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$1.00 PER TEAR IN ADVANCE. OFFICIAL ORGAN HEBIUSKA T LIMC hi STATE FABHEBS' ALLIANCE. I f "THERE IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1889. NO. 14. VOL. I. E J: v THE ALLIANCE. PBaiSHEO EVERY SATURDAY U0RHIH8. -BY -THE - ALULnCE PDBLISDinii CO. BOHANNAN BLOCK, Lincoln, - - - Nebraska. J. BURROWS, : J, M, THOMPSON, : - . Editor. Associate Editor. All communications for the jmperhoxiA 1x tddregsed to THE ALLIANCE PUBLISH ING CO., aud all matters pertaining to the iFarxners1 Alliance, includitgr subscriptions to the pape. to the Secretary. , EXPIRATIONS. Your subscription has expired, and unless re jewed within the -T" Vr next fifteen days, r satisfactory ar rangementt made i with the editor, f , - your name will be removed1 from - XT , our books and the paper - discontin JA ued. We trust you will feel it your duty to send ug your Bubscrip tion and continue with us. Should-- J-this paragraph be marked with a blue cross it means you. DD5IHESS AIIII0D1ICEUE1IT. HEW EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT. With Last Week's Issue the Connection of Mr. Armitage With The Alliance , Ceased. With the Present Issue Mr. J. Bur- rows, Pres. of the National Farm ers' Alliance, Assumes Editorial Control. Mr. J.M. Thompson, Secretary of the State Alliance, Will be the Business Manager and Associate Editor. It is the intention of the new man agement to bring the paper up to a high standard of excellence, making it worthy of the cause of the Alliance and the support of its members. Mr. Bur rows brings to the work some experi ence as a newspaper man. In his early life he learned the trade of printing, and followed the business many years. His connection with the Alliance in this state is known to most of its mem bers. He presided over the meeting which organized it in 1881, and has faithfully stood by the organization from that day to this. Through all its vicissitudes he has claimed that there was good in the society, that it was a necessity to the farmers, and refused to abandon it.In all the offices Jie has held infit lie has served without a dol lar of compensation, and he now aban dons his business to take charge of the Alliance paper. This he cannot do without pecuniary sacrifice, abandon ing that which was paying - a certain livlihood for an enterprise which at .best is quite uncertain. ' The Company asks the members of the Alliance to meet it in the same spirit. The paper is an absolute ne cessifyto the Alliance. With the sup port of its members it can be made a grand success, liemember. Ailiance men, that TnE Alliance is youk paper. Its contin ued existence and success depends upon youii patronage. We ask no subsidies of money, but only your subscriptions and support. FIVE SUBSCRIBERS from each Alliance will place the pa per on a sure fo jndation. TEN SUBSCRIBERS from each Alliance will enable us to enlarge it to double its present size, and make it the equal of any farmers' paper in the coi.ntry. We absolute ly' GUARANTEE A FULL EQUIVALENT FOR, EVERY SUBSCRIPTION. CASH PREMIUMS For Subscribers. To all officers of Alliances and others who will canvass for us we will allow a cash premium of 20 per cent, on all lists of five yearly subscriptions and upward. That is we will send five copies . one year to separate addresses for four dollars. This liberal offer will com pensate our friends for their labors, and we now urgently request all who are devoted to the cause to go to work. Ten subscribers from eacii alli . ce will be easily obtained. We in i. Y to make TnE Alliance absolute ly V cessary to eyery member. . We invite our farmer readers to send us short ai tides on live topics,' and also give us news items of I general in terest. ' No objectionable advertisements - will be admitted to our columns. CANVASSERS WANTED. Terms $1.00 per year, invariably La v advance. Trial subscriptions for six months 50 cents. Address Alliance Publishing Co. Lincoln, Neb. "Z The republican papers are object ing to Sullivan for congress because ne is a ring candidate. How about Laws? -f. xmiier is 10 write a history of the war. It will be in or der now for the papers to allude to the spoons. EDITORIAL. AN APOLOGY. The new editor feels disposed to apologise for the short-comings of The Alliance this week. Coming- to the office late, finding some confusion arising- from change of manage ment, he also found the material entirely inadequate to get out a satisfactory sheet, even of the present size. We shall make ad ditions of type of smaller size, giving-much more matter, and other needed alterations. We propose to devote every dollar of the in come of the office to the improvement of the paper, until it is entirely satisfactory to its patrons. After this week we expect to have our inside pages prepared expressly for the Alliance, and we shall enlarge the paper as soon as our patronage will warrant it. We have had a thirty years' vacation from the printing office, but hope to be able to again pick up the lines and win a fair place among the brotherhood. The Australian Voting System. It may be remembered that in one of the memorials presented to the late legislature, the Nebraska Alliance ask ed that the Australian voting system be adopted in this state. Leading pa pers of our cities opposed the measure, foremost among them that gieat advo cate of