Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1890, Page 5

5 A nn ™ there come an ubiding bloss B THE OMAHA. DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 1890 PRIDE OF HUSBANDRY is Exemplifid in the Farmers' Congross, It National | DELEGATES FROM ALL THE STATES. Council Bluffs Transformed Intoa Magnifi- | cent City of Ceres, WELCOMES EXTENDED ON ALL SIDES, An Eloquent Address Delivered by Governor Boies of Towa, . OPENING SPEECH BY COLONEL KOLB. How the Town Has Been Beautificd to the Delight of the Visitors and the Programme . for the Season In many respocts the tenth annual meeting of the 1 armers’ congress, now in ses sion in Council Bluffs, promises to be a greator success than any of its predecessors. Those present are representative men, im bued~ with honest and progressive: ideas, earncst in their efforts for the ad- vancement of the mnation's agricultural classes and interests; the programme arranged and partly arried out s one of more than usual inter and the plan of e inment proposed by the citi- zens of Council Bluffs leaves nothing nndone to insure the comfort of those participating in the mectimg. The first meeting of the session was held yesterday morning at Dohany's ope house. Long before the appointed hour the str were thronged with delesates and tors who spent the time viewing the ex hibits und decorations made by the enterprising business men of the bluff city Nearly ¥ busivess house in the was decorated claborately and cvery window had a group of intercsted sight-seers before it during the hours preceding the meeting. The session was programmed to open at 10 o'olock, but owing to the delay in Gov Boies' arrival, it was 11 o'clock session was called to order. When the doors were finally opened, those in waiting vapidly filled the space alloted to visitors. And they wi for their promptness i 3 The delegates occupied the parquet and dress-circle of the house and tested its ca- pacity. Lvery seat in the house was taken up by spectators and the aisles were crowded by the overflow. Among: those present on the stage, in addi- tion to the officers of the congress and the speakers we Hon, George 1. Wrignt, George Champ, J. F. Kimball, Colonel W. . Sapp, 1. J. Evans, Rev. T.J. Atwater, C. W. Suyder, Hon, At 11 o'clock the officers of nor before the the had all tuken their seats and with Gov congross mor prolonged up- Boies who was greeted with plause. HON. B. F. CLAYTON'S REMARKS, Hon. B. I, Clayton of Council Bluffs, sec- retary of the congress, called the meeting to order. He said: “When I promised the members of this body in Montgomery, Ala., last year that, if they could come to 1owa this year, we would give them a hearty welcome, 1 was not mis- taken. I kuew the people hereand this dis- play and these people verify my promise, Mr, Clayton then introduced the president of the c s, Hon. R. F\. Kolb of Alabama, wh was also warmly welcomed. President Kolb called upon Rev, C. W. Blodget of Des Moines, who offered the fol- lowing invocation: REV. . W, BLODGETT'S PRAYER. . . . " * . We thank Theo for this congress of the represcatative men of this nation who ure tille.s of thesoil. Thoy coma hither with thoir into ploughshares and their spears into prun- ing hooks. They come not knowing the cot- ton belt of the South or the corn and wheat area of the north—but one great republie, They come secking not political ~enhance- meut, but the thorough crystallization of the best bruin and the consecration of the same to the one work of so conquering nature that from valley to mountain, from storm and sunshine, from flood ' and tempest, fron heat and cold, may come the richest blessings to our race, making even luxuries of plant, flower, cereal and fruit the possession of the toiling poor. Do Thou, o, (Lm, s. words beaten in this great work bless this con® gress. From and out of every deliberation may & to the people of this nation In a special manner bless those who have come hither from the south and east laud. As they, with us, stand at this opening gate of the broad plains’ and towering mountains of the new west, may they, with all who gather here, diviie a higher conception of the possibilities of this land, and thus through aunited wisdom, help Prepare in advisory counsel to the congress of these united states and help adjust, in all questions of commerce and confiict of capital and labor by these set Torth, so, that this vast agricultural area of our national domain may be fitted for the coming millions. 1n all the gatherings public and private of this congre wmay brotherly love be found. We all need Thy spirit that we may justly ap- prenend and know and love. The power with which Thou hast clothed us is tervible. May we use it aright. And now we put ourselyes, O God, coufidingly and trustingly in Thy bands, In our personal lives deal w oth best. Send us to the sun lakes of the north, the crow free west., Make our homes or professious large ox pre- acribed, but in every providence keep us true % our rewublie, to truth, o the God who made u and to our brother man whose cry yipathy, help and love is borne to us on Vi breeze, Wo pray widely th us as seem- south or the eust or the or the loved ones in the homes so separated and represented in this Bougress. v the angels charge of them so @hat the pestilence that walketh in darkness and the destruction that waketh at noonday may not come nigh their dwelling. Let Thy word dwell in all the people of this nation richly, Giveto all our rulers and legislators wis- Make Thy gospel, O God, toall of usas a chanting angel and may there come to all swoet messages so that in this congress all who may speak or listen may find Thy word and truth and the humanitarianism of Jesus in thought and voice. Hear us, wo pray Thee, in Christ's name. Amen, President Kolb then introducod Governor Boies, who was to welcome the Congress to Towa.' The governor's apposranco was & signal for another burst of wpplause that was enthusiastic and prolonged. Ho said: GOVERNOR BOIES' ADDRESS, + Mr. President and Gentlemen-- It has been made a pleasant duty on my part as a repre- sentative of my stato to extend to the me: bers of this body a cordial welcome by cople of Towa and to assure you of the deep uterest they take in everything that pertaing to the advancement of tho agricultural lnter- ests of the coun It is a matter of sincere gratification to feel that in this capacity I represent a locality whose fertility of soil and healthfulness of climate has won for it an enyiable reputation ‘wherever its advantages ure understood, and whose people are worthy representatives of the best type of the human family. But, gratified as wo are by the reflections of this character, lhu{ arenot the source of the greatest satisfaction. As we look upon “Ahe body of men assembled bere we cannot forget that during many of the years in ‘which some of us have lived such a gathering 83 this would have been impossible. While then, s now, we were a people of one blood and wembers of one government, there was ina soclal and largely in u business way, & Tice that Wv'ded a section of a common coun- { lifts her youthful head an | occasioned a spontanc tr‘y; and made strangors, {f not worse, of those who lived upon its opposite sides, In the membership of this congross, volun. tarily nssembled as It s for the promotion of comimon interests and \'nmpvw('wl of delegutes | from every section of our land, we read the | indisputable evidence that anew and better | era his dawned upon our national life, To- day lowais anxious to extend her hand to the representatives of every state in_the union with the same feeling of devoted re- gard for each, and to welcome them as broth- ors of a single faith engaged ina common work that looksto the advancement of a great interest upon which her own prosperity must depend. Further, we may rejofce that the time has come when from the east and west, from the north and south can be gathered representa- tive men who st together for the promo- tion of the welfare of a class whose labors not only produces most of the raw mater ne y for the support of sixty lions of our own people, but supplies in addi- tion thereto 75 per cent of our vast exports which enabies us to maintain an enviable po sition in the commercial exchanges of the world, ‘oday in the center of civilization whose progress lias been the wonder of other na- tions in the heart of a conntry that rivals in agricultural wealth the fiells from which starving millions were fed in ancient times of famine, supplied with domestic animals suficient for the wants of an empire, lowa poinuts to a record that compared with equal urea is without parallel upon the face of the globe as a food- producing state, It was indeed _appropriate, s well as complimentary, that to her should be assigned the honor of entertaining on this oceasion & body of men whose purpose is the further advancement of material interests which have already made her sogreat, and of whose phenomenal development upon her own soil she s so justly proud. Not less abundant i1 the w hospitality than in the preduction of her soil, Towa extinds to you her heartiest welcome and wishes you unal ss i the work for which you are asse In the absence of T alth of her o s nbled, L. Coftin of Fort Dodge, Ia., Mr. John Scottof Nevada, Ia, was called upon to deliver the address of welcome on behalf of the farmers of Towa. After complimenting the audience on the interest shown by their presence in the af- fairs of the congress, and_expressing his re- gretof the absence of Farmer Coftin, Mr. Scott said: MR, SCOTT'S REMARKS, Towa isnot greatest in cotton ; Towa 1s not greatest in corn; lown maynot be greatest m corn, in wheat or fruits, but, when it comes toan all round state, Towa's horn of plenty pours a greater profiision of wealth than thut of any state of this, the greatest ation of the carth, I come here to wi youand instead I am boasting. The g nor has spoken of the phenomenal growth of This Iowa did not grow, Sk glant. Iowa sprang from the ihood, full, rounded, complete into m We welcomeyou to our state of which weare so prou v iustitution the favmers of the state—and the farmers ave the s ate—we bid you After an inspiving medley by the midst of which the touch upon us burst of applause, Rev. G. W. ( , the “*poct preacher,” pas- tor of the Col tional chureh at Council Bluffs, read the following poei : of! REV, G. W. CROFT'S POEM. Hail, benefactors of ourrace, Of brainand brawn and honest face, For you my turp I gladly string, Andjoin this hearty welcoming. From every portion of the land, From praivic, mount and ocean strand, “rom where the blue St. Lawrence flows ‘o where the yellow orange grows. From Chesapeake's storied harbor bay To that of golden Monter From led fields on boundie: To where the pearly cotton reigus; From soil where drst our futhers trod, To soil just as it came from God, You come with thought and purpose true, Right royally we welcome you plaius You come like spring whose magic wand To verdire woos the wintry land, Like sun-kissed sails, from o'er the sea With spices of blest Araby. You stand, not as the pi On barren rock, 'mid dy You wake not in some dre; To meet the ¢ ims stood, ¥ wood; surprise am of savage eyes, The wilderness has passed away, The gloomy night has turned to day And thro' this fair Edenie bloom With senes of triumph you have come. And hero you como to represent. A land of freedom and content, The brightest, fairest, ‘neath the sun Since history its page beguu. For since blest Paradise was lost And man to sink or swim was tossed Noland, no laud, no time has equalled this, No passing hour'so full of bliss. And let it ba forever known Taat freeman sitting on the thrown Of learning, justico and of state Have made the nation good and great; That industry and thought combined Have to the past its dead consigned And placed the living in the van ‘And unified thoe race of men. This brotherhood of thought and toil Has wreathed with flowers the virgin sofl, From north to south from east to west, And made the world a welcome guest, Arms wide we fling toall who come Tomake our land their chosen home, speoch Whate'er their color or the But loyalty we ask of each, One flag, the st Ons land, however partie: One law, and that the people One impulse moving upward And yet there is a primal force, “Thie soul of empire and its source, And one to which all others bow, The silent moving of the plow. Of all things that lies at the base, As this shall fail so fails the race, As this suecce | things tend Forever toward u higher end. The man who turns the generous sod Walks closest with bis maker, God. In faith he looks to him who gives The elements by which he lives, To him who makes the seasons new, Who sends the sunsh: rain and dew. Who broods o'er orchards and o'er field That to His smile their fruitage yield. There's purit in every breath, There’s purity above, beneath ; Theres purity where'er he goes, And pure tho blood that in him flows, And so he makes the desert bloom, Th rfloats soft with sweet perfume, His products on our boards ave spread, The feathered songsters, 0o, are fed, Not harvests only does he brin But eities vise, and spindles sing The iron horse and palace car Follow the gliding of his share, And from these forms strong men are born, T'he highest places to adorn; And purity of braiu and heart They bring to council hall and