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About The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1891)
TRE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY JUNE 25, 1891. ' A Itetninacence. Zr Famum Auuicii , Qnj aVr. Ue A1X ana 8unwt. ' I ItMrtiM MMfM bkely 5 leMlesrtl ,'ooal, Jlmj-Sont tret, Casalsv with swots saw yon. XvCeWaawBoory-vho thougbt twoald "'" -Taa wwes tteeful sconce and boore oat 6ovor rowers. raron ftU in abowers. eorporete. supreme, - Iba-ywa. awabeor la areata. IMlkt vbey aaa tae elbva th nM bSS) CBAGM-eas net M felrt ".Ti beswlaa to otBeeo and Gov'Dor Ttaref, , Ik, ooster wiibout reur "approre AJerw, taha year aaasoeet iportln cbair- Ease M aloft la th eCeeoea summer air. .stsalaweMBeser. and ro oa an old tima MM tka rosvW have sadden tiiratt icmuai) gets what be earns. trews than frown, grlmma aai ta take roarself aad chair to tha Osiabas, to bur Mielena ana aomoer X yew eetoed tha people's long needed bryowaanKiaatathclr fallen chief to m ba'a dead and smells for tha gravei iwril bost'Ibe ousttr' baa o'ar ukao war brave," Mom ywtwswrty's fall your aided, enjoyed - tow tha shameless sbyster, i taa arlf tame court bsv voided- awtd. Aa new foa'ra ia a bad boat and moat alone j fkenffc Do-apubllcaisdld fuse, endorse, Bat fi their soepegoat are going-alone. Thai nam 'U oome after-snd never jrou Their dnet'll be too la and imall to And. Tha wberrr Bill l Bfiindrr-conUBuet to 4teo!!f vet fraud, return! war frauda parties marrr; tbe AUec atrrlle corporate tool-cannot tarty. lapartr (old, bis honor gold, hit future aoarrjr. If yea are ax lag "here t ycurssule;" Am end to Allen away and rule ! Who'd fool thoataatea all, himatira tha fooL i D. McCaia, Ord, Meb, Cls3 It Linger Vmn taa I'snntry AkBMUr Wm. If. MewarU Caatiacttoa and Mora Money, Ha Says, WiU ba tha Live Iaaua of tb Mast Campaign, attWattdartoa,D. C. sta International agreeemnt for free abotaafa Ii neither Decenary nor deslra bla. Prior to the combination of the U ailed State and Europe to demone thn silver, taeb sovereign nation pro r."l ff Us people tuch colu or such " Z rt czz.- as It deemed beat , suited U C-Jt wast. Ha eoia waa either fold er alhrer, or both. When sufficient me' tale money could not be obtained, tbe , tlsSoiancj waa supplied with paper, Gnat Eritala used goldi Germany, Aus tria, Collaad, India and other Aslatlo eowntries adhered to silver, while the Lsttia Union and the United State used both gold aad silver aa money. So long as each natioa Uiued money of such ma terial and la euoh quantities as beet salted the wants of its people without International agreement, trusts or com hi nations, a parity In value existed be tween gold and silver, at about 15 of silver to one of gold. This illustrates the lienefitt of home rule In finance as well as In local self-government. Cora jneroe was free and untrammelled by tl restraints of the gold combination or trust which was formed between the Uaited States and Europe when sliver " "was demonetised. The trust then farmed controls the money of the world, molds financial legislation, compels pay aaent of obligations payable in either gold, silver or paper, in gold alone, and prod noes a monetary famine which exhausting the life-blood of civilization Tha gold monometalists insist that tide trust shall continue until a more formidable combination can be entered lato by international agreement. Tbe proposed combination would deprive every sovereign nation of the freedom "of action formerly enjoyed In supplying ita people with money, if the exchange of tb money of one country for the saoaey of another were international curmeree, some reason would exlit for unification of the money of all na tioaa. But such commerce would be fnttUsam. Th Auvrk-aa who tu!d tlOO in Kog land aad received 1100 la payment would gala nothing by the transaction, latanatloaai cocumerc eoaabts ia the rat;e at the products of one coun try fwiao of another. No country ana aajtsiaae all the commodltUs whit H Msaaasue, but every propr?ua p. ( t' fswd11 n surplus of antue coiuiu . 4JL which van b e&cbaitgmt lor the f79Tnn f other eouatrWa. The oaly ara Uat meaay baa ia tttber foreign or aUaeatb eoaimere I as a ruraure r eauaSsr la facUaaU laa leiervhe ol rrrvty. luoalf value U iu puer la aacaaaga. la alu ol tb Ruaey i aayeuaa try ta awNuurwd by tie Mircaaibg power t V&at emiatry. It ta tabaWe at hotue i tsai abroad accurals to its power in , ewaaajs al torn. M that U ia aece any M a lmef, wh U akul ta t?xM baiuwees ia this twttairy, to I steal aMHNHratag our money ta wbat U I a -Feiag pwwor ta h I ailed - at (aar wIm 4al u et.'haar, ...-") U kaWifatf is Miib.e ;f ai f at t er aaitoa, - i s?:ti the sxoaty ol m vta ? t . 4 laa MMf, al tlvtatiwtbe t r i m ta at(May vt vumttmutf, , J tvM aay tm H!d. tUvtf r I 4 ba rNird t enaV ia . jx iti at mm btuuey m ' it ik baeW-djf al ;ti m t rUii tu V CS ft 4 aiiar In tied "-" ' i ba'aamM . 