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Ta Axxiahci Pcbiishixo Co.
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la the beautv of tk Wile
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ThsU transfigures 70a end me.
A ha etrov te make men holy
Let strlv to maks them free.
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r clear to dseerU,
A4 ft to him who power exert.'
-A reASy 4rof of snanly blood
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-Cavto cuaoi rtuat it fool
Cava win aot reason I a coward,
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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ft",'B: wl11 -'
4rUg whwk Unie pt fv( t aetrte
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