Aug. 27, 1896
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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The original article was so grand in all respects, if seen by you at the State Horticultural Fair at Denver last fall, you would simply have gone wild with enthusiasm, Not half so grand was the
display as spread out before you, nor half 'so great your enthusiasm as it would have been if you could walk forth into one of the heavily laden orchards of Colorado, and see what profitable returns the hus
bandman was receiving for his labor. Fruit growing is a pleasant occupation; no one will deny this fact, but HERE it is also PROFITABLE, so profitable indeed that an industrious man with a ten or twenty
acre orchard tract will receive for his year's labors not only HUNDREDS but THOUSANDS of dollars,
We grow to per
fection Apples, .
Peaches,
Pears,
Cherries,
Nectarines,
Grapes,
Quinces
and ail
Delicious
Fruits.
Some people imagine Colorado a mining state. True we are the first state in the Union for the production of Gold (the silver ore is stored away awaiting such a time as the market price will pay the melting' Bhutm). Tto"Jjj
productions of Colorado for the year 1895 was a little more than $50,000,000, the products of our irrigated farms over $51,000,000. We have in Colorado 12,500 miles of main irrigating canals, costing over $100,000,000 for mn"ri?.0""
There are 7,000 acres of bearing orchards in the state, bringing returns to thoir owners of $2,500,000 for the year 1895, or over $350 an acre. This is taking the state all over, and it mmt bo remembered that n many portions Irult Knowing w
attempted where it is not a sure success. Usuall an orchard ten years old will bring its owner from five hundred to a thousand dollars net each year per acre, and we know of many that have produced for several years past as mgn as iwo luou
rrr: "tiX uTlie proper way to prceed: Purchase a twenty-acre tract of land, at say $40 an acre, paying for the same one-fourth cash, the balance in one, two three, four and five years at 7 per cent Interest. Tlant tea i acres of th to"
a choice variety of fruit, which will cost you about $75 to $100. The balance should be used for alfalfa, vegetables, grain, etc., while all the ground between the trees may be used for a like purpose for the first two or tnree years, inis tana
planted to either alfalfa, potatoes, watermelons, strawberries or vegetables will bring you net returns, if properly cared for, of from $50 to $200 an acre the first year. . . v,u ,, nn h (n.rm
Why is fruit growing and farming in Colorado so productive and profitable? Simply because we have the beet soil, the best water supply, the best climate and the best markets to be found in the world. Everything grown on tne larms
find a ready market in the mining camps at the highest prices. 3 , , , . . f antrarra In fmit crowinir Ben
in order to assist you to such a home and fortune as we have just mentioned, we desire to know something about you; your age, number in your family, why you wish to change your location, if you wisn 10 "KU8 " b' 'iA'such
eral agriculture, mining, cattle and sheep raising, or what occupation you wish to follow; then we can send you such other information regarding climate, markets: soil, water supply, etc., all illustrated and described in sucn a manner uu uun
guarantees as will make you able to readily decide whether you wish to locate in Colorado or not. For full and reliable information, address at once, t ,
WE ARE OWNED BY ENGLAND.
A Farmer Makes Some Remarks on
the Fact.
How can Merchants Prosper when Profits
ICO to Foreign Investors ?
Osceola, Neb., Aug. 15, 1895.
As I received notice that my subscrip
tion to your paper had expired, I will
enclose the equivalent of a silver dollar
for another year's subscription. If you
think that this dollar is only worth 50
cents inform me by return mail and I
will mail you another.
From the trouble I experienced in get
ting this one, 1 thought it must be a 200
cent dollar instead of a twenty center
but even if it is, your advanced paper is
easily worth it.
A large and rapidly growing Bryan
club has been organized here with a brass
band and quartet.
The amount of reading and discussion
that is going on shows that the people
are alive to the issue.
The republican campaign has opened
in this county by . J. Hainer, J. L.
Webster and several of the state nomi
nees. The meeting was conspicuous by
the entire lack of enthusiasm and by the
fact that the speakers tried to talk tariff.
Many of the farmers here are greatly
agitated over the refusal of loan com
panies to renew mortgages without a
gold clause inserted. If this is a devise
that will take from them their farms and
homes at a more alarming rate than
that at which they are now disappear
ing they have every cause to be fright
ened. ,
While the republicans tell us to stand
up for Nebraska and to buy of our local
merchants thereby building np our own
state they do not realize that but six or
seven per cent of tho people of this state
own the homes where they live. They
disregard the fact that a great part of
the farms und property of this state is
owned by eastern and foreign corpora
tions who spend not a dollar in this
state of the proceeds of their property.
Why expect the protective tariff to
foster home industries when the proceeds
of 20,000,000 acres of America's most
fertile land are withdrawn annually by
foreign syndicates?
