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y i l I i ALLIANCE DIBECTOEY V Nebraska Farmers' Alliance. J. H. Powias, Preldent, Cornell. W. a. Fotbtek, Vlce-Prea . Albion. J. M. Thompsoh, State Sec'y, Lincoln. -W. H. Dech. Lecturer, Wahoo. . C. raiKCHiLD. 1st Aei't Lecturer, Oak- 4ale. or m vi . . . mA lai't T.Aftiii-oi. RethlTiT rf . X . t, nivnzi m " i ...-- B. K. Allen, Chairman, Ex. Com., Wabash In tbe beaut; of the UUiea Christ was born acrow the sea. With a glory In his besom That transfigures you and k e. As he strore to make men holf Let us strive to make them tree. Since God Is marching oa. -Julia Ward Howe. This department will be under the direction ol J. M. Thompson, state secretary iry. souri items from Alliances on matters of general Interest niionrini when dilDUteS nave arisen aad any news beaiiu-i upon the great work of our organization will be welcomed by the editor. Writu plainly, on oth- i de of the naoer only, and address "Ali anje Depart ment" A-uiABCB-UitiKPENDBM, Lincoln, Ren We would be irlad to get items from every eountv in the state en condition of tbe Alli ance work. Let It Go. When s fierce editor, boiling with fury, Paints you with hot editorial tar. Don't start a libel suit, don't hire a jury, rn't seek rediess from the lench or the bar Lies tometimes vanish, facts always grow Smooth it over and let it go. When jou consent to be placed on a ticket, When you have made up your min4 to run, Speak at your best-the political thicket Tears off your clothes but makes lots of fun If you are minus a vote or so, Smooth it over snd let it go. .. ' Kflort ami nones mav ue imuier or gravci, Either in politics, business er fame; J ui - -,,lnw rHondkh TW mav waver, Nevertheless the rule iB the same; Facts will be facto; w,hen you find it so Smeoth it over and let it go. From PoemB of tbe Cyclone State. He solution 8 of Condolence. ELWOOD, Neb , Dec. 14, 1802 The following resolutions were adopt ed by the county "alliance of Ooeper CQMflty at its last session, held in EL Lod, Saturday uec.iu, ieaz. Whereas: It hath Dleased Him who lolds the destiny of nations and the lfves of men it his hand to remove from our mit) it our esteemed brother and Ilow 'utizen, W. H. Stone; therefore, Resolvtd, That in the death of brother Stone the county alliance has lost faithful and efficient servant, the people an earnest champion of their political rie-hta. and the state a loyal and emi nent citizen. Eisglwd, That the sympathy of this county alliance he exvenaeu xo tne bereaved family and friends of the de ceased, and that these resolutions be spread upon the records of the Gosper county alliance, a copy be furnished the widow of the deceased, and copies be sent to the independent citizens of El wood, the Independent Herald of Bert rand and the Alliance-Indepkxdent at Lincoln for publication. S. B. TlOMAN, Sec'y. They Will Take the Holidays. H WASHINGTON, u. u.'JJec. io. in ine CLJjpuse this morning Mr. Springer, dem- Wa, from Illinois, ct airman oi com V Siittee on ways and means, reported X concurrent resolution for a holiday r.'ai tnm Tlanamhor 99. 1ftA'2. toJanimrv 4, 1893. The resolution was pajsod. SCHEMERS KNOCKKD OUT. Republican Vampires Shaken Off- Supreme Court a Unit for Justice. Tuesday at 3 o'clock the justices took the bench. In the case of Christy against Johnson said Chief Justice Maxwell: ''The writ is denied and the case is cismissed. The same order will be entered in the case of Elder and McVey." The republican conspirators now hava to go before the legislature to Dlead their case. In the Boyd county contest the court has given the plaintiff, .Norton, untui December 50th, to tile amended petition with leave to offer his certificates of ""mntiination by the republicans of Knox jkdj'Bojd counties. ( -. . A Great Horse Sale. Our readers should notice that tho great horse sale advertised to take place at Yutan, Neb., December 7th, was on account of the storm postponed and will be held on January 12th, 1893. Mr. Jas. Shulz, the proprietor, is a breeder of many years experience and has built up a stud of Percheron and French coach horses that is excelled by none in the state. A number of tbe choicest imported oad-standa'd bred animals of all ages aDd both sexes will bo offered without sral give men of moderate means a stiocit. Alliances and farmers' companies should attend this sale or have their representatives present We have personally known Mr. Shulz for some time and believe he will be found thoroughly reliable. See advertisement for particulars. Slow li IJo i:unvertitl. Tt, is anirl that Christian niitainn. fanes in loreign countries nave more m . . . trouble to convert the Mohammedans than any other class of people. Pa gans are much more easily reached. Even the followers of Confucius and Brahma occasionally yield some of their number to tbe appeals ol tho tCtholic or Protestant missionaries, Tiin inn riisnin as nt inn nrnnnfli iira 94 Impervious as stone. "w?" in iioiitMniJi. In Bohemia there are 160 societies and clubs which have for their ob jecthe advancement of tho cause of wo d, , A great deal is done in this war.ci 1 : cura for the women of Do rJjemla bv .jet employment and greater Independence. v WHAT IS MOM? Opinions of Great Men Concernirg Nature and Uses of Our Money. tbe Letter of Hon. W. H. Dech Published in the World-Herald Sunday December 18th. Ithaca, Neb., Dec. 15 On the sub ject of money, Webster the statesman sayf: 4,It is almost universally true that that which is counted as a know ledge of money, in reality is ignorance of the grossest character; out of that