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t) THE WEALTH MAKERS. Angnst 30, 189 THB WEALTH MAKERS. Ntw Barks of THE AJXIANCS-tNDBPBNDBNT, Consolidation of the ruceisilllcaMnsliIndepilea! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY . BY rbe Wealth Makers Publishing Company uto M Street, Lincoln, Neb. jiobgb B0WARD GnsoB,.. Editor J. 8. Htait Business Manager. S. I P. A. Pnbltehera Announcement. The subscription price of Thb Wiiira Maker U ll.UOper year, In ad ranee. Agents In soliciting subscriptions should be very careful tnai au names torrau imfled mnd oroDer wwtofflce given. Blanka for return subscriptions, return envelope, in ran ha hid an ft.tmlies.tlon to this office. Always sign your name. No matter bow often yon write oa do not neglect tblH lmport mt matter. Hverr week we receive letters Kith Incomplete addresses or without signa tures and li la sometime difficult to locate Ibem. OHAVOlor addbbsb. Subscribers wlshlag io ehange their postofflce address must always give loeir rormer m wen as meir urawun Ireaa when change will be promptly maae. STATE 0FFI0EB8. For Governor Silas A. Holoomb Llentenant-Uovernor .Jambs N. Gawk Secretary of State . ... alLABY W. MOFADDM State Audlter Johk W. Wilso Bute Treasurer ....... Job H Powsrs Attorney-General Damibl B. Caret Com. PubMc Lands & Bldgs... Sidney J. Kent Mnpt. of Public Instruction wm. A. Jobes FOR CONGRESSMEN. Third District John M. Dbvibb Fourth Olstrlct W. U stake Fifth District Wm. A. MoKeiohah Sixth District, Omab M. kem LANCAST g B COUNTY. County Attorney Fred W. Srepberd County Judge. G. W. Bekgb County Commissioner 6. S. Paswater State senators R. T. Cbambehs, J.Y. M. 8WIQABJ Representatives A. C. Berrick, c. 8. jobbs, frame D. Eager, jobm H ABTLTBB, 0. M. DUBB. . TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS! ' We are this week sending out bund' reds of notices of expiration of subsorip tion to our subscribers. The amount that each one owes us is small, but in the aggregate it foots up hundreds of dollars, and to carry these delinquent . subscribers is a great burden on us. Very many have written us to not stop the paper, saying they can not get along without it, and will send in their renewal as soon as possible. Now friends, think a moment. Is It not easier (or you to raise the one dollar that you - owe us, than it is for us to raise hund reds of dollar every month to pay the expen?e of sending The Wealth Makers to you? We know that times are hard, but we also know that paying a subscription 10 a newspaper is very often a matter of neglect We know that if you can be brought to realize how absolutely necessary it is that you pay your subscription as soon as it ex pires, you will promptly remit and not allow us to send you the, paper for months at our own expense. We know you wish to be fair with us, but we want you to think of the inconveni ence you are putting us to, thoughtless ly perhaps, by not paying us the small amount due us. Our expenses are heavy and must be met promptly. We are' depending on you, friends, to do your duty. Just now, while you think ot it, will you not sit down, write us a letter and enclose the amount due us, for which you already have value received. We are sure The Wealth Makers is a welcome visitor to your home and that you do not want it discontinued, It 1b working for your interest, it is fighting your battles. The kind words you have said of us, through the paper and otherwise, we fully appreciate, and they encourage us to greater effort, but they will not pay for paper, rent and labor. We must have your financial ' support. We know of several leading weekly papers in Nebraska that will hereafter be issued monthly on account of hard times. The Wealth Makers 'can not cut its expenses down in this way. We must and will come out on time every week, or the cause will suffer. As the chief exponent of the People's Independent party of Nebras ka, The Wealth Makers has a re- sponsiblity that you must help us to bear. We have faith in you, enough to IwIIata .hflf. unn will An vrtiii. rvflrf trt the uttermost There is no reason why the state paper should not have 50,000 subscri bers, and we intend to get them, but you must help us. It will be a long, hard struggle, but with your help we shall succeed. It is of especial importance that the circulation of Thb Wealth Makers be increased as much as possible in the beginning of the campaign. Jfom is the time to work. Let us hear from you. Address all letters regarding subscrip ts to Wealth Makers Pub. Co. J. 8. Hyatt, Bus. Mgr. 1 AS the farmers have no corn to husk they can give much time and strength to polities this year. Let us all pitch In to gain control of the government, and then when crops are bountiful Drioei will not make their raising un- irontaoie. v HOW FOB TEE BATTLE We believe