THE FAliMEItS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1891.
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Tics Alliance PiTBLismara Co.
' Cot. lit u4 M Bta iinooln, Neb.
Bailor
....BuitneM Muiftr
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"In the beauty of tha lilfies .
" Christ wu born across the sea,
With a glory In Ms bosom
That trmnsfigures yon and me.
At be strove to make men holy
Let na strive to make than free,
Since God is marching on."
s Julia Wart Bow.
"Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
.And power to him who power exerts."
"A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs."
..- Knur ton.
"lie who cannot reason Is a fool,
Ce who will not reason is a coward, -lie
who dare not reason is a slave."
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Address.
Aujarcb Pes Co Lincoln Neb.
THE RELIEF BILL PASSED
THE HOUSE.
H. R. 79 passed the house yesterday
morniur. This bill appropriates 1100.
000 for the relief ef the drouth stricken
settlers of the west, and, places the
money in the hands of a commission to
be expended ia the purohase and dlstrl
button of the necessaries of life to saidt'
settlers The bill is to take effect lm
mediately upon its passage. It .now
goes to the senate, where it wilt no
doubt be speedily pasted.1 - -
But it is proper to say in this connc-
tion that relief is going forward proba
bly as rapidly as it will after' the bill
a ' a aw . l
oeooraes a law. .twenty tnousana aoi
l&rs' worth' of supplies have already
been purchased, ami 1 there , is no diffl
eulty, now that an appropriation has be
come a certainty, in obtaining all that
are needed. r '' '.
Mr. McKeighan - has secured a re
hearing before the sub-committee
on appropriations at Washington, and
has strong hopes of securing a special
appropriation for westorn relief. Ont!
million dollars have been asked for)
This is considerable less than 10 pet
cent of the amount the drouth Strieker'
district has paid into the United State:
treasury for lands in the past five yearj
As this district has never had appropc
at ions for public buildings or Othr
purposes, It ems reasonable to sul
pose that tbis appeal may m neeaea.
'If Burro b i iu dead earnest abo.
that call for '1,000 men not afraid
die.' he should at once issue a call
, the name of the would-be govern
with a bounty of 1300 for every recrj
who will enlist lor three years or to
end ol the war." isee. -
'The above shows the vilencss Roi
water will resort to in his attempt
destroy Burrows. . The -call" it spea!
of was simply an allusion by us to
well-known historical fact, Libel ca
be perpetrated under many disguises.
The Journal of yesterday says th
first word in its editorial column:
"Boss Burrows issues a call for 1,000
men 'hot afraid to die.' "
Now there was never a baser lie utter,
ed, and Mr-Gere knew it when he print
ed it, and gave It his editorial sanction.
Such unprincipled scoundrels as those
two editors deserve to be kicked out ot
any decentwommunity.
TO GEN E. , F. TEST, OF OMAHA.
Deak General: To you was as
signed the agreeable and easy duty by
the Omaha board of trade of disproving,
by official investigation the vile state
ment of the State Alliance, made two
years ago, that there were $150,000,000
of land mortgages in this state. Since
that time Mr. Porter has ascertained
and reported the population of the
United States, including 40,000 dummies
at Omaha. He has also formulated a
large amount of other valuable inform
ation. Nebraska is waiting breathlessly
for your official figures. What are you
going to do about it? : i
3r The bucket shop bill was passed
by the house with a rush, , and the
backet shop will have to move on,
(totally. "
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MORE AND MORE OF XT.
He that was Contingent Tom Majors
and is now Contingent Tom for lieuten
ant governor, is by courtesy of the In
dependents in ihe Senate simply a fig
ure bead in chaege of the senate cham
ber undtr rules - made by machine
politicians of two years ago, and which
honest men did not have the foresight
to amend or repeal to" prevent a petty
political tyrant from abusing. - It is
simply amusing to observe how easily a
being in the shape of a man like twice
Contingent Tom can have his wonder
fully sensitive feelings injured. When
Secretary Pirtle issued tickets to a few
friends for seats upon the senate floor,
he was only following the precedent of
years, and had Contingent Tom had the
man hood to hare quietly asked Mr.
