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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY JAN. 7, 1892.
.THE TWO BACKS.
The A.ka Back
Is the eornSeM all the dmj,
t ve delved an' dug, an' hoed
My back does ache
Ea it 'twould break,
A' sec b the fate ot the fanner,
Oh! -Beck
is the fata o' the fanner.
The weed will grow ..
, And he most hoe;
Bech. to the fate o' the farmer, 3
r Ohi a.
When I see the westers sua
Sink out o' sight, my work is done.
i My wife corepwjss.
Nor heeds mr pains.
An' tech la the fate o' the fanner.
Oh!
Bech Is the fate o' the fanner.
The weeds will grow
An' he must hoe, 7 '
An' seek is the fate o' the fanner,
Oh! t ?
An at last to bed I creep.
An' lay all night too tired to sleep,
To start at morn
Back to the corn;
An' seek is the fate o' the farmer,
Oh!
Bech is the fate o' the farmer.
The weeds will grow
An' he must hoe:
- Beck is the fate o' the farmer,
i Oh! Chicago Tribune.
The Baek That Don't Acha.
Behind the counter half the day,
I've "shaved" and squeezed and hoarded
way.
My back don't ache
"Es U 'twould break. '
An' seek is the fate o' the banker,
Oh! ":;
Beck is the fate a' the banker.
Interest will grow . :v
Come rain or snow.
Beck is the fate o' the banker,
T Oh!
long before the western sun .
Sinks oat of sight, my work is done;
My wife ne'er complains,
But applauds my "gains,"
An' seek is the fate o' the banker. l
Ob! Rach Is the fata o the hanVer. t
Interest will grow
Come rain or snow, ?
Alt' seek is the fate o' the banker,
Ohl "1
At midnight to bed I creep,
J After the banquet to rest an' sleep,
Ready next day
To "grind" away.
An' tech is the fate o' the banker,
Ohl
, ; Bech is the fate o' the banker, '
. ' Interest will grow
( Come rain or snow
Bech is the fate of the banker,
Oh!
Chicago Sentinel.
WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?
hall It B. Havery or Shall It Be Peace,
Prosperity and Happiness.
Wealth In its truest sense is the
bounties of nature which have been
. converted into forms of utility by pro.
ductive labor. This Is the groat po.
tentlal force that must be transferred
from the human mind and the human
muscle to the raw material, before
that material is in the shape for hu
man use. The truth applies to every
article ot necessity. Man in his
capaolty as a productive laborer is a
creator ot values. In this character
only can he be regarded as an image ot
his creator. It is this fact that labor
is a creator, that Labor day is de
signed to celebrate. ,
The bounties of nature were created
alike for every human being, says the
Topeka Advocate. The Universal
Father makes no charge for the boun
ties which He has placed within our
reach. This natural wealth of ours
on the condition tbat we utilize it by
the application of our labor. We can
add nothing to the source from which
all wealth must flow, neither can we
take anything from it. In the econo
my of nature nothing is lost by being
consumed. It is only returned to the
great store house from which it had
been taken by the intelligent applica
tion of labor in accordance with nat
ural law. Nothing is lost Nature has
provided the greatest abundance for
alL Labor Intelligently applied can
always garner these priceless stores.
In the very nature of things no will
ing worker could be hard pressed and
poor, but for the ignorance and greed
ot individuals who by craft deprive
their fellow beings of tbo abundanoe
provided tor them by a bounteous na
ture. Whatever brings poverty and want
destroys happiness which Is the ulti
mate aim and object of human exist
ence. A slave cannot be happy unless
too much of an imbecile to aspire to ,
better conditions. No intelligent
wealth producer can be happy so long
as he is pressed by povertywhile non
producers revel in an abundance of all
the good things of life. He may not
be able to explain why it is that he is
not able to secure an abundance by
his labor, but he is none the less dis
contented, and the more Intelligent he
becomes the greater will be his dis
content until ere long it breaks forth
in violent insistence.
Such are the lessons taught by hu
man history. The sufferings imposed
upon the toilers by false economlo
conditions, have rendered them des
perate. In their ignorance thoy have
filled the armies ot tyrants and have
thus been used for ages to keep them
selves in subjection. But they have
been kept in subjection at a terrible
cost to the race. Human history is
one long record of nations and civil
izations that have passed away be
cause ' of false economlo condl
dltions which brought poverty,
want and suffering to the people.
Shall we as a nation close our
eyes to the lessons taught by history
and commit the same blunder that has
wrecked the nations gone before? If
we do, we may read our fate in the
wrecked civilizations of the past the
ruins of which are the study of the mod
ern antiquarian. Such punishments
as these for the violation of economlo
law must continue until the race
learns that the only road to permanent
peace, prosperity and happiness is to
staniisn absolute justice in the distri
bution of every form of wealth created
by human labor.
This is the demand which is beintr
made by intelligent labor to-day, and
this demand is directly in the line of
human progress. If this demand is
not conceded, our boasted civilization
will be a failure. It is not enough
that a lew possess great wealth and
are able to gratify every taste that be
longs to the highest refinement of the
age, but these things must be placed
within the reach ot tne toilers who
create them.' If the powers J that be
are wise, no obstructions will be
plsoed in the way of these laudible
aspirations for better conditions, and
our civilization will go forward to a
grand culmination on social, economio
and moral lines, which will exceed
even our wonderful material progress.
The mighty army of reformers
which is now marshaling for a grand
forward movement toward ;hese bet
ter economio conditions, a higher life
and a nobler manhood, appeals to all
the higher moral impulses of the race
and invites all true friends of human
ity to unite with them in favor of all
that is pure, just, fraternal and pro
gressive. Nothing but the most un
accountable stupidity can prevent any
real lover of bis race from joining
with the progressive weajth pro
ducers of to-day. Labor is the foun
dation stone of all progress. It is in
no sense a class, but it is the power
that feeds the classes. Whoever docs
oot render useful service to society is
a sponge and a leech upon those who
do. Labor is the source of all that
renders life endurable on this planet
All reforms begin at the base and
work their way upward. Even the
Christian religion was not an excep
tion to this universal rule. It began
with the poor carpenter of Nazareth
and all that is most enobling in the
system of morals which he taught is
embraced in the demands for eco
nomic justice which are being urged
by the wealth producers of the coun
try to-day. To join in these demands
is an honor. To give them the col.l
shoulder is a disgrace. These ques
tions are now up for settlement and
they never can bo settled until they
are settled right This is manliest
destiny and the sooner that it is
recognized by the classes as well as
the masses, the better will It be for
every human being. It is high time
that patrlotio citizens were thinking
seriously, thinking earnestly and act
ing intelligently. The plutocratic and
immoral elements which now control
tbo nation must be compelled to take
back seats or the most disastrous con
sequences will surely follow.
The FIfjr-cond Congress.
Congress is now in session. It can
meet the demands of the people or
fulfill the requirements of the ex
ploiters. Which will it dor The
Democratic party has control of the
house and the Republicans of the
senate. Will each of these bodies vie
with each other in efforts for the re
lief ot the people or in filling the de
sires ot Wall street? The Republican
party is the friend of monopolists and
exponent of trusts, combines and syn
dicates. Nothing can be expected of
it except a ruse like tha John Sher
man palmed off in the last congress to
prevont the organization ot trusts and
combines, which was a fair seeming of
an effort without being effective in
any essential feature. The Demo,
cratlo party has always opposed these
and all legislation capable of foster
ing or promoting thorn. Will
it now assume the positive
opposition by providing effoc
ive measures to accomplish
the results desired f It Is in its power
to pass any bill in the house and
throw the onus of its failure on the
senate. It must become active and
aggressive, and move forward on tho
lines of relief in honest and sincere
efforts that would accomplish the ends
sought if it would meet the demands
of tho old folks at home. It will be
watched with solicitude and its action
noted with anxiety. Let it not sup
pose that it can palm off ruses for
facts, nor bamboozle people by nearly
doing what it can certainly do, but
fails to do on account of some little
aocldent or mishap. There are too
many people watching the modus
operandi to be deceived. If that
party shall improve the opportunity
vouchsafed to it, it can ge in power
and remain there so long as it stall
be tho champion and dofondor of the
rights and liberties of the people. If
it shall fail to improve its opportun
ities it may be relied on to go into a
state of innocuous desuetude that will
require Gabriel's trumpet to arouse it
Alliance Herald, Ga
The Gold-Baals Racket,
But the Democrats did not notice
the signs which indicated that every
man wno had saved up a dollar by
hard work, care and economy, or
building loan associations, and put it
in a savings bank was going to vote
against free coinage, though he might
not take the trouble to make publlo
speeches against it "-Chicago Tribune.
Awhile ago, describing the wreck
and ruin caused by the contraction of
the currency in the 70's, we gave as
an illustration the facts riven by
Judge Kelley in congress about Phlla
delphia. He showed after describing
the general ruin in that city, that the
Record announced that on Jan. 6.
1879. the week of "Resumption."
Sheriff Wright will begin the largest
sale of real estate ever held by any
onerm in this city. There are C92
writs, covering about 1,000 properties.
The sale on the first day will begin at
5 o'clock, in the new court house, and
extend from No. 370 on the list to No.
692."
Now Philadelphia is peculiarly a
city of building associations and sav
ings banks, and it was by just such a
beating of gongs and yelling of '-honest
money" that the wily knaves who
were running the gold basis racket of
the 70s managed their infamous
round-up of the soft-headed common
peopie as tney are now using to
frighten the small property holders
away from free coinage of silver.
lhe way they manage those round
ups of the silly pates is just like a bat.
tue of game, where a herd of sports
men surround a rorrest and drive all
the game Into the center by yelling,
beating drums and flrinir iruns. Hav.
ing them closely surrounded they be
gin the promiscuous slaughter.
Our masters our plunderers our
murderers have such a battue about
every ten years on a grand scale;
meanwhile killing all the game they
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can piecemeal. tnicago Sentinel.
Flease Explain.
Ex-Congressman Hanback it re
ported as savin? in a recant imuoh
that had he the power, he would stop
the pension of every soldier who has
formerly been a Republican and re
cently voted the Feonle's nartv tllrot.
It this is true it would seem that pen
sions are regarded as rewards for
service to the Republican nartv and nnt
as obligations of the government for
services renaerea in tne army and
navy of the United States. Will Mr.
Hanback rise and explain? Topeka
AQvocaio. . . m.. ..
THE FARM AND HOME.
GIVE YOUR GARDEN A LIB
ERAL MANURING.
Strawberry Pleat Alaaoat Eqasl t
(lever as Baaavatur Leas Hay
for Bones Farm Kotee and
. Domes lie Helps.
Maaare tha Cards.
This must absolutely be done and it
must be done liberally. Sixteen
years' experience in market gardening
has taught us that when tnis was dono
we might expect paying crops, good
seasons or bad ones, insects or no in
sects. In buying you may pay for a
substance that has the bulk, but little
plant food. And in buying such
manure, time is lost labor is lost
money is lost and the anxious
grower is disappointed. To buy
manure from livery stables you will
get much sawdust and other bedding
that made up bulk, but not one cent
of value as manure, until it is thor
oughly rotted, except what liquid it
has absorbed. Livery stable manure,
as a usual thing, is handy to get and
the gardoncr is often induced to buy
it and neglect home resources. And
here is where the cheapest manure is
obtained, and where the best can be
made.
To garden successfully one must
m anure heavily, and to be able to do
so he must get all the manure be can,
from every source; but at the same
time he should be on his guard not to
buy it at a price that will be above the
profit that may be derived from it To
be a successful gardener is to make
the most from the least outlay of
money and labor. Manuring heavily
is one of the greatest means to this
effect To secure this, one must be
energetic and not despise small things,
neither should he be too nice to lay
hold, but should carefully husband all
material at home, great or small,
clean or filthy, and convert it into
plant food. Where the gardener fat
tons hogs for his own meat be will
find a grand resource for good man
ure, for a fattening hog evacuates an
abundance of manure of the richest
quality. If no better way can be ar
ranged, ho can pen his hogs in a lot
and plant it to some garden crop the
following season.
If the gardener is not mindful he
will let much valuable manure waste
that is dropped around the stables. In
the lanes, and in tho hen-house. Much
good manure might be accumulated
by forming a compost heap at a con
venient place and then throwing all
suds from the laundry, all old woolen
rags, waste leather, all rubbish from
the garden, etc, upon it These ma
terials have to bo disposed of some
way and if composted could be made
into valuable plant food.
Keeping the soil loose and mellow
enables it to absorb and store up
much ammonia from the atmosphere,
and absorb and hold the nitrogen
brought down by the summer thunder
showers. Where the gardener can
so arrange his crops as to keep a part
of his garden in clover, he may,
through the agency of this crop, sup
ply his soil with nitrogen much faster
than his crops take from it I have a
friend who is making gardening a
success, and ho relies on clover to keep
up his soil writes Thomas D, Baird in
the Ohio Farmer.
Another cheap manure I have no
ticed may be gained by setting a por
tion of the gardon in strawberries.
Cultivate them the first year for the
fruit and after bearing turn them
under. I have found the strawberry
plant almost equal to clover as a
renovator of the soil. Another thing
many gardeners neglect I am guilty
somewhat myself, and so I know.
After their early crops are sold the
refuse is left such as cabbage stalks,
beets, radishes, boan vines, eta
These draw the plant food already in
the Boll and thus it is wasted.
Lest Hay for Hortst.
Hay in the mangor all the time re
sults in serious disorders; the animal's
system Is doranged and often broken
down. A young horse, weight less
than 1,000 pounda Is sound, yet a
sluggish traveler ordinarily. Months
ago a noighbor told me I fed him too
much hay. I replied that I thought
not; that he only got half as much as
my other horses. Lately I discovered
he should not have one-quarter as
much. It came about thus: My oats
having been all fed, I was buying.
Oats were dear, and ground oats sus
piciously full ot hulls. I reasoned
whether I could not compound an
honest and cheap ration from
wheat bran, oil meal or cotton
seed meal and cornmeal for all
my horses. 1 wrote Prof. E. W. Stew
art He replied that for roadsters oil
or cotton-seed meal two parts, corn-
meal two parts and bran six parts,
with ten parts of cut hay or straw, all
by weight was about right for 24
hours in threo feeds. Well, I stopped
buying oats and have saved money.
But I have done more the particular
horse mentioned has improved as a
driver and continues to improve. He
looks and acts more ambitious and has
better disposition. For this I credit
myself. The weighing led me to try
less and less hay, while not increas
ing the grain ration, with the above
favorable result The horse had a
good appetite and only a small stom
ach. As a consequence, he was un
comfortable, cross and indisposed
while on the road. Now I am not
only saving money in grain, but In
hay, and have a better driver.
A short time ago a valuable horse,
an Imported draft stallion, was fed all
the hay he could eat with dire result
It took an experienced horseman
months to correct the mischief done
by a season's stuffing with hay. Since
that severe lesson we have had con
stantly the care of work-horses and
have found that fully as good results
in feeding were had where good,
bright straw, of which the animals
ate little, was used for roughness and
variety, but no greater quantity of
grain was fed them than when hay was
a large and constant part of the diet
An opportunity to inspect the feeding
of horses in a large stable belonging
to a street car company revealed the
fact that the horses, required to
make v. mites per day at a jog-trot
in heats of six miles each, were
fed almost entirely a grain diet being
given only enough hay to secure good
digestion. The common ration was
crushed corn and wheat-bran mixed
with coarse cut hay. Of this about
hala bushel was fed dry at one mesa
Whole hay was sometimes fed and the
grain ration was varied to maintain
vigorous appetite. With this feeding
the horses were kept in excellent con
dition under the constant and severe
labor of the car service. All similar
observations of scientific feeding and
my own experience confirm me in the
belief that farmers could get better
service out of their teams and at the
same time keep them in better con
dition by feeding less hay and without
increasing the quantity of grain.-
Omaha Stockman.
Wf'tQ Start Mow.
It may be true that the average
dairyman can not comply with all the
conditions ot expert dairying at once,
and go to the front at a bound, but no
reason exists why he should not begin
to make progress towards better
methods and result The dairy herd
can be gradually improved by the in
fusion ot fresh blood from some of the
noted herds, and a deviation given to
the dairy product Too many dairies
are kept that the owner does not know
what their special purpose is for,
whether butter, cheese or city milk.
Give It purpose for one of the three
specialtiea The stables can be fixed
us. made clean and comfortable, One
can also cheaply learn how to prop
erly take care of milk whether for the
bouse, factory or city,wanta If butter
is made, the creamer, churn, and fix
tures are cheap and their use soon
mastered, and so on through the list
Keep learning, keep improving, keep
the business from dragging, push it
and one will be surprised how much
progress will be made in three years,
and in five year one will have be
come an expert and can quickly
demonstrate how and why tho dairy
pays, and how it is an educator su
perior to any other farm industry.
Make a start and keep at it is the
advice ot the Practical Farmer.
Rape.
Rape is a crop that has been but
little grown on this side of the Atlan
tic although in England it is grown
largely as a green fodder for fattening
sheep and lamba Doubtless the ma
jority of our readers have never seen
the plant Some months ago we sug
gested that it might prove of value
here as well as there, and now we are
glad to stale that it has been tested
on an extensive scale, with good re
sults by Prof. Shaw at the Ontario
Agricultural College. Last season he
fattened five hundred lambs upon it
with marked profit and this season
has enlarged his experiment by grow
ing forty-three acres ot this crop.
The crop Is grown in precisely the
same manner as turnips, and Is fed
from the field without the cost of
housing or harvesting. It is claimed
that its fattening effect on sheep and
lambs Is quite remarkable. Rural
World.
V.rm Mote.
Use plenty of bedding for the stock.
Plan to do away with all unnecessary
fencing.
Good grade stock has the advantage of
scrubs in every way.
Blue grass is one of the best seeds that
can be sown for pasturage alone.
There is nothing tbat so insures des
patch in farm work as good teams.
In feeding the first purpose is to make
the animal do the best that it will.
The liquids are more valuable than the
solids in tha manure; arrange to save it
all. -i
Get seed corn from some variety that
has given good results in the section it is
grown.
When oats or wheat fall down before
they mature, the land needs potash; apply
ashes.
The more thoroughly the work is
planned out ahead, the more certain it can
be done in season.
Improved breeds ot stock have ira-
creased our wealth, and made farming
more desirable.
Bod land can often be plowed when it
would be entirely too wet to plow almost
any other kind of ground.
Plan to secure good yiolds. Better a
less acreage and a larger yield per acre.
than a large acreage and a light yield.
It is enough to make any human man's
heartache to note how the average farmer
raises his calves; not one calf in a hun
dred has a fair chance for itself, says
Hoard's Dairyman. The burning sun on
their tender, thin skins, tormented with
flies, given no food whatever that their
baby stomachs can digest and assimilate,
they advertise the stupid inhumanity of
the owner.
Eggs are nearly universally sold by the
dozen, but the variation in their weight
makes this rule an unfair one. A medium
sized egg weighs two ounces, making the
weight of a dozen of eggs lyi pounds.
A dozen of Minorca eggs weigh over 1
pounds, while an equal number of the
black Hamburgs weigh less than IV
pounds. When eggs are high a difference
of a half pound in the amount of food ij
considerable item.
Do in est la Helps.
The practice of using ear-picks is dan
gerous and often causes doafuess.
A salvo of equal parts of tallow and
salt will often cure the worst cases of
felona
New muslin curtains are distinguished
from those of last season by being finished
with a narrower hemstitch. The styles in
these goods vary as they do in handker
chiefs. It is believed that sweet oil is the best
thing to use in removing insect from the
ear. This will entangle them, when they
can be removed by gentle syringing with
warm water.
In an obstinate case of earache, bath
about the ear with laudanum that has
been warmed by standing the bottle for a
few minutes in warm wator, then cover
with cotton batting.
For chapped hands take one and a half
ounces ot spermaceti tallow, four table
spoonfuls of oil of white almonds and
three-quarters of an ounce of camphor
gum. Heat until dissolved, stirring con
stantly, then pour into molds.
The newest sofa pillows have the cover
of India silk gathered full into a frill on
all four sides, and are tied about with a
broad ribbon crossing each way, and
made into a full soft bow in the centra
Very attractive yellow pillows are made
in this simple style, crossed with a deep
orange band tied in an Empire knot
The greatest care is necessary in cook
ing venison. Like all game it must be
served very hot The cold pastry is the
only exception to the rule. If it is cooked
so that it loses all its juices and becomes
dry and flavorless, it is as Indigestible as
"devil's venison," which, according to
Dr. Kitchener, is tiger stuffed with ten
penny nails.
For a lip salve dissolve a lump of white
sugar in a teaspoon ful of rose water. Let
it stand at the back of the stove to sim
mer slowly. Add two tablespoonfuls of
nice olive oil. and a piece ol spermaceti
the size of a walnut Add a mere drop
ot cochineal coloring matter to turn it
into a little round porcelain box kept for
he purpose. It should be small enough
to hold only a few tablespoonlula
THE LATE ELECTION.
Taeaf atfal Wr.i mm a, svrtaaa Itibjoet
Tho People's Weal.
Though a draw game, tha late elec
tion affords evidence of popular un
rest and unsettled ness. The pertuba
tions for some time noticeable in the
political heavens have become in the
last canvass so pronounced as to Indi
cate further changes in the near
future. The period is thus marked as
one of transition, says the Zion's Her
ald of Boston. The force of some of
the old issues is spent; the new ques
tions of society advance to the front
for consideration. The issues of the
war have held place hitherto; those of
finance, industry, immigration, tem
perance, and the protection of Ameri
can institutions, especially the educa
tional system of the United States,
must now be considered by the people.
What the people are interested in,
must in due time engage the attention
of the parties organized to carry out
the will of the people. The late elec
tions give fresh evidence of the loos
ening of party ties. When great is
sues are at stake, party lines are
closely drawn. The vote ot almost
every member can be depended upon.
The party alignments are distinctly
drawn and definite; the ranks close
up; the whole body acts as with one
will. But when the crisis of the bat
tle la past there comes a relaxation of
discipline, a multiplication of strag
glers. The edges of the columns be
come frayed, the less adhesive atoms
crumble away. Individuals pass from
side to side with little difficulty. The
independents and floaters become nu
merous. Old questions lose their pow
er to enchant the multitude, and fresh
war cries arouse the enthusiasm of the
mass meeting. We stand to-dav where
the ways part; we must choose a new
path.
Two ways are open to the parties:
They may follow the incline to their
destruction, or they may attempt the
more difficult ascent with the new
ideas. Most parties have chosen the
former. The disposition or flexibility
was wanting to adopt the higher alter
native; the weight of gravity bore
them on to their own placet With a
party, change of base is no easy mat
ter. Only expert horsemen can ex
change in the midst of the stream; the
old seat may be abandoned without
gaining a lodgment In the new one.
As a compromise, some parties have
tried, with slender success to ride two
horses, generally in the end to be left
In the water by both. A party, like
an individual, must be one thing
or another. To play fast and
loose is to lose its character and
standing. The political party must
stand for an Issue, and when
that Issue becomes outworn, the party
itself, which stands sponsor, must usu
ally go to the tomb of the Capulels.
So went the great federal party; so
lollowed the whig party after long
posing as the party of liberty. As the
advocates of industry, the whig leaders
could never come to place the question
of human freedom in front In the
North as well as South the negro was
sacrificed to the cotton bale; and the
two parties which did it were sent to
hades, one of them to be utterly an
nihilated and the other to enjoy a sort
of post-mortem probation, in stum
bling about among the living. It re
mains to be seen how far the old or
ganizations can meet and handle the
current and prospective issuea . Some
are confident they will bo equal to the
new opportunity. The supposition
flies in the face of recent history. The
presumption is against the new adapta
tions. We have this comfort in the
case, that tho choice must soon be
made for weal or woe. The new ques
tions press for settlement; either the
old or new parties will be called upon
to handle them.
Not let, and Never Will.
We have an abiding faith in the
courage, determination' and loyalty
of the farmers of old Georgia; and
that they will stand together and bear
the banner of the Alliance to victory,
wo feel not a shadow of doubt Thoy
did not go into this movement as
children, but as brave and true men.