the state convention could not have nominated a stronger ticket than the one it has placed in the field. We believe it is going to ba elected. And with all its power The Wealth Makers will work for its success. It has not a man on it who can be called weak either as regards intellectual qualifications fr the office, or in the matter of character. They are to the last man, one and all, men of sterling worth, man who command the oonfl dance and respect of the people of all parties, and with such leaders the Inde pendents wll make the most vigorous and enthusiastic campaign which they have ever conducted. Judge Silas A. Holcomb of Broken Bow heads the ticket. His magnificent physique and honest manly face make him a man to admit. He is also a man to trust, and, he will make us a grand trovernor. He' is now judge of the Twelfth judicial district, and is recog nized by suoh men as ex-Supreme Judge Maxwell as a man of excellent ability Hon. James N. Gaffln of Saunders oounty, chosen by acclamation for the second plaoe on the ticket, is, we be lieve, the best fitted for the office of lieutenant-governor of any man that could have been brought forward. His position as speaker of the house in the last legislature has made him familiar wun tne triCKsauo. tactics 01 me euciuy, and his parliamentary ability coupled with his knowledge of laws past and that need to Dass. will enable him to serve the people as none other might. Mr. H. W. McFadden. of Furnas oounty, nominee for secretary of state, is county clerk of Furnas county and is an intensely earnest Populist with gift for oratory. JuoVe John W. Wilson of Keith county now holding the position of county judge, is the one-armed veteran whom we selected as our candidate for State Auditor. He is of heroio mold, a man and a soldier, and will add strength to the tioket. John H. Powers, the most honored and best loved man in Nebraska, was the choice for state treasurer. The ap plause which greated the grand old man must have been sweet to him, and he went on the list of standard bearers by acclamation. He was once counted out after having been elected governor of Nebraska. The people will see to it thiB time that he secures what they give him and that an honest man handles the state funds another year. Sydney J. Kent of Lincoln will add great strength to our ticket because he represents the organized labor of the cities, and in addition is a platform speaker of great force and ability. He is one of the best informed and best grounded men in the party and will lead thousands of voters into the Pop ulist ranks. Hon. Daniel B. Carey of Fremont has grown up from boyhood in 'Nebraska. He is a raagnifioent specimen of physi cal manhood of most attractive presence, and stands with two Dip feet under a brainy level head on on every plank of the Omaha platform. Mr. Carey will not allow the corporation anarchists to trample on the laws of the people when he becomes attorney general. Last, but not least, we have chosen Prof. W. A. Jones of Hastings, as our candidate for State Superintendent! Prof. Jones has the bearing of a Roman senator. He is a teacher of teachers, a man whose power to solve the great problems of tocology places him in the front rank of thinkers. Prof. Jones was for year president of the State Normal University of Indiana, and ranks with a half dozen leading educators in the nation. The Re publican party candidate for the same place cannot be compared with Prof. Jones in point of intellect ual ability, and he will not be the choice of the intelligent voters. Altogether we have a most admirable group of candidates, and we are jubi lant over the personnel of our ticket THE MOST NEEDED OF ALL. Tn our state platform we have de manded the Initiatfve and Referendum method of legislation, and if the Popu lists elect a majority of the state legis lators in November next tbey are in duty bound to submit this question to the people. The demand has gone up from many separate counties and has been made by the State Federation of Labor; and it cannot be doubted tnat a majority of the people would vote the power to make and veto all laws back into their own hands. This country has been gotag to the dogs so rapidly in the last generation through the per fidy of corrupt leaders, the work of cor poration lobbyists and the spirit of party, that this return of power to the hands of the people is the only hope left us that the nation can be saved and our liberties and rights restored. The people are not now the government We have not been selecting and electing men to represent and serve us. The selecting is generally done by rings of professional politicians, tha rings with in rings reaching down to every voting precinct. Blinded by pfcrty prejudice and ignorance and foolishly entrust ing all power to office seekers the well