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ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. J. F XISit FT Ft:/or. We are glad to have a con munication from Brother J. ft Ivi light of Tahernacle Allianet Let the good work go on. You editor being out of town account for no more alliance matter i this issue. KNIGHT-VV!\ TCH/WAN NOTES. Ill IIKM'KAI KKMAKKKK. IlitW ln'HUti'ltl it it to ?<ll> ii.s . .1 ...mii l\n n-o!oH' !-1 irr..ti ! <" :rt of <iulcU or lie ulWiiVt llitiroli' . til tbo l.o.nl . A-. . a lu ti lie i ' to l..t - lif. wtiv v liy tli'-n >. t.t 1.1 f ?\ou*l l.i-l . ii.in . |> willj at' . ration. i .i* a vi I'.ui :->?r j >muom Th I nitial Stales is said 11> In a chrislatn nation." I'erhaps i is. altera fashion. l>u! tin* Km: 1 i- 11 and (term in de vs hold ver heavy mortgages on it. An Albany legislature has gon home. When the average inetnhe got there. and looked in the glato regulate his head, he saw on ol' the biggest tools that eve lived. It is easy to imagine t hat (Move land and Carlisle made enoug out of t!?e bond deals and th gold jobs of their administration to pay their $ 1 '2 a plate at th New York Reform Club dinner. That Rrooklvn girl, who wn married on a lire escape, was wis and conservative. She apprecis ted the danger of assuming tie' responsibilities in an epoch < momentary contraction and fal ing prices. Kditor Watterson exhibits th career of Col. Dan I/imont ?i " to t 1.I /, t I, rising generation to net into th shadow of (irover Cleveland, an to sell out their country as earl and often as possible It takes a man like .Joseph < Sibley to understand a man lik Thomas Jell'erson. Tlie Declars tion of Independence, as Mr. Si 1 ley maintains, is thelhdden Kul and the Sermon on the Moui carried into politics. The Lnui-ville Journal pre nounces American opponents < the arbitration treatv nemies t their countrv." The editor ot tli paper ha- recently been in Km land, and ot course he took look at bombard St root. l'he Washington l'o-t -ays th; "one can't have much stnndin in New York society at 'his pai ti<-ular time unless he is the |>o -i'>?nr ot a I?:11 eared hnl! pup. Aecnrditl ' to the I.ondon spec tat or t lie Kngli-h are just now ir olined to look down u|>on tli Creeks a- "loo mercantile' ? "nation ol shopkeepers." So colored, gentlem in a- dark as tli inside ot a stovepipe sometime calls a i|uadroou"a hlack nigger. 1 loosevell's civil service an thiiiL'> have made the New Yor police so intelligent that when man with an Irish name says h i> Knglish, some patrolman take him right in tor perjury. Thei i- nothing like high culture. La and common sense have* had tinday, especially in New York. Can a "Mugwump," alwa.y come under the recent delinitio Ol "a pe-rson who has heen edi cated heyoml his intellectual cr paeily." No. The definition is to narrow. The''Mugwump" is l>< quently a person who has bee purchased beyond his moral r: parity. Most "Mugwumps" ar owned in London. IT IS NOT RBPUDIITIIR SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST - DESPOILEKS. iI. Judge V. J. Hillyer Shows the -* Relation Hetween a Money r Standard and Debts?Our I.e* gal and Moral Rights to Pay According to the Contract Demonetization An Absolute Com pi racy?The Vast Spoils of Its Iteueliciaries. ' llv l' I llillvcr, of WiisOitnrtoii, l? The essence of the silver controversy is the antagonism of interest between debtors and creditors. I' there had been no debts silver would never have been demonetized, for no one would ' have bad any interest in its I demonetization. If there were now no debts there would be no serious opposition to the restoration of silver. The scheme for substituting a single standard of ,. goiu ior a double standard ol ; gold and silver was inaugurated 0 l>y the owners of obligations for r the payment of money. In its inception it was a conspiracy for tin* robbing of debtors absolutely 1 destitute of excuse or plausibility, b By intluences as powerful as their ? employment has been unscrupuIS Ions the infamous project has been pushed to a partial consummation and a position secured where its authors and abettors, i without defending the original 10 I | fraud, are emboldened to invoke | a principle of equity in support ,11 of its perpetration. It is said that, I without regard to the injustice of ' a change of standard as an origi1 nal proposition, present indebted(. i ness has been incurred with is I reference to a standard of gold, e and therefore should bo dise charged upon that basis. If the .1 I . 11 j premise is correct, I grant the 5' conslusion. If a debt is con| tracted upon a standard of gold ! it ought to be paid in gold. This ' j is simply saying that people | should do as they have agreed,and I equally whether the agreement has been express or implied. Hut ,, with this admission I wish to II I make the most absolute and unequivocal denial that there is a , single dollar of indebtedness due ' from any citizen of the I Hited States contracted under or with reference to a gold standard. And lirst, 1 wish to consider that vast body of public debt *' evidenced by national interest bearing obligations. In !>".'