THE WEALTH MAKERS.
August 2, 1894
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Or add a aorrow to a atrieKm aoni
Tiataalu a healing balm to maH who Is f
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PEOPLE'S 1JDEPE3DE5T PARTY
STATE 003 VE3TI05.
Liaootn, Neb., May 18, 1894.
The People' Independent elector of the
tat of Nebraska are hereby requested to
elect and aend delegate from their respective!
oonnUe to meet In convention at the city o
Grand Island, Neb., on Friday, Auguit
14, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nomi
nating candidate for the following itata offi
cer, viz: Governor lieutenant-governor sec
rotary of auto, treasurer, auditor, attorney,
general, eommluloner of public land and
building and superintendent of public In
struction; and for the transaction of any other
business which msy properly com before the
convention.
The bast of representation will be one dele
gata at larg from each county In the state and
oo additional delegate for each one hundred
votes, or major fraction thereof, cast In I8W
for Bon. SUM A. Hoicomb for Judge of the su
preme court, which gives the following vote
counties:
Adams....,,
Antelopa...
Banner
Blaine
Boone ,,
Bom Jum..
Boyd........
Brown
Buffalo
Burt.
Butler., v.
Cass... ......
Cedar.......
Chase.. .....
Cherry
Ckeyeue....,
Clay
Ooliax.
Johnson , .... 7
Kearney 10
. 8
Keith 4
KeyaPaha.... 4
1
, II
Kimball t
0
Knox ,. ... .... 9
Lancaster 87
4 1
Lincoln 12
a
b
i
Logan, . , , g
uou-j... i
Maulson 10
McPberson...., i
ii
MMerrtck... ., 1
3ance , 8
Nemaha 11
Nuckolls. 11
14
Otoe U
Pawnee. 7
Perkins....
Phelps. 12
uuming.
unater
Dakota
Dawes
Dawson.....
Deuel.....,,
Dixon.......
Dodge
Douglas....
Dundy
ruimort...
rranklln...
Frontier....
Furnas
Oage.
Uarneid.....
OosDer.
Pierce.,,. 5
Platte , 10
Polk It
Red Willow 8
Ktcharoaon. 8
Kock 8
13
Saline. 10
any 7
Saunders 18
Hcotts Bluff 1
Seward 11
Sheridan. 10
herman 9
aieux 8
Stanton ., 4
rhayer 7
Thomas 1
Grant t
Greeley.'... 6
Ball , 8
Hamilton.... is
ihurston t
Vallcr 8
Harlan l
Washington. 8
Hayee, I
Hitchcock 7
Wayne 4
Webster 11
Holt..
Wheeler. 8
Hooker...
Howard..,
Jefferson.
York... 16
Total.
.781
Wa would reoommend that no proxies be al
lowed, but that the delegate present oast the
full vote to which their respective counties ara
entitled,
J. A. Bpomtoh, D. Clim Dbavsr,
Secretary. Chairman.
"There shall come a time when brotherhood
hows stronger
Than the narrow bounds which now distract
the world,
When the cannons roar ana trumpets blare na
longer,
When the tren-cladi rust and sattle-ttafj are
furled,
When the bars of creed and speech and race
which sever
Shall be fused In oua humanity forever."
Vote together, or starve separata.
. Captain Traveulick
stricken with paralysis.
has been
Tiu Topeka Press, hitherto Demo
c ratio, haa coma over to the Populist
party.
L - - --J
Thirty eiuht ir cent of tho work
era in the Maine cotton mill Industry
ara lil la.
8ks Mr, I 'or tor's strong letter against
fusion In tho Third. Thuaa who Insist
o fusion will have a fight, and It they
suooeed, a bolt, It aoeiua.
i -' iji. ". "i
Wi so from sVra 1'opulUt por
that tha east Is coming to Ut grost'y
lira politically, and tha worker are In
great bodies uouktog to tho People's
Irty.
mmmmmmmmmm
Hon kat, apah) workmen aro a4rr
Using to work fur their tread aa4 meat
ll Georgia, Let's too, didn't we tight
four yearn to oterthro chattel slavery ,
wbleh socurod to the worker fd eo-l
clothing, sholwr, medical allcnutnoe
ijni Ufa eaf supplies?
