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394 JANUARY 4. 18 4 THE ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT. i anda of Uolfd Statea receiver?, who always conduct them oa tbe beet buei- nesa urinciDles. shows what ample hess principles, snows wmi .....i-,Mh. tn nationalize and .f th whole railroad busl A neat. Charon a comparatively few n. . no.t nffint&la. Xh rmc.falafor trovernment officials in all that ii needed. We should then have all our transportation at cost, In nave an our iruiv "um teadofas now at cost plus profits, which are making a great nutaoer oi . !.u-!.a And the cost under an economically perfected, single system,, would be not over half what it is now. DO SUCH PRAIIES PLEASE GOD? Itaiah 5S: 1-12 1 A few weeks ago several Methodist Jbishops, Dr. Neman and o'hers, met "herein Lincoln to consult and pray over '.he financial condition of Wesleyan University. The Chancellor afterward?, in a sermon which we listened to, told of the great burden aad need of money which weighed upon them, and how BUhop Newman prayed. Such a prayer! He told the Lord they must have help, that they could do nothing but look to Him. They bad got to the nd of their resources, and the work was His, &c. &c Without doubt it was a very e. quent petition, but, to our mind, it must have trained severely the patience of .the Almighty. We are aware that these church leaders, the chief priest and i teachers, are above being taught, are r too certain that their teaching is per fect to listen for a moment to any criti olsm of tkelr creed; nevertheless, for Christ's sake and humanity's sake, we are constrained to affirm that they are in their lijea and their influence funda mentally, practically unchristiam. In the first place these heads of the church were not 'at the end of their resources, nor eve. at the beginning, if they had known it. The church can never be in financial straits except as the natural result of disobedience, trampling under foot Christ's teaching, God's la. It suffers with the selfish, struggling Ishmaelitish commercial world, because it has been sinning with .llv all men "bite and devour one another," the individual has UUZM I t.. i. no chance to lire unse waniy. . dividuals organlaed to love ana serv nna onnt.hnr need not SO live. no chance to lire unselflsmy one another need not so live. The church ander the teacmng, uy the teaching, of these leaQf seeking ttrbt the kingdom oi uo multlpiicatlon and gro th of mono Tiiriohififuanes. It does not know, u r " T ' . , 1 1 utnninD to their cannot nna ou ujr -- dom requires. These p isuup.. I Srf'dottlTgr.uThrt Christendom take it aTr"u, God's will is known. an ur Tfn'hvanv religious boheved in by any religious known or organization. The language oi m , Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy elf," is plain, as it was to the Old Tes tament readers, but its meaning Is again lost, and In the same way, by ti adition and custom. Trusted leaders, coveting wealth and power, obtained influence In the church, and early set aside the property test of love, "the trait gate" which Christ built to keep out mammon worshipers. They athels tlcallv rejected God's wisdom and ac cepted in place of It the worldly wis dom of selfishness, and so, through exalting man above God, the church was led bacinto the world of selfish, contending Individualism, out of which it has never since as a body emerged. Substituting warring Individual in terests for a community of interestthey cut Christ's body into parts, and des troyed Its spiritual iife and world sav ing power. We say the church went back to live and do business bv the rule of evil, the world's saltish way. But the professed object of the organization and of Its in dividual members continued to be love, equal love for their neighbors and a desire to save them from the evils of selfi3hnis. Put in pbin English their practiced creed was, and to this day is, "Be selfish In all your business rela tions, vour every day deeds. In order that you may have money to-pay for the preaching of unselfish words on bunaay. Do selfUhly, as others do, get more la bor than you give In exchange, compel men to work for lsas than they produoe, and so furnish you ti e means to be more or less charitable (?) to those nenker neighbors whom you and othr strong ones have despoiled of all natural righti in the earth and left utterly dosUtuu?; also that yau my, If you can ju'S'-ia enoutrh profit out of others, have a sur plu fortune toemlow theological school and colleges, and so enable them by a perpetual aooursud usury robbery to educate men to b IU?ve In, sanction and nrtach. prao'ica'ly, this sort tf shlva Hon." ThU for the strong, and for the wi-ak the preachm has b.en, 'Bjonl.'tt lu that humble, labr lout, hU-trved sphere of life lo which It ha phased U h! io place you." 'ritanii Gthl'." Dreadful mut be the wrath callwd furia by this biiht my, thW ftMTlption of v U to the All Father The NU'hodUt Hhp and fdu tore wr on tMr fos b fr? God, Jnt Joaua , and we bolieve the ati word irlvou (o Jothtt l hr them. The - - Iir i i!iJ t him: (Jut th ui; whrx'ftir lll thoa thus iixiu thy Im J !!' I Iva'U nlnru d, and tiff hove ai' lritar4 nif ivnt lttch I imiiii'Jd them; Ur Ih'y ' vm oV'-n t'tft of the attnurd thlritf. and have ai llrB. aul l- I- ...i .u., ,,ai n.vu. atuoi( tt.lf oa stuff. Instead of lying on their face pray ing, these modern Joehuas should be finding out who caused this panic and a the enforced idleness and universally felt loss and distress. If they search thoroughly they will find it was caused br forcinsr the wealth produce rg who by forcing the wealth producers who fill the market, to Uktjws than the mtrket price fr their ; products, and - - that thia injustice was made possible ey a udJUu w.4uirC u.UUU(., land, money and various term of nec- essary capital Thev will find aftr consideration, that Jehovah was wist r than they are when He prohibited His people from selling the land forever, from monopoliziog the land and the houses, and from tk Ing "usury, or iccrease," foe anything lent. They will see also that the va rious usury accumulations by the rich force economies upon the pror, by tak ing from them the money (justly theirs) ta empty the markets, and that so pro duction must more or lets r gularly be stopped, as at present, and poverty made to spread farther and farther, to embrace more and more. And when they begin to see this, if tht y are brave men, they will "Cry aloud and spare not." Thy will show the people thtlr transgressions; they will demand that the bands ef wicked ness be looted, that the oppressed be set free, and that every yoke be broken. "Then they shall call, and the Lord will answer; they shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am." EEfEINTED IB0M MONDAY'S BEE Lincoln, Dec. 23. To the Editor of The Bee: In answer to my protest against your classing the Populists with wildcat money and curretcy inflation advocates, you suggest that I write a letter for publication, defining our posi tion on the currency and government loan questions. I take pleasure In doing this, and appreciate the courtesy aad spirit of fairness which your suggestion shows. "The spirit of party," which Washing ton warned us against, the spirit of political unfairness and unpatno'.ti sel flshnass. is the common spirit today. ' Commercialism has crowded patriotism rf lawmaklnR legUljltlon whlch , . . . , . j fcnured has niven to the few aooalliBS. The special Lrlvileees Bratited to corporations and polles have made possible an unpre neAcntAW rapid concentration of wealth, the transfer of the money lt(V natural resources from manytocomparativelyfewrullnghands The condition of the country today illustrates most forcibly the fact that . . millions of our people are no longer free or independent. The multitudes who can neitli employ themselves nor find employment have no avsilable, no po tential, right to life, liberty and happi ness. And the still larger circle, which lecludes those who are at work and who must work for capitalists and those who must pay monopoly prices for services, shows to us the much larger number who are dependent, the number whose surolus eariilngs are taken froa them ti buy up more and more of the natural reseurces, thereby spreading and In tensifying industrial slavery. "Not less than 117,000 working people are ut of work and in sore need" in Chicago is the telegraphic news of the 11th Inst , and Chicago Is not suffering more than the rest of the country. The panic and the succeeding stagnation and suffering was caused directly by the refusal of the banks to lend the money which Is needed to keep the wheels of commerce and Industry mov ing. The money oauld nowhere else be obtained, and so the great mass of the people suffer loss and are seen to ba dependent on the money lords, the associated bankers. The People's party is the first to say that the money monopoly must be brok en, that tne weaiin-couceniraiing, labor enslaving drain of usury must be btopped; that unless it can be stop ped there is no liberty, no Independence possible for the common people. As a party we Bot only see this, but we have, afier a careful tiudy of the money ques tion and the needs of industry, formu lated a plan to keep the supply of money in guvernmeut control, where those who need capital can borrow mony without interest, at cost of examining and caring for securities We orouose a new financial system, a ncientlflcHllv perfect, government Issued legal tender mouey, and means of circu lating it. We do not prope currency Inflation and a depreciated dolWr, many suppwe, nor does our ulaa lead to It. Bf our syt iu money will In crease in volume, but only as wea thi r captiallr.craMia. the volume will be regu!ated by natural demand, by actual Kd. Th ourrvecy will entr circula tion where It is called tor with el stwarlty, and be with drawn from circu lation (JeptMitod with the government) nhoiM ltcannotbe advantaiteouklff ud. lb unit of value measure, to rvgulatt'd cannot II ictuate, or vary. Our jtU.in rails for g vrroiet Unklrnr. an I we demand lit ou nation al p! form, "that pwtal avln,'s hank Hm athiutid by the fovon.tct at f r tb st'e deposit of the uralnK of the aople and W facl.ltate vtfthang Threiigh thmw bajtki u I ub trm ! we roHe that nioavy hll bj laord wrn! netat. and on weMeud H,riih!i prducU of mrbtit value furnishing ample security. In addition uo the real ertate or warehouse security considered ample by th back directors, under fixed rules and limitations, the tax paying property of each coun'y where the loans are made should be obliged to make good to the govern ment any possible loss which Inadequate security in rare instances might entail. The element cf risk can be entirely, or almost entirely, eliminated. But if some slight ri:k In security values is unavoidable, a small fractien of rl-k per cent wt uM naturally be added to the labor cost of loaning to cover It, to prevent taxation. A fourth of I per cent charga on all loans would doubt less mjre than Indemnify the counties for all inadequate security losses. This, in brief, is oar plan; and there is nothing impracticable in it. Austra has for f leven years, had in most buccib ful operation a postal savings bank sys tem, with a regular check and clearing system as one of its features, providing every convenieice of our ordinary pri vate ar d nation! bat,ks. We can find plenty of qualified and most reputable baLkerand other cltlzeas whom we can elect to locally conduct our deposit, loaning and exchange business at an immense savicg of labor at.d interest charges. With the government postal savings and loan barks established we shall have a place of absolute security in which to dwposlt surplus earnings a uui vereal need and demand, aid money In unfailing reacn to keep every one at srlr nn trms which secure to the workers the full product of their labor. With this financial system Introduced the vast wealth-concentrating drain of Interest would be stopped; all the wealth produced in a community would be retained in that community, and the people would be kept free and indepen- ent. On the one item of 132,000,0' 0 of farm mortgage indebtedness Neiraska would save for local trade and improve ments about $10,001,000 each year, which we now contribute mostly to eastern loan and trust companies. Under the monetary system we pro pose the curre noy can neither be In- lUted nor contracted; the dollar can neither appreciate nor depreciate: the volume will increase only as labor is and wealth produced. And ""-l"" r because government loans can be secur ed at cost money cannot be loaned by private parties for interest. It is a sys tem which will release more guld for foreign exchanges, if it is wanted, than we now have. And it is a monetary system which no puteide financial dis turbances can affect. Within our own domain paulos and the present recur ring periods of business depression would by it be rendered Impossible. It would set all at work and insure perpe tual opportunities. It is the Coperni cac eybtem of finance, simple, equitable perfect. George Howard Gibson. THE PEOPLE MUST MAKE AND US- MAKE THE LAWS. Hitherto we have not in this paper. expressed any views regarding the Initiative and Referendum; but we are convinced that it Is an important re form. Representative government, so-called, has been with us, in the mat- ter of securing justise to the common people, a huge failure. The profession, al politicians, the treacherous dema gogue?, the swarm of spoils seeking hypocrites, have been too