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2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE/iSATURDAY , OCTOBER 11 , 1890.
tttf. ( Int. Rood farming , second , money 8iivo < l
Jtipnrclrnsonml Hales ! third , Just luwrf1 , and
lift but not least , Iliu Itnprorcniontof tliO n-
cUl llfoof tlm fnrrn. It rrcogtitxoi tlio vast
nml fnr-rcnchltiR IniiioMiitica or womnn'H
vtirk. not simply in u vniiminn button sewer ,
lull im ti rniiipiinlon anil liclplntct tlio llfo
nml f > uul of tin ) farm. In tlicsn ulint It 1.4 en-
lltlc < I to tliu support of nil KIWI ! cllUcns.
' TliutU Uio kind of an nlllanco man Into
toddy. I f aver tlioso principles ; I am Inter
ested In the welfare of the farmer ; I nnvtn *
tercstcd In any legislation or anything that
can 1 > o done to mnko him moro prosperous ,
nnil for tills reason : VVhcimver tlio farmer Is
l > ro i > crous , whenever liuhn ploutyor money ,
ovury other business nwl every other trade
throughout the country Is prosperous every-
vhore. I do not bollovo In thu farmers ar-
lay In if thctnscH'c.1 ns n party against nllothcr
classes of Industry. 1 do not bcllovo a man
Miould no to legislature or congress to enact
Jaws "Imply for one elms of jieoplo. 1 believe
llml , If u man's views are not broad cnoiiKh to
lalio In his whole constituency lie ought not
to ( ? < > whe.ro laws arc to Ija inndo at all.
I Iwlievo If n man Is elected to the state
legislature ho should not only tnko into con
sideration tlio counties ho represents , but lie
fcliould talcoln this vustcinplro and stop mid
ftiidvtlio wants of the \vholo state , nnd
tliou'ld feel that ho Is under the most solemn
nlillgnllons to do the very best ho can for the
Interests of the Mate as a whole.
llonce , Ltscomiito inothatno man Is quail-
fled to havu the position that takes the niir-
Vow view that ho ioes llioro to do the very
licst nnd all ho can for slnglo class of peo-
jilc , furfruttliiK nnd leaving out nil other
fclimos of people \vltb tholr varied Interests.
And 1 llnd also that with reference to this
nlllanco movement I am in harmony with
three or four different states. Hero is some-
llilnnfrorn the stoto of Indiana. It may bo
Svell to stnto Hint there nro two orgnni/atlniis
Jn Inillnnu entirely distinct , uno known ns the
Kutloiml nilianconnd ono formerly known iw
the Northern alliance , organized nt Fort
WayiioJuuon , The policy > of the National
lias always been to push its reforms within
the various parties , thus inaltlntf It available
to the farmers' Interests In the political in-
Jlucnce of its member * .
And then In the stnto of Ohio , with over a
thousand farmers , probably us intelligent
banners us could bo found within the bounds
of that state , assembled toL'utbcr to study
nnd acquaint themselves with someway by
which they could further the Interests of the
agricultural people of that state , and hero ir
u few of the declarations from themVa :
must agri'ii upon cither ono or the other
course ; that is , that wo either net independ
ently us a party , or net through the other
parties , " nnd it says the fanner must bo n
laclor In politics , Can this condition best
bo rondied by the formation of an nlllanco
party , or by ranking Its Influence felt la the
control of existing patties. "It is the sense of
this convention that wo should first test the
nlllanec , and wo hope wo shall not bo com-
jicllod to resort to the alternative. " Thut is
true of this largo and InlclliRcnt body of
flintier * in the state of Iowa , they should art
through the existing parties , ami I also have
their resolution hero passed by the Farmers' '
association In the same line and in the saiuo
direction. If the farmers will net together ,
nnd whenever anything comes up touching
their Interest.1 ] nnil they can agree upon it tenet
net together , I tell you what It 1 % with such
a force as that no party would dare loop-
lltfSO It.
They hold too big an influence In this
country for them to dare to do otherwise.
The committee on the tariff bill state that
farmers caino in , democrat ! ! and republicans
nnd all sorts of political belief , and asked
thorn to do certain things with reference to
the agricultural interests , and I have some
statements hero , I doa't know * whether it is
best for mo to tnko the time to read them , for
I want to give most of thu tlmo this evening
to Mr. lioscwatcr , in which these farmers de
manded that something should bo done. The
committee , as you all understand , invited
everybody to como before them and present
their wants nnd stated they would do the best
they could by them , \V'o \ imported last year
1UVI9 ! ) ( bushels of wheat. The farmers found
this out , is what the committee says , and
nsltcd that the duty on wheat bo Increased
from SO to S3 cents ner bushel. Now , It was
said by Mr. Burrows when ho was nt Fair-
bury , that the denote of the United States
was mndo up of rich men and would not
legislate in the Interests of any other class
but rich men. Now , when they put the
tariff on wheat , who are they to bcmclit ? Not
themselves , for they are consumers of wheat ;
it Is the man that raises the -wheat , and In
onljr to remunerate him that much
IKZicr for it. AVe imported last
year 8T3..TSO bushels 'of potatoes ,
mid the request of the farmer was that the
duty should bo raised from 15 cents to 23 cents
n bushel. The , object of that was to benefit
the fanner and to benefit him alono. Who
raises the potatoes In this country ? Where
do they cemo from i Are they not the pro
ducts of the toll and labor of the fanner !
And has not congress said in this bill , "Wo
are willing to add this much to help you that
you may get butter prices nnd may have moro
money in your poclteb , and therefore help all
other business by bolngable to distribute.that
money among the business industries of the
country I" A man who lived on the border
heard that they sold hoes for SO cents uplcco
in Canada and In the United States they
charged 75 cents , so in order to settle the
question bo thought no would go and see.
Ho found a boo for fiO cents , and It was n very
poor hoe , but ho said to the hardware man on
the other sldo , "Why do you sell hoes for 75
cents ) I bought this ono for GO cents. " The
merchant told him that ho would sell him a
boo lllco that for 40 cents , but ho wouldn't '
have it.
1 have come to this conclusion. I may bo
wrong , but if I am wrong I want to bo
righted. I presume I felt the same as a good
many other farmers , 1 was feeding cattle
nnil I wasn't getting much for it ; I was
working myself for nothing , and 1 thought it
is possible that these inonicd men do control
the cattla market and wo nro being ground
down to toil and labor for nothing because
they have the power to buy the cattle nt just
Hitch prices as they want to , I got to study
ing- the tblag over nnd I Hays to mvsclf " : "If
Mr. Sweet and Mr. Armour did "not have
millions of dollars invested In that cold stor-
ngu , what In the word | would become of our
cattlo. " If they had nothndtho coldstoragowo
couldn't possibly have given awav the cattle
because they could not tnko care of them and
1 am glad that there nro men that have money
andean tnko care of our products when wo
urcnlittlo over-stocked with them.
1 tonco , for these reasons I have full justified
ns a farmer , us n tiller of the soil , to oxi > ect
relief , if relief was to come at all , from the
republican party sooner than from any other
organization that could bo made. So far as
the farmer Is concerned they nroall right , the
most of them , but they have no settled or fixed
policy by which they are to accomplish any
thing nnd when they come to get together In
alliances , you will see that In less than ten
minutes it is almost utterly impossible to got
them to ngrco upon anything. There are n
iow moro conservative that can agree , but I
inn satisfied that if the republicans have a
majority in tlio logislnturo this winter , wo
can pi.ss ; the Iowa railroad law. I beltovo
thlsulliancohns done peed In this state ; it
lias started people up and sot them to think
ing about these great questions , which I
believe after nil will work out for good , and
It will make the old parties moro careful to
Bcok to do justice throughout the country.
