Nebraska Newspapers

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THE WEALTH MAKERS.
September 13, 1894
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WEALTH MAKERS.
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THE ALUANCE-INDEPENDENT.
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PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
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The Wealth Makers Publishing Oompuy,
lito U Street, Lincoln, Neb.
SBOBQI HeW ABO GIB80 Editor
J. S. Htatt Bnslnsss Hunger,
N. i. P. A.
"If any man most fall (or ma to rlM,
Then seek I not to climb. Another'! pain
I choose not (or my good. A golden chain,
4 otwo( honor, li too good n prize
To tempt my baity hand to do a wrong
Unto a (eUow man. Tale IKe hath woe
Sufficient, wrought by man'i tatanie (ee;
And who that hath a heart would dare prolong
Or add a sorrow to a stricken soul
That seeks a healing balm to make It whole?
My bosom owns the brotherhood o( man."
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, STATE OFFIOEBB-
For Governor Silas A. Holcomb
Lieutenant-aovernor James N. Gaffdi
Secretary of State Hilary W. McFaddbn
State Audits John W. Wilson
Bute Treasurer Johh H. Powbbs
Attorney-General Dambl B. Cabit
Com. Public Lands A Bldgs... Sidney J. Kent
upt. of Publlo Instruction... ... wm, A. Jonas
FOR CONGRESSMEN.
First District A H. W eih
Second Dlstrlit D.Clim Diavbb
Third District. Johh M. Dbvibb
Fourth District W. i. mark
Fifth District Wk. A. McKbiobab
Sixth District. Oma b M. Kbm
LANCASTER COUNTY.
County Attorney Fbbd W. Shepherd
County Judge C .Bbbob
County Commissioner G. S. Paswatbb
Bute Senators R. T. Chambers,
J.Y. M. SWIQART
Representatives A. C. Herrick,
C. s. Jobbs, Fbarb d. Eacbb, Johh
Habtlibb, O. M. Dubh
The Wealth Makers for the cam
paign for a dime.
No more looting of the State treasury
when Governor Powers is placed in
charge of it.
Judge Stark is a candidate to be
proud of and to enthusiastically work
for. Let every Populist in the district
pull off his coat and help roll up a ma
jority for him that will make the cor
porations marvel.
Tom Majors may put a bold face on
the matter, but before the Bee drops
him election day he will find its sting
is fearful. Rose water will get at him
in every vulnerable part and will chase
him all over the stale.
The Initiative and Referendum has
been endorsed by both the Republican
and Democratic parties in Massachu
setts, as well as by the Populist party.
It's coming and cant be resisted.
Be careful to read the dates of Popu
lists rallies published on page eight If
you live within reach of these meetings
plan to attend and Induce as many of
your neighbors to get out and hear our
candidates you can.
Mr. Bryan prefaced his speech at
Gretna by "a positive statement that
he was till a Democrat," says the Gret
na Reporter, His action in supporting
Goldbug Boyd instead of Deaver shows
where and what he is, does it not?
We shall have our front page, next
week, illustrated with cuts of our Pop
ulist candidates. We have gathered
data for a write-up of them and have
been holding back part waiting for
electros, desiring to use all together.
The public Bhould not be at all sur
prised to catch a millionaire robbing
the government. A man has to rob the
hireling in wages to become a million
aire. And it is no greater harm for the
Carnegie Steel Co. to perpetrate the
great Armor plate frauds than it is to
defraud its wage-workers at Homestead.
When such Republicans as Charles
Wooster of Silver Creek bolt the state
ticket and declare it to be rallread
named and owned, it shows that cor
ruption has gone so far that tbe good
and bad elements can no longer stay to
gethcr. And so the end draws on.
The Populists of Jefferson county are
to be congr atulated over having secured
a county organ. They have organized
a company, raised money and purchased
the Jefferson County Journal of Ham
mond Bros. C. Q. DeFranoe has been
chosen by them as editor4and it is, we
believe, a wise choice. Mr. DeFrance
Is a full-blooded, whole-hearted Popu
list, and a man of ability. We wish the
' Journal all success.
