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About The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1891)
THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, JUNE25, 18 1. W so receWed has wiilom If , fj an below par as compared with iJo tbe United siause K'"u" in? revenues. There wer twenty s sues of treasury note thus receivable between tbe year 1812 and 1860. They were uniformly at par with coin, and In 1816, in the middle of Mexico, 6 per cent above coin. Now make such money, M receiv able in tbe revenues, tegal tender for all debt and taxes, and we have a money founded on tbe revenues of tbe general government, on tbe revenues of states and municipalities, and on all commodities. All men who have com modities or labor for sale will gladly redeem that money with value, and will advertise tbeir eagerness to do so. Then the last and final step is to limit tbe issues of money to a reason able volume as compared with tbe rev enues of the country, and we have a mosey system just as good as the gov-.ernment-no better, no worse. A pa per money not so limited and not so redeemed cannot be kept good even by gold redemption. That fluctuating and unreliable metal has the cowardly habit of being absent when most wanted. This suggests another fact entirely Ignored by tbe gold men. In all ex periments with paper money, the coins, by tbe'r cowardice and absence, failed first; and if the paper afterward failed by unfair treatment, it left tbe people in no worse condition than it found them. But paper money has not failed as often as coin has. In fact, it bas never failed when properly and fairly treated by responsible gov ernments that collected and disbursed revenues. ,. , . The old continental congress could not collect taxes nor revenues, yet Albert Gallatin says: "Tbe paper money carried the United States through the most aiduous and perilous stages of tbe war. . It cannot be denied that it saved the country," Under the greatest disad vantages the old continental currency 'saved the country" and gave us our American liberties, though its volume was swelled by large issues at home and by "ship-loads11 of counterfeits from England, circulated in the col onies by General Howe and Kir Henry Clinton and their agents. (See Holies1 Financial History of tbe Unites States, volume 1. pages 161, 162, 153.) If It had not been for the much-derided con tinental money tbe United States would have remained dependent prov inces of Britain. And Sir Archibald AllUon tells us that if it had not been for a similar paper money in England, from 177 to 1815, that country would bave become a province of France, The Century for May has told us paper money failed in Rhode Island. Kbode Island is rather a weak nation Iq which to try a decisive experiment of national Independent sovereignty. Her collections and disbursements of revenues could not bave been large enough to support a very large volume of paper money. So with the over issues of paper In tbe little common wealth, which the Century says oc curred, the better money of tho other "colonies was preferred to It That be ing tbe case, then, coercive laws could not make it circulate any ' more than ' whips and clubs can make a weak and crippled horse perform the work of a strong and sound one. Vet,wbile Delaware money was fail ings similar paper money in Pennsyl vania, North Carolina and some other of the larger colonies was succeeding, with the most beneficial and happy re sults. In North Carolina 1400,000 of colonial paper money was kept at par for twenty years after the colony be came a eUito, and until worn out and retired, because it was receivable in the. revenues of the state, at the rate 'of $100,000 per annum, without being otherwise legal tender. The fact is the experiments with paper money in the American colonies were so suc cessful and the results were so bene ficial that tho British government found It necessary to prevent the Is sues by law, just as the same jealous and tyranical government enacted laws to Euppress colonial manufact ures. To show that the men of the west ore not chimerical on this money sub ject, I call attention to the following high and orthodox authorities: The intricacy of the quest ion has been much Increased by the hitherto necessary use of marketable commodities, such