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About The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1891)
It I- Cj rmui' alliance, I Inrr Saturday be Ta Axxiahci Pcbiishixo Co. On-Btk ai tta, Ltol Kb. la the beautv of tk Wile Christ wii born ecroai the m, WMkgtoi7laUbowm ThsU transfigures 70a end me. A ha etrov te make men holy Let strlv to maks them free. G4toBrcl"DtoB.w -JuliaWariHoma. r clear to dseerU, A4 ft to him who power exert.' -A reASy 4rof of snanly blood Te avglaf aae outweighe" ImttMh. -Cavto cuaoi rtuat it fool Cava win aot reason I a coward, Ce who 4are sot reeaoa la a ahwo TO CORRESPONDENTS. AthM all ulae communlcatione to eeertea matter lor ubllctioB to Editor Terwire' Alliance. ... AfUetra writ both Me oftb PPr cmboI we iwr4. Vrrj I org communication, Manila tuMMbeuml. Calaetia, Vaaatrroort, Rag aa ana Howe Art MTOkiag th baa of lb Independent cow, Wbilajoua Mr. Hlteaoock, wl bia pant roue, am aa the feac with kit Httla tla eup: Tkt fare who la a rawing tba aoldan atreaia laj, -im bold on, bora, Ull ma fit tba tarTh statement of tba Aurora Re , eopkd into tba Journal, that Mr. Burrowa oppased the tadependeot ticket In thla city, the railroad organ kaew to be false when it printed it. Thia paper heartily lupported the cltl xene ticket, and Its proprietors voted for It. There isn't a railroad organ in thia itate but what la a monumental Dissensions are brewing among the ALiaece and kindred organization. It is predicted tbat the great Cincinnati meeting will be tora by rival interests, likely within six months to wreck the whole third part; movement. Wagers are aafs that the next president will fee eitrer a republican or a democrat, whatever the new political combinations way attempt. Omaha Jit. So dissensions have been discovered except in the Imagination of monopoly tools like the editor of the lite. With then "the wish is father to the thought." As to TO exactly such predictions were rife before the Nebraska landslide of last November. Condemned to be out la It, the victims predict the flood will sot be much of a shower. Tan; Pcori.it will run a candidate in and be h is as good a chance of elec lion as any other man, republican or democrat. tVRK SVEXTOXS. The Bum nees dispatches, pretend leg to come from its Chicago office, consisting of speculations about the Cincinnati conference, are pure fabrl cations. The correspondent shows that be knows nothing about the subject. llEKFvVLTURK. We have received Bulletin No. 10, of the agricultural experiment station, state university. This bulletin is de voted to experiments in sugar beet culture and Is a very exhaustive treatise on that subject Address for copies, H. H. Nicholson, chemical laboratory, state university,. Lincoln. - THE KAXSAS CTY SlXUAY TMES. TheaDove paper to printed for the brothels and the slums, and ought not 9 bo named in decent company. Its issue of last Sunday contains an article about the Twenty-second legislature which is too vile for eren such a sheet It gives a list of some of the best and most honorable Christian gentlemen, and describes them as ribald revellers and drunkards. It Is a pity that such Infamies as this by the public press can mot bo more easily reached by law. TO, OCR FREXDS. We invite your attention to the en Urged Alliance we are now sending to our subscribers. We need your help, and we hope you will extend it. The prospects for a good crop are splendid. It is better for you to spend a dollar for your paper than for tobacco or cigars We do not include whbky, as so few Alliance men use the article. But, how ever the dollar is raised you cannot af' ford to let your state paper languish tor aat of support. We want to put mote editorial labor on the paper wo want to set much more type for it than we are now able to. But it takes money ti do It. We ak every one of our ft leads to send us new narnt. If they thla it will be a great help to us Cua wo depend upon you fur some now. J VRXAT 1X1 LT0. We are Informed tW a man nsuied T. J. IMpp of Clay rtmnty, has In vu a atai'bine which wlli have wonderful aflwt upm the ludependeut tote next tall. Us takes three repub licans and throw tam Into the ma tern aeti atari 11 up. at4 they come out two teUadrau and a g out! thank of a d g He w Uk tkrv tf these 4vfi sad runs thxiit through aa4 they sxmrhi out in Ike turn of 4esa0ral taatlldate fur governor )m( saeb a one as ike rUm4 torl m Uea lauding fur kU tiu lately. W hops t have iifi ui .,n. tWa el lata mAtkiwi, U Ml opera'iu WJnra bag, Mr. has applW t h ieat, He to M to b dUng gw4 Wane, as Msnr teiHiUins aro csoirj ta ta he wtk4 aver. It uM iJtsta feyuhlkaa tJr4 tg wtRert. !ttttMial tha tatlresJ Jtht eat fnmxl TMw, la It, aad lky tzawAim la dtu at taw shvake, ajXaat feaklwaat eamgh ta rneke a rtt U scUaee ta wth thai auterUJ il H aslj maw iai;ra4 reuUWrats trktlrjMkaf tke aki to sp 3. . . Editor J.LHMW..... imlMN MB-er THE THE. YEW YORK riTES$OX.VO.l Y. Cnir