Why talk of preserving the home
market to our own manufacturers when
billions of dollars of English capital are
here invested in these' same industries
and the entire profit derived from these
billions is expended in England, not here?
The producing masses of this country
are by far the " heaviest buyers of our
manufactured articles. For the last few
years the agriculturalists havebeeusow
ing in the spring with the hopeless and
absolute certainty that they would be
poorer in the fall. It is no wonder that
our factories have stopped and the com
merce has vanquished.
If the gold standard is a good thing
then England should be a paradise for
the producing masses. But are its
masses tranquil? Are its agriculturalists
prosperous? -
The English parliament recently con
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The Colorado Immigration and Improvement Co,
sidered propositions to save her agricul
turists from extermination and the great
body of her working people are in a con
dition of agitation and unrest.
Of the 70,000.000 acres of land in that
kingdom 30,000,000 are owned by 1,
uuu men au.oou.uuu by li.uuu more
and the remainder is distributed
among 28,000.000 inhabitants. Ger
many, Austria and all gold standard
countries present parallel cases. There
is not a gold country on the face of the
earth which is not suffering such com
mercial and industrial stagnation as is
unprecedented in modern times nor is
there a silver using country in the world
that is not enjoying a period of progress
and developement unparalleled in its bis
tory.
Historians agree that the support of
a nation in times of peace and her de
fense in times of war are her agricultural
classes, and historians agree that when
these pass away the nation falls.
Yet strange as it may seem you find
no nation in the past that has legislated
in such a way as to foster or protect
this class of her citizens. On the con
trary each nation of the past seems to
have considered it her divine right and
duty to rob and fleece and throw the en
tire burden of taxation together with
the necessity of fighting the wars they
may incur upon her agrarian population.
The United States presents an excep
tion to this rule. One has simply to
look about him in this state, scarcely a
quarter of a century old and which
should be in the strength and vigor of
youth aud note the appalling rate at
which the farms of the pioneers who
drove the red men and the buffalo from
the desert and made it to blossom as
the rose, are passing from their hands.
The reason is presented when we learn
that but one member of the United
States senate is a farmer while almost
all the rest are representatives of the
creditor classes or their closest allies the
lawyers.
The agricultural and in fact all pro
ducing classes are debtors. They must
secure capital at usurious rates in order
to promote those enterprises which
make civilization.
As I said before legislation has never
favored the debtor but occasionally
natural causes do; such large discover
ies of the precious metals or the neces
sity of a nation to issue paper money.
This makes money plentiful, raises the
price of products, makes the vote of in
terest less burdensome and yields large
returns for labor. Whenever and wher
ever these conditions have existed j ou
will find a cheerful chapter of history.
But the creditor classes have found an
effective expedient to check the benifl
cent influences of a large yield of the
precious meeals, the demonetization of
one of them.
When the farmer asks that silver be
restored so that he may feed his wife and
little ones, against him is hurled the
most terrible word of the English lan
guageanarchy. A subsidized press
raises a cry that the credit and honor of
the country must be sustained.
Have these creditors cornered the pa
triotism and honor of the country along
with the gold and everything else?. Why
are these people so solicitous for ibe
honor and credit of the country tob
pstained when it is notorious that they
are the only ones who are trying to de
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stroy the one and weaken the other?
I think it is the old "stop thief!" cry
raised to divert attention from them
selves. This conduct bo cowardly and un
patriotic, when all the country was
unanimous for a firm stand upon the
Venezuelian matter will long be remem
bered against them. 1 N
In conclusion let me ask you to con
trast the universal distress and suffering
in gold standard countries with the unpre
cedented activity and progress enjoyed by
all silver using countries. Let me ask you
to note that whenever natural causes,
for legislation never has, have favored
the producing or debtor classes that the
world has advanced more in one decade
than in an entire century when the cred
itor classes have held sway.
Sentiments of a Polk Co.. Farmer.
Monej! Make it Yourself.
I bare never seen anything in the DSDersabont
the People's Wind Mill; we call it the "People's"
because the Inventor never patented it. but let
everybody-one It tree. Any farmer can make a
mill himself, and all the material complete will
not cost over $10. It is a splendid mil), will pump
the deepest veils, and will last longer than any
mill I ever had. Any person can itet diagrams
and complete directions free, as I did, by sending
18 two-cents stamps to pay postasv.etc,, to E, D.
Wilson A Co., Allegheny, Pa. Wilson Co sell
pumps, and when you get yonr wind mill going
wouiu De giaa to sen you a pump II you need it.
It Is certainly useless to pay 50 or $80 for a
wind mill, when you can make one Just as good
for $10, I think there could be big money made
putting these mills np through the country as
everybody would like them, A. Kbaoeb,
Postal Savings Banks.