WE PEOPCSE A PLATF0BM-
The People's Independent partj in
convention assembled, recognizing
changeless law of justice, binding alike
upon all men. as obligator? upon men
associated in business and government
as upon individuals, and that this
simple but comprehensive law must be
obeyed to secure social order, peace
and orosDarltv to all. ' declare their
allegiance to the supreme law and law
river, and their fixed and strenuous
nnnnaltion to all class legislation. We
declare class legislation to be essen
tially anarchistic, destructl ve of rever
ence for law. the cause of increasing in
equalities, antagonisms, strikes and
violence, leading in the near futun to
terrible revolution; and that they who
defend, secure or aid in securing special
privileges, conferred bjr unjust, unequal
statutes, are the real, the most danger
our anarchists. And we declare further
that these most injurious always acting
anarchists, who combine to lift their
will to plunder and enslave as God's
will, are the political leaders and mani
pulators of the two old parties under
the shelter of whose unlawfal statutes
monopolies have multiplied and grown,
until the means of subsistence and in
dependence have been taken entirely
away from more than half, and in par
tlal measure from nearly all the Ameri
can people. ,
We declare that the right to land is
as inalienable as the right to life and
libertv. that it is a necessary part of
that right, in fact; that all the earth
contains of Divine provision for man,
all material objects and working forces,
must belong equally and without pur
obase to all living individuals. We
therefore call for the destruction of
land monopoly and speculation, and for
the publlo ownership or freedom of the
natural stores of coal, oil, iron and
other minerals, now monopolized.
We declare that men should not only
be secured In the right to produce freely
by their labor, but also in the right to
exchange their products or services
without being compelled to pay des
potic tribute to money and transporta
tion kings; and that to secure the
equitable exohange of services and free
continuous employment it is necessary
for the government to provide money
nd transportation at cost, in other
words, the government, local and gen
eral, must conduct the banking business
and own and operate the railroads.
We declare for the municipal owner
ship of street cars, and gas and electric
plants for the publlo distribution of light
heat and power; and the nationalization
of the telephone and telegraph systems,
that a monopoly of this electric service
and of the news may not be left in a few
bands, or with false teachers.
We recognize the necessity of publlo
employment for tens of thousands of
worthy Nebraska citizens who have
been brought to destitution by the
crop-destroying drouths, and we de
clare that they must be saved from beg
gary and starvation by setting them at
work upon the public roads, and upon
state-surveyed, state-bulW, state-owned
irrigation ditches, wherever water
supplies can be utilized, payment for
these publlo services to be made in
county and state warrants, receivable
for taxes.
We are appalled to see the resources
and capital of the country concentrat
ing into few hands, and, by the same
cause, that the independence of mil
lions of American citizens has been lost
to them. We consider it conclusive
evidence that our so-called representa
tive government, or government by
parties, Is now an increasing failure,
that corruption cannot be exoluded from
delegated bodies of lawmakers and
judges, and that all the people should,
to save their liberties, demand that the
lawmaking and vetoing power be re
stored to' them. Indirect legislation
must give way for direct legislation, or
the party combinations, the lobbyists,
the corporations, the present powerful
monopolists, the fair-spoken office
seekers and the corrupted courts will
make legal merchandise of us all. We
therefore demand, not la the Interest of
party but of all the people, that our
legislative candidates Individually and
publicly pledge themselves to see that
a resolution be Immediately Introduced
at the beginning of the session and
pushed through the next legislature
submitting to the people a constitution
al amendment which, carried, will give
back to tho people tho power to make
their own laws and to pass authorita
tively upon any question of public coo
corn they may at any time petition to,
each Important law having to bo either
Initiated by them or referred to thorn.
