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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKEI
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VOL. XV.
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son or addressing me Ihroiigh tlie iiwils.
lemia e.-sli, unless special arr.inecnienls
ate oil’erwise made.
Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dickkn.
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ATTORNFAS AT LAV,'.
McDonouoii, <A
Will practice in the counties composing
»he Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court
c f Georgia and the Giiiicd states District
Court. ’ apr27-ly
UK. si. ’rim*nit,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
M t Do CO.lt <’A.
Will ni itiice in ee coaiuies composin'.'
,i, e Flint li.ioi. .tic .-up.ome Comt if
G’Oicin, and i>e United Quit's District
Court. niu.it 6-1 y
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Will pr.’ci ice in .ill i.lie t ont l? oi ■ Giucgia
Sncci ,1 rlicii ion giv u to conttne.fiul ami
biVercollt ciio.is.. Will •• rtevd »il t Si,- Courts
at Hainpiou r* pii’i lv 11 ; ■*' tip.-t =i. a ovt-r
Tut: WciKI.Y O.'iirr.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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W ill pr ici :ce in I.hocouu.i« couiposiiig the
Flint Judicial Ciicuii, and ihe Supreme atui
■District C our.s of (■< Otgi F’lOiitpi cut ion
giv-m ocollc .ions oc.n- 7!t
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Will p*ii diet in i’ll I lie count ins compos
uig tin; Flint Circuit. the Snoivni.- O'unt oi
Georgia and the United States District
Court. jjnl-ly
DUNCAN l CAMP.
WHOLESALE GROCERS AMD DEALERS IN
Flour, Meal, Lari iprs, Coffoes, Tobaccos, Giprs eic,
ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN
and all kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty.
We beg to call special attention to our Brands ol Flour,
OCEAN SPRAY,
POINT LACE
AND PRINCESS
These are our Brands, manufactured ESPECIALLY
FOR US and we guarantee every sack.
Write as ior quotations. We guarantee satisfaction and
the lowest possible prices. We also call your attention to
our TOBACCOS,
‘■GOLDEN SPARKS,”
‘•HENRY COUNTY 9in.s’s,”
AND “HOE CAKE.”
These goods we guarantee to give satisfaction. Sam
ples sent free on application.
We have also a fine line of
Mew Orleans Syrups,
which we can sell at “ROCK BOTTON PRICES.*’ We
will make it to your interest to see us before buying.
Thanking our friends for their patronage in the past and
soliciting a continuance ol the same, weave
Respectfully,
DUNCAN & GAMP,
77 WHITEHALL ST , ATLANTA. CA.
lj A. PKEPIA>,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
llaui’tox, G.i.
Will practice in all .lie counties composing
the Flint Judicial Ciieui.. tbe Supreme Court
ot Georgia and the Dis. dot Court oi' the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections Oct 8, 1888
I no. D. Stkwakt. I H.T. Daniel.
KTKWAItT « I>AAll'll.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Gr.it kin, Ga.
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Hampton. Ga,
I hereby lender my professional service io
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal s night and
day.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gale City Natioil llank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in 1 lie State and Ft det’al Courts.
GRIP FIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
i \ ife unuouticc (o tbr P»>Vi;c tbat. we are
»? ptiP.ued io mau' 1 Fti r ’i,»e Hoil
c.s ; will lake ordeih lor all i -uds of Boil
! ors. We are prepared to do all kinds of
| repairing on Engines, Boilers awl Mncliin
i ery, genet all v. We keep iu stock Brass
j fittings of all kinds: also Inspirators, In
jectors, BaU :y Valves, 31 earn Guages,
Dip.- and Pipe Fillings and Iron and Brass
j Casting* of every Description.
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frngr U rf ’£ cured au home with
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mcdoxough, ga., Friday, October, it, tßs>o.
A NATIONAL LITERATURE.
Where We Should Look for a Ileflectlon
of Popular Character.
It is as natural for a young people to
copy older ones as for an infant to imi
tate motions and sounds. In Hie course _
of nature the infant passes beyond the
stage of imitation. Wlwjb ft nation
bom in the throes of revelation lias at
tained, through years of heroic youth
and manhood, the dignity that is ours
today as the greatest republic on earth,
its life may reasonably be expected to
exhibit individuality. For a reflection
of the character of a poople wo look to
its literature. Nothing is better able to
show forth the daily life and the spirit
of a nation than its Action. The novel
and the abort story of ail lands, merely
in their national significance, afford a
study of wonderful interest.
