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    ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
President. J. Iluirpws, Filley, Neb.
Vice President, H. L. Loucks, Cltar Creek,
Dakota. 4 , , T
retary, August Poi4. Moulton, Iowa. '
Treasurer, Hon. J. J. Fu-nng, Austin Minn.
Lecturer, A.'D. Chas", Watertown, Dak.
NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE.
President. John H. Poweni, Cornell.
Vice President, James Clark. Wabash.
Pecretary-Treasu rer, J. M. Thompson, Lincol n
Lecturer, M. M. Case, Creigbton.
Executive Committee: J. Burrows Filley;
B.F. Allen. Wabash; Allen Koot. Omaha;
L. Henry, Hansen; W, M. amy. North Loup.
Post Office at Lincoln, Neb., June 18, 1889.
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Bend us your name always.
THE DEEl HARBOR CONVENTION.
Letter From J. N. Camp.
Shenandoah, Iowa, Oct. 7, 1889.
J. Burrows,- Filley, Neb.
My Dear Sir: On my return home
from Topeka, whither I had gone by
the grace of Gov. Larrabee, as a dele
gate to the Deep Harbor Convention, I
found your favor of the 80th ult. await
inn me. I also found No. 13 of The
Alliance, which appears to me a vast
improvement in every way upon No. 1.
I very sincerely hope you may make the
n;incr a sirrfiKss. .and certainly see no
,
good reason why you should not do so.
I take this opportunity to speak to
you of the Deep Harbor movement.
regard it as one of great importance to
Nebraska and all her neighboring states
and territories. The harbor contem
plated would not only be the means of
saving to them several hundred miles of
land carnage in reaching tide-water,
but would prove of incalculable advan
tage as a regulator of transportation
tariffs. When we cret trunk lines of
railway to tide-water which will cut
each other at .right angles, competing
for the carrviner business of the trans-
Mississippi territory, we shall then have
reached a solution of our transportation
problem.
"The Topeka convention was a splen
did body of men, did its business in
good form and with admirable temper.
If your state was not suitably represent
ed in all respects in that convention the
fault would .seem to lie with your gov
ernor who appointed the delegates. '
I enclose herewith a statistical pam
phlet from which you may possibly
gather a somewhat more definite idea
of the purpose and seope of the move
ment than you have hitherto had.
I have not a particle of doubt that
the proposed harbor will be obtained;
ultimately, but- I think not so soon as
most of its active promoters hope. The
- c ommerce and trade of the trans-Mississippi
country now affords the Atlantic
cities the richest harvest ever reaped by
"capital since the world began, and the
East will riot see it diverted to the Gulf
without a- desperate struggle for its re
tention. All the railroads east of the
Mississippi river, and some to the west
of it, which follow the lines of latitude,
will unite with the commercial interests
of the East in opposition to the building
of a first class port on the coast of Tex
as. The magnitude of that opposition
can hardly be exaggerated. To meet
and overcome; that opposition is the
great work for which preparation must
be made.
I found men at Topeka, prominent in
the Gulf-port movement, who take it
for granted that the trans-Mississippi
delegation in congress will stand firmly,
and as a unit, in favor of the proposed
harbor, in the face of all possible oppo
sition to it. This is a prodigioas mis
take. The history of all our legislation
for the control of railroads shows that
congressmen" 'and members of legisla
tures are more, afraid of aggregated, or
ganized capital than they are of constit
uencies, unlcs those constituencies be
thoroughly aroused, and that they nev
er did come' 'square up to the work of
regulating railroads until they saw the
lightening anil; heard the thunder on
the. prairies. So it will be in regard to
. this Gulf-port undertaking. Now, tak
ing the seven slates and seven territo
ries represented in the Topeka conven
tion', and it is safe to say not one man in
u hundred of their citizens of fair intel
ligence has any adequate idea of the
economic value to himself or his section
of the proposed deep harbor. A vast
amount of educational work among the
constituencies (which means farmers),
will have to be done before the shrewd,
"prudent" congressman of these states
will recrard it otherwise than suicidal
for him to invite the wrath of eastern
capital by an vactive, aggressive fight
for a harbor on the coast of Texas. The
Alliance, the Homestead, and perhaps
one or two other journals, are exactly
adapted for this educational work.
