THE WEALTH MAKERS.
Jnlj 26, 1894
THE
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PEOPLE'B INDEPENDENT PAETT
STATE OONVENTION.
LijrooLX, Neb., May 18, 1894.
The People's Independent electors of the
tale of Nebraska are hereby requeued to
elect and send delegates from their respective
counties to meet in convention at the city o1
Grand Inland, Neb., on Friday, August
14at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nomi
nating candidates for the following state offi
cers, vjjs: 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 transaction of any other
business which may properly come before tbe
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 f rsction thereof, cant in IBM
(or Hon. Silos A. Hoicomb for Judge of tbe su
preme court, which gives the following vote
counties:
Adams 1
Antelope 10
Joliuitou
Kearney
Keith
Kttya Paba .
Hanner
Ulalne... I
Boone , II
Kimball.
box Butte 6
Knox V
Lancaster 27
Lincoln 12
LoKan 2
Loup 2
Madison , 10
McPhenton..., 2
Merrick , 7
Nance H
Nemaha 11
Nuckolls 11
Olee 12
Cawnee 7
Perkins 8
Phelps 13
Pierce 5
Platte 10
Polk. 12
Ited Willow 8
Klcharuson 8
Kock 8
Boyd ,
Brown 4
Buffalo il
Burt.
Butler.... 18
C&tfH li
Cedar 6
Chae
Cherry ., 8
Cheyeue 6
Clay , H
Colfax 7
Cutniug ft
ouster ei
DaKota 2
Dawes 7
DawHon 13
Deuel 4
Dixon 7
Dodne 18
uouRias 30
Dundy 5
Kallne 10
saniv 7
Fiiunore i
Saunders 1H
Franklin 8
Hcotu Bluff 8
Frontier
Howard .... 11
Furnas., 11
Gave 14
Uberldan 10
herman B
Gartield 3!
lux a
lioBper 6
Grant 2
Greeley." 8
Hall 8
Hamilton 13
Harlan
Hay ex 8
Stanton.... 4
t'hayer 7
mourns l
i h urn ton 2
Vallry 8
waHbinKton. 8
wayne
Hitchcock -7
WebHter 11
Holu 13
heeler 2
Hooker 1
York 16
Howard 9
Jefferson 7
Total 751
We would recommend that no proxies be al
lowed, but that the delegates present cast the
full vote to which their retipectlvecountiesare
entitled,
J. A, EDGBRTON, D. CLIII DlAVXH,
Secretary. Chairman
North Dakota reports rapid growth
of Populist sentiment.
Hi only has resistless power upon the
moral battlefield whose face Is lighted up
with faith, -and wheso voice baa in it
the tone of triumph. Such "view the
victory from afar; by faith they bring
it nigh."
l - . -IS
Populist claim that tbey will poll
100,000 vote la New York etate this
fall. Ill a pretty big claim, but the
land tilde has act in and there Is no
telling how fast it will come, Senators
Jones and Stewart are lo stump New
York for the Populists.
i-- n
Thi German soeUllstt have for some
time bn boycotting the beer of the
bourgeois labor oppressor. Th capi
talist a, re contribution? to overcome
the boyoottert an average of ttt.Ouo
Marks daily, and their mIikim are boy
Dotting the VorwtwrU, the organ of the
socialists.
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A LK1TKH trout lion. Pr4 Jewell, of
Columbu which we shall hate spao to
Insert neat week, Informs u that bis
name It withdrawn aad m suggests that
Instead iht came of Warwtak andr
be eo&tidnsred for the office of HeureUry
Of kUU.
giii.miiniiin.il. y j i n ii i
Till Wiauh Mkh thinks the
Oman Kveniag Newt laid the light
thing, and tald It eicedUf ly well, In
I te editorial on the Itryaa. Illand and
owtpaay free) silver Democrat, uner
the rapvU-a ktodby," The never'
eadlaf goodbyes aat failure to evrat
makeue tired. j
A GOVERNMENT BANKING BTBTIM
tThe following twenty minute address was
delivered bv request oy too eaoor oi mi
Wsalth Makihs, before the Industrial
Leglen of Lincoln, Monday evening. Jul 28
It It not possible In the brief time
allotted me to say more than a very
mall part of what may be said against
the financial sys em under which wt
suffer, or for the system hlch w at
Populists propose. But I thall brkfl
point out the usury evil of tbe present
system and show to you tbe imim asur
able benefits which a government legal
tender non-lnterest-bjaring currency
would bring.
