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PnMlshad trn Saturday by Tex Auuurca Pcbusihnq Co. Oor.Utk sad M Ste, Lincoln, Meb. J. CJM0W.,.. J.aCKnmoir. , ....Editor .Business KMfr , "la the beauty of the lillies CLriat w born across the sea, T7i-harrylnhisbcom ; Tiai traiufjures you and me. lalM sror to nuke men holy Let cs strive to make them fret, Cse God U marching on." -, Julia Wart Butt'. "Laurel crown cleave to deserta, And power to him who power exerts." A rmily drey of canly blood ' . TLa aaiiej tea octwelsha," X Kmerton. "Es who oaanot reason is a I ooL , E nrho win not reaaon to a coward, i Ea who dra sot raaaon la a ilave." Tli3 FciQcra' Alliance, I PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT - ccsrn: hth and m streets, l UrCOLK, KEERASXA. e::la::ed akd cpecyed. J. EURROWS. Editor. J. II. THOMPSON, Business Ma'gr. Yfll greet our readen this week with Ths ' Aluaxc enlarged to nearly double Its former slse. We Intend to add to Its value editorially as much at we have to assise. We none to be able farther to enlarge It to a seven column qaarto, and wlU do so a toon M our patronage justifies Itl - Tint Alliance one year and Looking Backward post paid. . . .$1 00 Ditto and Labor and Capital by ' EsllOgg.., M(MMMtMtMII .-..I" 40 Ditto and Ciesar's Column. . . . .... 1 50 " Our Republican ' Mon archy by Venter Voldo . t ........ 1 40 , The above books for sale at this office Ditto and Cushlng's Manuel pa per covers.... 1 80 Cloth covers. ....1 50 or sent post paid as follows; Looking Backward oOcts, Caesar's Column. .. '. . j. . .... .50cts. Labor and Capital. ..;..,.. ,.;..20cts. Our Republican Monarchy . . . . .25cts. Cushlng's Manuel paper covers. .25cts. ; " , cloth " ...50cts. Address, Axuaxcx Pt'B. Co Lincoln Neb. A LAW THAT SHOULD BS RE PEALED. " Section Vi7 of the revised statutes, pi;e 743," Isas follows: :3.t7f the lauds and tenements of the teUvv within the bounty whore' the Judf- Mentis entered, shall be bound for the sat taf action thereof, from the first day of the term at which judgment to rendered; but Judgments by oomfesslon, and Judgments . rendered at the same term at which the ac tion is commenced, shall bind such lands only "from the dsy on which such judgments are rendered. All other lands, si well as goods and chattels of the debtor, shall be bound from the time they ihall be seized in execution." The pernicious effects of this law are many. - First, as scon as a judgment is ren dered or filed in a court of record, it becomes more powerful than a blanket mortgage. By the plain, broad terms of the statute it becomes a lien on every square inch of real property owned by the judgment debtor. The provision of this infamous statute does not except that most sacred of all earthly possessions, the burial lot and homestead. . There is little danger of the creditor, money loaner or trader intruding on the burial lot at its pres ent value. v But with their long and bony fingers they reach for the sacred homestead time and time again; v. Our statutes wisely exempt from levy and execution by forced sale "a home stead not exceeding in value $2,000, consisting of the dwelling in which the claimant resides and its appurtenances, and the land on which tha same is sit uated, not exceeding 160 acresaof land, to be selected by the owner thereof, and not in an incorporated city or village, or instead thereof, at the option of the ' claimant, a quantity of contiguous land not exceeding two lots within any in- "" corporated city or village," etc. t No doubt the intention of the fra men of that humane and just law was to exempt the homestead from all man nor of liens only such as the debtor should place thereon voluntarily. The judgment creditor , obtains his judg ment in a lower court, files his tran script in the district court, and there it remains a standing Hen against the debtor's homestead. He cannot dis pose of bis homestead or alienate any part of it by sale or pledging it as se cority on a loan to help himself out of financial embarrassment or want until he first pays off the judgment of rec ord. Money loauers and traders have this fearful advantage aud thoroughly use it. Poor people who have nothing but their homesteads, often desire to . obtain loans on them to extricate them selves from financial