OUR nriEBESTB ASS ONE-
The editor of this paper wishes to
speak to the great body of the rank and
file who have hitherto voted In one or
the other of the two old parties, men
whose interests are plainly, undeniably
the same as ours. In some way the
honest wealth produoers of this country
ought to, must, get together. Now is
It reasonable to suppose that they can
all or nearly all be gathered into either
of the old parties? If there were no
party prejudice and difference of opinion
over the tariff question the query would
arise, what better is the Democratic
party than the Republican, or the He
publican than the Democratic party,
what reform does either propose, seri
ously, that furnishes an inducement for
men to shift from one party to the
other? No reason for such shifting can
be given which will be satisfactory to
either Republicans or Democrats. Yet,
ifalL nearly, remain where they are,
the floating, corrupt vote only chang
ing, there can be no progress, and the
monopolies which are fast concentrat
ing the wealth and resources ol the
nation into few hands will in the near
future own about all the means of pro
duction, as they do now the means of
exchange, and the producers will all be
compelled to accept prices and wages
and a scale of living that monopolists
dictate.
As Populists we have good and suffi
cient reasons for our organization. No
party but ours is organized to fight the
monopolies. It was hatred of monopoly
oppression and love of liberty and just
ice that drew us together eut of both
parties. The monster monopolies which
have been growing for thirty years,
more or less, have been allowed to in
corporate, and been legally defended
and nourished by whom? The leaderaJ
of the two old parties have been carry
ing on a sham battle over the tariff, a
battle which promises never to end, no
advance towards a settlement of the
tariff question having been made. But
while making tariff, the question of out
side trade, the only question the people
may vote on, and keeping the rank and
file divided at the ballot box qvera
question which the politicians care
never to settle, our false and incompe
tent law-making reperesentatives have
sold or given away to corporations the
legal power to tax and enslave us. At
the demand of the bankers they stopped
thelssue of full legal tender greenbacks;
with the exoeption clause inserted they
depreciated the value of our money and
made it lawful and by law necessary to
retire and burn it up, and in its stead
forced upon the people interest-bearing
bonds of twice their purchase price.
Later they surreptitiously, at the in
stigation of the bankers, demonetized
silver, thus destroying half of the
former debt-paying resources of the
people. And all this was only the
beginning. The Bhrewd far-seeing cap
italists secured for nothing corporation
charters from the state legislatures with
special privileges and grants from con
gress, upon terms which gave them
monopoly power to tax trafflo what It
would bear. And out of the land, money
and railroad legislation have grown
the vast estates of the millionaire bank
ers, landlords, railroad magnates, coal
and lumber barons, iron and steel
kings, stock yards dictators, Standard
Oil princes, telegraph autocrats, news
paper monopolists and controllers of
partisan machinery to wrongly educate
and divide the people, in short, a com
bination thus far politically and in
dustrially all-powerful; and with this
concentration of wealth there has been
a corresponding spread of poverty and
dependence among the defrauded wealth
producers. According to the last census
more than half of the families of this
country are now tenants, live 1b hired
houses, upon renied land, and thirty
per cent of the remainder have their
homes mortgaged, the mortgages
averaging about $1135 upon each. The
poverty in Nebraska today is partly due
to our having to send out each year
110,000,000 usury to the holders of farm
mortgages and a large sum to the hold
ers of chattel mortgages. (The chattel
mortgages amount, we believe, to near
ly two-thirds the amount of the farm
mortgage debt, but the usury rate on
these averages much higher.) And this
must be paid even if crops fail. Another
great drain is the monopoly over
charges of the railroads, and we are
bearing also our share of the tribute
demanded by the coal, lumber, packing
houses, and a hundred other lesser
monopolies.
This is the situation. Now friends,
Republicans and Democrats, the parties
with which you have hitherto voted
hare allowed these taxing, tribute-de
manding monarchical powers to grow to
their present monstrous size under pro
tection of law and by virtue of monopoly
privileges which our Republican and
Democratic legislators and congress
have freely granted them, and so great
now has become the power of the banks,
railroads, trusts and great combinations
of capital, that state legislatures have,
many of them, fallen entirely into their
control, and congress and the courts
are for all practical purposes possessed
by them.