{ the aggregate national indebtedness ( allowing for some not very important variations in statistical - I Statements), was in round mill)hers ),<)(><),<)<)<> and is now 1,1 MM),<)(?(>. There can be no rirnloticn ? ?\ * r>rvr? 41 - .. HKIl ??HJ |J*?M I | VI I I III iru* indebtedness due it) in ls73 was i 11 ? urr?*?I upon a gold standard or with reference to any other than 1 a doulde standard of silver and ' cold at the existing ratio. The a! increase of y7,tM)i),0<>0,<)<)(> since a 1*73 does not represent any conc trihntion of new capital l>y the owner- of thes<? obligations, con sidered as a class, hut only a rej investment of a certain portion of the interest which they have '1 received. The interest on the k t wenty-t wo billions due in 1*73 a at four per cent, which is less io than the average rate, has for ... twenty-three vears amounted to ?,(>00,000, enabling the na,A tional creditors of 1873, without drawing from other sources t>. i i r_" " 1 vw ^ ^ V absorb the Keven billions of increased national debt and have left thirteen billions for invest \s rnent in other securities. As to ii tho standard under which payr ment should be made, the interest on these obligations is afl>ctod M by the same equities as the principal. It is immaterial how much refunding and change of form of " instruments or even shafting of 1 locality there may have been, po j long as the indebtedness has not i been extinguished the equity as to the mode of payment has not! t changed, it >vas contracted tin- 1 s der a double standard and it is a 1 a violation of equity if its discharge j v should be required in accordance'}; with any other standard by which t I its burden may be more onerous c to the obligors. If in any pro- ^ cess of refunding new obligations i have been substituted payable in a gold alone this substitution has i been brought about by the satnejc influences and instrumentalities ! v through which the money stau- , dard has been changed. The'? abuse of governmental power he. t been the same in the one case as s i I he oilier and ! he in just ice equally I' ilagrant. Neither has had the I I j intelligent consent of the t ix * ! paying debtors, without which no ? obligation binding in equity i could bo created as to a change I,v j in the burthen cf payment. Mvii i reason for selecting this national I i indebtedness of IST-'I for spe? ia! . I consideration was that in respect i to Ibis the argument could be! made conclusive. In regard to other classes of indebtedness it is s more dillicnlt. to fix accurately the time and conditions of its contraction. But here is $-2,000,- v iiMMi.uwti {saying nothing about re- ( J invested interest), concerning j which there can he no question > or controversy. It was a debt s existing in lsT-'J, and it is still, < however its evidences may have!, been remodeled, a sobsistingdebt, j i Every dollar of tins debt was con- ' j tracted when the double standard i prevailed univerrally and when | everywhere fifteen and one-half ounces of silver were practically | 1 equivalent to one of gold for its ' j payment. No one familiar withU ! iinancial history doubts that it is j ^ now owned not only by the same l limited class as in 18T'l, but sub- ' j etantially and as to the great ? hulk of it, by the same individuals j or their successors in interest. If iransftrs have been made the j * original equity as to mode of pay - i merit has followed it into the j t hands of the transferees. The . debtors are the taxpayers of the 1 different nations. Any legisla- i tive or administrative action | which has increased the burthen of its discharge has been fraudu- ' lent, no matter under what form > it may have been disguised. Now, f 1 ask the roader to pause and try to comprehend the immensity of i the sum represented by these 5 , figures. The annual interest up- i ion this amount, even at three per cent, is $<>(>0,000,000?in itself! , an expression battling adequate > conception of its full import, i i Twenty-two billion dollars is i more than five times the amount : ' of the whole world's stock of gold 11 | coin and bullion. And yet this I vast sum is only ihe amount of j actual profit to fie realized by the holders of this one class of securities if the plot to destroy silver ' i as standard money can fie carried j , to completion. Whatever may i fie said as to other indebtedness, there i* as to this no chance for } even a quibble respecting the \ time a^id circumstances of its con traction. Kvery dollar of it I originated under a double standard, and it is travesty en equity , ' to double <>r in any way increase its burthen by requiring it to f?e paid under a single standard of 1 gold. I might stop right here s and confidently claim that the falsity of the assumption with which i am dealing had been ' 'demonstrated. i'his aggregate of national indebtedness cotiIstitutes nearly ono-lialt of the total amount due upon secured in- 1 tercst fiearing obligations, which a alone deserve consideration in , this connection. When it is shown that as to one-half of the 'indebtedness involved in the in. qtiiry the claim of equity through contraction tinder a gold standard ^ is deprived of any semblance of :l | validity, that would seem