difficulty, and often desire to dispose of them to move elwwhereand repurchase in our own state., Adversityillf health, or advan- ' ting years may compel them to change. Then, at a time when they need their all, small as it usually is. they find their judgment debts fastened upon THE FARMERS' their homestead, which the exemption law Intends should be theirs without any forced liens such as section 477 places upon it For illustration, take a western farmer. ; His crops have failed. He is in debt aa so many western farmers lire. Better times come after a while, and he can sell of somettlr and he desires to get what little U can and move elsewhere where ha .has more certainty for a livelihood, the susten ance of his family and education of his children., He gets his abstract. There on the proper blank appears a line of judgments. The agricultural imple ment dealers msy have several. The money loaner, during the hard times, may have sold his horses and cattle un der chattel mortgage for but little, and bid it in himself, and then proceeded to obtain his judgment. These judgments are often the only obstacle to making loans which would relieve the creditor, or to making sales of real estate. Often a debtor can sell small tracts of land, and gradually pay his indebtedness, if the judgment lien did not bar the way. He can give no title on any portion of realty until all judgment liens are aid. Thus be is estopped from selling in small pans, and is at the mercy of the creditor. Most people can and will pay off all liens in reasonable time, and in such amounts as they can raise. , , , ) ; Although an unjust judgment may be rendered in au inferior court, It re mains as a lien upon the realty of the wronged judgment debtor, even though he appeals the, same, and effectually ties up his property as long as he can be kept In litigation. This law is wholly in favor or tne creditor class, and wholly against the debtor class. Isn't it time there was some wholesale legislation in favor of the debtor class.. The voters of Ne braska from all parties will thank this legislature If they will wipe from the statute books this obnoxious ana op pressive section, and. leave the home stead free, as the law intended. BOYD ON PROHIBITION. Boyd in his inaugural address, makes an eloquent plea to have the number of supreme judges increased to five, and to have their salaries also increased, aud In the next breath tells how the people, by a popular vote, forever settled the question of sumptuary laws. Perhaps be does not remember that the people at the same time and in the same manner said cthat there were enough supreme court Judges and that their salaries were high enough; or, perhaps the people wore only joking, when they voted this idea down ; or may be he thinks they will change their TnlBds. when he asks them to. Then tain Mr. Boyd may owe the supreme court a small debt of gratitude for, placing him in the gubernatorial chair. From Mr. Boyd's standpoint the su preme court has certainly earned some thing. Did they have some idea of the important services 'the distinguished queeu's subject would render them when they outraged justice by forcing the legislature to declare bim governor? There certainly must be strong rea sons for a man in his right mind to take a position so ridiculously absurd as did Mr. Boyd in his message. 4 ; His position is simply this; .that what the people veto against on one question should not be final or settled; and in the following paragraph says that what the people voted against on another question, should be, and is relegated into the shades of eternal oblivion. He goes farther, and says the people did not know what they were doing when they voted on the supreme judge ques tion; but were sane and in their right minds when they defeated prohibition, Who made" Jim Boyd a reader of the minds bf the people? " Can the'supreme court delegate that power to him also? But ho goes further yet, and says he is so sure that the people did n it mean to defeat the supreme court amendment, that ho wants a constitutional conven tion called at once. Suppose some one proposed another constitutional amend ment orohibitlnc- the licensing of saloons. Mr. Boyd and his fellow con spirators never would get over it. The howl that would go up from their ranks