Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1881, Page 3

© N &) - ~ STATE ALLIANCE. An Able Address to its Mem- bers Throughout the State, Not One Word of the Doane Law an Excuse for an Increase of Rates, The Organization on the Inorenss and in Good Financial Condition, o the meme o™ of the allianco of the state of Nebras k0 GexT By a vircular recently issued by the secretary o the State Alliance, you have learned of 1.3 IV gress and its financial condition, W extend to you ourcongratulationsupoit the brilliant success of this effort to organize the farmers of Nebraska for the advancement of their own in- terests, and by proper inference the interests of all the people of the state, and for the defence and extension of those eternal principles of justice and equality which are imperrilled by the aggressive character of the corporate monopolies of the country, But while | we congratulate you and ourselves upon this succ: lot us not pause in our work, There are still some coun- ties in the state in which there are no alliances; and there are stlll neighbor- hoods in other counties in which al- liances may be profitably formed. Push out for these counties and neigh- borhoods. Remember, brother farm- ers, that work in this cause is work for your class and for your country. While 1t may not bring you quick re- turna in ready money, it will bring richer fruits hereafter, in surer liber- ty, higher privileges, and a better civ- ation for the lard-working tillers of the soil. Remember that we con- stitute the only groat class which can be organized by itself to oppose mono- poly; that ourinterests are the inter- ests of all; that thousands of business mon are watching our movement with anxiety, and will act with usand vote with us when the time is ripe. Re- member, that the people of the coun- try are with us—that twenty-four states already have anti-monopoly or- ganizations — and let us aspire to lead | the van, as we are the equal of any in education and intelligence. Remem- ber, that one alliance in each precinet | composed of good working members, can control the clection of any rural county in the state Candidates are already declaring themselves. Let the leading members of the alliance in each county take the responsibility of securing from them specific written pledges to promote anti-monopoly legislation, to support anti-monopoly candidates for state of- ficers, congress, and the legislaturs, and in all fair and legitimate ways en- courage and stimulate the anti-monop- oly movement. Secure the defeat of every man who refuses to make such pledges. To promote organization and unity of action, the state secretary will fur- nish, on application by the" president and secretary of any subordinate al- liance, a list of the secretaries of the alliances in any county. Circumstances conspire to favor the movement we are engaged in, No party can long continue to project it- self into a blank future on the strength alone of the glory of its past. Almost without distinctive principles, torn by dissensions ana divided by insane scrambles for the spoils of office, the two great parties are more nearly de- moraiized than at any time in the past twenty years, But in each of them the monopolists are so strongly in- trenched that those parties will con- tinue deaf to the voice of the people and willfully blind to the evils which are sapping our liberties and draining our life blood. Therefore, our only resource is to ignore those parties, as far as these issues are concerned, and make the great question, whether ours is a government “‘by the people for the people,” or a government of incor- porated capital for itsown aggrandize- ment, the paramount question in every election, This is in fact the great question of the day, and the parties and the politicians that ignore it will soon be numbered among the thingsof the past. The law known as _the Doane law, which took effect on June 1st, was a a feeble attempt by the legislature to comply with the requirements of the constitution in regard to the transpor- tation question, and at the same time not wound the sensibilities of the cor- porations, This law prohibits discrim- inations, secret