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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, FEB. 2.1, 181)2. 0!,e f arme SUHance, Publish Brery Saturday cy Tux Almawcb IYbiashixq Co. Cos. 11th dI M 8u Lincoln, Neb. Tuoiirsox & FlHTLE, rsorsiKTORS. "In the beauty of the liUies Christ wu bom ictom the sea, With a glory In his bosom That transfigures you and me. As be strove to make men holy Let ns strive to make them free. Since God is marching on." Julia Ward ffotrt. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts. And power to him who power exerts. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. He who cannot reason Is a fool. He who will not reason is a coward. Be who dare not reason is a slave." N. R. P. A. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all business communication A 111 D klUkln to address matter for publication to Editor farmers' Alliance. Articles written on both sides f the pper onanot M used, very long oommuiuixuu us. aa aru'.a cannot oe used. Thk old parties are sectional, selfish, class-legislating. Let the new party therefore be named the N ational party. f Tin Boyd and Thayer incident dis prove! one grave charge against the average democrat, that he is ready to iako everything in sight ' We are sorry to learn that our state loetarer W. H. Dech had to cancel a number of engagements last week on aoocunt of his health. Gr. Weaver's new book, entitled A Call to Action, is completed and ready lor delivery. We have not yet received a copy, but feol assured that the public will not be disappointed in it. What better combination can be thought of than this: Folk for presi dent, Powderly for vice-president, Don nelly for secretary of state and Weaver for secretary of the treasury. Tni ground hog still lives and enjoys his well earned reputation as a weather prophet. Ills salary may not be as large aa tome other members of the hog family, but his experience Is greater and his reputation will stand washing better, Ik the report of the treasurer of the State Alllanoe in our Issue of January 28th two errors in figures were mado. Amount paid to National Alliance hould read 9375 Instead of 1370, and mount paid for postage was 1705.58 instead of I7C5.60. Bl patient for it may take a few weeks to get the new machinery of this paper la good running order. The change came Just on the ere of the St. Louis mmntnrinn whnn imnmmBtita thai sad previously been entered Into, and could not be abandoned took a good part of the force away. Tni demand that United States sena tors shall be elected by the people, seems to be a very popular measure. Senator Palmer of Illinois made a speech la the senate Fob. 18th in favor of his proposed amendment to tho constitu tion providing that the senators should be elected by direct voto of tho people. Thk Journal quotes Elder Howe as saying that he has been working among the poor of Lincoln a long while but that he has never soon loss actual But tering than at the present time. The Journal quotes the Elder to make a point against "calamity howlers." The Journal should remember that for the first time in its history the city of Lin coln is in the hands of its so called "howlers." Thb Voice is fighting the proposition to take the liquor business out of poll tics and eliminate entirely the element of profit which is its life, by putting its sale Into the hands of government agents who should sell it at cost, subject to whatever restrictions the Individual states might choose to impise. The roMs editorial : upon the subject, marked by its writer for our special benefit, we consider weak, its premises not well taken and its "conclusions in valid. Rev. Charles N ewsan of this city says (see his September church naDer) that honesty is a business advantage to mtn the day laborer and the millionaire. Dean Kieffer, an episcopal clergyman of Colorado Springs, in a recent sermon la the church of the Ascension at Pueb lo, affirmed, and defend his statement, 4hat"anyman who had accumulated tt.000.000 was a thief." Which is right? Our columns are open for the discussion defense or attack of either proposition. Or. Newnan has the floor. Thb street car franchises of the large and growing cities, given to capitalists and scheming politicians,, have become enormously valuable and made the re cipienta vastly more burdensome and expensive to the wealth producers than princes of royal blood. Railroad, tele' jrraph and national bank act special privileges are older evils. By these and similar acts of public financial folly and political stupidity the, freedom of Amer ican citizens has gone glimmering. "For every enormously rich man there must from necessity alone," fays Gov. Boies, "be many wretchedly poor. All wealth is the product of labor. Great fortunes imply represent the earnings of great numbers. No one man can perform the labor reqnsite to produce them Very true. And the way the millionaire "makes" his wealth is by obtaining a franchise or trust monopoly which en ables him to collect toll of ten thousand producers, mere or less. The rich with their ever growing burden and power side on the shoulders of the producing class, and the