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NATIoNALlsTIc PROGRESSION.

The Nation Must Merge Into the Cooper
atIve Commonwealth BY Slow and Easy
Stages of Develop pnent.
So marked and rapid has been the de-
velopment of the Socialistic or Nation
alistic tendencies of the Farmers A1li-
ance, the Farmers Mutual Benefit Asso-
citation and the Knights of Labor, that
it seems as if. almost by magic, four
million NationalistS have sprung into
being in response to the appeal made in
Bellamy's Looking Backward"
While it can not be expected that Ma
tiOnalism, in its fullest sense, or perfect
fruition, can be brought about or at
tanned otherwise than by series of
progressive developments, it will not be
amiss to note the very radical progress
that has been made in the direction of
the establishment of pure democracy
or fraternal government of the people,
by the people and for the people. l will
enumerate few of the demands that
have been formulated into platforms,
upon which stand an army of voters,
mum mbered by millions.
First-Pre-eminent in importance
stands the demand for the nationaliza-
ton of the peoples money or medium
of exchange. There are probably four
million voters who are at this writing
united in demand that the people, or
Government, shall furnish to the indi-
vidual money or circulating media if
not at cost of issue and handling, at
least at rate of interest not to exceed
two per cent. This limits to a mini
mum the eXtortions now practiced upon
productive and industrial labor by in
terest, profit and the individual owner
ship of the means of production, and
brings rs within fractional distance OF
industrial cooperation.
Second-The naturalization of the
farming industry in and through the
means of the sub-treasury plan. This
plan provides that the people, or Gov
ernment as a whole, shall take the
place of the hordes of middlemen, such
as commission men. elevator men, grain
brokers and spectators and bulls and
bears. and storing safely for future use,
as legitimate demand shall call for it,
the farmers grain, shall advance him
upon such grain eighty per cent of its
value at the nominal rate of one pei
cent, and expense of storing and hand
ling the grain.
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MISLEADING REPORTS.

The Press Reports OF the Ocala Conven-
tion Were Calculated to Convey False Inn
pressions.
Upon reading the various press re-
ports of the late Alliance convention
held at tOcala, Fla, one is at once struck
with the idea that the Alliance is very
much at variance within itself and hope
lessly divided upon basic principles and
vital and leading issues and demands
All through such press reports there is
apparent labored effort to make it ap-
pear that every resolution before the
convention was sstubbornly contested,
and that every policy and demand in
dorsed and adopted was opposed by a
minority but little less than one-half
the numerical strength of the conven-
ton. Why do these reports convey this
impression? Because in every instance
inwhich vote was taken the manipulate
ors of these press reports added seventy
votes or more to the minority report;
and the Alliance, Industrial and all
other friendly papers have copied these
press reports, without hesitation or
proper examingtion, and have thus as
sisted in spreading a false impression
which they would have been far from
indorsing had they been aware of what
they were doing.
Thus, as stanch an independent paper
as the Chicago Sentinel, in the course of
its account of the Ocala convention,
says:
vote on the sub treasury bill stood 80 for
to 20 against.
While the splendid and true blue AL
lance paper, The Industrial Age, says:
Colonel Livingston, of Georgia, offered a
resolution amending the first section of the
demands that the volume of currency
issued should not be less than $50 per capita
of the entire population, which was agreed
| to.
Other speeches were made and the de-
mands of the National Farmers Alliance
| and Industrial Union were finally adopted
! by vote of 80 to 49,
| Now the vote as given in the Chicago
Sentinel is just SO more votes than the
convention could legally cast, while the
vote given in the Industrial Age is ex-
actly double the actual vote upon the
demand spoken of. The actual vote was
| as follows:
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Lot the GOOD Work Go On.

The most remarkable feature about
the independent movement in politics
by the farmers of Kansas and the
Northwest is the almost complete alb
sence of well-known men in the new
departure, also the infnitesimal amount
of money used. 1t seems to have been
genuine uprising of what Abraham
Lincoln used to call ''the common peo-
ple." When the rank and file of the
farmers and laborers in the country ex-
ert themselves In patriotic effort in
purifying politics. former favorites, old
methods and corrupt practices are
thrown to the winds. II the people
will do the work, money is not required
to pay ''heelers" and bosses" Where
the Australian ballot system is in vogue,
and the State furnishes the one official
ballot, even the expense of printing bal
lots is not required, Let the good work
90 on.-Farm and Home.
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TRAITORS. MONEY. !.
The 'Intrinsic Value FaIlacy-Les th.
PeOnIe SNEAK.

