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THE FA KMijJRS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN; NEB. , SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1890. ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. NATIONAL FARMER3 ALLIANCE. President, H. L. Loucks, Dakota. Vice-President. John H. Powers. Nebraska. Secretary, August Post, Moulton, Iowa. Treasurer. J. J. Furlong, Minnesota, lecturer, N. B. Ashby, Des Moines, Iowa. NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE. President, John If. Powers, Cornell. Vice President, Valentine Horn. Aurora. Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln. Lecturer, W. F. Wright, Johnson county. Asst. lecturer, Logan Mclieynolds, Fairfield. Chaplain. Rev. J. S. Edwards, Wahoo. Door keeper, D. W. Barr, Clay county. Asst. door keeper, James Underhill, Syracuse. &eargeant-at-arm3, J. Billingsly, Shelton. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Jf, Burrows, chairman; B. F. Allen, Wabash; jr. W. Williams, Filley; Albert Dickerson, Litchfield; Frank H. Young, Custer. Post Office at Lincoln, Neb., June 18, 1889. I hereby certify that The Alliance, a week ly newspaper published at this place, has been determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas ter General to be a publication entitled to admission in the mails at the pound rate of postage, and entry of it as such is accordingly made upon the books of this office. Valid while the character of the publication re mains unchanged. Albert Watkins, Postmaster. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Government Ownership of Railroads. Editor Alliance: There are three or four more points connected with state or national control of railroads that I would like to be sure that the at tention of the Alliance, as well all other people, is called to. 1st. Any taxes, duties, imposts, etc., which congress regulates, must be "uni form throughout "the several states." -Congress has no right to regulate the payment of any kind of imposts for any thing unless in accordance with that clause of the constitution. Hence, if the interstate commerce law is valid, it is the duty of congress to make rates the same for each kind or class through out the whole country. 2d. While the clause authorizing con gress to regulate the commerce between the several states does not specifically state "regulate in every respect these national public highways;" for no such public highways were ever dreamed of when that constitution was first made, it is as plain as the light of day that con gress has equally the right to regulate these high ways in every respect just as much as to regulate the rates. Just look ' at the absurdity of the idea that the government can only regu late the rates, when the safety of the traveling public, and the thousands of employes, as well as the freight (for it is really the people that have to pay all damages, as Avell as railroad taxes) de pends on the road and rolling stock be ing properly made and kept in good re , pair. And the fraud by having the stock .and debt on which interest is drawn like the U. P.), more than a hundred thousand dollars a mile, while its real value is only ten or twelve thousand, is just as much necessarily a matter that government should control as any other matter or, rather, abolish, for no interest should ever be paid on a public highway. And is it any less a fraud that they t'an draw whatever rate of interest they please or can get out of the traffic? The rule for the Northwestern, and I pre ' sume nearly all the other roads are About the same, is that the preferred tock shall nrst draw six per cent, then the common stock the same, then the preferred 10 per cent, then the com mon ten, and all above that be divided even. The only limit is the amount that can be made off the people. The injustice, the robbery of this watered stock high interest is just as 4?reat and bare-faced as any high or kjiscnminating rates, ana by every principle of republican government, equity or justice, should be controlled by the govenment, the people, and will l)e, whenever they chose to say so. 3d. Every state has a right to control these public highways in every respect subject only to the U. b. government; just armueh a right, and just as much its duty to regulate, control the build ing and operating of the road in every respect, rates, wages, hours of work, the running of trains, etc., as to grant the charter. This is as much the duty of the state authorities as for county .authorities' to lay out and control the 'ommon public highways. 