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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1893)
THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. rrivL'tiiiL-'ft lis l!tt 7 fAtm.luon orlutofc. and I tical poetical application of siaip:e f utic asd equal right. - Th wnrkintrS (1 the oreac-nt capital-! (Ltie tvsum ofproduetion td distribu-! Jtion have been sufficiently expiainvu It is waste of laDor.eiioney ana reauers, time to publish more books explaining j what is. Let us now have ome one come forward to tell us what ought to be, some one who can hold up justice in a clear light and tell us how to build upon it. Justice has no ruling place in the commercial world today. The history of capital is a history of cold blooded conquest, usurpation and ty ranny. It has thrust justice aside and Imight has been made the arbiter in all L,a;aa transactions. The masses of . UUJlMV ' , i- uA tJipir hnld unon the l HJ natural resources, their lana nas oeen aiven to railroad corporations, their coal, iron, had, gold, silver and oil- ;he common stores fenced in lor trie ew. Expropriated, impoverished, uis . i of the means of subsistence t . i tmm Wrt.h. millions iBU Wttgo einica iivu t (ave been forced, with starvation press ing upon them, to beg for a place to -ork, to compete for it, and so wages ave been forced farther and farther .way from the line of tquity. and have eacbed, for a vast and fast-growing hnmhpr the lowest living point. In he industrial and commercial world it s each for himself. Ihe inter-depei:aent individuals being engaged in social : war, each seeking gain ut others' cost, ; -ut.ti trvinz in contract and exchange Vi ret more value than he gives. There i . i. no olan in production, no ecoDomm olicatioH of the labor of the workers. id the waste Is like the waste of war, realiablv enormous, while ihe want d suffering are world wide, and in ith hevond descrip'ion ow why, with such a state oi society . . ... nt? to be dealt with, do not so-caueu t.iral economists scarcn out vuc , ...-I -V. h. the demands of justice, ana ao rbuiug ' KJ ' " i !e there are no independent pro- Ive thinkers among them, none 'free enough and great enougu , y to solve the social problems? Or 13 IT . , t ,.tT.,,l thl o case that tney uare uw uucuu inthroned classes? It tools these mortals be ,ulil the Sherman silver coinage law 0,Vpealed the whole goldbug press moJi6 political representatives of the the t Power charged silver with being bUjjiiuse of the panic and paralysis of stopi)3- Bvi'" with silver coinage the 4 taey are now forct!d t0 attrloute otherMianged business Depression to county jses. and now u is all on ac- Ithe tariff." The Boston Jour- nal sayi" Tha J compnn it-down of the Bigelow Carpet period is g.aiflton for an indefinite hundred operatives." l" luo f "T T WTA1 Ava afioy thoHmS, 83 It dlU, repeal bill, it shows clearTfff .ef.th,e the free trade threat,- and".18 currency question, which paral? tDe indi.Bt.rlpa 'SOUt And there are plenty of eucke believe this, too. And yet "th s to trade threat'' was not only made . t.hfim ua cnmotVii'nrflfla!frirU T T J sachusetts, where manufacturing ini . " v- cdio arc ucHuereu, me iemocrauc iiCKe, was then elected aad the platform en dorsed. THi BltonM,i sinon f..-Vl ersin th finite stt a: , """"6 l to census figures the number Is growiDg with each decade, chietiy through mortgage foreclosures. The percentage of our people living in city tenement heuses is al60 increasng each year, and the rent paid by our business men for business lecations added to the rent roll for houses and lands, makes an aggre gate tribute to American land lords enormously greater than old world kings ever levied upon their subjects. Rent charges raise the prices of all marketed goods we buy. The rent bur-: den is destroying the independence of the American people, making increas ing millions hopeless serfs of the soil, taking from an ever