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f Sfje Jarmrrs' Alliance, THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT caatouiuTis. CBUSHXD EVIRT THCRSDAY BT Thk Allianci FrBusiiiN'a Co. Cor. ink ud M Pt, Linooln, Neb. B04U OV OUSCtOM. O. Fnx, Pr. J. M. Taoamow, Sc 'j. Kid. Tboo, V.P. J. F. Mimu, Twa. C.H.Pnm.a. K Eim Tximtok, MuiMine Editor Caua. H. FiBTL,.............Bulnem Manac-rr, "In the beauty of the Iijlies " Christ wu born across ths sea, With & glory in bit bosom That transfigures you and me. As he ttroTe to make men holy Let us strive to make them free. Since God is marching on. Julia Ward Hoot. , "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerts.' "A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs. Kmtrton. "He who cannot reason is fool. Be who will not reason is a coward, He who dare not reason is a slave. N. R P. A. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all euslasM cemmualoatfOBS to AWanoaFublUhliif Co. AddiM mstter lor aoblloatlon to Editor Jaiiaeia' Aiiianoe. - - ArttolM written on both ildet of the paper eaaaot be used. Very long oonnounloaUens, Manila eannot be uaed. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS On account of the very large increase In our circulation resulting from the consolidation, advertising rates in the aluancv Indefxndikt will be ad vanced 60 per cent May 1st. Our rates will still remain very reasonable and far lower than the rates of other papers of equal circulation. Do you want to attend the national convention at Omaha, July 4th without expenses? Here's your chance. To the person sending ns the largest list of subscribers at club rales between April 20th and June 25th. the Alliance Publishing Co.. will pay all necessary expenses to the convection at Omaha July 4th, including hotel expenses. To the person sending the second largest list we will pay all traveling expenses to the convention. These oilers apply to any person liv ing in Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa or Missouri. Two subscribers for six months count one. All lists sent nnder this offer should be marked "For special prize." A FALSE REPORT. Somebody started the report this week that Mr. Burrows had purchased ft half interest in Liberty, the paper late ly started by W. C. Holden. Mr. Bur rows friends were dumbfounded by such news. They could not believe that Mr. Burrows would ally himself with such a notorious boodler. We are happy to announce, however, that the report is falsi, Mr. Burrows personally and in writing authorizes us to say that he has bought into no newspaper and does not intend to in the near future. ' , : ANEW PAPER. The fi"eit Farmer, is the name of a new paper Just started at St. Louis with W. S. Morgan editor and Jerry Simpson, Mrs. Emery, Mrs. Todd, 11. E. Taub eneck and a number of others as con tributors. Mr. Mprgan has shown great ability as editor of "Reformer, The paper will doubtless .bar Ter7 valuable addition to the reform ' press of the country. All who subscribe botore June 1st will get the paper one year for sixty cents. A BOOK FOE A SEASON. The offer made two weeks ago is still standing. We will give a copy of "Bond holders and bread-winners" to any voter who will send ns a good reason why he should vote an old party ticket next fall This offer is made seriously and in good faith. Any republican or democrat who thinks he has a good reason is wel come to a i reasonable amount of space, and his opinions will be treated respect fully. We hope our readers will call the attention of their old party friends to this offer, and Invite them to take ad vantage of it. WHY ASK FOR A BOUNTY? The most inveterate prevaricator for political effect will in moments of for getfulnes tell the truth. For instance the Slate Journal says: American farmers have in several respects the advantage of European beet growers. Most of the beet la nds of Germany are valued at from 1300 to $600 an acre. The ground rent and taxes are thus so much greater than in this country that they more than offset the higher wages paid for labor here. The land is also so exhausted by con tinued cultivation that the, annual ex pense for fertilizers is considerable. Then, too, American ingenuity has sup - plied implements that make beet cul ture much less laborious than it has been in the past. If this is true (and it undoubtedly is) why in the same of common sense should anybodv advocate a bounty on beet sugar? Especially, after the na tional government has given the sugar makers a bounty of two cents per pound why should any one propose that the state give an additional bounty? Will Mr. Oxnard or some of his friends give us an answer) HE FORGOT IT. The following story comes to us on good authority: " At the republican state convention at KAirnevlast week when the secretary called for delegates to come forward and get their railroad certificates signea, only one delegates went forward. The lftagh which went up at his expense moved him to say by way of apology that he forgot to send in for a pass till it was too