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THE PAKMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1890. THE FARMERS ALLIANCE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT THE . ; ALLIAHCE PUBLISHIHB CO OOB. lltb.AND M STS., UXCOLH, - - NEBRASKA. J. BURROWS, - - - Editor. J. M. THOMPSON. Busing la the beauty mf the lilliea Ckrist was born across the sea, Wlta a glory in his bosom ''. That transfigures you and me. Aa He strove to make, men holy Let us strive to make men free, Since God is marching on." Julia Ward Howe. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerts." A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. "He who cannot reason is a fool, He who will not reason is a coward, He who dare not reason is a slave." EDITORIAL. Independent State Ticket. JOHN H. POWERS, of Hitohoook I4vtennt, Governor, s WM. H. DECH, of Saunders. rotary of state, a N. MAYfiRKRY, of Pawnee. Mate Treasurer. J. V. WOLFE, of Lancaster. Attorney General, J. W. EDOEKTON, of Dourlas. As4itor, JOHN HATIK, of Wheeler. imtsntoner of Public Land and Building, W. F. WHIG UT. of Nemaha. 6uprlnfennm of Public Instruction, PKOP.A. I A L L KM A N D.of FurnM ForOoagress First Congressional District. HON. ALLEN ROOT, Dsujrlaa. Lancaster County Independent Ticket. State Senators. J. M. THOMPSON. JAMES B. TAYLOR. Representatives. ELIAS BAKER. W. 3. DFMAUEE. I. F. DALE. J. F. EGOER. w. j. McAllister. Commissioners. L. S. QILLTCK. AUGUST ANDERSON. D. A. STOCKING. County Attorney. N. Z. SNPLTj. Chairman State Committee, GEO. W. BL V K.H. Sooretary State Committee. C. H. FIRTLB. Headquarters State Committee, Uf4 P btreet, Lincoln. Nee. THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Published Weekly by the ' iigCo. u J. BURROWS, Editor. - J. M. THOMPSON, Bus. Mg'r. SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. OR FIVB SUBSCRIPTIONS, IN ONE ORDER ONE YEAR FOR $4.00. The Alliance is the official organ of the State Alliance. It is conducted solely in the interest of the farmers and laboring men of the state. It is abso lutely fearless and untrammeled in the discussion of all questions. IT AC CEPl'S NO CORPORATION PAT RON AliE ITS EDITORS HAVE NO FREE PASSES, AND ITS OPINIONS ARE NOT FOR SALE AT ANY PRICE, In the above particulars it is a new departure in Nebraska journal ism. . We confidently appeal for support to all who can appreciate the value of such a paper. SPECIAL NOTICE. The most important political cam paign ever made in Nebraska is about to open. On the one side will be ar rayed the farmers and laborers of the state; on the other the corporations and their henchmen, and the newspapers which for years have prostituted their columns to the uses of corporations. The Alliance will be the special or gan of the farmers and their society in the contest. Not only should every Alliance man take the paper himself, but he should aid in extending it to those who are not yet members. To enable our members to so extend it, we offer it. Ci CLUBS OF TEN, TILL JANUARY 1st, 18 1, FOH 20cts. PREMIUMS. Thk Alliance one year, and Look ing Backward, post paid.... $1.30 Ditto and Lalxr and Capital by Kellogg 1.10 Ditto and Caesar's Column 1.25 Ditto and Our Republican Mon archy by Venier Voldo 1.10 The above books for sale at this of fice, or sent postpaid as follows: Looking Backward 50 cts. Caesar's Column 50 cts, Labor and Capital .....20 cts Our Republic in Monarchy . .25 cts Address, Axxianck Pub. Co., Lincoln, Neb. Report Results. "We earnestly request our friends in all the counties to send U3 correct lists o: all Independents elected to office as soon as the result is known. Do not fail to send us the name and P. 0. address of every member of the legislature whom the people may elect. To Subscribers Old and New. For One Dollar we will send The Farmer's Alliance One year from this date till Jaa. 1st, "181)2. Send in your names. We ask every one of our old subscriber? to send us one new name Alliance Mlisli Spreads v.ight. THE MONSTROUS CHEEK OF SENATOR PADDOCK. THE MOST VILLAINOUS LAND STEAL OF THE CENTURY, CLAIMED BY HIM AS A BENEFI CENT REPUBLICAN ' MEASURE. A GROSS ATTEMPT TO FOOL THE PEOPLE OF NEBRASKA. Senator Paddock, the man who said that -'mortgages were evidences of prosperty," has issued a voluminous address to the people of. Nebraska, instructing them in their political duties- TheoreiicHlly. U. S. Senators are supposed to know something about the condition of their constituents, and also a little something about the laws the body of which they are members pass, and their effects upon the people. But Senator Paddock has proved himself to be either grossly ignorant or grossly