mart. Aud if our cities we shall save From rank corruption’s yawning grave, Where vice and awful vortex swirls, "Twill bo by country boys and girls. O, for the full and throbbing vein, The honest leart and thinking brain, The buoyant step, the sparkling eye, And chavm of al, shmphicity. O, welcome, then, thrice welcome alll May richest blessings on you fall; May wisdom, concord and good will Like dew of heaven on each distill. And while success you seek to gain, Let dull despondency be slyin With courage true enter the lists, A noble baud of optimists, MAYOR MACRAE'S ADDRESS. It is with the greatest pleasure thatl, as the chief oxccutive of a western city, in the midst of the tinest agricaltural region of our country, extend to you a cordial welcome, When men noted” for thelr achievements on the field of battle or in the domain of letters, or even in the palitical arcna, appear in our midst, the masses hasten to do them honor and lavish praises upon them and even strew flowers in their pathway. But I speak the sentiments of the citizens of our city when I say to rou, the repre atives of the honest Yeomunry of & country, extending from the St. Crix river on the eastern border of Maine to the Alaskan peniusula on the west, from tue Lake of the Woods on the north to the southwest pass in the delta of the Mis- sissippl river on the south, that we will not be content to shower you with flowers, but we give you ome and all the freedom of our city and even more, adopt you into our fawilies, | It is quite uunecessary for we 0 speak of the position you hold as tillers of the soil; your ranks have furised both the brais and sinow of our country, From the farm, presi- dents, eminent jurists, wise statesmen, groat divines, noted physicians, raiload presidents 4 mon of letters have come ond [ am in- clined to the opinion that I seebefore me today men who are capable of filling any of the exalted positions t 1 have mentioned, You have sclected a city, for holding thisyour touth annual meeting, Which boasts of being, it notin the principal at least inone of the rincipal agricultural states of the union and in the most productive county in the United States, More corn and swine are raised in Pottawattamio county than in any other. Our sol and climate aré such that cereals grow inabundance; all the fruits grown in the temperate zone are here, plentiful and delicious. We raise horses, cows and sheep, the fist of which are winning distinction in' the speed ring, the next gladdens the housewife with an abun- danecof butterand cream, and the last fur- nishes the wool that has no superio No class of our citizens has more inflience both socially and politically than tho class you are representing tolay ; the balance of power is in its hands and when it exerts that power our most wholesome laws are made. It matters not whether you represent the rice or cotton flelds of theé south, the manu- facturing localities _of the east, the lumber districts of the north the or mining cmps of the the jucing lands of the great Missouri wo extendto you a welcome and bid you to enjoy all we've got and draw on us for more, for our hospitality, you will find, 18 inexhaustible, In reply to words of welcome, Hon. A, Smith of Kansas addressed the meeting, Mr. Smith_began by referring tothe known w. modesty of Kan and then referred to 4s the greatest state in the union to Kuansas, he modestly added. Smith assurad the delegates of the appreciation of the words of welcome, Hercomplimented the peonle of Council Blufts upon the display made. It was magnificont, e sald, for lowa but would be considered very ordinary in Kunsas, o had prepared a speech, he sad, but the preceding speakers lad spoiled it for him and no now proposed to talk a Jittle about a furmer, straight from the shoulder and to the point he delegates, hie said, were not prosent as representatives of any particular stite or seciion, but had met for the purpose of advancing the general interests of the farmers of the nation. Mr. Smith complimented in the highest terms the excellent work of President Kolb ir efforts in and Secre making the successful, of the best e its history Clayton for thei nd presont me coption, he suid, sived By the congress in t the people of Towa aud and Council Bluffs he expressed. the appreciation of t legates, ther response o ¢ was offered by F\. I of Alabamn. Mr, Nesbitt spu raestly of his appreciition of the weleo tended. Hesawin it the disappearance of scctional prejudices and the linking of the union _ states in stong bonds Tho fumers of the _south, he said, unit wnd marching , and on tk uner is ibed I hts for All, Special Fuavors to, They wero willing to meet the farmers of the north and east and west more than half w and join them in tight for their commn interest, advantage and protection, Mr. Nesbitts address was a brilliant one and evoked froquent outbursts of appliuse, He was followed by President Kolb, who delivered his annual adde s follows : PRESIDENT KOLR'S ADDRESS, Through the beneficence of Infinite wisdom we are aqin perr pury ed to assemble inannual of discussing ing such ommendations 7 in view the better- iculturists and the toi count Only two wi session for the questions and ms and demand ment of A ing masses of our : in that sume historic hull where 20, ou lust met, in the city of Montgomery, the beauti- ful cily of my own na te, the farmers alliance of Alabarna held its annual session, and_by a 10Us Tising vote re- solved: *“I'at we send grecting to our brothers of the great northwest, saving to them ‘hold the fort, for we are coming, 1eav- behind us the dead past, and looking for- el to the living future) 1 bring this ing (o our brethven of the northwest to- vith the assurance that it expresses the sentiments of every true alliauceman in the south. Since our last annual meeting the year 1359 has fallen into they abysmal depthis of the past, the waving fields of golden wh and opening bolls of fleecy cotton have been con- verted into food aud raiment. Aunother sced timohas come; the silvery singing min, the dancing winds and the life giving sunlight of the present year, have brought us **the blade, the stalk and the full ripe corn in the ear.” With grateful appreciation for the prospect of a generally abundant est, and for wer- ciesof Infinite goodness, we will aguin ad- dress ourselves reverently and fearlessly to the discharge of the_grave duties that. d volve upon us personally and collecti Never in the history of our government hav ‘we needed more than now the greatest staw manshipand wisest councils to prevail, It is ourduty as members of this congress that all questions should be discussed calmly, dispas- stomutely and impartially, thatwise conclu- sions miy be reached and such suggestions and recommendations madens will be beuefi- cial in solving the _important ques- tions mow agitating tho minds of the masses of our people. Combinations, trusts, monopolies and syndicates are being formed and managed in the interest of a favored fow, and a spirit of unrest and dis- quictude prevails to a large extent. The peo- vle want relief, they are asking for it, and they have a nght to demand i Let all our deliberations be guidedby aspirit of fairness, of justice, of wisdom and of good feeling. Let all questions be discussed and handled as statesmen and patriots should handle great uestions, and great and lasting good will be the result of this congress. ‘ I feel that 1 could not more acceptably en- gage your attention nor occupy the time as. signed tomy annual address tian to briefy discuss existing agronomic conditions, 1 am constrained to pelieve thatl hazard nothing in the assertion that there has been a de- cline in agricultural pursuits, and that A mg fcan producers are not as prosperous as citi- zens enguged in other vocations, Andwe ma; well pause toascertainif the statement is cor rect and to determine the cause thercof. The following statistics, gleaned from relia- ble political publications, fully establish the postulate have just enunciated. In 1850 the farmers owned nearly threefourths of the argregate wealth of our countr: 1560 about one half; in 18% about one third ; and in 1300 barely onefourth. The decrease of the agricultural wealth is the more shock ing because during this period the aggregate wealth of the country imumensely increased. But let us examine the statistical facts more in detail and select for comparison_the period from 1850 to 1860, when high tariff laws did not prevail, and from 1860 to 1330 when such enacti of federal finance was inaugurated, enumeration discloses the fact that the was §3,271 H in 1850, 810, n value from 1850 to 180 was 6. F'rom 1860 to 1850 &3,352,051,~ vears increase from 155 to 1800 was greater than the twont: ars in- crease from 1560 to 1530, by $20,8 From 15% to 1850 the average yearly increase was &3 From 180 1o 15% the average y rease was $177,6002,588, Although the values ofall other kinds of property i od largely during this latter period, and the was blessed with a general prospegity, theaverige value of farms increased yearly 104, per cent during the de- cade from 180 to 1560, and only 2}g per cent perannum from 1860 to 153, It must be obvious to the candid and unbi- ased mind, from the above figures, that agri- culture was oppressed by extraneous, unnat- ural and unjust influences, From 1850 to 1800 the increase in the acre- age of farms was 113,040,000 being an average rly increase of 11,364,000 acres, and from 1860 to 1830 the increise’ was only 6,444,000 acres por annum, And this latter was dur- inga period when theagricultural population increased 20 per cent, and the aggrezate wealth of the country incroased 45 per cent during the decade from 1570 to 1330, But this depression of agricultural proper- ties was not confined to real estate, for Ifind that the value of crops in 156) was 2,007, 46, in 1551 only #,043,500,45l. The average price of cereal crops in 1867 was about §1 and in INM7 about 50 cents per bushel. Indoed, had I time, Icould pile up conclusions to prove that there must be some baleful causo, co-extensive with American territory, that can alike dopreciate the value of the rustling corn that laughs under the afuence of the western prairie, the golden wheat that gracefully bends and nods to the breezes that sweep from Novada's lofty mountalus, and the fleecy staple, which at- tains perfection nowhere but under the balmy and temperate clime of my beloyed souttiland. To my mind that direful cause, that maliguant ageacy, is the iniquitous its did exist, and the present policy An financial logislation of the United States government. The question may be asked what laws of congress arb inimicalto the interest of the producer! Theirname ds leglon, and 1 4 pw of the most hurtful: First, ' jntheact of Feb 1802, in which greenheles were made a lo tender for all debts, public aud p cept duties on impotts and inte public deit, which must be paid in coin This in direct colfet with the oviginal intentof the act, dopreciatad the greenbacks, gave an undue value o gold and was the first tightening of the coilof the great Wall street bonconstrictor. Then the national banking system, an ar- rant plece of class legiskation, which was de liberately planned forthe purpise of robbing tho peoplo, Next, the contraction of cu r- rency in destroying greenbacks by the act of April, 1566, The cffects of thislaw wore ruinois to the farmer. A debt wascon- tracted when wheat as well asother products was high, matured when these products were low. For illastration the average price of wheat in ISS5 was lwer than it had been in forty years, On August 1, 1565, the national de was nearly 82800, 000,000, The prineipl of that debt has boen i at the ratoof 0,000,000 a year, bosi the annual interest which has ageregated per cent of theoriginal sum. Still with i all that has been paid and the estimated cash in the treasury, with about onethird of the original debt yot unpaid, while it would have required 1,600,000,00 bushels of wheat in Augzust, 1865, to pay the wholo debt, it would ve required nearly as much or at loast 1,300,000, bishels to pay the remainder twenty years liter, and that when the princi- pal and ” int already paid amounted to argely more than the original det Thon tho *‘eredit strengthend by which bonds were 1 : coin, and the refunding act of 1570, could have bem but ono purpose for these netarious laws, and that was to cr a moneyed olegarchy, i aristocracy of w The damage tothe Amorican proplo by these act” of able in There acts, and the amount of money of which it robbed them under color of law, are well nigh inalculible, And here 1 me add, in onler to impress with the importanceof having repres r nong yourselves in congr when these bills passed, thero were 186 ban k- ers and _many bondholders and their attor- neysin the two houses of congress, with a verysmall numbor of farmers, Again in 157, the plutocratic now grown into a distinct and cried likethe Leach's danehrel The demonetization of silver wis the replyof our corrupt and subservient law- makers to their uvgent demands, Thus was utation , that, the dollarof our fathers dethiror and later in Janu 1875, the “redemption act’ was passed, gold now almost entircly held by tho plutocrats, was mae a crowned king and the financial serfdom of American producers com- pleted. Oune of the most important cconomic tior before the country, and which