UIGU LOCAL RATES. How they Eiidr ffebrtska's DenWp meat u well u Sob Producer And GoMumers. STAKD UP rOS SESSiSIl. Lists of Manufacturing Industries Whicb Have Grows up in Spit of High Freight Rtea. Facta "Worth Considering. The principle facta and figures con cerning Nebraska's industries which form the basis for this discussion are reprinted from our last issue. They axe as follows: OMAHA INDUSTRIES. The following is a partial list of the manufacturing lndtutiies located in the city of Omaha ts reported in the Board of Trade's report for 1891. Class. No. of Firm-. Class. No. of Finn Sash, doors, blind. .V Breweries Whit lead . ...... .1 Awnings, tent, etc.. Box factories Cigar manul'ter. ..ST Co-'perac Fence work ,.1 Boot asd shoe tacVy.) show case t Yeast t f'rtrn i-rtha 1 Collar and caffs 1 Barbed wire 1 Brick s Carriage, wagons... 8 Cornice 3 Cracker Distiller 1 Extract, baking powder etc 4 Founder aad ma chine sheps 5 Lin ed oU I Shot and Lead pipe. 1 Mattress S Overall 8 Soda watr 3 Syrup renr 1 Smelling work 1 Vlaegar i lcklea..X Canning aad pre serve 1 Basket.; 3 Broom 8 Confectionery 4 Flour and corn mill S Has: factory ...1 Chain and furniture t Tinware 3 Homlay 1 Lard refiner 1 Soap t Pearl button t Planing mill .b Saddlery 1 WallPUster J Feed cooker 1 Asphalt .1 Plating works A BoUer A national census bulletin lately issu ed dives the following facts concerning Omaha's maaufacUning industries ae they were ia 1890: Number ef different industries. .... 77. " maaf'iag establishment. .626 " kad employed 7,533 Total wages paid 84,797,482. " capital invested $15,626,169. " cast ef material used. .$27,779,394. " value of products...... $38,961,523. LKCOLW INPU8TBJES. The followinr is a carefully prepared list of the manufacturing interests of Nebraska s capital euy: Class. No. ef Firm Artificial stone 1 Boilers engines etc.. nnsi aad iron werksS Boiler and steam fixtures 1 Brooms . 1 Confectionery 4 Carriage tops and curtain 1 Cigar 7 Cooperage 3 Cornice, etc 3 Curtains and dra peries 1 Cracker and cakea..l Electric supplies.. ..1 Drug and Chemi cals 1 Flavoring extracts.. Flour and mill staffs I Foundries i Furs, mulls, etc 1 Gloves 1 Haw 1 Hone collars 2 Class. No. of Firms Harness and saddle ry Marble, araalt. etc.. Mantle and cabinets 8 Paper 1 Patent medicine.... I Pattern and models. 1 Pines Plaalag mills 2 Pottery..... 1 Radiators i Road rraders 1 Scap 1 Stove nolish 1 Tents and awnings.. 2 Tabl i condiments . . . . l Trunks and valises.. 1 Umbrellas and para sols , Vlnestar 1 Waicoas 3 BuEsrleeana car.es.. Windmills 2 Paints 1 The national census bulletin for 1890 give the following facts concerning Lincolu's manufactmrlng industries: Number of different industries. . . . . .38 " " establishments 117 Hands employed 1.519 Wages paid.. S9db,tjt. Capital Invested $1,914 889 Cost of material used ....... .$1 278,863. Value of product $3,018,837 The manufacturing industries of the state are by no means confined to these large cities. They are scattered all over the state. Almost every county seat has a number of enterprising es tablishments. Complete statistics con cerning these are not accessible. It is of course impossible to give more than an estimate of the capital invested, ma erials used, and products of factories outside of Omaha and Lin' coin. It would certainly be fair to assume that they are at least three times as great as ihose given in the census bul letin f'r Lincoln. This is certainly a low estimate. Under this supposi tion the figures ef the whole state would be: Capital invested $23,285,725. Materials us-d $34,894,486 Value of products $51,036,871 Let us suppose that only one-tali d of the materUls used came to the fac tories by rail, and that only on-half of the produew are shipped out by rail. We have $36,483,000 of products and materials ea which somebody pays the frel.ht. Now nearly all the materials used and a large siar of the produo s turned out are bulky, Mid costly tosbip, so that the freight rates are a consider able element ia te cost to the con sumer. A reduction of freights rates