Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1890, Page 2

i} IN THE ALLIANCES.| The Work of Organization Thronghout the Btate Rapidly Increasing. A STATE ORGANIZER'S DECLARATION | He Says an Overproduction of Millionaires Burdens the Country. SHARP REPLY T0O SENATOR PADDOOK The Alliances Are Preparing for the Com- ing Oampaign. THEY WILL DIOTATE NOMINATIONS If They Cannot Secure Their De- mands from the Old Parties They Will Take Inde- pendent Action. Ciawronrn, Neb., May 2.—To the Editor of ik Ber: In the Damy Berof a recent is- sue Senator Paddock evidently thinks he settled the social question as regards Ne- braska farmers. But thinking that perhaps the farmers are as'well qualified to speak for themselves as any other class of citizens, we ask the courtesy of your columns, The honor- gentleman smooths thin over very How plausible to tell that the farmers have mortgaged to build improve- ments, but if these improvements could not have been built from the sale of farm pro- ducts how is the farmer to meet the extra ex- pense of interest and Jay by a sinking fund from the sale of these same productions? Plainly it can not be done. This part of the gentleman’s letter is too weak to deserve no- tice if it were not for his official position. Yes, there have been abundant crops in Ne- brasla, but still the farmers are poor. They have great wealth in_cattle, hogs, horses and grain, but caunot maintain a farm without , because stock and grain ave not legal It takes money to pay debts, inter- and taxcs. The favmers are poor for money. Their stock and grain_when mar keted leaves no profit and often does not pay expense of production. The senator et that no matter what a debt for, nor how great or small it it’ th s no margin ion it not only cannot be st will consume the mar- may be, of profit o produ I but the inte 1 of sceurity, One would infer from the 2 s letter that i nothing crops, and all the farmer gets i v, do you think profit. - Flow much, honored , 4b-cent w there is, net, from i5-¢ or hogs and cattle at s¢ These prices will not pay the cost of production, and the farmers are now borrowing money on their chattels to meet the excess of expenses. In 1888 we noticed an_article in the Bankers' Monthly which stated that the cast held in- terest coupons cnough to move the western erops. Then what has loft? Just the worthiless conpons, what he is expected 10 suby and nec- essury ex congress e the pur 3 while it ae- “cent on the s to be given to pow h'man’s ol 1horizes the stealing of 25 bonds from_the public mone; the hondhold while it s to the most nous corporations ey ated enough o build such a road; in fact to be very quiet Avhile v cheme of rapine and plunder Wwhich a congress composed of 417 members, 800 of which are lawyers, can concoct and carry out. It may not be as bad in Ne- braska now as in some other places, but it is because our mortages are not yet ripe @nd we have not yet sunk all_our other prop- erty in borrowiig to meet interest and ex- penses, When that is done we aré at theend our rope, wound out by the cursed English financial system which 18 1n operation here, und which produces the English land system sure as day follows night., 1t means the nfiscation of our property; it is legalized pivacy, and me the establishment of a uded avistoeracy in America and the Amer- farmer to become a peon. Buncombe ound well over a senator’s name, but no wmount of pala ango the condition. The ud do not change except from This same senator not long since declared that the mighty burden of debt which is consuming the American home was not an lence of decay, but “ovidences of prosperity.” Then the four billion of farm mortgiges in the Mississippi valiey have been_created simply throug uriosity of the farmers to know how much v property is valued at, and not through sity. For colossal cheek the senator is vtainly entitled to the whole bake shop. The gentleman should romember that, stato lines do not, limit the effects of a national financial policy, and that all ave traveling tho same voad, and that the different con- ditions to be found in the different states are but the mile stones which indicate our course, As bad as it is in some states it can still get worse, and the rest are following down rapidly. and 2 to 5 per cent interest per month is the motive power, But now General Thurston b up and informs the people it is overproduction which is hurt- ing them. Farmers of Nebraska hear him! You have produced too much wheat, cornand stoclk, all of which 15 wealth und necessaries of life, and that is the cause of your poverty. Tor years the laboring people have listened 10 such sophistry and equivocation, thinking it wisdom, but it can no longer cover up the cause, which is to be found in political Iegerdemain and faithlessness. The wealth produced by the farmers of Nebraska and taxed for freight alone, produces about one willionaive per month, and this is the over production which is burting us. How slic to produced so much we are poor, when it is out of these same productions that the railroads, the banks, the hundreds of treusts and combines, the loan sharks and ofticial pape suck are all filling their coffers, The wealth is in our productions, have got the legal machinery in vhich gives it all to them and peration Teaves us p wisery and dobt. In view of these fucts such talk as Paddock's and Thurstou’s is lusult added to njury. Yours for justice. H. G. StEwaRT, Farmers' Alliance Organizer. , May 2.—[Special ie publicity given to the finan- clal condition of Nebraska farmers through the agitation brought about by the alliance has had the effect of checking immigration wnd of searing eastern money lenders, Hore- tofore Nebraska has been known as one of the best agricultural states In the union and h farms as good as gold for purposes of secu to ty for loans, but now that it has been proclaimed 10 the world that our farmers ave hard up, ¢ lands covered with wmortgages based upon notes drawing usurious vates of intervest, and their immense crops selling in the mar- ets for barely enough to pay the cost of pro- @uction and _in wiany cases less than enough, castern capital is being diverted to other states where no such lack of confidence ex- ists. - The situation presents an auomalous vondition which would be positively amusing vere it not so sevious, On the one” hand the mers and the polis i Who us- to be their fn.n v are picturing tho ab- cet coudition of the Noeb a furmer i durkest colors, the move to win pathy for their cause or by way of excuse for vouplaints, while on the other hand the same ssent with indignity the imputation that to is not prosperous and her people That the ag tural classes have ln-v cause for complaint no one can deny, but e fuct of the matter is theve Is nodistress in Nebraska, neither can there be so long as hor productive soil continues to bo warmed by the sun and watered by the dews of hedven. Toliticiaus, or