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V ' THE ALLIANCE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY UQRNIN6. ' BY THE . ALLIANCE PDBLISHIHG CO. BOHANNAN BLOCK, .Lincoln, - - - Nebraska. ' J. BURROWS, .: : : - Editor. 4i M. THOMPSON, Business Manager. . '. t In the beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom That transfigures you and me. As He strove to make men holy Let us strive to make men free, Since God is marching on." Julia Ward Howe. Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerts." 44 A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. EDITORIAL. A NEW PREMIUM. Souvenir for Old Soldiers. This is a Cabinet Photograph of Gen erals Sheridan, Merritt, Torbert, Davies and Gregg, taken in the field in the Shenandoah valley. Gen. Sheridan is standing in front of his tent, the other Generals on either side. This picture "was reproduced by Noble, of Lincoln, in the highest style of the art, from the original now in the possession of Mr. Burrows. As a staff officer of the 2(1 Brig., Cav. Corps, Mr. Burrows fre quently met these Generals, and he pro nounces the likenesses perfect, the best he has ever seen. This is a historical picture, the only one of the kind obtain able, and will be furnished only as a premium to The Alliance. The Farmers' Alliance one year and the above splendid photograph, $1.50. The picture alone is worth twice the money. FOR FEBRUARY. That's the number of Alliances organ ized in Nebraska during the month of February. There is a long anxious seat for politicians and other mourners somewhere near these headquarters, and it is filling up rapidly. Seeding Nebraska Land to Grass. There are difficulties in laying down Nebraska land to grass that are not ex perienced in more humid climates. But these are not by any means insur mountable, as the thousands of acres of well-sodded meadows and pastures in all our older counties attest. The first thing to determine is the kind of grass to be sown. Persons coming into the state from rainy regions are gener erally predisposed in favor of blue grass. This is not as a rule a success here; that is it does ndt give satisfac tion. It can. be grown successfully, though it takes longer to establish a blue grass sod here than in humid re gions. But this is not the great disadvantage. It turns brown and sere through our midsummer months., just at the time when we need our pastures most. If our spring is dry it starts late. The amount of forage it produces is much less than that produced by some other grasses. We have found clover and timothy, seeded in the proportion of twelve quarts of timothy to four quarts of clover give the best satisfaction for all purposes. A half bushel of orchard grass is a great improvement for pas ture. Orchard grass is very nutritious and palatable, and very productive. In the growing season it will make more feed in a week than blue grass will in a month. It is a common mistake to sow timo thy alone. This is very unprofitable. Timothy will produce a larger and bet ter yield sown with clover than it will without it, and Ave have the clover in addition. This is for the reason, we suppose, that it is a shallow-rooted grass, and when sown alone the sur face of the ground becomes too dry to secure a good yield. Clover shades the ground, acts partly as a mulch, and re tains the moisture. There are two seasons for sowing these grasses first in the spring with small grain crops, second in the fall on stubble. We have found both quite successful. We favor sowing in the spring with small grain first, because the clover gets abetter start the first year, second because if there is a failure it can be remedied in the fall without the loss of the year. If fall sowing is adopted the sowing of the cloyer seed must be postponed until spring. We have had good success in sowing grass seed with oats on corn stubble. If this is done the corn stubble should be raked and burned; otherwise it is very damaging to the first crop of hay. The land should also be thoroughly culti vated both ways with corn plows, and well harrowed. We sow grass-seeds with the Strow "bridge broadcast seeder. But for doing the work well there is no better method than by hand. If it is done this way the seed should be divided into two equal parts and half sown each way This insures even seeding, with no bare places. Again we advise the raising of less orn and more grass. The latter crop the stock can harvest for themselves, and it will give the fanner more profit for less labor. The Petitions. The petitions against debt extension of the U. P. railroad are coming in by hundreds with thousands of names appended. They are at once forwarded to active Washington workers. The second petition sent out, favoring the remonetization of silver, is also being heard from in great force. We hope 150,000 farmers will sign this petition. THE Attacks Upon Mr. Burrows. Some of the railroad organs of the state, notably the Lincoln Journal and Omaha Republican, hit between wind and water by the uprising of the farm ers, are trying to set the pace for a per sonal attack upon Mr. Burrows, hoping thus to turn the. war into another channel, and distract attention from the real