THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY', SEPT. 13, 1890.
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4. EL Thompson, Business Manager.
In the beauty mt 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.
M He who cannot reason is a fool,
He who will not reason is a coward,
He who dare not reason is a slave."
EDITORIAL. 7
Independent State Ticket.
Governor,
JOHN H. POWERS, of Hitohoock
Lieutenant Governor,
WM. H. DECH, of Saunders.
Secretary of State,
C. If. MAYBBRRY, of Pawnee.
State Treasurer,
J. V. WOLFE, of Lancaster.
Attorney General,
J. W. EDGERTON, of Dougrlaa.
Auditor,
JOHN BATIE, of Wheeler.
Oonmlsaloner of Public Lands and Buildlngi.
W. F. WftlGHT, of Nemaha.
Buperlntendeni of Public Instruction,
PROF. A. D'ALLEMAND.of Furnas.
Tor Congress First Concessional District.
Hon. Allen Root. Doug-las.
Congress Second Congressional District.
W. A. McKEIGHAN, of Webster.
CongTess Third Cong-reewional District
CAPT. O. M. KEM. of Custer.
Lancaster County Independent Ticket.
State Senators.
J. M. THOMPSON.
JAS. G.TAYLOR.
Bepresentat i ves ,
ELI AS BAKER.
W. S. DRM AKEE.
I. F, DALE.
J. F. EGGER.
ROBT. MCALLISTER.
Commissioners.
L. S. GILLICK.
AUGUST ANDERSON.
D. A. STOCKING.
County Attorney.
N. Z. SNELL.
"REPUBLICANS ALIVE.
In the State Journal of Sept. 5,. is an
article of nearly a column and a half
under the above caption. It is first an
arraignment of the leaders of the peo
ple's movement, and, second, an at
tempted vindication ot the past, pres
ent and, by implication, future of the
republican party, from the stand-point
of editor Gere.
Passing by all flings against the men
whom the Journal assumes to be lead
ers in the reform movement, we quote:
Now, who constitute the republican party
of the country? Who are the leadere? There
are the same gentlemen who in congress and
other places of public trust Mloted he ship
of state through the breaker of W51-&5 and
were found worthy of their exalted trusts.
Such are Blaine, Edmunds, Morrill, Sherman,
Washburn, Hamlin, Hale, Hoar, Davies,
Cullom, AlliPon, Wilson, Evarts, Stewart,
Stanford. Padlock, Sawver, Rusk and hun
dreds of others who were prominent in the
early history of the party and assisted in na
tional and etnte councils in holding the gov
ernment top-ether through the trials and dis
asters of the civil war.
The there is the great host of brilliant sol
diers who fought at the heads of,divisions,
brigades, regiments and companies or in the
humbler place of the private through the
four years of desperate struggle, and' made
for themselves an imperishable record for
vatriotism and courage. Such men as Haw
ley, Boutelle, Ingalls, Plumb. Thayer, Mor
row, Manderson, Henderson, Foraker, Quay,
Davis, Spooner. Fifer. Laws, and thousands
of others who lead the republican cohorts to-
ay wero a quarter of a ceDtury ago receiv.
ing their honorable discharge from the army
that saved the country, and going home to
assist in building up the country bo badlr
wrecked Inthe war tor the preservation of
ine union.
The Journal then asks:
What is there inthe records of these men
who have something to show in return for
ine aonors they have been politically awai ti
ed them, that entitle them to the abuse and
cantumely of the "farmers" and " laborers "
or Nebraska?
The quotations and questions offer
considerable food for reflection. First,
there is no independent, nor no farmer
or laborer, who impeaches the efforts
or record of any statesman or soldier
who honestly exerted himself to save
the union in 1861-5. On the contrary
the proud boast of nearly all the inde
pendents is that they too helped make
the history of those years that they
too had part in the weary marches and
helped win the bloody fields that make
up the record of those glorious days
We have heard no man impeach the
early record of the republican party
When the issue was union or disunion
ihe republican party stood for union
When the issue came to be slavery or
freedom the republican party stood for
freedom. The writer of this was then
a republican soldier, and is proud of
the humble record he will leave to his
children and children's children.