knavish, we are uncertain which. If he was in his place in the Senate and heard the speeches of Senators Morgan and Wheeler, of Alabama, on what is alsely termed the land forfeiture bill, he certainly cannot be ignorant of the nature of the bill. If he is not ignorant he is guilty of parading before his con stituents as a meritorious republican measure a bill which perpetrates upon the people one of the most monstroas steals of the century, We do not give him the benefit of the doubt. He knew all about it He is a railroad man .from i way-back, and it is not at-at I likely that there was a bill of such great magni tude pending and he not know all about and upon whom it conferred benefits. Now let us see what he savs, and then et us look at the facts. He says. "Look at the record." and then names the creditable measures passed in the inter est of the. people by the late Congress, among them, "the land grant forfeiture bill, by which the goverument will re- . . v . m i ceive over o.uuu.uuu acres oi unearnen and under grants to certain railroads." Now what are the facts? The facts are that this false named "land grant erfeiture bill" gives to the Northern Pacific railroad THIRTY MILLIONS ACRES OF UNEARNED PUBLIC LANDS; and forfeits to the people only bur million acres. It was not enough or Senator Paddock to misstate entirely the nature of the bill, and to conceal entirely the fact that it gave this land away, but he must double the amount that it reclaimed for the people. For six years the Northern Pacific attorneys have been striving to get this bill passed; but it was not until the republican party gained full swa3 in both houses of Congress and at the White-House that it could be accom plished. This stupendous steal takes from the people enough land to MAKE SIX STATES AS LARGE AS MASSACHU SETTS, OR TEN STATES AS LARGE AS CONNECTICU T and gives it to a railroad corporation. It is passed by a republican Congress and signed by a republican President; and then a republican U. S. Senator parades it before the people as a merito rious law which "reclaims over 8,00C,000 acres or uuearnea land," and asks their suffrages for his railroad party on the strength of in. - For unexampled gall this beats the record. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, in his speech upon the bill, shows a monstrous condition of affairs facts of which Sen ator Paddock and his confreres who voted for this bill were entirely cogni zant, viz: that there were 15,000 settler's cases pending in the interior depart ment in regard to lauds claimed by the Northern Pacific; but which it was known it had never earned, and on which settlers had entered. And yet these men passed a bill confirming in the Northern Pacific title to these lands. AND MADE NO EXCEPTION OR PROVISION WHATEVER FOR THOSE SETTLERS Senetor Paddock and John M. Thurs ton and the other railroad statesmen who on the stump and in the press are exhibiting such frantic fear at the pros pect of the defeat of the g. o. p. in Nebraska, have a great deal to say about "the principles" of the republican party. We desire to remark that the people are not deserting the republican party on account of its principles, but on ac count of its robberies. To accentuate and emphasize the fact of the entire ownership of this party by the railroads, its Cognress, about to ad journ on the eve of an election, passes a law which for depth of infamy has not been excelled in a century, and sends one of its prophets home to Nebraska to say to the people, "See what a benefi cent land grant forfeiture bill we have passed!" A huacirea thousand ballots silently dropping all over the State next Tues day will tell Senator Paddock that the people cannot be fooled this time. THURSTONIANA "Of all the public speakers in Ne braska Mr. Ihurston pre-eminently pos sesses the ability to enthuse the repub lican heart." State Journal, 0t. 24. The above short eulogy is certainly suggestive. John M.Thurston possesses, perhaps, some admirable qualities. Naturally he had much ability. He has cultivated bis talents until he has now become known as an able attorney. He was quite well endowed as an orator, and he has cultivated that faculty until he has acheived a high rank as a special pleader. He possesses a commanding presence, a splendid voice, and is a fa vorite with the ladies, as their occu paney of two-thirds of the seats at his late meeting in Lincoln attests. With these good qualities what a splendid career was opened before him. As a tribune of the people, espousing a just cause, the door to every sanctuary of eminence and honor would have swung back on silvery hinges at his approach But with all