THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
March 5, 1896.
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One more year of Grover.
You can't vote for a populist without
voting for a silver man.
Tub phrase "shell out" comes down to
ns from the days when shells were a le
gal tender.
All our great railroad systems are
owned in England. Every raise in rates
is an increase in our tribute to foreign
ers. If increasing debt is not stopped
in this country we will soon be in the
condition of Egypt. The interest charge
will consume everything that labor can
produce.
The economists in England do not de
ny that the fall in prices is caused by the
demonetization of silver, but they say
England is a creditor nation and gains
by falling prices.
Thb Independent is down on Tillman.
Be has been slandering the man who
who sold his master by referring to the
great southern traitor as "the Judas
from Kentucky."
Joe Blackburn has promised to sup
port a goldbug for president. He will
probably be re-elected now. The free sil
yeritesof Kentucky, are thus made the
most efficient fighters in the gold bug
ranks.
The republicans bought out the popu
list paper at Stanton, and now the pop
ulists fyiive organized a stock company
and started another, which makes the
editor of the republican paper in that
town very weary.
When Dr. John Hall introduced the
syphilitic, drunken debauchee of the
white house and installed him as chair
man of a home missionary meeting in
New York, he may have thought that he
would, in that way, increase the contri
butions to his church. He will learn in
the end that he made a mistake.
The demo-reps elected a sheriff of
Wayne county. One of his first acts was
to take a deputy and call out a school
teacher whom the two proceeded to
thrash. The two officers were then called
up aud fined f 10 and f 15 respectively.
What a gret thing the people of Wayne
county did wi.sn they downed the popu
list party!
The last three or lour presidential
campaigns have been sham fights over
the tariff and other side issues but
the one now on is of entirely a dif
ferent kind. There will be no blank
cartridges fired. No marching up hil
and down again. It will be shoot to kill
every time. Is your gun loaded, your
knapsack, haversack and canteen filled?
In the intellectual feast served up by
the hundred columns in the dailies, one
must take his choice between the wordy
war going on between Corbett, Fitzsim
mons and Maher, and that between the
rival candidates for the republican nomi
nation for president. Any fair or com
petent critic will say that the Corbett
Fitzsimmons stuff is the best literature.
Pbof. J. W. J enrs says: "The strong
est argument of the bimetallists and free
silver advocates i. e., that the apprecia
tion of gold is the chief cause of the in
dustrial depression under which the world
is Buffering has lost much of its force in
the minds of the people since the revival
of business in the last few months has
been so marked." That is pretty fair
lying for a literary hireling.
The State Journal says the railroads
didn't raise the rates at all, instead of
that they lowered them, and that is
what the cattle men and farmers in the
north and west part of the state are
howling about. Old Truthful Is getting
down to business in the old style again.
What an up-to-date, intelligent set of
persons its readers must bel
A paper comes to this office headed
Nebraska r. A. & 1. T., which we sup
pose means Farmers' Alliance and In
dustrial Union. What puzzles us is, that
it seems to be fighting the platform re
cently promulgated by that order. We
call the editor's attention to that
platform published in this edition of The
Independent, with the hope that he will
stand by it.
Ol'B HOMK1.EH SILVER FRIENDS.
The Independent is for uniting with
any one and every one who will unite
with the populist party to down the
money power, but we want to say a
word to the newly converted who are
going to hold a convention in St. Louis
at the same time as the populists. You
have at last conceded to be true what
the populists have been telling you for
the last four years, L ., that monetary
reform could never be obtained in either
of the old parties. When that fact ap
peared to us as plain as the nose on a
man's face, you were so infernally stupid
mat you couia not see it. How, it is
possible that you may be just as stupid
about comprehending some other things
that are just as plain to us as that was.
But as you have proved yourselves hon
est and patriotic, notwithstanding you
were a little dull of comprehension, we
are willing to take your hand, and trust
that you can understand some other
things about which you seem to be very
much muddled in your ideas.
Populism is a system, perfect in all its
parts. You have come to understand
one part of it pretty well. You have no
other friend on earth than the populist
party. All others are your natural ene
mies. You are houseless and homeless.