many for us. We have believed their smooth woras and entrusted them with law making powers, and In return they have bar tered away our liberties, they have soia us into slavery by means of class legis lation. If we would retain our rignts and liberties, wo must retain in our hands the law-making ana veto power. The principle of direct legislation, doing away with the corrupt and cor ruptible lawmakers, should be in great favor with all lovers of justice and good government. And in the short time which the Initiative ata Ht lerenaum nas been agitated it has drawn to itself a vast number of advoca es. The Amer ican Frdera'lonof Labir.near.y amluion strong, has just resolved to stand on It ; the Knights of Labor demand it; and we believe the Republican party in Massachusetts has hi ched it to its plat form to catch the laboring vote. It Is one of the doubtful adjuncts to our platform, which party Ignoranco made us somewhat afraid of when It wa pro posed and voted on. But in the next platform we naakt it should be given prominence and honorable place. In telligent men of all parties, politicians and monopolistsexcep'ed, will be driven to luoi'orl It Our readers are awre, we suppow, that the Initiative and KoferenJum plan Is la very successful aad In perfea'ly satisfactory operatlua In the SwU Re public J, V. Wolfe's blgiale "ad"earae In too late for tht Uu, but look out fur It next wek. Don't forget the time, Jan uary llth. Make prorations to at tend this sale aa It will be the bi Aor ta of l'oland China ts ever void la the wt and as gd as any olT!ml an j where, Mr. Wolfe buys the h, n t ardlese of price, ar put all hi m Hiu' crop of viutr.f to aad avni twenty eld owe la hi tab. V r th brcrdlpg of hi hurd send to Ltru fW at c'l"gue, A4d?v hot ?, I.I'm cole, Neb. j To Florid tk th. MUmrl I'aotn.' r"u. City Ticket i ffi.s I.M O trwi, I. Danlul 500 PAIRS OP PANTS -AT- $300 We make a specialty of this line and can give you sone of the Greatest Bargains To be found in the city. We also carry a line from 3.00 to $7.50 Which cannot be beat. PAPER'S Clothing House, I 1 25 O St., Lincoln, (Under tbln head, ehort articles tit general int-ntton tbe subject of muuial lnHumrioe will be published free of charge, and In lbs name of tav writer, wbi'ite iitii mum always accompany tbe letter, an l who wl 1 alone b renpoulble for the views expressed Any o mmuijl!'lon in tbe naturo of au sdTertlr.e nieni, or ca culait-d 10 beuetit any particular company will be charged (oratourreKularrate for reading notice. ANNUAL MEETINGS. LANCASTER COUNTT. The annual meeting of the Lancaster County Farmers .Mutual Insurance Co. will be held in the office of the secre tary, room 328 McMurtry block, near corner of llth and M streets, Lincoln. Neb., at 10 o'clock a. m., on Jan. 11. 1894. Every member is urged to attend and bring a farmer neighbor with you. We will have a good report and want every member to hear it and know just how your officers are carrying on your business. ' J. Y. M. Swigart, Sec'y. . CYCLONE. The annual meeting of the Cyclone Co. will be held in the parlors of the Windsor hotel. Lincolia, Neb., Jan. 17, 1891, at 7 p. m. If tou can nt attend this meeting in person you should send a substitute by helping to defray the expense of some of your neighbor members, that he may report back the progress of the com pany. By all eans every member should be represented in this very important meeting as there are some changes needed in our by-lws. J. Y. M. Swioaiit, Sec'y. HORRIBLE CRUELTY. Detail of an Attack toj Cost.tok Cpoa m Cliurtih at KroncUe. Coloonk, Jan. 3. The Cologne Zeitun publishes full details of the attack upon the Catholic church at Krosche, lo the government of Kevno, by Cossacke lust month. This account of the massacre fully confirm the report originally sent out and which afterward was officially dented. The correspondent of the Zeitung adds that the Cos-aeks were guilty of in credible birbanty and ewe ty. They lanced and knouted the de fonsi'tesa poodle whom they drove from the chtirchea Women, us wall a men, were liududed among their victims. The dead and inutllitod were thrown Into a iiiue pit near tbe church. Tbe sucred nruawooU were titKeu from the edifice, broken Into niocee and thrown into a ceapouL The CoKNae a, aftr this, were allowed to plunder the village. 