weakest are trodden into the mire. BEGARDDTQ THE rCTUEE. The withdrawal of Mr. Burrows from editorial management and business con nectlcn with this paper will cause its many deeply Interested friends and pa trons to inquire, what will be the effect on its future policy? We answer for the men who pub lish it that the past policy of the paper is to be maintained without change. It has been and it will con tinue to be the peoples' voice and defenso, a vigilant, prepared and tre mendously in earnest advocate of their inalienable rigtts, persistently fighting all private monopolies and tho laws and sophistries which support them. Its work will ever be to search out and vigorously battle for the demands of Justice, the changeless Alliance prin ciples which must be framed into per manent law. Wrong is intrenched in error, ia ignorance, in prejudice, !a cus tom, in unjust laws. But right has only to be clearly set forth to triumph. The Alliance host is organized that right may triumph, and this paper will help it on to victory. Without this statement of its policy the character of the paper would be as sured by the men who continue it. Mr. Thompson, for the past three years sec retary of the State Alliance, has had an equal partnership Interest In The Farm ers' Alliance with Mr. Burrows, and has been business manager of the paper from the start. It has given utterance to bis fixed principles and settled views. Mr. Plrtle is also known as one of the first and most active Alliance men, and is very popular in tho state. lie has been s member of the Saunders County Alliance from the date of its organiza tion, and has been secretary of the ex ecutive committee of the Peoples' party of Nebraska tor the past two years, his work in that important ofllce being of the most efficient and satisfactory kind. The host editorial ability in the power of tho publishers to obtain will be se cured, all the news of the great and growing peoples' movement will bo given, truth-seeking discussions of unsettled questions In its columns will be encouraged, and the papor as an ed-' ucator and leader will be made indis pensable to honest, fair-minded, truth- loving men. It will be emphatically their paper, and we doubt not an in creasing number of this class will give to its publishers their cordial and con tinuous support. The pooplo can most effectually help themsolves by helping them spread, through the papor, the light of Justice and truth. AWOEDOf INTBODU0TI0JT. Assuming (or presuming) to take the .place in "The Alliance Publishing Co.," vacated by Mr- Burrows, I have but lit tie, at present, to say. For fear, how ever, that a wrong impression may go out I will say that it was Mr. Burrows' pecuniary interest in the company that I purchased, and not his editorial posi tion. That will be filled in due time, by the company itself. It is by pluck rather than with tho pen, by work rathor than by words that I hope to become a useful member of the company, and do my share towards the further upbuilding of the paper, its outspreading influence among the masses of the reading public. There is no thought with myself or the company to change the politics, or poli ty of the paper, in any material point. It Is to be, as it always has beon, a firm supporter of the peoples' cause, and tho "peoples' Independent party." Whatever tends to better the condition jf the common peoplo, whatever tends Id lighten the burdens of the toiling masses, whatever tends to elevate hu manity in the scale of its being, whatev er tends to lessen the number of miser able, and increase the number of happy homes, will be sought after and written Uplor its columns. I learned when i toj-that "Honor and fame from no condition rise Aot well jour put, there all the honor lie,.' No higher eulogy was ever pronounced upon the life work of man or woman than when it was said of one of old, "she hath done what she could." If the same can be truthfully said of my humble efforts when my connection with the paper shall cease, it is all I crave, and for this alone I shall faithfully labor and wait. s Hoping that I may be able to fulfill the most sanguine expectations of all my friends, in my now and responsible position, and that, hand to hand, and shoulder to shoulder, we may go for ward until we shall seo the cause of re form triumphant, and the time nshored in when equsl, and exact justice is meted out to all, and when the right of every man and woman in the land to tho fruitof his or her toll shall be fully icc ognized and guaranteed, I am for the present and for the future yours for the fight to a finish. C. II. PlRTLE. THE RETIRING EDITOR. That many of the readers of this paper will regret to learn that Mr Burrows has severed his connection with it we have no doubt, in fact we know this will be the case. It has been the medium, through which, for a num ber of years, he has spoken to our peo pie, giving them words of counsel and warning them of the dangers that lie in the Immediate political pathway of the nation, and suggesting how those dan gers may be avoided or averted. Few men, who wield the editorial pen, have become better or wider known than Mr. Burrows, for