questions at issue. These pa pers can only do mischief by inducing that part of the press which is subser vient to the same interest to copy their articles, their own circulation being too limited to be harmful. According to them Mr. Burrows is a "demagogue," is "playing into the hands of the demo cratic party," "came to Nebraska to recuperate, his wrecked political for tunes," and has "brought discredit upon the state." Having no better ammuni tion, the Alliance Memorial is brought into requisition, denounced as false, and Mr. Burrows held responsible for it. We do do not alltade to this matter to make any defense of Mr. Burrows, but to show to what desperate straits the slavish branded crew are reduced. They dare not attack the farmers. They are afraid to assail the Alliance. They cannot controvert the principles set forth in the Alliance Memorial, and the facts it stated as to farm mortgages stand to-day more firmly established than ever. So they begin a sneaking warfare upon a man who by accident or fortune more than design has be come a feeble champion of the Alliance and the rights of the people. The position of Mr. Burrows is im pregnable. The epithets heaped upon him are vague and meaningless, and glance harmless from his coat of mail. If the principles he advocates are just and true they will receive assent. If not they will be rejected. "Laurel crowns cleave tadeserts, And power to hin who power exerts ; Hast not thy share? On winged feet Lo! it rushes thee to meet; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating In air or pent in stone. Will rive the hills and swim the sea, And, like thy shadow, follow thee." He asks no favors in any controversy, but stands upon the truth. He has long been throwing rays of light into a wilderness of corporate and monopo listic darkness, haunted by caitiffs with the brand of monopoly on their cheeks; and his heart swells now with triumph ant gladness as he sees the gloom re ceding on the limits of the horrizon. Mr. Burrows would gladly lay down the pen, cease the .fight, and take a lit tle of the ease to which his years and his life of hard work entitle him. But it seems to be otherwise ordered, God only knows why. Fearing no man, hating no man, with charity for all, he will stay in the fray until his sense of duty no longer demands it. We have said this much in justice to our own friends. We wish them to let no personal attacks upon individuals cool their ardor in a good cause. We wish them to remember that whether this man or that man is right or wrong, ambitious" or not, has nothing to do with principle. Men come and go, but truth abides forever. If a cause is just it will have defenders. The place of every lost champion will be supplied with many new ones. Life is a pro gress, not a station. All men who are battling for the truth are putting God in their debt. Those who, though without professions or creeds, feed the hungered, lift up the lowly and succor the oppressed, are the true Christians, and are truly doing the work of Christ. " No ffood deed ever joins the dead." Truth always wins, in the long run. Men who antagonize it might as well turn a hose upon tiie stars, or upon the ruddy aurora of the morning. So to these little tools with branded cheeks we say, good-bye. Some of them lave not the manliness to sign their own names, but sneak behind a norn tie plume. We do not answer such we ig nore them. These men are like figures on a canvas which are off their centre of gravity. They arc grotesque, out of joint with the time, meaningless, and make no impression. But mark the figures in the Ansrelus simply feelina the truth! How grand and mighty! And now again, once for all, we say to detractors and villifiers, good-bye. Disfranchising Districts by a Vote of the House. As the contested election cases come up the republican contestant is always seated ."by a strict party vote." This is not a new state of affairs. It has happened for many years that contested cases have been decided in this way, and always in favor of the man who was on the side of the majority. But it is none the less reprehensible. The validity of an election should be de cided by a court, and not by the house or senate. The rule that evary parlia mentary body may judge of the qualifi cations of its members does not really aPPly in these cases. The question arises prior to the fact of membership, and should be decided by a judicial and not a partisan political power. There is another legal point of great importance involved. There is a wide difference between the negative power of rejecting one man and the positive, power of appointing another. - A man may have received a majority of votes, but be rejected on account of informal ity. This rejection should not elect the man who received a minority; but un der the action of the present house of representatives it is doing so. The right of rejection or expulsion is no more than mere custom or usage. The right of election is a sacred right, and the very essence of the constitution. To violate that right is a step towards anarchy. If it can be violated by a partisan majority on one pretext it can on another. It leads directly to the destruction of representative govern