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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, APR. 30 1891. C: rV SUliaut f, rublisbed Bmy Saturday by Tra AuiAxci 1 bu.'JiLs.'j Co. O. Mth Bad SU.,U-w!n,JVb. Editor .Butlaeea Manager J.U.Vanawoa. 1 the beauty o( the UIHea . CVU was bom across th sea, TTi a glory in his bosom Tkat tnasfigures you and me. JU fca strove to make men holy Let ns strive to make them free, Can God U marching on." Julia Ward Hove. fMitl crowns ckave to deserts, tJ power to him wbo power exerts." ratty drop of manly blood Xfce anrxlnf sea outweigh" Emerson. Ca who cannot reason Is a fool, ' Cawko will not reason Is a coward, E who dare not reason l slave TO CORRESPONDENTS. tax a all bnalneas ooosmuntcallons to .JS'rpubllc.lto. to Mitt J. AltteoCW. rk namr Very long OMRS' rctuaaBD wiEExr at . 11TH AND M STREETS, mCCUl, REBRASKA. r.:i LEASIsTxDEPEKDENT Hflft 13 THE STATE. C:unCED AKD IMPROVED. J. E3E20WS, Editor. J. It. THOMPSON, Butineei Ma'gr. V greet our readers thM week wlta Tm ' A iuabcv enlarged to nearly doublet! Imrsa We intend to add to lu value ewtottalir .ee Buck at we have (o Us tie. rszxicKs. T Alliance one year and Looking Back ward pest paid.... II 60 Ditto and Labor and Capital by EcOocx 40 Ktto and Cicsar's Column v. 1 50 " Our Republican Mon archy by Venier Voldo ... 1 40 The above books for sale at this office Ktto and Cuablnf'i Manuel pa- par oven. ......1 80 Cloth covert ...............1 00 or seat post paid at follows; Looking Backward., ............50cts. CSsMara Column .McU. Labor and Capital. .....20cte. Oar Republican Monarchy .... .SScts. CaehiBf! Manuel paper covers. ,25cU. " " cloth " ...SOcts. Address. Alliance Pub. Co UncolnNeb. CTTbe County Alliance of Buffalo rounty net at Kearney on April 25th. There was a large attendance, and lm jportaat business was transacted. In terest ia the Alliance and its work is asAbatad in Buffalo county. CrTha B. 4 M. Journal bas an item eatirely explaining away Vanderbilt's cuts words, " the public be " Vanderbilt never said It. WelL the Journal is a proper apologist for aim. Wilt it now explain away its epithet of "hogs"appHod by It to the Lancaster Co. farmersf And while its about It include Its partnership with Koaewater, Boyd's veto and the share of the boodle it got in the late city elec tion. Come, Mr. G., make a clean breast of It. GTBoyd's basket Is full of republi can heads, notwithstanding he could not have got where ho is without repub lican kelp. Rosey squirms and protests all to no avail. He picked up Boyd last eummer between his thumb and nagerandset him in the governor's ckair.(with the aid of the supremo court and the railroads,) an alien pretender. He's trying now to wash the stink off from his hands, conjuring with lady Macbeth, "out damned spot," but the nasty odor remains. Now Boyd shows his gratitude by chopping off republi Heat heads, while he dare not sneeze for fear his own will fall. J KLT FROM THE COURT. Tom Majors intervenes. This In sig nificant. Tom Majors was bound in honor as well as by his personal pledge not to Intervene. He went into a vile eosabine with the democrats, one of the conditions being that he should be protected from the effects of the con tost aa far as his possession of the office ol Bemtoaaat governor was concerned, a4 aotlser condition being that the re vvUkaaa, Including Tom, should aid y4 la retaining the place of governor. Tons staving received bis share of the warrkim bow turns in to heln the court lota difficult position, and a, the sum time knock the other persimmon. The court does sot wUh to restore Thayer, and cannot retain Boyd. Tom's tatarraatloa leu It out. Did ho have a klal from the count Will kit intervea- tie. complicate matters and still longer rtalaf a teal settlement, Waving Boyd rjut mom raj us axu the vex- SfHMtiAU, Wakavtreoalved from several tub. ter'.Hr the tut of question at out by to rzt wie Mtrwaa at to lefts mortgagee. V r9 ae aam la aasverlac taeee r-'-'lk Wo turad r"uauil a. t ) rrj ta fern. Wt would like the t " ttvauitiea at to tarn ajort i r-iUfjM.atia mm aot fc ', . t i lJrf af C t C. bf f lit olso, m taa ca T : i U latwmattwa as to I i r '..z'.t KcJar aaUssj le thim, - ft rzxi tod with cni.e te v' J ly C kw Ti caaaot bo i jl c:',rl:tu h;BMclf, aod wsy re- oat:...;. a m TUE MOXOPOLY PXESS AXD FREE C0IXAGE. We clip the following from an edi torial In the Omaha Set of the 18th inst. on the silver question: . Tie aaouat which the treasury la required to purchase each fear under existfBs; laws will absorb tbt annual productloa at tha Bines of the United atates as tnej are now beinr worked, kd4 to this there Is no lonrer any serious objection bdrur made. Mor will there ever be aoy to a policy which limits the use ef silver in the currency to the output la our owa mines.' etc., etc. . Wo invite the attention of our read ore to