the peoples rights, the Omaha Bee. It kept up a rattliug fire against the bill during most of the session. The fact is, this system so utterly destroys the prevalent system of conducting city elections that most city politicians are averse to seeing it adopted. We hope, however, that at our next biennial ses sion Nebraska may join the procession of states which are purifying their electorial system, and that the Bee may have the scales removed from its eyes sufficiently to become an advocate of the measure. Up to the present time eight states have adopted the system, viz: Massa chusetts, Indiana, Montana, Khode Island, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Minni sota and Missouri. Massachusetts was the first state to pass the law and the laws passed by the other states have in the main been modeled on the one first passed. Wisconsin first passed the law for application to Milwaukee alone. Its operation was so admirable in the city that at its next session the legisla ture applied it to the whole state. It has been in force in Australia 30 years, in England 18 years and in Canada 16 years. Its leading principles are, first an official ballot furnished by the election boards at public expense; second, abso- lute secrecy in. voting; third, full pro visions for placing indepjendent jriomi-J nations in the held. The hrst princi ple accomplishes several very import ant ends. It greatly diminishes the cost of elections, it utterly destroys the pretext of collections for printing bal lots, and does away entirely 'with the obnoxious ticket peddling of the pres ent. The second principle entirely does away with all intimidation by employ ers, and also will quite prevent the pur chase of votes. Men never pay for votes unless they or their agents can see the completion of the contract. In tne Australian system this is impossi ble, so the purchase of votes will close when it is adopted. The third princi ple strikes a fatal blow at corrupt bar gains and sales in conventions, and in fact, at the supremacy of the conven tion itself, by making full provisions for the rights of minorities and indi viduals in placing candidates in nomi nation. That corruption will exist in some form while human nature is as it is, there is no doubt, but corruption at elections will be vastly more difficult when the Australian system of voting is adopted. The Nebraska Alliance will renew its demand for the bill; and we hope it will be backed by the pul pit, the press and the people, until the next legislature will not dare to refuse. WHEN UNCLE SAM OWNS THE RAIL ROADS. The B. & N. has made a rate of 85 cents from New York to St. Paul, and a great racket is being made about it. The racket comes partly from the fact that the other roads will be compelled to make the same rate, but more from the other fact that they must make a local rate in proportion. No one fa miliar with this question doubts that a rate of 85 cents will pay between the points named. Let's figure on it. A train of fifteen cars of twelve tons each would carry 360,000 pounds. At 85 cents per hundred this would bring the road $2,960. This train would require one conductor, one engineer, one fireman, and two brakemen eight day's time. Cut the income square in two, to allow for all deficiencies, empty cars, etc., etc., and we have $1,480.00 for hauling fifteen cars of freight from New York to St. Paul. Who doubts, if the business was done on business principles, without high priced figure-head presidents, a free pass system, and dead-head officers, that this sum would pay operating ex penses, repairs and a handsome inter est on the cost of the road? Hereto fore, when the roads got into a squab ble and began cutting rates, the local rate was advanced to the point of rob bery, and so-called losses on the long haul thus made up. Thanks to the Inter-State law this is no longer pos sible. If this was all the law had ac complished its passage would be amply justified. It is said that the B. & N. lias to meet Canadian competition. The .great plain people of this country would like to know how it is that Ca nadian competition is so much severer than "American competition. Are the Canadian roads carrying for. nothing because they have been subsidized? Perhaps the U. P. had better take a lesson of them. As a matter of fact that is not the case, and the B. & N.v has its eye on its American competi tors quite as much as its Canadian, as the flurry among them proves. ; With corn at 15 cents a bushel, the farmers of Nebraska may devoutly pray that the reduced rates may reach this state. Many able thinkers are reaching the conclusion that there is only one so lution to this rate question, and " that is government ownership of the rail roads. When that day comes four thousand millions of watered stocks will be eliminated, ornamental presi dents will disappear, country editors will cease to be railroad employes, and consequently will have a little more manly independence: free passes to judges and legislators will be un necessary, a fixed rate per ton per mile will send freight anywhere in the United States, as a postage stamp now sends a letter, and the value of farm ers' property will not fluctuate from day to day, as at prese'nt. Ticket scalpers will go to that unknown bourne where no rates are cut and from which no excursions ever return. The evils of competition would