oh gold, silver, salt, shells, etc., to give intrin sic valuo and security to money: but the final and best definition !t that It is a docu mentary promise, ratified and guaranteed by tlie nation, toglveor lind a certain quan tity of labor or tlw results of labor. John Itv.sUn. It was a great discovery when a metallic medium wan siitaliltited by barter; it was also a great discovery when imper convert ible into coin was substituted tor gold snd silver; but a third discovery was reserved for our own times, uumely, that, with nn inconvertible miner currency, agriculture, commerce and manufacturers might ad vance In a carreer of utievstupled pros perity .Sir John Sinclair. Kugland herself d'ws not in reality Imse her currency on iecle; nor could sh with out brinslntt all Imisiimm to a dead-Mop within a very short time. Mm jua mixes enouch of this sneeie-tNiiiis llctmn Hi her fiDNMces to continually or i riudically di vert the laboring cluue nt their t urolnui tor the Iviii iit ot the nobility. Hut tor the real basis ot vslue in her currency she make the notes of the linnk ot Kngtaiid, as well as her coins, a full l'gl tender for the payment of debts, snd uol the notes ol cllirr bunts. From this we that even la I.iikImiuI specie lasts is a mere hdttm, a Ul r-t n- llertwit hwuier. Whi n all our lr money Is made .iy. able m ei on drmiind. It will rov the H ol cerium means Hint can 1 tiMtl to t r t.iue th rich tusn's li'i't by tit sei of tt.f oor man's btuw.tHil Yvtwvr. ' Yry fit money tiUcusslon proem tar without some mention ot tft i'riH asslgnat. This wus U money of the irvbwa rsvolutort. It (mmilvd on tln; but the coin fitllt'U, His gmro tn.ul falUtt. and the faxr LiiUd. Hut Iwfors It LIIshI tl omihrw tuubs.it by la irancm and lib itrd all the pur u4 InjMsuiliy ot U British fuvsrn. S6nt, In tlx not k of tokutlsrfcttlng, (a rdr tu M It, so lkt ilrslust o4 tia'riiutktu fuwrttttivM Imd by a sin, liar trims Jj.cotsld tbi roattasM.1 morn In Am Ua. 't hat hum sm ! sa liuoorUat tMiwjf to suvuta. pHsh tu snu. and U i4 tauva srnl ntwtttsu Mi, In 11.1, all s.rp was a'twit w sink tt H tiutlury jwr il ), Oms gM ami l ttw til) tatiMilHrnt sad jnUai, I'ruM a au4 K-W fMspi4 1 U m jil litt rtMitUial tbst Ctt niw4i Wi and st4 unit! Ku in till, she ubU fef Vval'-. Isn Ik Vsl Ut t Ifcs wvuld, tu V .itt vt I.r mmt ai.4 dacgers, found is necessary to cut loose from coin aad to resort to book credit money, but receivable in the rev enues of tbe republic and. legal tender for all debu and taxes. For a period of six buudrtd years thcs credit In scriptions, not redeemable in coin, ruled above par as compared to coin. During all that time tbero was not c tnoney panic ia Venice, and there is not alice on record that any citizen o! Venice was dissatisfied with their money system. There was never cny pretense that these paper credit would be redeemed in coin, and they were never so redeemed. Tbe credit money system ot the Republic of Venice is the largest financial experiment, without materia) changes known in history. It proves conclusively that a properly constructed and properly administered papervr edit money is a succct, even' under tbe most try leg circumstances. If other explrmenta have been less satisfactory It proves that -some necessary feature was somewhere omitted. In the case of our Continental money, it was not receivable In the revenue of tbe government because the Continental Congress could neither levy taxes nor collect revenues. It was not legal tender because there was no competent government to enact a law of legal tender. The atslgnats of France lived as long as the issuing government existed with power to enforce Its decrees against the confiscated estates. The bulllonlsts never refer to tbe c. lit money of Venice, but to tho less fortunate schemes of imperfect or over- Issued money, ' where the most Important requisites of a proper paper money were unattainable or had been neglected. Our own greenback was a case, not of over-issue, but of legal im perfection, because It was not receivable in the revenues, and was only partially legal tender, It was unjustly dishonored In the custom houses, aud by the bond holders. The men of the West claim to be en tirely sane on this money question. We bave studied most of the great orthodox authorities on both