But the day came when the country
was again in the paths of peace, and
when measures that would build up a
free and prosperous people or establish
an aristocracy and an oligarchy in this
country were under consideration
Then it was that not only the republi
can party, but nearly every one, of the
gentlemen whom the Journal , has
named, took the wrong path. The day
came when the welfare and even the
liberties of the great plain people, ; the
working men and women of the nation
were poised in ' the balance with the
greed of "bankers and , bondholders, the
ambition for empire of r the represen
tatives of corporations, the interests o
millionaires. Then it was that the re
publican party; and nearly every man
of the distinguished list named by the
Journal took the side of wealth land
. aristocracy and the grasping corpora
tions, instead of the great plain work
ing people. This is the impeachment
made to-day against the party and its
eaders. . .
Is this impeachment a just one ? Up
on the truthful answer to that question
the independent leaders are willing to
stand or fall.
Let an empire of land a people's in
heritance to make free homes for free
men for generatioa after generation
squandered upon corporations, an
swer ...
Let a robber system of banking by
which a favored class is given a sover
eign power to issue money, and the
people mulcted in double interest over
topped with usury, answer.
Let seven thousand millions of water
ed stocks and bonds drawing four per
cent annual interest, every dollar oi
which is a theft, answer.
Let a change of the measure of val
ue in the interest of bondholders by
which the people were robbed of a
thousand million of dollars, answer.
Let the transfer of the wealth of the ;
nation from the hands of all the people
to a small fraction of them in the course
of twenty years, answer-
Let a senate of plutocrats, four out of
five of whom have bought their seats
through a corrupted franchise from a
degraded people, answer.
Let a public debt, diminished in nomi
nal value it is true, but which it would
ake mors of labor and its products to
pay to-day than at the close of the war,
answer.
This long catigory of mu,tak5s and
crimes we lay at the door of the very
men whom the Journai parades before
its readers as the soldiers and states
men who are entitled to the highest
civic and military honors. Of, the glo
ries and honors of the war we would
not bate them one jot or tittle. Let
them "strip their sleeves tand show
their scars." "Old men forget; yet all
shall be forgot but we'll remember,
with advantages, the feats of bravery"
they did on many bloody fields. And
great, indeed their honors need to be to
atone for their aftertime blunders and
crimes. They did not destroy slavery
they only transferred it. They gave
nominal freedom to the black slaves
and practical slavery to the white la
borer. They gave personal liberty to
the million negroes, and put all the la
bor of the nation, white and black, in
shackles.
The Journal concludes:
Would such men as are now paraded before
the people of Nebraska as the "independent"
candidates, have answered the purpose in
the emergency that brought the republican
party and its great leaders 10 the frnt! Just
as surely as they would not have filled the
bill thtn, they cannot fill it now.
Well, would they not? They were
young men then, and filled the place
that fortune gave them in the conflict
honorably and well. Editor Gere did
not gain a maior-erenerars star, if we
remember, but went in and came out a
private. Is there any argument in that.
There were many able men in the
army who did not dnvelope there any
talent for either war or statesmanship.
The independent ticket has by far the
largest per cent of soldiers on it of any
that has been nominated.
In conclusion we will say to the Jour
nal that glorifying the memory of thirty
years ago does not butter .Nebraska
parsnips of 1890.
The election of men like McKeighan to con
gress from a great state like Nebraska would
oe a disgrace. Such men would be utterly
withoutinnuenceat Washington. Their char
acter and methods would be standing misrep
resentations of the intelligence and soirit of
our people. McKeighan is a noisy talker, but
he is lar trom bung a well-balanced and able J
man. To send him to congress as a man
typical of the Nebraska farmers would be to
perpetrate a gross libel on the best and
sturdiest element in our citizenship.
We clip the above from the Kearney
Enterprise. It is a fair sample of the
campaign that is being made by the old
party press. It was written by a little
whippersnaper named Smythe, who
hasn't the brains of a poppinjay. We
well remember the time when Abraham
Lincoln, the grandest man the country
has produced, and the only one who
deserves to rank with Washington, was
denounced as a boor, an ape, an ourang-
outang, who would be a laughing stock
in Washington, and a disgrace to the
country. All the old men who have a
distinct remembrance of the ante-bellum
days know this to be true.
Now of Mr. McKeighan. There are
not a dozen men of the present congress
who outrank him in intelligence and
ability. Nebraska has never sent a
member or a senator to Washington
who was his intellectual equal, though
she has sent several who had more
money. Mr. Paddock, Mr. Laws, Mr.
Connell, Mr. Dorsey are mere pigmies
by the side of him, and not one of them
would have any business in a discussion
with him. .
