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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1894)
r THE WEALTH MAKERS. 8, June 21. 1894 THE ORATION (Continued from flrtt page.) through Industrial freedom. The life of ron boljectiyely n economic life. In the sphere of production snd distribution ii the common life fulfilled. Produc tion 1 communion with God; the pro ducer 1 God's co-worker. Distribution U the sacrament ot humon fellowship; Is the method by which justice unites meu. The government of the future will be mainly concerned with the social being and Industrial iclatlonj of the people, lintfl democracy retreat from the field of pr Jgress it must take possession of . . W T A t I J.unnBnAIf the. Industrial world. UCi" ueuitnim., hAtha order of production anddlstrlbu tlon It will be an illusive philosophy and hafflfld effort, and Industrial slavery wu iL. inifithlflIotnf millions. Neither ri wuv - Pnr ?Aiww.riicy can b6 Jul fliled.or make much farther progress, except through the association of men in n flftonomic commonwealttt. inouinai freedom through economic association is the condition of the realization or Dotn flhrlntlanitv. The con- UOIUUU J -- - ditlon of competition la absolutely inco& alstout with the Christian ethic, and is tho very negation of society. Either the principle of competition must come to an end, or Christianity will come to an end, And tho Lope of Justice will be iosi in ' -universal despair. Competition can never nlve anything but tyranny and slavery. the oppression of the weak by the strong, the exploitation of the truly industrious w h aruuniiitlra and cunnlne. The lJ M" - highest Industrial order which competl tlon can give Is that of capitalists and -wage earners. And the wages system is eutisllv a slave system, no matter whatthegualltyof the wafr.es. It is a tenia the evolution of freedom, but only a step. There can be no real free dotn or complete Justice until there are no more hirelings In the world. A hire Ung is not a free mad; and equal ability and opportunity to compete, even ir sucn equality were possible, Is not freedom. The people must own und distribute the products of their own labor; widen is ac cording to Lincoln's belief that labor should own capital, In opposition to the slave bolder' belief that capital should own labor. Industrial absolutism Is doomed, and economic democracy must be the aearch of the political wisdom of the luture. The Cbrls'lau stata alone can be tho organ of a democracy of in dustrial peace and social justice, the organ ot an economic conservation and development of the natural resources which the whole people have received as flft and trust from God; the organ of an economic distribution and exchange of the productions of the people. There no longer exists an honest ex pectation of freedom or justice In a competitive system tased upon what is practically an exclusive private owner ship of property. Notwithstanding all our competitive philosophy and political economy, the natural and unalterable result of such a system and foundation is the wealth and powor of the few and the poverty and social oppression of the many; the millions will toll and produce, and the tens poasws the eccnomlo and social benefits. Mr. Depew hasrecontly said: "Fifty men ia these United States have it in their power, by reason f f tho wealth w hich tbey coatrol, to come to gether within twenty-tour hours an! arrive at an understanding by which every wheel of trade and commerce may be stopped from . revolving, every avenue of trade Hocked, and every elec trio key struck dumb. These fifty men can paralyze the whole country, for they control the circulating currency, and create a panic" whenever they will." It Is unreasonable and intolerable, it is the completest triumph of despotism, that the liberty and well being of sixty five millions of people should thus de pend upon the will of a few men whose authority consists in the possession of aaterlal thlnjp, and the quality of power essential to reaping the harvest of the common toll. It Is notthoru!e of tbo fittest that thus survives the a r aggie of our conditions. The evt lu tlon of our competitive and speculative system is the rule of the unfittest. The theory of society in which such a sys tem is founded necessitates the survival and triumph of the lowest qualities of human life. It offers the basest motives to human effort aud the xuost deriding rowarJi to human euergy. It grounds aocbuy in moral unfattb, and makes social treason the highest quail. Jlcntioo far succeti. It has produced tbo fact that le lofUot standards of commercial