Hence , I feel like staying with the old
partr ; there are a great , many things that
can bo said about what it has done ; It has n
Kratid history. I think there never was a
party since tlio world began that over accom
plished so much for n nation or a people lu n
lit t.o ! over a quarter of a century as the re
publican party has accomplished for this
nation. These tire my honest convictions
from my experience nnd contact with the
party. And today I think if there are any
MJt of men on earth ready nnd willing to do
the bidding of thn people it Is the republican
party.
Away back | n the tlmo of Lincoln , during
the war , Dr. Kvanstonof Chicago and another -
other pciitlomnn , I have forgotten his name ,
went to Lincoln to urge him to Issue the
proclamation freeing the slaves , but Lincoln
said : "Whenever public sentiment demands
it it will bo Issued. " That has boon the re
publican sentiment. Whenever a reformer
u measure has boon demanded by public sen
timent It has been their policy to sup
port It ,
Ilcnco 1 have faith In the party nnd faith
In the men in it iiud I bcllove if wo stand by
the old party wo shall Hnd ourselves Increas
ing In prosperity nnd in orodit at homo and
abroad , nnd growing in intelligence and
everything that makes a nation grand for all
tluio to come.
Fooil IVr Hcllmitloa for the Voters of
TliN State.
Mr. Hosowator siwko as follows :
Mr. Chairman und Fellow-citizens : Wo
nro now on the eve of tlio most Important
election which has ever taken pmca in Ne
braska slnco aho entered Into the sisterhood
of states , nnd , whllo this Is called an "off-
year , " the outcome of this election will , in
many rcspecK bo Just as important as any
presidential election nt which our citizens
have participated. I huvo been n republican ,
like tlio gentleman who preceded mo , over
since 1KW. and whllo I could not cost my vote
in Nebraska for Abraham Lincoln in l tH bc-
cause thl * state was then still n territory. I
voted for Ulysses S. Grant in ISftS and for
every republican candidate for president
since this state aas been In the union , und I
have no regrets to offer , nor apologies to
make for the course I have pursued ,
The republican party has ns grand and
glorious a record us any political organiza
tion that ever managed the affairs of anatlon.
It has been in power thirty years , with an
Interim of four , and the intermmlon has
been of great benefit to enlighten people ns to
Its merits as a manager of national affairs.
During the four years of democratic adminis
tration every effort wat mndo to unearth
fraud , to unearth corruption , to unearth dis
crepancies In the national treasury which had
been muimtfcd twcntv-four years , from Abra-
hnm Lincoln down to Chester A. Arthur , by
the republican party. In that treasury de
partment , where during that period billions
und billions of money had been handled ,
every dollar was accounted for , not a penny
was missing. O , yes , they did
discover a discrepancy of two cents
and after diligent search they found two pen
nies that had rolled out in the vault of the
treasury and were lying under a Itcg of coin.
With nil the billions that had boon handled
by the men who made our greenbacks , and
national currency , and Issued our bonds , with
nil tlio money that had been coined' thoro.
with all the vast sums that had been collected
by the Internal revenue , the percentage , of
losses was very much smaller than it had
been during any administration the demo
crats hud up to 1800 ,
I need not say to you hero that the repub
lican party has at nil times been the party of
freedom nnd progress. That is a mutter of
history. The democratic piuily has been
simply a party of reaction and obstruc
tion. It has for moro than a quarter of u
century been marching live or ten years be
hind the republican party. Kvcry reform
championed by the republican party has been
opposed by the democratic party , but in the
Ouo course of time when the policy had been
accepted and proved bcnullclul , the demo
crats fall in and claim to bo the originators
of it.
Now right hero In the stnto of Nebraska ,
which only thirty-six years ago was carved
out as u territory , during tlio throes of n
great struggle for liberty the Kansas nnd
Nebraska contest the question arises
whether the people of this state will surren
der the government , which has been hold
successively by republican administrations
for twenty odd years , into the bands of dem
ocrats or men who are m collusion with dem
ocrats.
I cannot rovlovv the history of the demo
cratic party In Nebraska , for it has no history.
"With one single exception , that of treasurer
of the state , Mr. Sturclorait , It never elected
a slate ofllcer. And that stnto otlloer failed
signally to live up to his nutimonopoly pledges.
And now wo nro confronted with two par
ties in the state ; democratic party , with
a straight democratic ticket , and the people's
party , mode up chiefly of members of the
fanners' alliance , which is being steered
toward the democratic camp ,
The principles those two parties are now
supporting are in sorno respects alike ; the
main object is to Uown the republican party
at any cost. The democratic party , in Its
platform , lias reiterated a great many s'talo
old platitudes , nnd some few new things that
accord with popular sentiment at the present
tlmo. Some of them nro simply de
lusions , in my opinion at least ,
such as the unlimited silver coinage
proposition. I bcliovo the sliver bill passed
by the lost congress is ample for nil purposes.
It assures an increase of our currency , backed
by silver bullion of $ . iJOOlHM ( ) every month. I
do not bclievo that free coinage would bo of
any bcnellt to the farmer , the laborer or the
merchant. I do not see why the government
of the United States should pay more to the
silver kings of Colorado and Nevada for their
silver bullion than It Is worth on the market.
I do not understand why Uncle Sam should
take the bullion of the mining millionaires ,
coin it free of charge into silver dollars and
baud It bock to them again as legal tender.
The silver bill passed by congress has no
toriously added millions of dollars to the
wealth of the bullion owners. That was
foreseen by those who understood the law of
supply and demand. Not only hnvo wo paid for
bullion mined in the "United States , but vast
quantities of silver imported from Germany ,
Holland , Mexico and other foreign countries ,
have been sold forlio per cent more than their
value in the markets of the world previous to
the passage of the silver bill.
Now let mo take a look at tlio independent
people's party. At the outset it was an
nounced that this was u spontaneous move
ment of the people , free from all interference
on the part of politicians. Wo were assured
that all the old methods of trickery that the
party workers and machine politicians have
used hi the old parties were to bo discarded ,
and n new system of very pure government
substituted. What do wo flndl Wo find
four or flvomon putting their heads together ,
setting up the pins.Vo find packed caucuses
and conventions , with the same old trickery ,
and worse bossistn than would bo submitted
to by members of cither of the old parties.
This was to bo n people's movement , and
very naturally it was expected that all the
people In sympathy with it were to have n
fair chance of choosing its candidates. Did
they have such a chancel The apportion
ment made by the bosses , or1 dictators , as
some call them , was n , most consummate piece
of jugglery. Douglas countv , with a popula
tion of over 150,000 , and moro than 15,000
worldngmcn , was given twenty-five dele
gates in the state convention , and Frontier
county , with a population of loss than 0,000 ,
was given twenty-one delegates. Lancaster
county , with a population of over
75,000 , was given twenty-four delegates
In the people's convention , nnd Hod
Willow county , with a population of S,7f > 0 ,
was represented by sixteen delegates. Saline
county , with over 10,000 population , had one
delegate less than Hitchcock county , with
her 5,700 , population. The object of this
gerrymandering was manifest to everybody
that attended the state convention. The
counties in the burnt district of the Ucpubll-
can Valley wcro given the preponderance of
votes In order to defeat General Van "Wyck's
candidacy , who was Invincible witli the work
ing men of Lincoln und Omaha. Van Wyck
has always been nn anti-monopolist ; ho is n
former himsnlf and n member of the alliance.