Under this systoti) of direct legislation
no law or reform which a majority
favored could bo deferred, for parties,
profowlonal politician and lobbyists
would not to able to divide, conquer
and plunder tho people. Wo thcrvlora
urge all good cltlton, regardless of
party, to join with us upon this plank
to alect a legislature la NoriuUr
which a 111 gtv back to tho pooplo,
who aloao can t UusUid, tho reins of
power,
"rtuua Is still a considerable per
oaatage of latar unemployed both la
the K.at and Wast, and the outgoing
stoawsrs to Kurttuo are carr)lag batik
largo auuttwts to their native lands; a
wilgrattua which, while largely stlmu
lat4 by war lntvreg rakta, Is princi
pally due to the Industrial depression."
The old part demagogues have long
been cultivating contentment in the
minds of the wage-earners by telling
them how much better off they are
than the pauper laborers of Europe.
But this can no longer be done. We
have reached the Europe level and
more, so that there is a movement for
relief from American misery toward the
pauper labor conditions of ' the old
world. It will be well in the 1894 cam
paign to jam this truth under the
noses of the Republican campaign
orators. The statement we have quoted
above is from the financial report of The
(N. Y.) Independent of July 26, 1804,
Republican paper. Cut it out and paste
it in your hat to show the Reps and
their demagogue speakers.
HOT ANT FU8I01I IN OURS.
The question of open or convention
fusion with any party or undivided fao
tlon of a party baa never been support
ed by straight influential Populists, by
the strong trusted leaders of the party.
The World-Herald scheme of last
February was killed too dead to be
thought of afterwards. But a fusion
scheme to place Bryan in the U. S.
Senate is still favored by certain men
who have prominence in our party.
When our state chairman publishes
over his own signature in the old party
dallies of the state that he would sup
port such men aa Bryan and Ourley
(Gurley is a Republican politician of
Omaha) "no matter what ticket tbey
were running on," and further says, "1
think that Mr. Bryan should be in the
Populist party, but if he sees fit not to
come to. us and to still fight along the
ines that he hss in the past, I am
perfectly willing, and I think that the
majority of our party are willing, that
f he and his friends will help us carry
through our state and legislative ticket
that we will make him our next United
States Senator," this, we say, is rather
startling to real Populists. Is it a fact
that a majority of the Populists of this
state, or those who call themselves
Populists, will leave the party to elect
Bryan, a Democrat, a man who will not
come to ub?
How big Is Mr. Br; an, pa, that 90,-
000 Populists In Nebraska, or a majority
of them, will leave (?) their party to
follow him? And what sort oi great
ness is it in him which is ready to help
elect Populists whose principles he does
not subscribe to, if they will trade off
enough votes to place him, a Democrat,
n the United States Senate? We hope
Mr. Bryan has thought better of it, but
we understand his latest published plan
was, to throw himself into the campaign
to elect simply a free silver legislature,
his eftort to be to get the free silver
Democrats to support Populists candi
dates where the Populist party leads
numerically, and the Populists to leave
their party and vote for Democrat
candidates in districts that have con
tained more Democratic voters, all
thst be may get elected to the United
States Senate. A man who will do this
has no real party, principles,
neither Populist nor Democratic, and he
is not a man to look upon with favor,
but to consider an enemy, a menace.
If Democrats are honest they cannot
thus support Populists. If Populists
are honest they cannot thns support
Democrats. There is a difference be
tween the two parties which keeps
them apart, Mr. Bryan himself being,
apparently, in evldenoe.
We have two or three kinds of people
who favor the scheme of trading Popu
list for Democratic votes. First, the
place hunters, perfectly selfish smooth
talking fellows who are in haste to get
offloe, or appointments under ethers,
and who by personal activity get to the
front more or less. Confound them.