Integrity atd honor are fundamentally Immoral und vlekiu whn jud jed bv the ChrUt ethio. Th i d,tr and strlfj to acquire property for private gratlflcatoa and power rather than for tho common well being ars rt'gsrdod as a profanation ul humaa life, even in the older pagan ttnlo and the modern gootlc social phUoiphy. Rut they who most profanely succeed aro tie ituclal rdt who h"s dominion over u 1 4 theso days. Not only have lhe lord taken away the ici of freedom, Uh whlob t('j.i modern Ufa so vluily nd gloriously begap, but tby lave ren ui the motabtolut ard atheistic of all kpotlui4. It U the hardest dee lHlm to ovrotm Uioauw of the cum it;tinIvRe4 as well atlndlrectli n of W iuU. Our only dull if : It an -tit.ro rffori'Ioo of tho souUl crder tfcmijrU th OilbUtrf of the Christian state, as the guardian of the property of the people and the organ of economic exchange. A socially monstrous fact of modern civilization is ita over-production middle men. There are ten men be tween producer and consumer where but one is needed. Our system has thus created a vast class of exchangers, hideous order of parasitism, which pro duces nothing and yet consumes pro duction. The most honored and power ful members of society today are its parasites. A great army of speculators and competing tradesmen, which ought to be put to the hocest work of produc' lng something for society, preys upon it producers, gambles with its neces eitles, adulterates its foods, and vitiates both ita purchases and purchasing pow er. I do not condemn men because they are buyers and sellers, or question that among those who buy and sell are some of society ' noblest and purest charac ters. But the system and spirit which cause this over production of exchang ers, with the consequent under-consump tlon of economic goods, which gives the gains of production to non -producers. I condemn as fundamentally destructive to social right and social order. And I ex presB the common moral sense of the peo pie when I declare those who enrich and empower themselves through the arbl trary control of production and distri bution, through the speculative control of transportation and exchange, to be society's most dangerous enemies; they are not only the chief social parasites, but are destroyers of human life. This wasto of the people's substance is in consistent with any true organization of democracy. It is fatal to political continuity of the people. The state cannot endure the social anarchy of speculative and competitive industrial ism, which is also the very antagonism of the Christian society. The evils of this industrialism are nowhere more manifest than in specul ation upon land, which is the most sub versive to moral and social order of all forms of gambling. Speculation in land is treason to the nation, a crime against the people, and blasphemy against God. A Carlttlan state cannot exist with a speculative or private ownership of land. The land and its natural resour ces are to bo held by the state in sacred trust for the people, and never to be surrendered. As irulford has said, "the land belongs to the people consti tuted as a nation and the right to it 1b In its moral order." In parting from the vast domain of the people, held by the natlou as the communion of God with the national life, the birthright of the people has been sold for a mess of pottage and the government and economy of the people surrendered to great private and speculative corpora tions. The power given these corpora tions has raised the question of govern ment ownership of railways which is at present answered by the actual railway ownership of the goverment. There is scaicely any longer a denial that the people of America are practi cally governed by their railway system which have obtained their power through legislative gifts of the nation's lands and franchises. But a place of repentance for our rloutous national prodigality may even now be found, though our unholly prudence be offend ed at the despised movements that lead us to this place, in the five hundred and fifty million acres that remain of our inheritance, and that only need the wise employment of the unemployed to be converted Into an empire of fruit fulness aud industry that shall remain forever the property of the people as a nation. I jee nothing to ridioule, but the profoundest and most prophetic statesmanship, in this proposition. And when the divine judgment of history passes between the national legislature now in session and the lowly citizens who were mobbed by the police for bearing this proposition to the capltol steps, I pray to bo judged among