Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FAKMLURS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY? SEPT. 13, 1890.
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
President, H. L. Loucks, Dakota.
Vice-President. John H. Powers. Nebraska.
Secretary, August Post, Moultoa, Iowa.
Treasurer, J. J. Furlong, Minnesota.
Lecturer. N. B. Ashby, Des Moines, Iowa.
NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE.
President, John H. Powers, Cornell.
Vice President, Valentine Horn. Aurora.
Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln,
Lecturer, w. F. Wright. Johnson county.
Asst. lecturer, Lojran McReynolds, Fairfield.
Chaplain, liev. J. 8. Edwards, Wahoo.
Door keeper, D. W. Barr, Clay countir.
Asst. door keeper, O. C. Underhill, Unadilla.
Beargeant-at-arms, J. Billingsly, Shelton.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTKB.
J, Burrows, chairman; B. F. Allen, Wabash;
J. W. Williauis. Filley; Albert Dickerson,
Litchfleid; Frank H. Young, Custer.
Post Ormcn at LiKCOts, Nbb., June 18, 188.
I hereby certify thatTHB Allianch, 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
admis&fon in the mails at the pound rate of
postage, and entry of it as such is accordingly
made upoa the books of this office. Valid
while the character of the publication re
mains unchanged. Ajlbkrt Watkins,
Postmaster.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
STELLA ALLIANCE PICNIC.
Ten Thousand People Present.
Held at Stella, Richardson county
Nebraska on Labor day, was the cham
pion of the year in the picnic line. In
numbers there were more than any hu
man voice could reach. A car load of
Alliauce lumber seated a few only of
the vast multitude estimated at 10,000
people.
The stand GO feet long decorated in
grandest style with grains of all kinds,
samples of corn from lields that will
yield 50 bushels per acre, oats 40 and
wheat and rye 35 bushels, which showed
that the drouth was not the true cause
of lean pocket books.
The word welcome in beautiful silver
was neatly encircled by leaves and also
the motto beneath, "The farmers feed
the world."
J. 15. Weaver, of Iowa, whose nation
al fame as an orator, whose sound and
deep knowledge on fiuance, whose prac
tical and just measures for the
mentforthe adjustment of the trust and
railroad questions make the plutocracy
quake and tremble lest justice be their
portion, and satan their pall bearer.
Captain F. II. Trevellick, the great pio
neer and still the champion labor re
former general, whose eloquence rings
like the very thunder of heaven, strik
ing fearlessly and impartially all that
oppose complete and impartial justice
to labor.
Such were the orators of the day.
Thought enough eloquently and plainly
spoken to convert a universe, and when
November comes it is hoped that all
but those whose crainums were knock
ed tlat by the captain's blows so they
did not get the second healing powders
perscribed by our next president will
vote for independence.
The champion silver medal band of
the state, "The Falls City," assisted by
the excellent "Dawsons" and the hay
seed glee club of Stella Alliance fame,
furnisLel music. Hail the ohampion
picnic.
We will surrender the belt to the pic
nic where a greater number of intelli
gent people will congregate under the
God-given green leafy shade and listen
to more sublime eloquence ot thought.
To one that will surrender more party
prejudices; where more voices will join
in a thunder ringing cheer for her ora
tors; for the independent ticket and
principles, or that will give better as
surances ot the good times comin
when this country will be perfected an
perpetuated by having the perfecting
link wekied into her constitution, estab
' lishing perfect equality and justice be
tween labor and capital.
T. G. Furguson.
P. S. Stella Alliance now numbers
nearly 200 members, and installed
leven last Saturday night. She be
lieves in independence to a man, and
that the eastern portion of the state
eould and should pay all the expenses
of the campaign. T. G. i.
A. J. GUSTIN PAYS HIS RESPECTS
TO THE STATE JOURNAL.
Edjtok Alliance-. In B. & M
Journal ot beptember bth there is an
editorial entitled "Some Interesting
figures, which is as "interesting" to
exact fact regarding transportation
changes as a six legged calf could be to
the state fair exhibit of regular calves.
