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IMiMXfE DEPARTMENT. ./. /*'. XISliFT lull tor. He sure to read Pres.Keitt's letter in this issue. He asks mombers of defunct Alliances to go to work and revivo their Alliances. V?To have some in this county that we believe can be revived, if pood Alliuncetren would h tir selves. We know the farmers ire very busy now, but if y will just u \ I'M* h u:ue 11 ui * > wonuir: for the Allien "a they \? ill he srrprised at the remit. Avl :f e do not ke??p our or (J or in wood COndi^'O'l (\rn "i!?i <? * r\ ''V'l that prices will advance tta certain articles. Wo are oblig'd *o t-o--.-, ? ?'i /o-- >- a:''4 'iop and a ?.;rcat :n ,%v ntho* t?<in-zr the/ w> do not think r ' nor?. .Tnr' let us stop using our exchange in purchasing our fertilizer? and wo will find that wo cannot, buy thotn a? cheap as w? do to-day. The I'romised hotter. Mr. Editor: I promise 1 Mie readers of the Entkupuis:: some timo ago thnt 1 would {rive a letter in the next issue, be* ! failed to do so hut have suffieiont reason to excuse myself and hope nobody wa? disappointed. T wi'l now endeavor to give a sketch here and there, though 1 cannot amuse the readers so much as my friend ".Junius" You know everv man to his calling and mine js' to till the soil. Those of no rr no have been appointed by,our pubs are the ones ma? :.ro expected to furnish tlie Sews for the column*, so let us all do our part. 1 can say that we have the banner Alliance of the country, or at least we have no t r<. We moot once a month and nave good tendance. Every brother seems to be interested 111 iiie Alliance work. The time to elect new oflicprs is near and we ought to elect the best men to (ill the ollices of both county and subs. FA KM NOTKS. Had good rains the past week and crops are looking tine. Most of the farmers are through chopping cotton,all I believe tint poor John. Cotton is exceptionally line. Ijind some squares in my farm. Hardens are looking very fine. ' dy about fifty days more and wo will b<- done laying by our crops. Rally up, brother f: rin?r. and l*?f us all get to tho Alliance encampment at Tirzali. i IIOSK XI ki.k ? I lilO.SI I I KM. Well, my idea tor publishing it v. us to get people to reading th Bible, 1 ut the Editor of t! 1\vKI" 1*1:isr ha^ got the peopled reading the Almanac. lie aj ! ? got it OUl Ol .ill .V 1.11..II.U . >1 V ... ior liits suiiMaeiioo m -omu p? ?pie i will - y. it l- foil i! in the I., , r .1 I>; I 1 . I ! I. more l'il ! question: !) ?gb Bible -av wo shall ail app> ir before the judgment tiar aid !? judged at eording i<> the deed done in inn bou> ( it so, please SOlio l?loio i'e.tm : - te j . ii the ! ' v ; , wb ? If tlie good ! " 'ifor lind- hiIns \lrnanae. p!ea-o state .vi,.i All lanac. Ueai re d?-r-. I have i.\> niero i<l mi question iiiii' wi.i ..s.. ... ,h tuturc an \v:.'. stn:o in i.10 future why ! a-', those <jtl istioos. Now to com III lo. I w II s ty I fool very much like (Joint; what the little Sunday school hoy toid the old pr> e-hor when in- not up to mako a talk and .-aid: Well my friend-", if yo". were standing: here like me and had nothing; to say, what won id you do? t he little hoy replied, "I would sit down." .So brothers, if you don't help rue 1 may sit down too. l\ V. ! ARE WR GROWING BETTER? ????? j NOT A HIT, THE WORLD IS ROW GROWING WORSE. j Savagry and Itarbarism, in Old Forms, Succeeded Hy More Subtile Cruelty, Oppression and Slavery?Fiurlatid Still a Robber and Pirate?Egypt in I Chains Under a Whip?India Starved, Africa Maided. Amerca ImpoTorislied. We publish Kelow a flowing | editorial Irom the Brooklvn K.iglc, o!i;i of Kot.h-.-!;ild's f.'VorC , orj-ii'S, living an interesting description of the world as it is not, undor th title "The World Growing Better." It ays: l ' ?., ?< lu-du.v >?o \v? iiml y Our Indian vars are >ver . \frica e I being eivilm?d. nr i? possible only miiliT ?xtrnnr<linnry eoinlil i<>n>, and i a'-iiMi;; mi > <-( till puMCiy fivill/ i v. ithii .1 comparatively jfovv years the j !.! ! i. been abolished among most I people ol clilight meat. The vices ??f | king* are no longer regarded by their i people with eoinplaeeney. ami kings ! t hemselves have but short tenure of j their thrones, because tiie world is -t ren^t Ictiing itself lor self-government. Slavery has been .