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ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. ./. F. NISliET Editor. We are still looking for reports from the Sub-Alliances. The Cotton Plant is now published at Laurens, S. O., and is still in the hands of the Committee with W. T. Crews as editor and publisher. It is a bright, lively, paper and evtrv Alliance man should see to it that ho gets the Cotton Plant and reads it. It is full of good substantial matter and the exchange price list alone is wortli the price of th?* paper. Let t <p Alliaticpmen ir<? to work and get subscribers, ami if yn ir subscription has not expired and you are not receiving the paper, write the publisher and ho will make correction. Report From The Primus SubAlliance. Mr. Editor: As it has fallen to my lot by appointment to correspond for our sub Alliance 1 will endeavor to give you a short item. We have a well organized body of Alliance brethren and are in fine working order and have some accessions nearly every meeting. We have a good lecture every meeting by oui worthy lecturer, Brother .J. It. Knight. A good lecture is the life of an Alliance, and that we have every meeting. We alsi have a good attendance every V. 1 4t uk^ci iu^> I'ivn v uiuuiur Mft'ins ii he interested in the Alliance work which is a good work, whicl in my opinion is the next organi zation to the church. Some of the money sharks say the Alliance is dead, but they are mistaken Let them tackle us, and they will find the liveliest corpse they ever met. A good Alliance brother visit ed me the other day and said tr me he intended to attend the Alliance as long as his old mule was able to carry him to one. Tic rides nine miles to one. We glory in the spunk of such Alliancemen Seventy five per cent. of A11 imen are laborers and, if united we would be as the driving wheel of a great engine whicli se'ts thousands of spindles in mo tion when it revedves. Come. brother farmer, make a spoke in the Alliance wheel. As I have been appointed re porter I expect to do my duty af best 1 can. I expect to go hewing and if the chips strike some peo pie 1 can't help it. If I should write long letters I hope the good Editor will grant me space in lib valuable paper. I expect to chop with the Alliance broad axe, and some of the chips are sure tc strike some of our County and State officers. It matters not if I write long letters, I do not get if'1 a day as a salary and want somebody else to get fifty centf per day. People in this section arc mrougn planting cotton, ami it is coming up slowly on account ol dry weather, fruit crop* are look inn hut* nnd promising. Not as much sorghum cane planted in this section as last year. Mr. Editor, I will not write any more for this time till I see if this escapes the waste basket. B. F. Adams. SILVER AND OOLI). Mr. Frewen Writes About Silver And The Fall of Prices. Mr. Morton Frewen, writing from London to the Washington Post, draws the line between the debtor and creditor nations, and shows most plainly the close relation which the gold and silver <| nest ion bears toward the fall of prices, lie says : In this moring's cable to the "Times" Mr. Smalley reports from W ashington an interesting interview with the President. Mr. .Smalley\s hitherto unshaken con vietion has been that the St. Louis bimetalic "plank" was dishonest?a mere vote catcher. His interveiw with the President, has clearly convinced him that the President, at least, is in earnest in 11is desire to secure an international settlement. The Times" correspondent is to be congratulated on his discovery; if he perserveres he may find in the public life of the Tinted States other honest men. The view lias been sedulously fostered bv N*P\V York rrif ino it, Mm I don press, that half the American nation lias stuck its llag to anarchy, and that the other half won the day last November by a platform so tricky as to involve, in clasicj "party perfidy and party dishonor." Mr. Snialley's pres* ent voyage of discovery from Manhattan Island to the little ' known District of Columbia, is certainly worth while, if it has ) carried to bis mind the conviction that the leader of a party, who 1 declared lor bimetalism before the election does not stand a revealed mono-metallist, now that the election has been won. As to the prospect of an international monetary agreement, to which many of us here have devoted our energies for the past twenty