the cunning manner in which the editor of the Bee says, without actually saying so, that the total purchase of sil ver goes into the currency. . A late number of the Lincoln Journal contains the following: "The silver question so far as free coinage le concerned. Is a dead Issue and nobody ex cept the belated alliance statesman troubles himself further about It for the reason that the expansion of the currency under the nil -ver coinage bill passed by the late republican coasress, snswers all the purposes of free coinage In that direction, and the feeling in the sllrerstntee hss subsided." These are fair samples of the state ments of the gold-bug press throughout the country. Never were statements more false and misleading. The silver law of July Utb, is a cunningly concocted scheme t continue the demonetization of sil ver, put a stop to its coinage and the issue of any currency upon it, and at the same time deceive and pacify the people who demand free coinage. We will briefly state Its leading provisions: Section 1 provides for the purchase of 4,'O0,j00 ouncet of filter bullion per month, if so much U offered, at its mar ket price, and the issue in payment there of of treasury notes of the United States. Section 3 provides that thooe notes shall bo received for customs, taxes and public dues, and when so received may be and that on demand the sec retary of the treasury may redeem such notes in gold or silrer coin at his discre tion. . Section 8 psovides that the secretary of the treasury shall each month coin two m ill ion ounces of the silrer bullion proiided for by this act into standard sitter dol lars, until the first day of July, IH'Jl, after which he need only coin so much as may be necessary te redeem the notts pro dded for by the act. Now carefully study the provisions of this bill as we have italicised them. The secretary must purchase 4,500,C00 ounces per month, if so much is offered, and Issue therefore treasury notes. Those notes may ba immediately re deemed in gold or silver, or silver cer tiorates, and re-issued. So, after the first month's purchases he need issue no additional note, those of the first month answering for the purchases of the sec ond, and so on. Of the silver purchased he must coin two million ounces per month until July 1, when be need coin only so much at be may need to redeem the notes issued. These being restricted in the way wo have named, silver coiu- age may cease altogether on July 1 . This is the bill as passed; and it is amazing that the senate which bad just voted for free and unlimited coinage by seventeen majority would accept such an emasculated affair. There is not a single section in the law of July Hth but what gives a discretion to the sec retary of the treasury by which he can destroy, degrade and dishonor silver. The treasury department has been packed against silver for the past dozen years. It is now within the power of that department to do exactly as we have indicated with silver, and we do not doubt that it will do it. So, instead of there being expansion by this law, there will be actual contraction. The monopoly editors whom we have quoted above know they are lying when they make such statements. CALHQUX, RAGAX AXD TBE DEMO CRATIC PARTY. Bro. Calhoun has a way of looking at things that robs misfortune of half its terrors. He refers to the democratic funeral which attorney Ragan has called at Hastings May 1st as follows: "A meeting of democrats to set the party right before the neopleon the Newberry bill has been ruled to meet at Hastings, May 1. lire'.'nern, let us remember the fate of those fellows who held a conven tion in Lincoln to reform the republican party lost May. To hold conventions for such a purpose would be just like a series of funerals that once occurred in Pennaylvaoia. A miner bad been blown to pieces by nitro glycerine, and when hit friends had collected a water bucket full of the remains they burled them with the usual imposing ceremonies. Shortly after an arm and a couple of ribs turned up, and after consultation It wai decided to give them organized se pulture. Still later a leg and the lower jaw were found, and although It began to be a little akward the mourners rv solved to continue to do the square thing, But when a mischievous medical student unloaded the least valuable portions of a couple of cadavers on them they re tired from their endeavor to do full jus tice to the deceased. Let us not, broth era, apioiut any pall bearers or other wise Djoukey with the ceremoules lucl- dint to the burial of the party till we are sura we have got It all together la one place. We are HablA to have strav counties turning up, one after another, for years to eome. i .i I..HU.H..JJI iiuiiwm KMX9M XIX TKK I HUSH ft Mi. No legislature ever assent bled la Neb raska tiver Wen aulld with more venomous slandvr lh has the t.M, ia segregate