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THE FARMERS ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1890. Tim FAHHERS' ALLIANCE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ITTHl flLLIAOCE PUBLISHMG CO COB. 11th A2VD M BTB UaCOLS, - KEBB1SKA. J. BURROWS, . J- M. THOMPSON, - - Editor. Busfne. la t beauty. f the liilies Christ waa bora across the With glory in his bosom That transfigures you and ma. As He strove to make men holy Let os strive to make men free. Since God is marching on." ; Julia Ward Howe. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, Am4 power to him who power exerts." M 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, Ke who dare not reason is a slave. EDITORIAL. "LEGAL TECHNICALITIES." The Journal, in an effort to put itself right before the public, aDd at the same time preserve a good chance to take the railroad side of the contro versy, is guilty of some very inconsis tent talk. Fhstitsays: If Mr. Powers is boneet In his declaration that he wants the man 1 airly elected govern or ib take bis seat, he will be upheld by every decent mn ia Netratfea. That is what they all w ant. It is perfectly right and Just to set tle all controversies as t illegal voting, bal lot box Fluffing and false registration, by probing to the bottom. This is very nice indeed, and will re ceive the approval of all fair minded citizens. The Journal then goes on to say that it had protested against the "uholesale throwing out of the vote of cities and precincts because it was rev olutionary and dangerous to the peace and prosperity of Nebraska." It then says: "To be explicit The Journal will say that if It is true that a contett is to be made ou the ground that in Omaha there were fraudulent ballots cat t r a alee count of ballots made, It will m st heartily approve of the closest Investigation and the doing of exact justice la the premises, according to the evidence submitted." And then, after saying that votes of towns should not be thrown out be cause their authorities failed to register according to law, and intimating that the joint convention should not decide questions of law, and that such action wouia be a "revolutionary assumption of power," it adds: "Let every vote honestly cast by a citizen entitled to vote, irrespective of legal, technicalities, be counted aB it was cast, and the man thus elected to any office be seated, and justice will be done in a substan tial manner. That is all that The Journal or any other honest new spaper can ask in the prerah-es." Now if, as the Journal says, "it is per fectly right and just to settle ail contro versies as to illegal voting, ballot box stuffing and false regisirationhy probing to the bottom," why should not such .ir regularities be investigated at other places as well as in Omaha? We are not aware that the candidates who have seen fit to institute this contest have any particular grudge against Omaha. If there was a wide-spread conspiracy to elect Jim Boyd and certain republi can candidates by fair or foul means, that conspiracy should be investigated wherever it showed its head, whether in Omaha or elsewhere. The Journal protested against the "w holesale" throwing out of the vote of cities and precincts, while in the next paragraph admitting that " it is per fectly just and right to settle all contro versies to illegal voting, etc., by prob ing to the bottom." According to this view, the minor piccadilloesin this elec tion business should 'be carefully at tended to, but where the villainy was so w ell organized that it was accom plished by "wholesale," and the con spirators succeeded in stealing the whole vote of a city or town, an attempt to right that wrong would be' "revolu tionary and dangerous." The people of this state will hardly take this view of the matter. They are undoubtedly interested in individual crimes against the suffrage. But they are vastly more interested iu such a crime when it involves a large number of people and changes the result of a general election. The failure of a city to register which had registered the year before may have been in pursuance of just such a conspiracy as has been charged. In any event it could not be imputed to ignorance of the law or in difference to duty. Acts of that kind are not committed by city boards with out Important motives. . Our last quotation from the Journal is every vote honestly cast, "irrespective of legal technicalities," shall be counted as it was cast. This would result in practically setting aside the t forms of law, and making the motives of voters the test of legality. How shall those motives be determined? . Where is the dividing line between votes honestly cast, and votes dishonestly cast, and how shall we y ascertain it? Host of the heelers la Omaha who voted for Jim Boyd honestly wanted him elected, though they had been paid from $3 to 10 to vote for him. If the regis! ration law was violated in cer tain cities itf more easily to get in fraudulent votes, the honest voters are not impeached thereby; but the ear marks "of the honest and d'shonest votes in the box are exactly the. same. ,The naturalized citizen who cast the ballot furnished him may have been en tirely ignorant of the fact that he had . accepted a bribe and became party to a fraud by allowing his papers to be paid for by the chairman of a committee. As a matter of fact there is no test x . . . .. ; . 