1 1 etbaaf rnttt . . - ttt.wiiM ea t - -y ! aay iri ba aay tk""'l a rMnt,.Bti.ia W .!u .r4'.ke atatse la use gold alone for the pretended pur pose of facilitating the export of our cir culating Jiediumt Self-preservation demands that we shall purchas no more foreign products than we can pay for by aa exchanaw of our own surplus production. Any country which is compelled to export iu money to bay foreign Sjvoaa wui boob cumo vo g' If we should continue to purchsse for eign commodities to the same extent as we nave done heretofore, ana snouia mv for them in monev and not In com modities, every dollar of tbe money of tha United states would b exportea tn less than two years. A silent balance of trade requiring tha export of gold creates alarm. Countries whose circulating medium does not consist of a materiaTwhioh can be converted into the money of other countries are protected against the loss of their money by export. Why should tbey not nave this protection 7 vtoy should we use gold for tbe sole purpose of affording foreigners an opportunity to export our money r If we can have plenty of money, our production of wealth will be enormous, and the bal ance ol trade In our favor will be in creased. Wbv arfue that It is necessary to have gold money for export to pay foreign balances waen sucn oaiaoces are eeuicu bv a well established system of exchange, and when no adverse balance of trade could possibly exist if our people were supplied with money. If importers bny more foreign gooos man can oe vara for In commodities, let foreign creditors wait for payment or refuse credit. Money Is not a commodity for export, but an instrument of exchange to do used at home in the production of wealth. While foreign trade, ss before stated, is regulated by a system of exchanges, and not embarrassed by the particular kind of money used by the different na tions, domcstlo trade and commerce de pend upon tbe volume of money at home. The best money for home con sumption Is that which will produce the most weaitn ana secure tne greatest aeneral prosperity. Tbe false assump tion that dear money Is the best money sometimes deceives intelligent people; but such assumption will not bear In vestigation, 'i'bo value of money de pends upon the law of supply and demand. Tbe less tbe supply, the de mand remaining the same, the dearer each dollar or unit of money win oe. If tbe quantity of money in this country were reduced to cue-fourth of its present volume, tne value oi eacn dollar would be immensely increased. while tne wages of labor ana tne price of property would be correspondingly reduced. No one will deny that such a result would beausstrous. ine reaucea volume of money might be good for the persons who possessed it, but it would be ruinous to the prosperity of the country. It would not be good money for the people, because by Its possession the few would enslave tbe many. When money Is plenty wealth Is rap- Idly produced, and the wants of the neoDle are supplied. An adequate vol ume of money in any country produces tbe greatest weaitn, anu, measurea oy the good it performs.it is tbe best mon ey, in other woras when mere is an insufficient supply it Is bad money, be cause it is an instrument of oppression and wrong; but when the supply is ad equate it is good money, because it pro duces prosperity. Since silver was demonetized and srold regarded as tbe only money of re demption, the quantity of gold cola has net materially increasea. Many statis ticians think there is less gold now used as money in Europe ana America than then was In 1873, and that the entire product of the mines has been employed for non-monetary purposes However that msv be it must be ad mitted that there is not gold enough for use as money; that the vast fabric of credit in the commercial world depend' in, upon sold for psyment or redemp tlon must do restricted and the volume of business reduced to' correspond with the decreasino! suddiv oi sola, it can not be denied that the gold standard means contraction, low prices, stnena tion and want. The monometallists suggest no remedy for these evils, but insist that tney must oe enaureu ana the people deprived of money because other commercial nations adhere to the gold standard. Why should we be compelled to do as Europe does? How are we benefitted by remaining In the gold combination! Our English cousins indulged in cx ti avneant speculation in South America and incurred gold obligations which were heavier than they could bear. The demand for gold upon the great house of the Barings shook the financial credit of the commercial world. The people of the United States, haviug been forced by the demonetization of silver into the gold combination with Europe, were compelled to sustain their Knelinhcotis ins by a liberal contribution of the gold reserves of ibis country, wnicn were al ready inadequate for the business and credit of the United States. The gold partnership with Europe is unprofitable, and has been disastrous. Let it be dis solved: lot the United btates mate declaration of financial independence Silver has been used as money much longer than gold. It is now exclusively utea tor mat purpose ny at least inree fourths of the people of the world. It hss the same iudestruclible qualities as gold, it Is more convenient for moue tarv uses. and. besides, it is tbe money of the people. Neither the people of r.uroixj nor America were conauueu when silver was demonetized. The governmental action which rejected the white metal as money tn the in; tod States and Europe was secured by strut egy or fraud. The people of iihls coun trv now demand the unconditional re storalton of silver, Ere coinage of silver mav not accomplish ail that t de sired. It in ay uot furnish sutlUnent money, but it will be a step In advance, and if the mines continue productive it may accomulUb ail that will be needed ia supplying a circulating medium for an Indefinite time, The money queeiloa is th most lm pwitaut subject now agitating tbe pub lie mind. It cannot be uWured by sopbiatry or utenbsduwed by aonti- nental qiictloas. MUer men oa tbe gold standard are wuUes in sheep luitkittg. Tbey are the wont ad4 auwcaiia:ltu II we are ta bate tb P-t.l standard, there Is no us lr nlver etir lul as ft khI and muro cjuvsu leal. W s tuuH bate sitter as nHey i redeutptloa t.iuaiiy w Ub gw!. 1 be b ul tiotlil la nut satatfvd vf usin siher as credit money rodeeutabio i gold t be pep.e undrU4 Ibis -luee !) better laa tbo poiittfiaas. It Hit IW IM SWM W.lBWSMt busts l nu ie ii, e.ions to uwotte, I neew I tuna tl soubmrv aa4 tul.eau - tut i. w bicb tbe.f bate Inaugurated 111 Wbwa Ibe tail a sduoaiKKial tai pta, will tut k Mttttem to gM aMHiJ'Ue- tin lbs uktftiv. It til pfwivae dlstiMit and MwU-u Tbe g44 ataaxUld lMtMtlsbe tbe tsaeews and defines tbe at 1 M et-pwf" mti to anne weV-ia ll mti Ibe vt Ibe run in f U (be bauds I a few a4 dent l tbe MrpU its itbwul wbte. wealth eaaavn b ..ir 4- ti Makes Mnaey 4er tie aitiurs el lie fvHunts el tbe pvi'ie sad He d,Hl..l 1. 1 gv'IUHtblSi .l.i.. It Jwi- it. IwH a ut.ua vt Jtf'b Vy iivf u Ue eui an i terpristng an opportunity to accumulate j property. It denies tne ae wor ue ngru to pay in the money of the contract, and tills every bousenoia wan gioom ana despair, over which the claim of tbe creditor casts its blightin g shadow. It produces contraction, increasing tne Vouid like to grapple with the new value of money and depreciating tht ... u Mssiblvdosodariur price of property, it aisnonesi exac- tions are destroying the independence of tbe people and sapping the founda- tion of civil liberty Itself . Less con- ItftZTZLnJti shall have been determined whether this country is to be governed by free men, living in ueir own nomes, oroy a gold aristocracy, lesiding In palaces in the great commercial centers. William M. Stewart. Why I Joined the Alliance, Ord Bliuard. I Joined the Alliance because It Is striving to secure to the middle classes the farmer the laboring man their rights and privileges. What la your husband's and your children's interest, my sister, Is your Interest. One of the ways in which the Alliance proposes to advance the interests of the great labor ing classes is to seeure for them better education, and to show them that it is their duty to understand political econ- omy, so mat no longer through ignor- . . . . . Ia ance they will be bound to party ties, but will vote for the right. Tbe women In the country want their children to grow up Intelligent men and women, One step necessary to secure this desired end is that country children should have the same educational advantage as do city children. This is one of tbe many things tbe Alliance is striving to attain. ibe Alliance also wishes to secure the purity of tbe ballot, and to educate all aboring men to vote tor laws mat are of especial interest to farmers, uur wo men should all want to secure tbe purity of the ballot, and work to retain tbe Australian ballot system, and thus pie vent the frauds that have disgraced our elections. Ibe Alliance wishes to de velope a better mental, moral and social condltiou among tbe people, and all women should help them in their good work. Let tbe women Join tbe Alliance and help make it a place of interest, and witn women in tne Alliance, and with tbe Alliance in politics, politics will not become as corrupt as both of the old parties have made it. My sisters, teach your sons to battle for tbe cause of tbe people, for upon you will largely depend whether or not this movement shall be a success. Let us all lend a helping hand and this movement shall roll on. There are now over 2.000 Alliances in this state, with o.VOOO members. All A liance people should take The Farmers' Alluncb (also the Bliuard Ed ) It is the best paper in the state. It should be taken all over the land, as it is going to lead the laboring people out of the bond age of Ignorance. Can yon remember a time when the radical ones in either of the old parties voted other than for party f Why tbe republicans would vote for a republican no matter if be was a black-leg, a thief, a liar or amur wai a uiaca-iea, a iniei, a liar or amur- dercr. so that he was a republican: and the democrats would do the same. Women mtmt rlr e. hunri In nnlittoa nH women must lanea nana in pontics and It Will Stop pucb Corruption as was prac- liced in Omaha at our last election Mrs. C. Vesi'ek, Cost of the United States Government. The Washington fist Is a republican paper, and as such must be an endorser of the late billion dollar congress. Ter- haps it did not see tbe direct connec tion which tbe following from its col umn. might have with the republican extravagance, tint whether it did or not, let us be thankful for this amount of truth. All the'gold. silver, copper, iron. coal. petroleum, and lead produced in this country last year could not pay the ex penses of the government for the same length of time. All the cotton, all tbe wool, all the rye, barley, wine, potatoes and tobacco produced in this country in a year couia not do it. i tie national banks of this country have a combined capitalization of t'VHI.OOO.OOO. One years expenses of the government would an but swallow up this sum, These are figures on government taxa tion alone. Add to tbis city, countv and state taxation, and something of the enormity of the burden may be com- f,o.,cu.... iuouuucusHMM una uu prejudice against immigrants, he be great standing army, no Government . . . railroads, noTmmenVe navy, no prolli- lleveg that the adult foreigner, sound in gate court of kings and princes. Yet its annual expenditures are greater than those of Austra or the German Empire, greater than (ireat Britain and Ireland, greater than British India and China, as great as those of the Russian Empire. The revenue for this enor mous expenditure is acquired but in one way; oy taxation, by lew In