late. SILVER COINAGE. Mr. Irs McConaaghy. of Superior, writes asking us to give "the objections to, or the weak points in a free coinage measure in which the government shall coin ail the silver brought to the mint paying for it the market price, with possibly ft small per cent bonus to draw silver to the mint." He says he thinks this would "annul all the objections to such a measure as the Bland bill." In the first place, if such a measure were enacted and carried out in the true spirit; if we had an administration that; would not discriminate against silver coin, but would use it as freely as gold in the payment of all government obligations which can be legally dis charged with it; if this silver bullion were paid for with iilver dollars, or paper redeemable in silver dollars, the effect would be precisely the same as that of a law for free and unlimited coinage of silver. Under such a law the government would create an unliin ited demand for silver, the effect of which would be to efface the difference between the commodity value and the money value of the white metal. That the enemies of silver take this view of the case is shown by the fact that in all acts providing for the purchase of silver bullion they have limited the amount. They know very well what would be the effect of an offer by the government to make unlimited purchases. 3d. An effort to make such an amendment to our silver plank would do nothing but confuse the minds of the people and weaken our cause. When a political measure once assumes a definite form and is clearly under stood by (.the people, its enemies will make all sorts of efforts to amend, vary and misconstrue it for the purpose of weakening the measure ana confusing the people. Mr. McConaughy has evi dently fallen into their clutches. Now the friends of such a measure should defend it against all these attempts and preserve its original form and meaning. 3d. Such a change in our free coin age plank would not annul a single ob jection, but on the contrary it would give a greater show of validity to many objections. One great objection urged against a measure for the free and un limited coinage of fcllver is that it pro poses that the government purchase seventy cents worth of silver and pay one dollar for it. Such an objection is founded on a misconception of free and unlimited coinage. We propose that the government shall cease all pur chases of silver. We propose to roturn to the policy which prevailed from the foundation of the government up to 1873. Under that policy the owner of sliver bullion simply takes it to the mint, where it is transformed into coins and returned to him. The government gains nothing and loses nothing. The silver owner brings his grist to Uncle Sam's mill, has it ground into coins and carries them away. This is exactly the way gold is treated. It is true that, in order to facilitate the operation, the Bland bill proposes to issue paper rep resentatives to the silver owner when he bringsjhis grist to the mint, but this is not an essential feature of a free coinage measure. ' Now suppose that Mr. McConaugby's amendment were adopted, we would be proposingito have the government create a market for silver, and the very objection he pro poses to annul would be strengthened. Everyone should keep in sight the fundamental facts in this fight for finan cial reform. On the one side are the men who want money to become scarce and doar because they hold the evidences of debt, (bonds, mortgages, etc.,) calling for dollars, and the dearer they can make the dollar the richer tbey are. They have made the dollar dearer by the destruction of more than a bil lion dollars of paper money thit was in circulation at the close of the war ; and by the demonetization of silver. They have have thereby greatly enhanced their own incomes; depressed all indus try; caused innumerable business fail ures; caused capital to avoid invest ment and seek borrowers; created an immense burden of private indebted- ss ; and are rapidly bringing the masses to a condition of hopeless ser vitude. On the other hand are the wealth producers, and debt-payers of the na tion, who want money more plentiful and cheap. They want to revive in dustry; to stop the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few; to make capital seek investment rather than borrowers; to free the energies of the people, and unlock the resources of the country; to free trade from the baleful influence of falling prices; to enable the people to get out of debt, and to make the masses free, prosperous and happy. In order to accomplish their object they propose to right the wrongs in flicted on the country by the money power; to remonetize silver; to issue a reasonable quantity of legal tender pa per money; to free the finances of the country from the eontrol of corpora tins. The men In the former class favor a single gold standard. They want everything else to be measured in gold. They want all paper money redeems blein gold. They are opposed to the use of silver as money, but if it is to be