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4m 1 fly WAyAy VOL. II. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1890. NO. 18. II Mil flotice to Subscribers. EXPIRATIONS. Am the easiest and cheapest means of notifying- subscribers of the date of their expira tions we will mark this notice with a blue or red pencil.on the date at which their subscrip tion expires. We will Bend the paper two weeks after expiration If not renewed by that time It will be discontinued. POETRY. You Will Hear Something Drop. The bosse's plug- hat sits high on his head, 'And his tongue goes flipperty flop. Watch the plug hat when the farmers come out. And I think you will hear something-drep, Kerflop, Sure pop. The greedy mortgage holder counts his cou pons, And the interest seems never to stop, Mut when the Alliance gets matters fixed up, You will be sure to hear something drop Kerflop, Sure pop. He'd best keep his eye peeled.f or the Alliance is here, And is working itself to the top. So you won't have to listen very long I am thinking. Before you will hear something drop, Kerflop, Sure pop. S farmers don't worry for your day will come, Just go straight ahead without 6top, When mortgage comes due just sit back and laugh, For you are going to hear something drop. Kerflop, Sure pop. If you go to the bank to get some of their cash, For interest they will take all your crop. But when Uncle Sam makes us two per cent loans, I think you will hear something drop. Kerflop, Sure pop: S keep straight ahead ye Alliances brave, You are sure to come out on the top, A ad I tbink this fall when voting time comes, Id t-hylock will hear something drop, Kerflop, Sure pop S. S. White, Halstead, Kansas. EDITORIAL NOTES. AN INSULT TO THE INDEPEN DENT. COMMITTEE. Mr. Kosewater, in the Bee of the 11th, grossly insults the independent eemmittee by ascribing its action repu diating Van Wyck to Mr. Burrows. He says, "Autocrat Burrows, through his under-straps has issued an edict against Gen. Van Wyck," etc. This is simply beastly. A denial -on ur part is not necessary, but the fact it eur edition was two-thirds printed, and we were in our private office when the alleged edict was furnished us ; and it was as new to us as to any man in the State. The Committee has not asked our approval of it ; but we dis tinctly give it all the same. It was the nly course left the Committee as a self-respecting body, and was richly deserved by Van Wyck. FORGOT TO PAY THE TAX. Who pays the tariff? is still an unset tled query with many persons. The kigh tariff advocates claim that the foreign manufacturers who sell their goods to our importers pay it. It is eertainly very charitable on their part. But in the case of the firm below it is evident these foreign gentlemen forgot that duty or our duty which is it? This little circular has just beeD sent out by a St. Jo. firm with a cata- iegne to their customers : PLEASE NOTICE St. Josepii, Mo., Oct. 3, 1890. Owing to the change in the tariff, which goes into effect Oct 6, we are sempelled to change the prices of vel vets and plushes quoted in this book frem I2i to 20 per cent, and we suggest our customers that they mark their stock on hand accordingly. Engleiiart-Winning-Davison Mer cantile Co. POUNDED INTO THE EARTH. Mr. Connell, an alleged candidate for Congress, was in Lincoln Monday, to fcegin a series of speaking appointments with a young man named Bryan. There are to be eleven meetings, we are in formed. At the rate he began Monday ight Mr. Connell will last for only one sore. He will then be a very sick man, and will return to Omaha to re cuperate. And he won't speak any oere in this camiwgn. AUDITOR BENTON STAND UP. What law or precedent have you for auditing and paying any portion of the expenses of the 19th session of the legis lature, all the accounts of which had been audited and settled by a former auditor? Are you aware that your action m auditing Church Howe's claim for extra pay for services in the session is illegal and fraudulent, and that vou can be Made to refund? tSITRosewater, Editor Gere, Tommy Benton.Church Howe, are lying down together, and are appealing to the peo ple to help them save the corporation party which has been robbing and dis Doilinsr the farmers of Nebraska for fifteen year. McKEIGKAN AT SEWARD. Last Saturday Mr. McKeighan ad dressed three thousand people at Sew ard. Great enthusiasm prevailed. The railroad gaiig havn't had a meeting in the state with half the number of hear ers'.' ; 7 At Stockville 153 persons by act vrukl count, including the speakers, turned out to hear N. T. Harlan. Written for The Alliance by J. Burrows. THE FARMERS DEMAND FOR CHEAP MONEY. THE TRUE MONETARY SYSTEM Three indispensable qualities must be possessed by money. These are the power to liquidate debt, the power to represent wealth, the power to accumu late by interest. It will be observed that none of these powers . depend upon the intrinsic value of the material of which money is composed. The power to liquidate debt is termed legal tender, and is always conferred by law. This power