'in. i -which tojud&eof tae i legality and js tice ef elections except by "legal tech nicalities" -the legal tests provided by forms of law; and there is no protection to a community from frauds on the elective franchise except through the rigid enforcement of those forms. If the Journal desires to stand right be fore the people it will advocate such enforcement, no matter upon whom the hardship falls. MR. ROSEWATER AND THE FARM ERS ALLIANCE. Mr. Rosewater seems to be as much dissatisfied with the conduct of this pa per as he is with the one edited by vouncr Mr. Hitchcock in Qmaha. This is a deplorable condition of affairs, and some method will have to be found to mollify the editor of tne Bee- How would a beer sweat do? Seated in a wicker pbair, his feet in a tub of hot lager, his head soaked in a towel wet with Peter Iler's best Bourbon, and under him a steaming mug of Jamacia rum, he ought after awhile to be worked into a limp state of acquiescence in his condemnation by Richards, Brad Slaugh ter, Johnny Watson, young Hitchcock and the council combine that haunts his waking and sleeping hours. His rum my mates in the late fizht viz: Jim Boyd, the B. & M. and the whiskey ring, would probably furnish the raw mate rials for this sweat quite as cheerfully as they furnished the $25,000 he stuffed in his breeches. It is said Rosey has not stopped swear ing for ten consecutive minutes since the election, and then only to recruit his vocabulary. He has completely demor alized three stenographers, and all his type-writing girls have left the office. In fact the smell of brimstone is so strong on the corner of 14th and Farnam that the telephone is choked up and the electric lights have a sulphurous glare. It is said a thick-set fellow with a pair of small horns, a cloven foot and a tail curled up under a shout cloak, came up through the diamond saloon a few days ago with a set of complimentary resolu tions, which had been unanimously adopted, and when he handed them in to the sky-high sanctum intimated that any time the great editor was ready he should cheerfully resign in his favor. Cursed by Richards, damned by Wat son, execrated by Brad Slaughter, jeered at by Rossy Hammond, abused by youug Hitchcock, the above proves Rosey is still sure of sweet appreciation in a world that is all his own. He is also certain of the solace of Jim Boyd's approval. In the Bee of the 19th he devotes over a column to the poor editor of this paper. He calls him "dictator Burrows." He draws his portrait with a Faber. He says he is "wild, visionary, off his bal ance and utterly reckless as regards the truth." We really believe he means to say we lie! "O wad the giftie some power gie us To see oursels as ithers see usP Now if Mr. Burrows should sit to us for a picture we should say he was cool, practical, extremely well-poised, and always careful to tell the truth. Perhaps it would be better to say he is very care less about telling the truth too careless, in fact. That's what seems to be the matter of Rosewater. He quotes a great slice of truth Burrows told about Omaha, and raves about it, and lies about it and swears about it, in great primer italic. Look at him! -a little man sitting on a little hill. The reek of five hundred saloons rises around him. He sees the little interests of Omaha, the profits of some whiskey peddlers, the income of a great distillery, the. gold from a trade built on beer guzzling. But the reek of the pit below him obscures the misery, the reeling drunkards, the barefooted children, the half-starved mothers and wives with skeleton babies at their breasts, the homes made wretched,, the brothels and hells and murders that come from the cursed traffic he cham pions. And the same reek rises above him and hides from his vision God, and the great future, and moral principle, and love and humanity. And he sits there on his little hill and curses Bur rows, and hugs a vile delusion that is damning halt ihe world. CHURCH HOWE AND PLATFORM. HIS Church Howe makes bis own plat form. He always did. The principal plank in it was "stand by Church Howe." The platform he made this fall to suit the exigencies of the late election and his own special purposes is a composite mosaic of general principles .which he can give the cold shake at any time it may be convenient. The following res olution which