Sincerely Yours, :
J. N. CAMP
Lamak, Neb., Oct, 15, 1889.
Mr. J: Burrows, Lincoln, Neb:
Dear Sir? ! was in Lamar today when
the news arrived of the defeat of Har
lan. Having read of the defeat of lleese
in our paper, ,! want to say to the
readers of our paper that the indignation
of the citizens of our neighborhood at the
proceedings of the railroad monopoly
knows no bounds, and they declare they
they will not vote for a railroad nominee
and unless the Democrats put up
straight man who will stand firm for the
the people, wo, urge you to use all in
fluence in your power to have Reese anc
Harlan run independent, and we wil
five them a unanimous support. We
cannot and will not longer be ruled by
this infernal B. & M. gang.
Yours fraternally,
'-..y "'. A. S. Allen.
Vice Pres. of Alliance No. G13. .
FROU ENGLAND TO FRAIICE.
GLIMPSES OP LONDON, PARIS AND
THE BLACK COUNTRY.
A aiemory of . the Song of the Shirt.
Where Dickens Foond His Inspira
tion In the Home of Hugo.
Meeting Bartholdi and See
ing Buffalo Bill.
Journal of United Labor.
The day following our arrival at Bir
mingham Sisters Durschlag, Dempsey
and myself visited Oradley Heath and
vicinity, commonly called the black
country, where women make chains
and nails, a full account" vhich will be
found in my report to the Scripps
League." Returning to the city I visited
the Free Library, in which there are
90,000 volumes; also the Art Gallery, in
which is' a choice collection of paint
ings and sculpture, prominent among
the latter a beautiful exemplification of
Hood's "Song of the Shirt" the form
of a woman sewing, with a look of such
hopeless despair on her face that it
filled me with pity, while underneath
are these lines:
'0 God ! that bread sheuld be so dear
And flesh and blood so cheap?"
Perhaps the most striking object of in
terest to us in Birmingham was the
New . Street Station, said to be the
largest railroad station in the world.
It is covered by simi-circular roof of
glass 2,200 feet long, 424 feet wide and
80 feet high. It covers 11 acres of,
ground, and containes 13 platfoims.
About 800 trains pass through daily.
From Birmingham to London, a three j
hours ride,gave us an opportunity to see
some very pretty landscape scenery.
Arrived in London in a drizzling rain.
An attempt to portray all the grandeur
or misery of London in a three 'days'
visit would be folly. But after a visit
to the Strand, Trafalgar Square
and Charring Cross, a ride "up the
Thames, past the Tower and Wapping
Old Stair s, one could readily see where ;
Dickens found the subjects for the life-1
inspired pen-pictures which have im
mortalized his name. A visit to Wool
wich Arsenal, St. Paul's Cathedral,
Westminster Abbey, the Palace of
Westminster (commonly called House
of Parliament), the National Art Gal
lery, the Museum, Albert Memorial
and Hyde Park will soon impress the
visitor with the cause of an English
man's pride of London. While in Lon
don 1 met at a dinner at the Tavistock
Hotel Robert Lincoln, United States
Minister; Mr. Bigger, the Irish M. P.;
also Mr. Howells, M. P.; as well as
several members of of the London press,
among whom was one young woman,
Miss C. G. Furley.
Left London on Monday. August 12,
for the home of Victor HugoParis
that city of whom an eminent writer
once said: ,"For her beauty, her gran
deur, her historic fame; for her warlike
deeds, her power to lead the mighty
nation, and to crown or discrown her
monarchs, no city on earth is worthy to
be the rival of Paris." Beautiful and
historic it is without a doubt, and
more interesting in itself than any ex
position. When we first arrived 1
think we all felt a good deal the way
Mark Twain put it, that everything
was "Delightfully Frenchy". Streets
made fimiliar by history and Hugo's
novels at once claim attention: the Rue
de Rivoli, Bois de Bologne, Champs
Elysee and Faubourg St. Uonore; the
Palace de Concordia, the Tuilleries
Gardens and Arch of Triumph are ob
jects which, once seen, can never be
forgotten. The fourteen day's staj in
Paris was fully occupied, and had it
been double that time we would not
lave seen everything of interest out
side of the Exposition. Besides our
dinner on Eiffel Tower, where we met
the great Bartholdi, who gave each one
as a souvenir a piece of the first cast of
the Bartholdi statue, and the break
fast tendered our party by the Ameri
can Minister,we were given a reception
and a banquet by the members of the
Workingmen's Exchange and a recep
tion and lunch by the Muncipal Coun
cil in the Hotel de Ville. which
means the same as a city hall. It is a
magnificent building finished in marble,
onyx and gold. There are very many
churches, foremost among which is
Notre Dame. There is only one En
glish speaking Catholic Church, St.