They fully realize that the success of
the Alliance means for the toiliug
masses prosperity and freedom; that,
its failure means poverty and the
chains of servitude. For a time, some
of our members may grow disheart
ened and withdraw from the order;
but when the Alliance bugle blows in
1892, you will see the farmers rally to a
man, and present an unbroken front to
their foes. The plutocrats and poli
ticians have not overthrown the Alli
ance as yet, and never will so long as
the spirit of freedom stalks abroad in
our land. The farmers have followed
the guidance of other men for those
many years, and they see that they
were being lead to ruin and slavery.
They were on the very brink of bank
ruptcy when the alliance extended its
friendly and helping band; and with
everything against us, and the money
and power of the country fighting us,
the farmer is being slowly lifted from
the Slough of Despond, and he sees tuo
dawn ot light before him. Southern
Alliance Farmer
A modern Word.
Plutocracy is a modern word, hav
ing a place only in the supplement to
Webster's latest dictionaries, where it
is defined to mean "a form of govern
ment in which the supreme power is
lodged in the hands of the wealthy
classes alone, government by the rich;
also a controlling or influential class
of rich men." It is a power which,
though unnamed, has crushed the
corner stones of republics and laid
waste empires. The people will bo
come more acquainted with its mean
ing as time rolls by. Economist
The Arkansas Farmer: Although
there is a circulating medium of $61
per capita in France, and the ruling
rate of interest is 8 per cent there is
less complaint of stringency in mone
tary affaira A proposition is before
the legislative body of the country for
the government to loan money to
farmers on their lands at 2 per cent
Interest and it is likely to become a
law, though not very much necessity
exists for it France has long since
learned that a high rate of interest is
not conducive to the prosperity of her
agriculture, and instead of allowing a
set of cormorants to feed upon it and
destroy it as has been done In Ameri
ca, every safeguard, protection and
encouragement is given. Besides such
favorable legislation as is kept upon
her statutes, an appropriation of $30, -000.
000 annually Is made to encourage
and deve'ope her agriculture. France
is a model for us.
FARMERS' RIGHTS.
Iter Are AmUmg mm Prtaefpla aad Kaew
Wtiat Thoy Arm AmmmU
Thinking that the farmers are too
busy, are too ignorant to concern
themselves about government our law
makers have not concerned themselves
very much about agricultural interests;
at 'least not in such a way as to pro
tect or help the producer. Indeed.
until recently the politician has not
regarded the farmer as a factor of any
importance in the civil problems of
this country. The latter has been
looked upon as a voter simply, one
who should cast his vote without ques
tion and according to the direction of
some party leader.
So tamely and so long has this poli
cy been accepted, that it is probably
not very surprising that the politicians
should be indignant as they now are,
because the farmers are presuming to
claim some recognition in the discus
sions of government and to express a
wish to share in its benefits.
Assumptions unquestioned soon be
come rights in the eyes of those who
make them, and "squatter sover.
eignty" has become as bold in politics
as ever it was in the Western re
serve". It is strange that it has oeen
submitted to so long. No doubt many
party leaders have come really, to
think, that because farmers have not
asserted their rights that they have
forfeited them by the law ot limita
tions. This is a serious mistake and tha
sooner it is recognized the better.
We give below from tha Western
Rural a non-partisan, fair and dis
passionate statement of some rights
which farmers may still claim.
Please read it in the same spirit of
equity.
There are certain rights which
calm, fair judgement will accord to
the farmer, even though it may be the
judgement of some one who is not
pleased with all that the farmer doea
The farmer has been drifting toward
independent political action more and
more, and naturally this does not
please the partisan, who in his anger
may not stop to think that the pro
ducers of the country have suffered
real wrongs, and that these wrongs
ought to be redressed. The Rural is
not a partisan paper and hence gives
no advice as to what the farmers
should do politically. Nor are we
politicians, but we believe that it is
good common sense to say that the
old parties can break up any in
dependent political movement in no
way so surely as they can by
making an honest inquiry into the
merits of the complaints of the farm
ing community and then set them
selves about the work of encouraging
reform where it is needed. It is all
folly for our great city partisan dailies
to keep harping about good crops. In
the first place it will require more than
one good crop to enable the farmer to
square himself after all his years of
misfortune, and hence those who think
that the farmer's political creedjbe
gins and ends with his pocket-book,
will find that even with bursting grain
bins and corn cribs the supposed mild
inspiration to the farmer's remon
strance to things as they exist a slim
pocket-book will still remain after
paying his indebtedness. At least that
will be true in a sufficient number of
cases to make a good sized army of
fault finders.