one form or another, maiuly in a direct form, on tne substance of tee people. Our Banking System Under Fire. Congressman Walkor, of Worcester, in an address before the Springfield board of trade last week, said he thought this country had a more extravagant and unreasonable banking system than any other lirst-rate nation. It costs the people Ito.ouo.coo more per year for banking facilities and the money they use than li should cot them, or than it coots the people of Germany, franco or Kngland. The whole system, as to reserve, is faulty. A reserve which is faulty. r.ut w iuHi-oe.1 wiini winting tne . ...... . r , i . iswuiigat asweuue tnrown into me The Municipal Oas Question. In answer to inquiries (rem parties iu Cleveland, O , In regard to construc tion of gas plants, Fred Brodel, gas n- f:iu r and contractor, gave the follow. ng figures; New gas works, for uiak lag 1 o") ruble levi per i hours, will etwt S.Yi.utHMprke lor lot not Included j. and tbe cost of making tnU quantity is as lolluasi 1 tens if eual.. II W wm ut 1 mB , , . , IM Ht lot dot ua S ie.Mi S ter ft. . S i yt jot tie I TuteJ. 11 at Rti I nt4ite, its of wmi Iu sale t,M IM. ut sute tf t K, l , IV iiue. teal twxi ss t fa, wee t ter " MSwsia ar I t n IS tmt eiu!e Ill i 1 Ibe I Us. Hear ntiiirws b is H I vftHmef lbs pivjetl of a bew n4Uuu itf Matu'y. Mimw ta i Mutt ii Ike fcw thii g U bwMtei T i le.ilful worwea la the wottd sl itbe lfvtti guienl North Aswetun are nrutiM4 tmder U Uaebeaal InBtiemwa .iKtbia vf Us gleflutw uaia.wr tkvmki Ve tsbea away. la ae ((. M. Cnta-waler-' l. xb sal. J Sh' I'm gulKf tti tbrww at tkuew baas Ut- t k'lgwa'ef lairbd,-..- Wheie Metbetr ''Ktgbl lMtl I "Mi iKe.etedM ir awty, aitkt Ins aa,v It is Not a Class Movetcent. nt Stw K,tk)IU Tfc s y k . .. u Jtill vlBder. . . .. .. . . ing about tho form of the new People's party in search of an "opening." It " - - , the year. It sent Chauncey M. Depew forward, last week, with a cock-and- bull story about a martinet rule among the Farmers. Alliance leader, . the that "the members of the new party shall only read iu own papers," anj tbat "penalties are imposed for ., . . b can or democratic." This is truly ter rible. It is the worst form of slavery ever heard of, but suppose that it should finally appear that tbe story was a transparent fabrication sent out from the east to serve partisan ends. But the Tribunt cannot see that the new party has tbe genuine breath of life In it because it is "essen.ially a clsss party for the peculiar and exclu- sive benefit of persons in certain occu patlons." The Tribune need not be re minded that the platform upon which the presidential campaign will be con tested will be formulated In- Washing- ton, reo.w, loir.-, or at a convention T" 1 Aa SOAit . sppolnted to assemble some weeks later. Tbe Cincinnati platform was forniulat ed at a conference of citizens and not a convention. Aa the farming element predominated at Cincinnati, it was natural that the -agricultural feature was prominent In its utterances. Dur- Ing tbe next nine months, tbe various reform bodies the country over will at tempt to get together, and they will. Tbe pclitical student who seeks for the vitality of the people's party, and neglects the character of the delegates will fail to comprehend the significance of the movement. There is a moral ground swell behind the popular revolt against the old parties. If there is not, men it is useless to lift a finger in orga nizing the people's party. The new party is not a class movement; it is de veloping a lateral cleavage in both the old parties. For example tbe farmer indeed has suffered from tbe unjust and criminal freight discriminations of the great railroads. So have cities and states. Tbe railway magnate has built up and pulled down cities and whole sections of states by the levying of tolls and the abolition of tolls a function which belongs to the body politic and not to the syndicate. This is no class affair. It goes to the very root of civil government, and touches tbe pocket of every citizen, it will not do to say, as tbe Tribune does, the Cincinnati confer ence was composed of tbe "used-up backs and cast-off odds and ends of tbe republican and democratic parties." There never has been a conference of its size in this country that contained so many "hayseed" delegates who were utterly green in tne ways of pontics Hut thav knew what, fhov orantvil If era T i ... ' , 7 ' " 11 009 01 ineir P'anxs: w esnd tbe most riirid, bonrst and juut national com re i ana supervision communication and traninertutioi of nubile communication and transportation. andlf the control aad supervisee ds not remove tbe control aaa supervision aus not remove tne abuse now existtntr. we demand tbe irovern tnent ownership of such means of communi cation and transportation. ibis p ans: was not dictated bv the political odds and ends of creation, but by men who nave fait the iron heel of railroad discrimination upon their neck, and before we have done whith this business the party organs will be driven into a corner,, where they must argue the great question upon its merits. 