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changed at the mint for $1,939,39 and a profit
of $71 be pocketed. Soon no gold coin was found in the country,
and free coinage was stopped. In 1834 a change took place. Previous to
this the ratio of gold to silver in the coinage was as one to fifteen.
By the act of 1834, however, this ratio was changed to one to sixteen.
No change was made in the silver dollar which still continued to
contain 271 1/4 rains of pure silver, but the amount of pure gold in
the eagle was reduced from 247* to 232, so that the ratio established
was about one to sixteen. But in the market an ounce of gold brought
only 15.7. So by this act silver was wroth less in coin than in
buillion, and gold more in coin than in bullion, and as a result,
though coinage was still free, silver began at once to out of
circulation, since it was wroth more in the buillion market than at the
mint. At the same time gold took its place in circulation. So effective
was his law that in 1837 and 1837 not a single silver dollar was coined. Is the supply of money insufficient? Cheap money will drive out the good and fail to increase the circulation. Flat money is a delusion and a snare. If free coinage would encourage business for a time it would enrich the speculators who have been buying up buillion in expectation of the adoption of the measure and multiply many times the wealth of millionaires who own the silver mines. If enactment would make us rich, Congress might vote us all million; but who would pay the taxes? You cannot eat your cake and keep it too. The Alliance of Marlboro County, S. C., has requested the State Alliance to call a meeting of cotton growers form all the Southern States, to be held in December next. WORTH
LOOKING INTO
It is well that farmers begin to look into the schemes of the
so-called National Association of business agents. Every method that
the tireless ingenuity of unscrupulous "Shenies" can devise for
wringing percentages out of the memberships are resorted to in order to
enrich vampires and parasites hanging on the financial borders of the
Farmers Alliance. The brotherhood are advised to call a halt, as they
are no w doing in Virginia and other states, where a levy is made of
forty cents a year for each member to support the so-called state
Exchange. If the managers of an exchange can't carry on the business
and live by the usual percentages received on all legitimate lines of
goods, without calling on members to pay ten cents per quarter
additional, better abandon that way of doing business. The Wall Street
Farmer's Cooperative plan will do away with these abuses. The
management will agree to furnish farmers and planters with binding
twine and jute bagging from five to ten percent cheaper than that
offered by the recently formed (official?) Alliance Syndicate "Trust,"
and then allow every dollar over and above, actual cost of transacting
the business to go back into the hands of all members joining the Wall
Street Farmers' Co-operative Plan. Two dollars will furnish members the
Wall Street Farmer for one year, entitle the subscriber to one dollar's
return in goods of any kind wanted and the privilege or right of
casting a vote for the annual election of president and directors,
which will enable shareholders by their own votes to control the
management and direct the business of the Association, keeping it in
their own hands, and receiving all the advantages of buying at
wholesale and receiving highest prices for everything they wish to sell.Not only this but the columns of this paper will always be open for discussion of every mutual and co-operative plan, also to show who gets the benefit, what transactions are made, what the price, commission and everything that every buy, seller, shipper, farmer and laborer ought to know. Now the National Business Agents are running a close corporation in which only a "select" (?) few are interested -- and those involving -- well we blush to name it -- some of the most noted officials in the National Farmers Alliance. It will be the business of the Wall Street Farmer to protect farmers and laborers, no matter who are hit. The wounded birds will flutter, and the hit dogs howl. Let the rottenness be exposed. For years we have watched the workings of so-called Alliance Exchanges. As a Trustee Stockholder we were compelled to see in Florida $122,000 slip out of the hands in less than one year of honest and unsuspecting farmers in one out of many other schemes without the least possible redress, while the real "skin" in the way of percentages and commissions will never be known. The Florida Farmers' Alliance Exchange, under the management (?) of a so-called national Secretary could tell if he would , but a committee appointed more than a year ago have never as yet been able to get at the facts, still being as much in the dark as ever. Might as well point the way of a ship in the sea, a serpent on a rock, or of an eagle in the air. Such fellows take good care to cover up their tracks. More anon. --- W. C. Crum |
 Sale of Real Estate By virtue
of an order and decree of the County Court of Shelby County, Illinois
made on the petition of the undersigned Henry C. Robertson Executor of
the late Will and Testament of William Sampson deceased, for leave to
sell the Real Estate of said deceased, at the August Term, A. D. 1891,
of said Court, to wit on the 2d day of August, 1891, I shall on the
26th day of September next, between the hours of ten o’clock in the
forenoon and five o’clock in the afternoon of said day, sell at Public
Sale, at the front door of the Court House in Shelbyville in said
county, the Real Estate as follows, to wit:
Lot eight (8) in Block Five (5) in C. C. Scovil’s Second Addition to Shelbyville, in Shelby County, State of Illinois, on the following terms, to wit: One-half cash in hand on day of sale and the remainder on a credit of six months, the purchase to give approved security and mortgage in the premises sold, to execute the payment of the deferred payment of purchase money. The widow of said deceased will make quit claim deed to purchase without charge. — Henry C. Robertson, Executor of the Late Will and Testament of William Sampson, Deceased Dated this 20th day of August A. D. 1891.  |
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Motto
Equal and
exact justice to all; special privileges and immunities to none;
charity to those in poverty, affliction or distress, and especially to
those of our own Order.“Stand by the papers that stand by you.” — General Organizer Boles to the F.M.B.A. Brothers at the Fair Grounds We mean death to all monopolies of every kind, and we want it distinctly understood that we in- clude in the number the organized liquor traffic. — National F. M.B.A. Platform Official
Directory of the F.M.B.A.
