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[Copyright, 1891, by American Preta Associa?
tion.]
CHAPTER L
**Ofc^cctio7w.f Sb. Fccsh all you girt a mind
to. Fceshcs vas made tobe catched."
"Objections! Mel I baet you ne.
Feesh all you got a mind to. Feeshes vas
made to be catched. Offen im Deutsch?
land, ven I vas a leedle boy, I vant to go
feeshin' so bad I gan feel it yet, unt mein
vater zay, 'Heinrich Kropff! yon bleib
I by your vork.' I vas not zo gruel. Ven
I haf my vay, I vish efferybody feesh zo
I much he got desire for alietty. Jacob
viii put year horse in the barn. Jacob,
' my boy! Gome here,"
A stout, sullen looking young man,
j chewing a straw and with his hands in
his pantaloons pockets, lounged out of the
barn and toward the porch upon which
his fattier and two visitors were stand?
ing.
"Take the zhentlemen's horse, Jacob,
unt bring him by the barn, und feed
him."
While Jacob was stolidly obeying or?
ders one of the strangers replied:
! "Pm sure we are infinitely obliged to
you. sir, for your courtesy. The fact is
I that so many landowners play dog-in
the-manger now it is not easy to find
places where one can take a few trout
without liability of arrest for trespass.
What flies are most killing al; present up
bereT
"Veil, mister"- He hesitated, looked
at a card in his hand and continued
"Mister Cute, or Mister Sharp, vor mine
Gelluf I think the vorst been them mos?
quitoes, but ve dont got many here.
There vas a leedle vly mit a green head
vat bite like a schmall Satan, but maybe
you don't see one. of him in a veek."
"I do not mean the most annoying in?
sects," replied Mr. Cute, smilingly, "but
those mest tempting to the trout; those
they bite best at"
"Ah? Zo! Veil, for that. Mr. Cute,
or Mr. Sharp, I should al va vs say the
vorms."
Mr. Cute and Mr. Sharp laughed, and
tackle in hand strolled away toward the
trout brook among the hills. Herr
Kropff looked after them, and as he re?
took his place in the big rocking chair
on the porch soliloquized sympathet?
ically:
"Pore young vellers! How thin unt
dried up they look. They got a hard
time vorkin' in some office in New York,
j I suppose; by the gaslights all the time,
maybe. Ach! Lieber Himmel! That
vas not a place that a man he shall live,
in the city; vere is v?d birds, unt flow?
ers, unt trees not ever to be seen, nor
even a leedle bumblebee that shall make
a man think how the free nature is
lovely. Zo I did feel ven I was gome
I journeyman forty years ago, unt I say,
'No, I viii not 8htay im Germany unt
j been gabraet maker; I viii go by Amer
j ica unt been farmer.' I vouldnot live
! today, maybe,, if I did shtay in the city
j unt vork at the bench, unt 1 know I
should not vant ta Here 1 been
strong unt gontent unt happy-unt mein
Lieschen! Sure she vould not so pretty
be in the city."
That final supposition was probably
erroneous, for the old man's daughter
was really so good looking that her pret?
tiness would most likely have resisted
the adverse influences of urban sur?
roundings quite as well as the charms
of many more girls who somehow suc?
ceed in being very lovely even in the
cities. But such a delicious picture as
she presented just now she certainly
never would have made as a town dwell?
er. Just lier head and bust were shown
above and beyond a clump of snowdrop
bushes, in which the waxen fruit lay
among the foliage like pearls set in green
enamel. Over her spread an apple tree's
boughs, thickly studded with blossoms,
?aid through a rift among the branches
s" ray of sunshine seemed refracted into
an anreole about her golden curb. Her
red lips were parted in a smile and the
light of happiness sparkled in her bright
blue eyes. One plump white hand was
raised to a level with her face, its palm
turned outward, in the gesture of waft?
ing a kiss.