3$JSa Agriculture may be the first to lift the magnates, in their assumption of the functions of government, but it is not an agricultural question, by any means. It is another case of taxation without representation, and will not be long en dured by any free people. Immigration and the Tariff. New York Standard. In the June Forum, ex-congressman Wm. McAdoo discusses the popular de mand for stringent restraints upon im migration. Expressing no opinion on the wisdom or the folly of leaving Im migration unrestricted, he nevertheless Intimates bis opposition to such a policy by assertiug that so far from having a hJy and mind, of good character and Industrious habits, intelligent, with some elementary knowledge of our in stitutions, whether skilled or unskilled, who comes here with the deliberate purpose of bettering himself as a man, intending to live and die here, to rear children, to make a home, and to become a devoted aud loyal citizen, should be received with a hearty welcome as a rich gift from the land that reared him and handed him over to .us a "ready made" man. But Mr. McAdoo does not regard that wretched immigrant as de sirable who, together with his more wretched family, without choice or pro vision, is chased by starvation and im mediute necessity luto the crowded hold of a great steamer, to seek tbe market closed by a prohibitory tariff to the goods which he produced in his Da- ,LVI.,.I n..i.. i. i t .i .v. I iw iiu.ui iiuuuEtntiim ami uo lanu fljm,, iBWrwoveB, Rnd considers them wlMj;lT .ffot-tiaa ea;h other. We hut out tbeapforeigu coniiuodiiles, but tbe cheaper foreign worker, hand to band wi;b huuger, underbids American labor in the home market that we boast was made fur it alone. We have reared adamantine walls attaint! the Importa tion ol goods, but agtlatt tho great swelling tide ol Immigration created by these artificial hart iers to trade, we bate strung a lw statutory col metis, whu authiug short of eeluU, backed by aa army tf tiovernuient dvtvrtives and a ronton el guntwat. ran keep out tbe tide. With our prtduotiory tang agtlntt jikhU. it we wish to tri'S4 ti.e ire m. n tmis lietw gr.tlu tf the uuwt un deeirable eieixeiita, we must declare war but only against cm uteres but against Inters ttiwnal euuiity. "and airt tu a as wed as park ol sheep wwii. tin d.anrr pail, and roat tultoe A er bigh tr suUt tntuily probihitory tr rf la tbe I ntted biaus t bound Iu force, in spits l at, mere restrictive m urt 4 largit imft.a'iHy, u admirable, almor aaaL itatsticratton. wb.vb I IniuiUal to AmnrUaw Ubr. and m uttary to Ibe best i taiervet Ue ble euwsiry, and It Wtil siektuatly U4 ta I dasgvrutisaSivii ownemrip ol Aviii'a reriise, a a.) t a)Wa Knuii tf r U4uta sad domeel euiere, 1 bi lr el al'es ewrrMp td Wr. MttAdxu I gtiil.r li sound a key .te lie ii tbai th H u irift m tbe WM l tbe Ued-ia suaa b owtb eetl ea wbU'Jt i tbers In IM be tea St.' lb in.iUii i. f hUwf lslu aiiea ooaersaip, H by a Ua or la 1 iit to let drea lvd Jf b de pshdcsi tbsa a bttits. Mi lc d.e ws.gkl 8- tUJloilla f Sift, ti i due to bim to remember, however, that he is discussing only a question of alun ownership. Nevertheless, a little fur ther consideration may convince him that tbe essential evil of immigration, in iu relation to labor, springs not from alien ownership of land, out from own ership of land. But for that sovereign ty which, as he truly says, belongs to the lord of the land." and the related dependence of the mere worker, no tide of immigration could crowd out Ameri can workers from their places; there would be room more than room for all. Tbe West and the Railroads. In the North American Review for April, Mr. Sidney Dillon, president of tbe Union Pacific railroad, discourses on that burning question of the hour. "Tbe West and tbe Railroad." If there is among human institutions a tribunal claiming exemption from error in rail road matters, the tone of this article would lead us to believe that Mr. Sid ney Dillon possesses that inerrancy. To no authority at present known to civil institutions Ss tbe railway amenable. Tbe nature of the railway as hitherto expounded bears little similarity to the Idea of it as expressed in this article. The sins which the people charge tbe railways with do not exist; or if they do exist, are so venial that even a pur gatory awaits them not after the dread reckoning which follows death. Evi dence sufficient to establish other hu man events, laws of congress, congres sional investigations, state laws, inves tigations made on state authority, trials and convictions in courts state and federal, declarations of individuals and bodies in almost every pursuit of life, particularly mercantile, prove nothing against tbe sanctimoniousness of tbe railway. All such evidence must be classed with some sort of hallucination. The whole article abounds with assump tions tbe multitude does not willingly admit; with claims not allowed by law; with principles not yet demonstrated; with arrogatlon of rights not granted at Runnimede; and with moral doctrines not promulgated on the mount of binai. But all these as opposed to the inerran cy of the railway are delusions. "A citizen," Mr. Sidney Dillon says, "simolv as a citizen, commits an Imper tinence when be questions the right of any corporation to capitalize its prop erty at any sum whatever." However obscure this language maybe the ani mus is plain enough. Now a man may have relation with a corporation for mally as a "citizen," or as a person transacting some business not associated with the idea of citizenship, fcvery cor poration is the creature of government. Therefore the citizen whose service as an officer or counsel as a voter is made use of by that government must be pro vided with some method of "question ing the right of corporations" of which "impertinence" cannot be predicated Again, a person transacting business with a corporation, not associated with the idea of citizenship, may have the right to question a corporation's capi talizing its property at any sum. When a corporation bases the amount of its claim for