Such bosh as that above quoted will
have no effect upon men of sense and
judgment.
Let us add to the fool lie we have
quoted at the head of this article the
fool philosophy of Senator Ingalls:
The purification "of politics is an iridescent
dream. Government is force. Politics is a
battle for supremacy . Parties are the armies.
The decalogue and the golden rule have no
place in a political campaign. The object is
success. To defeat the antagonist and expel
the party in power is the purpose.
Two Pregnant Sentences.
Grant that the republican party of Nebras
ka has not in all things performed its duty to
the people. Yet what citizen does not feel
justly proud of the progress of the Btate and
of the high position it occupies among west
ern commonwealths?
The above is clipped from an article
in the Bee which breaths through every
line a spirit of apology for the record of
the republican party. If Nebraska oc
cupies a proud position among the
states it is in spite of the railroad crew
which has degraded her politics and
looted her people for, the past fifteen
years, and is entirely owing to the in
telligence and virtue . of her pioneer
farmers, who give the state character
abroad. i .
CAMPAIGN SONGS.
We have printed eight of Mrs. Kel
lie's songs on a sheet, which we will
send post-paid at 25 cents per hundred
or 15 cents for fifty sheets. These songs
are set to popular airs, and are just the
thing to sing at Alliance meetings and
picnics.
$ $ $ $
IN THIS
SIGN THEY
CONQUER.
HOPE TO
One Thousand Dollars a Day.
The Six Hundred "Lincoln Votes the Ring
Proposes to Buy.
We are informed that a prominent
member of the ring has said that there
were six hundred votes in Lincoln that
were for sale, and they proposed to buy
them. What have the.workingmen of
Lincoln to say to that? These votes are
supposed to be comprised in the peni
tentiary workers, the brickyard work
ers, railroad workers, railroad shopmen,
and the employes who are operating
the roads. There is no class of men
more interested, than these men in pure
government and in honest elections.
They are the men who pay the taxes.
They are the men who produce the
wealth. They are the men who feel
the first tide of prosperity in an in
creased demand and increased prices
for their labor. They are the men who
feel the first pressure of adversity in
diminished wages and lessened employ
ment. They are the men who are
the first to sae their wives and chil
dren deprived first of luxuries, then
of comforts, and then of necessities,
intimes of financial distress. They
are the men from whose ranks
tramps are recruited when enterprise
languishes and employment is dull.
Can the vile villains who absorb the
lion's share of the fruits of these men's
labor, treating them like beasts of bur
den without consciences and souls, buy
the only precious privilege as well as
safeguard they have left, their ballots,
after reducing them to a condition of
poverty which may make its sale a ne
c ssity. They will buy them if they
can they will buy them if they are sold.
Isn't this a fine commentary on Amer
ican institutions and on the free ballot
when villains who rule by their money
come out openly asd brag that they can
buy enough freemen for a song to con
trol the vote of Lancaster county?
We can show that this is no idle talk,
and that if the vote3 are to be sold there
is plenty of money to buy them.
Take the contractors of the peniten
tiary labor, for instance, This outfit
involves the republican ring of the
county and state. That it is rotten to
the core there is no manner of doubt.
One of the first duties of the next legis
lature will be to probe it to the bottom.
This penitentiary ring is making ONE
THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY clean
profit off from the labor of convicts. If
this money is to be made if this labor
is to be brought into competition with
honest labor the State should make
the money, and it should go into the
general treasury and lessen taxation,
instead of into the jeans of some Boss
Tweed. With one thousand dollars a
day, or three hundred thousand a year,
of course they can buy six hundred
votes, if they are for sale.
Let us look at the items of this one
thousand dollars a day. First, the board
of the convicts, at 40 cents a day,
amounts to $160. Sixty dollars of this
is profit.
Second, they are making 1,000 barrels
a day, which are sold at $1,250, and on
which the profit at a low estimate is
$800. This makes $860.
Third, are the harness-making and
implement establishments, which easily
make up the balance, or $140.
When men can secure public con
tracts by which they can coin money at
this rate is it any wonder that they es
tablish corruption funds to perpetuate
their power?'
But they will find that those six hun
dred votes are not for sale this year.
The Lon and the Short Haul.