greater and greater number the power of making free, equit able contracts, and levying more or less tribute upon every wealth-producer. We must not forget the land question while discussing the money question. f A large sized colored gentleman is visible In the woodpile of Otoe county, according toelectlon returns. It leaked out just before election that directions hal been received from Washington, from headquarters, to throw the Demo cratic machine vote to Harrison. And the returns shows that the four princi pal county offices, treasurer, clerk, judge and sheriff, were traded to the Democrats for this Democratic support of the Kepubllran candidate for supreme judge. Harrison got VLt plurality In Otoe county, and the iVimocrafs got the county omoes. So doubt th same In Hrucllon wrr sent to the Democrat Wmdur throughout the state, but in J. Sterling's home county the rrulu are inorfl clearly trax'tblu and how up In bold, black tuUiin. Tu a .l.iiifB1! ..I .It. ... 1... I .. . , tha iVmw rU pry i th west aud smith. IU !tu ro !!trdmft.v, Bd Ui tr4 cuimga im-n of U parties. In fAt, har ao hou.e oouM of th Pupa lStpry, Th i) o!.t parties bT P' tn .quectfid into the am liken hy the iron ha-.d of th Moivy 1W r. b-it the Republican p,rty ha., uw advantage of It rival. The ,u.ix- fotrer free coinage men out of it. - - im: non- o-i!i; Ntpi;aui. i- me only man whu i-ta oat bis i-akc and have it toi. The man who bukes a small cake is com p.. U-d to eat it all, and can eat it but once. Bat i? a man maks a larger cake than he neds (when others nfed) it has the mgical power of ab sorbing other cakes an: cake makers and straight ay bt eins to legally grow. It needs molding and working on for a while, but after reaching a certain si.e it takes care of itself and the man irho owns it. tor every piece he breiUs off another piece appears, and people are so accustomed to the sight of this mag ical growth that they no longer wonder at it. Thry will patiently go without cake to enable it to grow in another's idle hands. And men of moral reputa tion quite numerously agree that it is a fine thing to get cake in this way. What is it to be a slave? It is to be obliged to labor for others: it is to pro duce wealth for others to command and consume. The farmer in Nebraska is robbed and enslaved hy the railroads to the extent that they exact unjust trans portation rates. They monopolize the carrying business and of course charge "all the traffic will bear," all the people will peacably pay. They stand between the farm and factory prcducers, and as enthroned kiDdstoke tribute, what they please to levy, from all. The workers everywhere are also furnishing slavery tribute to the soal. li on, oil, luinoer, machinery, money and land lords, and are working without just pay for the organizers of the numerous trusts and the controllers of certain industries, grain handling, stock slaughtering, and the rest. Who it there icould be a slaw? Asi) now the World-Herald isheaping a mountain of honors on the New York bankers for inllating the currency with their 140,000,000 of unlawful clearing houe certificates, for making money for themselves and forcing the illegal tender on their creditors, and afterward, when they could be honest without loss, taking back their own unsecured paper. They brought on the pan,ip storm to add ' power ta,- thctr gold. They set false lights on the shores of commerce, and should be called wreckers and rob bers, instead of patriots. Their pat riotism is the patriotism of sordid mammon worshipers, their heroism is the heroism of heartless Shylocks. Grind your teeth all you please. The coal barons will simply laugh at you and run the price up on coal to suit themselves. Whatif youare a Ameri can citizen? That doesn't save you from paying them tribute,, don't yu see? But just you get to working with red hot indignation and zeal for the People's party, and the coal barons and other monopolists will leave off despis ing you and begin to seriously curse and fight you. And fighting is the only way you can gain your rights and liberties. Gov. Pexnoveii of Oregon, in Ms Thanksgiving proslamation says, "While, therefore, the people of Oregon 1 returns thanks to God for His goodness, !T J .. . 