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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-
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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.
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