rates, and rebates. It also enacts that rates shall bo made no higher than those in force Novem- ber 1st, 1880, as shown by the pub- lished tariffs of the companies. Dis- crimination is wrong in principle, un- just and partial in operation, and is the main agency upon which the com- pal rely to maintain and reward their favorites, to control prices and products, and to hold within their grasp and direction a monopoly of any business along their lines which their convenience or wishes may dictate. As a matter of fact, the goods of all men can be carried at like rates in like quantities, under like circumstances, and it is perfectly right and proper that all men should have the privilezo of making shipments on equal terms. The current excuse for rebates is, that it is proper to make discounts to large shippers. If this is granted, there is still nothing whatever in the Doane law to prevent the corporations from making any such discountsthey please provided they are made as rates, openly, and are free to all men alike. 'l}huy may mnake one rate for the man who ships ten cars, and another for the man who ships a hundred: but these rates must be open and free to all. But of course when just legisla- tion regulates this subject discrimina. tions which would allow large dealers to monopolize shipments would not be permitted. There is not one word in the Doane law to justify an advance of rates, But the companies, arrogant and op- pressive to the last degree, make it the excuse for refusing to receive cer- tain classes of freight at less than the tariff rates, though it had previously been their regular practice to do so. The classes selected are manly those which pay local rates, Thus, the rate on flour is advanced about 30 per cent. into the consumption of every family; and this and the other advances are intended to PUNISH the people of Ne- braska for presuming to legisiate on the question of rates and diserimina- tions, but are not in any manner jus- tified by the law. Ttisnot to be supposed that the roads were carrying freights without a {air profit on November 1, 1880, even aftor revates were deducted. ‘i:hvr& fore there would have been no injus- tice in confining by law rates to those amounts at which freights were actu- ally carried at that date. law takes the published tarifls as the vate which shall not be ex cooded. Now the _ published rates are purposely made high, so that the roads can make lower ana 8¢ cret rates, and have at the same time a cheap means of rewarding favorites, compensating monopoly cappers and stifling cempetition in any branch of business they may choose. This is a power which no_class of men have y right to wield in a free country. This action of the companies in making theso ad to the people of Nebrs y, if you at- tempt to legislate on the subject we will, whenever possible, tu™ your Laws into engines of extortion and op- pression. A spirit of opposition to puilic sentiment, a spirit of tyranny and of domineering arrogance isshown in this action, which has its parallel in no other institution, public or pri vate, in this country. Thisexhibition should afford a significant warning to the country. Tt is an assertion of the principle of rule or ruin;’ and if it ex- pands unchecked, before an othergen- eration the liberties of this people will be known only as memories of the past. It teaches the urgent necessity for legislation which will trol and regulate this whole subject in such & manner that just laws cannot be made excuses for additional extortion. It also plainly points to the necessity for adogged determination and perse- verance on the part of the people which will not throw up the sponge until thev win the day. The supreme prerogative of fixing open or secret ratos at will, and mak- ing discriminating charges to and from non-competing points, is what the corporations demand; and this right as exercised by them, is at direct vari- ance with the welfare and best inter- ests of the state. Reasonable local rates are of the most vital im‘mrmncu to the people of Nebraska, The short haul must be_made possible, or man- ufactures and home markets will never be developed in our interior. 