THE PAKMiRS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN,
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
President. H. JL Louclrs, Dakota.
Vice-President. John H. Powers. Nebraska.
.Secretary, August Post, Moalton, Ipwa.
Treasu rer, J. J. Fu r!on, M i i n nesota.
Lecturer. N. B. Ashby, Des Moines, Iowa.
NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE.
President, John H. powers, Cornell.
Vice President, Valentino Horn. Aurora.
fUscretarv-Treaaurer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln.
Lecturer W. F. Wrlgrht, Johnson county.
AbrL lecturer, Loiran McKeynolds, Fairfield.
Chaplain, Rev! JJJ. Edwards, Wahoo.
Doorkeeper, D. W. Uiirr Clay county.
Asst. door keeper, G. C. Lnderhill Unadilla.
eargeant-at-arras, J. Blllingsly, Shelton.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
J Burrows, chairman: B. F. Allen, "Wabash;
j! W. WilJiamB, Filley; Albert DIckerson,
Litchfield; Frank H. Younsr, Custer.
Post Orrics at Lincoln, Neb., June 18, 1889.
I hereby certify that The Alliance, a week
ly newspaper published at this place, has been
determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas
ter General to be a publication entitled to
admission in the malls at the pound rate or
postage, and entry of it as such is accordingly
made upon the books of this office, valid
while the character of the publication re
mains unchanged. Albert Watkins,
Postmaster.
tEW SILVER LAW.
STALKING-HORSE WITH GOLD
BUGS BEHIND IT.
Silver Again Demonetized Provision for
Renewed Contraction of the Currency
Subject to Discretion" of the Secre
tary of the Treasury Renewal of the
jugglery of ' Swapping Dollars" to
Promote Gqld Gamblers Profits.
The following is the full text of the
recently enacted silver law:
Section 1. That the secretary of the
treasury is hereby directed to purchase
from time to time silver bullion to the
aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces,
or so much thereof as may be offered
in each month, at the market price
' thereof, not exceeding $1 for 371 25-100
grains of pure silver, and to issue in
payment for such purchases of silver
bullion treasury notes of the United
States to be prepared by the secretrarv
of the treasury in such form and in such
denominations, not less " than $1 nor
more than $1,000, as he may prescribe,
and a sum sufficient to carry into effect
the provisions of this act is hereby ap
propriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. That the treasury notes issued
in accordance with the provisions of
this act shall be redeemable on demand
in coin at the treasury of the United
States or at the office of any assistant
treasurer of the United States, and
when so redeemed may be reissued, but
no greater or lej,s amount of such notes
shall be outstanding at any time than
the. cost of the silver bullion and the
standard silver dollars coined therefrom
then held in the treasury purchased by
such notes; and such treasury notes
shall be a legal tender in payment of all
debts, public and private, except where
otherwise expressly stipulated in the
contract, and shall be receivable for cus
toms, taxes, and all public dues, and
when so received may be reissued; and
such notes when held by any national
banking association may be counted as
a part of its lawful reserve. That upon
demand of the holder of any of the
treasury notes herein provided for the
secretary of the treasury shall, under
such regulations as he may prescribe,
redeem such notes in gold or silver
coinage at his discretion, it being the
established policy of the United States
to maintain the two metals on a parity
with each other upon the present legal
ratio, or such ratio as may be provided
by law.
Sec. 3. That the secretary of the treas
ury shall each month coin 2,000,000
ounces of the silver bullion purchased
under the provisions of this act into
standard silver dollars until tae first
day of July, 1891, and after that time
he shall coin or tne silver Duinon pur
chased under the provisions of this act
as much as may be necessary to provide
for the redemption of the treasury notes
herein provided for, and any gain or
seionorage arising from such coinage
shall be accounted for and paid into the
treasury.
Sec. 4. That the silver bullion pur
chased under the provisions of this act
shall be subject to the requirements of
existing law and regulations of the mint
service governing the methods of deter
mining the amount of pure silver
contained and the amount of charges
and deduction, if any, to be made.