The American life of today is a copy
of nothing. It is absolutely unique.
Nor is it lacking in the most decided
dements of romance and of the pictur
esque. Where its spirit has been caught
—perhaps best by Hawthorne —it has
yielded everything essential for the
most stirring effects. If it wore not so
—lf we hod no originality—our writers
had better remain copyists, for when
they oease to be that they would be
come nothing. It Is to bo confessed
that our literature has been too long
of that character which is worse than
silence—of sustained mediocrity. Too
long our nt .velists have gone abroad
for their subjects; too long our people
have gone abroad for their novelists.
Let the writers look at home for
‘heir subjects, and when they have
fras(K‘d the spirit of American national
Jfo they will find a burst of apprecia
tion on the part of the people. But let
tlie writer that would be successfij rid
himself of tlie idea that novels of the
New York drawing rooms are American
stories. The attempt now lx’ing made
to foist them as such, either on us or
on those who judge us by our fiction,
is a shameful fraud. Let him get out
among tho people, breathe American
air, look over American fields, acquaint
himself with American (lowers and
birds, visit American cities, and he will
find springing up around him material
for the best literature tlie world lias
seen.
Tills nati >nal lifo is already being
pictured in our sin >rt stories. As yet no
great novelist is with us, but we have
become the best short story tellers in
the world. Those who are to inaugu
rate an American literature are in train
ing. And the dawning of it rigoifle*
tho reality of our national life, strong,
secure, everx ..-here an inspiration to
tlie cause of human freedom. —Chicago
News.
Not Worth Counting.
In California, it is said, they have
no smaller coin in circulation than a
nickel. Poople in that land of sudden
fortunes and wholesale incomes cannot
appreciate the turning of a penny or
even the chase of tho “nimble six
pence.” A San Francisco paper illus
trates the contempt of Californians for
pennies by the following:
“Give mo silver for this, plcuse,’’snid
tin Eastern tourist yesterday, as he
dumped a double handful of one eent
pieces on tho counter of a prominent
money broker.
“I don’t want them. They’re not
worth counting. I wouldn’t give fifty
cents on the dollar for them,” was tho
reply.
“I never took them but once, and
then I had to. A fellow owed me five
dollars, and after repeated duns offered
payment in coppers. The next day ho
came in, anti shoving a copper eent in
my hand asked me to give him credit
for that amount upon the debt
“ilokept that up, making a payment
of one cent every uioiT.lng, noon and
night—three cents every day—until I
accumulated a cigar box full of coppers.
They're hero yet, and they'll stay here
until some ono comes along who has
more tirno than money. I won't count
them.”
Coffee Dying Out.
"The tliu’- Is not far distant when
coffee will havo ceased to be tho
beverage of tlie people.” This declara
tion wus made by Mr. J. J. Grinlinton,
who has been a resident of the island
of Ceylon for thirty years. Mr. Grin
llnton sny» there Is a marked decadence
in coffee raising both in Ceylon and
Brar.il. He also says:
“Borne few years ago a fungus para
sito attacked the plant and is gradually
killing it out. Not only is this true in
Ceylon, but it is also the easo in Brazil
and elsewhere. People must learn to
lake tea Instead. You liavt' noticed
that the price of coffee has been grad
ually ascending. It will continue to do
so, and the time Is not far distant when
tho plant will have died out”—Cor.
New York Herald.
A sca.ooo Notched Stick.
“Here Is quite a curiosity,” said a
Washingtonian, producing a stick two
feet hi length and curiously notched
and split. “There are seven notches,”
said he. “This is a certificate of de
posit issued by the Bank of England
over 100 years ago. A stick was taken,
notched and split. One piece was giv
en to the depositor, who had to pro
duce It and match the other piece to
get his money. It defies forgery and
fraud. This stick represented a deposit
of £7,ooo.”—Washington Post.
There Are Little NousDrtt.
A Michigan paper tells of tho capture
of a fifty-pound turtle in an inland lake,
and refers to tho creature as a monster.
Turtles weighing 300, 400 and 500
pounds ore by no means rare on the
gulf coast, and so there must bo two
kinds of monsters —big and little.—De
troit Free Press.
Kitrmcr, Slltl Merchant.
