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THT ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT.
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Reflections From Homely John's Diary.
Bf J. A. WILLS.
Six dollars a week, no time for meals;
Sixteen hours each day, how tired h feels
Sad thoughts like these stir Homely John
As homeward bound he trudges on.
He paced the streets from door to door
For tea long weary months or more;
Sought work, found some. No vagrant, he
Mowed lawns, made fence, pruned apple
tree.
One dy at last his dreary search seemed
o'er.
He's found work at a grocery store.
"Delivery man wanted, steady work,
good pay,
To serve my customers from day to day."
The light of hope illumes John's woe gone
face:
How hard he'll struggle to retain the place
He's at his work eaoh 'morn 'tweea six
and seven;
He's found a steady job, earth seems like
heaven.
His efforts to provide no longer vain,
He'll meet old winter with a proud disdain,
Protect the dear ones from the stormy
blast,
The cheerless days of hardship now seem
past.
But, he'd forgot that pompous autocrats
Reign e'en in peanut stands and live in
flats;
No matter where, if they command the
boodle,
Employee's soul are less than their pet
poodle.
Poor John could not surrender manhood's
pride;
Give sixteen hours a day beside,
Far the paltry sum of but one dollar, too;
Say gentle reader, sir, could you,
COMMENTS.
Now, be it said, this brief narration,
Applies to millions in this nation.
Yes, in fact, Groat God have pity,
At least five thousand in this oity
Are working for starvation wages.
You need not turn old Europe's pages,
To see distress on every hand.
Unbridled averace rules the land,
"We see a set determination.
On part of monied combination,
To crush men's souls, and make them
humble.
Oh hireling slave, you must not grumble,
Dependents, you must not demur,
Resent no insults from the lordly our;
Your fate is dangling in the hands of the
snobs
Who may deprive you of your precious
jobs.
Men, from sheer exaspiration,
Insult the flag and curse the nation,
Men whose grandsires set the mighty tree
That mocked the storms of Europe's
tyranny.
The hireling press, old party hacks
Weighed down with pledges on their backs,
Dare net rise to smite the potentate
Who rides in gilded coach of state;
But coin new shafts of ridicule,
Pronounce each citizen a fool
Who dares denounce in prose or rhyme
The shameful evils of the time.
Four million Africa's sons set free,
By patriot blood in Sixty-three,
Yet, scattered o'er Columbia's plains,
Are fifty millions now in chains!
Fair virtue sleeps as if in death,
While justice halts with bated breath;
Migat, not right, holds wonted sway,
While vice and ignorance rule the day.
Professing ministers of God
Bow down and kiss the golden rod,
Wielded by Wall street's iron hand,
Which undisputed, rules the land.
To men of Pharisaic mould,
They preach in churches lined with gold;
. Forbidd an ground to all God's poor,
They thrink in sadness f rem the door.
On every hand are mutterings deep,
That wake the echoes from their sleep,
God is net mocked, be not deceived,
Justice will come to the aggrieved.
Advocate and Tribune: Another
example of borrowing: . the livery of
heaven to serve the devil In is the
Republicans of Colorado trying: to
elect Harrison electors on a free silver
platform. It is asconishir i? what
transparent schemes they will resort
to.
cA Letter From Merrick County.
. Line following; excellent letter U
worth reading if it is a little out o
date. Uur apologies are due to Bro.
H. for having overlooked it. Editoh.
Central City, Neb., Sept. 17, '92.
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jmk. riUiiuK: Li may piease your
readers to know what we are doing up
here for the good of mankind.
I will assure you that we are all
awake and when ycu hear that the in
dependents of Merrick county are not
in it you may feel certain tlat in No
vember the old parties will hear some
thing drop.
Yesterday was a grand gala day for
our party. The farmers came from all
parts of the county and by 11 o'clock
thestreetsof the city were crowded
and a procession miles in length nnved
over to the fair grounds to listen to the
speakers who had been invited.
By the way, when we independents
have a rally we need the fair grounds
to hold our boys and their families, but
only tho day before we had our rally,
the repub'icans called for their friends
to rally and show the fool farmers that
the independents were not in it. They
rallied and tooted their horns and
forty- three voters all told met at the
opera house and listened to worn out
argument from some of their saw
horses.
We called out over 1.000 voters to
listen to Messrs. Van Wvck, Strickler
and Poynter. Mr. Van Wyck was
called home and thereby disappointed
many, but after we had listened to our
next state senator, Mr. Campell, and to
Mr. Strickler and Poynter no one could
fay that we had not been well paid for
coming to the best meeting ever held
in the county.
I will not take the space to give vou
the arguments used by the speakers as
delivered for many will hear these
speakers in other parts of the state.
But I must sav that V. O. Strickler
was a surprise to all of us. He gave us
a grand, good talk. In a pleasing, con
versational voice, heard to the remot
est part of the audience, he told his
story of the wishes of our people.
There was no great flight of eloquence,
no great display of oratory, but for ovr
an hour we listened and when he gave
way to our friend Poynter, we thought
that our next attorney general had
plenty of brains eighteen carats fine in
his head.
We are certain that if he is elected
he won't ra'tle around in the box, but
will fill it to the brim.
W. A. Poynter, the next congress
man from the Third district, closed the
meeting and none who heard him will
change their vote from him to either
of his opponents. He is a grand good
man, as honest as the day is long as we
all know from hi past record as a legis
lator. 1 he big Third district will give
mm a grana send off to Washington in
November.
Taking it all together we were made
to feel that the independents in other
counties must hustle themselves if they
keep pace with old Merrick. Our sd
vice to all has been and is now: "Vote
once for the rights of man and if after
that good deed you should feel ashamed
that you have done one good action, go
hide yourself in some corner and re
pent." But we don't believe that any
one will wish to repent. I find none
around here. We feel sorry that we
did not begin the good work sooner.
Keep the ball rolling all along the
line. Yours for the rights of man.
M M. Halleck.
FOR SALE.
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and May farrow. Sired by Virginia
Lad 8457 S; he by Business 20489: dam
Virginia 32588 by Tecumseh 4339. Sows
by Geo. Wilkes, Equality, Tecumseh
and many other noted sires. There are
none better bred. Will breed a few
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anything you have to us. The fact that you may have been selling these articles at home
for years Is no reason that yon should continue to do so if you can find a better market We
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 174 South Water Street Chicago.
Reference: Metropolitan National Bank, Chicago.
ALLEN ROOT, Stock Agent, Nebraska State
Farmers' Alliance. Office and Financial M'gr.
GEO. 8. BROWN,
Salesman.
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