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1 the beauty of the lHHee
.Ouict wm born croM tba aes,
WHh a glory la hla bosom
That transfigure yoo and mo.
f to he atrove to man men holy
Let ot attire to make them free,
. - Ham God U marching on."
; Julia Ward Wort.
jaurel crowns cleave to deserts.
And power to him who power exerts.'
A ruddy drop of manly blood
Tba ranini sea outweighs." ..
Emerson-
Hi who cannot reason Is a fool,
. He who will not reason is a coward.
He who dare not reason Is a slave."
N. R. r. A.
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J. BURROWS. Editor.
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Rxvxouw, Ne., Jan. 14, 1603
Editor Aluakcx: I fall to see how
the Alliance or the people's party could
wish anything better than that James
. Boyd should again pose as .governor
of Nebraska, so that M supporters can
Bare their fill of the man who vetoed
(he Newberry bill or the lew freight
law, and thus lost the farmers, tner
chants and poor people of Nebraska
millions of dollars per year and gave it
o the capitalists of Europe aad the
east who own the railroads in Nebras
ka. Th B.fJK.JourMl will still call
the farmers hogs and the Bet will extol
the virtues of Jimmy Boyd, but what
will the voters say next fall?
I have read your reply to J. B. Oiler
about shipping grain to Liverpool, and
would cay, a friend of mine and myself
nave been communicating with the Red
Star, Allen and and other lines for some
time, and I find that there is, as you
ay; margin of over 40 cents per
bushel above all expenses in shipping
wheat from Nebraska to Liverpool, and
nearly as much on corn. When I left
England twelve years ago Jcorn was
selling for 65 cents at Livdrpool, and 12
cents was all that was being paid in
Saline county, Nebraska. Let the
county Alliances look this matter up
ana snip in cargo tots, as tnere are aoi
Jars ana cents in it if it is done In i
business like manner. Yours for the
farmers. C. . Bullock,
A WAB WITH CHILE. ,
We have no confidence In the Assoc!
ated press reports, It is an institution
that is at the service of stock jobbers,
and is used for all sorts' of corrupt fi
aancial and political schemes. We
have considered a war with Chile Im
possible, but according to the dispatch
ea it Is not only possible, but probable
We do not on this account change our
view. A war with Chile would be an
unpardonable national crime. It is In
credible that Chile, a tenth rate power.
with embarrassed finances and enerva
ted by late wars, can desire war with
this country. Unless she did desire it
and almost insist upon it. honest diplo
snacy can avert it. Under such cirjum
' stances we repeat that war would be a na
tional crime and the administration
that permits it will go down to history
: covered with Infamy. The chip on
jour shoulder business, for a power of
the magnitude of the United States.
may be amusing at the start, but meets
ao approval on a sober second thought.
A SAMPLE ASSOCIATED PRESS DIS
11 :sj V' ' PATCH. ' ;
San Francisco, Jan. 20, 1892. The
Chilean Iron ' Clad Prat put into this
port yesterday. After coaling up and
: taking full supplies she left. When she
gained the offing, instead of going
south she turned north. ' It is now be
lieved she has started for New York
via the northwest passage, and that
" " city maybe expected to be laid under
tribute within tbteo weeks. Nothing
can prevent the Prat from bombarding
New York City, unless the government
settles the Chile complications.
THE
THE ALLIASCE DEMANDS ASD THE
OMAHA BEL
The Omaha Bit of the 15th Inst, has
an article of nearly a column and a half
crittcWing the platform set forth by the
AWanos last week. There is one no
table feature abaut this article, and the
tone of the articles of other papers since
last week's meeting. They are more re
spectful. A meeting which would have
been composed of more than a tnousana
delegates bad it not been for the un
timely storm, following upon what tne
Bet and It ptutoeratlo compeers were
pleased to consider a Waterloo defeat
at the late election; seems to open the
eyes of these editors to the fact that the
Alliance is a formidable force, and that
Its demands must have a respectful
hearing. The makes a great con
cession when it says, " the Nebraska
Farmers' Alliance, as a body, is made
up of industrious, honest and intelli
gent men, who sincerely desire not
only to better tbelr condition, but also
to do away with many abuses that are
sapping the foundations of our repub
lic." The Bet approves the demand for the
election of president and senators by
direct vote of the people, adding that
the term of president should be limited
to six or eight years, with no re election.
We would agree te the six years.
The demand for the election of post
masters the Bet disapproves, but makes
no valid argument against It, except
that In the near future it may be neces
sary that postmasters should be expert
telegraphers. . This objection Is of no
force in face of p he fact that telegraphy
is now taught in all our colleges, and
may at any time be adopted In our pub
lic schools.