There are some merchants doiug busi
ness with the fanners in Franklin coun
ty, life., presumably at 10 and l‘M per
emit, profit, fcnfttho method* of some of
these are poouftsr. According to tlie
"contract the merchant must show his
bills for goods to tho committee repre
senting the farmers. From these hills
the committee marks on each article the
cost and selling price. As a matter of
course the «<>mmittee in determining
the cost of floods cannot go beyond the
bills presented by the merchant. It is
very easy for the merchant to exhibit
bogus lulls from the wholesaler, show
itig anycoet price he chooses to fix. A
traveling walettman,,{ryim St. Louis told
our correspond! days ago that
ho knew amef bpiffh Fraifktln county
who is getting Lh off a contract with
tho Fanners’ Mntnal Benevolent associ
ation lodges by the use of “duplicate”
bills. “I sell goods to a customer of our
house,” said this traveling salesman,
“who has a contract with the Fanners'
Mutual Benevolent association, and
he sells a pile of goods, too. When
ho took the contract he asked our house
to make him ont duplicate bills, to sell
from, you understand. Tho house re
fused to do it, not wanting to bo a party
to such a thieving business, and, besides, i
it took a great d"al of extra clerk work,
but at his request the firm sent him pails
of till our different kinds of blank hills, 1
and now' he makes ont his duplicates to
suit himself."
While the business experience of the I
F. M. B. A. has had the effect of break
ing several honest storekeepers, it hn
also had tho healthy effect of creating
competition in trade and generally re
ducing prices. All that keeps the order
out of politics in this senatorial district
is lack of numbers. The political dis
cussions at the Lodge meetings in the
district school houses are as heated hero
as anywhere, and tho questions of tho
tariff, tho currency, the hanking system,
tlie railroads, tlie trusts and taxation are
disenssod with more intelligence nnd
thought than the professional politician
would imagine.—Chicago Ilcrald.
Whnt the CttnadiuiiM Say.
Sir John Macdonald attended a Roman
Catholic picnic at Morrisburg recently,
and in tho course of his address said in j
sulietance:
In regard to reciprocity the govern
ment had begun and is now desirous of
closer tratio relations with the United
States, but the fet liny; is not reciprocal.
It was the Unit ’d States that recalled
tho treaty of 1854, and ever since all at
tempts mu iu by Canada for closer trade
relations hail bqeu refused by tho United
States, am! they were now’ passing the
'.EiU. up unfriendly measure.
The r would like freer trade rela
tions with our neighbors, but if they
would not grant it lie believed in look
ing for new markets. lie advised farm
ers to grow two rowed barley, fur
which, ho said, they would find a ready
market in England.
He also said that London would bo a
better market for Canadian eggs than
New York, and that Canada had already
opened up markets both in China and
Japan for a largo portion of her manu
factured goods. lie said Australia was
anxious to have more Intimate trade re
lations with Canada, and advocated the
laying of a cable from Australia to Brit
ish Columbia, thonco across Canada to
England. Canada must meet the hostile
legislation of the United States, not in a
spirit of imitation, not in u hostile man
ner—because Americans had a perfect
right to pass whatsoever laws they chose
—but by opening up new markets.—
Ottaw a (Ont.) Dispatch.
Compact mikl United.
George B. Sprague, the ex-president of
the Fanners’ Alliance, was one of the
prominent grangers assembled in tho
oorridor of the Merchants’ hotel. Mr.
Sprague said he had lieen on a tour
through a great portion of the state, and
he declared tiiat the Alliance party is
compact and united.
“As an evidence of this,” said he,
“look at tho party papers throughout
the state. They are, with one or two
exceptions, absolutely mum ou politics. 1
They know that if they came out against
the Alliance they would be boycotted by
the farmers, and whoever buys them
will havo to pay for their circulation.
As to the talk of the farmers and tho
labor element nut assimilating, that is
all bosh. They are jHirfectly harmoni
ous.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Ijubstlonii to the Point.
\V. M. Benninger, through The Rural
New Yorker, asks his brother farmers
of Pennsylvania the following among
other questions: Farmers, arc you satis
fied to sell all your products for from 25
to 50 per cent, less than the cost of pro
dnotion? Can you afford to sell w heat
for 80 cents per bushel, the raising of
which costs, in most sections, $1? Can
you afford to [iay nearly all the taxes,
both direct aud indirect? Do you know
that out of t>l 1,000,000 of taxefl raised in
Pennsylvania you pay $34,000,000, while
your property represents $2V5,000,000
less than the other property in the state?