can be, and frequently is, confer red upon money composed of material other than metal. The value of metalic meney depends upon this quality. In fact, the term money is not properly ap plicable to any currency that does not possess this quality. It is not necessary that the material composing money up on which this power is conferred should have any intrinsic value at all. The ma terial of money gold, silver, paper or any other substance is a legalized agent, made to express the powers of money, and render them available in business transactions. (Kelloffff P- 71-) The com mon opinion that the material of cur rency must be something scarce and dif ficult to procure, that the limited amount may render it permanently valuable, arises from a misconception of the nature of money, the properties of which are entirely independent of the material. Money consists in the legal powers to represent, measure, accumulate and ex change property and products. Those powers it receives from law. If gold and silver should become as abundant as iron and lead, the only difficulty of maintaining them as the materials of a currency would be the difficulty of pro tecting them from counterfeit. Could they be protected it would be as unneces sary to abandon them for a currency as to abondon the use of paper in making notes, mortgages, etc., because more exists than can be used for the purpose. (Kel. p. 76.) The power to represent value is also a legal power, and is derived from the le gal tender quality conferred upon mon ey by law. Under this power money be comes a lien upon all the property in a country for sale. Paper money may be redeemed as it is called, in metallic mon ey, but if the paper money possesses the legal tender functions, this is simply ex changing one kind of money for another. As a commodity the metal possesses an intrinsic value above the paper, but as money their value is exactly the same, and their power to command products depends upon their abundance or scarci ty relative to those products. We could multiply illustrations of these princi ples, but the limits of a newspaper ar ticle forbids. The power to accumulate by interest is naturally derivable from the power of money to represent property. If A sells his farm to B for money and puts his money into his vest pocket he has trans- erred to the buyer the income derived Tom the farm. The money in A's pock et represents that income, or the farm. As long as A retains that money he re ceives no income, it being represented by the income which B now receives. But if A lends this money to C for him to buy a farm he must pay C an agreed upon proportion of the income of the arm C buys for the use of A's money? Thus A's money is again invested in a Farm from which he derives a revenue though he performs no labor upon it. inere are many who deny the right or justice of interest. But it is difficult to conceive how interest can be entirely dispensed with under a monetary system in whieh money is a representative of wealth. The per cent rate of interest is determined by the system under which money is issued by the government, the volume of its issue, and the rate adopt ed for government securities into which it may be funded. Under our present theory, in which money is considered a natural product, the government rate is determined by the price government 4 securities will command in the money market. As we showed last weeK, it is the accumulating power of interest, un der a false system and unjust and extor tionate rates accompanied by low prices caused by a contracted volume of money, that more than all else is causing the present unequal conditions in our social life. But the power to accumulate by interest is an inherent and indispensable power derivable from the legal tender power and the power to represent wealth. The great point of importance to society is to ascertain and fix the rate of interest that will secure equal and ex act justice between the laborer and the capitalist. Under nationalism as por trayed by Mr, Bellamy, individual capi talists would no longer exist. But un der the competitive system now in vogue capitalists will always exist. The aged person, or the widow who cannot work, who have transformed the fruits of their labor or their inheritance into money. and loan the same, are capitalists. We now give the following extract from "Liabor and uapitai" proposing a true monetary system, which would do more to establish justice and equity among men under our present system, than any other plan ever proposed: In the plan we are about to propose for the formation of a national curren cy bv the general government, all the money circulated in -the United States will be issued by a national institution. and will be a representative of actua property, therefore it can never fail to be a good and safe tender in payment of debts. It will be loaned to maividu als in every State, county, and town. at a uniform rate of interest, and hence will be of invariable value throughout the Union. Ail persons who offer good and permanent security will be at all