disap pear, because the government would neither compete nor combine. " The U. P railroad, compelling the farmers of Nebraska to pay rates to maintain a capitalization of $1.05,000 per mile, though built by the govern ment and donated to its owners, is the first roadi to try the experiment upon. Its operators intend to swin dle Uncle Sam out of the debt. Let Uncle Sam take the road now, and open will soon know whether the govern- ment can operate a railroad. UNDER WHICH KING The senate committee to investi gate the beef combine ran against a snag in Chicago in the refusal , of the beef barons to appear before it and testify. The next committee of this kind will probably be armed with full powers, and attended by a depu ty sergeant at-arms. But even in that case the barons could make it convenient to be taking an outing, or they could take advantage of the le gal permission of refusing to crimi nate themselves, as the Standard Oil men did in the New York investiga tion. AVhen public opinion takes the proper position as to trusts and com bines, viz: that they are a criminal conspiracy to defraud, then and not till then will the persons forming them be placed in their proper rela tions to society, that of criminals amenable to the penalties of criminal law. We have no doubt there is law enough to place these gentlemen in that position now, were there only mandatory power in some public offi cer's hands to enforce. No private individual wants to go to law with a trust. . But one of the tools of this Chicago combine was before the committee, and with monumental cheek scored congress for being the cause of the beef combination. He named the oleomargarine act, the removal of the duty on hides, and the Inter-State commerce law as being responsible for the combine, and advised the committee jto go back and undo the mischief before any further investiga tion. This shows the straits these fellows would ba pushed to if they were pushed at all. The oleo. law simply provides that oleo shall ,be sold under its proper name, aud not under false pretences. It has never lessened the price of a steer a dollar, but has been a great . benefit to the producers ot honest butter. As to to the removal of the duty on hides, that took place in 1883, and there was no marked decline in the price of beef for several years thereafter. In fact the highest price of mess beef in '83 was $14.00, while in '84 it went to $13.50, and in '85 to $16.50. It was not until a combine of four men got possession of the beef product of the country that the removal of this duty was found to be suck a ter rioie Diunaer. Ana these lour men would be just as trdent free traders, if they could pin jl point by being so. But the cheekiest thing of all is to attribute the evils of a combine to the Inter-State law. This law did just one thing that Chicago 'Jew specula-4 tors didn't like it spoiled the even--ers'. occupation, x It p"t all men on an equality in tbef shipping business, and it took millions of capital and an extensive .combination to destroy this equality, but it seems to have been effectually done. ; The Inter-State law has no more effect upon the price of beef than a toy lantern has on the tides. And next time a congression al committee goes j to Chicago, you will testify, gentlemen beef barons, or leave the country.'; -::vv'' THE SECOND DISTRICT. 5 ,Who shall be Jim Laird's successor is asked throughout the state. Great interest is manifested in the solution of this question, a&4, several prominent gentlemen have beep named. But we have not yet noticed any great anxiety on the part of any (one that a farmer should succeed to Jim's shoes. Mr. Laws is well, wt are ignoraut of his profession but it is safe to class him as an office holder; and he may be a lawyer. Mr. Harlan is a lawyer. Mr. ifastings is a lawyer. The man who was sent to an insane asylum because he insisted he had been appointed Laird's successor was also probably a lawyer. Four fifths of the inhabitants of the Second district are farmers. They are not over-well represented in Washington. Why should not that dis trict send a farmer to congress? The interests uf all the frmers of the Sec ond district are idptical, no matter what political partyhey belong to. It is high time for the people of this coun try, and especially the farmers,"to wake up to the fact that interests, more than parties, are represented in congress. When tariff revision is considered the special representatives ef local interests are upon the alert When finance is talked of the toolf of the banker's association spring totheir feet. Pro pose a bill to put I the organizers of trusts in the pen, where they belong, and their attorney i will show up at mice. But it would puzzle any one to hi pw any special effort made in con- ualf bfhVliiterestatrf farm- ers. it was only alter a struggle 01 ten years, with many defeats, that the national seed shop was promoted to a department. The republican party is largely in the majority in the Second, and it is com posed of farmers nine-tenths of whom are of anti-monopoly sentiments. They want a man to go to congress who will represent them on the money question the transportation question, the land question. They want a man who will not go on the pay roll of the B. & M., or any other corporation; a man who will stand , up in his place and tell the truth though the heavens