4th. The way that these corporations have ever resorted to every kind of bribery, trickery and corrupt methods to attain their object, Avhether it was the electing of a U. S. Senator of their -choice, or securing the election of any one they wanted for any office, secur ing desired legislation, or cheating jsome poor farmer or working man out of the pay for stock killed, or hay or other property destroyed by fire, ought to convince everybody that the whole thincr is the most abominable as well as the thinnest kind of a fraud. C. M. Clark. The National Bankers Bonds. and the New Clakks, Neb., Feb. 2, 1890. Editor Alliance: I quote from the Nebraska bankers convention, Omaha, found in the Bee of Jan. 29th: "Tht aleo recommended the passage by congn is of an act which shall allow the re fundiusr of the present issue of bonds by an it-sue of bonds bearing two per cent interest, to be redeemable at the pleasure of the gov ernment, the first iseue beingr the last subject to call, the holders of lour per cent bonds offered for refunding1 to be allowed in settle ment, the present worth of the bond calcu-i lated on the basis of two per cent per annum for the time unexpired." Let us see how this plan works fig ured out. A banker exchanges $50,000 in government bonds for new bonds, , and gets for old bonds Premium on bonds at 26 per ct 2 per cent for unexpired time on &50,000for say 17 years $50,000 1,300 17,000 Total $80,000 The new bonds will call for $80,000 drawing two per cent per annum. Jf all the bonds represented by the national debt were used for this pur pose the debt would be increased three rift hs.' My "ideas may be crude on our finan cial system," but I think I can see through this device of the bankers to .sell their bonds and get the premium .and interest in advance, and they would then get on every $50,000 in bonds $72, O00 in national bank notes to lend to us at their own rates of interest. What is to hinder them from raising the price of the new bonds in the near future up to the same premium as they have done with the old ones in the past? They have the power mostly in their own hands. Government would then have to repeat this , process to keep up the national bank notes.. Yet I presume this bill or something similar will pass. Our congress is composed mostly of rich men and millionaires wrho work ' for their own interests, and not for the producers and toiling masses. Stand by us, Bro. Burrows, and we will do all in our Dower to hold ud .your hands. Interest is one of the things that is gradually tising us farm ers up. Let us all stand together and work with a will until government gives us relief by issuing to us na tional bills on land security, and thus save us from worse than slavery, to Avhich we are fast drifting. If not right in my figvrring above . )lease correct me. Yours fraternally, J.N. Kellogg. Railroad Confiscation of the Corn Crop in Nebraska. , The railroad managers in granting concessions in rates of transportation of corn from Nebraska expressed great doubt about lower rates being any ben efit to the farmers, but out of the abun dance of their generosity agreed to re duce the rate 10 per cent on corn to Chicago, the minimum rate to not be less than 20 cents from the Missouri to Chicago. A few figures will show the extent of this spirit of concern for the farmers. One of the large engines now in use on all big roads will haul . from Nebraska to Chicago 31 loaded cars of 20 tons each and thence to New .York tidewater. A train-load of corn is 22,143 bushels. A crew of five men run a train in five to six days' time from Ne braska to New York. The 7th of Feb ruary the best of corn sold in New York for 3 cents. The same corn is worth in Nebraska 10 cents. Twenty-eight cents for transportation amounts, for the train-load, to $6,200, and the farmer gets for the same load $2,2 t4, a few dol lars over one-fourth the value in New York market. In other words, the rail road takes three-fourths of the value of the crop for transportation. Yet these same railroads cannot see their way clear to reduce the rates 2 cents per hundred pounds to 'Chicago only, for fear of demoralizing freight rates in all it i.n t- r m uie uum uuiii wesi oi viucagu. xo au outsider it is hard to t ee on what princi ple of honesty and fair dealing the mo- ralitii ot these freight rates is based. The rate was 22 cents per hundred f)ounds, and 10 per cent reduction eaves the rate 20 cents. The freight to Chicago at old rate is 12 32-100 cents per bushel; by new rate it is 11 20-100 cents. 1 ransportation to New York at old rates, per train-load of 22,143 bush els, at 28 cents per bushel, $6,200; for train-load at reduced rates, 26 80-100 cents per bushel, $5,952, a saving in transportation of $248. But the market has dropped one cent since the reduc tion in rates was made, just as the rail road managers predicted would be the case, ana the railroads would be the real losers, leaving no benefit to the farmers. Here we have $6,200 for the use of the cars, engine, wear of track, and labor of five men less than a week, for one long haul of a little over 1,500 miles. Hereafter they will deduct $248. To prove that the market would drop that much lower, the friends of the managers at once commenced pounding the market at Chicago and New Yor until the price was down about one cent in a couple of days. The same men that own and control the railroads own the country and terminal elevators, and all the grain exchanges as well. If a reduction in rates only operates to reduce the price that much at tide water, then if the rate were reduced to 5 cents per bushel to New York, the price there would be only 15 cents, and yet the farmer would receive 10 cents a bushel. To sum it all up the farmer must have only 10 cents a bushel for his corn, no matter how low or high the rates of transportation may be. No one ex pected the railroads to grant any real relief to the people. They are only concerned about maintaining pool rates among all the roads. True, it is called now "rates