he had passed by the Senate two years ago, was straight goods, and has the virtue of sincerity at least. It may be found in the Senate Journal,-page 1260: Whereas, Certain persons associated together under the title of the Nebraska Farmers' Alliance, have publicly stated that th fi nancial ooligat ions of t he farm ers of Nebraska are an oppressive bur den to said farmers, and that the general econemic condition of the state is the reverse, of prosperous, therefore be it Rr solved, That it is the opinion of the Senate of the State of NebraskaMhat the so called Farmers' Alliance, being a Erivate and non-representative body, as no right nor title to speak in behalf of the farmers of t he state. THE ALLIANCE RELIEF FUND. The following amounts have been con tributed for the relief of the drouth stricken region of the state: S. Alliance to Red Willow Co.. .$100 00 " " to Cheyenne Co.,... 100 00 W. C. Lange, Sutton, .... ... 2 00 August Post for Iowa S. Alliance 100 00 Alliance No. 858, Chas. Mohnike, Secretary........... 28 50 Alliance No. 1411, Chas. Hulbert, Secretary, Craig, Neb 2 50 Alliance No. 1086, of Prairie Tp., PhelpsCo., by Andrew Urborn, 17 50 Alliance No. 1539, by M. E. Har ris, North Bend,.. ...... ...... 14 40 Highland Alliance No. 812 Sew ard county, P.M. Robohtham Secretary ..... 8 15 'SOUNDING A WARNING." The Bee has an article under the above title alluding to articles in easU era papers warning money lenders against investing in western securities until the animus of the newly elected legislatures can be ascertained. The Bee says "Experience with granger legislators has been of a character to discourage confidence, although results have never been quite so damaging as were apprehended," and "But there have been enough to supply ground for apprehension wherever the farmers obtain undisputed control of legislation, and it would be foolish to shut our eyes to the fact." Now this talk is very general. It is the easiest thing in the world to make general allegations unsupported by any specific instances. The facts are right the opposite of what the Bee states. The best instances of the establishment of sound general principles have occurred when the farmer element have been the strongest in our legislative halls. The board of warehouse and railroad com missioners in Illinois was established by a granger legislature. The cele brated granger cases which form now the accepted basis of our railroad legis lation, are United States supreme court decisions made to sustain laws passed by granger legislatures. A commercial legislature in Pennsyl vania, within our recollections passed a law making it a criminal offense to pass a bank bill in that state of a lower denomination than five dollars; aud an other legislature, composed mainly of merchants and bankers, in the same state, passed a law compelling the then new Lake Shore railroad to enter the state on one guage of track and go out of it on another. There never was a legislature of farmers in the United States that could have been induced to pass two such laws. V For breadth of information, general intelligence and a good understanding of sound, economic principles, ihe American born farmers . of Nebraska are superior to any other class of citi zens. And we have no hesitancy in saying that we believe the legislature which has just been elected will be su perior to any that has before assembled in this state. There is great apprehension that the laws relating to usury which this body may pass will be injurious to the state. We do not share that appreheusion. Great injustice indeed would have to be done to match the wrongs that usury has inflicted and is now inflicting upon our people. But we do not believe the incoming legislature will commit any injustice, or do anything for revenge. The Bee writer shows in his article great ignorance of economic principles. He says: "No argument can be needed to enforce the proposition that no west ern state can afford to repel capital." Now it is obvious that when the writer says "capital" he means "money," and whether his prosposition is true or not depends entirely upon how money is presented. . It is unquestionably true that if it had been impossible ever to borrow a dollar on morigage west of the Mississippi river that region would have been immensely richer than it is. Loans on mortgage have been a source of wealth to the lender, not to the bor rower. The revenue to-day from such loans in this state exceeds the total net product of the state, and has for several years been the cause of increasing debt. Any candid loaner who is handling large amounts will bear us out in this statement. Capital is the creature .of labor ap plied to land, afcd doe. not necessarily and primarily consist of money at all. With our national currency restricted as it is, and issued upon a false system, it is certainly difficult