Tbe modern bankers anf money
loaners, strange to tay, are considered
espectable and honorable. Tbey con
stltute the cream of society. Tbey are
in good and regular standing in tb
churches. They have been entrusted
with the most saored, most important
work of law making
Twenty fire hundred years ago the
interest-taker, or usurer at he was then
called, wan classed with robbors, mur
derers and adulterers, and was by the
word of God condemned to die. But
men believe themselves wiser now than
tbe all-wise Jehovah. It has been
about 300 years since the church
set man's word aboe God's word and
ceased to preach against tbe tin of talc
lng usury, and in consequence the term
usury In Its original sense soon beoame
obsolete.
But the effects of usury, or interest-
taking, are the same now that they
have always been in all tbe patt cen
turies of the world's history. There is
not a crime in the whole catalogue 0
evil which usury has not beyond mas
ure multiplied. Usury is the crime cf
crimes, the prollfio breeder and up
builder of everything evil, the destroyer
of everything good.
It is an historic fact that while men
of every productive Industry were kiss
lng their loved ones good by, and press
ing to tbe front to fight and die for
Iberty, the gold-worshiping bankers
were pressing their way to Congress,
and were there framing laws to en
slave us all forever. At the close of
tbe war of the rebellion Congress was
composed of 180 bankers, 00 lawyers, 17
manufacturers, 7 physicians, 1 farmer,
and 1 mechanic. I oannot now repeat
to you the devilish deeds of that bank
ers' Congress, and the acts of later ones
which made the shylock gang the real
rulers of this great nation. I presume
the most of you are familiar with the
financial legislation of tbe last third of
a century. If not, by all moans buy or
borrow a copy of "Seven Financial Con
spiracies,' and read it.
The trouble with the money of the
oountry today is not that it is not good
money, safe money to receive. Tbe
government makes It good. Butitcan
not be kept in circulation, that is, tnak-
ng exchanges. Its owrers will not use
It, nor allow others to use It on possible
and equitable terms. The money own
ers demand usury as the oondltion of
circulation. And as the borrowing
class, taken as a whole, cannot pay
back more than they borrow wltliout
impoverishing themselves, there being
no way of obtaining money at Its cost
or labor value, loaning must be checked
in great measure as often as once in fen
years. And this means, no money to
empty the markets, and in consequence
no work for millions.
We are told by the organs of the
money power that there is money
enough, and even too much money in
the country today, and they point us in
evidence to tbe hundreds of millions of
Idle money heaped up In the banks,
But money that will not circulate, that
Is not enabling the people to exchange
labor services, Is of no earthly use
The usury which Its owners through
monopoly are able to demand, and
resultant falling prloes from holding it
out of use, which increases Its power
and value, plices aH production and
exchange and property and people at
tbe mercy of the Shylock class. The
primary and only legitimate use of
money, that of making equitable ex
changes, it subordinated to the tribute
demanding power of its covetous con
trollers, and ths numey owners, with
their thrones In the market place, are
the rulers of the world.
Here Is a faot in monetary science
which should be grasped by evervouo.
