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2 THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. 7 An Old Settler Speaks. I am no writer, but a hard working farmer. I tamo hero twenty-two years ago to make this country and now I am trying to savo it from the grasp of pfutccratiand ahylock. They call us calamity howlers. I for oxo accept the title. Calamity howlers threw over tho tea in nos'on harbor. Calamity howlers drew up the Decla ration of Independence in 177G. Calamity howlers drew up tho now lXcIamilon of Independence in 1892. 1 fiavo always been a republican but I claim no credit for that. Bat I do claim tho credit for having tbo man hood to cut loos j from a party that has long since ceased to bs a party of the people. Th3 old parties havo bounded their buglo from yiar to year for their henchmen to fall in'o line and wo havo faithfully done their bidding. They havo drafled their annual p'at forms an I thcroin havo acknowledged thut tho farmers are a distressed clas of peop'o and hive promised relief, bu' no relief camo. Tho farmers of Nebraska aro tired of being deceived. Thry havo organ ized a new parly to protect them selves from tho tyrannical hand of combined mon polies. Tho independent party is tho only party of tho people, as was fchown in tho last legislature. Any party that has dcco'.vcd and be trayed its own members as tho repub lican party has, and then asks them for further support, must think that they havo lost all rospect for them selves. There is one thing I can not under stand, and that is why people will ailow themselves to be deceived and hum bugged os they ire in political matters. It seems to bo as Rarnum said, that the "American people love to bo humbug ged." Wo certainly havo been the most humbugged people on earth. In fact we have been paying fat salaries to men for humbugging us. Today wo havo a duty to perform. Will wo do it like men and American citizens, or will we quietly sit by and eoe tho country that our forefathers gave their lives to save from tho tyranlcal hand of Great Britian thrown in'o serfdom? What they failed to ac complish with arras they aro accom plishing with money. To that end they sent to this country their trained fpy win British gold who succeeded in saddling onto this country that cursed . financial conspiracy whereby this country has been thrown hopeless ly in debt. And tho men that wo havo been paying exorbitant salarit s havo, instead- cf representing us, been misrepresenting us, and like Nero have been looking on and fiddling while Komo was burning. They havp contracted tho volume of monoy far below tho amount needed to do tho business and havo throttled every enterprise and put monoy at a higher premium tban any legitimato Lusiness can pay. There is no business from which you can estimate the prosperity of the countiyso well as properly conducted farming. Here in Nebraska, and es pecially in Fillmore county, we have as cood a farming county as can bo found. But what is the financial condition of the farmers? There is a mortgage debt of over $700,000 hanging over the farms of this county, although it was only organized twenty-two years ago. Isn't that enough to set any sensible man thinking? When we old settlers came to this country we would meet at each other's homes, sod houses or dugouts, and talk over our plans for the future. Wo Averc a happy set of people. To be sure we hadn't much wealth. But the spark of hope was in our hearts. We did not mind the many hardships that those old settlers have passed to the great beyond A few remain. But wo do not havo those good old-timo visits. Why? Because tho situation has changed. Today wo aro in a grand scramble, and for what? Is it to amass a fortune? No. It is to save our homes, the most sacred place on earth. Homo one may say: "What ro you kicking about? You helped put the men in office who mado and executed your laws." Yet, wo did. Wo have been the victinu of misplaced confidence. The men that wo have elected to fill our offices havo not hoon mn nf t hn people but men that havo been after ikn f II.. !t Tl A T ' wu uiiiuua jur uiu puus. DUl 1 am happy - to know that times have changed. Today we havo a party of tho peoplo and for tho people, and we havo placed men on our ticket that I would stake my life that they will be true to i heir constituents. As for tho men on the other ticket, I will say that they must take tho far mers to be a very charitablo set, or a forgetful class of people. If any man wants to voto for tho candidates on either of the old tickets, ho has a right to, and I leave him to battle with his concienco. Yours for equal rights, L. G. Stewart. Sawyer, Neb., Au?. 30. Senator Palmer is Bight. Senator Palmer's bravo and patriotic speech sorao time ago, in behalf of tho rights and equities of laboring men, has raised a storm in tho Wall Street press, tho senator takes tho just and reason able ground th it a great manufactur ing establishuiort which has grown up under protective and foptering laws is not entirely tho private property of an individual or a corporation. That in dustry having been subsidized by. tho public, aud Hie company's wealth hav ing been created by labor, both the public and laboring men have rights and equities in the es'ablishment In tho exercise of these rights, and for the protection of these equiiies, the national government has a right to ex ercise a supervisor) control. It is tho duty of the general government to fee that in the operation of tho enterprise thero shall bo created no dangerous'y rich men, nor a class of pauperized and suffering laboring men. And in cao o dispute on the subject of wages or in come from the joint efforts of em ployers and employed, the general gov ernment has the inalienable right to in vestigate and settle tho dispute. This much is justly claimed by virtue of the tariff protection, or subsidy, granted by the general g vernment. In tho case of the rich corporation at Homestead, Pa., that great wealth has been created by labor. Tho tariff luws aro justified under tho plea that they aro enacted for tha bono fit nf InVmr Plainly, then, tho corporation should ..l- A - 111. . 