A calf with sixlegg.s would show fifty
per cent of surplus ot legs, lhe article
above referred to shows fifty per cent
of cunning, twenty-five per cent of jug
elerv, fifteen per cent of August first
raise in through rates and local added,
and the usual ten per cent of railroad
rates.
The State Journal's complaining of
being called "corporation organ" and
"railroad organ" is like a peacock com
plaining of his tail showing when it is
spread, and those' names apply to that
organ as nothing else ia words, can
We "weak minded and malicious" peo
ple can easily see how the State Journal
and Hobs. Mr. Benton, Stern and Cow
drey have been fooling the railroads by
making them charge high local rates
the only rates we have any control over
and thus getting a low (?) through
rate. How those coy ducks, the Hons.
Holdrege and Kimball will smile
as they read in the great job
nice dailv how they have been fooled
We all know that the Journal and Mr.
Kimball and Mr. Holdrege and their
various gifted gang of hangers on have
applauded the "policy" of the old rail
road commission and the majority of
the present state board of trausporta
iiou in making local rates too high, as
they themselves confess, in order to
keep the dear potentates from raising
our through rates on us, just as they
have done. Does the Journal mean to
say that it is working for the people
who are producers? Docs it mean to
imply that it is working a smooth
game on the railroads while, the rail
roads stand over it with an order for
job work as a club? The railroads are
being fooled in issuing passes to the
various G. O. P. candidates and officers
to go out over the state and whip in the
old time boys who whoop it up at so
much a whoop. They patronize the
job office of the State Journal for
the influence of such editorial con
tortions as the article I refer to above.
Oh! no. How we apples swim!
The Journal has had a fit one after
another ever since it began to dawn
uDon the grey matter of its various
colonels, that the Burrows, Van Wycks',
Powers' and Kims' were likely to show
to a maioritv of the voters of this state
how thev were being bled by the cor
Dorations.
The fact is the machine pol
itician under name of the re
publican party, has had its capacious
mouth closed over the official teat ever
since the public cow in Nebraska had
its first calf, and the cow has been held
head and tail, by the State Journal and
railroad corporation so that no flies
would grow on her to draw the atten
f tion of the "weak-minded" people and
"malicious" individuals who raise corn
and hav to feed this cow upon. And
now comes the State Journal in a lead
incr editorial with a table of rates which
table it wants used and. that alone to
eatch the farmer and laboring man's
vote and , says it has been fooling the
railroads on high local rates
Now notice how successful this scheme
has been on keeping down through
rates: On the 1st of August, 1890,
through rates were raised on all class
freight. - For instance through rates on
merchandise to Lincoln from Chicago,
after Augut 1st, is: ,
1st class. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. A. B. C D E.
76. 63. 40. 83. 24. 31. 20. 21. 19. 18.
And it was prior to that:
65. 55. 39. 29. 21. 28. 23. 18. 17. 16.
In other words to ship 100 pounds of
each of the ten classes of freight class
and car rates, then it cost $3.11, and
now by letting' these local rates alone it
is reduced (?) to $3.55. The roads al
ways have reduced like the Chinaman
reads backwards. It may be by re
duction they mean to reduce the sur
plus of the producer, if that is it it is a
success. There has been an . average
raise on every pound of in "freight on
through business of about 15 per cent.
Another thing not generally understood.-
The railroads to the Interstate
Commerce Commission swore that the
local haul was ouly about 10 percent
the whole business, lhey remedy a
that by making all through business
local one, excepting at Omaha and Liil
coin.
To illustrate, the through rate, Ch
cago to Lincoln on class one, a distancj
of 5.)0 miles, is now 7o cents per huri
dred pounds. The local rate from Li
coin to Kearney, adistanceof 137 mile
is 55 cents. Now to get the through ra
Chicago to Kearney, they add the
cent haul and the 55 cent haul makirj
$1.30, and that is the through haul.
I he sum of the through rate to t.
river (Omaha) added to the high lo
rate to any point in .Nebraska, ma
tne nirougn rate to all poi
in thu state A local pa
here infers that the Alliance will not
able to hire halls, and wonders w
the farmers will do when it is too c
to hold picnics? They are used to t
cold and can hold a political picnic o
ice.