A borrowed currtney cannot b Itpt tit'
cuUi'ng if th$ ptoplt irA mint borrow it
mutt agrtt to piy bid mart monty than
thty borrow. But usury or Interest can
not U prvnt4 by prohibitory legis
lation, f'vopl will pay in advance, out
of what they borrow, almost any per
cent tor money to avoid forced sabs of
properly which would he ruinous, or to
kp their bvulncs going, and such
private agrvtnienu oannot b prevented
by an law leaving the mney monopoly
untouched There it just on way ta
mako money at all time i useful agent,
and. to tkt from It tu rat pr to
rub and ruin,
Ws thall all agr that money d't
nut grow, but t made, and that Us pro
per and ealy useful (unction It to t
rhaag or uar th people to
change service, lit valu It, or ought
ta b Qi4 by th tabor It tk to Irt t
obtain It, th tarn amount of labor
whtoH It Ukee to Irtt obtain It should
always bo tehaiigeabla for 11. Th
power to Inert iu valuby hoarding
It, and th power to levy tribute) frvm
labor by loaning It, mutt fc Uksu frost
meaty,
Now, then, what U tb Populist plat
th Hiatal propvtdd to kvwp all
money in circulation, trie people em
ployed, and the dollar from fluctuating
in its purchasing power?
It Is simply to have ths government
is-ue all tbe money, all that Is needed
and take the banking business out of
private hands. Let us consider for
moment the advantages to be derived
Government banks for deposit, loan
aid exchange would furnish an aba
Itately safe place to deposit the surplus
earnings of the people. Money borrowed
at tbe government banks, with no
charge except the small labor fee need
ed to cover the cost of examining tne
security and drawing and. recording
papers, would save to the workers the
enormous drain of Interest tribute
which they now lose; and with this
money retained they would buy more
of everything which tbey need out f
tbe market and make a greater demand
for labor, a demand that would be per
petual. The savings to the farmers of
Nebraska alone upou the one item of
farm mortgage interest obligations
would be about ten million dollars a
year; and tbe Interest bill of those
whose town and city homes and plaoes
of business are mortgaged, and the In
terest on state, county and municipal
bonds, would add perhaps more than
ten millions more yearly to this sum.
This vast loss saved and expended
for lumber, tools, clothing, good furnl
ture, food, education, etc.. would do
wonderful things for our own state, and
duplicated In every other state would
have prevented the panic and saved the
entire country the vast loss and suffer
lng which have come upon us during
the last twelve months.
mere is absolutely no sense, no
reason, no statesmanship, no justice In
the present money system and private
banking of this oountry,looked at from
the standpoint of the public good. It
must be displaced by a better financial
system, or the lands and resources of
the people will in a few years more be
gathered Into the hands of the million
aire Shylock and capitalist class, and
liberty will be absolutely nothing but
a name.
We therefore advocation the hauls of
the demands of the Omaha platform, a
system to .carry out those demands,
which in general outline ts this:
Government issue of all money direct
to the people, in payment for services,
and loaned through government banks
upon adequate security, the banks to
be established by the 'people as a whole
by counties and municipalities, and con
ducted by their eleoted and salaried
agents under ttate and national law,
and supervision; bank offlcals, loan
security examiners and the rest, te
furnish ample bonds, and be placed
under oath of office and severe penal
ties to regard the law; government to
be secured in its issue of legal tender
money, as counties show need, by mak
ing all taxable property in each county
liable by taxation to make good all
money loaned to that county, if other
securities are in any case found In
sufficient; these government bans to
receive deposits, but pay no interest
thereon and charge no interest to
borrowers above the cost of doing the
necessary business.
Under this financial system all money
savings would be deposited for perfect
safety in the government banks, and
when the inflowing stream of deposits
quailed the sum of money demands by
good borrowers, the currency Issue
would be in volume just equal to the
needs of the people. The volume would
have to be Increased now and an un
certain amount every year, just to keep
deposits and legitimate demands bal
anced. Even If money were not de
posited with the government it could
not be loaned profitably when the
government agents were loaning It at
oost, so it could not be forced into
aotual circulation except as It drew
goods out of the market, wbloh would
Increase tbe demand for labor. There
Is in government banking and loaning
money at cost no possible danger of In
flation and depredating the value of the
dollar. Observe, It Is a balauoed sys
tem of loans and deposits, a system, too
which allows no gain when money It
drawn out of circulation, and leaves
money but one function, tbat of making
exchanges.