Aporortno? without reserve the de
mand for the foreclosure of the Pacllic
railroads, the Bet Is true to Its gold-bug
sbylock patrons in objecting to a re
duction of interest to 0 per cent. It
adduces the usual stale arguments on
this subject. lis proposal lor two rates
Is absurd. Long time loans can anora
as high a rate as short ones. A discri
mination that would Invite the money
we have te seek short loans instead of
long one, would bo very unwise.
But tne color of tne Het t sympatnios
is mo,t apparent when It discusses the
old mortgage businets. If there is
any scheme of the money power to cir
cumvent tbo producers that Is perfectly
Indefensible it is this one of gold con
tracts. It is only the subservency of
the supreme court to this money power
that 1 makes - such contracts possible.
The power to " coin money ana regulate
ltt valut thereof" carries tne leaerai
power to say what shall be legal tender
into every state. Under the proper In
terpretation of that power every con
tract could be liquidated In United
States legal tender money, any waiver
in the contract te the contrary notwith
standing. The waiver of a law by a
private citizen wnouia nave no loroe
unless It was bolstered up by a supreme
court decision; and this Is a case In
which the supreme court has made such
a decision in favor of a power that it
would not have made it against. Hence
the necessity of the law proposed by the
Alliance. That law will be passed by
the next legislature there is sot the
shadow oi a doubt of tnat. ine Alli
ance has not proposed any tx noil facto
law, no farmer in tms stato w lanes to
ay his debts in money of less value
ban that in which he contracted them:
but they all demand tnat they shall not.
by vicious and unjust .legislation, be
compelled to pay them in money of a
much greater value than that in which
they oontrao'ed them. The Bet knows
very well that for twenty years and up
wards the value of money has been con
stantly appreciating, and that the
amount ot wealth required to pay debts
has continually augmentod. The Bet
knows the cause of this, and knows
that it is a rank Injustice to the wealth
producer, but will not admit it. It also
knows that the gold mortgage Is in
tended to perpetuate this Injustice, and
that It it a rank Injustice, though it sttys
it is not. Its illustration as to the bor
rowed wheat covers a fallacy. Money
is a creation of law aloae. The princi
ple of intrinsic value has nothing to do
with it. It is the business of the gov
ernment which creates money to so ar
range its volume relative to population
and wealth that it weu'd be an unvary
ing unit and measure of value on the
average. It haptens that law can be
invoked to create and transfer values
by manipulation of money, and the
money power has been able to Invoke
law, and has done it in Its own interest.
The Bet opposes the loaning of the
permanent school fund on land securi
ty. The only reason It gives is that
when it was formerly tried in this state,
when the editor of that paper was stato
senator, the state government was in
the hands of scoundrels, and some of
the fund was impioperly loaned. We
have heard that editor state that the
state did not lose a dollar in those tran
sactions. So the security was so good
that the scoundrels could not steal the
money,
Mr. Rosowater, the editor, represent
ing the republican party in a metapho
rical sense, endorses the Alliance de
mand for a reduction of freleht rates.
Mr. Allen, representing the party in a
real tense, being one of the members of
tne republican state administration, de
clares that a reduction would be an In
justice to the roads. Under which King,
republican farmers,; will yoM train f
And if under Mr. R , can he give you
what you want against Mr. Allen's op
position?
We may refer to the Bet article again
THERE ARE NO FACTIONS. .
The persistent efforts of tho dally
press of this state to make the publio
believe that the State Alliance is divi
ded intd two factions, of which Van
Wyck and Burrows are the leaders,
would be extremely absurd were they
not calculated to do mischief. Of course
this is tho Intention of the authors of
these lies. Mr. VanWyck has now
been a dolcgate to tho state meeting
twice, and on neither occasion has a
word of animosity passed between him
and Mr. Burrows. Mr. Burrows is not
in any manner opposing Mr. VanWyck.
The latter gentleman is a declared can
didate for U. S. senator. The former
is not, and never expects to be,, a can
didate for any office whatever.
The VanWyck episode of 1890 has
passed into history. When Mr. Van
Wyck, after promising to accept tho
nomination for congress in this district
If it was unanimous, and then, after
withholding his decision a month, de
clined It when he refused to take the
stump for tbo Independent ticket after
having promised Mr. Blake to do so
when he attacked Air. Root and Mr.
McKeighan at Weeping Water and He
bron, and tho chairman and the secre
tary of the independent state commit
tee denounced him in the public press
FAKMfclLS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB.,
and advised Independents not to coun
tenance bltn, Mr Burrows, as editor
of the SUM organ, became the historian
of tbe whole transaction, whether he
would or not That he bad feeling in tne
matter must be conceded, and prompt
ed by those feeling, be denounoed un
sparingly what be believed was vile
treachery, and the cause of our defeat.
These feelings are entirely gdne. At
tbe same time all events have full;
JiHtitind tbe position we then took. Mr.