The s1ntrinsic Value" FaIlacy-Let the
People Speak.
It has been said in some age of the
world, far back in history, that the people
Of the world were '.made to believe lie
that they might be damned" OF thatI
know nothing; but do know that IL
seems very much like it in this age.
Look, for instance, at the lies connected
with gold, silver and the Latin Union,
and think any sane man will admit
that it is time that the people of this
country, at least, should see the lie and
repudiate the whole internal scheme of
the Shylock fraternity.
Gold and silver have less intrinsic val
ne than iron or most any other metal.
A ten-penny nail has really more in
trinsic value than a twenty dollar gold
piece. But every child that is
born in our country is educated
from the cradle to the grave,
through the nursery, the school, the
college. by the press, the church and
the rostrum, that gold and silver are
precious metals and of the greatest in
trinsic value. So far, this great torrent
of lies, made venerable with age, has
never been successfully combatted, and
until it is, there can be nothing but
master and slave in this world, for in
this lies the secret of all our wrongs and
all our expressions. There is where the
slave comes from, and where the mil
honaire and the pauper come from, the
crowned heads and the serfs, the boss
and the tramp. From this comes all
robbing by law and without law, by
trick and by fraud, by tariff and by Ma
tional banks, all of which are the prod
ucts of the same system, backed by the
Latin Union, self-constituted body of
Shylocks, men who arbitrarily assume
by their fiat to increase or decrease in
trinsic value where none exists.
Let Americans, or any nation Of
Europe, demonetize gold and silver, and
adopt National paper currency based
upon the resources of the nation,
and they will become the most
prosperous country on earth, and
all others would be compelled to
follow suit. Then gold and silver,
Shylock and the Latin Union, can
go to warmer climate, where they
should have been a thousand years ago.
An honest National money loaned to
the people, as it is now loaned to the
National banks, and at the same rate OF
interest Zone per cent. per an
num), on real estate security, viii
give every man his just rights,
every farmer a chance to pay
the mortgage on his farm, every
city its bonded debt, set every factory
wheel humming and give every new be-
ginner on land, or in a factory, start.
Money should live only while the ma
ton lives. Gold and silver may well be
called the traitors money. Traitors ad-
vocate it, traitors run with it at the first
note of war.
Let the Government pay the same
rate of interest on money deposited that
1t receives from borrowers, and there
will be no over-issue.
We know what Sherman, McCulloch
& Co. may say, but we have heard
enough from them. Let the people
speak now.-F. Woodward, in Pacific
| Union
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KNOWS at Last what Hurts.

Says an exchange: After dealing out
some good, sharp reprimands to some
short-sighted Republican editors who
are wont to criticise Marsh Murdock.
the Eagle contains the following bit of
plain but excellent writing:
What Is wanted by the country, and wanted
now, Is cheaper money, and only fools fail to
see It. It 10 interest that IL eating up the
West and destroying realty values through
out the land; ever-suoking interest that,
like the vampire, is leaving the country
bioodless- It is not transportation
charges, not speculation, not even the
Mckinley idea, that hurts, so much az
10 the fact of dear money, q money so
dear that real estate and all other properties
are daily growing worthless in comparison
TO that mere representative of values which
draws, and eternally draws, Interest"
Every thing and everybody is paying inter-
est; and interest, when money Is scarce be-
comes not only dear, but inevitably absorbs
all the principal and all the securities. This
10 q usury ridden nation of people, and the
coming Congress must increase the volume
Of money, to the end that money may be-
come cheaper, as compared to other values,
or there won't be any Republican party In
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SHAM EFUL.
Government Discrimination I'm Favor OF
National Banks Both Criminal and Dis
of.xI