The Populist party throughout the
nation is a great uprising of the people
to dethrone these liberty-destroying
monopolies. It was originated in and
grew out of the Farmers' Alliance
movement and is now being mightily
reinforced by the great bodies of orga
nized workers in the cities. All men
who believe in liberty, who hate mono
poly oppression, should come into the
Populist party. Why should the farm
ers, whose Interests are identical, be
ranged against each other in three
parties, two of which do not antagonize
the monopolies? Why should the
wealth producers of the cities be found
in three contending political parties?
Brethren, let us unite at the ballot box
here in Nebraska and send men to the
legislature and to congress who swear
eternal hatred to each and every form
of monopoly. The Republican party is
joined to Its idols, and its corporation
owned candidates are an offense to the
best informed who are being driven out
of its ranks. The Democratic party is
divided, demoralized, decimated. The
Tbe Populist party is the party for
anti-monopoly Republicans and Demo
crats to come together in. One good
sensible day's work at the ballot box,
and Nebraska will be redeemed from
corporation control.
DEVINE WILL UNITE ALL.
John M. Devine, candidate for Con
gross in the Third district, is going to
make Meiklejohn sick. Thomas is not
likely to take seriously his candidacy.
He was put up by men who cared more
for Democrats than for free silver, men
who were offended because the Popu
lists did not nominate their mas, Judge
Robinson, and who acted hastily and
selfishly. Devine is a strong man, and
he will unite all free silver men during
his canvass. He will draw out all to
hear him, and the voters in the Third
after hearing him will give him their
suffrages . Devine has more in his head
on the money question, more knowledge
of its history and legislation, than any
man in Nebraska, twice over. He is
also a famous debater, having met and
vanquished many on the rostrum. He
is known all over New England as a
platform speaker of great force.
He has spoken often from the same
platform with Wendell Phillips. He
was one of General Ben Butler's chief
lieutenants. He took an active part in
the campaign in Maine near a score of
years ago which placed a Greenbacker
in the governor's chair.
Mr. Devlne's memory is something
wenderful, and he has lived for years
under the shadow of several of the finest
publlo libraries in the nation.
Meiklejohn is a ten year old school
boy by the side of him. It he knows
what is good for him he will fight shy
of a joint debate with Devine.
Judge Robinson has, it is stated,
accepted the platform which ' was
adopted by the Populist convention. He
has also urged the Democrats to support
Devine. It will be manifest that he is
heart and soul with us if he openly
throws his influence for Devine during
the campaign. And he cannot help
doing so if he has accepted the Populist
platform. Some few Democratic lead
ers will feel sore, of course, their action
in putting up Thomas indicated it. It
could not be otherwise. But we look
for the rank and file to vote for the
People's Independent candidates, be
cause they stand on right principles and
can be elected. The Democratic party
cannot hold together longer in Nebraska
and the vote in November will show its
almost total disintegration, if it does
not come bodily to us by endorsing our
state ticket throughout.
CONTRACTION 0RU8HING THE
WORLD.
Sir Moreton Frewen, the distinguish
ed bi-metallist of England, has recently
written a letter in which he deplores
the fact that Edward Atkinson, a gold
bug of the bitterest, most active type,
should be delegated to represent our
Department of Agriculture in London.
Atkinson (the advocate of a dollar a
week scale of living for the poor), with
the reputation of being a statistician,
has been misrepresenting the facts as to
the condition of American farmers.
Sir Moreton, referring to England
shows that that country Is not likely to
do any anything for silver. He says:
We here are not, in my judgment,
learning the lesson of these desperate
exchange troubles. Business men are
so harassed and so hopeless that they
are in no mood to think out the remedy
for a contracting currency. What is
the position today of the two great
'creditor' nations, England and France?