made by the interstate gen tlemens' association," headquarters of of the power behind the throne in Wall street. There are hundreds of kindred questions in connection with this whole sale robbery of the people which can not be discussed in the space allowed me. Am glad to understand how the system works in making curporations and millionaires rapidly grow richer, while the people grow poorer. N. Tucker, City Hotel, Chicago, 111. Government Ownership of Railroads. Editor Alliance: To use the words of a celebrated writer, "For good or evil the railway organization wields an influence oyer trade more potent than that of any other agency or almost any combination of agencies." Within a period embracing over a half century of personal observation, I fully concur in the writers statement. It would be pleasant and perhaps profitable to just glance at the methods of fifty years ago betore the advent ot railways, when our only mode of transportation except hy water was the freight Avagon. Those times viewed from our present mode of rapid transit were yery slow, but have many marked features In their favor. Every citizen had an equal right and ownership in the public highway. If freighters combined to raise the price of transportation beyond its just limits the remedy was simple. Any one could put their own wagons into imme diate service. The consequence was that combines and monopolies in trans portation were unknown. There were a few roads known as turnpikes owned by private corporations, who were au thorized by state legislatures to collect tolls; but the same power that gave them this privilege also fixed the rate of tolls, and caused the same to be post ed upon each toll gate. In the greatest rush of produce to market tolls never fluctuated. Corporations in those days were under control of state legislatures, in marked contrast to our present sys tem, where corporations control the state. If our state governments had been as wise and cautious in regard to our railways as they were with our old pikes, we should have been saved a great deal of vexation and a vast deal of extortion. But the idea of railroads and the wonderful things they were to do for us cast a glamour over the peo ple, and state legislators were not ex ceptions. They were only too willing to grant a charter for a road, and for got in the meantime to place them un der strict limitations as to how they should use it. With the exception ot a few loose and general laws they left them to do very much as they pleased. Incorporators made contracts with themselves as contractors, and so skill fully and fraudulently did they use this advantage that roads were capitalized above their actual cost to such an ex tent that it is safe to say the people of this country are taxed on , fictitious val uations a sum quite as large as our original war debt. Go ask our railroad millionaires, who have sprang into ex istance as if by magic within the past twenty years, and if they tell you the truth they will bear me out in this statement. The result of our loose legislation is apparent. Like a spoiled child our railways are beyond paternal control, and the general government has been called tipon to take them in hand. While I heartily endorse this measure I have no faith in its success. It may be the means of checking some of their more open and flagrant abuses, but in the main they will pursue the even tenor of their way, taking from pro ducer and consumer every farthing short of stopping traffic altogether. , If the farmer wishes to get rid of a troublesome weed he plucks it up root and branch, and places it where it will do no further mischief, or need any further watching. This appears to me the only true way to dispose of our rail way problem. Let us turn to a more pleasant state of affairs abroad. Mr. I. L. Hanser, of Bareilly, India, now in America, gives a reporter of the Chicago Tribune the following results of his observations during a long lifetime in India. Speak ing of the railway system under British ! control Mr. H. says: "India has a rail way system which America might wen adopt'. When I left India I traveled over a thousand miles on India rail roads. I had a private compartment,' with bath, and every luxury that the best roads here furnish. The charge for the ride was $6.50, about what the extra sleeping car would be here. The roads were nearly "all owned by the government. When a charter is grant ed to build a road, it is always with the provision that the government may at any time buy the property. Every item of the construction is supervised by the state, and reports of the opera tions have to be made in detail every week. In return for this government guarantees all bonds. No profits have to be earned on fictitious capital, "and the result is, rates of transportation which an American railroader would declare impossible." From other sources I learn that these roads pay a dividend of seven per cent, four per cent going to those who furnished capi tal to build and equip them, the other three per' cent being donated by the British government to the people of In dia. The contrast between these two methods at home and abroad gives one a sensation something like that experi enced by Mr. West in "Looking Back ward," when that gentleman found himself suddenly transported