The State Journal of the 6th publishes
a labored article and an elaborate table
of figures to prove that the railroads are
unjustly discriminating in favor of Ne
braska, and against Missouri; Iowa,
Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin and
Kansas, in the matter of through rates
from New York. The table, of figures
bears the unmistakable ear-marks of a
railroad attorney. It is indefinite, inas
much as it does not purport to be taken
from the actual schedules of any one
road. Showing no authentic source
from which the figures are taken, it of
course lacks authority. The diserimina
tion it shows in favor of Nebraska points
is in some cases quite large. The infer
ence the Journal wishes made is that
the roads have voluntarily given Ne
braska lower long rates than prevail in
those states which have tried to regu
late rates by by law. The World- Herald
pronounces the table an 'outrage,
which is probably the truth.
The only important feature of the
Journal's article is to be found in its en-
"1 i t t i . -a
aorsement oi ine policy ot the roaus as
to the long, and short haul. While
claiming: that local business is only a
trifling per cent of the total business,
they still insist on charging for it an ex
tortionate rate, and making all conces
sions on the long haul. This is a vicious
principle, and its practical application
is keeping the farmers of the west poor,
retaining manufacturing and wholesal
ing in the east, and building up eastern
centers and eastern capital at the ex
pense of the west. In other words, the
true interests of the farmers of Nebras
ka demand a low local rate, instead of a
low through rate. While we have, raw
products to export it is certainty desir
able that we should have low rates of
carriage. -But no - people ever became
wealthy or fairly prosperous exporting
raw products. The people who export
such products are tributary to those who
apply labor to them. To claim wisdom
for a system of rates that compels a peo
ple to continue ' to be exporters of raw
products, and drives labor away from
its country, is very absurd indeed. This
is what the State Journal is doing. To
build up a prosperous state in Nebraska
we want a diversified industry we
want classes of workers who co-operate
but do not compete with e'ach other.
Under the mistaken system adopted by
the roads this is impossible. For a
wholesale dry goods house Lincoln is to
day one of. the best points between the
Atlantic and Pacific pceans. But there
is no such house here. Why? Because
these goods can be distributed to inter-"
rior points tributary to Lincoln from
Chicago, New York and Boston cheaper
than they could from Lincoln. This
principle applies to all other branches of
goods and manufactures consumed
here. The day when farm machinery
can be distributed from local points as
cheaply in proportion as they can from
remote points, that day manufacturers
f such machinery will seek locations in
Nebraska, and not before.
As affecting the roads themselves the
principle is unwise and unstatesmanlike.
The road which passes through the
wealthiest region will be the wealthiest
and most prosperous. Any state which
rests its prosperity on one industry will
remain poor as long as it does so. Ne
braska has only one industry, and it
supports only an agricultural popula
tion and the industries tributary to it.
We would like to have the Journal point
us to any state or community which has
continued an exporter of raw agricultu
ral products and grown rich. As proof
of this, the nine industrial states of the
union have more wealth then all the
In addition to the gross discrimination
in through rates in favor of Nebraska, as
shown by the Journal's fraudulent table.
this state, according to that paper, is
largely favored in other directions in this
rate business. In addition to "through
rates," "local rates"and "distance tariffs"
it has what the j ournai, in its superior
wisdom on the rate qnestion, terms
"distributing tariffs." This is simply
cover for a system or special rates not
allowed by law, but absolutely neces
sary under the high local tariffs prevail
ing here, unless the roads would entirely
throttle the business of the towns. This
they cannot afford to do. But the mak
ing of distributing tariffs at all is a full
admission of the principle we have stated
as between a low through and high lo
cal rate. This principle is illustrated in
the effect of the local accommodation
trains moving into a city in the morning
and out in the eveninsr. It is a very
nice thing for the city, but how about
the small towns within a radious of 50
to 75 miles.
Government ownership of railroads is
the only true and final solution of this
whole question.
THE OLD SOLDIERS AND THE
PEOPLE'S TICKET.
The following correspondence wil
explain itself:
Oxfokd. Neb., Sept. 4, 1890.
J. Burrows, Dear Sir. Please send
me a few copies of the Farmers' Alli
ance of Aug. 9th, containing the past
records of the independent candidates.
There are some here who claim that
the soldier element is not well repre
sented on the ticket, and I think the
papers can be used to a good advan
tage . Yours respectfully,
"I? TV A PilVf
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 5, 1890.