would astonish the world, and yet how do the questions differ? They were both defeated at the polls at the same time. hat righfchas anyone to resur rect one and say the other shall be buried? : Is it not more in harmony with good government to allow them to remain where the people have placed them? . . JC THE HOGS IN THE PARLOR AGAIN The B. & M. Journal of January 28 says: "Uncle Sam will always remember the year 1881. The year bis jacaass kicked him. The old man will agree that while it hurt him a rood deal pbysieauy, ne oonsicierea me source and did not lay it up against the ani mat. There never was a uuie in lue niaror of rhAoountrv when tbeve seemed to be sucl uniform thick headedness on the part ot the rpreseniauves oi tae -peopie. The : above shows the pace of the Journal exactly. It pretends to repre gent and espouse the cause of the people while deriding and insulting them. The item is a companion piece to the hogs In the parlor. In tho next campaign both will be remembered. ISjTA man la the lobby was heard to say that Swltzler should have written the message In Irish, as Boyd evidently is not very well up in the English language. ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1891. LABOR AND CAPITAL, From an article in the Bee of Monday entitled "the feeling in the legislature," we make the following extracts, for the purpose of commenting upon them: "If capital does not prosper it will not stay here; if labor does not prosper it "cannot rfay here." "A new country must be developed by labor and by capital. The farmer furnishes the labor; the eastern laves tor furnishes the capital. The country could no more be de veloped by labor alone than by capital alone. Tncy are indiepensible to each other. But If unreasonable are passed oa the subject the partnershlp)wiU be diatolred, and the weaker member left to struggle for him self. Capital will suffer but temporary Incon venience. It eaa close out its mortgages and go where it will be sure of a warmer welcome. But the farmer would suffer a calamity by this operation. He would sacrlfloe bis home and his prospects, and be a wanderer on the face of the earth." The first notable thins; about the above Is that it is a threat against the farmer in the interest of the money lender by a paper which gained its foot bold by the support of the farmers. The writer says "a new country must be developed by labor and by capital.' He means money, and when ha refers to the "eastern investor" he means the money lender. Now money is only one of a tnousand forms of capital. Capital Is created by labor. The partnership alluded to, as far as it means two sep arate and distinct factors, is factitious and unnecessary. The eastern money is not necessary to -fs pioneer, and if there had never been a dollar loaned west of the great river that region would now be the happiest, most independent and wealthiest place on the globe. It is not true in any sense that the country-could not be developed by labor alone. Place a colony of one hundred persons of diverse pursuits on a fertile island without a dollar of money what the Bee calls capital and they can make an earthly paradise of it without ever paying a cent of interest. On the other hand capital in any form is absolutely helpless and worthless without labor. If the editor of the Bee had a mountain of gold at his door not an ounce of bread or an article of rai ment would it bring him or anyone un til labor had transmuted it into some useful form. The formula of the Bee must be changed, thus: "The farmer furnishes the labor and creates the capital; the eastern Investor, by au unjust system of law, controls the latter, and by induc ing the former to borrow it then through the agency of interest controls his labor." V ."JJBsM Unreasonable laws &rs passed ttlA lrmnltT mtmhtr will IlA left' 1ft truggle for himself." That is to say, if any obstruction is placed In the way of the usurers of this state' carrying on their ruthless robbery of "the weaker party,' they will proceed to destroy half the farmers of this state and make them "wanderers on the face of tho earth." Don't be frightened by this inhuman threat. There is nothing in it. Money is the most timid thing on the earth. It flees when, no man pursueth. - Pass a good usury law that will enforce itself,' and