1 . 1 1 -. . uro us weann wun ine ianormx men who havo created it. Senator Palmer is right. And no man should hesitate to approve this unusual but patriotic position, thoucrh it mav bo u Mo rod hv a senator in ono of tho old parties. It is to do regretted, however, that a states man with so correct a head and hoart. should still affiliate with and serve a par- iy wnicn is utterly oblivious of human ricrhts. How caa a senator, si onrront in sentiment , and speech, act with a party which entirely ignores the rights of man when in conflict with nrnnrat.n greed? This is one of tho enigmas of ponucs. jciin uavis, wasnmgton, D. C. Another Landslide Delegates to tho St. Louis conference will remember the fair treatment we received at the hands of the St. Lou's Chronicle. It has recently hoisted the Weaver and Field ticket and will tight for the people's party. Tho Cincinnati Post has also flopped over, and tho Do- troit Evening News has joined the people's party. The Cleveland Press hoists the People's party ticket Theso are all metropolitan paners and havo a combined circulation of -160,000. Win- field Free Press. Get your old party neighbors McZEIGHAN MARCHING ON. He is Endorsed by the Democrats. Debates with Andrews. Tho Firstof September witnessed the endorsement of Congressman Mc- Keighan by tho democrats of his district Tho congressional convention was held at Red Ciaud and an element in it deBired to nomina'e a democrat acd presented the name of James llay of Phelps county. A ballot being taken gave Ray 28 votes and McKeighan 57. where upon McKeighan was declared tho nominee. He was not present and tho independents manifested no interest in the convention as thev havo all alonar felt confident of thoir ahtlitw to elect Mr. McKeighan whether the democrats endorsed. Mm or not Men who understand the situation are all confident that McKeighan will bo re elee'ed by an overwhelming maioritv Arrangements havo been perfected for joint debates in the district. The first meeting will bo at Has1 ings at 8 ociocicp. m., Soptcmtxr 22, second, Sutton, 2 o'clock p. m., September 27; third, McCook, 8 o'clock p. m., Sep tember 29; fourth, Grant, 2 o'clock p. mM October 4; fifth. Minden. 8 o'clock p. m., October 6; sixth, Nelson, 2 ociocKp. m., Ocober 11; seventh, Grand Island, 8 o'clock p. m., Octob.r 13; eighth, Huldrege, 2 o'clock p. m., October 18; ninth, Red Cloud, 2 o'clock p. m., October 20; Prof. W. E. Andrews to open and closo tho following meet ings: Hastings, McCook, Minden, Grand Island and Red Cloud; Hon. W. A. McKeighan to have the opening and closing at the other places named, Sutton, Grant. Nelson and Holdrege. They Oan all Unite on Weaver, General Weaver has almost sacrificed his life service to tho cause of freedom from Shylock's oppression and in him the inhabitants of the Pacific coast, the dwellers of tho turbulent shores of the Atlantic, the cotton growers of the south, and the farmers and laborers of tho north and west can all unite and no cry of having nominated a republican or democrat can be charged up to the Omaha convention. General Weaver has been so long scperated from parti san politics as to leave the whole politi cal field for tho discussion of tho prin ciples of tho platforms, and while the old party press will hurl at him the shafts of ridicule, they will fall harm less to tho ground. By his nomination tho issues for which the three cindidates will s'and will be the issues of the campaign. No cry of bloody shirt will deter tho north from voting for Weaver, no cry of force bill will scaro tho southern men into submission to the democratic bosses of the south. Wallace Herald. A Cheering Response. Mr. Editor:--I see in your paper a call for volunteer service in distribu ting people's party literature. You say you would like to send out litera ture for distribution by any one who has tho cause at heart. I am a sub scriber to your paper, and am just as much interested in this war as I was in tho war to free the black slaves in '61, in which war I served for over threo years, I always voted the repub'ican tl ket. I used to study on how it couid be that the millionaires were getting to the front while we poor fr mers were goicg on the down grado financially all the time, and was might'ly tempted at one time to voto the greenback ticket. But the g. o. p. cry to "voto as VOU Shot." whirh waa cnnr o at time, influenced my ballot then as it um mauy umers. uut tne people are waking up to see the error of the'r ways, and I am happy to say that the most of the old soldiers now living aro on the right side of the question, and are with us of tho people's party. Send literature for distribution and I will seo that it goes where it will do the most good. 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