George Stirling, driving by through
tho lane, was quite right in thanking, as
he responded to that gestare, that
Lieschen, his betrothed wife, was one of
the prettiest girls in the country-or per?
haps anywhere,
. 'That is a fine young chap, that Gt*rge
Stirling," the old man reflected, "nut 1
guess he think pretty much of Liebchen
like Lieschen think of him. Veil, that
is aU right. I vish that fool unlucky
boy Jacob was shpry like him."*
"Vater! Vater! That dominic hen vas
settin' again,M broke in a shrill female
voice upon his meditations, and an
elderly woman, his wife Anna, appeared
coming around a corner of the house,
carrying the recalcitrant and vociferous
hen by the legs. "I yoost catch herstt
tin* on an old door knob and a schmall
bottle. You got to fix her nose."
"That door knob vas hopeless, but n
bolitical party haf been hatched out
from a bottle by ed riot attention to
business. Gif me that hen."
Pulling a long feather from one of the
fowl's wings he thrust it through her
nostrils, so that it protruded on each
side at right angles with the line of her
beak, an arrangement which seemed to
inflict no pain, but to fascinate her be?
wildered mind and engross her attention.
Her eyes came out and stood on her
cheeks in an effort to see both ends of
the feather, and she went of? toward
the barnyard slowly, stopping occasion?
ally to utter a whoop of surpri:*? and to
claw vainly at the strange thing.
"That breaks her all np on that settin*
notion," commented the farmer. "It
beats all how much a hen vas like a
vornan. Either of them only gan of one
thing at a time think. It vas a vise dis
bensation of Brovidence that schmall
minds shall not be sgattered. Jacob vas
eggseption. He gannet gonceutrate
on anything but eatin* unt shleepin'."
One of the farm hands came in to
if Mz. Krejfi had made up his
mind whether he would have the old
field broken np for corn or left fallow to
seed down for wheat in the falL That
question entailed some discussion. Jacob
languidly drifted over from the barn,
and stood leaning against a pillar of the
porch listening with an air of weary in?
difference until the matter was settled,
and then lounged on into the house to
learn if dinner was not nearly ready.
After dinner the old man retook his
accustomed seat on the porch, lighted
his long pipe and fancied he was think?
ing, while his thoughts entangled them?
selves into a kaleidoscopic jumble of
good-for-nothing Jacob, obstinate henn
shrewish wife, old field-all in strange
and fantastic relations to each other and
to mm But gradually all sense of care
and annoyance floated away, and only
the humming of the bees at their hives,
the bluebird's musical carol from the
hollow stump, the melodious call of the
robin jumping in the orchard, the faint,
sweet scent of the apple blossoms and the
warmth of the glad sunshine remained,
in a blended impression of delight that
made Herr Kropff young again in a
happy dream
About the middle of the afternoon the
anglers returned, with but one meager
little troutlet as the result of their day's
endeavors, but quite cheerful neverthe?
less. The water, they said, was too high
and roiled from recent rains to favor
sport. Another time, they did not doubt,
they would do better.
"Yes," assented Farmer Kropff oracu?
larly, "ven you use worms. Feathers
unt bristles gannot be depended upon to
seduce the abbetite of a feesh."
He would not consent that they should
take their leave without partaking of "at
least a gnp of goffee," which developed
into an excellent meal by the time that the
willing but habitually grumbling good
wife Anna had it placed upon the table.
Then Jacob was awakened from bis nap
in the haymow to get out their horse.
Mr. Sharp wished to pay the farmer for
their dinner and the care of their horse,
but the offer was firmly and almost in?
dignantly repelled.
"I do not geep a hotel," the old man
replied, "unt for him who gan afford it,
as I gan. there is yoost as much pleasure
in eggstending hospitality as in receiv?
ing it."
But Jacob gladly pocketed the two
dollar bill that Mr. Cute slipped into his
hand, and mumbled "Thank ya."