VanWyck should have been in Mr. Bry
an s seat now, wit a me aoor ot
senate at Paddocks' successor wide
open before him. This would have In
volved tbe election of the whole state
ticket, the prevention of all the con
tests, the oblivion of Boyd, the passage
of the New wrry bill, and prevented all
tbe unfortunate events that followed
the Independent defeat For tbe pres
ent situaiion Mr. VanWyck. has only
his own short sighted folly to thank.
We have never considered aim an inde
pendent since 1890. But iftheinde
pendents now want to snatch him as a
brand from the burning, aad make him
governor, U. S. senator or presiaeni.
well and good. " l here is more oy in
heaven over one sinner that repenteth
than over ninety and nine that need no
repentance." In fact It is such sinners
hat seoera fl?e .
We lsh it now distinctly understood
that there are no factions in the Am
ance. Mr. Burrows will not lead a
faction, and his friends will not join
one. The two last meetings of thefctate
Alliance as well as the state convention
at Maatinira. were absolutely harmoni
ous. and the next state convention will
be of the same kind.
THE STATE ALLIANCE MEETTSO,
The Annual Meeting of the State
Alliance, held in Lincoln last week, was
as we were sure it would be an exception
ally valuable and successful gathering
The storm which began two days before,
and continued without intermission
until the day of the meeting, was the
only thing that prevented this meeting
frem being the largest and most success
ful one that ever assembled in tbe
state, The tnow reached the depth of
eighteen inches on the level In the west
ern counties. This not only makes more
work for farmers at home, but when it
it remembered that under such clrcuni
stances a very little wind will block all
the roads, Its effect upon the attendance
iseasllvseen. This effect was proved
bv tbe fact tnat tne credentials oi over
three hundred elected delegates were
sent Into the Secretary's office who
failed to attend the meeting.
Upon the wholo, the results ot tne
meeting wore very satisfactory. Tbe
fact that It paid a fair salary iirobably
induced some competition lor tae omce
of secretary, though there was no time
when tbe friends oi Mr. Thompson
had any doubt as to the result of that
comDetltion. ino opinion seemou to oe
quite unanimous that the Alliance could
not anora at mis time to dispense wiin
the exnerience of Mr. Thompson.
The eleetlon of Mr. Allen as Chair
man of the Executive Uommittee was
wise, and assures an honest and com
petent managemnnt of the duties of that
omce.
Tbe retention ot Hon. J. H Powers
as President for the next year gives sat
isfactlon to all; and the election of Hon
W. A Poynter of Boone county, as
Vice Presidont was as good a one as
could be made.
The address of Hon. H. L. Loucks of
Dakota, vice President of the F. A. &
u., was an able effort of which every
criticism was a compliment.
This large' and enthusiastic meeting
was a surprise to the managers of tbe
two old parties. They had been hug
glpgto their bosom the delusion that the
Alliance was falling to pieces. The ap
pearance at Lincoln of such a large and
lively piece, and the conviction that had
it not been lor tne untimely storm h
would have been very much larger.
seems to have struck them with wonder
and dismay. They feel that it is a pre
cursor of Indeoendent success In Ne
braska In 1892. as it undoubtedly is.
We shall publish the full omcial pro
ceedings of the meeting next weex. in
eluding the addresses printed last
week.
LOSS OF CHTJECH MEMBERSHIP.
In New York city the Methodist
church in two decades has lost sixty
six per cent of its membership and the
Presbyterian and reform churches ten
and eight per cent, respectively. These
are facts that ought to convince the
churches that they are not preaching
the gospel that Christ and the Apostles
preached. They are not bringing "glad
tidings to the poor." they are not un
doing the heavy burdens, they are not
loosing every yoke and letting the op
pressed go iree." tney do not "cry
aloud and spare not " with respect to
the sins of monopoly and usury. They
do not require their members to love
their neighbors as they love themselves
In business dealings and tr.e acumula
tlon of property. The poor in throngs
ana muitituaes tnat oniy tne uesert can
hold will come to those who preach
iU8ti e ana practice love. " how beau
-iful open the mountains are the feet of
him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace; that bringeth good
iiaings ot gooa, mat pubiisnctn saiva
tion; that saith unto Zion, tby God
retgneth."
A RISING MAN,
Hon. W. A. Poynter, of Boone Co., is
the man. Thoroughly read in all modem
lore, fully abreast with the most ad
vanced reform element, moderate and
conservative in tone, a believer in Davy
Crocket's motto, " Ba sure you're right,
then go ahead," a thoroughly success
ful man in his own affairs, we know no
man in Nebraska who has before him
brlgtter future. He Is good timber for
any position to which the independents
of this state desire to advance him
governor, V- S. senator or any other
place of trust or honor. And his mod
esty is only excclkd by his merit,
which is an admirable trait. W hen in
dependents are sneeringly asked, where
is your timber lor governor or u
senator, let them point to Poynter.
HIGHLY COMPLIMENTARY.