Ho represented this state creditably in
the national senate , and onjovs a national
reputation. Flo was shelved by this
packed convention and a man substituted
who has never been n member of any legis
lative body , has never boon tried In any pub
lic ofllco except that of commissioner in a
sparsely settled county ,
Now , I have nothing to say against Mr.
Powers as a man , but of his ability to admin
ister the affairs of this state wo have no evi
dence as yet. Wo hnvo no evidence thut ho
is capable of managing avon a small farm.
So far ns can bo learned ho has fulled to
nclilovo success anywhere , and now he ex
pects us to elect him chief executive of n
state with nearly eleven hundred thousand
population nnd St,000OiHi ) > 00 of property.
The same may be said of other candidates
on the people's independent ticket. Tlio
farmers and working men have been invited
to join In n movement for bolter government
nnd purer men. What have they been of
fered I
You hnvo a candidate for congress in your
district who , as I am told , has not such a rec
ord as would bo considered pure and entirely
undelllod. I will not go Into details about it.
It is not necessary to do that , but sufllco it to
say that ho has been trusted in u puulin place
that demands the most unbending integrity
nnd requires n man of tcmpernto Imbits and
clear Judgment. In that place ho has been
found utterly wanting. Now , ho Is to go to
congress. What for ! Simply because ho
lives In a sod house. Why does ho live In a
sod house I Why do the farmers that live In
his county almost all live In commodious
frame houses , reasonably well furnished ,
nnd why have these neighbors of
McICeighnn cattle , sheep and poultry
and why has ho nothing to show for the industry -
dustry of these years ! If ho is an exemplary
farmer , ho ought at least to bo able to cope
with all the ether farmers of his neighbor
hood unless some calamity has deprived him
of his means of subslstanco. No ono savs
ho bos had twins every twelve months In. his
family. [ Laughter. ] No ono charges that ho
has au enormous lot of relations to support ,
und so far as I can learn , the man Is poor
simply from n waut of thrift nnd lack of
sobriety. Is that the kind of a man to send
to the national legislature form the Second
congressional district ! I doubt It. rAp-
plauso.1
Ulght hero lot mo ask you if McICoIglmn Is
elected to congress , what will ho do thorol
For the next two years , the republican oil-
ministration will remain lu power , and
whether the house of representatives Is dem
ocratic or whether the house Is republican ,
the policies of the republican party will pre
vail. MeKolghan will bo simply o deal letter -
tor ; ho will hnvo no moro to do with the tip-
poiutment of a simple village postmaster
than tlio city marshal of Hebron ; ho will
hnvo no more to do with creating or attend
ing post routes In his district than tiny mem
ber of your city council nml perhaps not M
much , for If they nro republicans , they maybe
bo able at least to wluUl some influence
through the republican representa
tives of this state in the \ippor house ,
If not In the lower , And If thcro are any
other things to bo dene In the district If
there are any other oltles in this district needIng -
Ing postofllco buildings , if you need new land
oftlccs or anything requiring the expenditure
of money m any direction , you will have no
jwsslblo chance of securing appointments or
appropriations through McICelghan.
Uut wo will bo told that McKeichan Is a
great financier : that the policies ho
will advocrtto la the national legislature
will soon lve the far west nnd workingmen -
men of Nebraska unbounded prosperity.
Every man , woman and child Is to have nil
the money they nsk for. Farmers will bo
able to borrow money at 'J p/r cent. The re
peal of the present tnrllt will glvo you free
trade , and you will ho nblo to buy In the
cheapest market and soil In the dearest.
Now , what will it bo In reality ! What
would uojho effect of two or three , or fifteen
McKoIghnns In a house composed of U50 mem
bers with n republican senate nnd n repub
lican president ! "Why , nothing. It would
IK ) like the dog barking at the moon. Me-
Koighau would scarcely bo known In the
committee oven If ho nupcarcd before them ,
mid so far as his financial policies or falla
cies , I cull them are concerned , they would
simply bo emptied into ttio congressional
waste basket.
The Hat money theories that Powers nnd
McKclphan have been advocating In the state
that is. the thory ot lint money have been
exploded long npo way back us ISTa. When
George Francis Train wns a candidate for
president of the United States on a lint money
platform there were only about 8,000 votow
in Nebraska willing to subscribe to such wild
cat schemes.
ivlclveighun , ICom nnd Dill Dech nnd other
candidates of the new party everywhere
point back to the "good old prosperous times
of ISlkl , " right after the war , when they say
thcro were so many moro dollars per capita
In circulation ; when the laborer got fJ.6U or
$3 a day , and tlio farmer got $ J
n bushel for hla wheat. . Let us
tnko a look backward and see how the
"prosperous old times" worked. In the mld-
, dlo of ISI'M , when tbo contending armies
marched homo from the battlefield , a million
of destroyers of property catno homo and re
sumed-ordinary avocations wherever ttioy
could llnd employment. When they ciuno
they found most of the places tilled , and
whcrovor an old soldier was given a plnco
another man was crowded out , so presently
\\o had a country full of unemployed
men ; in a very short period the moi : becan
to wan derail over this land in quest of em
ployment , Thou began the tramp period.
There were tramps everywhere. Tramps on
the public highways ; people could scarcely
go with safety from one part of the country
to another. In every little city nnd big city
scores of men wcro about the streets , seeking
shelter in the jails sometimes rather than to
sleep on the sidewalks under the open skies.
The legislatures were obliged to enact laws
to protect the people from these tramps. This
was In "those good old prosperous times"
when the laboring man goti. . " > Ua day.
