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Editorial Notes and Clippings.
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marked with a blue crois it means vocr.
In making one millionaire we
make ten thousand paupers. They
are made out of the blood and tears
of men. Can we afford these lux
uries? The government loans money to
the rich for nothing-and refuses to
loan it to the poor at a good rate of
interest. Have the o. p. organs got
brains enough to see this?
- God made the earth and gave it
to all men. Yet a comparatively
few have siezed upon it, and made
laws so that their brothers cannot get
to it, unless they pay them rent.
The crrf at coke striae is ended with
a victory for the men, with an ad
vance of 12 ' per cent. This was
bioogbt about by a conference of la
bor leader, which Ia9ted all da?, with
three large coke firms.
Try ibis? on some unsuspecting
friend. There was a carpenter
who made a cupboard door ; it
proved too big. He cut it and un
fortunate'y he cut it too little. He
thereupoe cut it again and made it
go beautifully. Hew was this ?
To break down the barriers
of ig-
norance, educate; to secure solidari
ty, co-operate; to spread the gospel
of humanity, agitate; and, as a pre
liminary step toward the accom
plishment of all these things, organ
ize. ,
A speculator never produces a sin
gle thing. He is a man that lives
and accumulates the earnings of oth
ers. He is a leech mucking the earn
ings of the farmer or labor as the,
leech sucks the blood of its victims.
The land -speculator is one of the
most .damnable of the whole lot. He
plunders them all. - .
The New JYorkTimesJ publishes;,
the names -of a cluster of million
aires sixty-three in number, living in
New York City between Dobbs Ferry
and Tarrytown, a distance of only
six miles. If it is true that for every
millionaire we have 10,000 pauper,
then those sixty-three persons have
forced on society 630,000 souls that
nrast be either fed by charity or ar
rested as vagrants.
The iiKttcations now point to the fact
the State Fair this ?ear will be more
attractive than ever, as the managers
- have been untiring in their efforts to
excel all former exhibitions. As it is
the last year of the term of five years
for which the fair was Jlet to Lincoln,
our city will see to it that it is both
profitable and attractive. The trades
display is now assured and will be an
immense affair. Everything in con
nection with the fair will be on a
grander scale than ever. '
Do we not meet people every week
s who are constantly borrowing trouble
and making mountains out of mole
hills? It is not so much work that
kills and breaks down people, as it is
worry, fretting and borrowing
trouble. Why not let the' future
take care of itself and wisely improve
the present? By doing so we can
avoid many wrinkles and gray hairs,
and keep younger and brighter.
The bad will all com'.1 soon enough.
Let us patiently wait for the good.
Farmers Voice.
It is a fact worth thinking about
in all its bearings that over 22000,
000 acres of the soil of these United
States are owned by citizens of
European countries. Ihis vast
acreage owned by the aliens is equal
to nine States of the size of Mas
sachusetts. The alien English
landlords in Ireland, who are prop
erly charged with responsibility for
nine-tenths of the miseries and op
pressions endured by the Irish
people, do not own half as many
acres as alien Europeans own in this
country. It is time Congress did
something decisive in the way of
legislating the large alien land syn
dicate off American soil.
Job Printing For Alliances.
We are prepared to do any and all kinds
of printing tor Alliances. Letter and
note heads, envelopes, cards, by-laws,
circulars, handbills etc. Send in your
urutira ana we will do the work at pri
ces as reasonable as it can be done.
ON THE WING.
The Alliance Editor At Large AmMg
the Water Melons ami Green Cam
off Adams Connty.
The Condition of the Fanners The
Progress!- the Farmers' Alliance
The Burial of Congressman
Laird at listings not iu Ac-
, wrdance With His Last
Known Request.
Other Items of Sotc, Etc.