ars more divectly than any other upon the whole people is the tari, The two extremiey opposing forees on this subject, are those who are known s fre traders, and those known as protectionists Of the rst named, those who believe that all the taxes to maintain the govern went, shoull bo Luid on property, there are very fow, and they are not aggressive in the assertion of their views, and have never atterapted to orizanize to propisrate or enforce them, The other class d are the protectionists, v nd agyressively maintain that Alne can_industries shall bave the fostering care of the general povernment tothe extent in someinstinces of hatinga bounty given the manufacturer, to ail hinin supplying par- ticular class of goods to American consumers, in_competition with foreign goods. Free trade, absolute 18 the dogmaof one class and protection per e, a tarifl, not mere- ly toraise revenue, but a tacit laid on for- iszn goods, to prevent competition with do- ic products, istho demand of theother. jere is another class, which, while it is ling to protect American industries, by a tarifl so lovied asto aford an advantige in the race to American products, is not. willing eithor tosee atarif laidon imports that will check allimportations, thus forcing the hi est price on consumers, or even such a tarifl as will cause an enorme arplus to be piled up in thetroasury 1o excite the groed of c pidity, ortempt the extravagance of the rec ess, and at the samo time pay enormots bounties to the manntacturer, all coming oit of the pockets of the people. The two great political partics have within their raks ad- voeites of all these theories. “The agricu ltural cluss is probably more in- terested [n these questions than any other class, Tne farmers use all the articlasof do- mestic 1ife that theothers do, beside many that noother class does, and v direct benefitout of a taviff than any other, I would notadvise a hostile hand to be raised against any American indus 1 would goas far as [ could to foster every ex- isting one and bring into existerice new one until I reachied the point where the princiy was fulfilled of tho greatest good to thegr estnumber. Thatfar 1would go, but not a step farther, and 1 would strike down with relentless hand any system which attempted to envich the few at the expense of the masses. Millions would I give for develop- ment, but notone cent for tribute. 1tis our duty to study this question undor the broadest sense of patriotic citizenship and determine it in a fair, impartial mauner, un- inflienced by any motive save alone the de- sireto deal justly by all classes. The farmers of this farored land have at all times borne their share of public responsibil- ity —farmer soldiers and statesmen—sell sic- ritiding patriots always, subduers of the forest and plain; unmurmuring taxes payers; great wealth producers—thoy have borne their share of heat and burdenof the day, and it must not be accounted strange it thiy demand that there shall be no class legisla- lior:lln ull the statute books of this browd land. Let the taxes besolaid as to raise sufi- cient money to meet the wants of the gov-ri- ment economically administered—not a dollar mora—no bountics to trusts and combines. Ask your legislators to give an account of their stewardship. Ask them to point to the legislation proposed by them, which would have put one mor penny in your wockets; andif you doask them for bréad do not let them turmn you away with a stone, ‘While no amount of remedial legislation can remove the effects of many of these laws, still much can be accomphshed by in- telligeht and united action, Indeed, I muy ay much has already been done. The benef- icent influence of this congress has been felt, thrughout the whole land, Aided by or- ganized effort from alliances, granges and other agricultural bodies, it hasaroused the peopie to a sense of their wrongs, and the silent but potent ballot of the farmer is be- coming a dominant factor in American poli- tics, The toesin of reform has been sounded from the lakes to the gulf, from the Alle- hanies to the Pacifie slope, and a bloodless but beatific revolution has been inaugurated. Georgia and Kansas, North Carolina_and Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota and lowa, have sounded the clarion note of the farmers' freedom from Platocratic thralldom and the grand diapason rings through the comidors of the national capitol, The farmers' allianes and industrial u nion of America was established to annihilate monopolies, destroy trusts and break down combinations formed«1e inure the farme What could be more patriotic than its declara- tion of purposes: 1, To labor for the @ducation of the agricul- turl classes in t ieice of economical go ernment, in 4 strictly non-partisan spirit. 2, To develop a bettar state mentally, mor- ally, socially and finaneially, §. To create a better understanding for sus- taining civiloficers in maintaining law and order. 4. Constantly tostrive'to secure entire har- mony and good will among all wankind, and brotherly love among ourselyes. 5 o supiress peronal, local, sectiond and national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry and all selfish ambition, To these were added.—To endorse the mot- to4"In all things essential, unity; and in all things charity.’” The brightest jewels w hich it garners are tho tears of widowsand or- phans ; and its imperative commands are to Visit the homes where lacerated hearts are bleeding; toassuige the suffering of o broth- eror asister; to bury the dead; to care for tho widows and educate the or- phans; to excrciso chapily towards offenders; toconstrue words and deeds in their most favorable light, granting honesty of purpose aud good intentions o others ; and to protect the principles of the alliance unto death. Its laws are reason and equity, its cardinal doctrines mspire purity of thought and lifeand its intentions are ‘peace o earth and good will toward men.' Under this banner are marshalled the dis- ciplined veterans of the grange, side by side with enthusiastic recruits of the sub-alli- ances—all animated by one holy purpose in a united effort for our home and country, This great defensive movement of the farmers has already inaugurated a peaceful but profound revolution, & Lmportant and beneficil in its offects and rosults as those achioyed at York- town or Runiymede. Thisrevolution today extends from the St. Lawwnce to the gif anud from the Atlantic (o the Paific; has & deeper and more mduring powet behind it than is genenlly credited, and it e that may teuly botermed the ‘irroprossible on- flict.” Partians may revile, the press ma ridicule hirdings may prevariate, mnd the slaves o monoy may scoff