And about this time what were the prices
of things that the laborer and farmer hud to
buy ! 1 went to work the other day to inves
tigate for myself and see how prosperous the
man was that got $2.50 n day and 1 found tills
state ot nfTairsi I found if ho was a married
man and wished to buy n calico dress for his
wife ho would pay from -10 to 00 cents a yard
for calico. A calico dress with hooks and
eyes and one spool of cotton ( which was 31) )
cents ) cost & 5.40 ; today you can buy the same
dross for 70 cents. In ISV ( > ono sack of flour
cost the laborer fH.fiO ; today ho gets it for
4a.no. ColTco was-4.1 cents a pound , today It
Is ! ! 0 cents ; in ISiXi four pounds of granulated
sugarsold for a dollar , today ho can get twelve
pounds for a dollar ; candles wcro10 cents n
pound , today they nro 15 cents ; rlco was sellIng -
Ing at 20 cents a pound , today it is 3 cents a
pound ; vinegar was 93 cents a gallon , no wit
Is : W cents ; tea was $2.80 n pound , todav " His
§ 1.00 ; syrup was Si.20 ! a gallon , now It" is 00
cents ; a washboard sold for CO cents , now It
is 2. " > cents ; ono caddy of matches sold for
$1.'M , now it costs 40 cents ; coal oil was sell-
buy ono for $3 to $8 : other furnlt'uro
In the same proportion. The com
monest kind of an overcoat cost &X ) to S2.i ,
and noxv can bo bought for S5 to $3. In 1SOO
all the clothes that the laboring man had to
clothe himself and family was tlirco times as
high ns it is now , nnd some of It llvo times as
high , durlug those "good old times of pros
perity. "
Aim whenever you wanted to give n receipt
to anybody for 15 cents you hud to put a
stamp on it : if you had n check to draw on n
bunk you had to put on a stamp ; if you
wanted to make a deed to a picco of property
there had to bo a stamp on it ; if you wanted
to take out a llfo insurance policy
there bad to bo a stamp on It ;
if you wanted to send a message by
telegraph , you had to put on n stamp. Every
bottle of medicine had n stamp on It , every
box of matches had a stamp on It , every
photograph had a stamp ou the back. There
wcro stamp duties on tea and stamp duties
upon coffee. In addition to that , thcro was
an income tax levied on ( vago workers and
salaried men , nad on all classes. These are
the good old prosperous times that the gen
tleman wants to return to. I , for mvself ,
don't want to see them again. I think : the
laboring man can better afford to work for
S1.50 nnd $1.75 n day , when a dollar is iw
largo ns a cartwheel and will buy moro
things than it over did nt aity other tlmo
in the history of the United States , than to
go back to the time of $3.50 per day and bo
almost starving and half the time out of em
ployment. [ Applause. ]
Look at the condition of the mechanic or
1SW ! and 1S'J ' ( ) . The highest price over paid In
Omaha for skilled labor was $ < ia day to brick
layers for ten hours' work ; today iiogets Sf.fiO
for eight or nine hours' work ; tbo machinist ,
ttie blacksmith and carpenter get nlmost tlie
same wages today that ho did In ISO ! . The
printer earns moro today than ho did twenty-
live years ago ; nnd the men of all trades
without exception nro gutting within
20 per cent of the wages that were
current of ISM. And I want to say right
hero that the laborer of today ia bettor oft
than hn over was. Ilo is better clothed and
better fed ; his children go to better schools
nnd his family wears better materials ; they
live In bettor houses , huvo moro leisure and
are better off In every respect , and their con
dition has Dccn improved uudcr republican
administrations nnd under republican rule
for twenty-live years. | Applause. ] What
nro wo promised when the day of
Jublleo has como ! Wo are promised great
things , but what kind of prosperity will wo
get when the stock of currency Is watered
In this country and the dollar won't buy anymore
moro of the necessaries of lifothnn It did at
the close of the war ! They sny to the debtor
class their salvation Is in getting moro money
into circulation. I never had nnv money to
loan. I belong to the debtor class. I bellovo
I am paying moro interest than any ono man
in the state of Nebraska- ; hut I have
borrowed good money and I propose to
pay back the kind of money I bor
rowed ; If I had borrowed whuat 1 would
want to imy my creditors back In wheat , and
if 1 had borrowed corn , I would want to pay
them back in corn. No man who is in debt
today lias borrowed his money twenty-llvo
years ago ; all of us who are in debt have had
to borrow within the lust llvo or ton years ,
nnd the money wo have borrowed was worth
10J cents on the dollar. Shall wo now sny to
our creditors , ' 'WTo propose to repudiate this
debt or pay it with the new Iduk of money
that is not worth 100 cents on the dollar ! "
Don't you fee what calamity would befall
the country If this llrst schema of paying
debts would bo carried Into effect ?
Within a quarter of a century the republi
can party paid off all but about $0,000,000 , of
the fc : i,000,000 of its bonded debt , aad it has
raised the national credit nbovo that of any
country on the globe.
If you water the stock of money the credit
of the nation will bo weakened If not de
stroyed. This country Is now saving hun
dreds of millions a year by the reduction of
intercut rates on the public debt-national ,
state and municipal. Shall wo now now go
back and lucklessly destroy public cou-
lldcncol
In 1877 during those prosperous times I bor
rowed $ V ( KM ) at 12 per cent compound Inter
est , and in six years I paid $10,000 Interest on
the loan. At that tlmo 15 per cent
wai the legal rate of interest in
Nebraska. Two years ngo I borrowed $200,000
from an insurance company at 0 per cent.
Depreciate the national currency by Inllu-
tlon and their date of Interest will bo ralsod
to 10 per cent or they would foreclose when
the loan is duo.
Right herd lot mo call your attention to this
fact : Tlio sale of a commodity and 1U value
Is governed by the , , laws of supply and do-
inand , but money it npt governed by the laws
of supply and dotAandi and the reason is ob
vious. When mohi'J-iis abundant everybody
is speculating and borrowing money because
ho thinks ho can maltsi moro monoy. Ho en
gages Insoinospqculatlvoo'nterprisolii wlilch
lie expects to turn over his money , nnd ho Is
willing to pay the tabnov lender n high rate
of Interest. Dut fci > deul'atlon is dull , business
is quiet , and there , ] a largo amount of money
loanable at low rates of Interest.
This has been , ' th'o stnto of affairs
for the last live , pr six years. The
rates of Interest Itnvc'gradually gene down.
Everybody wbolnibws nnytnlng about llnau-
clal nlTalrs will agree 'wlth ' me , that all over
the country there hns'bccn ' a gradual reduc
tion of tao lntorest.ru.to , and today there Is a
very largo amount ) of money loaned upon
farms lu this state nt 7 per cent , and even at
Oner cent interest , ami any man who ha ?
good security can get loans renewed at that
rato. lint the moiier shavers , men who loan
money upon chattel securities , nnd the mid
dle menbetween , the legitimate banker nnd
the borrower , hnvo boon charging 2 nnd ! 1
per cent a month In this stato. For that the
republican party Is not responsible.
Nebraska now has on her statute
books strong usury laws , and In Its
platform the party Is pledged to make these
usury laws still moro stringent through the
next legislature so as to protect these people
Who are willing to avail themselves of the
protection afforded by better laws. Hut , ns a
matter of fact , nil tills hue and cry about
cheapening monev by tilling the country with
greenbacks , Is a delusion. If wo had today
three times ns much money in the country as
we have now , the debtor ela would net no
relief because tnonov would bo loaned nt n
much higher rate o'f Interest than it com
mands now.
Our friend Kern In the Third district ,
points with prldo to the $1,500 mortgage
ho has on his farm , whlcli ho hopes some day
to pay off by borrowing money at li per cent of
the national government to the extent of one-
half of the appraised value of Ids land. Now
Mr. Kern's UK ) ncro farm is assessed at $5
per acre , or $ jOO. Under his own proposition
lie would only bo able to borrow S100 at 3 per
cent , to pay off n mortgageof SI.11)0. ) "What
wpuid ho do with f 100 in pay Ing oft a § 1,500 ,
mortgage ! Ho would linvoto raise $1,100 ,
somewhere else. [ Applause. ] If ho could
not raise it , ho would have to innate the
nppralsemons of that property up to the full
0000 tosecuro that loan of 8l , " > 00 ( which
would be moro likely than anything clso
because that would bo the most common
course pursued ) nnd what would bo the result ?
The government would have n farm for sale
after a while and ICetn would bo somewhere
clso. [ Applause. ] But probably not in
congress.
In the Argentine Hepublic the same thing
was tried recently with this result : The
people ot the Argentine Republic , taking ex
ample from our Hat svstcm during the war.
Issued a currency which the government
loaned at " per cent on farming land. Ap
praisers were appointed and everybody
wanted to bo an appraiser. It was a profit
able business , hotter than going to congress a
good deal. Tlio apprabnmonti wcro made
about throe times the value of the land and
the government loaned the farmers money
nnd the farmers fulled topnvthot ! per cent
"
interest when it came duo" and the govtrn-
ment now has got the land. In the mcantinio
the Argentine Hcpublle was llllod with a
vast quantity of irredeemable currency. Thov
Issued JlS'.t per capita , gold went up skyhlgli
and the country was spuudlly bankrupted.
