lynn of Hastings, following him, called him down and protested against his talk about dropping "side Issues," and his advice to campaign speakers that they leave out every thing but the "great. cardinal, money question." This is the history of it all. We have given it, because it was necessary after the false report published in the Non conformist, Their report of our action was written, as the writer of it hns ad mitted in our business office, before tho Conference met or acted. The strings were pulled, but the machine didn't go off, as ex pec tod -for the simple reason that it wasn't an old party machine. Almost every maa in our party car ries settled opinions and a free intelli gence under hit own hat. They are nearly all as independent thinkers as Editor Dundas of The Granger, who, in hts lat lesue, says: As a kind of side remark the W. O. WaadrlagUuiltel will say that W. L Creese, as aa Illogical and superfi cial defender of tha people is eaUUeu to all tho cakes t a the plaiter. Hts aa vtoe to too mnnbersoi the reform ores a-eovlaUon at Hetties; snored of ono j i.neuiu ana srtacivti or syeouhattcy, Tee Wee of a man suppoeed ta hate or dinary ln'titaoa sienata More a DoUyttf eunre of reform neiwre and eounllng thent to hM kt tho one eatalttei trlo!plea greater vomoie of itt-ney WMaetakt to make tb MnU wrep na tne average cuivor tr. On wom ta'ttg U The N niWoiu Ul report o-'avey a wi-oof ltutrl a, we believe. Mr. Jgitoa, reporting the aotloa of the Dtate tamer Allien.. ays; "The uml taosstuy ptaak. barvlag the sviMrvaettry plea. aJoptt" The etaeeUai part el the sub treaarf plan, UslWd flUtee Vaake of tetue and fof Jvpwelt, aWh, tt may tw farVrvd, THIS ALLIANOK will also ioan money at cost to the peo ple, are cilled for. ftee plank ia our complete report of the Alliance pro ce?dlBs in this iasae. If we have in correctly interpreted the meaning of this plank the delegates to the State Alliance meeting will pleasa correct as. We know the 'Nonconformist editors are wholly without fault in printing the report cent tbem; but It must not pass uncorrected, that the Nebraska Popu lists have discarded or dropped all of the national platform except the free coinage of silver plank. Tell the truth for the encouragement of our people In other States, that the Nebraska Popu lists stand firmly and proudly on the whole grand platform of our national party. We have not retreated a single incb, and are going to win this year with the Omaha b. aner flying. MOBTON'8 LETTER TO' TEE ALLI AHOE SECRETARY. To the Sicrttary of the Xtbraska Farmtrt Alliance: MY Dkar Madam: Very sincerely, I hasten to tbank you for your very genial and most sgreeable communlca tlon of January 6, conveying this dell clous confection of tears, frappe, to-wlt: Reeolvcd, That we feel decpls humil iated by having the leading industry of tno nation so grosejy misropreson'ed In the national department, of agriculture by a man whose mind is too narrow to grasp the dignity of his position. And when Secretary Morton attempts to in suit the great body of producers before and industrial congress, he deserves our profound pity for his ignorance, if It lt) ignorance, and our unmeasured condemnation if he knew better. In either case th administration, which will insist In retaining him in the hlgn position to which be has been appoint ed, wilfully Insults the Industry which pays 80 per cent of the taxes, and creates i he balance or trade in our favor with the nations of the world. Itewlved, That the secretary of this meeting ba and is hereby instructs 1 to forward a copy or tntae resolutions to rresident Cleveland ane Secretary ior ton. Be kind enough to convey to the members of the Nebraska Farmers Alii anoe and Industrial Union tae assurance of my sincere and earnest Interest in their material welfare and further In tellectual and moral development. Demonstrating the intensity of that interest, I have the keen satisfaction ot sending you by express, this day, 100 copies of the denounced speeches for distribution , among the members of your organization, and to subscribe my self, Very Respectfully Yours, J. Sterling Mortoh. Sec. The foregoing bit of faceteousness. and Intended sarcasm, does the writer but little credit. Our Nebraska mem ber of the demo-republican cabinet has been roosting too high, and will have to come down from his perch. Instead of making due and ample apologies for Ms open insult to farmers, and farm organizations, in his Chicago speech, be is spending his time, and using bis official position to frank his replies to his insulted constituents, containing additional