THE FAUMEKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN,' NER, THURSDAY. NOV. 19.18M.
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J.M.Tnonreon.
Editor
.BuatacM Manaev
ln tho beauty of the Ellies
Christ wu bom acrose the sea.
With glory In hi bosom
That transfigure you tnd me.
As he strove to make men holy
Let n strive to make tbem free.
Since God is marching on."
Jul'ia Ward Hoot.
"Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts.'
"A roddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs."
Emerson.
Be who cannot reason la a fool.
Be who will not reason is a coward.
He who dare not reason fa a slave."
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J. BURROWS. Editor.
I. II. THOMPSON. Business Ma'gr.
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Inaepeftde-t Paper el the Stale.
SEVEN COLUMN QUARTO.
It wilt always be found on the side of tbe
opto and wholly devoted to theadvooaov of
reform principles In state sod nation.
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OUR BOOK LIST.
The bast reform literature obtainable can
be had by ordoHna any of tbesa books,
Tbe Ballway Probltm (new) Btlckney.... 60
Iieoklnr Backward, Bellamy M
Dr. Huguet, (new) Donnelly 54
Oasiars Column, " 5U
A Kentucky Colonel, Bred to
Driven from Boa to Pea. Post, SO
A Tramp la Society. Cowdrey 60
Blohard's Crown, Weaver 60
Great Bti Drayon, Woolfolk 60
rlre'l Financial Oatrchlsm. Brtoe 60
Hooey Monopoly, Baker... 86
Labor and Capital, Kellort IS
Flaarro and John Sherman, Mrs, Todd .. 26
Sewn Financial Conspiracies.. ..lOcti.1
Tbe Bascard Glioular, Heath. ...10" r tS
Babies and Bread, Houter 10" J
Our Republican Monarchy, Toldo t
Alllanoa and Labor Bonyiter 10c, perdos 1 10
Mew Muslo edl'n, paper cover 0o. " 1 00
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DEMOCRATIC TESTIMONY,
There is a lieutenant governor tn
New Yerk who not only pays the freight
on all the goods he ships, but he dares
stand up in mooting and tell tbe truth
the whole truth, deplorable as it is, and
even if it strikes his own party right
bet weea the eyes. Lieutenant Governor
Jones wrote to a friend as follows:
"The democratic party of the state of
New York is to-day under the undis
puted control of men whose names are
recorded In the annals of crime. Men,
who a few years ago were literally beg
ging their bread, or obtaining a pre
carious existence by far less honorable
means, now possess large wealth. From
whence did it come? Not from honest
labor or legitimate sources. Still, they
are rich to-day beyond the dreams of
most men. Tholr 111 gotten gains,
which they flaunt in the faces of the
people, seemingly asking, "what are
you going to do about it?" has been
stolen from the tax-payers of New
York city.
Nebraska, to-day, is just In the aet of
being swallowed up by the same hungry
horde of cormorants. It can be re
deemed to the tax -pavers next year.
OFFICIAL RETURNS.
A correspondent writes us for the
4ffioial returns on the late election
which we will not be able to give until
next week. The state board will can
vass the vote on next Monday, and the
exact figures can then be given.
IMPORTANT MEETINGS.
The meeting at Indianapolis this
week is one of national importance,
as several of the farmers' organizations
are in session there, including the N. F
A. and I. U., the F. M. B. A. and others.
The national committee of the indepen
dent party are also in session there, and
meeting of the editors of the reform
press of the country will be held during
the week. Nebraska is represented by
J. Burrows, Hon. W. H. Dech of the
national committee and others.
Another meeting of more than or
dinary interest has just been held at
Toledo, Ohio. General assembly of tbo
Knights of Labor met in that place
and General Master Workman Powderly
in his closing address, stated "that this
was the best session of the national
assembly he had ever attended, charac
terized by the earnestness of delegates
present and the valuable work per
formed." Some reflections were made
during the session upon somo of G. M
W. Powderly's official actions, but on
tbe closing day a resolution was passed
sustaining Powderly in all his dealings
with the order and condemning the un
warrautea attacks of tbose opposing
; Urn. ' '
Three bank failures and tiro suicides
of bankers in Berlin have brought uuder
a cloud the competitive system asap
plied to the management of other peo
ple's money ia trust.. Tbe private
banker must go. Edward Bellamy in
Jtcjv A a lion.
