The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, December 13, 1890, Image 2
THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1890. THE : l---V , - TARMERS' iilANOE PUBLISHED EYErIATUDAY ( AUianceMishingCo., COR. 11th AND M STS., J .O LINCOLN, -. - NEBRASKA. J. , BURROWS. - - - EJitor. J. U. THOMPSON, BusinetsPg'r. In the beauty of tho lilliea $j . , Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom That transfigures yoajhd me. As He strove to make irften 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..1 " A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging Sea outweighs." Emerson. Hs who cannot reason is a fool, He who will not reason is a coward, He who dare net reason is a slave." EDITORIAL. The Farmers' Alliance, Publish Weekly br Tbe Alliance Publishing Co. J. BURROWS. Editor. J. M. THOMPSON, Bns. Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR, OrTABlABLT IN ADVANCE. OB FIVE fTjBSCXIPTIONS, IN ONE OBDEB ONE TBAB FOB $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 tin trammeled in the discussion of all questions. IT AO? CEPTS NO CORPORATION PAT UONAGE. 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 Urn. We confidently appeal for support to all who can appreciate the ralue of such a paper. The bold and aggressive fight made by this paper in the late campaign, re sulting in giving the farmers movement in this State over 70,000 votes against both of the old parties, has made it the FOREMOST CHAMPION and obgan OF THIS MOVEMENT IN THE WEST! Its aggressive warfare against corpo rate and plutocratic rule will be contin ued, '"Truth and Justice" always being its motto. If our subscription warrants, The "Alliance will be enlarged to a six column 8-page paper Jan. 1st, 1891. With an Alliance membership of 80.000 the subscription list of The Alli ance has never exceed 12,000. It should be 75.000. With a list near that num ber v would be able to furnish The Best Paper in the State. Will you aid us to make it 50,000? t3JT Alliance officers are requested to act as agents. tST All yearly subscriptions sent from this date forward run to Jan. 1st, 1892. v t PREMIUMS. The Alliance one year, andLook- , ing Backward, postpaid 11.80 Ditto and Labor and Capital by Kellogg...... : 1.10 Ditto and Caesar's Column 1.25 Ditto .ad 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 Republican Monarchy. 25 cts - Address, Alliance Pub. Co.. Lincoln, Neb. no JU TO DELEGATES. REDUCED BATES TO THE STATE MEETING. Delegates to. the annual meeting of the State Alliance, to be held atLincoln Dec. 16, 1890, will buy full fare tickets going, and will secure certificate (or receipt) therefor from the ticket agent, by request, at time of purchase. These certificates, on being signed by the State Secretary, will entitle the holder to a return ticket at one-third fare. Where the journey is over more than one line a separate receipt for each line should be procured. Information as to special rates at hotels will be given at Lincoln J. Burrows, Ch'm Ex. Com. J. M. Thompson, Secretary. TO ALL IDLE "FARMERS. We will furnish you two of three good selling ooks that all "farmers ought to read, that sell quickly for 20 to 50 cents, and we will give you an agency to canvass for The Alliance. We will receive yearly subscriptions at $1 each, and give six months time for payment, and will allow you a fair com mission to be paid when the subscrip tion is paid. - : You can canvass your own vicinity without expense. Apply for agency at : once. Above terms will only be given to special agents. "'. - ' ' fj; . K7Anotheb Lie. -The Bet ' informs an inquirer that L. L. Polk is president of the National Farmers' Alliance, which it knew was a lie out of whole cloth. THE GOVERNMENT LIEN ON THE UNION PACIFIC. THE ' RAILROAD TRUST" OF JAY GOULD CAN BE DEFEATED; BY HAVING THE GOVERNMENT FORECLOSE ! ITS LIEN ON r THE U. P. R. R. In 1867 the government loaned the Union Pacific railroad company $33, 513,000 6 per cent, bonds, and gave it an immense Jand grant, ' for the pur pose of building up the west." The rpad has been used to : enrich its managers, and its: extortionate rates have been such as to oppress the settlers along its route. According to the report of the attorney general of Nebraska for 1888, the freight charges on subsidizod rail roads in Nebraska are SO per cent higher than on Iowa railroads that have received no government aid. The road, although paying in ten years over $28,000,000 in dividends to its stock holders, has never paid the coupons oh Its, subsidy bond. These the govern ment has been compelled to pay, and the principal of the subsidy, with the balances due on account of interest, and