the reason that few are readier or more powerful in its use. Taking bold of the paper when it was weak and without prestlgo or patron age, by his ability and his zeal for the cause it advocates be has placed it upon sure fooling and made it a welcome weekly vUitcr in the families and around the firesides of thirteen thousand Nebraska homes, and its circulation and influence has been continually reaching out into other stales more and more every year. Few men have worked longer or harder, or done more for the cause of reform, or done it with a more self ecraficing devotion to the cause it elf, than has J. Burrows. That in period so long and in a field so wide, and coming in contact with so ninny ainerent minus be should fail to please all, at all times, is not wonder ful. Indeed to have been able to do so would be proof positive of the contin uance, or revival, of the age of miracles. That he may have even made some enemies would not be strange, but then, in withdrawing from Thk Farmers Alliance be leaves behind him a host of warm friends, who will greatly mUs him and regret the step be has taken, is very sure. The new management knowing this to be truo in behalf ot themselves and of Mr. Burrows' many friends wish him God-speed wherever be may go and success ia whatever he undertakes. HO W MEN GET RICH. ' A man worth ten to twenty thousand dollars used to be called rich, and no one thought of questioning a man' honesty, or investigating the Justice of his dealings, whose acquirements were within such labor-of-a-lifetime-pro-ducing figure. But the rich man today has more dollars than there have boen working days since the creation of Adam, and it is not strange that the honesty of the millionaire is questioned and that same declare from tho pulpit and the tribune that all millionaires are thieves. Kvents occurring in New York during the last fortnight, of intense, exciting interest to us all, f how with startling vividness how the millionaire and his ever associated troop cf paupers are made. Progress in speculative and monopoly -secured wealth for the 'mil lionaire class means progress in de pendence, debasement, poverty and starvation for the masses. Thursday, February 11, was the "biggest day" the Now York stock ex change bos evor known, the seemingly crazy excitement and turmoil being caused by the official statement of Drexel, Morgan & Co , which read as follows; The Philadelphia and Rending Rail road company has secured by lease or similar arrangement control ol the Lenten Kauroad companv and the Cen tral Railroad company of New Jorsey. The Reading guarantees on the Lehigh Valley stock dividends at the rate of 6 per cent per annum until July 1, 1892, tt per cent for one year afterward, or until July 1, 185)3, and 7 per cent per annum after the latter date. The excess of earnings, if any, above 7 per cent will be divided equally between the Lehigh Valley and the Reading companies until the Lehigh Valley receives 10 per cent dividends. The surplus above such 10 per cent will then go to the Reading. The Reading guarantees on the Jersey Central stock 7 per cent, all excess over and above that figure to be divided equally between the Jersey Central and the Reading companies. There will be one central agency or sales department. As theso- companies control about seventy-five per cent of the competitive uauiti, ine importance oi inis comui nation to tho coal trade is obvious. the increased profits to be extracted from this coalition will come, not through any extortion, but out of the economies to bo introducad. This consolidation, notice, did not add a dollar to the money invested or the wealth in hand, but it destroyed the possibility of competition, making it possible to shut up any of the anthracite coal mines when it pleased and keep coal at the highest price by restricting at will the output. By throwing miners out of work it c an increase competition among them, many of whom with fami lies must be forced to accept next to starvation wages rathor than starve while doing nothing. These were the "economies t be introduced," Well, witn this statement of the brokers the Stock Exchange was opened and the stock of the new combination was thrown upon the market. Tho New York Tribune describes the day as fol lows: When the gavel fell the scene was of pandemonium. A wilder shouting, struggling and shifting occurred than in times of panic. The enormous interest in the coal stocks led many "special ists'brokers who devote their atten tion to one or two particular stocks to refuse to execute transactions in their specialties. Messenger boys were at a premium. The contusion was indes cribable. It was a day of tumult and excitement that appalled the oldest men in tne street. "Pandemonium" is the proper word, It was a fierce, furious, heartless scramble of a legion of selfish devils, each trying to get the largest possible share of unearned wealth, a strife for power to place an additloned tax upon every fire that warms the shivering poor.f or continuous power to levy yearly tribute upon every home and working man in our broad land. Fivo hundred and fifty thousand shares' of Reading stock alono changed