A recent trip through this county
(Adams) found a wilderness of ripen
ing corn fields on all sides, and the
country dotted f as far as the eye
could see, with stacks of, grain
and straw piles marking the path of
the. thresher. The outlook for the corn
crop .is simply prodigious. Wheat, ;
oats, and flax, etc., afaout the aver
age crop. Potatoes and " garden
truck afflicted with that chronic
complaint over-production," and
are a drug on the market. One
thing sore, good dame Nature is
bound to see to it that her Adams
county children shall not starve.
Wherever I went I was met with
thequestion, -What are we .going to
do? We have good crops, every
thing in abundance, but to sell it all
at present prices will not even, pay
interest, to say nothing of principal.
The merchants, too, are now begin
ning to feel the heavy hand that has
so long been holding the farmer in
its iron grip, reaching out alter
them, and are beginning to shut down
on credit. If we undertake to pay
the interest on our indebtedness our
entire crop won't do it, and what
then are we to live on?" These are
the serious questions that are now
confronting the farmer, and, like the
ghost of some iiend from beyond the
great gulf, is haunting and torment
ing him day and night, making life
midst the bounteous blessings of na
ture, one of blight and sorrow. One
farmer, in whose breast there still lin
gered a faint glimmer of hope, raid.,
"Maybe if there should be a failure
of crops so;ne other place in a year or
so, it might bring relief."' All, my
tsfxiend , I said, suppose tha t failure
-should be here. Things are all sadly
wrong when some must die that oth
ers may live.
The Sub-Alliances of the county
will meet at Juniata the jist insi.,
and organize a County Alliance. At
this meeting measures will be adopt
ed for a thorough organization of the
county. The field is ripening all
that is needed is the reapers- I think
it would be a good plan for the State
Alliance to commission all good men
an a county, organizers, and give
them unlimited jurisdiction, no mat
ter if some counties could furnish a
dozen such men. The more the
better.
The burial of Congressman Laird
at Hastings was not at all in accord
ance with the wishes of his Juniata
friends, or his last known request.
Mr. Laird is the last of his family,
who all lie buried in a lot which he
had spared no time and expense in
fixing up in the Juniata cemetery.
During his last visit to the graves of
the family, about two or three
months ago, he again repeated his
ott expressed request that there is
where he wished to lie when he too
should have passed from off the great
stage of life. That there should be
any dispute or question about the
matter arise was a thought never en
tertained by his friends in Juniata.
Imagine their surprise and chagrin
when the people of Hastings ignored
them and went ahead with the burial
ceremonies and buried Mr. Laird at
Hastings, with a true sense ot pro
priety the people of Juniata silently
bore this piece of effrontery on the
part of Hastings, but the wound is
deep and cannot heal in a day.
I find The Alliance well received
wherever I go and all anxious to help
push it along. A visit to the home
of Mr. S. M. Davis found that
staunch old veteran of equal rights
thoroughly in the harness and pulling
hard. After a good old-fashioned
Pennsylvania Dutch dinner prepared
by Mrs. Davis who is certainly no
amateur in the art we, in company
with Mr. Davis, visited the brethren
of the Shiloh Alliance, and, without
an exception, they all added their
names to the long roll of The Alli
ance and bid us a hearty God speed
in the work.
The next day after our visit with
the brethren of Shiloh Alliance we
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 77EDNESDAY,
"took in" the picnic and the larger
part of the grub of Liberty Sunday
School, held at the grove on the farm
of Bro. L B. Rants. Here we met
President J. B, Brown, J. M. Robin
son, Francis Phillips and other veter
ans of the Liberty Alliance and put
in the day in good social chat. The
ladies of liberty have a knack of
preparing good things for special oc
casions of this kind that is hard to
duplicate, we thought to ourself . as
we sat -down upon the grass and pre
pared for tke onslaught. What they
thought of us we can only conjecture.
However, our conscience is clear-
we -did our best to stem the rising
tide of "overproduction. Bro s A.
Whitmore and Wm. Eberline, hearing
we were at large, also looked us up
and added their names toThE Alli
ance's roll of honor.