Do yon know that yonr land has depre
ciated in value from 30 to 50 per cent, hi
recent years? Do you know that the
sheriff Bells, on an average, twenty Penn
sylvania farms per day?
How l>ppew l*i|furfft4 l’ercentago.
Dr. Depew’s brotherly talk to the
grangers was suggestive and interesting
in many respects. But there was just
one statement which the doctor inado
that in our opinion is hardly consistent
with the fact that he still draws his
salary from the New York Central’s
treasury—inconsistent, too, wc must ad
mit, with his degree of LL. D. conferred
by Yale university. “Railroad rates,” j
he said, “in tlie last twenty years, have l
gone down over 100 per cent.”
Oh, what a fall was there, my coun
trymen!—Hartford Courant.
The mem iters of the executive com
mittee of the Farmers’ and Industrial
Union party of Minnesota are not by
any means idle. They are sending out
speakers to all parts of the state and ar- 1
ranging for holding numerous meetings.
AN ALLIANCE CANDIDATE.
iddrt’KN by th«* Nt>t>nt*k» Furinom* Noiui~
n«w for Governor.
In the course of an address recently
delivered before tho Dannebrog branch
TV. H. Deeli, candidate of the Farmers’
Alliance of Nebraska for lieutenant gov
ernor, said:
A nation’s debt of $17,000,000,000 bang
ing over yonr heads —oan you grasp the
enormity of the same? No. The pro
ducers of tile country are earning per
eent. under the most prosperous auspices,
but pay out 5 per cent., and in unproa
pereus years nothing is made, but the
rental of money goes on incessantly.
Whenever rental of money becomes so
liigh that the product brings less than
amounts to the result is otter
ruination. When a man has money in
the bank wosuy that ho is rich; when he
puts in more, people say that he is get
ting richer. ITow is it until tho fanner?
When his corn crib is full they say that
ho is poor; when It is fuller and his hog
jiens are filled with fat hogs he is still
poor. Oh, they say, it is overproduction;
he can’t sell and get liis money hack.
Tlie speaker said that tho miserable
economic condition was principally due
to the restless and selfish financial policy
of the government. The moneyed aristoc
racy claimed that the monetary system
was too intricate and abstruse for the
common herd to deal with, and they had
no business to meddle with it. Wo can’t;
comprehend it, they say. Oh, yes, we'
can. but they don’t want it agitated.
They are willing that wo should pound
away at tho tariff and transportation if
wo will only lot tho money question
alone. They are working a game that!
leads to tho ultimate ruin of the whole
nation, and our only remedy is legislation !
through tho ballot box. If you do not
relieve) yourselves by tho ballot box you
will in the end he hurled into a terrible
revolution. Oh, but they say that Dech
is an alarmist. Would to Gtxl that I was
a fool, but the signs are too plain to he
mistaken.
Tho politicians claim that tho evil lies
in that wo are living too big, and that
we must lie more saving. It is a tre
uiendons lie! If the money Is hero, who
brought it? Did not labor produce it?
If there are comfortable houses for every
man, who created them? Labor; anti
should it not onjoy them? But the jioo
plo have in tho first place put our rulers
ou a saddled horse, aud they would lie
fools if they did not ritle it. He scored
the deceitfulness of tho old political par
ties, and said that they had obtained
power under false pretenses. They
pledged themselves to jierform things
which they never meant to carry out.
If a farmer comes to a merchant and
got. Roods under false pretenses he 4s
jailed. By the application of the same
principle, aud if tho punishment should
bo commensurate with the crime, those
false pretenders should now lie in the
penitentiary in place of tho halls of con
gress, every ono of them.
Thi* Imllaiyt H«o|»lb’h Party.
Tho People’s party of Indiana, rocontly
formed by n coalition of tho Farmers’
Alliance, Greonbackers and Union-La
bor party, declares:
“We are in favor of placing tho chari
table anti penal institutions of the state
in tho hands of men comj>otent to man
age them, and not in tho hands of mere
partisans, and that tho management
should not Iki changed when a change of
party occurs."
Tho now party favors tho rejieal of an
existing law permitting townships and
cities to vote taxes for railroads, and de
mands a more equitable districting of
tho state. Tho platform Is for free school
books and against child labor. Follow
ing tho declarations as to pensions is this
declaration:
“We favor the issuing of a full legal
tender pajier money to meet tho dis
bursemonts under these bills, thereby
enabling tho government to maintain its
honor and pay its debts, and at tlie same
time aid the people by giving them a
sufficient volume of manoy to meet the
demands of the legitimate trade interest
of the country. Chir government paid
the soldiers in paper money during the
war, anil the veterans will now gladly
accept it in payment of their just de
mands.”