fall, and who will fight every monopoly, trust and combine that is making millionaires and starving the people. There are able farmers of that kind in the Second district; and the farmers of that dis trict have the power to dictate who Jim Laird's successor shall be.. This they can do by going to the primaries anu demanding their rights, and by letting it be distinctly understood that they will be bound by no nominations which do not accord them. Fine declarations in a platform, and standing a railroad capper on it, will not fill the bill. It will be a lasting disgrace and shame to the district if G. L. Laws, or any other monopoly tool, shall be chosen. A CAUSE FOR DEPRESSION IN AG RICULTURE. From The National Economist. The position taken by the National Economist editorially during the last six months, in which it has gradually been shown that the most essential re form now necessary is one that will stop the injustice and oppression that is applied through the power of money to oppress, stands today unchallenged. It has been shown that the contraction of the volume of money in the countrv i reduced tire price of all commodities and increased the purchasing power of money; that the ability to pay debts was diminished in proportion to the ra tio of contraction; that is to say, a re duction of the circulating medium to one-half its volume is equivalent to doubling the indebtedness of all those who have outstanding obligations. It has been shown that for over twenty years the government of the United States has pursued a policy of steadily but surely contracting the volume of money in circulation, and that it has practically deputized to a class of pri vate corporations the right and privi lege of regulating the volume of the circulating medium of the country. That this is a crime against the pro ductive interests of the country no man dare deny. It is an admitted fact in political economy that the business of the country can be as well transacted with $1,000,000,000 in circulation as with twice that amount, and that it can be transacted with just as much ease and certainty, and without injury to any interest, except those who are in debt; but should the amount of circu lating medium at any time be reduced from $2,000,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 it would be accompanied bv a reduc tion of one-half in the price of every thing; or, if the opposite manner of ex- pressing the same thing be preferred, eyery dollar would have its purchasing power doubled. A rapid expansion in volume would have the opposite effect. It follows, then, inevitably that chang es in the volume of money in circula tion affect with unerring certainty the prices of all the commodities in the country; that a contraction in volume of money may reduce the price of the products of the country to less than it had cost to produce them with a greater volume of money in circulation, and that an increase in the volume of money may increase the price of the products of the country to such an extent as pass the ability of the consumer to purchase, and therefore, seriously damage the productive interests of the country. Should any class be in sole possession of the knowledge as to when contrac tion and expansion were to be resorted to, they could purchase the products of the country at cost of production and sell them to consumers at as great an advantage as their ability to purchase would allow. This would enable such clasi by means of a knowledge of that secret to appropriate all the earnings of the producer, no matter how industri ous and frugal he might be. But when in addition to the great advantage he woum derive from the simple knowl edge of when contraction and expan- . . , . sion wouia tase place, such class is al lowed the power to apply contraction or expansion secretly at will, it possesses the power to appropriate from all other classes to an extent that practi cally enslaves them and will in time- as soon as fully realized cast a deadlv blight on all productive energy and ef fort, is not the delegation of such pow er to such class a crime against the producers of the land? The depressed condition of agricul ture is the certain ersult of such condi tions. Agriculture is the greatest pro ductive interest in this country, and consequently these baneful influences are most felt and most apparent upon it. It is not strange that it is in its present depressed condition, when the above cause is fully considered. In fact, it is strange that it is not worse off, and it is certain that it will be much worse off in the near future if these evils are not corrected. The above from the Economist is in the main correct. But when it ad mits that the business of the country could be as well transacted with $1,- 000,000,000 as with $2,000,000,000, r'without injury to any interest except those who are in debt," it admits too much. This the logical deductions from its own argument proves. Con traction forces the business of the country upon a debi basis. When a system of credit is universal, as it is now, all prices are adjusted on that s stt'iil. 1 TtlFrat'nffnptgreitTTO price ot money, fixes rent and ail oth er costs of living. It is reckonedfin the cost of goods, transportation, etc., etc, and the consumer, no matter whether he is in debt or not, has these prices to pay. It is evident there fore, that freedom from debt