T ... . I . '3r-' i $100 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. to A OFFICIAL OR6A1I - r 1 y 53 A y0fj L LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG- 7, 1889. ' NO. . Mill I ' I I EtlittiriaJ Notes and Clippings. dabbing 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, TnE Alliance and Weekly Call, one year for $1,50. The weekly Call is a 6 col. quarto well tilled with good family reading. This is an excellent chance to get two papers for nearly the price of one. Sample copies of Daily or Weekly Call will be sent upon application. f Let organization be the watch word the coming fall and winter in Nebraska. , The farmer who thinks his particu lar party owes him good things, and has good things in store for him, will die with something coming to him. -There must always be a taking from in order to add to. Therefore the more millionaires the more pau pers, and thus the breach widens to day. ' ' ' The Farmers' Alliances of Hamil , ton county meet at Aurora Saturday" next, the ioth inst., to take measures toward the organization of a far mers' insurance company. Bro. Evans, of the Inman Review, says complimentary , things for our paper, and then scissors, purloins, or otherwise hooks two of our editorials last week, all of which is appreciated. Bro. John A. Hogg, of Shelton, says "of the crops in his vicinity. Hundreds of acres of oats went to the ground on account of the wet weather. Some large fields were never touched on the Platte valley. The Banker's Monthly for July recommends to its readers invest ments in trusts. It says: "Sugar trusts, cotton-seed oil trusts, and gas trusts have proved advancing invest ments, and others will be listed per haps quite as good." -Nonconformist. There will be more farms change Jhands, and more mortgages fore close the next twelve months than any prlvi6u$' twelve'rnonths in the history of Cowley ; county, Kansas. Large numbers are just deeding over their farms without assistance of sher ! iff P. H. Albright. The State Journal has just discov ered the fact that an Alliance paper is to be published in this city. If the Journal had been launched forth shortly after the pilgrim fathers "first landed iu America" it would by this time be on the banks of the Hudson river taking a skeptical squint at Bob Fulton's "steam fixin' " experiment. Bro. W. T. Allen, of Ashland, called in to see us this week. He Teports everything jogging along nicely in his county. The threshing machines are now running and the wheat is turning out very fairly - per acre, and the quality excellent. The protracted wet spell during harvest did not do the damage which was feared by the farmers. All of which we are glad to hear. The Alliance has made a remarka wet are r Estate ble growth in North Carolina, There now 1 800 Sub-Alliances in the teand still the good work goes oti. This is cheering news. The more the farmers organize the better their rights will be protected and the brighter will be their future. We congratulate the "Old North State" upon this splendid success. Farm and Home. Tt 1 1 .1 r 11 axiey nave got an 01a ieuow over in rise lownsnip. Indiana, wno is crankier than any of us. He has be came so thoroughly imbued with the idea that the Harrison administration means starvation to the people that he positively refuses to eat anything, and has now fasted forty-three days. But then, as an Indiana paper puts it, he doubtless began early in order to avoid the rush. ' The old farmer said to his boys that "this thing of sittin around an' waitin for sunthin to turn up, is a good deal like sittin' down on a milk stool and waitin for a cow to back up to be milked." If we sit around waiting for a mysterious something we don't know what to turn up and bring about a better condition of things than we now have, we'll still be waiting when Gabriel blows his trumpet in the morning. Let's do the turning up ourselves. 1 : : . 1 . t f . . i i ' . ' These matters termed political are simply matters of straight business, bread and butter, dollars and cents. Still, during political times we turn it over in fee simple to bankers, cor porations and hungry y office seekers, and then go to the polls and war rant and defend their title. "By George. a man will go to the poor house trying to farm in Ohio," said a young man from that state a few days ago. Yes, and by George, it seems that the farmers of that state too are beginning to get "unruly" just like we western fellows and the rest of our gang down south. We'll all get a thing or two beat into us by and by. . ' i There was an inclination to be lieve among many, after the Ex change Store started up in Winfield, that it was only a question of a very short time, that institution would "go the trip," but from the showing made by the directors on Thursday last, it is rather on the increase than on the decrease. After examin ing the books of the manager care fully, they found a business of over $24,000 to have been done in . four months and that after