They make us hot, with their efforts to
join us to those who are not of us. The
only thing to do with them is to give
them back 'seats. Second, well-meaning
people whose ideas are not clear.
They think If a man Is honest it makes
little or no difference what he believes,
what political 'party he belongs with.
Their votes count, but as leaders they
are no good. Give theua back seats,
too, Third, people of little faith in the
power of Populist principles to attract
the honest men of all parties to us.
These last belong In the hospital, not
on the battle field.
Let us calmly look at the plan which
Mr, Heaver and some others are work
tug on, that of speaking 8 leaders to
the Democratic leaders and saying to
Hryan and his friends, "Help us and
we will help you. Help us elect a
I'opulWt legislature, and we will have
our men turn in and elect a Deinocratlo
United KtaW'S Senator."
In tho first plsoo the Independents at
a rul, are too Independent hi follow
uch bellwethers vtiUi t$ party, Tho
Won, Ik a ww can bo led out of the party
by our leader! And tho p'an, known,
will arouse great Indignation In our
party agalntt such leaders, We would
not buy oven Uryan to bo a IVpultst.
Ilought Populist are not PopulUu.
lie must come to u of hit own accord,
Aaothar thtug. lie cannot do m any
good II he li not a i'opuilst, not evn It
w elevat him to tho I nlUd state
tteuato.
W twlleve there are a grvat many
honest men in the llspublicaa parly,
la fact wajf to think the ltpubil
cans were ahout all go!. We want lo
sue them oonverU'4 and attracted ton,
jutl as much as we want to aoe cn
tort 4 Deuioorsu, And the caly war
for us to command the respect of the
honest men of both old parties is to
stand on our own platform, aad coquette
with the leaders of neither.
A BILL ABO JIM ALLEGORY
Professor C. M. Mead, Doctor of Di
vinity, one of the men who know every'
thing that is known and tho whole
mind of God besides, defends Pullman
and condemns Debs and his striking
brethren in an allegory which the edi
tors of The Independent of New York
think worth placing on the first page of
their great religious family paper. The
allegory condensed is as follows:
Jim Smith was an orphan who worked
for his living for Mr. Jones. Jones had
a boy named Bill. Jim proposed one
day that Bill should buy his knife for a
aoiiar. mil sata it was not worth
dollar to him. Jim insisted that it was,
ana offered to leave It to referees to
decide what he should pay for it, Bill
declared hedldn't need the knife enough
to pay a dollar for it and no referee
could make him willing to pay that
much for it.
Jim thereupon would have nothing to
ae witn mil, tho be continued to live
in Jones' bouse. And he told the boys
who were working for Brown, and tbey
quit work and helped Jim torment Bill,
ana oegan a reign oi terror in tne neigh
borhood. They made so much trouble
that Brown and two others conferred
with Bill and urged him to have the
matter arbitrated. But Bill replied
that "he didn't want the knife more
than a half dollar's worth; that he didn't
see how referees could have any right
to mace mm pay more tnaa ne could
afford to pay; that, in fact, it was purely
his own business whether he should buy
tne knire or not, and that tne committee
had better attend to their own boys in
stead of coming to interfere with bis
private affairs."
"What an awful boy Bill was!"
So says Mead, Professor of all human
knowledge, Doctor of all Divinity, Dis
penser of all moral truth.
But let us explain.
Pullman (Bill), understand, absolutely
owns the earth and all the means of
subsistence upon which and by use of
which thousands of families must live
BUI isn't an orphan. See? God it his
father. But Jim (these thousands) has
been disinherited, cast out, through the
scheming of Bill and his favored crowd,
The only way Jim can live is by being
a slave (creating wealth) for Bill. BUI
insists that be has a right to demand a
certain amount of wealth out of Jim's
labor product $600,000 'every three
months besides a vast sum of value "in
crement" which the land absorbs from
the labor of Jim and to get this much
out of Jim he compels him to double his
work and pinches him to the starvation
point in his living. .