E. A. Paine Esq.,
Oxford, Neb.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 4th
inst. is received. I regret to say that
our edition of No. 8 is exhausted. It
was No. 8 which contained the biogra
phies. But by reference to that num
ber in our files I find that Mr. Powers
was a soldier. Mr. Dech was a soldier
Messrs. Mayberry and Edgerton were
too you'ag to be soldiers. Mr. Wolfe
was a staunch union man, and volun
teered, but did not see active service
Mr. Wright was in the revenue service
on the border during the war, which
we all know was a dangerous service.
and won the praise of his chief for his
faithfullness and efficiency. Mr. D'Al
lemand did not come to this country
till after the war. I believe Mr. Batie
was a soldier. I was unable to obtain
his biography for that issue, but intend
to supply it.
I believe that during the nominations
in our convention no thought was given
to the question of putting soldiers on
the ticket. But in a convention in
which there was by actusl count nearly
three hundred old soldiers it would
have been strange had not some of
them been nominated.
It will be seen that the ticket is fair
ly representative of the soldier ele
ment; and there is not a man. on it up
on whom the least taint of disloyalty
rests. I am, very respectfully,
Yours, etc.,
J. Burrows.
Cheap Clap-Trap.
Western senators scored a notable success
in removing the duty on binding twine and
placing it on the free list. This result was
brought about by the exactions of the binding
twine trust, which two years ago secured a
monopoiy of the product, advanced prices
and boldly robbed the grain raisers of the
country. If similar actions were taken by
congress on all articles controlled by combi
nations, the tariff bill would be more in ac
cord with the sentiments of the people,
Omaha Bee.
The cheap clap-trap of the above can
very easily be shown. The removal of
the duty on twine is no appreciable ben
efit to thefarmers of the west. Binding
twine is an American manufacture, and
is not imported, and will not be. But
of the raw material from which twine
is manufactured, and upon which
American labor may be employed,
there was imported in 1888:
Hemp, 11,047 tons, valued at $1,791,
941. Duty $25 per ton.
Manilla, 36,964 tons, valued at $5,207,
722. Duty same.
Jute butts, 69,885 tons, valued at
$1,821,344. Duty $5 per ton. ,
Sisal, 32,777 tons, valued $4,824,642.
Duty $15 per ton.
The importations of twine for same
year were so insignificant that Stafford
did not report them. :
If these western senators wanted to
benefit western farmers they might
have remitted these duties, instead of
duty on an article that isn't imported.
Some Llore Evidences of G. 0.
P. Economy.
CHURCH HOWE'S STEALINGS.
The Biggest Leak is in the Treasury.
A Wide Door for Thievery Opened.
Verdon, Neb., Aug. 30, 1890.
J. Burrows, Lincoln: I see by the
Alliance of today that the Lincoln
Journal is trying to prove that we
farmers are prospering by our bank ac
counts. Why don't they look to the
payment of lease rentals on school lauds?
Here we have a public record where all
can see. 1 would think if times were
good for farmers those holding these
lands by lease would pay rent promptly,
or if they did not they should be made
to do so. The facts are that in 1888 we
had school land leased to amount to
$153,000 rental annually. We collected
$115,000. After two years of present
management we find that only $105,000
is collected from school land leases.
How is this for farm prosperity?
About farmers' ability to manage
state affairs I would like to say a word.
Sec. 6, article 3 of the Constitution, the
last clause says: No person interested
in a contract with or an unadjusted
claim against the state shall hold a seat
in the legislature. I find in the audi
tor's report of money expended by the
21st session Nebraska leeislatsre these
items: Church Howe, sixty days mem
ber senate $5 per day, $300, also mile
age; seventy-seven days president sen
ate, $3 per day, $231. I find also anoth
er payment made to this same Howe
over in the miscellaneous items of $120
additional pay as president of the sen
ate 19th session Nebraska legislature.
Now I ask, are not both of these last
items clearly in violation of the above
provision of the constitution? The
first being a contract with the state, the
last an unadjusted claim. Perhaps
smart man might see it differently, but
the farmer would save the cash .with his
foolishness. J. C. Watson also drew
pay for seventy-seven days, as speaker
of the house. I believe this is the first
time the president pro tem of the senate
or speaker of the house has ever drawn
additional pay for these services. And
let me say, fellow farmers, this is open
ing a mighty wide door, and if we do
not close it by rebuking the party that
did it by defeating them this fall this
means additional pay for each president
of every county board in the state. It
means additional pay to the chairman
of every public committee in the legis
lature. In fact there is no end of ex
pense if this thing is left to continue
Hoping: the Alliance abundant sue
cess, I am fraternally your brother,
Geo. Watkins,
Lecturer Richardson Co. Alliance.