Today the Argentina Kepubllo is completely
wrecked and overjtlurig Is nlmost at a stand
still. That Is exactly vhnt would follow the
adoption of the wild fecemo proposed by our
alliance leaders. .
Wo were told today .by my friend , General
Vnn Wyck , that bbth parties have pursued
the same linancial'imlicy. ' That Is true , and
no other policy could'have been pursued with
safety to the people of the United States.
Certainly the demticrnts would have pursued
a different policy from the republicans , if for
no other reason , than to differ , but when they
came into power they found they had to do
precisely the same thing. Not bec.uiso Wall
street ordered it. That is simple nonsense.
What is Wall atrcatauyho\vf A lot of reck
less speculators who go la lor making
the largest amount of money in the
shortest possible time" , men who'gnmblo in
gold when it is at If. premium , In railroad
stocks , telegraph stocks , mining stocks , and
every species of collateral. They don't care
how much you irifliit < j theicurrency the moro
the better. Wall street was behind the sil
ver bill and wanted free coinage ; the conservative
vative people of the country do not. Wall
street men make millions ono day and then go
on bearing down and depreciating the stocks
that they bulled up and make moro money.
Wall street was in Its glory during the in
flation period between 18150 nnd 187t. ! Wall
street was just booming. The gold oxclilmgo
gamblers made millions and millions , but
with 1S73 came a day of reckoning. The
Northern Pacific bubble that had been in
flated by Jay Cook collapsed and hundreds o f
thousands of men all over this countrv wcro
absolutely ruined ; hundreds of them com
mitted suicide to cscapo the disgrace ; many
of them wcro not nblo to fuco their families ,
who had been reared in magnificence and
aflluenco. Thousands migrated out of this
country und sought to reeupomto their fallen
fortunes abioad. No one who remembers
this p.mio mid collapse will want anything
like this financial schema so highly recom
mended by our Hat money agitators.
If any ono was wanted to go to Grand
Island to manage the sugar boot factory , you
would look for somebody who had some
knowledge of making sugar from beets ; if a
manager was wanted for the Omaha smelt
ing works wo would want somebody who un
derstands the handling of sliver and gold
ores and knew something about chemistry.
If you wanted somebody to rqn a great print
ing house you would want someboJy whp un
derstood printing , or at least the manage
ment of it. Hut when you want somebody to
manage the finances of the nation you huvo
got to go to a dugout and get a man whenever
never handled u thousand dollars In his life.
Although the American people can truth
fully boast of having the most stable and re
liable currency in the world , every paper dollar
lar us good as n gold dollar , nnd gold , silver
anil paper interchangeable without discounter
or premium In ovcrv section of the country
from Maine to Oregon. Wo are constantly
told that the administration ot our ilnunccs
Is going from bad to worse from year to year ,
Unit the industrial classed and the soldiers
have never been able to keep n correct no-
count of the few transactions Incumbent on .n
county Judge in the settlement ot estates.
Such geniuses feel perfectly at homo in the
discussion of the most Intricate problems of
national financiering. They know Just how
much and what kind of currency the govern
ment should Issue , and how this vast rev
enue of the government should bo collected
and disbursed. Compared with them
Salmon 1' . Chase and all his suc
cessors in the treasury were mere ninnies.
And these reckless assertions nro believed
by thousands of misinformed farmers
and worldngmcn as gospel truth. Now
what is the history of the greenback
and our bonded debt !
When the war broke out , the confederates
left the treasury empty. I heard General
Howcl Cobb , Buchatiuu's rebel secretary of
the treasury , niako'tmlteechin ' which ho said :
"Thoso L.lucolnitc.vYvio ) are going to Wash
ington will not tlnda.iiy money. I didn't trv
to leave them any. " , .llo openly boasted that
they had robbed the * treasury and loft it
empty. That is the way Lincoln found the
national treasury when ho started out to pro
tect the union against lit confederate enemies.
Ho appealed to the patriotic men of the coun
try and called on tlujiijifor aid. Kvcry rich
man or modorntcly\VWUhy inun who came
forward nnd offoreii , ty loan money to the
government was1 , Wcssod by the people
Just as much uif | ho had enlisted
nncl shouldered n inuikot , for without money
nobody could have kept the soldiers In the
Hold , and when tb'tay'fcreenback.s , or demand
notes , were first iHsinJd they wcro accepted
In pay by everybody. ; But democrats and
flutists charge thatotko soldlur got ono kind
of payand'tho ba&Utooldcr another. That
was not true , The government issued its I.
O. U. That was all it had to give , with
the promise that It would bo redeemed -
deemed In money , constitutional
money , which moans gold or , silver
coin. Had the soldier been able to
hold his greenbacks , ho would un
doubtedly huvo boon able to have
redeemed them In gold or silver. How
were these bonds disposed of ! Jay Cooke ad
vertised lu the papers all over the country in
viting everybody that had any money willing
to give our country credit to como forward
and xubscrlbo for the bonds , and the bonds
were taken not only by rich men. but by
waco workers in all the largo cities. Th <
savings of servant girls , mechanics am
latxivrn and the Havings of the merchant ;
went Into those bonds at that time. Then
was no discount made , as wo an
told. The government gave this bond li
good faith and redeemed it In good faith
\Vo have been told that every little \vhil <
resolutions have been passed through coin
gross pledging thu nallou to redeem those' '
bonds In gold. Very well , suppose the gov
ernment had not done so ; suppose It had
boon In the condition of the Areeutino Ile-
publle ! suppose It had boon la the condition
of Tuikey ; suppose it had been inllio condi
tion of Russia toJay , with 1U curroncv de
preciated ami its credit broken down I What
sort of prosperity would wo have ? Was
it not the very best kind of financiering
to assure tno creditors of the United States
that thu government would redeem those
pledges In the only money thut passes current
as such all over the world. It is not true that
the soldlerwas p.ild oft $7 for § 10 in the be
ginning of the war , la 1SOI , potd wiw only
very slightly above par and prices worn not
very high. Just before starting for Jiebrou
yesterday I found In nn old blblo.Uvo $10 confederate -
federate bills nndan oMlottcr which 1 hnd
written from Omaha In ISfW , to the Cleveland
Herald. On the back of it , tlioro happened to
be the market quotations of Cleveland , for
October M , 1873. I notice wheat $1.1 ! ?
per bushel ! corn , We ; rye , fl.50 ; but
ter was qnoted nttiOci chceso , lie ; eggs , 17o
and SIS ; lard , Sll ; and green apples. $ J nnrt
$2.f,0 a barrel ; petroleum was ot course still
very high In those days , l' J cents , and so on.
What does that show ! It show.s that In IhtW ,
while wo wcro In the midst of war , prices
were still low ; that the soldlor when ho sent
his money homo for ho was boarded nnd
clothed by the govcriinvjiit-tlint his family
bought their things pretty nearly as cheap
then ns now.
AVhcn the inflation w.v ntlts height In ISOS
and IbM the greenback hnd depreciated , but
the soldier did not hold on to It that long , his
family hud got through with It.
All the talk about thu robbery of the soldier
or the producer bv the retirement of the
greenback nncl Issue of bonds Is the sheerest
rot. The largest amount of greenbacks that
was ever out at ono time was $ l.1tuOOOOi ) ) .