paying all ex penses, . (which have been pretty heavy) the Exchange - was $401 ahead. This trade was carried on with a capital of $1,600. Dexter (Kan.) Free Press. It istimated that five hundred farms pass into the hands of eastern capitalists every day in the state of Kansas, through the process of clos ing mortgages and sheriff sale no tices. Unless something can be done to turn this tide that is overflowing the farming element of our lovely state, nine out of every ten of our real estate owners will be renters and at the mercy of the corporate money power. Think of it, five hundred farms every day for one year, would make 182,500 farms. This state of affairs is getting alarming and it is about time something was being done to remedy the evil.- Dexter (Kan.) Free Press. , In a single day last week three and a half millions of gold was shipped to England. Besides this,, they are now coming directly and purchasing large industries and forming trusts, selling the stock at home; thus step by ctep we pass under the English yoke. They will soon own our in dustries, our government, our farms, and we will be their tenants. . Then the revolutionary sire will rise from his grave to weep over his loss by ignorance and prejudice and venality, of all for which he fought and died. The Yankee was smart enough to fight for independence, but he is not smart enough to hold the prize. He could conquer British Armies, but meekly surrenders to British usurers. -Iowa Tribune. In Barret's Life of Lincoln, pages 309 and 310, there may be found a warning from Mr. Lincoln, the man who was head and shoulders above any so-called statesman now living. It must be remembered that this warning," as Mr. Lincoln called it in his message to congress in 1861, has not been permitted to appear in the later histories of the life of Lin coln. Here it is: "Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against the approach of returning despotism. There is one point to which I ask a brief at- tention. Jt is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with or above labor, in the structure of gov ernment. Let them beware of sur rendering a political power which they already have, and which, if sur rendered, will surely be used to close the doors of advancement to such as they, and to fix new disabilities upon them, till all liberty is lost." Later he says: "As a result of the war, corporations have been en throned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the mon ey power of the country will work upon the prejudices of the people un til all wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the, republic is destroyed. "Ex. It is hardly possible to. conceive the crimes perpetrated ' against labor in the great cities in this boasted land of freedom and plenty where?) men, women ana cnuurcu musv or starve. Pictures of the -wretchedness of the poor, classes have been presented again ... and again of the slaughter and torture of the poor, arid yet their condition grows yearly more wretched. Congress can legis late to protect the great manufactur ers, to protect monopolies and rail roads and can grant millions of acres of public lands for speculative pur posts, but it cannot help the poor. The oft ... repeated - declaration that some day the law makers would be compelled to protect the helpless as well as the rich is beincr forced for ward with rapid strides at these times. There is a limit to human endurance and the passiveness of the great army of laborers. Call. ' . . . Here You Have It. Spring Valley, III., Aug. 2. Twin children, belonging to the wife of one of the locked-out miners, died here today. The" physicians pro nounce it a clear case of starvation. The mother had but little food- in the house and was unable to provide proper nourishment for them. -Bro. John A. Hogg, deputy or ganizer for Buffalo county, and one of the most successful fruit growers in that county, and a member of the Nebraska Horticultural Society, sends us a copy of resolutions adopted at a late meeting at Fremont, of .interest to farmers and fruit raisers all over the state: Whereas, It is known to this so ciety that in all parts of the state, agents or dealers solicit and take or ders for budded apple trees, claiming a grafted tree is worthless, being nec essarily "black-hearted." That this condition originates at the splice, in the root, and spreads upward through the tree. And Whereas, It has. come to our knowledge also that these persons do not deliver budded apple trees, but root grafted trees, and they are by means of these false statements en abled to sell such trees at exorbitant prices, to-wit: From forty cents to one dollar and fifty cents each. Therefore be it " Resolved, That it is the opinion of this society and of experienced horti culturists in general that for a vigor ous climate a root grafted apple tree, ! properly made, is better in every re spect than a budded tree. Resolved, That "black-heart" does not in any case originate and spread