attention has been called to an editorial in the Xtr Yuii U'tlntts en titled -Oue:ons About Money," and written in reply to the following in quiries: To van Euitob: Wkat baa th Intrtiuie value of money to do vitb itf Baa tM paper of a bank note any treat value? If the for eroment will accept IK own rlleer coins for export and Import duea, does not that fact maaa tben. In tbe one sente, redeemable at full face value r tbe aovernmeniT Wbat does It matter if paper, leather, gold orailnr t-e uaed provided It baa oa Ita face -I'. It One Doliar." and is accepted aa a dollar! Has gold, or anything, a axed valuer Why waa the heavier trade-dollar rejected for the lighter legai-teoder dollar? bo tbe people weigh money or accept it aa an Uaue by tbe government; Yours. FHEE bILYEK. The first remark of the editor is as follows: "Tbe intrinsic value of money isthe only thing that can make it sn adequate and reliabb measure of val ues." Now, with the history and living example of an t5 cent silver dollar be fore him circulating at par with a 100 cent gold dollar, the editor who can make such statement proves at once that he Is Ignorant of tbe subject, and prepares us for what follows. He goes on to say: "If the ultimate object of all commercial bualotae waa to obtain money eoough tor tbe payment of taaea, then the rradlnee-f tbe govern uetit to receive beck ita own nntee In payment f dull woul.i be, In rRivt, a nriMiilM to rdem Ibeae notef . A lubelillary currency, aurbaa our preaent allver onlnaae le, can i aepi ai par in inai way, uui ior baalaof the principal currency mutt always be market ualue." , The U'Unut unwittingly struck a truth here. Its meaning is "intrinsic value." If It had used that term its statement would not have been true. It uses the term "marktt lalue" as syn omyniens with Intrinsic value.when the synomym does not exit. We quote another expression, as tbe criticism we will make will apply to both: 'Gold baa practically a Bxed value. Tbe changes In Its aoaoluts value are so alight as to be imperceptible." Gold happens to be the only article In the United States upon which the' government fixes a value. By an act of March 3, 119, tbe government pro vides for the gold dollar piece to con tain 2.1.8 grains of standard gold, and "to be of the value of one dollar, or unit." So as far as possible law has fixed an absolute value" to gold. But did that law in any way prevent "changes" In Its value? It may be quite diflicult to determine what substances possess "ab solute" valuo and wbat do not. Per haps the test of necessity would best settle this point. If one was on tbe verge of starvation, and was tendered a loaf of bread or a gold dollar, the bread would 1e adjudged to possess the most absolute value. Or If one was about to perish for want of raiment perhaps a pair of Wannamaker's three dollar pantaloons would be adjudged to tea- sens a greater absolute value than a ten dollar gold piece. But we suppose the editor of the HVnett will accept as the best measure of value the exchangeable value of the gold dollar. As a matter of fact gold per se has no "abiolute value" at all. It has an exchangeable value given it by the government in the act above quoted, which varies with the amount of something possessing ab solute value it can be exchanged for. A certain number of grains of It are called a dollar, or unit. Now if it can be shown that its power to exchange for things having absolute value, such as food, raiment, houses, lands, etc., had greatly varied since the noral nal value of "one dollar, or unit" had been affixed to 27.8 grains of It, would the editor of tho U"itnest admit tbat its value had changed V--or would he claim that the value of the commodities had changed? Thedetlnition agreed upon is really of no moment, but tbe fact of the change is of vital importance, and the change should be fully understood. We will state the fact as we understand It, which is that the value of gold has increased 50 per cent in the last ten years. lor tho reason tbat one dollar in in gold will purchase 50 per cent more of those things having absolute value, such as food, raiment, houses, lands, etc., than it would ten years ago. This fact has come about for the reason that tbe relative supply of the products and gold has greatly changed, the supply of the latter having remained nearly ta tiouary, while that of the former has greatly increased; and the law of k:ij ply and demand tinds its first exprcs sion in the relations of money and pro' ducts. If the relative supply of gold (!.miotbes prices go uowu, ana net etna. Now, the fact stated, if it is a fact, l a stupeudous one. It means that it takes twice as much wheat, or corn, or cattle, or hogs, to procure a dollar than It did ten years ago. It meaus that the farmer who U In debt, or the laborer or mechanic who Is striving to pay for home mut give twice as many days' labor to pay hU creditor a given amount of lntcre.it, or a cert si a psymeut, than he did before. It meaus that the bank er or money lender, sitting serenely be hind bia steel wire fortified counter and eainlug hi ahex keis by the sweat of other men's brows, receives at lulerest twice as muck produced wrahh as he dM before, though the nominal rate per rent remain tbe same Now, we admit wlthtiut argument that the turretae or decrva he pott hale power of money is a bruad a It to lung. ivf I the eViwf. But we rU the prt stock argument uf tke 14 bug a ken urging twnirae linn ts the single standard. U. 