Sec. 5. That so much of the act of
Feb. 28, 1878, entitled 'An act to author
ize the coinage of the standard silver
dollar and restore its legal tender char
acter.'as requires the monthly purchase
and coinage of the same into silver dol
lars of not less than $2,000,000 nor more
than $4,000,000 worth of silver is hereby
repealed. '
Sec. 6. That upon the passage of this
act the balance standing with the treas
urer of the United States to the respect
ive credits of national banks for de
posits made to redeem the circulating
notes of such banks and all deposits
thereafter received for like purposes
shall be covered into the treasury as a
miscellaneous receipt, and the treasurer
of the United States shall redeem from
the general cash in the treasury
the circulating notes of said banks
which may come into his possession
subject to redemption, and upon the
certificate of the controller of the cur
rency that such notes iave been receiv
ed by him and that they have been des
troyed, and that no new ones will be
issued in their place, reimbursement of
their amount shall be made to the
treasurer under such regulations as the
secretary of the treasury may prescribe
from an appropriation known as the
"National bank notes redemption ac
count," but the provisions of this act
shall, not apply to the deposits received
under Sec. 3 of the act of June 20, 1874
requiring every national bank to keep
in lawful money with the treasurer of
the United States a sum equal to 5 per
centum of its circulation, to be held
and used for the redemption of its cir
culating notes, and the balance rpinnin.
ing of the deposits so covered shall, at
the close of each month, be reported on
the monthly public debt statement as
debt of the United States, bearing no
interest.
Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect
thirty days from and after its passage."
As will be seen, the law destroys the
"parity between gold and silver" at the
outset, by placing the purchases of the
latter subject to market fluctuations
while assuming gold as the standard of
valuation. It does this notwithstanding
the hypocritical parade in the second
section that it is "the established policy
oi tne u niteu oiates to maintain the
two metals upon a paritv with p:irh
other upon the present legal ratio or
such ratio as may be provided by law."
While falsely pretending to maintain
a parity, the bill beerins bv treating sil
ver as a fluctuating commodity subject
to manipulations of gamblers, and
measured by another metal which has
the exclusive protection of 1
silver bullion commodity may be at any
time especially degraded bv law. since
provision is made for "such legal ratio
as may be Tin future! nrovirlArl
Had th law treated silver now, the
aauie ii ma up to j? e Dreary 12th,
1873, and as gold has since been treated)
each quantity of 371 1-4 grains of pure
silver brought to the secretary would
be paid for in $1 of any lawful money
which might be chosen by the seller of
the silver. It would thereupon have
ceased to be a speculative commodity
at the treasury or mint.
Against this warehouse load of silver
bullion made variable in value by a
carefully contrived provision of' law,
the secretary is to issue in payment,
treasury notes redeemable on demand
in coin at the treasury, such notes to be
a legal tender in payment of all debts,
public and private, except where stipula
ted in the contract.
The one redeeming feature of the
whole act, is the issue of additional legal
tender paper, which is available in a
larger scope of uses than the greenback.
Such certificates thus made receivable
for all uses in the hands of private citi
zens except where such citizens are
foolish enough to have made a contract
to pay a debt in a specified kind of
money or commodity it is more than
absurd to suppose that such certificate
will ever be presented for exchange in
coin or bullion, to be used by citizens,
who are not money dealers, in domestic
transactions.
The most contemptible features of the
whole act, are those suggesting special
contracts for payments in special kinds
of money, and leaving it to the "discre
tion" of the secretary to make discrimi
nation in favor of payments of either
metal he may choose, according to secret
arrangement with holders and specula
tors. Payment of bonds at premium or
at their face value is now left to his
discretion, and his discretion dictates him
to give a premium as free gifts of 4 to
27 per cent, on the face of the bonds.
Nothing but a voluntary and absolute
refusal of citizens to either present cer
tificates for coin, or to make special
contracts for coin when borrowing, will
prevent the most villainous conspiracies
between the secretary and private hold
ers of gold and silver.
The law reiterates the plan to change
at any time the valuation of silver bul
lion as estimated in comparison to gold
It sustains gold by act of congress, and
degrades silver by act of congress. After
July 1st, 1891, only so much silver is to
be coined as is demanded for redeeming
certificates. No provision is made for
the certificates now outstanding
legal tender, nor for making the future I
Coinage OI snvei uuuaia icjjai
Let the following principles be re
membered: No money is legal tender
unless declared so by law. This law
does not ' declare the new coinage, if
any, after July 1st, 1891, a legal tender,
hence all future coinage of silver is de
monetized. Of course, under the misty
verbiage of the law, this point will be
disputed, and enough argument can be
manufactured out ot the dispute to keep
the two old parties in a quarrel from
this time till after the election of 1892.
When coinage of the standard silver
dollar was suspended in 1873, it was
simply done by omitting to provide for its
further coinage. No direct prohibition
was enacted.
The act of 1973 did not, as is generally
supposed, demonetize silver already
coined. The final blow was struck in
1874, by injecting into the revised stat
utes a clause employing words as fol
lows: 4 ' The silver coins of the United States
shall be a legal tender, at their nominal
value, for any amount not exceeding $5
in any one payment" The revised
statutes were adopted as a whole by this
act, including the above quoted words
interpolated, hence as so amended be
came the law of the land. By the pre
vious act of 1873 the dollar had ceased
to be "a silver coin of the United
States," hence by simple omission to
provide for it, that coin was no longer
lawful money.