to see how we can get along without a continuance of the mortgage system. But with the contraction continued, and the mort gage -y stem carried forward as it has been for the past ten years, its inevita ble ending would be universal bank ruptcy or repudiation. Every thinking man who fully understands the situa tions knows this. But the Bee advo cates a continuance of the present finan cial system. The Bee says: "Money can always take care of itself. It is wanted every where and generally can choose the place of investment. The people who want money must make whatever rea sonable concessions that are necessary to obtain it." This is a specious plea for the usurer,, and it is false in every line. It is true that under a free system, where there was no debt, money would " take care of itself," and would go where the things men most needed were most plentiful. But it is also true that there is no human institution that needs so much taking care of, and that is bolstered up by so many special laws and so many special principles estab lished solely for it, as money. When there is competition for loans i. e. in an unnatural and artificial condition of affairs it is true money may "choose the place of investment." But in a nat ural condition of free exchange money is compelled to go where the necessities of men are produced and for sale, and does not choose the place for invest ment. "The people who want (to bor row) money must make concessions" to obtain it. But in a natural and free condition, without debt, .the people who want money have only by industry to produce what their fellow men need, and money will come to them galore without anxiety on their part. . The Bee says "that wwhile the agricul tural interest makes the largest annual contribution to the nation's wealth, its growth and development are dependent on the progress of all other interests; that unless they advance it must remain stationary or decline." In this state ment the Bee has got the cart exactly before the horse. The reverse is true in this and the other states of the great valleys. Agriculture is the basis and foundation of all our other interests. There is nothing else in Nebraska to make a state. Let our soil remain un tilled for three successive years and our prairies would relapse into a primal wilderness peopled alone by coyotes, rattlers and prairie dogs. THE FINANCIAL PANIC. Heavy failures have taken place in the east the Barings have been on the verge of ruin, and have had to be aided to the extent of $50,000,000. These facts have caused widespread apprehension, and the organs of the money power have been devising all kinds of reasons for the trouble except the correct one. One of their leading papers in this state, in an article entitled "The Cause of the Trouble," goes to South America to find the cause of the Barings' trouble, and at the same time says the expan s on in the Argentine republic is of ex actly the same character as that pro posed by the finance reformers in this country. That statement is not true. There is not and has not been any proposition to make an issue of money in this country on-the same principle nor in anything like the same amount as the issues in the Argentine Republic. Here is the statement the paper alluded to makes: , "When all other financial expedients had been exhausted, the Argentine gov ernment authorized the establishment of two banks to issue loans of paper money to all comers on landed security. The bank fixed the value of the land, took a mortgage from the owner, and gave him its own bond or paper money for an equal amount. The loan car ried eight per cent interest, and when the borrower wished to pay it off he bought depreciated bonds of the same class and amount and presented them to the bank iu settlement." In the first place, the above does not show the actual facts at all. The inter est on all the bonds issued by the Ar gentine Republic was payable in gold in London. At even ' a reasonable amount of debt this enormous interest would soon bankrupt any people. The Argentine Republic has a population of 4,000,000 people Its debt in 1888 was $146,000,000. Its cedula bonds issued later amounted to $400,000,000, making nearly $550 000,000 of debt for 4,000,000 people, making an interest tax on this debt alone of $44 per capita for the total population, or $140 for each head of a family. In addition to this was the regular expense of the government, amounting in the last year to about $60,000,000. The simple fact of the case is that debt, and debt alone, at an enormous rate of interest, bankrupted the Argen tine Republic. It had an ocean cable direct to London, and English ope rators controlled its finances in their own interest, and. disastrously overesti mated its resources; and the issues of paper money were not made until the country was practically bankrupt. Another very important