It is the soft gloved railroad people
who will need more than a warm hall
to keep the cold out. Next No
vember will show how "weak-minded"
the people are. We have been weak
minded and that is why so many are
"paupers," but we are growing strong
minded and can see a fox's tail over a
jo!) office fence across a mortgaged
farm.
Now my dear Mr. "Railroad Tool"
the business in Nebraska for 1889. if it
was twenty millions (and it was not far
from that amount) the loss net to the
farmer and laboring man. which was
added drop at a time to the goods he
bought, was not less than five millions
of an overcharge.
Why, in your table do you put in the
same oracket ana quote such insig
nificant points as Paola, Kan., a town
of about one thousand people, along
side of Omaha with its one hundred and
forty thousand people to show com
peting base of rates?
lhe most ingenious plan for vou to
follow is to talk of the influence of the
moon on high tides, or talk of the
beauties of your atlas rather than of
freight rates or position of candidates
on G. O. P. platform, and corporation
influence, for it will no more bear in
vestigation than a cesspool bear the per
fume of the rose.
Soon the various old party organiza
tions will send out their whippers-in.
on passes to tell the dear people of the
war of 1861 of the homestead law,, of
the land grants and national banking
act. But if they speak of the living
present it will be by garbled tables
twisted out of shape just as the State
Journal's table shows.
Government ownership and operation
of the railways eliminating distance on
the plan of the postal system is the solu
tion of all this question.
1 he Bee and- Call and other reform
papers please note the raise in rates ana
action of republican candidates on local
rates, just to see what the
medicine of May 20th will taste like
compared with high license or free
whisky.
Kespectfully submitted,
A. J. Gustin.
Kearney, Neb. Sept. 7, '90.
pathy with the laborer or farmer.
We are breaking up the idea that
alien laud grabbers shall hold a vast
portion of the land of our country with
out first swearing that he will defend
the constitution of the United States
against enemies from abroad or traitors
at home. .
We are breaking up the idea of main
taining the American house of lords as
the enemy of the laborer and producer.
We are breaking up the absurdity of
handing over three-fourths of our crops
for carrying the other fourth to mar
ket, We are breaking up pools, trusts,
rings, syndicates and combines..
We are breaking up the idea of cor
porations stopping commerce at their
own free will in order to put a stop to
our efforts of organization to protect
our rights of providing for our wives
and children.
We are breaking up the idea of rail
road corporations bringing Pinkerton
thugs and cutthroats to shoot down
innocent women andjchildren on the
streets ot our cities.
partly that perfectly voiced our opinions
many of us would wait a long time.In my
view it is only a crank who admits that
ninetenths of a platform suits him, but
who denounces the whole because the
other tenth does not. It is rarely that
one-tenth is worth more than nine. The
great majority of the independent prin
ciples are right and should be forced to
speedy execution. Things have gone
wrong for years in the indust ill
and social structure. Let the people
rise in their might and put things to r
rights. It was never intended of God or
nature that labor should live oh a pit
tance and capital roll in luxury. This
idea is the remains of that old doctrine
that might constituted ownership. It is
the remains also of that other doctrine,
the shadow of slavery, that the higher
strata of society stand "on" the lower;
and also of the doctrine that social
superiority was entitled to special priv
ileges. The higher strata should stand
beside, and never "on" the lower. It
was never meant that a season or two
of poor crops should beggar families;
nor that a winter's inability to get work
nn p" If waf
)cent
ives in work-shops,
mines and factories, instead of going to
school and becoming intelligent citi
zens. We are breaking up the idea of pay
ing a woman less wages for doing a
man's work, just because she is a wo
man. We are breaking up the idea of fold
ing our arms while we are losing our
homes, and we will continue to keep
right on breaking up every form of in
justice and special privileges, prepar
ing to sow the seed of national pros
perity, and meanwhile cultivate broth
erly love among ourselves, always feel
ing that an injury to one is the concern
of all. Pat H. Driscoll.
Hartwell, Neb.