does not give immunity from the harder condi tions of life which are imposed by contraction. No class of citizens can escape the -burden of these conditions. In such times interest, is nominally lower, as it is now. But this also is a delusion, because. the burden of inter est is determined by the prices of pro ducts. ' We ask our readers to study this question, viewing money as some thing they have to buy with products. Compare the amount of product it re quires to pay eight per cent, now with the amount it took to pay ten per cent, three years ago. "FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES." Under the above caption the Bee of Monday comments approvingly upon the decision of Judge Blodgettof the U, S. circuit court, declaring the Min nesota meat inspection law unconstitu tional. It is noteworthy that the Bee, as' a republican organ, must favor pro tection. The principle, of protection, as enforced bv the republican party, is specially applied to local interests. .Every manufacturing and mining scheme has its special agonts at Wash ington, and tariff bills are specially ar ranged to satisfy the demands of these cormorants. But when the great in terest of the western farmer proposes to protect itself by state laws, another I cx altogether is gored. The Bee, in its article, says: , "A state cannot prohibit the sale of an article of commerce after it has been brought within the jurisdiction of the state. The power of coDgress to regulate the introduction of articles of commerce necessarily implies the right to authorize the sale of commercial ar ticles so introduced. No article of commerce can be ex eluded from introduction into and sale in a state by state inspection laws or prohibition laws, and the common commercial usage and course of trade, and not the legislature of the estate, de termine - what are articles of. com merce." Isn't this a pretty tight jacket to put a state in, Mr. Bee? And does the constitutional power to "regulate com merce between the states" give con gress the power to dictate what that commerce shall be? We think not. Congress has only the powers which were granted by the states. If, in the exercise of its police powers a state in terferes with the sale . of a product within its borders, it may to that ' ex tent regulate commerce, not between the states, but within state line3. has not been den'ed that the states b the right to pass prohibition laws in re lation to liquor. But under the diction of the Bee, above quoted, this right would not exist. In this matter an unholy combina tion, by the use of millions of capital, throttles a great industry and turns all profits resulting from it into its own coffers. Its acts constitute a criminal conspiracy, and its guilt is confessed by the refusal of its members to testify before a congressional committee. It is melancholy to see the Bee, that great champion of the farmer, become its apologist, and oppose any remedies proposed. THE ST. LOUIS MEETING. It will be seen by the secretary's minutes of the meeting of the State Alliance- Executive Committee, held at Lincoln, Sept. 10, that the com mittee assumed the duty of appointing delegates to the annual meeting of the National Alliance, to- be held at St. Louis, Dec. 5. The Southern Alli ance, and the proposed Farmers' and Laborers' Union meeting m-Dec'ber, and the proposition for the National Alliance to join this new body, made it necessary for the National Alliance meeting to be held this year at the same time and place, viz: St. Louis, Dec. 5. Hence our Executive C6m mittee had the alternative of calling the State Alliance annual meeting in November, a time when our members are very busy picking corn, and wnen it would be very difficult for delegates to attend, or itself appointing dele gates. After a very full discussion of the subject the latter plan was adopt ed. The delegates were selected with a view to fairly representing all por tions of. the state, and securing as large a representation as possible. The St. Louis meeting will be a grand gathering of representative farmers from every state and territory in the Union. To be present at that meet ing will form a red-letter day in any man's lifetime. . We hope every man appointed will surely attend. But all who cannot attend are requested to so report to the state secretary at once, so that new appointments may be made.;:: Alt A A WAY STATION. The Bee in its issue of the 19th, ed itorially speaks of Omaha as "merely i'a way station on the Union Pacific, "with a stub connection to the trunk "lines on the Iowa side. " Well, well! Isn't there danger that the ghost of that board of trade may haunt the Bee sanctum? We have long known that the facilities and connections of Lincoln far surpassed those of Omaha; but we have not ex pected to find in the Bee an admission of this quite so soon. We have Jour great trunk lines centering here, with easy and quick connection east, north south and west. There are five great bridges across the Missouri river on the Nebraska border, besides the one at Omaha, lines crossing all of them with direct connection With the capi tal. We would like to have the Bee move into town. GAGE COUNTY ALLIANCE. The County Alliance of Gage wil meet at Beatrice on Saturday the 12th 01 uctober, at 2 p. m. J he mem bers of the Gage Alliances are alive to their interests, and are making busi ness arrangements