Today there ate still ? : ! . " 0liOO , 100 of green
backs lu circulation nnd in the treasury. So
wo have retired Just $ 'J7,0M,000 ' ( ) of greenbacks
and In thcirplncohavoadcledovcrtO,000OOO ( )
of pold coin nnd SHJO.OOO.OUO in silver coin
and silver certlllcates to our stock money.
The flutist clamor about our national bank
currency h equally absurd. Tlio national
banks had over three hundred and Jlfty mil
lions of currency at ono time , now they have
less than half that amount out ami thov nro
surrendering It nt tlio r.ito of f'KWUOU ( , a
month. Still thcro is no contraction of the
circulating medium. For every tj,00i ) , ( > 00 of
national bank currency surrendered and can
celled the treasury is Issuing § 5,0(10,000 ( of ll-
vor ccrtHlciites , which are secured by bullion
in the treasury vaults.
1 want to sny to the farmers because the
farmers have been told that under the admin
istration of the republicans everything that
they sell lias been mndo cheap andoverything
that they buy made dear. I don't ' think any
party could control the price of wheat , in
Liverpool , or the price of cotton or any class
of commodity that was exported. I quote
from a party In Fort Uodgo , la. , who
made a computation to show the dif
ference in prices in the last ton years !
self-binders that sold In 1880 for $1115 are now
selling forflilO ; torn planters hi 1SSO sold for
SSO , now they sell for $10 ; riding cultivators
in IbSO wcro $15 , now they are fcJ5 ; spiing
wagons , two-seated , $100 In 1SSO , $7.1 now ;
nails , per keg , $ iin ! ISM ) , Si : now ; milk-pans ,
? i.ttlpor do en in ISS'J ' , 81 per do on now ;
barb-wire ten cents n pound in liSO , now it is
four cents a pound , notwithstanding the barbwire -
wire trust , which oueht to bo rooted out.
There is no question about that. The demo
cratic party said that , but they were in power
four years and didn't do it. It is a question
simply of local legislation.
Now I want to ask In all sincerity what Is
proposed to bo done by our friends on the
peojilc-'s ticket. Wo were told in the llrst
place that It was not a part } ' , but your chair
man hero has furnished mo with a letter that
would Indicate tnatthey are a party. Ilo
hud been an organizer of the farmers' alliance
up to a very recent period , Ilo was a true
and trusted man in the nilianconnd did bis
work , I presume , faithfully , as members of
thoiilllnnro iiithts section will certify. Ho
has seen lit to remain a republican instead of
connecting himself with this "spontaneous
movement" and what Is the result ! Ho gets
his walking papers from the secretary of the
stnto fanners' alliance with the In formation
that his services as organizer would bo dis
pensed with beeiutso ho hail gene Into a polit
ical organization , beeauso ho remains identi
fied with the republican party. What a
piece of arrogance , what insolence.
Ko man who has joined the alliance has
taken an obligation of allegiance to a now
party , or any other party when ho went intc
it , and ho does not need to go to Autocrat
Burrows to get a permit to step into the re
publican party or any other party , but It only
shows -with what Intolerance and narrow-
minded spirit the organization that calls Itself
the people's party is being handled. What
do they propose ) A glance at thch
platform or declaration of principles will
suftk'O. They declare that every man
on the footstool of the earth is entitled
to some land , and they are In favor of giving
every man , nnd I suppose every woman ai
well , some land from which ho or she can
draw sustenance. But I want to know how
many members of the new party , or how
many candidates oa its ticket , are ready to
give one single aero of their farms to any OHO
else. I want to know what sort of principles
they arc enunciating to farmers. Nearly all
fanners I know woulil lU'oto get moro land ,
but I don't ' know nny fa Miorwho Is willing
to give any luml away. Yet , thousands of
farmers have subscribed to this now princi
ple Ukon from the gospel of peace of Saint
Bellamy , who proposes to let the
government own all lands and feed
all the people of the United States out of
ono common trough and have them all sup
plied through pipes , very much as the iw-
trolcum is pumped direct from the oil wells
to 1'hlladolphia and the seaboard. [ Laughter
and applause. ]
This is the new wrinkle and the first step
is for Undo Sam to take possession of all the
land , The farmers In Nebraska say nmeii to
that ! I have 110 doubt thcro are about Uo.OOO
homeless wage workers in the state ready to
takohomoof your land If you offer it In good
faith ; they will agree to cultivate It or get
some ono to do It for them.
There are some propositions In tlio
alliance platform with whioh wo all
agree. Fov myself , I think I have
been if 1 ito say it myself a mcro persistent
and uncomprislng agitator of anti-monopoly
principle ? In this stnto than any alliance man
from President Powers down to Mr. Bur
rows. 1 have advocated regulation in season
and out of season , but in IhbJ , when the nlli-
unco put a state ticket in the Hold Juntas they
Imvoin 18W , I entered my most solamn protest
against going for relief outsldo of the present
parties ot creating a new par'ty , because I
believed then as I do now that the surest way
to achlovo results , ami bring about reforms
and do away with the abuses that the people
of Nebraska have suffered from , is through
the existing parties ; that If the republican
parly hail failed to do Its duty , there was an
easy way to remedy It. If the democratic
party has put up men who were better
qualified and moro trustworthy , vote for
them and vote down the bad men.
Ono of the principles I have advocated In
all local elections hi this sluto has beun an
honest democrat is praforabla to a dishonest
ropuhlieau. 1 have preached that doctrlno
and shall preach It now , but I also want that
doctrine to bo applied the other way. I
want an honest republican to bo nrefcrrbd tea
a dishonest democrat when such Is running
for congress. [ Applause. ] I nm still on that
same track. I have not varied nt all. These
people who have accused mo and accused
Tin ; Bir. : , In some instances , of having veered
and changed and gene to Wall street , arc
common slanderers. Wall street has no moro
control over mo now than It had when TUB
BIK : was In its Infancy. In the twenty years
that I hnvo conducted n piper I have never
advocated flat money , nor principles of repu
diation. When I was poor as a church mouse
and ir. debt head over heels , in ttio crash of
IsrJ , and when I had a mortgage plastered
over mv head , I sull advocated ttiohoiiojt
payment of an honest debt , and 1 opposed
grecnbiicklsmtheu as I do now ; it Is novel
doctrine lii-thU state , It issimpiy galvanizing
an old corpse , and it has bcun signalized by
the nomination of Alien Root for congress ,
and ho stands for OU C ! rocnback from away-
back , [ daughter. ] Allen Hoot Is sound oa
anti-monopoly , but ho is loonoy as a bedbug
on the currency and money question.
[ 1-uughtor.J
On railroad legislation I am Just ns strenu
ous as anybodyv but 1 would llko to know
what the alliauca leaders propose to do. They
have no policy , they have not pledged their
candidates for the logislatura to any policy.
They say , "Simply bland on our platform and
salvation is sura. " 1 have seen men stand on
that platform , nnd I have helped elect them
to the legislature , and gonn down to work
with them , and what was the result ! Ono
man would introduce u railroad regulation
bill of twenty-flvo pages , nnd another
man would Introduce u hill of fifteen
pages , nnd each ono would want
to brag that ho hail Introduced the great
anti-monopoly railroad regulation , and when
the tlmo came for them to agree on any ono
measure they were all divided. It Is only by
dividing the farmers on those great
that the railroads bavo bwn able to run the
stnto. Had the farmers gene to work both
then nnd this year nnd attended the respective
primaries of their parties everywhere , they
would have carried the republican conven
tions overwhelmingly and would have die-
tntc-1 any ticket they saw lit , nml they can
not make any moro favorable platform than
the platform of the republican party.