vather political poltroons may succeed for a thne, as they are now doing, in putting all tho money profits of tho farmer's fabor “into the * coffers of raliroads vl money sharks, but they never can de- grude the agricultural classes of Nebraska o1 cause them to want for something to eat. Pleir present agitation may cause temporary embarrassment through false reports, but in 1o umeantime the plows are running, the Lrops are growing and the voters are thinkis of trad pre: Orleans is ambitious and is effort to induce the build their e: it v, howeve e membe! coun Cowles Y. sists of Henry Gilhdm, Red Cloud; Mr. Gar- lock, Red Cloud; Thomas Lacey, Cowle: Red Cloud alliance, No. Bowe of these days legislation will be frame So disas which hav braska fu tant fre ght form through their own effort ous are the eftects of the rop hoen sent east, reprosenti rates, high interest and get g 3 mers as_compeiled to pay exorh in the interests of agriculture, the farmers will pay off their mortgages and they will liave the satisfaction of knowing they brought about the 3. orts ting little or nothing for their produce, that boards of ties have to placing t the public. which all representative men of the state ar in matte o, for allianee vot know that the grangers of The designing offico seekers, put themsel some of the western and taken up the matter with he true condition of affairs bol The board of the purpose of cousid mischief is prineipally in @& position to capture Those fellows should learn hraska are for trade of Hastings has called a convention to be held May 15, to this ione by rying o the 1 to » e quainted with their methods and that is not necessary for them to perpetrate of the state with the farmer: fair name A, Ne Harlan ¢ 500 mem! organizer, n order to stan Harlan Connty. » May 2.—[Special to Tnz B) unty has nincteen ailiances bers. Mr. 8. E. Stevenson, is ome of the libel on the d in | and the most intelligent farmers, possessed of a high dogrec of execu- tiv tive gentleman. alliance are Stevenson, urer, Huntle; The chief aim of the alliance i Executiv cox, Charles Whiting of L Parish and S. Sam Johnson of Oxford, and A. C. Robbins of Orl this county ability and withal a modest, conser: s of the county The offic W. I, Hickox, preside secretury; J. L. B board, Ros ty on, ng Island, G. Geor NS, politicians and Walker of Wil R. E. Stevenson of Red Cloud, Horn of old seems tosbe to prevent th party leaders from capturing the organization through ant or other false pre- tonses, The ponn the. so-called antl- monops as 1l m on the fi ing their posit t that majority of the latter, who are so earnestly wooing thi alliance are sh s, ward poli- ticians and The alliance proposes to steer clear of that crowd and to declare luud about whil its intentions election time. it will speak A largs majof t is not ready at this time out vity of the members inthis part of the state are in favor of allowing the old parties to make their nominations, then if they choos right kind of mea the alliance the will endorse them, and if not then look out for breakers. Hon. are exeeedingly slender, . W. Burton’s chances for governor unless he stands higher in the confidence of the farmers abroad than at home, here. Heis not counsidered “in it”” The proposed extension of the Union Pa- Alma and princi; both cities. and has a_decided advantage in the w ire over its neighbor only not likel would involv vorable route, M. loss T Webst Ren Crovn, wol nty, aith ight to tory and_sceuring o stead of a valley rout ttered over the coun 1ip of about sc Orleans, The extension is ‘While Alma is the county ix miles makir Union Pacific folk via of Orleans. it will be done, istance and ides paralloling 1l pry lby, thus occupying. “divide” a greater d b 'he company no dohbt w er County Sohd for Leese. Neb., lough there are 1 hundred. a strong. It cificroad from Alma to Colby, Kan., has added fuel to the fires of rivalry between the al topic_among the business men of seat st, much the efer new route in- May 2.—[Special to Tue Brr.]—There has been but little active < done among the alliances of Webster nineteen lodges v, with anaggregate The county alliance has been organized for somo time, but as yet no meetings have been held. Ora Pitney of Inavale is president of retan The executive board 1924 active of the subordinate organizations, offi dent; Hen treasurer, meets ever, conservati their deman are us follows: ry Gilham, sec it has thivty-five ‘members, Saturd The members 1S, aiming o gaina point or 3. B. Smith, pre ary; Gus Roats the ¢ organization, and Harry Hopkins of con- the most The and are nd_inelined to be moderate in two this year and strengthen_their position next. While honest men public oftices, tion of th and el theip first aim is to ch to represent them in they also devote a eir meetings to discussions ve secured sound Said Secretary Gilham, “Sq 0056 the por- as t0 the best modes of farming and the im- provement of stock, cspecially horses, are not advoeating the establishment of stores ators, but ha cessions from local d chundi They con- alers in grain and mer- ome times when wo ask favors we are told to go to —-, but what we go after, in other cases we cai 'y away The members here are for Leese for anything he wants and are G organ zatio) members, Coon, vice pre John E. Fox, Coon and G divided on Van Wyck for any position. ield township has one'of the strongest ns in the county, with twen J. M. Pope s’ presiden dent; John Barne easurer. Sam M board, They meet overy other Tuesday. in, Georyre corge Pope are the exccutive Getting Ready for the Campaign. Nourit PraTre, Ne pretty thoroughly organized ‘While the alliance knows ., May 3.—[Special to Tuk Bee.]—The farmers of this section of the state a aro preparing for active work in the coming campaign. party, it proposes to take a_controlling part and no in the coming election, either by dictating In other wo! nominations in the conventions or by inde- pendent action if necessary. rds, the farmers of Nebraska have the power and lic oMce. for attainis upon, tion of the ng our objects has old parties. will exercise it in the naming of men for pub- As yet no definite plan of action een decided A great deal will depend upon the ac- The coming meeting at Lincoln, called for May 20, is looked for- wand to_with great interest by all who are honestly in favor of political reform, whether farmers or servative that the proper wi not. The most level-headed, members of the alliance bell con- ieve v to achieve reform is within party lines, and through party organ- izations, but def at written on the ramparts of wny party which ignoves the present pop- ular ~ der clas is by General of the Van Wyck's munds agricultural manifesto no means unanimously endorsed by the alliance throughout the state, especially the republican The alliance kuo the proper clements of - that organi what it wants, and w time comes will re: zation, vhen ch out for it and get it without the aid of political leaders, The western in s domand for &t loast Ono Blace o state ticket, and it is unde ceded to us. worse than no representd card will known integrity The recel to the enfo ood to be But to be mi. ion, aud our be to see that none hall be elected. upreme court decision ady t part of the state is unanimous the con- represented is first but men of orse ment of prohibition has caused & groat many farmer prohibitionists to con- clude that under the circumstances 1t would be useless to vote for prohibition, y of members of the alliance ave in a majo Probably favor of prohibition, but a noticeable change of sentimeu 1t is taking place, Dawson County in Line.