Jim endures this as long as be can,
becauHe he has no home on earth to go
to, and he is unable in his poverty to
even change masters. But finally be
gets so faint that he decides that he will
ask for enough-food to live oa out of
what be produces.
Whereupon Bill gets en bis high
mighty dignity and informs Jim that
orphans have no rights, that it is his
(Bill's) great goodness which has led
him to provide work thus far to keep
him alive. And off goes Bill to enjoy
the fruits of Jim's toll, and leaves him
locked out to starve.
And Bill said to himself, the law is
on my side, and if Jim gets desperate
my soldiers will shoot him. The church
is on my side, too, for I and my brother
millionaires endow its theological semi
naries out of the profits of Jim's labor.
It doesn't preach any more against rich
men and usurers and house and land
monopolists, because they support it,
largely. And we are putting a fence
around everything that the poor need
so as to force them to compete more and
more for our favors, for places to work,
and they will thus be our servants for
ever. What a nice boy BUI was!
WILL SOME MINISTER ANSWER?
Will some eood minister of the gospel
of Christ tell us why Moses Instituted
tne ' year oi jaoueer"
was ne patriot or anarcnlstr
The above queries are sent in by a
Des Moines, Iowa, subscriber, and we
pass them on to the ministerial readers
of Tub Wealth Makeks. The ques
tion of man's Inalienable right to land
Involved In the law concerning the
'year of jubilee ' Did the Lawgiver
of the Hebrew unjustly, unwarrantably
Interfere with individual liberties, with
necessary freedom of contract?
BE ON THE ALERT.
We are pleased to ea in other states
that the fusioti fellows are being at
down on heavy and bard. The honest
element among them seem ur.ablo to
learn anything frnu tho past. They
still believe, after repented failures and
most damaging party result, that a
few leader can add together so many
thounand votes of two opposing parties
and divide up the oftloa, Onlyapur
chased, (looting ou can bo to aJdsd
Uh
ThisUUo way tho Pueblo Dally
lerald of Colorado talks to tt.o fusion-
sis;
Last spring the Populists of this city
tried a combination that tavoml string
ly i.f fusion. Though the ticket m
aoialoale4 by tho IVpullst convention,
it was a welt knosra faet that toiao of
tho men on that ticket did aut reprw
set or beitsvo In the principle of tho
Stpullsl party. 1 ho result wa that
tho Populist parly met a crushing do
leatand!r me first, time sinew It was
orgaatsed failed to make a e"ld4 gats
otr tho eot preceding tutvlloa.
Certain ot tho ane lores are eg Ma
talking "combination of all the forces
that have similar ideas." If those
forces have similar ideas there is but
one plaoo for them, and that is in the
party which represents those princi
ples. v The Populist party must
either enter this campaign unfettered
by entangling alliances and , make
a square fight upon t"o principles
which it advocates. Every man nomi
nated upon the ticket must be well
grounded in its faith and loyalty to its
principles.
The Herald wishes to warn all who
are true to the cause of populism to be
on the alert to spot any attempt to
"throw" tho party, and stamp them out
as they wonld fire. It has been truly
said that when a glorious victory lor
the people is in sight fusion and its
attendant confusion cannot be tolerated
TO PREVENT PARTY CORRUPTION.
We publish by request this week
verbatim copy of one of the resolutions
adopted by the national convention of
the People's party. It reitds as follows:
Resolved, That the People's Party
at the outset, to secure permanent con
trol of the party organization unaffected
by the interests of those in publlo ser
vice, does hereby in national convention
assembled at Omaha, this 4th day of
July, 1892, establish this ordinance as
fundamental law of party organiza
tion, viz., JNo person holding any offloe
or position of profit, trust, or emolu-
ment under the federal or any state or
municipal government, including sena
tors, congressmen, and members of the
legislature state and local, shall be
eligible to sit or vote in any convention
of this party; and a copy of this ordi
nance shall be annexed to every call for
any luture convention ot the party.
