ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
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Notice in this issue that one
fellow lias started a frog and turtle
farm. Now jf we remember
right brother .1. K. Knight has had
quite a lot of frogs in his pond for
a good while but we do not know
if he has been marketing his
frogs.
What, about it. brother Knight;
This i- an oil' y ar in politic.and
we ought t< g ' *.?mc good
work for the Alliance while onr
minds ;nv? not oreup' -d w?ih the
excitement of i e.unpaign. l.et
n- strive to iicrea^ ?.ur :;i nber
ship. The principles ot tin Alii
ance are .just as strong in the
minds of our poop i' n t'n y \ or
were, out from inattention. no;li
. - :
i>r muiiii' ' 'iii:-!' tit.. oruer na?
decreased in rneintie. '.up. Now.
whatever the cause ina\ ha\e
bocil,lot US see lo it thai il ellects
our organization no longer lor the
mission of the Alliae *e will never
bo accom pli.-hed until the burners
of tin' south and west are in hot
tor condition iban they are to
day. Those who are opposed to
the Alliance say that it has had
its day and i- dying on', but let
us remember that they want it to
die. and say that polities killed
it. That is all right, we know it
is not dead nor is it in politic*,
any more than it should lie and
let us keep posted on tin' <|uos
tions of the day so that we can
vote intelligently when we go to
the ballot box. Push the educa
ion.".! work, read and think and
give us the benetit of your
thoughts.
Starts a Frog Farm.
A bake Odessa (Mich.) farmer,
discouraged at the low prices
products of the soil are bringing,
lias turned lib attention to a new
industry, says an e, diange. It is
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in> n.-s> i n.iii :i int- imi. ? mi I no
east shore of the lake where the
inlet llows in he has surrounded
several .acres of the marsh with a
tight hoard fence, and here he
rftises trogs and turtles for the
market, shipping mostly to Chi
eago. At present he has in the
inelosure something like
do/en hoppers, varying in size
from the pollv wog to the largest
sized hull frog, who makes the air
melodious with his Lasso profundi)
"knee deep." Last week he
made a shipment ol several hundred
dozen frogs and thirty seven
turtles,for which he received llat
tering returns. The turtles weigh
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iiwiii iiiiiin i<> mrty pounus :111?1
ho lisis sevorsu more in slock, lie
:?>"> the "farm" has passed 11u*
ex peri men t al -laue ami i- a sure
winner.
I iimips.
Kj ?? ' *rm? ? ? I k -' ' ii\ il
.< ...ui KMI W u: .
Soil ?Turnip* thrive host upon
i in e' >v loam. I 'irly interim li
ate hetween clay ami >an>l ; i.nt
tine crops can he made <>n any
sandy 1 ami. well supplied with
I not!.
Kolation ami fertilizer ? fur
Dips call follow after clover, lu
cerno. ^taiii ami after yrain fo.|
<ler crops gathered early.
As they are o| ouick erowih
they need a IiI><>rstl supply ol ni
!roirrlnill> lood. Hot I) cow Iti;i
iiurc mid sheep manure an- hot
tor than horse stable manure lor
turnips.
il these are wanting, use per
acre l.">0 pound.-, ol a fertilizer
containing :
Available plio-phone aciil -> pt-r rtf.
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CASTOTIIA.
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I THIS PARITY OF TUB COINS.
K. E. EWIMS PISCl'SSES THE
LOGIC OF FACTS.
II Silver is Forced Down Other
Commodities Must Full With it
?The Fitty-ceut Dollar Sophistry
Has Lost its Power to
Frighten the People ? The
I'nited States Has Nothing to
Fear hy Independent Action.
