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"In th beauty of the lillies
Ouiit wu brn across the set,
With a glory in hi bosom
That transfigures you and me.
As he itroye to make men holy
Let us strive to make them free,
, Since God is marching on."
Julia Ward Bout.
"Laurel crowns clear to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts.
"A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surfing sea outweighs." ,
Emarton.
"He who cannot reason is a fool,
II who will not reason is a coward,
Ho who dare not reason is a slave."
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TAYLOR'S YILLAI11Y.
The sensation of the put week was
the flight of Senator Taylor to aid the
railroad gang to defeat the dewberry
Maximum rate bill. The mendacity
and villainy of the railroad lobby was
aerer before excelled in this or any
other state. Hen are bought like cat
tie. Men who hare received the confi
dence of their constituencies are as
sailed in their weak points, corrupted
with gold, and thus the very essence
and life of republican institutions and
free government are destroyed. As the
Goth invader of Rone put his sword in
the balance against the jewels of the
Roman citizens, so these corporations
and the money power put their gold in
the scales against the ballot, against
purity, against honesty, against every,
thing that is prized by the patriot and
good citizen, and the gold outweighs
all the rest.
The evil has reached such a point that
tite true patriot may well stand aghaHt
at the actual state of facts bo sees be
fore him open as the day, and wonder
iogty ask if there is a remedy. The
gold ofjthe corporations, wrung by un
just exactions from the people, is thrown
into the scale against equality. Equal
ity It destroyed; the ballot it neutralized.
Without equality there it no liberty.
The point is reached when revolution
is justifiable. Lot this go on a little
longer and the tocsin will be sounded,
tbe signal tires will blaze upon the
mountains, and out of the fastnesses
men will pour with their lives In their
kands. We warn these corporations
and their vile henchmen now. They do
otseo how near they are to the brink
f it. It is only a short step now to first
principles. The declaration of the
rights of man is the supreme and ulti
mate formula before which the trifling
forms upon which these corporations
lean for their support melt away like
wax in a furnace. Right and justice
are the rocks upon which we build. The
Moody fusillade in New Orleans the
ether day shows how easily the barriers
are swept away when once the people
realize that upon themselves alone must
they depend for right and justice.
The Taylors are the violators of the
most sacred laws. A murderer is clean
handed by the side of them. They are
murderers of honor, of truth, of faith,
ef the confidence of their fellowmen.
We send the plutocrats now a grim
warning. Misfortune, suffering, pro
test, individval sacrifice, have reached
their climax here. The very air we
breathe is -heavy with oppression an
irresponsible oppression born of the
corruption of corporate interests striv
ing to hold and tighten their clutch
upon the producers and the toilers. The
twin of this oppression is rebellion re
bellion that will destroy when it comes
rebellion that will seek revenge with
justice, and that will bring in its Pan
dora's box fire, rapine and blood. Un
let .there is a change and a rentody
found this day is as inevitable as that
God reigns, aud it will be soon.
This is not a threat it Is a grim warn
ing. It Is the Inevitable repetition of
history. Will you wait for it or will
you! turn before it is eternally toj late?
4 SBMHsaiaBBBH
THE .SO VAILED IXDEl'EXDEXT
voxrsxnox.
A convention purporting to be Inde
pendent as held last week to nominate
candidates for city offices. It nomi
nated a ticket, but this ticket has no
right whatever to the nam "In.b jH u
dent" as designating a distinct political
party. The ticket U a hybrid ticket
made up of republicans and democrats,
with a sprinkling of Independents. We
belle v the leading aomlmeshav never
made soy pretention whaterer to re
nouncing their allegiance to the eld
partita,
Ao surer eourr tun be adopted to
destroy and neutral! a nw party than
tfaU! It U a coaitieU abandonment of
principle, and eJa dlootation abort
awl thai p. We kaew not by what u
11m rUy any twreatM Uelag to be rep
tesC4ltr at tk Independent party
prfseiM tt fW lbl pttj
'.is Its eoavetik. We now asd here
THE FAKMEKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., SATUKDAY MAR. 2ft 1891.
distinctly repudiate any obligation
whatever to support any hybrid ticket
under the came of Independent. This
does not mean that we will oppose it;
but we are unalterably opposed to any
fusion with either of the old parties
We take this position without adversely
criticizing any of the persons nomi
nated. It is s matter of principle en
tirely independent of the personal char
acter of any candidate.