for their members. Two new Alliances will be organized within a few days, one in Midland and one in Hanover. The Lincoln Journal devotes an ed itorial item to the alleged destruction of the colored Farmers' Alliance in Mississippi. It says: "The Caucasian of Mississiooi docs not deem it neces- sary for the colored farmers down there to have an Alliance. The new Alliance was therefore broken up, all the members that could be got at hav ing been shot or hung " It will be well if the farmers of Nebraska will note the fact tjiat the Journal has al ways been quite as much opposed to a farmers' Alliance in this state as it says the Caucasians of Mississippi are in that. Monopoly and ring rule suits it, whether in Mississippi or Nebraska. Eterybody kicks a man as soon as he is down. The Lincoln Journal says Tanner 'talked too much slop," and that his successoi needs to "hold his tongue." ; If "talking too much slop" is criminal the Journal ought to have been shut up years ago. Accord ing to the republican organs Tanner lost his office in the same way he got it, by his gab. Mr. Harrison had bet ter make a raid on some deaf and dumb asylums. When Alliance enterprises are start ' ' Aoort them unanimously. Trade thaii capital. PADDOCK ON TANNER. In an interview, with the Washing ton correspondent of the Bee in ic- gard to the new appointee to the com- missionership of "pensions, Mr. Pad dock says: , "Ii a man of exceptional discretion and prudence of speech, like Major Warner is phved at the head of that bureau he will be able to accomplish much greater results in the way of pension ' relief than would have been possible under the administration of Mr. Tanner, considering all the com- mcations." r Well, welll If Mr. .Warner goes to ' extemporizing $4,000 checks to mem bers ot congress, unbeknownst, what ' will the people say? So, talking too j much, not paying too much, was what ailed Tanner. This is what ails some senators. Some organs of the money power are alluding to the slim attendance at he late so-called greenback conven tion at Cincinnati as evidence that the times are not favorable to the s third parties. The gentleman who called the Cincinnati convention does not represent the greenback element of the country, nor have its confi dence. Mr. Geo. A. Tones has cluncr ike a barnacle to the old greenback party, annually electing himself chair man of its national committee for the sake of having something to sell to the enterprising pcliticians of the re publican gender. He has disposed of " himself once a year in a block of five for some years past. We wish to say to the jubilant parties alluded to- that the greenback idea never hacL more real vitality than it has to-dayy and there never has been a stronger sentiment in the whole country in fa vor of genuine and radical financial reform than at this very time. Mr. Loucks has publicly announced that he is not a candidate for United States senate, and urges the Alliance to vote for A. Wardall. Mr. Wardall accepts the struggle, and with hk usu al energy will make himself heard. He is too well known to require a word from us. .Dak. Kuralist! ' The farmery an dLreDubUcaiinLn, kota will do themselves proud by electing Mr. Wardall U.. S. Senator. He-more than fills all the standard re quirements, and in addition, is a grand representative of the farming interest, the only great interest of the Dakotas. The senate needs an infusion of west ern blood direct from the farm. In fact, it is the only thing that will re generate it. We have some sympathy for Mr. Ward.'ll, but he must make the sacrifice. Mr. Armitmse goes, to a new field of labor. He has the sincerest w ishes of all for his success and prosperity. Wherever he is, he will be an earnest worker in belull of the people and reform. LABOR GEMS. Labor is the one prime necessity in the development of the race. Hence the necessity that it be encourage., to the greatest degree, and everything tending to discourage or oppress it be prevented and removed. Labor is the foundation stone upon which the superstructure of civiliza tion rests. Let this foundation be in jured or crushed and the entire beau tiful structure falls to ruin. Labor, by constantly adding to the great accumulations of wealth in the hands of the few by force of inequita ble laws, is steadily building up and strengthening the power which already holds it ih bondage, and is thus forg. ing its own chains. , Under existing conditions and in- ( stitutions labor acts as an involuntary ! s"ce company, which guarantees stands all the chances and vicissitudes of natural lawp. Economist. ALLIANCE ELEVATOll CO. The Scandinavian Elevator Co., of Minneapolis, which has been for some time under the management of the Dakota Alliance, has just been reor ganized, its name changed, and the company made more purely an Alli ance Co-operative Association. By the request of the National Alliance the name was changed to "The Alli ance Elevator Co," so that it might the better express its object by its name. The officers are H. L. Loucks, president; F. B. Fancher, vice-president, and Geo. Wilson, secretary, which we learn from tho Ruralist. The farmers of Dakota should make this elevator enterprise a grand success. The farmer or Alliance shipping one car of wheat wilt receive the same attention as the warehouse or elevator company shipping several cars per day. 1: