THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY DEC. 17, 1891.
TW1SONQ OF THE PROLETAIRE.
fDaoteaUd to U voritrra of Ux
world, Vy Tom O'tUUly.J
mo ppraori I (mm your lumbars,
Uttoa to pooplc'i cttI
Bark! Cnited, rountlon numbers
BwvU tko pd of .
1 boas labor, soot and daugfatara, i
la Ui depttia of mierf,
Like tka aound of nwor water.
Cornea tha cry: "Wa iU be trea!"
Cornea the cry: "We will be free!"
Cornea tba cry : "We will be free I
Xyrenta quail! Pawn ia breaking
Dawn of freedom' a glorioua day:
on hit throne ia quaking,
i banda are giving way.
kingcraft, black oppression
Cannot bear our scrutiny,
9mr we've learned tbe startling leasoa:
That if we will, we can be free!
That if we will, we can be free!
That if we will, we can be free!
Cjy ear own, oar ehildreu'i chart,
By tbe flre within our veins,
Vy each trntb-attoiting martyr.
By oar txars, our groans and pains,
9f oor right by nature given,
By tbe voice of liberty,
1T proclaim before high heaven
That we will, wa must be free!
TUmt we will, we most lie free!
That we will, we most be free!
Wiadi asd waves the tidings carry;
Etectra, lu yonr fiery car,
Viaged with lightning, do not tarry,
Bean the news to lands afar:
Bid ttem sound tbe thrilling story,
loader than the thunder's glee,
t people ripe for glory
Are determined to be free!
Are determined to be free t
Are determined to be free I
Journal of the Knightsof Labor
Lei Tbeaa Come.
At its recent meeting the state Dem
cratla executive committee decided
f open up ft campaign of education
the old ex-congressmen to act aa in.
structors. This is ia line with tbe
program marked out by Wall street,
that men already owned by the Shy.
lock, and who have been trained to
do their bidding, must again enter the
lists at their masters' bidding. Truly
toe leaders of Democracy are retro
grading. What would be thought of
teaching our army to use the javelin,
, assegai and bow and arrow In place of
modern appliances of war? bend out
these old barnacles to teach the peo
ple) of Tennessee, and see how soon
, their shriveled remains will be shat
tered by contract with the rUlng gen
eration of men who will thluk and act
for themselves. Send them out and
let the people see under the strong
tight of truth and intelligence what
hideous shapes and decrepit frauds
they have nourished in bygone days,
that they may understand whence
flomes the blight that Has wrecked our
tate. Array them in purplo and fine
tinea, and send them among the farm
ers to do battle for the tottering hlor-
rchy that parades as the Democrats
party, that with their dofoat shall ex
pire the lost hold of that rotten and
corrupt ring upon the people, while
freed from the tentacles of fraud and
'corruption that now strangles every
honest effort to free Itsolf, the pure,
new democracy will come to the front
as the champion of tho people, and
obliterate from the records the foul
wrongs perpetrated by reckless dema
gogues in the name of tho old Demo
cratic party.
Such a reformation must be worked
oat in the Democratic party of Ten
settee or a third party is inevitable.
The people are aroused as nevor bo
fere, and the attempt to lull them into
quiet by sending among them men as
teachcrj whose doctrines they repu
diated years ago at the polls, can not
fail to bring the contest botweon the
people and the self-styled, self-appointed
leaders of Tennessee Democ
racy to a speedy termination. Let
them come! Alliance Advocate,
Teas.
POLITICAL INTOLERANCE.
aWMeale and Abuse Flit th Flaoe
of
Argument Tow.rJ th Alliance.
The Heme Journal, Houston, Geor
gia has the following to say on politi
es! Intolerance.
It is always commendable to advo
cate with courage the convictions of
principle that are held to be true. In
argument and action newspapers and
men should give unmistakable evldonco
af the faith that is in them. But this
courage and this evidence should be
shown in a conservative way.
Surely it would be a disaster if all
tnon were alike in thought and action.
As no man is perfoct, and all are liable
to err, none should be intolerant in
discussing the contrary opinions en
tertained by others.