used, they want it to be measured by the gold standard, i. e., ft gold dollar's worth of silver in a dollar. Under the Sherman law, the secretary of the treasury is now purchasing silver bull ion with treasury notes, which he pro poses, if presented for redemption, to pay in gold. The men of the latter class demand that silver shall have equal privileges with gold to be minted into standard coins; that these coins shall be real money with functions co-extensive with the functions of gold coins; that the government shall cease all discrimina tion against silver as a money metal. and silver coins as money. Free coinage of silver , as herein ex plained is only step in the direction of financial reform. Any compromise would make it at best but a half step. If we cannot take the first step without halting or limping, when can we ever take the other and greater steps? There are but two sides to this ques tion. This is contest between the dear dollar and the cheap dollar; be tween the plutocrats and the people. Mr. McConaughy and every other man must take his stand on one side or the other. "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve " PATRIOTISM "PETERING OUT." The republican party for years nas claimed a monopoly, if not a patent, on all the patriotism of the country. It became so patriotic a few years ago that it passed a law to compel the school officers to place a flag on every school building. But you ought to have been at Kearney last Wedne!ny to witness the hollowness of its professions. If you had entered that state convention of the g o. p. as a stranger you could not have told what country, let alone what party, it represented. Yes, they love the old flag, but they can, and did. hold a convention without a flag in sight. No, not even ft yard of bunting was to be seen upon the stage or in any part of the hall. Republican patriotism is indeed petering out, when republic ans forget the old flag. Where were thilr aspirants for the honors of the convention? Where was Cobb, and Richards, and the Websters, all of them old soldiers, and made delegates to a national convention, without a flag in sight? But the flag was not the only thing that was missing from the accustomed place in such patriotic presence. Where were the portraits of the dead fathers, and living embodiments of the republi can party? Not one was to be seen in all that convention hall. The martyred Lincoln and Garfield are no longer hon ered by Nebraska republicans. Harri son and Blaine and McKinley, the re publican trinity among the living, are only thought of and mentioned, because of the possibilities of the future, but none of the portraits of the living or of the dead were thought of to Inspire the occasion. Only one name was con stantly in the minds of all those dele gates. It was the name of Rosewater the Omaha "hurricane prognostlcator." Yes, Rosey knocked all thoughts of pat riotism out of that convention the day before it met, with one stroke of his pen. In reply to columns of abuse from papers all over the state, Rosy simply said: "Go on with your ghost dance, there's ft hurricane in sight." And that whole convention of over six hundred delegates, many of owhoin had stood unblanched before the cannon's open mouth, said: "O, Lord Rosy, what shall we do to be politically saved?", And Rosy, two hundred miles away, said: "Recommend me to the national convention for member of the national committee." And they all said: "Amen!" No wondor the Amer ican flag refused to wave over such a scene. No wonder the brave and hon ored dead and patriotic living refused to look, even from canvas, upon such a band of political cowards. Such a scene and such humiliation has never been witnessed in a republican conven tion before. And what for? All this humiliation and swallowing of threats and personal abasement and political prostitution was, it is said, "in the in terest of harmony," and harmony is necessary to beat the independent par ty. Let us say to the republican party, ai least that part of it that met at Kear ney last week, that such cowardice never beat anybody or anything but the cowards themselves. Battles are not and never were won by hypocrites and cowards. If republicans are satisfied with tho outcome of the Kearney con vention, we certainly have no right to complain, for Jonah is still, not only on board, but in command of the sinking ship. Senator Paddock has written a long letter to the Union Veteran club of Lin coln explaining why he voted for the $100,000 appropriation for the national G. A. R. encampment. This club, lab oring under a misapprehension, had gushed over and sent him a resolution of approval Jor having voted against the appropriation. Mr. Paddock's effort to get out of an'awkward (.position is not 'at all graceful, nor is it satisfactory, The patriotic citizens of Lincoln offered to pay the expenses of the national en campment if it should be brought here. Washington was her only prominent competitor and !won. Now she asks the people of the whole country to go down into their pockets and pay the ex penses of the encampment. Is this fair? Is it right? If Lincoln had se cured the encampment would her citi zens have gone to Washington to ask an appropriation to pay her expenses? No, indeed. But if they had, would congress have seriously considered the request? No, such a request would have been ridiculed, or, at best, ignor ed. But Paddock has voted for the ap propriation. He voted for it because he belongs to the national republican machine, which is trying to manufac ture political capital to win the soldier vote. The representatives from Ne braska are showing themselves to be in touch with the peop'- jf tSWate. They propose to prevent the passage of the bill through the house. The old sol diers of Nebraska will appreciate tneir efforts. - Senator Brice proposes to retire from the chairmanship of the democra tic national committee. He says "the strain is too great to be twice en lured." How about the strain of residing in New York and purchasing an election to the senate from Ohio? How about the strain of crowding honest free labor out of employment in the mines of Tennessee to give place to convict labor worked under contract? How about the strain ef hiring Pinkerton thugs to shoot down the miners for resisting? A3 ATTACK OS KEM AND ITS AUTHOR. 1 he efforts of W. C. Holden to poison the minds of the people against Hon. O. M Kern have called forth some sharp and tiaely remarks from the reform papers of the state. Reform papers generally are slow to criticize anyone who is hon estly trying to do hi duty. But they are swift to expose an enemy in dis guise when by bis own words be be trays his true character and objects. They are also swift to rally to the sup port of an honest worker when be is assailed. The honesty and ability of Mr. Kern are unquestioned even by fair-minded men of the oid parties. In the few months of his service in congress be has made an excellent record. He has in troduced two important bills and has made one very creditable speech. He is a very bard worker, and attends most faithfully to all those smaller du ties which devolve upon a congressman. He has to look after the interests of a constituency of nearly 400,000 people scattered over two-thirds of Nebraska's territory, lie haseirned the esteem and friendship of his colleages from this state, and the alliance members from other states.. They admire his ability and respect bis judgment. His banking and loau bill has attracted the attention of the leaders of the reform movement in all parts of the country. It is generally conceded to be one of the best measures of financial reform ever introdncad into congress. If Mr. Kern should be re nominated and re-elected, (as we firmly believe he will be) he will be able to accomplish far more during his second term than he could possibly do in bis fir&t. W e believe it is the son' timent of all true independents in the state, that Mr. Kern deserves a re-nomination, and that it would be extremely unwise as well as unjust for the people to put him aside for some untried man. But in the light of these facts. Holden, in every issue of his sheet, either direct ly or indirectly tries to encompass Mr. Kern's defeat. In his issue of April 23d, about four columns were devoted to al leged criticisms of Mr. Kem and his banking bill. The following extract is a sample: Mr. Kem does not know enough of finance to draft a bill. He is not well enough posted to be in Congress, and with his bill to explain and defend, he will be defeated, if re-nominated. No man can favor it who loves justice and nnerty. no man oi sense can or will de fend it. Independents, nominate men of brains for congress. Do not put every intelligent man iu a "hole" by forcing him to defond measures and men, both of which are indefensible. And here Is another extract: There is absolutely no justice is Mr. Kern's bill. It would if enacted into a law, widen the gulf between tho rich and the poor in the end. There are many other objections to the bill. But we have pointed out enough, the man who denies the right of petition in matters of mo ney, to men who are not worth $1,500, are the worst enemies to be found in this Republic. Wo think it charity to attribute this to Mr, Kern's ignorance, and if we are right, he has no claims on the people to be returned to congress. II he placed that provision there, know ing that it was to be against the great mass of our people, then he is au enemy of the working classes and is no longer entitled to their confidence and sup port. And these articles are being copied in republican papers all over the state. It is not at all surprising that such assaults are made by a man who professes that he is making them on account c f his ex treme loyalty to the movement, his pre eminent love of justice, should have led the best Independent papers of the' state to free their minds in regard to the author of these assaults.. The following are clipped from a large number of com ments which appeared last week: The Custer County Beacon, edited by C. W. Beal, last year a member of the