from the enlightened civilization of the twentieth century back to the scenes and methods of the nineteenth. Can we endure the thought that such disparag ing contrasts shall exist when we have ample power to correct them? Our transportation system has been nur tured into its present magnificent growth and power by a too generous and confiding people. It has responded to this generosity and confidence by do ing all in its power to paralyze the hand that created it. Let it be our deter mined purpose to take possession by purchase, and eliminating from it its present vexatious evils, consolidate it in a grand harmonious system, working in unison for the amelioration of the entire people of our commonwealth. C. H. King, Divide, Shermanf Co., Neb. A Grand Meeting at York County. York, Neb., Feb. 7; 1889. Editor Alliance: Yesterday was a srreat dav for York Countv Alliance. Our mass meeting was a grand success. Enthusiasm was unbounded. By ten o'clock, the time appointed for the meeting, the spacious court room was well filled. The time, before dinner was devoted to promiscuous speaking, Rev. Sharp, Chaplain of the County Alliance, being the principal speaker and making a grand speech. Upon the opening of the meeting after dinner the house was soon filled to overflow ing, even standing room being at a pre mium. " Mr. V. Horn, Vice President of the State Alliance, was introduced, and for about two hours held the audi ence spell-bound by his happy, con vincing and earnest style of putting facts. At the close of his address the Hon. Richard Travel lick took the stand, and in his inimitable way made a speech, discussing the transportation and money questions in their relation to the interests of the farmers and la boring classes of the country, which was grand and long to be remembered by the vast concourse of, people who heard it. Many more such meetings should be held, and thereby the people would gain a better understanding of the objects of the areat organizations of the the producing classes, now springing up o rapidly. , Yours fraternally. J. F. Harrison, Co Organizer. Resolutions of Wabash Alliance in Re gard to Freight Rates. The following resolutions were unan imously adopted by the Wabash J? arm ers' Alliance of Cass county, at a meet ingheldleb. 8, 1890: Whereas, The extortionate freight rates now asked and received by the railroads of this state on farm products has lowered prices below the cost of production, thus making it impossible for farmers to meet their obligations or pay their debts, thereby causing a gen eral depression of business throughout the state; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the members of Wabash Farmers' Alliance No. 634, of Cass county, Nebraska, demand that the state officers having the manage ment of freight rates exercise their au thority and demand of the railroads do ing business in this state such rates as will give the needed relief, and that they enforce their demand to the full extent of their power. Resolved, That we condemn the ac tion of Auditor Benton, Secretary Cow dery and Commissioner Steen, of the state board of transportation, in accept ing with unnecessary haste a reduction of ten per cent on freight rates, believ ing that nothing less than a reduction of ten cents per hundred will give the needed reiiet. Resolved, mat we heartily approve and appreciate the efforts of Attorney General Leese to relieve the people from the unjust and unreasonable freight rates now demanded by the railroads, and pledge him our undivided support in his endeavor to remove the great burden. Resolved, That a copy of these resolu tions be forwarded to Attorney-General Leese, and to The Farmers' Alliance for publication. James Ferguson, President. B. F. Allen, Secretary. Getting Their Eyes Open. Sargent, Neb., Feb. 1, 1890. Editor Alliance: For the encour agement of others in the work I will say that our Alliance is increasing in interest. We are getting into working order, and we mean business. Plans are being laid for the erection in the near future of a stock company mill at Sargeant. We begin to get our eyes open and see that we have not been overly wise in the past, and we hope by co-operation and hard work to be ible to benefit ourselves in the future. Success to our paper. A few of us at least realize that it is absolutely neces sary to the success of our cause in this state, and we propose to stand by it as long as it stands by us. Inclosed you willfind the names of seven more sub subscribers. Some have so nearly lost all confidence in papers that claim to be published in the interest of the farm ers and laboring classes that it is hard work to induce them to take The Al liance. But when they do consent to read it they soon find that it has the right ring. Yours fraternally, H. W. Fellows, Sec'y 563. More Good Words and Good Work. JLhe ioiiowing letter, with ten new names and the money, comes to us from Bradshaw: Editor Alliance: This is my first time and first trial to get subscribers for your paper. Our members of Prai rie Grove Alliance No. 730 think it is the paper of the farmers, for the farm ers. 1 shall be able to send in more subscribers soon. Yours, etc. . James B. Carlisle, Pres. A GOOD LETTER FROM BROTHER FADELY. Determined to Persevere, Win. and Bound to Editor Alliance: I accidentally be came a subscriber to your paper, and will say for its benefit that I take five papers, and THE alliance takes the front rank with me for the reason it has undertaken one of the greatest rev olutions in American history. Let me say right here, not that I want to dis courage any one that has or may enlist in our cause, but rather to put him on his guard, that he may become ener getic. We want to remember the farmers and laborers have been asleep for twenty years, and are just waking up, finding ourselves within a nation of sixty-nve minions or peopie wnn the most powerful political organizations on earth. And those organizations are backed by the many millions of dollars that no doubt have been wrongfully taken from the people that earned them. speas oi mis, uruiuer larmers, 10 bring to our minds the power of our enemy. J; irst, we must be well organ ized. Second, we must be well edu cated. Third, we want to shoot our ballots in the right direction. JJo not let us do with our Alliance meetings as we have been doing in the past with our promises, stay at home and let a few politicians do the whole business for us. Brother farmers this is our last hope. Will we help our selves, or will we let the corrupt poli tician divide our ranks with some worthless issue, so that we will again vote against our interests? I hope not. If the organizations fail this time what will become of us as a nation ? With our dear money, with our farms mort gaged, and English syndicates buying up our lands, we will soon follow the examples of Egypt, Babylon, Persia and Home, lhe people in this grand territory will become tenants. What does that mean? It means that the farmer is no longer a free man. The rent system humiliates and discourages children. A boy brought up under this system is educated from infancy in the idea that he is an inferior creature sub ject to authority. This feeling will cling to him for life.. The rent system destroys society. Man's social nature is delicate, and cannot thrive when up rooted every year. We cannot have the society our better nature demands under the rent system. We are too much amonsr strahsrers. We have to move too often. The rent system is against nature. God created man for a home, and a home for man. Under the rent system there can be no such thing as a home in the proper sense of the word. Let us all come out to our Alliance meetings that we may be educated one by the other, that we may more fully realize the wrongs that have been put upon us while we have been sleeping. Let us take a firm hold, and see if we cannot get back the millions of homes that have wrongf ully been taken from our people. As yet I cannot see any difference between the English mort gage holder or the American. I be lieve one is as heartless as the other. P. P. Fadely. A Good Report From Otoe County. Unadilla, Neb., Jan. 30, 1890. Editor Alliance: At a special meeting of Otoe County Alliance held at this place on the 28th inst., I was chosen reporter for the Alliance in this county for your paper, and I herewith send you my first report. We as Alli ance men and women of Otoe county mean business. We propose to test the matter of combining to meet combina tions for all there is in it. We propose to combine in the shipping and selling of our grain, stock, andT other farm produce, to insure our property, to help make our laws both state and na tional, to buy our merchandise where we can buy the cheapest, qualities be ing the same, and to work for the im provement of the condition of the la borers of our country. Brother farmers, is it not time we were doing something for ourselves? I answer, yes. Please look around you and see how many of your neighbors there are that realizes 25 per cent for his labor and money invested. You an swer, none. Yea truly, how many of them would be glad to realize 5 per cent upon investment and labor? With the best crop the past year Ne braska ever raised, there are thousands of farmers in.our fair state that cannot pay the interest upon their indebted ness and costs of living. The present price of corn does not pay the cost of raising, even if the crop should make fifty bushels per acre. If anything is done to better our cir cumstances we have got to do it. No body else will do it for us. "Let us then be up and doing." But in doing we haye got to unite our efforts, to combine our forces and move in unison. But in order to work together and to the greatest benefit, it is necessary that each locality should know what the oth ers are aoing; that one part ot our state know what other parts are doing. And in order taknow this it is neces sary to have some medium of commu nication. This we already have in our paper, The Farmers' Alliance, Now brother farmers, it behooves us to build up our paper both by subscrip tions and instructive contributions. Let each member of the Alliance con sider himself a committee of one to se cure subscriptions and extend its circu lation. By so doing we build up our selves and our order. At the last meet ing of the Otoe county Alliance we elected a selling agent to ascertain and report on alt matters pertaining to the selling of our produce. A committee was appointed to investigate and report upon the practicability of forming a mutual insurance company. More