his magnificent gifts, with his commanding presence, his splendid roice, his oratorical powers, he lacks some element of manhood that is essen tial to his access to the love and admir- ation of his fellow men. What is it f We can onlj guess by the situations in which we find him. A tyrannical agr gressive power springs up in our econ omic organism a power without a soul, a power having immortal Jife and liv ing only for greed of gold, a power that meets the people on every corner with a hidden iron hand. John M. Thurs ton is its special attorney and advocate. Has this power got a point to make in the legislature, a victim to put down in the court, a vote to buy, an oil-room to ruu, John M. Thurston is its special tool and instrument. It is false that he has the ability to enthuse anyone's heart. Men admire Thurston's ability, women admire his tine figure, all ad mire his Hue voice and smile at his grandiloquent flowing periods; but he does not reach or move any one's heart. He has no heart himself. With his splendid talents degraded to the base uses of a corporation, w ith insincerity depicted on his every feature and echo ing from every tone, men simply de spise him. The situation of this country is alarm ing enough to rouse the attention of every man who pretends to a concern lor the public weiiare. John M. Thurs ton eulogises this situation, strives to lull the people into a fatal repose, and as the paid attorney of a threatening and usurping power, Uses his influence to extend its sway over the nations. As an orator he sheds crocodile tears in his pretended sympathy with the poor. As a railroad attorney he stands as the champion of the rich against the needy and distressed." While glorify ing the record of the g. o. p. does he now con sider it a misiortune that he did not in 61 think . it worth his while to help make that record? We wouder. With a nation reduced to a state which hardly any change can mend, could not our John find something more worthy of bis powers than the defense of a robbing tariff bill ? Isn't it very strange that the republi can party should have entrusted the work of "enthusing the republican heart" almost entirely to railroad at torneys? In fact, with all the glorious achieve ments of the party, with the mngnili cent and luxurious condition of all the people, with money plenty, no debt. and no idle or hungry men, women or children in city, town or country, isn't it passing strange that the republican heart should need to be enthused at all? Under such glorious conditions, with lustmctive adoration and admiration the republican heart should spontane ously bubble up in joyous ebulition without the aid of a crowd of railroad attorneys and great criminal lawyers. But, alas, it does not. It needs special pleadings and brass bands, aud funny stories, and a bloody shirt, and mouu tains of agony over a bloody chasm, aud a backer's boodle, and the elo quence of a Thurston, and then en thuses only a few degrees above zero. Dear Oil room Johnny: After next Tuesday jou can have a vacation to go a fishing. You had better seek a place where it is a little warmer to fish in. Your salary will run right on. You must recuperate your streugth and hus band your energies, as next winter an oil-room will be needed at the same old stand. Tata. THE ALLIANCE PARADE. The Alliance parade at Lincoln on Saturday last was a grand affair. About five thousand people participated in it, and as many were present at the speak ing on the fair ground. The day was quite raw and windy, with promises of a storm in the morning, wnien deter red many from attending. , In the evening the independents had a rousing meeting at the opera house. The house was full and addresses were made by Mr. Powers, Mr. Edgerton and Mr. Minehan, of Omaha. Mr. Powers' address was admirable, clear and logi cal. He eave the most excellent rea- sous for the existence of the indepen dent ticket. He made an excellent im pression upon the audience. Mr. Edg erton began very late, and so had a poor chance. But he fixed the atteution of his hearers from the start, and would have interested them much longer than he did, though it was near eleven o'clock when he closed. On the whole, the day and evening meeting made many friends for the people's ticket. We would be glad to give a detailed account of the parade and the hundreds of mottos and devices displayed. But our time has been so absorbed by work not connected with the office that it is impossible for us to do so. TO THE MERCHANTS AND BUSI- NFSS MEN OF LINCOLN. Gentlemen: The Lincoln Herald very pertiuently calls your attention to the fact that you are filing the co!umn of the Lincoln