ment to the establishment of a con gress which does 'not represent the peo ple, but only a party. HSTiie Farmers' Alliance is the best advertising medium in the west. FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., Let us Deny that Hard Times Exist. A very remarkable editorial article appeared in the Call of Feb. 28th, in re gard to the hard times and their causes. The drift of the writer's idea was that the .press of the country, by denying the existence of a financial depression could really alter the fact. The writer also assumes that there is a large sup ply of money in the country, . which is not true. The article is headed, "Times not hard." We quote: "The low prices of products, the consequent slow movement of crops and the hard collec tions resulting therefrom, have given rise to a general tendency to complain of hard times and take a despondent view of the prospects for the coming year. The fact that a general belief of this kind is sufficient to produce temporary financial depression, whether that belief is well founded or m t, gives a good deal of importance to the drift of public sen timent on financial matters and makes it worth while to consider whether or not such a tendency as now exists cannot be checked by showing that no good reason for it exists. If it can be checked it must be done by the press of the country." A "general belief in a financial de pression never existed until after the depression had become general. To show that no good reason for a depres sion exists, if the Call can do so, is just the thing to do. But the depression cannot be cured bv any concerted de nial of its presence by the press. If the press is so potent as this let us extend its influence in other directions. If we had all agreed to it we might perhaps have had a thaw during the late frigid ity; or if we can all agree to say so, there is no such thing as immorality or greed in these halcyon days. Shake speare says, "There is nothing either good or bad in this world, but thinking makes it so." Unfortunately the say ing is an abstraction, and we do have bad weather, bad morals, and bad times, whether we think so or not. The important thing for the Call to consider is that "the drift of public sentiment" follows the fact instead of preceding it. We quote again: "Another condition which makes very great financial depression improbable is the large supply of money in the country. Money is scarce here but it is because produce is not moving; but the fact that the product is known to be here gives confidence to eastern capital and investments in western property and securities promise to be larger this year than for at least four years past. When the granaries of the country are full and money may be secured ou farm loans at 8 per cent or less and on city property at 6ix and even five per cent no fear of a panic need be felt." The Call is badly off in its facts. In stead of there being a "large supply of money in the country," there never was a day since the war when there was so small a supply of money in the country in proportion to the produced wealth to be exchanged as there is to day. This is the great fact upon which so much disagreement exists. It is this condition of affairs which superficial thinkers and men who remain in the old ruts of belief in financial matters find it so difficult to understand. Nom inally low interest, an apparent glut of money at financial centres, and diffi culty in making safe investments in business, are all the direct result of an inadequate supply of money relative to production and business. We will say to the Call that 8 per cent on farm loans is a higher interest the money derived from it will buy more wealth, and the labor required to produce it is much greater than at any time since the Avar. The burden of interest is deter mined by the labor required to create the wealth with which money is pur chased to pay the interest. Its nomi nal rate has nothing to do with de termining its burden. T,his is deter mined by the general range of prices. The lower prices are the greater is the burden of interest. And the decline of interest nominally, under the present monopoly money sj-stem, follows the fall of prices, but never precedes or keeps pace with it. As the Call says, "no exhaustive discussion of this ques tion can 1x5 made in a newspaper arti cle;" but we earnestly recommend the Call to study the subject of the volume of money as it relates to prices, interest and labor. A careful investigation on these lines will bring it light. As bearing on the question of hard times we quote from the American Banker, of New York City, part of an article published week before last, en titled, "The Financial Needs of the U. S.:" "This country has increased in population from 5 1,000,000, at the date of the resumption of specie payments (Jan. I, lsT'J), to (50,UiO,000 in.l8.H), while the wealth of the nation has grown in the same time from 113.000,000,000 to tf0:,000,000,000. The business of the country has enlarged in fully as great proportion with a corresponding increase in the demand for money, the sinews of business. With this enormous growth in population, wealth and business, there has been a policy of contrac tion strenuously pursued by the government which has cripoled trade and made produc tion largely unprofitable, to much so that the wonder is at the great improvement under the depressing circumstances." "The more the farmer raises the poorer he becomes wny if The price is below the cost of production, wheat 45 to 00 cents ; corn 18 to 25 cents; oats IS to 15 cents. In the east it is a competition against combination, capital against labor, with the prices of articles and labor generally lower than in 187'J, the period of comparison for the purposes of this arti cle. On the basis of property worth 910 per capita, the entire circulation in money, in cluding amount in treasury and banks, does not exceed 254 per cent or 21. W cents for each person." The Banker says that if the policy of contraction is maintained it will pre cipitate panic in the usual train of pa ralysis and prostration: It will be seen that the above is di rectly in line with the Alliance' Memo rial, which Nebraska money lenders have abused without understanding. United States Senators Attempt to Insult Each Other. We suppose almost every one has read in the news dispatches an account of the late fracas in the United States Senate, during which charges and counter-charges were made, and the lie was freely bandied. We do not allude to this matter as one of any importance, but simply to make it the occasion of a few remarks about this institution. The United States Senate stands to-day as the exponent of special interests and the bulwark of the centralized power of wealth Avhich threatens the liberties of the nation. Created as a conserva tive check upon the possible extrava gance of a multitude, and a guard against the possible tyranny of a presi dent, the senate has come to be the mere tool of the most irresponsible power that ever menaced the existence of a democracy. Every monopolistic job can find a willing instrument in its halls. Small in numbers, its members remote from the people by their long terms of office; arrogant and domineer ing because of their great wealth and the ease with which their seats can be purchased, when patriots consider this body a blush of shame mantles their cheeks. The constitution gave it the negative power of disapproving execu tive nominations. It has long since usurped, under the thin disguise of sen atorial courtesy, the positive power of dictating them. It may be a fortunate circumstance that wealth enfeebles and enervates. If the great power of money could be joinei at once with great abil ity and great ambition, the senate might become the tyrant of the nation, and the arbiter of its destinies. While weakness and inactivity appeal to our contempt, they undoubtedly contribute to the safety of the republic. How in deed are the mighty fallen! The mem ories of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Sum ner, and a host of other intellectual giants, silently answer: To the low position this once august body has reached we are thus compelled to add the disgrace of degeneracy. Once an honor to be a member of it, it has now come to be a reproach. A relic of a system which has proved to be a fail ure, the senate can only be improved by being reorganized. We want no power in this government that does not receive its charter directly from the people. We want no more elections of senators at second hand. Legislators are of two common clay, and are too plastic to the touch of corporate tools, to be entrusted with the power of elect ing members of the United States Sen ate. Let the demand of the Alliance for the election of senators by direct vote of the people be enacted into law as soon as possible, and the senate may again become a body of which the na tion may be proud. Financial Folly. f One of the ideas of Secretary Win dom, advanced in his discussion of the new silver bill, is that foreign silver should be "rigidly excluded." Was there ever such folly? Silver to-day is the exclusive money-metal of two thirds of the people of the world. If it comes here it will come the same as any other product, at its market value, in exchange for other commodities Now the idea of exchanging a commod ity like this, which must always have a universal use, is extremely absurd The price of silver will not be affected by such exclusion, not even if our total product should be received by the gov ernment. Any rise in its price will be caused alone by its partial or entire re monetization, &.s the fall was caused by the limitation of its use foe money. The men who are opposingthe remone tization of silver will be driven at last into a , hole, and compelled to admit that their sole and only object is to di minish the volume of money in the in terest of the fixed income classes. It is the limitation of the volume of money, without any reference to the cost of its production, or the cost of the material of which it is composed, that regulates the value of all kinds of produced wealth, and the income that the pro ducers of wealth may receive. An in flux of foreign money, or foreign silver, would be an unmixed blessing. It will not come nere unless we buy it. We will not buy it unless we want it, and have something that we want to sell to exchange