Insults. The above reply, to the resolutions passed at the late State Alliance meeting, condemning Mr. Morton's utterances, at Chicago, and addressed to the Secretary of the State Alliance, Is typical of the man. There Is a good deal of flip and "frappe" to it but nothing of that dignity that so much becomes a man in Mr. Morton's position. When Mr. Morton attacks farm and labor organization;, as he cer tainly has done, he should remember that the very position he so pompously fills was the creation of farm organiza tions. The office was created at their demand, but not filled as it is now at their petition. Come down Sterling and roost on the lower limbs a little while and if you should chance to fall the fall would not be so disastrous. The farmers of Nebraska would be glad to know that you really were in terested "in their material and their further moral development:" but vour language is weak compared with your act in convincing them of your sincer ity. Your letter to the lady secretary U neither dignified nor slncere.and was only aimed to be sarcastio and smart. Come down, Sterling, come down and breathe the atmosphere tor a short time of the common people whom you are supposed to represent. The difference in the committee is on the same old tiresome Hue, with the eat on one aide end th w.t ami smith on the other. It does seem almoet iuv poem Die w get democrats together on anv national iaaua xam ihiitT evea upon that there are dienWrs who do not want their pet "induatrlee c. keil oft from their power ot plunder. i t mere te some contort in tno feci ft K i ttinnhlt!)... mm teW.... . k . " " - . v u ,v mum r atinru Pj (ifUIIf divided adcuurata. Lincoln Herald The IVmoeraU all agre beautifully before being elected. Thy will sUnJ together ia harmony on any platform that will run them into cRlco. The 8rt thing they did a a party after be- irg eiocWd wa ta eaU aa eitra setoa of Corgrett, and, notwithstanding their promt to the people not to dUvrisni aU afalsnt silver, they cled the aalats la lu foe. The heel and of the I H urn-ret! d g is la Wall Sitrwot, aad whenever the ae4 perl d e.ae, the either a and wvaUra tail of the twett p-vseptly Thwleraaadeuth era eede kate ao rolaj of their own te eut loot at all, aoljleg thatttl better ta be part ( aa oJHclat rur, bea'ea and alvae4 by a lordly muter, than tor va ana twioaf ta a party or the people - laDEPEKDEKT. AFTER THIS MASSES PRAT TE- As a foreigner who has ec joyed the opportunities of studying pt verty in its roost terrible shapes in many lands, who hae visited the famine-stricken districts of China and India, who has probed to tbeir lowest depths the squalid misery of Italian and Polish towns and cities, and spent some time in studying the condition of the hungry Egyptian fella heen. I think I may be regarded as speaking from experience when I assert that iter ia no land ao highly favored by Providence, and where there is corr paratlveiy so little misery, so small cause for discontent and so much rea son for courage and perseverance, a the United States. Here is the old familiar blasphemy repeated, attributing to Providence the condlt'on of tho defrauded, suffering poor. According to the teaching of this prescher of content, a writer in the New York Tiibune, the poor of Ameri ca should pray after this manner: O Lord, our Father, we are the great sinners. We deserve nothing from thy hand. We are thy disinherited, un worthy, unloved, illegitimate children, having no title or right to the earth cr any of its forces. We know there is not room enough even In this broad land for us and thy dear, favored offspring, the landlords, capitalists and money mongers; but we are thankful that Tbou bast mercifully kept us alive and allow ed us to bo less miserable than Thou hast the poor millions in other lands. They usually work less and starve sooner. Thou brlngest upon them the swift famine and the pestilence, but perm litest us to miserably live, and la bor, or successfully beg. We humbly fiank Tbee that Thou dost cause Tby favored children to take pity on ns and give us work part of the time, on terms of net profit to themselves and bare subsistence for us. Thou didst design in Tby elect providence that they should live without labor in luxury upon the profits of our energies, and that we should bear doublo burdens of toil and live in lifelong need. And It was plan ned so to be la order that we might appreciate their goodness and Thine. They are more than righteous, even as Thou art. They are not in justice com pelled to give us either work or alms. Their charity is In the nature of free grace, and