- LEXINGTON .]—The fivst allianc was organi is youn and healthy ¢ growth, two tlodge county alliance twent the followi lin, president: John D, Anderson dent; J treasure R. M. Soot Some of political pli H. driven to an independent course, want is men who will represent. thel ests in the a few good think they tage. 5 executive bomd, P eb., Muy -[Special to zed Fobruary 1. 2t but the infant promises a v Alroady there and 600 menbey as organized March 1 MoLa pi ng officers clected: F vic secretary ; W. A, McLaug Edmisten. t, J. HLE the m misten. mbers are work within party lines un in logislative hils. If thiy men in the legislature the have gainod an’ Lnportant aa Activity In_Buftalo County. KEARNEY, Neb., May 2. [Special ‘to Tur for Dawson county The organization apld aro The and ugh- re ilin, | independent action, while others think the best 1less \What they iter- van Bee.]—Buffalo county is one of the strongest and best organized allignce coun in the state, having Aifty-five working lodges with u membershi well attended and discussions and & couseryative carnestness | icates move than a passing wave of moderat which in séutiment. p of over 2,000, marked The ofcers of the county The meetings uro by or- | latare, and it prop _the agriculturis iggart, president ¢ T, Billingsle utive boar¢ 1 troasurer. Exe Henry Snyder, E. P. Snedaker, nstofn and L. S. Deets. “nearly all subjects of interest to the farmer are discussed moro or less in tho meotings, but those of a public nature recely most attention, The alllances demand & greater volume of mongy, freight rates equally low with Towa and & penalty on the practice of usy So far as concerned | 10 against middle men is is noticed that most of its advo- cates ure men who are not in good standing with their nefghbors or with the alliance, The principal aim of the organization is to elect good men to represent its views and advocate its cause in the legis- s to support no others. A committee of five has been chosen from unty alliance to meet ‘at Kearney May meeting each alliance in the county will be reprosented by one delegate, natters and p out the best practical plan for reaching desired results, The object is to talk over allinnce I Organizing Rapidl, Oscrors, Neb,, May Bk, ] —There are thivty-two allances in this county and the farmers don't propose to let ntil there is one in every school district, and* thoy say they don't propose to allow «outsiders to know what they are going to do until fhey got ready to strike. In these alliances no one dapply. Thecounty two weeks. At the ing they discussed the best kind of corn to plant. Mr. N. Macken is the presi- dentand . D. Stoner secretary. In some purts of the county there are People’s unions, Knights of Labor and the alliances and the e all united to help the laboring man and armer. A Word to Mr. Adams. rrnion, Neb,, April 26.—[To the Editor of Tne Bee.|—In your papor of the 14th of April appears a communication from Mr. Adams, by occupation a banker, in which he to air his views fn relation to the alli- liance. Now one word right here. We have the merchants, wholesale and retail, the doc- tors, the lawyers, the editors and even the ministers all organized separately and nothing suid. But behold, when the agriculturists attempt to organize there is a wail sent up, that almost reaches the abode of the Diety. Now whence docs this emenate? From just such men as Mr. Adams. We discoverhe is at the old trick, slobbering all over the farm- ersand denouncing their educators. This, my friend, is played out. The writer of this has had some bitter experience. In all our lectures, no member of the grand old party of which Mr. Adams is a member, has ever chal- lenged one statement made on any question, but like a pack of hell hounds camped on our trail and organized a bitter warfare on our private character that for smallness and meanness has no parallel since the day Jacob stole his brother's blessing from his blind father. Mr. Adams says if sixteen hours a day in harness makes a man either a capitalist or a monopolist, he will plead guilty. Well, some men become all that by serving six hours per day, and others, under the pres- ent order of things. might be in harness ever twenty-four hours, all the time,-and yet have nothing but a living. Tt depends entirely on the busine: In the banking business six hours per day is all the time consumed. Right here we presume Mr. Adams claims great mental powers. Well, it does require great minds to sit six hours per day in a bank and loan money at 2 per cent per month on mortgages written by some peppermint law- yer. As to his sixteen hours per day hard labor, all we have to say is this, if the James Dboys had found him playing that piece and examined his hands they would shoot him on the spot. Now, if we were out killing work- ing men we would never hurt a banker. No, Mr. Adams, this is too thin; six hours per day yields you in_your business more than fifteen hours per diiy on a_farm; this you well know. Now, where and how do you dis- tinguish a capitalist from all others{ = You say you despise the name. You arein a busi- ness in which you create no waalth, but are using wealth created by others. . You produce nothing but ruined homes and broken for- tunes. 1 don’t doubt you do hate_the ‘name. So does the brigand _chief. mx; “whilo you are advancing your interest and ‘improving your condition, as you claim, by fiftecn hours in an office with brussels carpet, behind a 10- cent cigar, with a §75 suit of clothes, sitting in a cushioned chair, figuring-how to get a mortgage on some farmer’s cattle ‘or farm, with your family is ot home rotling in luxury and planning a$100 socialeventand preaching economy to the working classes, letus take a peep at the wealthy producer. For instance, t, we find him, his. sous, his daughters, his teams, all working from twelve to fifteen hours. Now, get your slate and pencil, Mr. Adams, and let us go into mathe- matics, this is in your line, The farmer, you say, owns the land on which there is a mort- gage. Now this 1s not true, and wo are satis- fied that 75 per cent of them are mortgaged for their value now, but not their value when the claim was given. Now, let us look at the farmer’s home. We find him with a'shoddy suit of clothes of the cheapest ma- terial, with an overcoat of the first fashion after Christ, with a pair of boots you call cowhide, but really made of the skin of some horse that died under mortgago or worked to death, his wife looking like a ghost from overwork, while the banker's wife keeps agirl. We find that the farmer’s wife, who creates the wealth, with a huton made’ after the fashion of Queen Mary, a shawl she wore when sweet sixteen, or purchased when hogs were $10 per hundred, with a dress altered and colored so often she cannot change its complexion, with a pair of shoes purchased of some bankrupt stock, riding in a wagon plas- tered with a mortgage, with the samo on the horses and harness, coming to town to mort- gage her dog. 1 hope this will not prove of- fensive, for wewant to remind you we are not attacking you or do we blame you. It is not you we are fighting, but your business, We' admit_we would like to stepin your shoes, for they are better than any man’ can wear who labors, but it is the infernal legis- lation that enables you to live in luxury while the creator of wealth goes in poverty. Burk, the great Irish writer on finance, la; down' this proposition, that any = gov- ernment that don't control the ~ monoy the money will control the government. This is true. How many voters in this state vote s directed becauso of mortgages or obligat We hold money to be a creature of law and only so, and wé are prepared to prove it. It is also & measure of value. Now, to illustrate, we will suppose three men in each town hold the measure of value of all farm products, Does this not enable those three men to fix the price of all commodities and control commerce! Again there is no law compelling a banker to loan money at an, rates. Should we come to you with a noto signed by Vanderbilt and “Tom Scott you can use your pleasure about the loan and thus prevent me from obtaining any money. Now we hold that every man, woman and child has an inherent intevest, undivided, in every dollar issued by the government, for the reason that this is a government of the people, for the people and by the people. This your party has put in its platform re- peatedly, thercfore our representatives had no more right to delegate that power to cov- porations to impoverish the people without restraint than they have to transfer your horse to one of your neighbors. We hold that all the disparity of wealth, the dif- ference between the millionaire and the meudicant, the weince and the pauper, the man in the palace and the one in the hovel, is attributable to two thin, the cupidity of one class and the ignorance of the other. You state you know of no platform adopted by the alliay I presumo not, but <allow me to whisper in your ear: The national ulliunce the national board of the Knights of Lab and the Industrial union sigued and approved at St. Louis a platform since approved by svery state and county alliance in AmcPici. That declares a total distinotion of banks, & war on trusts and o restoration of alb” the natural laws of commerce aud owncrship of all ruilroads by the governmont, a final repenl of our robber tariff, except for revenue. Is this not enought’ Wo propose to have thut government perpetuated that ' guarahtee the people the right to coutrgl gomweree, 1e'the money divectly to the people.. Now to your love for the favmer. It is of the same order that the fox or wolf entertains for the fut poultry. You say tho business farmer repudiatogm alliance, you have rof 1 Who sleops fiftoen hours while others do' his work, for all others ave joining or have joined As to repudiation, you have made a man out of straw and then' counnitted an asssult and battery on him. We have speken to 110 and_never heard the propbsition meationed. You say v possession of 160 acres of luud 1s & Phe thyuder | | | pos he is, when thees; is a mortgage on it that will turn him out when due. 1f he owned it that would be pue. You say when they o time to Thvhstigate they will cut loose from the allinhfe”{ Now they ‘have been and e oW investikiiting: that is the secret of thelr organized, on land that h&#ls his own he does not. re- gard it so long as his liabilities are unsettled, You say his loykwas o mere_pittance; that | the western fagnars has easior terms than the castern. This' yon know is not true That the farmessras heset by political de beats: that théy vall the people the farmers are in favor of repadiation. Now we challenge you to furnishi ono instance where any speaker or pappy has stated anything that could be fortgred into this, Yon we want to distioy railronds, Now, this is on a par with ,vn‘xi othor statements. Not one of us ever thowght of such a thing. We want the government to control them. Now, why menwho have ability to study a que: tion and go among the farmers and try to educate them,whilo the farmers are willing to support them, should be denounced as dead beats is beyond our comprehension. This is an old game to give taffy to the farmers. But break down their leaders. T presume tnink a man must be wealthy before he have a vight to know anything, You ma learn that you attacked an organization pow- erful in numbers and respectable in_intelli- gence, thatin both respects will compare favor- ably with a like number of wealthy men, and who are all provided with that potent lever of political power known as the ballot. Now, as to secking ofMce, it seems to me this is o tender point. Of course, nobody ever heard of a banker secking office, Oh, no, they are too innocent for that, They should immigrate to the moon. 'They are too pure, or some of them, to reside on this planet. You speak of our instructors wearing cow-hide boots. Con- tinue your business a little longer and we will ba waaring wooden shoes, while you will be living in luxury in a palace. me again, Mr. Adams, we have got our war paint on and our sewing with us, ALLIANCE. Alliance Notes. The members of the Gireeley county farm- ers’ alliance will picnic at Greeley Center June 3, ® Meridian alliance, Jefferson county, has or- ganized with fifty 'membvers and miore appli- cations are coming in. Three new alliauces were organized in Franklin county last weel and applications have been made to organize several others. There was a largely attended special meet- ing of the Furnas county alliance at the court house in Beaver City Saturday. The next meeting of the Chase county alli- ance will be held June 14, If the alliances of the west want to do a solid, legitimate business, says the Fairfield Herald, why on earth_don’t they send a com- missioner of their own, and exclusively for them, to Chicago to seil their grain and, if needs be, have their own elevator. That To0st of robbers should be the point of attack. The Frontier county alliance has adopted resolutions setting forth that “the Nebraska . association of Lumber Dealers is formed for the purpose of directing