times supplied with money, and for any term of years during which they will pay the interest. Therefore, no town, county, or State need be dependent upon upon any other for money, because each has real property enough to secure many times the amount it will require. If more than the necessary amount of money be issued, the surplus will be immediately funded, and go out of use without injury. It will be impossible for foreign nations, or any number of banks, or capitalists, to derange the monetary system,' either by changing the rate of interest, or by inducing a scarcity or a surplus of money. It will be the duty of the government to ascer tain as nearly as possible what rate of interest will secure to labor and capital their respective rights, and to fix the interest at that rate. The plan requires the general govern ment to establish an institution, with one or more branches in each State. This institution may appropriately be called the National Safety Fund: first, because the money of this institu tion will constitute a legal tender of uni form value for the whole people, and will always be safe; second, because the interest being fixed at a just rate it will secure the respective rights of la bor and capital; and third, the supply of money being always commensurate with the wants of business, it will effect ually protect the nation from financial revulsions. To make this currency a true repre sentative of property, the Safety Fund must issue its money only in exchange for mortgages secured by double the amount or productive landed estate. The money ought not to be issued on perishable property, nor on the credit of individuals, because such property might be destroyed, or the individuals become bankrupt, when the money would cease to be a representative and become worthless, except for the guar antee of the government, and the loss would fall upon the nation. 1 he money then, when put in circulation, will rep resent and be secured by the first half of productive property, and the interest upon the mortgages will be secured by a portion of the yearly products or in come of the'property. TheSafety Fund will issue its money, bearing no inter est. We have shown that money to maintain its value must not only repre sent property, but must always be capa ble of being loaned for a uniform in come. It is therefore necessary to pro vide not only for the issue, but also for is of the money. No govern ment can regulate the value of money unless it provide means for funding it; this being the only way in which the in terest upon it can be kept uniform. I he first of the following obligations will be the money of the institution; the second will be a note bearing in terest for the fucdjng of the money: No. Monet. Dated - $500. - $500. The United States will pay to the bearer five hundred dollars in a Safety Fund Kote, on demand, at the Safety Fund Office in the city of No. Safety Fund Note. Dated- $500 $500 One year from the first day of May next, or at any time thereafter, the United States will pay to A. B., or order, in the city of five hundred dollars; and. until such payment is made, will pay inter est thereon on the first day of May in each year at the rate of one percent, per annum. The money will bear no interest, but may always be exchanged for the Safety 1 T-i I I Til 1 . . r mm xoies, wmca win oear interest. Those who may not wish to purchase property or pay debts with their money, can always loan it to the Institution for a Safety Fund Note, bearing an interest of one per cent, per annum. Therefore the money will always be good; for it will be the legal tender for debts and property, and can always be in vested to produce an income. lhe money being loaned at one and one-tenth per cent., and the Safety r und .Notes bearing but one percent the difference of one-tenth, per cent in the interest will induce owners of money to lend to individuals, and thus prevent continual issuing and funding of money Dy tne insurunon. The Safety Fund Notes are made pay able a year afrer date, to prevent the unnecessary trouble of funding money for short periods. It is not probable that the Institution will issue Notes for a less amount than $500. People having small amounts will seldom wish to fund them. They wii loan to individuals or purchase property. If. however, it be deemed desirable to fund small amounts, they may be received, and credited in a small book, as in savings banks, and the interest paid upon these credits as upon Safety Fund Notes. Having given an outline and brief ex planation of the proposed system of currency, we will proceed to show that the money issued by the Safety Fund will possess all the properties, and be capable of performing all the functions of money. We have said in our descrip tion of money that it must be a rppre sentative of property. I he Safety Fund money being based on productive landed estate to double its amount, will be an undoubted representative of property. Second, money must have power to accu mulate. The provision made" by the Safety Fund for funding the money will secure