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PEOPLE'S 1HDEPEHDEHT PAKTY
STATE 00BVEHTI0N.
Likoolu, Neb., May 18,
The People' Independent elector of the
state of Nebraska are hereby requested to
elect and send delegates from their respective
counties to meet In convention at tbe city o
Grand Island, Ken., on Friday,, August
24, at 10 o'clock a. m., for tbe purpose of nomi
nating candidates for tbe following state offi
cers, vi.: Governor, lieutenant-governor sec
retary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney,
general, commissioner of public lands and
buildings and superintendent of public in
struction; and for the trsnsacilon of any other
business which msy properly come before the
convention.
The basis of representation will be one dele
gate at large from each county in tbe state and
one additional delegate for each one hundred
votes, or major fraction thereof, cast in 189s
for Hdh. Silas A. Uoicomb for judge of tbe su
preme court, which gives the following vote
counties:
Attain
Antelope ..
Banner..,,
ttlalne
Bou&B......
Hox Uutte.
Boyd
Urown
Haffalo....
Burt
Buder
Cass
I'Kilur......
Chase ,
Cherry ....
Clmyeue....
Clay
Colfax. ...
Cutnlug....
C outer
Daaota....
Dawes
Dawsou....
Deuel
Itlxon
Dodge
Douglas....
Dundy
Fillmore..
Franklin ..
Frontier. . .
Furnas
(Sage
Jarfle'd ..,
Uosprr.....
Grant
Greeley,.,.
Hall
Hamilton,
Harlan ....
Hayes,...
Hitchcock.
Holt
Hooker....
Howard....
J8 wnon. ..
Johnson 7
Kearney 10
Keith . t
Key Paoa 4
Kimball..:,,,-
Knox ... .... 8
Uauvaster 87
Uucoiu. 12
Logan i
Loup t
Madison.... 10
McPberson S!
Merrick.... 7
.iance..... .' 8
Nemaha II
Nuckolls 11
Otoe.. U
Pawnee 7
Perkins A
Phelps lii
Pierce , 5
Platte 10
Polk. It
lied Willow... H
Klcharuson 8
Kock 3
Hallne 10
sarpy 7
4itnrilers 18
Scotia Uluff 8
Seward II
Sheridan 10
herman
lux 8
Stanton., 4
Thayer, 7
Thomas .... 1
Ihurstou
Valky 8
Wahtngton 6
Wayne 4
Webster , II
Wheeler
York 1
Total 751
We would recommend that no proxies be al
lowed, but that the delegate present cast the
fall vote to which their respective counties are
entitled,
J. A. Sdccuton, O. CXtM Pbivir,
Secretary. Cbalrman.
"Tea time la ripe and rotten rip for change,
Then let it come: I have no dread of what
1 called fi r by th Instinct of mankind;
Nor think I that God's world will fall apart
.Pecans we tear a parchment more or less."
''By love serve one another,"
i- , Ji
Whatever l right U practical, li
in best thine to do.
"Tbibe U no friendship in business,"
it the popular faying.
-
H who gains wealth by others' labor
loses love, nd therefore happiness,
ii. - - - ... -11 1 . .j. .j
FORTY per cent of the poop! in Vtg'
land who live to b sixty rive become at
that as or before paupers,
K '.!L.f ! . " . ill
Tnk fold shlpuaqt latwk amount
ed to ;.:.ACOO What folly to build
our Industrial aad cotunietclal life on
otn thing which can be drawn from u!
i'l.' lyiiiiiiii'iin in i ii n m
'1TH broom strong when we grasp
Ik unity of law, the correlation of
force, the d'tcovsrable Impitse of one
laflait Mind upon nil thing material
ad In material,
I1 ' ..!' V ' !' 1 I
0ArrUIt, the total number of
furnace tn blast m lit, with a weekly
projection of irt.W " 'tc, DaJanelH
the number bad fallen ta H with n
capaoity of dl,' ton.
"' ' '- .i' j
Prior, KuttARtt VV.lUwlaofChU-atfo
1?atretslty, front npeU at Uptagt3ld,
found the ter4 py of wtnert In Itll-
' 1
MM SSMSSSSMSSS . ,.