CHAPTER IL
" Vy you did not yoomp on a hroposiUon
like dott Ten thousand doUant!"
Three days later Messrs. Cute and
Sharp reappeared at Herr Kropff s on an?
other fishing excursion, and were heart?
ily welcomed. When they went off to
the brook they took with them a big and
clumsy, but apparently light package,
the contents of which they did not ex?
pose, and a spade. The farmer inferred
that they had come prepared to dig bait,
and that the package contained a bait
box, the size of which, however, sur?
prised him Neither of those things did
they bring back in the afternoon, but
they had a fine string of trout, which
they insisted upon presenting to Herr
Kropff.
"No, no," he protested, "you shall
take your fishes along with yon, or yonr
friends will not believe that you catch
some."
But they declared that they would not
be bothered with them: that all they
wanted was the sport of catching the
gamy little fellows, and that the health
and pleasant memory of their day's out?
ing was all they cared to take back to
the city. So Mrs, Kropff added the trout
to the elaborate dinner she was prepar?
ing for them. While it was being made
ready the anglers sat upon the porch
chatting with the old man.
"You have a handsome farm here. Mr.
Kropff," remarked Mr. Cute.
"Veil, pooty goot," responded the
farmer deliberately. "It might have
more meadow land; but it might be
vorse."
"How many acres have you?"
"One hundred and twenty, goot unt
strong."
"What is land worth about here?" in?
terpolated Mr. Sharp.
"Veil, that depends on how much one
man shall vant to sell or anather man to
buy. Maybe about fifty dollars an acre
ven there vas no fiuctnative influences."
"Do you know of any farm in this
neighborhood for sale?"
"No, sir, I don't."
"My friend," interposed Mr. Cute,
again taking up the thread of conversa?
tion, "has a notion that he wonld^et
well if he could come up and live in this
pure air."
*Zo! You been seek?" asked the old
fanner, turning with compassionate in?
terest to Mr. Sharp.
.Yes. The doctors say that 1 cannot
last more than six or eight months, prob?
ably, if I do not give np Wall street and
get out to some healthy place in the
country. I suppose i shall have todo
so if 1 can find the place."
"Veil, vot is the matter that you shall
not come up here unt live vile you get
veli?"
"You aro very kind, but that would !
hardly be practicable. I must have a
home of my own. 1 have a family and
require a place. You don't think you !
would care to sell, do youT*
' "Na Of snch a thing I would not
think. My children here were born and
here I shall die. 1 did knock around
the world enough ven I a young man
vas. Now I viii take my rest. Every
place in the vorld vonld be strange to
me ven I should go from here out."
"You are right. It is a great thing to
be settled down. I would willingly give
forty thousand dollars f'jr a place like
this."
The sound of a plate fairing and
smashing upon the dining room floor
reached their ears.
"My graciousr exclaimed Mr. Kropff,
starting, "Lieschen is at it again! Ven
her young man gomes her mind into
she imbulsively opens her hands, and if
she got a dish in them, down it goes.
By chimini ! ve got to'eat out of troughs
ven she don't got married pooty kvick."
But be wronged Lieschen that time.
It was ber mother who dropped the plate.
When Messrs. Cote and Sharp were
seated at the table, with iLkneben watt
rag u pon them, and dinner enough for a
loasen men set ont before them. Herr
Kropff settled himself to resume his in?
terrupted siesta, and was already drowsy
when his reluctant attention was com?
pelled by a suppressed but still sharp
voice calling, "Henrich! Heinrichf
Away out ra the orchard stood Mrs.
Kropff, making vigorous signs with her
arms, summoning htm. Unwillingly
and slowly be arose from his choir.
"An afferage of a dozen garter snakes
every summer for twenty-five years," he
grumbled, **unt yet she viii not by her?
self either kill one or let it alone. She
mott gall me to smash ita head. The
three hundred nat first has no doubt ap*
peared to her.1*
But when he reached her he found
that a harmless but offending garter
snake was not the vital qacstioa.
