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THE ALLIANCE - INDEPENDENT. 9 (Continued from page 2.) rapidly paid off. But these debt have been contracted that is a fact which no one will deny after the evidence herein submitted. And they draw high rates of interest, higher than any businese can bear except under favor able conditions. But neither the fact that the people went in debt, nor the high rates of interest is the prime cause for the present condition of affairs. That cause is found in falling of prices c a used by contraction of the currency, and that contraction has been wrought by the creditor class which has controlled the policy of the government. This long continued falling of prices i9 a fact. In proof of this, one has to go no farther than the speeches and campaign documents of the republican party in which this fact is continually paraded before the peo pie. It is true they attribute it all to the influence of protection, but that is not the real cause. Contraction of the currency is the principal cause. The effect of this contraction is to enhance the value of all evidences of debt. It enables the creditor to demand of the debtor, more bushels of wheat or corn, more pounds of pork or beef to satisfy the debt. With high prices the farmer could easily pay his interest and lay by something to apply on the principal. With low prices he is not even able to pay the interest. This contraction has been wrought primarily by the retirement of the greenbacks, and the demonetizition of silver, two of the greatest legislative crimes ever enacted. The high rates of interest have resulted largely from the national banking system by which the government has farmed out the right to issue paper currency to cor porations. 2. The people of these agricultural states must consume the taxed pro ducts of the eastern manufacturer. At the same time they must sell their surplus products in the open markets of ,the world; they must sell their wheat in compoti'.ion with wheat pro duced by labor that costs from tt'ii to thirty cents per day. And the price of their surplus fixes and always must fix the price of that sold for home con sumption. 3. The producers of Nebraska must pay exorbitant freight rates for the shipment of their products. The rail road corporations must make a profit on millions of watered stock in addi tion to their bonds, and both stock and bonds are held by rich men w ho live in Boston and other money centers in the east. 4. Nearly all the necessaries of life which are imported into Nebraska are controlled by trusts and c;mb; nations which levy tribute on consumer almost at will. And one of the export of Nebraska, beef, is also controlled by a great syndicate that has forced prices down till there is no profit in the "pro duction. 5. The staple products of Nebraska are subject to the manipulation of th grain gamblers and boards of trade in our great eastern cities who have power to over-ride the laws of supply and demand, and fix prices on the far mers' products. Asa result of all these influences, the producers of Nebraska have been re duced to a condit'on whera they are al the mercy of the men who control the capital and commerce of tbe country. Their indebtedness is so great thai they must sell their products at sucv prices as they can get for money to , meet their obligations. The falling of prices still goes on, and there is no prospect of relief through financial legislation by the dominant parties. The interest drain from Nebraska alone is so great that thero isn't actual money enough in Nebraska to pay one year's interest. If the people could go on paying their interest without bring ing in any money from the outside, every dollar would be drawn from the state in less than one year. The peo ple are thus compelled to keep on borrowing and to pay suc!i rates of in terest as the i money loaners seo fit to demand. The publication of these facts brings forth a terrible howl from the men who are interested in maintaining the present state of affairs, and their army of tools. They cannot deny these facts. They cannot answer these arguments or overthrow these conclusions. Hence 1hey turn upon the men who publish the truth with ridiculo and slander, and cry aloud with a pretended patriotism: "STAND UP FOR NEBRASKA." And we take up and repeat the cry: "Stand up for Nebraska." Let us stand up for the people of Nebraska against the money power of the east. Let us stand up for the producers against the despoilers, the tax-robbers, railroad kings, the shylocks, the mon opolists, the plutocrats of New York, Pennsylvania, and New England. We have no war to make on the producers of that section for thy suffer from the same oppressions as we do. Again I say, the people of the west do not want to repudiate their debts but to pay tbem. All they demand is fair play, and favorable conditions, and their resources and splendid energies will be equal to the occasion, in spite of their terrible situation. But unless they get fair play; unless the currency cf the country is restored to the con trol of the government, and expanded by the free coinage of silver, and the issue of a reasonable volume of paper currency; unless the railroad extortion is checked, and trusts crushed out; unless unjust taxation is abolished the producers of the west, as honest and industrious, as brave and patriotic a people as ever breathed and labored, will fail in their s' niggles, their homes and independence will be lest; and when that time comes, the light of American civilization will b fading toward the night of another dark age. Bnt that time will not come. The intelligence and patriotism of the American people is too great to permit it. They are new seeking out reme dies and preparing to apply then. And what ar e THE REMEDIES? Unjust laws must be repealed. Silver must be restored to its old place in our currency. The national banks must be abolished, and legal tender treasury notes be issued by the general government in sufficient volume to increase our cur rency to $50 per capita. Laws against trusts and combinations must be enacted and enforad. Stock and grain gambling must be abolished. The railroad and telegraphs must be owned and controlled by the govern ment. A just and equitable system of taxa tion must be established. These things can never be secured through the old parties. They will never repeal the vicious laws they have enacted. They will never abolish the evils that have grown up under their fosteriog care. Thero U but one course to open to the people: To drive from power both the old parties, and put in power a new party which will legislate in the in terest of and for the protection of the producing masses. AMONG OUIt EXCHANGES When dyed-in-the-wool republicans openly state that they were disappoint ed iu Androws, tho elaborate cackle of the subsidized organs in this city sound rather ridiculous. Our Own Opinion, lias tings. Whenever wo hear an old gossip tell ing about how wicked her neigh bors are wo invariably set her down as unworthy. Mr. Morton in his villanous attacks upon his neighbor Van Wyck reminds us of an old gossip. The man or woman who can find only words of ridicule and shameless abuse for his neighbors of many years is not one to tie to. People's ltights, Seward. Mr. Itewick, a Lincoln attorney, made some damaging exposures of republican rottenness in an address tat the Lan sing theatre on Tuesday night. It is amus'ng to see the republican papers instead of denying it, try to abuse Mr. Itewick. The question is, can they chokehlm off?-Hcadlight, Stromsburg. Tho independents of Butler county did right when they nominated Hon. It. C. Carpenter and Hon. W. H. Tay lor as representatives, and left the place for prosecuting attorney open, because they had no man fit for the place. Car pen'erand Taylor are two good men who stood fire and have been found true, and row theywill bo more valu able because of experience. Headlight Stromsburg. Tho transportation companies act up on the principle that tho people exist for the purpose of providing business for the railroads to earn dividends upon The people believe that tho railroads should exist for the benefit and con venience of tho people. The Omaha Toscin. As a dtba'er Meiklejohn is a failure. No wonder he restricted the number cf meetings with Poynter to eight. 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