El 8UPP0RT Or PE0F. HEBE05.
Nothing that Prof. Herron said in
Ma uHrAss at Lincoln was more sun
lingly trua than the paragraph which
we reprint below. We reprint W,pruy
because It deserves special oonsiaera
tlon, and partly te correct a bad error
in our report. The word "Indirection
below was printed "Indication," greatly
obscuring and injuring the sense, f roi
Herron said:
We Americans are not ft democratic
people. We do not select the repres
entatives we elect; we do not make our
laws; we do not govern ourselves, uur
political parties are controlled by
private, cloBe political corporations
that exist as parasites upon the body
pjlitic, and give us the most humiliat
ing and degrading despotism in politi
cal history. . Our legislation is uoicr-
mined by a vast system of lobby. I fee
people know, though they cannot prove,
that our legislative methods have be
come the organization oi inuireci.
bribery and corruption, from one ena
of the land to the other. It is hardly
an exaggeration to say that the chief
work of our state and national legisla
tures in recent years has been to ob
struct, defeat, or cbeai the will of the
people. We are anything but demo
cratically governed, but are under tbe
government oi political ana legislative
httrAiunranifta that dominate, plunder
and oppress by an indirection that con
ceals both tbe reality ana me nature ui
tbe dominion, corruption ana oppres
sion ThAnnnnle of America
today do not know how to utter their
true political word and are no longer
able to express their true political faith
tbrougn their institutions.
Dr. Herron was almost universally
attacked and maligned by the old party
press of tbe country, for thus plainly
testifying and laying bare tbe real
situation. But it has seldom happened
that bo much sworn testimony and
other entirely trustworthy evldenoe
has appeared in corroboration of tbe
statements of a public speaker. Our
own Senator Allen has arawn irom
Messrs. Hayemeyer and Sesrles of the
Sugar Trust the admission that the
Trust has been in tbe habit of con-
tributioir to tbe campaign funds of
both old partie; and th?y also testified
that it was customary with the corpor
ations so to do; so whichever party wins
it is in larger part owned by the cor
porations and heavy capitalists. The
tariff quei tlon is used by the party
leaders first to fool the people and keep
them divided, and second to force pro
tected manufacturers to divide their
fleecing, the present proposed changes
and others which were threatened giv
ing Congressmen every opportunity to
force in various ways a recognition of
their services and power, but it makes
little difference to tbe masses of tbe
people whether the McKlnley or Wil
son tariff shall be the law.
The lobbyists who serve the trusts,
railroads, br okers, coal and Iron kings,
lumber barons and large manufactur
ers, are received in Washington with
opon arms, and virtually run Congress.
The Lexow committee in New York
has also just discovered that the police
of New York, superintendent, captains,
patrol and ward men, who are paid by
the people over t.1,000,000 a Tear to en
force the laws, are also paid by the
violators of the laws more than (10,000,
000 to protect them from tbe law. The
alderman grow rich out of the fran
chises they sell and vote away, and the
fat contract jabs they control. The
police are uniformed blackmailers,
drawing salaries from the tax payers
and forcing in addition from $200 to
$3,200 a year from each bawdy house,
saloon keeper and gambling den pro
prietor. The sworn testimony reveals
what a loading New York paper calls
"a most abominable system of corrup
tion," and Tbe Outlook says; "The evil
in this city is, as we bave shown by
letters of well informed correspond
ents from dlfferentlocalltles.dupllcatcd
In every one of the great cities of the
United States; and the cause is all the
same selfishness, either actively cor
rupt or passively Inert, in high places."
