The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, January 04, 1890, Image 3
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. T?I)T) 4 OT- . . . HiiiiuaoaA is 1 AX IS ALLIANCK. President, John H. Powers, Cornell, 'jvioo President, James Clark, Wabash. frocretary-Treasu rer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln 1tiectnrer, M. M. Case, Creighton. -ExVti Committee: J. Burrows Filley; f i.h. Allen, Wabash: Allen Koot, Omaha; . Heury, Hansen; W. M. Gray, North Loup. Tost Office at Lixcot.n, Nei., June 18, 1S8. 1 hereby certify that The Alliance, a week ly newspaper published at this place, has been determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas. 'or General to Iks a publication entitled to admission in the mails at the pound rate of postage, und entry of it a6 such Is accordingly made upon tho books of this office. Valid while the character of the publication re 'Jnains unchanged. Albeut Watkiks, Postmaster. THE V0CE OF THETeOPLeT This department is conducted by the Secre tary of the State Alliance to whom all com munications in relation to Alliance work, hort articles upon various subjects of inter--t to the Alliance etc., should be addressed. Write plain and only on one side of the paper. Sign what you choose to your articles but tend us your name always. JoTcrnmwt Control of Railroads. Editor Alliance: I wish to call the attention of your readers to a few iiintorical fact3 in regard to our present transportation system, what it has done for the country, and its effects upon trade and industries. About sixteen .years ago, competition between our reat trunk lines became so active that thy were making very little money,per liaps none at all. Three of these trunk lines then entered into an agreement -with a few cattle shippers, that if the 3atter would divide their shipments with them they should receive a rebate f 5? 15.00 per car for all the cattle ship ped from west of Dunkirk, Buffalo, and Pittsburg, regardless of ownership; and as these few shippers only owned about a third of the cattle thus trans ported, they made on shippers outside of the ri'ig $lo.oo per car, thus making the rebate on what cattle they actually owned, $4-5.00 per car, or one-half the regular tariff rates. The result was thai honest shippers who were paying full tariff rates were driven out of the business, and the bulk of the trade went into the hands of this favored few. ami thev made Chicago the great centre of their trade, until it is said, this market lias received in a single year, 2,500,000 bead of cittle. For a time these men were content with their monopoly of the trade, ai.d did not interfere mate rially with the interests of the produ cer, lint for a great while, with the millions that had been dropped into their pockets by unscrupulous railroad corporations, and the centralization of trade at a given point, they were ready to dictate to the producer the price he should have for his cattle, and for the last seven years they have been grad ually using this power, until to day they are absorbing all the money there is in the business, and some of them, not content with the wholesale slaughter of cattle as well as the men engaged hi raising them -propose to run the re tail meat business of this country also. Of these methods I will say no more. The gigantic evils they have consum mated, covering this western country like the ashes of Sodom, paralyzing the "business of her people, and through it crippling all industries, speaks more eloquently than tongues of angels or men. Let us turn from them to the source from whence they sprung, our 1, escnt railway system, and ask our selves if we wish to perpetuate such a system. Bearing in mind it is not only onr cattle industry they have ruined, out our grain, and almost, every other agricultural interest as well. The farmers of Nebraska have their cribs filled to overllowing with 12 to 18 cent ;orn, according to location. It has cost them all of this sum to crib it. To re move it to the nearest elevator is run iiing them so much in arrears. It is well for the farmer that he raises enough from God's great store house, the soil, to furnish him food, for if he depended upon the profits of his indus try tinder our present system for sup port. his days of toil would soon end. A Mttle slab of pine perhaps would mark the spot where he lay, with the inscription"I)ied of Starvation." This is not the wail of a discontented fanatic; it is plain substantial truth. And there is another truth 1 will add. If the farmer had been as unscruplous as his oppressors, they too would have had a touch of starvation ere this. But to re turn to our 12 cent com. When it rt aches its destination does the con sumer get the advantage of the low prices? Not at all. There have