Every editor should es press fear
lessly his convictions ot riglitnnd duty,
but the honesty of contrary opinions
should not be discredited without suf
Solent cau.
It is unpleasant to note the growing
tendency of editor ana politicians to
displace argument with ridicule and
abuse la combatting opinions with
which they do not agree. This is not
only wrong in principle, but it is hurt
ful in practice. Our people are en
dowed with reason, and an appeal to
that attribute is more apt to be effect
ive in combatting an error.
It is especially to be regretted that
the discussions in Georgia for and
gainst tho political opinions enter
tained by the Alliance have been harsh
and intolerant on both sides.
There is positively no need of intol
erance, ridicule or abuse.
If tbe sub- it'easnry plan, or any
ether demand of the Alliance, be re
corded as unsound In principle, unsafe
r hurtful in practice the opposition
should be fearloss in argumentative
form, but not discourteous. The hon
esty of a man or measure should not
be publicly attacked unless there is
ample proof to sustain the attack. It
is not right, nor good policy, for us to
regard and' proclaim every man an
eaemy who entertains opinions diffler
eat from these we believe are correct
On the other hand the Alliance lead
ers have been entirely too apt to dis
credit the movements of all those ed
itors and public men who cannot en
dorse their political platform in its en
tirety. By argument they should
prove that their demands are replete
with intrinsic merit, and freighted
with good for the people. The man
who cannot adopt the Alliance plat
form is not necessarily an enemy, and
should not te so regarded.
Intolerance and abuse never suc
ceeded in harmonizing any people in
mar line of action. - ,
Thla intolerance of contrary opinion
vili surely act to estransre the Allian.ce
people from the Democratic paHy u
persisted in. Also tbe intolerance of
the AllUnce leadeis will serve to drive
away Democratic sympathy, and the
difference will become greater, to tbe
political hurt of both tbe Alliance and
the Democratic party.
There should Le no conservatism in
the discussion of all questions pertain
ing to the publio good political and
otherwise. Firmness and truth should
be shown, but there Is no proper place
for epithets la dealing publicly with
men or measures.
Intolerance, abuse and ridicule are
not the weapons of reason, and often
assist the cause against which they
are used.
Let us prove that our opinions are
correct, and not depend for success
upon abuse of those who do not agree
with us. .
Intolerance is never commendable.
Bonds or Wealth, Which.
That there is a change necessary in
our financial system, and that there is
urgent necessity for an increase in the
amount of currency in circulation.
seems to be admitted by all classes,
by private citizens as well as by pub
lio ofllcers, by the press and people,
and by many of our sonators and rep
resentatives in congress. But just
here tho point of divergence begins.
as to the means by which the desired
end shall te accomplished. Senator
Butler, In his speech at Prosperity and
liutesburg, dwelt strongly upon the
idea of removing tho 10 por cent tax
on state banks and allowing them to
issue currency two dollars for every
one of capital. Congressman Tillman
has also suggested the same thing, but
botneeom to forgot or Ignore the past
experience of tho country with state
banks of issue. But now comes Con
gressman Hemphill in his recent Lan-
caster speech, and proposes that this
10 per cent lax be removed and that
these banks be allowed to issue cur
rency based upon state and county
bonds as a batls. This is the under
lying principle of the national bank
ing system and appoars to us faulty
and vicious because it permits the
state to bank upon the evidenea of its
debt and not upon its wealth. Why
should this be done? Why is it nec
essary to nave bonds as a basis of cir
culation why should the stato issue
currency based upon what it owes?
This appears to be a very anomulous
way of doing business and not accord
ing to sound buslttossi principles. No
private individuals would even think,
much less attempt; to do business
based upon his debts, for it he did he
would be thought to be a fit subject
for the lunatic asylum, and no more
can we see any reason why the gov
ernment should lssuo currency based
upon Us ueuts man tno individual
should do business upon his debts.
The greater tho wealth and property
of the individual the larger and safer
business he may do, and as the gov
ernment is behind all wealth and has
the power to tax it, why not issue a
currency based directly upon that
wealth? And why not Issue it diroctly
to the people who hold that wealth?