meaning voters have been made the tools of designing men who sought place at the publia crib, and class legislation which eioh have been paid to furnish the corporations, capitalists and usurers, bras amassed the wealth, the prinoipa resources and capital of the country in to few hand and left the masses de pendent and destitute .With the Initiative in the matter of lawmaking retained by the people, all the people, just laws alone would be enacted. And if every other enactment of Importance must needs be referred to the people for their acceptance or veto our representatives would be shorn of their power to traffic in laws and lib erties. It would no longer be of use to hire lobbyists to corrupt legislators, nor Lfren to distribute passes and pack pri maries sou ounven nulls. i. icmuiwimb salary and the honor of being trusted to a certain extent by the people would be all the inducements placed before or left within reach of men aspiring to office. Bribes, plunder, power, would all be out of their reach completely. Party machines would no longer have power, or existence. The good people would no longer be by them divided, As fast as any great question or meas ure secured by agitation and education a majority to favor it, they would by petition bring the question to a vote of the people and without possible obstruc tion, entanglement or crossing political interest, the question would be voted on. The common interest would thus be made the law instead a class inter est. . This one plank in our platform should draw to us all men who believe in a government of all, for all, by all. We are the only party which is pledged or which will pledge to do away with party power, destructive party divisions and all possibility of party corruption, ring rule and trade politics. Come, friends, oi all beliefs, Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists, bimetallists, monometalist8, and all, come and help us to restore to the people the means of direct legislation upon any and all questions upon which we differ. WRAT IS BE ALL AFTER? The Reverend Byron Beall has a per fect right to preach political sermons. In fact it is his duty to preach them, if he has any duty to preach at all. But he should preach the truth and know what he is talking about. We cannot think him excusable for his ignorance, if Ignorance it was, which led him to assume that Tom Majors, the notorious professional politician, corporation tool, blue-shlrted demagogue, preparer of a forged census certificate, great ooker playing gambler, oommon liar, etc, has all the character qualifications necessary for a governor. Majors is about all that Beall assumes he is not, and he has none of the needed" virtues, honesty, unselfishness, hatred of mono poly oppression, love for the common people, zeal for the embodiment in law of the new, broader conceptions of justice. No, he is not "that noblest work of God, an honest man." Nor is he "a man of intellect and generous culture, in touch with all the best both church movements of the day in and state, a manly man." But he is an old settler, an old soldier, an ewner of a farm, and he wears a colored shirt If the Reps win they will also want some one to pray for them. The reverend maker of the needful Majors character also dropped into the dirty political work of besmirching the character of Judge Holcomb, the Popu list candidate for governos. Judge Holoomb has passed through one state campaign and no word was spoken derogatory of him by his political opponents. It has been left for "a minister of the gespel" (God save the gospel!) to charge him by insinuation with having a consuming ambition and with the crime ef performing some pro fessional work for a railroad. Judge Holcomb's ambition did not lead him to acoept the nomination for governor. It was forced upon him. The firm of which he was a member did some time ago ac cept some honest work from one of the railroads. The cases were pleaded, not by Judge Holcomb, but by his partner, Mr. Kirkpatrlck, now a member of the firm of Darnell and Kirkpatrlck of Lincoln. But in none of these cases oan Jud?e Holoomb's honesty avid in tegrity be impeached, nor did a penny of railroad money come into his hands. No record in any court in auy county in the state of Nebraska shows any pleadings in any corporation case made by Judge Holcomb. Mr. Beall is to some degree excusable for his igor nance. A man of intellig ence cannot talk with him ten minutes without discovering the narrowness of his mind and the limitations of his knowledge. His misrepresentation of the Populists, to whom he attributes fanaticism and disposition to promote strife and 'curse the rich simply be cause they are rich,' seems, however, to be pure cussedness. And what we know of him during his residence in three counties,' Butler, Custer and