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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1889.
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VOL. I.
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Editorial Notes and Clippings.
x Clubbing Rates.
To those of our readers who might
wish to take a Daily newspaper one
whose opinions are its own, fearless
and outspoken, we would say that we
have made arrangements witn the pub
lishers of the Daily Call, of this city,
whereby we can furnish their Daily
and The Alliance at $6 per year.
Or, The Alliance and Weekly Call,
one year for $1,50. The weekly Call
is a 6 col. quarto well tilled with good
family reading. This is an excellent
chance to get two papers for nearly the
price of one. Sample copies of Daily
or Weekly Call will be sent upon ap
plication. The people want a change that
means something besides a change in
office holders. -Advocate, Lewiston,
Maine.
It is laws and systems that we have
declared war against not individu
als. If your system gets hurt we
cannot help it.
President Clover, of the Kansas
State Alliance, has issued a call for
the meeing of the State Mliance at
Newton, Harvey county, Wednesday,
August 14, 18S9.
Thanks to Bro. Armstrong, of the
Western News, of Ainsworth, for good
words spoken for our paper. We ap
preciate such kind recognition from
our brethren of the press, as it shows a
kindly feeling for the cause in which
we are engaged.
The rain of Monday night was gen
eral over bout hern Kansas, ana now
the uncertainty concerning a mamoth
corn cron has disappeared. Kansas
will have millions of bushels this year.
There will be plenty of corn bread
and 'lasses if nothing else. Noncon
formist, Winfield, Kansas.
The Dexter Free Press, of .Cowley
county, Kansas, comes marked with
the neighborly X this week. To be
sure. Bro. Craiar. we are more than
pleased to reciprocate. These Kan
sas reformers have such a square out
and out way of doing things that they
are bound to win. success to our
brethren in-Kansas. :
the .banners Alliance has now
reached a point the critical point
where it is beginning to attract uni
versal attention, and combination up
on combination will soon be forming
to crush it out. It therefore stands
every one of its members in hand to
redouble their diligence. Double the
pickets! As Bro. Root, of Omaha,
says, "we are getting into the ene
mies' country." Look out!
A good article fro.ii Bro. J. A.
Porter, of Plainview, is on the hook
for next week. Also a good one
from Fillmore county, questions from
"Querist," and several lengthy con
tributions. We ask the patient in
dulgence of writers of long communi
cations. We can only run about one
in each issue and consequently it
takes some time to get around to all.
By and by we hope to be able to
"widen out" and then, like a church
denomination we once heard of, we'll
have "room for all."
The great contest of the age has
drifted beyond mere party lines,
mere sectional and local differences.
It has become a struggle of life and
death; for the lite of individual lib
erty and a just return for labor on
the one side, for the death of inde
pendence and the absolute subjuga
tion of industry on the other. The
fight is -capitalism against industry,
and that means the industry of every
section and every class. The ulti
mate aim of capitalism is universal
empire, and it is the natural enemy
of every freeman of every section. A
united opposition is the only hope
for the people. National Econo
mist, If a man is worth a million and
wants to start a national bank, he
buys one million of bonds which he
deposits with the government who
pay him interest for every dollar in
gold twice a year. These bonds are
not taxed one cent to help defray the
expenses of the government. Now
then, the government carrying out its
policy to make the rich richer, issues
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him $900,000 in greenbacks to bank
on and get all the interest he can and
charge him 1 per cent on the green
backs to cover expense of engraving,
etc. The man was worth $ 1,000,000,
me government makes him worth
AL. .
900, coo, and untaxed. Is this
right farmer? You bear the burden
and your land can't
Toiler.
escape taxation.
MASSIVE AND MAGNIFICENT.
President Barrows of the National
Farmers' Alliance of America Makes
a Powernl and Eloquent Argu
ment on the Great Money
Question.
Let Every Thinking Producer Study It
With Care.
What's the Matter?
(Continued from last week.)
From the Farmers Voice.
As distinctive factors of production
the law confers no powers whatever
upon either land or labor, while it does
confer absolutely on money the power j
to liquidate debts and accumulate by
interest.
Money, therefore, is the transcendent
power which controls the other fac
tors exchanges the other factors de
termines the value of the other fac
tors, and therefore determines the in
come which may be derived from the
other factors in rent or wages. There
fore, money, being the creation of
man by law, and receiving its effective
powers by law, may be modified and
controlled by law.