fact is that the paper money and the bonds issued were in all cases promises to pay gold. The effort was made to float a gold basis currency on a gold basis bond, both issued enormously in excess of the amount of cold in tbo countrv. Ihe land secured money was not an issue! based on land, and onlv redeemable when the mortgage was paid, but was a loan of paper promises td" pay' "gold which did not exist. . English greed bankrupted the Argen tine Republic ibv inducing a debt large ly beyond its resources, and justice would only be met if English bankers suffered by it. CHURCH HOWE, THE BOODLER. A citizen of Nemaha county has served notice. of a. contest against Church Howe on the ground that he used bribery in the election. There is little doubt of the truth of the charge. It will be an entertaining spectacle to see Howe, at the opening of the legisla ture, take the prescribed oath that he has not resorted to bribery or corruption to secure his election, and then a few days later to see irrefragi ble proofs produced that he has done tha very thing. It will be an era in Nebraska politics if the people's move ment can signalize its accession to power by cleaning out the corruption ists who have been dispensing passes and running oil rooms so long in the state. Church Howe is one of the chief est of these. It is certainly a good omen to see a contest began on such a pretext as is this one. It is not claimed that Howe did not receive a large majority of the votes, but that he offered bribes, and is therefore incapacitated from sitting in the legislature. v Judge J. E. Cobbey of Beatrice, the author of the celehrated legal work, "Cobbey on Replevin," has been en gaged to prosecute this case, which is a sufficient guarantee that it will be effi ciently managed. '.-'.- NEWSPAPER RUMORS. It is said an independent daily is to started at-Omaha, with $100,000 capital. Why not at Lincoln? . Rumor also says that Johnny Watson, chairman of the republican state com mittee, has sent an avant courier from Nebraska City to start a personal organ for him at Lincoln. ThU will also be independent. We are all independent now. Of course, this will be a rival of the Journal. But it seems base ingrati tude for Johnny to treat the Journal this way. Now if Church Howe will start an organ here we will be well fixed. TOO MUCH DIRTY LINEN. If "there's any develtry going on it is at once laid at the door of Mr. Burrows. Even the railroads are laying their fam ily quarrels upon his shoulders. The Journal says the contest on Church Howe was ordered from his headquar ters.. The Journal knows very well that the order for that contest emanated from its own camp, and its editor is a Janus-faced liar when he states other wise. This does not impeach the just ness of the contest. The case will per haps illustrate the saying: "When rogues fall out honest men come by their own.7-.--. THE GREAT LOOTER. How long, O Lord, how long? Was there ever such an anomaly as that presented by the great railroad properties of this country to-day? The proper management of these properties is vital to the welfare of the people. It is part of their daily lives. . The proper ty of every man, woman and child in the country is wrapped up in the pros perity and condition of these roads. There is only one public institution that is more intimately related to the pros perity of the people, "and that is money. And yet these great properties are the shuttle-cocks of financial free-booters, subject to the fluctuations and piracies and speculations of the stock brokers. Think of it! A great public institution, existing only by virtue of law, essential to the very existence of modern civiliza tion, second in wealth and importance only to the government itself, and yet a thing to be juggled with and pirated, a plaything for such an unprincipled imp of Satan as Jay Gould! Was there ever before on earth such a civilization? There certainly, never was. This won der stands alone, unique in history. Has it ever occurred to any one that if a man was chained to the bottom of a tank and water turned.on, he would be likely to drown? This illustrates the constant need for what the railroad barons term the effort to "maintaia rates oa a paying basis." They are constantly adding to the water of the system, and of course necessarily en gaged in a struggle to keep rates above the drowning point, the effort all the time being to squeeze from the people the utmost amount possible. Thousands of good men are fooled by this false pretence. When the roads say they are getting only 3 or 4 per cent net, thousands of good men fail to see that "net" means after all .charges wear and tear, interest on watered stock and bonds, salaries, new equipment, often new, construction have been paid, and then 3 or 4 per cent on their water, is a greater income than any other business in the country pays. Isn't