and seek to bo- little, but the great masses of the poo- plearenroused tothe dangers which threiten their liberty, to the power that contricts fininces, and by ontnl of money, rgulites wiges and ates prices for the fruits of your labor and the projuctsof your toil. T Satuation is undentood, The prblem is ful compreionded. The romely is well kno The irrepressible conflict between organized producers and laborors is on hand, Tt will abide with us until a solition shall be ad. Tt will be the controlling idea, the overshad- owing purpose inpolitics witil it shall bo set- tlea. [ congratulite you poploof the great northwost that you have 1o impedinent no barrier to a wiseand intelligentsolution. No blick hordes of ignorane nienaces you or your sifety, No fear disturbs you from other than the confronting enemy.” Youare capablo and coupeteat to deal dimetly and eflectively with it and for ono I have no doubt of theresult of the confii The south iswithyouin heart,in sympathy wd inse- tion; and with our projudices abandomed, the bitterness and acimony of the past forgotien, and a stem determinatin to join hads, and efforts in this great conflict for self- rnt«‘r\u“uu and disenthrallment, therecan s 1o doubtthatthe three millon producers and laborers will march in timo to the saite music, with thesame grand inspiration and thesamo holy purpose, and with giid ance from on high, thattheday s not far distant when pitrios from one end toth other of this grand and gloious country c rejoicothat the government of the peéople, for the people aud by the people has bo: assurel withoquil rightsto all and favors to none God speed the good we until our state and fede: 1 pee Lot usnot rest Istatio boks shall contain oniy such laws s ante *equal rights to all and speciil fayors (o none.” Let ussend hoiest and intelligent men tothe federal congress who will roestalish the froe_ coinage of siiver, depse the goden God of Will street, and reduce the glittring wsurper to an equality with his anent brother. Let us hi 1 the lygislaion reme erwise necessiry o protect all o ad conditions ofuen the ‘ina- licnable vights of lifo, liberty andthe pur- suit of happines.” Let all this be done within the spitit of the wnstitution of our fathors, which € “The most wonderful k offat o given timo by the brain ail pirpose of man.”’ Let thee thingibe doncandthen ever me an willtruly bea freemanand our beloved country becine a land of pes and plonty, Th finanee as o Benjumin ( enanmunend thecommittee on WL on,of wedonia, la., man; A. W. Swmith, of Kansis and K Jones, of Alabama, Theother commitieos will be aunoaced later. Adjourned to?o’elck p m. he Aftemoon Session. The farmers werenot quite so prompt in getting f dinn the were in gomg to itandit wis newrly 3o' whenProsident Kolb called the convention to order for the afternoon session, Theattendance wis even larger than that at the meeting of the momingand the inter oot minifested in the procediigs both by the delegutes and the spectators was very Led. Thefirstwork was the appininent of o committee on finances. President Kol ap pinted as the committee, B, T. Claytn of lowa, A. W. Smith of Kanws md T. K Jonesof Alibama. The Nebraskn delogates amivel earl the afternoon and we ship in the convention. tlemen compos lano, Lee Pu Sp rpen ter, in umitted to menber- The folloving gen- he delegation: V. S, De Pupiilin . Brewster, W. Koy, Papillion; J. B. Rus. H. A Fister, Waloos C. C. , Swreseo; D, M. Laughlin, Bertha R, F'. Jones, Lyous. Ona callof states the fllowing gentlemen were chosin s d conmitiee on resiutions : Alabama, A.B. Brassil: (olondo, John Churches; Andian, H. F. Work ; lowa, & : Kansas,John Kelley; M Michigan, 1. D. Buell ; Missouri, U. S, H. Sutherlan : Nebraska, W, Ralph Aee; A North Dakota, LT Or P, Robertson; Penn [ Smith; South Caroli I J. Moore; South Dalkeota, S.G. Updyke; Tennessee, C. A Mee; Wisconsin, E. yoming, 1. N. Bond Mr, Kelley of Kansas, offered thafirst sub- jeet] for the consideration of the committee on resolutions. He presented a telegram from the board of tide at Wichita, Kan., asking the convention to pass a resolition denand- ing the passago by congmss of the Butter worth anti-open bill, Mr. Kelley wanted the request of the telegiam comylied with, but the convention could notsee it that way and the matter wasreferred to the commitiee on resolutions, It appeirs that there have been lively times in some of the former sessionsof the congress on thedisposition of resoutions in the committee meetings, **To sccure har mony andan understanding of thothing, as be put it, Mr. Smith of Kansas moved that the committee on resolitions re- port upm al mitters referrel to them, cither favorably or unfayorably, and that the reports of the eommittoe b acted upon by the congrss in the order reported from the committee, There was some opposition to this plan, but the majority of the members considered the scheme a good one and the motion prevailed, PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN'S N\PER, The first paper of thoaftemoon was real v W. L. Chamberlain, presiderit of the lowa agriciltunl colegoat’ Ames, m the subject: SExisting Facts and Laws that Tjure Agri- culture.”” Mr, Chamberlain said: The facts are both natiral and social, laws, too, may be natural or o 3 Montana, W, Delano; New Mexico, M. W, The ol The tirst fact | mention that has harwed agriculture is undue agricultural propugandism, By this [ mean undue haste, onthe part of goy- ernment and people, todispose of andsettle up our mational domain of farming lands, This manifests itself in the immense land grants to railyays, made inorder to duce them to push on into unsettlel and arid regions, and tothe Pacific. At the time, we all wanted congress to make these grants, Now, with our eyes wider open,we blame congress for it. The same ‘-unduepropi- ndism” was seen in giving lomestonds, tree claims, ete, and sdling our best lands at_merely noninal prices, to inducesctusl settioment and tillage of the sol. We can see now that this policy, pursued for thirty years or morm, has unduly expided, and, 8till worse, scattered our agricultu It multiplied the number of farns and farmers, and incressed and heaped up the quantity of farm products far fister than even our pat- ent laws and our protective tarifl laws com- bined could increase the manufacturing and commerciyl industries and population that alone could furnish consumers for thoso products at paying prices, 1o, whitever else may or miy nol be true of u proective tarifl, it seers to be true that agriculty prodicts grown on the inflated _isig of pro- tocted labor find it very hard to €ompele succossfully in foreign taarkets with pro- ducts of the cheap agriculturl