Lancaster, makes it probable to our mind that he is capable of it. He has, In all the time we have known him and of him, been a strong Republican parti san, and for a minister of the gospel to be such in the notoriously corrupt days f that party, proves him to be either mentally or morally unsound. TIE PULLMAN IHVESTIGATIOIJ. The cross examination of Duke Pull man is revealing the old hypocrite in spite of himself. He was before the committee of Investigation Monday and was forced to admit that the oempany had not lost money, notwithstanding his statement during the strike, but instead had declared and divided among Its stockholders the regular eight per cent dividend on a capitalization of $36,000, 000. I he company's original stock was 11,000,000, in 1867. It has paid from 12 to 8 per cent each year in dividends and has accumulated besides a surplus amounting to $25,000,0$0. In the last year $2,800,000 have been paid In divi dends and Pullman admitted that his salary had not been reduced and that there had been no reduction of the salaries of superintendents or foremen The burden of the slack times was all forced upon the shoulders of the under workers and wages reduced below the bare living point in order to provide millions for Idle stockholders and the regular fat salaries for the overseers. It was also drawn out of Pullman that his professed philanthropy was not in the interest of his employees, but that work at starvation wages was given them as long as they would stand it to keep them together (because they could not easily be replaced) and to save the damage to machinery of the plant which idleness entails. Pullman thought the eight per cent dividend should be paid the stock-hold ers whethar the men could live on the wages it left them or not He did not know that the wages had ben volun tarily increased by the company. He did not see that a reduction to starva tion wages in connection with $2,800, 000 dividends and undiminished salaries for the bosses, was a matter to arbitrate. He held that "a man has right to manage his own business." The investigation will do good. It is holding up to the people the question whether rich men who are not produc ing the wealth should take it from the producers in the form of dividends, and compel them and their families to suffer need. Through all warring seas of life One vast current sunward rolls, And within all outward strife One eternal Right controls, Right, at whose divine command - Slaves go fiee and tyrants fall, In the might of those who stand All for one and one for all. James O. Clark. THE HEW SONG BOOK. The new song book, Armageddon, is being enthusiastically received. The book is larger than we expected it would be. It is a book H by 8 inches in size, considerably larger than the ordinary song or hymn book, contains 138 pages ef words written for tne times, set to splendid stirring music, solos, quar tettes for male voices and four part songs, with preludes forjthe piano and accompanyments. The book contains 67 songs, 54 of which are sheet music simply reduced a little in size of page. These 54 songs would be worth as sheet music not less thai $17.00 but are here given in permanent book form, with 13 other songs not set with ' notes but most of them (chosen for their merit) to be sung to popular patriotic tunes, such as "John Brown," "Hand writing on the Wall," "Red, White and Blue," "The Suanee River,""I's Gwine Back to Dixie," "The Star Spangled Banner," &c. A considerable number of the songs in Armageddon are already widely known having been Bent out as sheet music. Among these are "Get Off The Earth," "We Have the Tariff Yet," "ThefjTaxpayers Settle the Bills," "Battle Hymn of the Workers," "God Save the People," and ' That Honest Dollar." The celebrated song "Hay seed in His Hair," we have also secured for this work. Among the entirely new songs found in this book are "If I Were a Voice," "A Politician Here You See," "It Stuck in His Crop," "Sunrise on the Hills," "The Road to Freedom," A Drowning Cry," "Armageddon," "The Rallying Cry," "The Pauper's Last Smoke," "Only a Penny a Loaf," "Our Line of Defense," "Plenty of Room," "Old Error's Mists Are Sweeping By," "American National Hymn," "Jeans Pants a Comln," ."The Money Power Arraigned," " Timothy Hayseed," and many more Ail these timely enthuslog splendil songs and more for 35 cents. By ihe dozen at $3.60. In lots of 100 to 1,000 sent by express at special rates. There is no investment that will equal putting some money into this song book and getting singers started to using it It will draw crowds and kindle irresistible enthusiasm. Address all orders to Wealth Makers Pub. Co., Lincoln, Neb. "Rise like Hons after slumber. In unvanquishable number. Shake to earth, your chains like dew, Which In sleep are fallen on you, Ye are many they are