We affirm without fear ot successful
contradiction that old party politics
national, state and local, are run by
etlfish men for selfish ends; that the
party principles, hypocritically talked
of, do no exist; that our laws and gov
ernment are being made use of to en
rich the classes and plunder the masses,
and so to build upon the ruins of de
mocracy a plutocracy the most despotic
and oppressive, the most cruel and de
grading government the world has
known. Ken here In Lincoln, a city of
churches, college and culture, Kepublt
ran politic are so notoriously corrupt
that lat week the most decent of our
Kepublloan dallies was constrained by
conscience, or (more likely) lo obtain a
pull," to print and plan in the dtr
of every house In the city a circular ad
dressed "(o the voter of t..aotsr
county," and declaring ttat
"The usual a'lempt I being wa.l by
the roiuMbrd corporation loilucac to
rule the primary eUcUoe ut the K
puhUvaa prty, ai nominate rua tor
ultice who will svUvrv tho wti! 4 th
corporation in wad of the vuUe of the
ma
th uuar attempt, 11 notk--and
here, la Uncut, whs re )'(of. Her
ron a rebuktd by th head of this
pttrty, Now, I Trot, llerron rlgMla
sojlot that "the people of America to
day do not know how to utter tbelr
true political word?'' Well, It will be
a difficult watier to dltprov his astir
tit. At long th better elements
keep thsmtelve divided and aeutraSti
ca other' tote by stay lag I twtt,
The good people of the country for tbe
most part do not seem to know how to
get together and vote for all and for the
oppressed.
A OORBUPIION FU8D OOVEEHMEBT
xrof. Herron was unconsciously hit
ting close home, and hard. That was
what ailed Crounse. Hut how the Senate
sugar scandal Investigating committee
under Senator Allen has in its examina
tion of Havemeyer, Searle and others
carroborated Prof. Herron's words!
President Havemeyer of the Sugar
Trust admitted that the Trust had
raised .the price of sugar three-eighths
of a 'cent a pound, and pocketed the
amount thus forced from the people.
He also testified that the Trust con
tributed to the campaign funds of both
the old parties, and justified it on the
ground that all corporations and trusts
are doing it, thus showing that this U
a corruption fund government, a boodle
run nation. Mr. Havemeyer admitted
to Senator Allen that the republican
party is helped by the sugar trust
political contribution Instates where
it is in power, and the democratic party
where It is the stronger, the trust itself
making it a matter of private interest
and not a matter of party principles.
The Investigating committee has also
unearthed a part of the sugar trust
peculations of the senators whose
votes affecting values put them in the
way of bribing and enriching them
selves. The Lexow committee in New York
is als) getting at the inside history and
life of tho municipal government of
New York, and has for weeks been
heaping up testimony which shows that
the whole Tammany machine is a black
mailing, vice and-crlme supported, peo
ple-robbing institution. The keepers
of the gambling bouses pay for protec
tion, so also do the saloon keepers and
the bouses of assignation. The police
also are in the habit of frightening tbe
keepers of fruit stands into paying as
high as f 200 each a year for protection
against their being declared nuisancer.
1'laccB on the police force, so great is
the power it gives to blackmail and
bleed the vlciotm, have come to be in
such great demand that applicants now
have to pay to Tammany at least $300
to cet on it. It is part of the ward
policeman's work, according toiworn
testimony secured, to collect money
from persons who violate the law. And
tome have declined promotion on the
force because they did not relish the
task of wholesale blackmail which it
imposed on them.
Chicago has been shown up by W. T.
Stead in LIh book and can not be said to
be behind New York in the matter of
political corruption. And throughout
the country the old parties are locally
and universally corrupt Tho corpora
tions furnish the campaign funds and
control the nominations of both parties,
and own whichever secures the offices.
If the people wish to save what por
tion of their liberties remain and would
rescue tbe masses from the despotic
power of the shylock capitalist Classen,
they can do so only by oinlog into the
Populist party.
THE LESSON OF THE STRIKE
The great strike of the American
Hallway Union Is forcing upon the at
tention of the country the necessity of
taking out of private, selfish hands the
railroads upon which all commerce
and production now so largely depend.
If the railroads remain In private hands
the 1,000,000 employes have no way of
protecting themselves from corporation
greed save by organized resistance; and
this state of war, one battle of which Is
now being bitterly fought out, Is not
only exceedingly cojtly and wasteful for
those directly engiged In the contest,
but the Injury to the entire public Is
enormous. The publlo hs no way of
protecting Itself o long as the rail
road remain In private hands. Publlo
ownership is an absolute necessity to
protect the people from the war now
raging.