sides of it. We pro pose to try no sow experiments nor foolish theories. All we ask, or have ever asked, is that we may be allowed to pay our debts in money of the same relative value as the dollars we borrowed. Yet men, ignorant at donkeys, interview us and mlsreporl us. Then when we ask to be heard ir tbe great metropolitan journals and magazines which seize upon the falst reports and malign us, we are no) allowed a fair bearing. But even out explanations are garbled, misquotec and derided with insulting epithets, oi cast into flames as the ravings ol insanity. It was thus that the minions of Georse III treated the .patriots oi 1776. It was t'jus that slave power treated the patriots of the fifties and sixties in the present century. Tho quertion of "Man vs. Money" is now up in a third form; but tyrants seldom learn anything from the lessons of history. When we speuk of our mortgaged homes we are chided as were slaves in Egypt: "Ye are idle! Ye are idle" Our silver money, though 3 per cent better than gold, prior to 1873, Is branded as dishonest money to pay debts with. Our paper money is reduced. Our labor and property, by these conditions, have lost tbeir monetary value. Debt con trated when prices were high are now to be paid In gold, though we did not borrow gold. The same financial causes now in operation in this country worked tho "decline and full of the ttoman Empire," though the wasting away of tho Roman money. The same causes (between the years 1819 and 1820) deprived four-fifths of the land holders of England of their lands, though the suppression of the English silver paper money. The same causes (since the close of the Franco (ierman War) have caused 80 per cent, of the German real estato to be mortgaged beyond hope of redemption, through the demonetization of silver and the suppression of and paper in Germany. Will not like causes produce like effects? Can man carry fire in his hands and not be burned? Can Americans perform 1m possibilities ? Shall our American freemen be unhoused at the bidding of Shylock? Shall our patriotic freeholders become tcnunts and serfs to an alien landed aristocracy? Forbid it, heaven! Rather let us act like freemen. Let us imitate the patriots of our history whoso names and deeds are so dear to us. Let us reverse tho financial causes now in operation. There is but a ster between thraldom and liberty. Let u, take that step. Give to the country plenty of the money like that wo borrowed, so that our labor, land anti property will nguln have monetary value, and wo will psy every debt and redeem every home. Who are the debtors in this country? They are the aspiring, the lioful, the en ergetic, tho audacious; they an-the up builders, the dckigiiers, the men of India ti, of executive power, and of arlccve meiit They ai the constructs force In every community. As probably nim teiitbs ol the hiisineMof A inerti a dcj(cntk in one form or o lot her on credit, any m lent which makes the dollars of a debt more valuable at date of tt luelit tlisn at dult ot borrowing Is a system ol robbery. M;A Hilavelll, deocriblug certain period In llir history of luly, rtUl of it: "Tlw oplt l-rllied, tut the brigands thtnvs," '1 tie old tngandsif enforced by guns and oUtolm the modern hiigiidai! by bonds and niurtgsges.r-'wimtor J hu I. Jones. The tkbtora of America am the wen for whom t plead. This whole subject would Us Vcrj amusing were It not serious. Among the creditor classes of New York and fmiKin It Is a question of how fast they ttl'i buikl up fii tones tf their great miSIiooaries. and as tu how soon the. apprvsihlrtg tltllonnns wilt mas It tflarnc! With t debtor cljs and U-)rr of America, fct and Wst It is a question of distress ti4 w uf lioiiiM for the prvsvut feiirntUin asd of sorldom, tenantry and slrs to tmr rr.,lira and grmmMilUlrtn ilowa loth lowest gnirrstUm! It t awlhf 'lri-resiu tVsRui;" tK.i Mtatrttt Wkll Mtvl sal t.oitdott, U'unk wlUt ith and r and nn"d nan a i Imm al v 1. 1. (!, sknii U! t ,t th ol vt J.mr. st,U ill 4 (Is m;i nt t' H i 4if-lf vMMrta t no iNMst Minn t Ut MUea ami It M Irs srr a dv(tst of jwstU's M.if MiAkrt fcr ttt ftdrlluf ai'tHinl nu wtt amidst tdttt rvli .! At In thsctkss t' t 'iUiiii, t!lr kiisdi HiwIanj .i noUs if itn, sUn ka lf.ihSii.rf. H;aMiti si 4 Wkitttf ts rtst tkt tkeis is a Uw t no n tt, t ssWia ss; as tti rises' sun f d t. ao ti;ti tv s Oilier ;.ms asw magazines than tiose devoted to the interests of the gold gamblers are now aiding our sentinels on the outer walls to reach the ear ot the Republic! Lei the contest go on! The ballot ia out weapon! 