5 . uu "iusl ""-uesuj recommena mac devoutly implore him to dispose e president and congress of the ited States to secure the restoration ilver as full legal tender, in accord with the policy of the fathers of epublic, whereby our industries ,8 revived and honest toilers of id may procure their daily bread reward of their labor. '' ptkoli.er Eckels of the Treae faking last Monday at the meet- ke Boston Bankers' association, lave him a cordial greeting, Ips first sentence, "The cora ls wanton wrncu me oaass ot luny occupy in our financia i anaot be denied." of course fbe Populists never think of It. In fact, we have all the n declaring it to be so, and stil ud the suhiocta nf tlin rwer. Kvua I majority.' uffrage has carried by ;i,00 Taxatloi Colorado. It Is right, too. just Air Ithnnt ronrprontAt.fiti la un. inan is a free moral agent, man s equal and the ballot, therefore, should give cordial coni! r individuality voice. Our latulatlons, sisters. IU- member, tool , I 1 IS 4 UVUilBI t.aiQ 1111, HEgOmiBMi,.I, , . . c nara aeumf. i .... 11 f ' Tlil.t the people shall havoless QiuSt T , ', . ud more misery so loiwas the guldi lM thels.t t4sa Li I , ... r . hank notes, w hii h government U yj w UtvUth x& allows, thi m trrveahack eurrtns " . . I bt-ailng . a. tred B adl qtlaUs rc.l I a.i'd to the IHU- Cot, 0uld av sav! t.i the wealth producing j ; 'pj- a',mt the whole of th's va- -'!.. ; 1 a.i .veral times as urifh ruore. 1 Kansas Ipul'st are hewsiljrg k lute that they trusted the lnucrav-. The l.-r.-on will be worth i: cot if fiiHou is in future refu-ed. The politi cians who creep in'o a reform party are always in great haste to secure the f ftiees, and fusion is tbeir method Knock every man on the head who in another campaign propttes any old party alliance. Senator Alle is enjoying the honrs of a big presidential boom, and Hon. Tom Watsoa of Georgia Is pro posed by Representative Davisof Kansas as his running mate The two would make an immensely strong Populist team for 13. The Long Island Leader a Kansas Populist paper, has hoisted Senator. W. V. Allen's name for President and Hon. Tom Watson for Vice-President to head our ticket in 18. 'MORE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES. The November Cosmopolitan is a marvel of literary richness and cheap ness. One hundred twenty-eight tasres of delightful contents, beautifully illustrated. Wm. Dean Howolls. Mark Twain, H. H. Boyesen, (Jeorg Ebers, Walter Hesant, Andrew lang ana twenty other writers contributing to this single number and all for the un-parallelled)- low price of twelve and one half cents. Letters of an Altrurian Traveler, by Mr. Howell?, number one, is exceedingly interesting, and con tinues to show up the folly, moral evils and miseries of the competitive system Dealing in Futures, by Alice W. Rollins, is a unique literary production of special interest ano value. All the articles are of worth and & wide range is covered. See our 2.t0 clubbing ofler with the magazine on first page. The Blue and Uray is a magazine which we judge must have great interest to all old soldiers and their families, and hardly less interest to all patriotic Americans. It is published by The Patriotic American Company, Phil adelphia, Pa., price tl .'0 a year. It is full of stories of the war of the rebellion and we heartily commend it to our readers. What In oppression? Oppression is one's- people never Uomes with the mailed hand of force. but with Uie cunning smile of trickster. The people are amused and Battered, while the schemers deprive them of property andthen use them as servants and slaves. If a law were put