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THE ALLIANCE.
fUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY M03KJNS.
BY THE
ALLIANCE
Lincoln, - - Nebraska.
J. BURROWS, : : : Editor.
J. M. THOMPSON, Business Manager.
In the beauty f 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.
M Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts."
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs."
Emerson.
He who cannot reason is a fool,
He who will not reason is a coward,
He who dare not reason is a slave."
EDITORIAL.
Additional Twine Arrangements.
The Alliance State Agent has perfect
edadditional arrangements in regard to
twine by which he is now enabled to
furnish members sisal, standard manilla
and pure manilla,in addition to the jute.
This makes the Alliance of Nebraska
absolutely independent of all combina
tions in regard to twine. It is neces
sary that all estimates should be in by
May 25th, as the Agent is compelled to
have his orders in. under this new con
tract, by June 1st. So MAKEUP YOUR
ESTIMATES AT ONCE. A circular
will be sent to Secretaries, giving prices
and full information, in a few days.
Tiis Declaration of Principles and the Popu
lar Call for a Peoples' Convention.
Wo publish this week a Declaration
Principles and a popular call for a Peo
ples' Independent State Convention, is
sued by an association of gentlemen
who may, for want of a better name, be
termed a Peoples' Committee.
Who are these gentlemen? it may be
asked. Well, it is immaterial. They
are neither candidates nor politicians.
They do not have to appear in the busi
ness hereafter, as it will be seen that
they have designated an agency to call
the convention when the declarations
iiave been signed numerously enough.
They are simply patriotic men who are
willing to do the preparatory work
without even being known in it.
The declaration which they have is
sued is so modest in its tone, and the
principles it states have been so gener
ally accepted, that it will at once com
; mend itself to all men. Its principles
arc plain and fundamental. The ap
sples of discord, the isms and fire-brands
. axa omitted.
.. .'This convention, when it meets, will
;fIiave been called, not by any clique or
faction, but by the people themselves. No
fusion with any other party, is possible
under such circumstances. No person
Is authorized to speak for it there is
no committee which can control it, and
will assume to trade upon its action.
'Tfie principles of its platform are des
ignated beforehand. It will be com
posed of men who are pledged to those
principles, and therefore must be har
anonious. It will organize itself when
it convenes.
This will not be an Alliance conven
tion. There is no power or authority
lit the Alliance to call a state conven
tion, a,nd it could not be done without
nullifying its constitution. It will not
ibe a K. of L. convention, nor an U. L
convention, It will be purely and only
a Peoples' Independent Convention in
sthc highest sense of the term.
The political elements are as follows:
'The republican party divided into two
factions, one the railroad element with
the organization, the passes, the pres-
'tige and the money in its hands; the
other the so-called anti-monopoly ele
mcnt which has begun a hopeless strug
gle for possession of the machinery and
the ollices, but which declares it will
secure its ends in party lines or not at
all. There can be only one result to a
struggle under such conditions, and
that is the dominance of the railroad
.power.
Another element is the democratic
party, offered for sale by an Omaha po
litical huckster on the one hand, and
described as "little less than a wreck
without life, spirit, organization or
soliditv," by a Lincoln democratic edi
torm the other.
The other elements, opposed to all of
these, and towering high above them
:all, are THE PEOPLE, on their ear all
over the state, demanding reform, de
nouncing partisan fraud and corruption
aind corporation domination demand
ing lower taxation, and a restoration of
honesty and integrity in government
affairs. To the People the Peoples'
Committee appeal.
The hour is ripe. The people have
refused to wait longer for the signal.
Let them sign this Declaration one
hundred thousand strong, and when
"their convention meets it will only be
to register the decree they have already
-spoken.
This shows the plain duty of all pa
triots Mho wish to down the railroad
power in this state who want the peo
ade instead of - the corporations to gov
ern, who place political morality, hon
esty, integrity and good government
abov party.
, The printed declarations to circulate
for signatures can be obtained by ad
z-dressing Peoples' Committee, care o
jTiiE Alliance, Lincoln.
Mortgage Foreclosures.
The Kansas City Times publishes from
jne hundred and fifty to two humlret
notices of foreclosure sales daily. This
requires as much paper as all its other
matter requires, anu reuioi ce iuc ai gu
ments of the contractionists that "there
as too much money" in the country.
THE
Statement From Pres. Powers.
The First Man to Sign the Declaration.