In the present law so much of the act
of 1878 as authorized the purchase of
bullion and the coinage of the dollars
now in circulation is repealed. Allow
ing for argument that the old dollars
now in use will retain their legal tender
quality, the new dollar to be coined, if
any are coined, after July 1st, 1891, cer
tainly will not be, for lack of law to
make it so. Hence a new demonetiza
tion law is again on our statute books.
Again: The new legal tender certifi
cates are redeemable in gold or silver
coin without resort to new coinage so
ongas old coins remain in or come into
the treasury in sufficient quantity to
meet demands for redemption. Any
quantity of the present old certificates
may be presented for redemption in the
coins upon which they were originally
issued. Certificates may be taken in
and burned up. Coins instead go into
the channels of trade and through the
revenues into the treasury again. Money
dealers in the secret may present the
new legal tender bullion certificates and
they are redeemed in the old time coins.
The secretary may reissue the certificates
but is not compelled to do so beyond
the cost of the bullion lying idle. The
currency of the country would thus be
contracted by the difference between
the face of the old certificates burned
and the cost of the bullion on a de
pressed market. A stringency may
at any time be inflicted upon the
country, through the operations of this
much vaunted Taw, passed ostensibly to
relieve the dearth of circulating medium.
Great are the possibilities and proba
bilities of a redemption system; a sys
tem of machinations to befog the popu
lar mind and to deplete ihe popular
pocket; a system to enrich professional
money dealers, ana under this law a
system to make the highest financial
officer of the government a partner in
crime writn conspirators against the
public welfare. Chicago Express.
Defend Your Sacred Rights.
Tho richt to vote in annordnnoA -with
thp dictates of his own best innVmpnh
is the most important privilege that can
be exercised oy a ireeman, and without
the unconstrained exercise of this duty
there can be no freedom, no personal
liberty; and that man who is made to
i i . i. :n c xi i i
vote uy iub wiu oi auouie, uaa lost ma
dearest birthright, and is essentially a
siave.
This important right is not sufficiently
guarded in any state of the Union, and
the prevailing habit of legislation
throughout our land, is to add strength
to hands that are already strong, and to
consider tne mass oi tne people as men
dicants, entitled to nothing, but to whom
it may be expedient to throw out a scrap
of comfort in the shape of some act of
sounding import, but which can be
a 1 . -m
noming more man a partial relief from
some of the more prominent and too
often scandalous abuses of snpoinl 1p (re
lation.
The law does not sufficientlv nrntpct
a poor man in casting a vote, in any
state of this Union.
The law-makers are for the most part
rich men or the tools of rich men, and
they will not legislate for the poor, or
for those whose influence can promise
neither wealth nor distinction.
Their only care for the poor man's
rights is to abridge them. Now then,
what is the last and onlv rpmrifidv whifh
the poor man has against this universal
wrong?
It is in the ballot-box alone, "that
wooden sceptre of the sovereignty of
the people'! it is in the right to vote
for principle and for the candidate of
his choice, for the man he respects, and
to whom he is willing to confide his
aearest interests. But the man who
noma nis note of hand for money that
he is now unable to pay; the man who
owns the house which shelters his fami
ly, or the man upon whose breath he is
dependent ior mat employment wnicn
gives bread and butter to his wife and
! 1 .1 J . 1 H
cnnureii, sianus over tne pons m per
son, or by a base and mercenary whipper-in,
and he is made to vote as these
masters bid.
Is not this the perfection of slavery?
Is not this a condition more debased,
more truly and thoroughly degraded
than was that of the black man whose
weight in the ballot-box used to be
counted without the wretched mockery
of dragging the unwilling carcass to the
polls? The poor slave took his scourg
ing in an out-house, or far removed
from the sight of men; it is the lineal
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers,
who are led up in scores, to the polls,
and under the broad gaze of all who
wish to see, forswear their freedom,
and obey their political, task-masters at
the crack of the whip.
Must it be so? Must we continue in
this debasing servitude? Can there be
no remedy found? ,
None none whatever but to do our
duty manfully at the polls.
Whilst the enemies of the people com
mand and control the votes of the peo
ple, there can be no hope.
We enjoin it, therefore, upon every
man who is entitled to a vote, to put
in at all hazards, whenever his duty
may require it, a free and unbiased
vote.