service rendered on a fixed amount of wealth asserted to be used in the production of that service, surely the verification of the assertion, in order to know tbe maguitude of his obligation by the party receiving the service, can not be caned impertinent; tor if tbe basis on which tbe amount of compen sation is computed is exaggerated or "watered," the amount of compensation demanded, even though not unreason able, rests npon a false statement of fact. A man may demand a thousand dollars for an article that cost him nothing; but he has no right to demand that price on the ground that the arti cle cost him even a thousand cents; for if he would do so the buyer would have tbe right to compute the amount of profit made upon the transaction and complain of its exhorbitance. Could impertinence be predicated of such a complaint? But if we conceive a corporation that has no relation with any other corpora tion or individual, existing as it were in a world occupied only by itself, and therefore having no relation outside of itself, then no "citizen, simply as a cm zen," or otherwise, can object to its amusing itself with the harmless idiocy of capitalizing iu property at any sum whatever. There can be no objection to a man capitalizing soap bubbles at millions. But the next paragraph in this essay of Mr. bianey Dillon s is even more re markable: "Unquestionably" he de clares, "tbe citizen, if his farm be in the direction of a projected railroad, is lia ble to be compelled to make a sale to the company of a strip of his land; but a competent jury assesses the value, and such valuations rarely favor the com pany, i he citizen s larm is then worth more than it was, and he can send his produce to market at a cheaper rate But all this does not make it his busi ness to question the ritrht of the com pany to bond its road at any given sum per mile, or to issue stoca inereaiter to any given amount.'! Here It is assumed by the writer that railroads are private corporations or that the property of a railroad has the same legal status as has the property oi a private corporation, or me prop erty of a private individual. Now a railroad is either a public corporation, or it is not. If it is a public corporation then it is amenable to the government that created it. and cannot exceed the limit of it charter. It it is not a pub lie corporation, how can "the cltlzsu be liable to be compelled to make sals to the company of a strip of his iaudT ' lias Mr. Siduey U1U n forgotten, or does he iguore.that right guaranteed In the fifth amendment to the conititutlon of the United Mates: "Nor shall private proif erty be taken for public u si7AeftJui compensation," reasserted In the tm ty nrt section of the constitution ol Ne braska: "The property of no prtu shall lie taken or damaged for piiblle use mlut j ist comix uiin," It never entered the mind ol the trainer of these constitution lo Include a guaran tee aguoit taking the ptitate prorty if tiu citiea fftra with eni(HiMitun, an I gl lug or wiling It to anuibsr till ten lr hi private use, II w turn nu Mr. bidny lullon justiff th (act that thenttand ! rUUetj b.tto mu com peilvd lo make sW ft atrip i-t their iasds to rat rd euuipssnve, it lio rati ruad cvuipanie are but la some aens al leail puMLi rorpomtlons and a such to be eoutnd'.ed and f ?gu!ai4 by jnt power to wki cre I cuiumltted tue iiuiuttn welfare of the iie Tb reader is iwiuMiaRdtd lo iHiriite care fully Ibi M.y iu the Ji'ttH Auirtuan l(lw, tuoiij'ar ll with tfcsehirter giaattd U fail.-wt le, wttb tb ktt tl tuan.f vf Ue Uv sad a lib tteltoni (I by Ibe suptsOK road il st r d "irtoea d.fferi stale ( Mi .aim Ybee alii the trail ul tbwt pioK.; ll. be inoie rleaily sees, tbal In tha', euy are absny aitt'tuia tbe snnitt. Ndo du nut wil! ugly a.lmit, tlalws sot allowed by law. many Hi tui'lee but 11 du,atll. tutf Pe'Mi arrogated ! granted .it K tati iiit.le. sal iim rl d.. i.s si) prtMi g!! bi Ik Mn it A.sai. W M. FABMEBS' OPINIONS. The Offspring of the Two C'i& Partiea. Eorros Alixikce: Enclosed find tl.23 for your earnest and fighting FasvEKS' Aujajicx. I notice in its is sue of June 4th, an article entitled: "They Have Nothing to Lose," relative to the marriage of the two old parties. Thank Holy St. Patrick and all the saints of the calendar, for such good news. Can it be true.so help me Moses I feel happy. Tbe day of morality am come. And their children, born out of matrimony to be legitimatized. Hoo rah I hoorah! Their children should feel happy. I look upon it as a sure sign of the decease of them both, this death-bed repentance Justice at last- to recognize tne parentage oi meir children, named as follows: High Bob ber Protective Tariff born lboa; god father Justin Morrill of Vermont; dam, McKinley 1800. Credit Strengthening Act, born lBtttJ; godfather. Wail Street, dam John Sherman of Ohio. Demone tization of Silver, same father and dam. Destroying of Circulating Medium; la ther, National Banks; dam, John Sher man. Whisky Ring Steals, father, Con solidation; dam, UT S. G., or was the dam a bottle bolder; slack tridav, fa ther and dam.tbe same as above; Coffee Cooler, father. G. Cleveland; dam, War ner of Ohio; Vest of Missouri; liraggoi Wisconsin, etc. All politically dead will not produce at present. Will Not be Bound by riatiorm rromnes oi rar- ty, father, John bherman; dam senator Edmunds of Vermont; one of whom feels resigned to die, the other on tbe lift. Grandchildren of the above full bloods and recorded pedigrees: Consol idation, Monopoly, Political Thieves, Wnlsk-y Kings, rorgery, rerjury, diui fing Ballot Boxes, False