upward. Resolved. That "black-heart" is usually caused by the unadaptability of a tree to the climate, or the im proper handling of a proper variety. Resolved, That we request . the press of the state to publish these res olutions. A contributor to the National Economist sums up the necessary re form as: ''First, Abolition of land monopoly. Second, Money at cost. Third, Transportation at cost." Freedom to land, freedom to ex change the products of Jabor without usury, and free competition in trans portation, is the way we would put it. These reforms imply that the indi vidual must be free; he must have liberty to act and to do. No statutes or governmental - enactments should stand in the way of his freedom. The abolition of land monopoly is necessary to the social advancement and deliverance of the people, but the statutes say no. The people are entitled to exchange the product of their labor without paying usury, or in other words, the right to use or is sue any medium of exchange they may desire without the interference of the state and its pets the bankers, but the law says noi Nothing short of liberty, absolute. liberty, can save from the ills which bear with such terrible weight upon the producer. This cannot be se cured through legislative enactments, or by making more laws. What is needed is to repeal, wipe out and an nul all statutes which infringe, im peril, or abridge the rights, the lib erties of the individual, and the star of social regeneracy will have risen. It is not the money loaner, the land grabber, and the railroad mon opolist that hurts, but the law which permits them to live. Queries. Mr. Editor: I hear a good deal of talk lately about the Farmers' Alii ance ana 1 would like to learn all about it I can, and therefore I desire to ask a few questions, that I may get more light on some points. Is the Alliance in favor of the gov ernment issuing money to the people on real estate security at the same rate " . A. Mm mm m 01 interest tnat it now issues to the .jiavwiiai pUBLr ju ko. . iz looks as though a few men who came to thi3 western country eighteen or twenty years ago and homestead ed and timber clamed one-half section of land, could now incorporate under the laws of this state and get their money for one per cent per year, and then, while pay ing the government their taxes on the the land, could "start in business at any of the towns - and could undersell other firms who have to borrow money of the banks, so that the few men would be able to have a monopoly of that branch'of the business and might be the cause1 of bankrupting all the other dealers who would be in debt to the banks. V Yes, under this infamous national banking system somebody has surely, as the Dutchman said, got to "go burst," the only question being as to what class .it shall be. How ever; the farmers have the numerical strength, and by a thorough system of organization can save themselves. The Farmers' Alliance infites busi ness men af all classes to co-operate with it, wipe out the plundering sys tem and all be saved. If they, do not choose to do it they will have to be the ones' that "go burst," that's all. ::: V'V'r::::: -j'y..W I understand that the Alliance has started a store at a small town on the St. Joe & Grand Island raihoad where there was a good store with about $5,000 stock of goods, and I hear that he was doing a good business, and now I hear that he is going to leave the place. I hear that it is a good place for business and that it is a fine farm ing country, and that the farmers are as . well fixed around there as any place. So what was the use of start ing a store where there was one that could furnish the community with all the goods they wanted? ; Yes, apparently there was only room for one store in the locality you speak of, but the farmers' store must have been the one that saved them the money, otherwise the first one would - not be ready to ;go burst." Oh yes; there is one other thing I want to know. Are the Alliance men going to stick to the old PARTIES, - or are they going to form a new party, or will they be .independent? If they are independent will they ever get an office from either of the old parties, or would they be allowed to take part in the caucu or convention of the grand old republican party? As to the Alliance sticking to the old "PARTIES," we are not pre pared to "say. The old deacon said to his sen, "John, get money honest ly if you can, but get money." So, we presume, it will be with the Farm ers' Alliance. If they can't get there through the old Parr-r-rties they'll get there anyhow. I hear that you are publishing a pa per called The Alliance, aud if you publish this I will be sure to get the paper so that Tcan see what your an swers are to my inquiries. Hoping that 1 haven't asked any unanswerable questions I will await the answers. QUEREST. P. S. If you answer these may 1 ask a few more questions? Q. Sure thing. . THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Under this head