Pirtle to Issue no more tickets the sug
gestion won!- have been adopted. , Mr.
Pirtle, in his work, is a man true to
duty and principle, and when such men
as Con. Tom will use his petty position
to openly before the whole senate and
the public accuse the secretary of in
subordination, the animus of the whole
matter is very plain. , When Contingent
Tom tried to steal a seat in congress,
and now is using the same tactics to
steal the position of lieutenant governor,
and shortly will attempt the game he
has so persistently - used to oust Boyd
and attempt to. place himself at the
head of the state government, it is very
plain that the attack upon Secretary
Pirtle' yesterdry ; was simply , the first
part of the game to create a sentiment
in the senate against Mr. Pirtle, so as
to secure three or four . votes, and then
spring the trap to removo Mr. Pirtle
and elect a pliant tool to carry out the
yfls schemes of the oo-coniplrators
Let the Independents in the senate and
house be on the watch. ' These chaps
are setting up their scheme to accom
plish by trickery what they know they
can't Ho by honest means. If they can
remove Mr. Pirtle and place a tool in
hU place who 'can steal some of the
most important bills or can change
them by striking out or inserting a
word, or by any other method defeat the
will of the people, rest assured!) , will
WHATThv nvrfAND!
Less politidy S , ; . .... i
Less office holders. ' : '
Less salaries.
Less political strikers. " ' "
Less tax eaters. - ...
Less public expenses.
Less salaried clerks and deputies.
Less political jobbery.
Less appropriations.
Less expensive public institutions.
Less usury. ,
, Less escape from taxation.
Less political control by railroads.
Less railroad fare.
Less railroad charges for freights,
v Less discrimination. ,
Less combinations ameng banks and
business men in politics.
Less county expenses. . ,
Less control of the state by political
strikers. ''; ;
Less using iie public funds to obtain
and hold political power.
Less inequality of taxation.
Less enrichment of the few at the ex
pense of the many. .
Less dirty, dlshenost, political com
bines. : '.' r
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$58s,ooo OUTSTANDING WAR.
RANTS.
Regular Monthly Expenses SCs.ooo, Be
sides Legislative Expenses.
Treasurer IliiTs report, giving the
above facts, calls for something more
than a passing notice.
It calls for action and retrenchment
by the legislature.
It calls for an unsparing cutting off
and cutting down by the legislature.
Every dollar of tax levied on western
farms imperils the owners of these
homes. '
The republican administration has
been so long and so securely seated In
the fat places, that they have mul
tiplied them and filled them with their
retainers, and gorged them with high
salaries. " "'"'
In these dire times a less number
should 'je willing to do a little more
work, and do it for a little less money
than they have been receiving in the
prosperous times. If they are not will
ing to let them step aside and give way
to others, who in these hard times will
be willing to do the same work for very
moderate pay. Clerks should be cut off
in every department of the state. . The
pay of those that remain should be re
duced from twenty-live to fifty percent.
Two years from now, if times become
good again, the pay can be increased.
The legi&re should look keenly to
this, and do away with every unneces
sary person, in every department, of
Nebraska at once, and should unspar
ingly cut down all fat salaries, and re
quire the public work to be done at the
lowest possible oost to the taxpayers.
... THE STATE DEBT,
Article XII of the constitution per
mits the state to meet casual deficits or
failure in tke revenue, to contract debts
never to exceed one hundred thousand
dollars. .
By section 10, Article III, of the con
stitution, each legislature shall make
the appropriations necessary for the ex
penses of the government until the end
of the first fiscal quarter after the ad
journment of the next regular session.
And whenever it is deemed necessary
fto make further appropriations for de-
ficlencies the-same Aa-rBi a two
thirds tote of all the members elected to
each house.and shall not exeeed the amount
of revenue authorized by law to . be raised
in such time.