11AM DEMT1NT. J. Y. M. BWIGAHT, EDITOR. ThU DepsHment will be edited for the ben flt of Mutual Insurance Companies tbroufh out tbs 8tata. Cheap Insurance. I have been told that the old line In surance companies are now offering to Insure for a less rate than ever be fore, and some of our farmers are In surlng with them for that reason. But if you will ask why it is done the agent will not tell you that it Is for the pur pose of running out our mutuals, but that no doubt is the fac for if you will consult the auditor's report for last year you will find that tbe companies made a smaller per centage of profit than ever before, and that being the case the com panies would most naturally make a ra se ol tne rate lnsteau oi cropping h. In "88 tbe foreign companies paid 80 per cent of their premium collected that year back to pelicy holders ia this state lor losses. In ta tbey paid 84 per cent. In tit) thev paid 01 percent. While our borne companies, that do most of their Insurance on farm prop- ertv.have paid to the policy holders tne following rates: For "W. 17 per cent; for HV, 80 percent; for "Wl M percent of tbe premiums received, una oi me nean men of a prominent state company told me that his company expected to fight our mutual company in tnis county, ana presume be is making bis word good In that line, and Is only following out the tactics of all stock companies wherever a mutual is started, which is to lower the rate, cancel all tbe old policies that bave a year or two to run ana reinsure as many as possible so that they will bave a Ions time to run and, of course, will not be liable to help organl.e a mu tual company that would not cost to exceed tbe interest on wnai you pay old line companies. From the above statement taken from the auditor's re port wa find that companies that do most of their insurance ou farm prop erty have a lower percentage of loss than when tbe company carries city insurance. Therefore tbe necessity of organizing a strictly farm mutual, ana let us see to it that our company is a strong one to start with. All old line companies want a large amount of insurance, for two reasons: first, for the premiums and second the cost of operating a large company Is proportionately less than that of a small company. Misrepresentations, If any stock company agent tells you that tbe mutual plan is unsafe and un sound, or In fact offers to fight a mutual, set him down as a knave or an igno ramus. In either case be should not be patronized. And if you stop to think you will find that the policy bolder pays all the ex- fiense of insurance companies, and that n mutual companies you are a member and can say what shall and what shall not be added to the cost above tbe losses; but in a stock company you pay your money and have not a word to say, out any agent will brag about the' sur plus of bis company, withholding the tact that you give them all surplus, and that you are not remunerated for it. Report of Richardson County Mutual Insurance Company. From tbe report of the secretary of tbe above earned company I find that tho 'company bas been running four years, end at their last annual meeting they wtre carrying t2W,000, and have sustained a loss of eW.tw since the com pany etarted. I do not know bow much insurance this company had at the time of starting, but suppose it was 1100, (XX), and they had collected ten per cent on tbe pre mium that you would have to pay to other companies, which Is two per cent on time, (or 12,000) it would amount to (200 per annum, and at that rate tbe company would have collected prior to their anuual meeting the sum of fsOO or $775 more than would have been neces sary for the payment of losses. Now look back and you w ill see that I bave only used the interst on the amount that you would have to pay stock companies and further I have only taken $100,000, on which I have placed the burden ot carrying all insurance of the company for four years, which at last report amounted to $20000, more than two and a half times tbe amount which I have