It not onlyploilfica the party to roduca
railroad rates to the leveled rates of adjoin-
lug states , but nled ges It to see that the farm
ers have the right to creel elevators nnd haul
corn to nnd from the clcv.itow on the same
conditions that the elevator owners have
now ; It provides that railroads shall ho held
ninennhlo In every wnv for damages to tno
people , and It Is in every wnv as radical iw
any platform that has over been framed.
Uut what nssumnca have we that our candi
dates , if elected , will carry It out ? Show
theio men that there Is a public sentiment
behind the platform and they will bo obliged
to iMrry it out , willingly or unwillingly.
I myself haven't nny faith in tholr railroad
commissioner system. I believe the people
should ivgulnti ) the rates ou railroads hy
law , but there U thodlfllculty. The present
rnmvay commission law was passed by the
votes of farmers as well as railroad cappers ,
and these farmers claimed to know what they
wcro about. The now party leaders talk very
wllillv nbout usury sharks nnd all tli.it sort
of thing , but wo have not heard a Hlnglo
measure proposed by which they are going to
do away with these shylocks.
1 know and realize It is very dinioult for
farmers lo get together and agree upon anyone
ono thing , but certainly with the now.Moseses
to lead them out of the wilderness , with these
men who advocate n financial revolution , wo
ought to know what relief wo may expect.
I'lioy know how to run the whole govern
ment ; why am they not capable of running
tlio Nebraska legislature sufficient to got to-
Kethor and say , "Hero Is what wo want the
legislature to do ? ' ' And if they had a certain
bill railroad bill or any other that was
spout He , ami the men were pledged to vote
for tlio measure , if they had that , all the rail
road governors in the state could't stop It
from becoming a law. Hut have such meas
ures been pro losedf Not at nil. They are
running Just llko a herd of sheep.
I think , considering the enormous amount
of laborl have done on behalf of the produc
ers and working people in this state , mid the
light I have made for years against railway
monopolies and other monopolies , It might
not have been Injudicious for the leader * of
the alliance movement to confer with mo
and at least ascertain tiow far Tin : ltii : : was
disposed to go with them In tlio movement
that they had Inaugurated. No grcntcnptain
has ever ventured into nwar without llrst
securing all the allies that ho can possibly
enlist in his cause , and -without llrst procur
ing the necessary munitions of war. In
politics no prudent lender would venture
without llrst enlisting1 the leading papers , or
at least endeavoring to have the motilers of
public opinion In active sympathy with any
movement . they may desire to undertake.
Hut Mr , Uurrows wants to build up a new
paper of his own ; he want * not only
to be grand dictator of the new party , but he
wants to have the only paper that the farmers
will bo allowed to road. I expect to see a
law passed by the next legislature that no
farmer be allowed to road any other paper
but Mr. Uurrows' paper , and that every
farmer bo sent to Jail for six months every
time ho looks ut a copy of some other paper.
[ Laughter. I
When the farmers have friends they
ought to try to retain their friendship anil
not cast off the old friends for new ones.
They want the worklngmeu to Join them , but
their convention repelled them. This was
shown hi the people's ' convention. The work
ing men wcro playing with loaded dico. Van
"Wyck was counted out of the convention seas
as to have the president of the alliance made
n candidate for governor. They wnutod the
working man to Join them in the crusade
for cheaper money and cheapening the dollar
with which ho buys his food and clothing
and lit proof of what they thought of the
worklngnuin , they nominated n state ticket
there with not a single worklngtnan on it.
The candidate man is a lawyer and ho Is a
sort of a walking delegate. How do they ex
pect to get twenty or twenty-llvo thousand
laboring men to Join with them to elect men
who have no use for the laboring men. Do
they realize that a repeal ot the tariff laws of
the United States would set adrift hundreds
of thousands of working ; men and place them
abroad as tramps Just as they were right
after ilio war. '
Fellow citizens , I have covered n great deal
of territory , but in this movement there has
been so much fallacy and so much misrepre
sentation that it is impossible to answer one-
tenth of it. For instance , wo are told that
in the stito of Illinois thcro have been moro
convictions tlinu la tuowholo of Ireland ,
when In fact Illinois Is the most prosperous
state in America. We are told thatNobraska
farms are rapidly passing through tlio sher
iff's ' hands hy foreclosure owing to the uni
versal destitution of our farmers.
I have Just received ofllcial statements from
of the counties
flfty-llvo out eighty-eight
showing the number of farm foreclosures in
Nebraska during the year ending ; with Juno
last. This report shows that the total num
ber of improved farms offered for saio under
mortgage foreclosure in thq various counties ,
including those in the United States court , in
the 55 counties U M" , partly Improved farms
117 , unimproved farms 'J1S , milking n total of
ll'W ! farms offered for sale under the ham
mer. Out of 1S,0)0UOO ( ) acres of land , which
would represent at least 150,000 farms of t0 !
acres each , out of that vast number
1SJ2 foreclosures. ( Jranting that ttio balance
of the counties would bo pro rata-am' , for
instance , Douglas county is not represented
hero , and I know our county has very few
foreclosures because the land In Douglas
county is too valuable I say the total farms
foreclosed would not exceed 1,00 : ) , or prob
ably 1'per cent on the outside. Of that
number I notice that Holt county has the
largest number , up in the sand hills , and
there uro 1-t'J farms ottered. I know the
reason why. I can't ' go Into details and explain -
plain it here , but ills known that a great
many worthless pieces of land nro mortgaged ,
and mortgaged for all they are worth , anil
the owners simply walk away and forgot to
pay the Interest. A greatmanyof those tarms
represent the same sort of thing. Men have
gene to work , for Instance , and made a very
small payment , and failol to como to time
on future payments and have given up their
farms , but IIH letter does not show that the
farmers of Nebraska are going to leave : tlio
country , or become tenants ; tlicro is no proof
of It whatever ,
So it is with n great many of their misstatements -
statements that we can not possibly rubut ,
Llko my friend , Calamity \Vcller of Iowa ,
these parties attribute their failures and mis
haps whether they tire duo to the
want of personal thrift , drouth ,
hailstorms , or any other cause ; to
the misimmngomentof our national finances.
They propose to revolutionize ovcrythln&nnd
are going to give everybody wealth , pros
perity , happiness imd-chlldren , 1 suppose
[ I/uighlcr | and everything ; else to make
people contented. I don't Know wnat inoy
are not able to give to our people if thuy will
only elect their men to ofllco.
In coneluMim lot mo admonish the farmers
mid laboring men to emulate the policy
that Dennis Jvcarnoy pursued in Cali
fornia. The Koarnoyltos wanted legisla
tion against the Immigration of the
Chincso ; and Kearney and the hoodlums
started the war-cry , "ThoChlifoso must go. "
Tlio Koarnoyltcs had votes and both parties
wanted tlio votes , but they tald , "you must
get thatnntl-Cliineso plank in your platform
or wo will vote for the other pirty. The re
sult vus that both iiariie * adopted the crv ,
"Tho Chinese must go , " and in loss than six
months the national cnnvontloiis adopted It ,
and congress enacted it Into law.