It seems that there is over 1100,000
shortage to start with.
How much more does the state owe
for which there are no outstanding
warrants, and for what and by whom
was the indebtedness created J
Is the indebtedness, every dollar Of
it, tor such absolute necessaries as, consld-
idering these distressing times, had ab-
lutelv to be obtained to keep the pub-
io institutions openf If not, let no
appropriations be made for them.
-DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS, j
The example set two years ago, by
the legislature, in wanton extravagance
has' been followed by 'every; department
I oi slate smoe tne adjournment ox tnat
SeSSion. .-S w.. - :'-';T-
i If this course of things goes on the
state will soon have a debt that will be
a burden indeed; in fact it is already
one to the farmers that have lost their
all and are subjects of charity.
There is no method under the consti
tution by. which the burden can be
taken from them or their farms. Year
by year the taxes will pile up against
their homes, and if they cannot pay
them now they are steadily sinking un
der the loads of taxes and interest.
The legislature owes it to itself to
scrutinize every dollar of these expend
itures, and reject and make no appro
priation for any foolish or extravagant
expenditures.
r Here is hard, thorough work for the
committee who hare these matters in
charge, axd we shall hereafter have
something to say of these bills if they
Bare allowed. . vv'.
INQ ALLS' DEFEAT.
In the defeat of J. J. Ingalls for U.
Senator demagoguism has met its
Waterloo, the money power a disaster,
Jeffrontry and check a rebuke, and the
worst phases of machine politics a
AAt.n1 T .1.1 .U.t!.. -J TiV.
to the U. S. senate, the Alliance of
Kansas has achieved a signal victory.
That he may be true to the people who
have trusted him and be their able
champion at Washington, is the sincere
Wish Of all Of US. ;r . ,,v s
The new senator is an earnest man
of much more ability than is supposed
by his political opponents, who only
know of him. He is a fluent, logical
speaker, a profound writer and a genial
gentleman. He is a newspaper man of
extraordinary force, and as a candidate
for senator is the brainiest man men
tioned. His election is a credit to the
Independent party. The frivolous old
stereotype will never be , applied to
him, "that he is rattling around in In
galls' chair."
ARE THEY TO HAVE SEED?
A correspondent at Big Springs writes
us that not more than one man in ten
can buy seed and feed. Also that they
frequently sow wheat in February and
plant corn April 1st. If these people
are going to be supplied with seed and
feed so that they can stay in that coun
try and put in a crop, they ought to
know it at once. We feel no hesitation
In assuring them that they will be as
sisted and can depend upon it.
The American Bastille.
JUDICIAL USURPATIONS.
; It is only a little while to ,the cen
tennial anniversary of 17S3, one of the
memorable years of the French revolu
tion the year which saw the storming
of the Bastille and the beheading of
Louis the fifteenth. Thither, on the
mere order of an irresponsible king,
were haled without trial men who were
in his way, men who desired to change
the existing order of things, men who
advocated new ideas, men who dared ta
have opinions, convictions and aspi
rations, and to utter them. ;
The day came in France when the
last drop of blood had been taken from
an exhausted people when gaunt want
stalked in all parts of Paris, and when
famine strode unappeased through all
the land. . Aristocracy and privilege,
through farmed revenues and govern
ment monopolies, had done their fate
ful work. "A poor uoman gathered leeks
in the highway to save her children from
starvation, and by some chicane of privilege
the monopolists took every third leek under
the name of tat. Carlisle Hist. French
Revolution.
The hour came when the people had
no more to dread, no more to lose. ; It
was then that a patriot sent to Mar
sailles, "send me a thousand men who
know bow to die." And they came because-
they had nothing better to do
than to ' die.;. It was then' that they
stormed the bastille, vTo describe this
capture of the bastille the most impor
tant capture in history transcends the
power oj mortals; we will not essay it.