been from two to live prices added to it be fore it reaches him. The two classes that should have a large share of the profits of the product are entirely ig nored in the deal. The protits, yes the hard labor, also of producer and con sumer, have gone to swell the riches of the railroad millionare, and the vul tures that he has created to prey upon the dead industries of the countiy. Remove these two poweaful combina tions and our 12 cent corn, 40 cent wheat, and low priced cattle would bring us double price in the exchanges we could make for them in other pro ducts. It would give an impetus to in dustry and trade such as this country has never experienced. The cry of over-production would cease. Every nerve and muscle would be called into requisition to supply the demand until every home in our countiy should have bread and meat enough to spare, until this vast pioneer country of the west is supplied with substantial houses and barns and all the other blessings of civilization. It would help to raise the mortgages oil our farms, and better than this it would be the means of mak ing it unnecessary to mortgage at all. The great highways of commerce right fully belong to the people and not to private corporations, to block up our trade and crv "stand and deliver." Let us then as a people assert our rights iind buy them out at a fair price: or if they do not choose to sell, build our own lines parallel with theirs. The "survival of the fittest" .will soon settle the -question. Some of these roads al ready owe us nearly what they are Avorth, and their evident intention is to always owe us. These are the proper ones to begin the work upon, until grad ually the whole system is under our 'control, and the commerce of our country established upon the broad and olid basis of equal rights and justice to ail. There is only one alternative, either the people will control our rail roads, or the railroads will control the people. C. II. King , Duvide, Neb., Dec. 20, 1889. Notice. ItaXalo County Alliance will hold its next aneoting at Prairie Hill school house, eight jniles north of Kearney, at 10 a. m. Jan. 15, 1890. We want to have all Alliances repre sented as there will be business of impor tance to be considered. J, Y. M. Swiqart, Pres. Co. Alliance. Trust Management. The price of nearly every product is fixed by a trust before the product reaches the consumers. The past sea son the farmers rebelled against the price fixed on binder twine by the twine trust. The price was so high the farmers refused the twine. At present there are many farmers doing without sugar, attempting by its non use ' to force the trust to decrease its price. The people all agree or the main point that they must manage the sugar and all other trusts or become the slaves of a monied aristocracy. Rut to manage the sugar trust shall we do without sugar? To control the kero sene oil trust shall we spend our even ings in the dark or go back to the tal low dip? To kill the railroad trust shall we take to our ox carts? No, no! Better take to the woods at once, or stop living. Kind readers you are asking how 1 would have the peo ple of the United States manage the trusts and combines that are robbing us with trust prices. Jay Gould's hired help could run his U. P. railroad it he were dead. Vanderbilt's employes cad and do successfully manage his rail roads. The men employed in the sugar refineries manufacture A and G sugar while the members of the trust are viewing the Paris Exposition. We would have the men who are doing the work on Gould' railroad own the road. We would have Vanderbilt's laborers own his roads. ' We would have the men who make the sugar own tne re fineries. But, you say these laborers are too poor; they cannot own anything. Bight here we would have the government of the United States, the people if you please, say to Gould's laborers, "If you want to buy Mr. Gould's railroad we will loan you sufficient money to make the purchase at one per cent a year and take a mortgage on the road." Let these laborers run the road un der government supervision until the debt is paid, and for all time to come. We would not pay any one $25,000 a year for acting as president of a rail road, company: But the section boss should receive $3 per day, and all other laborers in proportion. The people should serve the sugar or any other trust in the same manner. Some readers may say the govern ment cannot loan money at one or any other per cent. Every bank bill in existence the gov ernment loans to the national bankers at one per cent a year. The government also has about fifty millions deposited in the banks and no interest is received ior its use. The government should loan to these poor laborers on the same terras it does to the rich bankers. Suppose