The prime factors of all distribution
are rent, wages, and interest, these be
ing the natural dirivities of land, la
bor and money-capital. Let us briefly
analyze these factors of distribution,
and see if we cannot discover the
cause of increasing poverty, aud ad
vancing wealth the source of com
munal sickness which seems to be af
flicting us the power that gives Astor
and Vanderbilt their annual millions,
and their neighbors, the poor sewing
women, their daily starvation.
Rent is the amount of money the
use of land will command. It is de
termined by the money ' value of the
land, that is by the amount of money
the land can be exchanged for, and the
rate per cent, of interest the money
will command. These are determined
primarily, and on an average by the
volume cf money existing in a country
relative to the land and the exchange
able commodities of that country. The
volume of money is determined by
law, modified only in a small degree by
the balance of trade. Therefore rent,
as a factor of distribution, is entirely
subordinate to and controlled by mon
ey, whk-h is the creation of law.
Therefore rent may be controlled by
law through its control of the volume
of money-capital.
Wages is the amount of money re
ceived by labor as compensation for its
exercise in the production of wealth.
The economists say that this is deter
mined by competition that is by the
number of laborers relative to the uum
ber of employers. This -may be con
ceded, with the reservation that the
number of employers, and the ability
of laborers to employ themselves, is
determined by the volume of money
relative to the land and its products, or
the natural opportunity to labor. If
such money volume is relatively small,
business will stagnate, opportunities
for self-employment be diminished
employers become fewer, laborers
more plentiful, and wages lowrer. If
such money volume is relatively large,
business will be active, the production
of wealth stimulated, opportunities for
self-employment multiplied, employers
increased in numbers, ana wages
higher. The money volume being de
termined by law, wages are also indi
rectly determined by law, modified of
course to a certain extent by local cir
cumstances, such as calamities, wars,
drouths, etc.
What is interest? Interest is the
rate per cent, allowed by law for the
use or money-capital. This rate per
cent, is determined by the method and
conditions upon which money is issued
bv the government, and by its vol
ume relative to population and produe
tion. -
Interest is the controlling factor of
distribution. , Its rate determines
what proportion of the earnings of la
bor shall be paid for the use of capital,
and what proportion shall be retained
as wages. Interest and rent are nearly
synonymous terms, rent being in
terest paid for the use of capital in
other forms than capital, and interest
being the amount paid for capital in
the form of money. Viewed in this
light there are only two purposes to
which the product ol labor can be ap
plied, one being rent or interest, the
other being wages.
Whatever increases one must dimin
ish the other.
I have said that interest has no ex
istence apart from labor. Money of
itself produces nothing. If the mere
possession of money produced interest,
no burden would be imposed upon any
body by any rate of interest. But it is
not the money, but the notes, mort
gages, bonds, etc., into which money is
transmuted which bear interest, and
labor has to create the wealth and sell
it to obtain the money to pay the in
terest. Hence money, through inter
est, controls labor, and the products of
labor.
Interest is the great accumulator.
There is no known legitimate business
that will so rapidly and surely accum
ulate wealth as money loaned at 7 per
cent interest. For example, suppose
A at 21 years of age owns a farm of
100 acres which he rents at 7 per cent
payable in land. At the age of 91 he
can bequeath to his posterity one hun
dred and twenty-seven farms from the
mere rent of the first one.
Now suppose A labors 300 days in
the year at $1 per day over and above
his subsistence until he- is 91, and
saves all his earnings, he can leave his
posterity only $21 ,000.
Set apart one hundred families, each
having $250,000, or $25,000,000, to loan
at 6 per cent. Allow each family
$3,000 per year for expenses, or the in
terest at 6 per cent on $50,000. -. Allow
for an increase of 25 per cent in popu
lation every 12 years. They inter
marry for five generations of thirty
years each, and each couple upon mar
riage receives $50,000, or its annual in
come of $3,000. Follow this computa
tion out for five generations of thirty
years, and it will be found that these
100 families have accumulated over
and above all the expenses named the
astonishing sum of $75,131,750,000!
