Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-02

| rate OF one per cent per annum on the con-
dition that the owner or such other person
| as he may authorize will redeem the ag-
ricuitural product within twelve months from
date OF the certificate or the trustee will
sell same At public action to the high
| est bidder for the purpose Of satisfying the
| DEBT Besides the one per cent interest the
su6treasurer should be allowed to charge Q
| amount Tor insurance; but the premises neces-
sary for conducting this business should
be secured by tho various counties do
mating to the general government the land and
the government building the very best modern
buildings, freproof and substantial With this
method in vogue the farmer, when his produce
was harvested. would place il in storage where
| II would be perfectly SAFE and he would secure
four-h fths OF its value to supply his pressing
necessary Tor money at one per cent per annum.
DE would negotiate and sell his warehouse or
elevator certificates whenever the current price
suited MIN, receiving from the person to whom
he sold only the difference between the price
agreed upon and the amount already paid by
the subtreasurer. When, however. these stor-
age certificates reached the hand of the miller
or factory or other consumer he to get the pro-
quot would have to return to the subtreasurer
the sum OF money advanced together with the
interest on same ana the storage and insurance
charges on the product.
In support OF this scheme the alliance quotes
precedents from foreign countries. particularly
France and Russia, and from the colonial times
in this country
The order is secret and the work is done with
sucn earnestness that branches have sprung
day. ' " ''' - : ' '1u''
AT THE HEADQUARTERS HERE. Fas
The national headquarters here is on 9th
street in the old Critic Office and the church
adjoining. Five steam presses are kept at
work night and day printing the National
Economist, their chief organ, and documents
and circulars Of various sorts. From IS, 900 to
$4,000 copies Of the organ are sent out each
week, and besides this there are some / 200
lesser organs Of the alliance published in the
several states. In connection with the general
work there has been established an alliance ex-
change and there is about being organized a
newspaper alliance. The paper published here
will be the national organ, and there will be
established state organ in each state where
the alliance is represented, and besides these
there will be country organs. They will be all
under one general control. The political dis
cussion will be directed from Washington by
the national organ, and the state organs will
be equipped to furnish ''patent insides" to the
country organs.
CoLoRED ALLIANCE.
As has been stated, only white men belong to
the national alliance, and no negro may be q
delegate to the council; but thing not Qener-
ally known is that there is q colored alliance,
the membership of which is estimated at one
million
The alliance is active in contriving for the
defeat of public men who are marked by them
as aggressively antagonistic to their interests.
Next to securing the election to Congress of
men who are their friends their great object is
to overthrow their principal enemies, and
some very strong men in both the House and
Senate are marked by the alliance, and the
order is that they shall be defeated if it takes
ten or twenty years to do it.
WHAT THEY EXPECT THIS FALL.
This fall the alliance expect to elect four
governors of states and thirty Congressman.
They now claim the election Of five Congress-
men from Georgia, four from North Carolina,
four from South Carolina and two from Tennes-
see as assured. These men are not to be elected
as independents, but as representatives Of one
or the other OF the great parties now in exist
ence.