In the Silver Knight W'ateh'
man of June 10 C. J. Ilillvar dis
I eussos a phase of the free coinage
of silver in which he takes conn
' so! ol Ins fears rather than of the
logic of his fact-. Among the'
possibilities stated is that the
! same gold conihinat ion may m
ceod in pressing the price of si!
ver down to I." or even |0 cents!
within he next three years, ath
y have depressed the price to
i cents on the dollar, Or .'Id
ounces of silver to 1 ounce of
gold. When silver became a
! merchandise rather than a money
I metal it wa- associated with all
oilier staple articles of inerchan '
I
disc. All have fallen together,
and if silver i< forced down to lit
! cents' worth of bullion in thedol|
Iarall other commodities must, as
'in 111past, tall with it. and all
debts ri*e with gold a^ they have
in the past. There is a point,
however, below which silver can
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| inn ucnu-IIU. ? IIM ii |- WIM'll II
I ceases in pay rust of ils produc-i
tii n. To that point all other nun
! inodities must fall. Silver as a'
1 commodity will exchange for
jollier commodities in the same
ratio or proportion that it ever!
I would, and it- commodity ratio
I must ever tie maintained. Vif dm
| not fear that the "ratio" bugaho,
lor the 10 or f?0 cent dollar sophistry
will ever frighten the people
las much as it has in the past.,
' They realized that a I nited States i
dollar was always a dollar equal
to gold, let it he composed ot
whatever material it might. This
; demons! rated fact so well ground
| cd in the public mind lhat. the
| .">0 cent" dollar and "ratio" cry j
'ceased to have any inllueuce on
the public, and the goldites to
ward till' close ol the I'resident eil
,, ii -ii. 111 |ii'riurm very
Inaction which ran he performed
hy money within the jurisdict ion
nl 11?i-s nation. Tin' same cause
which makes the Americon silver
dollar worth a< much as gold does
nnt exist in Mexien or other na
linns tn make their silver dollars
' earnpaiiTM outirelv changed their
'tactics, resorting lo bulldozing
' ami frightening <1??1 ?t*?rs an.l laborers
with the refusal to longer ex
tend obligations and the shutting
down of mill- and general suspen
sion ol work.
At this point .Mr. 11 illyer asks
what ho appears to think an emhurtassing
f|ueslion. which is ;
"Is the conduct ol the organ i
/ation lor *ii\?-r restoration to he
hcrcaltor contused and embarrass
ei 1 by a consideration ol the re!a
live value, present or prospective,
of gold and silver bullion in for
eign markets, or irold and silver
coin in the I nited States Mr.
11 illy er seenis to think this a most
embarrassing ?juestion. I'm our
part wo consider tliis ,t very harm
le* collateral or side issue, which
never ha* or never w ill end arvass
any sileer advocate ii he under
*tands his subject or concern the
I common mass of humanity in the
least. It is a logical <|iiestion?
the parity of the metal- while
tlit* parity of the doil.tr- cannot
In- brought into di-puto. No gold
itc could In* found to soil liis -dl
ver dollar of at> cents tor loss t han
Hit) cents in tho lato campaign
ami was mad*' a laughing -lock
for 111? crowd.
it i? not because there are -'IT \
grains of line silver in the I'nited
Stales dollar that makes it equal
to a gold dollar in this or any
other country for it is equal to a
: gold dollar anywhere.hut hecaitse
of tlie law of the I'nited States
tt-l.w.l : ? " - -* -
worth as much ?s much as United
States dollars. France's silver
coin is worth as much as gpld,15.l
j to l,oinl for the same reason that
our dollars are worth as much 1 <!
to 1. And for this reason silver
| bullion will be at a parity with
: gold 1<> to 1 as soon as the United
I States open their mints to free
I coinage, and no silver advocate
! need fear 10 be embarrassed by
I declaring the fact, though Mr.
