THE WEALTH MAKERS. .
Angust 23, 1894
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BY
The Wealth Maken Publishing Company,
I mm M Street,' Lincoln, Neb.
3BOBGB HWABD GIBSOW Editor
1, 8. HTAR, Business Manager
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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS!
We are this week Bending out hund-
eds of notices of expiration of subsorip-
on to our subscribers. The amount
hat each one owes ns is small, but in
he a?rre?ate it foots up hundreds of
pilars, and to carry these delinquent
kbscribers is a great burden oa us.
Very many have written us to not
op the paper, saying they can not get
ong without it, and will send in their
newai as soon as possible. Now
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r you to raise the one dollar that you
re us, than it is for us to raise hund-
11 A A I
i oi aonar every monin to pay too
pense 01 sending the wealth
EiRS to you? We know that times
hard, but we also know that paying
lubsoriptlon 10 a newspaper Is very
en a matter of neglect. We know
it if you can be brought to realize
jw absolutely necessary it is that you
y your subscription as soon as it ex-
res, you will promptly remit and not
bw us to send you the paper for
nths at our own expense.
e know you wish to be fair with us,
to want you to think oi the inconvenl
you are putting us to, thoughtless
rhaps, by not paying ub the small
ount due us.
hf fxpenset art heavy and must be met
mpily. We are depending on you,
jtnds, to do your duty. Just now, while
k think ot it, will you not sit down,
.te us a letter and enclose the amount
) us, for which you already have
ue received.
Ve are sure Thk Wealth Makers
welcome visitor to your home and
t you do not want it discontinued,
s working for your interest, it is
iting your battles. The kind words
. have said of us, through the paper
, otherwise, we fully appreciate, and
y encourage us to greater effort, but
y will not pay for paper, rent and
r. We must have your financial
port. We know of several leading
skly papers in Nebraska that will
aafter be Issued monthly on account
jard times. The Wealth Makers
; not cut its expenses down in this
h We must and will come out on
s every week, or the cause will
er. As the chief exponent of the
pie's Independent party of Nebras
The Wealth Makers has a re
isibllty that you must help us to
h. We have faith in you, enough to
eve tbat you will do your part to
I uttermost.
here is no reason why the Btate
3r should not have 50,000 subscri
"., and we intend to get them, but
must help us. It will be a long,
1 struggle, but with your help we
1 succeed.
is of especial importance that the
?Uation of The Wealth Makers
creased as much as possible in the
Inning of the campaign. Now is
ime to work. Let us hear from
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o Wealth Makers Pub. Co.
! J. S. Hyatt, Bus. Mgr.
i. S. J. Kent, member of the exec
'3 board of the National Carpenters
'. n and national lecturer, has been
imously endorsed by the Lancaster
ty Populists for the place of
ulssloner of Public Lands and
lings, and by the Lincoln local
r club and the State Federation of
r at Its Aug. Id state meeting. It
:r opinion that Mr. Kent, because
excellent ability, his talent for
o speaking, which will make him a
campaigner, his endorsement
nthusiastic support by organized
fin the cities, and his having been
'ana Populist "fully committed
j moat advanced doctrines" of our
V--we say because of this he should
xd on our state ticket We are
a to aay more for lack of space,
j tola earnestly, and believe our
ntlon will see the force of the
lent.
N. I P. A.
THE WOBID-HEBALD'S 0BITI0I8M.
The World-Herald devoted nearly
two columns of Its August 16th space to
advertising the partisan insanity of The
Wealth Makers, and considering
what It had to criticise and present It
got up quite a smooth article. It may
be worth while to reply to some of its
statements and remarks.
No, we did not congratulate General
Weaver on the insincere Indorsement of
the Democratic party of the Ninth
Iowa district. That sort of support
does not make Populists. It sometimes
makes possible the capture of an office.
Bat offices so captnred in the end cost
more than they are worth. We do not
say, take notice, that Genaral Weaver
could help being endorsed, but the effect
of being endorsed by a body of men who
belong to another and an opposing
party, a party whose platform as well as
record is fundamentally and radically
different, shows that they have no real
principles of their own to stand on.