Joseph's. The Exposition is wonder
ful. Jut to look at from , the outside,
it covers a vast area of ground, 288,000
meters; and the total cost of laying out
the grounds, erecting buildinds, etc..
was nearly $6,000,000, Machinery Hall
costing $1,500,00 ). To view every ex-;
hi bit and inspect every gallery means a
walk of fifty miles, unles you are wheel
ed around in one of the many bath
chairs which are truudled about by
men of all nationalities, but particular
ly the barefoot Chnamm. The United
States, with all her wounderful facili
ties, was most conspicuous by the ab
sence of what we were so capable of
showing. There is no doubt that,
among all the interesting things the
Exposition offers, the Eiffel Tower
stands first. It is a masive iron struc
ture,' 984 feet high, containing 7,500
tons of iron. Its complete cost was
$800,000. It has four legs, covering
four acres of grround. Two hundred
feet up they consolidate and form the
first landing, which has a seating capa
city of four thousand, and is occupied
by restaurants and stalls where souvi-
nis of the Exposition are sold. Two
hundred feet further up is the second
landing, where a printing press is in
motion and a daily paper is printed,
called the Figaro. From this up to
the third landing is over 500 feet.
Above this are the drawing room, bed
room, dining-room and kitchen of Mr.
Eiffel, and to which the public are not
admitted. As I stood at the top of this
great structure I was impressed not so
much with its height, nor yet grand
view of the surroundings, as with tbe
dauntless courage and peril of the
brave men who erected and completed
it, placing every bolt and bar in proper
place from this giddy height;yetnotone
accident among the workmen marred
its erection. ine only inconvenience
in making the ascent of the Tower is
that the passengers have to change cars
en route, so that it takes from one to
six hours to make the trip. On the last
day of our stay in Paris it was decided
to accept an invitation previously ex
tended by Hon. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo
Bill") to visit his Wild West Show in
the evening. At our dinner Colonel and
Mrs. Murphy of New York. called on
us and presented us with four
large
cakes of genuine Yankee corn-bread,
baked in Buffalo Bill's camp. They
have worked indefatigably to secure a
corn exhibit in Paris, but Congress fail
ing to make a necessary appropriation
they were disappointed. They hope,
however'" to succeed at the Exposition
in New York in 1892. After doing
justice to the gift of Cclonei Murphy,
escorted by himself and charming wife,
we started for the Wild West grounds.
Afer making the acquaintance of the
"mama" of the tribe, as the lady is cal
led who, by the way, is a Philadelphian,
and viewing'with a great deal of inter
est the quaint little tents in which the
people live in this miniature village,
we started for the great amphitheatre
where the preformance is given. On
the way, however, our party spied a
genuine American engaged in a genuine
Yankee occupation. He was a South
ern darkey selling peanuts. They
rushed upon him pell-mell, and I do not
think his peanuts would have long
withstood the strain of their purchase
naa not tne cow-Doy Dana struct up
the "Star Spangled Banner" in the
distance. The boys broke ranks, and
like a crowd of school-boys let loose,
started for the music. We were ac
corded the seats of honor which the
crowned heads of Europe occupy, and
when Mr. Cody and his entire troupe
appeared in the arena he called for
three cheers for the American working
men, and any one who has ever heard
an Indian whoop can imagine how
heartly they were given. Five of our
party rode around the ring in the old
Dead wood coach, under a rain of firing
that would make a man's life of but
little value were it real instead of a
sham. After the performance we met ,
Dr. I. F. Powell of Wisconsin, Mr.