; Uillyer says he believes it, he is
not sure of it. And why not sure
of it If (ireat Frit inn. France
and < icriiiiiny were to open their
mint to live coinage does not
even intelligent pet-am believe
without n single doubt 'hat silver
Im111 i<?ii would at once he >i -d
i<? a parity with gold :.t I " to i [
iVrtainiy they do. And why '
iJecauso t he law ot ' !;o < " orics
would declare silver coin a legal
tender for all debts. pub'A and
private, witliin the realm >r nation.
therefore all manner ol'mer
ehandi-e would lie freely bought
and sold lor the legal tender ino
ney of those nations, and people
would go iroin the reiuoterl cor
nets of tin' earth to sell their pro
duels lor the money ol those
eountries and buy in exchange
the goods of those count rtes whieh
they ini?rlit want. And this i- a
reason that sjjv, r would lie at a
' parity" with gold, whelher in
hullion or coin at the ratio lixed
by tin' laws of those nations,
which nations could supply the
whole world with everything they
wanted.and the laws of the countries
guaranteed that the money
should lie sijllicient for every pur
pose mono*. can be used. The
proposition in a nut shell is that
those countries could furnish
everything that they own and
other people have use for. and
their laws declared their money
was a legal tender.
And now that we claim that
tin* I mi eel States can <lo alone
anything in the money line that
those three Kuropean nations can
do. and for similai reasons. The
tir^t ahd most important reason is
that the Coiled States can furnish
all manner of merchandise
from a mammoth Cattle ship to
the finest piece of art in the
woiId. K very tiling that is useful
and ornamental 'hat the heart of
man can des:ro can be produced
hv t he people of I he I nited States
on demand and in any <|uantities
desired. The money, the legal
tender money of t lie 1 nited States
will pay lor sncli merchandise,because
the government has power
to enforce? its acceptance for all
debts, taxes and dues, if there
could he found anv one who re
fn.-od?which there could not.
When any faint heart doubts
tin ability of the I nited States
to do all ot these things we have
mentioned, and they all cluster
round their ability and uillingiiess
to open their mints to free
coinage ot silver, we a-l< faint
hearts to eonsider tie power and
wealth ot this nation .villi tcrri
lory 1 ivi time greater than
Ilire-e i !. . unbilled, with
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iin?i? iiumi'-'in or in: Thai ir.uli*
i Killi ail 1)irt ?? ul' i In- i?i I world 11:1
lions tnj;i IliiT, with ;i -arly 'J"",
000 mile* ol railways, to their
<*<>111 liiii?*< 1 mileage i?l .">0.000 or
?>0,000 noli'-, with a ] > ] 111 a I ion
o| TJ,000,000 ami steadily and
rapidly im-ivasin^r to their com
bined population ot ahout 1 _? !,
000.000 and not increa-in^ to any
appreciable extent, with a jrco
graphical an*a in the middle ol
iln* temperate /one, extending
from iln* semi frozen reirion* on
the north to the semi tropical re
lions on the south. \vn>hed I?y
two thousand inil<*s ot ocean on
i in* easi a Mil ? \\?> thousand miles
on Mm west, a climate and -oil
that prod woes every variety of
food and raw material which the
wants of man demand and in nn
equaled ahundanee, a country
produce- more fjold and more sil
ver than any other country in the
world, and whose soil i< a viririn
soil with ils inconceivable natnrai
4
wealth undeveloped, to doubt the
ability ot such a country and such
a people to coin all the silver in
the world that could be brought
, to it and exchanged for the pro
ducts of her people, is enough to
make one doubt the sanity of the
doubter.
When the I'nited States opened
their mints to the free coinage of
l silver and their farms, shops, fae
tories, shops and mints to supplv
the nations of the world with
every need, what could Kit rope
do hut trade on the same terms or
tarve. The parity ot silver and
gold, both bullion and coin at the
ratio named by lb I'nited States
lis one ot the most logical facts
wit bin t 1m realms o( human'
events. Who can take in review |
all these tacts and doubt for a
single moment '
Tin .Urbin!e\ boon linn s.
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I'imiii tlx .N \\ N Mil. .loiaixi.