it amazing that a great people, pretending to govern itself, exulting in its freedom and bragging of its equality, can look on patiently and idly while a man like Jay Gould, with $200,000,000 of plunder in his possession, grasps the one agency which is the indispensable tool of all other business, and openly avows his intention to continue looting the public, and improve his facilities for doing it? What is this in him but thirst of empire? If he can make a combina tion to seize the railroads of this nation, how short a stride is it to a combination to seize the sovereignty of it? Will the people all the people never wake up? The railroads belong to the people. The people have created them. They should be operated solely in the interest of the people. When a man gets two hundred millions, he has got enough. THE RELIEF WORK. Under the direction of Gov. Thayer, a very efficient organization for procur- ioS and forwarding aid to the western counties has been perfected, and is now in active operation. The county com missioners and the precinct justices of the peace have been selected as the dis tributing agencies. The justices, it was supposed, would know of the destitute families in their respective precincts, and would be able to designate those who needed aid first. We believe sup plies have now been sent into almost every county needing . them But it must not from this be inferred that enough aid has been received. On the contrary, only a small 'proportion of what will be required has been ob tained. It should be understood that a continued and well -sustained effort must be made until the legislature meets, when it will no doubt make a liberal appropriation and arrangements to continue the work until the necessity no longer exists. President O Hull and Secretary Dale of the county alliance have appealed to the subordinate alliances of the county, which will no doubt result in liberal contributions from that source. The alliances of every eastern and north eastern county should take Ihis matter up, and organize the work in good shape. This can be done by the county alliances. The settlers in the west are largely from other states, and when this mis fortune came upon them they naturally sent back word to their old homes. The proceedings of public meetings in this city, Omaha and other places, are pub lished iu the papers, and through all these sources information of the con dition of our western settlers will be spread through the country. This will result in much aid being sent into the state, for which we should be sincerely grateful. Persons soliciting aid outside the state, instead of being denounced as impostors, as the Journal said they should be. should have our warmest ap proval, care, of course, being taken to know that contributions are placed in safe hands. As for concealing the con dition of affairs from the general pub lic, that of course is impossible. The relief commission is composed of Gov. John M. Thayer, president: Rev. George W. Martin, superintendent of relief; Rev. L. P. Ludden, superinten dent of distribution, and R. R. Randall, shipping agent for Lincoln. Thirty-six car-loads of coal, 32,000 pounds of Pour, and much other pro visions, have been sent forward. Also clothing, the shipping weight of which was about 10 000 pounds. OF INTEREST TO TRAITORS. ,A person named Frank T. Helvey, who lent his name to one C. H. Van Wyck to be appended to a diatribe against J. Burrows and other gentlemen connected with the independent move ment, was fired bodily from the K. of L. by their General Assembly at its late session at Denver. Moral put not your trust in politicians especially such treacherous ones as C. H. Van Wyck. LESSON OF THE NOVEM BER LANDSLIDE. Editor Alliance The new west, the independent west, has spoken and her voice will not likely be mistaken. It is the voice of the expropriated, the victim who produces wealth for the other fellow to possess; the wretch who has found out by hard kicks that sov ereignty without ownership is the su preme political imposture of the age. Much needless soul vexing is there to account for this very chilly landslide. Such stalwart weathercocks as Sher man, Quay, Do'rsey, and Reed, and their confederate "surplus-busters," roll their eyes in a tine frenzy, and their ef forts to "explain" are pitiful. Ingalls is too full for utterance. Blaine, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality, with republican small fry presidential candidates duly knocked out, says he "isn't in it." But his party is in it, and the independent west put it there. Republican plutocracy has counted without its host; and we are reminded of Lincoln's saying: "You can de ceive all of the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but you can't deceive all the people all the time." But imagine the colossal impertinence and treason that has at tempted in free