The Throo K’i*.
In relation to Dr. Dopow’s suggestion
that farmers should organize, with the
three R’s—reciprocity, retaliation and
revenue—as their motto, Governor Hill
In a recent speech said I)r. Dejiew could
have aroused tho enthusiasm of his hear
ers to a higher degree anti given them
more practical relief by promising to tlie
farmers of this state suffering under
railroad exaction tho remedies afforded
by three other R’s, for which they would
be truly grateful—“regular reduced
rates”—upon tlie transjiortation of their
products. This assurance would In
crease the farmers’ “net revenues,” illus
trate the advantages of true “reciproci
ty” nt bonm. ami prevent any desire for
“retaliation” uptji tho railroads for al
leged previous < ■ tortions, arid would tie
something practical rather than theoreti
cal.
Farmer* to the Front.
Indiana is calling upon her farmers to
como forward aud act as legislators and
to occupy positions of public trust. This
is not confined to auy party, but upon
the safo and tried principles of the
grange it is found popular in all parties.
Among those who have Is ten honored we
find the names of our brethren, Milton
Trusslor, William M. Blackstock and
George Doup. The various parties but
honor themselves by honoring such men,
and it is our hojie that every fanner who
ts true and tried to his calling may be
successful.—Grange Bulletin.
Should Go Hand In Hand.
Agriculture and manufacturing are
not in conflict They should go hand in
hand. They do, except that agriculture
wishes protection for itself as it has
been asking for its neighbor. The plow
should be protected as well as the loom
and the spindle. Protection has all been
ou one side. The farmer Is getting
cross.—Field aud Farm.
TWO PRICES,
Sea*" id l’rletm of Amcrirun Hade Imple
ments In Spuln und the United State*.
If there are any doubting Thomases
among tho farmers whom this article 1
may reach we desire to call their atten
thin to a few hard facts cud plain figures.
Tho guarantee of their genuineness lies
in the fact that they are advertisements
put forth in bold typo aud paid for by
the monopolists, who thus openly ex
hibit the margin of excessive profits they
are levying upon the American farmer
by and through the tariff.
Tlie present tariff tax upon fanning
implements is about 45 per cent., so that
nearly ono-half of the price paid by the
farmer for his tools is a tribute levied
| upon him by tlie manufacturing mon-
I opolißt. We will further add tiiat tlie
protective duty in this case is practically
prohibitory, and thus becomes a solid
wall against foreign competition.
Where a duty is so high as to become
prohibitory the home manufacturer can
not jKissibly compete on the home scale
of prices in foreign markets. The re
sult is that if lie gore into a foreign mur
ket he must sell to the foreigner cheaper
than to his own countrymen.
Need we point out to any American
farmer tho shame Involved in such n
transaction? It. means that after taxing
him nearly ono-half of what he p»ys for
his fanning tools, on the oftteTrihl
ground of raising his condition al«>\
tiiat of thy foreigner, tin manufacturer
uses the tax as a fund to enable him to!
hand over a bonus to that very foreigner
by underselling the foreign limntifac! 1
urer. In other words, the American
funner makes a forced contribution tot
the foreign farm r ont of his hard earn I
ings, and all this on the pretense of |
raising his condition above that of tin
latter. There is no farmer so dull ar
not. to take in the gross injustice of tl:i
discrimination at a glance.
Now for tlie facts in black and white
The Ann Arlior, Mich., Agricultui. l
company is probably the largest pro i
ducer of agricultural machinery in this |
country. Tho New York Ameriean i
Mail an ' Export Journal regularly ear 1
ries a ,* mass of advertisements of j
furmiii"; tools, with illustrated cuts, and j
it prints special editions with reprints of j
these same advertisement i -varied, how- j
ever, in important points—for circula
tion in foreign countries. Here is a|
literal reprint in parallel columns of the
advertised scale of prices of the Ann
Arbor concern nt homo and abroad;
Spaiifuti American
price. price.