We were not present at the conven
tion simply because we were confined
to a sick bed and unable to be on our
feet. But had we been there and al
lowed a voice, it would have been for
acleaa ticket of pronounced fndepen
dents or no nominations.
- The course of the conventions thus
far has assured victory to the worst
boodle element of the city. This result
can only be averted new by a citizens'
ticket made up without regard to any
party whatever, on the basis of honesty
and ability. Such a movement, aided
by the new ballot law, might give Lin
coin a new and pure government, but
it is doubtful. There is nothing to be
hoped for from party conventions ma
nipulated and controlled by their oppo
nents, as the so-called "Independent"
convention seems to have been.
THE LAST EFFORT.
There never was a more devilish
spirit manifested than has recently been
developed by the corporations In respect
to legislation in the state senate of Ne
braska.
Not content with their success in cor
rupting legislators in regard to the con
test resolutions, they have deliberately
agreed upon the following plan to spirit
away' one of the senators whom they
have heretofore tampered with. Then
to move a call of the senate, and as un
der the rules no business can be tran
sacted while the call is landing, 'and the
call cannot be suspended so long as live
senators object, to keep said senator
hidden and to be sure that five railroad
tools are always in the senate chamber
to object to suspending the call until
the sixty days of the session transpire;
than to force an adjournment, if neces
sary by the help of the governor. An
extra session is then to be called by the
governor and the business restricted to
passing the necessary appropriation
bills. - ,
This Is the plan as made manifest by
the boasts of some of the more indis
creet of their number, and by their con
duct up to this time.
In the meantime the people can see
more and more clearly that the objec
tion continually made by the demo
republicans on the early part of tho ses
sion that consideration of the contest
was a waste of time and was preventing
necessary legislation, was insincere and
was only part of a plan concooted before
the legislature met. A plan agreed
upon by the corporations, the leaders
of the old political parties, their satmps
in the legislature and the court of last
appeal In the' state to deliberately
thwart the will of the people as ex
pressed by their rotes, and in the plat
forms of all the political parties of the
state.
These men seem jP be blind to the
fact that they are treasuring up wrath
against the day of judgment, that they
are verifying the truth of the old say
ing, "Whom the gods destroy they first
make mad," and they are so exasperat
ing the great mass of the citizens, both
in city and country, that a revolution is
sure to follow; peaceful we trust, but as
inevitable as the reflux of a high tide,
and irresistible as the pulse throbs of
the mighty ocean.
UXITE.
Never before since the Independent
party came into being has the absolute
necessity of union and unity been made
so apparent as during the past few days.
The almost unaccountable bond be
tween such bitter and ancient adversa
ries, that have maintained, for thirty
years or more hostile camps in every
state in the union, should teach the
members of the Independent party po
litical wisdom; the main interest! of the
party are common; the union of the
two old parties unnatural.
All personal ambition and petty anl
mositles should be laid aside; the poo
pie of this state, In these times, will not
look with complacency or patieuco upon
small men or their bickerings.
If the sharp managers of the old par
tics can seud you home, divided and
disunited, it Is a practical defeat, if not
destruction of the Independent party so
far as you are coueernedaad it Is very
demoralising to your brothers at homo.
If yott cau not unlto, how can you ex
pect others to bo elected frem tho farm
ing classes who cant Tho stragglers
from a dWorginlxed army are always
picket! up by the enemy.
Without active state organization and
having lot all the state executive offices
that justly belonged to the people, from
want of unity and experience; wUdum
and the latere! of the state bow de
mand that every man of the party. with
out an exception, ahould advise and nil
with hi fellows upon every weiuure, in
harmony, till the end of the eeasion
The window ef all, er of a majonty, I
ffetr than than ttul f the man,
and the advice ef party awodaiee
safer sad more to be depended spun
than tht of the opposition.
Whea aaewcr'.Bg adv ertUsaU tww
tUa Tut I'AHsnsw' Auuift.
CITIZENS AROUSE !
MEN OF NEBRASKA AWAKE !
Let Every Patriot in the State Cry the
Alarm Unto His Neighbor.
The rank, open, unblushing bribery
of a member of the senate by the rail
roads, the felon's undisguised flight
from the state, and the adoption and ap
proval of the infamous transaction by
the demo-republican senate combine to
hold the senate in a deadlock, until their
corrupt masters should reap the fruit of
the bribery by the defeat of the maxi
mum freight bill, are stunning in their
boldness, shocking in the extent of the
corruption and depravity they disclose,
and alarming by reason of the great
wealth, power, and influence of -this,
now public, enemy, which wields this
corrupting, deadly weapon of bribery
against the very life of the state.
Men of Nebraska, not farmers alone,
honest men everywhere, arouse! There
is just cause for alarm! Patriotic men
of Nebraska, these things cannot come
to good. The political atmosphere
stinks and reeks with corruption.
Is there no longer any state?
Is there no longer any government?
Is there no loager any Uw?
Is there no longer any people?
Js there only corrupt corporate capi
tal, which has sunk every consideration
of right, justice and law, and became or
ganized corporate crime?
Is not the baleful touch so deadly, as
to utterly debauch and destroy a sena
tor, and blight and paralyze his col
leagues ? . '
The startling and alarming thing
about the whole matter is that the act
does not stand alone. It is only one of
series of like events, that have pre
ceded it; It is only a little more crimi
nal than those that have gone before;
it was only the natural outgrowth of
the conditions that have existed in the
fraudulent combines, that have been
supported and sustained by pretty good
men.
Does not the act clearly disclose the
bribery of the constitutional court that
was to try the rights to the executive
office? . ' . ... f ; ;
Not that many of the members of the
court were bribed. But did not too
many of them approve, some silently,
some not? How, now, in the sequel, will
history discriminate? Is there one ex
pression of indignation? of dissent?
of even disapproval of that crime any
where in the record of that constitu
tional court? Then they silently ap
proved. Now actively the same senators
doggedly stand by the dead-lock
bribery? . ,- ; , "' .
What are we coming to? whither do
we tend? Where shall this thing end?
What is the remedy? How shall we
check this mad dance of crime? ,
The only answer can be, that the cor
rection must come from the common
people, from the virgin soil. If it can
not be found here then there is none.
And herein lies the absolute demand
for the Independent party; it has thus
far done grand work, all honor, espe
cially to those noble senators.every one,
who have during the past week, stood
ike a wall against every adverse In
fluence for the people and for the right.
The battle has only just begun. The
circumstances and the time make it
appropriate that we should emphasize
the above facts and draw attention to
the necessity for every honest man to
cut entirely loose from tho old parties
if he have at heart the good of his state.
IJTO VALUABLE RELICS.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Olney, living in
Lancaster county, have In their posses
sion two heirlooms that are of great
historic value. Our office force were
permitted to look at-and admire them.
one day last week. One is a complete
family Bible,bearing the date 1502 on its
title page. It Is printed on silk paper,
and was a very substantially bound vol
ume, although the corners are now much
worn. When we remember that the
first edition of the English Bible was
printed in 1335, we can understand
why Mr. Olney refused a house aud
lot for it. The book cost the original
purchaser 50 sterling.