We open the door of our mansion and
ask you to come in. We will treat you
as honored guests. But if you give us
notice that when you get in you will
kick the wife and children out and sit at
the head of the table, it will maketrouble
in the family. We will give you theguest
chamber, and it is the best room in the
house. We will Bervo you first, of the
very best we have, but, by the eternal,
the wife and children shall stay in there
too.
Most of you are real good, honest fel
lows and, being gentlemen, know what is
good manners. But there are a few
among you who have so recently cut the
society of thieves and robbers that they
are hardly file to be admitted to good so
ciety just yet. You must give, between
now and July 22d, these chaps some in
struction, or they will make themselves
offensive and spoil the harmony of the
occasion.
We bid you welcome to a regenerated
pnblic service, a prosperous country, and
a happy people, all composing one great
American family of the free.
IT WAS VERY PITIFUL.
Hon. G. W. Lambertson delivered an
address last week to the University Econ"
omic Club. There was never a more piti
ful sight in this world than to see this
man, evidently perfectly honest, sitting
there, denying every fundamental princi
ple laid down by the standard economists.
doing it in almost every sentence and
honestly thinking that he was teaching
economics to the Btudcnts of the State
University.
Mr. Lambertson gravely asserted that
since 1879 there had been, in the United
States the most enormous and constant
increase in the amount of money in cir
culation that the world had ever seen,
and that the chief cause of our present
distress was a redundant circulation.
He denied the constitutional right of
the government to issue money. He de
manded the retirement and destruction
of the greenbacks, and said that Sher
man's plan to impound or lock them up
in the treasury would not do at all.
Mr. Lambertson, poor fellow, thinks he
has been studying economics, because he
has been reading the gold bug literature
of the Reform club. In fact, his talk of
an hour was nothing but a rehash of that
club's latest publication.
His statistics and his quotations from
Chase, Conklin and others were all taken
from it. If Mr. Lambertson will look up
the orignal records he will see that only
one of all those quotations was not
garbled, and that the Reform club led
him to appear extremely silly before a
body of men.who knew at least a little of
the science of political economy as taught,
by Mill, McLeod, Adam Smith, Jevon
and Francis A. Walker.
Mr. Lambertson did not even seem to
know that Secretary Carlisle had recently
publicly stated that in the figures that
he, Mr. Lambertson was relying up
on, there were grave errors, in thatt
gold certificates and the gold they repre.
sented, had both been counted.
However grave the errors Mr. Lam
bertsonso solemnly announced asscien.
tific truth, no one could feel angry at
him, but there sat near him the head of
the department of economics of the State
University 01 xseorasKa, wno, wnue prou
ably ashamed to make such statements
himself in public, constantly puts up
such men to teach economics and never
gives any one the opportunity to deliver
a lecture in which economics can be illus
trated as taught by the scientists who
wrote the standard works on that sub
ject, aud the farmers are paying his sal
ary by raising ten cent oats and twelve
cent corn.
The farmers of this state want the Uni
versity to be kept at the highest stan-
dard. They are willing to tax themselves
to the limit of endurance to do it, espec
ially the populist farmers, but they want
the students taught science.
It seems almost incredible that a man
would be allowed, without a word of
protest or correction from the head of
the department of economics to gravely
state to the University students that an
enormous and heretofore unheard of in
crease in the volume of money had re
sulted in a constant reduction of the
general level of prices, or in other words,
the irreater the amount of money we
hae the dearer it becomes. Mr. Lam
lt,a atoll-
U T, MAID V
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bertson's economics teaches that an in
crease in the supply of money increases
the purchasing power of each one of its
units, and the pity of it is, he honestly
believes it.
OUTWITTED PLUTOCRATS.
When it comes to beating the schemes
of the politicians put up to fool the peo
ple, there has been no man in the senate
for twenty years who baa shown such
good judgment and foresight as W. Y,
Allen. The plutocrats in conclave had
resolved to manufacture a boom for pa
triotism, and while the people were car
ried away with that, complete the legis
lation that would forever make them
slaves of the money power. Allen walked
into the senate, and almost the first day
of the session stole all of their thunder
by making a speech on the Monroe doc-
trine that took all the wind out of their
sails.
Their plan of "pressing the point of
patriotism in the coming campaign," as
Hon. John L. Webster put it, was com
pletely spoiled by this little maneuver on
the part of Allen.