John H. Powers, President of the
State Alliance, has sent us the follow
ing statement: ,
Editor Alliance: I wish to say that
while I heartily approve theDeclara
tion of Principles and popular call
for a Peoples' Independent Convention
issued by the Peoples' Committee, the
same was issued without my knowledge.
In fact, 1 was not consulted about it.
But put my name on the call at once.
The movement has my sincere wishes
for success; and I trust that all true
Alliance men will support it, and see to
it that it is in fact as well as in name
a peoples'1 movement. -
Fraternally yours,
J. II. Powers.
A Plea for Unity.
A great people's movement is now
fairly on foot in this state. Unity is an
essential element of success. The seeds
of discord are sown by those who wish
to divide us. The false reports about
our leaders, the ridiculous stories of
bargains and sales, such as that of the
proposed nomination of Mr. Powers by
the republicans, and of the intention of
Mr. Burrows to turn the Alliance over
to that party. are started and circulated
by our enemies to create distrust and
confusion. The groundless suspicion of
old men who have served the Alliance
for years, and whose honor is bound up
in its success, ought to be dropped. All
Alliance men may depend at the start
that this movement will not be used to
advance the interests of either old party
or any faction of them. If we cannot
have confidence in each other how can
we ask other people to have confidence
in us? From this day forth let us war
alone upon the common enemy.
The Declaration which the People's
Committee have put forth is a grand
one. It embraces only leading princi
ples, not details. While it is a long
ways short of what many demand, it is
far in advance of many others. It is
such a declaration as four-fifths of the
men of this state of all parties can read
ily endorse.
To be successful an independent ticket
must have 75,000 votes. Work will get
them. The work should be expended
in getting one hundred thousand signers
to the declaration.
This is a movement to enfranchise the
people, not only from corporation con
trol, but from the bondage of machine
politics. It will be well worth the while
of the people of this state to know
whether they have come to depend so
servilely on political machines as to have
lost the power to initiate political move
ments for the purification of the state
and the establishment of the principles
they believe in. "
The two great objects of this move
ment are to break the corporation
power and elevate to public position
able and incorruptible men who are in
sympathy with the principles of the de
claration. These are objects which
have the sympathy of a large majority of
our people. It remains to be seen
whether the party lash wielded by brass
collared slaves will longer override con
science and patriotism.
Unscrupulous Lying.
In its issue of May 8th the Omaha
World-Herald published a dispatch from
its Lincoln bureau, headed "Farmers
take the Field, " and stating that "the
state central committee of the Farmers'
Alliance has issued a call for a conven
tion in the Third congressional district,
to be held at Grand Island, July 2, and
for a state conuention at Lincoln on
July 4." On its editorial page of same
date is an editorial repeating the state
ment, and following it with a lot of its
accustomed slush on this subject. Now
if the correspondent, when he sent this
dispatch, didn't know it was a lie, he
isn t nt to oe a newspaper correspon
dent. The editor of the Wor.d-Herald
did know very well. His editorial is
an unscrupulous lie, and he is willing
to prostitute his columns to further the
contemptible fusing scheme he proposed
a short time ago. The State Alliance
has no "state central committee." No
authority representing the Alliance, nor
pretending to represent it, has called
any convention, either district or state
The World correspondent, by walking
a block and a half to the Lincoln office
of the chairman of the State Alliance
Executive Committee, could have ob
tained all the facts if he had wanted
them. But he didn't. He sent what
would suit , the editor. The present
condition of the party which young Mr.
Hitchcock is so anxious to sell is quite
fairly stated by Mr. Calhoun in another
column. This party hasn't vitality
enough to maintain an organ at the
state capital, and its pretended organ
in Omaha is a nondescript, an hermor-
phadite, half fish, half fowl, having no
inflnence and no respect from anybody.
And it is this organ that is hawking the
remains around for sale to the highest
bidder. There are many honorable
self-respecting democrats, and these
should make haste to repudiate the low
down concern4 at Omaha, and sign, the
Declaration of the Peoples' Committee.
Be Careful About Seed
There is nothing really inore vexa
tious and embarrassing than to find
that you have-planted bad seed. The
best farmers are sometimes caught in
this way. But no mistake should be
made in the crop that will be threshed
out at the state capital next winter.