Another valuable document histori
cally is a certificate of membership in
the order of Cincinnati, issued to an
ancestor of tho Olneys. It Is a genuine
sheepskin aud boars the slguature of
George Washington and John Knox,
president and secretary of the order,
and was issued in 1780.
THE DEAD LWK.
Tho Nebraska senate is under block
ade. Ou Friday afternoon the "New
berry bill" was en third reading. When
It was nearly read, wbeu another hour
would have completed Its reading, the
opposition moved a rvceM. The motion
was defeated 10 to 13. It soon became
apparent that obstruction tactics were
sought. Another attempt to take retea
whea several members were at lunch
fifty fevi away In the hall. Mr Warner
moved a call of the house, so that the
tnembet at lunch la the hall Might par
tlclpat In the rote. They came prompt
ly In, but the obstructionist proUfcly
knew Senator Taylor M been spirited
away. They knew their power under
the M g o, p. rule that the IW Mutate
had adopted. They saw that they could
blockade Wgiaiauea, It aergtaet at
am a yremptly dUpauaed for this
refugee senator, and located him in
Council Bluffs, Iowa. On receipt of
telegrams from sergeant at arms Derby,
that the absent senator was beyond the
jurisdiction of the Nebraska senate,
Senator Pointer, reciting these facts.
asked that further proceedings under
the call of the bouse be dispensed with.
The obstructionists promptly rose and
objected. Senator Stevens explained
that the technical blockade was excess
ively expensive on the tax payers of the
state aud revolutionary in its effects.
This did not deter the devotees at the
shrine of corporation. Had they died
upon the Atlantic, ocean and been
thrown overboard to sharks they could
still have risen in their places, uu the
presiding officer have declared "five
senators objecting, the motion is not
agreed to." Had seven senators cod-
spired at the beginning of the session
to defeat all legislation, one could
have hid securely away, another moved
"a call of the house, and five persist
ently refused to allow further proceed
ings under the call" to be dispensed
with, and no legislation could have
been bad.
Do the railroads think that they own
the state? Will it ever be that the pur
chase of two or three men will defeat
the will of the people?
In 1850 the pro-slavery democracy
thought they could do without such
patriots as Stephen A. Douglas and
their enthusiastic following. They had
dominated the government and now
sought to destroy it. Slavery perished.
The railroads have dominated Nebraska.
The people ask to be as fairly treated
as their brethren in Iowa. The rail
roads send their hireling boodlers to
corrupt legislators. Those who love
the corporations more and the people
less, blockade legislation in the senate.
How long will the people be mocked?
UXJUST TALK ABOUT SEXAT0R
K00XTZ.
We nearly wrote the above "unjust
charges." But as a matter of fact we
do not refer to charges at all. We have
been shown a letter in the Trenton Reg
ister, signed by Daniel O'Sheridan, de
nouncing Sanator Koontz as an "in-
scrupulous traitor" to the cause he was
sent here to represent. In fact, the
terms of the letter are coarsely brutal
in their coarseness. Now we are en
tirely certain that these strictures upon
Senator Koontz are unjust in the last
degree. They consist of mere denunci
ationsnot a specific charge of wrong
doing is made not an instance of dere
liction from duty is specified. Mr.
Koontz was severely critizised for bis
pair with Senator Wilson. at the time the
vote on the contest was pending. These
criticisms were unjust. These gentle-
were without doubt on opposite sides oa
that question, and their votes fairly
balanced each other. Both were unex
pectedly and unavoidably absent on ac
count of the storm when their vote came
on.
