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THE miAM.-- nnmnHDEKT iidMloo of tte tars v,i. Nebraska Independent VrRT TaCKSDA V B CB PlTCLISIirNO Co. I M tt., Lincoln, Neb. i or ntstoTOB. rw. B. A. Mcbrat, Boc hm. J. M. TuoaraoH, OKE DOLLaK PER Yeah HtShxx I 1. Jon F r K. A. HUMH'i Managiu? Kditn , Humdimi Manager AdveiUBlUg My r L P. A. OUm a ce . . ation i .i gSept for Six Months . 20th, riilillt.lt rt Annonni erne t. Tbut'r'.i oprloof the Allianoi-Ih-OEPKKDfcaT 1 ! 4uar year, invariably lu ad-r-' - ' 1 be promptly dlwootlnund avexpi. uiiuu iri i we ald fur utiles we re CeiVordrn u c -uilnutt. AOHNT8 lu i-uii nine subscription should be m er(n! m a all nmea are correctly kpquad and pii r iKKitoMue given. Blanks Io rt ii n -uu- ilpuonx, return envelope, euV cu 6 b ii . i application to thla office. Alwavh tlu nur uouie. No nuttier li,. often you wriit- u do not neglect thin Import ant matter Kv. ry week we receive letters Mh lui .niiie.- Jaw:a or without algna tuaan Hid it l- meltine difficult to locate hetii Ciupuboi AKi.KKAN. SubHciibers wixhing Kcnanie their , oatolHceaddreas muiit always (rtap tUcli' fornifi .is well as their preaent ad Jresa wtcn cbutue will be promptly made. AdarnHs all In th and make all remittance payable to A ALLIANOE PUB. (X).. Lincoln, Neb. Senator C. ark of Omaha has troduced rained hill which in trawling a u'-Hl deal of atlentioa. 13 said to h q encollent measure. in-at- It Sxat 'Iakris' resolution con demning frei passes came up on Tues day and its cun idoration was postpon efiLtlll Feb. zUh. by a vote of 17 to 16. Tfie railroad vngure 1q no hurry. Ia eur ucxi isuo will appear a well wriUH ana very interesting article frcm the pen i f of A. E. Sheldon,' edi toeottue CntiUron Signal. The arti cle, will d3.-eitt the principal events c&tk catt.ciccn'o invasion of Wyom ingftast bumun r, and tha stealing away oft.' the wit teses who saw Bay and Cnattiptou murdered. Wa.aro gratified to be able to an countM the I uowin? additions to our v - i' St a Riciious w P"" our fox '8' A- R Sheldon wnnii.v,Mio4. first urtlclo will appear next wekj aDd GeorKe C, Ward whose arti cle ton "ra Binary bcienoo" appears this week,. RBPORM iu the matter of legislative expenses ia' largely a matter of com palMn. One legislature makes a great btb&st of its reci rd for economy because ifepends less than some other. The mambers of tht present Nebraska leg islattuie think they are making a great record for economy, and they are as compared to other Nebrabka legisla ture. But the following from tho Non coafitnist will show them how their tecotu would look if measured by the Iridftatia stai dsrd of economy; "It js proper that the people of Indi anajshculd understaud exactly tne ex tern and outrasfeous steal put upon them bjtfthe leKlsiitture in authorizing its euaploy-s T- statute only provides lb? 35 employes of the House of Rapre scomivei., all told. Yet this "economic-,;' "reform ' legislature deliberately BpowUles for f3. which is over half as maay as the membership of the house. IN KANSAS. ICansas is enjoying rather more than her-.-have of po itical excitement. Her three- cornered legislature seems to have. 8ettl d down 10 a regular thing. TKo. populists aro in full contrtl of the senate The populist house has been fully rwognized by the senate and the gover nor. Enough republicans who had been seated by fraud of various kinds have ben ousted' to give the populists a ma jority in ;he house. But the ousted members are acting right along in the republican house wbich also has a ma jority of the whole number elected. No solution of the trouble is in sight. THE LEGISLATURE. This week vi have no; undertaken to give a detailed account of the legis lative proceedings. Nothing of special interest ha transpired. Tho daily sessions have been short, and they have been mostly occupied in pashing resolutions and reading bills. The real progress that is being ina&o lain the work if regular committees in tha consideration of bills, and of special invest tiga-ing committees. Something like a don of theso special committees are at work. The principal subjects of lnrest'gaUon are: The penitentiary, the no '-in vestment of the permanent school fu'id, the various state depart ments and tho ?alo of certain school land Dwjar