Mr. Gould will not sell his railroad. When a railroad was graded through our farms many of us did not wish to sell the right of way, and have our farms cut into three-cornered lots. The managers replied: "It is for the good of the country; it is for the benefit of the whole people that this railroad goes this route." They took our land; we took their price. Now it is for the benefit of the people at large; in fact our only salva tion is to have the government take charge of the railroad trust, and all other trusts, and run them in the in terest of the whole people. The people must do this or become the abject slaves of king Gould and the trust lords. King Gould and the trust iingsters must take our price tor their property and be satisfied. When the people take charge of the great railroad trust as above indicated the members of all the other trusts will call -before breakfast to ask the people what they shall do to be saved. John Stkiuhns, Shelton, Neb. Death or Iiro. Edwin It. Clark, of Hall County. Camkron Pukcinct, Ham, Co., IJec. 28, '80. . Editor Alliance:-! enclose herewith res olutions of sympathy and respect to the mem ory of our Iiro. E. It. Clark. Bro. Clark was a very prominent farmer, and was widely known and respected through Hall and Buf falo counties. He was very much interested in our cause, and we feel as if we had lost one of our main stays. Wherkas; It has been the will of our Heav enly Father to remove from our midst our beloved Brother Edwin It. Clark suddenly and without warning; therefore be it Resolved, That while we bow in humble submission to the will of God, we no less mourn the cause that has severed the tics of fraternal friendship. Resolved. That the sympathy of our order is hereby extended to the family of our de ceased Brother in their great affliction, and we commend them to Him who doeth all I tilings well for comfort. j Resolvkd, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased Brother j and also be published in The Farmers' Aixi j anoe and the Shelton paper. J. H. Porter, j D. C. Wood, I It. Gill, j Com. on resolutions. (iood News From Merrick Co. Clahks, Neb., Dec. 30, 1889. Editor Alliance: There was a special meeting1 of the Merrick County Farmers' Alli ance held at Central City on Dec. 28, for the purpose of considering- the best methods of advancing the interests of the order in the county, where, as you are doubtless aware, Alliance matters have for some time been in a somewhat lethargic condition. The weather was unfavorable, as a storm commenced ear ly in the day with a feeling1 in the air that we might get a blizzard before it was over. But this did not prevent us from having a good meeting, and considering the weather a re markably god attendance. Representatives from five subordinate Alliances were present. Each and every -one of them manifested, and many of them expressed, increased interest in the work. Members from Chapman re ported arrangements about perfected for the shipment of grain by Alliance men of that place. Members of Alliances have been shipping grain and hay from Clarks for the past two weeks; have also bought and distributed eev eral barrels of coal oil, and report themselves well satisfied with results thus far. Fraternally j-ours, w. H. Austin. Admires The Alliance. Hay Sphisgs, Neb., Dec. 27, 1889. Alliance Pcb. Co. : Enclwsed find postal note for one dollar. Please send me your pa per oue year. If you will send me a few sam ple copies 1 will use them in your interest. You ought to have a good club it this place, i have not yet seen a copy of your paper, but take it for granted it is the right thing, as I have long admired Mr. Burrows bold stand in the interest of labor. Yours "for the war," Wilson Henry. They Are All At Work. We give below ad extract from a letter re ceived by the Secretary this week: We are at work in Gosper county, and ex pect to be represented at Grand Island. Let us howl moky until it is heard by every farmer in the Union, and then let us all strike while the iron is hot, and we think we can mould some laws that will pay us a thousand fold for our trouble. Yours respectfully, Wilson Winslow. Another Alliance EleTator in Cass Co. Weeping Water, Dec. 30, 1880. Editor Alliance: As an item of interest 1 will state that Cascade Alliance is growing, and we now own and are running an elevator at this place; and fanners are getting several cents more for their corn than they otherwise would have grot. If it was not for the Alli ance corn would be selling now for 12 cts. Yours truly, - John Dalton. Secretary Cascade Alliance No. 432. Meeting of Gosper Co. Alliance. Gosper County Farmers' Alliance holds first called meeting at Elmwood, Saturday, January, 11, 1890. The pur pose of said meeting is to consider the matter of