Yes, am having a most enjoyable
time among the trienas ot Adams
county and am in no haste to leave
their hospitality. A.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
rUnder this head we solicit short articles
from the people upon any and all subjects
or interest, we cannot unaertaite to ue re
sponsible however for any matter appearing
under this head the desiirn beinir to allow
:the greatest freedom to writers whereby
they can discuss, ana thus take an interest
In the great questions of the day which are
so materially affectiner the people. Write plain
but never mind, your spelling, grammar, or
anything or that sort, we ll attend to that.
Kign what you choose to your articles, but
send us your name always. 1
Venan&o, Neb., Aug. 24. The
following resolutions wase passed at
a recent meeting of the Perkins Co.
Farmers' Alliance:
Whereas, lhe homesteaders are
most in number ot any order of citi
zens in the western counties of the
state, and be their patronage to a
great extent support the western
newspapers of their respective coun
ties, and
Whereas,-it having come to our
notice that certain newspapers are
charging the exorbitant price . of 10
for publishing final proof notices,
which heretofore has been done for
$5. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the members
of Pioneer Alliance No. 590, of Har
rison precinct, Perkins county, Neb.,
do hereby denounce, and refuse to
support any papers that charge more
than ; for publishing such notices.
By Order of Alliance.
Big Springs, Ned., Aug. 22. Ed
itor. Alliance: I hereby send you
a few lines. If yoaa have room for it
it in the columns of your paper, if
not, there is room in your waste bask
et I suppose.
There has been something the mat
ter with our government, our farmers,
our laborers, and our finances for
good while, and it is about time that
some of these matters were looked
into and examined a little to find out
whither we are drifting. If money
power, monopoly and trusts are go
mg to continue to oppress tne ma
majority of farmers and laborers of
this country there is certainly a dis-
a
ease lingering m the system ot our
government. Business is dull, farm
ers' homes are sold out under the
hammer, the laborer is working for i
miserable pittance, if they are em
ployed at all. In some places they
are even starving. A few hope that
things will change when it takes
notion some day, and that it is of no
use to have an Alliance. , But there
it is that you are mistaken. Our
only hope is in organizing and seeing
that we get such men to represent our
homes and our interest in the legisla
ture and congress, who will work for
the.interests ot the many as well as
they know" how regardless of poli
tics. Some one may ask, how can we
ever freeze these giant trusts out o
existence who controls so many hun
dred minions ot dollarsi it it an
evil that ought to be dealt with only
one way. Give the old world
cnance to compete with our own
manufacturers by taking the duty off
all necessaries of life for a short time
and every trust would vanish. It
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would not injure our farmers nor
workingmen a particle, as our manu
facturers are able to compete with
the world in most things, and wil
never allow any foreign article to be
sold in our country as they can easily
undersell anybody. By taking the
tariff off from all the necessaries o
life it would simply make cheap
goods and the trusts could not con
trol the market any longer. Put
high tariff duty on all luxury such as
silk, diamonds, jewelry, and such ar
tides not needed only by the rich. I
teel sure that we would see good
times if tariff trzs reduced, giving, us
cheap goods which will give us a
greater sale, and a greater sale gives a
a greater production; a greater pro
duction gives us a greater demand
or laborers, sf:d no one need lay
idle nor starve, and the consequence
will be that gcod times are coming.
The next thtnjp; is, let our govern
ment issue mopey direct 10 the peo
ple and make away with the national
banks, and ?f6 tax all unimproved
land equal with the improved and
thus make the j speculator dispose of
his millions of! acres of land or put it
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to some use. Also town lots the
same way. Itjlooks well to see some
have the courage to show how your
assessors in Lincoln shirk their duty
and saddle the! burden on the poor
and let the rich go without paying
their share of the taxes.
Wishing your paper success I will
close my already long letter.
eter F. Petersen.