'nr(i.l KccmUrr lUrberrs Mama. 8 raait'iiiou, Jan. i The Call annuunuw what pwrjorta t'J bi a de tUon lu the court marshal at Mare Ulttnd in the case of UUhurl Ah lr pant aasi-taut aurgeoa, Unitod Male navy. Aohbrlde come from a trmulnnl 1'Hilk UlpUia f tukily. It naarhitrged Wfore tie rotirt inartial that lhi youarf ettrireoit IikI forgd tha it;aainre of woi-eLf tf the Nivy lloru'M to a ttrj.Ui ui. tt; of litHtrm iiiin to Ct)titia ilol km at More lliud It U ll the eiur iiiai tUl 4 tiiKJi the vh ira4 rv , oiumiil the J i,l nal i t Vh bridge from tht ri'. Wl liain A lUnnU, una tf the Ul kivjwn ww iellM In rov 4vv, U I . It a def4Mr lt IHOO-t REAL ALLIANCE LOCATING AGENCY. Raw prairie and Improved farms on good terms, all the way from 110 to 130 per acre. Address, THOMAS STEVENSON, Albion, Boone County, Neb. Re MONEY TO LOAN -ON Improved Farms JOHN J. Real LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. II as for rale at tpeclal pricts desirable homes, smooth lots, business block and acre tracts near all t e collrge buildings in Lincoln. Farm land for sale or trade In all parta of the ttate. If you want to sell or trade list your property. All correspondent answered promptly. JOHN J. GILLILAN. lffrfh JOHN B. WRIGHT, President. P. E. JOHNSON, Vice-President. THR Columbia OP LiINOOJUN, NEB. Capital , $25 0,000. First '. National ! Bank, LINCOLN, NEB Capital, - - - $400,000. S"u.r."plu.s $loo,ooo- N.S. HARWOOD, President. C. A. HANNA, Vice-President. P. M. FRANK ,r fir A 7 I I ' 4 ' '.E A"."' - .Vi ..1 -.- . . ... k . lJiit. liTViliiT- 1 1 I auliions, ma.es ..1 cull won uie prize at NeDraska State Fair ever Nebraska World's Fair Winners in past live years. They Were -WTippers of 527 pp'zes. I AM S Is the onlv imiv.rter in Nebraska that imported hi Percherons !r the past three Vfara from Fraace and the lariret importer oiClydraand Shires. ALL BLACKS, lams' hoes won si aw.epstakeS prizes at Nebraska feuta Fair of 1893. and Lima U the only iran of Nebraska tliat is enutled to the name of -B-SWEEPSTAKES STUD-f$ SiT?o ".welKhtarfl at ALLIANCE PKK-KS AND TKRMs. one te and three year, time t ner cent 11H. rest or chi-aper than anv lHe imp. ter. or pay yur tare to see lliem, and lams ays the irritrht, Wcr State Prize dinners Than All Nebraska Importers. CKnn SAVDby buy-inn a winner of lams. y prize wiuners all for sale. Good guar autee, every V hoise recorded. Write 1A VS. St, Paul Is on the B. St M and U. P. F. M. WOODS. Fine Stock Auctioneer. 203O8t., Ulpcolp, fieb Jan. ti T. J. McFi, L' nnox, Iowa. Jan. ll-J.V. Wt-lfe, L'ncoln, Neb. Jan. 12-0. K. Flnley, Gcnuvn. Jan 17-Jdrs. O. M. Edward, Fre mont, Nth. Jan. 11-T. J. Hur.ford, Ccreaco, Neb. Jan. 2.1 Larnpi! Bra., Vauwert, Ohio. Iluare lor hale. We have a nujubor of youog btart, gtiolfor immdiau wrvictt which we will et-ll at pilvate aale ia cU out be fore our nnt ub'lo a!e of rd ow, wbtch will be bvld alwut the flrvt tl Fvb. Caut'tfue nljf Jaa 13, l"ul J. V. lluuor Soxa tin ff I.inwlri. Nrb. I a wi4, 4 I viU s4 dv !, tf -imt lii's !, ta it . .1 ..iiJ i hi d fn'o. u. o. ateaavee, ao .. m.qs, WKIIOIISBSI V 1-17 K K V I 1 ESTATE. WILL BUY County, City, Precinct and SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDS. Taxes paid for non-resldenta. Strict atten tion given to collections. J. F. JIEFFERD 4 CO, "a,""t.U,.... GILLILAN, J. H. McCLAY, Cashier. Nat'l Bank, r HJXy HUX HUy HUXi C. S. LIPPINCOTT, Ass't Cashier. H. S. FREEMAN, Ass't Cashier. COOK, Cashier. IAMS, yrnporter apd Breeder 100 Black Perchsron, French Bralt, Clydes and Shires. IAMS' "Horae Show" it the grrtt St. Louis, Kansaa and Nebraska Stale Fair p 1S93, s oth atd his competitors. Thev won the frrand lm herd prize ''For Beat lerd ol Drait Hortes" and over every Nebraska Jratt horse or mare showi- at the World's Fair. FRANK IAMS, railroad. t. Paul. Neb, AGENTS Warns, LlawMl sary Valf AltMOMOSlotrsm. Vui riirBl.lw4 mft r. u vaaumi, j Tt urUte to Ne Orlaans, la., via the Mlaurl Pacific rout, tickets eood until Juno let, 1X91. Call at City Tick, et oHIi-o 1201 O. street. For the Midwinter Fair, California, take the MUurl 1'uclflo route. City ticket 1 ftlce 1.J01 O St. The cheapoet plate for monument Is at (ieo. Natterumn'a, 213 boath Ninth St., UaooJn Noloe. Anyone can obtain free atlvrr Htra. mre by alJreeioir The Pan-Arerleaa MI-MetalUo Aaiclalton. IKiOvcr, Colo., and encloalns (Hietafe for aae. ToerUte ileeiwre la tbe Mlaourl I'tu'iao tor all fMiinte la Caiiiorala. City ticket t mce liWl U 8trt. Ue NortHwtara Uee Wi CkWfl. !sw rai. Yml train. Utoe 1131 oat. Job V. M. ffrd ha wltbdrawa fro fee inoi ol iheia esrtetua de imrtmrnt of tht -ao-r, o f katu other eoslate. Ilia ad vrUOM e t etaj found tu anoUivr cuurua. . AlUAKCt lCI CO. Estate 6