hands in that single day at the New York Exchange, the - stock rising from 8U to 59. The new Jersey .Central rose from 118 to 137, and at Philadelphia the Lehigh stocks wont from 60 to 60. ' Eight million dollars were "mado" on Reading stock alone by those who made the combination. This does aot mean that tbey earned or created this much wealth, but the combination gave them power to starve the miners and tax still more each of the 10,000,000 families who must use Pennsylvania, coal, and it was this devilish despotic power which they sold and which the speculating thousands were crazy to gej hold ot And this is the way our millionaire ruiera are maae. Governor Boyd's call for an extra session of the legislature has not yet been sent into thw otlico. THE BALAKCE 0T TRADE FALLACY. It has been long held by the eeono nomio writers, professors tod "fioan cirs," as unsafe s class to follow as ever existed, that a balance of trade in favor of any given nation is in all cases to its advantage. Only here and there a mania our own nation hat yet dis covered that the large yearly excess of our exports over our imports gives evi dence of an immense drain, which im poverishes us to enrich the money kings of Europe. Notwithstanding the im mense crop here and the European famine, leading to high prices and a stream of exports, the volume of which was never before equaled, we have not been able to buy back an equal value of goods and gold in exchange. About 174,000,000 of American gold was drawn to Europe during the first half of 1891, and with all our vast vol ume of exports during the last half of the year we were able to force back only about half of what had during the pre vious six month; been taken from us. The aatrn "financiers" have not been alarmed by these facts for two very important reasons, which we wish every Americ tn producer would con sider, viz. : I Ait htt money teas not taken from the capitalists, but from the debtor and irage-earning class; and the volume of currency so reduced made the money of American bankers and capitalists worth more, increased its purchasing power. The capitalists and their newspaper hirelings are even publicly merry over the-state of things. Listen to their mocking mirth: The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Finance offers a suggestion to Stanford, Peffer, et a!., who are introducing bills to issue money to loan to farmers at two per cent. In stead of putting in bills to issue more money, he urges the bill they ought to introduce is to have tho the government issue siou.ooo.uoo worth ot collateral. 1 here is plenty of money in the country. as any one can find who goes to the banks with good security. The great lack of Pefier's proteges is collateral and unless that is supplied in unlimited quantities there is no need of passing any laws regulating the loaning of mo ney. Giving it away might satisfy tho pressing demands, so long as the money lasted . Oregonlan . Yes, the collateral of the west or the money it prings has been steadily flowing east to pay interest on farm and chattel loans, and this stream has not returned. All the rivers run into the Wall Street sea and the English (syndicate) channel. And this ocean of capital Is always receiving more than it gives, always extending its arms, al ways growing, absorbing resources and enslaving the workers. The freight rates charged the west and south also drain off the farmers' collateral to pay Interest and dividends on railroad, coal mine and other stock, about half of which is water. Wall Street is full, has more money than it knows what to do with, and this is heralded everywhere as an evidence of national prosperity; but to fill Wall Street with money, the west and south has been drained pain fully dry. - Bradstreet's recont report contains the following: While the money market continues to be oversupplied with funds and loaning rates are maintained upon an exception ally low level, little practical importance a.tacbes to the movement of foreign ex- Change, in spite, however, oi tne exist ence of such conditions at the present time, the unexpectedly higher rates which exchange has attained are the subject of considerable public attention and remark. It may, indeed, be said that something akin to a feeling ol disap pointment has been aroused by the ces sation of gold imports and the advance of exchange in the faco of the heaviest exports on record and the existence of an exceptionally large trade balance in favor of tho U. S. During the autumn months the rising tide of our foreign ex ports was accompanied bv a return movement of specie from huropc cor responding to the anticipations aroused by the relative outcome of the crop of tho two continents and compensating for the remarkable drain of specie to the old world which had marked the first half of 1891. But though the vol ume of export trade continues to show a relative increase, tne close of 1891 and the beginning of the current year has witnessed an advanco of exchange to figures which are actually nearer to the exporting than the Bpecie importing point, the action of the market, in fact being of a character which affords little hope that the return movement of gold will bo resumed during this season. If with all our immense crops (ono thousand million bushels more wheat, oats and corn than we had last year) and in Europe an unprecedented short age so that over 30,000,000 people are starving, and high prices prevailing in consequence if with those conditions favoring us we are still losing money as a nation, our gold being shipped away much faster than it is mined, toward what, if we are to be tied to gold, are we inevitably drifting? We confess it looks exactly like slavery to the Euro pean money kings and Wall stroet princes. The rrore money is taken from us to pay interest on the thou sands of millions of English money in vested in American railroad stocks, mining stocks, brewery stocks, the whiskey trust stocks, and hundreds ot other trusts and the millions of farm mortgages, the more will the volume of American money be reduced, and each dollar will be harder for the worker to get. The working and borrowing class will bo ruined and tho lending and speculating capitalist class will go on buying up one business after another, forming trusts and stock companies to conduct each, until the workers at last get to bo simply absolutely controlled parts of, dependent producing wage earners for, a few consolidated all com prehensive stock companies. It is be ing done before our very eyes. Tho money is being ceaselessly drained Into the money centers, Wall street and London; small dealers and manufac turers aro being crushed out, trusts are every week being formed, and all prop erties and businesses are fast coming to be represented by stocks and bonds In all lines of business the weaker are going to the wall.' Over 13,000 bust ness failures last year, a greater num' ber than in any preceding year. Farm' ing ill perhaps be the last business ab sorbed and conducted on the stock company plan. But this is even now being done, and in our own state, too. On Christmas day, last, 20 Russian fami lies passed through this city enroute to the Holdredge Land Co., to be located by it on its land in Phelps county. The Holdredge Lnd Co., is the B. & M. R. B, Co., and the B. & M. railroad is largely owned by English capitalists. Farmers of Nebraska, freemen of America, we have given you in this article a picture of your condition, of national conditions and danger. If you do not already all feel the pressure, you are stadily drifting toward com plete eapitalistic control which will be a slavery as cruel, as burdensome, de basing and galling, as the conquered have ever known. WHAT THE 8T. LOUIS C0JTVEHTI0N SHOULD DO. It should act sensibly. It should act harmoniously. ' It should agree on a short platform It should nationalize the independent movement. It should set a time and place for a national convention, to nominate can didates for president and vice-president. It ought to keep in the middle of the road. ROSEWATER'S TORTURE. Till!-. UfVlT dhnillfi tlita nornntnel m-vvin be mp.de about Richards Isit not time for the ghost dancers and howling der vigheil tn atnn thair nannA rnvnm ml let the republican party prepare for the coming struggle that will require har monious and united action if)mahn Bee. Hurts, don't it Rosey. The knife that killed Richards and a long Dre Rich ards' procession is reaching for you with telentless persistency. You yourself. by playing the hypocrite and autocrat. have killed the republican pirty in Ne braska, and as either of the other two parties would kick you from its doors there is nothing left for you but " wail ing and gnashing of teeth." The Missouri World came out lately in a new dress. It is a Judiciously edit ed, live, able paper. Our hearty good wishes are herewith forwarded to those who lift at its lover. The senate coinage committee has mado an adverse report on tho froe coinage bill, Carlisle, the democratic leader, being one of the democrats who voted against it. The Reading railroad anthracite coal monopoly with its Vanderbilt octopus arm, a consolidation and trust manip ulation of the coal-railroad kings ef fected last week, has attracted the at tention of the whole country, and articles regarding it in many papers are arousing the people to realize to whom they are paying tribute and whoso slaves they are. Foe a few weeks past the Dakota Ruralist, edited by Vice-President Loucks of the National Farmers' Alli ance and Industrial Union, has kept at the head of its .editorial columns the following names and ideas.- L. I,. Polk'. J. B. Weaver. Financial reform. Indus trial emancipation. Editorially Brother Loucks hopes this ticket will be placed on a St. Louis platform, adopted by a Fourth of July convention, and carried to victory next November. The income tax law of Prussia makes the list of subjects in the empire whose annual incomes exceed 830,000 to num ber 505. The "thaler millionaires" in tho city of Berlin increased last year from 198 to 223, the "mark millionaires" from 1,088 to 1,107. A thaler equals 75 cents and a mark 25 cents. Berlin's richest citizen has an income of 8750,000 and there are but two richer in the em pire. Krupp of Uusscldorf is rated tho richest Gorman, with an income of $1,500,000. The World-tferald favors an income tax to meet the expenses of government and gives excellent reasons for its po sition. We aro surprised, but happily so. The single tax men, though, seem to have a remedy for land speculators who get the "unearned increment" made by the cultivation and improve ment of surrounding land, and who thus often are made immensely rich in the cities by the unpaid for toil of others. It is not right for a man to thus get wealth at the expense of tho peoplo, and the income tax would not reach him. Some of several remedies seom needed. Prussia employs 187,771 citizens in her government postal and telegraph offices and on the government railways, and transacts all this business without loss, waste or difficulty. Citizens in the em ploy of the government, our own or other governments, are never ground down in their wages in order thsvt their employers may declare dividends and amass wealth. They are never thrown out of work in order to bull the market. They are euro of work, always at living wages. They pay or have taken out of their earnings no interest to provide in comes for idle stockholders. They are no longer foreed into the fight of tho workers with the capitalist class. Would it not, then, be every way bottor for the government of the United States to be the one great owner and loaner of capital, owning and operating all means of communication and transportation, all stores of natural wealth, mines, oil wells and reservoirs, natural gas and planU for the generation of all motive power needed by the public, steam, electricity and the rest? Would it not also be better for the government to provide warehouses for tho storage at cost of all the staple articles of food, and by the issue of warehouse receipts which .could be used in exchange for monoy keep the price of the necessaries of lifo, and through them of all manu factured goods, of nearly uniform price from harvest to harvest? COL ROSEWATER CALLS A HALT. Kosewater Saturday sent word through the Bee to the routed, demoral ized members of the republican party of Nebraska the leaders of which like Kilkenny cats keep clawing each other the information vouchsafed being, that the fighters must quit or the party would again be thrashed into the earth. He commanded attestion by raying that the "republican of Nebraska are on the eve of a momentous campaign." Four years ago Harrison was given 23,223 plurality over Cleveland, and today the people have a solid sati re publican representation in congress, he conceded. And the great, absorbing questiDn before Nebraska republicans was, how coulrt they get back the offices and retain supremacy in the state. Rosewater went on to say that While the republicans of other states are endeavoring to harmonize factional differences and keep down personal con tention, Nebraska republicans, in the face of the most imminent peril to their ciuse, are constantly fanning the em- bcrS uf miGLiciIlM! flisnrirrl nH ssinrinvttiA seeds of factional dissension. For montns a coterie of political ghost dancers who have designedly worked themselves Inin a rnnn trll fho en. called betrayal of Richards in 1890, uave Buugm 10 incite nostiilty to Omaha by revamping the exploded stories of conspiracy and treason alleged to have been hatched by Omaha republicans by and with the sanction and co operation of the Bee. He then holds up the following brick as s sample of the deluge of bats Omaha and the Bee are receiving, an eight cornered, hard-burned varietv.let flv bv the Wisner Chronicle, a paper controlled by a member of the state central com mittee: The perfidy of Omaha in defeating" Richards is neither forgotten nor for given, if the next candidate comes from Omaha he may make up his mind that he will get a good rubbing down as long as the Klnrt nf unH in tho great American desert holds out, and there are lots and blocks and whole un Platted tOWnshiDS Of it On hanit an1 in the gizzards of the yoemen of Nebraska wuu uuueve in principle. Hit square between the eyes with this. and doubled up with grief over the cer tainty that his man Mercer can't get there (tho man through whom Roaev expected to rule Nebraska) no wonder ne wails because "such incendiary talk has been industriously and widely cir culated." He goes on enlarging his con fession of republican divisions by saying that . Another eanallv nnrnlnlnna nrndlo ( now in progress among republicans of the central and western part of the state against eastern Nebraska. The cry of these sectional agitators is that eastern Nebraska has had more than her share of political power and patronage, and incidentally Omaha and Douglas county are made the tartar, f.r th nnlitinal picadors, who consider it a patriotic uiuy ox me state to aeiame us metropo lis. Yes, intelligent voters outside of Omaha, remember, Rosey, have very good reason to believe that the last cen sus of that city was padded to please Omaha politicians thirty or forty thous and, and these extra thousands give the robbers' roost run by Rosewater a dan gerous addition of power, which inheres by right not in Porter's twice-paid-f or ngures, out the actual people. But Rosewater