Look out for the seed. It is being planted
now. Bs sure it is good. The new
crop Nebraska proposes to' taise this
year has never been fairly tested in this
climate that is, a crop of honest, in
corruptible legislators. It isn't abso
lutely certain that it can be produced
here. So very extra care will be re
quired about the seed. It might be well
to plant a little hemp this spring, too.
:.'"
FARMERS' ALLIANCE; LINCOLN, NEB.,
The Alliance Business Agency.
We are informed that there is a
wrong impression in regard to the Alli
ance Business'Agency, and its methods
f nnn,inf,nn iiness. in the minds of
nm f fronds. We are told that
an officer of the Alliance stated at a
public meeting, in reply to a question
as to what was done with the fund
which remained in the treasury at the
close of the annual meeting, that "it
had been invested in the implement
business." Now this is a mfstake. No
Alliance money has been invested in
the implement business, nor any other
business, nnr will anV be SO invested
J
under the present management.
The
annual meeting directed the Executive
Committee to employ a state agent and
open an agency at Lincoln, for the
transaction of anv and all business
which might be beneficial to our mem-
bers. The utmost latitude which the
committee gave to that power was to
use Alliance funds for the necessary
preliminary expense of that agency un-
til it could be be made sustaining.
The business is conducted purely on
the agency plan. Goods are bought for
members on orders. Arrangements
are made with iobbers and manufac-
lui iui iuc naic kjl liiin ww-to. auv
no goods are bought by the agent and
cameu in siock.
We want no misunderstanding nor
misapprehension in this matter. No
money of the Alliance will be invested
in any business enterprise, nor used in
any manner not specifiically authorized
by the State Alliance, and its financial
affairs will be carefully and honestly
managed.
The State Agency is expected to pay
its own expenses. The volume of busi
ness should be such that a very trifling
commission, say at the outside one-half
of one per cent, would do this. Beyond
this no advance will be charged' on
goods, as there is no one who expects
or will be permitted to make any money
out of this trade .
We trust this explanation will be sat
isfactory. But if it is not we will reply
to any questions.
The Bee and Mortgages Again.
The grand old soldier and honest pa
triot, old Ben Butler, has been making
some statements about western farm
mortgages; and the Bee immediately be
gins to buzz and unsheath its sting.
Mr. Butler says the mortgages of the
western states amount to three and a
lalf billion dollars, in which he is un
doubtedly within the mark. The Bee
says he "was not careiul to ascertain
the facts," and that he "had an object
n making this obvious misrepresenta
tion." In the very next sentence it
says: "JN o one having the most cursory
knowledge of the facts and it is un
necessary to say that no one can pretend to
have anything like accurate information
can doubt that the figures of General
Butler are wildly extravagant." Yes.
How could the General have been
was no source where he could get ac-
curate information? The Bee is care
ful net to publish the facts if it was
not it wouia puoiisn the omciai figures
. 1 via . . -. I
irom oaune county, which we fur- A
nished it some time ago. These figures
prove that the Alliance memorial esti
mate of Nebraska's indebtedness was
too low, and that Ben Butler's state
ment is not too high.
By the way, Walt Seeley has bean ap
pointed an assistant of E. F. Test, to
obtain the amount of Nebraska farm
mortgages. We'll get the truth now.
It is enough to make a horse laugh.
The Bee's Information Bureau.
For the past six weeks evidence has
reached us from various portions of the
state of the enterprise ot the Bee in its
searchfor information as to the strength,
organization and intentions of the Alli
ance. Money, suits of clothes, and for
all we know old clothes, watches and
tinware have been offered for reliable
reports on these points. In fact, from
the offer of clothes we were led to be
lieve that .the gentleman who presides
in the corner room of the fine building
on Farnam and 17th streets had received
an invoice from Chatham street or em
barked in the old clo' business. In ad
dition to these reports from the rural
districts mysterious emissaries from
somewhere have frequently dropped
into our private office, all interested in
the welfare of the farmers, and all art
fully leading the conversation to the
same general focus, viz: the real voting
strength, of the Alliance, and its politi
cal intentions.
Now we want the Bee to have full
and authentic information. We im
agine if it had such it might flop back.
In fact, we believe it is getting ready to
do that very thing, and we will not be
at all surprised to see it in the fraternal
embrace of Van Wyck within a month.
Rosewater can only be happy as a
kicker. If he was put in party shackles
so he couldn't kick, he'd explode and
that would be an end of him.
To begin with we will say to the Bee
that the voting strength of the Alliance
to-day is sixty thousand, and it is in
creasing rapidly. Its political inten
tions is to make every vote count for
the welfare of the farmers, morally,
financially and politically. It isn't at
all important that the Bee should have
specific details as to local and general
arrangements. But fill it chock-full on
the points we have named.
The Third District.
We invite the attention of our readers
in the third Congressional District to
the call for a conference in that District
to be held at Grand Island May1 29. The
call is for representatives from all labor
organizations, which includes the Alli
ance. We hope this conference will be
well attended. Leading men of the or
ganizations should see that representa
tives are sent, even though it is not pos
sible to call regular meetings for that
purpose.
TOO LATE ! TOO LATE I
Benton, Seen and Co wdery Trying to
Jump on the Wagon.
The bulk of the corn has been moved,
and is out of the farmers' hands. They
parted with it at 10 to 15 cents per
bushel. It is now selling at 20 to 23 cts.
Four or five million dollars which the
farmers ought to have had, and would
have had if fair rates had prevailed,
have been corralled by railroads and
speculators. The bulk of the coal has
been shipped in, and the consumers
have paid outrageous rates on it, and
the roads have pocketed the money. In
novt, the horse has been stolen, and
now comes Messrs. Benton, Steen and
Powdery and propose to lock the stable
uoor - J-hese gentlemen are candidates
for renomination, and they begin to
realize that there is a storm brewing
in lact that it is raining quite hard,
lney hope it will not be much of a
shower, but still think it politic to start
for cover. The following is their reso-
lu"ons just adopted too late, eternally
to late not to adopt a fair rate, but to
mentl the broken political fortunes of
Messrs. Benton, Steen and Co wdery:
Whereas. The SUbiect Of freight rates
. . - , j t
ifevfnfffintSf tta&oStoJSl
tne railroads oi the state are identical;
the
and that a reasonable rate is one that
will produce only a fair and just re
muneration to common carriers, based
upon the present actual cash value of
their roads and
fore be it
appurtenances; there-
Resolved, That the secretaries of the
board of transportation be. and thev
are hereby instructed to formulate and
present to this board at its next regular
meeting, June 4th. 1890. a reasonable
freight tariff.
Resolved, lhat the general managers
of the various railroads and anv citizen
or citizens who believe that the roads
are earning a high rate of interest upon
unreasonable valuations, are hereby in-
vited to meet this board on Mav 21st
next, at 10 o'clock a. m.. for the rur-
pose 'of giving such information as to
the actual value of railroad property.
The above resolution is suggestive.
The gentlemen who passed it are can
didates. Mr. Laws played it very fine
under the same circumstances. He de
clared for reduction until the conven
tion was over, and then repudiated.
Ihese gentlemen are just good enough
to to do this very thing. This resolu
tion is probably the result of an agree
ment by the railroad politicians, such
men as Kimball and Holdredge. The
gentlemen of the board are acting un
der their orders. Our versatile and
able friend Church Howe, who is out of
politics, wasn't snooping around the
capital last week for nothing. He
came from Omaha, and was probably a
bearer of dispatches.
Who got the Corn?
An exchange says that a Kansas bank
er has just sold a large quantity of corn
at 23 cts. The few farmers who were
able to hold corn have made a good thing.
Xhere has been an advance of from
five to eight cents pqg: bushel in the last
month. But where one man was able to
hold fifty were compelled to sell. The
railroad me who have interests in ele-
vators, ana speculators are the ones
who have made the money. A fair re
have saved the farmers of Nebraska five
million dollars. Five million dollars more
money would have gone into trade in
Nebraska under liberal railroad man
agement. The short-sighted greed that
has held up rates has reacted disastrous
ly upon every Nebraska interest. Col
lections are slower, fewer enterprises
are started, less goods bought and
hauled into the state by just the extent
of the influence of this five millions.
Besides all this, a liberal course on the
part of the roads, instead of the hoggish
and greedy one they pursued, would
have tended to allay the excitement of
the people on this rate question. But
perhaps it is well. . "There is a power
that shapes our ends, rough-hew them
as we may."
CESAR'S COLUMN.
A Story of the Twentieth Centnry.
The exact opposite of Bellamy in his
Looking Backward, and instead of de
picting beatific conditions of society un
der the humanizing influence of Na
tionalism, it depicts in fearfully real
istic colors the condition a century
hence under a continuance of the pres
ent selfish and greedy system, when
all the wealth of the world has become
concentrated as it necessarily will in
the hands of a few who constitute a
powerful and soulless oligarchy, with
the press, the political machinery, the
courts and the army in their control,
and the vast mass of people in abject
and hopeless poverty. Splendid cities,
warmed and lighted by natural forces,
traversed by electric, underground and
elevated railroad and connected by
aerial ship. But underneath the glitter
and splendor, a wild, desperate discon
tent and ferocious despair that ultimate
ly culminates in an organized rebellion
the world over. Slaughter and de
struction of the rich and their property
and then the mob gone wild drunk
with revenge, blood and riot become
utterly ungovernable, and a reign of
terror ensues ending with the blotting
ing out of our great civilization and a
return to a savage state where every
man is against his neighbor.
It is a powerfully written book and
very fascinating, and should be read as
an earnest appeal for reiorm by every
thinking man and woman in America
Its conclusions are awful, but they are
inevitable unless a change comes over
the spirit of our homes, and that soon.
The Congressional Grab.
Thehouse, having voted to reimburse out
of the treasury all members who lost money
througrh the Silcott defalcation, Messrs.
Savers of Texas, and Bland of Missouri, have
returned their loss to the treasury on the
ground that the law was unjust and a grrab
game. jsxenange. . .
We have not heard that any of the
Nebraska delegation have returned
their share of the plunder. We will be
pleased to announce it if they do so.
SATURDAY, MAY 17,
The Real Proposition Made by the Alli
ance Meeting.
It is being stated by some of the pa
pers that the meeting of the County
Presidents and Organizers held in Lin
coln, April 22d, recommended the mem
bers of the Alliance to remain in their
old parties, and look to them for aid in
getting the proper men in the legisla
ture. This is a mistake, and is mis
leading. What the meeting did recom
mend was that the Alliances, both Sub
ordinate and County, should select the
men they wanted elected, and then should
take the most available agency at hand to
secure their election, it also recom
mended that the Congressional Districts
should adopt the same method. If this
advice is not sound all the way through
we fail to see it.
Knights to the Front.
T. V. Powderly has proposed for na
tional action exactly the same plan that
the Peoples' Committee have proposed
for this state; that is that the people
shall sign a declaration of principles
and a pledge to support them, and des
ignate some one to call a convention;
and when one million have signed, the
convention shall be called. Let us have
fi ft v thousand sicmers in tho Nebraska
J -o
a! then haV" the
tion called, ihese names can be pro
cured in three weeks by a united effort.
Alliance men and Knights, pull off your
coats and go to work.
The Limitation of Money.
D wight, May 5th, 1890.
Editok Alliance: As a subscriber
to vour valuable naDer I notice in corn-
menting on an article in the Omaha Bee
vou say there is no doubt that excessive
issues of money or representatives of
wealth will produce injury. As a
searcher after truth, wherever found.
will you please answer these questions
and very much oblige a seventy year
old (green back) farmer.
Why should the representative of
wealth be limited? Unless you limit
population and the products which the
representative was made to exchange?
And by limiting the first will it not have
a tendency to limit the second, as mon
ey is a tool labor uses in the production
of property and products?
l wish if convenient you would an
swer through your paper and oblige,
thine for the right, ,
J AS. VV . LISTER.
ANSWER.
An unlimited supply of money would
be as much a disturbing element, and
would tend to unsettle values, quite as
much as an unjustly limited supply. But
unlimited" is a broad term. The law of
supply and demand finds its expression
in the enect ot the relations oi money
and other things better and more fully
than in any other way. Price is the ex
pression of this relation. Contraction
lowers price, expansion increases it.
With free and unlimited coinage of any
metal the money composed of that me
tal becomes a natural product, limited
only by the capacity of its mines. Now
suppose unlimited deposits of gold
should be found, rendering the produc
tion of gold as cheap as aluminum or
iron, and that its coinage continued free
and unlimited. Prices would imme
diately advance. Up to the point when
a fair ratio between labor and wealth
was reached this would be benehcial.
But that point would soon be passed;
prices would continue to advance, and
an era of speculation would ensue; men
would be drawn into debt, and labor
and legitimate industry would be dis
couraged. If the relative increase of
gold money continued this process
would continue indefinitely. This is
the history of unlimited issues of mon
ey. It is simply the practical illustra
tion of the law of price, or supply and
demand. The reason these evils never
occurred with gold money is because its
supply has never passed the point where
an equable relation between labor and
wealth has been passed.
Intelligent advocates of money re
form have never favored an "unlimited"
supply of money. Stability of values is
the great desideratum sought for by la
borers and producers. Instability of
value is injurious to these classes. This
stability can only be secured by finding
the point at which the money volume
would secure justice to all classes, and
maintaining it at that point. It is now
nianj' degrees below that point, and the
producing and laboring classes are suf
fering in consequence.
Uy unduly limiting the money volume
production will be limited and enter
prise discouraged, as Bro. Lister inti
mates.
The First Nationalist Club of Lincoln.
On Tuesday evening last a very plea
sant concourse of ladies and gentlemen
met at the office of Stewart & Rose to
organize the Nationalist Club No. 1 of
Lincoln. Twenty-three persons wer
enrolled as members, and an orgainza
tion was completed by the adoption of a
constitution and the election of the fol
lowing named officers:
President, W. S. Wynn.
First Vice-President, N. S. Baird.
Second Vice-Pres't, R. W. Maxwell.
Secretary, H. F. Rose.
Ireasurer and Financial Secretary,
Mrs. N. S. Baird.
Advisory Committee, Miss Emma J.
Fuller, Mrs. Edith Robinson, and Messrs
A. Rose, S. C. Warriner and J. Burrows
The object of this club is to national
ize industry under the principles por
trayed by Edward Bellamy. It is mo
deled after the pioneer Boston club.
The discussions of this Club promises
to be of much interest, and it is likely to
become a well-known Lincoln institu
tion.
bcarce and dear money makes men
cheap. Abundant money makes men
high priced, happy, intelligent and use
ml. Are men made tor money, or
money made for men? Is society or
ganized to enslave the masses that the
few may live in debauchery and ex
travagance? Must brain, inventive ge
nius, craft, selfishness, and the many
mainsprings to advancement good or
bad according to the methods of em
ploying them reap all the rewards and
emoluments, "while muscle, executive
force, plodding patient toil go begging
for subsistence? These are old thoughts,
but must never be allowed to fade out
of men's minds. Chicago Express.
1890.
The Truth About Democracy
From
Democrat.
t
We clip the following from the Lin
coin Herald. Its editor, Mr. Calhoun,
being a typical democrat, what he says
must be accepted as very near the
truth:
"It is true that the demo
cratic party in this state is practically
without emcient leadership, mere is
not a democratic paper in the state hav
ing anything more than a local reader-
snip, me voters are ensiraugfu iium
the men they have heretofore followed,
and could not hear from them if confi
dence were not undermined. The par
tv is a little less than a wreck without
life, spirit, organization or solidity, at
a juncture when it needs them all as it
did never before.
If the Alliance nominates a state tick
et and makes a contest for the state
legislature it will in many counties
bodily absorb- the democratic vote.
This is an important crisis in the history
of the party, but the only sign of life in
sight is-an effort to chain it to the car
of King Aleohol. Unless something is
done, and that quickly, the party will
disintegrate under the many influences
that now affect it. The Herald does not
know where to locate the responsibility
for this condition of things. Nor does
it know how to remedy it. It suggests
the situation for the consideration of
wiser heads, trusting to party cohesion
to do good work until deliverance
come."
Well, the "wiser heads" are at the
fore. The State Alliance will not nomi
nate a state ticket. Nor will the Alli
ance make anv fusion in any manner
with either the democratic or republi
can parties. But individual democrats
can sign the ' declaration of principles
and popular call issued by the people's
committee, and can have their full
weight in shaping the action of the
people's independent'eonvention which
will be held under that call. It will be
no calamity for "the party to disinte
grate' providing principles of justice
and equality and good government re
suit. Of one thing all democrats may
be assured, the democratic party will
not absorb the Alliance, nor ride into
power on its shoulders.
Fifty thousand men will sign the dec
laration which has been issued, and
democrats had better hurrv in out of
the Avet.
Uncle Jerry Rusk.
We have been requested to dissect the
tariff message recently issued by Uncle
Jerry Rusk from the agricultural de
partment at.Washington. Wo have not
thought anv notice of this document
necessary. When Uncle Jerry in one
sentence tells the farmers that they
need a higher tariff on potatoes, onions
turnips ami wheat, and in the next one
tells them that one of the prime causes
of hard times is the diminishing ex
ports caused bv restrictions on their
sale in Erfgland and Europe, it would
seem as though criticism was time
wasted.
Uncle Jerry owes his position as Sec
retary of Agriculture to the Alliance.
It is a sad case, take it all-in-all, and
there is not much to be said about it.
Monumental Gall.
The Omaha Bee of a late date asserted
editorially that Mr. Burrows, the editor
of this paper, was in favor of the Alli
ance holding a balance of power be
tween the republican and democratic
parties. Mr. Burrows denied the state
ment, and denied that the extract quo
ted by the Bee justified its assertion
The Bee pays no attention to the denial,
but leaves its original false statement to
stand. This is what we call monument
al gall. If Alliance men who are send
ing information to the Bee think it is
friendly to the Alliance, or will neglect
any opportunity to stab it, they are mis
taken.
. The Infernal Fools in Kansas."
Topeka Democrat.
"Kansas, as usual, leads in the pro
cession," said a gentleman as he step
ped into a banking house in Boston two
or three days after the last presidential
election. "Eighty thousand majority
for the republican ticket and protection.
That even beats Pennsylvania; What
do you think of that?" said the Kansan,
familiarily clapping the banker upon
the shoulders.
"Think," said the banker; "why I
think you have eighty thousand majori
ty of infernal fools out there in Kansas;
that is what I think." Continuing he
said: "I cannot understand it; it is ut
terly beyond my comprehension why
the Kansas farmer should deliberately
continue to vote this outrageous and
unjust protection tax upon himself, and
for our exclusive benefit. If I was a
Kansas or western farmer, I would lead
a revolution before I would pay such
an unjust and damnable taxi"
"You pay us interest, or tax, now on
nearly everything you own; on your
court houses, jails, bridges, railroads,
street car lines, water works, gas works,
electric light plants, school houses,
churches, city property and farms; and
what little is left after all that, you vol
untarily vote to us, as a pure gratuity,
in the shape of an unjust, outrageous
and enormous tax called protective
tariff on everything you eat, wear, or
use. thereby taking undoubtedly the re
mainder of what the poor farmer can
raise, and leaving him penniless at the
end of the year."
"But," said he, "I don't see why I
should complain, as I am one of the
manufacturers in New England, and
consequently one of the beneficiaries of
Erotective tariff" So as long as you
Kansas farmers continue to drive up
your protection cow, we manufacturers
will continue to milk her; and the elec
tion of Harrison with your 80,000 ma
jority, gives assurance that we have a
good hold on the teats for the next four
years."
To our old friend W. C. Holpen, of the
Kearney Courier:
Don't have the least anxiety about
Mr. Burrows selling out to the repub
lican party or any other party.
An Improvement on Dudley.
Louisville Courier-J our mal.
"Let us do our own registration and
our own counting," says Mr. Reed
That is certainly the true method of
making sure of an election, and it would
save many thousands of dollars of elec
tion expenses now borne by our infant
industries. The man who says that Mr.
Reed has not a great head is no reader
of the news.
OMAHA TAMMANY KNAVES.
BROATCH'S SOLID TWENTY-EIGHT
ORGANIZED INTO A BAND OF
BUSHWHACKERS.
CONSPIRACY TO DEFEAT ANNEX
ATION.
AN OATH-BOUND UANU kjv
MORANTS AND TAX-EATERS
WHO PROPOSE TO RULE
OR RUIN OMAHA."
-We clip the above display headlines
rom the Omaha Bee of the 8th. Wo
had no idea Omaha was getting so- fear-
ully low-down. The eastern gentle
men who are Hocking iuto- Lincoln will
not find any thing of that sort here.
Of course, under these circumstances,
they'll giye Omaha the go-by.
A Good Suggestion.
Av measure known as the anti-truit
bill lately passed both houses of con
gress and received the earnest support
of such protection advocates as Seuator
Sherman and iiepresenuuivu iuciyuih-v.
Apart of the first section of this bill
reads as follows:
Every combination or conspiracy In re
straint of trade among the several slates or
with foreign nations is nereDy aeciami ille
gal. Every person who shall engage in any
such combination or conspiracy enau on con
viction thereof bo punished by fine not
to exceed f5,000 and by imprisonment not to
exceed one year, or by both said punishments
in the descretlon of the court.
There was never so dangerous a
"combination or conspiracj' in restraint
of trade" as that formed by the majori
ty of the ways and means committee
that lately reported what is known as
the McKinley tariff bill. Compared with
it the laws passed by the untisn parlia
ment in restraint of trade among the
colonies that rebelled in 1770 were like
ant hills contrasted with mountains.
The object of this bill is to completely
turn some branches of trade out of their
natural channels and to entirely abol
ish others. It makes war upon the
natural rights of man. It is a compact
of conspirators to injure the majority
of the people of this country.
The suggestion is made uy tne com
mercial Advertiser, of New York, that
McKinley and his co-conspirators be in
dicted by a federal grand jury if they
succeed in their scheieie in restraint of
trade. The suggestion is a good one.
Our present tariff law has been the fa
ther of a numerous family of trusts.
The proposed tariff promises to be the
?arent of a still larger family of trusts.
?he protective tariff is the supporter of
trusts of every kind. Remove it and
they will necessarily fail. A fine of
$5,000 and a years imprisonment for all
who vote for the McKinley bill would
insure tariff reform. These punish
ments would also result in the extin
guishment of most of the trusts that
now oppress the people of the country.
They would "fit the crime" in a manner
that would give general satisfaction to a
long suffering public. Chicago Express.
Caesar's Column.
The above is the title of the remark
able book which we this week offer as a
premium. Its retail price is $1.25. We
offer the book and The Alliance one
year for $1.75.
We copy the following letter from
Hon. II. L. Loucks, President of the
National Alliance, in relation to it:
Minneapolis, April 26, 18i0.
I am ia receipt of a copy of "Cavsar's
Column," and have read the same with
a great deal of interest. Indeed I was
not able to lay it down until I had fin
ished reading it.
The author has a clear insight into
what must occur under cpresent pluto
cratic tendencies, and though his treat
ment may to many seem "heroic," yet
it will take just such a picture to rouse
the masses to action to prevent such a
dreadful catastrophe.
It is in such strong contrast with that
other wonderfully graphic and happy
Eicture of what might be accomplished
y the judicious use of the ballot, as
pictured in "Looking Backward,"th at I
wish every farmer and laboring man in
America could and would read . both.
The only criticism I have to offer on
"Civsar's Colum" is that the author ha
postponed the catastrophe a hundred
years. Unless the power of money to
oppress is modified or destroyed very
soon, the present generation .will wit
ness the crash. Indeed, the first gener
al failure of crops in America will cause
a financial crisis such as we have never
witnessed. The earnest desire of every
man and woman who love our country
and humanity should be to rally the
masses to the polls, to save the country
by the ballot and arrest the thoughts of
the bullet and dynamite.
Yours truly,
II. L. Loucks.
FACTS ABOUT SILVER.
To President Harrison, Secretary Win
dom, Vice-President Morton, Speaker
Reed and Congress.
Permit me respectfully to call your
attention to some important facts which
vou seem to overlook in your efforts to
defeat the will of the people in the mat
ter of again placing silver where the
fathers of the republic placed it, side by
side with gold as a money metal.
I presume that not one of you not
even John Sherman will deny that
silver was demonetized by a fraud, or
that the silver dollar was, on the day it
was struck down, worth three per cent
more than the gold dollar, and that, too,
in spite of all the efforts England could
make to depreciate it; or that England
has, since the passago of that treasona
ble act, purchased our silver bullion at
an average of about 92 cents an ounce,
has coined it into rupees for circulation
in India legal tender there at about
$1.29 cents an ounce thus giving her
about 37 cents an ounce advantage over
the producers of wheat and cotton in
this country and by this means Jias
largely driven the products of our farms
out of the markets of Europe and great
ly reduced the prices of them in our
home markets, to the great damage of
all our industries.
Do you know that every congressman
of the west and south w'horu you dra-
f:oon into voting against free and un
united coinage of silver, by that vote
seals his own political death warranty
Are you legislating for England or
the people of the United States? L. G.
Jeffers, in Xational View.
Good News All Along the Line.
Jacob Beck writes us from Decatur
that his Alliance is booming, and that
he will send us a new list of subscribers
next week. So the good work goes on.
See his proposition in another column
To Correspondents. Write only on
one side of the paper when writing for
the printer. Many good articles go to
the waste-basket for this reason alone.
In writing to advertisers always men
tion Tue Alliance.
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