'Mae te twentieths uf the butiaeas of tkl MKiulry Is 4va ea the etwlit system," Y, wore than that, lHbt tonnhtrtnl t'te j klad ! trade, uenfvlttrw, tt tttwikia, tU'fctaifw, to paylsg Us tribute ta this HtoltKh t n all street, w ko tua at-ulat the eurrvacy to ri the n tlucrf, al wauM l.d Iwd tke e4ue ef Iks f I. If ! dent It, read the M few teg Vt 4j t4 Hy m tfcf i4 u.l M HI VftV. ! KIWf fclV ! i mmm m ) imiw im Who are ' tke i! asd ke ire FAR31EKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN XEB., those "linkers and brokers" whom the KVnest exalts above them? We wUh to remark to the U'ilm that that kind of rot is played out. The people are tbe people, aad they are becoming bet ter potted on this money question than the bankers and brokers whom the Mitnttt dishonors its conscience to chop logic for. OUR EJMTRli MOTOR. Tbe power with which our mammoth cylinder pres is now run is an electric motor, set up by the Lincoln klectric Street Ilail way Co. Tbe electric motors are really run by steam power, electric ity being only the medium of transmis sion. The pqwer which actuates our motor and runs our press is generated at the power bouse of the Railway Co. in North Lincolo, and nearly two miles north of our office. The advantages of an electric motor for printing are its absolute cleanliness and Its esse of op eration. Tbere is no dust, ashes, smoke or steam When the power is to be started turn a little button and tbe thing Is done. We are much indebted to Mr. u. A. Bush for his ability and promptness In getting our motor at work. Mr. Busb is a born electrician. He carries thun derbolts in bis memorandum book and flashes of lightning in his vest pocket. We account for bis great scwmplish- mcnts in the electric line to the fact tbat he was matriculated in a printing office. lie manipulates the electric fluid as ex pertly as an accomolUhed house-wife moulds dough, lie planes it down with t steel shooting stick, quods itout, hair- spaces and justifies it with a precision tbat rivals Edison. Our friends are invited to call and see our motor work. THE sm.1T0.V IX VALLEY COUXTY. We invite attention to some resolu tions of the Valley County Alliance in another column of this issue. These resolutions give a concise and graphic statement of existing conditions in that county; and we have no doubt the same -conditions exUt in many other western counties. It Is entirely within the power of tbe courts to afford the de sired relief. No right of a mortgagee Is really impaired by a temporary with holding of a decree of foreclosure. The security remains intact. The land will not only not fly away, but will proba b'y increase in value. Tbe overdue pi ln clpal and the accrued interest, as well as the Interest that may accrue, remain amply secured by the mortgage. It is only a question of an extension of time When it Is considered that hundreds of Shylocks, with no more heart than flint, have gone into that ceuntry and loaned money at exhorbitant rates on pi rpose to get poscsidon of lands this way, most fair-minded men will hope tbat the courts will exercise the dlscre tlon they possess, and save the farms for tbe settlers and the settlers for the state. Foreclosure now, to thousands of these men, means beggary, or a wan dering into some new section in search of cheap land, to again begin the ul most hopeless struggle against the Sby locks and land grabbers for a spot of God's earth which they may call home. Let us pray that the judges' hearts may be softened. THE 3. Jt .V. JOL'RXAL AXD KAXSAS MORTGAGES. The railroad Journal, edited by Bro (iere, formerly private secretary to Dave Butler, has had a great deal to say of late about the doings of the Alliance in Kansas, greatly to the neglect of the Alliance in Nebraska. The corporation orn.m being ell the watch, the latter body is getting in some excellent work Its last expression of anxiety about our Kansas friends Is in relation to their mortgages. It is solicitous lest the census report of them will not pan out sufficiently liberal. We would like to Inquire of the late private secretary if it isn't about time he transferred bis supervision to Gen. Test and the Ne braska mortgages. This doughty gen eral was especially selected by the Omaha Board of Trade, by and with the advice, consent and approval of ono Rosewater, to examine the county records and disprove the lying state ments of a