America to make west ern producers the vassals of eastern aristocrats. Tne November uprising is a protest against imperialism in American poli tics. The spirit of liberty has again moved the great plain people to rise against usurpation of power, and to teach plutocracy that it cannot bully the patriotism transmitted by the sirest of '76. Ecad. it is incredible, but our money Auglomaniacs none the less be lieved that the nation would actually surrender itself to New England Brah mius, autocratic bosses, burlesque Caisars, Force-bill dictation of elections, and corporation-Blocks-of-Five conspir acies to tax the American people into their graves! But lo! they have been digging their own graves instead! It is a protest, too, against bloody shirt politics, the vindictive spirit of war sectionalism, and republican lead ers may realize after this lusty slap in the face that the war is over, and that frantic appeals to a false patriotism can no longer obstruct the issues to day, summoned by the onward progress of the nation. It is a protest against the blaring ar rogrance of our criminals of wealth, and that sycophantish legislation that enriches a favored few at the expense or tne tax-burdened many. Why, our hireling law-makers were fast whip ping the whole nation into the service of its bourbon millionaires, and really undertook to make a Jefferson ian re public stand upon the "Prince and Pauper" checker board of feudal Eu rope! Quite sufficient occasion for the peo ple to be heard from, and we want none of your monarchy, thank you, aud whit is more we do not propose having it. The republican party, .the betrayer of Lincoln and Wilson and Stevens, has given us quite too much monarchy, too much Reed, too much Quay, too much Brahminian -plutocracy for its own good health, and the independent west will henceforth hold the balance of power, that pronunciamento which will not only determine the ruling party but the policy which shall control it. It will see to it that class privileges shall cease; that law shall no longer be prostituted to a double injury; the pau perization of a nation on the one hand that a vast wealth may be amassed to bully it upon the other. It will secure the stability of the nation by demand ing the Australian ballot system, and thus release from the crip of our little czars the sovereign franchise of the peo ple. - The uprising of November means the dethronement of despotic greed and the re-establishment of equal rights and human justice as the guiding principles of the republic. Venikr Voldo. A FIRE BRAND. The paper called the Great West, pub lished at Minneapolis by Fish & Frain, and pretending to be the organ of the Minnesota alliance, seems long to have been a fire brand in that state. It ap pears to have been the organ of a fac tion of the alliance headed by Ignatius Donnelly, who seems to have been in the business for the prospective emolu ments. Secretary Lathrop, of the state alliance, caused the arrest of Dr. Fish a few days ago on the charge of mali cious libel in stating that Mr. Lathrop had embezzled the funds of the alliance. Dr. Fish went into court at once and pleaued guilty, making no defence. There are libellers in this state who might do the same thing if prosecuted. BEE STINGS. "Politics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows. The repudiated colonels and independent leaders are now lying together." If there is any one doing as much ly ing as the Bee and his lacqney reporter., he hasn't been heard of in this neck o' woods. "It was all right for Burrows, Powers & Co to organize the Alliance, adminis ter oaths, bulldoze the members and suppress independence of action, but it was all wrong for the bu.-iness men and bankers and the advocates of personal liberty to organize in defense of their own interests and those of the stated No oaths have , been . administered, members bulldozed nor independence suppressed. On the contrary, indepen dence has been greatly promoted. If you don't believe it count the votes. The Xeu Republic and Omaha Leader have been consolidated, Geo. H. Gibson, of the latter taking editorial control, with Rev. C. E. Bentley as Assistant Editor. The paper will con tinue to be the organ of the prohibitionist party. THE SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. The democratic governor-elect of Texas is a Uogg, with two g's. UU ma jority is 155,000. It is fitting, says the Broken Bow Lea der, that the coming independent legis lature should figure on abolishing the state militia, for if Boyd should co in. he would thus be prevented from calling that organization out to tight laboring men when they quit work, as his pa&t record shows he is wont to do. The Palmyra Bee, a republican paper sings a dirge over the remains of Con gressman Connell like this: Slowly and tadly we laid him away. On a Pbelf tnth eaten and bory; -With