few." TEE POPULIST HAND BOOK. The Populist Hand Book for the cam paign of '94, prepared by a special com mittee selected by the state executive committee and complied by the secre tary of the state executive committee, gathers Into small compass and cheap convenient form the damning record of the frauds in the state institutions in the hands of Republican officers, their extravagance, and what was brought to light by the impeachment trial. It also gives the vote on the Freight Rate bill facts on the silver question, etc. The entire matter of the book has been gleaned with much labor from the re cord! and is matter of fact. The contents of the book are given below: ' , The Asylum Steals, History of the Boodlers' Trials, Penitentiary Cell House Steals, The Impeachment Trial, State Land Steals, Failure of the Capi tal National Bank, Investment of the Permanent Snhml Fund IjuriilitlTa Appropriations, Deposit of State and CountyFunds. The Attempted Printing Steal, The Half not Told, The Maximum Freight Rate Law, What Populists have Done for Nebraska, Populist Vote in neDrasKs, facts on tne silver question, Two of a Kind, Omaha Platform. Order of Secretary J. A. Edgerton, Lincoln, Neb. Price $1.00 per dozen copies. The Republican party expects to be returned to power by people who can be duped by its promises. What are they based on? Nothing in the way of change, absolutely nothing. The Re publican party charges all the present paralysis of Industry aflfl commerce'' to fear of "dishonest" money and tariff reduction through Democratic legisla tion, yet the Republicans and adminis tration Democrats have voted together upon all financial legislation and the tariff bill passed by the Democrats does not reduce the tariff in the aggregate a sum worth mentioning. It is a good Republican protective measure. Calam ity has come upon us, not through one party, but by the acts -of both. The people now must have assurance thc.t the party they vote with will do some thing to save us from monopoly enslave ment. It must propose something new and reasonable. Tariff talk is played out Mere partisan denunciations are not satisfying. Performances are call ed for. And plans that are new and pledges that can be relied on are neces sary to restore confidence to the voters. The Republicans have no such plans or legislation to propose, and hence can not win the intelligent to their ranks. Come into the Populist party. Hon. O. M. Kem and Hon. Wm. A. McKeighan have been renominated for a third term in their respective con gressional districts as the candidates of the People's party. Mr. Kem was chosen by a large majority of the dele gates, and Mr. McKeighan by acclama tion. Had they not made a satisfactory record in Congress they would not have received the strong endorsement given them. We may safely predict their re election. Judge Stark of Aurora is the man we have pitted against Hainer in the Fourth district. He is a very strong popular man and a thorough canvas of the district will we believe ensure Judge Stark's election. Congress has this week adjourned. Will some one who has had the pa tience to burden his mind with tons of tariff talk and to go through the record and count up the thousands of private bills and discover the class favoritism of hundreds more, please Inform us what equitable legislation they can find which will even make a beginning up on the credit side of the books? And we have been paying each of these hundreds of lawmakers $5,010 a year for serving the corporations and moaopo- lists! If Congress had not convened for twenty-five years the gain to the people would have been simply incalculable. Trial by jury was one of the safe guards of liberty and guaranties of justice established by the founders of the American government. But when it came to interfere with corporation greed these monstrous chartered bodies demanded of the courts and have obtained an expansion of the injunction jurisdiction to cut off the rights of organized labor, the judge assuming to lay penalties upon those who violated his autocratic decrees, and that without jury verdict after a formal trial . Take away justice and the means of obtaining it and force will be the only weapon. Ros&water succeeds in making Ma jors out a liar in his ' dramatic defense of himself and attack upon Edward on the platform during the Republican state convention last week. Rosewater's legislative record bears the light a good deal -better than Majors' census record! The congressional committee which recommended that the courts of the District of Columbia take action to in dict Majors and his associates for forg ing the census document had for its chairman Hon. Thomas B. Reed. President Gates of Iowa College, commenting on the- charge against Prof. Ely brought by state superinten dent Wells of Wisconsin, has this to