Cody's foster brother, and well known
in labor circles as labor's champion
and friend; also the General Manager,
Mr. Burke, .nd several others. Mr.
Cody received us warmly in his tent,
and expressed his determination to
form part of the attractions of our Ex
position in'92. On Sunday morning at
8'oclock we bade our French friends
good-bye and started on our homeward
route, which I will endeavor to describe
in your next issue. .
Mrs. L. M. Barry.
TARIFF NOTES.
Will the republican party be wise and
destroy Mr. Cleveland as a political fac
tor by lowering the tariff in a manner
which shall work confusion; to trusts
and relieve the burdens of the people?
It cannot crush Mr. Cleveland's cause,
but it can make that cause its own. Chi
cago News.
The tariff is a tax paid by the consu
mer in an increased price of the article
consumed. Kansas Jeffersonian.
There is no reason why the manufac
turers of woolen goods should be pro
tected by tariff duties against foreign
competition, that is not equally applica
ble to the producers of wool in this
country. If the theory of protection is
good for the former, it is just as good
for the latter. It is good in both cases,
or good in neither. New York Inde
pendent. The woolen manufacturers are willing
to let congress do what it Avill about du
ties on wool if it will, by prohibitory
tariff, give them control of the market
for fabrics. The people who buy and
wear clothes will have something to say
on this subject at the ballot box in 1892.
New York World.
It is an insult to common sense to af
firm that the tariff enhances the price
of wheat, corn, oats, cattle, hogs, horses
or mules, poultry, butter and cheese,
milk, hay, fruits, vegetables, cotton or
tobacco leaf. The price of the farmer's
products is fixed by the foreign mar
kets, and the price of nearly everything
the farmer buys is determined by the
tariff and its incidents. This is an ugly
truth, but it cannot be wiped out.
Chicago Tribune.
. Protection is a species of taxation by
which the consumer is made to support
the government, while the wealthy pro
ducer or manufacturer is, by this pro
tective taxation, enabled to charge and
obtain a higher price for his wares.
Mobile Bulletin.
If Cleveland and his tariff reform had
won the day, our ears would have been
stunned with the charge that this policy
has already stopped hundreds of looms,
tlu-own thousands of workmen into
hopeless poverty and wasted millions of
capital. With what huge head lines the
journals advocating the doctrine of pro
tection would have announced these
successive disasters, and with what pa
thetic language they would have called
upon the people to witness the truth of
their predictions? Each successive fail
ure would have been pointed at as a
further illustration of what foreign com
petition, encouraged by the heartless
and unpatriotic support of the free tra
ders on this side of the water, was do
ing to ruin the fair fabric of American
industry. New York Journal of Com
merce. There is no use to try to fool the farm
er and laboring men again. They will
vote squarely against the robber tariff,
and don't you forget it. Dayton Work
man.
About six thousand hogs have-been
shipped up to date for the present
month from Kansas City to Mexico.
None but the largest animals are select-
en tor this purpose, anil the average
weight will not fall much below, 300
pounds. This makes an aggregate
shipment of hogs alone for less than a
month of 1,800,000 pounds. This is the
trade of a single city in a single com
modity with the republic of Mexico, and
the way to protect it is for the United
States to allow Mexico the privileges
which she is ready to extend to this
country if she can, count on a reciproci
ty of favors. Kansas City Star. i
MORE MONEY.
A Behind-the Times Paper Which Be
gins to See the Light.
The Washington Sunday Gazette,
says the Chicago Sentinel, which has
heretofore kept itself within the shad
ows of the dead past so far as the mon
ey question is concerned, puts on its
spectacles long enough to take a look
ahead and utter the following:
There is one feature of the political
economy of the day that has not been
settled by the recent election. Yet it is
most essential to the well-being of the
country one that like the ghost of Ban
quo will not down at the bidding of the
monometalist, and one that must be
settled in no distant future. This fea
ture is the more money one, commonly
called "Greenbackism" and receiving
that popular designation. It means
that the prosperity of the people re
quires plenty of money. Money, be it re
membered, is not value, as the advocates
of a gold currency erroneously assert.
