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CO-OPERATIVE FARMING.
'The Situation as Xlevrvdhj the Kbing
Sun of 3larylancl.
The day of individual effort is past.
The times and changed conditions are
demanding co-operative effort When
farm wages were 40 cents a day,
wheat 90 a bushel, corn 40 cents, a
good cow $1(V calico.-10 to 15 cents
a yard and other goods at correspond
ing prices, times were better for all,
bccauso all found employment, and
production and distribution went hand
in hand. But now all these conditions
have changed and producers and em
ployers must change to conform to
present conditions. The best labor
deserts the country for the city, hop
ing to find a more prosperous field,
but in this they fail. Uright young
fellows can get but $3 and $4 a week
in the city, and it cost3 all of that to
support them. The railroads and
other corporations pick out the very
best, and send ten adrift where one is
employed. When the country is
abandoned for the city the door is
closed behind them and few are able
So return, and step by step they sink
ilower into the depths of want
The great changes which artificial
power and invention have worked in
the last fifty years have destroyed the
individual's ability to compete in
price, and in so doing have multiplied
production tenfold, which has thrown
labor out of employment. Labor
used to own its tools and crealo the
products of the land and shops. Ar
tificial power and invention have
itaken the tools from labor, and own
ing the tools a few own the products
which machinery and artificial power
create, and vast numbers of laborers
ihave no employment. Everything
therefore tends to force labor toward
co-operation in order that it too may
produce cheap and enjoy a large por
tion of its products. The farmer has
clung to his old methods longer than
any other producer, but the lime has
come when combinations of specu
lators have taken charge of his pro
ducts, set the price of them and sup
plied him with tools and merchandise
sit their Own price. In trying to stand
alone against such formidable forces,
we is being overwhelmed, lie must
reform his expensive methods and
'save much which now goes to waste.
The expense and unavoidable waste
to conduct one farm by the present
individual method employed, under a
proper co-operative system would
do the work of two or three.
Farmers like every other class of
business men must study along the
lines of co-operative labor and estab
lish their business on that system or
sink to a lower piano of society and
dependence. They cannot stand
alone and resist the fearful odds that
are against them. They may hug
their foolish conceit and say, "Oh, 1
am independent. I am capable of at
tending to my own business." He
may, if entirely clear of debt keep
his head above water while he lives,
if he does not live too long, but where
will his children be? The inevitable
future his present condition leads to
ought to be considered and measures
taken to prevent the tenant and wage
slavery, degradation and want pres
e nt conditions point to for the next
generation.
The idea of the forty acre farm and
the independent farmer, the little
farm well tilled is a bit of pastoral
poetry, an idle dream, that may be
realized by one in a hundred, and for
a limited time, but must soon be
swallowed up by the great octupus of
capital. The large tract conducted
on true co-operative principles is the
only hope ot the farmer to escape the
condition of the European peasant
iv nat American iarmer wouia live as
jthe French peasant farmer on a patch
pf four acres cultivated by himself
iind wife with hand tools? And this
is what the small farm and so-called
' Independent farmer leads to. Either
thii or the rente.1 under A landlord
l'rlnce and Yankee.
A musical critic from Yankee-land
Mr. L. C. Elson, Wio describes ia a
very "free and easy"' way his experi
ence in Europe, was at one of the great
Wagnerian performances at Ilayreuth.
The place was full of congenial people,
who had come together for one pur-
pose. As an illustration oi tne spirit
that prevailed, Mr. Elson says:
"I have spoken of the Prince of
Hesse. I did not know he was a
Prince until I had chatted with him
about half an hour, and then it was too
late for me to put on any stately be
havior. I resisted the temptation to
tell him that I was the Duke of Osh
kosh or the Marquis of Kalamazoo, and
kept my character as a humble Ameri
can citizen. As for his Highness, any
rich Western speculator would have
put on more airs.
"Alas! there are no manuals of
etiquette on 'How to converse with a
Prince;' even the Itedckar phrase-book
omits this important chapter. I feared
to ask if the Prince business was good
at this season, and he did not once
say, 'By my haiidome!' as Princes do
in novels.
' On the contrary, he began talking
very quietly and most learnedly on
music, in which he seemed to be one
of the best informed gentlemen I had
ever met. He was a very near sighted
potentate, and as I also am nearly as
blind as a bat, it may be supposed that
the bond of myopia drew us together."
Her Name.