the vagabonds. For, call them by what names you please, social facts and political order of a better national future, these men will rise up In judg ment against this generation and the cynical stupidity of ita legislators. And these legislators, insulted by a proposal that they shall give direct attention to the industrial condition and social well bolr g ot the whole people, yet thinking It political wisdom to Indirectly tax the whola people for the benefit of the few who already control capital, in dt etry and legislation, may well call upon the mountains to cover the shame of their wicked Ignorance iu that Hear ing day of judgment. In the face of the social situation which now confronts us.lt is nothing but unroawn and prejudice, or elso stil- hnes and hypocrisy, to cry aloud against the roilictlvUt as one who uld take away our llbortlos In the tukUtof the induttrlal tyranny and social anarchy la which we now find oursclve, only the ignorant ami the wicked, or else the cunning and power ful, will fnar and otwtruct an extW.eu of tho lndutrlal and economic function of the state. Tho colltctMtt would take way no liberty from the Individual that would not be returned to him a hundred Md lo the liberty which association would give. The theory of private ownmhlp of land, for Instance, baa practically abullthed private ownership for the vat majority of the people. F.clulTly private property rights hive had the effect ot subjecting lU rights of the people to the material in terests of the largest owners, so that human beings as compared with pro perty have small place in recent legis lation. Thi economic state would take away the liberty to oppress and de fraud, but not the liberty to work, to have faith, and to do justice. The real property rights ot the people, the pre servatlon of the home and the perpetu tuity of the family, have their future dependence in the association of rights under the guardianship of the Christian state as the social organ. Such a natu ral surrender acd Investiture of rights instead of endangering the individual and tho family, would be the freedom of the individual to develop the highest personal life and the security of the family from the invasion of want and oppression. The collection of the rights and interests in the state which would be the Christian economy of the people would remove life from the sphere of cbanco to that of moral social certainty. Except the state be born again, and become the organ of the economic association of men in tho mind of Christ, it cannot see the foun dation and realizttion of justice, and can save neithtr property nor society. It must learn that property exists for society and not society for property. Property is nothing in itself, but Is simply the instrument by which justice unites men. Through the use of pro perty men enter into fellowship with each other and communion with God. Property is a sacrament of the unity of life. And to live Is Christ; true living s a Christ-becoming. And there can be no Christian administration of the sacrament of property except by the state, which is the social organ. Neither can the state becoma the true social organ without having in it the mind of Christ. Nor can the state have n it the mind of Christ without bacom- j ing the organ of the unity of the people through economic justice. The idea of tho state as the organiz ed economy of the people is not, as some would say, the ancient theory, or the Platonic conception, that the state is the chief end of maD, and that man is made for the state. I am trying to give you a doctrine of the state which is the exact antagonism ot tne ancient con ception. The state is nothing in itself, ana must not exist as an end, but as a means. Man was not made for the state, but the state was made for man. The state exists for the redemption of man in right, and the perfection of man n unity. Tbey who seek the collective pro gress and economy of . the people through the conversion of the state in to a minister of Christ may have to follow their Lord through great tribula tions and be persecuted awhile by all nstitutions. The teachings of Christ are yet so new that they will seem des tructive to all civilization and order when men seriously undertake to apply them to political institutions. The teachers may be classed with anarchists as destroyers of society and religion, for uttering the social mind of Christ. But it will help them to remember that the private founders of their faith were everywhere classed in the ancient world as atheists, and tbo destroyers of all faith and morals. It might also be helpful to remember