Certifying, Fly ing Kobbcr Bank Cashiers and Presi dents, Bobbing Freedmen's Bureaus, Trusts, etc. Great grandchildren too numerous to mention. As their children have been acknowledged, let tbe parents live in peace, and as there will be no more of their progeny, as age aud lack of capa city is creeping upon them, let them die in peace. These are all true children born of democracy and republicanism; born outside of wedlock and in secret, with an understanding that if caught a claim of secret marriage should be set up and recognition of children would follow. No sneaking. It is a shame to think that tbe old dame democracy should lis ten to tbe wiles of young republicanism and depart so far from the strict line of morality and virtue. So it is so mote it be; w. n. allem. Cambridge, Neb. In the Right Camp. We publish the following private let ter from that staunch independent Bro. N. H. Blackmer. While there cannot possibly be any antagonism between the independents and G. A. B. there is no doubt whatever that tbe republican leaders are trying to use tbe latter to injure tbe people's cause. That Van Wyck should be back with Thayer and Mandersonls entirely proper and no surprise. Manderson, we are informed, made a special request for tbe appoint ment of Traitor Collins as a World's Fair Commissioner. Peoria, Knox Co.. Neb., June 13. mi. ( Editor Fishers' Alliance: We took the Mrst steps of organization last night towards having a Northeast Knox County Alliance picnic on the 4th of Julv at Weieand's grove, near tbe post omce ot mat name, we nave invueo. as speakers Dr. W. P. Brooks, of John son county. Hon. J. G. Kruse, our rep resentative, and H. L. McCoy, County Alliance president. We shall have Al liance songs, banners and. comic take oSs on the old parties, etc. I am round ly abused by the county republican or gan (would be) for taking the lead: "Curb the Crank Blackmer, the preacher anarchist of Peoria, is going to have an Alliance picnic of his own on the 4th of Julv, and takes occasion to slur the G. A. K. reunion to be held at Creighton, the first four days of July. When this nre-eatcr and biatneroon preacher gets a good sitting down on he will possibly and where he lives, ibe district reunion should be the pride of every old soldier not only of Knox coun ty but every county in the district; and it is to be hoped that this fellow, who encourages stnfe ar.d preaches un American doctrines will get a dose of wormwood for his gall." Niobrara Pio neer. I had hinted that the G. A. B. reunion which Governor Thayer. Senator Man derson, Van Wyck and other oratorical mossbacks are going to attend would prove to be a republican rally in dis nlllca aa nn nl Tkanoti'd nine a wanna U. guise, a part of Thayer's plan to repub- ncanize the state. The terrible rage of this editor makes me surer that I was right. My exposing the thing was a dose of gall which Mr Frye could not stand. The cause is gaining ground. Yours, etc., X. II. Blackmer. Clipped Erom tbe Advance of April 30th. "Everything which throws light on the farmers' movement, especially what ever throws a clear, guiding light on their own aims and methods, is of es pecial Interest nowadays. ' We do not believe tbis movement to be In any seuse communistic. The farm ers have uo idea of giving up private ownership aud Individual liberty and persoBal iuceulive or ot herding in pub lie commune. The price of land In places ha gone down, short crops have necessitated straitened mode of living and here and there no little dUtre. t hinking the matter over, bud every one Is thinking these liutes, a spirit ol discontent has gone out, more er le vague. Bui m one ha well sid, a vague discontent Is a uBsiibatanlial a fi g, and In the nature of thing cau not long survive the sunshine. The urmer' movement mean the couvU'tloo Ihul government, lliiertaie or national, or both, can do son, thing w hich hitherto have r.'i U t n dou, lor the n' iwl Iwnehi ot the bve and more uutlUfOiol AuiitrWau Urmrrs. of course there will Im tout tent illation lo uueer. tain and rUI V -! leisiailcu, "1 he rfurov'lvgWUiuiett Nt'rU, wlUh recently euded it eessto, dbl small rrsdi! la the movement It ssiumed Iu represeal the more iuiviiigvul and fur minded farmer w i!l not anVw them sell lobe hroVatukett vr driven ia drivealy sbsl w tbi ruvrsi f b sort. ' I'Uba. Netv, M) IWh. m. l'UU'4h 1. 1. Ii ih Km t hhU-o la j-oiir pip of Api!lott,aaditviUl the fataei wioteaw al ikf-iuglfjut Ibe el, b! there are Ibiag eaialaet la Ihli iHi tdllniat Ik it I lMskdrpaf i:mI aiibiUi, You wss tt Ike 4i mU4!m atHvttg ibe UW. v! . biti ot the 'd tiisaikiue HU h wi'l ,lii tkla I. g"' syu um it i'lym bs k'nd ssvit i'i i u ut trow whence u this "sunshine to comer Certainly not from either of the old po litical parties, as it has been under the administration of one or the other of these thatonrlaboringclasscshave been brocght to their present condition , But -on the other hand if you to refer to God's beautiful sunshine, which is to revive the earth and cause the tender herb and the buds to come forth, and to -again reward the laborer with a beau tiful crop, as the fruit of his toil, I would like to remind you that eighteen months -ago when the farmers of Nebraska and other western states were, blessed by Providence with an abundant crop, and prices were below the cost of production (corn being worth only thirteen cents -per bushel) the papers of the land set up the cry of over production being the cause of the bard times; four months after the corn was turned into the mar--ket and tbe farmer bad been compelled to sell at these