Then they were going to make extrav
agant appropriations so as to hold
solid the old soldier vote. Allen killed
that plan with one blow by making a
speech on pensions that was immediately
indorsed by every honest old soldier in
the country.
Then they were going to the country
on the plan that they were for free silver
and protection, but that they could do
nothing in the senate because there
publicans did not have a majority there.
Allen knocked this plan into smithereens
in two minutes by rising to his feet in
the senate and saying that if the republi
cans wanted free silver and protection
they could have it then and there, as
every populist in the senate would vote
with the republicans on that proposition
and give them a majority.
This last blow from Allen's big fist
made the whole republican party tremble
on its legs. Then they began to say:
"Well, if we can't eiect a majority of the
presidential electors, we can throw the
election of president in the house, and
we've got the house."
If Senator Allen never does anything
more, the producing classes of this
country owe him an unpayable debt of
gratitude for !)he courage, sound judg
ment and wisdom with which he has
made the fight for their interests at this
session of congress.
The wiliest old-time managers of the
old parties have been outmaneuvered by
this new statesman from the west.
WHY SILVER DOLLARS ARE AT PAR.
The republicans still go around saying
that the only reason that a silver dollar
is at par with a gold dollar, is because
any man can go to the treasury and get
gold for them. Most of them know they
are lying when they say it. This paper
has a standing offer to pay $100, to any
man who will point out the statute that
provides for redemption of silver dollars
or silver certificates in gold. No one has
ever called for the money.
Why then are silverdollars, containing
little over fifty cents worth of silver, worth
100 cents in gold? One reason is because
they are a full legal tender except where
gold is stipulated in the contract,
That alone would make them par in this
country but it would not make them par
outside of the jurisdiction of the United
States.
But American silver dollars are at par
in London and every other mart of trade
ju the civilized world, and they only con
tain about fifty cents worth of silver and
are not redeemable in any other kind of
dollars. Why? Because this country
has a large foreign trade.
If an iingiishman, a frenchman or a
German has 1000 silver dollars he will
not take less than the face value for them
less the cost of sending them to this
country, as loner as he can send them
here, and buy corn, wheat, beef, pork,
cotton, pretroleum and a hundred other
things that be wants and must have.
There is another reason why he would
not take less. He has goods to sell in
this country and he could take the silver
and pay the import duties with them
These are the reasons why the silver dol
lar with about fifty cents worth of silver
in it is at par with gold. If it had only
ten cents worth or one cents worth, or if
it had no bullion or commodity value at
all, it would still beat par, provided that
there were not too many of them.
The reason why a Mexican silver dol
lar with more silver in it than the Ameri
can dollar, is not at par is because
Mexico has little or no foreign trade.
If an Englishman has a thousand Mexi
can silver dollars what can he do with
them? Mexico has but few things that he
wants and must have. If Mexico had
for sale five or six hundred mil
lion dollars worth of raw mater
ial which the English, French and
Germans must have to feed their
people and run their factories, the Mexi
can silver dollar would very quickly be
at par.
The next time a republican tells you
that a silver dollar is redeemable in any
other kind of dollar, tell him, if he is
about your size, that he is a liar.
About a hundred sacks of goldbug lit
erature was mailed from the state house
last week. It is manufactured in Wall
street and sent here and distributed by
the republican boodlers. Wall street
pays the till. The farmers of Nebraska
ought toKO into perpetual servitude if
thev are voted with such stuff as that
ley b,, .-.X
Paine, Warfel & ttumsteaa. Bo. Jutu
SUPPLIES FOR THB ENEMY.
You have learned to reason and to or
ganize. A'oir you must learn to fight
We are going into a contest where no
quarter will be given. We shall meet a
well trained foe who has studied polit
ical strategy for years. Every deception
that the acutest iatellect can invent will
be practiced npon you. They will seek to
drive you into indefensible positions, to
lure you into traps, to divide and beat
you in detail. They will slander, betray,
they will in fact do everything to win
this fight. It is grim, savage war this
time.
There are some things that populists
have been doing that they must stop do
ing. One of them is, yon must not fur'
nish supplies to the enemy. One of our
bitterest foes is the State Journal com
pany. It is not an honorable opponent
It does not, as every populist knows,
fight an honorable warfare. Yet popu
lists furnish supplies to keep that enemy
in the field. If populist support were
withdrawn from that company it is
doubtful if it could stand six months.