Tho present currency cannot com
pleto the round of circulation and
ttcadlly move forward, because Its
holders can demand usury (or it and
profit by hoarding it, which also causes
th value of th dollar to greatly
fluctuate and to lend upward, while it
force unmonopotUed property to cor
respondingly fluctuate and tend down
ward. Hut with our perfected financial
system of government hanking la oper
ation ther could b no stringency la
th uuonev market, no circulation
premium or usury taking, tv inkers'
and money loanors' bearding lo stop
th wheels of Industry, no lark of
capital to keep all at work, m net
profit and Interest Incomes taken trot
labor's parsing leaving th wtiker
Insufficient money to ststply th mark
! aad leading to perloilo sloppag ot
work and start attoa, or lowtr wag
It It tb demand and supply money
ttsttta of most danc4 tUkttnaa
thlp, a system which will ttrlkta des
troying blow at th wlih-eUlsg,
capital oaatrUnf, snaaatiavtsg
power ot usury, thai great overshadow
ing ours of all th tgee-
Now jutt a word to tar eurxtli
from btag mtsuadru4. Th pra
po4 gcvramat baakt tad meant ot
keeping the money needed always in
circulation, the Populist financial sys
tern, is not a social cure all. It will not
settle the railroad question, or the land
question, or the telegraph and tele
phone questions, or the coal and other
mining questions, it will not abolish
cb art red monopolies of any kind.
Another thing. It will be necessary
to put a reasonable limit, so long as
land is monopolized, on the amount
wblch may be loaned to any one prop
erty holder.
In reply to the objection that the
government must loan to all men if It
loans to any, we call attention to the
fact that it is now loaning, and loaning
only to the bondholders who start
banks. The property which will be
loaned on under the new system will be
what money is now loaned on, with
tuch rules regarding amount of security
as the electors and taxpayers of each
oounty are satisfied will be adequate,
and will together stand good for
Will
it snouia De noted. aio that a man
is rarely qualified to handle capital
and will not need to borrow It, if at all
until be has first accumulated a safe
basis for credit. Money at cost would
also lead men of limited means to co
operate in many enterprises for their
mutual benelf, the needed capital
being by them furnished in part and
borrowed In part.
In closing let me call attention to
very valuable book published by tbe
Arena Publishing Co., which will be
found to contain all needed information
concerning tbe present and the pro
posed financial system. It is by George
C. Ward of Kansas City, and is entitled
"A Better Financial Syitem, or Gov
ernment Banks." It is sold at 25 cents,
WISE IN TBEIB OWN 00N0EIT.
The men who constitute the boards of
trade in the great cities expect parlla
ments, congresses and legislatures to
respectfully listen and promptly per
form when they suggest a publio (?)
need. Tbey are ''the solid business
men" and think they constitute tbe
country. They are supposed, by all
except the unterrlfled, to be men of
hard practical sense. But just read
this and see what fools or knaves they
all are:
Three weeks ago about a hundred
members of the British Chamber of
Commerce in Paris dined together and
held a conference as to the effect of a
general disarmament upon the labor
market. Their opinion was that it
would be dangerous, or lead to most
serious results, if the 2,750,000 men now
underarms in Europe were to join the
work seeking rankn
Boiled down and strained their phi-
osopby Is, the more rich men there are
drawing incomeH and the mote uo pro
ducing soldiers there are to preserve
the peace, the more work there will ba
for those who must work. Well, it does
look that way.
The useless rich who draw incomes,
all think they are conferring favors
when they hire workers to drees and
feed and grandly serve them. It is a
great kindness to the workers for the
shirkers to give them a job and pay
them out of their own or other workers'
earnings, kept back by monopoly force
and fraud. But ' Go to now, ye rich
men, weep and howl for your miseries
that rhall come upon you. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last
days."