We have received a very complimen
tary letter from Bro. B. B. " Boyd,
Hartington. We will say to our broth
er, that as Mr. Powderly Is not eligible
to the office of President, being foreign
born, we consider we are excused from
publishing the letter, either as a com
mnnlcation er advertisement. Thanks
all the same.
IS THERE A MONEY FAMINE?
A case has just come to our notice In
which a church member of this city ex
acted from a brother member of the
same church TEN PER CENT
MONTH for a short lime loan. W
have the names of the parties, and all
the particulars on hie. ,
lECULATLSO SHORT SELLING.
We print tbe following from a Chica
go paper, written by a leading Board of
Trade man, as a reply to the Bet'i edi
torial on the same subjoct in its issue
of the 18th:
The bill introduced by Senator Wash-
barn is attracting attention. Board of
Trade circles are beginning to realixe
Uiat it is more than a joke, and they
are commencing to rehash the old argu
ments about short selling being a bene
fit to the producer. . Tbe ordinary Board
of Trade man, who can not tell tbe dif
ference between barley and wheat, is
iorbtied with the ides that short selling
Is a business, and he ran not ciaseive
bow business in grain can be conducted
without it. ft is impossible for hisa to
realize that the grain business can be
conducted a, for instance, the dairy
business, which Is vastly more impor
tant than tbe grain business of the Uni
ted States. Nobody thinks of selling
cattle, milk, cheese and butter short.
but merchants buy the property and
take the'r chances on the market
Sometimes they lose, but more often
they make reasonable profits. Grain
merchants will have te do the same,
and when they only have to buy the
actus wheat raised tbey can male their
calculations more accurately. Under
the present system there Is no telling
how large tbe supply is. when for In
stance, one dry goKis freak can supply
millions of wheat contracts without
anything but a pencil and a trading
card.
The short seller argues that he has to
buy it back, but before he does so pri
ces may nave been depressed by his
short selling to the extent that holders
are compelled to sell, which they would
not but for the unnatural depression
caused by this fictitious supply, and
when he does buy he does so largely
from some other short seller willing to
take his Dlaee.
It is conservative to say that there Is
50,000,000 bushels of wheat short in the
United States, on an average, tbe year
around. This extra supply under tbe
present conditions, has the full force of
se much additional v beat, and It is in
conceivable how anybody can escape
from the logic teat, as supply and de
mand regulate values, this extra supply
must tend to lower values, it is no ar
gument to say that sometimes r arkets
advance beyond a reasonable level on
account of urgent demands from short
sellers, as these accidents invariably
occur either before the producer can
get his grain to the market, or after be
has sent it to tbe market. They do not
occur when the producer Is In position
to profit by them.
The grain trade is saturatea wttu
false doctrines. The ignorance prevail
ing is alarming. Commercial consid
erations are of no consequence. Two
bright specimens to-day sold wheat on
a newspaper statement that the Argen
tine republic would have 280,000,000
wheat for export, when every school
boy ought to k iw that the republic
never averaged 5,000,000 experts.
What chance has a farmer and a mer
chant against those dealers, whose very
ignorance is their strength, because
they act on it as under the inspiration
of faith.
It will take time to convince the
Borrd of Trade, but after the bill has
gone into operation it will be found a
leasing in disguise. It will elevate the
grain trade to the rank which Its lm
uortance commands, ana wnue it may
relegate some dealers to callings more
in harmony with their education, the
Board of Trade will manage to get
along without them, k. U.
THE OMAHA BEE AND THE KE-
BRASKA BIBBER TWINE 00.
We have before us three different
clippings from tho Omaha Bee, two of
them editorials In which it is stated
that the Alliance meeting last week did
not treat Mr. Jerome, of the Fremont
Binder Twine Co , with courtesy, and
that "the Alliance does not appear to be
in entire sympathy with the doctrine of
patronizing heme Industries." These
statements are of the same nature as
those of the same and other papers
which represent that there were war
ring factions in the Alliance and much
other rot that Is eutlrely false. We
give below a letter from Mr. Reynolds
which shows just the extent to which
the Bte and Its coadjutors can be
trusted. The State Alliance is entirely
in favor of building up home industries.
Whiloajoke passed between Mr. Je
rome and a delegate, it was entirely
good naturcd and quite on the member
instead of Mr. Jerome; ana tne gentle
men from the twine factory were
treated with all the attention possible
In the hurry of business. Below is the
letter.
Fremont. Neb., Jan. 15, 1892.
Jay Burrows. Lincoln Nebr.
Dear Sir: We enclose you some cup
pises from the Omaha Bee. which no
doubt you have seen ere this. We think
that the sentiments expressed therein
do not correctly convey the attitude in
which the Alliance desires to stand with
reference to bur Industry or that of any
other legitimate industry of tbe state
which is doing a legitimate business.