I have corresponded with a large num
ber of congressmen concerning the need
for postal savings banks, stating that
practically all the rest of the civilized
world has them, and put the question,
"Why should we not have them?" In
reply, Congressman W. W. Bowers, of
San Diego, Cat., incloses his "postal
savings bill," which he says has been
pending in congress for four years, aud
he writes: "The bankers and sharks
don't want any postal savings system.
That's the answer to your 'Why not?' "
In England these institutions were es
tablished in 4-861, in Canada, in 1763; in
Austria-Hungary, in 1883; and they
have also been established in France
Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Ger
many, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzer
Irnd, India, Ceylon, Finland, Japan,
Argentina, Australia, New Zealand,
Hawaii and Trinidad. But, doctors of
the United States of America, you and
your clients can't have them, because
the "bankers don't want them!" Mer
chants, you can't have them, because
the bankers don't want them! Farmers,
you can't have them because the bank
ers don't want them! Mechanics, you
can't have postal savings banks in which
to place securly your savings, because
the bankers say that you must deposit
with their insitutions, if anywhere. Vot
ers, however much you may dekire the
benefit these institutions would be to
the masses of the people and to tho gov
ernment, you can t have tbem because
the private bankers don't want you to
have them. How do you like it? What
are you going to do about it? This is a
free country for the bankers and other
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privileged classes; If they think postal
savings banks would be against their
personal interests, they can prevent the
people irom Having tnem!
These institutions would place a sav
ings bank with absolute security within
the easy reach of every citizen of this
great country. How it would bonefit
the people and you, doctor is so appar
ent that it need not be explained. Rich
men put their spare money in U.S. bonds
for safety and interest; poor men should
have the opportunity to place their sav
ings into U. S. banks.
Actors are a very superstitious and
cautious class of people. They don't like
to trust the average savings bang. I
understand that it is their habit, to go
to the nearest money order postollice
and with the portion of their salary that
they can spare, buy a money order pay
able to themselves in New York. Then
when the season is over (winding up in
New York), they collect these money
orders whenever they want money. Thus
the P. O. department is really their
banker, aud the money orders' are really
certificates of deposit. So you see how
near we have this system already; but
the depositor has to pay for making a
deposit; no interest is allowed; payment
is made at a different place from the de
posit and presumably to a different
person. Change these features and the
thing is done.
A citizen with a bank account is a bet
ter, steadier and more industrious and
sober citizen than one without a bank
account; and if the United States is his
banker, he is a more patriotic citizen
Dr. C. F. Taylor in The Medical World.
Hair Ef stored to Natural Color.
I have used many preparations for restoring
hair to natural color, but never had satisfactory
results till I nsed Zulu Vuller; It will restore any
hair or beard to i's natural color In three weeks.
If it does not they return your money, so tou
take no risks. People who have never tried it
can get a sample package which contains enough
to restore any one's hair to natural color by
sending 21 two-cent stamps, to pay postage, etc,
10 uson t io new oncora, unio.
The regular price is S2.50 Der nackntre. If It
does not restore jnnr hair to natural color, or
make any color of hair tiarker in three weeks
they will return yonr stamps. This proposition
Is so fair that thousands are using it. It is harm
less, but never fa Is. Why can't big money be
made by selling Zulu Vuller from house to bouse.
Oregon for Bryan.
Monroe, Oregon, August 17, 189G.
Editor Independent: Seeing that my
subscription for the Independent has
expired, I enclose postal order for an
other years subscription. It seems al
most impossible to get money here, it
almost works a hardship to pay for a
paper, but the paper cannot live to plead
the people's cause unless it has support.
If more people would support the peo
ple's papers and read those papers stud
iously, there would soon be less difficulty
in getting dollars, and the newspapers
would not be in such narrow straits
Too many persons are heedless of the
editor's needs. Long live the Indepen
dent, the fearless exponent of the com
mon people's cause.
We are delighted to learn of the growth
of our cuuse in old Nebraska, and of the
interest and enthusiasm elsewhere, and
we do not mean to be outdone here. This
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Ourtls Street, 23X31 VXJJH,
is the land of republican silver ' leagues,
In this community. Bryan will receive
nearly three votes to McKinley's one.
The Capital Journal, .one of the most
able republican papers in the state, is
outspoken and fearless In its advocacy
of free silver and Bryan, n. u. uarsiey,
the peerless orator and champion pf the
people's riarhts. who is one of the repub
lican candidates elected to the legislature
at the recentelection, has just proclaimed
that he will immediately take the stump
for Bryan. Other legislators are quiet
workers for the silver cause, and others
will be in the open field ere the canvass
has advanced far. ihe venerable Jus
tice Wm. Kelly of this town has an
nounced himself for the silver ticket
Judge Howell and Judge Luckey of Ash
land, acquaintances oi the writer s are
out championing the Bryan movment,
and so it goes. There are few populists
here so "middle of the road that they
will not stand firmly by their cause; in
fact, we know of none in this vicinity.