anon. ti. r. arnswobth. Of Interest to George W. Forbes, of Has tings, Agent for the Standard Oil Co. Lawerence, Neb., 2-5-1890 Editor Alliance: The Victor Alii ance No. yio has ordered the becretary to forward to you the enclosed letter for publication in Ihe Farmers' Alliance The letter explains itself. At a meeting held by our Alliance on 28th ult. our agent, Mount Peasley, was requested to send for a barrel of oil ne sent an oraer accompamea by a draft for the payment of same to Geo. W. Forbes, of Hastings Neb. Instead of recievmg the on ho got the letter in sub stance, whereupon our agent Mount Peasley, telegraphed to said Forbes for explanations and never got any answer unease see mat tne man x oroes is ex posed through The Alliance, and ob lige the Victor Alliance No. 910. C. F. Hurtz, Sec'y. Hastings, Neb., l-30-'90. Mount Peasely, Lawrence. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your let ter and draft for one barrel of oil, which I herewith return for further exnlana- tion. Please state what line of business you are engaged in etc, as we are selling to none but the legitimate trade. While ill 1 - 1 . 1 we win uw pieaseu to snip you at any time mat we are satisnea you are in the regular trade, we cannot shin to out side parties. Please inform me at once if you are a regular dealer and oblige Yours Trulv. Geo. W. Forbes, Agt W. C. T. U. COLUMN. Edited by Mrs. S. C. O. Neb., of the Nebraska Upton, of Lincoln, Woman's Christian temperance Union. The editor of Thb Aixiance places the re sponsibility of this column in the care of the above editor. I have received an article, which is published below, from the pen of Sam uel Blackfan. He writes me that he is a friend of the cause of temperance, and personally acquainted with the par ticipants in this bit of history of our temperance war. We give the article space in our columns with pleasure, es pecially so as we know that ten or fif teen years since the little village of Orion was still recommended to pur chasers of property there, as a clean, moral community. I remember, too, a very marked contrast to this in a neighboring village, on the same rail road. . At the time of my acquaintance there there were several families so sorely afflicted with the ravages of in temperance as to cause general remark. Our father built a cottage and brought home, where he could care for them, his worse than widowed daughter with four little ones. Very shortly after this separation from her husband, scarlet fever laid two of the little ones side by side in the same grave. The poor mother sat by their coffins, tearless and alone. I remember her white face, and always shall. A few hours after the burial, the father; still drunk and maudlin, but moved probably by some degree of fatherly affection, tried to force nis way into the house of his wife, to which ne was forbidden, and an almost deadly affray took place be tween father and son-in-law. Again and again scenes line this were en acted in that family, while several other amines suffered as much. A pioneer of the village explained this seeming curse like this: bam he, "xears ago l was on the town board, and it was proposed to li cense a saloon; these men naming the heads of the families so afflicted fav ored the saloon and carried the meas ure." Said he, "I told them then that as sure as they did so 'their chickens would come home to roost,' and I have lved to see it." - The children of those men who built up their town by licensing a saloon have made a history in which suicide. prostitution, drunkeness, crime and poverty mingle. - Ihis is true notwithstanding the fact that they made themselves rich, and sent their children out into the world rom richly appointed homes. I knew one of the daughters of one of those homes as the gayest of the gay, flattered and envied. I am told that few ever rank lower in general esteem than she today. These are but straws that show the current. They illustrate the importance of starting right, both for the individual, the village and the state. How many villages would prohibition save from i r i , t-r maiung sucn saa records? now many men will vote right next fall that the curse may not fall on their families? Editor W. C T. U. Column. The Crusade of Orion. In the autumn of 1856. when the vil- age of Orion, 111., was in its infancy and was called Deanington, a wretch in the image of a man erected a small shanty and got a barrel of whisky to deal out to those who might be led astray. A band of nine noble women resolved to do away with the evil. They proceeded to the shanty, called a "gro cery," and offered to buy the whisky on condition that no more should be brought to the place. They were un able to make any such terms. They then withdrew across the street and held a short council, which resulted in the determination to make a vigor ous attack and capture the whisky by brce. Accordingly they procured a clothes-line and a common hatchet and returned to the contest. A plucky lit tle mother attempted to throw a noose over the vendor's head, while, a blithe young lady attempted to secure a dirt knife, which he was defiantly brandish ing befor them. He stepped backward to escape the rope and fell over a nail box, when a pioneer mother seized the barrel and hurled it from its elevated position, and by the assistance