the unpaid coupons, now amount to nearly $66,000,000. The control "of this road, reaching from Kansas City and Omaha to the Pacii c coast, was necessary to enable Mr. Gould to domplete his scheme of a "railroad trust," organized for the pur pose of extorting $22,400,000 annually out of western producers to pay divi- aenap to eastern stockholders, it is fortunate for the people that he has ob tained control at a time when the Union Pacific railroad, a armed at the ap proaching maturity of its subsidy, is a suppliant to the government to extend that subsidy for fifty years without ade quate security. By defeating the proposed extension, and having the gotemment fore close its lien an the road, the farmers' alii ance can defeat the railroad trust scheme Although the amount properly due the government by the road amounts to about. $66,000,000. Senator Frye, of Maine, introduced a bill in the last ses sion of this congress that reduces this to $52,000,000, by deducting discount from , payments made by the govern ment for the account of the roadj in stead of adding interest to them ; and then he gravely advises the government to accept for this balance 3 per cent fifty-year bonds, secured by a mortgage preceded by $115,000,000 bonds, when the government now has asecondmort eaee on the Union Pacific road, lands and assets preceded by only $33,500, 000, He advised the government to ac cept these 3 per cent, bonds at par, when better bonds of the Union Pacific road, paying A and 5 per cent., are of fered at 75 and 80. Such an extension will be the means of the government eventually losing the entire amount of the subsidy, and only a foreclosure of the government lien at once can save it, and by removing the road from Mr. Gould's control, defeat his railroad trust scheme. If the Frye bill passes, it will place many millions in the pockets of Mr. Gould and other stockholders of the Union Pacific railroad. The charter of the Union Pacific pro vides that its telegraph line shall be open to all ' telegraph companies on the same terms. . This line, although built by money furnished by the government, is now monopolized by the Western Union Telegraph company, and the control of the Union Pacifie is as neces sary to Mr. Gould to defeat Mr. Wana maker's plan of cheap telegraph facili ties as it is to perfect his railroad trust. The Union Pacific has repeatedly vio lated the United States laws of 1873 and 1878, and has placed its charter in jeopardy. The attention of the United Sta.es attorney general (whose duty to enforce these laws is made mandatory) was called to this matter last year by the attorney general of Nebraska. The Farmers' alliance can call THE . ATTENTION OF THE COUNTRY TO, AND CAN DEFEAT THE SCHEME OF MR. Gould, by presenting to the Utited States Attorney General some such resolution as this: Whereas, The managers of the Union Jfac he railroad nave repeatedly vio lated the acts of 1873 and 1878, and are now conspiring with other railroads to form a railroad trust, in violation of the charter of the Union Pacific rail road, and to defeat the provisions of the interstate commerce act; therefore be it s Resolved, That the attorney general of the United States be requested to de clare the charter of the Union Pacific void, and to proceed to, foreclose the lien of the . Uni ed States aginst the road and to enforce against its officers the prescribed penalties of the violated acts of 1873 and 1878. . O:- ' . ,. It the attorney general refuses to do his duty in this matter, the people must press it before congress, and by. all means prevent the passage of tho Frye bill. '-.'ft - - The questions before the people of this country now are: Shall Jay Gould be permitted to perfect his railroad trust? Who owns the United States, Jay Gould or the people? Are the law and ; judicfary departments under the control of millionaires, or are they the servants of the people? " AN ELASTIC CURRENCY. , Mr. Wiadom says in his report that the gravest defect in our present system of currency is its lack of elasticity. The elastic quality which he seems to think so desirable Is the power to adapt itself to the varying needs of the money using public. Mr, Windem does not suggest any plan forgiving the currency the desired elasticity; and he seems to forget, if inded it ever occurred to him,; that until a currency has reached the point where it . fully supplies, the needs of the people for a1 circulating medium there cannot possibly 'be any automatic contraction, even though facilities exist ed for such contraction. By the very system under which it is constituted the law ot our currency is contraction. Even though there was no