certain Alliance memorial, which had the audacity to place the farm mortgages of this state at 150, 000,000. Isn't six or eight mouths of brain-wearying work sufficient to make a test of tbisniatterf Why this long and disappointing silence? Burrows was abused from one eud of the stale to the other for that memorial. It it possible he Is to be vindicated? Aud that Gen. Tfst has found, as It Is whispered, that Nebraska's farm mortgages amount to 17-VKMJ.0U0? Will not i'ive Butler's private socre- tary kindly trausler his solivitude from Kaunas to ebranks? vV HEX. MEM AXD THE IXD&rKXlt EXT 'ARTY, The followlug Item Is floating around the prets of the atate: ' fcx attorney (Jenentl !.ee ha an nounced formally, jet quietly, bis re t'rtmeut from the republican party. Hence forth he III be a full fledgnl in dependent, lu eouucciluB aiih tlii it may I Mid that fuiu prettl ai'pear attt the campaign tf wl will W (tie iieltei !( ynr i'AUilga tver experi enced ta Nebraska. We submitted the Item to (Un, !-, and aAed bint if It w as true Well.' aUI he. ' I ae teea afcd la regard la my actUtn in the nest election, aad t repUtHi that I should probably 1 elp tbe ladepeadsau. The Ui luy party has kit mt; aal I feel now that the ararvat approach to Hue tvpubSU aaUu 1 fiua4 la the ttvtad at pitiful. Uv. I, i tBUMU with Urge Isi)kni 4 i-thA twpeUauh rspaWU , )tttl leal 1 1 a tw I ret lUta Mtty laiheliaiw. Ml reepeet lug dtwrtfveJil. tame way la t i4 lu I keif f-aiiY Tae km a aa.( will aa. rf' la Ut) fiat of the ldpJ it H re specting rUlcVk f tHip0y ilirvrtei wk ire W4 it Ifc 'w farUts. 'FREE C01XAGE6R ERBE TEAIE An article in a late number of the Xetr Ycrk Standard, by Thomas G. Shear man, is a strikicg example of reckless statement aud loose reasoning. Mr. Shearman is a rigid free-trader, and ail facts and theories have to yield to the necessities of his pet hobby. In the article alluded to he undertakes to show that the benefits to the wage- earners by free trsde would be incom parably greater than by tree coinage. First, he divides the wage earners into three classes, the laborers on farms, on transportation and trade, and in manu facturing, mining and mechanical in dustries. He then says: It la clear tbai they will loae at Brat by any lowering of tbe cola standard or expanaion of currency. If (undent to aeooin pliah any of the great thing wblt-b tbe adroeatea of cheap money promlae. For tbe chief tfclneeipected from any of tnete currency acbcinea ita great increaaeof prices Id food, clothing, house building, furniture and everything which tbe wage earner has to buy. fnltta wages rie faatertban tke price of goods, tke wage earn etswlll be not one penny better off; aud, if wages do not rUe aa quickly or a much as tho price of goods, wage-earnera will be worse off." Admitting that wages advance slower than products let us look for tbe reason of it. In times of depression like the present there is a vast army of idle la borers. Tbere are said to be 1,000,000 idle now. This is net only an absolute and irreparable loss to the country in their failure to produce, but it is a loss from the fact that they must be sub sisted from the earnings of those who do produce. So when business is en livened and production stimulated by an advance of prices this reserve of idle labor is drawn upon, and no apprecla ble advance of wages takes place until it is employed. The time for this to be accomplished depends upon the extent of the former depression and the extent of the advance in prices. But is It noth ing to the community that this army of idle men should be restored to useful labor, and the producers be relieved from tbe support of myriads of idle and suffering families? We now invite attention to the follow log brilliant paragraph from Mr. Shear man's article. Tbe small capitals are ours: "Now. con lder wbat Ibey have to gain by free trade. Tbe farm laborer, who are more numerous than either of tbe otber claates, would, of coune, be In much greater demand, kccsvsE or tbb lUMENse iscREioB or EC HOPE! IlCMAKD FOB FA KM PRODUCTS. Tbe men engaged in transportation would be In like demand, because the railroads ako STEAMBOATS WOtlLtl BE CBOWDID WITH FA KM PMOtJft'T COMISa EAST AMD WITH M AXCFAC- turks uoiko wkT. The cue of theae two cluiaei, conalltutlng a great majority of all tbe latorert, la very clear. Free trade would ralie their wages quickly and largely. Now, we respectfully ask Mr. Shear man to demonstrate just how this "im mense increase ef European demand for farm products" is to be caused. We respectfully submit tbat bis statement is vague and Indefinite. Do not these Eu ropeans already buy all the farm prod ucts of us that they require? Are tbeir wharves loaded with goods waiting for exchange as soon as our tariff is re moved? Or will the removal of our tariff cause such an enormous lowering of prices that goods will move themselves? If so we devoutly pray "to be delivered from free