made the basU of my calcula tion. Again, tho 125.00 which is the sum total for losses is equal to twenty five cents per 1 1,000, but we will admit that this particular company bas bad exceedingly good luck. Hut farmer reader, look around you and count up the losses that have lieen paid by Insur ance companies in the last ten years, nd then compute, the amount of premiums paid insurance companies, and 1 am quite certain that there will be tnauv places In our state that will correspond with the above report. And what has been done once can be dune again. I am gcttln? many calls for Informa tion on me subject, and especially for a copy of the law. If you will watch the columns ot TttK At.i.UNC K I will try to give you all the inforn atlon needed, but of course I can not put all In each issue. I have printed the law and tuods of prowedur, tc, but by the Inquiries 1 presume It hss not been noticed by nil ol you that are now Interested. Nilwcrib tor Tub aikismi k. ItEALKJUt IN Dry Goods, Carpets. Mm, Shoe, Croccrlet, Etc. DEPARTMENT STORE ;Uret Mock In tt City. to: OMfiiiiM. tVuatry l'rvW bnr a tggst taksn la ttv4ig tor tovntuind.Ms 4Kr tutrv is td.j Ultets. f. r tfcs fIUi'Sl f L. wilt t -.tjf Ui Gei 10. P felrel. RELIABLE BUSINESS HOUSES. MUSICAL MEKCHAND1HR. I susiosU Uds. W. R. BEMIETT CO. POPULAR ANTI-MONOPOLY REMEDIES OF W. R. EENNETT&CO. Bennett's Compound Extract of Sarsapa rills with Yellow Dock. Slillingla, Iodide of Fotassium, etc. Guaranteed to purify and enrich the blood, and do all that can be done by Hood's or Ayert Bans parilla, l'ierce's Medical Discovery, or "8. 8. 8." Used with great advantage In Chronic A flections of the skin, Scrof ula. Eruptive, and skin Diseases such as Erysipelas, Pimples, Blotches, Bolls, Tumors, Halt Kheura, Ringworm, Ulcers Chronic Rheumatism, byphylltic, and Mercurial Diseases, and every ailment arising from an impure state of the blood. A powerful alternative and strengthening tonic, giving tone and strength to the system when debllltatel by disease; 11,00 size, our price ?3cntf. Bennett's Royal Prescription or Woman's Friend . A judicious combination of tbo& ton ics, antispasmodics and sedatives which have been found useful In medical prac tice for strengthening the female or gans og gestation. Also to act as a soothing and quieting agent la all those distressing, nervous, Hysterical con llila ivklnh . amimDnnv hII female complaints. Guaranteed to be superior to fierce s favorite irescnotion or Lydia Pinkhams Compound.lt.OO size, our price 7) cents. Bennett's Liver Regulator, for all bilious diseases, Dyspepsia, Bili ous Headache, Costlveness, Hour Stom ach, Jaundice, Heartburn, Nervousness and all affections arising from a torpid or inactive condition of the Liver, it is cil'akanteku to sltect a cure, Also useful as a laxative in chills; 11.00 size, our price 73 cents. Bennett's Blackberry Cordial. A guaranteed remedy for Diarrhoea, Summer Complaint, Cholera Infantum, Dysentery and all relaxed condition of the bowels; 23c size, our price 20 cents. Bsnnttt's Family Liniment, For Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Chilblains, stings of Insects, and Neu ralgac pains. Also for Horses and Cat tle, for Kpralns, Ringbone, Hwellings, Lameness, etc.; itfet size, our price 10c. All tbe above remedies are ahkolutklt" olaiuhteep to, do all we claim for them, and to be superior to any patented article on the market. If tbey don't prove so, we'll refund your money, Could you ask more? Do you want to buy Dry Goods! Do you pay casht If so we want your trade. We cell for cash, and we guarantee to sell to every one at the came low price.' If you buy from uo and are not pleased with your purchase when you get home you can return it andget your money. Give us a trial and we think we will both please you and save you money. Very respectfully, miller & paine. Lincoln, Neb. 133 tol39 South 11th St SPECIAL -. ANNOUNCEMENT. S. B. NISBET Will open one of Boots -. and '-. Shoes Eur lefore brought to the State. 1015 0 STREET, Wednesday, July 1st, 1891. Tlio w U invito toeall ami innjH'ct thin uimiliuw utork. Tin' Drtrirtor luw full wnlMfncM that m otlit-r ttiut'iritiie titv t an ttliow a f!n a twk or fan 11 at low t r tlfjmvn, Th tof k lin 1h-u fan fully w lff t-l aiul i ftitirrly tie w, m aoo.coo ARE SINGING IKU IRS Tt Siwsnii fir IS 'llll lawk HIM ISal lb ftttfcit .