National Assembly
President — D.
W. Stilwell, Fort Branch, IndianaVice-President — D. O. Markley, Mound City, Kansas Secretary — John P. Stelle, Mt. Vernon, Illinois Treasurer — T. W. Haynes, Kentucky Trustees — N. L. Batts, Indiana; G. W. Davis, Iowa; W. M. Reed, Illinois; E. M. Poe, Missouri; A. M. Harding, Kentucky Commissioner — M. D. Coffeen, Homer, Illinois State Assembly
C.
J. Lindley, President, Greenville, Ill.Jas. M. Washburn, Vice-President W. E. Robinson, Sec., Greenville, Ill. James Creed, Treasurer, Walnut Hill, Ill. Executive Committee — G. W. Wickline, Nashville; N. M. Barnett, Halleville; E. S. Wilson, Olney Jas. T. McKibben, State Business Agent, Sandoval, Ill. Shelby County
Assembly
Wm.
R. Wooters, President, Cowden, Ill.John H. Yencer, Vice-president, Shelbyville, Ill. James W. Huffer, Secretary, Stewardson, Ill. C. M. Sargent, Treasurer, Windsor, Ill. Contributions, items, etc., intended for this department should reach this office Tuesday afternoon, to insure insertion the current week. The F.M.B.A. County
At
its County Assembly in session in Shelbyville Jan. 14, 1891, the
following was passed:Assembly Commend Our Best Words Weekly. Resolved, That we recognize in the editor of Our Best Words Weekly a true friend and would recommend that our membership patronize his paper liberally. The following was also passed at the county assembly in Shelbyville, April 15, 1891. Resolved, That we, as F.M.B.A. of the County Assembly of Shelby County do insist that we give Our Best Words Weekly a liberal support, for it is the only paper in the county that is trying to build up our cause. |
They
Face the Same Way.
The Farmers' Alliance and the Prohibitionists both face
the same way. They ought to case the same ballot. — Miss Willard.We believe that Miss Willard is right about this matter. The points in which the Prohib- itionists and the Alliance agree are vastly more nujmerous than the points in regard to which they differ. In short we do not belive that the majority of the men in the two movements differ. In short we do not believe that the majority of the men inthe two movements differ at all on the main questions that are up before the people for settlement. As fast as they understand each other their differences evaporate as the dew before the morning sun. -- Liberator. The September Treasury statement shows $638,000,000 in the Treasury and $1,506,000,000 in circulation: that is to say there is that much in the Treasury and in circulation. It is doubtless true as to the Treasury, but it is absolutely false as to the amount in circulation. It counts in circulation every bank, United States and Treasury note that has ever been issues, all the silver and gold that has been coined, not admitting the loss of anything, when it is well known that there is a large loss; besides it puts as in circulation the reserve fund held by the banks amounting to $100,000,000, and in this way shows up a per capita circulation of $23.45, when in fact the per capita is less than $17. The gold bugs who control the Treasury Department may think that they can persuade a man that he has plenty of money by showing that the money is in existence, but that argument will hardly go when the farmer's pocketbook is empty, and empty, too, for the benefit of the men who are trying to juggle him into the belief that he has an abundance. THE GREAT MONOPOLY
The question of prohibition concerns a monopoly far greater and more
powerful than any other we had to deal with. It is a monopoly that is
crushing the life out of honest business and we are paying it not less
than $9,000,000,000 a year directly, and not less than
$500,000,000 more for the burdens it creates. And what good is there in
it? What good does it do? The shoe- maker produces shoes, the tailor
clothes, the farmer food; but what does the liquor interest produce? It
ruins homes, breaks mothers' hearts, degrades citizens and is every-
where a curse. It steals our boys and makes wrecks of them. It elects
its own mayors, councils, representatives, Sen- ators, member of
Congress, and even the President; it elected Cleveland in 1884 and
rather than kill the Republican party by another defeat and so
precipitate the liquor question squarely, it elected Hill and Harrison
in 1888, and the present administration has proved more friendly to the
liquor interest than any other we have ever had; as the record of his
appointments show. — Dr. John A. Brooks, at WillimanticKnew
His Customer
A man without a hair on his bald head came into the