To 'comprehend the power with
which interest in this country is con
centrating the products of labor in the
hands of the men who control money,
it is only necessary to consider the
volume of bonds and mortgages owned
by individuals and insurance and loan
companies, the U. S., State, County,
City, Railroad, School and other bonds,
and'ull the moneys lent -on notes by
bankSjbrokers and individuals, and to
remember that all are operating alike
with a terribly centralizing power
against the producers and in favor of
the money lenders. "This is the great
centralizing agency whiceJs'seized and
controlled by the classes against the
masses. Banks are based on Nobliga-
tions of the people which bear inter
est. Railroad bonds, based on theJ
taxing power of rates, bear interest.
Money issued by the people in their
sovereign capacity reaches the people
only through the hands of corpora
tions, and bears an exorbitant interest.
There is said to be $30,000,000,000 of
debt in the United States. At 6 per
cent this takes $1,800,000,000 annually
of the earnings of labor from the pock
ets of the laborers, and transfers it to
the pockets of those who "toil not,
neither do they spin," but who con;
trol money,-and are continually trans
muting it int o some form of interest
bearing securities.
Thus we have found the seat of our
commercial disease. It is the seizure
by the money interests of every legal
avenue for the accumulation of money
through interest. This is the secret of
Vanderbilt'a wrealth, and the sewing
woman's poverty. It is the grip the
classes have upon the masses. It is
what's the "matter.
Is there a remedy?
Most certainly there is. It is to be
found in law in a reform of our pres
ent financial system by law. As rent
and wages are controlled by money
and determined by interest, and as
money is the creation of law, and is
controlled bj law, therefore law
through its control of money and in
terest controls rent and wrages. It
controls them now in the interest of
the classes. The reform must be to
control them in the interest cf the
masses.
It is controlled now by the classes
through the agency of a specie basis,
and through the restriction of the vol
ume of money to an amount entirely
inadequate to do the business of the
country. By this means men are
forced to use all kinds of substitutes
for money, and to do their business on
a credit instead of a cash system, and
the accumulative power of interest is
constantly brought into play, always
against the laborer and producer, and
in favor of the capital owner.
The reform will come by the substi
tution of land security as the basis for
money, and adequately increasing its
volume. I invite study on these
points, and shall write about "a true
monetary system" hereafter.
The present money system has the
prescriptive right of old age. It has
nothing more. It is a hoary-headed
monster. Old things are passing
away, and all things becoming new.
In these latter days single days develop
more progress than ages have done be
fore. The inventive force of humanity
is not spent, but is only just coming
into play. , -
Of one thing there is no manner of
doubt a new money system must be
established a system that will unbind
men's energies instead of shackle them
that will develop instead of retard
that will reward labor instead of pun
ish it; that will distribute wrealth in
stead of concentrate it. That men are
beginning to see this truth is herald of
the day when they will proclaim and
establish it. '
It must be established, or this re
public will go the cruel way of those
which have preceded it.
"There's a fount about to stream.
There's ft light about to beam.
There's a warmth about to glow,
There's a flower about to blow,
There's a midnight blackness changing into
- gray; ' . ,.
Men of thought, and men of . action, Clear
- the way!"
"Aid the dawning tongue and pen !
Aid it, hopes of honest men
Aid it, paper! aid it type I
Aid it, for the hour is ripe,
And our earnest must not sicken into play;
Men of thought, and men of action, Clear
the way!"
J. Burrows.
But why multiply .words. All
thoughtful men agree that the pres
ent aspect of society is portentious of
great coming changes. The only
question is, whether they will be for
the better or the worse. Those who
believe in man's essential nobleness
lean to the former view, those who
believe m his essential baseness to the
latter. For my part, I hold to the
former opinion. .." "Looking Back
ward" was written in the belief that
the golden age lies before. us and not
behind us, and is not far away. Our
children will surely see it, and we too,
who are already men and women, if
we deserve it by our faith and works.
Edward Bellamy.
In an interview with a leading
banker of this city, last week, he ad
mitted frankly that the farmers of the
northwest could never pay off their
mortgages with present prices of pro
ducts, rates of interest, railroad
charges, etc. He further said his
bank was compelled to scrutinize
more and more carefully its custo
mers and to. refuse men loans who
have always been good customers
heretofore, because they had nothing
behind them but incumbered real es
tate. Thus the cords are being
drawn around the victims as they
journey the nard-pan j road to panic-
rupcy. lviorai vote ,ine 01a way,
yote torWall street, vote for a money
famine, and cover the country ten
feet deep withNbonds and mortgages
to enslave ypurself and your posteri
ty. Iowa Journal.