absolute con traction of paper money, the growth -.of. population and business works a con tinuous contraction . which must be counteracted unless the money volume is to grow continually less For many years the natural contraction has not been counteracted. With money based on precious metals alone, and with an inadequate supply of those metals, con traction must continue. The. money power of the country finds its account in depressing prices, which is done by les sening the volume of money. With low prices men with fixed incomes such as come from interest and rent, command an increasing portion of wealth. .The reason why the national bank system did not furnish .the needed elastic qual ity was because it conferred upon a cer tain class of men the power to contract or expand the curreucy at their pleas ure, and they found their account in contracting it; and the power to coun teract this was not conferred upon any other class. Now, as we said above, expansion must take place up to the point where the needs of the people for money are fully supplied before any provision for elasticity or automatic regulation could possibly, become operative. A mere in terconvertible bond, without providing any additional money volumo, would be sheerest nonsense. But let the govern ment provide a land-currency issued to all who could furnish the required se curity at one and one-tenth per cent, and then issue an interconvertible bond at one per cent, and an elastic self-regulating currency would be provided. If there was any redundancy of money it would go into the bond. If there was still a redundancy so that men could not make money by paying the government one and one-tenth per cent on the land mortgages, these would be paid off and the money redeemed. To try this plan the issue of land-currency need not be unlimited. A per capita, amount might be authorized. But it must absolutely be made equal to any other money so far as debt-paying power is- concerned. It must be full legal tender for ail debts, public and private. Mr. Windom shaves this proposition1 very closely. He acknowledges there:; is not enough money he acknowledges' it lacks elasticity but when he comes to the remedy he gropes hopelessly in the dark. If he could be disenthralled; for a few months from his slavery to Wall street and the money power, if he could consider the interests of all of the people instead of a few of them, the true remedy would soon burst upon him like the glory of a summer sunrise. The Author of "Caesar's Column." "Caesar's Column: A story of the Twentieth Century," was issued last June by a new and comparatively un known publishing house. The name on the title page was EdmunBoisgilbert. M. D., and it was given Sut that this was a pseudonym. The-reking maga zines and reviews, with "$he exception, and many of the great newspapers en tirely ignored the book, and everything at first was against its success; It created the most profound interest, however, among those who read it, and soon became talked about. Julian Hawthorne, Bishop Potter, Frances E. VV illard and others spoke highly of it, and Cardinal Gibbons praised it as an example of the highest literary form upie ir. need summed up its cnarm in these words r "It will thrill a careless reader of novels, or profoundly impress a statesman. It is gentle as a child, and yet it is rugged as a giant." In six months ''Caesar's Column" passed through ten editions, and considerable guessing was done as, to the real name of the author, among those prominently named being Judge Tonrgee. Mark Twajn, T. V. Powderly, Robert G. In gersoll, Chauncey M- Depew, Benjamin F. Butler, and others. The publishers, F. J. Schulte & Co., of Chicago, now announce that Ignatius Donnelly, au thor of "Atlantis," "Ragnarok" and "The Great Cryptogram," is also the author of "Caesar's Column." Mr. Donnelly escaped general suspicion be cause'his previous writings are more distinguished by laborious industry av.d wide information than by the qualities that go to make the creator of ro mances. He is now engaged in finish ing a semi-political novel which will soon be published by the same firm. Competent critics who have seen the MS. say it is based on the most original and extraordinary conception in litera ture. . . ; Caesar's Column is for sale at this of fice at 50 cents, paper covers; or we send The Alliance one year and the book for $1.25. , OMAHA POINTERS. The vote in , the late city election in Omaha was a little over 10,000. The election was very hotly contested. In several wards there were as many as four candidates, and every effort was made to get out a full vote. At the state election, November 4, there