the disgrace that was attached not very long ego to the abolltlonlam of our fathers who now shudder and rage at the socialism of their sons. As men have learned all the great lessons of history through persecution and suffering, so doubtless they will learn the ways and works of the Christian state. There Is no likoness between the Christian Ideal and that of the anarch ist, as Christians sometimes foolishly and unthinkingly admit, The method and ideal of the philosophical anarchist and the method and ideal cf the Chris tian political philosopher are the exact antagonism of each other. The Chris tian organization of the state would be its perfection; the anarchist philosophy would be its destruction. A Christian politic would fulfill the Institutions of the state; the anarchist policy would abolish them. The Christian Ideal would lead tne people la a political pro gress that would leave restrictive re strictions with nothing to do, so that they would fall Into the greater free dom thus achieved and dta, as the acorn dies in the earth when the troe ernes forth; the anarchist ideal would lead tho psoplo In a desoont to tho low est political holl, where Individual self will would establish tho throne of per foot despotism snd the order of perfect mlsory. The difference between the achievement of the Christian Ideal and tho auarchlsl Ideal would be the differ enctt between the coming of the king dom of heaven ami the coming of the kingdom of bell on the earth. Gov eminent u not iranieni, nor a neotst. sary evil, but eternal In the Itai t ot God, and the dUulptlae and cduoitlon of the people in tho imago of right of the only perfectly governed man tbo world lnu ever keowa, the tnau ChrUt Jesus. The anarchist spirit tbat would destroy Is the witness to the Ch ln aceUy of the iasiltallous at which destruction Is alutd. The anarchUt streegtntus tho initltutloot and In cmmm tbo restrictive functions whlob the Christian othlo and poUvlu would fulf 'n a justice which would outgrow tbes icitltutloa; In a freedom to holy as to need no restriction, ami which the anarchists only retard. Not the aboil, tlon but the fulfilment of institutions is the way to freedom; and it will be the freedom reached through sacrifice wherewith Christ has made us free. As progress ascends, life will form it self in more and more perfect and unl versal organizations and tend less and less to institutions. We are in the habit of thinking of institutions and organizations as one, but they are not the same. Institutions are not the per fee Jon but the imperfection of the organization. The communion of the Holy Ghost is a perfect organization and) association of men; but it is not an Institution. Jesus disclosed a perfect government and founded a perfect society; but he neither revealed nor suggested any Institutions in his per feet organization of life. And the Christian state can have no other ideal of organization than Christ's. For the Christian state will not live unto itself, but be the witness of Christ to the nations that have not received his mind as their political wisdom, and aaopiea en rignt as their power ana justice, too nation is under the same obligation to sacrifice itself for the redemption of the world that Jesus was. It must be the missionary of the kingdom f God to the nations that walk not yet in the Heht of that kin?' dom. The nation is the keener of neighbor nations as truly as man is the keeper of his brother. Selfishness is as suicidal to the nation in the policv of the state as It Is wicked and destruc tive in the life of the indiviflual. The nation can no more prosper selfishly, or protect Itself at the expense of other nations, without the eventual corrup tion of its own beiofir than the man. A Christian national policy would compel tbe state, as the organ of the nation's being, not only to refrain from doinir evil to neighbor nations, but to do them good. As a Christian nation, we are bound to sacrifice ourselves in nronur- lng justice to Japan, in giving freedom to tbe Rursians, in helping to save united Italy from disaster, as we are to protect our shores from a foreign in vader. I do not mean that our national efforts to save should be military, but profoundly Christian and divlnly per sistent. Tbe state can neither become nor remain Christian without becoming the witness and apostle to all nations of the divine government of tbe world which Jesus dUclosed. The Christian state Is ordained of God to establish and fulfill tbe authority and unity of his Christ wi'hln and between tbe ra tions, so that his kingdom may fully come. The principle of