say: Of course his teaching is dangerous, otherwise it is not good lor much. Tne truth is always dangerous. There has probably never been a time in the history of America when the fullest truths in regard to our political, indus trial and social life were so dangerous as tney are today. Hut there Is a further question, dangerous to what? The commission appointed by the president to investigate the Pullman strike "has received evidence whioh proves that the A. R. U. strikers who were upon organized labor committees have been blacklisted. It is with the corporations (our real rulers) a crime which cannot be condoned for men to stand by each other as brothers in re sisting their oppressors. It Is a crime to love justice and help one another. Subaorlbk for Thb Wbalch Makum 1 Labor day at Lincoln U to be made i great holiday and political blow out See elsewhere notice of It The whole city will turn out to hear Senator Allen and "Cyclone" Davis, who are to speak at Lincoln park in the afternoon. There is to be a big parade, floats, and the rest, and the crowd will probably be the largest ever seen in Lincoln. We have received an interestlsg communication from some one writing front Nellgh who signs himself "Jun ius." His proposed communication we shall be glad to receive but our ryu if to require the real name of contrlbu- Iam Kit f i-lr . . . mm m tnlron . t.tii. (if ,HIU VUUIU will please take note of this. Prof. Commons calls the teaching of Prof. Summer of Yale, "the sociology of pigs." Commons belongs to the new school of economists; Summer to the old Iron-law-of-wages school. The new school economists are anti-monopolists and teach that natural monopolies should be municipalized and national ised. Congressman Lafe Pence of Colo rado was given a grand reoeption at Denver on his return last week IV his crowded with prominent citizens an eloquent speeches and welcoming songl. greeted the young defender of the peo- -pie. We have the tariff still. The Demo cratic party has proved itself dishonest divided,tpoweriess to fulfill its promises. Its promises aie valueless. It can no longer be trusted. It ought not to nave , been trusted so long. I ha sooner voters v get out of it the sooner will it be gotten out of the way of the march of progress. If the farmers of Nebraska who have no crop to gather put in the time har vesting voters for the Populist candi dates the results will be to them many times more profitable in the end than to raise a bountiful crop with the price of it In the control of monopolists. the wealth Makers would not i 1 1 favor if our subscribers would write delivery of their paper. You will get The Wealth Makers on time, -or we'll know the reason why. Don't forget that our new song book is something fine. T we 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. The Crete Vidette is trying hard ta get Populist papers to strike it, and as it has found we will not waste words with it it has begun to misrepre sent us by leaving out part of what modified a statement we made. The good times are coming. Yes, when we, or a majority of us, find out what causes bad times and put through legislation to dethrone monopolists. The People's Independent party i the anti-monopoly party. The old part- , ies are the legislative tools of the mo nopolies. Which will you support? The new song book, Armageddon, is ready, and the campaign now opens. Send in j our orders. Thirty five cents a copy. Six copies for $180. Thb Rocky Mouncain News reporta that a fusion committee was at work in Grand Island to get the Populists and Democrats united. "The old is collapsing; time is chang ng; and new life blooms out of 'the ruins." Schiller. ft . a to Ta ana a i Ait nnn iia-tria snnuir Allen and "Cyclone" Davis, on Labor day, next Monday at Lincoln park. What possible good can it d ) to vote for Majors and Moore, the notorious tools oi the corporations? The new song book, now ready for at- livery, is immense. Fire in your orders. Thirty-five cents a cooy. "The path of the just is as the shin- izg light, which sblneth more and more unto the perfect day " Now get to work. "Peace altr war." "Who would be free himself must strike the blow." CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIBERS. A great many of our subscribers have paid for a copy of The Wealth Mak ers to be sent to a friend during tbe campaign. All those who are receiving the paper and who have not subscribed for it personally will know that it is be ing sent to them in this way Read it. No bill will follow, but you will be noti fied when time for which paper is paid for has expired and if you do not renew your name will be taken from the list. Who Wants tbe Jubilee Singers? Local committees wishing services of the Huckins Jubilee singers can secure dates by addressing state central com J 1 f - 1 . 1