were said to be 23,000 votes cast. There are, probably at the outside about 16,000 votes in Omaha At the city election there was no large fund to col onize voters from Iowa and Missouri; so all the darkies and roughs of Coun cil Bluffs were not voted. ' At the state election there was a large fund, ' and probably a ' thousand colonists were brought in from the bluffs alone. These votiug at nearly all the voting precincts could easily make the difference be tween 16,000 and 23,000. As , their re peaters came into the line to vote they were furnished- with cards with the name they were to vote under, so as to avoid duplicating the same name. ' Special provisions will have to be in corporated into the Australian law to suit Omaha. - r '! - ; ; ' Very r delicate, people should t not Imthe before breakfast but 'put it off until the middle of tee morning, when their vitality is at its best. THE RAPE OF THE RAILROADS. The Methods' of the Great Looter. Who Owns the United States? Tho facts . in regard to Gould's con spiracy are gradually coming to light. For years no doubt he has been gettisg ready for the grand piece ,of strategy which he has'recently successfully car ried out. This preparation has ioji sisted in obtaining full informatih of the exact financial condition of $ the railroads he wished to seize, their debt, amount of stock, etc., etc., and in com municating and gathering around him the millionaires who were willing to join him in the grand burglary and put their millions in his control. 'These preparations made, he only waited for the most favorable moment to spring his trap. That moment came when a financial panic was imminent, when money was running to cover, and when men who must have it were ready to sacrifice their stocks and bonds to get it. The failure of the Barings offered the opportunity. Money was wanted in Europe, and American securities were sent for it. A panic was feared, the banks were strengthening themselves, and cash was becoming scarce. An hour of gloom was falling on other men, but their sorrow was Jay Gould's joy. He and his co-conspirators now began to lock up money. Gould, Vanderbilt, Sage, Rockafeller, the Standard ' Oil trust, John H. Inman, Samuel Thomas, and others of the financial blood-sucking fraternity, unloaded their safes "of bonds, stocks .nd mortgages into the tills of bankers and loan companies, un til they had tied up and withdrawn from the reach of the public six hundred mil lions of money. It is amazing that the disasters resulting from this have been so few. But it has been felt through out the length and breadth of the land, and all our large cities have had more or less failures in conseqnence of it. Of course these failures were not the object of the conspirators. They were only incidents the casualties of a battle thedead and wounded which a general regrets perhaps, but accepts as inevita ble. The desired conditions were achieved stocks were tumbling and L the brokers, of the combine were buying them in. The din of battle was high the air was obscured but when the smoke cleared away Gould and his com bine were found to be in possession of the main arteries of a continent. He holds his finger - to-day on the pulse of the nation, and its life blood must flow fast or slow as he in his supreme pleas ure may determine. Some fellows in Texas or Mississippi conspire at a cross-roads and stop and plunder an express train. If they are caught and they are quite apt to be it is the pen for life, if not short shrift at the end of a halter. Some fellows on Fifth avenue conspire and stop the com merce of a nation and rob a thousand widows and orphans. They do not have to be caught they are well known and they receive the plaudits of man kind. The penalties for robbing a peo ple andthe penalties for robbing an ex press messenger are vastly dispropor tionate. What shall be said of the finan cial system under which such a damna ble scheme of plunder can be consu mated? What shall be said of a finan-v cial system under which four or five free hooters can so corner and manipulate the money volume as to bring ruin on hundreds perhaps thousands of innocent and enterprising business men in order that a few pirates may rake in and ap propriate the life earnings which may happen to be invested in railroad enter prises? What shall be said of a railroad system under which the tenure of own ership is so frail that four or five con spirators can by financial jugglery trans fer in a day to tbeir.own possession the muscles of steel which are indispensable to the commerce of a nation and bind together the extremities of a continent? What shall be said of the nation of so