Publlo ownership would give us
transportation service at labor oost, and
save much nor than the dividends acd
Intcffxt on bonds now demanded. It
would save by reducing the whole rail
road business tJailsgl system, per
mitting a vast economic saving by
eliminating needles fltielali high and
low, th salaries of solicitors, attorneys,
lobbvlst. bribe money, political cam
paign funds, paa expenses, advertising,
Ao., A J.
Th railroad ideation Is liwmleg up
as one of glitautlc proportions, and on
that must b dealt with without delay,
And th PopulUt party akin propose
to grtppl with It. W art not Kvy
that the prtur of event, th conflict
of mighty orgaoUed force, 1 crowding
th pcopl of th atlr cuuntry to
think and tak action. We tuuit own
th railroads, or penult tht tu to dvure
and collect tribute of us all and ctr
on war against their employ which
obstru ?t all tommticfcnil pro
duellos. I'sbllc ownership ot th pub
lic hlhwrl and mean of trao-iKtrU-
tlon I aa loagtra)ustlo of itvnmny,
but tl U tvrvtHl uin as a necessity,
Ttti gold rM-r la the I' 8, Trva
ury U bow dona to v,Wio,(H, a It
en uut than was held last ftliterwhea
Catllsltf soid Us Into bvaJt to the
ga'dhng, with a Ao,u,wo lean. It.ti
I A BMALL-MIBDED OBITIO ORITI-! "th working of the Pomillst leaven as
0ISED-
Frank Crane, by some called rever
end, is one of those editors and preach
ers who know more than anybody and
everybody else. Ho and only a few
others are gifted with the judicial mind.
At least he thinks so. He has never
yet found a mind which his could not
add much to in the way of clear thought
and breadth of comprehension. For ex
ample, take the mind of Prof. Herron
Crane has made some weak impression
npon a limited circle of Methodists in
Nebraska. Herron has at the age of
thirty-two attracted the earnest atten
tion and Btirrcd the profound thought
of two continents. His books are circu
lating everywhere where. tbe Eaglish
language Is spoken, and translations in
to other languages are being now pre
pared. His comprehension of the Di
vine law and gospel and human needs
exceeds vastly what the church has
been teaching.
But Crane, with the undoubted in
fallibility of tbe theological seminaries,
compares the teacblog of Prof. Herron
with bis own complete body of truth
and finds him radically wrong that Is,
he differs radically from Frank Crane,
who knows it all. Prof. Herron has
some good idese, he admit, but they
are a source of danger if left wlthla
reach of "(he wild-eyed ignoramus of
some party" a man like the writer who
believes in working for and hastening
forward the millennium. "Prof, Herron
has fallen into the very common fault
of. . . .presenting his idea in a manner
that is calculated to irritate and awaken
opposition in those who differ from him,"
says Crane. Yes, "the whole counsel
of God, "the conscience-striking truth
is very irritating and makes enemies of
the powerful. Crane knows better
than to preach it.
"Prof. Herron's idea of the Christian
state, as near as we can gather it from
his commencement address, is essential
ly fallacious," says Crane; and he goes
on to tU why in words which show
that he has not been able to take in the
teaching of Prof. Herron. He has not
succeeded in getting even "a fraction
of thee large ideas filtered Into bis
mind."
As might be expected Crane goes on
to declare that he discovers "essential
weakness In Prof. Herron's makeup;"
and is "amazed at this sweeping and
false charge;" and his reference to tbe
"impending crisis" "to tho cultured
mind sound i a trifle shallow;" and be
(Crane) has no sympathy with Herron's
Idea that those wbo advocate tbe com
ing of tbe Christian state must suffer
persecution.
Crane's closing advice is to read Hub
kin, Kly and Strong, because, he says,
"these writers contain all tbe com
mendable truths that Prof. Herron
teaches and are singularly free from his
faults."
t In a previous paragraph Crane de
clared, "There are no truer friends of
the masses today than the leaders of
evangelical orthodoxy." Evangelical
orthodox 1 Don't presume to teach
the evangelically orthodox anything.