It is but a representative of value. As
such representative it may be made of
anything from paper to gold. The sole
value given, as money, to money issued
by a goverment, is the credit of that
government. If the money so issued
have an intrinsic value, it will com
mand that value not as money but as
merchandise. For example:
When the Southern Confederacy was
on its last legs, a dollar of the United
States money was worth about one hun
dred thousand dollars of the Confeder
acy. After the Confederacy had fallen,
its paper dollars Were absolutely value
less except as paper, A gold dollar of
the Confederacy, after that goverment
had gone up, and consequently without
credit, was just as valueless as money
as was the paper dollar. It was not
regarded as money, for it represented
no credit of the , goverment that issued
it. Bat its commercial value was that
of the amount of gold it contained,
at the then ruling irate of gold value in
London, and it would have commanded
that value as merchandise wherever
such merchandise was bought. This
shows, we think, that money is not
value in itself but is' the representa
tive of value.
Now we have an imminse amount of
value in this countr.y The wealth, or
the commercial value of tbe United
States may be put, for illustration, at
the round sum of sixty thousand mil
lions of dollars. We use this sum
merely for illustrative purposes. We
have not less than sixty millions of
people. We have not less than one
thousand millions of money in circu
lation. We cannot carry around with
us our houses, our" farms, our mines, or
forests when we want to transact busi
ness. We must carry with us a rep
resentative of them. That represent
ative is what the common concensus
of the people may decide on, or for safe
ty and uniformity, what the govern
ment shall decide it to be. To confine
it to gold or to limit it to an amount
utterly insufficient to carry on buisness
without suffering stringency in the
money market will not do. We must
increase the money supply of the coun
try. '."''
The Sunday Gazette comes near the
truth in the above. It says "Money is
but a representative of value." That
is right. Now would not money issued
by the goverment on land security,
first mortgage, say to one-half or one
third of its value, be a representative
of value? Would it not be such quite
as much as a gold or silver certificate
and much more than a paper currency
based on gold alone with not over a
quarter enough gold to redeem it?
THE RESULT OF LOW WAGES.
About the middle of this century, Sir
John Lubbock, an eminent English
man, wrote as follows, viz. "There is
likely to be an effort made by the capi
tal class to fasten upon the world a rule
through their wealth, and by means of
reduced wages, place the masses upon
a footing more degrading and depend
ent than has ever been known in his
ory. The spirit of money - worshippers
seems to be rapidly developing in this
direction." This language seems pro
phetic in the light of such facts as
these: v . .
"In London, March 19th, 1887 there
were exclusive of lunatics in asylums,
patients in hospitals and vagrants,
103,714 paupers officially reported in
her care; and it is said some 48,000
helpless distressed vagrants hide away
in her dens and Slums; 60,000 families,
or 240,000 souls manage to eke out an
existence in her cellars; 20,000 saloons
are supported by 600,000 drunkards;
80,000 women are driyen to prostitution
and 250,000 women get but S1.50 per
week. The income tax returns show
that 57,000 persons own three-fifths of
all the wealth of the kingdom."
The above official facts constitute a
literal fulfillment of the prophetic
words of Sir John Lubbuck.
From the state of New York a farm
er writes: "In the last twenty-live
years the price of produce has been re
duced one-half, while, salaries, interest
and transportation remain about the
same. United States bonds which
were bought for 40 to 50 cents on the
dollar, are now paid at $1.00 to $1.30
and no taxes, while in New York state
real estate pays nine-thnths of all the
taxes. While the farmer has been
working the money sharks have been
devising ways and means to rob in him
of his hard earnings. The millionaires
on the one hand and the struggling
farmers on the other tell only too well
how how they have succeeded. What
is the cause of all this? Legislation.
What is the cure? Legislation. When
will the cure be brought about? Never,
so long as farmers continue to vote for
money sharks and corporation law
yers." The Australian System in Connecticut.
Little Connecticut has adopted the
Australian ballot. Says the Chicago
Herald:
"So long as open ballots prevailed in
Connecticut the factory owners were
enabled to drive their employes to the
polls in gangs and vote them as they
chose. This they systematically and in
the most shameful manner did from
year to year. No considerations of de
cency balked them; no efforts of the op
position sufficed to prevent them. When
coercion failed money was employed
with equal shamelessness. -
Hereafter these things are not to be.