an income beyond all contingen cy. Thiid, it must have power to meas ure value. The Safety Fund money will not only possess this power equally with coins, but it will possess the addi tional quality of being a uniform and perfect measure. By establishing auni form rate of interest, the dollar will be of invariable value, and cannot be made to fluctuate more in the measure of property than the yardstick in the meas ure of cloth. Fourth, it must have power to exchange value. Being insti tuted by the general government as the legal tender, and its income power es tablished, all persons will be compelled to receive it in exchange for property and labor. We have elsewhere shown that any portable substance possessing these properties will be money. The Safety Fund money will possess all the properties adapted to its use as money that belong to coins, and can be counted and carried with greater convenience, and can be more easily transmitted trom one section of the country to another. The effectof its adoption wil oe to anninnate an dinerence of ex 1 rm . m coange oeiween ainerent commercia points, or to reduce it to the merely nominal expense oi letter postage. Written for The Alliance by Venier Voldo. To.Morrow. - Fill and fatten on flesh of men , Ye cannibal kisgs of the land. There are millions to corral within y our ptn. And you may consume them all, for then There are millions more right at hand. Make haste to slacken your thirst, I say, Without thought of human sorrow. Hasten and work your will to-day. For you'll not slay men to-morrow! And here is food for our master's mill Moth rs and maidens, wan and slight. An children to coin for the golden till. It matters not how swiftly you kill, For they are all waifs of he night; And make you haste to rife and slay, f Without any heed of sorrow, You can feed upon helpless lives to-day, You'll not prey upon men to-morrow ! Lives and years and wearing toil, O, these are only things for gain. A fruitage sweet for a tyrant's spoil. However grown on human soil, Forth from the bosom and lap of pain; Haste and consign them to hapless clay, There's a profit in bleeding sorrow. You can rob and murder and wrong to-day, It will all have an end to-morrow! CORPO RATION TOOL M'C ANDLESS. A Legislative Candidate in Western Ne braska Whose Record Does not Read Well. Harrisburg, Neb., Oct. 4, 1800. Editor Farmers' Alliakce- Know ing that your paper has a large number of readers in this county of Banner, and the other counties of the 54th represen tative district, I will, with your permis sion, give a few facts concerning the character and ability of the republican candidate for representative from this district. ' There is no desire o the part of any one so far as I know to make this a per sonal abuse campaign, but rather to al ow the candidates fair play, and it is especially desirable that they meet in public discussion throughout the dis trict. The action of the republican candidate for representative here, W. J. McCandless.in "fading" precipitately to the east end of the district as soon as the arrival in the county of the inde pendent candidate for senator was an nounced, seems to place an embargo on this method of learning the merits and demerits of the respective standard bearers. In the first place, this man McCand- less was endorsed by the Banner county republicans over an opponent, on the grounds that said opponent held a Dor sey post office, and would consequntly cast the congressional delegation for that gentleman. McCandless was very loud in his protestations against Dorsey, and his compassionate heart was torn with fear least the shyster should again have a chance to misrepresent the poor people. Consequently he won the fight. But what else do we find? The record shows that the congressional delegatioa led by McCandless went to Columbus and shouted straight through the piece for Dorsey, and McCandless now has charge of the Dorsey campaign in this county. Of course,. Banner county peo ple are righteously indignant, and when the eve of November 4th rolls around the confidence man will find that he has lacked a good many votes of parrying his own county. Another fact which is somewhat no torious about here, and which the fes tive deceiver dare not deny, is that he became the possessor of a pass over the Union Pacific railway within thirty day s after the Banner county republican coqvention had endorsed him. Mind you that corporation did not wait until the representative convention had been held, but secured a first mortgage on W. J. McCandless as soon as his bud ding aspirations had been recognized in one little county. The people will however, by virtue of the ballot box. foreclose the mortgage on November 4th, and turn the creature over to the tender mercies of the railroad company, shorn of titles and fond hopes for cor porate lucre. The treasurer or Box Butte county is also looking for lucre, and has sent an account for delinquent taxes against W. J. McCandless, to the treasurer of this county for collection by 6uit. McCandless boasts of his "straight