They are hopelessly perfect in their
knowledge of the way of salvation. Hut
just between you and us, dear reader,
we shouldn't care to take chances with
tbe Cranes who cry Lord, Lord, and
teach the orthodox, each-bv-hlmself
method. A man cannot be saved alone
anymore than be can be unselfish alone.
Mr. Crane evidently has not forgotten
our criticism of his unchristian words
against the Kelly industrials.
THE POPULIST LEAVEN W0MING.
The Review of Ibvlows for July calls
the adoption of the income tax plank of
tho Omaha platform "a mighty mani
festation of the working of the Popu
list leaven. So great a third-party
triumph as the acceptance by the dom
inant party of this Income-tax demand,
is almost without a parallel. It lifts
the Populist party to a position of
dignity and prestige that had not been
previously accorded It."
Continuing, th editor, Dr. Albert
Shaw, tays: "The defeat of tbe pro
posal Ui repeal the 10 per cent tax may
boclaluied hy th Kjpubllcan as well
s tho Populist as a trlnmph for their
position, but in the co.irte to be pur
sued in consequence of that defeat, it
seems likely that th I 'onulUt leaven is
destined to work more effectively upon
th Democratic majority than the IU-
punllcan doctrtn of th maintenance
of th present national banking system
with an lecreas of It faolliiK for th
lu of DOU'S,"
Thle great It view la the next para
graph polo out that the two old party
platforms are so much allk on
th money questUm "that on might
hat be substituted for th Cher
without a tec it ng I th llghul d
grv th position thai was taken, but
itttt th Pvpultsl platform was wLU-ly
d'.ttsrent oa th rolovt hucsUop. Th
P.'pulUt SbcII leave has beta at
wort, he tay, aad "th" who Ibo
liulcdof the i tea who H la Ittft
ltvs)aU at Washington are pertieilT
ar that th stiver qucsii n Is re
gvjtfd by them at a far unite pn-sslng
and linpvitsal on than th tamf quv
Udtt, aud that th disposition to try the
eprtaat of free role at N to I U
tocouttr-t' a'mosl lrrprtlb It 1
working evo upta stivh Ivaitef It
publtcans M rWoata? Lodge and !
noh WmhI
a..T. ,
i rcj(ru3 tun luixime tax, ana me cues-
tion of national versus state issues of
paper money. But in our judgment
the Populist leaven in the direction of
free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is
working yet more deeply and omin
ously." The word "ominously" makes us
smile, but testimony from so able and
fair minded an opponent is all the more
noteworthy.
This Populist party reviewer thinks
we have also scored a point in that our
denunciation of the sham tariff battle
and it work, its foretold results,
have come true. "The ruling party
in the Senate has made no disinterested
attempt to serve the interests of the
whole country, but has indulged in an
unseemly scramble for the protection
of this) locality or interest or trust or ,
combination, and for the corresponding
punishment of some other locality or
interest or combination. The outcome !
is much what the Populists had pre
dicted, and appears to be viewed by
them with more equanim'ty and less
concern than by anybody else. Here
again, it seems to us, the Populists
have scored something; although in a
less definite way. Their prediction
was that this Democratic victory won
on a pretense of settling the tariff que
tlon and on a claim that their
settlement of that question would
bring about the most far-reaching and
beneflcient results, would prove a dis
appointment. Furthermore, the Popu
list declaration that the solution of these
questions would require a statesman
ship more free from improper Influence,
has seemed to be shamefully verified by
tbe circumstanses under which the
tariff measure hss been bandied in the
Senate."
"Thus it would appear that upon the
conclusion of the present session of
Congress the Populist members may
fairly return to their Western consti
tuencies with the claim that their views
have gained ground; that whether
Populism under that name stands or
falls, its impress for better or for worse
will bave been left upon the statute
books, and upon tbe sentiments and
attitudes of leading statesmen In the
other parties. These Populists at
Washington may also make some fair
claim as to their personcl fidelity. In a
iesslon when absenteeism has been
most scandalous, and when the party
in power, despite its overwhelming
majority, has for weeks together found
it well-olgh impossible to secure a
quorum, the little band of Populists
have been in their seats, and bave at
tended to the bsst of their ability and
knowledge to the legitimate interests
of the nation and of their constituents.