"Um guttes willear she fairly panted
is ber combined eagerness and anxiety
to repress her voice. "Vy you did not
yootnp on a broposrtion like dot? Ten
thousand dol?an? r
-1 vas not thinking that I vould sell
my farm.**
"Ko! You vould sit there like an old
fool vea a man offer you more as two
times so much as the place been vorth."
"How you know vat it is vorthT
"It gannet be so much vorth. Hern
rich, it vas no astonishment by me ven
you die mit the boorhouse, you got for
bramess so lettie head. Don't yon ever
think vat viii begome of our boor poy,
Jacob, ven ve are goner*
-Yes; I think be viii go in jaiL"
"Ach, nimmel 1 How you, his ratter,
gan abuse dot boor poy. You got no
lofe vor dot poy-you yoost look on him
like he vas your soon by anodtber ratter
nut mutter."
"Herr Gott! Yeoman, how you make
that outr
'Yell, like he vas adoptioned."
'1 did not think you, any more than
me, von ld like that ve should go vay
from this old place. Anna, ve vere young
yet ven ve came here together. Lieschen
ant Jacob have been bom here. Unt
the leedle one that has slept so many
years under the dm tree-all she knew
of earth vas here. Habit makes the old
place dear to me, nut love nut death
make it sacred. I feel as if my gate to
another vorid vas right here."
"Narrigkeit! Ven ve got to die ve die
yoost so veil one place as some other
places. You talk sen timen talisch, like
you vas yet in Deutschland. You forget
here in America everybody he got to
speculate unt be sharp if he vant that he
shall get along."
! "Thea yon vin that I shall sell the
rarmT
~l gtf you no peace of your rife ven
; you dont"
I "You viii not anyway."
"Ve can buy another place yoost so
! goot for five thousand, nut put five thou?
sand in the bank for Jacob."
"Jacobi Zo! Unt Lieschen? EhT
"Ven she marry George Starting she
got enough for ber."
"Is dot zo? Veli now, look ?-here.
You gan make your old jaw greak so
much als you like, but I got something
to say about that my sel Inf."
"Veil, viii you sell the fans, yon old
fooir
"I viii Maybe Lieschen got more
chance that vay ven I been gone,"
Turning his back upon her, heedless of
ber coo tinned clack, he slowly returned
j to the porch. He heard her cry after
him that she bad more to say. Of course
she bad, she always had. But he had
beard enough. Too well he understood
that the Angel of Peace had her gripsack
packed, metaphorically speaking, and
- was only waiting to beor his final refusal
to sell the farm as her signal for instant
I flight It was quite true, as he admitted
to himself, that his opposition waa purely
sentimental, that the sum offered was
more than the value of the farm; still,
j the thought of selling made ms heart
! sore.
When the visitors came out from din?
ner Mr. Sharp stood for several minutes
m silence gazing upon the pleasing pros?
pect of orchard, meadow, fields and for?
est outspread before him. Then he
sighed and murmured abstractedly:
"Yes, I like the place. I think I could
get well here. I would willingly give
ten thousand dollars."
Bates any phrase of acceptance could
be forced ap to Farmer Krop?Ts reluc?
tant hps Mr. Sharp stepped from flss
porch and strolled into the orchard,
where he drew down an apple tree
bough and buried bis nose in ita clus?
tered wealth of fragrant blossoms.
"See borer exclaimed Mr. Cute hur?
riedly, as if taking advantage of the mo?
mentary opportunity afforded, "rvs got
just the idea to satisfy both you and him.
He is, like all chronic invalids, whimsi?
cal, changeful, doesn't know bis own
mind a week ahead, or perhaps a day.