Why should it bo necessary to issue a
bond, an evldonco of a lieu upon that
woulth, before a dollar can be put la
circulation. -People's Advocate, South
Carol! - I
THE BA8IS OF ALL VALUE.
Land la the Barest and Rarest of All
Our
eeurtt!e.
Some pooplo say that it won't do for
the government to loan money on
lands, that landu are not good security.
The secretary of the treasury recom
mends that national bunks be allowed
to purchase and deposit with the treas
ury bonds of the loading railroads and
other strong corporations of the coun
try, for tbe purpose of a basis for the
national banking currency. Now
comos tho Jarvis Conklin Mortgage
TruBt company, tho biggest farm
mortgage company on earth, with its
annual report and says:
The market value of Beventy-seven
railroad stocks listed on the Now York
stock exchange shrank in value the
onormous sum of (421,128,805 bolow
the market value of said stock six
months ago; and it is estimated that
within that period tho market valuo
of all stocks listed on the New York
stock exchange deproeintod in value
(050,000,000, or 20 per cent of their
value six months ago. It is with a
reasonable degree of satisfaction that
the directors of this company call at
tention to the fact that the market value
of this company's debentures did not
becomo reduced in value 1 por cent
Land, the basis of these securities,
is ultimately also tho basis of all
values, and while there are periods
when it depreciates, it can never be
entirely wiped out and must always
Anally return to its true and normal
voyio.
The actual shrinkage in railroad
values in six months was about two
and a half times the amount of all the
national bank notes in circulation in
the entire country. A shrinkage of
20 per cent in six months looks as If
such a banking basis would be rather
hazardous. But what about land mort
gages (debenture bonds)? Not a
shrinkage Of one cent National banks
are prohibited by law Irom loaning
money on lands, but when this great
trust company makes its own bonds
and puts up from mortgage collaterals,
bearing 10 per cent interest tho bonds
bocame bankable at a lower rate ot
Interest and the company is enabled to
uso Its capital over and over again.
Why? Because lauds are the best
security in the world and there
can be no loss. They say that
land In the ultimate basis of all val
ues, which Is correct; there are, nor
can there be, any values not ultimately
bosod on land. The next safest and
surest value upon which all other val
ues are based is the product ot land
from labor applied, the articles abso
lutely necessary to feed and clothe the
human family and of a non-perishable
character, wheat corn and other things
for breadstuffs, and cotton and wool
for raiment The one is the basis
from which springs all human needs.
the other, the essentials, the needs
themselves; without these there are
no other values. On such basis the
Farmers' Alliance are advocating the
issue ot currency, the medium ot ex
change of values between the people.
Can there be anything better? Na
tional bonds are used for such pur
poses, but they r.re based on the land
and its products or otherwise would
be worthies Why should there be
any dodging ot the facts when they
are so patent to the veriest simpleton?
n ny Bnouid tnore be built up a flcu-
uous nasi, which has Of itself no
value when tbe absolute values are at
hand to every creature? No! the
basis is too broad, loo certain, too un
changeable too indestructible for the
men who class themselves as finan
ciers and usually direct tbe policy of
national finances. Sucb a system
would br.ag the government and peo
ple too near together, and do room
would be left for the manipulations of
values and the accumulation of wealth
by intrigue instead of labor. Hence
the opposition of banks and all other
chtsee who subsist upon the labor of
others. But there never will be either
justice or equity to the 'producing
classes until they overthrow the pres
ent system erected for their robbory.
This is the mission of tbe Far men
Alliance. Arkansas Farmer.
Wall Street Paper Blebee.
The vice of the Wall street method
ot estimating values is displayed in
the estimate of the New York Journal
of Finance, that in addition to their
crops tbe farmers of Minnesota and
the Dakotas are (200,000,000 dehor
this year through the appreciation of
their holdings. It is plain that the
farmers thus enriched (en paper) have
exactly tho same real property as be
fore. The value of that property,
like that of Kansas farmers, is deter
mined by its average productiveness
and the average price it commands,
not for a single year, but for one year
with anothor. Yet because ono big
crop has been gathered the Wall street
idea mark up values (200,000.000
and bids the farmers roll in this
imaginary wealth. Farmers may be
a little wild in some of their financial
notion but they aro not so silly as to
be carried away by the paper riches
produced on the Wall street plan.
Atchison Champion.
Does It Beeauae II Fays.
There-would not bo enough of
either or both the precious metals to
satisfy the demand if everybody
wanted redemption of the paper cur
rency at the same moment, but it Is
well known that such a simultaneous
demand is practically impossible, and
this fact renders it safe to use the pa
per in business transactions, though
that paper would be worthless if not so
redeemable at the will of the in
dividual holder."
What a monumental liar! As if that
very thing does not occur every time
there is a panlo and suspension of
specie. When the . "Monumental" of
the Chicago Tribune gets oil one like
that he says, Phew! nothing but tho
thought of my big salary enables me
to lie thus." 6 to (10,000 a year
covers a multitude of such sins. The
Sentinel.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES.
The IWIlroidi Are Vnprofltable Not Bs
canta the Rate Are Low.
The truth is and it is time tho In
vestigating public should be told the
truth it is n;t the so-called "granger
laws," nor the interstate law, nor the
acts of commissions ' which have re
duced the rates of transportation to
tho present unprofitable level, but the
mismanagement of the companies,
declares President Sticknoy in the
Railway Problem." For more than
twenty years the managements of
Western railways have been engaged
in the prosecution of rato wars in
which it was impossible to decide
which was acting on tho offensive and
which on the defensive. Each mana
ger has surroundod himself with a
standing army of freight and passon
ger agents, contracting agents, solic
iting agents, advertising agents, trav
eling agents, clerks, typewriters and
runnors. In every important city,
and in many unimportant towns, de
tachments of each of the companies
have been permanently quartered, oc
cupying the most expensive odlees'at
the most conspicuous corners ot the
most important streets. Hardly a day
has passed during twenty years
without active engagements in
each, jf city in which all the
forcos have boon under fire. No ex
ponso has been spared to equip them
with the latest and most expouslve
arms. The arts ofjthe printer, the
lithographer, and the engravers on
wood nnd steel have been exhausted.
Theatre tickets, credits at livery
stables, and "et ceteras, " havo been
supplied without stint; and "no ques
tions asked." These expenses of the
tanding armies have been enor
mous; but like all standing armies,
they are consumers and not producers.
All of them together have not in
twenty years produced a single ton of
freight Their whole duty is to get
the freight which others have pro
duced routed oyer their line, "honest
ly as thoy can, but got It" After two
nations have been at war until the re
sources ci both aro exhausted, and a
treaty of peace has boon conoludod,
the first step towards making it per
manent is to disband their armies or
at any rale withdraw them to tho in
terior. As long as they are on the
frontier, face to face under arms, no
continuous peace is expected.
irom time to time during the twen
ty years war, the chiefs have made
solemn , compacts -of peace. These
treaties have the necessary solemni
ties, but not once have they with
drawn or disbanded their forces. For
a few days at a time have they slept
with their guns loaded only to renew
the contest on the first pretext with
renewed vigor nnd destructiveness.
This has been the true cause of the
destruction of revenues, instead of
Granger laws" or "State Commis
sions."
The managers know it but they
have been too cowardly to avow it
Hast thou eaten of the troe whoreof I
commanded thee thou shouldst not
eat?" was demanded many years ago.
"And the man said, 1 he woman, whom
thou gavest to be with mo, she gave
me of the tree, and I did eat"
This sneaking, pusillanimous trait
of tho first man has descended through
more than two hundred generations of
men to the railway management of tho
nineteenth century. And the manage
ments said, "The laws and the com
missions, they gave mo of the tree and
I did eat"
The Farmers' Light: The subsid
ized press and moss-back politicians
want to know why the Alliance does
not talk more farmlug and lest poli
tics. The reason is very apparent
What is the use of talking farming
when it costs 10 cents to raise cotton,
and 'the power ot money to oppress"
takes it from .them at 7 cents. -
FORAM) ABOUT JY0ME
MATTERS OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THE LADIES,
Fabrics for Winter Table and
"ouaehold Decoration The
Secret Of Youth Emancipated-From
Boarding-
Houses
r ,
' Fabrics for Winter.
- The settled winter styles begin to
appear out of the demi-season's un
certainties. We can now speak with
absolute certainty of materials and
cut ot garments to be worn all the
season witli the knowledge that they
will remain in style. . t-
By all odds, the most beautiful
dress fabrics of the season are those
prepared lor the street. It fairly
makes one happy to see the rougli
cheviots and tweeds of North Britian
clothed with dyes that approach the
splendor of cashmere. The vigor of
Scotland appears in them, mingled
with the lire of the South. These
textures, so thick and warm, and at
the same time soft and dinging, are
the perfection of winter fabrics. Their
colors are rich, yet low toned and
harmonious; an artist's brush seems
to have laid them on. The salesmen
call then mixed effects." They have
for Vto most part grounds in
stripes, or broken spaces, of natural
brown and gray, which being of the
same tone, that is to say without con
trasting light and dark, make artistic
backgrounds for narrow lines of puro
color, and flaky dots of many hues,
which all combine into an agreeable
color combination. The way these
grounds are keyed in hue to orange, or
to red, or to whatever colors are
spread over them, so that instead of
being crude they are neat and glowing,
makes one take heart to believe that
we moderns are not, after all, quite
color blind. If any fault is to be tound
with these materials it is that there
are too many eccentric figures zigzags
and lightning effects, but the variety
is great and these can be avoided.
The winter cheviots and camel's
hair are simple colors mixed with
white in the weaving and are plain or
in broken figures of self color. These
white mixtures are more becoming
than dark solid colors. They run
through shacks enough, from greenish
pray to red, to satisfy the most exact-
lug UVSIUJICMVIJ A jL'l 1VL WJU
46-inch width run from $1.50 up
to $2.50 and $3. A very good one
may be had for the first price, and
though tho more expensive ones will
be richer, it is well enough for person's
with small pocket books to remember
that additional expense in quality
will not give one iota mon style.
Table and Household Decoration.
Separate centre cloths of linen with
decoration more or less elaborate in
fine needle-work and drawn work are
still well used, says the New York Sun.
The favorite designs for the centres
used at the ladies' lunch, that apothe
osis of daintiness in table festivals, is
in Dresden work. The tiny flower
sprays, like those on the china, scat
tered carelessly all over tho piece re
quire great skill in manipulation and
execution and faultless taste in their
color combinations.
Thepe sprays are often copied from
old Dresden bits by ladies clever in
drawing their own designs and in
Bhading the silks with which the de
signs are carried out.
Centers in heavy linen are very
effective for dinners when couched
with gold and with the background
Ash-scaled with white silk. The
couching is of the heavy Japanese
wash gold, which has on the silken
background the effect of gold brocade.
The hem is simply hemstitched, or
may be finished with a fall of lack.
Heavy or line sheer linens, sateens,
silk and bolting cloth are all used in
the centers, nnd newer than either of
these is a mk material culled "mail
cloth,'! which is specially adapted to
centre pieces because it is woven so
like huckabuck that darning is a
simple matter. It is decorated with a
bold design, either outlined or couched
a favorite color combination for
which is delicate green and white.
Another popular and pleasing centre
cloth decoration is that copied after
the old French fancies, wheregarlands
orprays of many-colored flowers are
caught and tied with bows of ribbon
in delicate blue or green or yel
low.
It was Oscar Wilde who first taught
the unletting Gentile soul that the
love of groen was typical on the sub
tle artistic temperament. And now
green is one of the lending tints in
household adornment. The daintiest,
freShest of boudoirs aro fitted out in
pale green and white muslin hangings
and couches and canopies, after the
style of the room Mme. Kecamieronce
lived and dreamed of conquests past
and to come. Usually the girl who in
habits this lily-of-the-valley retreat is
oj the blonde type, pale, stately and
passionless.