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THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Under this head we solicit short articles
from the people upon any and all - subjects
of interest. We cannot undertake to be re
sponsible however for any matter appearing1
under this head the design being to allow
the greatest freedom to writers whereby
they can discuss, and thus take an interest
in the great questions of the day which are
so materially affecting-the people. Write plain
but never mind your spelling, grammar, or
anything1 of that sort, we'll attend to that.
Sign what you choose to 3-our articles, but
send us your name always.!
Silver Creek, July 29. Editor
Alliance: While the Farmers' Alli
ance is said to be noh partisan, its
objects are supposed to be largely po
litical, viz: To secure the election
to office of upright and capable men
and the enactment of equal and just
laws. No one can question that
these are Very worthy objects of de
sire, but the question arises, how are
they to be attained? How are the
farmers effectively to exert their pow
er? The answer will commonly be,
through the ballot. But, how through
the ballot? Two ways are presented
to us, either to work within old
party lines, or, to form a new party.
It is true we might all agree to join
some one of the minor parties, but
that is utterly impracticable, and not
to be thought of, as a vast and over
whelming majority of the farmers
now belong to one or the other of
these old parties, either republican or
"democratic, I shall speak particularly
with reference to them, and, not
withstanding all the denunciation
that is heaped upon them,' and much
of it justly so, I am free to say that
of the two plans proposed, I think
the true policy of the' farmer is to
choose the former, viz: to work with
in the old party lines.- For the, pur
pose of this discussion " we may sup
pose them to have existed cotempor
aneously since the foundation of the
government. While each may have
many stains upon the pages of its his
tory,' each has a record of which, oh
the whole it may well be proud
Theoretically the party leaders, party
platforms and public acts of these
parties as represented in congress and
state legislatures, faithfully represent
the sentiment of the parties them
selves, and, if this is not true, prac
tically the fault is with the people
themselves, in this, that they do not
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mm out 10 me primaries en masse
and choose faithful and efficient men
to represent them in party councils.
I have no patience with- the goody-
goody citizen who declaims against
the old parties because they some
times and far too often, I admit
elect to office, county, state and na
tional, tricksters, incompetents and
skunks, when at the same time he
never in his life took an active "part
in his party primary. These are the
men, who, wrapped in their robes of
political self-righteousness, form new
parties which are expected to take
possession of the government and
the offices and by the enactment of
salutary laws, regenerate the world
and usher in the millenium. Brother
farmers, if you can't succeed in the
old parties, where, at least in the
great northwest you have a majority,
you could not succeed in a new par
ty. But remember that it will often
take hard work and skillful work to
carry your points; numbers alone are
not sufficient. You must go to the pri
maries and to the polls with a clear
and definite understanding of what
you wish to accomplish and of the
means by which you expect to carry
your points. You must have a good
knowledge of parliamentary law and
be familiar with the tricks ot your
opponents. You must even be pre
pared to fight the devil with fire. If,
after due attention and work,you find
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the nominee ot your party is one
whom you cannot conscientiously
support, then I would exercise my
God-given right to bolt, subjecting
my party for the time to the disci
pline of disaster, hoping that through
defeat it might learn wisdom. But
while we may have the power of a
tyrant latent though it be we
should not use it like a tyrant. I
would not have all the offices filled
by farmers if I could. All citizens
are equal before the law; all classes
and callings having special interests
which become the subjects of legisla
tion, in so far as practicable, are en
titled to an equitable representation;
and no one class of citizens, simply"
because it might have the numerical
strength, should seek to dominate ev-
erything.
Chas. Wooster.
Mr. Editor: Enclosed fiud a pos
tal note for subscriptions to Tiie Alli
ance. Heading the brother s com
ment about the orator on the 4th of
July speaking of anarchists with a na
tional banker as, chairman of the day,
made me feel like saying to him that
he would not have to look very far to
see one, for national bankers in this
country do not regard law and that is
what constitutes an anarchist.
J. L.
From Liberty Alliance.
Mr. Editor: Thinking perhaps
you wonld like to hear from your old
home Alliance, of its general prosperi
ty etc., I will pen you the following:
Liberty Alliance is moving along in
an even tenor adding frequently new
members, members of sterling worth
and staying qualities who will help
keep up the reputation this Alliance
has always borne of keeping up her
end of the plank as high as any of
them. We have not done a very
great amount of work thus far, but
one thing we did accomplish, we pro
cured our binding twine at a less price
than it cost us last season in spite of
the great twine trust, while others,
outside of the order, paid an advance
above last season. So much - for co
operation if even on a small scale.