there will be no danger whatever that money can not be had for good security. ' . j But debt is slavery. To the men who are hopelessly involved additional bor rowing at high rates will not bring re lief. When a debtor begins to struggle and borrow at high rates to save prop erty from the sheriff, like the man in the quicksand, he sinks deeper at every move. Liquidation is the only relief from debi. It is the cursed system of finance that forces people into debt, that forces the credit system upon the country, and that has been bolstered up and supported by the very men who are now threatening to make .the farmers of this state wanderers upon the face of the earth, that must be attacked aud destroyed. SALARIES PAID. We draw attention below to the sala ries paid by the slate during the past two years, and we insist on behalf of the dis tressed people in the Avestern half of this state that they are much too high, and the number ot employes are in excess of what economy requires. GOVERNOR. Private secretary.... $1, 700-2 yrs-3,400 COM'K OF LABOR. Deputy ; ,f,80G 1 3,000 Clerk .1,000 ' 2,000 SECRETARY OF STATE. Deputy. ......1,700 ' Book-keeper.,..... ..1,300 Recorder. ... . : . : , . . , . .1,200 Clerk...... ..,.1,000 ' AUDITOR. 3,400 2.600 2,400 2,000 Deputy . Deputy Ins... 1,700 ' ......1,700 ' 1,300 ' 3,400 8,400 2,600 2,000 2,400 2,000 2,400 3,400 2,800 2,000 3,400 Book-keeper..... Ins. Clerk;....:. Bond Clerk..... I Recorder........ Bank Clerk...... ..1,000 ' ..1,200 " ..1,000 " ..1,200 " TREASURER. Deputy .........1,700 " Book-keeper...,. 1,400 " Clerk., ..1,000 " s?t ATTORJiKY-OEKERAL. Deputy. ..1,700 " Stenographer. ... .... .1,200 " COMMISSIONER VVBLIC LANDS BUILDINGS. Deputy . 1,700 " Chlet Clerk.... ...... ...1,300 " Two Book-keepers. .. .2.600 .. - Five Clerks.... 5,000 V, Clerk Draftsman...... 1,200 " 2,400 AND 3.400 2,600 5,200 10,000 2,4tOM STATB LIBUAET. Deputy Librarian 1,700 " 3,400 Clerk 1,000 " 2,00 noH!TAL FOB 1XSAXE IISCOLX. Superintendent....... 2,500 " 5,000 First Asst,. .......... 1.500 " 3,000 Second Ass't .1,200 " 2,400 KOKFOLK. Superintendent....... 2,500 " . 5.000 Assistant............. 1,500 " 3,000 HASTINGS. Superintendent....... 2,500 " ' 5.W0 Assistant 1,500 " 3,000 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Superintendent....... 2.000 " 4,000 Assistant 1,200 " 2,400 Six Teachers......:... 4,800 " 9,600 Clerk........... 800 " 1.600 Chaplain.... 800 1,600 Matron... 600 " 1,200 Asst teacher for girls.. 500 " 1,000 ISST1TCTE OB TUB BS.I5D. ; Officers and teachers.. 5,200 " 10,400 -i? - DEAF AND Dl'MB. - r ' Superintendent 2,000 " 4,000 Teachers, etc ...10,000 " 20,000 HOME FOB FRIENDLESS. Officers 2,000 . " 4,000 rXDLBTBIAL HOKE. Officers and physician. 1,500 " 3,000 SOLDIERS AKD SAILORS1 HOME. Commandant. 1,500 " 3,000 Adjutant . . , ..... ..... 600 V 1,200 Quarter Master. ...... 420 - " 840 Surgeon....... 600 " 1,200 Matron 300 " 600 INSTITUTE FEEBLE MINDED. Superintendent ...2,000 ' 4,000 Matron...!;.......... 800 " .1.600 Steward 1,200 " 2,400 Four teachers...... . .. 2.400 " 4.800 STATE BOARD TRANSPORTATION. Three Secretaries. . . . .6,000 " 12,000 Stenographer......... 1,500 " 8,000 FISH COMMISSION. Superintendent. ..... .1,200 " 2.400 The above does not by any means in elude all. This state is paying over $150,000 per year for salaries; the amount ought to bo cut down from 925,000 to $40,000 per annum. Eight hundred dollars, $000 and $1,000 per year, will procure efficient clerks to fill many if not all these places in these times, and then if the heads of the de partments would give the public some consideration for the salaries they draw a great saving can be made for the state. THE PRETENDED CENSURE MR. SHRADER. OF The petition sent to Church Howej which by implication censured Messrs. Shrader, Lomax and Stevens, was a fraud, c and the signatures to it were procured by misrepresentation. We iave before us a declaration of confi dence as follows: : "We. the undersigned, hearlily en dorse the course of our representatives, Shrader, Lomax and btevens, in tne legislature, and condemn the petition censuring them as unjust and untrue; and as a majority signed it believing it to be only a petition for relief, as its circulators represented, we think it only right and just that tho true senti ments ol tne citizens be made Known. The above 'bears the signatures of upwards of two hundred citizens of Mr. Shrader's district, of all parties, a large number of whom had iguorantly signed the former petitions. With all who know the gentleman re ferred to this vindication was needless. .The Alliance Relief Fund. , , The following amounts have been con tributed for the relief of the drouth stricken region of the state: Previously reported ..