non-intervention, which bas been our national boast and conceit, If practiced long enough would end in dissolution within and destruction from without. The prin ciple is essentially pagan, and is a re. jecion of the kingdom of God and the authority of Ms Christ. The law of tbe cross which Jesus disclosed, command ed and obeyed, is as authoratltive to tbe sate as to tbe person; it is personal, national, and universal law. And ex cept the state believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and become tbe political orcran Izatton of his sacrifice.it cannot be saved in tbe social trial that Is coming to try tb wnoie lnnaoitea earth. God created and sent this American nation to be an example and a witness of the power and wisdom of ChrUt unto the political salvation of the world. He appointed and anointed this natios to seek and fulfill the rigbteousnenii of his kingdom. We have failed. We have betrayed our trust, and forsaken our mission. We are a fallen nation, an apostate people. We have done those material and political things we ought not to have done, and left uadone the social and righteous things we ought to have done. We have wasted our sub stance la riotous living, and havn bean faithless to the freedom which our fathers received as tbe gift of God. We have used the liberty wherewith their sicrifice made us free to rob and oppress one another. We have forged bonds of iniquity that will have to be broken by tbe sacrifice of our sobs. We have committed sins tb.it will ha ve to be remitted in the blood of those who love this nation, and will give themselves for it. We need and will have the atonement of such a sacrifice. The hurt of this people cannot be lightly treated cr easily healed. The nation Is sick at heart, and the body politic full of dis ease and corruption. Except our nation repent, in a great political revival of the righteousness of Christ, it cannot be saved and will perish from tbe earth. Except the energy which has gone Into tbe mad competition and speculation for material wea'th, Into the bulldlne of rival cburcho". be changed Into a search for the justice of the kingdom of God, tbe material things which we have gained will be taken from us, and there will not be left one stone upon another of our great temples of re'i?Ion. Religious and economic statistics are no answer to this call to national repentance, and we cannot e.oape the call by chantlne the holy watcb word of the fathers of our nation. Out of the movements and forces we desplpi.God is able and likely o raiso up iru cni aren to our lathers. Exf ept this nation bo born again, and waken to a mighty national conscious nesa of God, It cannot be delivered from that blind fatalNm which Is the op'l mlsm of apostates and hyprcrltos, and receive the salvation and glry of the Christian s ate. Out of what t -avail and sorrow the new birth of the nation may come no man cantll. Hut in the midst of the awful days that may bo near, In the tribulation of thu social change, there mutt grow uo a now Chrittlon order, whlih hull he as dNtlnct from the rel'glon of the church and the poll tics of our parties as tne unriy (Jbr W'.laa communities were dUllnct from the religion of Judalitm and the politics of Kotue. And these political and social apmtlei of Cbriit mul be a truly tied ka'ed t bo sacrificed for the coming of the kingdom of God at were the primitive disciples of ChrUt. They only can wlold the sword of ChrUt' rk'ht who will toll their oUwus, part with their very garments, throw awaytbt.ir rputa',lon, n ncuDoe alt U at they hav& deny lherot!vr, Uke up thir cto, and move stvadlly to the Calvary of ihe aallon't redemption. Only ttv who nr a'tlo to bear the reproach of Christ. and I di(raued rmfora the politics and religion of this day, caa arouse and nrgnljs tbo ChrUtUn contolenuo ot the nu'lon, and prepare tho war cf the ChrUUaa ttato that shall fulfill tbe kingdom ot Uod. Aro r rsady to b oredr ;aWOOLWOOLWOOLWOOLfWOOLWOOLWOOLp J'r M n tA"aaaieeinM MROP.YPine.wo havosuoeoMfultvhi o o I Iff ww wwawa L IWI o o L SILDERMAN to ' ;WOOLWOOLtWOOLTWOOLWOOLWOOLWOOLjgl Those of our readers who Improved the opportunity of attending the WORLD'S FADK will always remember It as one of the grandest privileges of their lives. The Peristyle. Tho Court cf Honor. The Golden Statue cf the Republic. Administration's Beauteous Templs. The Coilossai ftlaniiiactures Building. Transportation's Golden Doorway. "Midway's" Wealth of OriMtalism. WHO CAN EVER FORGET THEM? Or who can ever foreet the proud distinction achieved by McCormick Binders and Mowers ? Who can ever forget that the McCormick