THE FIRST INDEPENDENT CLUB.
Keep the Ball Rolling.
Blaine County Independents.
Dunning, Neb., Sept. 4. Special to
Alliance. C. D. Shrader, of Logan
county, addressed the citizens of this
place Tuesday afternoon from an in
dependent standpoint. On account of
the busy season there was a small turn
out, but all present were well pleased
with the address. After the speaking
an independent club was organized and
all present joined. The following offi
cers were elected : President, Dr. R.E,
Boaz; vice president, John C. Miner;
secretary, George Dowitey; treasurer,
J. L. Overman.
The club is to be known as the Dun
ning Independent Club, and is to meet
on the first and third Saturday of each
month. K. 1. .EVANS.
FROM OUR OLD FRIEND,
STEDMAN.
C. R.
THE ALLIANCE IN THAYER
COUNTY.
Hebron, Neb., Sept. 5, 1890.
Editor Alliance: Stoddard Alliance,
Thayer county, Nebraska, is in a healthy
condition, every member zealous for the
people s ticket. Mr. (J. C. Burton has
been nominated representative for this
county. He is a farmer of moderate
means, of good ability, honest and has
the people's interest at heart. Such a
man must and shall be elected. Our
other county officers are all good, hon
est, worthy men, and shoula have the
support of every voter of this county.
Thayer county Alliance convention met
yesterday. You may depend upon it
that the south part of Ihayer county is
alive to the interest of the people's ticket.
Our advice to the people of every part
of the county is to work. work, work,
that we may have a rousing victory on
November 4th. I must not forget to
say that Stoddard Alliance had a suc
cessful! picnic on the 2d, singing, speak
ing, horseback parade with banners
and flags, and last but not least, a din
ner which President Harrison would
not be apt to turn his nose up at, and
at night our young folks danced until
the wee hours of the morning.
Success to the Farmers' Alliance and
the people's ticket.
David Gill.
Editor Farmers' Alliance: Through
the kindness of Nebraska friends 1 have
had the pleasure of reading several late
copies of The Farmers' Alliance, and
as an old wheel horse of the Alliance
wTho was in at the birth of the State Al
liance nearly ten years ago, I cannot
help but feel proud of the grand organi
zation and splendid state, congressional
and county tickets the farmers have
placed in the field. With such men as
that honest old farmer, Mr. Powers, for
governor, the old war horse, Van Wyck,
the cyclone, McKeighan, and Captain
Kem for congress the people will make
publican friend, Mr. Harlan, condescends
to meet McKeighan on the stump he will
be the worst pulverized candidate in the
state. I shall watch the campaign in
Nebraska with interest. Yours, etc.
C. K. Sredman,
Prescott, Arizona.
tionsT'ntTrTTTTCpeiraeiit movi- xs
common or neutral ground. lhe
democrats can step onto it and not cease
to be democrat; the republican can go
there and not cease to be republican; the
prohibitionist can go there and not give
up his prohibiten; the union laborer
can be there and be union labor still
All can come together freely on this neu
tral ground. But it is not possible to
shift this ground within old party lines
and to thus come together. Prejudices
are too strong.
And when a body of voters are agreed
on a platform ot vital principles it is
pure foolishness for them to split up and
vote against each other. That is only to
let another set of candidates win the
election, and so defeat their principles.
Principles are of practical use only as
officers are elected to enact and enforce
them.
Let every man who acknowledges that
the principles of the independent peo
ple's movement are the most needful at
this time for the general welfare ot the
country join in this movement and work
and vote for it.
Rev. N. H. Blackmer.
THE HEARTHSTONE.
A Department for Home and Flresip
by Mrs. 8. C. O. Upton.
Edited
"The corner stone of the Republic is the
Hearthstone.
THE NEW DEPARTMENT.
The editor of the Alliance gives
space this week to a new department,
which it is hoped will be able to touch
some of the vital interests of its read
ers. It is to be broad in its field, and
we shall cull, at will, in the gardens of
literature, or the world of thought, but
trust we shall bring you nothing but
what will be cheering, helpful, pure
and uplifting in its influence.