Every vote of Senator Koontz is a
matter' of record. We have not scruti
nized all of them, but as far as-we know
every vote of bis has been consistent
with his duty and convictions as an In
dependent. With real traitors in our
fold, bought with gold, we cannot afford
to denounce our friends for mere minor
differences on points where no sacrifice
of principle Is involved.
iXOTHER STEP IX THE C0XSPIRACY
Another very notable fact was devel
oped by the Washington dispatches last
week. Judge Cobb was recommended
to the president as the successor to
Judge Groff in the land commissioner's
office, the latter gentleman having re
signed. This recommendation was made
by Senator Paddock. This gentlemen
is per te the representative and attorney
of the U. P. railroad interest at Wash
ington.. The course of Judge Cobb in
preventing, as far as in his power, the
contest from being tried, and thus keep
ing out of the gubernatorial chair of
this state a man who was supposed to
be on the side of the people instead of
the railroads, is to be rewarded br a
federal appointment by a republican
administration. The connection of this
administration with the railroad power,
and its servility to it, is thus sharply de
fined. Mr. Paddock is the fitting me
dium for such a recommendation. That
he and all the other federal office hold
ers have been working in this matter,
under the orders and in the interest of
the railroad and money power, there
isn't a shade of a doubt.
That Mr. Cobb would not dn- to face
a Nebraska public In a contest for re
election to the supreme bench is not
surprising. It is unfortunate however;
as the people are aching for an oppor
tunity to bury him so deep und-r an
avalanche of ballots that ho would not
bo resurrected before the day of judge
ment. All those straws are significant as
hewing the vile conspiracy ol the poll
ttcians ana trie railroad aud money
power In w hich the supremo court of
this state naa iieea taxing a part.
COIMJUQ Git EH X0 AID.
Rev. J. D. llurrof Colorado, railed at
this oture one ttay last week, lie was
on his way to Iowa and the east to
licit ec4 and feed for Colorado's depi
late. The legislature of that state roald
pay the eipeuvee of Nbraitkas sens
torial junket and allow ey numter of
t to be perpetrated, but wheu after
a hard light r.u the part ef a few men
bill wa paal appropriating flt.oOO
for roll J tf Ue rououma, tbe attorney
Kara) dclr It uauuaat1t(iUs0
ktase no eppeU to eastern stale.
brethren. Colored cat it an her w
cul.eos.
TIIE REPUBLICAX CITY TICKET.
The nomination of Si. Alexander for
mayor by the republican convention,
and his running mates selected by the
same outfit. Is a triumph of the boodle
element of the city. It is commended
by the Stale Journal, whkh naively ob
serves that the ticket selected did not
give much satisfaction to those outside
of the party, but was eminently satis
factory to the party. When it is con
sidered that "the party" only recog
nized by the Journal consists of one of
the worst nest of boodlers and thieves
that ever plundered a city treasury, the
force of its observation will be ap
parent.
A citizens' ticket will probably be the
outcome of these vile nominations. A
multiplicity of tickets, each strenuously
adhered to by its partisans, will inevi
tably give the boodlers new lease of
power. No good citizen can desire this
result. We give below an extract from
an article by Mr. G. C. St. John, a re
publican who repudiates his ticket.
We do not know Mr. St. John; but he
states the case cogently:
"It is refreshing and encouraging to
know that the public when sufficiently
irritated oy an accumulation oi petty
wrongs, or by the multiplying force on
the mind of each citizen of someone
atrocity, past or prospective, is able to
rise and Inexorably scrape the political
oaroacies irom toe municipal keel, in
spite of the lamentations of those to
wnom public pap has become an invet
eracy, ana Jn contravention to the ex
pressed desires of railway corporations,
insurance companies, electric and gas
lighting companies, banks and ex-B7 &
M. railway superintendents and other
individuals with interested views, dis
solute principles and extravagant ex
pectations, wno consult the interests ol
the city no further than it is subservient
to their own.