saves his heaviest. most envenomed fling at rival party leaders for the last, cutting with keen est sarcasm clear through the State Journal office, and hitting the head of every Lincoln republican with this peace (piece) making paragraph: But tho most vif inuq no wpII na tho most reckless und unprincipled warfare against Omaha i3 being waged by the republican press of the state capital. For these llesh pot patriots Omaha is the hotbed of all political chicanery and treachery and the focus of all jobbery and corruption, while Lincoln has al- WAVS bfio.n loval hnni'Ht. nnri pmHi-aItt unselfish in the appropriation and dis- oursement oi state funds. The littlo political scorpion of Ne braska is surrounded by fire and might 03 well sting himself and die. He will, however, havo this to comfort him, that the republican party of Nebraska will die with him. It has no trusted leaders, no commanding voice, no bond of union, no new tricks with which to de ceive. It has no organ which is not either despised or fiercely hated, or both, by at least half of its members. The Bee is convicted of a long series of party acts which are rightly denominated by republicans, "porfidy" and "treachery." It has hypocritically called for reform and knifed every party leader.no matter whom, who could not be manipulated by Rosewater. And now war without mercy or forgiveness is declared, war to the bitter end. Rosey is in the center and the republican "ghost dancers" from all the counting ou'slde of Douglas are howling around luui and ghielnp; their tomahawks at his devoted head. Let them kill him, politically. Nobody cares. But the party itself will look in vain for a messiah to save it. It has, as a party, no head, no heart. It has left only its nine-lived appetite, teeth and nails, and after November next even the tip of its tail will be lost to sight. FREE COINAGE BEFORE THE HOUSE. The coinage committee of the horse reported the Bland free coinage bill last week. The senate coinage committee has reported adversely on the free coin age bill, and the Bland bill if passed in the houso will probably be defeated thore. But if it could even pass the senate the president, it is known, Jwould veto It, So well are the gold bugs de fended. The following is the text of the house bill: The unit of valu in tbe United StatM ahall be the andarl silver riollir et now coined, cengiitlnir of ilSVi sralnt standard silver, or tlio gold dollar of twenty fire nd eight-tenths grain tandard gold; the ttandard gold and sliver ooini of the United State cball be legal tender in payment of all debt public and private. Any noiaer oi goia or iiiver duiiiob ot tbe value of $ 100 or more of ttandard flne netg shall be entitled to have tho name struck into any authorised standard coinage of the TJoited states free of charge at the mints, or tho owner of the bullion mar deposit the same at such mints and receive therefor coin notes eoual la amount to the coinage ralne of the bullion deposited, and tbe bmlion thereupon shall become the property of the government. The coin notes so lusued shall be in denomi nations not less than f 1 nor more than Sl.Oftl, and tbsll bo a If gal tender In ilka manner and Invested with the sams meuctarr uses as the standard ro!4 or sliver coins oftbsChlted Mates. esc 1 That after the paaalrg of this act rt shall aot be lawful to lsu or wstue go. 4 or surer eetttScau or tretuury notes provided for id the act of July 14. l-sl. entitled: -An met directing the purchase ot silver bullion and the issue et treasury uotes thereon, and fur other purpose." lost all such cert lit -catesand treasury notes whea received in tne treasury shall be canoe) led and destroyed, and coia notes provided fur in Kr frs: mruium f this act shall be .siuod in lieu of the i-erti-Ocata -. 2 treasury notes so cancelled aid aestroyed; presided that nothing herein anaU be construed to change or modin or alter the legal character oi such etrtincates or notes now Issued. Bsc. i. That the coin notes herein author ised may be reissued, but tie amount at any time OMUtandig shall not be greater or iets than the Ttlue or tne coin and the ou'.Hon at coming vaiue held in tbe treasure. That the said coin Loies shall be redeemed in own on demand at thii treasury or any sub-treasary of tne L tilted States and tbe bullion dep ntcd shall be colled as fast a may be ceccssary for suet red, m ption. fsc 4. That any holder of full legal tender g:d or silver coihs of the United tiiates to the amount of flu or morn may dept-tii the same at tbe treasury or any sub-treaenry of the United States and receive therefor coin notes herein authorised. btc.5. That tbe act of July 14. 180. herein before cited, be and tbe tame is hereby re pealed. 6K0. tt. That so soon as France shall reopen her mints to the free and unrestricted coia ageof silver to be worth one pound of gold troy, it shall be the outy of the president of tbe I nited States lo Immediately Ixsue public proclamation of that fact, wbereuiien the etid ratio shall be !t gal rate la the L'clted States, and thereafter the standard silver dollar shall consist of 400 grains of standard silver and tbe law relating to the standard silver dollar ol ili grains then in the trean ury or thereafter coming into the treasury f liall immediately ana as fast as practicable be coined into dollars of 40u grains standard silver. Any gain or seigniorage arising there from shall be accounted fur and paid into the treasury. 