Populist county officers send it the
blank book and other work on which it
lives. Populist papers (a few) advertise
it. It lives and fights by reason of this
support. Withdraw it and thjs organ
izer of boodle, this defender of public
thieves, this champion of the money
power would die unless supported by the
direct contributions of the corporations
and the banks.
If the support given to it by populists
was given to a state populist paper, the
fight is won. If county officers, if the
state institutions under populist control
gave all their work to their own paper
instead of turning it over to various re
publican houses, they might put it into
thirty thousand homes in six months.
To do what has been and is being done
is to furnish supplies to the enemy in
time of war.
You cannot fight an armed foe un
armed. You must know the position
and objective point of the enemy. You
can only learn this through your own
paper. The enemy will not furnish you
these facts. You must get them from
your friends. Put this alert, watchful
friend in every populist household in the
state and you will have something to
fight with. You will make it possible
for you and your children to have some
thing of life's comforts and luxuries.
NO CHILD'S PLAY HEREAFTER.
It is now no child's play to save the
principles of Jefferson from total over
throw in this nation. The principles of
Jefferson are the definitions and axioms
of free society. One dashingly calls them
"glittering generalities," another calls
them self-evident lies," and others insid
iously argue that they apply to "super
ior races." These expressions, differing
in form, are identical in object and effect
the supplanting of free government,
and restoring those of classification,
caste and legitimacy. They would de
light a convocation of crowned heads
plotting against the people. They are
the vanguard, the miners and sappers of
returning despotism. We must repulse
them or they will subjugate us.
(Is notthat a pretty good populistedi
torial? Well, it is stolen, every word of it,
from a letter written by Abraham Lincoln
to II. L. Pierce of Boston, Mass., dated at
Springfield, 111., April G, 1879, and can
be found in The Complete Works of
Abraham Lincoln, by Nicolay and Hay,
page 533.)
However, that is not all of the good,
populist doctrine in that letter. Mr.
Lincoln further said of Jefferson: "All
honor to Jefferson to the man who, in
the concrete struggle for national inde
pendence, had the coolness, forecast, and
capacity to introduce into a merely rev
olutionary document, an abstract truth,
applicable to all men and all times, and
to so embalm it there that today, and in
all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and
a stumbling block to the very harbingers
of re-appearing tyrrany . and oppres
sion." Then Mr. Lincoln tells a story about
two men whom he saw fighting. Both
had heavy overcoats on. At the end of
the scrap each had fought himself into
fhe others overcoat, and shows how the
republicans of that period had adopted
wholly the principles of Jefferson, and
the democrats those of the federalists.
He adds:
"The democracy of today(1859) holds
the liberty of one man to be sbsolutely
nothing when in conflict with another
man's right of property; republicans, on
the contrary, are for both the man and
the dollar, but in case of conflict, the
man before the dollar."
It seems today (1896) that the repub
lican party has got the old democratic
overcoat of 1859 on, and holds the
rights of man as nothing when they come
in conflict with property, or what is now
more frequently called capital.
Abraham Lincolnl we fought for you,
we voted for you, and we wept for you
when you were cruelly murdered. We
still hold to the truths you taught, and
shall fight for them while life lasts.
A FABULOUS FLOOD OF GOLD.
The magazines and the dailies again
tell wondrous stories about the fabulous
finds of gold in all parts of the world,
and they pretend to tremble in every
joint at the thought of this overwhelm
ing "flood of gold." They think they
can persuade a million or so of simple
tons to Btay in the "old party" by this
sort of lying.
It would not make a particle of differ
ence to the prodHcing classes if unnura
Dl.
bend tons of gold should be found or if
very mine in the world should shut down,
as long as the money power controls
legislation. If there should be an enor
mous output of gold they would demon
etize it, as several nations did when the
output from California and Australia
was so great.
The leaders of the money power are all
thorough economists. They do not de
lude themselves with "intrinsic value"
iaeae. xney Know tnat money is, as
Aristotle said, "not by nature, but by
law." They don't care whether money
is made of gold, silver, tin, paper, or
anything else. AH they are concerned
about is to bo limit its quantity that it
will constantly grow dearer. If gold
should become so plentiful as to begin to
grow cheap, it wouldn't be long until
they would begin to talk about "the
nasty yellow stuff," as they did once be-
before, and they would take up some
thing that was scarcer aud harder to get
to make the dollars of.