trade. Low prices nave caused the present depression. Lower prices Mould cer tainly aggravate it. If this "immense increase" of demand for farm products is not to be caused by lower prices how is it to be caused? Is competition be tween laborers to be lessened or ended by free trade? Will wages be in creased under conditions in which la borers are forced either to compete with each other or face starvation? Will the establishment of free trade stop tbe influx of foreign laborers to our shores? Further on Mr. Shearman says: "Still there remains the greatest benefit of all. The total repeal of the tariff means the abolition of all taxes upon the poor." How? Mr. S. does not say. Eut ob viously he must mean by lowering the price of goods. How, otherwise, Is the poor man to be relieved of the indirect tax w hich Mr. Shcarmau thinks is his only burden? But lowering the price of goods meaus less reward to both cap ital aud labor means stagnation in bus iness, Idle men and distressed families. As a matter of fact, while laud as J la bor are the ouly elements of wealth, capital, when It is once created, Is the controlling factor; and wl.b our finan cial conditions left as they are free trade would not benelit the workiuginau one lota, any more than protection now ben efits him. The laws of supply and de mand are immutable, aud they tiud their tint e (Tension In the relations of money and products. So long as money poeM' tbe power it now poseaes an Inadequate supply of It will Inure to the beuelit of the money-lender and the men who receive lived incomes la Inter estwill ratine the transfer of produced wealth to the money-ow ner, and w ill be diatrotis and pprlte to the la borer and producer. Then fore let us have Iree coinage lfore we have free trade. Oh VtEUTVK STOKES. There ill hi many i f tbea atore etabiihe4 tbi summer. It la pro b..l t,i hwfn,l tf.liMrt fttrttflh lit a.tl ...i.nl- lVti will .Ira hi .ui.ullra ........ , ---it - frviM the Mate Agency, Now, we de tire the ttere ta U started ta the true operative p lunplw. This l a haiibf of the ixvni antonft the mem. i belt i syW,.M h t'44. GiHmI UjuU im 14 to memUia s4 aoa mewbere ' ahte, but only Member kar the pwAts. I hit tortus a la tutUe Mr all t bsHHfiM member. But the pnl we w lh sveciV.I J tu val) attentUia U aad ewpbi lit this itvtwWthisi .! ' . Aw gf re lis ti4&i ft tiitt Utr$ f ' prut an te Ut mH t'vtt h Stfwfc't- If flic kiD kspt ap ether dealer are hot halagoa Un) tad trade U tot diuralitd. Ike great pinal it twmpialtl by local dealaii CC etrsth HT U THUKSDAY AVll 23, that they lower prices to such an extent that business is ruined, and no prcnt left to dealer;.. This untagonum can be entirely avoided by maintaining prices at a living rate. And there is no motive whatever in doing other wise. If members pay LIgh prices it comes back to them in profits. If out siders pay high prices it increases the profits of the members. These are vital points Involving suc cess or failure, and we hope all will give heed to them. COVXTYTREASURERS" FEES. The following correspondence, being on asubject of very general interest, we present it to our reader. Joy. Holt Co., Neb., April 13. 1891. Wx. Leeke, Ex-Attorney General. Lincoln, Neb. Seeimr vour ODinlon on the Newberrv bill as puolisbea in World Herald of re cent date 1 decided to ask your opinion on another matter of much interest at present in this county which if you think well of giving will much oblidge many tax payers here. I will now state the matter briefly as possible. This county bonded in lt to tne amount oi bju.uuu to par indebtedness. County Treasurer charged twenty four mills as collection fee on the tw.ow cierivea irom saie oi bonds. Centre precinct bonded about the same time for 110,000 to build a court bouse to be donated to county, the coun ty completing the building. Treasurer save himself credit with live per vent commission on tlO.OUO ftjOO OOand col lection fee twenty-four mills, t.MO.OO Had be any legal right to have done so? l uuuerianu aoiue oi nu ineuus cmitu tbat he, the ex treasurer, bas the opin ion of present Attorney General saving he was entitled under the law to nave made those charges. Now, sir, although not personally acquainted, with you, I am not unacquainted with your past record as a public officer of this state, which will have to be my excuse for troubling you with or expecting tbe In formation asked for. Very Respectfully, J. II Hopkins. Lincoln, Neb., April 20th, HOI. J. II. Hopkins, Joy, Neb. In answer to your favor of the 13th I will say that it has always been my un derstanding that the county treasurer is not entitled to any fees on money de rived from the sale of bonds. He is en titled to a fee on what money he collects, and as be does not collect the money re ceived from tbe sale of bonds, he cannot legally charge a fee. This has always been my understanding of the liw, and I have so held on several occasions. The only