labor of other lands, Boundlss areas of cheap lands, togethor with labor-saving nachinery, was thoightto be protection ough for agricultural labor, Fora time, anl even down to about 182, the facts seemed to sustain this view. We gt good prices for our grain and meats,und it was thought this would edure; tiat 1, many of us thought that, with ourchep land and our labor-stying muachinery, we could continue to nise grain lower than the cheap labor of the older countries not aided by 0 good machinery. The facts secmed o sustain this theory, = But kem observers saw thatthe factsat that time were abuormal; that England took our great wheat surplu of 1579 aud *8), forexample, it good fgures, simply because theworld's supply was short. That such was the case was shown froom the fact that soon after 1579 our high prices here arove Englmd lo creats mew supplies in India. Then, as it happend, the world's supplies, including this new lcrese from India, w quite abundant for a fow pars, beginning with 1530, and our prices fell off respnsively, in pite of general shortage per acre fa this country and couse- quent small surplus forexport. It thus ap- pears that it is theworll's total shorlage or abundance that regulats prices of what we have to export, and that when the world has @ surplus our ex port sul'lnlu!, at least, must compate with cheap forelgn labor, and that, therefors, our only salety isto hive popula tionto consume on the averige nearlyall our crop. A smill exportsurplis soms not to rogilate the priceof the great bulk at home. IA\ “Pw export surplus soems in part 10 regu- ateit The natural remedy has already be applied, tosuspend and teduce over-pro- ducion, Lad grants to railvays hwo coaed by common consent; the gool, non- arullandis narly all sold or taken inclaing; thaarid regions aro returning their discon agel farmers to other ocen pitions or 0 edst eraagriclture; the uunecesary and abuor- malisolition of farm lifo, caused s des- eribed, s making not. oly the boys, but the men, “love the furm, wdan era of betlor priws issuredy coming soon as a toaction. e second factis the sssry fsolation Aside from theunduo scattering rrad Lo 1bov of agricultum itsell requ thn that injures farming 1s an oc Tho fanilies are s scattered that theschols caniot by any possibility bo us ool at the samo cost perscholur or eontinie s many months each yearas i the dtiesond villagos This lewes country children ata disad van g in alucation, compensated only in pirt by the proverhial countey vigor, T isola- tion, too, deprives of nany com forts and ou- POSTAL G- With your name and address, maild to the Swift Sveclic Co., Atlanta, Ga, i | ncesury toobtin an intoresting (roat s on (he blood and the discases incldemt Solty SS S Skin BExnption Cfured, Ono of my castoners, A highly respoots! and Sfluential cllen, but who s now absent from aho city, has usend S#ift's Spesific with excllont reult. He sayn ftcuredhim of a ekin erption it hohnd ben tomented with for thirtyyears, 00 had resised tho cursiive qualities of many olber medicine. Ronur (ireo,Drorist ¥ v boun to ok, venies tends 1o leave the montal powors | —— ey ST unquickied by competitn and attrition b Y o wih ows foalows i o arve e mre | DRS, MERRILL & MERRILL, active and restlss from the farms to th towns, i The wmedies are: first, cdusation Put | mote money into the country schools, Donot | keop the chiliren at home upon the farm, Seo toit children havo at least as tuation as vitlwe and city thitdwen. | his will offset thelondiness of furm hfe. | v companimshin of good papers, nigazines 1l books Leaves to the educated no wom for lonelix ym schoul to help that the country good opportunilics Another romedy is for the famer to pro- | V% duce and sel, the sort of things which, in an address somew hore Last year, 1 named *nat- ur's orginal packages”—thi the final user or that roch | on s uner unbrken and un- -2 changed, hace not adulterated and with G % less clunce for the extotions or unlue THHOBE S n puuiits of middle men and manuficturers. SPECIALLISTS IN Sxamples of such * ol packiages’ that Hood Diseasel snd the eity cannot p e or awlultrateare o Kar and Chest. eggs, pinltry, colls, hises, fresh fruis tables md firm luxurids. On such prices laveall alng been better sistained for thereasous not Anotlier fact that Speciil Adentior to men and Childeen. Maeases off Wo- The dotorahave had yoars of exparinee i the honitalof Booklyn ani New Yorkand aro anong thumostsuccessfuland videly kisown spilalits ta ture istho grin aid prvision gambling. The buying | thecouniry. ofgrainand provisions for futire delivery | 1o Youne and Middle-iged Men. ooan s o legitimate formof bosiness ; that vous Debllity. Spermatortheay | al Physic is, it semedto grow ot of the % from indt Lol At for | Do (he £aco, & yiralon Lo soloty, onsliy ATANE. fulure folivery. 1L | B O oo 1L, witt iE ey OF D down, “to bind the bar wesaythe 0l finds Hfo o burden safely, permancatly remainder was paidoon acliver But n | andspeetily cired this 1 ate practice de ated into Bloot and SKkin Disenses, sheer betting on the price of Srphils, o riven grain most diadful in s rowlts, or provisions at the given to date, | completly g 1 There was neither expectation i sization | Genito-Urinary Surcery. ofactuil adelivery of the good ile the 5 Gonorh Nydracale, Varieon D ut rmargin’ inereased twenty fold the | and Strit ¥ ourud withi powerto gamble, The entire wheat crop of | Pl the United States was sometines boightand v Al sold many times over ina wtnl dsonam anfily md permanuiily cired. oy 3 A s e CISpe w0 Sundiys 10 Gl 12, Ly - re formed | N B, Persos umble to visit us may be treated st or“*beared” in_utter disvegard of hiir ones by comespondene. Molteles and tas conditions. E'rom the indiguiant farners [ stmotions soit by epres. Cona i froe ne on come relief, Fnm tiem alonehas | fnd {entin stinpso o . come all - wholesome' lewislation on kindred | e2yg matters hitherto, Lot theoutrced farmers | L Kk in puncertain tou t the cc is poiut that is | s and na- | gratly in difor | Juestion in every | for the whole, tixa- Pifeenth St Opposite Boyd's Opera House, Omana, Neb. more form of Another is the taxation, tinal, Thotax laws vary eut states ; but beyoad all stite wd o the averige stal tins bears too heavily—nay, unjustly and un. hteosiy—umn the farmers. By asess. nt (consis of 18) the famers of the United States owned 72 per eont of the total poperty, real and personal, tion, while the other half of subject to taxa- the population, including yners of banks, lnsurnce rillway property, ships, docls, manufactry aid their poduds, ity blocks anl houses, and ol other foms of wealth bined, owned only 23 per cont. This com- rilicubus falschood as to the ral fucts, | and anoutrgeons injistice to the farmers, The reason is that the farmers have not hitherto _made our tax laws, le remed y is for them henceforth to make thern. Underour foderal ensitution, wisely or| oo - unwiscly, the statestax property, the na-| 8 A i s tin taxes persons chiefly. In war ther QonBaie TARV LSRR BILIOUSN k8%, CONPLAINTS tin by requiring mil service | Trme i s, o atwhitis not full piy for sewice and risk = OB AN In peace it taxes chicly through consump- . ILER & f‘)‘“‘} AI\.