the entire volume of that line of busincss into the hands moneyed corporations and financial ¢ crats 'who are invariably non-producers, and almost invariably non-residents, and _for the business disenfranchisement of individual persons, farme: rpenters and consumers and that said association is thereby a desigm- ing and dangerous trust, and that while the Farmers’ alliance s a repugnance for all boycotts, we sauction the quiet derly means of expressing our di the lumbermen’s combination by leaving each member of the org: alone with his lumber and his trust.’” A conference of delegates from the alliance organization in the Third congressional dis- trict was held at_Ravenna Wednesday last, to take action in regird to the position of that organization in the coming campaign. Five counties were represented, and about fifty delegates were prosent. A Mr. Suith of Valley county was chaivniin of the meeting, and 'W. Beal of Broken Bow secretary. They de- ed to pominate a congressional and State ticket, the convention for the former to be held July 2, and the latter on July 4. Resolu- tions were adopted Eetting forth the objects of tho meeting, dimgnding a reduction of the tariff, increased circhilation of currency, and free coinage of Stver. The reprosentutives from Hall countypifinirew from the coufor- ence, as they war be bound_ by the in- dependent party actil 3 Jo Xt “The Tarmers—that is* the mofbers of the alliance—are differént Trom what they used to be, says the Frontier County Farmer. They don't talk. Tryto pump them about their political plans, and you will find yourself doing all the talking. There's a new spirit abroad among them. Whip them baclk into the traces before election! Not this year. They may be enticed bacl, but they are in no mood_for the party lash. 'There seem to be two elements in the alliance—one for making it a political machine, and theother for awi ing developments.” In Howard county the political faction started a paper and tried to have it endorsed as. the mouthpi county organization. The conser ment Squelched the scheme. That! A Farmers’ alliance has *been ory Naponee, Franklin_county, with charter members, Five now rec since been taken in and there are twelve ap- plications for membership to be acted on. There are ten subordinate alliances in Chase county with a total membership of about five hundred. 1t is hoped to increase the number to 1,000 by the June mecting of the county alliance, A traveling fraud, representing himself as the agent of an alliance grocery store in Chi- cago, victimized quite a number of farmers of Saline county, Kansas, by pretending to sell them goods at wholesale prices, with 8 per cent added for freight. On some articles eight per cent makes - handsome profit, but many of the goods were sold for a higher price in Chicigo than the retail price. in Sa- ine. New members ave being received at_each meeting of the alliance at Richland, Colfax county. Saysa traveling correspondent of the Ne- braska Signal: Your correspondent has met and talked with'many farmers on_the great question now uppermost in the minds of all thinking people—that of the organization of all laboring clusses, but more particularly theg farmers, into what'is known asthe alliance The question is asked, what are i and especially, is it o' political We are told that it is not. 1t ha: defined policies that it wants the benefit of the laboring classes, and if the old parties donot come to the rescue and grant the relief sought, then does the alliance propose to go into polities — o say = the officors ond caders of tho miovement. The alliance, they tell us, is simply the old farmers' grange under a new name with a few modificat The objects of the organization on the the farmer are legitimate, Primarily grange was not a party movement; neither is the alliance a_party moyement, but is com- posed of men who formerly belonged to either party, and as near as your corvespondent c concelve it is the sentinient of the membe of the orgarization vote for any man for any political of ho i not in sympathy with farming in , So long as old party ties ure foPedtten and the thought of ameliorating . ghe condition of the farmer is the of grow, to sell , the organization will 1 a8 any attempt is made lizatlon to either of the old parties, just so will it fail in its ob- jects. The alliance 188 grand institution for the farmer and can be madoe one of the most powerful and influgptial organizations in this country, and in a logitimate way exert a powerful influencer gi proper logislation if broken down politiclans and demagogucs arve kept out. Already i, is apparent that this o class is endeavoring t9 obtain a foothola and it behooves the |m's|b % and leaders of the alliance to be true, lv thems s and their Hollow as the night the interests, and it mus day that they will b of thih accomplish - their object - awdition, ken from the Nebrasku is the declaration of tho of the org@uization: Profoundly impressed that we, . the Farmers' alliance united by the strong and faithful ties of the better The follo allianc financial and home interests, should set forth our declaration of int we therefore resolve: To str to the establish ment of right and justi selyes and our ity; to labor forwhe education of the agricultural classes m the science of economi cal government in'as strictly non-partisan spirit: to endorse the motto, “In all thin essential, unity; in all things charity curo purity of the elective franchis inducenll” voters to inteligently exercise it for the actment and exscution of laws which will express the most advanced public nti went upon all questions involving the iy terests of laborers and favn 3 to develop a better state, mentally, movally, socially and finuncially ;' to constiantly strive to secure o tire Lavi and good will among ull mar kind, wnd brothe s wnoug ourselvos; suppress pevsonil, loval, sectional national prejudices: all unhealthful rivalry, and all selfish ambition ; to assuage the suf- !eringsof o brother and sister, dead, care for the widows and edicato the or- phuns; to oxercise charity toward offendors ; to condtrie words and purposes in their most organiztees! just as the bankers are | favorable light, granting honesty of purpose As-to-the farmer 'mflhu in time | and good intentions to others, and to ‘»muwt th principles of the alliance unto death. ys the Nobraska City News: As a pointer for politicians we would stato that o Farmers’ alliance with 116 members has been organized at Bennet. This is a majority of the voters of that precinct. An alliance man writes the following to the | editor of the Superior Journal: I noticed an | article in your daily paper of April 12, origin- ating from one of t ablest citizens of Su- perior that surprised me. Ignorance is liable 10 cause jealousy and opposition, but not looked for from an intelligont source. He says the organization (the Farmers' alliance) has no- defined