Journal with large and costly advertisements, while at the samo time that paper is characterizing you in its columns as thieves and liars. . While mot articles of merchandize in demand at this time have been advanced in price in the eastern markets by theMcKiuley bill, and you are. compelled to advance accordingly, the Lincoln Journal is accusingy ou of robbing your customers, and of lying when you attribute the ad vance to the tariff. , . . We desire to invite your attention, to the fact that you are placing the bulk of your advertising where it will do "you the least good. It is true you can get advertizing in the daily Journal for about one-eighth of what you can get it in The Alliance. But advertising in The Alliance is twenty times as valu able as it is in the Journal. If y ou do not believe this ask our advertising patrons. A daily paper is hurriedly read by busy men who seek . only that which specially interests them. A week ly paper is carefully read by those who have more leisure, and its advertise ments are all carefully scanned. Besides this, The Alliance probably, has ten readers where the Journal has one. Now is the time to send in your ad. THE FARMER'S DEMAND FOR CHEAP MONEY. We have received a letter from our friend Fred Stolley in relation to the ar ticles under the .above title which have lately appeared in The Alliance. Mr. Stolley seems to "be in doubt whether the advantages claimed would be de rived from a more abundant volume of money issued on land security. He asks: " In case we should succeed in getting one aud two per cent money di rect from the government on real estate security could we hinder the million aires, the railroad kings, the men of the large boards of " trade who control the food products through their meney power from making as much money out of that good . law for the farmer as we do?" Mr. Stolley means by this, we suppose, that if they made the same proportionally as the poorer classes the relative conditions would re main unchanged, which would be true. 1st. The rate of interest determines the reward of capital. The rate of in terest maintained upon loans of money determines what proportion of the earn ings of labor shall be paid for the use of capital and what proportion shall be paid to laborer's for their production. All business is based upon the rate per cent money will command. The law of interest as much governs the use of all property, and consequently the reward of labor, as the law of gravitation gov erns the descent of water. If the yearly products of labor are divided between two purposes, and the amount required for one is diminished, that avail able for the other will - be increased. That is the fact as to products of labor. They are used to pay first the use of the capital employed, second the wages of the labor employed. These premises being true any measure which will actu ally and absolutely reduce interest will increase wages. The issue of money on land security direct from the govern ment at a low rate fixed by the govern ment will do this. But it would do greatly more. Enterprises are now re tarded and labor unemployed by reason of the high demands for money or its absolute scarcity. Make money more pleHtiful and more labor would be em ployed and a greatly increased amount of wealth be produced, and thus the pro duct to be divided between capital ind labor greatly enlarged, increasing the rewards of both. Mines are unworked, streams unbridged, mountains untun neled and forests unhewn because of the exhorbitaut exactions for the use of money, the agency which sets the wheels of industry in motion. Make that agency accessible to all who could give the necessary security, and there need be no idle men nor idle hour in all the year except from choice. That there would need to be other laws to regulate trade, to prevent fraud, to protect the week from the strong, there is no doubt. But the first law. and the one that embraces more than any other single one, is this one reform ing our financial system. I u conclusion Mr. Stolley says: "If we could get for our own products what they are worth we would need no banks at all, and no one ' and two per cent money from the government. We could coin all the money on our farms that we needed." Well, that comes very near stating the truth. But the reason we do not get what our products are worth is because of the contraction of our money volume and the expansion of oar volume of products. It is the natural operation of the law of supply and demand. The supply of money being too small, it takes a large amount of labor represented by products to obtain a little of it, while the amount of interest