amount of Its tprorts tloas have bsea poleled at ae pro lug uttvSx! hhd that It fit etewtkUd iF eMeasw t (be state bay of It ntwde-v-essvrt, and the na who do tail ftrg to say that the ladlaa war. that VluwU aa World ':r, aal the r!i1 fur our vest era tlttaeot wtretpwlalroniiagea . wM way ver sgala atb la the hUory uf the state. Ibe following vab!e i.towt the d.lUr u' betwiB the apprvprUtlubt of Is and 1991 in the regular state expenses. It will be observed tfcftt in most cases where there is any considerable increase in 1601, it is for creditable or charitable purposes. In the case of the peniten dary and the asylum at Hastings it is for building. v r c 1 -i if e c w Ft KM. li T 5 Governor. Adj. General., Com. Labor Secretary State Auditor Treasurer. Plate 8upt Allorner-tien.. 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There are several ways of flying the ensanguined garment, and the most popular one at present seems to be the effort of the railroad machine organs like the Lincoln Journal to prove that the Alliance is a southern institution, got up by the democrats, and that the coming meeting at Cincinnati Is to turn the Alliance over body and soul to the democratic party. When the mectiog, as one of its first acts, adopts a resolu tion repudiating and denouncing both the old parties, and condemning any attempt at coalition with either la state or national politics, as it is sure to do, there will be a rude awakening from this bloody shirt dream. In the first place, theso monopoly or gans know very well that the conference, at Cincinnati is not an Alliance meeting. It was not called by Alliance men. It is to be a meeting ef all the disaffected political elements which believe that 'xith the old parties have outlived their usefulness, and that a new national party Is necessary. It will be pre-eminently a meeting of the people a meeting that will be simply amazing in its propor tions and its unanimity and the society or the leader that opposes the forma tion of a new people's party will be swept out of sight like an atom in a cyclone. The attempt to excite antagonism be tween the reformers of the south and the north to revive the hatreds of the rebellion to sow discord in' order to reap ruin will prove puerile and futile. It will have no effect. The people, north aud south, have relinquished the bloody shirt as an argument. They have left it in the hands of the monopolists and plutocrats, the demagogues and politi cians, whose end Is plunder and whose motto is "rule or ruin." The people are coming together; and there is no better proof of it than the attack by the monopoly organs all along the line. AX SCRUPULOUS LIAR. The following is the closing part of an editorial abusing the Alliance, which was in the ff. $ M. Journal of last Sun day.; "And this reminds the Journal that Boss Burrows and Grandpa Powers sad dled the sub-treasury scheme on the northern Alliance, just as It was about to adjourn at its lost meeting, nnd after a majority of tho members had left for home notwithstanding It was voted down when the platform was up for discussion. It stands now as a caadinal principle of the organization in this state. What will the sensible farmers of Nebraska do with it? Are they go ing to swallow anything that is put down their throats with an otlicial spoon?" No more unscrupulous liar than he who edits the Journal ever disgraced the profession of journalism. Mulhattan, sane or insane, drunk or sober, is an innoeent kid compared to him. First, .the sub-treasury scheme was not endorsed by the National Alliance, either directly or indirectly, or lu any other mauner. Sccoud, Mr. Burrows was not present at the Omaha meeting only the first day. Third, Mr. Burrows has from the start repudiated and opposed the sub treasury scheme as visionary, Imoracli cable and unwise, as the Journal man well knows. The item quoted above is simply willful malicious lying, for the sole purpose of bringing dis credit upon the Alliance. AS TO THE COXFERERCE. Bro. Vincent of the .1 on-Conformist of Wlnfleld, Kan., has had charge of the matter of transportation for delegates from Kausas, aud Nebraska tlclfgatea were Invited to join the Kansas crowd, la bis but issue he says: "Every mail bring numerous inqui ries aliqut rates, lime of starting, aud endless partU ulart. At this writing we are waiting on advices from the pamen grr aMorialkius. Aa effort is being made to secure one fare rate on ail road east of Kaunas ( 'tty, and one and oue third this side, full and complete statements will appear at the very earliest date. Be patient." "Aa we eloao forms Capt. Power tl graphs rtqueat for all dlrgtes to tor ward names uad P. 41 addre to him asfcwa MalevUd. This la important, and will cut a prominent ligure la m curing comtxwlou from th various litoi jrtrl ' t r."ni i pmi ... m IWTbe Kansas Oty $vn was Ike pa per that