platform or prineiples; he might, make the same assertion of any other | organization, and some would believe it. Wo would like to know who these curbstone The facts are that all of tho s farmers are joining the alllance as fast s they have an opportunity and there his been no backsliding so far. So far as its affecting business, there is not a retail dealer in Superior but_Knows the depression com- menced before thero was_an alliance organ- ized in the precinct, So far as their threat- ening to boyeott or asking retail dealers to sell at or & por cent, T think ho is mistaken, If he will look around carefully he will find that nearly all that are staying out of the alli- ance are men that patronized the grocery fakir one year ago and worked hardest in op- position o the last railroad bonds. Don't get scaved, friends, before you arve hurt; we don't question the right of the railroads, the bankers, the merchants, the lawyers and the doctors to organize, and you ought not to get ealous of us. S VICTORIA WOODHULL. She Complains of Being Made the Scapegoat of Various Adventures. New York, May 8.—J. Biodulph Martin and wife (formerly Victoria Woodhull) had a long interview with Inspector Byrnes yester- day. . In an interview sho said she called to sco about a sensational article which had_appeared in a Brooklyn paper lastNovember over Inspector Byrnes' sign a- ture containing alloged facts and rem- iniscences ahout certain notorious wdven- turesses, with one of whom was coupled the names of Victoria Woodhull and Tenny Claflin, “This article,” said Mrs.” Martin, ‘“was sent broadcast thoughout England, mailed to almost every friend of my husband, and was used in such a way as to _indicate the basest attempts on the part_of some one who will yet be ex- posed - Mes, Martin said. Inspoctor Byrnes d he did not write the article, did not authorize its publication and knew nothing about it until it appeared in print. He admitted it was written at his~ hou but claimed a newspaper man camo to him for facts and he mvited a friend conversant with the facts to furnish them. Mr. Martin’s version of the story made it appear that Byrnes had not alto- gether repudiated the story, but had declared on the coutrary that b 5 to the past career of Victoria and her ter, but he had no evidence to show she was the Victoria Woodhull people used to tallcabout. *Yes," interrupted Mrs. Ma tin, “and that is where much trouble has come from. There were any number of pe ple who traveled unde mes of Victors Woodhull and Tenn in and we we made the scapegoats for all their misdeed: et iy The Advantages of Arcadia. Arocapra, Neb., April 27.—To the Editor of Tk Bee: Arcadia is in the southwest cor- ner of Valley county, in the fine valley of the Loup. Here is where you will find a good country for almost anything that any country is adapted for. Here is where all kinds of grain is raised in lurge quantities and an immense quantity of stock. Ther seems to be no end of it, as every day theve are lange shipments to' South Omaha and other markets. There has been rainfull enough to put the ground in fine shape for seeding, us the new grain will show for itself. 'There are two large elevators here and _ both - report doing a good business. Both have many large corn cribs filled with corn. Avcadia has two_churches, the Methodist and the Congregational, The latter denomi- nation has & new Dbuilding, which will be ready for use this week, built on the Gothic plan‘with a spive. There are two sccret or- ders here, the Oddfellows and the Grand Army of 'the Republic. The Independent Order of Oddfellows had a banquet last even- ing in remembrance of the seventy-first year of its organization. It was a very pleasant affair and every one had all they could cat and drink, and had a chance_to meet all their friends in'and around Arcadia. There are all kinds of business here. All report business good. Theve is a largo flouring mill here, second to none in the state, which is run with cither steam or water. The B. & M. railvoad has its terminus here, although it b bed graded out of here for sixt miles west. Tt is said that they will build out of here the coming summer’ before the new crop is ready for market. Schook oppor- tunities here are’ good. Arcadia has a good school house and three good teachers. ARk A Bright Outlook for Weeping Water. Weepixe WaTeR, Neb.,, May 4.—[Special to Tne Bee.]—There are many new houses Deing built here this y There is no boom, but the town is growing on its merits and present and future resources. What, with its manufacturing interests and its magnifi- cent surrounding country, there can be no doubt as to the future. ITew towns In the state of the size of this have somany ad- vantages. The Noble sewing machine coms pany is running its factory night and day now to fill orders sent in from all parts of the state, even before the machinery was placed. The factory contains ninety of machinery, requisite for all kind manufacturing, There are twenty employed and a demand for more men. ~ Three other busy place flouving mills. They have large demands for their flour, but expéerience some difficulty in supplying’ the demand owing to the tenipo- rary scarcity of grain, because of the rush of work among the farmers. One of the promi- nent business men contemplates in the near future-putting in a furniture fuctor building for this is nearly don el bl Verdigre on the Boom. Verviare, Neb., May Special to Tue Bye,]—Verdigre's improvement has been wonderful in the last thirty days. The Knox County Recorder, started here April 1, of which mention was made in Tue Brg, is meeting with great success. Two busit houses have just been completed and material is on the ground for another. Charles Kam- anski, attorney, will commence a_handsome residence in ' few days. T. B. Horton has just completed a fine residence, and D. Johuson, president of the Bank of Verdigre, is building the finest residence in Kuox . th all its natural advantages of stone quarries and brick yards, d by divect line with Omaha, bids fair to become the leading town of northern » A Colored Fiend Warersury, Conn,, May 3.