Advance plow j fl oo Jis to ;
Advance plow 4 00 S 00
Hay tedder SO 00 45 00
Mower 40 00 05 no
Herne mite If 00 ' ,i ' > r *SL
-rtpir fe~d cutter. 1 ol). 00 ao (XT
Ann Arlior cutter, No. fi .... SS 00 40 00
Auu Arbor cotter, Nu. 1 10 00 SH 00
Clipper cutter 0 60 18 00
I/iver cutter. 485 800
Cultivator 88 00 00 00
Sweep t 60 00 00 00
In tho special Hpanish editions adver
tisements uro printed of the manufact
ured products of lflfl agricultural firms
in the United States, all of whom an
nounce that they will sell to foreigners
from 80 to 50 per cent, cheaper than to
their own tax plundered fellow country
men, whose forced tribute, wrung from
them by the protective tariff, enables
them to offer these tempting terms to
"tho pauper fanner" of other lands.
Massachusetts farmers are invited to
turn these facts over in their minds. It
is not a free trade theory, but a high
tariff condition, to which we are calling
their attention. —Boston Globe.
VIVII, Why I><> I h»sy l.nuv*?
Secretary Franklin Dye, of the New
Jersey State Agricultural society, has
boon on a tour of inspection through
south Jersey. He took the trip in order
to ascertain the exact condition of the !
Jersey farmer. Mr. Dye is back, and ho 1
says his observations proved to him that
the Jersey farmer and his condition had |
been misrepresented. Ho found tho
former pretty generally pi'tsperous in
stead of in bad shajie, with depreciated
farms and a dismal outlook. While tlie
section of the state visited by Secretary
Dye is tho agricultural re
gion, he thinks what he ascertained in
that section is largely true of the fanner
In other portions of the state. He was
surprised to find ixviple going west,
away from tho advantages at, home, arid
paying about as much \n;r acre for land,
when tho outlook, agriculturally, is so
bright hero.— I Trenton (N. J.) Special to
New York Press.
It In l.lttlu Wondor.
Railroads run the state of Nebraska.
They nominate and elect tin* officials,
they counsel and bribe the legislators,
they guide tho hand of tho governor,
and they cau be found clothed in the
ermine sitting in its courts. There is
hardly a county official i» the whole
state who ha t not in his picket annual
passes over nearly every railway line in
I Nebraska. They have seized the lands
I ~i tho people, they have controlled the
supply and regulated the pri<xjs of agri-
I cultural products, they have made the
I most exorbitant. charges for hauling
grain and freight, ami compelled th< > state
board of transportation to back them up
and report adversely against the com
plainants. Under this stato of affairs,
and what with unjust taxation, broken
pledges and crops burned by heut and
nipped by early frosts, it is little wonder
tiiat tho farmers of Nebraska are allied
together 80,000 strong.—Omaha Dis
patch.
King Hoodie.
No wonder the fanners havo started a
uew party. The leaders of the old ones
have for some years been acting on tho
supposition that tlie people are so stupid
as to be satisfied to vote for tlie party
that could show that tliu other one was
the meaner. For a while it did look as
though this sort of peanut politics would
work forever. The farmers’ movement
Is proof that something beeides prejudice
must lie used to get votes hereafter. But
is tho new party strong enough in the
girth here in Colorado to clash swords
with the giants of the boodle elements?
After all is not King Boodle the power
in politics? -Denver Field and Fsnu.
FARMERS' RAILROADS.
Mr. IJuatr* Plan for Kuabllnif iarmerr*
to Build Th«lr Own Hoadu,
As a solution of tills great railroad
problem is the paramount question of
tho hour and is scarcely second in im
portunCo to even tho money question it
self, it follows that any well digested
plan of solution must commend itself to
all who vs ish well to tho farmer in his
present -ht rugglo to emancipate himself
from tho load of middlemen anil tariffs
of various sorts now preying on his an
nual surplus.
Kvery platform of every farmers’ con
\ nation or public meeting held in the
United States of America during the
last year or more lms a plank demanding
in some sort that the general govern
ment own or control the railroads. By
h sort of common consent it is assumed
i by all there conventions, and assented to
| on all sides by the press, that somehow
the government ran take jiossession of
: and run the railroads of this land as tho
imperial authorities of Germany and
Russia do theirs. Men seem to forget
that this is a republic; that contracts are
binding here; that although the public
at the outset had rights yet now those
rights have lapsed, and that private
ownership of our highways has become
not only u matter of fact but ts also
backed by decisions of our courts that
nothing short of a change of constitution
and a revolution can unsettle. llovv
then is our government to own these
railroads- By purchase? No. For, first,
they will not sell; and, second, we can
not buy, since ont of the $h,000,000,000
over ono-lmlf—to wit, $4,250,000,000—0f
their value, according to Poor’s M rtnal,
is water.