Lincoln to Joe burns and other. The most important action yet taken in this Una has been a provision for the appointment o three experts , to maka an examination of all the records In the various state offices. Next week we will devote a good 4 al of space ta the bills relating to railroads and other important subjects. I HE PERM A NEK V tCHOOL TUKD. On of the Cr'. subjects wbich the Douse has undertaken to investigate is ..b ..o--lnv-s nient if the imrmaaent M-hiol fund in BUt warrants, and the rMS -lis thertfor. The perUtent fight which THE AL' I-AXCf-lKUEPtSDENT has waged against the state officers for their violation of i he law enacted two years ago attract ed such general attention to tbe tub-j'-ct, that the bouse on Jan. 17th ap nin'ed a committee of three to investi gate tht matter. Tbe commi'tee coo eisisof Ilorstof Polk (ind). Nelson of nidge (dem), and Keyes of Sarpy (rep), In view of the importance of this matter we will give a brief summtry of ihe facts and tbe law in tha case: The erratne!it school fund U a large sum of mon y (at present 13,023,340 set apart for tne f upp-Tt of the pub io schools of the state. It has arsen chitily from the sale and leasing of school lands although conslderab'e sums have come from otber sources. Tde principal of this fu'id may under uocircumstances be used. The con stitution provides tha'. it shall bj in vested in United States bon Is, s ate and coun'y bonds and state securities. The interest accruing goes to the sup port of schools Ij IS!:;), there being 1270,663 of this fund lying idle in the treasury and yielding the - sta'o no reverue, tho house of representatives asked the su preme court of tbe statu to hand down au opinion as to whether state war rants outst Hiding an I bearing interest were "state securities.' O i Jan. 30, 1889, Supreme Julge Reese handed down an opinion, in which Coli and Maxwell both concurred, tbe tenor of wbich will be seen from the following extract: It was evidently the purpose that the evidences of indebtedness issu d by the state, M3i ureu by me levy of taxes o secure their payment guaran'ced and iv r tain as they would be. should be deemed "state "scuri ties." We are therefore of the opinion that state warrants drawing interest or that may be mad to dra interest by pre sentation to the state treasurei which are bsuad in pursuance of an appropri- Ht.lnn iPfnrcrl hv u lnv nf fair fm th.etr rmvniAiit nrei "atata Hfnurltl?8 ' '.ifltnin the provision of the section. ' This decision mav be foi--id in volume 25 of the Nebraska rep- Pa?e All doubt aa to tr-J constitutionality of investinff the rrmanent scnool lund in warrants wr8 dispelled. The mem bersof the neSl8latura eeem t0 have considere tne niatter settled for they tool no further action. . JNearly two years rolled away and the amount of the permanent school fund uninvested grew to over half million. Yet no steps were taken to comnly with the decision of the su prt-tue court. Finally October 20, 1890, the Board of Educational lands and M J . it - tunas passea an oraer wnicn read as follows: Resolved, That the state treasurer be, and he hereby is, directed audMn structed to pay out of the permanent sceool fund, the cash fo r all state war rants presented for oavment when a levy has been made to pay such war rants. This order was adopted at a regular meeting of the board, Attorney Gene ral Leese, Commissioner Steen, Secre tary of State Cowdory, and Treasurer Hill being present. Again time rolled on. The treasure paid no attention to the order of the board, and not a dollar of the perma nent school fund was invested in war rants. Finally the "farmer legislature ofl891 assembled." The treasurer's re port at that time showed the enormous sum of $o22.000 lying idle in the perma nent Bchool fund yielding no interest to the state. The report also showed over $582,000 of state warrants outstanding on which the state was paying interest to private parties at the rate of 7 per cent. In order to finally settle this matter and have no room for further dodging on the part of state officers, the legislature then enacted an amend ment to the law which reads as follows provided, Ttiat when any state warrant issued in pursuance of an ao propriation made by tbe legislature and secured oy tne levy of a tax for