Bryan is the hero of the hour in this part
of the country. . Oregon will De along
side of Nebraska when the ides of Novem
ber have come. Yours enthusastically,
A. C. Guthrie.
Another Smart Woman-
- My husband Is poor but proud and he does
not want me to work. As I have nothing to do
I get restless, and after reading In your paper
Mr. Russell's experience selling self-hearing flat
irons I concluded I would try It. 1 wrote to J.
P. Casey ft Co.. St. Louis, Mo., and tbey treated
me so nicely that I felt very much encouraged.
As soon as I got my sample iron I started out.
and sold 8 irons the first day clearing 1 12. I have
not sola less than 8 any day since, and one day
sold 17. Inow have t226 clear monev. andmr
husband does not k;ow I have been working at
an, put am afraid he will bs mad when I tell
Mm. Havel done right or should t quit work
and leave bira to strnggle alone.
An Anxious Wife.
Too are doing Just right, your husband should
be proud of yon, go ahead and show the world
what an energetic woman ran do. That self
beating Iron must be a wonderful seller, as we
bear of so many that are succeeding selling It.
The HIgh-Prlced Dollar.
The money power and the subsidized
press are trying to make the people be
lieve that times never were better in this
country, and as proof they cite you to
the fact that "the dollar will buy more
now than it ever would before."
That is just what is the matter with
the country today. The dollar buys too
much. It buys too much of the farm
er's corn, wheat and oats. It buys too
many pounds of his hogs and cattle.
It buys too many pounds of the dairy
man's butter and cheese. It buys too
many yards of the merchant's calico,
too many pounds of his sugar and ail
other classes of his goods; and this is
the secret of so many commercial fail
ures. It buys too many hours of the
laboring men and merchants' time. In
fact it buys too much of everything that
is for sale on the market, and at the
same time buys no more tax receipts,
interest coupons and debts, than it did
when it bought less of labor aud its pro
ducts. If all the debts of the nation the in
terest, taxes and salaried . officers had
been reduced in just proportion to labor
and its products, then all would have
been well. But such was not the cose.
There is one class of men who own
You never heard of
such prices. Best
Irrigated Improved
Fruit Land in Colo
rado from $40 to $60
per acre; best unim
proved from $30 to
$40. Perpetual wat
er rights from be3t
canals. We own and
control over 100,
000 acres of irrigat
ed land.
nothing bat debts and dollars, and they
have been scheming, shrewd, and dis
honest enough to go into the hallo of
our congress and with the use of their
money, bribed oar representatives to
pass such laws as demonetizing silver,
resuming specie payment, refunding the
public debt, and in other ways contract
ing the currencyall of which was done
in order to make the dollar buy more
now than before. v
Every article on the market is the pro
duct of some man or woman's labor.and
if it takes a large amount of it to get a
dollar, that is the proof that they are
working too cheap, and that the high
priced dollar benefits nobody bat the
man who owns debts and dollars.
The nation, the state, and the individ
ual are in debt, and got in when the pro
ducts of the country would bring twice
as much money as they will now, or in
other words, when dollars were plenty
and easy to get. These debts, which
now amount to thirty billions of dollars,
and the interest on them, must be paid
with dollars obtained with labor and its
products, and those who owe the debts
and they are nine ont of ten of the peo
pleshould legislate so as to increase
the purchasing power of what they have
to se't rather than to increase the pur
chasing power of the dollar. This ftan
be done by reversing the process that
gave the dollar its present purchasing
power. Namely, by increasing the
amount of money in circulation to what
it was before the deadly work of con
tracting began in 1866.
The independent party proposes to do
this very thing if the people will help
them into power by voting the ticket
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Mrs. Thonias E. Watson.
A romantic story is told of the wife of
Thomas E. Watson, populist nominee for
vice-president. After one of the battles
of the Civil war a richly dressed baby
was found among the dead and wounded.
No parentscameto claim thechild. They
say that father and mother bad perished
in the strife. It is not known whether
they were on the northern or southern
side. But a southern soldier and his
wife took the child they had found and
cared for her as their own. The years
passed and the little girl grew to be a
handsome and cultivated lady. Then
young Tom vvatson, tarmer, lawyer,
married her. and they udve lived hap
pily ever Bince. N. Y. Independent.
Tillman Pays a visit to Watson.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17. A special to
the Journal' from Thomson, Ga., says
that Senator B. R. Tillman of south Car
olina arrived there at noon yesterday
and was met at the depot by Hon. Thos.
K. Watson, the populist vice presioen-
al nominee. The senator went imme
diately to the Watson home, dined with
the candidate and, and remained as his
guest until midnight when he left on the
Georiria train bound for Atlanta. Dur-
ine the afternoon Tillman and Watson
were privately closeted in Watson s
study.
In clubs of ten or more campaign
subscriptions lOo eaoh. No com
mission allowed.