Now, sir, my plau is, let that water
drip out by a method perfectly constitu
tional, just and right, ari l so put the
railroad lords in selling mood. Your
Fjiaco will not allow me over a fair
chance to go into detail, but to show tho
fanners that by going away, say five
miles or ho from any railroad, they may
parallel it, nslng fifty six pound st
to the yard at a cost not to exceed SO,OOO
ov 157,000 a mile; that if eac.li mile in
length tlio farmers on either sido to the
number of forty to the mile unite they
can grade up their own roadbed, can
t ike throe rods in width, fence it, and
absolutely own it, and so adjust its af
fairs that no one but a resident farmer
shall own a cent of its stock, and the to
tal cost to each of the forty farmers will
not exceed $l5O a mile (possibly plus
some Individual labor of oacli in grading
and fencing). I prove to tho farmer
that they can own and control their own
mad, and when forty of them to tho
mile, for 3vo to ten miles on each sido of
-tim iuibino and agree to give all.
their busi'Ksss to any such road the whale
gumo is in their own hands.
I show that good ruilroad men, capi
talists and managers stand ready to
lease such a roadbed, build its steel
bridges, run their own cars on it and do
all our business (mark tho our) at ono
third present rates on any lino of ruil
road in tho state (or nation), t prove
that for us to keep five miles uwuy is to
our hnmenso advantage. Wo put in a
small sido track at every cross wagon
road; we need no depots of any great
value—an old box car is often good
enough. Our co-operativo stores will
locate at those cross roads and do all our
business, and wo will so lease one lino
of road that each mile that is 150 milas
away from Chicago wili pay ns 0 per
cent, on all cost and divide $2,000 a ndlo
betwoon us and our lessees.
Now, as to tho towns and cities that
v. < pass, leaving thoin to one side, I have
this to say: This is tho year of our Lord
1800, and the farmer, after a sleep of
thirty years, is awakening, and like Kip
Van Winkle ho is not earing much
whether his old gnn is repaired or not.
Let tho old gun look out for itself until
wo have saved the farm and provided
for wife and babies, and then if the old
town that has skinned ns for years needs
repairing we will talk that matter over
at our leisure. Just now wo are looking
out for the farmer.
I send to any man free a circular, giv
ing cuts and figures to prove m v Solution
of tho farmers’ railroad problem to bo
true. 1 show by the roads themselves
that my calculations are correct, and I
close by saying: Welcome tho day when
tho farmers save themselves by owning
their own railroads. It can lie easily
done, and thousands of farmers greet
these utterances everywhere with a
hearty amen.—ll. H. Haalf in Chicago
Daily News.
iielj> !•!»• b'mrmor, 11.-Ij* 411.
The talk of ovorprodu' tion Is perfectly
ridiculous; it Is preposterous to assume
i that 100,000 men and women go naked
and are starved because they have too
much of tho necessaries of life. Under
I consumption and unjust distribution is
I the key to tho secret. If the farmer got
| fifty cents a bnatal for hi- corn there
j would be a comfortable frame house on
| every qn’artcr section, and everything
! ;oc in proportion, and this in tivn would
give i<llo meu now begging for work
; more employment in pineries, railroads
I and nail factories and all other Indus*
! tries stimulated by inc: stand consump
tion, and each farmer could afford to
employ two pc three good hands. -O. .’l.
j Kern, of Nebraska Alliance.
So Tioie to Whtae.
It will do the farmer but little good to
sit with folded hands and cry “Hard
times.” He must bo a man among men
and assert himself, and through informa
tion gained by reading and intercourse
with tho world he will right tho wrongs
and secure again that period of peace
and plenty for which so many are anx
iously longing and sighing. The grange,
with its innumerable benefits and bless
ings to the farmer, is a chief factor in
reaching success.-—Grange Bulletin.
Dr. Towle, of Freedom, N. H., says:
I -•Farmers have wasted hours of brain
j work for politicians instead of using
j their brains for themselves. Today we
have too many political demagogues, and
tho fiirmers are left behind while others
1 have gone ahead. Concentrate our
efforts and we can astonish the world
with what we can do.”
NO. 9.