$634 75 Wm Quick, Emerald, for Emer ald Alliance. 1 00 M. M, Fenderson, Brainard, for Center Alliance, No. 827. . . . . 10 00 Jas. Widgery, Elkhorn. 25 00 W. S. Eis, Douglas, for Pleasant Prairie Alliance No. 818...... 30 00 W. H. Rawlins, sec. Archer Alll- , ance No. 882..... 2 25 Box groceries from W. R. Bon net & Co., Omaha Alliance No, 911, Dodge Co, Mrs. Fannie Jones, Sec. Danniel Jones. I..... 20 00 Ann Jones.......... 10 00 John Yester.. 5 00 G. B. Street...... Warren Hannah. . M. Street........ John Eckwate.... 1 00 1 1 1 1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 Henry Hughes. Peter Eckwate 1 John Adams. 1 Sam Street 1 Martha Street... Ridgely Alliance, proceeds of entertainment. 12 Totul ....$55 50 Total receipts. ......... s-. . ; . .$758 50 DISBURSEMENTS. State Alliance to Red Willow Co.$100 00 State Alliance to Che venne Co 100 00 Mrs. E. J. Cooley for Chase Co... 64 00 L. P. Endeman, Wood Lake..... 5 00 H.M. Coulter, Midway, Chey enne Co...............-..... 10 00 4 00 C. A.McCombs. Sidney......;, J. K, Stevens, Hershey, for Lin coln Co.;... J, FvBlack for Red Willow Co.. 75 D. H. Ware, Imperial, for Chase CO ........... y A. J. Dickerson, Pacific Jc, la., family destitute (member from ; Custer Co...... Alonzo Pettis Max for Dundy Co Jos. Griffin, Woodburn. ........ Wra.M. Bruce, Harrisburg. . . . . Chas. W. Parker, Gandy...i.... Box groceries from W. R. Ben net & Co.. Omaha, to Wm.Mc-' Cormick, North Platte, for Blaine Co..,. 20,00 20 00 20 00 25 00 15 00 Total disbursements. ...... . . .$658 00 Balance on hand, $100.45. . t3T Mr. Boyd recommended the call ing of a constitutional convention. Such a convention would be very apt to ad just the relations between the legisla tive and judicial branches so they would not be misapprehended in the future. G0YD SHOULD HAVE ONE!!! Mrs. Vanderbilt's Crown. Mrs. Vaaderblit's crown has been the talk of the town and the clubs ever since the night last week when she appeared In it at the opera. It is not a Uara, but a genuine crown. made in Imitation of one worn by old Mrs. Guelph when she opens parliament. It is made of diamonds and pearls and stands some feet la the air. It made probably the sensation of the season at Its first appearance. A bum west round the opera house as the American queen entered her box with the In signiaof her royalty upon her head, and be tween the acts the foyer was crowded with men dlscuaeiag lte probable cost and trying to discover some reasonable excuse for an American woman to so bedeck herself. It is now apprehended that Mrs. Aitor will soon carry a scepter and Mrs. Whitney will appear in a court train lined with ermine. Mrs. Seward Webb aad Mrs. Ogden Mills also have crowns, such as they are, but it is the gener ally reoeired opnion that they make a poor showing beside Mrs. Vanderbilt's. Gorgeous aa this lady's oeeply diadem is., I could, sug gest an Improvement. If she would but have cunningly inserted among its costly gems in letters of flashing Jewels that eloquent and pleasiu Taaderbllt motto, "The Public Be D I think the efect would be more chaste aad elegant New York Cor. Chicago Times, Jan. 31, 18BL , Let an appropriation be made at once to buy Mr. Boyd a crown. He represents the Yanderbilt class; it is idle any longer to say that classdoes not mean to have real crowns. Crotrns art representative ensignia, and the fact that such aa insult to the American peo ple could pass without exciting a re mark, or the wearer could venture Into a large and popular American audience and not be mobbed, showed that that class approved and are un-American and foreigners to our institutions and gotern ment. So the leaders at least must now have the crowns.' Boyd a foreigner, Boyd a leader, Boyd the representative of theB. & B. M. ass'n., Boyd elected by foreigners while Ameriean voters were bludgeoned from the polls