for it. Consequently if it comes here it will promote trade. The gold bugs, led by Windom and Knox, are trying to palaver the silver men by making a government market for their silver, and at the same time not increase its coinage and not use it as money. This in not what the peo ple want. More money is Avhat is need ed, not more bullion. Board of Transportation. The board met Monday, March 3d, when Gen. Leese renewed his motion upon Avhich he failed to get a second a feAV days before. Benton, Ccnvdry, Steen and Lecse Avere present. The folloAving is the resolution offered by Gen. Leese: Whereas. The local rates in force in the state of Nebraska are extortionate, and there fore unjust and unreasonable: therefore, be it Resolved, That the secretaries of this board be and they are hereby instructed to formu late a new schedule of rates for the adoption of the same on all lines of railroads in this state and that the rates of said new schedule shall so reduce the tariff now in force that the same shall not exceed the rates of transporta tion noAv in force in the state of Iowa. Resoh-ed, That the said new schedule bo pre pared and returned to this board forthwith. As on Jan. 22d, the other members failed to second the motion, and it Avas declared not regularly before the board, and no action taken, notAvithstanding Gen. Leese asked that it lay oA'er to Wednesday's meeting. Mr. Steen of fered the folloAving resolution, Avhich AAras adopted: Whereas, the reduction of 10 per cent on the rate on corn to the Chicago market was too small to be of any great benefit to the produ cers of this state, aud AVhereas, The i-ailroads decline to make any further reduction, therefore be it Resolved, That the attorney general be re quested to go before the interstate commerce commission and use all honorable means to secure a material reduction on interstate rates, his expenses to be paid out of the appro priation for the board. By the above it is easy to place the men Arho are Avilling to make some ef fort to relieve the reople of Nebraska from the outrageous local rates under which they are groaning. Three mem bers of the board refuse even to alloAv a schedule of rates to be prepared and presented to the board for action, as this was all that Gen. Leese's motion AA'ould have done if it had been adopted. Any immediate relief from the inter state commission in the present chaotic state of rates east of the river cannot be expected. But the farmers of this' state haA'e the satisfaction of being able to mark the railroad tools who stand as a bulwark to protect the roads in their extortions, and will remember them in the future. At the meeting appointed for Wednes day there was no quorum. SATURDAY, MAli. 8, An Unmitigated and Vile Lie. Lincoln. Neb.. March 1. fPpecial to the World-Herald. "As the World-Herald cor respondent eutered the Capital hotel last evening a friend tapped him on the shoulder ana baia: Lookathere. Tin lnnbprl find saw th mnet. remarkable political conclave in the history of state poli tics. Ther stood : Church Howe. Charles H. Van Wyck. Jay Burrows. And they were engaged in a 6ingularly ani mated discussion." Mr. BurroAvs authorizes us to say the aboA-e dispatch is false. The Her ald reporter was probably a little too full. Mr. B. draws the line at Hoavc He never spoke to him in his life. His "stolid dignity" does not allow him to associate with a man who began his ca reer behind' a Massachusetts bar and rounded it up as a Nebraska railroad capper unless the man should come forward for prayers and in that case two Pinkerton men Avould be needed to watch him Avhile he Avas being prayed for. The only foundation for the statement is the fact that Senator Van Wyck and Mr. Burro avs met by acci dent in the office of the Capital, and held a f eAv minutes conversation, as old acquaintances are apt to do. We Avill say to the World-Herald that the journals and the reporters who haAe made a reputation in this country have done it by telling the truth. If the W H expects to gain the confidence of the public by employing a Mulhattan Avho manufactures news and steals editor ials and turns them into intervieAvs, it will learn its mistake Avhen it is too late to retrieve it. To steal from a news paper only differs from stealing spoons in that it is not punishable by statute, and to lie through a paper is just as disreputable as any other lying. . Hon. Allen Root and the State Agency. For more than a year past Hon. Al len Root has been acting as the Alli ance State Agent at Omaha. Mr. Root has been doing this work Avithout an' arrangement for compensation for his trouble, and solely for the good of the cause to Avhich he has so long been de voted. When the executive committee, at the Grand Island meeting, was di rected to open an agency at Lincoln, and employ a competent man to take charge of it, Mr. Root asked to be re lieA'ed, and stated that he ' could no longer attend to the business, Avhich Avas groAving on his hands, on the same basis as heretofore. At the urgent re quest of the chairman of the committee he consented to continue until a com petent man to take the Lincoln agency could be found. Such a man has been found, is noAV at Lincoln, and has al ready made arrangements to supply the county agencies, Alliances and in dividual members Avith a long line of goods. These arrangements will be extended vigorously, as the Avhole time and energy of the agent will be devoted to the business. Of course this Avill operate to relieve Bro, Root largely of the sale business at Omaha. m No different arrangements have been made about stock shipments, and Ave hope Bro. Root Avill continue present arrangements until some other plan is adopted. Also that he Avill lill such or ders for goods as he may receive, Too much credit and praise cannot be given to Bro. Root for the liberal and disinterested spirit he has sIioavu in this work; and Ave wish it distinctly understood that the change has been made for the purpose of securing the whole time of an agent, and for the convenience of having the state agency and the state secretary at the same place, and not from any dissatisfaction with Bro. Root. A Grand Meeting in Custer County. The Custer County Alliance met at Broken Bow, March 4. Sixty Alliances Avere represented by 104 delegates The editor of The Alliance was pres ent by invitation, and participated in the proceedings of the County Alliance, and addressed a meeting of the dele gates and citizens of Broken Bow in the eA ening. It was a great treat to be at this meeting. The farmers of Cus ter county are .a grand lot of men. Plucky and full of nerve, they are de termined to make their influence felt in the government of the state and nation. The Alliance has been doing a grand Avork in getting these men together and thus giving them an opportunity to talk matters over, and come to an under standing among themselves. If it had done nothing else this alone Avould have justified its existence. But it has done much more. The farmers of Custer county are noAv concerting measures for their benefit in a business direction, and Ave haAe no doubt much good will result. Custer county is sure to be heard from at the proper time. The Work Booming. Bro. Post, Secretary of the National Alliance, writes us that the work is moving grandly forward. Great inter est is felt in Ohio, and Alliances are being rapidly formed. He also Avrites that one hundred and forty-two Alli ances Avere formed in IoAva during the month of February. Two hundred and sixty-six Avere organized in this state during that month. Verily, if the Alli ance will act together, it is becoming to be a great poAver. To Our Correspondents. A press of Avork has prevented our editing correspondence this Aveek. We have a large amount on hand. Man' of the letters are too long for our use. We ask our correspondents to have patience. We Avill get around to all of it in time. Let us say again, boil it doAvn. Many good letters do not get published on account of their length. Shipping Instructions. We invite attention to the advertise ment of T. W. LoAvrey headed as aboA'e. This Avas handed in for insertion last week, but Avas inadvertently omitted. Mr. LoAvrey is an experienced shipper, and we think his directions may be re lied upon. 1890. What to Plant. We recur to this subject to make some suggestions which AA'e consider impor- nt. It is certainly very desirable that Ave should produce as far as possible AArhat Ave consume of articles in this state. It seems bad policy, for instance, to sell products to obtain money to buy another Avhich a little labor would have produc ed. We are many of us paying cash for flour, when Ave could just as well raise the Avheat to make into flour, and have the bran for use. We recommend every farmer in this state to soav enough wheat to bread his family and produce enough seed for the same amount another year. If eA ery farmer Avill do this, it will re duce ' the average of corn to just that amount, and thus tend to advance the price of corn another year. We advise the sowing of flax wherever neAV land is availabe. It does admirably for a first crop on breaking. Last sum mer Ave knew of several cases Avhere the yield Avas fifteen bushels per acre on first breaking. It makes a very good second crop, if the ground is plowed tAvo or three inches deeper than the break ing. But flax Avill not follow flax under any other circumstances. Flax seed is sure to continue high for seA-eral vears to come. We think there is little doubt that it Avill sell at harvest next fall at $1.00 per bushel or upward. It is a great thing to sow flax on Avet ground, or immediately before or after a good rain. SoAving at this time increases the stool and therefore yield immensely. We have gained this knoAvledge by ex pei ience. Three pecks of seed per acre is the minumium, but a bushel is often soAvn. A good hand can sow it by hand, but the Cahoon broadcaster is better. It should be alloAved to Avell ripen be fore cuttincr, and then stacked as soon as dry enough. It should not be alloAv ed to lay on the ground any longer than absolutely necessary. As to corn, lessen the crop. We oAAe this to the poor railroads. They are fearfully overAvorked. In consequence of having too much so do, they have been compelled to keep up the rates so as to check shipments; though of course one of their motives has been to benefit the farmer by compelling him to