—Arthur Jack son (colored) of Bristol, while drunk last night, made his wife hold a light while killed the dog with an ax. Ho then took nzor and fatally cut the woman's theoat, I also cut off several of her fingers and but for the urrival of neighbors, who found the brute kicking the dying woman, would probubly to be the cuuse, of exposur fa and lumbi Dr. J it Persoxs who lead o lif are subject to vheumatism,neur: and will find a valuabie remedy in McLean's Voleanic Oil Liniment; banish pain and subdue inammatio. - bber Goods, The manufacturers of H will Rise in R W Youk, May rubber thread good. ispenders and ribbons, have decided to raise the price 83 per cent on account of tho rise in the crade rubber | market There are ats and hich affec and causo sovi | ver uce sud loss to the farmer in L wrk | which may be quickly remedied b, und | of Dy. J H. McLean's Voleaunic Oil 1 The | he | have cut hor to picces. Jackson had satur ated the room with kerosene and evidently in tended burning the house. Jealousy is said | That Tire ‘That extreme tired feeling which {s so dis- tressing and often 8o unaccountable in the spring months, Is entirely overcome by K. od's Sarsaparilla, which tones the whole body, purifies the blood, eu serofula and all humors, cures dyspepsia, creates an appetite, rouses the torpid liver, braces up the nerves, aud clears the mind. We solicit a comparison of Hoo parilla with any other blood purifier in the market for purity, economy, strength, and medicinal merit. Tired all the Time “1 had no appetite or strength, and felt tired all the time. I attributed my condition | to scrofulons humor. I had tried several kinds of medicine without benefit. But as soon as I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla, my appetite was restored, and | my stomach felt better I have now takes nearly three bottics, and T never was so well, Mus. Jesste F. DonseAnre, Pascoag, R. 1. Mrs. C. W. Marriott, Lowell, Mass., was | completely cured of sick headache, which shie | had 16 years, by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druggists. g1; six for g5, Propared by C. 1. HOOD & CO,, Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar (A NEW DIMIGRATION BILL It is Soon to Be Introduced in Both Houses of Congress, THE RECENT INVESTIGATION. Evils of the Contract Labor System and the Difliculty of Checking it— Methods of the Italian Padrone. WASHINGTON, May 3.—[Staft Correspond- ence of Tirt; Br Vithin a fow days it is expected thata new immigration bill will be introduced in duplicate in both houses of con- gress. Tho measure will be the outgrowth of 116 Gxtoilva* JiveaHigaticn yhilcH was) re-i| cently conducted by the joint committee on immigration \hich visited our eastern sea- bords and which was conducted in the main by Hon. William D. Owen of Indiana, chai man; Senators Hale of Maine, s York, McPhe New and Stump Maryland. investigation was the most thorough and its results will be the most important of which hus ever been held on this subject, as it was intended to thoraughly probe the op- erations of our immigration laws, ascertain the effect of our alien labor law, show what is necessary to to bring about a better cn- forcement of the immigration and alien labor laws, aud reach aconclusion us to what Is | needed in the way of further laws upon this | subject. Your correspondent today had a talk with Mr. Ricketts, the clerlc of tho house commit- mittee of immigration who acted as clerk for the joint investizating committee, and he probbly gathered more general information upon the subjects under investigation than most of the members of the committee, Mr, Ricketts is an_ uble nowsy writer and thoroughly comprehends the work of the committee. Iu the course of his talk he re- viewed the work and forecasted the result us follows : “To the port of New York, where four. fiths of our immigrants are landed the work of o committeo was - chiefly. vontined, but : wmittee also extended "its inquiries to STie-pmreuf Boston. “Many important witnesses were examined, and the facts developed will probably result in great and lasting benefits to the country at large. One of the chief points of inquiry was with reference to the operations of tife contract lubor law of 1885, I believe it ha been p clearly demonstrated that the law as it stands is clealy inefiieient and its smployers interested operations a farce. With from Europe in securing cheap with steamship agents in those count - terested in transporting them, it is not difficult to train them to answer a few questions that will enable them to lanid. Tt is the opinion of those most divectly associated with immigra- tion affaivs thatd 1 proportion of the immigrants landed within the last two years haye come under some form of tontract, e: press or implied, and the law cannot reach them, “The ch Boston wa ef object of the committee's visit to to inquire into the advertisement 1 papers by New England's firms utters to take the place of those Lout’ by the Freestone Contractors as- sociation. This associution consists of twen- ty-seven firms, whose names are ull appended t0 the advertisement. They even go 8o far as to state the wages that” will bo paid, and yet they are told by eminent counsel that th are not violating the law. Ifa man comes in response to this ad vertisement he need not confess it. If he should is there a contract? 1f not, the only remaining questions ave whether hie is a con- vict or a pauper, or likely to become a_public chay Inasmiich as thie rate advertised is 2 cents an hour, while the rate in England and Scotland is 15 cents an hour theve will pro! n influx of stone-cutters. th d - Feeling Everybody needs and should take a good spring medicine, for two reasons : 1st, The body 13 now more susceptible to benefit trom medicine than at any other season, 2d, The impurities which have accumulated in the blood should be expelled, and the sys- tem given tone and strength, before the pros trating effects of warm weather are felt. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the best spring medis cine. A single trial will convinee you of its superfority. Take it before It Is too late. The Best Spring Medicine 1 take Hoed's Sarsaparilla for a_spring medicine, and T find it just the thing. It tones up my system and makes me fecl like a diffor- entman. My wifo takes it for dyspepsia, and shie derives great benefit from it. Sho says it is the best medicine she ever took.” F. C. TurNER, Hook & Ladder No. 1, Boston, Mass. Last spring T was troubled with boils, caused by my blood being ont of order. Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilia cured mo. I can recommend it to all troubled with affeo- tions of tlie blood.” J, Scroc, Peoria, 1l Hood’s Sarsaparilla 8old by all druggists. 