As the evenings grow longer, the fire
upon the hearthstone grows brighter,
and families mingle more for social
chat and 'reading. Whatever can be
done by father or mother or friend to
make the evening hour more pleasant,
or to render yet more pure and sweet
the child's remembrance of his home in
those easy hours after the evening lamps
are lit, is a sacred service. The saloon
with its coarse jest, laughter and oaths
can hardly attract the boy who has
learned to enjoy his home, if that home
be a proper type of an American home.
Give us ideal homes, where God's law
is reverenced, where motherhood is
honored, childhood protected, and a
kindly yielding of wills one to another
is enforced, and we will easily settle all
questions of government and all re
forms, on the basis of justice and right
eousness. We dare not be blind to the
greatest evils that threaten the purity
and peace of homes, and we would not
willingly be indifferent to the smallest
thing that would contribute to their
comfort and good cheer.
So we want the home lovers and home
makers to interest themselves in this
department. We would like to feel
that we were speaking to the firesides
where the Alliance visits, and would
speak lovingly, intelligently and helpfully.
THE
RESULT OF THF
TIVE POLICY.
PROTFC-
A Whole Volume in a Few Words.
Boys Will be Boys.'
St. Louis Republic.
The Republic's "Tariff Miscellany" to
day gave some pertinent extracts from
the "Tariff Primer" of Mr. D. M. Gris
som of Kirk wood. Mo., a most useful
little pamphlet, which admirably ex
plains the true effect of the protective
policy:
Q You say the protective policy en
riches the protective manufacturers at
the expense of the masses of the peo
ple? A It does.
Q You say, too, that the value of
these special benefits to the northeast
section is estimated at $600,000,000 a
year? A Yes.
Q-If this be true, the favored states
ought to be very rich much richer
than the others? A They are; they
own nearly one-half the wealth of the
country, and this ownership is increas
ing every year.
Q How can this be? There are forty-three
states and several territories
in the union; and do you mean to say
that nine of these states actually own
nearly one-half of all the property in
the whole country? A Yes.'
Q What is the entire wealth of the
country? A At the last census in 1880,
it was estimated at $43,642,000,000
ov rl43, 000,000,000.
Q What was the population of the
whole country in 1888, and what the
population ot the nine manufacturing
states, and of the other twenty-nine
states and territories? A The entire
population was 51,000,000, and of this
the nine manufacturing states of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachus
etts, Connetticut, Rhode Island, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
had 15,500,000, or less than one-third,
and the other states and territories had
35,500,000 or more than two-thirds.
Q Surely you do not mean to say
that the 15,000,000 own as much of the
wealth of the country as the 35,000,000.
A Yes. A large portion of the wealth
in other states and territories not less
than $4,000,000,000 is owned in the
manufacturing states. This sum must-
therefore, be taken from one side and
added to the other, and when it is done
the account will stand thus: Wealth of
the nine manufacturing states, $23,
643,000,000; wealth of all the other
states and territories, $20,000,000,000.
This shews that the nine industrial
states own over $23,000,000,000 worth
of the countrv's wealth, and the other
states and territories $20,000,000,000.
O This is a startling statement if it
-
be correct, but it needs some explana
nation. What do you mean by saying
that $4,000,000,000 or one-sixth of the
wealth in the other states and terri
tories, is owned in the manufacturing
states? Do not the other states and ,
territories own all the property in them?
For example, does not the people of
Missouri own all the wealth in Missouri?
A They do n,ot; they own only about
three-fourths of it perhaps not even
th at much.
Q Who owns the other fourth? A
It is owned by the manufacturing states.
Q How? A A large part of it is
owned outright, and another part is
held under mortgage which is about
the same thing,
PUBLIC SALE.
Having sold my farm, I will sell at public
auction at my place 8 1-2 miles due south of
Capitol building, on
Tuesday, Sept. 23,
all of
household goods, as follows
my stock, implements, a lot of bar and
40 Steers, 20 Cows and Calves,
8 Head Horses and colts.
Plows, Harrows,
and everything
farm.