way to legally settle the mat ter is by a suit in court. This ought to be done to have the question forever settled. The county treasurers all over tbe state universally retain a fee for such service, but in most all of such cases the fees overpay Irs salary aud consequently go la:k In tbe county funr. o nothing has ever b.en said a'out it I will say that I have always tried to have every officer well paid for his services and have generally given the benefit of a doubt in favor of tbeoffi cers, but I cannot see upon what grounds a county treasurer can retain a fee on money in his hands that has not been collected by him, and I am of the opin ion tbat he cannot legally retain the fee thus held back. Yours very truly, Wm. Leese. THE ALLAXCE STATE AG EXCY. The store of the Alliance State Agency is the busiest place in Lincoln. Under the efficient management of J. W. Hartley the agency has grown to be an indis pensable convenience to members of the Alliance in all parts of the state, and the amount of goods handled by it is simply prodigious. Whatever cannot be had at local points, or whatever Is held at prices higher than the goods should properly bear, is ordered through the agency and furnished at the very lowest wholesale price. In addition to this a very large busines is done in staples with Alliance and co operative stores, and that numerous class of in dividuals who are learning that there is a great saving for them In buying their goods in quantities at wholesale prices for cash, rather than in driblets on timo at country stores. At least 25 to 40 per cenfis saved to the consume r in this manner. It is expected that tho trade of the agency will reach this year 1150,000 to 200,000. It is welt understood that last year our State Agency made a better twine deal for its customers than was made in any other state. This will be repeat ed this year. Our State Agent will no't only be able to furnish twine at the very lowest prices, bu twill give bis customers the benefit di any decline that may take place after the trade opens aud delivery begins. 1K not make coutraets elsewhere for twine, Imyjive the agent Information as soon a poaalbte a to how much you will need, ujhu which to ba-w his contracts. THE TiREATEXKD UXCHXG RROKEX R0H AT The Ret ba a mug e.mouai on n above subject, la which it take the pre- p.terus portion tnat tne ueaire ujun; ! Custt-r county people to ee Hatieostlne bung without delay arom from a deprav d and cruel appetite and uivfbid eu r jally to horrible thing. Oue para graph of Ihe Are'iartUle lea it slander oa human nature aud untrue la ery ! lrtl'ulr The ood people of Cualrr eowjiuii7(i.iri,.. ""Mr. Micawtr. Hw many men werv.th.ei lr.m ki hotel daw among the for the low eatlmat It luaaes oi Ifteirfi humanity. There 1 ao donbi hatr U.;t the detir to hat Ihe provtit mur - derer eecttUl arote solely from the ry natural fvar that by Ihe v"kt f rrUuteal la it wo likely tkl he eud acape Jitk', and aot irvm utaappufni meat at btlag deprived of tbe tpevtoelt ot aa iiscuttue. ike A tailtv klr. llMvair ! fouag Mr. ItUvkcettk a a ptkur aad imp, wH h impend ee towel uiliee and f difu admtUertt and Xlr. II. v poaes Ur H Mr aiptleg u fuf a eefpr Iruat, Probably the are both ei'trw I, tke ruth ef leeir tub strlbsrs to lake Tub I sbusm' Atll. h pres. 1691. THE OMAHA KEE AXD THE CIXC.Y-1 XATI C0XFEREXCE. j It seem that the Oniaba Bee is abso-; ! lutelv incapable of making a fair and j truthful statement as to any matter whatever. It begins an editorial en- titled, "Tbe Third Party Movement," thus: "It is beginning to be pretty gen erally perceived that the convention which is to meet in Cincinnati next month, ostttelbly under the auspices of the Earners' Alliance, to form a third party, is really a movement in the in terest of the democracy." Now there are no less than three distinct lies in the above sentence. Tbe effort of the Bee to show that tbe Alliance is sponsor for the Cincinnati meeting is extremely cheeky. The editor of tbe bee knows that this meeting was not called by any Alliance organization, and that the Al liance was simply invited to participate in it on the same basis as nearly twenty other societies. Whatever may be done in the way of forming a new national party, we desire to assure tbe editor of tbe Bee that tbe Alliance will maintain its integrity as a non-partisan organization, and will not be merged into any party whatever, bis editorial lies to the con trary notwithstanding Again, says tbe Bee: "It is noteworthy that in tbe south the Alliance orgaus generally do not favor tne third party movement, and al though a few Alliance leaders there are committed to it. there is abundant rea son to believe that the rank ana me cannot be induced to desert the democ racy in a national election." The Bee is very ill-posted, if it believes tbe aljove. Tbe fact is that certain leaders of tbe Southern Alliance are op posed to the new party movement, and