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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-05
PRuNE: TREES.

Italian, Petite and Silver; wholesale or retail:
2 to 10 feet high. Price according TO size.
Agents commission given purchaser. Write for
prices to THOs. DAVIS, Manager, Portland. Or
Nursery, South Mt. Tabor, Or. No agents out.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15

the Peoples party, which is
pledged to every reform de.
manded by the Alliance, were
in power, the Alliance would
be just as needed then as now.
The Alliance is necessary not
only to purify politics and ele-
vate parties, but also to keep
them pure, and force them at
all times to respect the rights
and needs of the people. Al
ready politicians in all parties
fear the Alliance, and the mo-
nopolies fear the Alliance more
than they do any or all parties
combined. No, the Alliance
is not party machine, but it
is a terror to all party ma
chimes, and to all corruptors of
government.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
What la the Matter With Them?

The st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat is out i'm fine editorial de-
claring the Mckinley bill the
worst blunder ever committed
by any party since the crime
Of secession. 1t demands that
it, and all who support it, shall
be relegated to the rear. Here
we have a complete fulfillment
Of the mission Of every thick
and thin party newspaper. The
Globe-Democrat supported the
obnoxious bill and declared it
the sum Of perfection until af-
ter election and then tells the
truth about it. Of what value
to the people are such newspa-
pers 4? They tell lies for their
party every day in the year un-
til the one after election. I'm
der such conditions the press,
instead of being the friend and
defender of the people becomes
its deadliest foe. The truth is,
that all Of the old party press
is nothing more than dog with
a collar around its neck, that
barks as it master bids it,
| Nonconformist.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
What is Government For L?

The New York World says /:
"Just on the edge of winter we
are treated to another rise in the
price of coal. When the advance
goes into effect, on Dec. 18th,
coal at retail will be fifty cents a
ton dearer than it was last Dec.
The price to the Wholesale deal
ers has been raised since last
January $1.Io a ton. The blame
of the extortion rests on the con-
spirators composing the Reading
coal combine. They force up the
price; they limit production
Probably they have not yet
reached the limit of their inten-
ded oppression. How long must
it be endured ?"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
The Alliance and Party Machines.

Certain newspapers and pol
iticians are now trying to dam
age the Alliance by charging
that it is party machine. This
is false. The Alliance is above
all parties, and is more impor-
tant to the farmers and labor
ers of the country than any
party. No party will ever give
justice to any class of citizens
who are not organized. This
is a selfish world, and every
man and every class of men
must look out for themselves.
Parties give justice to those
only whom they fear. Parties
do not fear a class of people
who are not organized. They
will fear and do more for 500
men organized than they will
for 1000 unorganized. 1t is
absolutely necessary for every
class of citizens to be organ
lied for protection, and to get
justice. The Democratic party
is now in power. The farmer
who voted the Democratic
ticket never needed an organi-
zation more than now. His
party is now in a position to do
something for him, and other
men with the same interests.
He must be in a position to
force his party to do what it
should. Nothing will have
more influence on the Demo
cratic administration to give
the people the needed relief
than for the Alliance to grow
and strengthen each day. Ev-
ery true Allianceman desires
reform-desires justice more
than he does the success of any
party, and will be satisfied ii 1t
comes through any source. Ii
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
No. 10.

will be just as complicated, the
necessity for dsliberation quite
as imperative then as 1, viii be
next March. The delay win
have lost nine or ten months and
the work will have TO be done
after all. The attitude of the
gentlemen who beginning in
March is remarkable from every
point OF view. They are ask
ing us to contemplate e party
which for ten years has been
protesting its anxiety to relieve
the country of ruinous and gall.
ing burdens, and which, when IL
is at last empowered to carry out
its cherished scheme, suddenly
finds another heart and asks to
be excused. We do not believe
that MIR. Cleveland shares this
faint-hearted hesitation or Is
open to this doubt, but there are
those who undertake to speak
for the party, and who express
themselves as we have said. Just
to what extent they represent
the feeling and control the ac-
tion Of the Democracy will be
better known next March,
Washington Post.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15