by foreign subjects. Boyd pushed into his place over representative government by the power on which rests Mrs. Vanderbilt's crown. Boyd where he is only by the forbearance of these plain, common men, who honestly, but mistakenly, re fused to do their duty, and meet force with force and protect from invasion the highest department of our free gov ernment. King Boyd now should have a crown. Let us not be outdone by the effete east. Let it be a good one. Be; ing a British subject, we suggest that the above style of the Guelph crown is appropriate. ' As it is ordained that we must have a British ruler, one that is above the law, above the representative and judicial departments of the sta'te judge in his own case a king who can do no wrong why should he not have a ere wn f Those honest but weak men in the legislature who only mildly protested when he was pushed onto his throne over them, ; can scarcely be more humiliated, or the -state more insulted, by Boyd wearing one, as his. alienage was then both universally and publicly proclaimed and officially charged and The golden "combine" in the legis lature would doubtless . vote the sup plies. -The-' Lonl' High 'Chamberlain "Torn" would wait upon the sovereign and supply him with all the requisites for the coronation. ; , And the Lord High Constable "Bud" would graciously bear permission to the "common"-"ers" to be present. Would not the "wool-sack," too, bend in deference? Down with the common people! Up with American crowns! Long Lite King Boyd! THE SOURCE OF THE TROUBLE. "I don't like your editorials on the interest question." said a bank cashier to us the other day and a very nice man by the way. He then went on to tell us that bankers were making little or nothing at present rates, the reason being that money was so scarce and the terms on which it was to be obtained so onerous. " And then he asked, "why don't you go to the source of the trouble, and secure the issue of more money?" Well, for years we have tried to get to the source of the trouble, that is, the fountain head from which money is issued the general gevernmeut, and every time and all the time we are met by the united opposition of the banking interest. We asked for a restoration of silver to its old time rights. Walrstreet says no. We asked for an increased issue, of greenbacks. Wall street says no. We.ask for aij., increase pt currency to $50 per capita, and the Issue of treas ury notes on ' land security instead of specie or bond security, Wall street says no, and adds insult and derision. Four years ago the State Alliance issued a memorial to Congress, relating the truth about the money situation here, and ski&g for' luora money) when every bank in the State and all their satellites set up a howl against the drawers of the memorial as slanderers of the State and cranks and fanatics. . Our banking friend now admits that the evil exists that its source is at Washington, and that the remedy is more money. Will he now come over to the side of the Lord against the flighty, and help cure the evilt ' ' MUTUAL INSURANCE. It would perhaps be well at this time to give a little history in this connec tion. . At the annual meeting of the state alliance in January, 1890, at Grand Island, the executive committee was instructed to organize and incorporate a Mutual insurance Company, and in pursuance to instructions the commit- tee appointed a sub committee, via., Messrs. J. Burrows and B. F. Allen, and after spending some time in making an investigation of the subject it was found to be entirely out of the question to honestly organize and incorporate a strictly mutual insurance company. Therefore the gentlomen of the sub committee concluded to let the matter rest until the legislature met and passed a law that would allow them to honest ly organize and incorporate. Now that that time has arrived and a bill has beefe introduced in the house, let ns.go to work and see what is our first duty. It Is thought by some that county companies are just the thing, to which we will not object for fire and lightning. But no county company would dare risk the tornado. We therefore think that it would be best for all concerned to organize a state company, to do cy clone insurance .only, and let the county (or district of counties) compan ies do the fire and lightning insurance. We will refer to the Iowa Mutual Tornado, Cyclone and Windstorm In surance company. On January 1, 1880, this company had $5,167,128 in policies in forcc.and on January 1. 