pubW.Ued It tile article by AL JUaa m our WglUture, ard the alaoder 0 Mr. C'pl4tl KUbt of N braika City, and Bot tie at we rroufously stated last wtdk, By the way, tfeU Al. .'4uls oae of lUwwa'.er's pupils, hailei grtduatsd from tHe Kh editorial rotu CHURCH HOWE AS A LEGISLATOR. BUDS THAT NEVER BLOOMED It Is Suspected that Tom Majors Inter vetted. Church Howe, as is quite well-known, was a. member of the late legislatuie. He introduced some very good bills. This is not surprising, lie is a very sharp man, and knows a good thing when be sees it. This is proved by his advertisement in The Fabmers' Al luxce. Mr. Howe doesn't let political prejudices interfere with business. He knows The Fasmers' Alluxce is the best advertising medium in all the west, so he advertises his line stud of tan dard bred trotting horses in it. " (And by the way, Mr. Howe has one of the finest breeding farms in the state, with beautiful barns for stalling over ninety bead of horses, as well as some of the finest standard bred stallions and mares in the country. He hasn't paid us any thing for this editorial puff but we are always liberal to our patrons.) And now to return to our knitting we bsre secured, without much trouble and ex pense, a full list of all the bills intro duced by Mr, Howe, and have found out just what became of them. The following it the list in full: BILLS ISTBOnL'CED BV BCnf'M HOWE. House Boll. No. 1. Problbltlcs underval uation of property for taxation. ' Houe Hoil No. i. Allowing parties to re move proieriy from counties or state upon whic'4 there Is a chattel mortgage, provided usurious intert'tt h i n taken. House koll No. U. T..ipr.- rsmbllne in farm products, buying and .t-i.l'-r options. Mouse noil no. . inning Mortgagee on real estate. House Moll No. 6. Allowlni- sunervlior tn work not exoceding Bay dollars yearly on roads (district) in place of thirty dollars, prett-nt law. House Boll No. 6. All saloon licenses paid into the county school fund. House Boll Mo. 7. Allowing nerminent school funds to be Invented in school dittrict Donas ana nrtt mortgage on improved farm land at one-third their value In addition to nreecnt law investing these tunda la rov. eminent, state and county bon li. House Koll No. III. State to lurnith uniform text books printed by the state at cost to the school district of tbe state. House Boll No. ti. Forfeiting both princi pal snd interest where usurious interest is taken. House Boll No. 18. Prohibiting men to set i detectives wbo are not citizens of tbe state. House Roll No. 31. One hundred thousand dollars bond, for aid. House Koll No. ii4. Providing penalty for voting Illegally In village or precinct elec tions. House Koll No. Divorce and alimony for permanent insanity. Tbe following bills pawed the house and were killed In tbe senate: Houe Holla Noa. 3, n, 1M, tt, 7. 8K4, . Tbe following Dim were killed In tbe Housei Houte Koll a Not. I and 2. Tbe following bills were killed In commit tee: House Bolls Not. u, 4, 13 and Zi. There is an amazing fact about this. There are just thirteen bills. How Church Howe could have been no blind as to bit this unlucky number, with Tom Majors president of the senate, tills us with special wonder. He might have made.it fourteen by introducing a bill regulating the relations of the members and tbe lady employes, or an anti-tight bill; or made it twelve by dropping any one of the bills he did introduce, and have waved Tom a little trouble. Any thing, in fact, to get away from that horribly fatal number or to gel away from Tom which? For, sad as it may seem, not a bill was passed. Tbe list above is a melan choly record of blasted hopes. Think of it not a tingle bill! Of course, when Church's bills got into the senate Tom had easy work. A wink here and there, a killing reference aud tbe thing was done. But to think that be would nose around in the com mittees and knock Howe's bills on the head as he hits a runt when he's sortirg pigs down on his Nemaha farm. It's just too utterly, utterly bad for any thing so, there! There is a lesson ia this thing for Ne maha voters. It you must send Tom and Church up here, just give them turn about. Two affirmatives make a negative. They are both great states men. I hey are bound to shine, for a while, sometime in the future, if the words of holy writ are true. But in tho same legislature at the same time they neutralize each other. They don't mix worth a cent. JUDGE f.i.VER AXD THE SIY.OCES. Since our last issue in which we pub lished tbe resolutions of the Valley County Alliance, and our appeal to the judges not to issue decrees of foreclo sure, Judge Hamer has made a decision refusing to confirm a large batch of mortgage sales which bad been made by order of his court. We learn that when default has been made on a mort gage, and foreclosure suit is brought, the court must issue a decree of fore closure. If