They have not been found among
groups of idlers andcarousers In cloak
roomr, and they have not been known
as spoilsmen or office j ibbers. They
have followed the debates with close
attention and have participated stud
iously and earnestly. If on the one
hand they have shown no transcendant
ability as statesmen, orators or parlia
mentarians, they have on the other
hand maintained an exceedingly good
average in these regards. Very few
of them could by any possibility be re
garded as b3longing to the politician
class."
AND STILL THEY 00ME-
Frank Wllkeeon of New York, one of
the best known newspaper correspond
ents In tbe country has joined the
PopulUt party and is devoting his en
tire time to the interests of the party
and is making speeches dally. He is
one of the most entertaining and polish
ed orators, never falling to draw a
crowd- He winds up a letter to the
public in the following words:
"Tbe old parties bave been tried by
the working people and found wanting,
It Is now for the hand workers, who
create all wealth and the business men
of the nation to father Into a new
party, which shall bave for It motto,
'Favors for none, equal chances for all,'
aod to vote for tne advancement of
their material welfare. Therefore I
am a PopulUt.
WHICH 8U8TAI58 PROF HEEflON.
The railroads employ 1,000.000 men,
and Not less than 5,000,000 people de
pend for their dally bread upon the r
bltrtry will and power of th owner
ot ttt franchise, which practically
holds the power of dUtrlbullon of all
th products ot th land and labor ot
th' country," sajs Senator Call of
Florida. Th few men who exercise
thl- to called "right of private property
hos a function tqal to that ot gov
ernment, equal to that ot any of tbe
despot ot Europe.',
Thes extract r fruin a speech by
S)tuur Call delUrr'4 th .'Ul ult
la support ot
"A rt solution pritlJIrg tor th au
poiu iint of a tiM-talcoiu u Uti-e ft B
senators, whu rall Ns rhartfed wpfc
Hi du'j rt teveslltf alW'f lite ;-tH of
"rgaetiwd t fKrt of rorpuraUfU to con
Irvl tit lection of RieuHr of .-ttet
U,,LIViri. nl f Rtemhor of
rs, and lo totlueac th ktflslatktuo!
Congress, U "
Tht r?t4ulU ami speevhot t-naWr
Call CUii t laterferoaoe la I rt
Ilea, la th tt.onett uiattaer orrvb-
urelc th assertion ot Pro', Hrroe,
which t'ltde t'Kh a stir the numry
Oter, I hi iiweih -;BWr t all .tJ
la in pfiJ kaowiedit within
oae Slav ot tMt I tU thr I a caw
blnavlo on tb part of th railway rt 4
.trtMt ,wf
.
place in the Senate of the United States
that tbe owners of the stock and bonds
of tbe corporations In the State of Flor
ida are combined to control the electo
ral power of that state by improper
methods. T hold it to be my dutv to the
people of Florida and of the United
States to ask for this investigation and
to submit the proof which I have here
before me; of an openly organized party
of the employes of the corporations a
a party organized to control the elec
tions and the legislation of the State.
"I have no reason to doubt that it is
true of other states, There is a gener
al outcry of the people in all parts or
the country,"
The Senator also eay3 that "In the
State of Florida a profound belief exists
that methods are used to influence one
of the Federal judicial tribunals ( f the
State."