State Executive Board of the Alliance, says: When Liberty, an alleged independent paper, was started in Lincoln a few weeks ago, many who were acquainted with its editor, suspicioned that tho op position knew more about the course it would pursue than the independents Predictions were freely indulged in that it would ostensibly advocate independ ent doctrine, but occasionally make a vigorous kick about something. It was hardly expected, however, that it would kick independents in every Issue more vigorously than it would the opposition Prudence, it was thought, would dictate that such a course would give rise to the greatest suspicion that the editor of Liberty was acting in bad faith. Last week's issue contained several articles criticising Kern's banking bill. Holden has been criticising Kern's course hereto fore, but he as an independent has a right to do so, so long as he is lair. His latest criticisms, however, are so plain ly unjust and unfair, as to justify the strongest suspicion that the motives of the writer are sinister. Liberty's mission is to kick, be quoted by the opposition press, create distub ance, disruption, disintegration and destruction of the independent party. "Whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Let us "keep in the middle of the road." The Platte County Arqus says: Liberty, a paper published at Lincoln by W. C. Holden, appears to be itching to disrupt the people's party. Holden seems to have undertaken the job of manufacturing one thousand and one candidates. Every issue of his paper is equallv laden with soft soap and diny flings silly and vile slush about the people's pnrty. Just whether these tactics are the esrly outcropping of a deep-laid scheme, backed by old party boodle, or the misconception of the duty of an honest advocate of the reforms the people are demanding, it is hard to tell. So far as it effects the charge that a continuation of the present policy of Liberty makes it one of the most insid ious foes to be met with in battling for the people's cause is concerned, it is six of one and ball a dozen of the other. The Shoridan County Sun says: Liberty, the new independent paper published at Lincoln, is showing its snagy iangs. it seems to nave a par ticular grievance against Congressman Kem and devotes much space to the de nunciation of his banking bill. The Republic of Tecumseh says: "How unfortunate that the reform papers of Nebiaska have, in the past, been blind to the expressed and implied crookedness of prominent indepen dents lately unearthed (?) bv Liberty. It would seem from Mr. Holden's start ling disclosures that his advent into Lincoln in time to prevent unholy alli ances was s irvvidential smile. Dan gers of party disintegration and foul conspiracies being hatched, only to be unearthed by this vigilant Holden. who not in self -laudation, bat as a matter of news, gives his readers to understand that be number by the score "flutter ing'' birds that have flown ag&inet his pointed pen. ine stupidity oi uw whole army of Nebraska reform editors is brought out in bold relief by bis op portune discovery of mountainous frauds hitherto unknown. Phenomenal sagacity are we to place to the credit of . i . i i . i . , ii.u wis nouuenui ixiruscsuou liuiuea, late of Kearney. In the meantime let the people not forget frequent past warnings to look out for occult ene mies in the employ of our party's op ponents. In Dakota the opposition has already contracted for editorial space in s tew so-called independent papers, out they nave been stripped oi their in fluence by timely exposures. Let Ne braska independents be on the alert. and beware of the paper whose work is directed at what it would style inde pendent leaders. The trumphed up charge of "dishonest leadership" has ever been the stock in trade of ail op ponents to reform. To denounce the masses as either fools or knaves would be impolitic but if suspicion can be brought about in their ranks as to the merits of ablest reformers, conquest by we enemy is assured The reform press of the state should at onca cut from their exchange lists any paper whose woi k stamps it as an attempted breeder of discontent in our ranks. Besides it is not specially hazardous for the people as a general rule to give but little heed to the "holier than thou" class of self-constituted guardians." The Mtrna Record says: "Liberty, the new so-called indepen dent paper at Lincoln a stool pigeon of the U. P. railroad is being very widely quoted by the old party press oyer ine state, ana the machine politic ians are reaping much satisfaction from "Reformer Holden's" discordant utter ances. Liberty is fighting Kem and the independent party generally, and its editor is a wolf in sheep's clothing. whose mission is to ajd in tearing down instead or ouuaing up tne peoples cause. The mission of Liberty might as well be understood now as later on. OXNARD'S PATRIOTISM. The men who grow rich by hood winking and robbing the people through class legislation sometimes do more In a single act to open the eyes of the peo