years, you will perhaps > permit me to write at some lengi'i. Looking back to the roc ords of the abortive conferences of the past it seems pretty clear that those who attribute their ' failure to England's hostility, know too little of the subject to ' answer the question, "but why ' should England co-operate ? Even 1 the late lamented I'rof. Eranci i Walker, 1 venture to say <1 i<l not | entirely appreciate England's po'.sition. It was his view?a view which 1 and many others accepted because ot his great authority, '.that if America suHerod by the full ?if prices and the b?ss of a**par I of exchange," yet England sufi fered even more. This view, how ' i over, will not stand investigation ; ' tlie juestion of bimetallism ver ' | sns gold is priinarly a question 1 of debtor nations, versus creditor ' nations, and it is becoming clear ' by tin* light of modern research that the creditor nation is the gainer at the expense of the debtor, and it is the gainer, too, by particularly the whole amount of the "appreciation*' of gold?the fall of prices. The truth is, that the great fall in the price of your staple exports, such as wheat and cotton, a fall which will each 1 year make it moro difficult for ' you to pay the interest on your foreign debts, without shipping your gold, it is this very fall which by giving us. vour creditor. cheap raw material and cheap food, both secures our manufac turing supremacy, and enables 1 us to Hourish inordinately as a v nation, notwithstanding the pa- v ralysis of our agriculture, and of fl certain other special industries (1 which have been unminded by li the competition of using silver in a Asia. Lot me show the efleet ot f the fall in pi ices upon our cred- t iter relation with foreign conn- v tries. Our foreign loans and in- l vestments are upward of ten thou- I; sand million dollais, the interest o on which is sup]>osed to average l 1 per. cent., or $400,000,000 a t year. This interest reaches us in i the form of wheat, cotton, wool j and other produce. Wheat lias c in the past low years fallen more j t than one half. Translating then I c our entire receipt of interest into t bushels of wheat it may he said c that instead of receiving '270,- a 000,000 bushels of wheat as the ^ equivalent, of ?400,000,000 of in t terest we are receiving, at the d average price of the past four t years over five hundred million " bushels. As our total consutnp ? tion of wheat, is less than 2-'0, 000,000 bushels a year t !?."?7 ])Ounds per capita), the fall in c the prices has given us in the c form of" increased interest on our * foreign investment more than the J entire annual bread supply of c our people. It is little wonder, t then, that we reformers fighting f this battle in England make little ? headway against those who say 1 ''better free bread than free silver." r l'rof. Walaer, however, use<l to c warn us of the possible insolvency t of our debtors, because of the * great collapse of the price of what ( ' they produce; but thus far, by t con trust with our entire foreign j loans, our losses in Turkey, t Greece and the Argentine have 1 been a bagatelle ; nor is there any i real alarm as yet felt in England ] i that the further fall of prices will involve any extensive liquidation in America and Australia. Thus 1 far we are getting our four hunll rn/1 /xf I tti/xn/xn^ ? ? d * f I ill vvt iuiinwun ui init'iirai, itllU 11 one half of our debtors prove in solvent we should even then he as well paid as if prices under bimetallism reverted to the previous high level before 1873, and all our debtors paid us in full. I Theories apart, what are the j facts f The gross annual per capita income of the debtor nations' has been largely reduced in the past thirty years, while apparently that of the creditor has increased. In New Zealand, for ex I ample, the per capita income has J ; la I leu since 1ST.'! from C40 lo C'21, and tlio present income of | your 30,000,01)0 of farm population is not more titan 1/20 ; in Kngland, on the other hand, Mr. Rowley's extremely eloharate returns. which ran he found in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society for June, 1895, show that our per capita income has in-1 creased since 1800 from C2S to | C-12. This increase is 17 per ' cent, in money, hut if you estimate the increased purchasing power of the 1U2, Mr. Rowley clioiee f 1? f\ t t l>/\ 'vl ? - - ? ? " ~ i* 2 ? auuno mat iiiu it'iti HHJrOUKU UI III- i come since 1 <800 amounts to 102 i per cent. Mr. C'oghlan, the sta- ? tistician to the government of North South Wales, when I was . at Sydney two years since, work- < ed out for me these figures : The < population of the colony is 1,200,000, and the colony owes $2.r>,- < 0t)(),000 of interest to Kngland. ' Vt the prices of 1872 the exports ihich were in 1894 XI5,900,000, rould have realized 29,000, 00, while the imports, 11,000. 