upon the statutes of any state or nation, that the producers should not leave their country or state, should wear a certain gra3e ol clothing, lire in a certain class of houses and feed upon a certain grade of food, the people would revolt. They could read that law and would realize its im port." If the law said they should work for such wages as their employers might decide, they would revolt. But the in visible money power knows this. This power studies human nature. It pro ceeds to blarey the people about their great country, its wonderful freedom, and how much better off th"y are than the oppressed of other countries. They put in their heads strong words of how tbey love the independent farmer, the hones i laboring masses, the yeomanry and bulwark of a nation. They Hatter and cajole with such lies as ''honest money," "protection to home labor," "labor is honorable," while they pro oeed to enact Is ws which protect capi tal, not labor, and spurn honest labor as a pest. You see it is not necessary to make laws that oppress, in order to get the labor of others without doing any labor yourself ; but it is necessary to prevent proper laws from being en acted, or enforced, tnat will protect those who , are weak and ignorant. Laws of omission are as oppressive as laws of commission. And thus the peo ple of the United States are oppressed. At the close of the late war, the peo ple were prosperous, happy, and out of debt. But, by laws of commission (laws giving special privileges) and laws of omission (laws that could have pro tected the masses j, our people are hope lessly in debt,. Nine million homes have mortgages on them, all municipa lities have piled up debts, all corpora tions have heaped up mountains of watered debta for th people to pay in terest on, and we fiud the nation today on the verge of some great social cata clysm. This is oppression. No peoole ever had such burdens putoa them, for no other people ever had such produc tive powers and resources. We find that the wealth that belonged to the millions a few years sgo now belongs to th millionaire; the people are poor in deed?" ThU Is all any tyrant ever wanted, the people to work while he feasted. No nation la the history of the past was ever reduced to such de pendence in so short a time. This Is because the people hare been parti-an. Wisdom weighs, considers, knows. No wiso mnn was evar a bigot or an ojr pressor. If the reader loves his family, loves his country, Um his freedom. I beg him, even with tears, to think, to Investigate, to know. The principle of Jut government is as knowable, a cer- tal.'i, as iiiathema'.le. When you In veMi?au. you il. it is louu.l.-d up n jutlc, upon tho ttaehtng of the ily Jesu, and cannot rr. No ow sd s you acwpt It until fou know, feel. It Is right. I that not fair? ( nlj by Investigating Csn you sno'v, Ignor. u'UHj tu brou fht you tnim'vj and wo. Knlidte Hill bring yot pa and Hf. I'wmlnf Nation, 2,000 PA IKS OP -AS l Mittens. The thing we wish to call our readers' attention to this week Is our Gloves and Mittens. We have THE FINEST STOCK of these goods in the city; not excepting any in both dress and woiking, ranging in price from 25C. TO S2.50. PAI(ET?'S Clothing House, I 1 25 O St., Lincoln. For Sale. A FIVE HORSE POWKJt Electric Motor In good condition. Will be sold QHEAP if sold sion. , , , . , jn. O. FEJUL.Y, CdYner 11th & M Sts , Lincoln, Nku 0. J. WILCOX, ACCOUNTANT. Ifil" Washington 8t , Lincoln, Niji. Books and accounts audited and adjusted Disputed accounts prepared for trial. Ac count of county officials and corporaUoiiH check a up. Biraple systems of book-keupjjitf arranged for parties haviug Utile practical knowledge of accounts. Correspondence INCUBATORS & BROODERS llrooilern only fi. lint A ( hrnpi-tit for raiftinic rlilrka. 40 11 Pn-iuiutni liOOTfKtlinoiilaln. (j. f. SIX.K.H, f&nd for Cutal'if. Itrdington, O. F. M. WOODS, Fine Stock Auctioneer. 