1ffjwe wish to retard the growth of our agricultural sections, and confine them to the exportation of raw pro- ducts to great distances and inevitable poverty, and at the same time build up a few great commercial centres at their expense, the sure way to do it i to allow the roads to exact high local rates. The claim of the roads that rates are reasonable is effectually futed by the following comparative statement showing the rates of freight east and west of Omaha, Ne- braska, ON THE SAME LOTS OF goods. In the following comparison the left hand columns show the places from which the goods wereshipped to Grand Island, and the number of miles from those places to Omaha, Nebraska, and the amount charged by the railroad lines cast of Omaha for carring the goods to that point, where they wero turned over to_the U. P, road to be carried to Grand Island, 152 miles. The charges from Chicago,St. Louis, and other points are not cut rates, but pooled rates, and the charges over the Union Pacific are about seven times as much as these pooled rates. Take as a fair sample the first 1item, a car lot from Chicago: distance from Chicaro to Omaha, 500 miles, charges, $56.25, or at the rate of 11} cents per mile. The Union Pacific charged for hauling the same car to Grand Island—1562 miles—over their road, the sum of $104 40, or over 08¢ cents per mile, nearly seven times as much as the pooled rates east of Omaha. To Omaha, Miles, Am’t. Omaha to Tsland, Chicago, car load 104 40 s 48 48 g 24 67 o .- woblcrarnal % St. Louis, Mo, Milwaukee, Wis Rockford, 1. Kansay City, Mo Boston, 1 32 Quincy, I, 18 03 20 75 Cleveland, O 120 147 (4 155 193 54 50 98 10 Philadelphia, Pa 1 i 1 Their figures were taken from the expense bills or receipts given by the agent of the Union Pacific railroad at Grand Island to the business men of that city, and are absolutely correct. The object of taking Grand Island as the point of comparison was to get & point that would be so_centrally lo- cated as to average fairly with the rates charged all over this state. That business men do not rebel and combine to resist these excessive charges is explained by the fact that freights constitute one element of prices, They form & burden which the trader unloads on the consumer. And the producers of Nebraska pay also the freights on their own expor- tations, and thus are ground between the upper and nether millstone. But the day has arrived when nothing shall This is o staple article, and enters longer prevent the people from being But the 5 | triously at work on every squar 2| of ground, all the males at wor 0| heavers at digging holes, boosting up, 5| and planting the egg-layers. | a terrible rate. 1 Keokuk, Ta, ‘., 304 51 06 99 90 | © THE OMAHA DA fully informed as to these excessive ex- tortions. The Doane law was not proposed nor advocated by the State Alliance. The Alliance had no hopes of any ef- foctive logislation on_ this subject by the late legislature. But we propose to see that the next legislature will pass laws which, while fair and just to the roads, will also be fair and just to the people, and will not be framed 80 loosely that a monopoly coach and four ¢an be driven through them. To this end we urgently entreat the farmers of the state to push ouror- ganization forward through the sum wer months with renewed energy and vigor. Send to our annual meeting in (he common good fall eiection comes, elect such men and such men only to oftice, You ate recommeiiled to make the ladies of your familics, who w.'' 8000 wield the ballot, members of your Alliances and participants in their ox- ses. Make your meetings pleasant social gatherings, as well as schools for your young men in debate and parliamentary discipline. And_thus you will make the Alliance what it should be, a social and monial educa- tor, 18 well as a groat political power. Secrotaries are requested to give this circular the widest circulation, especially among those farmers who are not members of our society. 