The enmity of either of the old parties
is worth more in the long run than its
local support
We have not seen a printed report of
Judge Stark's language, but the report
given us by a delegate who was present
differs materially from that intimated
In the World-Herald editorial.
The Wealth Makers, permit us to
ssy, has taken Mr. Bryan's own word
for it that he is a Democrat. The la
bored effort of his friends to prove that
he is also a Populist is therefore time
and effort wasted. We take it that Mr.
Bryan knows the essential difference
between the two. There being such
difference,' seen by Mr. Bryan, that
ought to be enough , to end the talk
about having a Democrat represent
Populists. But Populist support is
needed, and a very large part of the
party's strength, to elect Mr. Bryan,
his own party being so sadly reduced
and divided; so it Is necessary to show
that Mr. Bryan is insincere in refusing
to be called by our name when he is In
platform with us. But the platform
oould not be made to stretch and shrink
sufficiently to make him both a Demo
crat and a Populist.
The World-Herald is in error in
stating tbat the last national platform
of our party "demanded both of these
reforms," viz., the election of senators
by direct vote of the people and making
the president ineligible for a second
term. The national platlorm proper
contained neither of these demands, but
they were contained in some resolutions
which were offered independent of the
platform and adopted as expressive of
the sentiment of the convention. By
nose of our papers are these resolutions
considered a part of the platform prop
er, The two reforms referred to have
never created any considerable discus
sion and The Wealth Makers, so far
as our memory goes, has never shown
enthusiasm over them, as our critic
seems to believe. Neither are reforms
"of tbe first importance," as every hon
est man of sense knows. This effort to
make great things out of small is all to
magnify Mr. Bryan's measures. Let
them be weighed correctly.
We did not throw overboard the in
come tax. We simply pointed out that
it should not be "a permanent part of
our fiscal system." When we national
ize the railroads and banking business
and put a stop to land monopoly and
some others, there will be no big In
comes to specially tax. But Mr. Bryan
In his platform does not favor doing
away with these great tyrannous sourc
es of income, and this marks a very
serious divergence between him and the
Populists.
Free eilver at 16 to 1 has been the
shibboleth of the Populist party," says
the W.-H,
Since when? We never so heard of
it. Any one who reads our platform
will see that ve do cot make free silver
the solution of the money question.
We believe in full legal tender green
backs and discard Mr. Bryan's coin re
demption doctrine, which has wrought
immeasurable injury and injustice.
We call for credit currency at labor
cost, not for national bankers alone, as
now, but for all good borrowers. Silver
has been talked about a good deal In our
party because closing the mints against
it contracted the currency and Increased
the power of the gold monopolists.
Yes, it Is a fact, that the Initiative
and Referendum Is a reform which,
commended to the thoughtful consider
ation of the party, has come to be con
sidered exceedingly, or at least very,
Important.
The greater may inelude the less, the
less cannot include tbe greater. If the
Iowa Democrats find all that they ask
for in the Populist platform, why keep
up a separate organization?
And why do it here in Nebraska?
We have brushed aside nothing that
our platform contain? or that Is not con
trary to It.
Now about Mr. Bryan's railroad
plank. With the exception of the Pa
cific roads he calls for "control," and
we therefore conclude he would fore
close the Union Pacific and afterward
sell It to private parties. The Sooth
Omaha Tribune made the mistake of
attributing the doctrine of government
ownership and operation to Bryan, and
said:
Thft the Democratic party of Nebras
ka will refuse to be committed to such
socialistic doctrine as government con
trol of railways there is not the shadow
of a doubt.
But Col. Bowlby of the Crete Demo
crat set the Tribune man rlf ht In the
following words one of which he em
phasized. The Tribune mistakes the control of
railroads for ownership.
Mr. Bryaa wishes to attract the un
discriminating Populists with the word
"control;" and at the same tin e escape
the odious,dreadful charge of those who
frighten another class by crying, "socialism.''
Yes, we insist that a man who is not
for us is against us. The Democratic
party is our political antagonist A
man who belongs to the party led by
Grover Cleveland and Senator Gorman,
who is planning also to get Populist
votes to elect him to the Senate, and
who must know that his candidacy here
will breed unavoidable dissension and weak
ening strife in our ranks, Is the worst
possible menace and enemy.