called freemen who can sit idly down and see the great agency of commerce which they have created by a , quarter of a century's honest labor, looted in the interest of a junta of millionaire free booters? How long will it be before the people of this country will with a united voice demand that the govern ment shall own and control the railroads and telegraphs of the nation? And when they do at last so demand will it then too late be found that the condi tion and destiny of this great people hang upon the will of one man? . INFAMOUS DIABOLISM. , After the movement for the relief of the western counties was well under way, the Journal came out with several emphatic articles in one issue protesting against any effort being made to obtain relief outside of the state, and saying that any persons soliciting such aid should be denounced as imposters. It did this in the f ace of the well-known fact that the demand for relief would be so great that it would be impossible for the eastern part of the state to anything like fully meet it. In its issue of the 5th is an article stating that funds had been sent from Chase county to aid the contest, , and intimating that if funds could be sent from that county for such a purpose it probably does not need re lief from, outside on account of its drouth sufferers. ! Now in the first place the JournaVs statement about contest funds sent from Chase county is an unadulterated false hood. No such money has been sent from that county.4 But if it had the ef fort of the Journal io stop relief on that account is simply diabolic- There may be - people in the west who have some money, and . they can dispose of it as they see fit.. The contribution of money to sustain the contest is a patriotic duty that the independents owe to their lead ers' and their party, and the Journal may be sure that theV' will perforin it. But the stricken' counties have not been ask ed to contribute to that fund. : S. H. H. Clark is appointed general manager of the U. P. PARNELL. Since the fatal facts of the Parnell O'Shea business became public the ciVr; ilized world has been watching with batedbreath the desperate struggle of a great man against destiny. And what a man he was is. Let us not forget he is the same man he was before. Only now we know before we did not. Look at what he has achieved. When Parnell emerged from obscurity Ireland stood with streaming eyes and dishev elled hair, distracted, a sacrifice to English freebooters; the spoil of the church; the victim of centuries of relig ious and national aversion; regarded as a malefactor and idolater who was treated; with sufficient mercy if spared to Her misery the prey,from William of Orange to Victoria, of tyrants who ad mired and manacled only to plunder her. Her children had been misgovern ed through a long succession of genera tions. Her fair green fields were given over to English landlords. Her sons were scattered in every clime, and made by their complainings the Irish cause the impulse of the world. She was the mother of Swift, of Grattan, , of O'Con nell. Hers was the land of Burke, who plead in an English parliament for American liberty. Parnell came. He found an Irish party, indeed, but weak, aimless and unorganized. It had no leader. It was full of patriotic longings, but only , conceived impossible tand Quixotic adventures. To invade Ire land through America to attack Eng land through Canada were stfme of them. Parnell came, and chaos abated. Men took their places in orderly array. A party powerful by its votes, its organ ization, its just demands, grew under his forming hand. Parliament gave attention and the world listened. The object of the Irish party, before vague and indeterminate, became well-defined, and was approved by mankind. It was the nationalization of Ireland through an appeal to the enlightened informa tion and awakened justice of the English people! This work was going grandly forward. The greatest of Englishmen the greatest man of the century, always next to Lincoln, was enlisted in its favor. Parnell was the "uncrowned King of Ireland." Uncrowned, he was the ac knowledged chieftian of an heroic race. In the imperial parliament his very foes admitted he had no peer. He was hailed as Ireland's Washington, and might well have hoped to sit in an Irish parliament, and have been the foremost citizen of Ireland restored,. to nationality- ' All was going well, when alas! we all lear&ed what we might ha!ve known be fore that Parnell was only a man! A weak and wanton thread of fate, clipped by a smiling siren, tripped him, and he fell, like thousands of other men before him like many of the very ones who are now clamoring