republicanism, and asks "straight re publicans to stick to the ticket and vote for a '-straight" republican. This man has been in the district long enough to vote once,and at that election he voted a mugwump ticket, headed by two soreheads who had just been defeated in their respective party conventions. It was no crime for him to vote thus in dependently, but we wonder how he expects a voter to be a "straight" re publican and still vote for him. There are a number of shady transac tions linked with the name of this man which are gradually becoming public property, including very questionable tricks which have been performed in the settlement of an estate in which an almost poverty stricken widow is inter ested. A statement will seon be made by the defrauded parties which will forever condemn McCandless in the eyes of the people who loye justice, and oppose the oppression of the poor. On the prohibition question Mr. MoCand less performs the great straddle act. uptowitnina short time ago ne was generally known as a regular and pofit able patron of the saloon, and acknowl edged in a public meeting that he is gambler. It is well known here that he SDent several whole nights in p.vrv week gambling in a low whiskey joint that was jn operatiou until a few months ago, when it was driven out by indig nant citizens. When he came up for the legislature, knowing that this coun ty would cast a prohibition maiontv. he proclaimed himself a prohibitionist, and even endeavored to secure a com mission from the amendment league to lecture over the county, but they had had no use for him. He has proved t-i 1 . . ! , 1 . mniseii a coniempuoie nypocnte on this as well as all other public questions wit which he has had anything to da lo voters throughout the district who wish to be represented fairly and honorably in the next legislature, we would say that scores of republicans rignc nere at Aicuand leas' home wil scratch him and vote for the other man He has enraged our people by betraying tucui m nie uuugressionai convention. and of course they do not intend to trust him in the more responsible Very Respectfully, MARTIN MONTZ. As It Is Now ad As It Ought to Be. Whenever a member of the peoples' party comes to town nowadays he is surely met by some person who puts this question to him: "You have always been a republican or democrat, now you are a peoples' man, which time were you right." Then follows a sneer or some unkind remark about turncoat or something intended to make a man angry or fearful that perhaps he has made a mistake. To the thinking and patriotic man it is a promising sign that he citizen is everywhere declaring his independence of party. The force bill is dividing the republicans, the free trade question the democrats. Only a short time ago people were proud of boasting of their "loyalty," which was another name for meek submission to the party lash7 "I'm no Laodicean: there's nothing lukewarm about me." I'm a democrat (or republican, as the case might be) dyed in the wool. 1 always vote the straight ticket." Phrases of this sort were uttered proudly, and even with a consciousness of superior virtue, by men who were not deficient either in brains or in integrity, who had wills of their own and exercised them in every department of human endeavor except in politics. They never seemed conscious of the serfdom to which they degraded themselves. They never rec ognized that the man who is athick-and-thin partisan is the worst foe of his country, that progress is impossible if citizens and voters ignominioushr allow themselves to be carried along tne tide of party sentiment. A party is after all only a name for a set of principles crys tallized into intelligible shape by the people who believe in them. The name is in the shadow, the principles are the substance. let with the curious blind ness that the human intelligence often evidences the name grows to be of more value than the principle, the shadow than the substance. The politicians elected to office as "republicans" or as "democrats" might cut and cover and betray the most vital principles of their party; their constituents out and covered with them and never thought to murmur or protest. Indeed the good and loyal republican or democrat did not dare to have any opinions on public questions or on the private characters of public men. He went with his "party" with the more or less inefficient and dishonest men whom his vote had put into prom inence. The inevitable result followed. Both partes passed into the hands of unscru pulous and.venal men who found that they could take hold of the voter by the nose and lead him to -the polls in their interests. These men by their "eloquence" by "firing the hearts" of their stump audiences kept alive the loyalty of their bond-slaves and continu d themselves in office.. A hideous car nival of political crime was the result. bcandals in national affairs, scandals in local affairs, whiskey scandals, Credit Mobillier scandals. Star Route scandals, Tammany scandals, rings, combines, bosses, threatened to make us a hissing and a