are desirous of holding the Alliance yote as a controlling factor of tbe dem ocratic party, while the rank and tile are almost unanimously in favor of the new party. The masses of the people, north and suth, are fully realizing tbat as far as their vital Interests are con cerned as far as the great issue, the money question, is Involved and when their subservience to corporate power Is considered, there is practically no difference whatever between the repub lican and democratic parties. As a mat ter of fact they are not political parties at all, but simply combinations of mo oi d interests in private hands enrich ing themselves by plundering tbe peo pie under tbe forms of law. ihe one now in possession bought its franchise with money contributed by Wanamak r and others who expected to be its bene Marten; and tbe other will buy it in 02, if it can raise the money to do it with.. Dominated as both these combi nations are by corporate and Wall street Interests, it will be Impossible for them to get up a fighting Issue In '1)2 la which the masses will be interested. They caunot do it with the tariff and they dare not attempt to do it with any thing else. Oue can "point with pride, and the other can rely on the moss backed fossils who "never voted any thing but the straight democratic ticket," but the people can plainly see tbat they are exactly the same breed of pups in different kennels. Time was when the appeals of such monopoly organs as the Bee to "farmers who have affiliated with the republican party" might have bad had some effect. That day Is past never to return. Farmers are thinking for themselves now a days, and such think ing can havo only one result. Before it these flimsy party ties melt into thin air, the true inwardness of tbe "public-be-damned" men who are "republicans in a republican district, democrats in a democratic district, but for monopoly all the time" becomes plainly apparent, and the thinkers conclude tbat their interests and the interests of theirchild ren are of more importance to them than that Brown, Jones or Robinson should vote the straight ticket. Dear Rosewater, can't you possibly set the day when you will begin to tell the truth and shame the devil. THE FIXAXCAL QUESII0X AT KAXSAS CITY. At the commercial congress just closed In K-insas City, Mr. Bryan proposed the following resolution, which was adopted almost without dissent: "Re sulted, Tbat it is the sense of this con gress that all legal money of tho United stales should bo made & full legal ten der for all tjebts, public and private.any conditio!! in tbe contract to the con trary notwithstanding; provided that this should not affect contracts already In existence." The Journal ot yestcrdav morning con tained the following editorial; "Ne braska's prido, young Mr. Bryan, sig nalized himself aud kindled a blaze of glory in the 'commercial' congress at Kanias City, by offering a resolution In favor of a law oi congress making all soils of money a legal tender for all sorts ot debts, contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Hi brethien In 'coin- werco' there atiembled naaned the ,.4oiuli0U, The eon.tilutlonal movl kiua tbal eogrM ,ball pat no law Im- ,lri0g , validity of contract had no validity In that convention. The Jvtt nal congratulate tne mercnaais aeiu - uir.ua K tnw i ny on tnnr nerve, me buduesa wan who th'.uk It would I good tor him to have law tm.tde revert- j iUtf lllilf.i-,.oairaeta. I a .tuniier. " lie j u t i,1m uwo after thrf k,rt - .... MBrrM ik.i r tauntf.! jC(,mmri, (( tlwv are, u hl du the 1 lmY pr h J-eiMa. editor nude a few ml juvawklrb he may rontdr ualmpor !UM WB,a ruitvted, Wat aim nolhlag te object la. II I Btt all t.1 ,. Lui all b.mi Tl, vvllli that It Ula iiolatlouol e - lr.i Kt4i lee rM'utka provided tgln pt Kh a d.ffU'ultj. He m hji that tee eesMtiteikiM kee 4 piu! lve prvkibttiag tvegrvM Imut pawfelei ! a law tavelidt:f a etiati. Kile II mi Immaterial l Ik 4iwuM tf Ul uuertlee at tbe tesviutWn tMtHi4eil , , , , . 7 alftady la lce, it mlgkl oairci i be well r U JvuHtl U knew tal that constitutional provision only af fects the states and not congress. Will the Journal give some good rea son why kjil tender money, which tke great mass of the people must necessa rily receive in payment of their debts, should be demonetized by contract. Contracting for a particular kind of money is a speculation in money, and if there is a difference betweentwo kinds of legal tender.and a contract for a par ticular kind is made, it directly tends to increase th difference between the two and to put the oue kind of money at a premium. The people of this country have suffered enough from this juggling of the money of- the country, and the congress only spoke the sentiments of the people of tbe great west when it said tbat further speculation in money must be stopped, and money that is good enough for a laborer and for the people generally, must also be good enough for the money-loaner and bond bolder. Call. XEW SECRETARIES OF THE BOARD OF TRAXSl'OR TATOX. On Monday morning last the board elected its new secretaries. These are J. W. Diiwortb. J. W. Johnson and JASPER N. KOONTZ, of Hayes. 