THE FIR8T POPULIST QUARTETTE.
a. uuckuns oi iNeorasna uity baa a
plan for campaign work which ought
to meet the approval of the other mem
bers of our party. He has organized a
male quartette for holding street meet
ings, and with a speaker proposes to
travel the state by team, holding two
meetings each day. This mode of
campaigning will prove of great benefit
to the c.tuH. Looal committeemen who
wish to secure this combination can do
so by addressing II. iluuklns of Ne
br-tska City, or this ofilce. Mr. liuck
lng Is a brother of the great Prohibl
tlon party singer, A. H Iliickins. Let
ut make It a song singing campaign.
The new snng book, Armageddon, will
equip all the Populist sinners of th
country with song which will attract
multitudes of all parties to our meet
ing. I'xk a little reason. There is no prac
tical difference between a uionoHillst
and a rvlgnlng despot. Monopoly and
monarchy ar on and th same la com
manding and compelling mrvtoo. Free,
dotu U lost under viiher form f power.
Discover how mauy monopolies there
ar lifted up to eoatrol production ard
eichanr , sad you will know how many
throne you pay trtbuUi la W do not
have a real democracy. Th govern
went It not our government, but th
olvll atd military arm f th reigning
monopolist. Our king ar more
numerous and eot ut vastly moro than
th lngl monarch and count of other
countrU, Our forefather refused lo
tubtnti Ut tatalloa htt they wr not
allowed repreeeataiioa Through
tva year ut dprt war they bat
tled, bled aad dtvd for thlt principle,
and their artut wer vlctortout, Hut
w, their JetevtJaatv ar being Ui4
lo death by th monopolist t Wll ut
lkr business (of robbing us) U ttt
owa privet affair; and w tai ourselves
to rua their goveroaieat aad vU for
tholr mta and par tie. Tat Sugar
Trust officials testify that tbey have
ucBuujreu competition ana raisea ine
price of sugar three-eighths of a cent a
pouna, and that they and the other cor
porations contribute from this plunder
w tne campaign lunas or botb the (cor-
porawonowneajoia parties, it is per
fectly evident, by their acts, that neith-
er oi tne ma parties cares to attack tbe
great financially and politically power-
iui monopolies, me great capitalist
-.-i , j ...unr
uon monopoly's, are all found in the
oiu parties, neason ana sen - preserva
won wouto tnererore iorce au nonest
men and lovers of liberty into the Peo-
pies party, we want no Ulngs. .
m IT
nr TTfov asvit tidadtiautp I
The most important work of the Peo
ple's party of Nebraska will be done in
the next few days, tbat of holding pri
maries and local conventions. In these
will be decided to whom shall be dele
gated authority to name the standard
bearers of our party, and who shall
formulate the principles which are to
give our party character, in tbe cam
paign of 1804.
If our people neglect
their individual political duties In the
matter of carefully selecting delegates
to carry out their wishes and convlo.
tions, upon them will rest the primary
responsibility of the mistakes, corruo-
tlon and defeat that will be sure to fol-
low. We wish to startle our best lead-
ore aim wiu ran sou uio into activity,
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Into the exercise of jealous care, at
this decisive point. Corruption, smooth
aud soft and slippery, is waiting always
to slide in at unguarded primaries. We
are too near to victory to escape the
necessity of watching close and holding
aown tne orcce seeker and place
hunters, the class who in the old par-
ties make it tbelr business to run the
caucuses and conventions. We there-
fore entreat our people, as they love
justloe and truth and liberty, to turn
out ana see that no delegate are given
power who cannot safely be trusted to
represent them. Send only men of
character and whole-hearted purpose to
represent you in the county, dUtrlctand
state conventions. Allow no half and
half Populist-Democrats to run the
primaries. Send the traders and trim
mers, the across-lots-to-viotory politi
cians, to tne rear, ana caoose men as
oeiegates wno are proua oi tne umaaa
. .... .i
piatro'ro.