no record or naene, and no deed of fame, Connell is deprived of Lia glory. Jim Boyd attended the banquet in Columbus, Ohio, given in honor of the Old Roman, Allen G. Thurman, but the Kearney Hub declares that Boyd is the noblest Rum'un of them all. Several prominent gentlemen have re marked in a public manner that tho last election was the salvation of tho repub lican party, and the Auburn Herald is thereby constrained to insinuate that a few more doses of that particular brand of salvation will necessitate the services of an undertaker. Here is another chance for Rosewater to denounce the venal press. The Louis ana Lottery is still trying to do business, and has "persuaded" several newspapers to violate the spirit of the law in pub lishing an advertisement headed: "Dau phin! Dauphin! Dauphinl" and giving particulars as to where and how money can be sent. The Omaha Bee publishes it in a conspicuous position. Dan Freeman, who was the first homesteader in the United States, is a prominent member of the independent party in Gage county, says tho Beatrice' Arbor State. An exchange expresses sympathy for the defeated candidates, and suggests that possibly Dorsey, Harlan and Rich ards can get a job sawing wood or husk ing corn for Kem, McKeighan or Pow ers. , Ed. O'Connor, Tim Conway and Chria Toft, all saloon keepers, and C. S. Whit ney, a coal merchant, are tho candidates for councilman from the Fifth ward, in Omaha, according to tho World-Herald. We were not aware that an ordiuary outsider like a coal merchant would le allowed to bo even a candidate. The Bee has taken up its old struggle against the corrupt councilmen ad city officers at Omaha. Here are a few of the . choice epithets it uses in tho fight: Theives, thugs, bums, bulldozers, rob bers, boodlers, tax caters, venal vam pires, council combine, Omaha Tam many, corrupt conspiracy, corporation cormorauts, blood-sacking leeches, ward strikers aud heelers, villainous conspira tors, etc' Now iu view of all this rot tenness which you allege, it does seem queer, Rosey, that that election over there ou Nov. 4th was so quiet aud or derly don't it? ' Some pathetic results of the late elec tion become visible to the naked eye as one gazes over tne vast uelu of debris left in the path of the cyclone. Next to the bauker down iu the Republican val ley who committed suicide as soon as he got the returns, the poor imbecile who edits the Lexington Gazette gathers in the bakery. Hear his tale of woe: Lincoln will abound in barnyard statesmen this winter, of all stages of mental infirmity and degrees ot intel lectual drought.. Many of them were born ignorant, and have spent their life in active forget fulness. Alter supply, ing the legislature we had one left, wiiom we sent to the natioual congress. Ushers in the gallery of the capitol at Lincoln are being supplied with printed circulars the object of which will be to conxiuce visitors that they have not wandered by mistake into a hospital for the weak minded. The Bee has turned out to be a boom erang of the most approved pattern. The sting has attacked the editor there of iu whole herds. A gang of republicans were enter tainiug Judge Guslin out in the second district a few days before the election with a recital of McKeighan's blood curdling record. The judge listened patiently until they were through, when he paralyzed 'he whole outtit with this reply: ''Well boys, I have been voting for tbeives aud robbers for twenty years and I guess it won't hurt me to vote for another one!" Col. Bee of the Rosewater stigmatizes the country press as small bore organs, and a Frvmout paper thinks it nnut be because the country papers are boring him full of small holes. A farmer in the interior of the state writes his local paper concerning a moat important subject, and says to his broth er farmers: You have plenty of good papers that are advocating and working earnestly for your interests, and the more sup port you give them the better papers they will be able to make, and the more influence they will be able to wield in k mm m 1 a jour benaif. men urcp everyone ol these partisan papers, and do it now. and take papers that are taking your side of the question. If you don't do it your efforts to free yourselves from the yoke of oppression will be a failure." Who is it? This question has yet to be answered. If a hundredth part of what is said of the trickery and violence of the whiskey republicans at Omaha to force the democratic liquor man Boyd, to the front, should turn out to be true, Powers is the choice of the state. We are delighted to find that tho victorious party, the alliance, ate taking legal steps to have this robbery avenged and adjusted, and we heartily wish them success. Uenoa meaner, utep.j It is a elorious thing lo resist tempta tions, but it will be money iu your pock et if you avoid them. . -. f J- 7" ""tt L 4