received the highest awards given for any make of Binders and Mowers,, and that in the regular field trials they earned the only honorable mention for grain and grass cutting machinery? Write to the - . Mccormick harvesting better yet, call on your Write for prices and terms to TINGLE Y & Attorneys-at-Law, 1026 O St., Lincoln, Nej COLLECTIONS MADE AND MONEY REMITTED COLLECTED. WOOL! WOOL! WOOL! WE are revolutionizing rte wool trad by our prompt sales and quick returns. If von have n, . XK!f B"PP8d JT001 East you know that it takes them from sfx to twelve months to closS 2SwJ' tc?n ma" you full account sa'ej within ten days after your wool ia r eelved. Sacks furnished on application. Liberal advances made when desired. PELTS! PELTS! PELTS! talnly it does, thin pap-r. We give our full time and attention to wool. Keierences, any bank in the United States, also Wealth Makers Pub. Co. The Great Northern Wool and Fur Co., 104 and 106 Michigan S.. - CHICACO. ILL. mm$m titta Dav t . REFERENCES: Metropolitan National Bank, Chicago, and this Paper. Notice to Bridge Contractors. Notice is hereby cfven that sealed htrfa will be lecelved at the office of the county clerk of Furnas county. Neoraska. on or hnfnra r.hx mhdayof June, A. I)., ItWt, for the conatruc- Uun oi me lullowuig briUKes: One certain btiuue across Medicine Creek, in southeast quaiter of section eighteen US, in township four (1!, ranss tweu'y llve 35 1, wet 6.h, P. M.. to be IW feet upau, 13 teat hih with 8 iret approacaes ai earn una. One bridge across Medicine Creek on section lln between bections nineteen HUi and twe tv M, in towutihlp Ut i aline (&) went tith, p. m- u te .10 reet span, io feu Iuku, wuhbfeetap pioacues ateacb erd. One biidKe across Elk Creek on section line between section tea (10) aud eleven (11 1, in towushln lour t. rtuira twentv-tbree c'Si. we&l iUb P. M., to be Ai leet span, 18 feet huh wltlt 10 ftwl approaches One brldg- cron Crura Creek on tee tlon line beiwetiu sectmns twenty-six u'd and thirty. ttve (JSj, iu township four 4), rantfe twtnty lbrt ii, veil iu P. M., to be 30 feet bpau, 15 ttNH ntju wiia tuteet approacaes. vu orinice across uiy ureo.t between .see lions tweniyllve :!). aud lweutv-.lx 30i. in I towi ship one (l, range twentv-tbiee (33), we-t i Hih u la ...i.. -j.. . ,- ,...'...,. leet approach ou south eua ana It leet au- I' .h li hVau' M Ioot biu wUh u t aji procaou tae north eud, 1 PV . one bruige across Ktk Creek between sec- Hons tweuiy iive i3f) and lhlrty-ix (Wi. iu 1 luwaxnipou it, riiie twetuy iur 133J, west , om r. ai., i n tpwa, 1 v ieei upproacnes. un 11 sixteen oue It lo be proav d. tme bridge acromCapf a Creek on inwtihtp Itne bxiwiiau p. (U'ii lour M;, and thirty thnw ' btwHu township ou ll and two liutge IWrut)' oi. (31 1. ei Am l, M , to txi 36 l"Viun, 13 fet butt wit a a Iwl apprtiucbtw. Oiie urltlgn at ros a draw tietwn-ii sn tlou Iwrmy-lwoi.'! aud tweuty three (33, lutuwie iil. to !'.'), rug tweuiy four wiut ib I'. M,ltl3jfratpaii. feet lllglt With feel appruai he. O.10 bi uUe aiMs a draw bntwrno thenorth- eaat iurU'f ami Mmtiivt ttiar(rof um iwtiuiy nam, -ifi), 111 lowu-utp two raime twuty lour r-t'. ( f, M. iu t J3 i ii, II 'evl UIU wlili fret ui pnuu kv. Ilridire tTw tt-avr Cievlt YwiweKU fcnilh l qiitu-rt iKMtloii twiiiiy wfta xUi attil in.. n., 4,1 iiu,u.r wN tinii tbli.y towr (ill. Ill i.wHl,tp two itt', msirfo iweiiij- i'itiir tCI, wwiv a I', M , W h U leot (, II frk klsa Kb ' ml approwbt. ttrhly . r,. draw Iwtwvrn lien twi. Iyru iul lwni) ni,t '.i; ii..wii.hip v !:: , iDuin twuty inr t3i'. wt h H H , to tm UK fet pU, It lt blj Wlt.t frt p- pfiM.'llOt. H irid a-mM a dtaw biwn kx-Ucvb oue III at J ii fi .'l, ui lottniUip on l), raiifce t-aiy iwo i-.-'j . wt ih P, M , to t U3 fe nin, la fl lii wttu ttwt . pro lie. two hfi.if irtw ipt lt..lt vn rui lilt twtwnea r4UK IWrll'.JT It.tM liJ ttlld lw)qty four ltwea miluui lwuty U ! ti'iearoa draw between section ,, " ' "" '" "u j-ihco oaui pino ipli and twenty on 3l, In township I",'"""" . " uxttm be accompaHed by ). range twetiiy ttirve 13 1, wnt tkn t M. "" iMwrmeaiioii, and gooo itud sum- n frataitaii. lUfmi bun with feet ao- "v" " . ' in tne oouniy clera a a ou wuoteudaiid feel am r.wch on aui I . .urn county, .rt.rala, on or t- r-e res conducted a WOOL o o L BUSINESS and havo maintained confidence and ouceessfu relation with wool growers and tho trade. Our reliability ia vouched for by Chi cago banks and mercantile house Established 1866. o o L none 812-214 Michigan Street Utf J0a Chicago, Illinois. IHE IE S3 SAVE THIS COUPON. It contains some things you ought to Iniow. You oUKlitwUnow