going to money capital remains the same. In other words low prices caused by contraction have wiped out the margin which the farmer should receive above subsistence, and left him nothing. To restore this - A margin, or increase prices, we must have expansion. But expansion is im possible under a . system of money based upon a metal which is not pro duced in sufficient quantities for an adequate supply of money. Therefore we want a new basis for money, and arable land being the only thing which is of sufficiently unchanging value, which is absolutely unchanging in quantity, the use of which is indispensable to the existence of society, and which is to-day in reality the security for all loans of money, is the only thing on which that basis can be formed. Stand to Your Guns! LAST ISSUE BEFORE ELECTION. Vote Now as You Shot in '6i, for Your Country and the People; This number of our paper is the last that can be issued before election. The campaign has been the most remarka ble one which ever took place in Ne braska. Facing the danger of defeat, the railroad cormorants who have so long controlled the politics of this state have resorted to the vilest methods and the most unscrupulous lying and slan der ever used. But with all this it is a great satisfaction to know that our state ticket to-day, at the close of such a campaign, remains unassailed. The records and personal characters of our candidates have been uuimpeachable. The chief stock of the railroad party has been the strength of the old party tie, and the unreasonable sectional pre judices arising out of a war thirty years gone by. With this cry and ar gument alone they have faced a present history of broken promises, of corrupt legislation, of class laws, of a country so deeply involved in debt that no ray of light" shines through the gloom of approaching repudiation and disaster, of a million idle men, of an uninterrupt ed continuance of depressed values and falling wages, and have made a desper ate tight. While believing that the people will win, we do not underrate the strength of the enemy. The victory we will gain will be a wonderful victory. Whatever may be the result we can congratulate our brothers all over the state that the integrity of the Alliance has' been preserved. Its organization remains the same as it was before the campaign opened. The independent movement and the Alliance have kept their organizations, their business ar rangements and their financial affairs entirety distinct. Though no-man of the people's ticket should be elected the Alliance will go , on as a great educa tional and "business institution, its mis sion being to elevate the farming class, morally, politically and financially, and place it on a higher and nobler plane in the social scale. This noble mission will be accomplished. Hundreds of good men engaged in this movement will never lay down their armor until they lay down their lives. Every incident, every circunstance, points to victory. Brothers, stand to. gether. Let every man take his post on the skirmish line. Let every man be a worker on Tuesday next. The man on crutches can talk. The able- bodied ones can stir up the laggards, should there be any laggards Oiir lady members can be on hand to cheer aud enco'urage their brothers. Remember, brothers, we did not go south in '01 to fight for a party. We went to tight for our country. Let us vote now as we shot then for our coun try ana victory will perch upon our banner. - COMBINING WITH DEMOCRATS. The Journal of Monday republishes its half column of rot in which it de nounces the Independents as hogs, and does its best to explain its miserable language away. But in doing it, as is generally the case, it adds insult to in jury and makes a bad matter worse by its explanations. But there is one very pregnant line in its republished article, containing ad vice which is being acted upon in differ ent parts of the state. It is as follows: "All decent democrats are exhorted to show their displeasure at this extraordinary campaign by helping to elect the straight republican ticket. 1st. 1 his is a concession that the re publican ticket is out of the fight. The hand writing on the wail is too plain to be mistaken.. 