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    THE PAKMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1890.
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FARMERS ALLIANCE
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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.
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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.
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