establishing a purchasing and selling agency, and to petition con gress in behalf of the farmers. All Sub-Alliances are requested to send del egates. W. II. Stone, Sec'y. The Solidarity or Labor. Among many other social changes wrought by the introduction of labor saving machinery and modern industrial methods is the complete subversion of the old idea of trade isolation, and sub stitution of the broader view that all labor lias' equal rights and interests. While the old system prevailed, the ideal of most trade unionists was that each body of skilled artisans, acting on its own account, should secure for its own members, as far as possible, a mo nopoly uf the right to labor without thought or care for the unskilled work ingman. It was sought to establish an aristocracy of labor to draw a hard and fast line between skilled and un skilled, and,while protecting the artisan from all incroachment upon his exclu sive field, to leave the common herd of laborers to the mercy of competition. Labor-saving machinery and the re volution in the industrial system have changed all that. The field which the skilled mechanic can hold to himself is continually narrowing. A thousand and one processes which were formerly done by hand, and requiring long train ing and superior skill, are now done by machinery with the aid of a compara tively few men easily familiarized with their duties. Every day lessens the distance which formerly separated the skilled from the unskilled the me chanic from the laborer and makes it more and more difficult for the well-paid artisan to retain his position as the member of a superior caste. The level ing process oue to machinery has been going on simultaneously with the edu cational process, by which the ideas of men have been broadened and the truth enforced that there is and ought to be no redemption for labor which does not include the poorest and most de pendent of the toiling masses. It is impossible for the intelligent skilled mechanic to hold his position, let alone improve it, without the co-operation and support of the unskilled. A trade can no longer successfully isolate itself from the general mass of suffer ing, struggling humanity and hope by stringent rules to keep up wages for its members regardless of the general con dition of the labor market. Some new discovery, some extension of the ma chinery system, may at any time rob it of its vantage ground and reduce its members to the general level. Many who in their day have assumed a posi tion of lofty unconcern as to the lot of less-favored brethern of the world of labor, secure in their fancied monopoly of technical skill, have suddenly found themselves compelled by some unex pected change m processes to compete with a throng of machine-tenders or partiallv-skilled workmen. The days of handicraft isolation are over. Under the system of to-day skill in some spe cial branch is becoming a matter of less importance, and labor of all kinds more on a common footing. The selfishness of class exclusiveness is giving away be fore a recognition of the great truth that the depression and degraditton of the great body of unskilled labor inevit ably and naturally drags down the arti san class to their level. Improved machinery is placing all labor in the position of subjection to the capitalist. The old idea of keeping up wages here and there by close un ions is becoming impracticable. The remedy lies, not in the weak defense of unions on the line of caste selfishness, formed to procure a little better condi tions for a favored few, which are as powerless against the advancing tide of competition as Mrs. Partington's bioom against the Atlantic Ocean, but in the organization of all labor to control the machinery and secure the benefits of in creased production for the real wealth creators. "The Solidarity of Labor" is the watch worth of the future.- To en franchise the few high-skilled and more intelligent, leaving the mass in hopeless poverty, is impossible, and every true friend of humanity and progress,instead of regretting it will rejoice that it is so, and strive for the regeneration of labor as a class. Journal of the Knights of Labor. Very Sound: A steady volume of full legal tender money, composed of gold, silver and paper, in amply suffi cient quantities to transact the business of the country on a cash basis, increas ing in volume as business and popula tion increase, are what the people of this country need, and what they will have when they come to better under stand the vast importance of a steady volume of currency. Omaha Republi can. A Western Wonder. The American Grocer, New York, Decetn bei 25, made the following complimentary reference to the Omaha Bee: "The Omaha Bee is a wonder. It was es tablished and is conducted and owned