Mr. Editor:- lI would like to en
list your paper in a cause which has
much the largest bottom of any one
industry in the land, and yet it is
pushed aside as of little consequence
-the great American cereal corn is
to have no show in the Paris Expo
sition., $25,000 appropriated to
show its machinery, its fabrics and
other manufacturing interests and its
great commercial advertisement, but
not one cent to ( bring to the notice
and interest of the people of
and other foreign countries
France
in the
use and value as-a food for
r
both man
all prod-
and animal of the king of
ucts, American corn. When
000 of the appropriation was
$25,-
asked
ovens
for the purpose of putting up
and other appliances for cooking,
distributing and instructing how to
prepare that best of all products for
food, American corn, it. was refused,
and for the want: of this knowledge
in foreign country to open up the
way for its commercial value as hu
man Jbod, the farmers are compelled
to burn this great American king for
fuel or feed it to stock:
It was the National Farmers' Alli
ance that tormulated and demanded a
department" of Agriculture -withra
portfolio as a cabinet officer. Now,
as one man let us demand that the
cabinet officer do something besides
talk partisan politics. It will be re
membered that the iron willed Jack
son when a boy, and all through life,
lived largely upon corn, and that the
great Lincoln laid the foundation of
that physical strength which in after
years carried that mighty brain so
clear, honest and true, was built of
North Carolina corn and finished
.1 rf -wit
wun corn irom Illinois, and it can
not be denied as a philological fact,
that if we as a people would consume
less roller mill flour, and more corn
meal from youth up, we would avoid
that terrible and national calamity,
dyspepsia and indigestion and all its
cosenquences doctor bills, despon
dency and suicide in many cases
traceable direct. Let us as producers
demand a proper share of that appro
priation for the instruction of the
French people of the Exposition at
Paris of the various uses and shapes
for food of the great American prod
uct, corn.
Now, Mr. Editor, will you help to
blow this horn until its value is
known everywhere.
, Allen Root.
Cambridge, Neb., Aug., 24.
Editor Alliance: I wonder if it
ever came to the mind of your readers
what nice things vested rights and the
rights and the rights of property are?
During the war the government used
its vested right to sieze poor men
and stand them up before rebel musket
ry to catch rebel bullets, to save the
life of the nation. The poor fellow
had no vested rights to stay at home to
save his own life and protect his wife
and children. But, when the govern
ment called for the rich mens dollars
to save the nations lile Uncle Sam was
told "dollars have vested rights, .nd
jou cannot draft them, but, if you will
give us 24 per cent per annum for
their use during the war, ,we will call
them from their hiding places for you
for we feel patriotic any way." Uncle
Sam knew no remedy. Vested prop
erty rights must be respected and pro
tected if the nation dies in consequence.
So Uncle Sam walked away muttering:
"We might as well die at the hands of
one band of traitors as another!" So
the yellow boys the representatives
of the nations wealth slunk away and
hid, and were not seen again in public
for 18 years. They only came out then
to pilfer,deceive and rob the people,and
this has been carried on till nearly all
AUG. 28, 1889.
the agricultural land of the country is
under mortgage.
Two years ago this fall the deeded
land of this (Furnas) county was nine
teen twentieths or 95 per cent under
mortgage less four quarter sections
and the conditions are now nearly the
same. Farm products are so low that
one-third of the average crop will not
pay the taxes, insurance and mortgage
interest. A farm .worth $1,500 is
mortgaged for $500 giving the money
loaner one third interest in the farm
snouia more money contraction come
upon us and the farm depreciate in
value one-third, would the shylocks Republican aristocracy is a hideous
$500 be lessened in value? Oh no, the monster. It has stolen the crimson
law of vested property rights says he tide as it flowed . from the dying sol
has one-half interest in the farm now. dier's heart as he gave up his life to
Should contraction of money continue pUrchase for the black man political
and land values still decrease with all libertyj and forge(1 it in chaing of gojd.