We certainly are not consoions of hav
ing been treated lu any other manner
than with the utmost courtesy by the
Lincoln convention, which we appre
ciate in the highest degree. Certaiu it
is that by no word or act were wo led to
believe that the Alliance would not pat
ronize us, but on the other hand we did
receive most substantial assurance from
individual delegates and the state agent
of their financial and moral support.
Will you' kindly but vigorously undo"
what our mistaken friends have dore
us correct tbe report In the Bet and
state in the Alliance just the position
which the organization holds in regard
to ns as you understand it.
Please put us on your subscription
list. We want to keep ourselves
posted. Yours very truly,
Nebraska Binder Twine Co.,
B. W. Reynolds, President.
Questions.
Editor Farmers' Alliance:
Willyou kindly answer the following
questions in your journal:
1. Can a member of a Sub-Alliance
join another Sub Alliance without sev
ering his connection with the first, in
the manner prescribed in the constitu
tion? 3. Is not a Sub-Alliance that admits
such a member liable to lose its char
ter! A Brother.
Reply.
1. He cannot. See Sec. 2, Art. VIII.
If an expelled member should wish to
rejoin he must do so under the provi
sions of the constitution.
2. It is.
ARENA SAMPLE COPIES.
A rare opportunity is offered to those
who wish to see the Arena. To any one
desiring to examine it, who will send
us six cents for postage, we will send a
sample copy of this most valuable and
Interesting of magazines. , ,
TIIUKSDAY JAN. 21,
OF THE
. CLASS. . .
Great Chunks of Harmony, But Mighty
, Little wisdom.
An Apotheosis of E. Rosewater.
Edward Rosewater, tbe chief and lead
er of what is left of the republican party
of Nebraska, called his henchmen to
gether at Omaha last week. The chief
object of tbe meeting was to give Mr.
R. an opportunity to prove that he did
not injpire the Roggen letter, and to
explain to aforesaid henchman tbe re
lations between Mr. R. and bis manag
ing editor, Mr. Haynes, and to read
aad therefore have an excuse for pub
lishing bis private letters of instruction
to said Haynes. Tbe letters were read,
and received with great applause. They
contained a repetition of the Bet't stale
abuse of Hon. J. W. Edgerton, which
common decency, if Mr. R. bad happily
possessed any, miiht have induced
him to omit. After, by a vile demo-re
pnb combine, placing upon the supreme
b3ich of this state a man guilty of se
duoing the innocent baby daughter of a
brother Mason and a bosom friend, and
then lying and prevaricating about It,
and afterward striving to smirch the
virtue of the poor child be had betrayed
by a promise of marriage, it would have
been much more seemly for Mr. Rose
water, when the election was over, to
cease bis abuse of Mr. Edgerton. In
every manly trait, in every noble char
acteristic, In breadth of mind, Intiue
statesmanship, in real ability, In all
those qualities which excite the lespect
and admiration of men, Mr. fedgerton
is as superior to bis infamous trducer.
and to the judge who was elected
as the glowing effulgence of tbe noon
day sun Is superior to the deceit! al fire
damp that hangs over the noisome re
cesses of the treaoberous bog. The
sickening disgrace that will pervade tbe
atmosphere of onr bupreme uourt for
tbe next four years that will lead every
self-respecting lawyer to drop his
glance to the floor when he utters the
stated formula, "may It please your
honor" was caused by E, Rosewater't
lying abuse of Mr. J. W. Edgerton, as
much as by any other cause. We do not
care to blazon that disgrace. We blush
for it. as all other good citizens must.
But so long as Mr. R. continues his low
abuse of Mr. Edgerton so long will we
hurl the disgraceful truth into his
teeth.
The letters containing the abuse were
received with "a hearty burst of ap
piause." i es. ana the gang that gave
the applause was the same old gang
tnat tne nine jew wasaenouncing every
aay, wnenne was toadying to the farm
ers in order to build up his "great west
ern paper, mere was uraa Slaughter.
How many times has he roasted Brad?
Walt Seeley a precious, precious sam
ple; fcabusern An.' John reters, an
old time U. P. Pet. H Gibbon, for ten
years a U. P. station agent. Johnny
Watson a railroad striker and late ap
pointee of Gov. Bovd. S. D. Mercer, a
railroad monopolis t, worth two millions
made by watering street railway bonds,
but now Rose water's special friend and
exemplar, "tiive us the right candi
date and Uniaha will find the money.
And so on and so forth, to the end of
the chapter. A gang of office seekers,
a small detachment of the brass-collared
brigide, striving to hatch up some
plausible scheme or . pretence upon
which they would appeal to tbe people
to rescue part of the Wreck of the ' Ne
braska g. o. p.