tliatlhe World's Fair Manuin.'iiit.'Nt nsked all manufactur er of Hinders und .Mowers to tuke tlirlr iiwiciiinesiiiiouiugnmt unci gran fii'lds, mid by their work pruvt, tlieirclaims. You ought to know that tho manufacturers of McC'ormlek Hinders and Mewers promptly nouiira tno orld's Fair Com inlttee tliut thev would comply with this reasonable, rcmiest. that varimiMol her manufacturersof Hind i on ought to know ursaiia niowerx Mnt rctiM-wiit n i. vm in h. amino thu Ki alu and m ass fields specified, and that thine leprthentatlves reported to their resjjeeUve companies that tho condition of (lie crops to he cut was such that ordinary mac hines could notliaudlo them. Yououjjhtto know that none of thoso manufacturers allowed their ma chines to jto Into these tests wliere they knew tho McCormick Hinders and Mowers would bo at work. You ouifht to know that the World's Fair Judges said of McCormick Hinders that they were simple and easily operated, and that their per formance was In all respects thoroughly satisfactory. Yououghtto knowthatthey said of McCormick Mowers that thei draft is at leant 20 Um. lighter than the draft of tmllntiry mmven. You ought to know these thintrs because you don't want to make a mistake when lbc-onics to liuylnK so important a farm lmnlcment as a Binder or a Mower. You waut the best. machine co., Chicago; or, nearest McCormick Agent. LINCOLN, NEB. BURKETT, SAME DAY A8 e not dealers, but have a large an exclusive wool commission io sell hav. srrsln. U: 1 Pxr. writing to ns mention 8ESW0QLGHQiH&PAYP That depends upon how you sell your Wool. . f you ship It direct to market and tothnric-ht h mi on. it i , . , , . - i j ji ia uo eipuruneni. out snippers testily to It unanimously. We will not only obtain the highest market price for your Wool, if you ship us, but we will send yon quick returns. We fire revolutionizing the Wool trade by our Prompt Sales and Quick Returns. ye have done what the Wool trade said was impossible. Instead of taking six to twelve months to make returns for Wool, as most houses do, we make returns in that many days, and our shippers back us up In this statement. Write for Prices on Wool and see tho testimonials of our shippers. We are not an exclusive Wool bouse, but handle Hay, Grain and Produce of all kinds. SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO., Commission Merchants, 171 So. Water Street, Chicago, 125) and thirty 30. North brldpe to be 36 feet span, SO feet high with feet approach on north end and 12 feet approach onsou ill end. Soutn bridge to be 33 feet span, 10 feet high with B feet approach on north end and 13 feet approach on south end. One bridge across Guy Creek on section line betweeu sections eight H and nine 191, in town-ship four 14 range twenty-two 33, west 6th P, m ., to be 30 ftet span, 15 feet hign with 8 feet approaches. une bi nine across a draw between sections three 3 and four 4, in township two 13). ru6 tweaiy-oue (31 , wBot 6th p. M., to be 16 ieei npitu, 7 feet hign with 6 feet approaches. One bridge across a draw betweeu necuons five (5) and eight H In township two (3), range twenty-oiie(31.)west6 p. M , to be 10 feel span. 8 feet ulgh witn no approaches. Andrew Jackson bridge across Beaver Creek between the souihea.t quarter and southwest quarter of section eighteen 18), iu township two (31. range twenty-two (33), west ih P, M., to be 30 feet span, U feet hlgn with 8 feet i proacbes. v Two bridles across Sappa Creek between uunwu (ii) aim twenty three (s3),ln ..rJT. twenvy-iwo (33), west. ?,Vi .." f . i. Drwf'' lu " Pu, 20 tel Dlk'n Willi S feel Kimi-itui'liua West bridge :...: ." ',""" rw in me northeant 7, '' r 01 eleven (lj. In township one , " v',,"v -ri ,w1 .. to lore li clot i.txui 01 lli a-ita uy of June. A. u.lfw. comiiil loners ii,er the lUbt to n jnet auy or .l iiUi lid tut 17th dny n May, A. I , IWI. 5U4 li. W, Mt FaiioS, t'ouaiy t lerk. CAPlLLAUKA'-';.,,,w,,iI make hair itrow on bald h,i aiU on uaiK fc. it nUmulute aud luvinor tiuNtnHiuii.Mn.t, I In aafe. urm rnruiii. TMieti for tjyrsr. It ,t fNia ,iiUPy wiUbretiti-u4. Ijiriwiiitiilc. Pi It i id. OF RF'.CTY A OK"rflll Coemello vt WIItur'tHp1M,,Krtil' lesatld Al.ft fl'll tmtrfil. waii.u,oftiin,.,(t,ily trn,nu ibe rini rmih ami imitiiiy rtiiipUii!-,a, jt nttkM theli.iim.iyhaujj.iue. lU(f.tualla and safe. I rU"e, Mieviil,. AI COSf 'lyoniy weffr aftiilali --1 AV ''', ' l'lliura. I'ttce l 'IA, , mtif Meant . balm of ttettui ,,r jtu u 1m i tiu iK.ni tor ouiy m ,u H..ai fm. n4 tireta nywh.r. t-irvularafn. Auar.s MUMTIR A CO., H In. dale, N. H. 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