203 0 8t., lilpcolp, pie b Public Sale Dates. F. M. Woods will conduct sales as follows: November 18 Poland-China hogs, at Stanford, Neb., for Dr. Waggoner. November 22 Poland-China hogs, at Humbolt, la-, lor Talt & Co. DOCTOR L sz w Searles. SPECIALISTS Cure all Forms of NERVOUS, CHXOSIC m PBlVITKia nKPKFQ TREATMENT Hr MA It. Consultation Free. We cure Catarrh, All Diseases of the No, Throat. Chest, Stomach Bowles, and Idvor: Hydrocele, Varicocele, Srlc ture, Weak MenSexuallv. Blood. Skin and Kidney Diseases, Kemnle Weak newes, Lost Manhood CUKK I). Syphi lis, Gonorrboa. J'ilessnd Fistula. Cull on or addrww w lih iump for clrculir. free book mid it-cIiIh. Drs. Searles 4 Searles. ,1N ?$Ahfx KIpans Tabules assist digestion: sweeten a sour stomach: cure .liver tronbles. The cheapest place for monuments Is at (tuo. Natlerman's, 213 South Ninth St., Lincoln. Tha W cstern Trail In nublluhiul fiti&r. terly by the Chlcico, Itock Uland V I'scltio lUiUav. It tll how to pet a fanr in the West, and it will be cnt to ytisi gratis ("r oni jar. Sent name and uJ irv.i ti "KdlUir Wrsiern Trail. Cbifago," km receive It t tie vtar free, John shiatm., t!, I'. A. v.Nti;i ;jtl heavy voung mul, or lure for gtMni HrfUtly iBi'timbered fr'u lu rentriil Nebraska. Addivs. JK1.1 I. :l : M.M-u City, ,NVb. 1M lT'7FW t . I.. INOIiAHAM. B. E. INGRAHAM & CO., - Lincoln, Nebraska. Wo have bought the original ALLIANCE STOKE, and will continue to run it as such, at . th oW stand on the corner of 11th and M Streets. Wore you ever a iiatron of the old ALLIANCE STORE? Were you treated right? If so. all riprht. If not we are sorry, but it was not gl-r fault. . We want your business, and are pleased to inforn you that HEAKAKTEit this store will lie conducted on business principles. We will do a retail and wholesale business, and can give you ANYTHING YOU WANT at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. All orders and correspondence will receive our immediate at tention. Address all letters to - B. E. INGRAHAM & CO. $mmmmmmmm JOHN B. WRIGHT, President. P. E. JOHNSON, Vice-President. . TIIH Columbia OP LINCOJUN, NEU. Ccopital, First ! National ! Bank, LINCOLN, NEB Capital, - - - $100,000, Sur-pIu-S, $loo,ooo- N.S. HARWOOD, President. C. A. IIANNA, Vice-President. F. M, ARE YOU A COOK? I'tT AGENTS I WANTED. I YES! cpiIB'PEUFECT COOKING MAT XXAli 1 stoves or ranges; Just the thing for natural gM. You can cook anhthlng on It. It rKUlats thn hat iicrfcctly and will not corcti or burn loud. Ou the Mieei nl-'e buckwheat itnd other kinds of grltlille rakt can be bakd to perfflotlon. One wide is whltenntal pliable and Indtstructabto. tha other side U UeHwemer steel, act ing Kivat strengtu. it is tnorongniy ore proot. it prevent irons rrora iomnn Dy cominic in contact with the flame. It will prevent 111 the oven. It soon pay for Itself by saving 1 ' aPalrofMats, " " a Tfuiaii i-rii e oi nK e Mai nv uiau ioiuam. f LOGAN SUPPLY MILLINERY This is the Week of in the wi s warn TRIMeD : HftTS $1.38, $1.98. $2.95, $4.95. FANCY FEATHERSIn four lots, 19, 38 and 57c Your choice of any in the house at 89c RIBBONS-1,000 yards bons, Z6G per yam. This sale will be worthy your attention. Millinery waa never ai cheap, and we want you to come expecting to buy it cheap. 10 per cunt. dti.nunt on Dinner Sot. 10 per ent. dlount on Toilet SeU. :i."H per cent, discount on .lardlnlara. 10 tx r cnt discount on all Decorated Laiupa. Goods to the amount to any part 1124 0 Street, Strictly Cash," Broads Dep V. A. IIAGBKKO. J. II. McCLAY, Cashl Natl Bank, 250,000. C. S. LIPPINCOTT, Ass't Cashier. II. S. FREEMAN, Ass't Cashier. COOK, Cashier. S5-p0R Year. Then Read the Following: bread from baking too fan! on the underside granite, tinware, etc. i nn IPS I o cts. Takbh. ( CO., 1234 HIGH STREET . . LOGANSPORT, INO. i C Miilinery Department. wide Millinery Rib of $1 or over delivered of the city. nf oi Store, Lincoln, Neb. CHAS A. BROAD. mill Sale ! V-