There is no safety for the producing
masses but to control the government
It is for them to say whether money
shall be scarce and dear or plentiful and
cheap; whether it shall take ten bushel
of oats or five to buy a dollar; whether
it shall take 100 bushels of wheat to pay
their taxes and interest, or whether it
shall take only twenty-five bushels and
have the other seventy-five bushels left
with which to supply their wants. It is
not a question of gold, or silver.or paper
dollars. It is a question of the number
of dollars, and who shall say how many
there shall be.
GREAT BRITAIN'S POPULIST.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who is now
the real head of the British Empire, re
cently said that the key note of his whole
career was: "That all monopolies, which
are sustained in any way by the state,
ought to be in the hands of the repre
sentatives of the people, by whom they
should be administered, and to whom
their profit should go," from which it
seems that the rankest kind of a popu
list is in charge of the British govern
ment. Mr. Chamberlain began his career by
securing the enactment into law of his
theories. He began in Birmingham and
carried through four schemes.
1. The town bought op the gas works, which
now represent a capital account of $11,150,000 re"
ducing tbe price of gag from 75 cents to 26 and
S5 cents, and making an annual profit of $ 150,
000.
2. The town bought up the water works, pay
ing over $272,455 per annum to the shareholders.
The result was tbe creation of a property valued
at $ll,000,000,the Improvement of the supply and
the rednctlon of water rents by $149,170 per an
num.
S. The town bought up the central slums, bor
rowing $7,000,000 for the purpose, and construct
ed Corporation street through the Improved
area. The area was rebuilt on leases of 75 years.
When they fall In Birmingham will be tbe richest
borough In the world.
4. Birmingham formed a drainage nnlon with
surrounding towns and established a model
sewerage farm of 1,200 acres In the Tame valley.
It cost $2,000,000 to lay out the farm, and It cost
$275,000 to work it.
Notwithstanding all the benefits con
ferred upon the people, the tax rate is
less than it was thirty years ago. That
is what one populist has done in Eng
land. Of course he is a bimetallist also.
SATAN COULDN'T BEAT IT.'
There is but one full legal tender money
in the United States at this time. The
gold dollar is an unlimited legal tender
and nothing else is. There are nine
different kinds of money in circulation,
some with no legal tender power and
others which are legal tender in various
amounts. It is the worst financial
hotchpoch any civilized nation ever had
thrust upon it. It was all evolved out
of the brains of that "wonderful financier,
John Sherman." Gold is an unlimited
legal tender. The standard silver dol
lar is a legal tender for all debts pub
lic and private "except where otherwise
expressly stipulated in the contract."
Greenbacks area legal tender for all
debts, public and private, except import
duties and interest on the public debt;
treasury notes (issued under the Sher
man law) are a legal tender for all debts
public and private "except where other
wise expressly stipulated in thecontract";
silver certificates are "recivable for
customs, taxes and all public dues," but
are not a legal tender for private debt.
Copper, nickel and subsidiary silver coins
are legal tender for small amounts, and
that is the hotchpotch that John Sher
man has given us, which is puffed to the
skies by the goldite dailies as "the best
financial system tha world ever saw,
The devil himself couldn't have invented
anything worse.
EARTH'S GREATEST LIAR.
February 24th, between 1 and 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, old John Sherman
arose in the'senate and said:
"There Is no poverty In this country, no un
willingness to pay taxes, no reason why taxes
should not be levied." Congressional Record,
page 2405.
This is the man whom the daily press
and republican leaders constantly laud,
praise and glorify as America's greatest
statesman, patriot, and financier. If
the Father of Lies can beat, or ever has
beaten that statement, history has never
made record of the fact.
"There is no poverty in this country!"
John ShermanI The prize is yours. You
are the greatest liar ever found in heaven,
hell or earth. You shall have the blue
ribbon and the gold medal, and if you
will only die quick, we will contribute to
raise a monument to your memory, on
which shall be inscribed: "Sacred to the
memory of earth's greatest liar, Requiea-
cat in pace,"
f EN A TOR TELLER.