Green dinners nnd lunches are a
refreshing change from the more bril
liant floral and beribboned feasts.and
the latest outcome of this high educa
tion in the ethics of colors ia that the
fernery, with its cool verdure, mosses
is to supplant tno conservatory oi
tropical bloom in tho household.
The Secret of Youth.
People are apt to attribute haggard
looks to mental activity, and to coun
sel repose and tranquility as a cosme
tic.
To the thoughtful traveler the falsi-
tv of this theory is obvious. It is iii
the country village where the church
meetings is the theatre, the mail the
excitement, the days weeks, and one
can hearthecowsbreatheinthe death
ly stillness, that the greatest number
of sunken cheeks, wrinkled brows,
leaden complexion and lifeless ex
pressions are to be seen among the
womin yet fct their thirties. In the
seething metropolis, living three lives
and enjoying two, are to be found
scores of woman mothers orperhaps
grandmothers possessing all the vi
tality, freshness and much of the
bloom of earlv youth.
The fact is. it is not activity, but
drowsiness, the presence of sleeping or
dead,' thought in the soul, that is
aeiiig. savs a writer in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Unvaried scenes, the
repetition to-morrow of to-day,
tcxlay of yesterday, this wetk of the
preceding on, the ability to calculate
exactly what each neighbor is doing
at each hour of every day the inevit
able clock-like routine of existence,
the utter weariness of an empty
think-tank, that saps the vernal
springs of fife and creates decay in the
face.
Past grief, old angers, revenges, even
past pleasures constantly dwelt upon
all dead, decaying or decayed
thought, make a sepulcherof the soul,
a cemetery of the body, and weather
beaten monument of the face. This is
age.
But the women who never grow old
are the student women those who
daily drink in new chyle through
memorizing, thoroughly analyzing,
and perfectly assimilating subjects
apart from themselves. The student
woman who makes wise use of her
acquisitions has no time to corrugate
her brow with dread thought of a
beautv-destroyer leaping fast behind
her. Not considered or invited, Old
Age keeps his distance.
These marvelous women we all
meet them occasionally in the busy
swirls of city life and wonder what has
preserved their natural charm.
Brain culture based on noble
motive means sympathy, heart
gent!enp, charity, graciousness, en
largement of sense, feeling, power.
Such a being cannot become a fossil.
She has found the elixir of life, tho
fountain of eternal youth.
Emancipated From Boarding
Houses. Some young women of this city have
tried a new experiment in house
keeping with eminent success, and there
is no reason why other young women
who are earning their own livelihood
should not follow their example with
great benefit to themselves. The
ladies had been boarding, and they
agreed that this sort of life was un
satisfactory. The monotony of
boarding-house fare and boarding
house life became unendurable. They
resolved to break loose from boarding
house society and boarding-house
civilization and establish a "menago
of their own." A nice house was ob
tained in one of the most "eligible"
streets of the city."
The servant was an immigrant, for
it was part of the experiment to
instruct their help in their own way.
The ladies take turns in ordering the
next day's dinner, in certain under
stood limits, so that the longings of
each individual for beef-steak And
onions, corned beef and cabbage, or
beef a' la mode, or any other special
dish could be gratified. They also
take turns in the management of the
house. They live in entire harmony;
they are at peace with the cook; they
have ample time to attend to their
several vocations and for occasional
amusements, and they save enough
from their former board expenses to
pay for their summer holidays.
Albany Journal.
A Drug Cabinet.
A convenient little cabinet,, which
should be placed high up out of the
reach of children and niado with a
door and lock and key, should contain
the family store of drugs which it is
necessary to keep on hand. i.very
bottle should be labelled in large and
distinct lettering. There should be sep
arate corner, locked up by a separate
key, where any drugs of a poisonous
or dangerous nature are kept. Allj
the serious mistakes which have been5
the occasion of loss of life or some-f
times of life-long suffering where the
esult of a moment's forsetfulness or
the absence of labels or of lock and
key. Careless people are perpetually
playing with danger. They leave
powerlul drugs Iiks oxalic acid and
other acids used commonly for clean
ing brass about the kitchen with very
little care, and it is wonderful that
more accidents have not occurred from
this very source. There is no special
need of using oxalic acid at all. Half
a lemon dipped in salt will do all the
work of oxalic acid in cleaning copper
boilers, brass tea kettles, and other
copper or brass utensils. 1 here are
many drugs, however, of a dangerous
nature that may be needed, and these
certainly should be kept in a medicine
closet locked up in an alcove by them
selves. Fine Linen.