bringing to us undeserved salvation we grovel in the dust before them and look to them for life. God bless the rich, who save us from destruction. Increase their profits from our labor, so that they may give us more labor. Send Edward Atkinson to all the poor to teach them how to live on less than a dollar a week, so that competition may bring down our wages to the lowest possible scale of living, in order that our employers may have extra profits to if tbev choofe bulJd soup bouses for the out-of-works, and endow ehairs in colleges ror tne Atkinson kind of economists. And, O Lord, Help us to realize that while Tbou carest for the sparrows and all the birds of heaven, and dost clothe the grass of the field with beauty, our bodies were given us only that through them Thou mightst afflict and purify our souls. Lead us therefore into temp tatlon; put our bodies to the unresting rack of torturing poverty; keep us in constant lack and fear, so that we may become perfectly meek and patient, and be ready to die. For Dives' sake. Amen. A LEADING DEMOCRAT NOT A DEM OCRAT. The economic writer of most promt nence in the Democratic party, David A. Wells, writing In the January Forum considers the great danger of our coun try to lie in the "experiment for which there is no precedent," namely, "en trusting the selection of legislators and the determination of tho policy of the Federal and State governments, through universal suffrage, to the masses, who have little faith in or knowledge of economic principles, and who do not recognize that hardly a method caa be proposed for the ma terial ad vaacement of mankind whioh has not been somewhere and at some time practically tried, and that the re sulting experiences are worth study ing." Do you seize the idea, reader? This great Democrat (?) wants to restrict the franchise to the intelligent (?) few ir ha agree k-ith Aim on the money question 1 be masses who oppose usury and who 111 vote the Populist ticket, should be disfranchised, for they make ot the ballot a dangerous weapon. They pre sume to differ with David A. Wells, and to vote as they please. The present ruling ola-s "has reason to fear," says Welle, the enactment of aws which tend to Impair and make unstable the standard f value ia the making of lu cirhangvs; which provide (or dieoritutnatlng lataUoo; which sanc tion the Imposition of taxes for private ratber than tor public purpoeea; which author! tit 1mu of flat money aid Impair contracts and the security of property by laveeUag It with legal W'cuVr altrlbutrs; and which favor aa Income tat with laqitUl'txIel feature that knder a free gavramest should never be thought of ttcept unUVr the exigency of war, and teat oaa aever b fm!uMy enftirot'd vacrpt under a i- poUJi.N fate Iai4lv-d Uavlrlae of the grvet fcre.'hc el the lVsmrati piuUvrett4.il party, that eeMy ilea oely la reetrlo- iloa of sttffrage ta tt fle. It a dw- trtae very latereeUnf to the snaetee It Is axevlval f Tor) lata, "ihadla right of kings yea." tha old belief that oily a few can know enongh to rule and that the rest were made to be ruled and to serve their rulers. Bat Mr. Wells himself scei difficulties In the way of returning to a govern ment by the few. There are so many college graduates, men of alleged in telligence and teachers of political economy, who do not agree with him, and there doesn't seem to be any possible way to educate tbem up to bis ideas and and prlsciples. Really, the only safe thing in sight to do, la to pass the scepter over to David, and shout, "Long live the klag." THE MOUTH AND UTTERANCES OP THE PLUT0CRAT8- A writer In the New York Tribune tries to make the poor in A-erica con tented with their condition by describ ing the alleged worse condition of the poof In Europe. lie says: Here aoy one whole honestly anxious and ready to work and to turn his hand to anything, no matter what, provided ii is na oontBt moans or nveilnood, can earn his daily bread, and, generally Of course there are times of Intermis sion, wnen worn mav temnnriir v r.oa when a man mav ha nut nt a. nh u.. it is not for long at the most only for a weea or go an iniamons He. Editor ALLIANCE-lNDKPRHtlKNT Mi tt A,.m. ing that time there is any ueed of bread in the house or fuel In thn bin tbero are many charitable institutions nrl nrcrnnf -.Lna tnltr rm a. . -a j i tour m supply the needy (Jgh!