ple than all the arguments of reformers can do. Western people have all read accounts of how the beneficiaries of protection in the east import the cheap labor of Europe to work in their factor ies in preference to hiring intelligent American labor at living wages. But never did the people of Nebraska have this thing brought to their doors as they haue it now. They have within the past t wo years had their first experience with an "encouraged infant industry," the beet sugar business. The farmers who did business with Oxnard soon got enough of it, and that gentleman found it necessary to begin beet raising on his own account. Now it is the turn of the laboring man to learn a lesson from ex perience. Thefollowirg account from the Grand Island Journal will show how they are being treated by Mr. Oxnard: The policy of the sugar factory Is now definitely outlined relating to labor for this season. Two lots of Russians have been already imported and we under stand more are to follow, It is not the purpose of the factory people to employ American labor. For the past two years the Oxnards had their grip on the Grand Island Improvement com pany who were under contract to fur nish so many acres of beets. They em ployed only home labor and the result was that over 160,000 was paid by them for labor last year. But this year things are different. The sinch held by the factory on the Improvement company is a thing of the past. And the pauper labor is here and the American labor crowded out. We understand this labor is hired at $18 per month and out of this is taken the cost of their living. If this be true these people will come out in debt to the factory. In this city alone were hundreds of people who were depend ing on this labor this year to support their families. Debts have been con tracted which they - expected to pay from the results of this labor, aad dis tress is sure to follow. We have read of the results of imported pauper labor in Pennsylvania, now we will have a chance to test its workings here in our midst. Now what do you think, you men who are in favor ot a sugar bounty? Do you propose to vote a tax on your selves to support this foreign labor? This move should meet the unqualified disapproval of eyery true American paper in this country. It is simply an other move of the sugar trust who, within the past few weeks, have ad vanced sugar over two dollars a barrel, thus causing the consumers to pay au additional amount of twenty-five mil lions per year to fatten t hem. They increase the cost to the consumer at one end and decrease the cost of production at the other. This is the way Mr. Oxnard returns the kindness of the citizens of Grand Island in giving him an immense sub sidy! This is the way he appreciates the patriotism of the people who have taxed themselves to pay him a bounty! Surely this will kill the bounty boom if it be not already dead. HE FAVORS RECIPROCITY. Captain Yocum who shot Van Fleet at Hastings and who escaped a term in the penitentiary through Governor Boyd's interposition, has written a let ler to General Vifquain filled with grat itude to Gov. Boyd for bis "executive clemency." He closes with this signifi cant language: "All I hope is that in the course of events, I may be placed in a position to fully reciprocate his con siderate action in my behalf." This utterance would seem to bring into the field another candidate for gov ernor this fall, and as the captain is a staunch republican, he is likely to be come a formidable competitor of Mer cer, Majors or McColl. Just what turn of events he is expecting in the career of Governor Boyd that will give him the desired opportunity to reciprocate, we cannot say. Probably he thinks the stealing of the governorship from Pow ers will be avenged. Congressman Funston, familiarly known as "Farmer" Funston, the in quisitive student of American politics to whom Kem gave $50 worth of in struction not long sinca, has been re nominated. He survived the cyclone of '90 but he will hardly escape alive from the coming tornado of t)3. OBJECT LESS058.' Clam Spreckels the great sugar king of the Pacific slope a few years ago came east and established great factory near Philadelphia. He has resisted the sugar trust until lately. But about ft month ago, be put his eastern factory into the trust for seven million dollars in trust certificates. This gives the trust a practical monopoly of the sugar refin ing business. On April 14th, the trust closed Spreckels factory, throwing out of employment about 60C laboring peo ple who were receiving an aggregate of $75,000 per month in wages. Referring to this shnt-down the Philadelphia Press says: A dealer who knows all abont all tho sugars made here, or anywhere else, said: "The shut-down was not caused by over-production. Inquiries at the office will show that they have but one brand on hand. The main object in get ting a restriction placed on tne produc tion U to keep the prices no to the limit. It is also passiUe that s'.eps will be taken to close down the remaining refineries here. The ways