Why cannot the f armors say to both
parties : "You glvo us this or tuko your
I Absolutely Puro.
\ A crtatn of tartar baking powder , Highest
'of ' Joavenlnntrenxtu U , 8. Government Ko-
loort Auz. 17,1890k
chances of defeat , not by a new party , but ! >
our going on the other sldo. " The farmer ?
hold the balance of power and certainly couhl _
have dictated any policy wanted or any reform - s
form wanted , or nny redress sought , if It was
reasonable.
Follow citizens , I hope that ou the -Ith of
XoviMiiberyou will o.verelso tlio privilege of
citizen * with Judgment and conscientiously
mid not rush headlong , simply saying. "U'o
want n change and It don't matter U the man
ha yellow do ? , " but elect good men and hon
orable men mid the state of Nebraska will ,
see to It that your taxes are loworimd your /
property protected as well as men wno nro
Interested in good government would want to
have it , fApplaujtf. ]
Is that Impurity of the Wood which produces
unsightly lumps or spelling ! In the neck ;
which causes running sores oa tlio arms ,
legs , or feet ; which develops ulcers In Ilio
eyes , cars , or nose , often causing bllmlnessor
deafness ; nlilchlsthootlgtnof pimples , cancerous
cereus growths , or " humors ; " whlcli , fastenIng -
Ing upon tlio lungs , causes consumption ami
death. It Is the most ancient of ; all diseases ,
nnd very few persons are entirely free from It.
How Can
It Bo
fiy taking Hooil's Sarsaparllla , which , hy
the remnikablo cures It has accomplished ,
has proven Itsolt to bo a potent atnl peculiar
medicine lor this lUseaso. It you suffer fiota
scrofula , try Hood's Knrsaparllla.
" livery fjirlng my vlfo ami children hnvo
been troubled with scrofula , my llttlo boy ,
three years old , beltiR a lerrlblo sufferer.
Last fprlng ho was ono mass ot sores from
head to feet. Woall took Hood's S.irs.apnrllla ,
nndall have been cured of thoserofi'la. Jly
llttlo boy Is entirely free from sores , and all
four of my children look bright and healthy. "
W. B , ATIIUHTO.V , a'assale City , N. J.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Boldly all druRKlst ) .
by C.I. HOOD Jj CO. , Apothccntlei , Lowell , Bins.
10O Doses Ono Dollar
_
ff ymi hare ct <
nriitoor leiullns to
CONSUMPTION ,
or fi U5ca :
AND HYPOPHOSPIIITES
or xntK AXD . > .t
xa jsiirtnn cxm.an iJ'on. XT.
Tills jiropnrntlon contains tlio Mlrmiln-
ting propurll 3 of tlio llinxtjtliiiijilillrn
fiml flnoJN'uriivff/fiit / ( V l y/rcr Oil , Vtn\ \
by ( ihynlclanaaU tlio worldovur. It Ism
I ittluble : its inlllt. ThrootlmosM rfllr.i-
CIOUH n.3 jjlnln Cod Llvur Oil. A perfect
Emulsion , bolter thnn nil olhern in.iiln. For
all forms of HVufi'iifDi'ctiits , Jlroncliillt ,
Scrofula , nd as a Flesh Producer
tlicro la nothing llko SCOTT'S EMULSION.
Itlaoolilby nil DrupslHW. Lot no ono by
I > rofii9ooilnimlloni | > r linpihlput cutroaty
liulueo 7011 to accept a HiibMltuto.
This popular remedy never fulls to
effectually euro
Dyspepsia\Constipation \ , Sick
Headache ? Biliousness
And nil diseases arising from n
Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion.
The nnturnl rcnnlt isgooilappctito
ntiilxolliiriVHli. Jloso snu\H ; olepiiut-
ly suur touted nncl easy to Nmillo-r ,
SOLD EVEEY WEHE.
LIEBIG ceo
noiiiie cookery. Use
it for Soups , S.iucos . ,
' Made Dishes , ( ( ,111110 ,
Company's Fish , etc. ) Asi'li" ' or
Moat Jelly. KCOIH
norfectly In nil cli
mates for any leiiKUi
EXTRACT of time , and is rliouii-
or nnd of liner llnvni'
than any ether stock.
Ono pound equal ti
OFBEEF forty pounds ot k'liu
beef of the value of
about S7..10.
Coiiuinoonly wit
Justus YOU Licbig's
Bijjimturous shown
THEDUEBER. FACTORIES
HAMPDEN LARGEST
WATCHES IN THE
THE BEST. WORLD.
THE
BEST
SEND FOR
OUfl BOOK , 5 WATCH CASE
"FRAUDS MFU. CO , ,
\N WATCHEIt OHICV _
jfierve [ pood.
Make * Now Kri'uli Hlooil und 1'ro.
iUin > n l
i'i ' Aiiii-tiilii , Scr liiii ! , lluil Mrriiliillon
j" l Jill Impurities of the Blood i we 11.11 tint
runowm ? Norvn Dlnaniinn. vui .NITVOIH anil
riiynliilul l , . | illlly. Mini i\Iiiiulifin : , l'r -
iniilnrti Di'cuy , Trniiihllnc , Jlynti-Hu , NIT-
vom lli'iiiliicli : < < , I , HH of I'OVHT In clllnr HCX ,
Nnrvmnnins In liny fiirin , Colil Hum ! * or
I'Vul , t'ulii In tlin lluil < unil otlirr lorinb ut
Vfinaaif' * " ,
IJr. Ilnlili'n Mrrvtt Tonln .Vlllt brim ; the
rosy tint of honlth to the ahullaw chook.
Witut , mirvutu pcnpld Blimilil ukii thlt urrat l.lfii
Renowor. 'Irj ttinn. an < | > ou Mill Jclntln , tij.mumU .
( it liaiipy mm ami uumxii nh dally Ijlcvi J > r ,
llnuif'ii-hli nii'.it tttrk Hi tlu-lr behalf. ' 11,1 , ; nru
[ tismrniiUNl. to cents a vial , for tali ) by Dutcliu
01 In mall. Aililresl
HSBt'S ' MtOr.lNI CO. . PH9PS. . ! 1H rtlKCirCO , CAU
KOIISAI.K IN OMAHA , NKII , ItV
Kunn & I ii , ( , or IIili & Honc'u ' Str eii
.1. A , Fuller & Co. , t or Dili .v lioupUi btredi.
A. J > . Kiiiler * Co I'muii I llluiU. IOMII
, ,
ANr rxmirtnii " ! " ' *
Gultars.Mandolins&Zilliers .
, In vulunin ud fju ! itl nf too am
th lij-nl In Iliovorl.l . , WarrnnttwJ
r In nr cllra u > HJ | bjr dlleul.
( IcjtJurJ. fl.autilujly Illuitratnl. fin.
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LYON&HEALY. CHICAGO.
"FOR "MEN"
Old MnnVonk Middle IIRCU won. Tri-wii-
turi'lyold VOIIHK Men , Inlnx liuuk hprluxy
stoiJ.brlnlit tiyu , Ktroruth , nniblllnii und < Ju-
Hlruliy uco of NOI-VII IUMIMH. Tlioyuiirruct
youtli'ti orrors. euro nil nerve trmililos , } l Imx ,
ttl.v Imxcstt Nerve lloan Co. . llnlTiilo , N. V r
B ilyhy ( Jaoduiiui Drill ( Jo. , UIO I'liiiuui St. '