-Ed. A.I., Ijarwcuiany jn Buco aeserving cases. In Europe, on the other hand, there are thousands, nav. mlllinna nt n,,A honest, industrious worklngmen, many ui kuctu eauieu artisans, wno are botn ready and eacor in work out any limitation as to hours or scale ui pay, stuu wuuse one oDject in lire Is to provide foe d and raiment for their little ones and vet who cannot find invthn to do, and who are obliged to stand bv mijf huiuoidb; meir ennuron fade away from sheer want, whlnh thv tin hi a to combat, save by theft, robbery and crime This Is aa alternative which no one is called upon to face in the United Dbavee This anonymous falsifier of American conditions then goes on to tell of Egyp tian renanetn who to his personal knowledge have been driven bv huneer to dig up cattle which died of disease and which had been buried several days, and they were so eater for the black putrid flesh they ate tt raw. And the poor of hgypt use for fuel cakes of chopped straw mixed with manure. which cakes they are sometimes forced to eat. He says the poor In Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Russia eel. dom taste meat from year's end to year's end. In ranee charity prevents the degree of distress found in other Euro pean countries, he informs us, and there is nothing humiliating about it. This Is the way this "Ex-Attache" closes un nis sermon on content: K It WOUld be Well If thnsa ortiA man tw regarded as havlnir the ear nf tha nnh. lie such as, for Instance. BewainA- niiwrB. lhh r.ittrirv nnn n sfiA-m iiuib .t. v - .. , . r . J .ww.w. M BVCH erS WOUld seize evnrv avaMahla nnriAw - ' HBm VVUI t J DUU perseverance into the drooping spirits of those who are affected by the mere passing depression by demonstrating to atMl ttVk awa1 kuuw uuw iiiuaiwjjy oetver is tneir lot kur.u kur.t ui me poor in tne uid World, whose cloud is without any of that all ver lininfi? which fa an nnnarliimia a f ture Of everv tumnnmn, nlnnm tv.t overshadows this great and glorious uuuiiiiry. We have had our souls burn within us before, and have relieved ourselves in -words of righteous Indignation. But language falls us this time. If we were sitting on the legal bench today we snould feel called upon in justice to pass a life sentence of American novertv on this loathsome parasite of power that would make him sweat with horror No meaner man ever lived, none in in stincts more brutal and devilish, than the slick syoophant who penned the paragraphs above quoted. The last proposition, that tho writers, the clergy and tne piatiorm speakers preach con tent, is refined, unadulterated Inhuman ity. It is cold, calculating cussedness, wnicn only the utterly selfish and heart less are capable of. The Cosmopolitan for January Is like tne previous six months issues, a mar vel of cheapness and excellence. While unlike other magazines in Its contents and editorial plan, It is fully the equal of any in the high character of Its liter ature and illustrative art. Wit and wisdom, science and literature, sons' and story, philosophy and phllanthro- phy, the curiQua and the profound, are Here brought together for the enter tainment and Instruction of all sorts of people. lUmember. we lend this ereat and moet popular magaalne and our pap-r a full year la new subscribers for 12.00, How-U's Utters of aa Altru- rtan Tray-let runn!i In the muults are wore than worth the price) of it. To old subtcrllvw wo l ave to make the prlJo of but J iV -.' . 1 "V A NlMettt ef tho county treasure a dropp-d la to t us. this wek hoititUe wnk Uy mvount wlta the Uto trraturtr and turn ovr lunil II, lf;vlsou, tl UvanuU, irvaturvrof Grant Co., tni!dnu!! e'att d ta tt tUl he turned or ti t) Utervet too .ey eevvd ta ttt 3tate fcls e;ai ee-'y ttt fed e-uaty by that good h --t Uw p4vd by our party fyuirh f s 44'y trvajr-. rs t Lira ovr iatervett a tank depoel'e of otMiuty funds ta the tUki iaetead el privately tvtaetlsg m the lUputlloaae aad iMatorrats hava ajwayi Joaa. JANUARY 18, 1894 THE CAUSE OF THE PANIO. POKCA, Neb., Jan. 8, If W. Geosge Howakd Gibson, Deab Sir: I notice that in your letter to the Be of December 23d, on the currency ques tion, you say that "The panic and the succeeding stagnation and suffering w as caused directly by the refusal of the banks to lend the money which is need ed to keep the wheels of commerce and Industry moving." I am an Indepen dent, but have been unable to see the matter in that light I saw the parties, who furnish the banks with their work ing capital, from lack of confidence, withdraw their money from the banks until there was none in any of their vaults. From May till September there were very few certificates of deposit which came due that were not present ed for payment and the cash demanded, and very few banks Issued a single new certificate. Demands were made on the banks which they could not meet be cause