of the trust are some times as mysterious as they are disas trous. I would not be surprised to see the other refineries close dewn at any time." Here are some object lessons for the people: A millionaire manufacturer invades the territory of a trust, starts a great factory, s ucessfully contends with the trust, creates competition, greatly low ers prices and ends by putting his fac tory into the trust for millions more than it is worth. The organized robbers in the trust are compelled to give him a large share of the spoils in order to re store their power to rob. Following the usual course of such robber organizations the sngar kings begin the work of restoring their power to rob by shutting up factories thus limiting production, lessening the sup ply of sugar and consequently raising prices. The people thrown out of employment either remain . idle for an indefinite period or seek employment in other fields of labor already over crowded. If they take the lattor course they in crease competition among work-seekers and cause a general fall in wages. Whether these laborers remain idle or seek other employment, their ability to consume the products of labor is les sened. Their ability to purchase and consume is measured by the wages they secure. Hence there is a falling off in the sales of the small "shop-keepers which they patronize. This affects wholesale trade but to a less marked degree, and this ultimately effects pro duction of the things which these people consume, chief among which are the products of the farm. The decreased demand for farm pro ducts lowers the prices of the great agricultural staples. This lessens the income of the farmer, and curtails his ability to consume the products of the factories. Another effect of the formation of the sugar trust is that all consumers of sugar must pay more for It, and hence have less to spend for other things, This in its turn lessens production of other articles. Thus wo might go on showing the more and more remote effects of the formation of a trust. It affects the in dustry of the whole country, the welfare of the whole people. Of course the re mote effects of the organization of a single trust are so small as to be hardly appreciable. But when one industry after another comes under the baleful control of a trust, when trusts become the rule and free competition the excep tion, the accumulated effects depress all industry, lessen the results of all labor, increase the poverty and dependence of all laborers, and produce moral, social and political degradation. And who are benefitted by the organization of a trust? In the true sense of the word, no one is benefitted. A few men who own millions are enabled to gain other millions, which in turn they use to in crease their power to acquire still other, millions. Trust-making is simply an im proved high -pressure, 'double-acting process of making millionaires at one end of the line and paupers at the other Slavery for the mas-es, and plutocracy for tho few are the legitimate fruits of trusts. The cure of the trust-evil is one of the greatest problems of the age. But one thing is necessary before any remedy can be applied: The people must read the object lesions which lie around them; they must realize the gigantic proportions of the evil, and the terrible effects which it is working; they must unite together to dethrone the money power and take possession of the gov ernment. Dech's Meetings Last Week. State Lecturer Dech did an excellent week's work for the Alliance cause lost week. On Monday evening he spoke to a good house at Columbus. The Argus gives the following comment: There was political speaking at Fitz patrick's hall Monday evening by Hon. W. H. Decb, of Saunders county. The hall was fairly well tilled, taking every tning into consideration. The speaker dwelt more particularly on the "string ency of the money market," its causes and effect and the remedy proposed by the people's party. Quite a number of old time democrats and republicans were out and they could but express their amazem nt at the array of facts and figures presented by Mr. Dech, and somewhat astonished to seo what unequivocal backing he had by tne brightest and best democrats and republicans the two old parties have ever had within their ranks. On Tuesday evening he spoke at Platte Center, en Wednesday at Hum phrey, on Thursday at Lindsay, all in Platte county. On Friday evening he and General Van Wyck spoke to a large crowd at Grand Island. On Saturday evening he was to speak at Germantown but a heavy rain prevented the people from turning out Wanted A position as editor on a reform paper by an old-time green backer who knows how to wield a pen in defense of reform principles. Ad dress this office. ' The Merna Record reports that tea men in one precinct cf Custer county have agreed to donate the proceeds of sixteen acres of wheat to the campaign fund. Old Custer is all right. Assistant Lecturer W. F. Wright held one excellent meeting in Butler county last week This week he is working in Otoe county, the