1f more than are received can be profita- bly usod, apply for them to the state secrotary We sincorely hopo the farmers will respond with alacrity to this call, and that 500 instead of 250 Alliances will bejreprosented at our fall mecting. Tssued by order of executive com- mitteo. E. J. Burrow 2. IN RSOLL, Pres, GRASSHOPPER LORE How the Obuoxions Insocts Dopos- it and Care for Their Eggs. Virginia Enterprise A Truckee Meadows ranchman, who has been studying the ways of the grasshopper for the past two years, says they have a touch of intelligence in them that must come from tne dev- il. Among many things he tells about the hoppers in proof of their being endowed with fiendish smartness, his description of the manner in which tho eggs of the female are planted in the ground is not the least curious. He says when the time for depositing the oggs arrives, the hoppers, select a patch of ground thatis somewhat soft, yet firm of texture. Here collect swarms of both males and females. The males set to work and bore a hole in the ground to the depth of about an inch, carefully smoothing the sides and rounding it. Five or six of them then seize upon a female and stand her on end in this hole waist deep. They then carefully tamp in fine dirt all about the lower part of her body, and thus securely fasten her in the ground from the waist up. When this operation is completed, it is impossible for the fe- male hopper to release herself; in- deed, our grasshopperologist says he has often tried to pull them out when 8o planted, and often found that they would pull in two, leaving the abdom- mal region (greatly distended with eggs) sticking fast in theground. Once the female has rid herself of her load of eggs she can get out of the ground without the least difficulty. Our ranchman philosopher says that on withdrawing herself from the hole in which she has deposited her eggs tho female seals up the top of it with saliva and dirt. 1In a short time this dries and the clay becomes as hard as cement. On digging ovt one of these colls after it has had time to dry it is found to De a sort of tube, closely sealed at both ends, and able to with- stand both moisture and cold. The male hoppers that dig the hole in which the eggs are to be deposited evidently deposit in it the viscus mat ter that is to form the lower part of the ogg case, leaving the female the task of closing it up as her part of the work. It is only a patch of ground here and there that seems to fill all the conditions required by the hoppers in their egg planting business. On these they swarm, and may be seen indus- inch like 7| A Desperate Fight With a Coon. Berrien County (Ga,) News, Little Henry Cooper, while fishing in the Alapaha river a few days ago, had his attention attracted, and on looking behind him discovered a large coon approaching stealthily with his ears turned back, Before he had time to consider the situation the coon sprang at him and seized him by the leg and began biting and squalling at The boy was bein, badly hurt as well as frightened mfi set up & tremendous squall him- f, at the samo time making all A 20 the resistance possible against his un- i 20 welcome visitor Ho firat siozed the i o intruder with his hand, whereupon i m the coon bit him severely in the arm. " 200 60| The fight was kept up some little S 200 1 12| time,during which the coon*‘got in his Olintop, s, 1 oar, 80 83 %0 work'" of laceration on the arms, i 40 80 | hands and legs alternately until the g 34 % | boy's mother, who happened to be Lyons, Towa, 45 15 |about one hundred yards from ‘ " 41 00|the interesting scene, arrived. New York, 409/ The anxious mother, in order #to relieve the boy, seized the coon with her hands, whereupon he fasten- ed his teeth in her wrist, and for a little while the contest was lively be- tween the three. The desperate coon itime seized upon the boys in, whereupon the mother took from the boy's pocket his knife, and after disemboweling the coon he still held on firmly to his victim, and not until his throat was cut did he re- lax his hold. Curistian AcTRRRRINE Mo, A workingman says: “‘Debt, pov- erty and sufferring haunted e for i(u;u's, caused by a sick family and arge bills for doctoring which J‘:d no good. T was completely discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, I procurred Hop Bitters, and commenced their use, and in one month