81; six for §5. Prepared by O, L, HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass 100 Doses One Dollar the men $1.00 per day, and the padrone gets 25 cents, 'In uddition o rotalns tho store or_ Ushanty? privi and has a_monopoly of their trado and his bills aro paid before the wages are pal These privileges ho usually sub-lots. Th he gots their savings and pays no inter ‘Thus his profits are manifold; two or th dollars on the steamship ticket sold to the Italian peasant; the rent of the apartment he occupies; sales of all he consumes; 5 per cent of his wages, aud finally, if he is naturalized, the price of his vote. And all this time the padrono, never betrays his slaves, keeps in £00d faith every promise he makes and warns them against the wiles of the American. Naturally suspicious, they are trained to be doubly so, and s they scldom learn English, they never open communica- tion with'an American, except through an in- ~ terpreter, and then it is never sought. ‘“There are 100,000 Italians in the city of New York: 70,000 are herded in one little dis- ot comprising ouly a few squares in tho of Mott " and Elizabeth strects. Jay Gould might go there tomorrow and be unable directly to employ a hundred, but he could go to a padrone and emple many hundreds as he could use, An ins 3 of publie works in New York testified beforo the commission last weok that there w 8,000 Italians engaged on public works in that city, all under the padrone system; and this comprised %0 per cent of all the workmen s employed at that time. Ten ys cent of the cigars manufactu were made by American workmen, but toda, 90 per cent dre made by foreignérs, chiefly Italians, and the wages have fallen from §1 per week to b But a smrll propo tion of the: immigrants b me naturalized, while a largo proportion, after a few return to Italy with a few hundred dol in “luxury” the vest of their days. wise and thoughtful Italians here, like Celso Moreno of Washington, hav: tendenc s, and live Some avon the padrones, little vesult, They cluim that the Ttalian gov- ernment and its representatives hero wink 1t this system, and silently give it encour ment. g “Tiiese are some of the facts brought out made prominent by the committee, Mr. Pow. the great labor leader, when before the said there was a great in- « the number of undesirablo immigrants, Formerly the immigrant was o man sceking @ better forin of govermment to secure ahome for his family, but a large shave of those coming now are assi or come uuder con- tract. Undel his own observation, where ton ago the workmen in anduboit Serauton Americancitizens, they have been S ven out by the influk of uldss desirable N\ class from Iurope, and been forced to tramp west for employment, their olék places heing o by this new element, who are ignorant, vicious, have no conception of our institutions and no'intention of becoming American cili- zens, But whilo the evils of our modern immi- tion have been made apparent, the cure ult (0 point out, and the views sticns presented by eminent men are widely different as the roads leading from Rome, it remains for the committcs to formulate a law that will sift tho wheat and leave us the grain Prrny 8. HeaTit, Nebraska City Nowspaper Change. Nenraska Crry, Neb,, May 4.—[Special Telegram to Tut: Brr.]—The Press this movning announces a change in the propri- ctorship of that paper, i, L. Wood, tho ener getic editor, having disposed of his int in it to his partuer, B, A. Brown, w sumes the sole proprietorship. Mr. Wol contemplates secking u much-needed chauge of climate, ? in t Kan. City. Iinest and Javgest sxcolled in its up- ek New Coates He Absolu y fi 0of, hotel in Kuiisus polutments. S g 5 Troubles, tevELAND, Muy 3.-The clothing manu- factory of Lehman & Richpan closed yester- day on a chattel movtgage, Liabilities about $1,000,000 and assets tho same. - tice limited to catarrh- Bee bldg. ¥ al dis Birney, pr es of nose und throat. - s I —— The gr st violation of is law Ran into a Farmer's Wagon. | are obably found _in New England, | xpeniced" Crey, Nob, May among tho lumber and fishing in 2 i 0 strics. Tnstead of being a nursery for m to Tute A Miss u ' amen the fishing floet of New | passenger train y v ran into a favmer's - manned by aliens from | team south of the ¢ throwing the horse: ,‘,‘, the Br he veports from the | and man, whose name was not learned, fif i different colle show that theso fish feet over an_embankment, but they estup il have ceased to be distinetively Ame without injury. The wagon was smi- 0 A and_that excepting the owners those w kindling wood. v ) profit most by them liens, Aud then if ~— YOU pass into the int ud the “woods | Headache, neuralgia, dizziness, nerve full of them, Sugland tum- | ness, spasms, sloy curcd by ber forests thousands of Canadians find em- | Miles' Nervine, Sumples froo at Kuhn ployment, and a speeinl agent of the t Co.'s, 15th and Douglas, J ury de) uent, who has fuvestigated the - - matter officially, asserts that 65,000 worlinen e t Layos Returns. from the provinces alone found cmployment NEw Y May 4.—[Speciul in the lumber forests, the sillk cotton |, \ i i ol AT ) mills and other manufactorics in New Ing- | FHE ORI HRO DASIANEILS Y Lhe / land last year, at wages from 20 to 60 per | Orinaco, which avrived here from Berm £4 cent bettér than they conld carn at the same | today, were Mdeut Huyes and dauy employment in Canada, This has displaced | ter 63,000 American workmen, and the money £ o . earned is taken back to Canada at the end of Wa se Burned. ¥ the season. 1t has come to be necessary to | Cuicaco, Ma The Mattoon furnit ) employ these men as they arvive, for it has | company's warehouse ut Union and Krie ! continued so long that ftive workmen 1 streets was burned lust night; loss $i5,000. too scarce tomeet the demand. They have gone 5 i . west or elsewhiero 10 escupe siich compotition Baker's Pure Cod Liver Oil, All along the coasts of Maine, within < e 5 = m‘;w o2 Canada.t said:the offold) 1]\];11"\\‘)A]<v} 40 years.) ‘.\1~.. Balker's { ) wlsion for throat and lung troubles, Al " 1y all labor is pevformed by this migra: [ gibision & i oy Hmigration, theso ‘birds of passuge! hielead dx only about 10 per cent of whom eyer becoe Meyer-Bowen Fight Postponed. { citizens, Two-thirds of the employes on the T e N | | Grand Trank railvond, from the Jine down to | NEW ORLEANS, La., May 3.—The ight ; rtland ave said to be Canadians, and even | tween Billy Meyer and Andy Bowen v . | sehool committees go across the borderand | Postpoucd tve weeks, ™, i | employ teachers. This influx is so Al at 4 | this season of the y the Maine Cen | tral vailroad bas put on ext ars Lo accom wdate the trafic, Luropean immi y | gudnts, feaving detention by the authorities i | at"Boston, lund at Halifax and reach the New Englund states by way of th distriet attorney of \ v 10 tuke cognizance | til the law shall be wmplified | “Probably the worst evil connected with our modern {mmigration is the Italian pa. drone systew. Twenty-seven thousand [tal- jan iminigrants w ande ut York | Last year, aud prob: two-thirds of them ave subject to a bondago almost as pe as the African n thad prevail the southern states thirty years ugo i | wre brought heve by the Italian banker, who 3 i3 also a specilutor on the labor mavket. The ! | are induced to come by a promise of higher wages than th 0 e in Italy. A la borer accustomed to 20 cents a duy is casily persusded by an offer of a dollar, und so the ticketis sent. He reaches Auierica, pre- E pared to answer all questions put to him by he authovities, He goes direct to Elizabeth {f not met sooner by the padroue o his ugont. He I4 put to work on streets, on & Absolutely Pure. ud or else o th un army of b the Irone furnishes 100 men at | o Contractor pays country Aractor, por day to the and 1 dort, Aug of leavenin of ta str 133 art agth, ug powder. Bighe 8. Guverament ke~