first meet ing being held at Dunbar on Monday. This week Mr. Swigart in his insurance columns presents one ot the best and plainest arguments in favor of mutual insurance against losses by fire and cyclone that we have ever read. Every farmer should read it, and act upon it without delay. The issues involved in our present struggle are not merely questions of dollars and cents. They are questions of the deepest moral significance. On their settlement depends the moral and religious progress of the world. Ed. L. Adams, a democratic leader in Kearney county, formerly county judge, and one of the most influential citizens of that section has declared for the people's party. In last week's issue of the Minden Workman he states his reasons and unequivocally declares that henceforth he is with the people. In the republican state convention of Colorado a few days ago, free coinage resolutions were passed with a hurrah. Senators Teller and Wolcott, the great silver advocates, were elected delegates to Minneapolis. A resolution endors ing Harrison's administration was voted down by a vote of 63J to 2." Brother Chamberlain of the Head light is so sure the People's party will carry Georgia next fall that he offers to send his paper to 600 new subscribers to be paid for when the People's electoral ticket is elected in Georgia. If the ticket is not elected they get the paper free. Major R. V. Gaines of Virginia, one of the leading reformers of that state. said in an interview not long ago: "The plan formulated by Mr. Kem in his banking and loan bill recently intro duced is a measure which 'seems to me to possess great merit and which will UUUUtiCH UlGCb tug uiud w ilcil 11 aua Miktlna. . I 1 1 been considered and perfected." Have the politicians lost faith in Mr. Oxnard's "bar'l," has Mr. Oxnard lost faith in the prestige of the politicians. or have both lost faith in the gullibility of the people? Something has hap-. pened sure. The boom for a sugar bounty plank in the republican plat form has evidently collapsed. Perhaps Oxnard is going to try the still hunt plan to secure the election of a legisla ture that will restore the bounty. Henry George's book on "Protec tion or Free Trade" has been printed in full in the Congressional Record. Tom L. Johnson of Ohio planned the scheme. He inserted the first five chapters in his speech on the free wool bill. Then another speaker inserted the next five chapters, and so on till Jerry Simpson finished the job by inserted the last chapters. By this means the book can be published at a small expense and distributed free of postage. It is propos ed to distribute a million copies during the campaign. The thinnest sickliest thing in all newspaperdom is an alliance organ that "keeps out of politics." The Gleaner which advertises itself as "the official paper of the Ohio Farmers' Alliance" is a case in point. Its leading articles in the issue of April 22nd are on the fol lowing topics: "Gapes in chickens," "oyster shells for hens," and "straw berries." On the second page its editor announces himself a protectionist, and makes a mild appeal to protectionists to do something against trusts lest the people become disgusted and "demand free trade with all nations." From that to the end there is a dreary monotony of "farmers' organizations," "educa tional," "woman's department" and "miscellany." If Ohio alliance people road The Gleaner it is no wonder if they are asleep. It is fortunate for our cause in Ohio that it has such a paper as the Plow and Hammer to voice the real sentiments of an aroused people. The Kearney Hub has been trying its hand at political surgery. During the two weeks prepeding the republican state convention it got out its big knife and undertook to remove a "cancer" from the body of the g. o. p. in the per son of J. L. Keck. The Hub didn't suc ceed. Mr. Keck was elected as alter nate to the national convention. We know Mr. Keck. He is a disreputable man, a man whose secial, moral and business standing is decidedly bad. But his political standing is all right. He was a very nice gentleman politically two years ago when the Hub supported him for state senator. We believe most of the machine politicians in the repub lican party will find Mr. Keck to be congenial company. The Hub should not undertake such hopeless tasks. Its efforts to purify the republican party remind us of 'old Mrs. Partington's effort to sweep back the Atlantic ocean with a broom. Loved Because of the Enemies he has Made. If McKeighan should be nominated bv the independents of this district, and we believe he will be, without onnn. sition. we shall be found in the field fighting with all the force that is in us, for his election. Until then, we consider a newspaper war as out of place, ill-timed and worae than useless. Mr, McKeighan is the only representative worthy of the name that this district has ever had in congress, and the people would be very unwise to listen to th peurile vaporings of his detractors. It Is because he has such enemies that we love him. Our Oien Opinion.