But the farmer is acting 'upon prin
ciple. He has been a student of the
tendencies of the time. He knows
HERMAN-: -BROS . ,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
ClotMng, Hals, Cans antl FBig Goods.
BRANCH HOUSES:
BEATRICE, GRAND ISLAND, FALLS CITY, WEEPING WATER AND
AUBURN. 19m8
Special Attention
PRICES LOW.
o
FARMERS !
BUY
" YATES BROS., "
m mii m
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. 1129.
WE HAVE GOT TO MOVE
SO WE OFFER
The Following Inducements:
Ronnd Oaks, Cook Stoves and Base Heaters at a very low price, Washing
Machines at $4.50 each. We handle the
American Round Oak and Red Cress Stoves and Ranges.
We ask you to call and be convinced that we can sell you goods
Cheaper than any body.
1210 O St. 3?. S. WHITE,
(Successor to Kruse A White)
LEADER IN LOW PRICES.
that be has been overcharged by the
railroads and rings and trusts. Ha
knows that taxation is not equal and
that he is the main sufferer from tha
inequality. He knows that while ha
is producing the nation' wealth to a
very large degree, be li not getting
his share of it; and everybody who
knows anything at all about it
knows that too. While farming
should be in the nature of the ease
probable in this country, it is not; and
it is not probable because of preventa
tive causes. Now, the newspapers, as
a rule, are not in favor of robbing tha
producer, but they become angry be
cause the producer does not quietly
submit to partisan authority. Not only
justice, but the welfare of political
parties, demand honest fair treatment
of the farmer, and that truth will yet
be recognized. Southern Alliance
Farmer.
la the Infant Claao.
Mr. Oates is one of the most Ignor
ant men in congress in regard to
financial matters. He is absolutely in
the infant class on that subject and is
so considered by all his associates.
His opinion in regard to the effect of
financial legislation is never asked,
for the reason or its being utterly val
ueless. His only reliance for noto
riety lies in the discussion of the con.
stitutionality of legislation, and, as
this is a matter in which those who
know the least can talk the most Mr.
Oats improves every opportunity. His"
arguments differ with time and circum
stances. They are exceedingly ac
commodating. As for example, his
argument in favor . of government
loans in 1884 has undergone Buch a
change tbat in 1891 he solemnly as
serts tbat such loans are unconstitu
tional. What his views may be in
1892, remains, as before stated, with
time and conditions. Such a profound
and versatile expounder should never
be out of a job. National Economist
The many and the Few.
The assumption that the election ot
a Democratic speaker who has favored
an income tax upon the wealthy men"
would result in the loss of New York
to that party Is quite baseless.
A little reflection and a simple sum
in arithmetic will show its folly.
The men who have an income ot
(10,000 or over, such as it has been
proposed to tax. stand to the whole
number of voters in the proportion ot
about 1 to 1. 000.
If the proposition were submitted to
a vote to relieve of taxation all arti
cles of food and' clothing and to tax
incomes above '$10, 000 how would' the
vote be likely to stand?
A graduated income tax takes from
the superfluities of the rich and un
burdens the necessaries of the poor.
No public man will be injured by hon
estly supporting such a substitute for
the unequal and unjust system of tax
ation now in force. New York
Wprld.
A mile and m Quarter Away,
An Interesting incident showing at
how great a distance a conversation
can be carriod on, is related by Lieu
tenant Foster, of the third Parry arc
tic expedition, in which he says he
conversed with a man across the har.
bor of Port Bowers, a mile and a
quarter away, and it has also been as
serted on good authority that at
Gibraltar the human voice has been
distinctly heard at a distance ot tea
miles.
to Mail Orders.
LINCOLN, NEB.
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