If at tho primaries the best men, the
men grounded in all the Populist pnn-
clples, are selected as delegates to tbe sweeping current into our prty, a cur
county conventions, tneso conventions rent a resistless as thtt of tbe ocoan
will out of the best select tbe ablest
men to attend the state and congres-
sional conventions and the party will be
kept pure and true and wl.te. And with
the best candidates on the strongest
possible platform, with all events favor
ng us, we shall go forward to certain
victory.
AGAIN BATTLING THE DREAMERS
John J. Iogalls, tho man wbo said
that the decalogue has no place in
politics, and that political reform Is
an lrridescent dream," has tumbled
himself off the shelf, where the Popu
lists gently laid him, and has started
out for ofilce once more. He means to
gt there of course by political war
measures, by campaign ling, y t-teu)
in? votes, bv bearing tu.nc wlt.ru m. hv
boodle, by pandering to the vicious and
parasitic classes. According to his
own confession all Is fair In politics.
lngalls is original, if nothing else,
and h informed his first audience that
'the great question before tbe Ameri
can peoples not tbe tariff' praise the
Lord, and the Populists, thattbat sham
fight Is ended ''nor sllver,but whether
we are to have any government in this
country at all."
Odd, isn't It, for the must notorious
political anarchist, the man who first
stripped off all cant, ar.d openly pro
claimed that his own and the Demo
cratic party, are, in their struggles for
office, lawless, anarchists, odd, we
say, tbat be should make the suppres
sion of anarchy the sole Usue. All are
anarchists now except 'ho Republican
party, t he G. O. V. is called upon
to aye worklngmen from tho terrible
oppression of their fellows. The In-
alienable right of the Individual Ut
work tor starvation wagt s must, in the
Interest ot capitalists, be preserved,
Organized labor must bo rruwhed, says
lngalls, In substance, or tbe govern-
ment 1 no belter than If dWou d
by a tzar, lngalls spoke most bitterly
against tho strikers.
Hat John J , th people, th niuwi, I
have no us for such a yu. You ar
an unprincipled scoundrel by your own!
kHiutesu, and no on I Inclined to
doubt th truth of your statement mad
year ago.
tiOvKH.NOK JtmAKaaiif Ohio a few
dayt ago said, In a publto address; We
have no room, broad as our cumry It,
f rth anervhUt, th communist, th
socialist, or th hoyoolter,'' Mot peo
ple will ba nu s)wthy with
Foraker as far as th anarchist Is eon
rernetl, hula Chilst a totuinunltt
and a socialist hi Utiuest should b
largely cut do a, There It a righteous
rem nasi, a lew ta th church aua a few
out, who believ U wral law, in lit
pretoal tuprvmacy, la Cnrlsttsalty, th
rl Christ tplrlt Qouituualst kUd llut
thr Is ba question, but lb class lo
which Pullman and forakvr belong ar
ready ta truth and crowd out Ibom
who tall la a pur tlsmoeracy, la
equality and fraternity, In the father-
booa or (ioa ana tbe brotherhood of
man, and to them it matters not what
- natre such cU themelves. On the
question of who is the anarchist, there
needs to bs mire said. They are all
- anarchists who either with dynamlt.
singly, or legally a a majority, resist
the government of God. He alone Is
the Head and Lawgiver, and all statutes
which the selfishly strong have made
- . ,u i0eir 0wn interest ana truy are
Ugion-ue essentially anarchistic, and
- for that reason must be swept away.
There are anarchists at the bottom?
Yes, but they are not the worst or most
dangerous kind. The anarchists at the
tep are the kind who make this vast,
vast country too narrow for Its Inhabit
ants. And the anarchist on top have got
to go.