Senator Teller will the day when be
will bitterly regret tbe part he played
in the last campaign. All dictates of
I'WIlVlbOt VUIUUIUU Dvlllru UIgUU U I 111 LU
take the step that Stewart and Jones
took two years ago. Neither he nor his
state have anything in common with the
plutocrats of the east, yet he stuck to
their party organization, went home and
secured the election of a man to the sen
ate who had not one sentiment in his
heart in accord with the common people.
Walcott is a plutocrat of tbe plutocrats.
Teller now finds that the men "with
whom he has so long associated, openly
insult and deride him. It would have
been much more dignified and much pleas
anter for Mr. Teller to have walked out
of the party in '93 than to be kicked out
in '96.
WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT MORALS.
If John Sherman should take a $ 1,000
bond, and by skillful forgery make it
read $2,000, even the ordinary gold bug
would admit that he had committed a
criminal act. The $1,000 bond would..
at present prices, be of about the value-
of 2,000 bushels of wheat, but if John
raised it to $2,000 it would be of the-
value of 4,000 bushels of wheat. All the
gold bugs would admit that that would
be stealing.
On the other hand, if John Sherman.
by legislation, should make that bond,,
which is only worth 2,000, worth 4,000
bushels of wheat, all the cold hnaa
would say that was patriotism. That's
all a gold bug knows about morals.
OF COURSE THEY WILL.
A Washington dispatch of February 27,
says:
Nebraska Republicans insist that the sound
money element in that state Is largely in the as
cendancy. The republicans are mainly for sound
money and from 15,000 to 20,000 democrats. It was
said would vote the republican ticket If the dem
ocratlc party committed Itself to a declaraton
favoring the free coinage of silver.
Well why should'nt they? Did any one
ever say that they would not That
news is about three years old. Gold bug
democrats have been voting the republi
can ticket in this state to a very great
extent for several years. The party or
ganization has only been maintained in
the interest of the republicans. The As
sociated press is a grand old concern-
News three years old will do it just as
well as plain lying.
The Southern Mercury is still fighting
all the constituted authorities of tbe-
people's party, both in its own state and
the nation at large, while still claiming
to be a populist paper. An editor,
among the sheep who follow the bosses
in the old parties, is supposed to know
it all, but among the intelligent men
who vote the populist ticket no such -
sentiment, exists. The populist party
cannot be bossed by editors any more-
tbanitcan be by office holders. It is
time the Southern Mercury had learned
that fact.
We gather from the numerous ex
changes that come to this office that at
last the people of the state are becom
ing fully aroused. Meetings are befng
held every where in the smaller cities
and towns to discuss the situation.
Everywhere the people seem to be of the-
same mind, and that is that the con
traction of the currency has caused the-
fall in prices and the present distress.
There was one held in Central City last
week, of which a good report was made-
in the Democrat.
The republicans have come down a.
good many pegs in their claims to
sweeping the whole country clean. They
don't feel so very certain about it now
as they did a few weeks ago. They say
now that they can throw the election
into the house, and then tbey will have
it all their own way. They are begin
ning to acknowledge that there is a big
fight on hand. A good deal of arro
gance has been taken out of them, and a
good deal more wfll be before the cam
paign is over.
Senator Chandler thinks that if he
could only get Allen out of the senate
the republicans of that body might have
some peace. His exact words were: "If
the senator from Nebraska should be
taken away from this body by reason of
his candidacy as the representative of
that party for the presidency, we should
endeavor to get along with the reduced
number of populists in this chamber."
Wk greet No. 1 of the Norfolk Inde
pendent, a populist paper, with best
wishes for its ultimate success. It is a
bright, readable paper and will help
along in the work of redeeming Ne
braska. How to Sow Alfalfa.
The above is the title of a little tract
published by McBeth & Kinnison, Gar
den City, Kansas, the leading growers
and dealers in alfalfa in the United
States. It contains valuable informa
tion concerning the growing and har
vesting of this "King of Forage Plants"
which is train inc such a. hold nn tha ot.
tention of farmers and is solving the
problem of profitable farming in this
western country. It will be mailed free
to anyone writing for it. The attention
of farmers and dealers who desire to pur
chase pure alfalfa seed is directed lo the
advertisement of this firm in The IJnde
penent, This firm has a recognized
standing, and is a reputable one.