by word among the nations. But the heart of the country was true and sound though its head was a little off. Voters threw off their "loyalty" : for a moment they 6hook off the trade mark; the result an independent movement all over the country in which good citi zens irrespective of party joined-hands in a common effort and for a common good. It is not by accident that government grows corrupt and passes out ot tne hands of the people. If we would real ly make and continue this government of the people for the people and by the people we must give to politics our earnest attention ; we must be prepared to review our opinions, to give up old ideas, and accept new ones. We must abandon prejudice, and make our reckoning with free minds. The sailor who, no matter how the wind might change, should persist in keeping his vessel under tne same sail and on tne same tack, would never reach his haven We are better, infinitely better, than we were we are not yet perfect, we need more independence, not less, or the politiciaus will master us again. This is how the Vote will be. Editor Alliance : Can you find room in your paper ror this little evi dence showing as I believe, how the vote will be when counted out Novem ber fifth, 1860. Along about October 1st, I stopped over night with a Mr. Trapp, living on O sreet, twenty-one miles east of .Lincoln post office. Before 1 started out in the morning I took my note book and set down the names of all the nominees for governor, Powers, Paine, Boyd and Richards. As I rode along ( I bad to ride slow as I was leading a cow) I asked each and every man who was his choice tor gov ernor this fall, and here is what they said. In coming the 18 miles, I left O street miles east of post office, I met 32 men, and out of the 32 there were 14 who wanted Mr. Powers, 3 for Rich ards, 4 for Boyd, and 2 for Paine: 8 who did not have any choice, and 1 who did not know there was to. be an election I also met two ladies and asked them who was their choice (or husband's choice) and they said Mr. Powers was their husband's choice. A majority of these men were going after apples and not one said he was going to leave the state. I wish every voter in the land could have heard the words spoken by a prominent republican herein Lincoln The writer of this was waiting for a car on llth and O, not long since, when he over heard the following conversation, it referred to several covered wagons passing down the street, apparently all from the western homestead Tne following is what was said: "There, see; that is all the way we re publicans can hope to defeat the inde pendent ticket. The poor devils will have to leave their homesteads before election." - ' Now, voters of Nebraska, who have voted almost solidly or as a unit for the one party for years, how do you like to hear that, or how would you? Would not your blood fairly boil as mine did to hear a man rejoice at other's misfor tunes? Isn't it tjme all hone3t free thinkers, unite as one, go to the polls this fall and forever bury such low lived and stinking, rotten party? Let each one say "I will help," and it can be done. A few weeks only remain to work for. this election and after all is over, successful or not. we will have the work still to carry on, till we can show to the world what a country can become, ruled by love, truth and right. E. G. Coolet. B Remember the great Allianc rally at Lincoln, October 25th. x8,ooo Chattel Mortgages Filed in Custer County in 1890. Broken Bow, Neb., Oct. 10. Editor Alliance: On the eve of October 7th A. E. Cady, of St. Paul, made a speech in Broken Bow in favor of the republi can party, and he no doubt succeeded in tickling the ears of his g. o. p. audi tors. But here are some of the )oints he made: He said the circulating madium of the country amounted to $24 per capita, and he showed from the report of the secretary of the treasury that there was that much in existence. but he did not take into consideration the fact that there are large amounts held as reserve funds by the various banks, insurance companies, and other branches of business, which no doubt re duces it to what Senator Plumb of Kan sas said in the United States senate last winter, which was $8 per capita. Sen ator Plumb is a good republican, so, Mr. Cady, please don't go back on him. He cited the fact that the republican party has governed this state for 23 years and today as a state it is free from debt, and that we have paid almost the limit, which is 15 mills, in taxes; he forgot to tell them that the taxes had been enormous in this time, and that there were 18,000 chattel mortgages filed in the office of the county clerk of Custer county during WJ, and that that condition prevails all over the state. In some particulars it is emarkable what a poor memory Mr. Cady has. But Mr. Editor, such absurd and false statements have lost their power in Custer county, for she will roll up 1,000 majority for the independent ticket. Rally for "Custer county's fa- vorite son," (as Mr. Cady derisively Bro. Kem) and the independent Jay Rose, Broken