other things, and the farmer in conse- n interest to bind that soldier's wife
quence not be able to pay up, the law anfl bahes in fins,nr?ai siavprv. it hn
of property says shylock may bid in
f Ho farm nf. mnrtcmtrn salA fnr vvbat. Va
the farm at mortgage sale for what he
pleases to give, and take judgement
ior enougu more to meet ms aemanas
and pay costs. Now Shylock has it all
and demands still more. But where iDto oblivion, the father to a vagabond
are the farmers vested rights. He iife, the sons to prison and the daugh
worked for years to make the home, ters to prostitution. It has invaded
but it is gone. What then becomes of the temples of God and torn from
his vested rights. Oh they were vested their holy altars- the emblems of peace,
m the moonshine, and when the sun love and charity, and supplanted upon
went down on his HIS home, the moon them the skull and cross bones ot us
shiue went with it and he is thrown and iracy It sits enthroned in
.x itu juuseiuciiL.
on his back.
The poor can beg.
C. J. Mecham.
Mr. Editor: Just received through
the kindness of Tiije Alliance a copy
of the proceedings of the. National Al
liance held at Des Moines, Iowa. It is
gratifying to a Nebraskan to see by
the report that Allen Root, Nebraska's
practical farmer and old wheel horse
greenbacker, made the most compre
hensive and practical speech in the
convention. Next comes J. Burrows
also an old Nebraskan. Thirdly comes
II. L. Loucks, of Dakota. Fourth and
last, and to no purpose but confusion
and evasion, comes Gov. Larrabee,
and some literary gentlemen from
Iowa.
Gov. Larrabee has condescended to
meet with the farmers of the country
hpfniisp. thev arp. nrfranizinfr for sfilf
preservation. If they did not move to
.
help themselves he would not notice
them. He tells them that they are or -
ganizing, they are a
fine intelligent
pcwpic, kiici.ii liicjt aic oviviicicu it guvu
deal and have not sense enough to or -
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ganize efficiently, but they
can
mun
their racket and some political party
will probably help them. He tells
them that if they did have sense
enough to organize efficiently it would
create war and revolution, and it is a
good thing they are fools and they
cheer him. He tells them that he is
sorry about railroad stocks being wat
ered, and he is sorry because President .
Adams is sorry. President Adams
was made president of the U. P. road
expressly for the purpose of selling bliss, and its highest conception of
watered stocks to the poor idiots "down . mortality is, peaceful, plentious, virtu
east," they would so much rather buy ; ous, happy homes, and entire liberty.
watered stocks of Adams than any one
else, he was a brother in the church.
Now Adams is sorry the stocks are
watered. Larrabee, is sorry. The
fools in Iowa are sorry. They are all
a sorry lot of knaves and fools.
Gen. James B. Weaver spent five
years of his early manhood in fighting
bloody battles fcSr the preservation of a
people's government. When the war
was over Genl Weaver turned aside
from the emoluments and pleasures
that awaited his able and gifted life in
the service of republican corruption,
and chose privation, hardship and toil
in the interests of a common country,
as he warned the people of Iowa of im
pending danger that now coils its cold
and slimy fold around their homes and
family as the serpent folds its victim
in its coils. A quarter of a century
has passed, and Gen. Weaver, aged
and weary, peniless and toil worn, re
tires to a pauper's home in Oklahoma,
a monument of admonition to ajl pa
triots who are foolish enough to love
and serve their country warning them
that as far as the people of Iowa are
concerned Christ indeed did die in
vain. As Christ died to redeem hu
manity so Weaver spent his life's la
bor for the people of Iowa, and they
turn from him as deyils turn from
holy water and rush like hogs into the
maltrom of their destruction.