-wept from nearly all the earth, yet only forty ' year* ago the slaves were counted by millions. I'iracy has utterly vanished j from Ihe seas, charity has taken on a hundred acti\e forms. The standard of education are higher. Churelies are more prnetieal. Man is improving, not because the form for betterment exists in hi* laws, or his surroundings, or in lijs l(r ;::;iiig, hut in himself. Me is "fuelling toward his own possibilities, not merely for his ow n sake, but for that of his race and the world. if the foregoing were true it ; would he most gratifying hut ; stili there are some grains of truth j in tlio labyrinth of falsehood pictured in the editorial. It declares ( the savagery of our Indians wars is over. This is practically true, J because the Indians are mostly dead. It says that Africa is being civilized. This is absolutely ! false. Within a few years the Egyptians, the most ancient and | celebrated race in Africa, if not ! in the whole world, have beon I enslaved by British greed and we j aro whipped on the back to make them produce from each acre of arable land in that country from 1 seven to eight dollars in taxes to : meet interest on a fraudulent ! debt and to maintain an English army of task-masters. In the above article the writer says that war ic pocdble onlv under extraordinary conditions and among men not completely civilized. i here is no turn* ami has not boon for years ami years that the Ilritish povornment has not been prosecuting war npainst the weal; nations of Asia ami Africa, and thi> coi ?inont where no*- p-eve?<* m| by ' he I'nited Stat."--. i h< monarch.es of hnrope priu cipaily Knpland, have oibjupated nearly a!! .;! Vfri -a. ami (ireat j'.ri^ain is nov. ncaye'l : i d ' \ .:ithe stru^lin^ republic of self-re p. iiiif.', imlepenbent Mo ers. Wherever Knpland sends Imt llo"t and her armies, siibjurobbery, a . ) slavery follow, ; ? Mf in;\ nipht follow.* day. It is true the duello iJ falli?i. .el > innoriw us desuetude, but whet r that !> ? an evidence of <!*. : ,oing ! vi!i' i * ion or appro.idling decay. ?<:'! a matter ;f emitroversy. It is- not tr;j? that tin* vice of kings are no longer regarded by t hoir p *ople with complacency, or that kings themselves have hut a short tenure of their thrones because the world is strengthing itself in selfgovernment. '?n the contrary, kings themselves are now subject to a greater, more formidable and more erne! do pot ism than the world has experienced is all the 1 ages. No matter what kings may i do if thev obey the combination I of the money powers who rule i over and control the masses, their thrones are safe. ? It is not true that slavery has been swept from the earth while only forty years ago slaves were I counted by the miliioui. Slaves have multiplied more rapidly in i the last twenty-five years than ever before in the history of man- , kind. The three hundred million- ' jot human beings inhabiting tlioj I vast and ancient empire of India J are subjected to a more cruel, | slavery than any hernf >'Y>ro knov in the histerv the hum .n rr.ee. Tlio armies of Oreat Britain and I tho tax-gathe irs of tl Angfo-1 Qa. . I,.-.- f, nAfot-i no I ' OtlAUll l.l ll'lvo V> .11./II".. I held that c untry in h pelest Islavery and subjected t! o neonloli to the most onerous taxation. j' But in the !a>i few years the]' acme of cnnfise-?tien enmity, sav agery, am! ha 1 arity - be n e ! | hiliited in the government of In| din. Tho poor starving wretches j of that vast empire saved from'1 I the pittance which they could earn about $1,0'11 >,000,000 ;u sil; ver treasure, in the shape of jewi els and ornaments, for use iiij1 case of famine or other disaster. 