The McCook tribune., 1890-10-17

DlHerence. ..I5C
United States agricultural department. es-
innate for home consumption twenty five
bushels Of corn per capita:
Nebraska consumes at this ratio.... 2s,l25. .0oo .o
uO ota ~ 1s ST
Surplus. .123, AIS, 900
VALUE.
Bushels Value
At present. at 42o. .I23 41S,000 81, $50. $50
Last spring. at 13c.. -. .23, ,418,000 1914, 43A
Difference ........... $a5, ,791, Jas
Increase in value, 223 per cent.
Gain on corn export. .S35, 791 ,126
Assume last years wheat and oats
and wheat crop same as last year,
viz: 1851 900 bushels, the rise in
value has been equal to. 20 cents
per bushel; 1851 900 bushels vt 20
cents. 200
Total gain. -. ...........s4 .s45,1 ,153, ,sss
"Above will show what the farmers
on the crops with suitable storage ca
pacity in the state, under public ware
house law, such as called for by the
warehouse resolution in the republican
platform adopted at the last state con-
yention.
''The democratic and alliance plat
forms contain no such resolution.
Hence, no relief can be looked for from
that quarter.
Under the existing law grain ele-
vator is not public warehouse. Hence,
the owner can refuse to receive grain
for storage. This forces the farmer to
sell his grain or dump it on the ground
if he does not burn it. It results in
distress and great sacrifice, as shown
above, and succumbs to the chattel
mortgage agencies.
ga public warehouse law-as the
republican platform proposes-compel
the elevator companies to receive, ship,
store and handle grain, without dis
elimination. under penalty, and COM
pels the railroad companies to do the
same. Under its provisions a farmer
can store his grain and take advantage
of the market. He can ship it any
where and hold it as long as he pleases,
provided he pays the necessary charges
for storage and inspection, as regulated
by the state; also insurance and the
necessary freight charges-if ne ships it
elsewhere.
"When he stores his grain the eleva-
tor gives him receipt. This is consid-
cred the very best collateral by the
banks. They will lend money on it
within certain per cent or proportion
of its value, at low rate of interest. If
on a call loan Chicago banks have
loaned as low as per cent per annum.
If on time loan the farmer can hold
his grain as long as he pays the inter-
est, and this will do away with vast
amount of chattel loans.
eft will also open the grain markets
of Nebraska to all classes of buyers, and
in this way the farmer can get the best
prices for his grain. Had such law
been in force in 1889 it would have en-
abled the farmers of Nebraska to have
saved S35, 100000.
'tFEDERAL ELECTION LAW.
s'The democratic party of this state,
in one sentence of their platform, de-
clare in favor of ballot free from cor
ruption and intimidation, and in an
other sentence condemns the republl-
can party for its effort to pass federal
election law.
"The republican party has ever been
in favor of a free ballot, north and
south. The democratic party has never
been in favor of a free ballot where
that freedom would put out of congress
three-fourths of all the democrats elect
ed from the southern states, who hold
their seats by reason of the suppression
of republican votes.
''The democratic party of the solid
south, by it's election frauds, has appro-
priated to itself thirty eight members OF
congress to which it is not entitled, and
asks the nation to let this monstrous
crime against free suffrage pass with
silent neglect.
III. ceru a:i,,&:, :,;.:.v "c!;eves in an
siectio.. ia~ g.. ;s;:::'e .2>::-:"E L.; ;&e
most powerful ald pu:oil. c:.t"c::.
above its influence, and that the poor
est and humblest citizen in the nation
can safely rest beneath its protecting
power.
s'The ensiavement of the eight mil
lions of colored human beings by indi-
rection-by fraud and perjury-by vio-
lence and intinidation-is no better
than the slavery we had before the war.
The Anglo-Saxon sense of justice. which
put million men into the field in de-
fense of down trodden race, will not
permit this injustice to exist much
longer.
'.No democrat in congress wLo has
spoken against the federal election law
has ever denied that intimidation,
threats, frauds and baliot-box stealing
prevail throughout the south. The
democrats tell us that peace and quiet
prevail in the south So is a cemetery
quiet. Tacitus said to the Romans:
You harass, you despoil and you
butcher; you steal governments; you
make solitude and call it peace
''The pending federal election law
makes it a crime for election Off
GERS to commit perjury. 1t makes it a
crime to make false certificates. 1t
makes it crime to stuff the ballot-box.
1t makes it crime to bribe a voter. 1t
makes nothing crime except that
which interferes with free election.
''The democratic party declares in
favor of free ballot, yet denounces
the law which has no other purpose
than to prevent fraud and to secure a
free ballot. If the republicans in con-
gress were to strike out everything