THE PRINTING STEAL.
Where the People's Money Goes.
When the legislature of Nebraska as
sembles about its first official act is
based upon the presu motion that its
members are entirely ignorant of cur
rent matters, and must therefore be
supplied with newspapers at public ex
pense. Well, that is one way to state
it; but there is another way which may
be a little more correct. It is this: It
is convenient for the members to have
some way of paying campaign debts to
editors and publishers who have aided
in their election. To provide this way
the legislature proceeds to vote its
members newspapers. The origin of
the custom we do not know. There is
not a shadow of a pretext for it. Why
should the state furnish a member
papers? It is a steal pure and simple,
small in its inception perhaps, but quite
large in its aggregate, as carried, out at
the last session. If it is claimed that
the state must inform and educate the
members, it ought to begin before lhey
get into the legislature. In fact, from
some exhibitions of thievery we have
seen, some of them ought to have begun
in the reform school, and instead of the
legislature ended in the penitentiary.
The last session appropriated for
newspapers $7,917.89. This was $59.53
to each member, and supplied each one
with an average of twenty papers each
day.
Of the above amount the State Journal
received $2,605.90, and the Call $G00.75.
Ttcenty papers a day! Two thousand
six hundred and fire dollars for a railroad
organ I Farmers, when you cast your
votes thi,s fall select men to vote for
who will set down hard on such con
temptible steals as this.
Another very apparent and contempti
steal may be found under the head of
"postage." We find in the auditor's ac
counts $4,460 charged for "postage."
This would pay postage on two hundred
and twenty-three thousand letters! or one
thousand six hundred and seventy-seven
letters for each member, or nearly twenty
eight letters each day. Now in its official
capacity probably one hundred dollars
would be all that the state would
actually require on account of the leg
islature. Under what system of moral
or political ethics is this state required
to furnish members of the legislature
such a yast amount of postage stamps
which they do not use. These mem bers
simply vote to themselves so much money
in excess of their pay. When their hand
iarin they grab all they can.
Remember, farmers of Nebraska, that
the men who perpetrated these things
are now the ones who are loudest in
their professions of economy and polit
ical virtue. It is the railroad party
that did it, the party that now proposes
to elect a railroad governor and a rail
road board of transportations to rob
you two years longer.
A Day's Delay.
The state fair delayed the issue of our
paper one day this, week, for which we
beg the indulgence of our patrons. The
Alliance boys don't take a day off
very often.
"Campaign Twaddle."
The above is the elegant caption of an
article ia the Bee of Sept. 6, criticising
Mr. Kem. The Bee savs that Mr. Kem
stated, in a speech at Harrison, that
25,000 men owned the bulk of the wealth
of the country, and it is this statement
that it calls campaign twaddle.
The Bee will remember the article of
Mr. Sherman inthe November Forum.
It commented upon if quite seriously,
and did not denounce it as twaddle,
campaign or otherwise. Now the state
ments made by Mr. Sherman, and de
monstrated to be true, were quite as
radical as the one the Bee attributes to
Mr. Kem. Mr. S. demonstrated that
200,000 persons own seventy per cent of
our wrealth, and that, based on the tax
returns of Boston, 40,000 persons own
half the wealth of the country, and that
"within thirty years 30,000 persons will
own the United States." As a matter of
fact the statement attributed to Mr.
Kem and denounced by the Bee as "cam
paign twaddle," is very nearly absolute
ly correct, and Mr. Kem has very dis
tinguiched company in uttering this
kind of "twaddle."
The other statement which the Oma
na money organ considers twauaie is
that the money circulation is only about
$8 per capita. When Mr. Kem made
this statement, if he did make it, he un
doubtedly meant the amount in actual
circulation, exclusive of bank reserves
and money locked up in the treasury
This is $8.34, and this is the most liberal
estimate that can be made based on last
winter's treasury report, which the Bee
again quotes.
unless the nee can quote some more
piquant cases of twaddle than the above
it had better sheath its sting.
IS GEO." HASTINGS A RAILROAD
ATTORNEY?
Says the World-Herald : Some time
ago the republicaa state convention as
sembled in Lincoln and nominated a
state ticket composed in large part of
railroad favorites.