Just now he thinks he wants to buy this
place. Tomorrow he is not likely to
want it at any price. You don't want to i
sell, as I understood you to say, but you !
can make something by humoring his
whim and still keep your farm. Let him
have an option on the place for thirty
days, and by the end of that time he will
have changed his mind; you will be so
much ahead, and no harm will have been
done to any one."
"I do not gomprebend. Vat is that
option? How shall I be aheadT
"Why, he pays you, say, two hundred
dollars for a contract giving him the
right to buy the place within thirty days
for ten thousand dollars. That is called
an option.".
The old man's heart leaped with de?
lighted hope. Here was the way out of
his dilemma Anna would not be able
to blame him if the gentleman did not
complete the purchase.
"But," he suggested doubtfully, "it
vould not be right that I should take
money from him for nothing."
"You don't Yon give the privilege
of purchase, which is a valuable consid?
eration, and you needn't mind taking a
little amount like two hundred dollars
from him. He is a millionaire."
"Zor
"Como, let us fix it up that way. You
have no idea how it will please him and
how much real good it will do him."
"Aber-you do not think he viii truly
vant that he shall buy the farm?"
"No, I'm sure be will not He always
holds options on half a dozen places, and
never buys any except city property."
"All right Go ahead."
Mr. Cote went down to the orchard
and brought back his friend, who was
unfeignedly delighted with the arrange?
ments that had been made. Within
half an hour the option had been care?
fully written out and signed in legal
form, the two hundred dollars in good
crisp five dollar notes had been paid
over, and the New Yorkers took their
departure.
[TO BK CONTINUED ]
For Over Fifty Years.
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used for children teething. It soothes lt?f
child. eoftene tbe gums, i Hr i ri i ll ||tasTr~' J
wind colic, sod ia tbe bjSfesfl^ptt a bo
Diarrhoea. Tweoty-?v? ceafM
Sub-Treasury Argument.
A correspondent of the Newberry
News and Herald makes the following
report to that paper of tbe speech of
President Stokes at the recent Alliance
meeting at Greenwood, bearing apon
the Sob Treasury :
President Stokes then took np the
Ooala platform and read its demands,
commenting on each briefly, until he
reached the sub-treasury. He dwelt at
some length on it. He said it was not
true tbat tbe Alliance laid undue
stress apon this demand, bat it had
been most vigorously attacked and a
good general always met the enemy
where he made his attack. The idea
and aim of this demand was to increase
the circulating medium. How to get
this increase was the question. Tho
gold and silver men say take oar metal
and coin it into money. Good, bat if
it were possible to utilize every ounce
of gold and silver it would not increase
the circolaticg medium over one dollar
per capita per annum and at this rate
j it weald take forty years to get it ap to
what was needed. The farmer says
to the go ver ment take our staple, store
i it in ware-booses aod issue to us 80 per
cent, of the value. "As far as I can
see," said President Stokes, "there
is no difference in principle in storing
bonds io the treasury aod issuing notes
on them aod my storing my oottoa io a
warehouse aod having notes issued on
it ?
President Stokes theo took op the
objections ta the sub-treasury, and an?
swered them. The 6rst objection, that
it is unconstitutional, is without merit.
If the government has the right to ac?
cept gold aod silver as a basis, why not
cotton ?
It is no more paternalism to accept
cotton as a basis than to accept bonds.
The idea that the govermeot can't
loan money at two per cent, when it
pays 4 per cent., is ridiculous. The
government does not borrow money, it
prints it.
The objection urged that this scheme
may cause a loss to the government if
there is a decline in price was considered.
Preeicent Stokes said there was no pos?
sibility of loss under any circumstances,
This plan would eliminate the specula?
tor and reduce it to the law of supply
aod demaod.
Suppose a farmer deposits in the
warehouse $100 worth of cotton and
draws ?80 and at the end of the year
when pay day comes this cotton is only
worth $40, and the farmer fails to
redeem bis cotton. You say at ooce
that the government bas lost $10. It
bas done no such thing. What is to
hinder the government from buying
that cotton in and holding it, until the i
price advances, and that is what it will j
do? Bat suppose the government
wants to sell oat, aod only realizes
(40. The government has lost noth?
ing io that case, because the other ?40
was io circulation aod it stands apon
the same basis as your silver certificate
issued since last July.
This io brief is the answer of Presi?
dent Stokes to the objections to the sub
treasury plan. I woold like for Presi?
dent Stokes to explaio what becomes of
the other (20 that the farmer could
have gotteo for his cotton at the time
be placed it io the warehouse in the
illustration used above. It is not in
circulation, and it looks as if it might
be a clear loss to the farmer.
Somehow I am not convinced that
President Stokes himself believes in
the soundness of his own reasoning
I have endeavored to give his argument
es fully as possible so that the people
could see it for themselves. If accord?
ing to his logic the government would
lose nothing when it only received (40
for (80 it had advanced because it wa?
in circulation, it would lose nothing if
it had just given the farmer full value
for bis cotton aod theo returned his
cotton to him also, for the money woold
bc io circulation.
Augusta Exposition.
The Augusta Exposition will open
with impressive ceremonies November
2, aod continue until November 28.
Each day will be made attractive and
interesting with special programs.
The Military prize drill and sham
battle together with a thorough por?
trayal of skill acquired in the school of
the soldier will be features of the
Exposition never before in Georgia
conducted on so grand a scale.
Augusta, it will be noticed, is offer?
ing very large individual premiums
The planter does not have to constitute
himself a county to reap a satisfactory
return for his efforts, should he carry
off the honors. With a single exhibit
the amounts repays the trouble.
The thoughtful visitor will be inter?
ested in the displays of electrical
machinery and appliances, and in the
world's mechanism of to-day, as ex?
emplified at Augusta's Exposition
Those bent on diversion will be amused
by the special attraction, the races,
the fire-works, the village of Nomads
and the performances of musicians, and
feats of legerdemain and illusion. The
best in their lines have already been
engaged.
Tbe Agricultural displays, the Chry?
santhemum show, the Art Department,
the Cattle and horse show, and the other
features afford material for an earnest
study by Tisitors.
The railroads have granted as cheap
rates as have ever beea offered to those
who will visit Augusta next November.
Tho Exposition Buildings are only
fifteen minutes' walk from Broad street.
Two electric-car lines and a branch of
the Georgia railroad run to the lovely
grounds at Druid Park. And idea of
the immensity of this structure can be
had wheo it is known to contatu 200,
000 square feet, and is 960 feet long.
A restaurant, parcel room, ladies"
room, post office, telephone exchange
and express offico insure every conven?
ience to visitors. A committee ou
Public oomfort is diligently at work
to afford ever) uoovenience to visitors.
Augusta docs not have an Exposition
every year. She husbands her re?
sources for these occasions at intervals I
that permit of entirely new features
arranged on now lines. She bas the
benefit of past experience, aod backed
by the reputation of always keeping
good faith with ber guests. She bids in j
i advance all her friends welcome to the
Exposition,
How Long Will They Obey?
A. C. Latimer, of Anderson county,
was an enthusiastic Tillman man in
the last campaign and is a red hot
alliance man now. A8 he baa not, so
far as we know, tried to get anything
in the way of au office or salary in re?
turn for his zeal, it is only fair to
count him as one of the unselfish alli?
ance men who really believe in the
order and its work. Regarding him
so, we are moved to some wonder by
his utterances regarding Editor Ma
cune, of the National Economist, the
alliance organ of the whole country.
Charges were brought against Dr.
M acnne at the Ocaia convention and
they were referred to a committee of
thirty-six for investigation. It was
proved before that committee that Dr.
Macune had accepted and used a free
pass over the Richmond & Danville
system, that he had borrowed $2,000
from Pat Calhoun, a hired attorney
for that system, and had afterward
worked hard to have the same Mr.
Calhoun elected United States senator
for Georgia by alliance votes.
That much is practically admitted by
Mr. Latimer, who says his oath for?
bids him from saying what was before
the committee, but proceeds to argue
that if Dr. Macune did do those
things he did no wrong.
If there is a monopoly in this coun?
try the Richmond & Danville system
is one. lt is a monopoly and a huge
corporation and is in a great measure
owned and controlled by Jay Gould,
the leading monopolist and represen?
tative of the money power in this
country and the head and front of all
that is worst and most dangerous in
Wall street and in the country's com?
mercial system. Yet Dr. Macune,
the trusted leader and mouthpiece of
the alliance, accepted unusual and
unexplained favors from this corpora?
tion, borrowed a large sum of cash
from its hired representative and
tried to have that representative chos?
en to represent the alliance in the
United States senate.
These facts surely gave cause for
suspicion. They should have been
put before the public or at least be?
fore the alliance rank and file with
Dr. Macune's answers and explana?
tions, so thai; the whole matter could
be understood and each man might
judge for himself whether the leader
of the great organization was worthy
to be trusted willi the immense power
and responsibility given into his
keeping. Nothing of the kind was
done. Tho cry was raisad that har?
mony must be secured at any cost,
that the enemies and friends of the
order must both be kept in ignorance
of thc scandal. The committee of
thirty-six was sworn to secrecy and
in its behalf a report finding Macune
guiltless was submitted to the con?
vention.
President Hall, of the Missouri al?
liance kicked, lie repudiated the re?
port on the floor of the convention
and has since given the charges and
evidence against Macune to the pub?
lic. Mr. Latimer and others make
much of Hall's violation of his oath,
but that is not the question. Hali is j
not on trial. Al acune is. No defend j
ant eau escape conviction before !
and fair jury by piovingthat the char?
acter or motives of the prosecutor
are bad while failing to contradict
evidence indicating the defendant's
guilt. Now President Magrath, of
the Kansas alliance, is out in a card
backing Hall. He also was a mem?
ber of the committee of thirty six
He says he believing, and yet believes,
Macune to havebeen a scoundrel work?
ing to break up the alliance for his per?
sonal advantage. Ile further says half
the committee stood out against the
whitewashing report, but yielded at
the last moment in the interests of the
! organization, Hall being the one man
! with sand enough to stand his ground.
; Now we believe Mr. Latimer to be
a type of a large class of alliance
men-good honest, well meaning men
who intend to d o what is right, but
who allow themselves to ba bulldozed
or persuaded into obeying orders on
the pretext that the ii?erests of the
organization demand that they do so.
We see our friend the People's
Advocate of Anderson, thc editor of
which we take to be a well meaning
man usually having the courage of
his convictions, is in just that position I
regarding the sub treasury discussion j
between Tillman and Terrell at Spar
tanburg. He believed the discussion !
ought to be public. Ile yet believes
so. Yet he will raise no standard of
revolt against the decision that it i
shall be private. His common sense,
loyalty and patriotism tell him one
thing; President Stokes says another.
President Stokes must be obeyed.
Ile says:
"But President Stokes has directed
otherwise and we suppose it will be a
private discussion inside the alliance.
Nevertheless our opinion remains the
?ame that it would have been wise to j
have held the discussion in public.v j
What we and the public are inter?
ested in is knowing how far this kind
of thing is going and how long it will
continue. How long are good, God
"fearing, honest, patriotic men to allow
themselves to be muzz!led, b ind fold
ed and driven with bits and bridles
in their mouths, yielding their con?
victions and opinions in obedience to |
hidden terrorism, acting as the
pupets of concealed powers with un?
known purposes ?
We do not think it will be very
long. This country is full of active,
restless, aggressive people unused to
bei us: ruled or governed or dictated
to, who think for themselves, say what
they think and act as they talk. A
good many men of this kind have
come lo thc front already-Northen
in Georgia, the Tillmans in this State. J
McGrath in Kansas. In Texas Halli
has led a big convention of men of
the kind-alliance ?nen who refuse to !
swallow the sub-treasury or to ?-.bey
the orders of Macune. All thean men
are beipg subjected to a hot fire.
Against most of them the alliance
pres? has turned ail i?s batteries and j
all the power of the alliance leaders is
being osed to crush them Gover nor
Tillman is being roasted because he
rides, on a free- pass, while Macune (
accepted*lue sanie thing in far m?re"
suspicious circumstances and was
found gaiitles8 by a secret committee
of leading alliance men. Rail roads,
we are tald, do not grant favors
except for valuejreceived orin expec?
tation of return. If it is so with
Tillman, it is so with Macune. What
favor could a rail road corporation ex?
pect from Macune excepl something;
injurious to thc alliance? Tillman
fight* the sub-treasury. Therefore
his acceptance of passes ii? a crime.
Macune supports the sub-treasury.
He can carry as many passes as he
likes. If it could be proved that
Tillman accepted a large loan from
Senator Irby on the ere of the senato?
rial election and then worked hard to
elect him that would, we suppose, be
proclaimed corruption of tho most
corrupt kind. Yet Macune borrowed
money from Calhoun and there was
nothing wrong in it.
That kind of thing will not do in
this cou ntl y. We have too many
free men If it is continued Mr.
Latimcr and Editor Russell, of the
Advocate, and a good many others
will be in revolt presently. They
will begin to ask themselves, as we
ask now, how far this thing is going.
If men can be bulldozed into swallow*
ing the sub-treasury they can be bull?
dozed into swallowing the people's
parly or some other abominable and
destructive heresy. If persecution
and abuse and binding oaths and
concealed power can drive people to
one thing they will be ali the strong?
er to drive to another. When this
feeling comes on and men begin to
realize that they are being made
slaves of there will be an uprising
and wreck sure enough.
Many months ago we told the
alliance men that if their order was
carried into politics it would surely
be split. That has come to pass.
We tell them now that if the present
system and management are continued
the order will be destroyed as surely
and completely as the grange was
destroyed. The alliance is a big thing,
but it is being guided and hurried
straight to destruction. If it is lo
be used as a political machine, if it is
but the power of a secret and oath
bound organization led bj men like
Macune into our politics the sooner
it is destroyed the better for the
country and the people -Greenville
News.
President Stokes has De*
creed.
Dr. Stokes, the president of the
Alliance, has decreed that the dis*
cusion on the sub-treasury between
the two Bens shall be in secret meet?
ing of the Alliance. Ben Tllraan
had expected that it would be in the
open air where every one could hear,
but the Alliance president knows
that his pet scheme is not strong
enough yet to stand going ont of
doors. The nursing which Ben Till*
man give it in the open air would
hardly add to its strength. But the
Alliance people are closing in upon
the Moses of the farmers, and, unless
he has retained all of his old time
strength, he will never live to see tbe
promised land. If that discussion
comes off in secret meeting they are
going to drive yottr uncle Ben until
he is no more account than a sore
back mule. But we imagine that he
will refuse to talk in secret meeting
or cat his words as he was so much
in the habit of doing last summer
when shoved to the wall.
Tiie Price of Cotton.
In considering the present and prob?
able prices of cotton it should bc re?
membered that dealers changed the
classification of grades last fall. What
is now called "good middling*7 was
formerly "middling." and the greatest
"middling" used to be "low middling."
Since December there bas been DO
"good middling" on the market. Tnat
is the grade made io this section, when
the seasons for gathering are good.
lt would bring on the present market 9
ceots ia Charleston, a cent aod a frac?
tion more per pound tban"aiiddling,*now
sells for. So there is oo ase for people
to become overly b'ue over prospects.
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