Tbe harmony was something astonish
ing. Russell and. "Rose v had harmonized;
and Russell said' "the old ship had never
leaked. Pirates bad got aboard and
tried to run the ship, but when they
found they could not succeed they
jumped overboard." And the harmony
was so dense you could not cut it with
a knife. It was so dense that Church
Howe, who sat there with a Mephisto
pbelian smile on his lips and an untight
ed cigar in his fingers, never said t
word. He's just a lovely pirate, Church
is. It sounds like a joke of fate when
these fellows go to calling each over
names.
And then how harmony shed its an
gelio effulgence, when, after Rosey had
insisted upon the duty of the party to
reduce freight rates, as per the demand
of the Alliance, Mr. Allen rose in the
dignity cf conscious power, and said
that, "he and the other members of the
"board were ready ana willing to pass
"an order reducing the freight rates if
"they could be convinced that the rates
"were unjust. They had carefully
"examined the subject, and had come
"to the conclusion that the rates were
"reasonably low." O such harmony.
A board oonvinoed again it Its will
Is of the same opinion still.
Mr. Rosey represents the party in the
abstraot. Mr. Allen and the board rep
resent the party In the concrete. The
railroads are behind Mr. Allen and the
board. Fanfaronade and wind are be
hind Rosey. And all if harmony, bar
monv. harmony!
The meeting exhibited the expectant
ambitions oi a contemptible lotot am
bitious politicians, and showed in a sul
phurious glare of light the low estate
to which the grand old party has
fallen.
THE FEBRUARY ARENA,
A fine portrait of Herbert Spencer
forms a frontispiece to the February
Arena. Accompanying that picture is a
brilliant biographical sketch of Mr,
Spencer's life and work by William H.
Hudson, for many years the private
secretary of the great philosopher
Robert S. Taylor, a prominent republi
can of Indiana, contributes a very
important paper on the electoral col
lege, wider the title, "Danger Ahead.
It Is treated in a broad, non partisan
spirit, and will richly repay careful per
using. Ex Gov. Lionel A. Sheldon
writes of the railroad problem in
statesmanlike manner, evincing a full
appreciation of the Important difficul
ties of the problem. His paper is a val
uable contribution to the series of po
litical papers now appearing in the
Arena. Henry Wood appears in a pa
per of great ability and profound
thought entitled, "The Solidarity of the
Race." Mr. Wood is the most brilliant
philosopher of the modern metaphysi
cal school of tbe day. The editor of
the Arena writes on Hypnotism and its
Relation to Phychical Research. The
paper is a valuable contribution to
psychical literature. Mr. Flower sites
many wonderful experi nents in Hyp
notism perfo.med by loading scientists,
which illustrate not only tho power of
mind over mind. but. what is Still more
astonishing, the potential power of
mind over matter. P. Cameron, B. C.
L. of Trinity College, Toronto, discusses
Inspiration and Heresy, one of the most
thoughtful discussions of this timely
topic that has yet appeared In Europe
1892. '
America... C. C. Post, th' well
nown author of -Driven from Sua to
Swt. writes on "The Sub Treasury
Plan"" as advocated by the Fa em ers'
Alliance a clear, interesting exposi
tion of this much ridiculed scheme. It
is a paper which alL persons should
read, as it is a clear, concise presenta
tion of the subject. Rev. Burt Estes
Howard, . D. D., . writes on the Atone
ment as understood by a Presbyterian
c '.rKjuiaa in me uuerat wing Air
Howard's paper will doubtless create
wide spread interest and comment. A
very Interesting, popular and timely
paper is from the pen of James Realf
Jr., on "The Last American Monarch,"
being a charming sketch of Do in Pe
dro, with bis personal impressions.
The second part of Hamlin Garland's
powerful picture of western life and
conditions, entitled "A Spoil of Office,"
fills twenty-five pages of this issue. It
is a story of absorbing interest, and
without question the best picture of
western life which has yet been writ
ten. The Arena, as the great liberal
and progressive
review, Lj without a
peer.
DELEGATES TO THE i NATIONAL
MEETING.
The meeting of the National Alliance,
to be held at Chicago Jan, 21 28 is like
ly to be a very important meeting. We
hope that all the delegates from Ne
braska will be in attendance. The
following are the delegates:
At large. .7. Burrows. C. H. Van
Wyck.
1. Geo. A. Abbott
21 Ud. Arnold
ft. O. R Reynolds
24 J. T. Hedges
24. Jas. Smith
25. Denton Celllns
26. K. X Pearl
27. K. I)obon
28. wm collngban
29. N. O. Albert
. F. M. Howard
81. O. H. Trueman
Hi B. L. Reack
83. W. I. Henxtable
84. J. W. (Soulier
85. O. B. Bradley
36. W. J. Htokoz
2. W. C. WlllUm,
a. K. 8. Whittaker
4. Jas. Clark
6. Cbaa. Nownesr
6. Joba Kell
7. Allen Hoot
H. J . W. Bberwood
W. A. Poynter
U T. A. Howe
II. Hans Dahlaten
lis. O. Nelton
13. T. Freelan
14. M U. Ferris
15 B. T. Groat
IS Tbo Donahru
Peterson Bbberaon37. A. d'Allemand
18. N. 8. Mlobener 8S N. Dutcber
IS. Kred Allen 3D. K. C. Hardin
2a U. HuU 40. T. A. laylor.
Delegates to the St. Louis conference
were nominated by the districts as fol
lows:
Deleratet. Alternates.
1. J. V. Wolfe
2. O. A. Woloett M. H. Goltrr
8. 8. C. Full-child
4. Dan'l Freeman P. B Olson
i. w. A. Jones L. Moneynolds
. 8. R. Biadley H. O. Stewart.
ihe state Alliance elected tbe mem
bers named by the various districts by
unanimous vote and elected J. H. Pow
ers and S. E. Thornton delegates at
large.
Alliance headquarters will be at the
Sherman House. It Is desirable that
the Nebraska delegation should have
a conference at that house before as
sembling at the hall.
SOME RINGING FACTS.
The tales agents of the coal compa
nies met week before last and decided
to restrict the anthriclte output for
January to 2,500,000 tons. Think of
a few men having legal power to lock
up God's stores of coal, given to all, and
so raise the price while the poor with
scanty means are freezing, and the
miner's families at a consequence of
being thrown out of work must
go
hungry! But the coal barons say:
"Let them strike as much as they like.
To ui 'tis a perfect boom.
Merrily high tke prices fly
, On monopoly's big balloon.
Tnoug-b they starve by bits In the inky pits.
Though tbelr children cry for bread,
Tbe end of tbe game must be the tame
King Capital keeps ahead.
.-r- , ,
"Good pay? Absard. Upon my word,
What more can tbe men require?
Tou speak of the poor what they endure,
Deprived of their bit of Are.
If we who oontrol the price of coal
Reduced at this time of year,
Our dividends, my worthy friends,
Would rapidly disappear.
"I'm willing to add that the work is bad
And dangereus too, to faoe;
But when one stops and reels and drops,
There's another to take bit place.
'Supply and demand,' throughout the land,
By that will we stand or fail.
We're dealing In coals, but bodies and sonls
Are not in our line at all."
We find the above record of the last
act of greed on the part of the anthra
cite coal monopolists, and the coal ba
rons' song, in the last number of the
A'ew Nation, and we put them together,
where they seem to belong.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAIL
ROADS.
Transportation at cost would connect
the farmer and the artisan class, would
make them neighbors, and enable each
to exchange labor for labor on an equl
table basis. Coal, Iron, lead and other
minerals at cost would make more
work, more comfort, more wealth for
everybody. Everything at cost would
secure to each worker his product, and
in exchange a product containing equal
labor. It would make each one's en
joyment depend on his labor alone, and
the harder one 1 onl the more he
would have to enl n . I'm heresy of
present economic teaching is the idea
that "profit," more labor for less labor,
is a -good thing and to be taken when
ever it can be obtained. It is this her
esy which dethrones justice, perpetuates
war, destroys the commercial equilib
rium, makes the seller unable to buy
back as much labor value as he sold,
and so leads to glutted markets
While the producers have nothing to
purchase with, the idle rich have more
than they can consume, ana the work
ers arc in constant want.
Resolution of Box Butte County Alliance.
Jan. 2, 1892.
Whereas, The board of couutv
commissioners at the last meeting of
said board when the county printing
was awarded aid not awara the print'
ing to the lowest bidder. Therefore
be it
Besotted. That we the delegates of the
sub-alliances of Box Butte ask that the
board of commissioners do award the
county printing for the coming year to
lowest responsible bidder irrespective
of party or person.
SCIENTIFIC MONEY.
BT HOX. n. P. 1NGSRSOLL.
Editor Farmers' Alliance: Of all
the political, social, and economic ques
tlons, that are pressing upon ns for so
lution, I consider the money question
to be tho most Important.
It Is not only Important, but many
other questions are Involved In it, and
will find their solution either partial or
entire in the solution of this one,
Moreover all are agreed that it must be
sef.&d, abd thjUlt wnl'aM U Uhlei
until it is settled right. In other words,
the money question. Is at ihe, front, Jk
ghost that will not down. t' '
There are many evils that call for re
form, which are rooted in, and are the
outgrowth of, the pretest money ques
tion. These evils having thus evolved,
will be corrected when the money sys
tem is corrected. Among such evil out
growths are the banking and credit
systems.'
The mere existence of these systems
it both proof aad confession of tbe In
sufficiency of the money volume. Vol
umes have bnen written showing the
evils of these two systems.
Other volumes, and many of them,
could be written and ttill the tale would
be untold. For these evils there b
neither cure nor palliative except in an
entire change in the money and the mo
ney system. The world hat neyer yet
seen a sensible or scientific money. To
continue the use of the present expen
sive metalic money, or to substitute
therefer, or add thereto a money whose
value It supposed to be based on metal
or any other commodity, is about as
sensible as it would be to enact a legal
holiday for swine.