Fine damask napkins never exhibit
extravagance, for ono can easily turn
them into some other useful articles
when they become worn. Those of
good quality last for years, and then
if the edges become frayed they can
very easily be converted into tea and
fruit doilies. Thehemscan be removed
and the napkins fringed on either side
to the depth of an inch or two. Jnne
doilies, with very rich paterns on the
softest French and Irish double dam
ask, are being imported and used in
luncheon sets. The paterns are in
pale pinks, blues and old gold on a
white ground. Iho designs range from
the very simple ones up to the ex
tremely elaborate ones, reaching the
two extremes in many cases. The
napkins match the tablecloths, and
are heavily fringed, t or large dining-
room tables the pattern in figured dam
ask cloth is sometimes outlined in red,
pink or gold real scotch linen floss.
A Moth EJttermlnator.
For moths salt is the best extermi
nator. The nuns in one of the hospi
tal convents have tried everything
else without success, and their experi
ence is valuable as they have so much
clothing of the sick who go there, nnd
strangers when dying often leave there
quantities of clothing, etc. They had
a room full of feathers, which were
sent there for piilow making, and
they were in despair, os they could
not exterminate the moths until they
were advised to try common salt.
They sprinkled it around and in a
week or ten days they were altogether
rid of the moths. They are never
troubled now. Chicago iierald.
Raisin Pound Cake.
Take one pound of butter, one
pound ol powdered sugar; work to
gether well for twenty minutes, then
put in ten eggs (a few at a time), then
beat it good." Take one and one-fourth
pounds of flour, mix well into above.
After the flour is well mixed with the
above, take two and one-hnlf pounds
of Sultana raisins and one-half pound
of sliced citron and mix into the
dough, one-fourth ounce of ground
mace and lemon flavor. Wet the
fruit with a little rum or brandy be
fore putting into the dough. Bake in
slow heated oven. Baker's Helper,
MONEY AND TARIFF.
Tne Sabjact Dtoeaaaed b a Alltaaee
Votr.
Perhaps nothing since the founda
tion of our government has ever had
the minds of the. people so befogged as
the tariff. Now don't understand by
the above that 1 favor the tariX be
cause nothing could be further from
the truth. I am one of those "idiots"
we see and hear referred to by mem
bers of both the old parties, known as
a free trader. I believe that the con
dition of tbe people at this time de
mands that they should buy what they
have to buy as cheap as it is possible
to manufacture and sell it I am not
a free trader alone from this reason,
but because I believe if the tariff was
abolished and all taxes levied direct
it would have the effect of showing
the people just how much tax they
paid, and when congress took a notion
to squander tho people's money, as it
has done for the past fifteen or ,
twenty years, why the next session of
that body would witness a goodly num
ber of members "fresh from the peo
ple." These are not my only reasons
for being a free trader. It is a fact
that the tariff system entails an
enormous official expense, every dol
lar of which would be saved to the
people by the abolition of the tariff.
Not only this, but I believe it is an
utter Impossibility to "reform" the
tariff so as to make it bear equally
upon all classes or citizens; but the
greatest reason why I favor tbe aboli
tion of the tariff is simply because it
high or low, big or little, great or
small Democratic or Republican is
robbery; robbing of one class (the
masses) to enrich another class. Now
I hope, after reading the foregoing,
no ono can mistake my position in re
gard to the tariff. Ana when I say
that nothing has ever blinded, befud
dled and deceived the people like the
tariff. I mean just what I say.