\‘ Y tion of fmported artides of e, or lome | PIOPLLETORSAND SOLE MANUFAUTU RIS, luxuries and non-essentials. In order not to OMA HA NEB. bear 100 heavily upon the poor we exempt lurgely forcigen articdes of necessary unlesswe tix them to enconrage prod home comfietition, lome markets for pro. ducts of agriculturallabor and hone pr for_eivilized manu factu ring abor. Then thew is the silver question, V! tohavea piperon this subject. 1ther sinply note the historic fict” that silver was demonetized without the real knowledge or cmsent of farmers orothers of thedebtor or vage-carning clss, and the wish of the far smaller numberof those that constitute tho monied clisses; also th it h clenrly helped the latter and seriously harmed v he Aormer; still further, that even partial and empomise romouctization has alwady IR. BAILRY, (raduate Dentist, A Full Set of Teeth, on Rubber " For Five Dollars. A perfect fit guaranteed. Teoth extracted without pain_or danger.and witlout anae theties, Gold and silver fillings at lowest rites, Bridge and Crown Work, Teeth withe brought silver from 70 odd u(!llmd up to Wodd out plites. Allwork warranted. cents o thostandurd dollar, and sewns likely tolandat 1003 whilethis with other cocur. | OFFICE PATON BLOCK, 16TH AND FARNAM Tt causes has advinced wheat, cornand | Entrance 16th streot elovator. Open evens outs already newly 3 per centabove tholow | g8 until §0'clok. cbb tide of the past few yeaus. o this tho | k Sk farmers say amen. Therailwads should bomado to serve the | §# AN HOOD RESTORED. publicim partially, reasonably andwell, with rOS LSANATIVOY the 1 discriminations for or against persos or Wonderful Sjuish places by scoretrebites or othorwise. They Remedy, it soli with should not ge suffered to wipe outor roverse » Writ€on G usran- time, space, nearness to market—those stern we l;;l cure "".;vr ralities, elernalas the very natur of tho Weak Menory, Loy worldand of munkind. This is true railway of Brain Fower Hie doctrine ina nutshell, We will idmitit in iche, W ake fulne the abstract. Theyall deny it in the con- LostManhood, Nerv: crete, Furmers are very tired of hoaring pied” tvn Blfe.”" ousness, Lassiinde, about “what the trafic will bear.” The law all draius and lows of powerof the Generatiye Or of **long and short haul’’ is a laww of nature | g either ser, eaned by overexerion, youth: and of logie; of leszisliturs, congress and th '“'lr:;:"z;fll‘;']';;m“‘li SERQURIYA Lol Loipmon ourt, The farmers would Jike to s the '{3,,““;” Conaumptics and Inemity. Putup in nilwiys obey it in good faithinstead of [ onveiientiorm o cary inthe vest pocket. Price fighting it and tryisg 0 make it odious | g1 o package, orbfor 85 - With every §5 order we They are miking themselves odious instead. | five awritin_guarantee to cure or vofund Of trusts I need hardly speck, We are, all | the money, St bymail o auy adiress, Clr of us,too gy tosy much, The trust,_is | oinrfee, Moullon s piper, Addwes o the ninetenth contury Robin Hood, and the | HADAD, CHEMICAL €0, Brnch Qs . Robinis spelled with two b's and 1 Hond cannot, hood wink us to tie fic we insolently swindod by couspin uwp? aud robbed, Last butnot least, T mention laws. After much v estis dear opiniy Iwen the owcasion of 8o much blickmail, s many injurious monopolies, o many coossit fortunes, orso muchreal dimige t'the farn: ers, as otrpatent laws. Devised o hundred years azo o foster invention, thoselaws have fomalued essentially unchongod in time imi, “though the world movestentimes as fast a then -and in the extrvagut loseuess of theirother limitations, though the wmost tl- grantabuses have doveloped. ! My friends, now is thoday of o power. Let the farmérs' movemat 1o as just s it surely will be strong wnd majstic, 'S ADDRESS, Prof. W, 0. Atwater, ohief clerk of the de- partment of ag delivered an addvess o vie work of the dopartment with which bo { is comeetad. Prof.Atwaer is an enthisiast and his addross tecmed with facts of | FOR MEN ONLY piemst to his agriculural harer, | » : il Hle spoke for mewly an hour, dotal- 0 CURE ForLOST or FATLING MAN- e B s e rasults> e ‘mny ¢ NAGIC CURE F5iS%,2n ANTHNG Nl of theexperiments that have been mude oy | YOUS DEBIL Weakness of Bod 1t for the heneit ¢ and the . EONOMANA . ¥ Kuhn & Co, Cor. 15th and DouglasStreots, JA. Tuller& Co., Cor, 1ph and Douglas Sts, A D Foster & (o2 Councll Blufts, lowa. patent | — — DR.E.C. WESTS ERVE AND BRAIN TREATMENT. Specils for Hysterla, Dirxines, Fits, Keraleh, Wake T B Al e o, foTeening o hes Lral TTing A nAnnlty A2 1eRding Lo Tniser fbath Premature O1d Age, larreinoss, Lose of ineither mex, Luvoluntary Loses, and Spermoato: Catinel by OvEraurtnn of tho brain, ifah o our n, lam of the that nosingle elass of laws has overiidulgice. kachbox cntains g il ment, Slabex or i for 6 Tth ench order for ix boxes guarinteo (0 rehind soney it . Eure. Guarntee issued GOODMAN DRUG €O., 1110 Farnam Street, Omnuha, Neb, { and 5808 40 O1d or oble MANIOOD fully re- the departme the agri- cuttural producers. The objects of the ex- ranlee oVery 0as OF money perimental stations he explained was e, five diys' treite foavel, to make s regular busiiess of discoy- curely sea lod £rom . 865 Cook Renedy Co.: 'WE AK MANHOOD ery for thousoof facming and fo promote agriaulture by seientificinvestigation aid ex- periment and to difluse us well as incroase the knowledge which improves farm practice Omaba, Neb and elevites farm life, ~ He tld of the Farly Docuy nnd Abus, origin of the stations forty years ago 1n} 3.1.»_--".«.-;’4 o strugthe ol Continwed on Sixth Pagr. Bocrey. ADY BELIEF THE CHEAPESTANO BEST MEDICINE FOR FAWILY USE IN THE WORLD Trstantly stops tho most exorueliting pains; niverfallsto glve ease t the suferer; a few applientions act 1{ke magie, causing tho pan to hstaitly sop. A CURE FOR ALL BOWEL COMPLAINTS. Internally taken Indoses of from thirty tosixty drops in half a tu ! water \flll. oure In & fe ninutes Cra 5, B Pass, Sou rstomne il gour Fuint= Ing spells, CHOLERA MORBUS, IAR RHC . E k JHeadaohe, WA Vomiting Nervousiess, Slecplessioss, o laria, id_all intornal palos arlog trow chinze of dietor wiler or othor causes. 50Cenisa Hottle Sold by Druggista