If any man presumes to oversee, to
dictate or to threaten, fell the scoundrel
to the earth at once. Then deposit your
votejmd submit in the spirit of a mar
tyr to whatever penalty the law may
inflict. ,
Self-detence is always justifiable. Can
there be an occasion presented to a man
in the occurrences of a whole life,
where self-defense is more indispensable
than on this occasion? A man slaps
your cheek, or spits in your face, and
no one possessing the ordinary spirit of
a man will condemn you for inflicting a
prompt and severe chastisement. But
here is a man, if such a wretch deserves
the name of man, who invites you to
become a traitor, who insults you by
the grossest of all intimations, that you
are base and cowardly enough to sell
your birthright, that you are contempts J
ble enough through mercenary consid
erations, to abandon the last hope and
stay of freedom.
The law affords you no protection
against his insolence, and no reforma
tion of the abuse need be hoped for
while the offenders go unpunished.
If a resort to physical force may ever
be defended, and if such resort may be
justified in one exigency alone under
our professedly free institutions, does
not this case present that one exigency?
Let the workingmen and farmers,
let all laboring and all poor men reflect
well on this subject; let them unite to
support each other, if need be in the
most desperate efforts to preserve this
right, the palladium of their liberty,
free and unrestrained. is the most
sacred of all their duties. Let them be
assured that a few wholesome examples
in our great cities, wrould forever abate
the wicked and unsupportable nuisance
of waylaying and harassing honest vot
ers by pimps of ill-gotten wealth, and
basely abused power.
, Is there a true-hearted American who
will object to such a resort to the arm
of flesh? Is there a Christian who can?
If so we refer them to the greatest and
best exampler:
"And the Jewish- passover was at
hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem
and found in the temple those who
sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of the money sitting; and
when he had made a scourge of small
cords, he drove them all out of the tem
ple, the sheep and the oxen, and pour
ed out the changers' money and over
threw their tables."
SOCIETY NOTES.
Compiled by the N. Y. Standard.
The social novelties of Chicago are
full of originality and imagination; bnt
nothing of the earlier days ever equal
ed the latest invention of interc
ceanic genius. This is described by our
learned and brilliant contemporary, the
Chicago Herald, as the padlock garter.
It is made of blue silk, and is fastened
with a jeweled padtock buckle, and it
is understood that the most beautiful
and original belles of the windy city
wear it as an amulet, a charm, an
appendage which brings good luck for
ever, and secures the fulfillment of
every gentle wish. New York Sun.
Isolated cases of starvation and mis
ery ran always be found in such great
cities as London and Paris, and some
times New York, but it seldom happens
that, even under the ! worst conditions,
hundreds of men, women and children
can be found actually starving for want
of nourishing food, while thousands
more are living on a mere pittance, in
sufficient to satisfy the cravings of hun-
fer, but in this, the richest city in the
emisphere, any reader of the Tribune
can in a few minutes' Avalk from Broad
way find and see just such people for
himself. It is on the east side, in the
tenement houses of Essex, Orchard, Nor
folk, Suffolk, Ludlow and Sheriff streets,
in the homes of the strikinsr' cloak mak
ers, that misery, sickness, hunger and
want reign. In this quarter there can.
be met on every block women who are
not yet twenty-live years old who are
haggard and gray, and out of whose
eyes has long'departed all hope of a miti
gation of their misery. Yew York Tri
bune.
Dr. William C. Woolson of Buffalo,
who of late has been staying with his
nnfnntn Hf. . A 1f 1 1 11 1 TIT I
jaicui; iiii. auu. A3l l a . VT xxLLiXlxx V UU 1-
son of Niagara Falls, committed suicide
a- Ka,xix xix iuo ui 1 1 UU15UU a SLU1C
on Niagara street, about 5 o'clock this
afternoon by cutting a deep gash with
a large razor in his throat, reaching al
most from ear to ear. The inmates of
the house hearing a scream, rushed to
the barn to find the man lying on the
floor in a tool of blood. "When found
he was not quite dead, and was carried
a At a -a .
into tne nouse and medical aid sum
moned. The physicians' work was
is life was a constant struggle against
auverse iate. xoung, ambitious, ener
getic, anxious to improve his condition,
to give his children a better chance, he
over-taxed his strength working nights
in the telegraph office and attending
medical lectures days. Buffalo Courier.
Gould's income is $7,44G a day, Van
derbilt's, $15,249; Rockefeller's, $18,715,
and William W. Astor's $23,593, includ
ing Sunday. Louis Republic.
The cloak manufacturers are starving
out a strike. Prospective tariff on
cloaks, $62.58 on every $100 worth. St.
Louis Republic.
Earrings are not worn very much,
although becoming to gaunt faces.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Crop Reports.
Saline Co., Crete Neb., July 23d.