we were all well; and none of us have been sick a day since; and want to say to all poor men, you can keep i;uur families well a year with Hop Bitters for less than one doctor’s visit will cost,” eod-jyl September your best men—men who will earnestly and unsclfishly work for And whon the ILY BEE: WEDNES 1880. SHORT LINE. 1380, KANSAS CITY, St. Joe & Council Blnffs RAILROAD 8 TR ONLY Direct Line to ST. LOUIS AND THE EAST From Omaha and the West, No change of cars botwear. ymaha and St Louls, and bub 0ne ™ (ween OMAHA ani NEW YORK, =X " Daily PassengerTrains EASTERN AND WESTERN CITIES wth LESS CHARGE: VANCE of ALL with Tullman's Thin entira ffne 18 equipped Palace Sleepin Dy Conches, Miller's Sy Piatlorm A’ Co upler, and the eclcbrated tlughouge Alrbrake. WA AANBAS AASee v kol roAds _ *IFFS Rail CITY, 8T, 108 & NOUNCIL Bue and §t. 1, 08 road, 'via Bt. Jos t all coupon Mations I dhe J. F. Tickets for salo West A. C. DAWES, Gen, Pass. and t W, C. Serctimest, T 1030 Axoy Bonors, Passonger A A, B. BARNARD, Genern] Agent. OMAHA, NEB, BASWITZ & WELLS, OMAHASHOEST/RE 1422 Douglas Street. LARGESTOOXK, GOOD GGOODS, LOW PRICEHS. Burt & Mears’ Gents’ Shoes and Ladies’ Fine Shoes, a Specialty. Je 8-codmo EAGT A WO No Changing Cars BRTWERN OMAKA & GHICAGO, with Through 25 for LEEPING C, NEW YGRK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, WASH AND ALL EASTERN ITIES, The Short Line via. Peoria For INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, LOUIS- VILLE, and all points in the SOUTH-EAST. THE BEST LINR For ST. LOUIS, Where direct_connections are made in the Union Depot with the Through Sleeping Car Lines for ALL POINTS SOUTEL. NEW LINE - DES MOINES THE FAVORITE ROUTE FOR Rock Island. The uneqvaled inducements offered by this line to travelers and tourists are as follows; The celebrated PULLMAN (16-wheel) PALACE SLEEPING CARS run only on this lino €., B, & Q. PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS, with Horton's Reclining Chairs. No extra charge for seats in Reclining_ Chairs. The famous C., B. & 9. Palace Dining Camn. | Gorgeous Smoking Cars ttod with elegant high-backed rattan revolving gers. Steol Track and superior_equipment combined wigh their gaeat through car arrangement, makes this, above all others, the favorite route to the Fast, South and Southbast, Try it, and you will find traveling & luxury in- stead of'n discomnfort. ‘Through thketa vio this colgbrated line for sle st all oftlces in the Unitud States and Canada, All information about rates of fare, Sleeping Car accommodations, Time Tables, will b cheertully given by applying to JAMES R. WOOD, General Passanger Aveut, Chicago, T. J. POTTER, General Manaver Chicago, To Nervous Sufterers THE QGREAT EU.DGPEAN REMEDY, Dr, J. B, Six;x;san‘u Bpecific MEDIOXNE. Jt o o poutive cure for Spermatorrhea, Bomina Weokness, Impotancy, and all discasos resulting trom Bolf.Abuse, as Mental Anxiety, Loss 0 Memory, Paius in the Back or Side, and discases sent froo o all, = Pamphlots Wrte for theu and et full par ticulars. Frice, Spocific, $1.00 per package, or six pack- sy fof 800 Fali Srionsia o * P Consumption Insanity and anearlygrave The Specific Medicine 1 being used with wonder- tul succe dol 00. Address all orders B. BIMSON MEDICINE ©O. Nos. 104 and 106 Mah 5t. Buffalo, N, ¥ Sold in Omaha by C. F. Goodman, J.'W. Bell, J.K 1sh, and all drugglstsevery where, won2s-dewlyill D. 8. BENTON, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, ARBACH BLOCK, Cor. Douglas and 16th Ste. Umaha Neb, ‘ Edward W. Simeral,' ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. chairs, for tho exclusive uso of rst-class passen: | " 12;\ Y, JUNE 29, 1881. D.T.MOUNT, WANUPACTURRR AND DRALAR (¥ SADDLES AND HARNESS. 1412 Farn, 8t. Omaha, Neb, AGEAT FOR THR CRLRRRATED CONCORD HARNES$S Two Modals and a Diploma of om0t witly the hest award the judges could Tetow was \is harness at the Contonuil Exhibi 4 joanchman's and Yadios' SAD Cormion, afsd v WIS "itaek h tho west, DLES, Wo keap t b3y exantine 4o sond for and invite all who ot Apott —— — J. G. RUSSFLS M. D, HOMEPATHIC PHYS) CIAN. Discas s of Children and Charonfe Disease, * clalty. Offico at Residence, 2000 Ca street. irs—8 £0 108, m., 110 2 p. m., and atter € PAPER WAREHOUSE. GRAHAM PAPER (0. 