of others of the party rolled it out . of the back door before the semblance of a man could recover himself. . The hatchet was dexterously applied to the head of the barrel and the contents were drunk in by Mother Earth, instead of boys and men. The young lady who at tempted to get the dirk received a few scratches, but that was all the visible damage to the party, A few of the sub stantial husbands held themselves in readiness to shield the ladies from in sult or injury. The ladies were ar rested for the destruction of property, but by the cross examination of wit nesses by a shrewd but righteous at torney it was shown that the stuff drank from that barrel had done no good. According to the evidence the intelli gent farmer justice of the peace (who afterward became a member of the legislature) rendered a yerdict of not fuilty of destroying property of value, he case was appealed, but before the next term of court the whisky seller and his principal witnesses were put in jail tor stealing cattle, so the case was dismissed. Among that band or woraea was a staunch Swedish lady, who was the mother of four boys, and by her guid ance they all grew up to be honorable men, and one became a minister. The sons and brothers of all the rest of the ladies also grew to be useful and re spectable members of society. lhe town was under the control of the temperance people for many years after the crusade. Here's Another Stayer. Plainview, Neb., Feb. 3, 1890. Mr. J. Burrows; inley, .Neb., Dear Sir and Bro.: It has been some time since 1 met you or commu nicated with you. Since leaving Colfax county, where 1 was organizer of Alliances m lobx, l have been following the teaching pro fession. I owned a farm all this time but was not farming it myself, hence I have not been inline with you: but all the time interested with you just the same. Last year I moved on my farm in this county and have favored the Alliance movement among the farmers, lhe sentiment has grown gradually among my neighbors, and taturday, J?eb. l, we organized with charter members. I like the secret work better than the old loose way. It makes the order more solid. , I like the educational feature too; that comes right in my line. I hope much may be done to educate the farm ers and their cnuuren so tney can see the necessity of beinir represented by one of their own number instead of some lawyer, doctor, merchant or "what not" out of the towns. You will remember my inviting you to speak at a "Fourth of July picnic" in Colfax in 1882. T nrnnnsfi tn wnrl- f-i-fhpse orinciples I have believed in for so long until they are accomplished, and T believe I will live to see the day when the produciing Uliisaca mix 1 Ult: L111S UilllUU. With kind regards I am yours very sincerely. M. A. Courtright, Osmond Alliance No. Sec'y. BEST BUTTER CATTLE. FOR SALE, MofVeSlteri1, cows, heifers and calves, to suit purchasers. A J. C. C. Bulls at a bargain. A rood working herd. Boncnea Febrary 15, 1890. . 35tf C. B. BACHELDER, Cambridge, Neb. A CURE for HARD TIMES living clioioo IDetu, wita lewlag Uunpaor TATO, bright, MDEHAPIV FTVE boxes mmsfYU ft mm i II&IHCEThE Alpifl ltife. . : j-i-iy wr.-'f "XJ tirt yew. Abbot's ImnnTrd 8acr lrnralp. rIiS-V ''---ixQ1( Knby Klnnr Pepper, flnn, lnwit, wmt wppww V V.i'1 U 51 W,AK4WViM. K.HVWJ KjmUiA, bent .ad Mrit.H. New t b.rllrr Ull, Wl&iH hKT1 F P&$?$2&$I koen '' wiat'r- Hnmmtr lttr NvmTmn xLE-sftStiew reward GAtVrtL WILSON, r.lechanic&ville, p-.k- Pa., t. ft k a: SEEDS! SUBSCRIBE FOB "PIO IP 1 tiJCa THE FABmERS -00- Magnificent Premium Offerl In order to compensate our friends for Alliance we make the following UNPRECEDENTED!? LIBERAL OFFERS of Premium: History of the Johnstown Flood. Illustrated. 450 pages. Cloth binding, elegant print. RETAIL PRICE f 1,60. We will send The Alliance one Year and this book, post-paid, for $1,76. Or, we will send the book far Severn new names for one year at one dollar. Manner's Farmers' Encyclopedia. Profusely Illustrated. Beautifully bound In muslin and gilt. 630 pages. This is a well- . ... . - a a M a. 1 1 1 Jt 1 .11 mown standard work, -it embraces a run branches of farm husbandry, and a vast amount of information which should be in every farmers' family. RETAIL PRICE $2,75. We One Year for $2,60. Or, we will send the book Stanley's WdnderM Profusely Illustrated. Beautiful muslin absorbing interest, and no one will regret its RETAIL PRICE $2,75. We will send this book, post-paid, and The Allianoe one year for Or, we will send the bonk for twelve new names at one dollar. We are enabled to make these unparalleled -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 JS Money sent by bank draft, Express or Post Office order, or llegisteral Letters at our risk. Stamps and Postal Alliance Publishing Co., Lincoln, Neb. TO PREPAltE FOR A CHANGE IN MY BUSINESS, I will offer my entire stock of 200 Cleveland Bar id Sbire Stalto, 3 and 5 years old, and 50 pure bred mares, sound, vigorous and fully acclimated AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. 