FOLLOW A O00D EXAMPLE.
Gbamd Forks. N D., July 27. The
Democratic state convention today voted
in favor of fusion with the fopuusts,
although the Populist convention re
fused all offers of fusion. The platform
indorses the Chicago platform of 1892;
indorses Cleveland, especially in calling
outVoops at Chicago; indoraes Senator
Roach; declares for bimetallism and
against monomentalllsm of either go'C
or silver; demands changes in either
the gold or silver d ' liar in order to keep
the two metals on a parity; demands
that all moody be issued by the govern
ment; demands that tariff' for revenue
only and the speedy passage of reform
tariff iaws;ravors resubmission of prohi
bition amendment to the constitution.
The above action ought to drive some
political senie into the heads of Populists
here who believe fusion wise. If the
Populists of Nebraska do as they did In
North Dakota, the Democrats of Ne
braska will be driven into supporting
either the Populist or the Republican
ticket, and the major part of them will
come to us, with no tie-up, no under
standing, no obligation on our part.
Thb Boisb Sentinel, organ of the
People's party of Idaho is firing broad
sides at fusion. In Idaho the f usionists
are trying to get the Populists to fuse
with the Republican party. The Rep
party in that state is in about the same
condition that the Democratic party is
In this state, and its leaders are there
fore crazy to combine with the Popu
lists. The Sentinel lniti last issue edi
torially warned the Populists to "be
ware of traitors," and branded as out
right treason the proposition of a local
'opulist paper in Northern Idaho that
the Populists nominate Sweet, the Re
publican congressman. Lots of sense
in the Populists of Idaho electing a Re
publican congressman and the Populists
here a Democrat, isn t there? How
ong would the Populist' party exist by
such plans to give its strength to its
political enemies?
This year the crops in the Missis-
ilppi and Missouri valleys are cut off.
Coming on top of the artificial famine
caused by the Shylock class the suffer
ing is certain to be almost universal
among the workers, and the future is
fearful to contemplate. The people
may choose between surrendering their
homes and liberties (those who have
free homes) to the mortgage sharks,
and demanding government credit as
sistance and publlo employment. But
f they demand the latter, they need to
demand it by voting for it in the Peo
ple's pa y, and electing It to power.
Otherwise degradation, debt, despair
and death are all that will be allowed
them.
MUST the people of Nebraska be de
graded by charity and either starve or
beg, because of legal and constitutional
red tpe, made In the Interest of pri
vate capitalists and corporations? In
emergencies shall wo allow laws which
were not msdo for the people or for
emergencies to strangle us? The legis
lature ought to bo called by dovernor
Crounso to meet In extra session as
early as October 1st to legislate for the
salvation of tho drouth-stricken desti
tute, who by ten of thou.nnJs are help
Iuk (ilvo them publlo work some way,
and nuke tha lawacooformlothe needs,
tho emergency which we face.
1! jri" '),"' ' ..
TtlK Massachusetts s'ale convention
of tne People's party a loplcd without
change the platform male by tho stale
conference of orgaoued labor. The
Ulnois PoputUts ad pted with one r-
ceptl oa tho demands of the American
ederalloa of l.a"or. H i U other siaUs
and throughout tho nation the i'opuilst
party Is demanding just what laSor U
demanding, and all tho wtraeis are
BovAlng into It.
S ' I' I "l1"- ' '
Til K t'irtt Nationalist Club of I.lu
cola at its last mooting adopted a roo
ulloa revommsttdtog that H J, Kent of
Jtacola bo made tho I'oputUt nominee
for state land commissioner. Mr. Kent
is national lecturer of the American
Federation of Labor. The Lincoln In
dustrial Legion Monday night also en
dorsed Mr. Kent for the same office or-
candidacy, and passed another resolu
tion condemning in severest terms fu
sion or attempts at fusion with the old
parties. Those advocating fusion war
denounoed aa traitor to the People's
party and cause.