Does Larrabee tell the people that
the republican party by class legisla
tion stole their commercial blood from
its circulation in the channels of trade
and commerce where it was an essen
tial part of their body politic as their
arterial blood of their body physical,
that it put a mortgage on every man's
farm in the shape of a bonded debt,
that said party created a monied aris
tocracy to loan that commercial blood
so stolen back to the people to pay in
terest on said mortgage. "That in con
sequence of such class legislation re
publican aristocracy destroyed the
property of the farmer to one . half its
val ue, while the debt remained undi
minished, that the continuous working
1U1U1SUCU, Lllclli L1KJ tUUMUUVUJ vVllVlUg
of this system causes a continuous de -
pieciation of property while iaterest
and debt are even on the increase? Oh
no! That is republicanism, and Larra
bee is a republican. He tells the peo
ple of Iowa that their farms have de
preciated in value $100,000,000, their
cattle $15,000,000, but he does not tell
them that interest and money debts do
not depreciate. He does not tell them
that republican aristocracy is the vip
er that is gnawing at their hearts. II
tells them that they are slave, incapa
ble of organizing for self government,
but that probably their
ao something for them.
masters will
sloien the vine and fig tree of peace J
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iowly and planted in their , place the
coldi dark? darnned shadows of want
and DOVertv. It has driven thft mot her
the legislative, and judgment hall.
Peace and plenty, home and happiness,
love virtue and morality perish be
neath its influence as Heavens sweet
est flowers perish in the flame of hell.
And where is the remedy? Gov. Lar
rabee tells you you are a lot of dis-
, gruntled pups following along behind
your master's cart whining your dis
content, and if you whine loud enough
your master will probably do some-
. thing for you. Yes, your master will
do something for you; he will empty
his slop bucket on ycu, that is what he
will do for you. Oh, ye degenerated
pups of men that were once brave
and free, have you sipped at the pap of
.liberty so long that you turn your
. bloated frame from the mother that
gave you birth, to seeK a tyrant s
power?
Republican supermacy means repub
lican aristocracy. Republican aris-
tocracy meana our
I mionno 1 cm '7 tlii
vice president's
Impearialism" planted upon the ashes
! of this public. In the great changes
! that work a coming revolution
fittest' may "survive," but it will
not
1 be republican aristocracy. "The, fit-
' test surviver" in that case will be a
"surviver" that is "fit."
But notwithstanding the fools m
Iowa, we do not believe Vice-President
Morton's . "Imperialism" will usurp
the republic Affinity seeking affinity
produces life, and that subtle element
which we may define as spirit, seeks
affinity in a nobler and better pphere.
It has borne mankind from a low and
humble origin, and it still bears him
onward
and upward toward perfect
1 Let us survice. L. Stkiibins.
Sidney, 111., Aug 22. Editor
Alliance: I have received three
copies of your paper. Thanks
quite readable. I read Mr. Burrows'
speech read it also in the Farmers
Voice. I think that Mr. Burrows un
derstands the situation. In the first
part he makes some complaints that I
think he is justifiable in. If The Al
liance will allow me space I will in
few words give cause and remedy for
each of several troubles that Mr.
Burrows speaks of. t First, quoting
him by the paragraph, he says,
"More frequent failures." That is
caused by banks of issue and con
traction. A remedy: v Full legal
tender paper declaratory money, is
sued by the government in volume
that it would loan far no more than
three per cent, then the borrower
could have a profit as well as the
loaner. Mr. Burrows continues,
"Idle labor all oyer the country, with
a corresponding increase of tramps."
That is caused not only by dear and
scarce money, but by too much for
eign immigration' and too much im
ported goods that we ought to pro
duce at home to give employment to
labor. Dear and scarce money leads
us to desire cheap free trade goods,
but before we get our wages we wish
there was a little protection for labor.
A remedy: Tax, restrict, or shut
off foreign immigration. Mr. B.
says, "A million idle men competing
for work at starvation wages." That
is caused in part, of course, by the
scarcity of money to pay with, but
the greatest cause is, too many sur
plus laborers coming from the old
country. And another branch ot the
cause is, too much money goes for
imported goodtf of the kind that
1 .
lshuld be produced in the United
NO.ll.