hold his corn. The farmers of Nebraska OAve a great deal to a beneficient gooc fortune, but Ave fear they do not really appreciate the heighth and depth ant breadth of their obligations to Pro vidence for giving them G. W.IIoldredge and the B. & M. Railroad. However this may be Ave advise that the acreage of corn be curtailed by sowing grass seed, as Ave named in a former article The consumption of corn is increas ing. As knowledge of its food proper ties extend into foreign countries its use as food Avill be greatly extended. Jamieson Bros., of Stella, Richardson Co., Neb., arc making 250 bushels of corn meal a day. This is shipped to Boston, and Ave are informed much of it is exported. Improved breeds of stock were never cheaper than noAv, while the money to buy them was never harder to get. But still they should be obtained. It costs more to keep and raise scrub stock than it does the improved breeds, and does not pay near as Avell. Palestine Alliance No. 826. The above Alliance has sent us some ringing resolutions Avhich Ave are unable to print noAv. They condemn Gov. Thayer for former apathy on the rate question ; denounce the proposal for a reduction on corn alone as inadequate ; condemn the Board of Transportation for not making a schedule of rates as Ioav as the IoAva schedule, and declare that as justice cannot be obtained from the present administration that they Avill appeal to the ballot box for relief in November. We are compelled to lay these and a large amount of other mat ter over for the present. The K. of L. and the Alliance. The Nebraska State Assembly of of L. held at Lincoln, Feb. 24 to adopted the folloAving resolution: T 1 rni . K. 20, nesoiA-eu, .inat Ave Heartily approve the action of our general officers in making the federation Avith the Farmers' Alliance on the subjects of land, trans portation and money ; and that Ave de mand of all candidates for legislate or congressional positions that they pledge their support to the principles adopted by said confederation, and that their personal character ami former records be a guarantee that they fulfill their pledges before Ave will give them our sun rage. Thanks to Bro. Dorland. Bro. Dorland has sent us about one hundred and forty subscribers. Of course Ave extend him our special thanks. He is an indefatigable Avork er. isut mere siiouid be just sucn a Avorker in every precinct in the stale. There arc some, but not many. To all of them we are extremely grateful. Bro. Orcutt and Bro. Moss are good ones We intend and expect to send The Alliance to 50,000 Nebraska tanners. Every member in the state ought to take it. Letter From Bro. Cowden, of Thayer Co. We find under a-mass of correspon dence an interesting letter from Bro. Norman Cowden, of Chester, Avhich avo are compelled to lay aside for the pres ent, much to our regret. Bro. CoAvden giA'es a very encouraging account 01 Alliance matters in his vicinity just such an account as we are receiving from all parts of the state. We hope to publish this letter next week, and hope to hear from Bro. CoAvden again. What Enemy Will They Kill? From the Farmers Voice. The adiulant-General of the United States Army sent out a short time ago a confidential circular to the military authorities of the state asking for infor mation as to the efficiency of the militia; what time Avould be required to get troops at a certain point ready for nine months' service, and for what length of time the President could call upon the militia to serve. An official at headquarters said yes terday as to the length of time required to put the Illinois National Guard in the city of Chicago that In two bourn every man in the State could be notified and every regimeui uu ai us armory ready to move. "With Chicago aauie objective point," said this official, 4 '00 per cent of the nu n could be there placed in mx hours' time eadv for service, if we lopend on our regular train service. lh rest would urive there in about tAveiuj-ioiu mmrs. and, if special trains are supplied, halt a day would see the entire lorco quar tered on the lake shore." Chicago Tri bune, Feb. 24. 1800. The Farmers' Voice has on many oc casions declared that the banded mono polists Avere Availing their chance to eii garchize this republic, and to plai t it under the absolute rule ol a psuioerawc aristocracy, backed by a large and well paid military establishment. We do nere oy re-amrm our nnn oe.ei that this dark and treasonable scheme is being pushed to-day with greater vigor than ever before, and for proof; Ave point to tue foregoing extract item the Chicago Tribune. To this isolated item of news, however.. there should also be harnessed the lar ther fact that the National Congress i noAv deliberating on a bill that Avill un doubtedly pass, Avhich gives in tin fust place a yearly subsidy of one million, dollars to the National Guard, which l the by can bo increased to a hundred, millions a year at the drop of the hat A but one million dollars annually will u.f as an entering Avedgo, for it is not ad visable to scare the people by too largo an appropriation at first. ' Furthermore, General Hendersons bill provides (you see it was quite be fitting that a military man should far ther