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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1892)
AN OLD GEEEUBAOKEE'S IDEAS. There is nothing gained by fusion, even if it results ia victory. Whoso victory is it, and what principle has been vindicated? The independents are fighting for principle, and that is more than repub licans and democrats can say and speak the truth. If aDy republican or demo crat favors the free and unlimited coin ago of silver, let him como and vote for the people's ticket. Then his mouth and his ballot will both shoot the same way. Thero was an old fellow down cast a good many years ago who was asked what he thought about the tariff. He suid ho 1 'never saw a tariff but that he always had an idea it was hard on sheep. They put the tariff on to make good sheep (goods cheap) and they take it off for the same reason." There are lots of fellows who know as little about the tariff as this one. Let the people of this country under stand that thero hangs a cloud over the title to millions of homes in this land of the free, with the threat: "Your money or your property." And the samo hand that holds the cloud, con trols the money and consequently con trols the value of the property. The only hope of the farmers and laboring men of this country is in the ranks of the people's party. If you are an Abraham Lincoln republican, or a Jeffersonian democrat, your place is in the ranks of the people's party. We propose to begin where their respective parties left off doing good and carry the principles they taught on toward perfection. "Honest money" is the rallying cry of the g. o. p. We are a1! in favor of "honest money," and every counter feiter in the land is too no doubt, to let him tell it, but when it comes to defin ing "honest money" we part company? Gold for the bond-holder, and depriciated paper for the gun holder is . the pink of honesty in the estima'ion of the g. o. p. politician. Can anyono explain wherein the ser vices of the usurer were more valuable to the government, than the life-blood of the gun-holders? It is no doubt the opinion of money that Uncle Sam borrowed of the Shy locks, gold to put down the rebellion, and therefore should havo paid them back in gold. Nothing i futther from the truth. Uncle Sam made his own money, greenbacks. It was paid out as so much real money, and eo understood and used at the time. And all the bonds that were sold were paid for with these greenbacks. At the close of the war the publ'c debt was principally held by the people in the form of legal tender notes circu lating ai money, and it ought to have remained so. But the Shylock thought thero was too much good usury going to waste. Ho must have this debt gathered up and converted into interest-bearing bonds, and the bonds made payable in gold, and also made the basis for a banking system, so as to make more debt and less money. They want to make debt and usury perpetual. And they have had their own way for nearly thirty yoars. Isn't it about timo for the producers of this country who have all the debts to pay to waken up and look a little after their own in terests? John Buchanan, Valparaiso, Neb. THE VOTE ON IEEE SILVER. The vote on Stewart's free coinago bill in the senate was as follows: YEAS. Democrats : 16 Republicans 11 Independents 2 Total 29 NAYS. Republicans 18 Democrats . 7 Total 25 Majority for the bill 4 All tho republicans who voted for tho bill, with one exception, wero from tho silver states." Tho test voto on tho motion to mako tho Stewart bill a special order in tho house stood as follows. YEAS. Democrats 118 Independents 10 Republicans 8 Total 130 NAYS. Democrats 94 Republicans GO Total 154 Majority against 18 It will be noticed that tho peoplo's is the only party that stands solid for the free coinago of silver. Let the voters of the United States take hoed. WE need more money in the pockets of tho ieoplo and less in the vaults of tho vultures. The mortgago records of Nebraska send up a greater "calamity howl" than any of tho alliance cranks. EVEKY man who has been declaring that tho farmers arc getting out of debt, is proved a liar by tho official mortgago records of tho state. If the street car companies in Kan sas City can stand a yearly license of $25, then tho Lincoln street railway company can surely stand a yearly license of $15 on each car. WAS it recsprocity or tariff that re duced tho wages of workmen at Home stoad and resulted in the lock-ont and tho attack by tho marauding Pinker tons? . Nearly sovontcon million dollars added to tho millstono of mortgago debts which hangs on the neck of Nebraska industry last year. How long can she keep her head above water at that rate? If there is any man in Nebraska who thinks that tho mortgago question affects tho farmers alone, let him ob servo that tho town and city mortgages are growing faster in proportion than tho farm mortgages. To THE state board of transpcrtation, Greeting: Lot us havo a low rate on harmony between Bushnell and Rose water around by tho way of tho Lincoln postofiice. Thero ought to bo heavy shipments between this and November. III 111. mj ill : )Mw- :illtiibi:. . VSV;U' v;;Vv 'llin "imufil'i' 'ItWK, Iff a - Ill III It gPSggfe.. II. llSf !;lp ;i; id III ialli II M ;v.,.,-. . . - i . ,- , v. i-j-.atx.o -ry-iir m L Mtf B2S!Skt&& sefce ! S &3&mmf&$3&' jfifci! - - - L rf V- - '-Ski m in ii afawi 9 ill I ' lil 111 'Si :: FURNITURE LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES. Solid Oak Three Piece Chamber Suit to Match this Cheval Dresser. ONLY saun TCHER, 211 SOUTH 11TH STBEET, Lincolq, - - - Nebraska.