00, would, at the prices of 1892, lave cost the colony 10,819, oi . balance of loss because of the all of prices of 7,4So,90S on he external trade alone. Inothei rords, but for the (all of priceshe entire item of debt would lave been wiped out. and a bonus>f 2,000.000 would remain t< he credit of the colony. I have 10 doubt that in the case of Oal lornia, a community equal in )o|>ulation and similar in rosour es, the external indebtedness oj luil State is not less than is tin a-<e in Ynrl, South Wales, and he loss bv the tall of nrioos i< i tqually burdensome. lint groal is is the loss to New Soot I iV.lies, it is still Holland that i> lie gainer to the extent of tlx lepreciation, ami it i< this argu ncnt, that the creditor natioi :aios hy each fresh fall in prices vhieh, however immortal, is stil tnpregnably intre died in the conotnic faith ot thiscornnninity Cheap silver involves low ex han^es with all Asia; low ex hanges result in cheap producion in Asia and stimulated ex )orts from Asia. Racially sue! onditions are a menace to our ivili/.ation ; even commercially hey are not easy to defend, bu inanciallv they appeal very pow rfullv to certain predominant nterests in this kingdom. Having drawn attention to one if the principal obstacles to cur ency reform, which while ar ibstacle to a settlement inucredi or" England is an incentive n ho United States ; perhaps yoi vill permit me in a further let er to point out how far the pres >nt government of this country is nepared to go, under pressure o he exigencies of the Indian ad riinistration. Morkton Frkwen. 25 Oheshain l'lace, March li 1897. THE TRUST COLLAPSES. Hie Cotton Growers Will Havi No More Trouble About the Question of Securing Ties. Col. D. 1*. Duren, manager o lie State Alliance exchange, yea onlay afternoon returned fron W ashington, where he has beei or several days on business o ;reat importance to the cottoi growers of the State. He wen >n to Sumter in the afternoon. Col. Duncan, it. will be re nembered, led the fight madi ast year in many of thesoutheri states, particularly in Soutl 'arolina, against the Hat cottoi ie trust, introducing a wire ti vhich, after a big light, the itn sorters were forced to accept [before the season was out thou lands of bundles of the wire tie vore manufactured and wold al brough the south, many of th rrowers boycotting tho llat ti trust which had had thorn at it mercy so long. Colonel Duncan has found fror lis visit to Now York that th rarniers will have no more trouhl ihout the tie trust. .Several com rianies have gone to manufactui ng tho Hat ties on a largo seal uid they are now olTering t purchasers all the llat ties tha [hey can handle at 15 cents bundle less than the actual wir jsed last season could be brough it. In other words, the price lave fallen until the llat ties ca t)e purchased at 15 cents less pe bundle than the crude wire to b ? ? 11. - *: - ? uauu 1IIIU LIJ? HUH can ue DOUgli ?t. While the fight ma.Jo agaim ,he trust was thought by man :o be'uHeless, the above statomei] >f facts seems to show that it wn exceedingly effective. No dout here will be general rejoicin imong th3 cotton growers c >outh Carolina at the result.Lhe State. T?IEI>RKAOKl?rO^?riMI?TIOrf ^ 9 VAK lit: 1JHED. ^4 1 X. A. Nleruuit At. Ok IImi <iront 4'liciu i*>f un?l Scicn tint. Will Ncu?l, !>< , Thren ItoiilcN of IIIm X?*wly IMNCOTrml Heme?II?>m to Suffer*. Kditor Kntkhpkisk:?I have discovered a reliable cure for Conauinp- w tion and all Hroncliial, Throat and Jr Lnn^ Diseases, General Decline, Loss of Flesh and all Conditions of Wasting' Away. Ity its timely use thousands ol apparently hopeless cases have been cured. So prool-positive am I of its power to cure, that to make its merits known, I will send, free, to any nlllicted reader oft your paper.Jthreo bott les of my Newly Discovered Remedies upon receipt of Kxpressand Post? ^ otliee address. T. A liLOtU M, M. IKS Pine St. New York. 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