ignorance I have spoken that of which I am now ashamed and greatly grieved.' The truth of the above forces itself upon the mind of eyery man and wom an who honestly and intelligently in vestigates this great problem and fac tor in civilization. Yet why all this ignorance? Mainly from two causes. First, a selfish gov ernment clasd finds it to their individ ual benefit to keep the masses in ig norance; and secondly, the masses are so occupied in the struggle for a sub sistence that they do not find time or opportunity to investigate this very broad but not deep question. This nation, as are other nations, is infested with a species of "intellectual dudes," who sneer at the reasonings and propositions set forth by the farmer, the merchant, the mechanic or common day laborer. By one single attribute that they possess in overabundance, viz gall; they browbeat and belittle, in the eyes of the masses whom they have been able to hold to a very great extent in meutal and physical serfdom the men who would destroy this juggernaut of a barbaric past and give to humanity a civilization that would outrival the dreams of the most stanguine reform er. The object of this article is intended to prove the dishonesty of one class and the gross ignorance of the other, who jointly denounce the advocates of fi nance reform as fools. Knaves, anar chists, and visicnary theorists, and by voice, pen and ballot continue us on the highway of a gilded savagery. For this purposel will quote the opinions of some of the men who are jnstly looked upon by the truly intelligent world as author ity. Sir Archibald Allison says: "The two greatest events in the history of mankind have been brought about by the contraction and expansion of the circulating medium of society. The fall of the Roman empire caused by the decline of the geld mines of Spain and Greece, and the discovery of America, by which tho annual supply of the pre cious metals of money for the use of the globe was tripled; before a century had elapsed the price of every species of produce was quadrupled, tho weight of debt and taxation insensibly wore off, the relations of society were changed the weight of feudalism cast off, tho rights of man nearer established. Bicardo, economist, banker and mem ber of the English parliament, who lived in the early part of the present century, says: "By limiting tne quantity 01 money it can be raised to any conceivable value." The great Scotch economist and scien tist. Prof. McCulloch, 6avs: "Thus it appears that whatever may be the material of the money of country, whether it consists of gold, silver, copper, iron, salt, cowries, or paper, and howover destitute it may be of intrinsic value, it is yet possible, by sufficiently limiting its quantity, to raise its value in exchange to any con ceivable value1" Victor Bonnet, an eminent French economist, commenting upon the French nation paying its enormous in demnity debt, says: VV ho would have dared to believe that in the midst of the grreatest calam ities which ever befel a nation with an enormous ransom to pay a foreign country, and with great domestic losses to repair, a credit circulation (all monev is no nirej couiu 00 maintained with out depreciation. Such a phenomena has never been witressed before in the world. It apparently reverses the eco nomical and financial principles which tho authorities on the subject have hitherto labored to establish. Is finan cial science assuming a new aspect and proving tout we nave oeen ali wrong- in f taring irredeemable paper money':' Are we to learn that ideas have made progress and that we are on the eve of realizing that famous wagon way turougii tne air spoten of by Adam Smith and Kicardo a paper currency wiinoui any metallic oaser" William Stanley Jevons. professor of political enonomy and logic in Owen university, England, says: "I cannot but agree with Mr. McCul loch that putting outof sight individual narusnins, it such exist, a fall in tho value of gold (increasing volume of money) must have, and a? I should say, has already a most powerful beneficial effect. It loosens the country from old bonds of debt and habit as nothing else couid. It throws increased reward be fore all who are making and acquiring wealth, somewhat at the expense of those who are enjoying acauirtd wealth (These always in minority.) It excites the active and skillful classes of tho commnnity to new exertions and is to some ext .nt, like a discharge of his debts is to tho bankrupt, and insolvent long struggling against his burdens " Hume, tho English essayist and his torian, says: "In regard to increase of money the good policy of the govei nmpnt consists only in keeping it. if possible, still in-1 creasing, because by that means it keep alive a spirit of industry in the nation, and increases the stock of labor in which consists all real power and riches. A nation whose money de creases is actually at that time weaker and more miserable than another nation which possesses n more money but is on the increasing hand." Prof Perry says: "The fact tha: such a medium is in universal circulation, and that the holders are ready and willing to ex change it against any sort of services adapted to gratify their desire, exerci ses a kind of crea ive power and brings a thousand productions to market which would otherwise n ; ver have come into existence. Money is a form of capital which stimula es and facilitates all the pro cesses of production without exception. Francis A. Walker of Yale college, professor of political eemomy and his tory fays: "It does not need to be said that