2d. This sentence proves the truth of the charge that is often made . that the two old parties are pups of the same litter, and are ready when threatened by a common danger to make a common cause together. This fact is being de monstrated to day in many parts of the state. Democrats arc holding on to nominations with no possible chance of success themselves, but merely as stool pigeons to elect republicans. Church Howe is making democratic combina tions in Nemaha county. If the repub licans get a majority of the next senate it will be done solely by this combina tion between the two old parties to de feat the independents. The Journal earns the gratitude of the K. of L. of this city and the state by its gratuitous abuse of Mr. Blake, chair man of the independent state commit tee. It alludes to him as a ' blather skite" and "foul-mouthed hypocrite who is now leading the independent party." Now in all the attributes which make up the man and gentleman Mr. Blake is immeasurably the superior of Mr. Gere. "A cat may look at a king," it is said, and a skunk may make the neighborhood of a king aromatic, it m:iy be said. That is what the B. & M. or gan grinder on 9th and P is doing. m ANOTHER McKEIGHAN SLANDER NAILED. McKeighan was in Hayes Center 18 hours and consumed a quart of drug store whisky. We can prove that two pints were carried to him at hit room. He may have had more but this much we do know. Hayes Co. Republican Oct. 8. . ' Editor Alliance: Your humble servant the undersigned with two others called upon Mr. Abbott, editor of the Republican, to accertain the proof in re gard to the above statement, with a view to commence criminal prosecution against that sink of iniquity, the saloon drug store, but when Mr. Abbott was asked for said proof he could not or would not give it, and according to his own statement he could not prove that Mr. McKeighan either saw or tasted any whisky while at Hayes Center. There fore I consider the above simply black mail and campaign slanderj' and I be lieve that the vials of God's wrath will be poured out uppn those ministers who prostituted their sacred office by loan ing their influence to political ringsters to peddle out camraign tilth over their signatures. Yours for justice, W. WOOLMAN, Pastor Cong'l Church. Palisade, Nebraska. TO THE DEMOCRATS OF THE THIRD DISTRICT. Mr. Thompson, the alleged demo cratic candidate for congress in the Third district, is a heavy stockholder in one of Mr. Dorsey's bauks. ' It is un questionably true that he was put up in the interest of Dorsey, and wtth. Dor sey's money. He is simply a stool pig eon to carry out the scheme of the rail road and Wall street power to keep one of its tools in the congress of the United States. Honest democrats of the Third dis trict, what do you think of this ? You desire to uphold democratic principles, but 'have no apportunity to do so. If you vote the straight democratic ticket you are aiding to keep a Wall street pet in office. You believe in the principles of the independent platform. Vote for Kem and you will be doing the best you can to enforce them. -. . When writing to advertisers be sure to mention Tins Farmers' Alliance. HARL AWBOODLE ! THE MAN WHO WILL, TAKE A BRIBE WILL GIVE ONE! The Grand Old Way of Subsidizing the Press and Fooling the People. Mr. Harlan has been persistently held up as a spotlesely pure and immaculate gentleman, just ready for wings, and singing" I want to bean a angel and with the angels stand," although neither he nor his friends dare to deny the $o00 bribe for fear the eheck would inoppor tunely turn up. But now his use of the good old method of buying editors and corrupting the press is brought home to him in a manner that cannot be denied. At May wood in frontier county is pub lished the Enterprise, edited by Bartus Wilson. It is supporting the people's ticket, including McKeighan. This ra per has much influence with the farmers of that county, and Harlan desired its support. On Monday, Oct. 13, Mr. Wra. J. Taylor, of York, appeared in the edi tor's office and began negotiations for the influence of the paper, though he had opened the subject three weeks previous. To make a long story short, the editor allowed him to think he might succeed, appointed an evening meeting with him, cut a hole in the floor and secreted four friends in the cellar just under where the interview took place, where they could hear as well as if they were in the room; and the following is the affidavit of the four witnesses as to what took place: We the undersigned being duly sworn on oath state that we were concealed in the cellar of the Enterprise office on the night of Oct. 13th, IbUO, and that we overheard the conversation between Win. J. Taylor of York, aud Bartus Wilson, editor of the Enterprise, publish ed at May wood, Neb. That said Taylor did propose to buy and pay said Bartus Wilson if he would use his influence for N. V. Harlan, candidate for congress in the 2nd district. That said Taylor did further iutiniate that it was true that N. V. Harlan did accept $500 for carrying their precinct for railroad bonds. That he (Taylor) did intimate that they were paying o' her papers for their influence but not so much as they were offering Wilson. Signed. J. II. Likes. E. N. Nussbaum. ' N. D. Faling. L. Sellers. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of October. 1890. John Miller, Notary Public. Voters of the second district, this is the immaculate gentleman whom the Bee signalizes as the possessor of a"spot less record," but who has been making the dirtiest mud-llinging campaign ever known in the history of Nebraska. This is the way adopted by every rail road and corporation .boodler in the country who wants to steal an office by fooling the people. It is through this means that the politics of this country has become a scorn and by-word, and t he press has become so debauched that the people never know when to trust it, or rather know that they should always mistrust it. It is in this way that scoun drels get into office, that lands are sto len by corporations, and the treasury and the people plundered. It is in this way that our courts are corrupted, our statute books loaded with class law3. our executive officers made the instruments of railroad presidents on a par with Pinkerton thugs. The man who will engage in it, though he have a " spotless record " and sprout ing wings be he candidate for constable or pound-keeper, congressman, judge or governor deserves a striped suit and a felon's cell. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC LAND STEAL. We will explain a little more in de tail the facts about the late monsterous land steal which Senator Paddock al ludes to in his pronunciamento as one of the meritorious measures of the late congress, and terms "a land-grant for feiture act." By the terms of the grant to the Northern Pwcitic Co. every acre of its grant between Bismark and Wallu'a was forfeited to the government Look at the map and see the immense magni tude of this territory. It is a distance of fifteen hundred miles, the line running from Bismark, north Dakota, through Montana, Idaho and a corner of Wash ington. As to this immense grant the maps even were not made, nor a mile of road made, until the original ten years allowed and the added two years granted had expired. The road had no legal title to an acre of these lauds. This fact was known to everybody, and knowing it ! settlers have entered upon the lands aud filed their entries as fast as the lands were surveyed until fifteen thousand controverted cases between the North ern Pacific and these settlers are on file in the Interior Pepartineut. These being the facts, the Attorneys of the northern Pacific railroad have railroaded and lobbied a bill through Congress forfeiting to the government the small amount of the road's graut ly- ' ing between wauuia ana roniana, and leaving the 30,000,000 acres forfeited between Bismark aud Wallula un touched in the possession of the com pany, and making no exception or pro vision whatever for the army of inno cent settlers on these lauds. The principle of law involved s this: A grantor having entered for con dition broken, and choosing to enter upon a portion of the estate and not upon the whole, the same coudition ap plying to all the estate, cannot repeat his entry upon another part of the land for the same breach of condition. This is an elementary principle of law gov erning land titles, and the disposal of lands in the courts. Under this princi ple after this law was nassed no Con gress can touch a foot i the land lying between Bismark and Wallula. This farce of a land-forfeiture bill is actually the gif a'est land-steal of the century. We have talked about it in another article. Senator Paddock, presuming upon the ignorance of our people on this sub ject, or densely ignorant himself, has the brazen hardidood to name this law as a creditable, one to his party, and asks the continued support of the peo ple of Nebraska on the strength of it. one of the cardinal planks in the peo ple's platform being in favor of retain ing public lands for the use of the pea- pie. "SAID ON THE SIDE." A Quiet Word or Two With Mr. Gere. In p. column of the B. & M. Journal of the 10th, we find the following uuder the head of "Said on the Side." It Is a fact "aid a lownrer In the remiMI- can headquarters yesterday, that there ! an unfleretaiKlmtr hetween Bojd and I'ower whereby Powers Is to get the oil inppecturthtp in case he can hold enouuh republican Alli ance vote t elect the head of thedem- cretlo ticket. It was at flrpt proponed toRivc Powers the place ot hank examiner, hut he Insifeo oo the oil Inspect orsht p. and that is the wajr tt stands now. etu.. etc. Now we have this to say to editor . Gere: You are responsible for every statement made in your paper affecting the credit and honor of any man. The quoting of "lounger" as uttering the above does not in any manner release you from that responsibility; and you are just as completely a low-down liar in publishing it as if you had stated it on the street or printed it in your edi -torial columns. Now just a word or two more with 3'ou. You have insulted in a body, hj your low-down libellous talk, the grand farmers and pioneers to who n Nebraska is indebted for all the wealth ami pros perity she ever had you, who have been a leech upon society, and never earned an honest dollar who have had your thieving fingers in the treasury of this state for the pat ten years, filching the hard-earned mon ey of the farmers you havo outraged and abused you, a miserable pensioner on the corruption fund of a corporation. You are a nioe sample to be publishing 3uch contemptible lies as the above about a man who stands as high alov you a the gates of heaven are above the pit Hyperion to a satyr, ad relief THE ALLIANCE RESOLUTIONS AGAINST MR. KEM. A great hue aud cry is being made by the Bee and B & M. Journal because some Alliance in Custer Co. does not support Mr. Kem. Now thero is noth ing surprising about this. 1st. Allian ces have a right to do just as they please in this matter. 2d, Seven member constitute a quorum, so that four mem bers, or the majority of a quorum, could adopt such a resolution. Now, there are eighty-eight Alliances in Custer Co. They are made up of men of all eh ado of political opinions aud have a perfect right to adopt any resolutions the please conderaniug or endorsing any body. Uudel these circumstance we consider it reaiarkable that only on Alliance can be found in all that gnat number which can muster enough mem bers to adopt a resolution disapproving Mr. Kem. We do not criticise the mo tives of these members. They have a right to do as they please. But from the very bitter and uureasouable way in which they criticise Mr. Kem we imagiue they may have a private grier ance in short that it may be true, as we have heard, that part of them were men whom Mr. Kem "knocked out," politically a year or so ago. But we do not know that this is so. Broken Bow. Neb , Oct. 27, 185)0. TO THE VOT.EKS OF TUB TlIIKU COM OKESSIONAL DlSTlUCfOK NEBRASKA: In reply to the resolutions patted by the so called Grant Alliance No. 747, denouncing the Independent candid ate, Hon. O. M. Kem, and endorsing Banker Dorsey, aud anuouueiug that Giant Alliauce is in good etauding: We, the President, Secretary and Or gauizer, certify that the so called Grant Alliauce No 747, is without staudiug in tthe County Alliauce, not having paid dues or made a report for eight mouths. We have been informed by members of Meridian Alliance No. 1147 that the membership of the so called Grant Alli ance No. 747 consists of C. C. Woodruff, II. Yoder, S C. Waldren, G. A. Hoover aud Uriah Hoover. The above Woodruff was census enu merator lor Grant township, at..: a delegate to the county republican con vention. He is the man who moved to table the majority report against Dor sey. He was also a delegate to the republican congressional convention. S. M. Doiutis. Sec, Custer Co. Alliauce. C W. Beal, Pres. A. C. Watson, Organizer Custer Co Alliance. SLICK SCHEMES PLAYED WITH MONEY. We have no doubt a gieat many hon est farmers have felt quite Haltered by receiving what they supposed to be a private autograph letter from Geo. W. E. Dorset, especially requesting their suppoit. Probably it ha occured to these farmers that Hon. George must be a very industrious aud paiutakiug man, especially if he wrote these T soual letters to every farmer whose sup port he will need to get back to Con gre&s. The fact is, all these letters are printed. We have quite a collection of them on our table, f.ic similes of each other. All the work Mr. Dorsey did about it was to write one copy and tigu his name to it. The engraver, printer and private secretary did the rest, and the constitu eutpas the expense. This is a new and beautiful application of the princi ple of the division of labor, the man who divides it up not doing any himself. The slick part of it ia that inauy of the farmers who have received this little at tention have helped pay the expense of it iu interest they are paying into some of Geo. W. E.'s bauks. "Slick George" it his name. He will be beat for lack of votes, not for lack of money or cheek. OT Why dou't Geu. i'est report on the mortgage business? He was work ing in Gage county a long time ago. We are just aching to get his report of Gage couuty farm mortgages. Hurry it up, General. j-J"