all proceedings are regular. But, though a sale is made under such decree title does not pass and the sher iff does not give hit deed until the sale bas been confirmed by the court issuing the decree. There Is a law In this state requiring that real estate sold under mortgage shall bring at leat two-thirds of its valuu. A tide from this we think the judge has a dWcretion to confirm ing a sale which may be exercised if circumstances seem to require It. Judge Hamer, In refusing to court mi about a buudivd sales, said; "This docket Is covered, page upon page, with confirmation raw. The last summer's drought has hauted the farmer' reouivf t and he is unable to pay the Interest upon his loans. The art of Uod, for which the people are not responsible, has reduced ore half of them to almost beggary, and this ra Ptuilty shall aot be mad a orta by any act of mine. We are asked to turn one hundred farms over to money Icmltrs, and live hundred womea and children inerlopaupetl.ni Ji abail nevev be ihiiir., ia tblt dUlrbt. whi'e I am JtHt,t. The people are pot able io pay, and I will ant aula la thair being rubbed. Let MktU until croft caa I raUrd and roBildeooe ivstored, and ail wilt eon out right. If fttaa U thing ea hit land or living off of It, he thould t lie the rw vd of kit wit. I will ar coftjnn tale la Uom like ilit, If (be owner is trying to make a living on tbe land. When the people are compelled to ask aid to procure seed it would be cruel mockery to deprive them of land to sow the seed upon. I have a right to refuse to confirm a sale when the property sold does not bring two-thirds Its actual value, and in these cases it has not brought that amount. Tbe sale is not confirmed." "WHO IS TO BLi.VEf' The above is the caption of an edito rial in the Bee of the 23d, of which the following ia the first sentence: -"Who Is te blame for tbe failure of the Nebraska legislature to enact any measures of relief that were promised to the people during tbe last campaign?" The whole article is in keeping with the opening sentence. It is a vile slan der upon the legislature. We do not care, nor hare we the space, to contra dict it in detail. But we defy Mr. Rose water to show any legislature that ever assembled in the state that accomplished so much good work for the people as did the one of the past winter. The Bee is simply poison on anything that has a trace of prohibition. But it found a dispatch signed by H. C. Bitten bender, and gloats over it. It is as fol lows: NEBRASKA'S REFORM I.EfilSLATI'KR. Likcolxi, Neb., April 7. Special Dispatch. The Nebraska legislature adjourned Bun day morning at 4 o'clock. The closing scenes were a disgrace. Drunkenness, buffoonery and wauton destruction of state prop erty were tbe order of the night. The hour agreed upon for adjournment was 16 o'clock Saturday night. From that time on it was a gabble. Liquors were on tap free at va rious roomt in the capilol building. Tbe "re form" party Is no better than the old. H. C. BlTTKBBEMOEB. The above dispatch is essentially mis leading. We were personally present in tbe bouse until a very late hour. Up to that time there was no disorder, and nothing unseemly had taken place. The idea of holding the independents re sponsible for any disorder in a legisla ture in which they had a very thin ma jority is new and original. There were enough moss backed democrats and bourbon republicans to havo raised enough for the whole state. We know of only one Independent member who was addicted to the use of spirits. If "liquors were on tap free at various rooms," they were either the rooms of republican executive officers, the im ported governor's office, or the rooms of some of his democratic appointees. The last sentence of the dispatch is a gratuitous and unjust insult to the inde pendent party. Kosewater and Bitten- bender yoked together to abuse the in dependents is a refreshing spectacle. ' RAILROAD ATTORNEY QXCQRI'QR ATIOXS. We learn from the Council Bluffs Xonpariel that Judge N. M. Hubbard, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, made a remark able speech at a late banquet in Council Bluff. His subject was "corporation?." and be handled it with a fearlessness that is born of a conviction which springs from a thorough and exhaustive exami nation from his point of view. He re gards private corporations a the cause of tbe feverish condition of the body politic, and his remedy for the patient is instant death to the corporate microbe which has found legal lodgement in the system. In other words he would abol ish at once all private corporations which he declares represent the syndicated wealth of the country owned and com bined by tbe few against the individual labor of a vast majority of the people. Judge Hubbard was formerly, and perhaps is now, the general attorney of the Northwestern railroad. He is a man of much ability, and