by Ed ward Rosowater, a man who during the war was President Lincoln's telegraph operator, in which position he exhibited all the quali ties of abilitiy and fidelity which have distin guished him in after life. When he established the Bee twenty years ago (about tho time the American Grocer wa3 established), it was in a little frame shanty. This year it moved into the largest and finest among the many magnificent newspa paper buildings of the west, built by Mr. Rosewater, expressly to accommodate the immense business of his paper. The difference between the first copy of the Bee and the paper at present, is about the same as the difference between the American Grocer of to-day and its first issue, a fac simile of which we issued recently." W. C. T. U. COLUMN. Edited by Mrs. S. C. O. Upton, of Lincoln. Neb., of the Nebraska Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Theeditorof The Alliance places the re sponsibility of this column in the care of the above editor. We publish below Mrs. Livermore's reminiscence of the crusade of temper ance women, out of which sprung the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The 23d of December is the anniver sary of the beginning of this remarkable movement, and has been kept at Ilills boro by a gathering of christian women who desire a new baptism of the spirit that moved them in those times. It would be well, indeed, if the christian women of Nebraska might stir up snch a revival here. In this way we could most surely carry the amendment, and sweep from our state the saloons that curse it. REMINISCENCES OF THE WOMAN'S CRU SADE, BY MARY A. LIVKRMORE. I was tilling lyceum engagements in Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the early winter of 1873, at the time that the re markable movement known as "The Woman's Crusade" startled the com munity. The daily papers teemed with the most extravagant and sensational accounts of the methods and aims of the women who had inaugurated this new departure in temperance work. Every morning the dailies of the great cities confronted their readers with staring head-lines that misled and pre judiced in advance as was intended. And the reports, written on the spot, by attaches of the press, sent to study and describe the new movement, ridi culed and belied it. "A mob of pious women!" "'1'iayer-meeting in saloons!" ikCold water women drunk with zeal!" " saloon-keepers bulldozed by frenzied women!" " 'Rock of Ages,' the song they sing!" These, and similar mis leading announcements on the bulletin boards, left one in doubt whether "The Crusade" was the work of sane women or of lunatics. As I proceeded from place to place, approaching Ohio, the new movement more completely engrossed the public attention, and was the one theme of conversation on trains, in hotels, and everywhere. It was now spreading prairie fire, and was achieving most astonishing results. The prayers, and songs, and touching appeals of women who visited the saloons daily, and whose husbands aud sons had been ruined by them, and their homes desolated, went with arrowy directness to the hearts of the proprietors. In town after town saloons were closed by this unheard of procedure, the liquor poured out into the streets, and their converted owners joined the ranks of the "Crusaders," and helped them in their work. I was constantly interviewed by re porters, and asked for an opinion con cerning this "outburst of temperance fanaticism," but I had no opinion to give. I fully shared the general skepti cism as to the reliability of the press re ports, and waited till I should have an opportunity to see the operations of t'The Crusade" for myself. It came sooner than I anticipated, 1 was to lecture at Washington C. II., one evening, not far from Ilillsboro, O., where this blessed impulse of prayer and entreaty had its birth. As we slowly came up to the station, I ob served that the platform was packed with women, and I supposed there had been some meeting or convention in session during the day, and that the ladies were now to take the train for their homes. As I stepped from the coach Mrs. Maggie Ustick, of Washing ton, whom I had met before, welcomed me, and then presented me to the pre sident of the Woman's Crusade in that town. I think the lady was Mrs. Car penter, wife of the pastor of the Presby terian church. Taking me by the hand, with most cordial greeting, she said, "Mrs. Liver more, we are a committee of sixty women, who have come to invite you to accompany us to the Methodist church, where the daily temperance prayer meeting is in session.". If I must be honest, I wished for the moment that the women were all in Joppa. For I wished to study the Cru sade deliberately from the outside, to be a looker-on, and not to be plunged into the very