The heartrending description?'
[ of "Me K inlev prosperity" sent by!
doiirnal correspondents from < )hio,
Illinois.I'ennsylvania.Indiana and
New Jersey are distasteful to some
of our war tariff contemporaries,
i < >ne ot them daringly remarks:
Sensible people will not eredit tin-)
I exaggerated accounts of popular itisi
1 ress it; industrial centers printed
ii niter liar in;; In ad tines by -en sal ior.ul !
I leinocral ic newspapers. 'I here is no
sucb prevalent misery and idleness as!
these sheets picture. M ult it tides are
I not starving nor mortgages being j
foreclosed by wholesale. The savings
banks accounts of the people have not
been depleted. There are more spinal....
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.... i.j; .urn iimri' 111? rI ill work [iiday
than there were one year ago. 11
i is true that the nation is not normal!
ly prosperous,toil this does not by any
i means imply that the people are going
i about hungry or insutlleienlly clad.
Well, Mr. Wat.namaker, late ol
i Harrison s t aiiinet, is not a Hr\
anile, and the Herald is not it
' sensat iotutl Democrat ie newspaper."
Mr. Wanitiitnakcr mm
1 jilaided through the Herald ol the
"creeping paralysis and hitter
Want ol the community." And
t hen he said :
i To keep work for the six thousand
and more persons in my employ and
: turn away several hundred who apply
I daily and beg for the prty ilege of labor
to keep the wolf from the door, drives
I me into a fever and I must speak out.
I Any citizen lots that right.
I cannot sit on a fence with it still
' wind blowing and whistle for prosperity,
the vanished bird of beautiful
; plumage, to come back.
She has been gone for live long
years. Mow any can live on forever in
:t thunder storm I don't know.
Mr. Wanatnakcr spoke con
temptonsly ol campaign speeches,
concernin?* which lt<> r>t.t
-The public heart cannot be tired
bv eloquence in this way now,
lor the powder of patriotism is
wet with the tears of suil'erinis."
The Herald publishes other
items that bear out the Journal's
information, for instance, it hat
hi- story to tell of t lie economies
introduced by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, always one ol the most
-olidly prosperous of American
corporal ions :
Although when lie returned fruin an
i n* pert ion hi all tic lilies, President
I'lli illi Ii-i in. of I lie Peliii -\ lv a 11 i- ? I i
road. -:?i?1 that Ik* looked for a return
of jfoM'l limes soon, I he fart that word
v a* at the company's repair
-Imps in l-amherl ville, N. .1.. >at urday,
i hat until further notice t lie -tmpwould
only lie run live days, of nine
hours, each w eek doe- not see'u to bear
out his predict ion. *
^tunnel Curry,a carpenter and a Republican,
when informed of the cut in
tunc, -natched hi- Mckinley button
from his coat, where he 1 ad worn it
since election, threw it on t lie lloor
and stamped it.
Nothing would please the .lour
nul better than nit opporlunity to
chronicle the arrival of an industrial
boom. It would like to tell
o! happy, smiling workmen.draw
inn 1 heir dividends on t heir shares
of Mckinley prosperity in the
shape of full hours and increased
j wages. There is only one tiling
that k?|- it from tilling its columns
with such stories: It lt-?* 1 .under
obligations to tell the t rut h.
"Kut we cannot live on papa,"
protested the savage's bride-to-be.
: "He is dreadfully poor." "We can
wait until he is fa'ter!" exclaimed
the youth, for I ve is brave.?
Detroit Free I'ress.
I
f
Summer Fallow ami Flat Turnips ^
In case a lieltl is to be summer
fallowed it is preferable to raise
some kind of a green crop on it,
either lor feeding or to turn down.
I think the hat turnips about as
rood for that purpose as any- ^
thing. They should be sown from
duly 15 to August 1. They make
I excellent feed for cattle, vnd can
[be plowed und? r with good results.