Mr. Editor, it is quite amusing now-
a-days to hear the old party line men
of one party twitting and jeering the
others about the ainerence in prices
between democratic versus republican
administration. But they go to the
elevator men, railroads , and shyster
politicians, and are told it is caused
by an "overproduction and, oyster
like, the old bats and clogs to pros
perity, swallow it," and put in a few
more acres of grain, a few more hours
of toil, deprive themselves of less of
the comforts of life, in order to keep
the ball a rolling and make the inter
est pavment on the farm.- Talk about
overproduction when within six hun
dred miles of us, according to your
last issue, over twenty thousand peo
ple are starving and suffering for the
want of food, and pray Mr. Republi
can what is on the market today that
has been produced since Mr. Harri
son "was inaugurated? As I under
stand it, Mr. Editor, we expect to ac
complish our looked for reform by
education of the masses, but it seems
that with such men as these - that the
expression of the Missouri preacher,
after being tarred and feathered,
would be applicable. When asked
about the society down there his an
swer was that "death and education
would make it far more pleasant. "
Likewise with us, it looks; as though
It would take something' more than
education. Hoping and wishing you
success in your good work, I remain
Yours &c.
Kenesaw, Neb. A Member.
BRO. L0UCKS TO THE FRONT.
The Zealous and Energetic President of
the South Dakota Farmers Alliance
Is In the Field to Stay,
And the Politicians and Corporations
Rend Their Garments and Grab
Frantically for a Grain of Comfort.
Their Last Hold Has Slipped.
. During the past ten days the press
of the country has been making mer
ry over dispatches from South Dakota
that President Loucks ot the State
Farmers' Alliance was found to be in
eligible to the office of United Slates
senator; that he was a Canadian; that
he had not been a resident of the
United States the time required by
constitution, etc. The Omaha Re
publican specially paraded this re
cently discovered mare's nest with a
great flourish of trumpets. To satis
fy ourself fully in regard to the mat
ter, we wrote to Dakota last week and
received the following, which knocks
the last prop from under the sinking
cause of corporation and ring rule in
South Dakota:
Office of the Alliance Hail As
sociation, Huron, South Dakota,
July 28. H. G. Armitage: In re
ply to yours of the 23rd to Mr. Crose
will say that Mr. Loucks was born in
Canada, emigrated to the states about
burteen years ago, has been natural
ized over ten years, is about forty-
five years ot age, has' always voted
the republican ticket, is one of the
the cleanest, brainiest, and most pop
ular farmers in Dakota, and if that
doesn't render him eligible to a seat
in the United States senate then I
see no other way for us to do than to
import some fine land thieves from
Minnesota or Wisconsin, or railroad
robbers from California or Colorado,
or Standard Oil boodlers from Ohio
for senatorial material. The farmers
of both Dakotas are on the. war path
and propose to get there this year.
Respectfully yours,
A. Ward all.
Unearthed at LasC
The Nonconformist of Winfield',
Kansas, has for six months applied
itself vigorously to the task of hunt
ing out the authors of the Coffeyville
dynamite explosion, that created
such a commotion in our sister slate
just prior to thevlast election. They
have located one of the parties in the
state house, where it appears he was
given an appointment to keep him
quiet, and applications for arrest
have thus far been declined. The
revelations in connection have cre
ated the greatest sensation of the sea
son in that state. A private letter
from the editor states that the full
history will be out this week in pam
phlet form, to be sold at 15 cts. per
copy. Like thousands of others we
want that history, for written in the
style peculiar to that editor, one can
almost imagine the sparks flying as
from a dynamo. The Non Con is
also one of the strongest supporters
of the Alliance in Kansas, an item
we are glad to note in its favor.
For the past ten years thinking
men of our nation h'ave been begging
their countrymen to get out of the
old ruts,' drop party and sectional
strife and shoulder to shoulder work
for the repeal of unjust class laws and
legislation for the whole people not
a few money gods. They have told
us of conditions coming just where
we find ourselves today, and still the
great mass of the people have turned
a deaf ear or turned in with the very j
crowd that have been stealthily forg
ing the clinking chains of slavery for
ourselves and children during these
long years ot warning and yelled
"crank." Today these people are
finding themselves almost helpless to
withstand the vigorous onslaughts of
combined capital, and the warnings
are growing louder and louder, and
the entreaties sharp and quick, to
arise from their lethargy or perish.