If principles are more to Mr. Bryan
than party name why does he stay in a
party whose record shows that it has no
controlling principles? Its votes dur
ing the past year show that it Is a pro
tection or high tariff party, and that it
is not even in favor of the free coinage
of silver.
The Wealth Makers choice for
senator is a man who stands manfully
and proudly on the Omaha platform.
Our second choice (some are nan lng a
second choice) would be the second ab
lest Populist in the party. Are there
onlv two men in Nebraska, a Republi
can and a Democrat, and must Populists
be compelled to choose between them
for a senator?
Mr. Bryan can come to us, and even
yet call back the faith in him which a
very large part of our party have lost;
or he can defeat us this year and bring
ruin to himself by selfishly seeking to
fuse Populists and Democrats around a
Democrat
ABE WE NABE0W AND BIGOTED?
Three or four out of more than a hun
dred and twenty real or supposed Popu
lists papers in this state have harshly
condemned The Wealth Makers for
criticising, and politically opposing the
election of a Democrat to represent (?)
us in the United States Senate for six
years to come. They assume that we
are narrow and partisan and bigoted,
because we insist that Democrats who
refuse our name and platform are our
political, enemies and must not be
oourted or dickered with or accepted as
political leaders outside leaders) by the
Populist party.
PoBslbly our language was not as bland
and discreetly chosen and compllmen
tary as should always be used when
speaking of a great Democrat or a great
Republican; but the fast remains, that
Mr. Bryaa rejects our name and plat
form. Where then is the consistency
of men to be found who claim to believe
in our principles, yet advocate voting
for a man who rejects them, who re
mains a member of another opposing party?
Let us consider the charge of narrow
ness, we are lree to oomess mat we
are not Democrats; never were and
never can be. We also admit that we
are not Republicans, that while we
were onoe, we are heartily sorry we
lgnorantly voted in that corrupt party
so long, and no power on earth could
make us subscribe to present day Re
publicanism. Neither of the old par
ties has even a splinter of real, control
ling principle in it or under it. They
both belong to the great enslaving
monopoly power. Now we are Popu
lists because we believe in the Popu
list demands. Are those demands
narrow? They are the broadest politi
cal platform ever formulated by a
national convention, The Omaha plat
form Is not perfect; but it strikes
honestly and with terrible earnestness
at the great heads and sources ot tyran
ny, at land, money and transportation
monopoly. It strikes not at the
branches, merely, but at the great
trunks and channels of monopoly power.
There Is honest standing room on our
platform for every intelligent reformer,
for every lover of justice, and we wel
come with open arms all who are drawn
freely to us. There Is therefore no
reason for calling us narrow and parti
san because we refuse to step off of this
broadest of all platforms to climb on to
Mr. Bryan's infinitely narrower person
al one. We see the desperate need of a
great party of the people. And we can't
give up the Populist principles, which
we Intelligently grasp. It would be
giving up our character, our manhood.
Another thing: consider the folly of
talking about partisanship in a new
party which has not yet done the work
for which its members came together,
the party which can alone save the
country. We have over a million
voters (probably two million now) who
have come together to place in power
men who stand on the Omaha platform.
We must stand together and be true to
our principles or we can never succeed.
If we leave one another and run here
and there to help elect Democrats and
Republicans whose talents and reform
tendencies we admire, men who will
not come to us, It will break up and
destroy our party.
There are in our party a considerable
number of polltio and Borne well-meaning
men who think if we say nothing
about fusion publicly, but privately en
courage the Bryan Democrats to sup
port our state ticket, for a political
consideration, i. $ , Bryan support In
the legislature, it will be worth much
in the way of present success for our
party. And the temptation will press
upon some of our candidates who are
personally anxious to be elected, to
privately pledge themselves, condition
ally at least, to throw their influence
and votes to Bryan for senator. But
let all Buch consider well that a dis
position on the part of our leaders to
support a man who is not a Populist,
who will not come to us, who remains a
confessed Democrat will certainly re
pel our own people. It will break the
bond of union between us faith in the
fidelity of our leaders and It will dis
gust and discourage thousands of the
most earnest Populists, who will stay at
home on election day. Public fusion
with a corrupt party is swift, instant
death to a reform organization. The
private fusion or semi-trading of office
seeking leaders would also be fatal in
that it would destroy needful confidence
between ourselves. The present time
is critical with us. The danger is
great. Will the leaders of our party
see that It Is absolutely necessary for
us to refuse all entangling alliances
with the men who wish to trade with
lis?