1890, $7,411, 602. Cost per 11,000 insurance, $0,818 (see auditor's report). Or if we multiply this one year's insurance by five, we would have $4 09 as the total cost for five years' insurance on $1,000. Compare with your own policy. And as to insurance in Iowa, ' by looking on pages 72 to 83, twenty-first annual re port of the Iowa auditor on insurance, we find that there were in 1889, one hun dred and sixteen mutual insurance com panies doing business in the state, with risks in force on January 1, 1890, amounticg to $68,840,612.73, (this in cludes the Cyclone company) and the total cost for loss, damage and ex penses was $125,055.13 or $1.83 per $1,000. Now, if the people in Iowa had paid for their insurance the same rate that we have to pay to old line com panies, i. e., 2 per cent for five years insurance, (on time, and mutual plan Is on time) they would have paid out for the $68,840,642.72 at risk the sum of $1,376,812.85, and at the rate of $1.83 per $1,000, it would cost $025,275.65, or the saving to the members of these 110 companies of $751,537.80. 'A There is one item worthy of consideration in those companies, and that is the cost of run ning. It cost them $30,761.03. Now ilj might be well to consider this and see whether it would be better to organize many companies in this state, or to or-i ganize one company with two depart-' ments, viz: Fire and lightening in one departmnt and cyclone in the other. WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE THINK. ' We have been permitted to copy the, following private letter, written by aj clergyman of this city to a friend. It is an honest expression of opinion from an able and impartial man, and as such is of value: Capt. P. ,S. R.j Dear Friend -Is pleased me to read your letter Of Janu ary 19, In the Farmers Alliance of Lin colu'. I have watched sometrhat close ly the political anemometer of the na tion, and of this state in particular, before and since the 4th of November, 1890. The letter above referred to shows your vigilance has not slum bered, nor has the ' ardor diminished which carried you from Atlanta to the sea. It gratified me to see that you reasoned so correctly on the facts and grasped the right conclusion with the same vigor that you grasped the sword. Ought not the supreme court to be dis infected? Is there a blacker spot in the history of America? The issuing of the mandamus was the Gettysburg of this contes, and Elder was not as able as Meade in the emergency. Had he trampled on the mandamus and handed the sheriff to the sergeant-at-arms, he would have won for the great plain peo ple their freedom from the republicau democratio conspiracy, bolstered up by monopoly, trusts, railroads and whiskey, and for himself a niche in the temple of immortality. He would have kept his oath,-and let the state see that one co-ordinate branch of the govern ment has no riijht to invade the terri-' tory of another co-ordinate branch, much less to coerce it. Is it too late for him to retroat in order thus to gain the same position? Does not a good gen eral sometimes retreat in order to gain a lost position? Would it not be better now to ignore, even to-day, all the in terference of the supreme court, and act as if it never took place? This would be my position. But enough until we meet. Run over to Lincoln next week, and come out and spend a night with me. Sincerely your friend, HOT WINDS NO MORE: We are delighted to see that the con vention of editors at Beatrice favorably considered the proposition of The Farm ers'. Alliance, first published a year ago last June, for the formation of ponds to mitigate the effects of hot winds, or prevent them entirely. The Press Association can do a great work by uniting to advocate the adoption of such practical and beneficent measures. We may have done that society an in justice in supposing its annual meetings were mostly for fun. "- If it takes up practical work like this we shall peti tion for membership. It would be ne more than fair for papers taking up this scheme to -credit The Alliance with the origin oL the proposition. 11 A J.