its tav nient, shall be presented to the treas urer for payment and there shall not be money in the proper fund to pay said warrant," the state treasurer shall part the amount'due onsaid warrant from any funds In the state treasury beloniina to the iter- manent school fund, and shall hold said warrant as an mvestmint of said perma nent scnool fund." The legislature adjourned. The mem bers returned to their-homes feelins that they had done their duty. Month after month rolled away. Nothing was said and nothing seemed to be known as to whether the state treasurer .was obeying the law. Finally in October 1891, the writer, who was then editing the Nebraska Independent, went to the state house and investigated the matter, We found that the law was absolutely ignored. The treasurer had not in vested a cent of the fund in state war rants. The minutes of the board's pro ceedings were ransacked but not a line or word fchowed that the board had ever acted on the matter. The deputy state treasurer In answer to a question as to why the fund was not being invested in warrants, muttered something about the law being "uncon stitutional." These facts were publish ed but they attracted very little atten tion. After another year had passed away, we returned to the subject again. We made another investigation, and pub- j lished the results: We boldly charged ! that the people of the state i a.l been robbed of $70,000 by the refusal tb state officers to do their duty The World-Herald also took up the fight. Tbe independent campaign speakers spreal the fact before the voters dur ing the campaign. Still no impression seemed to ba made on the public mind. The votes of the tax-payer se-med to endorse the course of the men who had thusroibed t'i?m Whether this ap parent endorsement resulted from the apathy of the people, or from a belief that these charges were made merely as "campa'gn thunder"' we are unable to 6ay. Now we believe we voice the senti ment of all honest citizens of the state when we demand that this matter be Investigated, and if tbe state treasurer and the members of the board of educa tional lands and funds are prov jn.guilty of having wilfully violated the law in order to enrich themselves hy pocket ing the interest on this vast sum of monpy thi. stepi be taken to collect from them every cent of which the state has been robbed. THE BOUNTY QUESTION. Mr. Oxrard and his bounty boomers are at work to secure the restoration of the state bounty on sugar. Mr. Ox nard not only has shrewd lobbyists here' working In his interest, but 'he has the leading daily papers of the state engaged in booming the bounty. While the members of the legislature are busy with a great variety of press ing duties, these bounty boomers are takiog advantage of every opp rtunity vuietly to advance their scheme. Instead of proposing a restoration of the bounty in its old form, they put it in a more seductive form: They propose that part, or even all, of the bounty be paid to t ne 03ot raiter. t aj wj win over to this proposition members who could not be iirauced to vote a bounty to the sugrr makers. The beet ai' ar lobbyist will approach a mef with such plausible argu ments as this: "Now of course it wasn't exactly fair to give all the boun ty to tho manufacturer as it was under the old law. We realize that. But now we propose to correct that injus tice by giving the farmer the benefit of it " Then they proceed with their great song about developing the state, variety of crops, inducing capital to. come in etc. The man, be he a mamber of the leg islature or not, who- allows himself to be seduced by such delusive arguments is not a wise or far-seeing man. Let us indulge in a little analysis of this subject. class legislation. If it is wrong in principle to give a bounty to a manufacturer, it is, wrong to give a bounty to a farmer. In either case it is cla-s legislation. The farmer who accepts the benefits of class legis lation is effectually disarmed as an op ponent of class legislation for the benefit of other classes. This is a valu able lesson w'uch the advocates of pro tection learned masy years ago. The protected manufacturers saw that they could not hope to perpetuate the pro tective system unless they took in the farmers as partners in its special