Wagons, Buggies, Harness
fovLd on a well-equipped
TERMS: Twelve months's time,
at 8 per eent.
3-2t
Interest
GREAT YESTERH" STEAUEIV
BY HARLAN H. BALLARD.
Great Western Feed Steamer
and Tank Heater.
Cooks one to three barrels feed at one filling.
Fire box surrounded with water on tip and
sides. Any kind of fuel. Easily managed and
cleaned as a box stove. Send for Circulars.
Ajrents wanted. BOVKK II. M. CO.
Ilt8 Tama. Iowa.
"Boys will be boys." We resent the old say
Ing,
Current with men;
Let it be heard, in excuse of our 6traying,
Never again!
Ours is a hope that is higher and clearer.
OUrs is a purpose far brighter and dearer,
Ours Is an aim that should silence the jeerer;
We will be men!
SPECIAL PREMIUMS FOB THE ALLIANCE.
This beautiful rocker. In an-
tiqe oak, retails for $4.50. We
will eena it by freight, secure
ly packed, for ten new names
at $1.00 per year.
EXPLANATION ABOUT THE LA
BOR DAY PARADE BY BRO.
I. N. LEONARD.
At Home, Sept. 5, 1890.
Friend Burkows, Dear Sir: In
vour editorial notes on Labor Uav dis
play from Oak Valley you do a great in
justice to our Alliance.
Neither Mrs. Leonard or myself are
more entitled to special mention in con
nection with the displav than any oth
ers of our Alliance. All took hold and
did all that was possible to make the
day a success.
The committee of arrangements was
Mrs. John Dodds, Mrs. Wm. Auker-
man, Mrs. braak. Urury, Mr. Auker-
man, Missrannie Scarce, Mrs. Josie
Sweitzer, Mrs. I. N. Leonard. Mr. F.
oweitzer was the principal artist. Mr.
J. II. Hoxie nersonated the bloated
bondholder. Mr. Wm. Brings, presi
dent of the Alliance, personated labor
driven by capital. Mr. Brinars is a
veteran soldier above sixty years of
age. The zeal and energy he has dis
played in making this day a success,
and the ability he has shown in han
dling his Alliance, entitles him to special
T V T .
meuuuu. x. m. ljEOiSAKD.
The Government and the Money Power.
We copy from the circular of Harvey
Fisk & Sons, bankers of N Y. City.
"The Secretary of the treasury an
nounces that he is ready to redeem at
par and interest to maturity $20,000,000
more 4s if presented for payment be
fore September 20th.
"The Secretary's offer enables holders
of these bonds to get double interest on
their money for the coming year.
"Circulation based on "Fours" at cur
rent market rate, say about 126, with
money worth six per cent, shows still
a small profit. Should the Sherman bill
pass it icill shoiv a good profit.
"The net cost of exchanging for fours
would be only about twenty-two per
cent, and then you are fixed on a firm basis
for seventeen years. "
The above extracts show some inter
esting points. First, the Nebraska
farmer, who pays the interest, would
like to know why a man who sells his
obligation before it is due. and gets his
money, should receive interest to ma
turity. Second it is claimed all the time by
national bankers that there is no profit
in circulation. But Harvey Fisk & Sons
say, in a confidential circular to bank
ers, that even with a bond at 126 there
is still a small profit. Also that Mr.
Sherman has taken the job of making it
show "a good profit." That Mr. Sher
man will succeed, backed as he is by
the influence of Wall street, there is lit
tle doubt.
Third, it will be noticed that these
gentlemen propose to be "fixed on a
firm basis for seventeen years," when
their 4s are exchanged for 4s. It is quite
questionable whether the people of this
country will tolerate the national banks
for seventeen years longer.
New York State Conference of the Peo
ple's Independent Party.
Editor Alliance: In pursuance to
a call to organize an independent peo
ple's party in the state of New York, in
line with the independent movement in
many other states, a people's confer
ence assembled at the Empire House in
the city of Syracuse, at 10 a. m.,Sept. 3,
1890. The conference organized with
Geo. C. Beecher, chairman; Charles A.
Ford, secretary.