1 This the British government con- 1 liscated by declaring in lSO.'i that the silver hoards of India shouldj no longer lie taken to the mint 1 and controverted into money, but should he worthless in the hands { of the poor people who had accu- ! i niulate;! them. Famine came and 1 | is now raging in that distressed land. In the beginning of the J famine the hoards of silver wentaken to the mints, hut the vie- ( tinis were informed that it could 1 j not ho converted into money, and ' the last resource that the starving masses had to supply themselves with food, and thereby mitigating the horrors of famine, was reniov- i ed, "and thousands upon thou-j sands have perished on account ! of the cruel harlmritv of the! 1 slave-masters of Kngland. Hero. ! then, are three hundred million* of people who have been plunged, by the rapacity, cruelty, and barbarity of the Knglish government. : into a slavery more horrible than 1 has ever been heretofore known 1 among men. It is not true that piracy has vanished from the seas. < >ti tho contrary, Kn^lish pirates infest every . ea -n>i Ku^li.-h marauders swarm every land where resist anee to their imperial navv i* impossible. 11 pirate- of (Jreat liritain instead ot capturing a few vessel* of the sea. are now engaged in capturing continents for the purpose of slavery. We are aware of ?'?< hoa?t?d charity of the rich, lt.it rharitv is not what the peop'e ?sk. ]': ey i-k freedom and a chance I've and take cure of tliem-*?dves. As to 1 , , . , ,1 t !r *'. a '...'..t! t !.. ': n, we deny that it i- higher among the mas-os /f the people than :t was fifty years ago. 1 lie reat masof people of the ' >rient have no educational ad v ,ini,The ni -sea oi tie; j *ople of Klirope ir re Iricted in their education al advant tycs every day. We ijurstioT'. the assertion that the churches i e more practical. On th" c. ?:r!r.'.rv, the ('hristain ^overnmoiif- cjf {In- wM an- today engaged in \indi itin^ the rij^litof the un-pcakahlo Turk to persecute and murder at pleas, lire. Wo dnny that the masses of men are now improving, for their surroundings are kucIi that improvement is impossible. No hotter example of a decaying civilization exists than is found ;:s the I'nitod *!at< We admit i that four millions of chattel slaves were freed by the late war, but opportunities for the groat mass of the American people to maintian freedem and indepen tlencehave been taken away from them by the manipulation of the world's money through a conspiracy the most infamous of all the ages which the Brooklyn Eagle endorses and advocates. During all the history of the I'nited States there were a chance lor young men and women to! marry, ma!? > homo, raise fa.i.i hps, and be independent. Those times are 'ton \ and i ' tho place of Mie f;\e institutions of this ceil at ry vhi.ih aliordod opportn-' ;?: , . * . .. n ... ...l: I /P ? 1 I pportunitir to all ',vo h:ivo op j .. ... . < P?rM . . " P* , !: vor (1 ' '' 1 ' n '' 1 1 . of the gold ring an I tlie acci-1 dental few who make some covery out of the usuul order *>t business. The condition of the' laboring masses of Fnrope has1 not been worse at any time for, tin* last fifty years than it is to day. Loaded down thy a mountain ot niljlist bonded indebtedness and compelled to sustain! vast armies to suppress and destroy liberty, millions groan under the modern system of slavery as humanity never groaned before. Take Italy for example. Her peo pie are dying bv the thousands to day on account of unjust taxes. Kverything is taxed to the point of starvation. Salt, which is an absolute necessity to health, isl taxed until disease pervades the| whole land. Wo defy the Brooklyn Kagle or any other organ of gold monopoly to point to a single country an earth whoso people are in as prosperous condition today as 1 liiiv u nrn t trim t? v?io " ??cv . Brooklyn Kagle is contending that this world was made for' bondholders and money changers and that there is nothing sacred hut avarice, and while it thus contends let it not make a false J picture of the results of gold monopoly. W. M. S. Letter From the President. Mr. Kditor:?The members of the Alliance should appreciate your effort to revive The Cotton Plant, as the Alliance organ.? Your editorial of the Oth inst . upon the "Alliance anil politics," is sound doctrine. I nfortunately too many do not discriminate between non-political and non-partisan. No one is authorized to O... tl.?? \ 11. _ I:. iii.il i in* . \ i iiaurr jm llMll-jHUJiical, for tlio lir.