seething heart of it, at the start. liut if any of my readers ever find themselves in a like predicament, with a committee of sixty women wait ing for them as an escort, I advise them to do what I didgo with them. The church was packed with a serious and intense audience. In the. rear of the house hundreds were standing, and among these there was a continual coming and going, as work or business compelled the departure of some, when new comers took their places. A reformed man was speaking when we entered,one who had recently signed the pledge. The attidude of the man, the tones of his voice, the very features of his face all told of wicked ness. He deplored his past life, and with tremulous tones that had unshed tears in them, told how bad a husband he had been to "one of the best wives God ever gave a man." He was inter rupted by the clear, sweet voice, of a woman. "Never mind that now, John; we'll forget the things that are behind." "Only, wife, don't let me lall again! Keep the saloons shut, or else I'm lost." Then a woman prayed. How her pe tition beat up against the throne of God, as in low tones of suppressed an guish she pleaded for help, strength, light and comfort. I had never heard a prayer like that before, and knew that the supplicant had a history. My companion whispered, "That woman has suffered everything from the effects of strong drink in her early home, and now in her own family." A young girl arose to offer a thought that occurred to her. A man behind me, in evident alarm, said almost aloud, "Gracious! that's my Fannie; I hope she won't slop over." Clear, direct, concise, she fervently, but briefly, gave her testimony as to the efficacy of prayer, and sat down. Then more prayers from women whose faces bore the record of long years of heart sickness and despair, and w ho appealed to the "Friend of the friendless," in tones that went to my soul. Then, pathetic and graphic bitd of speeches from men struggling up out of the depths, all of whom uttered the same agonized entreaty, "Don't let the saloons be opened again!" I was called on for a "testimony," but I was beyond the power of speech -I was weeping. The audience palpitated with intense feeling, and all hearts throbbed in unison; and yet there was no out ward excitement, all were calm and self-controled, even when they all joined in song, till the house rocked with a very tempest of melody. All the saloons in town but one had been closed voluntarily by their owners, their stocks of liquors had been destroy ed, the proprietors had signed the Pledge, and were working with the re formers. I was obliged to leave town too early the next morning to accom pany the detail of womeu appointed to visit the one still defiant saloon, which yielded before the week was ended and then Washington C. II. had a jubi lee of thanksgiving. For the next three weeks my woik carried me almost daily where Crusade work was being. done. The features of the movement were the same every where. Raffled in their attempts to obtain help from the legislature in re stricting the saloons, which overran the southern half of Ohio like the plague of frogs in Egjpt, and the "Civil Dam age Bill, "for which they had petitioned, proving a very mockery, the women in their helplessness and unutterable woe gathered into prayer-meeting, and out of breaking and broken hearts called en God for help. The plan of visiting the saloons with entreaty and persuasion, prayer and song, had come to them, as thev believed, in answer to prayer. Who shall deny it? I lack space for reminiscences of three weeks in Crusade towns. Like the unseen Spirit at Pentecost, like the voice of Christ on the troubled waters of Galilee, this wonderful movement harmonized the discordant element, and brought in order and peace. Not only were the saloons closed, and wretched men lifted out of the depth of moral debasement, but old family feuds were settled, long-separated hus bands and wives were re-united, repar ation was made for long-standing and unforgiveu wrongs, and whole commu nities were lifted to a higher plane. The reign of the Crusade was brief, but blessed while it lasted, for the very spirit of the Christ vitalized it. Rut the movement was phenomenal and emotional, and soon spent itself. I often asked the women, "What will you do when the Crusade is ended, for you see it is so very emotional it can not have a long lease of life?" With the sublime confidence in divine direction, they replied, "we do not know, but God will show us." Out of that brief Crusade has come the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which has only just entered on its ca reer, and is being slowly fitted for the great work that lies before it, through God's divinest agent of help, which is usually hindrance. On iny