A factory hand may now, like his neigh
bor, prepare a ballot in secret, cover it
with an envelope and place it in the box
without disclosing its nature to a living
soul. No heeler or overseeker can in
timidate him, for these worthies are not
allowed near the polls. Bribery, also,
becomes a matter of very much greater
difficulty; for, though the henchmen of
the protectionists may contract for votes,
they can have no assurance of their
ability to deliver the goods.
The new plan of elections in Connect
icut is essentially the so-called Austra
lian plan, which i3 now offered to the
people of Iowa. Not unlikely, its adop
tion in the latter state would be produc
tive of some startling results."
The above constitutes a verv eosrent
argument in favor of the secret ballot. J
- L tv-v i
W e hope the Alliance men of Nebraska ;
will demand of their next legislature
the passage of this law.
Stock shipped to Allen Root, care of
Bell, Collins & McCoy, Omaha, by
members of the Alliance, will realize
stock. Give the agent notice when
shipped. Mr. Root is state agent for
the Alliance. W. R. Bennett & Co.
will sell groceries, etc., to the Alii-
ances at jobber's rates. Send all r-'
ders to Allen Root. Shipments of
Vegetables, fruits or poultry, Should be
billed to Mr. Root, care of Bowman,
Williams & Howe's, Omaha.
W. C. T. 0. COLUMN.
vSfltSft byrM8S F"Acs E. Towjrsfjer. of
r-K.L Jeb ' ot the Nebraska Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
The.?w0rof The Almascb places the re
sponsibility of this column In the care of the
above editor.
Figs From Thistles. '
EHILT BAKER 8MALI.K.
I've lately been doing-some thinking
Turning things round in ray mind
There are lots of thing3 to think of,
When once you get at it, I And. v
Tve never been much of a thinker.
But what can a fellow do "
Who's stuck a rusty nail in his foot,
And vacation not half through?
There are some of the Bible verses
That sound at the first real queer,
But when you just work thera over,
The queerness will disappear.
Now 'bout "gathering flgs from thistles,"
T has a curious kind of sound,
But I've been thinking it over,
And the meaning is plain, I've found.
I don't know as I can tell it,
But it means that a thing won't grow
On or from something that's different
The Lord has made it so.
You can't get plums from a peach-tree.
And a kitten will grow to a cat;
A puppy a dog surely will be.
And nobody wonders at that.
If we plant in the spring the grain of corn.
We know that It won't grow wheat.
And you can't from the stalk of a rose-bush.
Expect something good to eat.
And so I carry it farther,
And surely I can see
That an idle, useless, troublesome boy,
Won't grow to the man for me.
If I'd be like Grant or Garfield,
Or the old Emperor over the sea.
With millions of loving people
- Hoping and praying for me,
I've got to be first a splendid boy
From good boys grow such men
It just as surely follows,
As the sun will rise again.
"Whatever we sow, that we shall
reap,
It is only saying the same.
If I sow "wild oats" in my spring-time,
I can only harvest shame .
Now I've got pretty tired of thinking.
But I know as sure's I can whistle,
No boy or man in all this world
Ever gathered a "fig from a thistle!"
Nicotine.
I am the Spirit Nicotine;
( Ti8 I who guide the lips between,
Through tbe lips 1 trace the brain.
There I am a mighty pain.
I pursue my fatal track . , '
Down the arched and marrowy back.
And the verterbrte grow slack.
Naught can hinder.naught can swerve;
I pervade each secret nerve.
Pick my meal with knife and dart y
From the palpitating heart;
Quaff the leaping, crimson flood
Of the rich and generous blood.
I the yellow bile diffuse,
Paint the face in ghastly hues.
Muscle and sinew
May not continue
To hold their wonted haughty pride.
The while I through the system glide.
Slowly I my purpose wrea a,
Slowly fades the blooming cheek.
Gloomy fancies I suggest,
Fill with feas the hardy breast.
The limbs then fail.
The lamp Jiurns dim.
Life hears death's hail,
And answers him.
, Heart and liver, lungs and brain.