barber's shop and sat down on a chair."Shave or hair cut, sir?" asked the attendant. "A shave, please," was the answer. When the shave was finished and the bald-headed man left, the customer who was getting his hair cut in the next chair said to the barber: "Why did you ask that man if he would have his hair cut? Did you mean to insult him?" "Oh, not at all, sir," was the answer. "You see, it's like this: A bald-headed man is rather sensitive on that point. I treat this gentleman just as I do every customer who comes and sits down on the chair. He knows that he has no hair to be cut, and I know that he has no hair to be cut, and he knows that I know he has no hair to be cut. Nevertheless he likes to be treated as if he had a head of hair, and he comes regularly." — Detroit Free Press |
PROHIBITION
AND THE ALLIANCE
There are thousands of farmers in every State in the
Union, members of the Farmers' Alliance who are prohibitionists either
in senti- ment or in fact. Everything in the life, experience and habit
of the farmer suggest temperance. There is neither necessity nor
termination in agricultural pur- suits to the farmers from the noble
calling of a strictly pastoral life Poets like David, Virgil and Homer
have sung the praises of husbandmen through the Scriptures and the
classics for centuries. Widely separated from the temptations of the
grog shops, farmer's sons as a class are models of the blessings of
temperance pure and simple. In the framing of constitutions of the
State Farmers' Alliance evidences of this sentiment are here and there
seen, by urging a pro- hibition clause, or interposing views of
advanced temperance thought on the great reform issues of the day,
traceable to this sentiment which is frequently discussed in the
families of intelligent farmers. There is no good reason, therefore,
why the Farmers' Alliance should not incorporate somewhat of this ideal
into every platform adopted by them, whether county, state or national.
Not to do it will look as weak and devoid of moral stamina as either
one of the political parties in winking at a great national crime by
quietly ignoring it in their platform and declarations of purpose.
Disguise it as we may the fact stands out prominently in the
signs of the times. Prohibition is destined to become the one supreme
question to be decided among the social problems of this country. Any
political party having the manhood and independences to make this
question an issue, which will bring to it all the moral and
ecclesiastical forces of the different religious churches of this
country, and of the good everywhere, will deserve well of the American
people, and what is more significant, will meet with a triumph the like
of which has never been dreamed of in the philosophy of the shrewdest
politicians of this age. Above and beyond the merely political aspects
of the question, there is another decision which rests in the
omnipotent hand of Hill with whom we have to do. As that other twin
relict, of barbarism went down by a power over which armies had no
control, so in the infinite mind of Him who seeth the end from the
beginning, will this gigantic curse of the universe be engulfed by a
tidal wave that will eventually sweep it from the face of the earth. We
shall of course have to wait the time, and be frequently met by a
stalking skeleton, which could no long perambulate except by the
ghastly proppings of political parties, by the tacit aid of which a
worse than Bancho's ghost still confronts us.Knowing these facts what valid excuse has the Farmers' Alliance for opposing the Prohibition Party? Why reject clauses from platforms recognizing a moral obligation to fight the greatest enemy that farmers ever encountered? DO not farmers know that run is the cause of three-fourths of all their taxes? All the national banks, national revenues, demonetising of silver, contraction of currency, and maledictions heaped together by the Reform Press against the evils of which farmers complain, are not to be compared with the monumental infamy of the liquor traffic in the United States. The
Free Coinage of Silver.
The Ocala platform amends the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. The Farmers' Alliance organs generally favor this demand. Both
the Democratic and Republican papers, as a rule, oppose it. The
Jackson- ville, Fla., Daily Standard, a Democratic paper of influence
in the State, with a kindly feeling toward the Farmers' Alliance,
presents the following: In 1792 congress established the double standard. The basis was the valuation of an ounce of gold a fifteen ounces of silver. Almost immediately it was seen that more could be gotten for silver and at the mint than in the market, and speculators began to take advantage of this fact. With 100 ounces of gold 1,555 ounces of silver could be bought. 1,500 of which could be ex- |
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