In regard to crops I would say, oats
are light, so is all small grain, in fact.
Corn a week ago was curling badly, but
we have, had several good rains in the
last week and now it is growing finely,
and is beginning to tasseU.
C Alley..
3
A. JJ GUSTIN'S COMPLIMEN-l
J. D. CALHOUN.
"Good Business Men " and Rl
Robbery.
Kearney. Neb July 21.
Editor Alliance: Some friei
wishes my bump of conceit shoi
swell to abnormal size sends me,
ping from the Herald, and sa
from the astute pen of big he;
D. Calhoun, of Lincoln, as folL
"Some anti-monoD peODle
porting the nomination of A. J
ior auaitor on tne ground tt
against the railroads. That is
far as it dtwvq Vint there are otl
: , it mi
uuauous needed as weii, x m
ought to be a well qualified
man, wnich Mr. Gustm is noi
one-sided miss who looks at
tnrougn green spectacles."
If I am correctly informed
thorship of the above, such,
from the Burbon pen of my
houn will act as a bond of S
which feelings of common
may be transmitted from
mugwump and stalwart
ganists, ana help heal ei
caused by the late unpl
the south over the black
1 confess to being an
business man, and a " oi
but from all I can learn tl
kind of people needed in
now, and if I mistake noi
of them will be found in
in November
Attorney General Lees
of the railroads at his til
but as soon as they fou
vor of letting the peopl
this state he became an
torney, and I have he
from the railroad capp
lawyer he was.
Judge Reese was nd
lawyer, and was a " cl
and that was why irn itv
the railroads and beateni
convention by his Burtl
railroad friends. 1
Hon. Chas. Hall is a " oi
and did - not set the n
Lincoln in his ward. Ma'
the Lincoln people who
the " white trash " of the
white slave driving oi
roads, can - answer in
Hall is a poor busines
freight rate bill.
l am a " one-sided i
refused to buy goods :
and proht on to my
the railroads rob be
myself.
The Hon. J. D. Cl
qualified business manl
prostituting the sheet
Democrat on the 29th of
the railroad interests by
bled report of the procet
tail before the state board
tation of the day before,
been looking through gold1
ever since. -
He concluded that he had
to run a Burbon paper long eno
a non reading democratic publw
in order to fully develop his well
fled business principles he allowed
self to be " worked" by the railroa
and betrayed so far as he could his
and people, that was at that time ml
ing a light for its life as a jobbing
ter; fought for by such illy quali
business men as l was at a pers
cost. .
A "well qualified" business
would not bring suit for 19 cents aga
. I 1 . . V J
a corporation, anu njrnc it 10 int
preme court, but a " one-sided
like lam would. :
I paid over-charges of $6.6C
first shipment of harness hames
to Lincoln. 1 kicked, and the
manly agent of the U. P. Ry., hit
ed Dick Miller said, "pay it anc
a claim and you will get it bf
did so, and that claim is not pai
I am looking through "gree
tacies, and l will see that a
of the people of the state of
have a pair just like mine, if Ij
furnish the green glass at my
and walk to every precinct in
1 A 1 X A A A . 1 j
anu uhj west to he mem on.
Life is too short to waste
every flea that bites at me f roi
railroad doer. I am after tl
most cases but this is an excf
To be a well qualified busi
west of the Missouri, one
black white if a spot of that
found on a capper for corpoi
and the man who sees greei
i i i; i i - . j i
uoioi uiiuu anu one siueu.
m tne scnooi oi their et
qualified business man ad
over-charge on merchandi
or less, to tne cost, and
not from the railroads t
chump customers, who!
hands in the robbing deal
of the farmer and cor
principle of the devil
most.
A well qualified man
one who rides over the
rections to his political
passes that cost the r
lion dollars each year.j
He ind his colleagij
sand dollars a mile Itii
rate ten thousand do!
ished by Nebraska pe
and "well qualified'!
Lincoln is favored witl
aided by "well qualifil
look through crystal,
tacies, make producer
pay 6 percent on $40, 0C
from the $1,000 these d)
builders bring in, and. I
commerce commission
to bring that result.
I do not have to
ever I am I will use th
el to measure to the rs
have used to Nebraska
The railroads must
Nation, and transpor
on the postal system
tance, -and I will sec
and stalwart friends!
What the Fore
New York
On the first page
be found a desenpt
elections bill, the
accurate, we belies
made. This simp
measure is its sur
We ask for it the
people.
If this bill shci
republican pt
Quay and Dudr
tional commit
election at wr
is voted for.
deputy marr
swarm in ey
would have
to-house vi1
people, toy
sens, to tt
to keep tl
tion vrrt S
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