has had special op portunities to study this subjeet. But he is not by any means the first able man who has come to accept the view taken by him at Council Bluffs. There is no doubt whatever that the combina tion of private corporations which is going forward against the instincts of public sentiment threatens in an alarm ing degree free government and the su premacy of the people. The events of the past winter in this state well illus trates the dominance of corporations in civil affairs. Judge Hubbard is right in saying that this power must be destroy ed, and if it is necessary to that end the corporation? must be destroyed. But there is only one way to destroy them. They must be absorbed by tbe govern ment. The public functions which have lieen delegated to them must bo resum ed by the people. Gas, electricity, wa ter, must be furnished by the muncipali ties; the railroads and telegraphs must be operated by the general government at the post-office now is, the control of the mout-y of the nation, in all lu branch es, must be taken from the hands of cor porations and placed where it belongs, In the hands of the government. All these things could be soon and safely doue at a great saving to the nation were It not for one thing, the opposition of the corporations themselves. But we are working in that direction, and unless the world turns backward we will turely get there. XEXT FALL'S ELECriOXS. We do not recall the exact date, and It doesn't matter, but sometime during the past year this paper made a few In Icy remarks to the rttect that the al liance fellow t would this fall go after the county otltcrt all over the state with a vim that would paralyse the fellows who now hold Vtu And now comes the Farmers' AHiun and gives It out cold aud flat that such Is the programme. it also eitti instrdciioot how to do it. The sturdy farmer Is la earart, and If he ran only smother his liouv he wilt gut the portninoos off mighty otar every tree la the Mate. Kvra in Ut carter It would ouly lake a fww hundred dcuKicrats in tbe way ol reinforcements to turn out the haughty rvpuulUans it om ire won fiouae, jtsil It Is )naj. ! thai Ifce aU(an might b bad. Let us have a lilt la fun at a Ilium tuwanlt the rataatrnpLe that awaits tit sum aw alcag doa ike tOAd.Jia We would quietly remark lo bro. Cab bona that the tuxlter It likely to m will I'HAed Aiu-r u LatHur euuaty, WkvBtBtwadnf Bl'tltiieu,t atta tba Tut I'iKatM' AUMtt'K. THEXEW YORI M7TXESS AXD THE - ALLIAXCE. Our attention has been called to an editorial in the New York Witness which needs correction. The article is entitled "a good purpose nnwiely pursued." The writer has many flattering words for the Alliance, after which he sets up a purely imaginary bug-bear, and then proceeds to utterly demolish the fine structure upon which he had been lavish ing honied words. Tbe bug-bear is the supposed secret horrid blood-curdling oath. The Mil nest portrays its hqbgob lin in the following terms: "But by far the worst feature of tbe Farm ers' Alliauoe movement and one which stamps it at once as the work of demagogues of the moat aangerout claaa. is the fact that it ee mands an oath of Bdelity to IU dictates. No man who bas any true ideal of the dignity of manhood in bit mind could taketucfa an oath either to tbe Farmer' Alliance or to any other boi.y at men whatsoever. Why, tbe very worat feature of the Jesuit order, and that which made it so dangerous to any communi ty in which it attained a foothold that it was banlahed from ail Boman Catholic eountriet, and atmateuppreseed by one of tbe popes, was Jutt tbl that tbe members were com pelled to take a vow of unqualified obedience," etc.. etc. We have so often met this vile charge and refuted it, thst its malicious repeti tion makes us tired. The Witness is a religious paper, and the editor of such a paper ought to be sure of his facts or keep silent. Stating as facts injurious reports like tbe above without knowing they are facts is very near kin to lying As a matter of fact tiiere are no oaths whatever in the Alliance; and there is no secrecy except some innocent signs and signals by which members may be identified, and a password for the pur pose of excluding persons not members from tbe meetings. All tbe objects of the Alliance are published to tbe world in its constitution, which Is free to ev erybody, and in tbe columns of its ac credited organs. When a member joins he signs the constitution and pledges his word of honor to promote those ob jects, so far as they do not conflict with bis political or religious convictions. That is all. The most unspotted saiut that ever wept for the sins of men might take that obligation and not have the lightest shadow obscure the sunshine of bis conscience. We hope the Witness will correct. A CATHOLIC PRIEST TELLS SO.VE TRUTHS. Father Huntington of New York has been speaking to the