It stood there the impersonation of
tyranny. . Within its dungeons were
immured men who had suddenly disap
reared from their streets and never
been seen again. With cannons aud
battering rams and sledges and pikes
the mob forced ; its bars. Maddened
and frenzied, but with a sort of shrink
ing horror, they drew back the bolts of
its dark dungeons and led into the light
of day the poor victims of man's inhu
manity to man. The light of the sun
has never shown upon such another
scene Poor, ragged, ; dazed , wretches,
clothed . in dirty tatters and r bloody
fetters, were led forth supported by
their avengers, to look again upon God's
blue sky and green earth before they
died. Some were maniacs.' some
came only out to die, Men
men immured for eighteen - ye rs
in a loathsome dungeon, without
a knowledge of any crime committed or
charged, and without a shadow of a
trial! What should be done with such
a suburb of hell? Raze it to the ground
and razed it was, till not one. stone
rested on another amid blood and
murder, and vile ribaldry that smote
the day with horror.
' That revolution was a cyclone of ter
rorrbut the, air was purer afterward.
The memory of that day and that
bastille will haunt the sons of France for
a thousand years, trad noVmore-such
prisons will polute her soil for many
an age. . f
' But free America is building a bastille
to-day which is as purely the creation
of trvauny, which will be as surely the
instrument of irresponsible power, and
which will as surely crush out and blight
the liberties of freemen as did the mute
and horrid pile in Paris. That bastille
is building in the fabric of judicial law
that is ; being, silently reared all
over the land. The outworks of this
bastille are the supreme courts of the dif
ferent states. . Its bastions and redans
are the United - States district courts.
Its great central fortress, of which
these are the outworks, is the supreme
court of the United States. This sys
tem of courts is building up a system
of judicial law a law of opinionsbased
on neither statute law or constitutions,
often directly opposed to statute law
and it is' doing it under thtf'directlon and
guidance otthe hidden hand that is now
such a potent power is shaping the des
tinies of nations. Within the year cases
have been made by corporate combina
tions and carried from one court to
another for the sole and only purpose
of obtaining the enactment of judicial
laws. The money power, the railroads,
the telegraph, the oil, tariff and land
monopolists hold the keys to tnis bas
tille. With a hand of velvet and a grip
of steel they have seized states and im
mured them in its dungeons. . Pennsyl
vania has found its judicial, legislative
and executive, power wholly unable to
cope with the power of the hidden hand
which is the creature of its own legisla
tion. Nebraska, under the influence of
this secret power, has placed in its
judicial record a decision which will go
down the ages as an infamy. -
This power works "like a mole i' the
earth." It is always over the honest
citizen and under those who prostitute
private to public interests It has low
ered the standard of morality in public
affairs, and Is bringing the republic to
the point where Rome was at the time
of the fall. ; It is immense, secret, cun
ning, unscrupulous. Its representa
tives are the railroad kings and million
aire bankers of the east. Its instru
ments are the able, ambitious, unprin
cipled villains who want gold and place
and power, and will give their souls to
Satan to obtain them. Its .congresses
are little conclaves of bank and railroad
presidents who concoct their schemes in
some private railroad office or bank
parlor.
This power is surely and deliberately
packing the supreme court of the United
Slates to secure the undoing of the great
work it has done for the people in
former years. Can the steady change
in the tone of this court and the char
acter of its decisions have escaped the
people? Already the granger decisions
have been reversed. Already the power
of a state to regulate its own internal
affairs have been dented. The legal
tender decision will next bo attacked.
Who haa not observed the hush and
awe which pervades the air when courts
are up for critcism? They hold in their
hands an extra judicia' and tyrannical
power which checks censure and stran
gles truth the vague, indefinite power
to punish for contempt. Why, there is
a United States district judge not a
thousand miles from Nebraska who is a
corrupt tyrant, and who.misy wdl turn
pale at the very hint of an investigation,
but whom men so fear that no word of
censure finds its way into the public
prints. W ho are these judges who are
so hedged about with divinity that the
common people' speak of them with
bated breath? Why, some of them are
graduates of railroad offices, elevated
to the bench by combinations of section
bosses, their diplomas issued ' by
division superintendents. But they are
dangerous men in dangerous places.
