Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, APR. 30 1891.
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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.
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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.
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It will be observed tfcftt in most cases
where there is any considerable increase
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purposes. In the case of the peniten
dary and the asylum at Hastings it is for
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THE MOODY SJJIRT.
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.
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