Bow, Nebraska. called ticket. Resolutions. Whereas, Feeling that the intelligence, dignity, and integrity of the farmer class of our population have been un warrantably treated with insult by the ultra monopoly State Journal in its edi toriil "Clear out the Slanderers," of the 14th ult., in which, the Independents are placed on a level with hogs, because of their independent action and determi nation to relieve themselves of oppres sion and plutocratic rule, and in which the "followers of Kem, Powers and McKeighan" are represented as "shift- ess lazy and improvident;" therefore be it Resolved, That the Emerald Alliance denounces in terms unequivocal this shameful attack on the sacred honor of men who dare to differ from tyrants; and be it further Resolved, That the Emerald Alliance henceforth exercise still greater energy in educating their fellow men to a seuse of their duty, and in gathering them into the ranks that are marshalling to break the oppressors shackles, and to destroy plutocratic rule. . Grand Meeting in Nemeha County. Stella, Oct, 6th, 1890. Editor Alliance. Nemaha County is to have a grand Picnic and big Rally October 24th at Auburn. Old Nemaha will turn out the biggest crowd that day she has yet done. All her Alliances will be out in force. Everybody will go. as this demonstration is to snow Howe Tom is to go up Salt River, Nov. 4th. Hon. Allen Root, Mr. Dech and other prominent speakers and the county nominees are all to be out look out for big one. The Reunion here proved a good thing for the Independent Cause. The Love feast between the Governor and Tom Majors leaves the soldiers in doubt whether these two put the rebellion down alone or whether or no they hadn't a hand in it. "Ou is sweet," says Thayer. "So is ou." says Majors. "Then who is sweet? Why. Bof of us." Come again Aiovernor, after JMov. 4th, and poor Tom may have need of you. tiKAJNUEK. JOHN PIERCE EXPOSED. Holdrege, Neb., Oct. 7, 1890. Editor Alliance: The above named person joined the Urbana Alliance No. and was its president. Later on he began to work with our enemies. and to protect the organization he was expelled. In return for his treachery he has been nominated for state senator bv the re publican wing of corporations. They know they cannot elect him, but have put him up to be slaughtered. The papers of tioidrege merely made a passing comment, but did not place his name at the head of the column with the other candidates. This was the week of October 4th. Brother independent workers not merely alliance brethren, as the inde pendent movement includes all opposed to corporate rule of Harlan, Kearney and Phelps counties, we thus warn you of the enimies' tactics. Act according ly. E. P. MONTGOMERY. ONE BY ONE THE ROSES FALL. Van Wyck and Wooster Gone. Silver Creek, Oct. 7, 1890. J. M. Thompson, Secretary State Alliance: Sir: I herewith enclose the resolution of Silver Creek Alliance No. 494, expelling Chas. Wooster, for the information of other Alliances of the state: Resolted, That the members of Silver Creek Alliance No. 494 do hereby expel Charles Wooster for misdemeanor. M. L. Hammond, Secretary. Gage County All Right. Liberty, Neb , Oct. 10, 1800. Hon. J. Burrows: Had a good meeting at Wymore last light. Every thing is booming in this "neck of the woods." Gage county is solid for the peoples' ticket. We are gaining ground in Pawnee every day. Business men in the towns are coming to us everywhere On with the fight. Victory is ours. The enemy is on the run. The people are bound to win a glorious victory. Yours, W. F. Wright. Plattsmoutii, Oct., 8, 1890. Editor Alliance. It is understood around here that all the men working in the B. & M. shops in Plattsmouth are going to vote the old ticket, uhe com pany have begun to tell them if they don't they will lose their places in the shops, I would ask you to put this in your paper. I am a poor writer, please nx it up a little as you like. PXTBK JENSON, Cottonwood Alliance. Senator Paddock's Speech. For Tub Alliance. The Hon. Algernon S. Paddock. Bea- al or from Nebraska, has sent me a copy of his great speech upon the tariff bill. I may be ignorant, and I do not propose to argue the question with him, as I an only a hayseed; but as he has sent me his speech I have a right to quote from it and comment upon the same. There are many passeges I should like to quote. but time and space will not admit, lie sajs. "During the last decade the farmers of our state have more than doubled their wealth. They have seen their farms appreciate in value, and often a hundred loid, and their crops una ready sale at renumerative prices." lhe benator does not quote the mil lions of dollars brought here from the east and invested in improvements We could show him hundreds of farms that were partially improved with money brought here by the occupant, and when that money was gone they mortgaged their farms and put most oi that money in building and other improvements. and to day they cannot even pay the in terest on their loans, and their farms would not sell for half the value of the improvements. Then he says our crops find ready sale at remunerative prices. Let me ask what are such prices? Is it 40 cents for wheat, 10 cents for oats. and 13 cents for corn, as it has been for the past few years? 