bene fits. Hence they placed a tariff on wool. By thifc shrewd move they se duced millions of farmers in voting for a system which robbed them of a dol lar for every cent it gave them. The farmers have never of their own motion asked for class legislation in their ic terest. Whatever special legislation has been passed in the interestof farm ers has been enacted at the instance of others to tie the o farmer's hands r blind them to the injustice of class laws. Let the farmers of Nebraska beware how they accept a special benefit of a few dollars for a few of their number which may be used as an excuse and a precedent for special favors to other classes that will take thousands of dol- ars out of their pockets. doesn't benefit the farmer. As a matter of fact, however, a bounty on beets would not benefit the farmer who raises the beets anymore than would a bounty on the sugar. In either case the bounty will inure solely to the benefit of the manufacturer. Mr. Oxnard and his boomers under stand this peifectly well. Is anybody silly enough to believe that Oxnard would hire lobbyists,, and subsidize newspapers to advocate a bounty for the benefit of the farmers? Has he turned philanthropist? Let us suppose that farmer A in Hall county can raise beets for $5 per ton tend make as much on an average as he can in raisins other farm products i nen uppo6e the state offers him a bounty of $1 per ton. Does it follow that he will get $0 per ton for the beets.' Wilt Oxnard pay him $5 per ton (all the beets are worth) and letihim have the $1 bounty as an extra profit? Not by any means. The beets can be raised for $5. If farmer A doesn't want to raise them for that, farmers B, C, atd D will. Mr. Oxnard will simply pay $4 per ton and let the state pay the other dollar. Thus it is clear that, even if the farmers should raise the beets and re ceive the bounty, Mr. Oxnard would receive the benefit. FACTS REGARDING BEET RAISING. A further investigation of the facts w ill t-ho that uch a bounty would go just as direct to Mr. Oxnard as if It were paid in the tugar. What ro the facte concerning btet raiting in Nebrat-ka? The experiment has been more fully tried in Hall county than any wheie eibe. The farm ers have found out to their sorrow that it dot t-n't pay to raire beet at the pi hes offered by Mr Oxrard. This is not only tbe fstitnony of the farmers thf raselvf s, but of the men who advo cate a bounty. One of Mr. Oxnard's friends sta'ed In the beet sugar con vention a y ar ago that out of about 2700 acr s raised by Hall county farm ers not over 300 acres paid. Tbe result has been that Mr. Oxnard has under taken tbe raisin? of his own beets, and and in order to cheapen the production he has imported ch?ap Russian labor to take tbe plce of well paid Ameri can lab r. Of course such farmers as und'r other conditions might have pervered In the experimenr, will be driven to abandon it by Mr. Oxnard's selfish and un-American course. The conclusion of the whole matter is this: If tbe beet sugar industry be comes permanent in Nebraska, the bets will be produced on large beet farms located near th'j factories, on d by tbe manufacturers, and worked by the cheapest labor obtainable either at home or abroad. Hence it will make no difference whatever to the manu facturers whether the bounty is paid on the bets or on the sugar. CRUSH THE BOOM. No man in Nebraska can ?cave an reasonable objectior ro Mr. Oxnard or any other fyapitalist investing money n beoit sugar factories. No man can reasonably object to any farmer raising beets if re wants to. But every patri otic citizen should object to having the machinery of ur state government used to collect mnney to pay a profit to private individuals engaged in an un profitable business Every lover of good government should object to any measure which must be pushed for ward by a corruption fund, a paid lob by and a subsidized pref-s. Our poll tics are corrupt enough now. We should reduce rather than increase the sources of corruption. This' can be done in no better way than by crushing this bounty boom. THE CONTEST OASES. The contest cases in the house and senate are likely to come up for settle ment this week. The committees have examined a vast amount of evidence, No Intimation as to the character of their