If we are sick, the Democrats would
have us believe that no M. D. who did
not believe in "tariff reform" could
possibly cure us. and the Republican
party would make us believe that tho
McKinloy bill applied is a cure for all
ills. '
Now let us look into this matter a
littla I will take myself and family
of seven as an example: during the
past year I have purchased for myself
and family dry goods and groceries to
the amount of $100. We are told that
the tax on this is about $47. At tho
present prices of cotton it will take
1, 290 pounds of cotton, or nearly three
bales of 500 pounds each to pay it To'
C. M. LOOMIS
DEALER IN
Hardware, Stoves and Tinware.
Has lately moved into the Veith building pposite the Post Office.
cd .Call and seo his line of
Universal 0 aks and Brands Brilliant BaseBurner.
He is desirous of Your Trade and will make it an object for you.
Will sell you
The Western Washer for only $4.50.
isoys bieds and bkates; Koger Bros. Knives and Forks, Carvers and
Spoons. Come iu and puy a present for your friends. Tin shop in
Connncction. 25m3
905 O STREET,
HERMAN- :-BBQ S . ,
WHOLESALE
ttmjL
BRANCH
GIO
Is
Cans
RQQ
BEATRICE, GRAND ISLAND, FALLS CITY,
AUBURN.
Special Attention
PRICES LOW.
1017 & 1019 0 STREET.
FARMERS !
BUY
YATES
Solid, Whole Stock Kip Boots.
Name and price stamped on every
Boot Evidence of faith in the
quality of the goods.
ED. G. YATES,
1129
O Street.
WE HAVE GOT TO MOVE
SO WE OFFER
The Following Inducements:
Round Oaks, Cook Stoves and Base Heaters
Machines at $4.50 each. We handle the
American Round Oak and Red Cross Stoves and Ranges.
We ask you to call and be convinced that we can sell you goods
Cheaper than any body.
1210 O St. S. WHITE.
(Successor to Kruse & White)
LEADER IN LOW PRICES.
give us the Mills' bill, or five per cent
reduction, it would yet take 1.225
pounds to pay it or a reduction of only
64) pounds of cotton on each $l00f
But to get nearer the true 'Cleveland
Tariff Reform. n I would suppose that
a reduction ot tbe tariff to a 23 per
cent basis would please the most ultra
reformers of the Cleveland stripe.
This would have given us a saving of
$27, and would have saved to me out
of my 1,290 pounds of cotton 343
pounds. Now let us assume that it
required the working of six acres of
land (above an average crop) and
summarize. Six acres ot land will pro .
duce 290 pounds of cotton, which was
sola at 7j cents (the price it has been
selling at in my town for three weeks)
will pay a debt of $100. Under the
Mills bill it would pay the debt and
leave me 64 pounds of cotton, or $5.
Under a reduction of the tariff 27 per
cent, it would leave me 348 pounds of
cotton, or $27.
We have seen what a reduction of
the tariff will da Now let us try an
other remedy and see what the effect
will be. It is claimed by some that
to double the volume of money would
have tbe effect of increasing prices
100 per cent but to make a certainty
of it let us assume that it would only
enhance prices 60 per cent what then -would
be the result of tbe proceeds
of our six acres of land? Let us see:
1,290 pounds of cotton at 7 cents,
$100; 1.290 pounds of cotton at 11
cents (increased 50 per cent) $150;
deduct my store account of $100, and
it leaves me a net profit of $50 by
doubling the volume of money, where
as by the most radical reduction of
the tariff I could only have saved $27,
or two dollars over halt as much.
I know that some will contend that
an increase ot the currency would
have made my goods cost me more,
but in my former article I think I
showed conclusively that the prices of
commodities covered by the tariff
could not be enhanced very much.
Tho Peoples Journal: The back
bone of tbo platform of tho Farmers
Alliance is tho subtreasury. Tho Al
liance man who does not believe in
the subtreasury does not believe it
necessary to increase the volume of
money. The subtreasury boiled down
into a sentence means that the volume
of money is to be increased, and tho
agriculturist is to be given the privi
lege to draw upon his products for an
amount sufficient to carry him until he
gets ready to sell-
LINCOLN, NEB.
AND RETAIL
1SI11
HOUSES:
WEEPING
WATER AND
.19m3
to Mail Orders.
LINCOLN, NEB.
BROS.
1129.
at a very low price, Washing
Goods
M
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