The New York Sun has been saying
a good word for a class of people who
are commonly treated as if they had
no names, in the ordinary sense of the
word. As one housekeeper expressed
herself, "I always call my cook Perks,
my maid Mary, and my man John.
We're constantly changing, and I can't
be bothered with learning and trying
to remember their real names."
It might have been suggested to this
"lady" that her indolence in learning
her servants' names had perhaps some
thing to do with their short terms of
service. Servants being human beings,
it is not so very surprising that they
should like to be treated as such.
If the cook is a married women, why
should not the fact be recognized?
"Mrs. White, Mrs. Brown would like
to see you," was the message that the
housemaid brought from the cook to
the mistress.
The mistress remonstrated. "Mary,
why do you not say, 'Mrs. White, the
cook would like to see you?' "
"0 ma'am. Mrs. Brown wouldn't
like it."
"But I wish it."
Shortly afterward the girl returned.
"Mrs. Brown says, ma am, she wasn't
The cook was indispeosjaar ard ac
cordingly she remains jcho Brown.
And why not?
FOR SALE.
Seventy-five Poland China pigs, April
and May farrow. Sired by Virginia
Lad 8457 S: ho by Business 20480: dam
Virginia 32588 by Tecumseh 4330. Sows
by Geo. Wilkes, Equality, Tecumseh
and many other noted sires. There are
none better bred. Will breed a few
sows for sale to Groom 17687 O, A Grand
King Tecumseh boar and Square Busi
ness 2nd for spring litters.
E. H. Andrews, Kearney, Neb.
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SURGEON IN CHARGE.
LIN Debt
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CORNER THIRTEENTH AND ; M STREETS, LINCOLN, NEB.
Three blocks from Capitol building. Lincoln's newest, neatest and "best
up-town hotel. Eighty new rooms just completed, including largo committee
room?, making 150 rooms in all. tf A. L. HOOVER & SON, Prop'ra.
OBTAIN CHICAGO PRICES FOR ALL YOUR
PRODUCE.
The way to do this is to ship your Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Veal, Hay, Grain,
Wool, Hides, Beans, Broom Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Vegetables, or
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 b6tter market. We
make a specialty of receiving shipments direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCERS,
and probably have the largest trade in this way of any house in this market. Whilst you
are looking around for the cheapest market in which to buy your goods, and thus economiz
ing in that way, it will certainly pay you to give some attention to the best and most profit
able way of disposing of your produce. We invite correspordence'from IWDIVIDUALS,
ALLIANCES, CLUBS, and all erganiz&tlons who desire to ship their preduce direct to
this market. If requested, we will send you free of charge our daily market report, ship
ping directions and such information as will be of service to you, if you contemplate ship
ping. When so requested proceeds for shipments will be deposited to the credit of the ship
per with any wholesale house In Chicago. Let as hear from you, 47 8t ,
Summers Morrison & Co. ,
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.S. BROWN,
Salesman.
Allianco Herald: Business is dulL
Why? Because the people realized no
profit from their labor. Why? Be
causo prices were so low. Why? Bo
cause there is not enough money in
circulation. Why? Because the money
monopoly can realize more benefits
when this is true. Why? Because
they can prico everything at cost of
production, tako it and sell it back Uf
the consumer at haudsorae profit. Are
you in the swim? Not much. Wall
street controls that game and take j in
tba shekel, growing richer everjr
yoar, while the remainder of tbo ootfp
SHIP YOUR OWN STOCK.
ALLEN ROOT AND COMPANY,
LIVE SfOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
South Omaha, Neb., Room 34 Exchange Building.
Before You Ship Seud for the Market.
Referknces: First National Bank of Omaha; Tackers National Bank, Omaha; Commercial
National Bank, Omaha; Nebraska Savings and Exchange Bank, Omaha; Central City Bank, Central
City, Nebraska.
"Shippers can draw Bight draft on us for 90 per cent of cost, bill of lading attached.
WESTFALL COM. CO.
General Produce Merchants.
Legal representatives of Kansas
State Allianco arid well known in Nebraska. Our specialty Car Loads Of
Potatoes? Onions, Apples, Cabbage Hay and Oats. We also
hay(o a heavy grain trado in Nebraska and Wyoming'. Wo have an established
trade for all the above mentioned artices, and by shipping direct to us you will
get .ali the value there is in the goods. Write for prices' and 'shipping instruq.
tiong. ' ' Reference; Metropolitan National Bank, .Kansas City, Mo.
WEST FALL QO M MISSION CO.
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