equal to oae hundredth part of these materia" and products would ha a saving of about $365 000. A reduction equal to 3 per ceat of the oot would be a savag of over one million dollars to to th people of Nebraska. The aaeve statistics and estimates forcibly demonstrate the Importance of the I cal rate question s a factor la the cost ef articles produced and con Bumxd in this state. These freight charges are paid chit-fly by the con sumers of the article, and thy are therefore 'li- ectlr aad deeply la test ed in keouriag a rrductio'i of looil freight rates to a just and reasona-l? bai. N w lt it? look at he question from the tand-sHnt ef the manufacturer. It might at first v ew seem te be a mat ter of ve" ht e int'jrust t "he manu facturer whether he pays low or high freight raw, since he can add the ; freight charge to the cost of the goods and thus collect them from the eon-! sumers. But a farther examination of the question will show that the ques tion of local freight rates Is one of the h'ghest importance to all local manu facturing Industries. The truth of the following proposition cannot be ques tioned. The weeeucfa nam fdetarUs enterprise depends upon tie market for Us product. What every manufacturer wants is an extended market In which his goods can be sold at a profit. ' We are living under a system of com petition. Whether this system. is better or worse than a system of co-operation, or a system of nationalism is a question which need not be difcussed here. Competition is a fact,' and a must potent fact which every manufac turer must take into account. He must sell his goods in competition with the goods made by his competitors. Every manufacturer in Nebraska must sell his goods in competition with the goods manufactured outside the state. The fact has already been cited that nearly all the Industries in Nebraska have been built up because of their special adaptation to working up materi als produced in the state, or supplying the demands of the people of the state, or both. Let us suppose a case: A gentleman named Smith, in an interior Neorac ka town has a capital of $10,000 which he thinks of investing in a manufactur ing enterprise. He looks over the field to determine what branch of man ufacturing it will pay him best to un dertake. Finally he says to himself: "Tomatoes, sweet corn, beans, peas, etc , can be produced here in large quantities and tf excellent quality. Tee people of this section consume great quantities of canned tomatoes, corn, etc. A canning factory ought to pay well. I will invest my money in that business. I shall certainly be able to supply the local demand for these' goods at any rate. Then I ought to be able to reach out and find a market for my goods in the surrounding towns and counties, and perhaps in the whole state. Perhaps later on mv superior advantages will enable me to reach out and compete in the markets of the whole country. If the farmers of this community cannot furnish me with enough material, I can get the farmers of neighboring counties to produce ma terial and ship it to the factory by rail." Therefore Mr. Smith proceeds to in vest his $10,000 in a canning factory. The farmers of the surrounding coun try engage in the production of toma toes, sweet corn, etc., which they mar ket at the factory at a living profit. The people of the locality buy the product of the factory, because it Is sold at reasonable prices, and because they want to encourage homo indus try. Everything goes on well antll the home market is supplied. When Mr. Smith begins to reach out for other ma kets he gets acquainted with the freight rate business. He finds local rates so high that when freight charg es are added to the cost of his goods, he is unable to compete with cannlner factories located hundreds of miles be yond tho borders of Nebraska. - Mr. Smith's factory is located only 100 miles from Liuooln, a city of 50,000 in habitants who consume large quanti ties of canned goods. He undertakes to supply the Lincoln market, but he finds that the canning factories of Chi cago and St Louis 500 