Among these was Mr. George H. Has
tings, who was put up as the republican
candidate for attorney general and
member of the state board of transpor
tation. Hisnomination was known to have
been brought about by means of railroad
influence. He was known also to be a
railroad attorney. When, however, the
World-Herald referred to him as an at
torney in the employ of the Burlington
& Missouri railroad, a Crete citizen
promptly wrote to correct the statement,
and to say that Mr. Hastings is not and
never has been in the employ of the
Burlington company. Our correspon
dent, however, in stating the truth did
not state the whole truth. He left the
impression that Mr. Hastings had been
wronged in being classed as a railroad
candidate.
Nov what are the facts?
Mr. Hastings is and was when he re
ceived his nomination an attorney in
the employ of the Missouri Pacific rail
way company. He is a railroad attor
ney and it is immaterial whether he is
in the employ of the Burlington or the
Missouri Pacific; he would be equally
dangerous to the people's interests as a
member of the state board of transpor
tation. It is also a somewhat remarkable coin
cidence that. ex-Vice President Church
Howe of the Missouri Pacific should
have presided over the convention that
nominated Attorney Hastings, also ot
the Missouri Pacific, for one of its mem
bers of the state board of transporta
tion. THOSE PROMISED REVELATIONS.
Gov. Thayer promised some startling
revelations of impending political cor
ruption which he opportunely nipped in
the bud by recalling the extra session.
The public would like to have these
promises fulfilled. Undoubtedly much
can be told; but it is not altogether cer
tain that the actual facts would equal
the suspicions of some people. Fir n
stance, did Church Howe demand $' jo,-
000 of the roads to "fix things" all right
in that embryotic body invoked by Gov
Thayer's proclamation? It is quite
likely, as Church Howe is kaown to
bore with a lare auger. But the pub
lie would like to know. (Jhurch was
certainly mad when that call was re
voked. That was the dav when a fine
bunch of grapes soured right before his
eyes. In fact, its delicious taste was on
his palate, when the governor wiped it
out with the bitterest substitute. Mad
was no name for it. Church was en
raged! Think of it. A pile, or a grand
anti-monopoly record to pave his way
to congress, ruthlessly swept away by
an imbecile old governor who had just
loaded up with Burrows' thunder, and
was staggering away into the wilder
ness.
Vile intimations are being made that
somebody got a cash bonus of $15,000
How can it all be cleared up? Certainly
only by the honest secret history of the
whnlfi transaction. This crhost will
""'- o
never be laid until we get that history.
In fact, it is likely to become more ob
streperous as time goes on. it is an
honest ghost, that let me tell you," and
it is likely to tell a tale before long
that will harrow up somebody's soul.
The State Fair.
The State r air. which was held in
Lincoln during the past week, was a
grand success. Notwithstanding the
short crops from drouth and hot winds
many of our counties have come to the
fair with notably good exhibits of all
the various products of the state. Great
surprise is manifested at the superior
excellence of the exhibits of some of
our western counties. We have not the
space to specially describe these ex
hibits. Keith, Custer, Cuming, Scott's
Bluff, BrownKearney, Dundy, Rock,
Holt,v Cherry, York, Thomas, Furnas,
Chase, Frontier, Saunders, Nemaha,
Burt, Washington, Douglas and Lan
caster, were all on hand with displays
that are alike creditable
to their enter-
prise ana ineir natural resources.
vt . t
Custer had the motto, "No rain f6r
nine weeks" displayed over her exhibits
We noticed magnificent samples of flax
seed from Cuming, and squashes that
would weigh 125 pounds. As a rule-
perhaps the display of vegetables was.
not quite as good as usual.
The horticultural hall display seemed
fully as fine as ever before, and the
floral hall was especially line.
The new art hall is too small. It was-
entirely filled. The expansion of future
years will demand double the space.
Among the specially lino displays in
the merchandize hall we noticed one of
dress goods by our enterprising mer
chant, H. It. Nissley; one of musical in
struments ' by S. B. Hohman, and a.
specially fine photographic display by
the Elite Studio.
The machinery display1 was large.
Traction engines wero out fn force.
The stock exhibit also is excellent,
specially strong in horses. O. O. lleff
ner, formerly of Nebraska City, now of
Lincoln, had a fine lot of English Shiro
horses, and some hackneys. Our old
friend B. O. Cowan, of New-Poiuts,
Mo., had a fine herd of Short Horns
Mr. Cowan's herd is finely bred in Bates
blood. Any one wanting this magnifi
cent breed of cattle can find no better
place to buy them than at New-Points,
Mo.
