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Show not blessed with so great a share of worldly goods as others. That has made them bitter, and the more they think of it the more they are convinced that somebody has been robbing them. They want a reform, and a radical one, but they cannot tell how the evils of which they complain are to be remedied. Such men as Jerky Simpson and Senator Peffek are not fools; they are far from it, but their ideas are as Utopian as ever lived in the brain of a social dreamer. Their one hobby is to have more money. Here is Senator Peffek's plan: "To buy up all the silver and gold bullion in the United States at its market value and pay for it in treasury notes. Then, taking that as a basis, the treasurer of the United States should be empowered to issue one dollar dol-lar and a-half on all such bullion in the treasury." Now that would be a good way to stock up silver and gold in Uncle Sam's vaults; but it would not be long before the people would begin to discriminate dis-criminate between the treasury notes and the supplementary issue. And another thing, it might be a hard matter mat-ter to get the latter issue out of the treasury at all. We have waited ever since the election elec-tion of these alliance members to congress con-gress for them to advance an original idea, that would commend itself to sober thought, but we have been disappointed. ALLIANCE STATESMEN'. From what we have read lately of the members of the farmers' alliance who were elected to congress a year ago, We are not imbued with the belief that they are likely to set the world on fire. Of course some of tho stories that were written and told about them on the start were utterly devoid of truth, and as a matter of fact they are much like other men; that is to say common men; but when they are placed on the lloor of the house of congress and compelled to cope with the shrewd parliainenta- rians whom it has taken years to master those little tricks of statecraft, we imagine that those wild and - woolly statesmen" will be completely crushed and lost sight of. it is not hard to understand un-derstand the conditions which caused the alliance party to be organized, and after its organization that it should have gained such a membership as to send its own representatives to the national legislative halls; but the same conditions which divorce men from a party with which they have been a long time associated, do not always produce a class of men qualilied to lead a new party on to victory. vic-tory. There is not one of the alliance statesmen who is possessed of any ability to conceive of a plan which will benefit his constituents. They do not compare in the brightness of their intellects in-tellects with the leaders of anarchy, socialism, or any of those other alleged al-leged economic reformers. The latter have a well defined plan for equalizing the opportunities and rewards for human toil and compensation which it should receive, re-ceive, and they can give a wonderfully ingenious explantaion of how the reforms re-forms of which they dream are to be brought about. With the alliance men it is different. They are controlled by a feeling of discontent because they are |