Government Discrimination I'm Favor OF
National Banks Both Criminal and Dis-
graceful.
In the report of the Comptroller of
the Currency it is stated that there are
In the United States 1857 National
banks, with an average capital of $780,
447, ,235, surplus S218, ,563, ,s95 and undi-
vided profits S97, ,006, ,636. 1t must be
borne in mind that every dollar of this
vast amount of money is the legitimate
property of the people, and that by
giving it to the above institutions the
act is equal in criminality to that of the
highway robbers when he halts the
citizen and ordering him to throw up
his hands goes through his pockets at
the point of the pistol. Nay, worse: for
the highwayman does not ask that he
be paid for the trouble of rob
bing the citizen; the National banker
does; he asks that he be paid inter-
est on on the amount of security
he deposits with the Government for
the trouble of rifiing the pockets
Of his fellow-citizens IN the differences
between one per cent. and five per
cent, or, IN other words, the difference
between the amount OF interest paid to
the National banks by the people for,
the use OF their own money, and that
which they would have to pay the Gov
ernment for the same privilege. Rob
beryi Can any one conceive of a greater
crime against generous and confdings
people priding themselves on being q
commonwealth? Nice business this for
q Government presuming to guide the
destinies Of c5, ,o0o. 900 of peoplel Not to
speak 1t profanely, one would think
that in this larceny-as 1t deserves to
be characterized-'ss somebody eats part
OF the hog, and who would that some
body be bnt-to their eternal shame
the Government officials themselves.--,
Pacific Union
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The Cauaa

me recent political reyolution all
over the country was unquestionably
caused by desire among the people for
q radical change in the financial policy
of the Government Unless the Repub-
hcan party meets this demand, It viii
be swept away. The tariff, prohibition,
resubmission and transportation are
only incidental TO the one paramount
question. n.-Emporia Republican.
The Republican has hit the nail
squarely on the head In the above. The
people not only desire radical change
In the financial policy of the Govern
ment, but they have fully determined
to have it. Legalized systematic rob-
berry has been fostered by the Govern
ment long enough. It Is time to call a
halt. The Republican should have
made this discovery before election
Exohan0a
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Just So.

Every day we hear of banks all over
the country going down before the
financial crisis like so many nine-pins
If it were not that many hundreds of
poor working men and women are loos-
ing all their little savings which were
put by, minute by minute, out of their
hard earned pittances, we would rejoice,
for this condition of affairs Is just what
labor reformers have long warned the
people would come about if the present
system of finances was not changed.
Some people need a deal of oppression
before they will wake up from their
idle ethargy.-Marinette wis., Voice.
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sends him to Jail. When Wall street
gambler who has tens of thousands to
speculate with in watered railroad
stock and other fictitious paper, gets
caught and is likely to go to the wall,
our Government steps in and eases the
money market, by taking the millions
which it has taxed out of the farmers
and pours it into the gambling dens of
Wall street, to help the fne-haired
gambler out. This is the difference be-
tween a poor hay-seed one-dollar gam
bier and sleek, stall-fed gambler
with his millions. Independent Ameri-
can
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The sue-TREAsuRY BILL.

The Idea That il Provides Only For the
Farmers shown to Be Ridiculous.
As the organs of monopoly are trying
to scare weakened and shallow
Drained people to death over the possi-
bility of the passage of the snb-treas-
ury bill, we set out below that bill in
full The monopolists say it is uncon-
stitutional. undemocratic and nnrepub-
lican because it provides only for the
benefit of the farming class. The idea
that it provides only for the farming
class arises from a superficial view of
the matter. The aim is not more to
provide Tor the farming class than it Is
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Labor the euperior Of Capital.

Iafirm it as my conviction that class
laws, placing capital above labor, are
more dangerous to the Republic at this
hour than was chattel slayery In the
days of its heughtiest supremacy. La
Dor Is the superior Of capital, and de-
serves much the higher considerations
Abraham Lincoln.
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When farmer happens to have
spare dollar that he has earned by hard
knocks, and invests in the Louisiana
lottery, the Government calls him a
gambler. and If its officers catch him
with the lottery ticket in his possession
It urrsecutes him as criminal and
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KANSAS,
GEORGIA,
NEBRASKA.
MINNESOTA.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NnDrH nAnnT
NORTH CAROLINA.

Seven States carried by political re-
formers much better than the Repub-
lican party could do when it first or
ganized; and the reform party is not
even organized. It fought under dif-
ferent name in nearly all these States,
but the demands were the same. A
move IS on foot to organize into one
grand party, then IN 1892 the reform
pyramid win inclnde States enough to
hold down the old parties Dayton 70. }
W0rLnsn
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nEEIcIAL DIRECTORY.