4 STANDING APPEAL TO SISIXESS
MEN.
What possible harm do Jn expect
from the Increase of metal money!
The use of bank paper money, wbifli
may be expanded or contracted to suit
the Interests of bankers or their asso
ciations, unsettles values and de aoral
iaes business. But an Increase of metal
legal tender money never did do this
and never can do it. With the history
of thirty centuries of mining before ns,
we know that an excessive and Injuri
ous increase of metal money has never
occurred.
It stimulates production, employs
labor, puts money to spend in the bands
of jonr customers, increases the value
of your stock on hand ; In short, In every
way Increases jour business and your
wealth.
This is all irrefuUblt truth.
Then why do you opposo the free
coinage of silver, which means an in
crease of metal money f Give us your
reascm and wo will present them.
The Farm eiis' Alliance.
COMPULSORY VOTING.
Every American citizen Is said lo be a
sovereign. To a certain extent this is
true. By his ballot he exercises an in
tegral part of the sovsreign power. By
his voice be has a right to, and often
does, influence the ballots of others In
determining great public questions, and
thus shaping the policy of tbe govern
ment. The highest act of sovereignty
that the average citizen can perform is
II deposltirg his ballot on the day of
election; and there are many citizens
who can do nothing more than this.
This right of voting is a privilege
which U by many very highly esteemed,
and which should be so esteemed by
all. It Is certain that tbe attempt to
deny it to any class of citizens upon
whom It t-as been conferred would be
met with indignant opposition. Is it
not, under our system of government,
something more than a mere right and
privilege? Is it not also a sacred duty
which the Individual citizen has no
right to shirk? When society, in its
sovereign capacity, confers upon its in
dividual units a right and privilege so
important in its nature, carrying with
it sovereign powers, and often conse
quences of momentous magnitude, has
not a right to exact, under severe
penalties for non-compliance, a consci
entious performance of the duty thereby
Imposed? We think it has.
When tho right of voting has been to
some extent sub-divided refined in a
degree, so to speak by investing tho
oltizen with a representative power,
thus giving him the right to vote for
others the fact that the voting function
is an imperative duty is at once recog
nized. No member of a board of trus
tees, city council, legislature or con
gress can evade this duty, against the
wish of such bodies. The duty must be
performed, and legal processes are
provided to enforce the performance of
Is the function of voting any less a
duty in the Individual citizen than in
thu repiesoutatlve official? Wo thick
not. In fact, often more momentous
Issues tremble in the balance at the
general eloctions than In the votes in
councils and legislatures. If the duty
of voting should be enforced in such
bodies and all will concede that it is
imperatively necessary that it should
it should also, be enforced at all
elections. Every privilege curries a
duty with it. As there is no privilege
higher or more highly prized by tbe
American citizen than the privilege of
th? elective franchise so also is there
nodutrmore sacred, and there should
bo none more imperative. It em
braces tho principle of fidelity to coun
try, to home, to self, all in one act.
The voter who is so indifferent to his
right aud duties as to neglect this one
important function of exercising the
elective franchise, does not deserve to
possess it. lie should, therefore, be
deprived of it by law. The failure to
vote should subject the voter who so
falls to disfranchisement at least for the
succeeding election. J. his would be a
vory light penalty. For continued
failure the penalty could be made an
nulative. We are not sure but tnat a
liue should be imposed. .
We are trying to throw all kinds of
safe-guards around the ballot to pre'
vent its corruption. We ara trying to
protect the individual voter in his rights
as a sovereign American citizen. We
certainly have a right to demand that
the voter shall exercise, as safely and
conscientiously as possible, tbis one
right and duty which he shares with all
citizens.
ORGANIZATION A NECESSITY.
The republican party in Nebraska
have a poifect organization to carry
forward any project which they desire
to put Into executiou. And, even if
they had no organization, with the
groat amount of boodle which they can
exact from officials and corporations
whose base ends the ptrty serves, they
could hire a whole army of paid tools to
reach everv class and conditions of
men within a day or two to spread
their literature, disseminate their cam
paign lies, or to socure workers at the
polls. Tbis is not true of the people's
Independent party. No corporation
with great wealth backs it up with
money and influence. No officers are
at hand upon whom tribute can be
levied to run a boodle campaign, even
if the party so desired.
But the independent party is pledged
to expunge this ungodly method cf
electioneering from the customs ot the
day by defeating all parties participant
in the nefarious practice.
This, then, being our motto, to con
duct pure campaigns like we would our
business, it leaves us with the one
modus operandi: A thorough organiza-
tioa of volunteer patriots who desire
good government and are willing to
work to bring about tbe blessed coo
summation. The speakers who stamped
the state for the independent ticket,
this fall, report ft very poor organiza
tion ia many of the count lee. This,
perhaps, more than any other one thing
accounts for tbe "stay at home vote"
thbifall. It is ft custom of political
conventions to effect a temporary or
ganization, then adjourn in order to
give the committee on credentials time
to make up a lUt of delegates, tbea per
fect the organization and at once pro
ceed to the nomination of candidates.
This is usually a long and Udious task.
After the convention wrestles with the
contests or scramble for nominations.
A i delegates begin to file out of the
convention hall. Tbe chairman then
screams at tbe top of his voice for
enough to remain in order that a central
committee may be chosen. The better
class of delegates go borne, while tbose
who perhaps are not good workers, re
main and ilace themselves upon tbe
central committee simply lo gain a lit
tle prestige or for base and ignoble pur
poses. Now to theremedy; When the coun
ty ctntral committees meet to call the
many county conventions, over the
state, let the committee recommend
that a committee of Ave be appointed
at tbe temporary organization whose
duty shall be to recommend to tbe con
vention the county central coiumitt e
for tbe ensuing year. Let them also
recommend that tbe committee be de
cided upon before a candidate Is nom
inated. If this is done good men can
be selected. It never caa be done in a
hurry. The chairman, secretary and
treasurer of the county central com
mittee should be selected at the first
meeting of the new organization and
only with the unanimous consent of the
candidates nominated. This is the
time of the year when such questions
should be discussed through the press
and at our fireside talks. No personal
motives can prompt any such sugges
tions at this time. Next year we can
win in Nebraska, if we work. We can
not work properly unless we all pull
together and to one common end. A
discussion of this question in the inde
pendent press of tho stato, may do a
world of good for tho party in tho next
campaign. What say you brethren?
LESSONS OF LIFE.
It Is the htrvest-horuo, Thanksgiving
season again, and ntxt week comes the
anniversary of that first Thanksgiving
day when the pilgrim fathers and the
red men, amid gathered provisions,
gave heartfelt tbauks to God for his
abundant gifts. It, is lilting it is well,
to observe it in a worshipful way, and
throughout the nation. The harvests
are plenteous and none should be
forced to go cold or hungry with enough
stored for all, and to spare.
We havo spocial reason to thank the
Great Giver this year, for while sending
us "rain from heaven and a fruitful
season, tnat we might nave "ioou ana
gladness," others have been denied
these priceless glf U, aud in consequence
are starving. The lesson we should
learn from this is, that God has made
men and nations dependent on each
other. It is His will that we should
help each other, share with each other,
care lor each other. Keruslng to do
this we have good reason to fear that
each will be forced to take his turn at
suffering. The rich sometimes fiud
that their riches have taken wings, and
they learn then in the school of expert
eace to sympathize with the poor. It
would be wiser to sympathize while
they have the wherewith to help theni
in the hard struggle of life, and to learn
that truth which so few believe, that
it Is more blessed to give than to re
ceive."
Thanksgiving day will be ten times
happier to us if we divide with some
one who is too poor to have a feast.
And "let not thy right hand know what
thy left hand doeth." There are many
poor who do not wish to be treated as
beggars. Order a turkey or a ton of
coal for them, you who have abundance;
have the gifts sent with no word from
whom it comes; and by somo strange
mysterious power you will find follow
ing into your heart a joy answering to
that which tho hungry children feel
who gathor to enjoy your gills. And
there will go up to heaven from that
family for their unknown friend prayer
as incense, and God and the angels
will know whose name to put in it. We
sometimes are foolish enough to think
religion is a solemn, joyless state; but
this is the essence of it all, all that God
accepts. What we do for the poor, the
suffering, the oppressed, the afflicted,
we do for Hitn. And we find, that in
S3 doing we have the jov of the angels.
OUR STORY.
Wo this week publish the opening
chaptei-s of "Her Fathers Victim," a
new story that will be found full of in
tercst It deals with pioneer western
life and is founded on facts coming un
der the personal observation of the au
thor while in western Kansas a few
years ago.