As a medium of exchange such money
is no better than, if as good as, a chalk
mark, a notch on a stick, or a hundred
other things that could be devised.
As a meature of value, it Is a fraud, a
changeable, ax ever changing and so an
inaccurate measure.
As a measure of justice which it is
in the settlement of time contracts,' it is
both a fraud, ana an outrage.
What an e pensive money it is.
Nearly 88 000 million dollars worth of
gold and silver is now in use as money
in tne worm, xnis entire amount dis
appears, goes out of existence, every
century through attrition or abrasion.
This loss is at the rate of 80 million
dollars per annum, and must be regained
somehow, in order to keep the money
trnlnvna Infant and .A nrouinra "p4.A'7-
ty of values." .
What a tax this It upon the labor and
industry of the world. At the wages of
tl 60 per day, it would require an army
of 178,000 laborers to reproduce this loss.
It tne laborer requires at least ai. ao per
day for the subsistence of himself and
family it requires tbe continuous labor
of an army of over 1,000,000 laborers to
simply keep up the money volume. This
amount of labor could be more profit
ably employed.
At the last session of the last congress.
congressman Post of Illinois, intro
duced a short bill of only three sections,.
which if enacted and enforced, would go
a long way toward straightening mat
ters out. I regret that I do not have
the bill at hand. It was referred to the
proper committee, where it has since
slept the sleep of the just. As I recall
its provisions, it empowered the Secre
tary of the Treasury to issue and pay
out Treasury Notes of different denomi
nations, said notes to read something
like this: "This note willl be received by
the United States in paymont of dues
and taxes to the amount of dollars;,
and shall be a tegal tender to that
amount, In payment of all private or
public debts or contracts made or en
tered into after this date."
This note is not a promise to pay. It
is a promise to receive.
As a starter and an educator, I would
like to see this bill enacted and enforced.
Indeed I think such notes would make
a sensible and scientific money,
If added to the present volume ot mo
ney to the amount of say 1200.000.000
per' annum, less, than a .generation
wouia pass away before all other money
could disappear.
The government would then know
the exact amount of the money volume,
both absolute and relative, something
which it does not 1 and can not now
knew.
The money volume could then be
kept fixed in its ratio to the population
and business. Money could thus be
unvarying, and so an accurate measure
of value and justice, something that our
pieseni money is not, ana in tne nature
of things cannot be.
Such money would be a better me
dium of exchange, even in Mr. Bellamy's
year 2000 than his proposed credit
card,
Let us enter slightly into detail. The
annual expenditures of the government
are in round numbers say 600 million
dollars. Of course the annual receipts
must be tke same. This amount is one
laira oi tne entire money volume ac
cording to the report of the Treasury
department. According to the estimate
of the late Senator Plumb and many
others, it is more than one-half of all
the mnnnv In nntnol nlronlattnn:
In both estimates are included mil
lions of so-called currency, or circulating
medium such as banknotes and other
subsi hues for money, all of which in
times of financial distress, fail to per
form the office of money; and because
of such failure they add to the distress
and cause a further contraction of the
currency. (It is no wonder that Dunn
and Bradstreet's prophecies fail to ma
terialize.) In order that the government may
successfully collect and disburse this
500 million dollars, that is do business
to the amount of 1,000 million dollars
per annum it is obvious that a certain
portion of the entire money volume is
practically out of general circulation
being virtually set aside, so to speak, for
the exclusive use of government.
How large this portion of the money
volume is, we have no means of know
ing, but think it safe to assume that is
not less than 100 million dollars. I do
not think that one dollar will do more
than ten dollars of government busi
ness per annum, that it will go into and
out ot the treasury more than five times
per annum. It is to be observed that
checks, drafts, bank notes, and other
substitutes for money do not pass car
rent with Uncle Sam. He only uses
actual money.
Now If the Sec'y of the Treasury in
making his disbursments should pay
out above mentioned Treasury notes, or
promises to receive, and they should
return to the Treasury as fast as issued,
In payment of taxes or other dues, two
things would result.
1st. The government would have
collected it's taxes in advance, thus
making or saving some interest.
2nd. That portion of the money vol
ume which is virtually out of general
circulation spoken of above--would
be set free, and would enter into gene
ral circulation, thus increasing the vol
ume and the circulation by so much;
assumed at about (100,000,000.
It is not at all probable that the
whole 600 million dollars, paid out by
the Sec'y per annum would return im
mediately. It is more likely that tho major part
of it would remain in general circulation
thus displacing other forms of paper
money. Meanwhile the coin now in
use could be exported, in exchange for
something of equal or greater value
to us.
Of course, such money would be as
good and no better than the government.