8. M. Elder and Representative Gale were candidates. Wbat will Mr. Kiontz' constituents say now? Has this gentlemen resigned his seat In the senate? The Jeb. con stitutlon, Art. Ill, Sec. says: "No person holding office under the authori ty of the United State, or any lucra tive office under tbe authority of this state, shall be eligible to a' seat in the legislature." Tommy Boy Benton was elected chiiruian of the board, Commissioner Humphrey secretary; P. E. Bcardsley stenographer and clerk. THE TALKED OF SPECIAL SESSIOX. There is some talk of a special session, but tbere will be none. Tbe men who want It areboodlers who think they can work tbe legislature for some money making scheme, or they are dealers who hope to make money by selling supplies. Jimmy Boyd's employers, the railroad., don't want any special session. Should one be called there will be some vacan cies to fill. Senators Taylor aud Koontz's places are vacant. It I safe to say that men of tbeir calibre would not be sent here again. It is also safe to say there will be no special session at preseut. STATE NOTES. ' The Beckelman Ike says farmers In that locality will be planting corn this week. IA new independent paper is to be started at Crete, witn Mrs. t. M. vines, Jfoi formerly of Friend, at tbe bead of the Acnterprire f The Beaver City Timet say "the ver 1 diet of the Supreme press of Nebraska. is tbat Boyd is a foreigner (to the inter terests of tbe people.) True enouirh. H Bro. ' Challis also endorses Gen, Weaver for '1)2, and says: The Inde pendent party will sweep the state next fall like a whirlwind. It takes no prophet to foresee this. On Monday last a colored man fell from a seeoud story window of the Web ster block, Lincoln, and received injur ies which will probably prove fatal. He was standing on the window sill outside when the window he was clinging to fell outward. It is now demonstrated beyond doubt that the democratic and republican par ties are only side shows to the combine against the people and the best interest of the state and nation. They must meet this and no dodging It, in the fu ture campaigns to be mads in 1U1 and WM. Blair Republicans Col. I). R. Anthony, editor of the Learenuorth Timet, one of the oldest re publican papers of Kansas, has forsaken his old love and joined the independent party. He says the republican leader in Kansas are with the democrats, and that they are doomed, and that he is with the new party body, soul and breeches. In two years it will be difficult to Unci a man opposed to the election of United) States senators by direct vote of the people, and when the new idea is once adopted it will be still more difficult to lind a senator whose election Is tainted' by charges of bribery, a task which is now, alas, entirely too easy ,Ohioira Oh io'tan. The state officers of the Patrons of Toil in West Virginia, have issued a call; for a meetiug to be held at Mouudacilie on April 15th, for the purpose ofcouslder Ing the matter of effecting a union with, tho Farmers' Alliance. Everything 1 favorable for such action and the union will be satisfactorily accomplished. Hamilton County Register. Who Liberator of Falrbury, says of our pVoptml of (ien. Weaver for president In V.': "The above nomination wlli meet with the commendation of every Independent iu the west and south, lie i a man who has stood up for the rights of the nia-ue as agalust the cluoa e for many long years. lie wilt bu the choice ot the people In MJ." Repreeutatlve Smlurman was greatly surprUed a week agu Saturday bight by an invasion of his home by a rg iarty of Id neighbor. They congratulated and thanked him for hi faithful service In tha IcgUlature, aud proved their sin cerity I v presenting him wlthavplenditl Mtfo. Mr. Sodcrman responded In a happy vtlii, aud entertained hi friend 1 nixptuoiv. mxpitabiv. trover In t'uter emmty our editorUl : brethren are not of that agreeable dm. ltiou common la. little birue tu ai,..!. 't a. u i... their eet. 'the tallaway (r,i peak t lath untie tHiteutHirary a 1 r wild au wtui iu an amateur weed half a mile al ef tow u. wuh Ike aid ct a )u a kn l, a few font ut type and U. t ahe Marking PveahUal l'.tau June, uf the Tea Alliance, relied a (perial wwll4 a be held at Waco. Tax, ua Auril lliL l "' l Ailiaae AaaiiaJ U receive, the luceling i lebe wdu- 1 ,f wtti, AUiaace olr.rdiUI- I iveiuret rrvn toe and teuaty Aiiiseiwe ( in state I, I . tnguee, ef lieertia, wUt aJdr Ik meeting en the suWci vf ' I iiMiii1 lle Ilea. k. 1 Wo kkt it. Al t cearMiuaa l l freei twuth I atuiia a " islktUeul "llwrielrlliUe ft",'B: wl11 -' 4rUg whwk Unie pt fv( t aetrte ...i !,,. Alliv estwi,! will W dicu4aa4 MwuUi4 1 r A. AUlaovf r fvtwuLieii I