The evils of our present financial
system are portrayed in a vivid manner
and the power of money ,to oppress is
clearly and forcibly shown.
In the hardships and trials of Mr.
Green's family th reader will readily
recognize ft counter part to the expert
ences of hundreds of those who helped
to make tie "American desert "blosom
as the rose.
In reflecting oa the recent election
the Dodge County Leader truthfully re
marks:
Roggen knew what he was talking
about when he claimed the republican
party couldn't elect a man in this state
without Rosewater's help. L. D. Rich
ards feels the truth of this as much as
any man in Nobraska. It must be
highly gratifying to the respectable ele
ment in the republican party to know
that a little Bohemian Jew is supreme
dictator in their party.
TBE REASON FOi IT.
How is it that with suck boostifal
harvests gathered ia and placed upoa
the markets the pulse of trade continue
so feeble?
It has astonished many who bave en
deavored to explain it after reading
Dun's week'y report. The New York
Tribune has no'ed it and tried to show
cause; business men everywhere bave
been disappointed and perplexed by it;
and the laboring classes who expected
plenty of work at g od wares to carry
tbem through the winter, are in di'oib
distress.
The moving of the crops should move
everything else. It should set every
spindle flying, every wheel turning,
every merchant jumping, every band to
some useful, needed work. It should
act ait the year's motive power, insuring
plenty of everything for everybody and
making a demand for all kinds of use
ful labor. Yet purchases in tbe west
are light compared with what they
should be, and work in the manufac
turing centers is affected by the fall,
slowly emptied wholesale and retail
markets.
Let us brush aside the senseless
theories of partisian politicians and get
at the facts, which can alone explain
commercial debility at a time when the
warehouses, stores and factories are
full.
Tbe farmers have sent to market a
considerable portion of their crops
What did they do with the money? It
was in Urge part used to pay interest
on mortgages, deferred payments, chat
tel mortgage loans and machinery notes.
Only a little of this money after leaving
their hands was exchanged for goods.
Tbe most of it was locked up in safes to
re loan or was sent east to swell tbe
bank accounts of rich men who would
keep it for speculation. The railroad
freights obsorbed also much toe large a
portion of the money value of the crops
carried to market and thin money mot-t
of It went east to those who could not
therewith increase their power of con
sumption. These facts show the chiel
causes of full glutted markets and
workers in want.
But there is one evil in our present
commercial system which is the fruitful
source of all evils that afflict society. It
is the tacit understanding that each
may get all be can, the belief that tbe
interest of buyer and seller are not the
same. II equal values wcr always ex
changed, whether the exchanges were
of labor for labor, labor for money,
labor for goods, money for goods or
money for money, we should havo a
circulation balanced, just, complete,
continuous. Ho who gives less for a
commodity or a service than it is worth
makes it impossible for the man he has
legally or Illegally defrauded to buy
back as much labor as he has given, and
so the demand for (roods and labor is
by tho amount that he is defrauded
lessened. The sum of all business in
justices of these various kinds is the
sum of all injuries that over -reaching
greed does to commerce and society.
That the few may be enriched and live
without laborthe many are forced to
over-work' and suffer privation, or be
thrown out of work to beg or starve.
That a party may draw interest forever,
the rest are enslaved forever. That a
few may amass wealth they cannot use.
tbe masses must live iu uncertainty and
the ceaseless suffering of anxiety.
The markets are emptied by con
sumers. They cannot be emptied un
less the people can buy back as much
value, labor concealed into goods, hs
they turned in. If the farmers get only
half what their crops are wortb, they
can buy only half what they should, so
tho demand for work in factory, shop
and elsewhere Is enormously lessened.
We are bound up together, and the in
jury of one is the injury of all. All
honest workers should therefore stand
together and work to secure laws
which shall dispossess the few of their
special privileges and secure justice to
all.
With Our Exchanges.
The Spokane, Wash., Industrial World,
speaking of the evils and cruelty of the
present competitive system says:
" Take a man with ever so generous
or noble a nature ana piace mm as
owner or master, or overseer of a
factory or coal mine, or any similar
enterprise in this cruel, competitive in-
' i .
austnai k.ysihiu ui uui bk buu yuu
will BinK mm to me moral level
of a
Satan."