The last Legislature, which
has been contemporary termed
in some quarters the "Farmer'
Legislature" passed an act ap-
propriating twenty-five thousand
dollars for the States exhibit at
the Worlds Fair and directing il
to be borrowed from the direc tax
money which had been refunded
to those who paid it through the
State. This was done at the sol
icltation Of men who knew what
they were doing. Sometime
after the Legislature adjourned
Governor Holt decided that the
appropriation was not available
because the Legislature had no
right to dispose OF the direct tax
fund in any way except to pay
it to the individuals from whom
it had been originally collected
by the Federal government.
Now it is announced that at
a conference in Raleigh last
week it was decided that the ap-
preparation is available.
If the appropriation is available
now it was available when first
appropriated. If it was not avail
able then it is not available now.
Why then this change of opin-
ion 7 Was the first decision
made in order to bring reproach
on the "Farmers' Legislature 7"
We do not know. The confer
ence ought to make public the
reasons for a change after the
election, Of opinion which existed
/ sometime before election. .-Roa-
noke News.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
The object of government

The object of government is
to protect and see that there is
equal justice. The Democratic
party now has charge of and will
run the government for a season.
This party has claimed to be the
great enemy of trusts, combines
and monopolies, and the great
friend of the poor and helpless !;
now will the Democratic party
suppress not only this trust but
all others? If the Republican
parry was false to the people
when it granted the special priv
ileges to monopoly that have
made trusts and combines poss-
ible with the Democratic party
show itself true to the people by
taking away all of their special
favors at once. What shall we
think of the next Congress if it
adjourns and leaves these trusts
with the power to continue to
bleed the people Is govern
ment instituted for monopolis and
Office holders, or for the welfare
of the people The World asks
"How long must it be endured?''
If the Democratic party dozen
not now right the great wrong
it must be endured till the peo-
pie can take charge of their gov
ernment.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
s'To Delve Deep Into the Pockets Of
the People,"

y DoiSc Dcep lnUO Tie EOCActS VI
the Peop1e.''
The New York World after
commenting on the Gould meth
cd ofrailroad manipulation, says:
"The tendencies, however, is
not to an extension Or repetition
of the Gould methods. He work.
ed towards crushing roads. The
modern method is to the suppress
sion Of rivalry by the absorption
of the rivals, one by another.
This is the era of trusts. 1t is
seen just as clearly now as Stew
art, or Gould, or the elder Van
derbilt saw it that the big fort
unes must be taken out of the
pockets of the people, and the
modern combiners say that that
pocket is big and deep enough
to give fortune to any one who
will delve deep enough into it."
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
PLEA FOR BALLOT-BOxS STUF-
FERS.
Urging the Pardon Of Parole Of the
Imprisoned New Jersey Demo-

u
Imprisoned New Jersey Demo-
crats.
TRENTON, N. ]. Nov. 7o.-
The court of pardons to-day lis
tened to speech from Allan L.
McDermott, chairman of the
State Democratic committee, for
the pardon of parole of thirty
five ballot-box suffers now serv-
ing time in the State prison. He
said they were nearly all prom
inent men and had suffered
enough. Only two of them had
ever been arrested before, and
many would not have gone to
prison at all had they availed
themselves Of their right OF ap-
peal.
Mr.. McDermott thought a pre-
cedent had been established by
the punishment of these men,
which would act as a deterrent
from the crime of ballot-box stuff
fing in the future. He asked the
court to regard the petitions filed
in behalf of the men. They bore
1.-THE names of hundreds of the
best citizens of Hudson county.
Among the names were those Of
several clergymen, lawyers, and
physicians. All the leading
Democrats Of the county, includ-
ing ea-Sheriff Davis and Dennis
Mclaughlin, were among the
signers.
The court said a decision
would be rendered on December
IS next. Before rising the court
pardoned fifteen other prisoners.
who were serving terms for vari
Gus offenses, and paroled seven
mere.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
A New Paper.