1 suppose these prices are remunerative in the eyes of Earties who live on a good fat salary, e seems to take this year's prices as a criterion to go by, when we have but little to sell and much to buy, and prices are high accordingly. "Inquiries recently instituted as to the bank deposits in our state indicate that out of $64,000,000 of such deposits 70 per cent are those of Nebraska farm ers, l feel authorized to say that this sum would pay off erery farm mortgage in Webraska, and leave a handsome sur plus to their owners." Would to Ciod we could believe such statement. We have questioned those who have a chance to know, and they inform us that over 00 per cent of the farms in Antelope county are mort gaged, and many of them for more than they are worth. The unmortgaged 10 per cent must be making money very last. I belong to that 10 per cent, but do not have more $50,000,000 in the bank. Now let me say that Antelope county I believe to be above the aver age of counties in the quality of land, and its citizens, as a rule are sober, in dustrious and economical class of peo ple, and most of them are denying themselves of their daily wants in try ing to keep up their interest, hoping that times may get better by the time their principal comes due. But I will quote a little farther. "lhe wicked vaporing pr irresponsi ble agitators endeavoring through malicious perversion of patent facts to advance their personal and political ends by sowing dissatisfaction and dis content among our people has lately done more damage than a visitation of grass hoppers, three successive years of not blasts from the semi torrid plains of the southwest or ten years duration of the most unjust and oppressive protec tive tariffs conceivable." I suppose when he talks of the dam age done to the people he means the class called republican politicians. I for one have no ax to grind. I am not a candidate for office, and never expect to be: but I hope the time has come when the farmers and laborers see the necessity of voting for men who are op posed to making paupers out of the la boring classes in order to build up mil lionaires. Honor is due those who were the instigators of the present indepen dent move in this state. We want all to prosper. Heretofore there were but two classes that prospered, viz: The banker and the republican politician. He talks of a steady stream of invest ments having lowered the interest rates. Yes, it has got way down to 2 per cent a month. He says that if it was not for our protective tariff system Ne braska would be a prairie to-day, and quotes prices etc., but does not go far enough to tell us that we cau buy American made implement etc. cheaper across the water than we can buj' them at home, yet our manufacturers nan not compete with pauper labor. He fails to tell us that we are paying a tariff on our clothing, our bedding, dishes, tools, in fact on nearly all our necessaries of life. Then we pay tariff to ship our grain over protected railroads. And when our wheat gets to Liverpool we ire compelled to sell it in competition with the pauper raised grain of the world; hence we are not only entirely unprotected but must pay tribute to pro tect our manufacturers. L. II. Sutzk. Meeting of Saline County Farmers' Alli ance. Wilber, Neb. Sept. 27, 1890. The delegates to the County Alliance met in pursuance with the call of the secretary in the Saline county court house on Saturday, bept. 27th, 18U0. Delegates from about two-thirds of the Subordinate lodges were present. The meeting was called by President Savage who gave a very suggestive address on the need 8 and duties of tho present campaign. Chairmen were appointed so that each of the sixteen preciucts in Saline county have a precinct chair man. After a short discussion on the county papers to publish Alliance work it was decided by a unanimous vote to support the State Alliance paper, and several new subscribers were added to the Saline county list. After some discussion it was decided that Bro. W. II. Dech could reach more and do more good by going to Tobias on Oct. 13th than anywhere else in the county. Moved and carried that every male member of the Alliance be assessed to pay campaign expenses. By vote, the following resolutions be sent to The Farmers' Alliance for publication: Whereas, Certain county papers per sist in publishing deliberate falsehoods about our order and about our candi dates; therefore, Resolved, That unless they (democratic as well as republican newspapers) dis continue these vile and unwarranted attacks upon our men we shall be obliged to consider them enemies to our order, and to treat them as such. And further Resolved, That unless such slanderous reports are forthwith denied publica tion we shall be obliged to withdraw our support from all such papers as persist in this course. Wilbkk Savage, Chaj. M. Turner, Pres. 8ey. rv