All their powers lose amain,
And yield to me;
And I! And I!
Laugh to see
My victim die.
-- Jewish Messenger..
Who smites the.rock and spreads the water,
Bidding drink and live a crowd beneath him,
Even him the minute makes iirmortal.
Robert Browning.
The hardest blows
reformation has had
the temperance
in this centurv
have been in the fact that some reform
ers have halted under the delusion of
this high license movement. You know
what it is. It is the white flag of truce
sent out from alcoholism to prohibition
to make the battle pause long enough
to get the army of decanters and demi
johns better organized. Away with
that flag of truce or I will fire on it. Be
twern these two armies there can be no
truce. On the one side is God and so
briety and the best interests of the
world, and on the other side is the
sworn enemy of all righteousness, and
either rum must be defeated or the
church of God and civilization. De Witt
Talmage. ,
A veiy practical and inexpensive way
of aiding temperance is the erection of
drinking fountains and watering troughs
in front of churches and reputable busi
ness places. It is a well-known fact that,
in large cities, the only convenient place
for watering horses is in front of a sa
loon, and that many men are driven in
to a saloon through thirst who would
gladly patronize the fountoin if it were
at hand. Dr. Judson, of New York
City, has a drinking fountain near his
church, and the baptist Tabernacle
Church of Boston has recently erected
one in front of that edifice.
It is estimated that 67,830,565 bushels
of grain are used in the production of
malt and distilled liquors in this country
annually. This feartul waste would
furnish to each of the 1,000,000 families
of our working classes an equivalent of
six barrels of flour, while the $900,000,
000, spent annually for intoxicating
liquors would give each family a bank
account of $900. -
Price List of Oils to Alliances.
150 test, medium white coal oil, 114 cents.
150 " prime " " " 104 "
175 " Y. L. " " " 13 "
74 stove gasoline " 114 "
These oils in barrel lots. The best
harness oil in either one or five gallon
cans, 70 cents per gallon. Pure Neat's
foot oil in one to five gallon cans, 60
cents Der srallon. In barrel lots. 50
I cents per gallon. Axle grease, thirty-
six boxes in case, $1.85.
Allen Hoot, State Agent.
Orders for coal must be sent in dur
ing September to insure the price and
certainty of having orders filled. Van
Wyoming, coal, $1.75 per ton.
Nut or egg coal $1. Freight on any
Hnes of R j Nebrask $4.25 per
to. on B & M 4-65 per ton. Cham-
berlain plows, good as made, shipped
from Omaha, 14 and 16 inch, $14. By
one-half car lots, $12.25. Champion
self -dump steel wheel horse rake $21.00
Centerville, Iowa, coal, at the mine,
i .25 Ttpr ton. Can be shipped direct
to all points ou the Rock Island R. R.
at regular tann rates, iroiuis ou u.
P. add $1.60 to Omaha rates; by St.
Joe $1 to regular rate. Tnis is one of
the best Iowa mines. . ' ;
XjlOK INSURANCE.-See at addreSwigart
ereaSu&?&
Nebraska.
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Address,
Alliance Publishing Co.. Lincoln, Neb.
AURORA, KANE CO., 111.,
IMPORTER AND BREEDER OF
Cleveland and Shire Horses.
300 YOUNG AND VIGOROUS STALLIONS AND MARES,
OF CHOICEST BREEDING NOW ON HAND.
LARGE IMPORTATION RECENTLY ARRIVED.
I will make special prices and liberal terms to parties buying before winter.
200 High-Bred IIolstein-Friesian Cattle. Deep Milking Strains at Low Prices.
When answering Advertisements mention Thk Alliancs. Ifm
OBTAIN CHICAGO
Theway to do this is to ship your Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Veal, Hay. Oraln, Wool., Hid.
'teans, Breom Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Vegetables, or anything you have, to us. Tho
avi umi juu umj un, u ruiuiiK i"fe aruuies m nome Tor years is no reason that you
ihould continue to do so if you can find a better nrkct. We make a specialty of reeeivinir
shipments direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCERS, and probably have the luYcvst trade In
:his war of any house in this market.
ket in which to buy your goods and thus
to give some attention to the nest aim nu
invite correspondence i'row INDIVIDIM
who desire to ship their produce to this market.