return to Boston, I found the papers full of misrepresentations of the Crusade, and of the women engaged in it. It was never truthfully reported in the east, nor well understood, and the grossest exagerations were current, and were accepted. I wrote out a statement of my experience and observations for the press, and sought to correct some ot the unrighteous falsehoods. It was largely copied in part, or in whole, and finally brought me a request to give the story in full to the people at a public meeting. Dr. Xeale, minister of the First Raptist church of Roston, and my old and beloved pastor, offered his church for the occasion. There was a large audience, and very great interest was manifested. A second meeting was appointed at Shawm ut Avenue Raptist church, when an organization was formed, with Mrs. Gifford as president a Quaker lady of Worcester and my life-long friend and early school-mate, Mrs. L. B. Barrett, secretary. It was the first born child of the Crusade, and although in its in fancy, struck out immediately into vig orous work. It went into the lowest purlieus of the city, and established temperance prayer meetings, sought the reformation of fallen men and women, organized Reform Clubs, and helped weak and struggling men to maintain them. It established a cheap temperance restaurant, and a "Friendly Inn," which finally grew into large proportions. It galvanized the churches into spasmodic interest in the reforma tion of drunkards, and accomplished much good work, which was perma nent in its effect. After the organization of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union at Cleveland, Ohio, this Massachusetts bantling wheeled into line as one of its auxiliaries. And when Mrs. Gifford retired from office at the close of the year, I accepted the position of presi dent, Mrs. Barrett serving as secretary. For ten years we worked together, and then my friend received her discharge from the battle of life, and "was not, for God took her." Since that time Misses Toby and Gor don have been respectively president of the Massachusetts union. Their la bors have been signally successful; they have won their way to all hearts, and ten thousand of the best women of the slate uphold their hands, and encourage them in their large endeavors. The future cannot be foreseen, but it is my strong belief that the W.'C. T. U. has before it a long career of usefulness. Its steadfast adherence to its convic tions, its splendid behavior under ad verse criticism and unmerited obloquy, its growing unification of hearts and interests, are all prophecies of good omen. Courage! "Whom the Lord lov eth He chasteneth." Members shipping stock to A lieu Root, care of iiell & Co., Omaha, will get all there is in it. Give the agent notice when shipped. Mr. Root is state agent for the Alliance. W. R. Bennett & Co. will sell groceries, etc., to the Alliance at jobber's rates.Send all orders to Allen Root. Shipments of vegetables, fruits or poultry, should be billed to Mr. Root, care of Bowman, Williams & Howe's, Omaha. - . Price List of Oils to Allances. 150 test, medium white eoal oil, llVi cents. 150 prime lO'i 1T5 " V. l. " " " i:; " 74 ' stove gasoline " ll'i " 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 live gallon cans, 60 cents per gallon. In barrel lots, 50 cents per gallon. Axle grease, thirty- six boxes in case, $1.80. - Allen Root, State Agent. H. C. STOLL, .j .m.. BREEDER OF The Most Improved Breeds of Poland China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire and Essex Hogs. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. P. O. Address. BEATRICE "- X J. THORP & Co., Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps, Seals, Stencils, B-idges and Basrfface Checks Every Description. Established 1880. S. llth St., LINCOLN, NE3. F1 1 MARK to the acre, Blif ' Ho packages earliest Vegetable Seeds, pospaid, 1.01). Over 3,)U0 acres devoted to the growing of my seeds. Senfl For Free Catalogue Now ! JOHN A. SALZER, LaOrosse,Wis. PREPARE FOR WINTER! A Complete Assortment of CL0TMI, MKT HUB HATS, TRUNKS, &c, AT Baker Clothing House, 1125 O St. PRICES BED ROCK. GIVE US A CALL. ,(jnAKER CITY GRINDING ILL IMPROVED DTUING 1W, For Corn and Cob, Feed und Table Meal. U Grinds finer, ruus lighter, is more durable than any mill on the market. Also Manufacturers of Hand K Self-Dump Hay Uakes, Cultivatoru, Cum hellers Post-Hole Diggers. Send for Catalogue iK-fore buying. Agents Wanted in Unoco iied Territory. SPRINGFIELD IMPLEMENT Co., Springfield, O. 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Beautiful muslin and gilt binding-. 