"In view of what is past and liable
still to come in the line of needless ex
penditures by our city government such
as neglecting the central pertion of the
city as to water pipes, but extending
water mains out to unoccupied prairie;
such as the increase of electric lights,
needless except for the benefit of the
electric company, and the crafty alder
man who stood by the helm and steered
the measure through, such as the out
rageous and farcical display of compe
tition in paving contracts, whereby the
same contractor is awarded all con
tracts at higher figures than those sub
mitted by other contractors, and pav
ing bonus bearing interest before need
ed; such as refusing franchises to new
electric lighting companies and thereby
aepnving tne city oi tne benents of
competition, and not entertaining the
bids of any electric lighting com Dan v
excepting the one which seems to own
the city fathers; such as paving two
miles to the. northeast of the city, sttbile
Tenth street recently was with difficulty
paved to the court house. I say in view
of these matters which float well bal-
tstedln public conviction and belief
and which we will gently call irregu
larities, it would not be surprising if
the taxpayers were well nigh ripe in
opinion for a revolt against the present
and prospective county officials and
their patrons and liege lords, to whom
they are or will bo indebted for their
positions, and to whom possibly they J
nave sworn fealty. If there ever has
been a time in the bistorv of Lincoln I
when an effort to wield tne power of
the ring on the city has manifested
itself, it is at the present, and it de
volves upon every taxpayer of Lincoln
to , rebel against the nominees of the
republican convention of yesterday.
These nominees are the fit exponents
of audacitv and raoacitv. immunitv and
impunity of corporations and individ
uals wno would make the city subservi
ent to their selfish schemes."
A NEW VOTING SYSTEM.
Indications are not wanting of an
approaching change in the policy of
Americans as regards the further re
striction and protection of the ballot.
Such a change of policy, if it be a
change, has been growing, although
somewhat slowly, since the days of
know-notbingism. There has always
been an idea that after all the bulk of
ignorance was among the negroes, and
that time and education would change
them from an ignorant into an intelli
gent and powerful - class- of citizens.
It is certainly true, and it has been
one of the advantages of universal suf
frage, that the ignorant vote has been
nullified in a degree by tho more intel
ligent, and that the intelligent vote has
been of a percentage large enough to
control elections in a majority of cases.
Nevertheless, there must be a constant
pressure, as the steady descent of par
ties show, to deal tenderly with the il
literate vote. Tho pressure is not so
strong, however, as it would bo if the
debased and Ignorant held tho balance
of power. But It Is strong enough to
eiert a steady influence toward the deg
radation of parties and party politics.
MsHMachuKett tries and fails in practice
to disfranchise those who are unable to
read and write, just at Connecticut
fails to difranchise thosce who are not
Of goxl moral character.
Since the census of 1870, Illiteracy In
the United States has been the subject
of frequent magazine and newspaper
articles. It ha generally been treated,
however, more from a standpoint of
national pride than of national danger.
That column of the census reports
which define the Illiteracy of white
males of twenty-one years and upward,
should be enough to startle the mtxtt lu
different Out of 11.3t3,0v5 whlii vot
er?, ana.BJtt were unable to write. If
we lake the pluraliUe and majorities
of the election of tftit, we find that this
claa coturi wort plainly Inte rtow,
Mr. ClevnUud plurality la Coniwctt
euiwMlA'H while lire illiurnt tote
votHwau .W)li Mr. Blaine's
plurality
In lillaoU ww Ui1. and the
Illiterate
vote wa i(M. Sot wa it In km
two iutellvctual state only, la that
(flnctiwa thsre were fiit.ica uie in
which I ho illiterate le'e was erra.r
tban tt pluralities, s4 they tt Hi
out of o69 electorial votes. So large Is
the voting power of ignorance.
A certificate voting system is the only
plan that will effectually disfranchise
the illiterate and detect fraud. When
a young roan becomes of voting age he
shall go to the county seat of the county
in which he resides and be examined
by a board of examiners, and if he
answers intelligently a certain' per
cent or more of the questions asked
bim on the political issues of the day,
he shall be given a voting certificate
which shall entitle bim to vote at any
election. An exact duplicate of the
certificate shall be kept on file in the
county in whice its original was grant
ed. Let us imagine the state of an elec
tion nnder such a system. A voter ap
proachea the judges of eleciioa with his
certificate. They take it and having
examined it, stamp or sign if with nauie
of place and date, it is then banded
back to the voter and he is permitted to
vote. It would be quite impossible to
vote twice in the same day, because the
voter must show his certificate to the
judges before voting, and as the date is
stamped or written upon it an attempt
to vote twice would be easily detected.