Gov. Furnas is again to be congratu
lated for his success in orginizing a
state fair. No more efficient man in
that line is to be found in the United
States. ,
INS ANE1fROM STARVATION.
We clip the following unvarnished
and simple tale from the Nebraska Bliz
zard, published at Ord, Neb:
A sad case of destitution and insanity
in consequence has lately come to light.
Last spring Lawrence Persakdied leav
ing his wife, Antoinette, and four small
children in destitute circumstances. As
it is only eight months since the family
came from Poland they can not talk
English. The family has had a little
support from the county and also from
the town; but as all this has been
stopped for some time the woman has
lived, God knows how. She has one
cow and she has been leading it a mile
to one of her neighbors to water it and
where she got water for the family. As
she did not come for water for a day or
two the neighbor went over last Mon
day to see what was the matter. He
found her sitting on the ground all
bowed down. When he came up she
sprang at him like a tiger. He went
and told a couple of neighbors to caro
for her and then came to town for the
sheriff. When the sheriff reached the
place it was too late to bring her iu that
night so he went out last Tuesday.
After some coaxing on the part of her
neighbors she consented to go with the
sheriff. Some clothes and food have
been provided for her and her children,
and she seems more composed. She is
very fond of her children and for some
time would not allow any one to touch
them; but the kindness of the sheriff's
wife aud other ladies won her and she
finally consented to let them care for
the baby, which is sick and most starv
ing. The woman has been pronounced
insane by the commission and was taken
to Norfolk yesterday.
Let us think it over. A Polander
dark eyed and dark haired. She prol
ably came to this country in search of
food and a home. She had heard it
was a land of plenty; where the earth
laughed with bounteous harvests, and
honest toil was famously repaid. She
loved her children. In her madness she
clung to them, and defended them like
a tigress. Think of it all. Think of
the disappointment, of the lodging to go
back to motherland of the terrible
mistake in coming to this land of the
free and home of the brave. Can we
remember the days of Louis the fifteenth
before '93, when the magnificence of his
court was beyond all comprehension,
-and outside of his walls were misery and
starvation? Is society coining again to
the same condition, when even on the
broad prairies, where plenty is sup
posed to smile at all times, women ami
babies starve until they are raviug ma
niacs? O well, says one, this is only an
isolated case caused by accident and
unfortunate circumstances. Is it so,
indeed? Terhaps in Nebraska the ex
treme of starvation is not often reached.
We hope so. But all over this broad
land, in country and city alike, hi town
and hamlet, want stalks by night and
day and everywhere the gauut fiend
can gaze through brilliant windows into
superb interiors where affluence riots
and waste presides. The system that
permits these possibilities is wrong,
and a cure must be found or the body
politic will suffer-
FARMERS AS DEPOSITORS.
In the light of the following letter
from Mr. Nesbitt, of Nuckolls county,
we take back all we said about farmers
as depositors. It is certain, if the bank
books are rightly kept, that it can bo
shown that farmers deposit more than
all other classes, merchants included.
Nelson, Neb., Sept. 5th, 18i0.
Editor Alliance: In a .late issue
you called in question a statement made
by the State-Journal, that the fanners
of Nebraska are makingdeposits regard
less of the failure of crops and depres
sion caused by republican miMmnage
ment. It really surprised me to see the
position you took. In our county down
here the farmers are the most industri
ous sort of bank depositors. First, they
deposit notes iu the bank; then when
ever there is anytl ing to sell from the
farm the money is deposited to lift the
note. And again, nearly every fellow
has a mortgage on, his farm, and he
semi-annually deposits enough to get a
check to send off for interest. It just
beats all, the deposits that are made;
and all a fellow has to do to be con
vinced is to stand in a bank half a day
and observe. Yes, Mr. Editor, we are
great depositors. J. li. Nesbitt.
Cf-There was a great quarrel the
other day among the republicans in the
house of representatives. "Liar, ""loaf-
.... i .a l .
er, "scounarei, ana other nice epuneis
were freely hurled across the benches.
Anger brings people to a realizing sens
of the truth sometimes.
tW The second number of the .-
ance Boomerang, puousneu ai vrawiorti
by Webb & Melbourne, is on our table.
It flies the people's ticket of course, and
is striking sturdy blows for it." We wish
it the greatest success.