people of Toronto upon " Religion and the Single Tax." "National wealth," be said, "does not consist in dollars, but in the existence of full-breathed, bright-eyed, clear-com plex ioned men and women. In Ameri ca for 100 years they have been living in a fool's paradise, fancying that they had an ideal government. We are fond of calling America 'the land of the free and the home of the brave,' but we are getting disillusioned, and the 4 land of the rich and tbe home of the slave' will be nearer the truth. , There are mil lions of men who are tramping tbe streets and roads looking anxiously for work. Skilled mechanics and men well educated in the professions were even praying for positions upon the street cars or as book agents. One one-hundredth of the people ef the United States owned half the wealth of the nation." JIM BOYD TO THE TURKEY CREEK ALLIAXCE 760. ' Boyd has published a letter in reply to the resolutions of Turkey Creek Al liance condemning his veto. It is as weak a letter as ever issued from an ex ecutive office. Even the railroad Jour nal, his staunchest supporter, prints it with a small heading and no notice. He first appeals to the purity of his motives. The public bos only his own word for that, and that is not good se curity. Ho then ssfys the maximum rate bill "would have ruined every railroad in the state." That is vile rot. The bill only applied to local rates, reducing them 20 to 40 per cent. The companies have stated repeatedly that their local business was only 10 or 12 per cent of the total. But Jim Boyd, their special advocate, says they would all be ruined by a reduction that amounts by their own showing to only about 2 to 4 per cent on their total business. i, j ,. noj-u says ne is noi an alien, Dut a naturalized citizen of the United States He was not a naturalized citizen last November. He says he has "taken an oath to support the constitution ot tbe United States more than a dozen times." A thousand times would not better it. It is notorious that he is not true to his vows. He says he had two brothers in the i i i . war who uoienueu meir couutry as bravely as any who entered the service, "aud I did a tittle in that reaped myself." This Is irresistible en the veto question. Mr. Boyd understands economlo laws, and steps in the breach to rescue the corporations from the people, and save the state from a great calamity, and offers in justification that be had two brave brothers in the war. Artemus Ward said tbe rebellion must lie put down If It took all his tirst wife's rela tion. Boyd's bravery 1 not io ques tion. He proved that when he clubbed tbe man who asked him to pay for the pig he stole. But his right to use a questionable power like tbe veto In favor ol the men whose creature he Is -his right to set himself tip at a dicta tor to aa overwhelming majority of the people's representatives sent here to do the very thing he mid they should not do. It strenuously denied. THE MXAXIXti OF "HiSUAH DIRECT TO THE JfEOnE." Many gold bug papers are ridiculing the above phra, and trying to ooo vluce their rvadvrs that the mousy re fonunrs wbo hate uamt la thtir da elaratbioa mean by It that tfcry ask tl to niitko Mty and lasue It grttoltoualy to private rltlioaa, aa strange at this Matnnteitt may tppetl Tbe term alru,.l meant thai tbe av. eminent ia rvquttt to Uw km pay without the latervtallca of baak, or private evipoMtlout. Ia the of cola money ihlt would le easy eaotigh wre the coltj of gold and aitr free and unlimited. If that were the case the owner of bullion would simply present it at the mint and it would be coined and returned to him. But re strictions being put upon tho coinage of silver makes tbe process of putting silver corn or its equivalent In circula tion more complicated. In the case of legal tender treasury notes if they were honestly issued for what they really are, as were tho first tGO, 000, 000 issued, there would be no more difficulty than with coin. They would be paid out for government debt as they should be. But the theory that all money must be coin money compli cates these issues. Tbe reformers of to day recognize only two kinds of money, coin and treasury notes. They ask that banks of issue shall be discontinued, and that all money be issued by the gov ernment alone "direct to the people." ODELL'S RESTAURAXT. This popular restaurant has been re moved to Brown Bro's Block, 1228 street. Its obliging proprietor will be found at tbe new stand ready to regale the hungry with the best viands the market affords at the lowest prices. GOOD XURSERY STOCK. Bro. W, F. Wright is in the city with a good assortment of first class nursery stock from his nursery in Nemaha Co. He is closing out at very low prices. He has a specially line lot of evergreen in first class condition. Remember, fruit trees can be successfully planted up to the first of June. This fine op