As we predicted, only the labor lead-
ers nave Deen arrestea, ine corpora
i . , . .
tions' attorney general, Olney, has
armed the federal court ollluials with
an omnibus injunction, and under
acharge wblch makes organized stria-
lng a conspiracy to stop the mails, has
arrested and imprisoned President
Debs and other A. R. U. officials. No
hearing has been given to the question
of what constitutes a conspiracy. It
is simply assumed that the mails must
be attached to Pullman oars and that
the Union men must haul them, anlli.
I 4 1. A . I . . . , , T
i mat refusing to ao so tney may De lm-
prisoned and punished. Oa tho other
I band the Railway Managers' Assocla-
tlon, which refused to permit mall cart
to be attached to trains which the
strikers stood ready to go with, are not
Indicted. The oorpi rations cannot com-
mtt a crime. Combined labor must be
crushed by tbe federal troops and by
the courts. Its brave, noble leaders are
dragged to jail, their rights disregarded,
their manhood despised. All indlgnl-
ties are heaped upon them by the cor-
poratlon press and by the minions of
the law. Insolence and lawlessness are
on the throne, right Is being taken to
the Bcaffold. ''But that scaffold sways
tbe future."
The Chicago Times, with a daily cir
culation of over 100,000 has come
squarely out as a Populist paper, and it
will lead forth' from the old parties a
fat increasing host. It is calling for
immediate partv organization In
Cbkano. and It erat break and
brilliant leadershio will start a oooular.
when its dykes are broken. We had
not thought of this as possible. Buttbe
defences of plutocracy are no stronger
than their weakest part. As soon as
t ie great dailies catuh on to the mag
nitude of the people's movement, its
moral power and resistless progrtslonJ"
they will by scores come, crowding amr
tumbling over each other in thelrhaste
to get into the current. The swift leap
of The Times from 60,000 to 100,000 cir
culation, in tho faie of tho railroads
and military buyejt given it, show
what support the people will give to
papers which champion their cause
and fearlessly attack corporate oppres
sion. And this object lesion of The
Times' popularity will lead others to
take the plunge, and we shall again
have a free pre and a free people.
Gior' Kloryhallelujah!
All the forces of organized labor
have come to or are fast moving toward
the PopulUt party. The American
Railway Union, with 130,000 members,
tbe American Federation with 750,000
members, tue Kulihis of Labor, with
250,000 members, these in their plat
forms aud through the action oi their
representative are with us. If the
Plutocrats do not precipitate war, as
did the slaveholders, before we can gain
the government, deliverance will come.
Strain every norve. Unselfishly sacri
fice time, la)(ir and means to educate
and unlto the workers and tho honest,
now. It wilt save rivers of blood, and
bllilons of treasure.
i !
TUKHmibero Paotfla has prvpare'ity
an affidavit which It will require all
employe to sign, by which they swear
that they resign membership in the A.
H- U. and premise nover again to join
any union or brotherhood for the term
of five years, aud that they will not be
om a metubor of any laor organist'
tloo during th ttmu they ar employed
by the S. P. H It. Co. Slaves, serfs,
cattle, dare ut t bo men and brothers!
Tk an oath More (iod that you will
not help on another to bo tree! God
la ioaven, w thauk thee that thou
dol eurso socb tyranny, and that ty
rU ar her dethrone!.
MiUTAKY lum havg a eeltUh resa
for wsleofulug war, or aa lncr la
th foiiHm uuJer them, but wo ar sorry
to see that so go! a man as lion, U, U,
Howard ts tailing f.r aa luvrea la lb
Moral foav n out a s op to Unor
trouble. Jul leglsla'loa I what it
avetknl, I'aroo It a bl remedy that ta
th J will destroy bju lb psttonl
aa the dvlr.
1 1 i" -"
I' iv Hit PtNKUl'ior of New York
hat ttagl haadtHl t,4 Ut ipoa4
t'li'h a light upa aad lateed such a
mt(bl voice agalasl th lamittaB)
g'-vwanwatot New York flty that tW
s al U liliut has tad to lavesttgtWi
It. A great tore of pualu satttiial
hat be a draa out by lr. rrkaurtt
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