Speaking of freight rates the North
Platte Era puts it this way:
We drink high freight rates in our
coffee and tea. We wear high freight
on our backs, feet and heads. Every
article of food on our tables which is
not produced in this county is seasoned
with hieh freight rates before consump
tion. Every bushel of wheat or corn
snipped east has a "high freight rate"
label on It. Ail kinds of farming lm
pleinems bear the high freight rate
mark. It is time for delivcrence from
this blood sucking internal tax.
A few years ago greenbacks were
termed "depreciated currency" and
gold and silver brought ft premium.
Now silver Is called depreciated cur
rency. If a few car loads of gold
should be found next week the money
kings would stop the coining of gold.
Any thing to lessen the value of cur
rency so that the rate of interest may
run high and the prices of produce run
low. touch are tho laws that Wall
street wants. H. U". Hardy in New Re
public. What is the matter with the repub
lican board of transportation? What
have they done that the republican pa
pers of the state want to smoother' them
with a wet horse blanket? York County
Independent.
When a farmers declines to take a
reform newspaper by saying "I hayent
time to read," just tell him that the
politician has time to read; that the
banker has time to read; that the rail
road king has time to read; that all the
schemers, plunderers and Sbylocks of
the money power have time to read
And if the farmer doesn't want his
cause kicked out of tho political field
he jiust take time to "read up" his side
of I be question. Fact are as emeotial
to s vmt as tmmnnition is to ft hunter.
Kememb T I bat there U big game to he
brought down, and it nott ie dona by
inteli gent work at tbe ballot box.
Luciui Got in the Chicago Express.
Kansas used to be called the banner
republican state and yet the repub.
press is crowing over the election ot a
few county offices and district juge
on d-nio repub. fvtsion tickets. How
are the mighty fallen! llomStttard
Indtptndtnt.
Why is it that so much energy and
such untiring efforts are being made
against the Alliance, if there is nothing
to be gained by the farmers as ft result
of the purposes to consummate? W by
is it that monopolists are unstinted in
their use of funds to destroy and anni
hilate it, unless they are to be benefici
aries of that result? They well know
that the power of the organization in its
unity of purpose is the most formidable
enemy to their interests which has ever
confronted them. They know if they
could disorganize, that tbey could
demoralize and scatter; and by the
division that would follow, that thev
could essily carry out their purposes.
Then if that is true of monopolists, is it
not equally truo that the interests of al!
oilieiaare with the Alliance, who are
not of tbe monopolists? That is the
tight. There is where the dividing line
is drawn. Every farmer realizes it.
Those of all other vocations should
realize it and be controlled by it.
Rushcille Sun.
When you hear a man lamenting that
the independent party has no man cap
able of leading it, just call his attention
to the Declaration of Independence,
which declares all men equal, and ask
him if it does not refer to political or
legal equality. Then point bim to the
thousauds of unpolished men, who like
Abiaham Lincoln, have noble minds
and hearts, and are thinking for them
selves. Then remind him that our re
volutionary fathers who so uob'y met
and vanquished the power of oppression
were "minute meu," aroused by their
sense of duty, and nerved to almost
superhuman ability and endurance, by
the great necessity or tneir ume. teo
pie i Poniard Sidney.
The Montezuma, (Ga ,) Record, :i
s aunch people's party paper, has
heard of "calamity howlers" and re
marks:
The man who dares to tell the truth
from tbe people's party standpoint is a
"calamity shneker," but how about the
republican census commissioner, Mr.
Porter, whose official reports make the
uiattei much werse thau the people's
party had supposed?
Lunatics.
The famous Brooklyn divine, Dr.
Talmnge, on the first Sunday in the
present month makes use of the state
ment, "And let modern lunatics who in
America propose handing over tele
graph companies and railroads and
other things to be run by the govern
mcnt ee the folly of letting the govern
ment get its hand on everything." A
tew weeks ago he told his hearers how
the great grand and noble railroad
company furnished his worshipful rev
erence a palace car with unlimited
stopover and other privileges tor hi
pleasure trip over these gigantic plains,
that groan under the wealth of a down
trodden army of slaves, who toil that
such dead-heads as he may make
triumphal marches through the land,
and that the sellisli monopolists who
run the roads may indulge their idle
and lavish prodigality. How much
better is Talniago than the honest
laborer, who by his patient toil and
self sacrifice subdues to the uses of civ
ilization these stretches and makes
them to bloom as the rose, that he
should have a free pass aad ride .in
royal pomp and see only the gilded side
of tho picture?" Had he the heart of a
man, to say nothing of the charity of a
Christian, and if he would go out among
the burdened people who have made it
possible for these monopolists to favor
the rich and grand, he would denounce
their high-handed robbery and elo
quently advocate government control
of the means of transportation and com
munication. How very complimentary
to the outraged people of the west who
dare to raise their voice against outrage
and oppression the Dr. is! We are
lunatics forsooth.
If this were a government of, for and
by the people, as he would doubtless
insist, and not of the wealthy classes,
for them and by them, it would cer
tainly indicate the wildest lunacy in any
man to compare our government with
that of Egypt in the early dawn of time,
as he does in tho aforementioned ser
mon, in which he endeavors to draw
lsssons, and show parallel to our gov
ernment. He argues that because
Pnaraoh (a monopolist of labor and a
despot) enslaved the Israelites, and put
tbem to the severest toil on tbe poorest
fare when he got control of the pubiio
works in general, our government would
do likewise, should the lunatics (us
calamity howlers) turn over to it tne
railroads, telegraph and phonts as we
bave the postal business. Doubtless the
sago Dr. would take from the hands of
government the postal service and vest
. .. . ; . : i i i
it in tne nanus ui private tuuiviuuais so
that rates of postagu should steadily
and rapidly increase instead of tho re
verse. His philosophy isthat we appre
ciate things according to their cost. i. e.
A thing that costs us nothing is woith
nothing or less.
According to his own philosophy, of
what value was his last summer s trip
in his free palace car? He supposed
that he was having a gay time at the ex
pense of his rich K. R. friends. He did
not look beyond the surface and behold
the bending back of the sturdy western
toiler striving in vain to preserve his
mortgaged home and at the same time
Eay the traveling expenses of tho liev.
r. who sneers at him and calls him
lunatic. He is evidently ignorant of
the fact that labor only is pioductive of
wealth, and that speculation is only a
very slight retinemement of peculation.
Christ scourged the money changers
from the temple .and called it a don of
thieves, because of their presence. He
also portrays the impossibiliay of a rich
man's entering heaven. He did not
take 8 jmuier vacations and revel in the
luxuries proffered by the rich, who had
wrested their substance from the poor.
His time was fully occupied in healing
the sick, ministering to the needy and
impressing on the people the eternal
truths of God, among which these stood
very prominent in his teachings; That
tbe drunkard and the rich man cannot
attain heaven.
Is he a Christian preacher whose
mouth cau be sealed on these subjects
by a free pass on ft palace car, and the
othr fact that bis Immense salary is
made op in part from tbe sale of poison,
the sale of which is legalized through
the votes of unchristian cuurch mem
bers who j tin hand in hand with certain
til hops and uncertain bums and thug
of the vilest type in preserving the na
tional iniquity of drunkard-making?
If preachers were out icnsuans:
When tbe bribe was offered to Christ He
replied: Get tbee behind me Satan; and
Satan got. When Ta image was offered
a palace car, at whose expense be
neither knew nor cared, be failed to
imitate the great Teacher whom be says
is bis master. The "Apostle of Sun
shine" accepted the bribe and viewed
with del ght our fertile plains ft lana
flowing with milk and honey and he
sneers at us as lunatics for wanting a
part of tbe products of our toil. 1 be
idea of course is preposterous undtr
this government of tbe rich, and to
him as well as the railroad cormorants
mu9tM-m very, very funnv indeed.
'To tbe French nabobs ft hundred years
ago the idea of i be peasants wanting a
little share in the fruits of their labor
was also extremely funny, and they de
nied the lunatics any share in those
fruits. But tbe nabob's nrgbty merri
mentwas answered by that merrier
maid, La Guillotine They paid for
their cruel fun with their lives, and tbe
peasant asserted hi independence aud
secured his natural right to the fiuits
of his toil. But the itu-som of history
teem to fail to impress the rich, whether
in the pulpit or out. So warped do
they become by their insatiate greed
and their fun over the agonies of the
oppressed that nothing short of death
at the hands of justice avtils.
Br Onk of 'Em.
Relics of the Telegraph.
The YTtstern Union Telegraph Com
pany is endeavoring to secure, for ex
hibition at tbe World's Fair the slip
bearing the first message sent by
Morse's telegraph as it actually was
recorded by the instrument.