for his blood and hisgaiment. We do not care to censure we do not ,care to palliate or excuse. He was only a man! great in intellect, great in his power over other , men, greater still in his aspirations, which were the noblest with which God endows men, the as pirations of a patriot for his country but still only a man, with a man's un subdued passions. Parnell has made two mistakes one in yielding to his temptation, one in not yielding to what passes as public senti ment. ' There is no wrong without a penalty, and he must now endure the penalty. He may have absolution only on one condition: it must be by the man who has committed "no sin. He may be stoned also only on the.same condition . "He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." A Benevolent Plan to Aid Western Settlers. Lincoln, Nebli Dec. 8, 1890. To County Clerks, in Western Nebraska where the drought has Impoverished the people: Gentlemen: There is now, and al ways will be, a demand for female labor in the cities of Liacolnand Oinaha, and in the rural districts adjoining cities, by families who are able to employ help, and by families who are willing to clothe, and feed girls for their labor, and qualify them for household duties. There are many young ladies in your district that caonot find anything to do at home, and must necessarily suffer for want of proper clothing and food, and who would readily accept a place in a good tamily, where they could earn their own living and a great help to their parents or their friends. This ac tion on" the part of these girls would greatly lighten the burden and relieve the parents and friends of the anxiety which poverty , through the- drought forces on the heads of f amilies, and give confidence and encouragement to them who must ask for aid. Now, gentlemen if you will secure the names of such young ladiess that are willing to accept a place to work in good families at such prices as can be secured, or on such terms as will feed and clothe them, and tide them over the next six months, or until crops are assured to their parents, I think all these young women can find employment. : . - ' Please send such advice to Rev. Geo. W. Martin and Rev. Luther P. Ludden, who are members of the Nebraska State Relief Commission," located in Lincoln, and, they will, I think, find .them em ployment, through the "Ladies' Em ployment Bureau." in the cities named. This is a noble work and I believe every Christian woman in eastern Nebraska will endorse your actions and help these poor struggling, ' discouraged girls and young womeu to earn an honest living. Please make invostigation in your neigh borhood and see if there are not many who will be glad to accept such offers of help. ! If this can be brought about you will find hundreds of Christian men and women who will call you true philan throplsts,' and ,,wiU aid you in getting these girls ino good homes; Jv , t , , Yours" respectfully, Mrs. John R. Underwood, Pres. Women's Christian Association. Electric Light Contract. SOME . IMPORTANT I FACTS AND FIGURES. A Remarkable Change in the Convic tions of Members of the City Council. Since letting the contract for lighting our streets by electricity by our city council, not a little comment has been brought out as to its advisability from an economic standpoint. When notice was published that the contract was asked for and would come before the council at its. next meeting, the chairman of the lighting committee was waited upon by various . persons and asked to hold the contract over long enough at least to inform himself as to the advisability of letting this con tract, to which he was quite favorable, and expressed himself that he thought the council should be fully informed as to the cost to other cities before letting as important a contract as this. Not only was the chairman favorably in clined, but also other councilmen, . and even said in as many words that he was strongly in favor of municipal lighting, and would vote against the letting of the contract. ' In addition to this a petition signed by a long list of prominent citizens and heavy taxpayers was submitted to the council, asking them to defer the let ting of this contract and the cancelling of the old contract for gas. But it seems that during Sunday something happened to change the minds of some of the council, or else they were inspired, or it may be it was revealed to them that the cost to the taxpayer cut no figure, and the con tract must be let at once. In fact, we found the entire city council except three, Messrs. Burns, Beohmer and Mc Laughlin, not only voting for it but urging its consummation. So much for what has been done. Let us