we eolicit short articles from the people upon any and all subjects of interest. We cannot undertake to be re sponsible however for any matter appearing: unuer mis neaa tne design Demg- 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 bo materiallyfTectinjr the people. Write plain but never mind your spelling-, grammar, or anything- of that sort, we'll attend to that. Sign what you choose to your articles but send us your name always.l Bro. Porter Talks Business. Plainview, Xseb., July 28. Ed, Alliance. -Not seeirrg anything in The Alliance from this place, I will drop you a lew lines, as you have promised to correct all gramati cal mistakes and bad spelling. The question that appears to interest us as farmers is, how can we secure our selves against the manipulation of the political wire workers who have the programme arranged and the tickets made out for the dear people to ac cept? Here the farmers have the control of the future in their hands. They are the safety valve, and by de mandmg that none but farmers be sent to represent them they can re deem the state from the dead beats who are, like the devil-fish, sucking the life nd energy out of the inde pendence of the citizens. , Now, we .will be told that this will hurt your party and build up the opposite par ty. But have you not capable and honest farmers in your party that you can trust to represent your interests? xi is noc gas ana gaD you want so much as men with principle and ac tion. But the only sure . means you for obia m ing reform? is . in sc 1 curing representation by men of your own class. Another effectual means ot reaching the. candidates wold be to bind thern by a system of promises on printed circulars, and oblige all candidates to give explicit answers and sign their names to it so that there .could be no dodging the issue. The Farmers' Alliance can propound all the questions that are suitable, and localities may add those appropriate to their local si tuation. , If the can didate refuses to sign this obligation leave him out in the cold and select one who has the manhood to express his honest convictions. The strug gle is now between the party hacks and -the farmers. So never , mind your parties; vote for yourselves and your true interests. Wishing pros perity to The .lliance,. Yours for justice, J. A. Porter. Bromfield, Neb, Aug. 4. Editor Alliance: I am a reader of your pa per, and when I read the notes sent to you by the farmers I cannot help but express myself, for there exists a most serious .state of affairs. The most use ful class in this country, they who should" be the" most fortunate and in dependent, are becoming oppressed, the hardest worked, poorest paid, and are looked upon as the mud si,lls of so ciety. Now there is no necessity for such to be the case. It should nt ex ist, but is a reality and the fariner knows it, and every year it becomes worse. So I will say to my brother farmers, stand up for your rights as free Americans, for your cause is one the noblest of man and is your duty to your "posterity. Aud don't be led estray by sleek politicians and other important cranks, for I think that any farmer who has not the grit to demand his own, in receiving what he earns, is not worthy of the name of an Ameri can. We have between five and six hundred members in this county who have the spirit of 177G. We don't mean to just cast the tea overboard, but kick a hole through the bottom of the ship. ' We have been supporting too many kings. , Now in regard to taxation and as sessments made on property. T be lieve that property should be assessed at its full cash value, and any one who has svyoru that he has given in his property to the assessor -correctly should be compelled to take the as sessed price for it if offered. I think it would catch some men who shirk lawful taxation. The farmers of this county are paying taxes, on "mortgaged property, and when the assessor comes around to the money loaner he (the money loaner) is very poor, own but few notes and saddles the taxes on the the poor man. Not wishing to worry you, I will close by saying that I think President Burrows is on the right financial track. Yours very respectfully, B. F. McDannel . Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 8 Editor Alliance: The B. & M. railroad company, true to their low, debased instincts, have employed a worthless whelp in this city to work himself into the good graces of the Knight of Labor here, and, by a solemn obliga tion to uphold its principles join the order, and thus keep his vile masters informed as to what transpires at every meeting of the order, and whether any B. & M. employes are members. All society spurns a low, debased traitor, and is a servant m m mm greater than his master? K. of L. Editor Alliance: All the farm ers who are not stuck in the mud of partizan politics are fairly alive to .1 me necessity 01 organizing to pro tect themselves against the various combinations of wicked, selfish men, wno nave coniDinea lor