However they may be
used, it is far better lor the land
to raise thorn than to let it lav ,i
bare. *
*NJ>. Q j fmi r.r \ urr.it ?/ v%
?a Jfl Trof. w. u. Pesttc, who
lr* 1^1 W Sv * i:pil. J>sv, 1 I'S Vltll'iut
B B d .v. ! and > ur- *
PJ ?v |J| rd inori'i linn uny
Wo hrivi- h- m i c.isea
of so vi-nrs" r.'nnitliK*
tf "31
uuiwup3
Ho of his nbsoluto euro, *rco to nny ...uTorera
who in a y semi tlieir < ). niul Kvpreai.. 1 ! ress.
Wo n-iviso any otw wishing acura to address ?
ProX.W. H. PEEKE, F. 1).. 4 Cedar St., Hew York
WANTKI).- WK l?n \dT WANT
IIOY.S OK i.OAT'Klt>, In write, tint
men of ability. $joo in *.*>nn per month,
salary ?>r commission. state ami
j general managers. I!A< I\K I IKK
lINKlNIi Co.. Ka. iiie. \Yi>.
;
Itch on Human,
Mange on Horses, Dogs ami all
stock, cured in MO minutes b>
| Woolt'nrd's Sanitary Lotion. I'lns
never tails. Sold by ,1. F. Mackey
lit Co., DruggiHt, Lancaster, S. 0.
It,
in I Uj AGENTS to solicit
9 V ~T| 1/^ ' orders by sample lor our
| 3 W Wanl Pant* In order t3.
oig Inducements intho
right parties. A Mt<
GUARANTEE mil OWING Co
fcrfA. 2' 1-217 Grand St , N Y.
~~ bppoison
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f. In; I I :.i|
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irv, j?? . - U Mid Mill tin 4 ? i nrnt
. ' iu'ii*ii?? n mouth, Sj mat,
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I * i cruur.-.a too ( > r.tro. \>. nolo it thf n <> > . itiI
?; casod and chaltoarco ? wort I . r a
1 fa??\vominti()tci!ri>. Tali ?it aro li u ji't -its
1 li.illlml i- niiH ii! |>: - . i?
ciitiih. y.*i(i?,otiO capital I. liimt our unc 'iull.
Clonal trunrauty. Absolute .irni.fs sr-ut M'ai r i u
pplictak'ii. AOdrcrn COOK liKMKUV CO*.
SO? Alasuuto Ttuiplv, CHICAGO ;L1*?
Don't Pail
to read mij ad.
each tceek.
You nuiy or may not want a
piano or an organ. It yon ilo
want olio. I ran furnish you tho
snmo on
loisj Terms
unl
Mas) l*a.\ inonts.
Komoiiiln i , an o\porioiiiao of l>
year-, a eonrso in piano ami
organ building. timing ami ropairing
in Now York oity, and
a lull aoi|iiuintaiiro with all tho
groat in imi I a1 l ii ro ? onahlo mo
togi\o \ o 11 tho llni'st -oloot oil
. I.. I I ...I."..I "
.. a.? l I Illlt-Il? IMHHI IIUlil<*
at !i reasonable priee.
I'ianos, II -1 > !? - I ! Organs, III styles!'.
Kei-p your "weather eye" open
mi prii i-s.
K. .1. II KKNhoN.
York vi ll?*, S. <
t'lu ii/t I'ii /. t fs.
I lie Seaboard Air Line wiil sell
round lri|? tickets to Nashville,
Ten ii ., on the llMli. 'J<Mh and 21 st
of Iiiiic on 11 rasion of the
Ttli Annual IJoimion of Confederate
Veterans, for -flO/tO, ^nod ,
; for -0 days.
<?ii every Tuesday and Thurs
day I hoy* will sell Id day tickets
at .+12.'. (), via. the Lancaster iY
('lu\st?T Kail way to ('ln-sler.
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