see what it meaus. The contract calls for not less than sixty lights; all night lights to cost the city $180 per year; midnight lights to cost $120 par year. Now it is conceded that it will be im possible to satisfy our people who live outside the business part of the city with either gas or gasoline when they pay just as much tax for the support of the electric lights as those who receive the benefit, and this emergency has been looked after by a clause in the contract for as many more than sixty lights as the city council shall in their judgment deem necessary. So as a natural consequence, before our con tract expires instead of having to pay for sixty lights the number will likely exceed 120. . Now let us see what the city council have got this for, and at the same time see how much of our city's good hard cash they have voted to till the pockets of our electric light company. One hundred and twenty lights at $180 per year for five years would cost the city $108,000. We do not wish to be unfair by taking all night lights for our com parison, but because they are cheaper in proportion, and are the most desir able because , they v afford protection when needed most. Some time last fall the council of the city of Scranton, Pa., appointed a committee to investi gate the cost of electric lighting. Be low is only a partial list of the cities from which they got reports. I give those nearest the number used in this comparison: No. of lights. ..100 ..105 ..105 . ..115 Town. Atlanta, Ga..! Oalesburv, 111 Boston, Mass. Sandusky, O. P'r yr. , $130 105 ISO 100 150 140 Time lig-ht'd all night Milwaukee ,.iao Kichmond.ciVa. .133 The above are cities that are lighted by private corporations. Below is a list of a few of the cities who own their own plant: . No. of Town. lights. P r yr. ' Time llght'd Decatur 111 52 B0 (10 all nisrht P'r yr. tm (to 30 50 48 (K) 47 60 72 (O 65 60 Uuiikirk. N. Y ... 5T Madison, I nd.... 85 Little Kock 110 Topeka, Kan.... 14 Chicago... 292 The list is not given iu full for want of space, but the average on the full list is $103 .13 per year for private cor porations, and $52.12 when owned by the city. Prof. Barrett makes the following es timate on the cost of a plant of 120 arc lights, 2,000 candle power capacity: Apparatus for 125 aro light capacity.. ..$ 7.500 125 horse power steam 8,500 25 miles circuit, $30u per mile 7,500 Total f 18,500 He says the above estimate includes everything except building. For the benefit of those who are not acquainted with Mr. Barret's reputation, I would say he is the electrician for Chicago, and has charge '; of its immense light plant, with which, when completed, ho proposes to light the city of Chicago for $125,000 per year, instead of paying the gas trust as in the past the modest sum of $600,000 for a very much poorer light. Returning to our subject we will take Topeka for a standard, because it is similar in location, and also the highest in the list. 1 he price per year is $72; Ve will call it $75 per year. One hundred and twenty lights would cost the city at $75 . per year , in ' five years $45,000; we will say our plant out side the building cost $20,000. We have then a net, cost to the city for five years' service $65,000. or a saving of $43,000, besides owning our own plant, which is worth nearly its cost. But say it has depreciated 25 per cent-i we still have $15,000 to add to our; saving, making a total of $58,000, or a saving of over 53 per cent, on the present contract. I have purposely omitted the expense of a building in this comparison, for we have a building in the old F street water plant which has been of no particular use to the city for several years, excpt for the I council to spend : money on, which could be utilized for this purpose at a very small expense. To say that ! we think there is a nigger in the wood pile is not necessary. N. S. B. ALLI. ' ANCE. i An Enthusiastic Meeting. : The meeting of the Lancaster county alliance held on Saturday tho Cth inst. was a very successful one. A committee of one from each alli ance was appointed on relief for west ern. Nebraska, aud a number . of : alli ances reported definite action already taken :v, , . . .. A number of cars of supplies will be made up by Lancaster county's gene rous farmers and placed in charge of the state relief committee. O. Hull was re-elected president by a unanimous vote amid an enthusiasm that could not but be gratifying to tho man who has so unselfishly labored for the success of our cause in this county. Other officers were elected as follows: I. N. Leonard, vice president; W. II, Kerlin, secretary; J. W. Masters, treas urer; II. M. Penn, doorkeeper; W. li. Wright, assissant doorkeeper; Wm. Foster, sergeant-at-arma. A committee of eight was selected to assist tne state secretary in meeting trains and caring for delegates to an nual meeting of state alliance. The meeting was enthusiastic, and delegates were present from every alli ance in the county, eacfi personally in terested in the welfare and success of our organization. THE ALLIANCE RELIEF FUND. The following amounts have been con tributed for the relief of the drouth- stricken regiou of the state: Amount previously reported. . . .