...m u y''i uioiRci ii inni, ciii.iiu8 uiiTCuuns ma sucn lniormauon as will lt-of cor-i-ice
to you if you contemplate shipping. JLet us hear from you.
SUMMERS, MOBBISON & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 1 74 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO.
REFERENCE: Metropolitan Nation Bauk,
THIS
QUAKER
IS THE
IMPROVED DURING 1880.
Grinds finer; runs lighter, is
Also Manufacturers of Hand
Sheilers, Post-Hole Diggers. Send for Catalogue before buying. Agents Wauted in Unoccu
pied Territory. 3ral8J SPRINGFIELD IMPLEMENT Co., Springfield, O.
WHY
PA Y RETAIL PRICES
WHEN YOU CAN
BUY AT WHOLESALE
WHATEVER YOU
EAT, WEAR OR USE.
WE BLA.VE2 NO AGENTS.
Write for full Catalogue Bent tbxb.
H. R. EAGLE & CO.,
F&rrasrs1 Ufcolssalt Supply llcustv
e3 WADASH AVE., CHICACO.
W D. NICHOLS
GENERAL. DEALER IN
r
BEATRICE, NEB.
Have some Fine Bargains in Improved
Farms.
Lots For Sal In Every Addition in the City.
OFFICE, 50T COURT ST. TELE. 82. 10tf.
GREAT-WESTERNFEED 'STEAM UC.
Great Western Feed Steamer
AND TANK HE ATE R
Cooks one to three barrels feed at one filling.
Fire box surrounded with water on top and
sides. Any kind of fuel. Easily managed and
cleaned as a box stove. fSend for Circulars.
Agents wanted. UOVEE H. M. CO..
3inl6 Tama, Iowa.
J. C. McBRIDE.
II. S. BELL.
McBRIDE & BELL
DEALERS IN
Real Estate,
Loan and IrLSzra.iio
Office, 107 S. 11th St.,
Basement,
lincoln, nebraska.
Agents for M. K. & Trust Co. Houses Built
on ten years' time. Debt cancelled in case of
Death. Anything to trade let us know of it.
J. M. ROBTJSTSOIT,
Kenesaw, Adams County, Nebr.
WiT)iM,t'lTrrr"!r(1
Breeder and Shipper f Recorded Poland
China Hogs. Choice - Breeding Stock for
sale. Write for wants. Mention Tho Alliance
' ' f LARGE I
FIRE-BOX; J
! 3 FEET LONG g
ENTIRELY rwU M
FOR
ALLIAICE
-00-
PRICES FOE YOUR
If requested, we will send yon fno of
Chicago.
Mention The Alliuuc
CITY (ME MILL
For Corn and Cobs, Feed and Table Meal. It
more durable fhan any mill on the market.
Self-Dump Hay Rakes, Cultivator. Com
Wm. Daily & Co.
LIVE STOCK
Co
inn
!1!
Is
it
Cattle, Hogs, Sheep
and Horses.
CASH ADVANCES ON CONSIGN
MENTS. ROOM 34, Exchange Building,
Union Stock Yards, South Omaha.
References; Ask your Rankers. istf
NOTICE TO MILLERS
For Sale or Rent,
A Roller Flouring mill 'with water
power, one mile from Lincoln.
A.T.SAWYER.
TBL J. THORP & CO.,
Manufacturers of
Rubber Stamps, Seals,
Stencils, Badges and
v Baggage Checks
Kvci v Description. Established 1W0.
S. ilU St.. LINCOLN, NEil.
Job Printin
tfEATl-Y PONE
A.t tlais Office
H. C. STROLL,
-TP-TTrv BREEDER OF
J$ XheM
Most Imnrovrnl Ttroo.la rr
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Poland China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire
and Essex Hos. Satisfaction guarantor in
all cases. P. O. Address. BEATRICE. Neb
Whilst Von nra lnnklnor Hvnimd fr& thn lwikvt
economizr;g in that way, it will ccrtainl v rv von
)st profitable wc- of disposing of your product. We
lLS. ALLIANCES. rrVlll anrf .ill
ssion IJerchan
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