. As, under the call, the St. Louis com
pact is the unamended platform of the
independent people's warty of the state
of New York; the adoption of the fol
lowing resolutions was the only busi
ness of public importance transacted by
the conference.
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, The people of many" states
have organized new independent po
litical parties under various local names,
yet having a common purpose, and a,
common national platform or princi
ples, popularly known as the St. Louis
compact. We, as representatives ot
the independent voters of the state of
New York, in conference assembled,
rf affirm our adhearence to the princi
ples enunciated in said national com
pact,, and the rules of party organiza
tion laid down in the conference call,
and.
tvhereas. This conference is not em
powered to make platforms, or nomi
nate candidates, but to appoint or pro
vide for the appointment of a provision
al state committee to serve until their
successors shall be chosen under said
ruls; therefore be it.
Resolved, That the said provisional
state committee consist of the following
members: Charles A Ford, chairman.
Resolved, That the chairman and
secretary of the provisional state com
mittee, are authorized to call an orga
nizing state convention whenever they
deem it necessai'v. or a delegate state
convention on or befoie Sept. 1, 1891
Resolved. That all vacancies in the
provisional committee shall be filled by
the chairman and secretary, as far as
possible, with members of the Farmers'
League, Farmers' Alliance, Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and other kin
dred organizations.
Resolved, That G. C. lieecner issue an
address to the independent voters of
our state.
Rrsolved. That the chairman and sec
retary of the state committee, provide
for tbe organization of a Citizens Alii
ance in our state at the earliest possible
da;e.
Resolved, That it shall be the duty of
the members of the state committee to
take immediate measures to periect a
thorough organization of the independ
ent party in their respective counties,
by calling organizing county conven
tions before leb. 1, 1891, and delegate
county conventions before August 20,
1891 . G. C. BEECHER,
Ciiarles A. Ford,' Sec. Chm.
"Boys will be boys' is an unworthy slander:
Boys will be men I
The spirit of Philip, In young Alexander,
Kindles again.
As the years of our young tty swiftly away,
As brightens about us the light of life's day,
As the glory of manhood dawns on us, we say:
We will be menl
When "Boys will be boys" you exclaim, with
a wink,
Answer us, men I
How old are those "boys?" Is their age, do
you think,
Fifty or ten?
It may be the boys with whom you used to go
Considered wild oats not unpleasant to sow;
But how looks the harvest you hoped wouldn't
grow,
Now you are men?
"Boys will be boys?" Yes! if boys may
pure
Models for men;
If their thoughts may be modest, their truth
fulness eure,
Say It again !
If boys will bebys such as boys ought to be
Boys full of sweet-minded, light-hearted glee
Let boys be boys, brave, loving and free,
Till they are men !
A SPECIAL PR1VATK rKH"
MIUM FOK THK L.AUUIWSI
CLUB BY NOVEMBER 1ST
We have received the follow
ing offer of a private premium
from some well-known breed
ers of thorough-bred hogs for
the largest club of campaign
subscribers sent to this office
by Nov. 1st. Tbe letter was
accompanied oy a nooa usi:
Kjcarnbt. Nkb., Aug. 1890.
Editok Fakmbrs'Al.lianck:
I have taken a few subscrip
tions for the Alliance, and I
find that every subscriber is
soon converted into an Alli
ance worker after reading l he
Farmers' Am-iasce a few
times. Therefore we will mane
the following proposition ; To
the largest club raiser ror the
Farmers' Alliance to Janu
ary 1st, lsyi, at J cts. eacn, we
will give one Poland China
worth at least $ 15.00,(farrowed .
ill aini. & u o uinc 'i L "
the club is to be raised iwf rom
now to Nov. lata and we
will leave it to Bro. Burrows
to decide who is entitled to
the pig, and to notify us and
the lucky man.
BIsCHEL BROS.
The Alliance and Knights Breaking: Up.
We are breaking up our prairies to
bloom and blossom that we ourselves
may reap the reward of our labors.
We are breaking up tha prejudice of
party bigotry, and sowing the seed of
common brotherhood and universal
rights. v i ,
We are breaking up the idea of being
driven to the polls on each election day
and voting at the dictates of the bosses.