From the constitutional power to review
the law and determine what it is, ihey
are usurping the unconstitutional power
to say whut it shall be.
In the darkest pages, of the past there
can be found no 1 blacker tryanny than
judicial tryanny.
. There is only one case in English his
tory where a court stood out against a
tyrant, and in that case an irresistible
rebellion of the people was already in
progress.
We warn our. countrymen now that
no tyrant ever sat upon a throne, no
usurped pewer ever lorded it over an
oppressed people, that was not able to
command the highest courts of the
law as its Instrument
We warn our countrymen now of this
impending danger The day will come
when the barred dungeons of this Ameri
can bastille will have to be invaded and
its victims led out shuddering into God's
sunlight.
SENATOR S f EVENS' MAXIMUM
. FREIGHT SCHEDULE.
This bill has been introduced in the
senate, and is now in the hands of the
printer. It is the leading bill on this
subject, and will probably become a
law. It is based on the Iowa law, but
the provisions by which a poor man can
obtain justice from a railroad corpora
tions are new and radical. Section
eleven provides that any person believ
ing the law to be violated may bring a
suit In the name of the state to enforce
its provisions. The courts may compel
any officer or agent of a defendant car
rier to testify and may send for its
books and records. Such evidence or
testimony shall not be used against any
such witness on the trial of any crimi
nal proceedings.
Section 14 provides that any party
may mkkVa complaint .to the' attorney
of his county, who shall, notify the car
rier complained of. ,. .The latter shall
satisfy the complaint , or answer the
attorney within a reasonable time, or
the" attorney, if he think the ground
reasonable, shall present a suit against
such carrier. County attorneys shall
of their own motion bring suit in the
name of the state wnenever they have
good reason to think the law is being
violated. No complaint or suit shall be
dismissed because of the absence of
direct damage to complainant or peti
tioner. The county attorney may re
quire the attendance of needed wit
nesses and the production of books and
papers. The court shall punivb refusal
r contumacy in this particular as &
contempt , Such testimony or evidence
shall not incrimiuate the witness.
' Section 17 prohibits any county attor
ney from accepting free transportation
from any railroad, and any violation of
this section shall be considered as bribe
taking. ..
Section 18 prohibits county attorneys
from taking any kind of employment
from any carrier, and brands a violation
of this provision as bribe taking. Any
person in the county may prosecute the
attorney.
We publish below a letter front ex
Attorney General Leese to Senator
Stevens in regard to this bill:
January 28, 1891. My Dear Senator:
Please accept my congratulations on
your maximum rate bill. . I like it bet
ter than any other that I have examined,
and I trust that it will become a law.
If I can aid you in any manner it will
give me great pleasure to do so. ; The
roads will have a strong lobby on hand
to defeat the bill, and it will require
considerable work to get it through the
senate, but I aw glad that such a bill
originates in your house, because there
wil always remain in the minds of the
corporations a lingering hope that if
the bill does pass the senate they wilt
have another chance at it in the house.
1 am heartily in sympathy with the
bill and will do all in my power to assist
you iu having it become the law of the
land. Yours very tru y.
Wm. Leese.
HT Of course, Thayer and Boyd
bhould both print their messages. When
an audience refuses to hear an address,
it is generally gracious enough to give
"leave to print."
Iff Church Howe knows a great
deal more about the tactics of a repub
lican legislature than he does of one
composed of hayseeds. The hayseeds
seem to know hew to run theirs all
right.
ORGANIZE THE UNITS-
GRAND SCHEME PROMUL
GATED BY THE NATIONAL -FARMERS'
ALLIANCE.
' It Sets the Pace for 189a.
The diffic ilty of forming the different
Industrial organizations of the country
Into one coherent body for united polit
ical action has long been apparent.