Whatever is to be done must be done
now. Xet each and every one of us
double our exertions in spreading
the light and truth, for, remember if
this great move of the present fails,
and we all relax back into a state of
demoralization, that the worst is
speedily to come.
Cambridge Alliance Incorporates.
Articles of incorporation of the Cam
bridge .Farmers' Alliance Business
Association were filed with the secre
tary of state, last week. The capital
stock is placed at $20,000 divided into
shares of $10 each. The objects of the
association is the shipping and sale of
farm products and the purchase of
farm snpplies. The incorporators are
G. W. Bailey, F. M. llathbua, ami ten
others. The Omaha Republican in
noticing the filing of these articles ot
incorporation childishly "vents its
spleen" by ridiculing the color ami
kind of paper the document is written
upon. In the meantime the Farmers
Alliance goes right on attending to its
business of making just such transpa
rent subjects as the Republican how!.
Send Us Your Neighborhood ew. -Will
our friends in all parts of the
state kindly send us all matters of lo
cal interest from time to time in
their respective neighborhoods? This
way we will all know what is going
on around us and make our paper the
farmer's newspaper as well as an
aid to the organization. Who will
be the first to respond with a good
local news letter.
Winfield, Kans., July. 2S. Edi
tor Alliance: I have just been
reading one of your recent issues and
must say, Good for Nebraska! Your
farmers are getting on the right
track at last. In this county of
Cowley we have over 4,000 mem
bersaud upwards of fifty Subordinate
Alliances, with an exchange store
here that does a cash business of
$300 to $1,400 per day. lfh'lee
totally revolutionizing everything
and politicians are, as never before,
wholly at sea.
Yours for liberation by the shortest
cut. H. Vincent.
Fremont, Ned., July 53. Editor
Alliance: In traveling around I
find that farmers arc glad to get a
copy 01 1 he alliance ana the con
stitution, and, all agree, that the far
mers should organize; and that after
the busy season is over they will call
a meeting and let me know, and all
think that they will go in full length
for "Equality before the Law." As
this seems prevalent, I think that af
ter harvest there will be a general up
rising and union of strength among
: - 1' r l l .1
me iarmers ana men mere win ue
some rattling among the dry benes of
monopolists of any and all kinds. J,
think that within a month I can add
to your subscription list very materi
ally, but, of course, time will best tell.
Fraternally,
J. Y. M. Swkjart,
Fort Gaines, Ga., July 23. Kdi
tor Alliance: What is the pecuni
ary condition ot the agriculturist and
laborers in your state? If not in a
satisfactory condition, why? Is it
caused by laziness and extravagance?
The banking system? By freight
rates on watered R. R. stocks? By
R. R. pools? By trusts? By combi
nation of capital? By a too high
tariff? If none of these, then why
the unsatisfactory condition? Let us
reason together, ascertain the cause
and apply the remedy. Let us learn
of each other what is needed, and,
like a band of brothers, forget a solid
north, a solid west, a solid south, and
only ewe fealty to a solid patriotic
union; agree on issues, and elect
members to congress that will carry
them out. Let me hear from you.
Fraternally yours,
R. M. Brown.
Home More B. At 31.
Last week Lieut. Hayes of the 22nd
Street Station had to call out a large
force of patrolmen to prevent the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Company
from laying tracks in the Sixth Ward
without an ordinance. The employes
of the corporation showed fight until
Hayes' men showed their guns.
The action of the railroad company
was unwarranted and illegal and was
a gross usurpation of the people'
rights and privaleges. The trespass
ers have not been prosecuted, though
it is the plain duty of the city to do
so.- Prom Chicago Tribune of July
17 th.
Yes, this is the C. B. & Q. every
day in the week. The right to tear
down peoples houses, rip up yards
and grounds without proceeding ac
cording to law is strictly in keeping
with a spirit evinced toward the peo
ple of this state ever since the road
crossed the Missouri river. They
assume chartered' rights to mean a
life lease on the universe apparently.
Job Printing For Alliances.
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circulars, handbills etc. Send in your
orders and we will do the work at pri
ces as reasonable as it can be done.
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