portunity should not be neglected by Lancaster farmers. George E. Lawrence, Lecturer National Farmers' Alliance. At the recent meeting of the National Farmers Alliance at Omaha, Neb., Mr. Geo. E. Lawrence was elected to the re sponsible position of national lecturer. A new movement necesarily brings new men to the front, and the people naturally desire to know wbo and what they are. Mr. Lawrence is a Buckeye. He was born in Marion county, August 25, 1845. He was brought up on a farm, went to district school, and went to tbe Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, taught in tbe public schools near his home with marked success, and was married to Miss Josephine T. Bartlett, of Morrow county, in 1887. They set tled in Kansas, where he joined the Grange, and helped organize the State Grange at Lawrence. In 1875 he sold his farm in Kansas and returned to Ma rion county, Ohio, and purchased tbe farm on which he now resides. He has been au otlicial in the M. E Church for twenty -three years. He assisted in organizing the farmers' institute in bis county and has attended every session since, and early identified himself with the Alliance movement. The news of his election as national lecturer came wholly unexpected, and it was with great hesitation and re luctance that he accepted. Having ac cepted however he will do bis duty, and no man in the organization will labor more zealously and conscientously. He is a model farmer, not rich, for he hasn't time to bt rich. He has devoted much time and effort In behalf of tbe puunc, ana in tne present movement or tne refief of deoressed agriculture he has been foremost in exposing cor ruption and oppieesive laws and advo cating the rights of the masses. Ha is a man of culture, prudence and sobriety, and his counsel is sought for and val ued. In organization and parliamentary work he has few superiors. He believes in the office seeking the man. Ho has always been prompt in attending pri maries and conventions of bis party, but supports only good men, denounc ing in no uncertain terms all dema gogues " and politicians of whatever name or party. He stands up squarely for reform, party considerations having no weight. We prediot that he will pursue a wise and prudent course as lecturer of the National Alliance, and will prove to be the rignt man in the right plade. Ohio Farmer, Cleieland, Ohio. f How the Personal Property Tax Works, The folloping item was clipped from the San Francisco Chronicle of Feb. 27: Very recently several million dollars of certificates were received at the sub treasury in this city, but they have all disappeared. The cause of the sudden demand for government notes lies in the fact that on Monday next the state and municipal assessments will be levied, and the banks are anxious to get rid of their money "on hand." Within the past week the sub-treasury has re ceived over 13,000.000 in gold from the banks, giving notes in exchange not subject to taxation. In round figures the amount of money which will escape taxation by this artilice will not be less than 15,000,000. The state and county will lose 1100,000 in taxes. Having been an employe of the asses sor's office for some years past, and hav ing had access to all statements tiled, 1 am in a positiou to vouch for the truth fulness and accuracy of the above ar ticle. Tbe assessment lawt of this state pro vide that a sworn statement of all per sonal property in one's possession at li o'clock on the tirst Monday of March in each year, shall be made and tiled with tho as-KMuor of each county; and every year, at just about the aforementioned lime, all our banking institutions find it convenient, aud. fdare lay deem it proper aud in keeping with the princi ples of good government, to ton veil their money into government nota, aud thereby escape taxation. Not oulv It till practice carried out by our bank ing firms, but our largo mercantile bourn's, wholesale and retail, consider it to their Interest to deposit In bank all their money ou hand, I hut shifting their responsibility and foctlug aaaiired at tho same time that the banks wilt not be caught oapplog. While our miutt are running to their full capacity, and placing lo ctioulatioo vast amount of money, yet It la a blat ter of record iWm Aaiwaaor'a IVraoaal I'm;, my Moll) that the amount .f "money oa band" grow a beautiful! v lea yaarly. ia ttriking contra! to this ualuab etatUii of thw law by the iW tho poorer and middle eW mm furved, under penalty of the law. lo Ma a sworn tutem in, Mtla forth all their aarlhly poMaatum, and are clly and rig Miy u,tu allotted relative lo the taau of ihely beUiegingt, aa4 should the bawmoi la dim!4 at to Iht niwut of an a(bd. be fonuwKa seuila hie deputy a sua.itini ami arbitrarily a tho unfortunate luUUidavl. In thlt man ner la the law vludWuLtd, What a bowling far twaa tVi Is, nd.L rrtatUtu, Cal. 1 i 1 x