ruinous prices, in order to pay the interest on their mortgages, interest being low, only 2 and 3 per cent . per month, the price suddenly advanced to 25 and 30 cents per bushel. ' Now what was tbe cause of this? Had the sup ply suddenly become less? Not at all, . tbe grain was still in tbe country only it bad changed bands, from tne produc er to the son-producer, and this same corn is now being sold back to the farm ers for 60 cents per bushel. The demo cratic party annum toe cause 01 ins bard times ta a bigh protective tariff, while tbe republican assure us that it has been a lack of protection that has csused tbe bard times, and that tbe Mc Kinley bill will be a panacea for every known ill. Yes, the people are certainly thinking" and their "vague" ideas are fast shaping themselves in a Arm con viction that it is neither high tariff nor free trade that will bring prosperity to tbe laborer, so long as a few thousand men have it in their power to contract the currency at their pleasure. The peoplo are beginning to realize that money is tbe life blood of a nation, and that when the flow ot money into the channels of trade Is lessened, that ad abundant ciop simply means a great deal of expense and hard work with small returns. "Class legislation" sounds well, when tbe f tct is we have had very little else for tbe last twenty five years. Tbe difference being that the farmers propose legislation for tbe laboring classes, while our present ad ministration legislates in the interest of the monied classes, for of course the poor millionaire must be protected. now one word with regard 10 the Nebraska "Reform Legislature" which you say did small credit to tbe movement it assumed to represent Pray what were the principles that the two old parties assumed to represent. and bow was it that this pure and un dented republican party, which you plainly favor, through their supreme court, the highest tribunal of our state. kept an alien governor in tbe chair four months in order that be should veto a bill (which these pretended reformers, as you term them, had passed) which would have saved the producers of our state over $4,000,000 annually in exces sive freights, and after having made a tool or mm, (and smited tne responsibil ity of tbe veto outo tbe democratic party) suddenly discovered that be was not a citizen of tbe United States; It certainly comes with poor grace from tbe editor of one of tbe leading christian papers of our nation, wblcb. claims to be non-partisan, to condemn a movement which you evidently have small conception of its objects, and to Erate about shallow theorizers being; oodwinked, and etc. The fact is that the people are just waking up to tlut fact that they have been hoodwinked for the last twenty years, and are be ginning to think for themselves, and the reform movement of the west is the re sult of their thinking. I write tbis, thinking it but just that both side should be hoard on every question, and hope that you may find room to publish it in your next issue, with any comments that you may see tit to make. Yours for equal rights and freedom for the laboring classes, W. F. Porter. Representative of the 40th legislative district, Nebraska. Tbe Farmers' Alliance Should be in Every Household. Mt. Hoi'E Alliance No. 14:50. June 10, 18'.1. Editor Farmbks' Alliance: Hav ing received a copy of your ''special offer" circular we presented the same to the members of our Alliance for sub scriptions to your paper. The only dif ficulty in getting up a large club here la that the majority already take it. How ever you will find enclosed five dollars for that many new names. I believe that a little special effort on the part of a few individuals in each Sub. Alliance would place your paper in tbe hands of almost every farmer and laboring man in the state. With the incontrovertible fact of current matters thus brought within their range, tbe exposure of the malignant false hood that sre so profusely spread by the demagogues through mercenarv publications, would be inevitable and the people would be saved. Farmers of Nebraska, let us work aa never before. Iet us possess ourselves of the means with which to dispel that threatening cloud that, after spreading; ruin over other landi now threatens to deluge ours. Let us not forget that It was the common people who gave u the homes we now poaseas, by wresting America from the juws of an InsMtiabla despotism, and that they alone can te Ula Its possession. W, 11. Rate Lsw and Usury Law Demanded. Cauphkll, Neb., June 4, lml. Union Alliance No. I -VI. al Its regular Hisaion on the above date unanimously adopted the following resolution: iirinJ, That Iu order to secure lo ourwlvc the fruit if our la bor. It indispensable to re rict trans portailou coiupautr Iu ihelretorbittnt charges, and money Under from col lecting h'.grt rate of Interval, We 1 he More petition th (ioveruor ot Nekatka. Han. J. M. Thayer, torn I a special seioa ol the legislature for the purpose el sstvtlnf a tuatiututu freight rni law aud a usury law. AvmW, I bat a ropy i. these reeolu liob I lurtushed Tilt. I iHnsaa Al l I SNt a aud the rw'tf I itu for pub lication, -! ttiat a ropy be seul Governor J M. Thayer Jui. tit ks a, A.U Dtmn. i'l A smart Idea, Who waists Ii gv! khmI ge4 at ri aKs f!gir gve-i ic lb Kewlag XI a bin l.n.iorMtiw. Miw.nf luaiMnte, p'oe estforgsk .4dn u ooikly pay. ! Vf lohg in I leu led aaJ lav, wsi4 Iteaui peedUs, putt and at iVhiwMtU I -r all kind if uiai li Bes ! I -M ti4i 1 ta !- og a round a can itl you lllttrl Um trom nw beedle kr. ''lo Jw V1. 41 J.i, UlvHbll hbt. llorole, Nt