miles away can undersell him because they can get their goods to Lincoln cheaper than-he can. Presently Mr. Snith finds out that the schedule of local rates in Nebras ka has b en so arranged as to discour age rather thaneacourage his business The discrimination agalnt him in out rageous. Hence instead of building up a great business, he struggles along as best he can with a small business. Dropping this special case, let us now take a more general view of the mat ter. ' August 31, 1891. Mr Chas. G. Dawes of Lincoln appeared before the board of transportation and delivered an ar gument on this subject which has never been answered. He showed that the corporations are enemies to the development of the state, that they are discouraging the building up of local industries in the state Their rea-on for this is that they would ratb' r ship manufactured pro duct into Nebraska from outeide points by wba' is known ts "long hauls," than to sMpthem from point to point within the state by ' short hauls." They discriminate against local business for the sake of bul ding up a large "ihrough business." Mr. Dawes proved his charges by sho i g up the rates. He showed that there is particular dixcrim natl n against Nebra ka manufacturers that is not practiced in other stab-s. He bowed tbat rate- on articles cming undxr t e4th, and 5th classes lo the freiiiht class fica' ions are higher in pro portion to rates on other classes in Nebra-ka than in ether i-ta'es. And these clans, the 4th and 5th. consist largely of articles wh eh miirht he easily manufactured in Nebra-ka. He submitted a list of evral hundred articles In the e two clauses wh eh be asserted might be manufactured in Nebraska were it not for the high lo cal rate. The following are a few of the articles named: 4th class. rtrekrVk. Dried meats. Pelt Paprr. fctraw paper. CVmruL Condmiwd Milk. Artificial sume. Hog- dressed. Parked pork 111 roofing. wer Dine. Kraal. Omnmna BrVk. Prvaaed or. Building paper. IHtor mat Maura Baking powder. Sausage. Paint. Krap. .rated fruit, Batter. Wrapplag paper. Crockery. 5th class. Linseed olL C anned meat. Mould boards. Sailed meat. fallow Earthenware. Ot niter ale. Homlay. Lard Preserve. Preserved vegetables Fruit butter Vinegar. crockery. It is on these two classes that Ne braska corporations reach the culmi nation of extortion and injustice as will be shown by figures In our next issue. SENATOR AL.LKN INTERVIEWED He Telle Abont Hl Former Politic, And Suttee the General Coarse He will Pursue. The following article appeared in the Omaha Bee of February 7: To a representative of the Bee last evening, Senator-elect Allen said that be voted for Tilden in 1876, voted the republican ticket at other elections, both before and since the memorable campaign. "in 1878," said the judge, "I was nominated for congress by a combina tion of democrats and anti-monopolists in the Fourth Iowa district. This ex plains the stories to the effect that while I resided in Iowa I was a demo cratic candidate for congress. The nomination came to me entirely un sought, and was given to me more in a complimentary sense on account of my well known anti-monopoly senti ments. I am constitutionally an anti monopolists. For a number of years I have realized that the tendency of the republican party was toward fcentrall zation and monopoly control, and I ceased to act with the party four years ago. . "I was one of the number of republi cans who with General Leese sought to introduce the anti-monopoly idea to the republican party and to loosen the grasp of the corporations on the organi zation. 