The new song book, now ready for de
livery, is immense. Fire in your orders.
Thirty-five cents a copy.
MONOPOLISTS MADE MAD
Prof. Richard T. Ely of the Wisconsin
State University, the noted economist
and author, is to be tried for his dan
gerous heretical teachings by the agents
of monopoly power. Pro. Ely's books
and other writings have reached and
Influenced a very wide circle, and the
danger is now great that the Populist
party, which is growing with such
marvellous rapidity, will soon munici
palize and nationalize, the natural
monopolies, such as street railways,
waterworks, gas and electric lighting,
telephones, telegraphs, the express
business, the railroads, etc. We pro
pose to do what this great economist
and enemy of monopoly oppression de
clares to be necessary, economic and
just, and because of this prospect, that
his teachings will soon be Incorporated
into law, the effort is being made to
convict him of the crime of disseminat
ing the seeds of socialism.
We are amazed that opprebsors never
learn anything. This is practically a
move to prevent free speech in all our
universities. If Prof. Ely can be tried
for his scientific, unanswerable posi
tions and views, or for free expression
of truth, tried by the tools of monopoly
money bags, a man too in the very first
rank of scholarship and ability, it
means that the rising new school econo
mists are not wanted, and that there Is
to be an example made to frighten them
all back into the acceptance of the dark
ness and false and narrow conceptions of
the past . But it won't work. The
world does move. It is too late to
strike down free speech. We have too
many great and noble men In Prof.
Ely's company. B. O. Flower, editor
of the Arena, Brisbane Walker, editor
of the Cosmopolitan, John Clark Rld-
path the historian, Edward Everett
Hale, W. D. Howells, Hamlin Garland,
Henry George, Edward Bellany, Edgar
Fawcett, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, authors
and poets, and Professors Bemls, Zeub-
lln, Hourwlch and Felmley, besides
many leading ministers, including Prof.
Herron, Pres. Gates, Dr. Coyle, Prof.
Graham Taylor, Dr. Strong, Father Mc
Glynn, Rabbi Schlndler, Thomas K.
Beecher, Washington Gladden, Dr.
Lyman Abbott, and 2,500 Populists
editors, are to be tried with Prof. Ely.
No, the dark ages cannot be crowded
back on ns.
WHAT THEN IS WRONG?
The Madison Reporter either mali
ciously misrepresents us, or its editor
is too ignorant to understand common
terms. He says we teach "that those
who labor with their hands are the pro
ducers of wealth and alone entitled to
Us revenues and rewards." We never
said anything of the sort. We never
Intimated that the needed brain worker
was less a wealth producer. We teach
that all who add to the wealth and
happiness of mankind are performing
valuable service.
But we do say, as the Reporter states,
tbat "Interest, rent and dividends are
inimical to society."
If Mr. Maokay does not believe they
are what is he In the People's party for?
All the blsr fortunes have been built up
by these rents, Interest and dividends.
And by means of these revenues, for
which no labor of either hand or brain
is given, monopolies are extended and
multiplied and the masses are sinking
deeper and deeper into slavery.
The Reporter man Is assuming that
we do not know the difference between
simple labor and compound labor. He
Is also mentally muddled and can't see
the difference between live men and
dead matter.
ACTION OF THE 29TH DISTBIOT
P0PULIBT8.
The 29th, Senatorial district conven
ventlon was held in Culbertson last
week and Hon. L. W. Young was re
nominated for state Senator. Several
ringing speeches were made, one by
Miss Ellen Whlteman on the question
of equal suffrage. The delegates pre
sent were almost unanimously in favor
of woman's suffrage. The platform was
a ringing one, reaffirming the Omaha
platform, eomdemnlng with all possible
emphasis both old parties as equal
partners in guilt, and had this to say
against fusion:
Resolved; Tbat we are unalterably
opposea to any tuslon in any manner,
shape or form with either or both old
parties or any action having a tendency
in mat airec'lon.