When the effort has been made the
ghost of some old' guard, the fossil re
mains of some defunct national com
mittee, or the present jealousy of offi
cers or societies, have thrust them
selves in as disorganizing and dividing
elements. In this state last summer a
plan was devised which ignored so
cieties and organized the units which
composed them. The plan was re
markably successful, resulting in the
casting of over 70,000 ballots for an In
dependent reform ticket.
The National Alliance, at its Omaha
session just closed), has adopted practi
cally the same plan for action in 1892.
It is a proposition made to all the in
dustrial organizations of the nation. It
puts no society in advance, and dis
criminates against none. It provides
an easy machinery by which the de
mand for a new national movement
can be tested, ana an easy and safe
plan by which -a' national nominating
convention may be called. It puts all
old committees and old chairmen, and
all societies aside, as disturbing , ele
ments, while making them all active
agents in carrying out the experiment
and the work, and giving them air an
equal chance in the results. ' It adopts
as a platform the six planks upon,
which the largest number of people in
the United States will agree, and ig
nores those disturbing issues upon
which the largest disagree. The plan
evinces the highest statesmanship, and
If It is met by the other industrial so
cieties in the spirit in which it is ten
dered, it will set the pace for 1892, and ,
result in the election of a people's na
tional ticket f
ine iouowing is ine proposition ia
full:
: We the undersigned do hereby declare
our alleg'tnce to the following princi
ples, viz: t?
1. The face and unlimited, coinage of
silver.
2. The abolition of national banks
and the substitution for their notes of
legal tender treasury notes; and the
- .... w. ten AnU. .
8. Government ownership of all rail
roads, telegraphs and telephones. -4.
The prohibition of alien ownership
01 iana, ana 01 gamming in stocks, op
tions and futures, . ,
9. The adoption of a constitutional
amendment requiring the election of
President and Vice-President and
United States senators by direct vote of
the people. . , '. .
! : 8.' The Australian ballot system. ,
And we hereby express our wish for
a National Independent Convention to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice-President on the above platform;
and we oereby agree that if pure, able
and honorable men are so nominated we
will innmrt f.hAm inn TAta fot tham in
preference to any other candidates. -
111 a '
w e aiso nereDy express our aesire
that this declaration shaH be circulated
for signatures in each state and terri
tory of the Federal union by the execnv
tive officers of each industrial organiza
tion in said state or territory, and re
turned signed to such officere; and when
five million signatures shall be obtained
and reported by the executive officers of
the different industrial organizations of
each state and territory said executive
officers shall select one representative
for each state (each state acting by '
itself) to constitute . a .; provisional ,
committee, and said provisional com
mittee shall meet at Cincinnati, on the -22d
day of February, 1892, and fix a,
ratio of representation based on the
number of signatures in each state, de
termine upon the place and date of
holding said national convention, and!
appoint from their number an execu
tive committee to raise funds, procure
a hall, and perfect all the necessary de
tails for the same. ,
And we hereby invite all men, with
out regard to past party affiliations, to.
unite with us in this our effort to free
our country from the domination of
corrupt parties, trusts, combines and
monopolies,, to establish justice and
pure government, and promote the gen
eral welfare.
The independent bosses will present
ly discover that their tyrannical methods
will not be tolerated much longer. The
prosperity of the state is of greater ira
portance than the welfare of a few sel
fish individuals. Bee. . .
Wc will give Rosey a brand new hat
if he will name one specific instance
where an independent boss has got in
his work and we will add a fine tooth
comb if he- will name the Individual
boss who did it.
tW The Bee has a third of a oolumn
of abuse of delegates to. the National
Alliance, whom it terms "eranks and
hobby riders."- The Bee secured its im
formation about that convention from
reporters who listened at windows and
skylights, and its reports are not reli
able. The editor's imagination supplied
deficiencies. Its statement about jug
glery in the reconsideration of some
resolution on the money question is en
tirely erroneous.