1aE .rpgNT. ............... BENJAMIN HARRIsoN
Cuitet States senators, ...........P. B. Plumb
.aansiis. ....--.... j j. Ingalls,
fcrubssr Of Congress. 9Th Dist $. X. Peters
idv- Of 2fth Judicial Dist.......G g w. Mckay
5 AZ. Scuut0r. 3sth District. Chester T. Long
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CHURCHES.

d DAPTIST.- each sunday at II a.
DIN. aud at 80 y. m, at the courthouse. sun
DAY school ut 10 o'clock n IN. Prayer meeting
"Wednesday evening OF each week. Rev. w.
Cain. puStOr. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry streets.
TTNISTIAN.--Preach every Sunday ut
- ~ o'clock. II. IN, and : 80 y. M. 10y Elder
j. H. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ucsday night sunday 3chooiat O'Clock a. IN.
,syetv sunday. Pastors residence at the par
,sunuPc study at the chapel,
kEETHODIST EPtSCOPAL.-Serviccs every
1N1 sunday at II 200 II. m. and 30 p. IN. sun
iay schnOl every Sunday at 10 a. III. Prayer
mccfin- every Thursday evening ut 1880.
strangers invited. ID. W. Phillips, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Se every sunday at
4 II Il. IN. and : 30 p. IN. sunday school AT
IOu. ~. j. B. NORTH, Pastor
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on End
SuudHv OF oyery month at Sherlock's hall, al
1000 a.. IN. REV. BITTER Pdstor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
" uiur services at MinEunH, Barber county,
the second und fourth Sundays in each month
AT Forrest school house on the second sunday
Cedar Creek school house on the third Sunday
by Elders Shamberger smith aud Ncher.
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SnEIETIES.

AZ. q \. NJ, Delta Lodge No. =
~ - Regular communications, first and
third saturday evenings In each
!" month. Ali aiiiiating and non-aihli-
ating masCns iva good standing cordially in-
VUoI 10 attend II. a. BURNETT, W. NJ.
/. ". STOUT, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. %, II. \. M, meets
m Masonic Hall every 81 and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER /. LONG, IL. p.
f. -. PECK. secy.
". Il, S. ReruIar Communications, first
and thrd Monday evenings in each moHth
Mrs. EVA l.. MERRELL, W. NJ.
MAMIE V. o. BRYAN, sec.
DrLrHIA LODGE. No. l4O, X. of p, meets ON
Monday evening of each W, elk. pt the X. of +.
hall. Visiting knights in good standmg inVi-
0r.s Sl LoitTGS, X. orR.&5.
A> + 100. f., Pioneer Lod G
s-.s<t Npqsf ", every Tuesday cVcn.ug.N
w /~ itiug brethren in good stauG-
S@AaS@H ing cordially invited.
II. l.. LINDLEY, \. g.
~ L. NJ. BYERLEY, See.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 62, !. o. O. F
Mects first aud third Friday oi each month
Visiting Putriarchs cordially invited 70 attend
= 1, AfIEN II l.. G.. L. HARRIS, G. L.
W. n. ROUSE, :. ". j. G. WALSTAD, ;.
NAOMI No.6I. REBECCA DEGREE, l.O.O.f +.
Meets the "a and4th Wed. nights, each month
MRS. f. NJ. ALLEN, n. q,
Mrs. AUG. SCNtpr. Sccy.
T d z ELPitE9 P0Sr, , No; NJ ,, III ni%nf meG'f
VI the court house In Medicine Lodge, at p NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS, Post Commander.
joins W. UPPERMAN, Adjutaut.
q. " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. I52.
y, = OF v. meets on lst ana 81 Satur
DAY evenings Of each month, in X. of =. nall.
A. s. NORRIS Capt. T. ". SNODDY, LIST Lieut..
RoBT. CAMERON, LIST Scargcnt.
A. O. u w. aS$. S'sslE "a LSa5P sad ID S2; !S iSay
nipht W. =. FINNEY, NJ. ".
E NJ BYERLEY, Recorder.
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Gould's telegraph and the monopoly
papers simply reported Republican and
Demcratic victories, but scarcely men,
toned the grand victories gained by the
political reformers. The statement that
the Democrats carried Georgia, South
Carolina and North Carolina is not so.
The Farmers Alliance controlled the
nominations in all three. and in South
Carolina the straight Democrats and
Republicans combined, yet were defeat
ed by $4,000 majority. The reform
pyramid now stands:
KANSAS,
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DFLrHIA LODGE. No. l40, X. of p, meets on
Monday evening of each W, elk, at the X. of p.
ball. Visiting Knights in good standing inVi-
led 20 attend. T. G. MOLLOY, Q. G..
OTIS LOlsTON, *. OF II. x >.
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state omcers.