IT doesn't pay to be unfair in prima
ries and conventions. It doesn't pay to
pack a caucus and push through a slate
for a reform party to endorse. It doesn't
pay to trade off Independents; because,
they wUl refuse to be delivered. You
fellows with a little selfish scheme to
get office by swapping . Influence and
scheming together and pulling wires,
when you show yourselves in a reform
party, are an offense of the worst-smeU-ing
kind to true honest men. And they
spot you, remember that. You may ret
on top and have your way for a day, but
Derore you reach your object you will
meet men whom you cannot manage.
How do you, citizens of western Ne
braska, with crops destroyed and no
credit, and wives and little ones to feed
feel about your rights? Have you no
I t a a .
ngnts out to oeg or starve? Don't vou
feel that having done your le.el best
that the government bs an obligation
resting upon it to provide you witx
work that will enable you to HveTJyf
your own labor? When bang up against
the wall few men believe in the utter
loss'or exhaustion of their riffhts. or
that tho obligation to furnish work for
Al - Sits . .
me wiumg aoes not rest upon the gov
ernment. '
The Wealth Makers proposes a
platform this week. We miarht have
added to it many things whlJh we be
lieve in, but we left them out in order
to unite all eood citizen nn tha ta.t
plank, the supreme political imoortanea
of which all, we think, can see. With
such a platform we believe we miffht
draw many thousands of
- m a vu
the Republican, Democratic and Prohi
bition parties. We ask all to read it
and thoughtfully consider what may be
its advantages over the conventional
convention platform.
Dodge Bbothkbs. proprietors of the
Newburyport, Mass., shoe factory have
compelled their employes to sign a con
tract or agreement to WOrk at wairaa
satisfactory to the employers, not to
oln any strike, and not to leave service
without two weeks' notice, all this
under penalty of a floe of 25, which
each is required to deposit with the
firm. The firm pays seven per cent in
terest on this deposit, but gives no .
pledge not to discharge an employe
T..VUWWV UV Wt .
Owikg to a local holiday which all
Lincoln people took for themselves, and
the use of our printing force another
half day to move part of our goods and
fixtures from one room to another, we
are short of our usual amount of type
set matter this week. But some of what
we offer is of more than usual Interest.
We usually give very large measure, do
our friends notice?
The Arkansas Populist state conven
tion, July 21st, was attended by 10,000
people. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
asks, ' What does it mean'" It means
that you can't oppress the people long
without bding discovered. The people
have been trying to locate the robbers a
long time and now have them in sight,
sure. The Populist partv is after them
hot and bard.
The old parties have long been tell
ing the people that over-production is
the cause of low prices and hard times.
Therefore look now for prosperity in
Nebraska and the great grain growing
and stock raising states. We most now
have prosperity, If over-production has
been the cause of adversity, don't you
see?
i
W. C. Batics of Carleton, Thayer
county, Is euthuslastlo for the fo'ur horse
wagon plan of attending the state con
vention. He believes that 20,000 people
can thus go, and that we can stir up
great enthusiasm all along the routes.
Mr. Bates' letter will appear next week,
la tho old soldier column.
Waktki-Tj know when and where
each Populist convention convenes.
Wanticd-A good solicitor in each
precinct and town.
Wmtko-;0,(K)0 campaign subscrib
er. Twenty cents ouly for the cam
paign. . .- w
Tubkk 1 to bo a great rally at llol
drego at which iiou. Late Penuo, I'opu
ilst oongrsssmsn from C loraJo, Is to
orate s kiu. Wo accidentally lost our
notice of U, and so caa not giro tho
dato. Will give It nent wwek.
Wk have sweral comqtuntustion
from oM soMlers for our proposvd 8ol
Jwrs Column, which wo shall start
Best wk
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wiw ! tt f turn on th oiaiu.
Hut lu is rir filial U.fw
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fry,