'When it became evident to me that the corporations had captured the party I openly and arowedly be came a member of the people's inde pendent party. I am in full sympathy with tie principles advocated by that party." Prominent democratic leaders have openly boasted that they held Judge Allen's written pledge to act with the democratic party ia the organization of the next United States senate and to join with that party in the support of administrative measures, Referring to these sentiments the senator said: ' No man holds a written pledge from me regarding the distribution of pat ronage or the organization of the sen ate. I have said to some gentlemen in regard to the organization of the sen ate, in my judgment, it is my duty to assist the dominant party and also give it conscientious support in all adminis trative measures and afford it a full op portunity to make its government a success. A.ny further than that I was at perfect liberty to pursue such course as 1 thought proper. I believe that any administration should not ba ob structed in the fair conduct of the gov ernment, and that it should be given a just a"d full opportunity in consequence of Its being charged with the responsi bility of the conduct of the govern ment. "I may add that I am in full sympa thy with the administration on the tar iff question. I favor the free coinage of s lver, and In this respect I mav dif fer i'h the administration. I have bad, of course, no time to give the mat ter of specific legislat ion any considera tion and can only express my views alon the general lines. ' I will return home to-morrow. I have a great deal of work to do before I can lay down the office I hold as judge of the Ninth judicial district. There are many important cttses under advise ment, wh ch will of necessity be com pelled to investigate before I can reach a dt'cUion upon them. After this work is finished I shall tender my resigna tion. I expect to go to Washington at the inauguration or Cleveland and to oh at the executive session of the sen ate immediately after the inaugura tion." Subscribe for The Alliance-Independent Homes and Irrigated Farms, Gardens and Ortharis in the Celebrated Beat River Vallc r on the Main Lines ot tat Unto Pacitic aad Central Pacific R. R near Oorinq and (den, Utah. Splendid location for business and in tustries of all kinds la the well kjuowb city of Corinne, situated in the middle ef the valley en the Central Pacific KT . The lands of the Bear River valley ar now thrown open to settlement by tht wnstritctioa ef the mamnieth system o Irrigatiea trow ths Bear lake andrifer, JuHt completed b? the Bear River Canal Ce at a oottt of $3,00tt,000. Tk com uany coatrols 100.000 acres ef these fine ands and owas many lota aad business Ircatkns ia the city ef Corinne, and Is now prepared te sell on easy terms to settlers and ententes. The climate, soil, and irrignting facilities are pronounced unsuroaed b competent Judges who declare the vllr,y te be the Paradise ot th Farmer. Fruit (irower and Stork Rniwer Niee oial urruadiBg, good clooU nixl rhurch at CoriaaeCitt nd Home VI, rkets exist for every kin f farti! nt 'iren pniduee ia th nii(hMiring cttie e' Og-lee and 8l Litke, mill n the crnnt mining cuint l,ami-' MI !e hovvfi fnnu 'hi floe f the '"i"iii"iiiV llnhns. IfiM HALSTEAO OK MR. BLAINE. The V'Wrme rdltr tletrset All Ills At tach oa Ik MgaU Mam. McurHia, Tenn., Feb. 11 Some time ago the Appeal-At t la nche cor taints! the following paragraph: Marat Haletead still na hi nerve with kin la hi totameat oa Blaine's death, (or instance, ho says that those who condemned Blaine "when he n confronted by Oeedl aate ais t white speaker ot the bene 414 ae apea InsuBcteat evidence." Yet Mural Hals toad himself condemned him oa tht ovMeoee. The dear, deUthlful, blundering eld Said marshal will bow have to do some more explain!. This evoked from Mr. Halstead the following letter, wh ch appeared this morning: This parser ph ha peenlaritiee that Sug gests to me to sav a (ew word in review. I do say that I assailed Blaine at the time oa In sufficient evidence and had hardly made the Uht against him until the understanding came to me that I had been too swift in con demnation. There were three Re publican editor who at Cincinnati in 187S attacked Blaine and have been rosTetrol ever sine Mr. Joseph Media Mr. Richard Smith and myself. A for myself I reel that I did Blaine a wrong then in being so perpendicular. I leaned back ward. Be wa so pleasing a man that I re sisted his facslnating qualities too stren uously to be Quite fair to