217 and 210 North Main St., 8t, Louis, —WHOLESALR DEALRRS 1N PAPERS | VRmNer 1 WRAPPING, VELOPES, CAKD BOARD AND Printers Stock. £47 Cash paid for Rags and Paper Stock, Serap Tron and Motals. por Stock Warchouses 1220 to BOOK, NEWS, E! Sealed bids will he ree until July 12th, 1881, a8 12 grnding, wurbing and guttoring 10th st Douglas street brideo Plans s spocifications of which can be seen at the offico of o pevr. Said bids shall spuelly” the yard for sneh grading ; also iy the price i detail for such. curbing thoring and shall b secompanied by the e of proposed surety under the ustal 18, Said bids to be o eting of the ity cour 3 conncil vos the all” bids, Envelopes contai il proposals shi be marked, “Proposals for wrading, curbing and suttering 16th streot,” and dalivered to the un- dersigned not later the: tiae ali d L. G JEW EWETT, City Clerk ANDSTILLTHELION Roar for Moore(s) South 13th Street, 404 Thave adopted the Lion asa Trade Mark, and all niy goods will b MPED with the LION M NO GOUDS ARE BOVE BFAMPS. the moat skilled t the lowest casn he people want it— profits big, to the Boston Lamp Co., 667 Washington strect, Yoston, Mass. Their new Tamp burner with the Hyde Wick attachment, makes kerosene lamps hurn eveuly, 1t has 1w small ha nsteads of Ko controlling at wight. 5, h whoel 3 Proves beyond any reasonable question thas the g CHICAGO1& 1 NORTH-WES”, ERN (RY Vs by all odds the best road for you to take when travelln” d B Chicago and all of the Principal Polats In the* 3 £ o o ot Sl caminothie i, Tho Bl G- o 140 L Lo Sinotion polnta. © 1061 tralns Mmake closo GO, ichony with the trains of il rallroads a8 WISE'S Axle Grease NEVER GUMS! Used on Wagons, Buggies, Reapers, Threshors and Mill Machine IL I INYALUAWLE 70 PARM: s AND TRAMNTERN, It cures Scratches and all kinds of soreo on Homes and Stock, as well as on " OLARK & WISE, Manuf's. 386 Illinois Btreet, Chic " John G. Jacobs, (Formerly of Gish & Jacobs,) UNDERTAKER. No. 1417 Farnham 6t., Old Stand of Jacob G rders by Telegraph Solic J.H FLIEGEL Successor to J. 1. Thicle, MERCHANT TAILO No. 230 Douglas Street Omab NOTICE. Gilbert Wesson will take notice that on the 30th day of April, A. D, 1831, the County Judgo of Douglas County, Nebraska, lssued an order of hment for the sum of #20_in an action pend- before him, wherein Arthur A. Parker ly plaintil, and Gilbert Wesson, defendant; that Property, to-wit: Funds have boen attached un- der aid order. Said cause was continued to the Bth day of July, 1851, at 9 o'clock a. . ARTHUR A. PARKER, Plaintifr, evry thurdj Jun_, 1881 BROWNELL HALL YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY OMAHA, Rev, R, DOHERTY, M, A., Rector, Assistod by anjable corps of teachers in English Languages, Sciences aud Fine Arts THE NINETEENTH YEAR WILL BEGIN SEFPT. 7, 1881 NEB. Room 6 Creighton 16th and Douglag strests, For partioulars. apply to +wwme THE CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAII.AY, Querall af its prineipal Tines, runs each way daily feom fwo to four or moro Fast I ru'v i +Aralns. . It is the only road wost of Chicage that nx).-.uhau\--—-— > ch PULLMAN HOTEL DINING CARS. k Tt 18 tha 6.1y rond that rmns Pullman Sleeping Cars North or Northwest of Oizlcago, )t ne: irly 8,000 MILE 'Pl: ROAD, 1t1 11 following Trunk lJnNs SRSy hh“v nacll Bln's, Denver & California Liy \Vinona, Minnesota & Central Dakata Line., fon Clty Nebraskn & Yankt Dl ol and Mimvenpolis Line, 4 . liriots, Froeport & Dubugire tilwaukee, Green Bay & Lake Superior Lie, ckets over tuis rond are sold by all Coupon Ticket Agents (n the United States and Ca as, LAY )hv wmf‘wr to ask Yor Tickets via this road, be sure they read over it,and takenone o!h«.‘ MARVIN RUGHITT, Gont Manager, Chicago, ak . II. STENNKTT, Gen'l Puss. Agent, Chicagos HARRY P. DUEL, Tickot Agont C. & ¥, W. Railway, 14th and Paxnham stroots, D, E KIN wont C. & N, W. Raflway, 14th and Farnham streets, Raitway, U, . R. R. Dopot. Chas. Shiverick. FURNITURE, BEDDING, Feathers, Window Shades, B gy e =New Goods at the Lowest Prices. r. 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