ias r1or %, kansas. ..... .... !. U. Humphrey
..ic; Bdut-G oveIuur... .-.-,.-.A ; y ftit
3eci .irN pi state ..-.... .... " III; hlE2lhs
~. General .......... } y. Ives
s,5I ..i,tor ......... . Timothy Mccarthy
-f,t ..9rrintendcut.... .... Geo. ". " mans
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n Y @ LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
VI Liz Ns Regular communications, first
and third Monday evenings In each mouth
Mrs EVA l.. MERRELl., W. NJ.
MAMIE V. o. BRYAN, sec.
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ALLIANCE DIRECTORY,
NATIONAL OFFICERS.

'gesident...... l.. l.. Polk. Washington, d. c.
-. Il. Turner, Washington ID. &.
lro a ureT .-....... II. w. Hickman, PuxicO Mo.
lecturer -.... Ben Terrell. Washington, ID. c.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-20

The indianapolis Sentinel of Mosds,
says the logic Of The recent elections !.
Cleveland and Gray Tor Dom0crslic csn
didates next year In the cool Of tbs
morning Of the canvass. before vssion II
cIouded BY excitement. We predict that q
Cleveland 10 dominated again In 90. "a
meter Who u his running mate. the
Democrats Will BE- beaten again. BY On,
wsstern man the Republicans viii scm
inste. and Ne think the recent elections
denonstsate H. The only chance for
Democratic success lies 10 : wesiern
ticket.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-20

NOTICE . hereby given 20 ovne,. =
49, al adjoining land, and III nersc.,
interested. that will proceed Win nv
s,ounty Surveyor Of Dubois couns, ~,
NOV. 70, 1891. 20 run the Ijnes and ~
'so''sn re boundaries and corpers 81
secslon twenty -four t2l), town one u,
no5tns range ok (6) west, ~ nuboIs
coun'y, Indiana The iniermedisse lines
w siso % run and the corners =.
'so'ished q the same time Thoss ~
crested ore expected 70 b psesens 4
NJ survey wss postponed from Nov
- 1871, on account or bad weather.
~ - -. CHRls. y. RuDoLPs.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-20

SURE or HEAvEx.-6ome Of the Busi
ness Men and wealthy residents Of ~.
ansville certainly "hsve : cinchr On
reaching Heaven. They vii be able ~
slip BY 81. Peter, guarding the entrance
and crawl through the almost invisible
crack under the door dividing Hsdes
and the pesrIy streets of Paradise. Tbev
are proving that their souls are smail
enough 20 accomplish THE miraculous
feat, BY trying 70 shirk the duty, which
they ought 10 deem : pleasure, Of con-
tributing . fair proportion Of their
boarded wealth In taxes to support the
grand charities OF Indiana, which some
Of their friends no doubt receive benefits
rom. In our deaf and dumb, blind. in
sane and reformstory institu sious
should they succeed, the next LeRisls-
lure ought 70 appoint . COMMITTEES Of
hem. 70 negotiate with Satan Tor the an
nexation Of Evansville 10 bis domi nIous
As 81 citizens Of Indisna should have
state Pride enough 20 bear their eoual
share 70 support State bene voIeuces.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-20

~ The Democrats and Alliance men
ID Minnesota have formulated PROPOSE
tion for . definite division Of oflices 10
% voted for there next year. BY which
the Democratic are 10 hsve i've and the
Alliance four Presidential electors, and
the State Offices In proportion. The pro-
position IL 10 be submitted Ia The party
and II adopted will proba-
bly, win. - The vote last year vac: Re
publican. 5000; Democratic. 5000 I;
Alliance. $1,000
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-20

lNoIlcE = hereby given 70 the eitirens ~ Duho,.
Harrison township. Dabcis county Ind that ~
undersigned. male citizen d the United S,.,e. ~,
apply 20 ne Comfy Commissioners o. Dubois counts 4,
their next regular session N December 1871 fsr il
cense ~ retail intoxicating liquor heer ana vine IA
permit The tame 70 be drank on the prems~. un., 49,
~ the Law ~ Indiana governing snch
ne precise location Shers saf liquors are n ~ -old
upon part ~ the southeast quarter Of the norsh
.e<t quarter 81 Sec twelve. Town ons south Esn~.
hree es - 100 " adjoining Du bois HAM
sen tssnship Dubois county. Indiana
Nov. 3. yi-3f. HFypy > nrnxv