,. We are creaking up the custom of
sending men to our legislatures; either
state or national, who are not in sym-
AN ELOQUENT
TER FROM N.
AND ABLE LET
H. BLACKMER.
He Is Still Earnest in the Good Cause.
Editor of Alliance: I do not wish
my brothers in the Alliance and others of
the independent movement who saw my
articles in the Bee to think that I am so
disgruntled over the financial' question
wai x nave aoanaonea ine cause, l am
still with you. If we should wait for a
Mr. Harlan Stand Up.
Where does Harlan stand on national
issues?' His friends are writing pictur
esque editorials in his behalf which, in
stead of denning his position and prais
ing their man are devoted to abusing
McKeighan and the thousand of honest
hearted, hard working farmers and
laboring men who are supporting him.
lhey do not even assail McKeighan's
views on national affairs, they simply
confine themselves to ridicule of men
who have mortgages on their farms. If
Harlan expects to hold a reasonable
amount of even' what is left of the re
publican vote in the second district it is
time the voters were beginning to find
out what they are expected to vote for.
About all the voters know of Harlan is
that he was a member of the great
anti-monopoly republican convention
which was going to purify the party.
We would like to know where he stands
on the tariff. Is it with the expressed
sentiment of the west in favor of tariff
reform, and if so, why does he call
himself a republican? Oris he in sym
pathy with the party as expressed in the
McKinley bill? If the latter, by what
process of reasoning can he expect the
support of the intelligent , and enlight
ened masses of the second district?
Seward Democrat. "
A Christian Land.
We often mourn over evils that make
our boast of being a Christian nation
seem vain and idle, and yet, if there be
a cause for profound thankfulness to be
found anywhere, it is the fact of birth
in a land so permeated by Christian in
fluences as to give opportunity to men
and women to strive after higher and
better conditions. Sad is the right of
oppression that has held, for long years.
the women of India. If any one feels
like opposing the advancement of
women in freedom, education and
power, they should look backward and
downward, to the times and places
where women have been, and are un
enlightened, uneducated slaves. The
contrast would lead him to conclude
that the more you elevate womanhood,
the more you elevate the race. The
writings of Ramabai, the native worker
for the amelioration of the child widows
of India, wakes such thoughts as this,
and makes one's heart throb with pity
for the poor unfortunate ones who are
held in the bonds of such cruel supersti
tion. Ramabai's school has been running
for a year. She has had about twenty
pupils. Small, as this seems it is the
wedge that means liberation to India's
womanhood. She tells these incidents
An educated prince came to the school
one day, not to see it, he proudly aver
red, but to give Ramabai a good scold
ing for teaching widows. "A school
for widows!" he exclaimed contemptu
ously. "Of what use is it, and what
rieht have the widows to wish for hap
piness and education? Those who have
neither a husband or a son to care for
are of no more value than street dogs
and crows." Hindu scorn could go no
further, or these are the most unholy
animals. Another man, whose daughter
was almost persuaded to send her
daughter, a little widow fourteen years
old, to the school, proudly declared that
she should not go to a Christian woman
to be taught Christianity, defile his caste
and spoil his reputation. To prevent
this he sold the poor child to lead an
immoral life, and no one could redeem
her from it.
Names will be received on
the above premium at any
time; bnt persons intending
to compete ror it saouia no
tify us with the first list sent
in. Any reduction on chid
rates hereafter made will ex
tend to all alike. Editor Al
liance.
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THE DEAR FARMER.
"We love the deah fahmah," says the
World -Hitch cook as he cocks his Derby
and twirls his walking stick, "but the
fahmah is a twiflle too weak this yeah
for a gweatpapeh like the World-'Ewald
to tie to. Where the fahmah made
'is mistake this veah is,' in not defehing
'is conventions huntil hafteh the demo-
3 uatic conventions weh 'eld and hen
owsed theih nominations. Then this
papeh could 'ave supported theih ticket.
It was hunfohtunate for the deah fah
mah, don che know." .
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the day which every citizen should read."
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