DEUEL COUNTY POPULISTS ALL
BIGHT.
W.L. Harrington reporting the action
of Deuel county Populist convention
says, "things In Deuel county are dried
up except the Pops. They are as wide
awake as ever." They adopted an excel
lent set of resolutions, the following
being the first: 1
Resolved; That the People's Inde
pendent party of Deuel county in con
vention assembled renew our allegiance
to the principles set fortn in the nation
al platform adopted at Omaha, July 4,
1892, and recommend te all men who
have the welfare of their country at
heart to join with us in our endeavor to
elect men who will adopt these princl
pies as their guide in public life.
It is a mistake to suppose the volume
of money is alone able to fix the pur
chasing power of the dollar, or that an
Increase in the volume to fifty dollars
per capita would keep tbe currency In
circulation, which is absolutely neces
sary to keep the dollar from appreciat
ing. It is only by providing a currency
which can be obtained without interest, at
labor cost, that money can be kept in
regular constant circulation and the
people be kept at work, and this can be
done only by direct loans to the people.
Government banks instead of private
banks, for loans, deposits and exchange,
can alone furnish the necessary propel
ling power for the circulating medium,
and prevent the accumulation of the
currency In the hands of the usurers,
with corresponding glut of goods in the
markets, falling prices, a periodic fall
ing off in the demand for labor, and
willing workers in enforced idleness
and want. Government banks furnish
the only solution for the money question.
' What's in a name?'' So writes a
man who wants to fuse (he was afraid
to give his own name) and does not like
our position. Well, it don't matter
much what name you give a false person
or party. The word Republican now
means anything and everything that is
false and fair to catch votes. The term
Democrat also covers, but no longer
hides, all despotism and deviltry. But
the name Populist means In very truth
what was expressed in the Omaha plat
form. We must have to represent us
not merely well-meaning, smooth-talking
reformers who are not too great or
good to be Democrats or , Republicans,
the sort who fear the unpopularity of
the term Populist Give us every time
leaders who have great hearts to love
our principles and strong faith in their
success, men who will proudly bear our
name.
Progress is seen In this, that acts
which a few years ago men considered
perfectly equitable and moral, are now
being more and more widely condemn
ed. There is an ever-growing, intens
ifying, spreading moral light, and with
the light is a Force that makes for
righteousness.
O Truth, thou approaches t with blessing,
The shadows are fleeing away.
The light of the dawn Is Increasing,
And evil slinks back from the day ;
As a bridegroom that leaveth his chamber,
Rejoicing in strength for the race,
ThoucomestI Thoucomest! Thoucomestl
And heaven is seen In thy facet
Its glory has gilded the mountains,
And soon, where the Spoiler has trod,
We shall follow thy feet the the fountains,
And beautiful gardens of God.
The Democrat joined the Populists three
years ago. Vidette. .
The Democrat has never given Mr.
Chapman any cause for his personal
fi Intra and misrepresentations of its
editor. Crete Democrat.
Strange, isn't it, that this blue-blooded
bourbon Democrat wishes to tie up
at the ballot box with the political 6ect
he so despises, and that he has the
cheek to charge The Wealth Makers
with absorbing "fat," corruption, be
cause it demands Populists to represent
us? We suspect that Col. Bowlby is in
some way related to Rev. Jasper of Vir
ginist At any rate both are of the per
suasion that "The earth am square, and
the sun do move."
The new song book, Armageddon, is
ready, and the campaign now opens.
Send in jour orders. Thirty five cents
a copy. Six copies for $1.80.
One-fourth of the railway mileage
of the country is now in the hands o
receivers. Yes, when by stock-watering
and a scale of expenses correspond
ing with the best times the stockholders
get caught in a squeeze, they have to
turn over the property to the govern
ment to conduct. And the government
never fails to straighten out the busi
ness, vast as it Is, and turn the roads
back to the private owners. And yet
It Is objected that it is not possible or
economical or safe for the government
to own and operate the railroads! If
the government owned the railroads It
would save enormous sums of interest,
dividends, illegitimate expenses and
waste now drawn from the people.
The Chicago Record (neutral) says
there will be at least twenty to twenty
five Populists in the next Illinois legis
lature. There Isn't one now. "Lift up
your heads my own beloved. 'Tis
the bright day from heaven unrolled."
The Cook county (Chicago) Populists
had a rousing convention last week and
paraded the streets in a great body
with banners flying. And they were a
splendid lot of men, too. Henry D.
Lloyd, intellectually one of the ablest
men in the nation, is one of their
chosen leaders. Organized labor in the
cities is going into politics, will strike
with us at the ballot box, and the end
draws near.
"sh! Silence! Say nothing! There's
a big fish on the hook and we'll land
him sure, if the state organ is discreet
just now. Let the broad minded, non
partisans who wish ub to trade one big
office for a lot of little ones put a Dem
ocrat at the head of their ticket and
alone be allowed to speak. Don't offend
those Democrats who are ready and
anxious to trade. Don't slap traders and
traffickers in the face. Don't believe
there is a strong element in our party
who will fight local tie-ups to elect a
Democrat. We have got to have out
side help, don't you see? And ths only
way to get outside help is to pay for It."
The state of New York has lately
passed a law providing for the punish
ment of unsuccessful suicides. Legis
late first to bring about conditions of
poverty, torture, want and humiliation
which drive people to desperation, and
then when suicides become so nume
rous as to compel public attention, pun
ish the suicide who fails to accomplish
his purpose to get from under the laws
which are crushing him, laws which
have driven all hope from his heartf
What is government for if not to pro
tect the weak and restrain the strong
and cunning?
What do we pay our representatives
five thousand dollars a year, clerk hire
and a great amount of additional ex
pense, for? Is it to pass private bills?
The Congressional Record shows that
every bill Introduced In that body be
tween House Roll 413 and 1892 (147T
bills) was a private bill. Can any one
point to a bill passed in the last year
which is in the interest of the poor, or
of all the people?
We clip from the financial paee of
the New York Independent the follow
ing interesting report:
It is a. fact not generally known that
the rail way a of Australia are Govern
ment DrODertv. and npap.tlnn.llv rnnrp.
sent the assets for the national debts of
each colony. The administration of
me Australian railways is entirely sepa
rated from Delitics. and la ennduntnd hv
skillful railway managers. Each sys-"
tern la under tne control of three com
missioners. The free silver Democrats of Nebras
ka and the free silver Republicans of
Idaho are so broad-minded and liberal.
They are so willing to fuse. And the
Populists of both states are, most of
them, narrow and bigoted and partisan.
They care mere about what they are
pleased to call their principles, than
they do for the offices. The offices divi
ded up and silver, too what more do
the fools want?
Columbus is about to begin work on
a canal which is to furnish work for the
unemployed poor of that town and town
ship. The Argus calls for a canal cost
ing in labor $25 000, and work on an
extension of the sewer system, and the
build ng of two good school houses.
All possible public improvements need
ed in Nebraska should be made the
coming fall and winter.
The Republicans realize that they are
facing the hardest battle and the small
est chances of success that they ever had
confronting them. They are losing in
the country. They are losing in the
small towns. They are losing in the
cities. And the Democrats are going
to pieces. The stars in their courses
fight for us.
The Holt county Populists held their
convention last week and in their plat
form endorsed most heartily the Omaha
platform snd favored the nationaliza
tion of the liquor traffic, equal rights of
franchise for all aiult citizens regard
less of sex, condemned the issue of
government bonds and passed some
other strong resolutions.
Don't forget that our new song book
Is something fine. Two years work in
it, A collection of thrilling words and
new music written for the times. Just
what is wanted to lead our hosts to
victory. Order at once of The Wealth
Makers, Lincoln, Neb.
"TTnw run we fare the Deonle after In
dulging in such outrageous discrimina
tion ana violations or principle.- - rres
ident Cleveland.
Can't say, Grover. It takes unlimited
cheek to be a Democrat now-a-days.
The only refuge fer honest men Is the
Populist partyj
The Independents of Adams county
reaffirmed the Omaha platform and
went on to "declare it to be the sense of
this convention that the delegates to
the Congressional and state conven
tlons b.M vote for men, and men only,
who stand squarely on said platform."
The local Labor Unions all over the
country are adopting the political pro
gram of the American Federation of
Labor, which means they are all com
ing to the Populist party.