Mr. Hume had in view an increase of money not so great as to bewilder the producer acd the trader through a fiercely rapid rise in trices, or to lender sober busi ness calculations impossible. The pub lic indebtedness of the civilized world is between twenty-five and thirty thous and millions American money. The volume of private debts, including the capitalized value of fixed charges, loans annuities, etc , is vastly greater. Near ly the whole of this vast t ody of obliga tions is payable principal and interest in money. The question whether the supply of money shall increase or de crease is then the question whether the burden of those more or less permanent charges shall be deminished or en hanced. It is the fact of a largo body of inde btedness (some hundreds cf thousands of millions) which gives its chief im portance to the current production of the precious metals. That gold and silver should be yielded in exactly the amount from time to time, from gene, ration to generation, which will serve to keep the value of money uniform is not to be expected." So early as 1557 we find Bodin saying "For men have so obscured the facts about money that the great part of the people do not see them at all. The moneyers do as the doctors do, who talk Latin before women, and use Greek characters, Arab words and Latin ab breviations fearing that if the people understood their recipes they would not have very much opinion of them." John btuart Mill says: "If the whole money of the world in circulation waj doubled, prices would double; if it was only increased one fourth prices - would riso one-fourth." Iiicardo says: ' That commodities would rise and fall in proportion to the increase or diminution of money. I as sume as a fact," continues Kicardo, "that is incontrovertible. The value of money does not wholly depend upon iti absolute quantity but on its quantity relative to the payments it has to accomplish." In proof of Ricardo's proposition I quote from the Boston Herald, a hard money paper, in an article published January 5, 1879, under the title of "Out cf Pocket," wherein is stated the de oline in prices from 1877 to 1878, upon our produots sold to foreign nations. q "The net decline in the six staples, that is, cotton, breadstuff, provisions, living animals, leaf tobacco and illum inating oils, reaches tho tremendous total of $73,575,980. Many conclusions of tho highest importance are deduciele from these figures. Again they prove that money has acquired a vast in crease in purchasing power among the leading artioles of consumption." This was when John Sherman was running the money mill in tho interest of the money gaa biers of the werld." Mr. Bicardo, whom I have several times quoted, says: "The introduction of the precious metals for the purpose of money may with truth bo oensidered as one of the most important steps to ward the improvement of commerce and the arts of civilized life. But it is not less true that with the advance of knowledge and science we discover that it would be another improvement to banish them again from the employ ment to which, during a less enlighted period they have been so advantage ously applied." Sir John Lubbock, an eminent Lon don banker, in his publication oa money says: 'It may be doubted whether any system of convertible paper currency can be devised consistent with profit to the issuers, which is not exposed in extreme cases to the daniier of suspen sion, and wnen this danger is appre hended all attempts fail to estimate the injury which the country sutlers." William S. Jevons, whom I have be fore quoted, says: "Tnere is plenty of evidence to prove tnat inconvertible paper money, if care fully limited in quantity, can retain its full value. But there is abundance of evidence to prove that the value of gold has undergone extensive changes. Be tween 1789 and 1S09 it fell 4(5 per cent; from 1809 to 1849 it rose in value 145 per cent " The following quotation is from the testimony of Mr. John Twills, a Lon don banker, before trie secret com mittee on the Bank of Eue-land failure in 1847. He said in answer to ques tions as follows: "What do you consider the ad vantace of an inconvertible note over converti ble note?" Answer It would prevent a drain cf bulllion when it is required for foreign trade, and would give us what is so essential, a domestic currency, which is not influenced by any foreign trans actions whatever. If France or Ameri ca want gold it ought not to interfere with our domestic currency. Our merchants and our trade ousrht not to suffer because America wants gold. Do you think that that currency would run the risk of ever bein? de preciated in value that is to say, that inconvertible 5 notes would not ex change for five sovereigns?" "I do not know as compared with sovereigns; that, I think, is of no con sequence in the world. We want it for internal commerce and we want it to pay government their taxes." What a nation wants is money to ex change commodities, pay debt and taxes and not tokens payable in monev which the gamblers on humanitv's happiness control. Bonaray Price, professor ot political economy in the University of Oxford, England, says: "Experience has proved that it (unconvertible paper monev) need not suffer any depreciation in value. The publio bas a ceir tain definite want for notes to use ne daily operation of buying and selling. It is plain, thalJtproJlbiUatU?fls the notes can make no difference in the extent of the use that exists for them. So far as this reaches it is immaterial whether tho notes will or will not be paid on demand. Paper money has