We welcome to our table the
first copy of "Our Home" a
new Alliance paper published
in Union county. The editor is
Bro. ]. q. Green, the energetic
and sterling lecturer for that
county. The paper is well ed
tied and has the right ring. I
wish we had a hundred such pa
pers in the State. The follow
ing is one OF the leading edito-
rails:
STAND FIRM.
"The enemies of the Alliance
have sought from the beginning
to cause dissensions and strife
among its members. The latest
scheme is to try to identify the
order with some political party.
The Alliance does not, has not
nor never will officially endorse
any political party, for in so
doing it would convert itself
into a party machine and hence
descend from the high plane
which it occupies and it's USE
fulness as an organization would
be destroyed. The mission of
the Alliance is educational.
There is no compulsory obliga-
ton to be taken, each member
being free to go the way his
conscience leads him. In the
late election members of the
Alliance voted with all the ex-
listing political parties, thus
demonstrating that the obliga-
ton Of the order does not in.
terfere with "religious or polit-
ical views" of its members
True, one of the existing polit-
ical parties has endorsed the
demands made by the Alliance,
but it does not follow that they
are the same organization.
Those papers that are now try
ing to class the Alliance as a
political party, are the very
| same papers that have fought
the Alliance and it's leaders all
along. They are deadly en-
emies to reform and would re-
joice to see the Alliance die.
Members of the order who
have labored so faithfully for
its success should make q note
of this and keep the camp fires
burning"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
The Advocates OF Delay.

We observe curious and sig
nificant concordance in the ar
guments of those who object to
an extra session of Congress for
purposes of tariff reform. With
out exception, the Democratic
leaders and newspapers that op-
pose the immediate Inauguration
of the work insists upon the ne.
cessity for ,deliberation. They
submit with great solemnity and
force that the revision of the
tariff laws is an undertaking
of prodigious moment that it
should be approached with al
most prayerful caution; that the
gravest consequences depend
upon the intelligence, the wis
dom, and the unselfish patriot
ism OF those who have the mat
ter in charge. They laborlously
remind us that the enterprise is
one which cannot be achieved in
haste, and they dwell with elo-
quence upon the danger of crude
and undigested measures.
And yet, it seems to US that
these arguments, put forward to
discourage an early assumption
of the labors Of tariff reform are,
in reality, the very strongest pos
sible arguments in its favor.
We may be dull Of perception
and beyond the vivifying light
SO freely shed for our infor-
nation, but we remain Of the
opinion that just in proper
ton as any given work is Sc
rious and complicated, and de-
pendent for its successful con-
summation upon time and care
and thought, just so should its
Inauguration be hastened, and
delay be avoided by those who
are responsible. That a recon-
struction of the tariff laws upon
the lines clearly indicated by the
popular verdict at the polls will
involve enormous labor. and call
for the largest exercise OF states
manship we do not doubt. On
the contrary, we believe that we
realize the fact as vividly as does
any one of the advocates of pro-
crastination. But it has not yet
been explained to our satisfac-
tion that a performance of ex-
treme urgency should be neg
lected, or that a work requiring
the utmost deliberation will be
promoted by postponement. In
a word, we can see no good pur-
pose that is likely to be gained by
delay. If the Democratic lead
ers propose to effect the reforms,
for the accomplishment of which
they have been commissioned by
the people, why not set about il
promptly! If the work be COM
plex, laborious, delicate, calling
for the exercise of special ad-
dress and intellect and investi-
cation, is there not every reason
why it should be begun as soon
as possible9
| There may be some fine points,
invisible to the uninspired spec.
tator, in this extraordinary con.
troversy, but, as we see it, the
postponement of tariff reform te
the regular session OF December.
18oa.is simply the wasteful sac.
rifice of year. The question
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15

