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TIMELY TOPICS. 
Is Ingalls a convert?— The booting ex- 
Senator Ingalls received from the Farmers’ 
Alliance of Kansas appears to have had an 
excellent effect on him in opening his eyes 
to the merits of that organization. All knew 
that he was an adept in vitriolic vitupera¬ 
tion ; but his recent utterances about the 
Alliance show that he is a master of com¬ 
plimentary blandishments. He believes 
the organization a marvelous body,destined 
to have a powerful effect for the better on 
American politics. The hot headed and 
blatant leaders, with their visionary and 
impracticable schemes, are to be relegated 
to the rear, and the conservative elements 
are to come to the front. VThe Sub-Treasury 
scheme and several others of a like objec¬ 
tionable nature are to disappear with their 
authors, and more practical and statesman¬ 
like measures are to take their places,among 
them the free coinage of silver and govern¬ 
ment control of the railroads. The currency 
is to be expanded and its volume rendered 
more flexible in accordance with the fluctu¬ 
ations of business. The Alliance, most pow¬ 
erful west of the Alleghanies, is not to be 
a mere passing phenomenon, but a perma¬ 
nent force in the nation. A good trouncing 
has an excellent effect on some folks, and 
really, as a rule, they are not among the 
worst of the community. The vitriolic ex- 
Senator, however, appears inclined to pan¬ 
der to an ignoble sentiment in arraying the 
West against the East, as If this country 
had not already suffered enough from loud¬ 
mouthed demagogic arraignment of one 
section against another. Moreover, one of 
the prime objects of his new favorite is to 
remove all sectionalism. Another trouncing 
might open his eyes to the evils of his 
course in this direction also. 
Anti-Trust Legislation.— Several of 
the states, notably Indiana and Tennessee, 
have recently passed very severe laws 
againt trusts. The Tennessee act, which 
Is, on the whole, a fair sample of the others, 
prohibits the formation of pools, trusts, 
combinations, etc., that would create a 
monopoly in any manufacture or business, 
or that would interfere with competition. 
Such “combines” are declared null and 
void, and the charters of corporations that 
enter them are declared forfeited. The 
offense is made a felony punishable by from 
one to five years’ imprisonment and a fine 
of from 1500 to $5,000. Twice the amount 
of damages may be recovered by any ag¬ 
grieved party, and individual stockholders 
are made liable for all debts. Such drastic 
legislation may have a deterrent effect in 
Tennessee, at least temporarily, but if any 
of the more powerful trusts see sufficient 
gain in the endeavor, they are sure to try 
to evade or nullify the law. Moreover, 
can’t they act in Tennessee under charters 
procured in other States ? 
The Industrial Alliance is the name 
of a new organization or party just started 
in Boston, and destined, its promoters be¬ 
lieve, to play as prominent a part in New 
England politics as the Farmers’ Alliance 
has done in the West. It proposes to 
cobperate with the latter organization, and 
the Knights of Labor, trade unions, 
Nationalists, Socialists and all others in 
favor of legislation for the industrial 
classes are invited to join it. It appears to 
be the old Labor Party in a new and more 
aggressive form. Among the objects of its 
action set.forth in its ‘‘declaration of princi¬ 
ples ” are: 
Government control of railways, tele¬ 
graphs, express lines, mines, gas and electric 
works and all other natural and private 
monopolies which are oppressive to the 
people. That land held for speculative pur¬ 
poses should be taxed to its full value 
That the government issue money without 
the intervention of private corporations 
Equal rights of suffrage, regardless of sex! 
free coinage of silver, and the election of 
United States Senators by popular vote. 
Alliance Senators.— United States 
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has just joined 
the Farmers’ Alliance, and will probably 
be soon elected President of the Alliance in 
his State. Like Senator Irby, of South 
Carolina, he will, no doubt, act in party 
measures with the Democrats first, and be 
an Alliance man only in matters which do 
Dot clash with the Democratic programme. 
The Rev. James Henderson Kyle, the Alli¬ 
ance Senator from South (not North) 
Dakota, who calls himself an Indecrat, has 
just written a letter on the subject of 
trusts. He thinks they are here to stay, 
for capital will not unlearn the lesson 
that combination gives more thorough 
workmanship, better facilities, and cheaper 
product.” He says that “ a blind prophet 
cannot fail to foresee that the era of com¬ 
bination has but just been entered upon 
and we must adapt ourselves to the situa¬ 
tion.” The new Senator, however, wants 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the Government to interpose instead of 
allowing private combinations to step in. 
“ TV e must unite,” he says, “ in the demand 
that those interests known to be for the 
general good shall be owned and operated 
by the Government.” This, of course, is 
Nationalism, which is steadily spreading 
among farmers. 
The New Orleans Lynching is still a 
matter of acrimonious public discussion by 
Italians and of mild interest to others. 
All over the country the compatriots of 
the victims have been bitterly denouncing 
the action of the mob, and threatening all 
sorts of dire things by way of reprisal by 
the Italian government. In Louisiana a 
declaration of intention to become an Amer¬ 
ican citizen entitles an adult male foreigner 
to vote, and as politics has been very lively 
among Italians in the Crescent City of 
late, it is asserted that all the victims of 
Judge Lynch had declared their intention 
and voted at the last election. Should this 
prove the case, the Italian government 
would have no ground for Intervention. In 
any case, it appears a matter between Italy 
and Louisiana rather than between Italy 
and the United States, as the latter have no 
constitutional right to interfere in the 
affair. There is no doubt, however, that 
the National Government will act justly in 
the matter. The Italians demand indem¬ 
nities for the families of the slain and the 
punishment of the ringleaders of the mob. 
The former may be conceded by the State 
or General Government, at least in some 
cases; but there appears to be no chance 
that the leaders of the movement will be 
punished by the authorities, as their action 
meets the hearty approval of the people, 
and no Louisiana jury would find a verdict 
against them. Some of them may not escape 
punishment, however, as the Italians, and 
especially the Sicilians are a terribly re¬ 
vengeful race, and many have sworn a ven¬ 
detta against the prime movers in the mat¬ 
ter. Action may be deemed injudicious at 
present, as any attempt at revenge would 
certainly bring terrible vengeance on the 
resident Italians from the New Orleans 
mob. Sicilian vengeance, however, can keep 
seething for years until a favorable oppor¬ 
tunity for venting it presents itself, and it 
is not Improbable that several of the leaders 
may yet die “out of their beds.” 
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