they could not collect what they bad loaned out, nor would any one trust them with money. Now it seems to me that you are wiong, but I would be glad to know the truth. Would like to bear from you on this one point. Respectfullyyours, B. W. WOOD. We are glad Brother Wood (publish er of the Ponca Gazette) has written asking for more light on the to many mysterious, cause of the panic of '93 and the consequent business paralysis. It is exceedingly important that we get at the truth in this matter; and the truth Is within reach. In an editorial entitled 'The Spirit of Party," in our Deo. 21st issue, we stated! the cause of the panic, and give facts which, we think,' make the matter plain; but Mr, Wod must have overlooked that article, or the part of it bearing upon the panic question. What Mr. Wood observed between May and September was not the cause of the panic, but the effect of that cause. The ball which started the human plna (weak business bouses and banks) to- falling against and over each other, was set rolling In April by the American Bankers' Association, by a concerted action of the strong bankers in the great business centers, New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and other large clt'es, an action agreed upon s the first thing necessary to bring about tbe closing of the mints against silver. From the cold-blooded, selfish stand point of the Shylock class this waa greatly to be desired, because, as a necessary consequence, prices of all products would fall and the value of every debt and dollar would be enhanc ed. It would also increase their power in commanding terms of usury in future. The entire creditor class ranged itself naturally against silver coinage. How to stop it, with the people's will against them, was the question. But prior to the last week in April tbe gold monopo lists, the leading bankers, the shrewd "financiers," had perfected their plan. Carlisle,the traitor, went to New York to confer with them, and on the 20th of April the New York aad Chicago pa pers, which bad just previously stated that the punishment of tbe South and West was about to begin, printed the following: President Cleveland's advisers have told him that the only way to induce tbe western and southwestern senator and congressmen to consent to a repeal of the Sherman law is to demonstrate to their constituents that they are los ing money every day that this law is in operation. Tbe missionary work In that direction has been started by a number of the bankers in the solid com munities of the East. They are daily refusing credits to the South, south west and West. This is the exact language of the New York Sun, date above mentioned, and It was this action of the bankers at the great business centers, by a concerted plan refusing credit to the great West, southwest and South, which toppled over the financially weak, which began the complicated smash, and this, chim ing in with the great cry they had rais ed of danger, spread the panic fear to everyone, They prophesied financial evil, and then produced it to order. "President Cleveland's advisers," re ferred to by the Sun, were the Associat ed Bankers who met ia conference with Carlisle in New York on the day or the day before the abovi quoted paragraph was printed. One of the speakers at the conference stated that the bankers of Chicago bad already begun the oredlv-refuslcg, money-looklng-up. "missionary work" Secretary Carlisle, it was reported, emphatically declared (te please the bankers) that there was to beherolo treatment all the way through: and he predicted that as a result of thla herolo treatment the adherents of sil ver in the house and senate would be ready by the time ongrce convened to repeal the Sherman law. The predic tion was based on the certainty that all the bankers, boards of trade and monled men, who own everywhere the political machines aad furnish tbe funds ta rue them, would with oa voice demised of their national WgUlatere the rvptal f the silver olna-o act. A circular letter waa a,' so srnt out by the esvuutlve cm- vers of the American lleukere' amotiv lion ta all the benker of the country little time before the spela) see Sua pi foegrese, railing on eactt of them tlu ir oa la Wrest ta bring all poslbla Itiflu to War wt their rvspcvtlv national lawmaker to tenure thervr. of the silver cutaage a.l. And U w am. ThU ie the tletory of the coecepitna and taueatlua orveof Ue pule a4 u at"et cruel eoaeetteaev. Ttta greet bathers p!aaee4 l, aud ttok Ua noer ary step refuting credit tad ertlng dea, t brtaf ll oa. tf vouree wit redlt refe4 the laao!all weak weal