$370 05 E. S. Davison, Emerald, from farmers of Emerald 11 25 J. D. Rcising, Ponca, Neb...... 10 00 Gideon Purbaugh, ' Lancaster county, Nolan alliance 10 00 II. G. Weigel, Diller, Neb., Cen terville alliance, No. 077 G6o. Timblin, Wisner, Neb., al-, liance No. 814 8 75 12 Ed. Arnold, Odell, Neb., Glen-- " wood alliance No. 930 10 25 UNPARALLELED JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE. The Poor Old Journal to the Front. In the B. f M: Journal of the 4th is an article under flaming headlines: "A Secret Conference; The Alliance Will Hold It at Lincoln," etc., etc. The ar ticle begins: "The report that the alli ance leaders will hold a secret confer ence at Lincoln December 10 is not to be dismissed with a laugh." Now this is very funny and illustrates the won derful enterprise in the news hunting line of the great morning daily. Some time before December 4 the regular an nual meeting of the state alliance was called to convene at Lincoln December 16. Special rates were arranged for and published to the alliances through out the state. There wasn't a county in the state but what knew of the meet ing before the Journal published its mysterious information of a secret con ference of alliance leaders. And now comes another amusing in stance of the sleepiness of the poor old Journal. In its edition of Sunday, De cember 7, Mr. Gere has a column edi torial combating what is called "the sub-treasury scheme," in blissful ignor ance that the southern alliance in its session at Ocala, Fla,, refused to en dorse this scheme, thus making it a dea i letter. If Mr. Gere had been at all well in formed he would have known what nearly all alliance men know, viz: that the scheme never had the endorsement of any national body, but was a person al fad of Mr. Macune. The failure of the southern alliance to endorse it leaves it on its own merits, and as it has no merits we hope we have heard the last of it. THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. The Herald is pained to learn fr m a rolirble source locality, Nebraska City that the new people's paper, the Inde pendent, has been established in this city as a back tire agajnst Brother Bur rows, ind his estimable and popular Alliance. Ex-Senator Van Wyck, Postmaster Helvey and other republi cans and some envious a liance enemies of Brother Burrows have taken this step with the full determination to harass and sripple him, to raise femls, to di vide the independent party, to under mine and destroy Mr. Burrows. That they may succeed to the full extent U not impossible. That they will . in a measure is probable. Most wicked things do succeed more or less. Lin coln Herald. Let 'er went, Dro, Calhoun. Wo im agine Bro. Burrows would rather en joy being "undermined and destroyed." He might get a rest then, which it Sjeems now nothing but the grave will afford him. Let 'er went. But, Bro. Calhoun, don't let your cynical philosophy get away with you. Most wicked things do not succeed "more or less." The good is in plain daylight the wicked has to be searched for. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," but. "the wicked ilee when no man pursueth." . . THE LYING JOURNAL. The Journal says there are only ten counties in the , state needing relief. We give below the list .'of counties to which relief has been sent by the relief commission in , this city. We . aro in formed by the' commission that calls are constantly increasing: Banner' Harrlsburgr Box Butte Nonpareil J. E. Logan 1. B. Tash Cash D. Kuller D. McAleese 'Due- imperial Cheyenn I "Ulster " Dawe DawBon Deuel "'' Dundy Frontier . Furaa ' Hayes Hitchcock Keith -i Kimball V Lincoln ll Locran cianey Broken Bow J.O, PaHiter Chadron John Q. Matter Lcxiuffton Chappell Uenkleman PtockvlUe . Ed Harrington C. K. Williams J. D. Horrell John W. Olmsted ' Beaver City Hayes Center Geo. Go win a- Culbertson F. M. Pf rimmer Ou-allala k. P. Dichson . Kimball 8. Wooldrldjre North Platte Butler' Buchanaa Gandy C. R. Beckvelth . MoPhersoa U. P. Wilson Grant J B. Miller Indianola Geo. W. Koper Thedford J. E. Joy McPberson Perkins Hod Willow Thomas THE LANCASTER COUNTY "1