(.,. 4e Hsuttf) MUSIO KMTIOX M ! ! !fv4. IS sHtti )!, e4 futmk tite !)? et-4 t-4 inxcis tSi lt IS ltt t-it )H lbs !! I (..( I to f u4 IS .) f t-ltti U !' Ihi4 . ,J Ifc'iSW WtllH'b tt S m4 ltkr. ts M sai. m f ' tft IW ' t K ts iu.l t IS, IS I K,r4 t. I ' i'.l uSifc , .lt S 4 IS 4 ,i4, SSI is.ai.4 ri. 'oft, .'.-. -l lv, p A ) Ji.M. u i i m sn,t 4 S4 ., iw, iMisris i . l t.it' . W A luism, U j i u. Ut. ; mtli tt ',!., ia f'rtst..( i v:Ai'v- l. M A I'sttM, Ourstnck Is repieU wHn eeryihlo In the race to suit Its times. M, r. itmtis. V o. Bennett's Emulsion of Cod Liver O0 With Hypophosphites. We guarantee this to be the finest Emulsion ot Cod Liver Oil aver put on the market, and It is as palatable as milk, and ia the greatest remedy for Consumption and wasting diseases ever discovered. Wa claim that our Emul sion is not only equal, but superior to Hoott's, Phillips, or any other patented article on the market; 11.00 size, our price 75 cents. Bennett's Beef, Iron and Wins. Undoubtedly the finest preparations of the kind in use. Containing the vir tues of fresh beef, a sound quality of wine, and salt of Iron. An admirable tonic for convalescents, etc. ,11.00 size, our price 00 cents. Bennett's Rom and Honey Cough lyiup. An admirable renydy for Coughs, ('olds. Hoarseness, Asthma, Bronchitis, Irritation of tbe throat, and all inflama Hon of tbe chest and lungs; 40ct slxe, our price 23 cents. Bennett's Dyspepsia Curs, For loss of appetite, nausea, pain In the Stomach, sense of fullness of tbe same organ, water brash, etc. ; 30 cent size, our price 40 cents. Bennett's Fig Lsxstlve lyrup. A reliable remedy for thoso troubles arising from an Inactive condition of the bowels aud liver. Guaranteed to be fully equal If not superior to California Kyrup of Figs; our price 0nd 73 cents for 30 cent and 11.00 sizes. Bennett's Rheumatic Remsdy, Compounded from drugs that are re garded by physicians as absolute spe cifics for rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, and kindred disease!, I. size our price 73 cents. Bennett's Vegetable Livsr Pills, Guaranteed to be the best pill on the market. For Constipation, Kick Head ache, etc; 23ct size, our price 13cents. Bennett's Franco Tonic. A tonic for tbe people. Gentle yet powerful; our price 00 cents for II size. the finest stocks of ELI HEADACHE CURE ttss fssr Nsssms IN 15 MINUTES. II k f niifitt if lk u ki kMIUw, Si(l l-f .4 tlliS'S'S " tr ui ti'tAiikii n I t COR 14th atutOITI UNCOLN, : : NEB. wut CeMf ars. i.l . Ho t . .lug, fl. Wa KUuti lu n,dy C U m relieve! ts;t fn 14 tt sMstsst t HiMisi,ii I f Ike m Ot ) List KVVCU ll.t tS w!f. t'tll, vi.'i a . 1 1 Hi a tlw t it s Uvs fcl ,rml:. s: 11,. Ut r., in t ti t iM t i,.t.ifc M'svt H ;! DEY GOODS CO. 1O30 O Street, Xjizioolzi- The most conveniently situated store in tho City. loiyipiiiTiyoiil DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY AND MEN'S GOODS Wo Coll you Goodo Ohoapcr then When yon visit Lincoln call on ua. Out of town Orders Carefully and Proxnptlj FITZGERALD MY COODS CO. Our friends will rememler the bargain we gave them last year on GALLON OAIID APPLE3. We have secured another lot this year and will while tiw hi lasts sell at $1.50 PER CASE OF OPUD323R "THE MONEY tAVERJ 68 Wabash Av.f The Boot and Shoe Man BID. O. hot FORGETTING MY $2.50 & $3.00 Sboes Short Tops High enough to easy on and they wear good. I Long enongh to find out whether not They are Good. ED. G.YATES. You Ought to Read A DAILY PAPER FRO.W THE WORLDS-FAIR CITY.' The Chicago Daily News h as rooJ at the be t and cheaper than the cheapest. It is a member of the Associated Press arvi prints all the news. Its circulation aver ages from 2JO.UX) t copies a day, and is, with a single exception, the largest daily circulation in America. It is an inde pendent newspaper it wears no party cellar and prints th news free from the taint of partisan bias, lU'ive all the nci and tells the truth about it. t , OU OUtilir TO READ Tilt Chicago Daily News. U a ce&M cfGi P0PULAE pmcia U DOZEN QUIOII. FOR THE PEOPLE," XL XI. EAGLE, & OO OhiC0, III STILL THERE IS SOME THING ELSE. ; DID YOU EVER WEA.1A PAIR OF MY PLOW COOTS? keen dirt out; light single sole. have sold them for four years. they are good for anything or O Street 1120.