Let us suppose for a moment that such
a system be univeisal and that a voter
who had originally lived in Philadel
phia should vote in Chicago with a
counterfeit or fraudulent certificate.
It is true he could vote, but if any indi
vidual in Chicago so desired he could
send to Philadelphia for the name and
date of Issue upon duplicate of Pennsyl
vania certificate No. 31,100, or what
ever number the certificate might be.
It is easily seen that if it were fraudu
lent there would be no duplicate. Such
a system would have a tendency to make
young men and foreigners more wide
awake - upon the important political
questions. It would also pave a way
for the detection of fraudulent votes.
We cannot show the ideal America to
the world until the ballot receives the
protection that genuine Americanism
demands. American institutions and
the liberties of the people should be
shielded from the corrupting power of
invincible ignorance. The rise of the
laboring classes and the attention the
masses are now giving the needs of the
hour, is prophetic of the new American
who shall lay aside the dead issues of
tne past and so shape the new one that
they will be true missions of justice.
KEL'NE.U. KOSS.
How to Secure Intelligent Action.
During all ages past the tendency of
the people has been to form into two
great classes the thinkers and the ac
tors. We often hear it said of a man.
"He is a thinker," and we merely no
tice, then pass It by. How seldom we
say to ourselves of such an one, "He is
no more than all men should be." Even
now a large majority of mankind is
content to plod on acting out the
thoughts of others. Only w her.; some
great calanjity befalls, are the apathetic
ones aroused to the realization that
thinking power by its presence in man
is what constitutes the difference be
tween him and the lower animals.
Railreads and corporations of every
kind are the result of deep thought.
Monopolies are controlled by men ' who
labor only with their minds. The con
densed thought of ages is embodied injthe
plans of some of theo great trusts which
are able to circumvent the laws of even
our wisest legislators. Only when the
added burdens upon the farmers are
made apparent through a failure in
nature's supplies is he brought to real
ize that the lower animals alone; are
compelled to depend oa nature's re
sources. But then be thinks. Then he has
such a spasmodic attack of thinking
that he continues in spasms till good
cropt return, end those who have made
it their interest to control his destiny
know they merely have to humor him
till nature smiles again. -
But can the farmer of Nebraska ever
fall back ta the old condition of blind
servitude? It does not seem possible!
After we have come to realize that we
live in thought, that the simplest action
of which we are capable, even the lift
ing of a hand, most first ;be thought
out, that we qannot act for self alone,
but are bound by common ties tolevery
other man upon God's footstool, surely
we cannot again descend to the level
of machines. - We can not now believe
that time spent in Alliance meetings
pondering the things that be and plan
ning the things that should be, is time
wasted from the plow or the. reaper.
We cannot think that we and our little
farms are all the world to us. We can
not fail to read and weigh carefully the
thoughts of other as we find them in
our paper, (strange that in Nebraska,
almost an old state that paper is not quite
two years old yet.) ,
And so we will take and read papers
that voice the. thoughts o-f man untratu
meled by any base and sordid connectiow
with usurpation and tyranny, we will
meet as brothers and plan and execute
wisely, and we will remember that.
We lire In thoughts notdeeda
In arts Bet Drum on a dial.
We sbould couut time br heart beau,
He most H m, who thigk most, acta na-Vn-U
frele the Iwnt.
Corner I Oth and P Streets,
Liior stock or
Dry Gccds, Carpels, Groceries,
NOriON,IHOttS,ETC.
Lonest Prions lBth3Ciiy.
Iiik ad ee take te at Ue
Mil AfcUTtMtiK WITH la.
H. XI. IJIG8LEY & 00.
Cor. letD sal F Bis , LImoU, Neb,