Which shall we bave. tittrvifvien
alarming corrupt and corrup:fiig grasp
and ownership of the gojrerapent by
the railroads, or the ownerstjp jf the.
railroads by the governmed? ji f
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Socialism, by which !sneajitan in
dustrial democracy and npt ifierely a
state fcf political equality: is gaining-
ground everywhere. Ib j.F.3 nee the
socialists in the last ten years; have se
cured a representation in the Chamber
of Deputies of 60 member;, . I hey are
sf eking industrial legislation .1 ind they
voice what is called the f'pai $Ion for
equality of opportunity," ;Thli passion
for equality of opportunity la It politics
to stay in France, Germany, j ngland,
Denmark, Belgium, America, A Jstralia
New Zealand, and all countries in any
depree democratized. Th loa alists of
France and Germany arej prictically
the same as the Independent Labor
party of Eogland and the Social Istsand
Populists of our country. Bes des the
c.O national deputies in France tl e social
Democrats have put clt' councillor
into power in more than 83 cci munee,
and given to several large cltl social
ist mayors. It is this politic . voice
and representation whlcL nia es the
trade unions of the nation a power
which the government cnno : for a
moment ignore. In England ui ler the-'
able leadership of Jfelr Ijard Torn
Mann and John Burns, the' I, I Peers
as they are called are rapidly bcreas
iog the number of workingmeu among
the magistrates, Inspector! ai jl poor
law guardians, and are chant; hg the
attitude of the government toward thf
eight-hour question, the establishment
of a Labor Department, the' new form
of the Employers Liability let ind the
Parish Council Bill. J
If the editor of the Review of Rbvlews
has correctly reported Senator Allen in
the words. "laminnosenseasodlallstA
we fail to see bow he can subscribe, as'
he does, to the Populist platfon. it
contains socialistic demands as IU prin
cipal features, namely: the aitailknlug
of postal savings bauks and 'the jtoclal
izlog of the benefits of credit, govern
ment money loaned at cost; the nation
alization of the railroads,? tel'jgraphs
and telephones; and we declare! that
"The land, including all the nfitural
resources, is tht heritage of kvc the stoole,
and should not be monopolized for Spec
ulative purposes." We are sorry tb see
that our chief speaker in the Senate,,
wbo has shown great ability, is sojeon
servative, and slow, and so afraid of the
socialism which ran alone lave us from
seltism that he is found at the nailend
of the procession, aa it were. Wei are
not pleased to see him described ai so
slightly different from Republicans and
D jmocrate, and we are disappoint?
him when he denies explicitly th at
have the right to labor, a right w
tbe State should recognize. Ee
leader that follows, not a i leader
leads. But force of circumstances ast
unfolding will force him for ware.
The Tribune says: "New York back
ers are long suffering mortals." i t gee
on to dilate on their saint like pntlete
in view oi tne treatment tney nave re
ceived from the administration, as evi
denced by tbelr allowing the govern
ment a little more time In wh'ch lo
borrow or delay borrowing their goid.
The Tribune goes on to say. 'It Is amp
Ing that, in the presence) of such In
emergenc v, Congres doea not pu t aside
the tariff sgltatlon irl ttop the ci
tain'y, which cuts off the revenue, aad
authorlte direct loan i by th people J
the treasure at a low rat ot IntertJt.
There 1 not tbe) lea it douit
um uie i iwurj cuuiu uvrrow ill u
money needed, 1' It could fife tht oil
gatlon which is now almost l)a(rrsay
asked by lender is the time !oa,
namely that Interest and principal shall
be paid In gold. More tU ItlX.tX,.
OtK) are now lying IdU ta th bask of
few clUe In xcs of required rervf,
and for which no us can b foui t
business. The pp!a would (a!(y
lead It if th government would gift
them a chanc aad a decent kecuiUyi'
W do not need to comment on tm
.i.i ,l. m .1 v ... 4
freak expression ot Siijlock, op!nlut
and patriotism.
Wr. lt wt Mr. ?. Ilaale
ho oou'lacl th Water Street MUI,
ta New York City, th mUstua stat.'
by Jvrry MoAuiey something ,
Ueaty agi. W also b4 tlt
oppoitutkiy tu confer with I'rw.Vswr
irsfaara T)lor tf the Chtr of ulo
Wy la Chief tfoTbNiglcl Semlaarr,
thit)nho know th conditio ot
lih ptr tit Chicago batter than tnv
ioiher Mas. his iwra.aai atu.ti.s ..i-.i.i
..j ukil- k, .w , T, T
condition tatleg h.tn mch of hltln,
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