Another telegraphic relic of the same
nature which should be exhibited at
the World's Fair can hardly be ob
tained from the Duke of Wellington.
This is the original slip of the first
message that was sent from one coun
try to another through a wire laid un
der the sea. Such a relic, in the lij'ht
of the wonderful development of sub
marine telegraphy, certainly equals in
historical interest the first message
sent by Morse's telegraph. Early in
the year 1850 the first submarine ca
ble was laid between England and
France. The cable consisted merely
of an insulated wire without any ex
ternal protection, and it was hastily
made and laid so that telegraph
communication between the two
countries might be estabhshsd,
even if only for a few hours, in order
to save tho franchise, which was about
to expire. Mr. F. C. Webb, the veteran
submarine cable engineer, was then a
a midshipman in the royal navy, and
his ship being anchored off Dover when
the tug started the cable toward Cal
ais, he secured permission to accom
pany the expedition. The wire was
laid down without mishap, leaden
weights being attached to it at inter
vals to sink it to the bottom.
When the instruments were con
nected up it was found that the cable
answered its purpose admirably, and
the tape soon began to How torth at
the receiving end. those in charge ot
the line were about to destroy the
slip; but Mr. Webb, being of an arch
aeological turn of nnnu, ano? foreseeing
that one day such a relic would have
great historical interest, carefully
folded up the piece bearing the first
messnce and labeled it for preserva
tion. The cable only lasted a few
liours, ns on the following day a
French fisherman picked it up with
his anchor and straightway chopped
it in two.
The famous Duke of Wellington was
at that timo lord warden of tbe cm
que ports, and was residing at Wal
mer Castlo, near Dover. During a
visit to the Commander of Mr. Webb's
ship, the Iron Duke heard of the relic
which Mr. Webb had secured and ex
pressed some interest in it, and the
result was that the relic chanced
hands, Mr. Webb making a present of
it to the Duke.
It is well known that tho fnmous
general preserved his papers and other
possessions in the most systematic
manner, and it is probable that, the
present Duke of Wellington will be
able to find the message, and would
no doubt lend it for exhibition at the
World's Fair, if asued to do so.
Electricity.
The Edison Motor.
"In the course of a few years the
locomotive of today will be but rare
ly seen," said Guneral Superintendent
Collins, of tho Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul road, in speaking of Inventor
Edison's latest project in the electric
motor line. "The companies will be
quick enough to take it up for their
own use, as every one is on the alert
for progression and will gladly wel
come anything new nnd practical, as
1 tiiink tins motor is."
Assistant General Manager Wood,
of the Chicago & Alton road, thought
the invention would revolutionize
traffic, but the cost it would save
would be needed to keep the roadbeds
in repair.
"The higher rate of speed an engine
travels," he said, "tho heavier and
more firm must tho roadbed be. The
expense of constantly attending to
the roadbed, the ballast, the rails and
ties would about eat up nil that
could be saved by lessening the run
ning expenses. Mr. Julison h.s a
great invention and the railroads of
the country will eventually take it up
but I think it will be some time before
they do. There nro so many engines
in use nnd they represent such an
enormous expenditure of money that
railroad companies will not be in too
great baste to set them aside. But as
the old ones wear out tho new motors
Mill take their place."
The Probabilities of a Celestial
Cataclysm.
A German astronomer, nerr Jager,
bos arrived at tho conclusion, based
upon observations mndo by Mona
Horinann on the movement of 40 stars
in the visual region, that the solar
system, with reference to tha relative
positions of the visible stars, moves
with a velocity of 20 miles per second
the mean speed of t he so-called fixed
stars being about 27 miles per eecond,
llerr Jaeer goes further: by means ol
cnlculationsnnaloiious to those of the
kinetic theory of gas, lie estimates
that each star encounters another in
328 billions of billions of years.. Tha
probabilities of a celestial cataclysm
consequent upon tne impact oi two
or more sidereal bodies are tucreion
apparently very remote Iron.
SOI SOLID FACTS.
Not To Be Read Unlets Yon Have Time
to Think.
If You Would Do Yourself a Service and
Us a Favor, Study These Points
Carefully.
When the working voters of the coun
try come to fully understand tbe money
question they will do this: Demone
tize silver and gold, and by constitu
tional amendment provide for tbe issue
of such an amount of non-redeemable
treasury notes as shall raise the price of
goods in general to a level previously
determined upon, this level to be main
tained tiy ft regular increase of the cir
culation to any amount that may be
uecwiarj ; iuis curreucv no De ft full,
and the only legal tender, and receiv
able by the government for all dues.