8EO. 7. That tiiA aenretarw nf tha is hereby authorized and required to make such rule and regulations as may be neces sary to carry into effect tbe provisions ol this "This bill." savs Mr. Bland. 1, "is dify roduced ia ferent from all other bills introduced i one particular. It contemplatestiie silver certificates and treasury notes is sued on bullion and gold eerrfticatcs issued on gold, into com notes redeem able in coin, thus converting our paper into bi-metal paper instead of keeping up the distinctions between gold and silver in our paper issues. This con forms to the idea of coining bi metals on an equality, with gold and silver free. The coin notes are redeemable in coin, and, of course, in whatever coin it may be most convenient for the mint to redeem them in. The people seem to be desirous of using paper meney in stead of the coin itself to prefer paper to coin and for that reason coin notes may be issued and the bullion held lor coinage, to be coined only when neces sary lor redeeming notes. A man hold ing a coin nete will not know whether it is a gold note or a silver note, for if he deposits gold bullion or gold coin he gets a coin note, and if he deposits silver bullion or silver coin he gets the. same kind of a coin note. It aooiishes the present distinction between out- coin notes." HILL AND THE DE MOOEATI0 PAETY. The outside interested lookers-en have been watching the Tammany tiger this week with strained attention. The beast with its owner has driven Cleveland out of the New York arena and booked a delegation to Chicago instructed to voto as a unit for Hill. Notwithstanding the big Cooper Union meeting opposing the early convention ordered by Hill in hia own interest, Cleveland had next to no influence in the convention. It is a favorable time, with the politi cal leaders Hill and Cleveland contend ing and the latter apparently defeated, to sweep with mental vision the national democratic field and form opinions respecting the parly, its platferm, standard bearers, and probable strength or weakness during the 1892 campaign. Hill is perhaps the greatest political hypocrite and most depraved, hell serving wire puller who ever sold him self to the devil to gain an office. With his mouth full of fine phrases respect ing the peoples' will and democracy's mission, and heaping words of con demnation against the (republican) poli ticians who disobey and trample on tbe people, he himself stood upon the peo ples' necks, the worst one of all, tho most dangerous pslitician in the nation. Quay is the only one to compare with him in evil power. The election figures indicate plainly that Hill sold Quay (chairman of the republican national committee) about 30,000 New York Tammany controlled slum votes to de feat Cleveland and elect Harrison, him self getting an exchange of republican slum votes to count him in governor. He has for value received served the vicious classes of his own state, vetoing laws limiting their power and helping through all laws they wanted. His name has thus become nationally notor ious, but he is the coming mau in our opinion for democratic presidential can didate, and for these reasons: Cleveland, better than the politicians of his party, incurred the hatred of the worst part, those whose whole creed is,, "to the victors belong tho spoils," and they are the controlling part of the party. But, what was of equal injury, to his chances, he proclaimed himself to the south and west the tool of Wall street by publishing his flat-footed op position to the free coinage of silver, theje two things . make Cleveland in eligible, and the exigences of the case demand a dishonest man, a worse sort than Grover, a man who can be trusted by Wall street to say one thing and do another. Hill will probably be nomi nated on an ambiguously worded finan cial platform and will be allowed to say most any smooth thing in the west, Wall street keeping the string on him all the while. He can hold the solid support of tho worst element and tbe money power of the east; and It will be secretly judged and affirmed that the ai'ch mouther of political cant phrases and dolphio utterances is the one, and i the only one, who can fool the west and south. We aro all attention gentlemen. Lc the game go oik The Option Bill. Tho bill before congress to prevt dealing iu upuuns or futures is ceiving sufficient attention to indie that it may pass. The boards of triflo. the silk bats gambling hells of the Vih century, at onoe bestir themselves, And. hurry their committoes off to Washing ton to tight the bill, and the biofclty dailies begin to frown and doujf tho expediency f such legislation, yatch the papers and see if tbey don side with the ramblers and against tp pro ducers. If you find out they di why, send them another subscription dollar to light your interests with, au("stick to panj.J'regressiK farmer. 1 ' "c-;::