htm. The tact that he wa irresistible stimulated oppo sition and animated antagonism. Perhaps the paradox doe not seem to you wholly irrational or incredible. Take the Mulligan letter aad when Blaine had read them In the house there were two stories told without ceasing that for a time broke tbe force of his wonderful vindi cation One was that he did not read the right package and another that the important let ter were missing. Both are confessions that Blaine was wronged by hi accusers The mugwump never ceased to say that the mis sing letters would be supplied. Blaine ran for President Some soraps were scattered from pi toon holei, but tMy weakened the ease against Bla e instead of strengthen ing It There v . no mlsslnr letter of the least conseqr. , but his enemies multiplied them in t minds. If Mr. Blaine had been an ed lawyer forty times what he was ged with could have been made vir s a "fees " He wa most rudely attacked ty lawyer and poets. The latter colored misinformation with fancy. The former d started the truth professionally. . I gave tor a little while too much credit to the Indictment of fancy and the argument ot distortion. I your experience so happy that you do net know how it was, or I yourself t I have loved James O. Blaine and believed In him for fifteen years. His death ia to me a personal less. It la a public misfortune Shall an episode of er ror in the estimation of evidence oondemn me to silence when he is in his grave and it is in my heart and head and hand te '- him Justice f I think not Men Iautead, Brooklyn, N. V., February 5, 1 NOT A PASSENGER KILLED. A Santa Fe Train Goes Through a Trestle Near Baring, Bio. Kansas Crrr, Mo., Feb. 13. The second section of passenger train No. 8 on the Santa Fe leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock last night and due in Kan sas City at 13:10 to-day, was wrecked this morning at Baring, Mo. The train went through a trestle near the station and the first two coaches were precipitated through the wood work and to the ground, a dis tance of forty or fifty feet. The third coach, which was a sleeper, caught by one end of the trestle work in a vertical position. There were five pas sengers in the sleeper who were thrown to the forward and lower end of the car, but were saved from injury and death by the heavy cushions. Not a passenger on the entire train was killed and none were seriously injured. The track will be blockaded for at least forty-eight hours. Kansas Appointments. " Topeka, Kan., Feb. 13. Governor Lewelling this morning announced the appointment of J. F. Todd, to be labor commissioner, succeeding Frank H. Betton. The office pays $1,000 a year. Todd is editor of the Industrial Advocate of Eldorado and is a prominent Knight of Labor. Governor Lewelling says that he has recommended to Todd the appoint ment of A. C. Baker of Junction City to succeed C A. Henrie as chief clerk, and it goes without saying that this will be done. The place also pays $1,000 a year. W. II. Nelson has bought the inter est of his partner, J. Q. Royce, in the Smith Center Pioneer Bulletin. Nel son was State Treasurer Stoker's assist ant Boyce is now reading clerk in the Bepublican house. Legislators Must Get Up Earlier. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 13.In the house a resolution was adopted to meet at 9 o'clock in the future, Mon days excepted. The house bill re straining goats from running at large was defeated on third reading. Speaker pro tem Stuart's bill render ing void contracts entered into by fruit growers with swindling nursery agents was passed, and a few min utes later Speaker Mabrey s bill em powering the railroad commissioners to regulate the charges of express com panies was read a third time and passed, together with an emergency clause with but two votes in opposi tion. Grist of Green and Pachall of St Louis, - ' - Kansas Wheat. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 13. Secretary Mohler of the agricultural department has received reports from a part of the itate which say that i the wheat crop throughout the western half of the itate is in fine condition, while the crop in the eastern counties is injured an uplands where there is no snow. Generally the crop is reported in fair xmditioa and has not been injured by freeziGg and thawing. Aa Oklahoma Financier Arrested. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 13. H. H. Wyckoff, the alleged absconding man ager and treasurer of the National toan and investment company of Ok a noma City, Ok., was arrested here this noming by Sheriff Carson on a war rant issued at Oklahoma City on the itrength of an indictment Anarchists Convicted. Pittsburo, Pa., Feb. 13.v Henry tSauer and Cir1 Noid, the anarchists sharged with being aocessories before ' fact to the attempted assassination f II. C Frick. chairnan of the Carnegie iteel compasy, was found guilty as ndicted. . Confess to a Murd-r. Kansas Citv, Mo., Feb. 13. Henry Jotchinson, colored, was. this after loon arrested by ( aptain Hum of ttation No. 2 and a chanre of murdor il.iced against him UuUhinson ecn 'esseti to havinsr kille I a co ored girl tamed Hertha Fisht-r in Chirasro i w rTO. Pre. i.Y. ROLSE, VkPr. t.t.mnt$mtiotKT. A. CtCEMAJtri'JC.TtM THE FARMERS IIUTUAL IHSURMCE CO. OF NEBRASKA. INSURES ONLaY FARM PROPERTY PARMERS, we invite your attention to the Farmers' Mutual Insurance. Company of Nebraska, If you are in want of Insurance yon can not afford te Insure in any other company, and if you do not want Insurance now, write and get a copy of our By-laws and Constitution and learn what wt are doing anyway, Remember we are for Farmers only. LINCOLN, NED. raiwerrAL orrrri. Room 407 Brae UwlMTng. OBTAIN CHICAGO PRICES FOR AIL Y0H2 PRODUCE. u,m-,e-0U,l"tl"1,,p Butter' Veal, Hay, Grain, Wool, Hide. Boana, Broom Corn, Croon and Dried Fruits, VeeotstMoe. mt aaytalaf rou have to us. The fact that jou atar have been selling- these artasles a horn for rears is ae reason that yon should continue to do so if rou can and a better market. W sake a ipecialtj of reoel vin shipments direct from FARdCRS AMB FMt)DtfCSS. aad prebabbj have the largest trad la this way ef say house la this market. Walls yes are looklna; around for the oheapeot auurket la which to boy your feeds, and fhus timrrmlt lot la that way, It will certainly pay vou to five some attention to the best and meet pro able way efdlspeeinf of your produce. W invite oarreper denoe from UTOIVIBUALbV ALLIANCES, CLUBS, and all erganlsatioas who desire to ship their preduo street Is this market, if requested, we will send yon free ef charge ear daily market report, st plot direction and such lafonaatioa as will be ef service to you. If yea eeo template ship ping. When so reauosted proceeds for shipmeats will be deposited to the credit of the ship per with any wholecai bouse la Chicago. Let aa hear frent you, -- .... SUIIIIERS IIOBBIOOIT & Go., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 174 South Witsr Street Ch!ci;a. Reference; MttropoHun National Bank. Chicago. t f NORTH BEND NURSERIES. t. LAROI SUPPLY OP V Trees, Plants, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs C? Evergreen la -J Large 8tock of Beet Old and New sorts of Strawberry Plants. rest Trees tbrcCUten at Lew Prteee. Write for SPECIAL prices on large eraers. I tabllshed in m. Send for price list to MOKTtl TtAVi KbMKHIES, Inrth Bead. Duties lieeetT. Ksbteoka. ALLRN ROOT. Stock Agent, Nebraska Str.le ' J. W. William, Farmers' Alliano. tifflc aad yinanolal st'gr. OanUHalosman. OS), a. BBOWV, Bog Bale sa. SHIP YOUR OWN STOGK. ALLEN ROOT AND COMPANY, LIVE SfOCK COUUISSIOn MCHAM, South Omaha, Neb., Room 220 Exchange Cu&Sn.. Before Ton Ship Send for the Market Rbvbmkcm: First National Bank of Omaha; Packers VaMenal Bank, Omaha: Oeeaaierrial National Bank, Omaha ; National Savings and Hzchange Bask, Omaha) Central City Bank, Ceotxal City, Nebraska. firshrppers can draw sight draft on ns for W per cent ef eest, bill ef lading aaiaebed. WESTFALL COM. CO. GenoralPrcthice Mercfcasti. Legal representatives of Kansas 6tate Alliance and well known in Nebraska. 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