tne purpose ot extortion. They see the tide of debts, mortgages and interest, rising higher and higher, and the price of their products sinking lower year by year. They have at last awakened and fully realize the fact that interest suckers, speculators and extortioners of every kind, have combined to filch from them each year all the products of their toil except barely sufficient to keep them strong enough to produce another crop the next year for thieves to consume, and are now ready to take hold of anything that well check this system of spoliation which has driven them to the verge of bankrupt cy and dispair. Oh! if the farmers could be made to see the necessity o withdrawing their financial suppor irom ine good lor notning sneets in every village which are run in the in terest of corporations and selfish greed, and throw their moral and , fi nariciat support to the few papers that champion their cause so .bravely the battle would be half won. Now; my farmer friends, let me tell you that just as long as you furnish the sinews of war for the enemy and put canons, riflesfishot guns, pistols and squirt guns in their hands and all oaded, you bodies will receive the contents. In the name of God, and or love of my country, I ask you to help support the little band of self- sacrificing men that are fighting so nobly for yotit homes, your wives and your little children. DONT allow them to be driven from the field by the enemy, (because they are legion) for lack of your support. "Cast your bread upon the waters and it will re turn to you after many days" So will your money with compound in terest. Dont fear. C. J. Mecham. Cambridge, Neb Who is to Blame! The question asserts itself, and, re peating itself, asks: Who is to blame and where rests the existing evils of today? The answer comes loud, strong and clear with the farmer, laborer and workingman alone. Certainly if he monopolist has been allowed to make the laws, he has legislated for lis own interest; obeyed the law made by himself ; got rich; lives in luxury and comfort; puts his finger to his nose and cries "hunky walker" and trusts co on." The same stands, true concerning all great railroad compa nies. The constitution of the state of Nebraska plainly says that the legisla ttire shall control the tolls of trans portation, and the legislature, in an swer rono larmer s jwdu aim 1 ment do "what? Create aT Vail road 1 l j; : 1 t 1 1 commission whose chief end is to draw their own salary, freights going up and down at the will of the railroad com panies, the high rate of tariff still ex- isting. Who is to blame? Please no tice that a few years ago a bill was in troduced in the Nebraska legislature reducing the rate of passenger travel from five to three cents per mile. The bill was introduced by the wrong par ties (anti-monoplists) and died the death. Two jears later the bill was again introduced, amended so as to read, "to and from all stations' east of McCook," and so passed. This reduc tion required no railroad commission, and there is rib good, solid, sound rea son why freight rates west of the Mis souri ;.nd Mississippi rivers should be so much higher than they are east of Chicago, (jf one thing the farmers may rest assured monied powei1' is a hard one to fight, and if we free our selves from the masters whom we have helped to make, it will require closed pockets, rolled-up sleeves, a deter mined will, with a strong pull together combined with" deaf ears to slick, oily pleadings of the fellows who have got there and propose to stay. The rail road companies are not to blame. . If we donate them twenty miles of land on each side of -their road, vote im mense bonds as an inducement for them to lay down the iron, cive them -1 the undivided half of two or more sec tions if they will plant us a depot, give them full control 1 of the grain ele vators, and allow them all the freight these men of little conscience may ask. All' this has beeri'tlone blindly, on our part, I admit. Now I take it, the men who have opened out the great west, stood the storms, trials and fearful hardships of the emigrant's life, are no faint hearted fellows. All we need, boys, is rousing up. We have the power. Shall we lift? And if so, by all means let us lift together, using the law of our state reducing the freight charges down to f . reasonable figure, and putting laws upon our statute books curtailing the power of the mon opolist, and stamping out the trusts. I would not advocate radical measures, but we would enjoy a small slice of turkey instead ot all buzzard. II. B. Bro, R. M. Brown, Fort Gaines, Georgia: -Tne matter is tnat the re publicans leaders?"protect the English manufacturer by putting duty on raw material so our manufacturers cannot sell as cheap as the English, and the democrats want to ruin our manufac turers as well as the people who are working for them, so that England can send in goods free of duty, and that is what will ruin the farmer for a home market. Now, what we want