perS, ana 10 nlre tne preachers
to prostitute the pulpit to speak
words OF praise about his char
ity, benevolence and goodness.
There is no way he could de
moralize the world worse and
serve the devil better than by
putting his blood money into
the churches and the schools.
In how many churches built by
his money will the minister
preach the practical religion
that would condemn the STAN
dard Oil trustl In how many
schools endowed by him will
the professor of political econ
omy point out how the natural
laws of business are perverted
by greed and thrift, and then
use the Standard Oil trust as
an illustration!
~ "Mr. Astor's income is
said to be $7,38 minute, but he
can't eat more than three square
meals a day.-Wilmington Star.
Now is the Star in favor of an
iucome tax that would require
Mr.. Astor, who now pays almost
no tax, to pay only ten cents of
that $7.3S to support the govern
ment. If this were done, which
would tax the incomes of all the
millionaires accordingly, the tax
es of the people who are now
: paying nearly all the tax could
be reduced more than half. Is
the Star in favor of such a tax.
Will the Democrats, now that
they have a chance, pass it !?
Watch them and see.
; ~ The papers are still spec
: ulating about Jay Gould's wealth.
} The guesses range all the way
} from 10000, 900 to $Ioo,ooo,ooo
It is said that he himself did not
know how much he was worth.
: This immense wealth has been
accumulated (not made) in less
, than thirty years, while the prop
, erty and happiness of thousands
{ have been wrecked. We often
: hear people speak Of million
or a hundred million dollars, but
the amount is so vast that it is
{ almost beyond our conception.
| Dear reader, let us take an illus
tration and see if we can grasp
it. If you had been born on the
same day that Christ was and
) you were still living today, you
: would be one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-two years
old. Now if you had worked ev-
cry day including Sunday, du-
ring that time, from your birth
{ up to now and had made $I.oo
!. a day clear of all expenses and
8 had saved every dollar of it, how
9 much would you have now?
I Would you have as much as one
I million dollars as result of your
8 toll and economy for all that
e time ? Let us see. Multiply 365
t days by 1892 years and we
n have the number of dollars you
/ would have. 1t is $ooo,58o, but
: little over a half a million. Let
y us suppose that Adam was still
living in the garden of Eden and
: had earned one dollar clear each
I day during these six thousand
, years, he would today have little
q over ST. 100000. Yet Mr.. Gould
has forty of fifty times thisemuch
q money from toiling millions in a
8 short life time. 1t is terrible, yet
we call this the home of the free
r We do not blame Mr.. Gould as
. much as we do the law makers
$ of the country who have permit.
] ted and helped to make such
# things possible. Cannot the
s government protect the weak
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15
EDITORS CHAIR.

~ One OF the newspapers
says in praise of Jay Gould
that she never stopped to hy-
pocracy." Neither does
highway robber.
- You remember what we
said two weeks since about the
Press kilograms and the gam
bling in futures. A few days
Since the Wilmington Star had
an editorial rather apologlzlng
Tor gambling in cotton, and
half ridiculing the necessity
Tor the cnti-option bill. Re-
member our prediction, and
watch the papers from now on,
While Congress is in session.
~. The campaign is over, but
mother is coming. Many good
men of the ranks of the Repub-
lican party have lost faith in
their party, before another cam
paign many good men who vo-
ted the Democratic ticket will
be disguised with their party.
The brave young party which
so gallantly fought both the
abuses of the party that won
and the crimes Of the party
that lost, stands ready to well
come to it's ranks the good men
of all parties who are sincerely
desirous of bringing about what
may be truthfully called a gov
ernment of the people.
~ Some of the partisan pa
pers, the self-constituted or
pans of the Alliance, are call
Ing for the resignation of Ma
rion Rutler as President OF the
btate Alliance, because he vo-
led for the nominees Of the
Peoples party. Now, who
will they make President
Will they look up man who
Hid not vote at alls Or do they
con.ider that a man who voted
ths Republican or Democratic
ticket is a non-partisan9 These
ofhcious and silly papers don't
know the meaning Of non
partisanship. The President
BIZ the State Alliance stands
feady to support in the next
<leetion any party that will
import the demands Of the
Alliance; he is SO thoroughly
non-partisan that he will not
support any party that fights
The demands of the organiza-
lion. Will those papers that
Ire claiming to be such good
Friends to the Alliance prom.
ise to do the same thing9 Un.
in they do, they have no right
% speak for the organization
- The New York World i:
low severely criticising the
ruel and oppressive method
Df legalized robbery resorte6
TO by Mr.. Gould to amass hi:
nillisns. This is rather late
Ind cowardly in the World. l
build have served humanity tt
ave exposed and condemned
hese methods while the spec
Ulator and gambler was busy
it. John D. Rockefeller
he Standard Oil trust tyran
nd robber, is still living, an6
ID it; let the Word try it.
sand On him. OF the two w,
ave more respect for Mr.
5ould. He was gambler Oh
he products of other men'I
bor, and made no pretention
bout it, but Mr.. Rockefelle,
<ries to pose behind the liver,
~ heaven, while his business
s equally as illegal, immora
nd unjust. He gives part o
lis ill-gotten wealth to churche
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-22

heard that in order to arrest the disaster
of centuries the World Maker and til"
World Starter and the World Upnold"r
must give up his only son to assassination
to expiate aud restore and save thevictims
of the planetary shipwreck.
TIE BlBLE Is SCIENTIFIC.
On the tower of Pharos Egypt metal
lie mirror was raised which, reflected all
that occurred both on land ana sea Tor
distance of three hundred miles, and So
Egypt was informed OF the coming Of her
enemies long before their arrival. by what
process | know not, but in some way tins
ship of a struggling earth think is mir
rored to distant worlds. Surely this one
experiment of a world unloosing itself from
God viii be enough for all worlds and all
eternites.
But notice that as other worlds rolled
into the first book Of the Bible, the book
of Genesis, they also appear in the last
book of the Bible, the book OF Revelation.
They will take part in the scenes OF That
occasion which shall toe the earth's wind
ing up, and a tremendous occasion for you
and me personally My father was on the
turnpike road between Trenton and Bound
Brook, MY Jersey. lie was coming
through t"e right from the legialttivc
halls, where he was serving his state, to
his home, where there was sickness
often heard him tell about it. 1t was the
night Of the l2th and the morning Of the
J 18th of November 1893.
The sky was cloudiess and the air clear
Suddenly the whole heavens became scene
never to he forgotten. From the conStcl-
lation Ice metpors began to shoot ont IN
all direc ions. For tho two hours between
4 ana in the morning it WAS estimated
that IA thCuH@u0 motcOrs minute flashed
and expired. 1t grew lighter than noon
day. Arrow5 Of Ere Balls Of fire. Trails
of fire. Shower Of fire. Some Of the ar-
pearances were larger than the full moon.
All around the hca> ems explosion followed
explosion. Sounds rs well AS sights. The
air filed with uproar Al the luminaries
Of the sky see med to have received march
ing orders. j he heavens ribbed and inter
laced and garlunded with meteoric dis
play. From Horizon to horizon everything
in combustion and continuation.
Many a brl " that night gave way. Il
was an awful strain on strongest nervea.
Millions Of people i,Il on their knees in
prayer Was the world end or was
there some great event for whion all heay-
en- was iliuminated> For eight momcn-
luus hours tuc put nomcnon lasted. East,
We~t. north, south, it looked as thOuea
! 'aa heavens were in maniac disorder. A.
irc"omcra wn'cair- Cat night said that
those "ctFor. .'a' -N from 100 miles
above the ttrtha snr,ac" AND moved witch
ttu time" 0" up -ch al u cannon bali
VIZ" THE STARS iLLL.'
The owner Of "A plantation in south Caro-
lima says of tn@l r.HH' scene; - W"s Su"-
denly awakened ty t.!o most distressing
cries that ever lc!i Oh !ay eal-. Shria.~ Of
horror aud CRIES Of uovy c0u'l hear
from most Of the negroes on three Llo!tH-
tions, amounting in all to +nout six or
eight hundred. While earnestly listeniu.,
door calling my name. arose, and taking
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