reports have been given to the public It is believed that the two houses will consider and decide the cases in a fair and non-partisan spirit, T - . m . o party can anora to unseat a man who was fairly elected merely to gain a partisan advantage. On the other hand no member who was not fairly elected should be allowed to hold a seat to which he is not entitled. The only safe course for honest members of all parties is to "hew to the line no matter where the chips may fall. " JOHN H. POWERS. In naming John H. Powers as their first choice for United Stales senator the independent members of the legis lature aid wen. rney nominated a man who is an honor to his partv, a man who thinks, a man who is in full sympathy with the toiling millions, man whose honesty" is beyond possible question, a man who will represent Nebraska if he shall be elected In getting together and casting a solid vote for Towers the independents acted most wisely. They set an ex ample worthy to be followed by other parties. They showed the people of the state that they were not here to trifle away time.- They showed that they would not let personal preferences stand in the way of success. John H, Powers was the first choice of a ma jority. ' Therefore he become the first choic8 of every loyal independent, If they continue to stand together till tne end casting a solid fifty-four votes for a true and worthy indepen dent on every ballot we believe their efforts will he crowned with sniv.'f su. s ittirUiSHUAN SL.ANDLKS The daily republican press of Ne braska just now teems with slanderous stories and falsehoods concerning promi nent independents. The object seems to be to kill off candidates, actual or possible, for United States senator. Several days ago the State Journal came out with a telegram from Wash ington set up with large head-lines re porting that General Van Wyck was in that city and had declared himself for John M. Thurston for United States senator. About the same time the Omaha Bee came out withian attack on W L. Green, charging among other things that Greene had purchased fifty eight theater tickets to take the members of the legislature to a play. During the past week all therepubll can dailies have -joined in a chorus to libel McKeighan with charges of drunk enness. These reports and charges are lies from tho whole cloth. They are manu factured by shameless tricksters, and published by unprincipled cowards. Subscribe for The Alliance-Inde- PENDENT. hKKTCHHS OF LEGISLATORS. Short r.toraitiical Sketches of Pop ulUt Members of the Legis lature. As alnady announced The Alli-ance-Ikeependent will Jay before its readers short interesting sketches of the populist members of the legislat ure. The following sketches constitute the first installment: SPEAKER gaffin. James N. Gaffin, lately elected speak er of the Nebraska house of representa tives, was born at Pccaton'ca in north ern Illinois, May 27, 1855 His father was a farmer and tbe son was raised at bard work on a farm attending district school in the winters. Later he took a course at the best high school in tbat section of Illinois, and after a six years course graduated. Ia 1877 he removed to Douglas county Nebraska and began farming and stock raising. In 1833 he moved to his present home in Saun ders county, where he continued the same calling. Politically Mr. Gaffin ha-i always b en an anti-monopoly republican, al though he ays he never voted a straight ticket in his life until he vot ed the straight independent ticket in 1890. In tbat year he was elected to the lower house of the Nebraska legis lature, where he was known as one of hardest working members of that body. Via wnu nn t.h mi I mad (nmmH,ta(Ji:?r , r uuu. did a great deal of t(b4ie0,.k of getting tfiB.QeCf7jTir finally ready to go before the house. In demeanor Mr. Gaffin is genial, corteous, but at once iropreses you as a a man having a mind of his own. "Gen tleman"' is marked on every feature and in every action of the man. He is making one of the ablest, fairest and most resppcted soeakers that ever pre sided over a Nebraska house. PORTER OF MttRRICK. William F. Porter, the brilliant young leader of the independents on the floor of the house, was born in Champaign, I'linois, Juno 1, iSGl. He was brought up on a farm. His