is to get rid of the English spies who are holding seats in the U. S. senate and lower house of congress, and elect men who will let raw material come in free, so that if our manufacturers won't pay fair wages the workman can unite with the farmers and put up manufactories of their own in every country and down old England in ev ery hamlet in the world on goods of all kinds, and have a home market for our produce, and in less than ten years we would have a country that would support 60,000,000 more people. We also want our: people vrho t take the pUcea of the English spies now in congress to Ion noney direct to tha people at one per cent per annum, and the government to own and operate all railroads and telegraph the same as the postofflces. Then we will be inde pendent as our forefathers fought for, in place of where we are today, slaves, and our masters don't grub us, or nurse us when we are sick, or bury us when we are dead,but go on protecting monopolies and make them the inde pendent people of the nation. We are working the third party here and are going to carry the county m order to get rid of the whisky bums of attorneys who are running Lincoln county and the state. We showed Bro. Stebbins' letter in No. 6 to the X. K. here and they say they will le right with us; also the merchants and every farmer. All say that the farmers hi protectinjy themselves are doiiig what they ought to do. Let every county im the state and nation do the same. Henry Facka, North Platte. What Most We do to be S&Tcdt Every year the farmer finds it hard er and harder to pay interest on his mortgaged indebtedness, to say noth ing of the principal. Without a change in our present systems it will soon be impossible to keep up this interest and mortgages will be fore closed by the wholesale. With so much property thrown upon the market it will naturally be depreci ated in value; to a mere nothing.. Those having the money will garner m the golden harvest of other men's -long years of weary toil and anxiety. Now then, who has the money? Who gets the land? There is only one wav to avert this pending state of affaihNinpUb2j4s:1ja rough or ganization and unity of actToTixthc part of the farmers to the end that they may have complete control of the law-making power of the states. This would frighten the money pow er of the nation into'relaxinr their hold on. the throats of the pople to some extent through fear of gencral): repudiation. Then by a policy iV "Eternal vigilance is the price of' liberty," we will go on and gradu ally unload some of our crushing burdens. This is the only answer to the question, "What shall wc do to be saved?" ' S. V. - 'yz-0 ' ' Omaha Fair, Omaha Fair and Exposition Ssnt. 2 to 0 inclusive. Merchants and manu facturers meet during this time at tlm Coliseum. Attractions the.niosc beau tiful. It will be worth a (lifetime to visit Omaha at this time. Stf Official Notice to Alii mces. All Subordinate or 'Jounty Alliancos wanting coal the coming neasou f.i-j n the state agency should send in the number of cars wanted, the grade of coal used, and be sure to state what railroad they are tributary to. J This matter must be attended to at once and reports sent in promptly ti thes secretary of the State Alliance. Job Printing For Alliances. We are prepared to do any and all kinds of printing for Alliances. Lett, r and note heads, envelopes, cards, b; laws, circulars, handbills etc. Send ii your orders and we will do the work it pri ces as reasonable as it can be don-. Price List of Oils to Alliance. 150 tost, medium white coal oil, ll'i ents, 150 prime " " " 10'i 175 " Y.L. ' 15 . M 74 stove icasolinc " 11!4 These oils in barrel lots. Th bat harness oil in either one or five t1'i cans, 70 cents per gallon. Pure iat' foot oil in one to five gallon caa, CO cents per gallon. In barrel lot, 5 cents per gallon. Axle grease, ! Irty-' six boxes in case, $1.85. Allen Hoot, State Agent. State Agent's Notice. It is very desirable and will save some expense, and Im better in every way, if the Alliances will bulk their orders so one shipment will do for many parties. It is found that little or nothing can be saved on gnvceries at retail. If orders are in unbroken packages can be had at jobbers' rates. Price lists are of little account only in a general way. The. price on sugar changed three cents in one week not long since. Many other things the same. Allkn Boot, State Agent, FARMERS UNION INS. Co., of Grand Inl and, Neb. I. N. White and A. Rodjrers are Speeial Agento for Urceley and Wheeler counties. We invite you to Invostitrate the merits of this company and see where the difference comes In. In the first place, you only pay one per cent for your Insurance. Stf White & Kodokkh. 7H)R INSURANCE.8ee or address Swiart Ml at uusn. Mcaa, ncd., tipeciai Afrents Kar- mers union i.wuiuai) ins. uo.. Urand Island, jNeDrasKa. J. 21. K,OBrMS03Sr, Kenesaw, Adams County, Neiir. s 1 Crcft?r r' r- . v.4. vr ' 3.1 0t X'. i I 1; V A. 1 ' 1 X v- r i v 1 X A: