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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB.y SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1890. 1A. " X ( :y r ALLIA5CE DIBECTORY. NATIOXAX, FARMERS' ALLIANCE. President. H. L. Loueka, Dakota. Vice-President. John H. Powers. Nebraska. Secretary, Aurust Pott, Moulton. Iowa. Fro-sorer. J. J. Furlong, Minnesota. Lturer, N.B. Ashby. lies Mot ncs, Iowa. NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE. President, John H. Powers, Cornell. Tiea President, Valentine Horn. Aurora. Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln. Lecturer, W. F. Wrlg-ht, Johnson county. Asst. lecturer, Logan Mclteynolds, Fairfield. Chaplain Kev. J. S. Edwards, Waboo. , , Door keeper, D. W. Barr, Clay county. Asst. door keeper, G. C. Underbill, Unadilla. Beara-eant-at-arins, J. Billing-sly, Sbelton. XCUTIV CO-MITTKK. I, Burrows, chairman; B. F. Allen, Wabash; J. W. Williams. Filley; Albert Dickenon, Lite-field; Frank H. Young, Custer. Post Omci at Lxhcolx, Nb., June 18, 188. I hereby certify that Tub Alliance, a week ly newspaper published at this place, has been determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas tar 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. Albkrt Watkins, , Postmaster. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Lancaster County Convention. We publish below the table of dele gates as assigned to the precincts by the county committee. The convention is to le held at Lincoln the 2Gth, the primaries the 24th. First Ward.... 11 Second Ward.. 13 Third Ward.... C Fourth Ward.. . 5 Fifth Ward.... 8 Sixth Ward 13 Seventh Ward.. 6 Buda Precinct . . 8 Centrev'e " . . G Denton " .. 7 Elk " .. 5 Grant " " . . 5 Garlield " .. 5 Highland " .. 6 Lanc'ster " .. 5 Little Salt ' .. 6 Mill Precinct.. 10 Mi'dleC'k " . . 5 Nemaha " .. 8 N'uthBl'ff" .. 5 Oak .. 6 Oli'eBr'ch" .. 5 Panama " 8 KockCr'k " .. 6 Saltillo " .. 9 So'thPass" .. 10 St'p'nsC'k 8 Stockton " .. 7 Waverly " ..10 West Oak " . . G Y'keellill " .. 5 WestL'c'n" .. 6 Total 231 The Picnic at Cushman Park. ; The County Alliance at its last meet ing decided to have a picnic at the park some time in August. The labor organ izations of the city were invited to meet with them at that time. It has been suggested by some of the Knights that the date be changed to Labor Day, Sept. 1st, at which time a grand display will be made by the organized labor societies of the city, in connection with the coun ty Alliance. A rousing meeting could be held. The committee on arrange ments might look this matter up. The Nebraska Lumber Dealers Associa. tion. A letter from Fred Geochner, Pres. of Alliance No. 515 in reeard to the letter from the Huddleston Lumber company to the above association. That letter was published in our paper a few weeks ago, we would say to Bro. Geochner. Second District Congressional Conven- tion. We have received the call for the Con crressional District Convention for the o Second District too late for insertion in full. The Convention will be held at Hastings Monday July 28, at 7 p. m. T-3 representation is the same as the State Convention. We will publish call next week. Resolutions Barred. Except in special cases, on special subiects. we shall publish no more r a resolutions. The flood of them for the past three months has sufficiently shown the drift of public sentiment on the sub jects treated. Lost Copy. We received some resolutiens from a K. of L. Assembly at Kenesaw. They were partly in type when the storm of last Friday came up, and the wind took the copy out of the window and out of sight, which accounts for their non-appearance, i x i.k r What shall I do for lice on the rose bushes? asks a lady. Cover with a sheet and burn tobacco under it. To bacco will kill most anything but a man, and it sometimes kills him. Ex. The defeat of the free coinage of sil ver by the republicans should bury that party so deep that even Gabriel!s trum pet will fail to resurrect it. Fresh From the Foot of the Mountains. Editor Alliance: Alliance mem bers one and all are working hard for our cause. Our commissioned organizer Bro. J. N. Webster is busy working up and or ganizing new Sub.- Alliances. He has just organized a Subordinate Alliance at Calton, with a Bohemian class with 13 charter members. We have four Subordinates, and we are all a going to have an old style pic nic near Chimney" Rock, Cheyenne county, Nebraska. We will have ice cream, lemonade and a platform for a dance, and some of us will make a three day's tour of the occasion, .. and we ex pect to have a long to be remembered time. ' ' ' ' . A Mr. King, the County Judge of Scotts Bluffs county. Neb., will be there also to deliver a lecture to us. Our picnic ground will be in plain view of the North Platte river and val ley, set back close to the foot hills, where there will be plenty of nice pine tree shade with plenty of cool and clear spring water that comes out of the base oft he mountains. , We will advertise the Call for a Peo ple's Independent County Convention, Precinct convention on July 24th, and county convention July 26, to send dele gates to the state convention. We all think that the farmers and laborers are the enemy the adjutant-general is or ganizing new militia to kill. H. M. Coulter, Sec. Co. Alliance. Two Ways To Look At It. A drove of plutocratic newspapers, referring to the bill to loan money on land, ask t the government is to be come a pawnbroker? Well, when the ffoveraraent is loaning nearly a billion dollars on unsecured paper, it might much better be in the pawnbroking en terprise. . Either the national banks are urivate banks or thev are national con cerns. Among their loans as they stand to-day over $900,000,000 are loaned on "commercial paper." Of this $600,000, 000 only by endorsement, and about 9300,000,000 is absolutely without en dorsement or security of any kind. Those blind jackals at Washington will find tbat land is good security when an outraged people have buried them un der six feet of ballots. Qreat West. The national banks, by repeated de-i cisions of the supreme uourt, are cal agencies of the United States. ; As such the government not only has full control of them, but is responsible for their proper management. So the gov ernment is in the loaning business quite extensively. All the farmers ask is that it should change its security. t A German View of Prohibition. ; We publish the following resolutions and the private letter accompanying them, as they express the sentiments of a large number of our German members. We are opposed to loading our platform with a lot of issues upon which there is great disagreement. See article in another column on this subject. Osage Sub. Alliance. 1441. July 5th. 1890, in regular session. " Whereas. This Sub. Alliance is fully convinced that the arguments for or against the prohibition amendment in side the Alliance will cause a rupture of the Alliance, and, Whereas, We believe that every mem ber of the Alliance should vote on the amendment as his conscience permits him to vote: therefore be it Resolved, That the Osage Alliance is against any such arguments inside the aimers' Alliance or at the state or county conventions. And, 1 hat we are against any resolutions or platforms in favor of or against pro hibition which may be adopted at the state or'eounty conventions. lne above resolutions were unani mously adopted. Dick 11. dueden, Pres., Wm. II. Bokse, See. Bito. Burrows: If the German farm ers oi Nebraska were satisheu that the above resolutions would be useless. they would join en masse. They are opposed to any form of prohibition on the ground and principle that it is not in conform ity with the gospel. This may seem odd to you, but when we claim that not one will ever enter the kingdom of hea ven by law, and farther that when by our own example we can save a fallen brother, he will be saved indeed, what is the use of them making more laws and by doing so create a sin that was no sin before. We hold that if by law one evil could be exterminated all evils can. and the coniins: of our Savior would have been i vain. Let us pray, but abstain from prohi bition. Respectfully and fraternally yours, Dirk II. Dueden. Chase County Meeting. - An enthusiastic meeting was held at Imperial on July 5th, in the court house. Not only was there a full dele gation present, but the court room was hlled with Alliance men and women who seemed to sympathize heartily with the measures adopted by the dele gates. Owing to quite recent organi zation considerable time was consumed in adopting a coustitution and by-laws, but we are now in good workingorder, and itj is decided to hold monthly meet ings until after the fall elections. . Contrary to the general expectation, there was not a dissenting vote against the calling of a People's Independent Convention, and a rousing majority may confidently be expected from Chase county if the right men are selected as candidates. We all ready have fully one-half of the voting population, and our numbers are increasing more rapid ly than ever. Some Subordinate Alli ances report ten to twenty additions at a single session. C. L. Brain abd. I Secretary. Resolutions were adopted approving the People's State . Convention4, con demning the action of the county com missioners for allowing special pay to county officers; calling for stringent legislation to enforce the amendment if it is passed; condemning the course of the board of transportation; favoring township organization; endorsing Sen ator Stanford's bill; and denouncing po litical sore-heads such as Dave Butler, Rose water and Church Howe. Our space is too limited to publish the reso lutions in full. Ed. Alliance. A Regular Double-Header. Grant, Neb., July 9th, 1890. Editor Alliance: That the pro ducers of the United States can never pay their debts with a system of money that is plunging them deeper in debt every year no one can deny.' The cursed system did its work in the old world, and was then imported to this country by traders at home and tyrants abroad. What the British bayonet ailed to do British gold is doing with neatness and dispatch. Namely: Crush ing American liberty and independence. Let the battle cry be, if the greenback was good enough to pay the men who saved the union and freed the black slave, it is good enough to pay the mortgage-holder and thereby free the white slave. Yours for emancipation, ... J. B. Osler. The banks all over the country seem to be enjoying a steady though-silent and unostentatious success. It is in spiring to note the noiseless operations of these thousands of independent bank ing institutions, that are daily sending the strong life current into the indus trial world. American Banter. Yes, the life current that carries financial death to the millions. One per cent U. S. credit is the life current; 10 per cent bank credit that floats on top, is the death current. loira Tribune. Independent Convention in Hall Co. Grand Island, Neb., July 13, 1890. Editor Alliance: The tocsin sound- ded and the stalwarts assembled. There was blood on the moon and fire in the eyes that gazed upon it. i ne opening anthem had. lor its retrain, "iso politi cians need apply." Aaron Cook opened with a few pertinent remarks, and then the convention settled down to business. The resolutions adopted were strong on every point, and the points were well taken. They denounced monopolies m general terms, and more particularly the National banks, convict and child ren's labor, forfeiture of interest and principal for usury, asked laws for equal taxation, for service pensions, for fixing maximum freight rates, and declare all contracts with the old po litical partiesf ore ver off. ; Aaron Cook andS. H. Lee were nomi nated for legislators, H. A. Edwards for county attorney, Geo. Ryan for register of deeds. Senatorial and central com mutes were appointed, and fifteen dele gates to , thev state convention were chosen. That is about the way it went to the World-Herald, because their reporter was in sympathy with the meeting; but I fear the other papers will have it some thing like this: Seventy members of the Farmers' Alliance and eleven Knights of Labor met at the court house and held a pow Wow. A. Cook; the chair man had no ability whatever in that direction, and, though one of the can didates for the legislature, seems most unfit for the position. He was una Die " - to see any dinerence between an Alli ance convention and an independent convention,and even the Knights of La bor had some difficulty in getting re cognition. The candidates are weaK an rounu, witn me exception, oi iiunaiu. Some merit must be conceded to the resolutions, but the ticket can be easily defeated. REPORTS OF COUNTY CONVEN TIONS. A was large and enthusiastic convention held at Foster, Pierce Co., July 15th. M. L. Kelly Att'y. and J, M was nominated for Co. , Burch for Commission- er. -; -' - ' r-" A full delegation to the state conven tion was chosen. . A People's Convention was held at Grand Ialand, in Hail Co., July 12 A. Cook and E. S. Lee were nominat ed for the legislature, and H. A. Ed wards for county Att'y. Full delegation to State and Senator ial Conventions were chosen. On the 10th, of July a Peopies's Con vention was held at Platte Centre, Platte Co. William Shelps and Henry Stevens were nominated for represen tatives, and a full delegation to the state convention was chosen. On f July 12th a People's Independent Convention was held at Indianola, Red Willow Co., and nominated for repre sentative for the C5th Dist., A. B. Mode; for Co. Att'y, Sidney Dodge; for Co. Commissioner's, S. Graham. It also appointed, a full delegation to State con vention, r The People's Convention for Nuckolls Co. was held at Nelson, July 10. For representative, Geo. A. Fulton; Co. Commissioner. J. ' Dihel; Co. Att'y, R. Sutherland; Clerk District Court; John Burd. Delegates to State Convention were also chosen. , Alliance Work in Gosper County. Burwell, Nbe., July 6, 1890. Editor Alliance; 1 write this that our friends over the state may learn how the Alliance in Garfield county is progressing. On July 4th we had a grand, celebration at Brother Alder man's grove, whieh is situated about 2 miles from Burwell. In the morning the members of the Sub. Alliances with their families, met and formed a pro cession, and then headed by the Bur well brass band, proceeded to the grove. Each Sub. Alliance had a banner and flags flying. The procession was over a mile long and the grandest demon stration that ever took place in Gar field county. When we arrived at the grove we took dinner under the trees. Addresses were delivered by Alliance men and friends of the order, and the balance of the day was spent in amus ing ourselves as is custimary on the glorious Fourth. I must tell you also that our people are very strong in favor of independent Eolitical action, in fact each Alliance as expressed itself to that effect, and many that do not belong to our order and who reside in town are with us. We will be represented at Columbus on the 15th, also at Lincoln on the 29th. Enclosed pleaee find draft and new list of subscribers. Fraternally, , T. J. Day. Letter From J. J. Klinge. Grand Island, Neb., July 10, 1890. Editor Alliance: I have not seen any items from this vicinity yet since we have organized. The Lake Alliance No. 1375 organized the 22d of March, 1890, with 16 charter members, and we are still increasing in number every meeting. We have now 50 members, and get twine, oil, flour and so forth to a great extent cheaper than before, and this branch will vote solid for the farm ers' ticket, and furthermore, against prohibition; and this whole branch would like to see the W. C. T. - U. col umn kept out of The Farmers' Alli ance paper, for lots of good old farmers will not join the Alliance on that ac count, then we work against prohibition all we can. Then if this city would not have the license law, where or how could we pay all the taxes. We would have to pay 18 thousand dollars more on taxes, where a lot can be sold for $1,000 and the taxes are about $20. But when we get prohibition that lot will be taxed at about the double amount and could not be sold at $500. That's the way it is in Kansas and Iowa, where they have taxed prohibition and would be glad to get rid of it again.- So I ad vise every onest farmer of this great state of Nebraska if you vote prohibi bition the state will blume up like a rose in spring. J.J. Klinge. Vice-President of Lake Alliance, No. You would oblige me very much by putting what I wrote just as it is in your paper. - if aney thing is to Be chorged Please notify me and I will Pay the same, i Your truly, J. J. Klinge, Grand Island, Neb. Put in at next issu) Gosper County to be Depended Upon. Hilton, Neb., July 8, 1890. Editor Alliance: We wish to let our brother farmers know that we may be depended upon to perform our part in the struggle, to wrest our state govern -mentfrom the hands of monopolists, and put it in the hands of honest men elected by the people. ' Our County Alliance met last Satur day, and unanimously voted to endorse the call for a People's Independent state Convention, and to keep aloof from the primaries and conventions of the old parties. Calls have been issued for People's Independent caucuses in each precinct to elect delegates to a People's Independent County convention to be held in Elwood, July 17, at 2 .o'clock p.m. Let the people rule. ... , , , W. II; Stone, See. Notice ol Incorporation of the , Maxwell, Sharpe & Itoss Company. ' FIRST. The name of this corporation shall be the Maxwell, Sharpe & Boss company. SECOND. The principal place of transacting the busi ness of said corporation shall be at Lincoln, juancaster county, JNeurasKa. THIRD. The jreneral nature of the business to be transacted by this corporation shall be to buy. sell and excnanre real and personal property f every nature and kind whatsoever in the state of Nebraska or elsewhere as said corpo ration may determine. FOURTH. " ; . Tne autttonzed capital stock of this corpo ration snau De u i.ju.uuu.uu) one nundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars ((50.00) each, stock shares shall be fully paid up at the time they are issued. ana snau De non-assessable. Tne corpora tion may proceea witn tne mam design or its orsranization when flftv thousand dollars ($50,000.00) of its capital -stock shall have been taken ana issued. .-. ... FIFTH. The highest amount of indebtedness or.li' ability to wnich the corporation shall atan7 time subject itself shall not exceed two-thirds of the amount of the capital stock taken out and issued. , SIXTH. The affairs of the corporation shall be eon ducted by a board of three directors who shall elect a president, secretary and treas urer. Dated. Lincoln, Nebraska, this first day of jnue, iBiw. Max welt, Shaupe & Boss Compant. By Frawk Sharps, Secretary. 6-w 2-1 -H ARB WARS- Wholesale BARB WIRE IN CAR LOTS. MILLET IN TINWARE, JOBBER'S PRICES, GASOLINE STOVES, " REFRIGERATORS, tt ICE CREAM FREEZERS, " BOLTS AND SCREWS, ti tt Special prices to the Alliance. : All orders sent us by mail will have careful and prompt attention. MAXWELL, SHARPED BOSS CO. GOtf - 104 jSrORUIlOth STREET, LINCOLN. if 5 v 1140 O Street. IF YOU WANT TO BUY ffl GOODS ID AT LOW PSICES EOR WE If at any time you are chase made from us, the goods can be returned and money will be refunded. Very Respectiully, MILLER & PAINE, M 133 to 139 South 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. ALLIANCE GROCERY HOUSE. Largest and most complete stock of Teas, Cof fees and Spices in the west. at prices quoted by State Agent's price list on all mail orders sent by secretaries or busi ness agents of Alliances. Save 25 per cent on Groceries, and 50 per cent on Teas, Coffees goods of us. Samples cation. Reference: Lincoln 45tf S. P. STEVENS & .A.. HURLBUT. & CO "THE BEST HOG ON EARTH." THE IMPROVED 3 Chester White SWINB. I have a large number of animals not akin ready for shipment. CHARGES REASONABLE. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. M. M. HALLECK, Breeder and Shipper. CENTRAL CITY, NEB. 49tf We Will All Sing If you send and get the New Alliance Songs ter, just hot from the press of II. & L. Vin cent, at Winfleld, Kansas. It is a little beauty containing 80 pages of mostly new sonjrs writ ten this year especially tor tms oooe dv Alli ance people. Most of them aie set to old and familiar tunes, so all may join In the music and enjoy it heartily. The price is placed at the exceedingly low rate of single copies 10 cents or a lor $ i.uu. rostage iu cents extra. 3-tT Established 1875. Incorporated 1880. U.S. SCALE CO., Manufacturers of Stock. v agon. Hopper, Miners Dormant. DeDOt and K. R. Tr (Track Scales, all sizes. Greatest Improvements-Lowest Prices! We have had 15 verrs' exnerience in this business and will guarantee satisfactory work or no pay. Send for circulars and prices be fore buying. z a. j. AUSTIN, Pres., Terre Haute, Ind. The Suppressed Political Bombshell Our Republican llonarcby. An Unsparing' Arraignment of the Politico Capitalistic Machinery which has corrunted our free Institutions and prostituted the Re public to the aristocratic forms and Indus trial slaveries of Monarchiai Jsurope. By YENEER Y0LD0. -we want an our subscribers to read 'Our nepuDiican ionarcny.' xnts book is a scath ing portrayal of the monstrously unequal and unjust conditions now existing in the United States, stated as the author says "with plain ness, that the people may understand it." J. 7U1890W8 PABMBBS ALLIAKCX, June 'The most startling political pamphlet of the day which every citizen should readJl Hon. James B. Weaver, of Iowa. Price 25 cents, sent post-paid from this of floe. Or, we will send Ti Aujancb one year and the book for 21.10. "" and Retail. NAILS IN CAR LOTS. CAR LOTS. IN SUITABLE LOTS. tt a tt it tt ti tt ti tt . tt 1869. 1890. P. W. H0HMAN, Oldest drul most complete Mitsic House in the state, display ing leading and first-class PIANOS and ORGANS. A full line of Violins, Accordeons, and Mu sical Merchandise. Sheet Musio and Music Books. Agent for celebrated makes of Brass Iastruments. The Alliance can save from 15 to 20 per cent. Special Terms to Clubs. 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State Agent Hartley is now prepared to iurnisn a nrst ciass aewing juacmaes, nicelv finished, live drawers, with all the latest improvements. Price $20, f. o. b. at Lincoln. 51 tf. RED-POLLED CATTLE Imported and bred by I F. BOSS, Iowa City, la Tbe olden Herd in low, -i ds nest neras in jsngiana represented. Come and see stock er send for circu lar. Farn one mile SooueaM of citv Everything' in the amunition line at Maxwelk, Sharps & Ross Co. c . Lincoln, Keb. If rnn are tr oinor to build a house or barn or both, or anything: else. . Send your order to M axwell, Sharpe & lloss U)., Lincoln, Neb. FOR SALE. An old established newspaper in n wu) nnuntv is offered for sale on ac count of sickness of the publisher. Apply, care of Alliance, Lincoln, to bakuaih Rubber beltln? at less than jobbers prices at. Maxwell. Sharps HossiJo. Lincoln, Neb. feend your orders for shot-guns to Maxwell, Sharp Ross Co., Lincoln, Neb. 3X00 tin fruit cans, made up, at Maxwell, Sharpe & ttoss Co., -. Lincoln, Neb. mm Letter to Uncle Sam , fcy Jacob Beck " '"'No. 5. Decatcr, Neb., July 4, 1890. Dear Uncle Sam: This is the Fourth of July and I have just returned from an Alliance celebration held in a beau tiful grove where young men and maid ens, matrons and men of : hardy hairs. lttle boys and girls were assembled. I was called on for a speech and what do you reckon 1 had to say? Well I will tell you : 1 tola them that Uncle Sam had four ways by which he obtained money. By borrowing it by taxing the people by selling or leasing some of his property, or by coining it and decreeing it money and declaring it a legal tender. I also told them that Uncle Sam had four ways of oputting money in circula tion: By loaning it by donating it to parties by purchasing property, and J Payin 11 out Iur ourvico or lauor. I argued that the general depression that prevails among farmers arose from ack of currency; ana proposed the lol owiug plan to get up a 'boom:" That instead of Uncle Sam loaning money to farmers on long time at low rate of interest upon approved security. that he buy lands of parties having them for sale. And then lease said amis to parties who wished to farm, and charge them not less than one nor more than three per cent per annum on the purchase price; not permitting any one to ever hold a lease for more than 60 acres f these lands at any one time of life.' Make it a law that the esseo shall be required to pay all taxes; and so long as he paid the taxes and the amount annually due the government ie could not be dispossessed of his uold- ng ... . . . To purchase these lands I advocated the issuing of legal tender paper money; the same as you issued at the com mencement of the late civil war. I argued that such a policy would put millions in circulation, and at the same time enable the poor to get a home by paying one per cent yearly on the gov- ernmenrs purcnase price; ana enable tell my audience that I had a farm worth live thousand dollars; that I would sell it to Uncle Sam for sixteen hundred dollars if he would lease me the same farm for one per cent per an num on what he paid for it; and I would agree to pay all taxes; and pay him annually nis one, two or three per cent. And that I would pay it in specie, so he would have the hard money to re deem the paper issued to purchase the arm. And 1 will further state that if Uncle Sam does not wish to issue green backs to purchase my farm, I will take a sixteen hundred dollar bond, having twenty or thirty years to run and draw ing three per cent non-taxable and in- erest paid in specie. Then you see I could either sell the bond at a premium, or chip in with others and start a national bank which you know is said to be "the best bank- . A . . 1 1 M mg system in me woria. I think the foregoing plan much bet ter for the government and for the peo pie than loaning money to the farmer ue pew and taking a mortgage on his farm. The government once owned all the ana ana It would be better for her to buy it all back and lease it to the occu pants at such rates as they can pay. Such a policy would result in a com plete overthrow of land monopoly the system of landlord and tenant would soon perish, and along with it other monopolies would totter to their fall. Of course my improved homestead scheme came in for a share of my atten tion. 1 invited the audience to ask me questions concerning any theories, but no questions were asked. I spoke for 40 minutes, the day was pleasant, .we had cakes, pies, turkey, chicken, music and mirth in abundance. Yours as ever, Jacob Beck. Stirring Letter From a Lady of Otoe County, Syracuse, July 9th, 1890. H.DITOR FARMERS' ALLIANCE: 1 am not a member of the Farmers' Alliance, but am in full fellowship in their prin ciples, which seem to inspire all minds TM V .il. .1 1 I I . 1 Ml'! aiiKe, uoin uie icarneu anu me illiter ate. This movement seems heaven-born. and every mind ready to co-operate and form what is called the Farmers' Alli ance. I am a subscriber to vour most excel lent paper, which should lind its way in every family. I he learned andunlearn- ed all apreciate it as sneaking their senti- ments. and welcome it with iov in their homes. All eves read, all ears near. .... . ..' and and the intellect recieves stimulating encouraging all with energy and zeal, unabating in interest. Onward is the cry to all who respond v a -a . loucier is tne can and farther it is heard, gathering in the fold as if by magic, by the thousand?, extending from Maine to California united in ef forts, shall accomplish that for which all are seeking and belongs to them by right. What an army against monopo lists, capitalist and millionaires. Capi tal is strong but cannot fight without men. Will they see the cloud rising and spreading as if to envelop the whole na tion, and through thatfear, remove their ill-gotten wealth to a place of of safety! Do they see the government seized and manned by honest officials where cor ruption has so long reigned? Do they see the bright star arising, following this ever-spreading cloud, neither of which will ever turn backward in their course, but onward and onward the . . . - . tnklrtirntii a r f hAii the cloud marches until the whole na tion is enveloped and purified, driving out corrupt officials and the government reorganized and honest men in the places once occupied by selfish, greedy millionaires anu lawyers, lniricuinir and decieving, making laws that will fill their own pockets at the expense of the millions ol farmers who have been working early and late to pay off the mortgage on the farm, only to find that all the profits must go to these monopo lists, leaving them worse off each suc ceeding year. And then to crown the whole the farm must go too, and follow the profits that have gone before. All gone. Families scattered; ruin and desolation scattered on every hand. Never will these millions of ruined men turn backward but "onward!" will be the cry "for justice, for freedom, for an equal chance, for honest legislation, where . laws shall be made to benefit all the people, and not for the few whose prayer seems to be "Bless me and my wife. Brother John and his wife We four and no more. Amen." I nnd in settling up the estate of my husband, who died one year ago, many whose prayer might be similar to the above. I should like to become a member of the Alliance. I have 220 acres of land adjoining Syracuse which would put bv help. Whether I am admitted or not ray best efforts will be put fourth to ad vance the cause of the Alliance whose principles I am in sympathy with. I cannot vote but can iniluence others, perhaps, to vote the Alliance ticket. . Respectfully, Mrs. C. Davenport. Send your orders for tin fruit cans to. Maxwell, Sharps & Boss Co., Lincoln, Neb. mnt in thA fQrmor rio aa a rwl olivtl-tiQ I membership, I should suppose, as I have seaiencea to the su iwnt nn it a.i if k,t i,;-i of forty years, and -l UU-a. Vll IU1U llU I 1 . 17. C. T. U. COLUMN. Edited by Mrs. 8. C. O. Urros, of 2130 U Street, Lincoln, Neb., of the Nebraska Worn t an'a Christian Temperance Union. The editor of Tna AlliakC $1aoea the re sponsibility of this column In the care of the above editor. Temperance Boy and Girls are We. ' - Real temp'rance boys and girls are we. In sunny youth from care we're free. , . . And Join we now In "Bands of Hope," Against an evil power to cope.' . , ,- We knew that e'en the smallest thing . Can do souie good, or comfort Iwiiitr, And so will we In earnest strive, fi . From all our land this curse to drive! Chorus: w. . . f Temp'rance boys and girls are we ! Temp'rance boys, , , , , , Temp'rance glils, '4, v ( Temp'rance boys and girls ttre we, Always true wo mean to be t. No drink we use, tut water pure, And have few aches or pain 4 to curet Good health is ours, and prospects bright; Our heads are clear, our hearts are light. But then to keep these blessings all. We ne'er must heed the tempter's call. But from "strong drink" muit furn away Nor from the path of virtue stray 1 ' What If the way Is sometimes rough V We're doing right and that's enough To cheer our hearts from mom tHI night. As long as In this cause we lighten . We'll clasp each other by the band. And pledge the honor pf our band,. That true and faithful we will be Till all our laud from "Hum" Is free t Labor's Burdens Lightened. From "Prize Essay" by Geo. W. Mott. With the disappearance of more thari 200,000 would also gradually, ' disapcar the wiuiu uu I'auinu iKin . wmcu are their legitimate .offsprinff. As labor pays every dollar ol the cost to society of this olfsprine. the millions now thus wasteu would be latwr gain. POLITICAL OBSTACLES 1ISAHKAU. More than 200,000 saloon centers of political corruption" would be swept away. Tho vot ing elements which, debased by drink, gather at the centers to exchange their votes for drink, or money, or both would gradually disappear from society. In our land and among our race rum and bribery generally go together. As a rule, nothincr short of drink can , tren erate the debasement and poverty that drive its victim to sell his birthright. Show rum the door and briberv will soon follow. Restored to soberness, with abundance of work and rood wages, most of the class would again become valuable members of society, and the political friend instead of the political enemy of labor. A J il 1 f Again, iae nquor iramc Doing abol ished, the power of the liquor traffic may bo counted out of the case. With out the revenues which they draw from iauor s pocKeis ineir power woum van . . nt u .''. . .. "lu no lon,r 06 faIoon domination, nor even a saloon factor. in politics. Many of the monopolies would still remain, but their political power would be broken. Intimidation and bribery would be no longer easy of accomplish ment. Tho wide demand for his labor would make the wageworker feel too independent and fearless to be easily intimidated; and without the saloon(to operate frem, and its debauched vic tims to operate upon, btit little couhl be accomplished by bribery at the polls. It may be attempted, as now, in tho balls ol legislation, but it must be re membered that when national prohibi bition comes the majority of our legis lators will bp men of a higher type than we have at present, and will re resent a public moral sentiment purer and loftier than it is today a sentiment tnat will no longer tolerate the liquor traffic, and will therefore no loncrer tol erate its vile fruits. Prayer. ; .. The foundations of this eovernment were laid with prayer. The constitu tion got its very breath in Ihe air of faith. In every crisis of our affairs it has been the sense of divine help that has put wisdom into tho brains of statesmen and courage Into the hearts soldiers, wasbincrton praved ramidst his freezing army at Yajley Forge. Franklin prayed, free thinker as ho was, in the confusion and despair of tne constitutional convention. Lin- Poln prayed in the carnage at Chancel- I In n .1 I IL. ! . .1 I - luw wcwrHja. oi me wuuerness. uive us, straight on, rev erence for God, obedience, ttf his laws, and respect for his ordinances; and all the other evils which sometimes till us with consternation as we eye their iu- 1-Tfl 1 . .T" creasing magnitude, will, .fade away. The gross materialism of the hour, the nerce greed lor oiiice; the corruptian of the ballot, the evils of unchecked immi gration, of intemperance. of ignorant suffrage, of Mormonism tLese, one and all, would disappear in the dissolv ing light of a faith which can bring men under the power of supernatural sane tions, thus restraining the: violence of the masses and the selfish indulgences oi me inuiviuuai. jr. Spauldina. t Make it an Outlaw. Make the liquor traffic an outlaw and capitalists will grow extremely cautious ni, inf f.,.ia ; .1 .i... I a u ,U W B.UUU . I I . luture. Make it an outlaw and the courts can ' give it no protection. Make it an outlaw and it can ho longer do a credit business.- I Make it an outlaw and'no dpwnt bank will loan funds to it or decent insurance company insure i, A Sad Case. Years ago Charley- -was a bright, promising ooy, engaged at work in me glass factory here, where-he con tinued for eight successive years. Due nigm ne was out late with a young companion. They went into a saloon. While there a drunken woman entered and stated that she did not know the way home on Sixth street. These two boys were asked by the saloonkeeper to see the woman home. They started with her, and but a few steps from the saloon another man came tip and offer ed to. escort the lady home. She was so willing to go with him that the young men supposed him to be her friend, and at once left her In his care. This man (?) after going alout two blocks with her, committed an out rageous assault upon her, for which he and the other two were arrested. At tbe trial which followed the man otter ed no defense, virtually acknowledging his guilt. He also stated that the two young men were innocent. Charley had no money to pay counsel, and was convicted as an accessory, lie wa ite prison for a term the actual criminal for fifty. The man has long ago lieen pardoned, while Charley remains at San Quentin, an innocent convict, and will there have to stay for some thirty years longer unless some state officer will prove himself a human tarian, will ing to do something for the sake of justice and right without reference to boodle. Poor Charley! Foriy years at hard labor for being in bad company one ulgbX.-CalifQTnia Voict.