a further superiority of grea. importance over specie, its com parative cheapness combined with equal efficiency, 20 shillings' worth of English wealth must have been given to the foreign mines to proc'tre a sovereign. A bank note costs i ss than sixpence. This gain to England, this saving ota the indispensable tool of ex change extends to every bank nolo in circulation. How vast a capital is i V us rescued and kept for the maintenance of English industry, whilst the supply or tne filling tools is complete, 14 obvi ous. Who ought to be the issuer of the paper circulation of a country, the government or the ban Ear The profits from so national an operation ought fitly to be reaped by tho people." Lord Bacon said: "Usury bringeth the treasures of a nation into a few hands. Benjamin Franklin, so much lauded on all other matters of statesmanship 6ays: "Paper money well founded, has a great advantage over gold and tilver, bjing light and convenient for handling and not likely to have its volume re duced by demands for exportation. On the whole, no method has hitherto been formed to establish a medium of trade equal in all of its advantages to bills of credit made a full legal tender." John Kj. ualhoun says: I undertake to affirm without the least fear of that I can be answered that a paper currency issued by the government with the sim ple promise to receive it for all of the dues, leavisg its creditors to take it or gold or silver at their option, would be to the extent it could circulate form a perfect paper circulation which could not be abused by the government; that it would be as uniform in its value as the metals themselves." Thomas Jefferson said: "Treasury bills bottomed on taxes bearing interest or not thrown into circulation will take the place of so much gold and silver. Bank paper must be suppressed and the circulation restored to the nation, where it belonge." The great Spinoza said: For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot be in the possession of I things which for one man to possess is tor the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike and where one man's wealth promotes his neigh bor's. W. H. Dech. Lettor From Boyd County. Alfoed, Neb., Dec. 12, fc892. Editor Alliance-Independent; Our party did not accomplish all I had hoped it wcu!4 in our state in the late election, but I take notice that our vote increased 3 per cent over the rela tive size of tho party two years ago. Wo have not yet a majority over re publicans and democrats, but we are gaining. It cost the corporations good deal of money to win, and our cam paign cost comparatively little. Let us keep on bleeding them and they will oonclude they ean not afford such annual expense, and will let justice be done. You probably would like to know the political status of this new county of Boyd. The independents have a plu rality. Deducting the 350 votes com moniy Believed 10 nave been stuned in at Butte City for the republican ticket. there was a majority of 100 for Weaver. As democrats may have voted for the weaver electors, tne veto on governor Is probably a truer indication of the strength of the parties. Van Wyck got ay) as against iZS for (JrouDse and Mor ton both. We must have a plurality on these figures. But our vote must be larger than reported. Some blotted independent ballots must have been re jected and other ballots substituted, And right here I want to say that it is impossible to mark ballots with ink and avoid b'ots; for most men will not use a blotter, but fold the ballot up hastily ana mane a blot at almost every fold. The markiag 6hould be with indelible pencil. Interest in the alliance is likely to increase owing to the general dissatis faction at our county officials. Useless expense is being piled upon the county, and township organizations was refuse-i to be put to a vote although a legal petition for it was handed in. An in junction against it was granted by the county judge in the absence of the dis trict judge, and when the district judge dissolved the injunction it was too late to put the question on the ballots for they were already print, d. It wa not too late for Chester Norton of Knox county to get his name on the ballots: the e'erk was mandamused to writo it on. But it was too late for the clerk to write tho form for a vote on the other supervisor system no place had been left for it, and it would not do to put '.t in the six inch space at the bottom. He was perfectly honorable about it; he would have obliged the " people if he could, but he could not you know. We farmers and homesteaders are the vic tims of adverse circumstances. We may yet try the power of the ilaw to punish those who obstruct the law. We want township organization here, but we do no mean to overdo the thing. We mean to make each polling precinct a township and have only 8 supervisors Holt and Knox counties nave twice too many, they had better consolidate town ships. That might disappoint some of the little office-seekers but it is no matter. We may not havo a delegate to tho State Alliance. There is much work yet for the State Alliance to do. The lecturers must ba kept in the field; they are doing the chief part of enlighten ing th public about tbe new party principles. Long live the alliance. Our farmers are so poor they do not like to pay does, and they stay out of member ship, I think for the coming year it would be well to let them belong free; and hope the State Alliance will so per mit. N. H. B. Special. I will soli either of my fine 2-vear-old boar.. 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