States. Remedy: Shut, off toreign
labor and adjust the tariff so as to
make it pay to produce at home all
that our facilities will allow, and
thqs give employment to the "mil
lion tramps. Mr. B. says, "The con
tinued shrinkage of values." The
man that ts born in the year 1SS9, if
he should live until 9999, will notlivc
long enough to see the end of "shrink
ing values if money is still controlled
by national banks, banks of issue. It
is to the banker's interest to have it
so. They will occasionally let up a
little turn the screw back, as it were
to encourage people to go in debt
borrow their money then back
goes the screw c-l-i-c-k. Why
should 60,000,000 people be kept in
bondage to 3,000 bankers individual
responsibility instead of the whole
peoples responsibility through their
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representatives in
its prerogative; to
Congress reclaim
issue the money
I and "declare the value thereof ac
cording to their sworn duty. It
seems superfluous to state the remedy
for our financial trouble any plainer
than I have. Why don't all the
mortgaged assessed farmers and la
borers rally and sec to their interest,,
ignore all old party lines and vote to
gether 4,000,000 strong, and elect a
Congress of honest men and turn
the rascals out that will honor the
U. S. Supreme Courts' decision that
was rendered March 3, '44 "the
strong point in this constitution is
that the government prerogative be
restored, that bankers may not con
tract and retire their money if they
hide away their, money the interest
stops Congress should determine,
the volume. The scat of the disease
is the money power ot the world. We
all know its character, and should
build upon the authority of all the
people, a structure that will give the
greatest good to the greatest num
ber. , W. T. Elduedge,
THE HAMILTON COUNTY ALLIANCE
Aurora, Aug. 23. This city was
taken possession of today by the
members of the Farmers' Alliance
About five hundred members of the
organization in this -county came,
bright and early this morning, and
made the largest parade our streets
have seen in many a day. Few here
had any idea of their strength, and
were surprised at the fine showing
made this morning. tIt is thought
that the Alliance will take u Iiand in
politics this fall, and possibly put a
ticket in the field. If this is done
the outcome will be hard to predict,
as the republicans and democrats
have tickets out and the fight will be
hotly contested. This afternoon J.
Burrows, president of the National
lliance, addressed the farmers in
the court house square, and, judging
from the vociferous applause given
him, gave great satisfaction. Alto
gether it was a gala day . for Aurora.
1). M. N.
. ALLIANCE MEETING.
The Alliances of Adaui rounty
arc requested to niet at 'Juniata,
Aug. 31 for the imrpoee of. organiz
ing a County Alliance. It in very
essential that this rueetinc be well
attended. Ljt every farmer in the
county attend if poaaihlo.
A. O. Tompkins, Oreanizer.
NOTICE EXECUTIVE BOAItl).
A meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Nebraska State Farm
ers' Alliance will be held at the office
of The Alliance, in Lincoln, on
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1889, at 1 p. nu
By order of J. Burrows, Chm.
J. M. TnoiirsoN, Sec.
Coal For The Alliance.
August and September is the Iest
time to figure on the winter's coal sup
ply. We quote the following prices:
Pittsburg, Kansas, good article soft
coal, $1.65 per ton. Mulberry, $1.7
per ton. In lots of 12 tons or over f . o.
b, at mines. Orders slwd be sent to
the state - agent right away statin?
number of cars wanted , and time of
shipment. Need not be paid for until
received at your station.
The Alliances desiring groceries at
jobbers rates should send money with
the order. To meet the objection of
not knowing how much to remit we
will commence your list at the begin
ning and fill it entire, or until tho
money is exhausted. In orderinir
lumber, make out bill stating kind and
quality, price of same bill in your
home market, so that in case wecoul
not save you money we would not 111
your order. We quote good 3 in.
wagons at $51, 31 inch, $53, 3J inch
$54. Address all orders to Allen.
Root, State Agent, Omaha, Neb.
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