such a law) that the Governor of each state can upon request got such number of regular army officers as la may deem necessary to have Ijinz around Ioosg in order to be available U-. case of sudden emergencies. It also provides that officers and so. diers from each militia regiment shall be detailed each year for a months course of instruction on the plahis'or other convenient places, where they will be bunched together as a small army under regular army officers, all hand's to be for the time being not only undo nationational direction, but also umu i government pay and draw United Stair rations. And still farther it is provided that ir. the yearly encampments ami drill ot each militia regiment, that a coin pans or so of regular soldiers shall camp aloi,;j sidc of them so as to give them an ex ample of superior elhciency and dise': plinc and also to accustom the regular and militia to Avorking together iu double harness. The exceedingly well-posted miSit t Colonol from whom avo obtain the fun going fact, stated Avith great gusto and exultation, that in three day' time at this present Avriting one hundred il.o ; sand millitia and twenty-live thousand regular soldiers could be put on war footing ami be ready for action. Let us recapitulate a little so as to get a fair view of the entire layout. ThegoA ernmeut pays the militia .gie its regular officers to the militia, and drills the militia one month iu the 'vent Is not this, in effect, increasing 1 1 regular army oy luu.uuu men? it cer tainly would 'look so to a man up a in 1 With 125,000 soldiers already drilled disciplined and ready for duty. hw long would it take toraise anofficor 375,000 more men. so as to make a stand ing army of a half million of men? Not A ery long you may be sure. Friend farmer, friend Kutght of Lt bor, friend Granger, friend everybody Avho lives by honest toil, and lovis a government of the people, by t ho pro pie and for the people, Avhat think t of this thing? Do you imagine that this bill of ti-o mailed hand, this bill to put th' iron clad man of feudal days again n ho,r back to again charge down among ti -naked hinds and serfs, all came al t Avithout specific intent Nonsense. The fine Italian hand the plutocrat is visible in every lir.o : the bill. Where is the enemy to lie shotr In Mexico? Not much, for the liv.a. ciers of the Avorld are busily engaged sucking that nation's commercial ? blood. and will decline to be intornM ; in their pleasant and profitable ami ment. Then ' probably some trans-at la'.iti. government is getting blue mould on i back for Avant of a fight Avith the ?: a: Republic of the Avest. Well, i.i:v.. ever. The strong hand of the nl'!" d ai 1 outraged Avorkingman is elutchintr "t throat of Absolutism in every Nation Europe. There is not a single Autocratic tn this side of the llellspont thai 1 !l ' trembling under the surging ami gnai. ing of the Avorld's uneasy millions. The Kings and Emperors hae g. : their hands as full a they want thou, just at present, aud the common nor ing people never fight each other, i:nh sicketf ca by their cowardly and tru!.. masters. So friends! Avhere is the one:u 1 our regular army to shoot? 11 win p:iv cm i'i v iui uu-i " ' - man in tins republic to take a ua and try and answer this query, truly and Avisely. on botl-- Golden Words that Anneal to Souls. From the Kawcah Commonwealth- Will you consider for a moment l.at are the moral principles now inot -.is vogue? Be honest it pays. Bo if spectable, aud you w til be promoted Be pious, and you will gnnv rich. pose avo taught our children to be hon t hee.-viise to be dishonest is fooINh and dastardly. Suppose avo taught them 4 imlnfiruiiK not. beeause thev will w l.iO lu.nanso flli'A AVlII llu .IP'l hprnnw rrood. Suppose wo taught thorn not to always try to excel and pa-s otpi their felloAVS, but to help and sorvi them. Suppose avo taught them to grt the best they can out of themsrlte?. in stead of the most they can out 01 moi fellows. Suppose avo taugld thorn nrvor to Injure nor take advantage of a follow creature; never to oe oruei 01 umunn ful to man or boast; to succor and not tn nvtich f he Aveak: to do service to their tellows, all the service of which they ai o . capable. The most capable eing I Avarded by doing more, and not by rc t tinf more. Honor being alway s held u a Avorthy reAvard, and money as a base and paltry thing. Suppose we taught these children some such faith as th'.s. Don't you think a state of society found ed upon honor and justice would soon become more possible? Don t you tkmk the "forces and the splendid ambition and aspirations that civilize mankind' Avould then have better play? 1 think then we should begin to understand of irliot nrtl.ln fliinrra rnt" !" hll Ml ! M i t r I w . A. lift. ..WKr.v llllll Vl. I'i'wi ...... 9J capable. Why, my friends, just look at religion, the politics, the literature, tin commerce, the culture and the common wealth of our people, and see hor un utterably stupid and how unutterably base it is. We call attention to the advertise ment of Fred Schmidt, dealer in drv goods and groceries. He keeps a gooil supply for farmers and sells cheap. When ansAvering advertisements Avays mention The Allianck. al