687 pagres. This is a book of absorbing Interest, and no one will regret its purchase even at much more than our price. RETA1 L PRICE $2,75. We will send this book, post-paid, and The Allianoe one year for $3,1. Or, we will end the book for twelve new names at one dollar. We are enabled to make these unparalleled otters because of wholesale contraoU mate with jobbers. " Laborand Capital, by Edward Kellogg. This work should be read by every man who is interested in the financial problem. We will send a copy, post-paid, to every subscriber for Tub Aixi anck at tl-00 per year. Club Terms with the Omaha Weekly Bee: We will send The Alliancb and tho Weekly Reo with Premium, one year, for $2.&0. Or, Thk2Alhance and the Weekly Ree without Premium, one year, for 91.75. SPECIAL PREMIUMS For our Lady Friends. SILK CREPE SHAWL. Si inches squarr inside ' fiinjre, w hich is 3 knot S inches dee. This is a very beautiful and dressy shoulder snawi. Colors, black, cream, pink, cardinal, iijrht -blue and lemcn. We Mill send The Ai.lt a nck one yeai und this bhawl post-paid foe $3.75. Or, we wil send the shawl for fourteen new names at SI. 00 a year. CHINA SILK SHAWL, With heavy all over hand embroidery: size inside of frinjre ' inches square, with 8-kixrt heavy 6c inch silk frip;re. A very rich and dressy shawl. Co ors. old jroid, pt-arl, cream, pink, white. Iijrht blue and cardinal. We will send Tiik Allianck one year and the alove shawl post-paid for $7.25. Or, we will s'.nd the shawl for 32 nev names at one dollar a year. Persons eompethur for these premiums aud falling to obtain enough names to secure them, will receive our rcjrular c ash commission, viz: we se iul five papers one year for (4-00. Our Lady friends eun easily obtain theso beautiful shawls by spending a portion of their -eisure canvnssifjr for The Alliance. Address, Alliance Publishing Co., Lincoln, Neb. BSr Money sent by bank draft, Express or Post Oflice order, or Registered Letters at our risk. Stamps and Postal Notes at risk of sender. AURORA, KANE CO., 111., IMPORTER AND BREEDER OF Cleveland and Shire Horses. 300 YOUNG AND VIGOROUS oTALLIONS AND MARES, OP CHOICEST BREEDING NOW ON HAND. LARGE IMPORTATION RECENTLY ARRIVED. I will make special prices and lfteral terms to parties buying- before winter. Higli-Bred Holstein-Friesian Cattle. Deep Milkiug Strains at Low Prices. When answering" Advertisements mention The Alliance". . Cta OBTAIN CHICAGO 3 The way to do this is to ship yourButter, Ejrjtrs. Poultry, Veal. Hny. Grain, Wool, II ides. Means. Brwom Corn, Green and Dried Fruits. Vegetables, or anything vou have, to us. The tact that you may have been selling these articles at homo for years is no reason that you should continue to do so if you can find a better terket. We make a specialty of reeeivinir 'htpmenls direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCERS. and probably hare the larrest trade in :1ns way of any house In this market. Whilst you are lookiujr around for tho cheapest mar ket in which to buv vour iroods and thus economiirir in tlm. wav. it will certain tv uv to jrive some attention to the best and most protllahie wi;- of disposing of your produce. We invite correspondence iroxi INDIVIDUALS, ALLIANCES, CLUHS, and all organizations who desire to ship their produce to this market. If requested, we will send you free of charge our daily market report, shipping directions ami such information as will Imnftor. ucc to you if you contemplate shipping. Let us hear from you. SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, REFERENJE; Metropolitan Nation Bank, We have a quarter million of our is:w Need Catalogues, prob ably the most complete cata logue published in America, containing a largo list of farm and vegetable SEEDS! all of unquestionable merit, tested and of vigorous growth and enormous yields. We would like name of every Sec retary and President of tho Farmers' Alliances in Nebras ka to seud our Catalogues to, and also our discount sheets to Farmers' Alliances. We sell to members of the Allium- WHOLESALE PRICES. Our stock of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, of Farm Seeds such ns Barley, Corn, Oats, Wheat, Potatoes. Grasses and Clov ers, and Fodder Plants. Is by all odds th largest west of New York City, and we know it will par you to get our prices before buying. Remember that WB SPECIAL PRICES TO ALLIANCES. My Bonanza Outs, which have taken tho Great American Prize of 'M in Gold. .open to the world. Yielding over 1 54 bushels the Genuine Seed, which can bo bought onljr m of us, is offered at a special Low Price. Soo Catalogue f'l about it. ? My Okanagan Spring Wheat just the Wheat for Nt- bruska and Iowa soils yields from 25 to 40 bushels ixr acre, and can Ik? had only of us. .'CI packages of choice Flower Seeds, postpaid, $1.00. J ALLIANG TO M PRICES FOR YOUR 174 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO. Chicago. Mention The Alliauco, ffl PAPER