' a
Is tbe present standard dollar ft just
dollar? No. A just dollar is station
ary dollar, one that neither appreciates
nor deprteiates Our sUfcdard dollar
has been steadily appreciating for the
past fifteen years. It will never be ft
just dollar until it has depreciated to an
equal extent. It can only he depreciat
ed by what is called an Inflation of the
currency. Inflation is the natural and
only remedy for appreciation Remem
ber that money is not wealth, but only
the tool that exchanges it.
How much money is required by the
people of this nation for the most eco
nomical exchange of products, and for
all business purposes! No living man
can tell.
How shall we find it out?
By experiment.
Determine first what shall be the pur
chasing power of a dollar as measured
by all staple commodities.
men turn on a supply of legal tender
treasury notes until the proper level is
reached, and maintain it in the same
manner.
Thus and thus only can this most im
portant fact be determined.
The advantage of money is derived
wholly from the using of it. It is worth
less as a possession; of no use to him
who cannot spend it. Therefore, all
that we can desire in money is that its
buying power shall be constant and
continuous. If money be redeemed we
lose the use of it. Redemption is not
the life of money, but the death of it.
If we can be assured that a certain piece
of money will never be redeemed, but
will be renewed when worn, and that
its buying power shall neither increase
nor grow less, but remain constant, we
have then a perfect piece of money, no
matter wnat it is made of. The buying
power of money cannot remain constant
unless there be a gradual, lawful and
systematic increase of the quantity in
circulation equal to tne increase oi
business transactions; that is. occasions
for the use of money.
Silver and gold coins manufactured
at the mint, of required weight and
fineness, are a constitutional currency.
United Stales Supreme Court.
Except in speculative and gambling
transactions, all loans are loans of
wealth, accomplished by means of the
instrument called money, and all debts
paid aro paid with wealth, money being
used merely to transfer the wealth from
the debtor to tbe creditor.
So long as the debtor class confines
itself to the labor of producing the
wealth out of which it must pay its
debts, and leaves to tho creditor cla.s
the business of making the money which
must be used in debt-paying, the aggre
gate am Cunt of their debts will never
be smaller.
It has been found necessary for those
who vote to attend also to the counting
of the ballots. It is just as important
that those who pay the debts ehould
also attend to the making of the money.
The most momentous fact in the
world. It is entirely within the right
and the power of those citizens who
Owe THIKTV BILLIONS Of DOLLAKS. to
make the money which they shall use in
paying this enormous sum, and to de
termine its purchasing power. How to
de this at one and the same time pre
venting extortion and doing justice
can be learned by reading The Farm
ers' Alliance.
The Realm of Fire.
Tho general aspect of the intcrtor of
a converting-house at night is at once
startling and grandly impressive. Here
heat, flame, nnd liquid metal are ever
present; locomotives whistle and puff,1
dragging with clatter and clang huge
ladjes of molten iron; the lurid light,
flashing and flaming, that illuminates
the scene, throws shadows "so intense
ly black that they suggest the "black
fire" of Milton, for in such a place it
is impossible for a shadow to be cool;
half-naked, muscular men, begrimed
with sweat and dust, flit about; clouds
of steam arise from attempts
to cool in some degree the
roasting earth of the floor: con
verters roar, vibrate, and vomit
flames mingled with splashes of metal
from their white-hot throats; at in
tervals the scorching air is filled with
a rain of coruscating burning iron;
ingot molds lift mouths parched with
a thirst that can only be appeased
for a short time by streams of liquid
sleel that run gurgling into them;
Ihe stalwart cranes rise, swing, and!
fall, loading scores of tons of red-hot!
steel upon cars of iron; all these con-l
ditions and circumstances combine to
make an igneous total more sugges
tive of the realm! of Pluto than any
other in the whole range of the metal
lurgic arts. Popular Science Month
iy. .
Kggs Boiled without Fire,
A new method of boiling eggs with
out either fire or hot water has been
invented by a Frenchman. "In a
little iron vessel of some kind," reads
the recipe, put your egg or eggs with a
small piece of quick Time. By the
means of a stout string lower this
into a pit. Two minutes later pull it
up and yon will discover your cgs to
be cooked to a turn. - -