-t declaration of its organic law i ? the purpose* to teach tin* science of e< ui unical government. How far re a -hing the educational work ha" h< en is apparent to t:. close observer. The political conflict projected by the Alliance has for the most part ticen transferred to political par ties.?The Alliance organization has suffered much from divisions of political sentiment respecting parties. i ais should not have hcen. A p?op. r appreciation and observance of its non-partisan character diouM have pr< vented it 'I'h ".'h i'hdr v? from the organization for tlr reasi n arn culpable?not the Alliance. While it i-- gratifying for me to note that some of the counties have increased their memtier lap this year,too many are apparently indifferent. The names of many heretofore prominent in the organization are not enrolled on the hooks of the State secretary. As an organization to protect and advance the agricultural in terests, the Alliance is as neces- ^ sary now as it has over been, and to promote these interests, should appeal as strongly as ever to the patriotic sentiments of every farmer. It is a great mistake to suppose that the operations of the ^ Alliance arc couiined to political ' discussions or political actions.? Its scope is almost unlimited.? The Alliance of Newberry county combined this your and purchased fertilizers to a larger extent than ever before. Combinations in ottior > i?. tin. as matters have proven very beuotiri: 1 in this county. I'ndi r tin . uspices of the Alliance we ..ill have a Farmers' Ir-'irub in Aiuuist. There is n : mi t'-e Mli.itico can' b : eiiVctiV in other counts '(''{! S' .Jo. TI. arc many g Mlian.,*. on in the Stat* whose name do not appear upon 1 r- : ?!. ! v.' i; to a,-j al to them .u .moil . einj\. Jieir interest in the oru Miization. Mai > tho A.Ilia: cr ' >' it shot;' be If its past lias been meiitorious why should we not go forward? Wo must he progressive or retrogressive. Which shall it be? 1 will ask the la>-t county officers in the eountie- ii -f oiiridkd to take the ii.iliativo in reorganization.? Where 11 is not done, I will ask y the oilicer.s of subs and individuals who wish to preserve their membership,to communicate with * the State Secretary. No one is a member <?f tho Alliance unless his name is enrolled on the book of gtho State Secretary. * .los. I,. Kkitt, Pres. S. F. A. Snodleys, S. C., May 22nd, 1S1>7. Tin: mti: am:i> < oami .iii>ti<>.\ caa in: T. a. Nlrnini, .11. tlt?> Ureal riieinixl hikI S?*l?'ii I i*i, Will ScimI, I'riT, Tlir?-?- Until rs of II in a? ??lj Disemeretl lCvim-?li?-?* to Suff?Ts. Knrrou Kntkim-iiisk I have iliscovereil a reliable i-ftre for <'onsnmption ami all bronchial, Throat ami 1.1111(7 I Mseases, < ieneral decline, Loss of 1'lesh ami all <'ondit ions of Wasting Away, Ity its timely use thousands ol apparently hopeless eases have been cured. So proof-positive am I of its power to cure, that to make its j merits known, I will semi, free, to any j atllieted reader off your paper, bhree j hot ties of my Newly discovered Hemp. j <lies upon receipt of Kxpressaml I'ostotliee address. T. A. Sl.tM'l M, M. '.?> I'ine St. .Vow York. When wrlliiiK the Doctor, please mention tills paper. WiY]\rTs7 r WANTKIk -u KhO NOT WANT HOYS ? !{ I.OAI KKs. to write, hut men of ability. pJiHi to.>.">00 per month, '. alary or couimission. State and petieral managers. HAf.'lXK I IKK L. KM. I N K Co., Kaeine. Wis. * Itch cn Human, Mature on III r^es. I )oos and all stock, cured in .'10 minutes by Woolfortl's Samfary Lotion. This never lails. Sold Ijy !. 1" . .Mackey ? ndiii (intui , Ot Vjf )fsv1_??aLv7jl AG s 4 \ lf% d '.'IT t.r.;ur fl ? . ss P W Pints to or r *1 N #>&* Suits " 1>ltj ??w *'t2, ' J uHJ ir.' d ttiO pvties. 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