to be sullicient to constitute an estoppel ; v | against its further assertion. II 1 there were no other debts in thee world, this alone would brand the J ( ; scheme to change the standard of ' | 'value as the most stupendous L I crim3 ever contemplated against; | humanity. If bondholders can, without consideration, by mere' manipulation of political agencies 1 add to the value of their securi-1' ties $22)000,000,000, then others ri somewhere, and in somo way, ^ must suffer a corresponding loss, d It makes no difference how widely he loss may be distributed, it is till a fact,and in its consequences l fearfully momentous fact, that vhat tho bondholders dishonestly :ain other classes must unjustly use. The world is not wide nough that this mountain of >22,000,000,000 of unearned, lawnade indebtedness can be piled is an additional burthen upon its ndustrv without the universal tppression of its wealth-producers rherever situated. The tax rid-. Ion people of Europe, have the anie, perhaps stronger, interest' o rebel against this diabolical ohetne us ourselves, but their of- ( orts foi i?die->y are handicapped! iv monarchical institutions and funding armies. Ileliof, if it is o be had. must eomo from the titelligent citizens el the United dates who ;!1 retain the power >f a free !v? Dot. - .. , . Notes From Tabernacle. Mr. Editor : As ii lias been 01110 time since you had an item rotn Tabernacle sub-Alliance, li vill give von a few items from' >tir sub-Alliance. u e are at peace anions; our-; fives and are in a prosperous! ondition ami in m?od working >rder. While we cannot say we i save a srootl lecture every nieetng vet. wo have ;i good lecturer, j le told us at our last meeting! hat he was so smart he did not lave time to get up a lecture tor very meeting, he said he stayed in he field so much. Well, as our leetirer is one of our heavy weight Mlianceman we will expect him o he on hand as we only meet nice a month. Tabernacle Alliance has been Meeting every two weeks since ts organization until now. Owng to the farmers being so far lehind it was thought best to lieet once a month until duly vhen we expect to meet as usu-1 d, twice a month. We now have ? strong membership, both male iikI female. Some new members nitiatcd at our last meeting. People are about done plantng cotton seed, hut the heavy ains and cool nights are causing t to come up slowly. Corn plant ng will ho the order ol the day or awhile now. Not as much ane planted as last year. Why ? Hecause the farmer says he can ;et New Orleans for 35 cents >er gallon. Now, brother, farmer,! ust stop Ranting sorghum for a rear or two and see what you vill pay. Is it not tlio scarcity of tn article that makes it dear? Now. brother, don't plant the :ane patch in cotton, but try a ew pindcrs and potatoes ami aise more pigs. Your lmnible ervant raised ! p>od hoys on a mail patch of potatoes and pin lers last year. Now, as the Alliance has been poke 11 of as an educator we think n this respect the order has done i great work for the wool-hat' lass. The morals of our country j ire better among the thinking lass. And you strike them on J he government and a boy *Jo ears ?>1< 1 ran tell you as much as i man ot 10 could years a^o. urn ask a ^rcftt many farmers | vlio preceded tin* lion. .1. .1. lemphill in Congress and they an't tell yon. Ask thorn who the Jovonorof South Carolina was in *7 t and they can't tell. Hut for he last low years the farmers lave been reading for themselves. Now brethern as the time is mar at hand to elect officers in ho 8iilis let us try and elect the nost punctual members in our Vlliance as the success of the or ler depends on our loaders. J. M. K. I WILL SETTLE IN NEW JERSEY. V* 1 will set lit- in Nov.- Jersey, 1 wll rest myself in peace : Kruffi the la in,i s ?.f high olllce I will itii<I a rl.nl release. 1 have serveil iny eountry largely. Shot duelts i:i i vanish caught. The u chore of other nalious With persistence I have sought. I will settln In New Jersey. w 1. the glory iiuj the pride: Hut before I go to I'riueetOh I must have one more free rule, t wll' boutil <lc T.igl t) oti?e Ti'inl'i-," With my shotgun on my knee. Ami let me whiskers riii? Willi the zephyrs of the sen. I will settle It: New Jersey. Ami with "Congress" o(T "my hands," I will iliKiilly o 1 I'riucotoa? She's loud in Iter demands I'or tin most progressive statesman ^ This world ' is ever seen, Who would kill a young republic To install it' grit 1 jueeti. 1 Will si tile ill NOV. Jersey, I, the poildi I' ; I -r ."It. M Vt s. 1, t he grea :,st 1 , And the M St ,,r the I will make the college fathers feel rip t as! ae 'if 11ty !op And impress r , largetn i largely On tin: ardetu r-oplioaiorc I v/|U setl'e in N?-w Jers y, 1. * lie i" . patriot : ? tin vn l,.M ! 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C. iTIirmiminsr All UnT^^IsT ^ (jnarante" (irove's Tasteless Chill Ton ir to do nil that the manufacturers claim fur it. Warranted no cure, no |?ay. There are many imitations.To got the iirno ink a?k for Orovo'M. Sold oil its merits.? No cure no nay?by J. K. Mackey it Co. and It. C. Hough A Co. > Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.