educa tion consisted of that which could be obtained at a common school. He came to Clarks, Neb., April 5, 1879, bought a small farm from the railroad company, but did not live on it long. He got a position as fireman on the U. P. railroad, and for about a year made the regular run from Green River, Wyoming to Ogden, Utah. Tirine of of this life he returned to his home in Illinois, where he remained for about eighteen months. Then he came back to his farm near Clarks, Neb., where he nas lived ever since. Mr. Porter had never been promi nent in any way until 1890. True he had been a justice of the peace in his own precinct a couple of terms, but was not generally known over the county. He was taken up by the alli ance convention and nominated as a dark horse candidate. Bat when he got into the campaign and afterwards in the legislature, he showed the met tle of which he was made. He showed that as a ready, witty and forcible de bater, he had lew superiors in the house. He was the author of the Aus tralian ballot bill and with Gaffin and John M. Moan got up the Newberry bill. In the present session he natu rally and easily took the place of a leader on his side of the house. He is chairman of the railroad committee. As he is a young man his friends pre dict for him a brilliant future. BARRY OF GREELEY. Patrick H. Barry was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1813 His parents brought him to America when he was 5 years of age. They settled in Boston, Mass. Young Barry attended the schools of the great city until he was 12, when the death of his father left upon his hands the support of a mother, sister and younger brother. But the young man bravely bore up his part and went into the battle of life, learning the trade of a tinsmith. But the remarkable part of Mr. Barry's history is his army record. On September 2, 1861, when 18 years old he enlisted in Company E, of the 63d, N. tnen .Jd regiment in Gen. Thomas Ifrancis Mar's Irish brigade, which went through the peninsular campaign and made the famous charge on St. Mary's heights in Deoember of 1862. Mr. Barry was wounded in the right leg at the battle of Antietam which occasioned his discharge from the ser vice. Here-enlisted in July 1863, in the 12th, Mass. V. I. afterwards trans ferred to the 39th, served under Grant in his terrible campaign through the wilderness on to Richmond. At Spott- lylvania he was severely burned in the face by gunpowder, but did not lose a day's service. He was at the famous mine explosion in front of Petersburg, when he received a wound which oc casioned the amputation of his right arm, when he was again discharged from the service. Mr. Barry then returned to civil life and engaged in business in Boston. While here he became an ardent green backer. He was a member of the green back state central committee and was prominent in the movement in Massa chusetts until he left that state and oime to Greeley county, Nebraska, in Marcn lsSU. He signed the farst call for the formation of the people's inde pendent party in 1890 and in 1892 was nominated and elected to the lesisla- ture by that party. . . Mr. Berry is white-haired, smooth shaven, 'and of medium height. He has already shown power of the first order as a debater on the floor of the house. STEVENS OK FCRNAS. John Stevens was born in what is known as the "Pan-Handle" of West Virginia, November 10, 1839. His par ents moved to Iowa when he was 15 years of age. Here John completed a common school education. He lived on a farm in Iowa until 1878, whem he came to Webster county, Nebraska, in 1879 went to Furnas county, where he still resides. ' In August 3, 1861, Mr. Stevens, then 23, entered the service in Mfnpany A, 10' h. Iowa. V. I. He saw 3'.t months in the Cumberland He was twice at Cor inth, at Iuke, Champion Hill. Viks burg, twice at Jackson. Miss., at Miss ion Ridge and several other battles. In politics Mr. Stevens is one of the 'Old Guard." He voted for Peter Coop er, in 76,J. B. Weaver, in '80 Ben But- erin'84, A. J. Streeter in '88, and Weaver again in '92, and says he is proud of every vote cast. In 1890 Mr. Stevens waa elected to the legislature wbere he at once became one of the notable figures! Fearless and forcible in doVate. he met the gladiators of other days and gave way for none. He wa3 re-elected to the present leg islature and is already making his in fluence strongly felt. IMPEACHMENT- On Tuesday representative Barry offered a resolution proposing the im peachment of Governor Crounse for his action in approving the bond of Mosher and Outcalt. The resolution was laid over till Wednesday. A substitute will probably be adopted including Hastings and Allen, for it is the gen eral belief that they are the guilty parties. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Alliance Publishing Co. has lately received many complaints from sub- D,tjKava ctattnrv fViat. tVioir An nnt. ITA. the paper at all, Jand -others tbA,e paper does .--rirftirVv. 5 iSt. of the following week. We intend ed to change our day of publication to Wednesday Instead of Thursday in order to remedy this .f possible, but nave not been able to do so yet on account of delay in getting our motor repaired. We believe however that uiuou wuiiiimie at ibo irom causes ogj yond our reach. With a view to correcting the evil if possible, we request every subscriber who has just cause for complaint in the future to send us a written statement of his case without delay. If it shall ap pear that the fault is with the mail ser vice, we will forward these statements to the post office department at Wash ington. WHITE TO T0UE MEMBERS. While the thousands of producers 4. 1 I .. . 1 . . lueir allium ai noma, ttia vnn.itinui and combinations of all kinds have shrewd, well dressed brainy men at the capital to lobby for the passage of bills in their interest, and prevent legisla tion in the Interest of the masses. These lobbyists are shrewd and persistent, and they make their influence felt in many ways. The people have one means of mentral izing these evil influences which they ought to use for all it is worth: Thtyshoutd write personal letters to their senators and representatives. Such letters exert a powerful influence. They are generally read and remember ed. Members frequently speak of let ters they have received from constitu ents as indications of popular sentiment. Such letters tend to t tree? then th weak, encourage the strong, convince the doubtful and arouse the indifferent. I noro Qua tnrn ni f-v-- . t- i ' m . - ... - kmv Ta,uu wu u uui k Binunuii- and representatives without delay: L . a mi . i . . The bounty boomers are trying to se cure the restoration of the bounty as a measure in the interest of the farmers. The farmers who see through their scheme should send in a flood of pro testing letters. Second, There is talk of a compromise ah -w si a A . t . . w a.Mwu uovxuu uy nuitu low rates will be established on a few principal commodities. Such a com promise is proposed ostensibly in the interest of the farmers, but as a mat- nor ui iauii, ib is ooieiy in tne interest oi the railroads. Railroad men understand the rate rt linorinn n sv-ms-i n j-inni a. a. i a. i fivwvuu UUT 1UCOOU t3 (II IM1MT1- nrnmtsa f nan ha oat A n W vuou nuuiu uu buu lit'IIHrs 1 1 T.T. I A fti nt good. oiui wriwsyour mem oers, urge i.Tl P. m t.O IrAOTi nlnaa n V. . T a .-w w "i m a kai ia, and protest against any compromise that will give the .people another worthless railroad law. We are in receiDt of th bao nnnual Farm, Monroe County, N. Y. It is a beauty, and contains much valuable in- mis is une oi tne oinasr, pst.ah ia Ann m r unhnkl l, ... . ; . r. . tneir annual free. No Real Rival Vet. world famous Eli Perkins says:V After people have gone over all the routes to California once, they settle down to tha U. P. ' Tais road will al ways be the great transcontinental line. It has the best track, the best equip-1 ment, the bast eating houses, and l icacnes tne traveler more nistory an geography than any other line. It shows you historic Salt Lake and th Mormons, takes you through the grea Laramie plains, the Humboldt Basin and the Grand Canyon, over the ver, stage route that Horace Greeley ani Artemus ward roue. once on tne union jactnc it goes everywhere. It runs to Portland and Pueblo, Helena and the Yosemite, coma and beattle, Los Angeles and Diego, and is the only route to t ranclsco. It has no real rivals yet, bend lor our tjaliiornia Sights anc Scenes. J. T. Mastin, C. T. A E. B. SLOSSON, G. A. Lincoln, Neb, 1044, O. St, ij t