150 DEEP MILKING HOLSTEIN FIRIIESJLItSrS MUST BE SOLD DURING THE NEXT THREE WEEKS. An opportmnity rarely offered to secure such high class stock at the prices and terms am prepared to offer. Send for pamphlet giving fnll particulars. GEO. E. BROWN, Aurora, Kane Co., 111. OBTAIN CHICAGO PRICES FOR YOUR The way to do this is to ship your Butter. Eggs. Poultry. "Veal. Keans, Broom Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, ruct that you may have been selling these articles at home for years is no reason that you should continue to do so if you can find a better nrket. We make a specialty of receivinr shipments direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCERS, and probably have the largest trade la -.his way of any house In this market. Whilst you are look I no- ai-nnnd for thn rhomo.t ket in which to buy your goods and thus economizing in that way, it will ceitainly pay you to give some attention to the best and most profitable wc- of deposing of ycur produce. We invite correspondence from INDIVIDUALS, ALLIANCES, CLUBS, and all organizations who desire to ship their produce to this market. If requested, we will send you free of zharire our daily market reoort. shiDDimr directions and aunh Infnrmntinn a win ..r a- Pico toyou if you contemplate shipping. Let SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, HEFEREN JE: -Metropolitan Nation Bank, J. THORP & Co., Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps, Seals, Stencils, Badges and Baggage Checks - Kvcrv Description. : S. 1 1th St.. Established 1880. LINCOLN, MSB. 25 Million Nursery Grown Forest Tree SEEDLINGS. No agents. Deal direct with customers. Save commission middle-men. Send for price list. Also GENERAL NURSERY Stock. ROBERT W. FURNAS, 6m31 Brownville, Nebraska. H. C. STOLIi, BREEDER OF The Most Improved Breeds of Poland China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire and Essex Hogs. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. P.O. Address. BEATRICF JONES, HE PAYS THE FREIGHT. 5-TON WACOM 8CAUEB, itou BEAU BOX BSASSTASSSSAV. Freight Pld. Warranted for 5 Tears AeaU Waate. 6cad far Tcrma. FARMERS' Ran mad Warefcaaae Bealca. 703E3 07 fiXSGSAXXTOXT. BiBgfc.amto&.S'. Y, r TUS JERSEY CATTLE few young1 bulls fit for service, and throe A. First check gets them. Correspondence Cr?r?l0 AT YOUR DOOR AT WHO I.EHALR OUUUO l'ltlCKN. H.T0f (roB Urg quantity UmM. ud vuimbw Mad to paat ifuoo, aod la order to limilm onr wnnaarrui nrw runw, imo im,vw nnwn. w mh iMMi i;rKti;Lvr.jili.u wfiiKi mar T t.wu la pta money, will iron a oni "i pra. nonwBing mm - iu of the followiuJt SKW Ainu liruvr.ii ctr.r.i'n, aim ont nritlaaa-1r.c.Ube-f COLUYX lilt EAT IsOKTlJKR.N M'Y PO Lh r rcatsst dlMovcrr Mnea Uie anvent of UM It. A RLY a'8K. tittn'a llajr-Inc Winter Ueet. imi tty. iiM,n' Ht or All fole Keaaa, Coa ror lup-imm id winter, it Hbm's Beat of" All Hunch Uotana, rich, tender, mid batterr. timet Advance tbbusn, beat aod earnest. 1 llaon'a I'rnmlwm Flat Iuth Cub bit-, bmt UM variety. Knrly ma Clnater Cnetintber. bait far UbU tw. Wi!ra'a Yjmmm Oreca Cembei beat for ptcklm. Nf Vary Natar Coru, tba aarltart la the world. Wllaow'. I-arv ivo- irven iiirr I'ora, iwoet and Oelintnae. I Hiirorwla ow l olden Top Corn, beat variety. Mew K.f-UInt'btn Celery, oxtra naalltv, atwda no bonkin op. VI(m'o Kitrs F.nrlr Lettuce. baadlBa sort. Jordan' tin J jonarrh Watermelon, rerr lars. aweet, and ngmtr. Jtlltler'a I ream u trace sleln txnt nar la i tiTation. Imnrorrd ttcanil Yellow Uaarera tmVm HEW SPANISH KlH OX ION, pouua eetoaaft ered iirat rear. Abbot a I ran roved 8 agar l'i tlntr Penner. 0nn, lai luff: rure.1 ai d arimt. inml t th hnt flf. Munich Ptiaa i Leaf Turnip, tcniW, wrot. iloUni 4. Ivb Kutn Uif ttntfor UMa !. VKttETABLi: I'ACII. oattlv trn two eed Unit rear; nrnkxa pin or pretervea equal to the fck prarara. ,tnpJa panket of H llaon'a Trwa LoMaainsr ni, the arua I boat Urtd earn la enltlvatl-n. Now Mammoth Zlanto. aaakta- Dahlia, brtaht ai a rnaa. Woahtaarino A.lrM. var larao alt heantiritteolnra. tilant Oermnn Panatea. heat nil cet, ma OOl'l,I'L S1ZKD PACKKTS. with IMKKCTHlNt KOti ti OOCULTIVATIHO. and UK whola POTATO lr,r vB I . JM 4.00, TEN boea $ t.rt "!. Ad i-.i- uataiocrao i fra to aM. Send lor full Descriptive Catalogue for 1890. s Ai TI BEST! Trumbull, Reynolds & Allen, 1426-1428 St Xaouis Avenue. 3tn33 KANSAS CITY, MO. ATT T AWF .tiuuimrauni! OM PAPER. oo their aid In extending the circulation of Tb corapenuium oi veterinary angwieugo m m will send this book, post-paid, and The Alliant for twelve new names at one dollar. Adventures in Africa. and gilt binding. 687 pages. This is a book of purchase even at much more man our pneo. otters because Of wholesale contracts mad - for Thk Alliance at $1.00 per year. Notes at risk of sender. Hay, Grain, Wool. Hides, in ha va. tn lie Tka Vegetables, or anything you us bear from you. 174 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO. Chicago. Mention The AlUaac GEO. A. BELL. C. W. MCCOY. T. C. SHELLY. 8. F. McCOY. (Successors to Bell & Co.) LiveMConissii Merchants. Room 39 Exchange Building. Cash Advance on Consignments. references ask your bank. Union Stock Yards, South Omaha, Nebraska. tno GENEVA MISERIES. 40,000,000 FOREST TREES, ALL NURSERY GROWN. 200,000 Grape Vines. We have a complete Stock of everything in the Nursery Line, which we offer to Nurse rymen, Dealers and Planters at Bed Rock Prices. 100 $1.00 Collections by Mail. 20 to 50 per cent discount on List Price to Alliances. Send for Price List. Address (3m31) YOUNQERS & CO., Geneva, Neb- M Ml Mot