Both these countries, profoundly
alarmed by the outlook In America,
North and South, in Australia, and in
the far East, are drawing in their
loans, and gold is coming- home on
every ship. M. Therey hhs pointed
out in the European Economist of July
21, that in four years the European
banks have increased their gold reserves
by no less a sum than 2,600,000,000
francs ($520,000,000,) a sum exceeding
one-eighth of all the gold currency in
the world. Is it any wonder, then, that
withdrawals ef gold on such scale
should have caused such a sudden
shrinkage of prices that the doctor
nations have been bled to death? And
look, too, at the way the 'creditor na
tions' are suffering from the fall of
prices abroad. In four years England's
exports have diminished by $160,000,
000; France's by $54,000,000; and be
cause our ax ports to silver-using coun
tries are hampered by the fall in the
exchanges, England, not being able to
sell to India, Cnlna and South America
can only give ywu the most miserable
and inadequate prices for your cotton
and corn.
The misery connected necessarily
with this hoarding of gold, under the
present gold basis Shylock legislation,
Is fearful beyond comprehension.
The Wealth Makers till election
day for ten cento.
DT TEE 8E00ND DISTRICT
The situation in the Second congres
sional district is very much changed
from what it has ever been for onr
ticket Our state ticket and our candi
date for congress, Mr. Deaver, will re
ceive a heavy labor vote which hereto
fore has been given to the old parties.
The Kelly Industrials stirred Omaha as
it was never stirred before, and out of
that great excitement political parties
were left torn and scattered as by a
cyclone. Ever since that movement,
which drew thousands together to op
pose the tyranny and cruelty of the rail
roads and to sympathize most deeply
with the moneyless, landless unem
ployed, the Populist party has been the
popular party. Club meetings have
been largely attended.
The State Federation of Labor (by the
way, Mr. Deaver was just elected its
president) at its recent annual meeting
endorsed the Omaha platform in the
strongest terms, and can be counted on
to reinforce the Populist vote. The
labor leaders now are with ns, and the
rank and file also.
The World-Herald has, with Bryan
editor, refused to support a free silver
Populist, choosing rather to support a
goldbug Democrat, and one that the
World-Herald declared a "broken idol
and blasted hope" when, as governor,
he vetoed the maximum freight bill in
the interest of the corporations. This
is, to his Populists admirers, an un
expected revolting uncovering of Bryan ;
but Boyd is indeed a "broken idol"
whom few respect. So, we expect
great things from Omaha and the
Second district if the campaign is
vigorously pnshed there.
We make Populist voters for ten
cents a piece. Send in P. O. addresses
of the men you want converted and ten
cents with each for a campaign sub
scription. CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON'S DECLARA
TION. .
Congressman Tom L. Johnson, Demo
cratic representative from Ohio expres
sed himself thusly on the tariff bill just
passed:
It is more fully and emphatically a
trust bill than was even the McKinley
bill. All the trusts were called in to
make it up and what tricks and devices
lie hidden to the general publlo in its
technical language no man 1 do not
believe even Senator Gorman really
yet knows.
Farther on in his speech he spoke
particularly of the sugar tax and trust
as follows:
I know and vou know and the people
know I was about to say that every dog
that barks in the streets of the capital
knows that the real purpose of impos
ing this tax is not to give revenue to
the government, but revenue to the
boodlers. You cannot disguise it from
people, for the people know it already,
that the purpose of this sugar tax is to
put millions and millions in the pockets
of men who are already millionaires by
robbing the people. They know that
this tax on sugar has been brought
through every step of its way, carried
by such open, undisguised cerruption
as has never been flaunted in their faces
before; they know that the sugar trust
has purchased this privilege of taxing
them, and that, though the price it
may have paid may be millions, it will
receive back millions and millions be
fore the treasury gets one cent.
A BEQUEST FOB THE PROOF.
Editor Wealth Makers:
The marked copy of your paper con
taining article about myself received.
Thanks 1 I herewith enclose you a copy
of my sermon which you perhaps have
not seen, rne name oi uoionei Majors
was not used in tbe sermon as delivered,
although appearing in the printed copy
where it can be fairly interpreted as
prophecy that he is likely to be elected.
You are by your profession both a gen
tleman and Christian. You doubtless
do not wish to appear as an assassin of
the good name or reputation of a fellow-
Christian. You will remember that we
are bidden not to speak evil of one an
other. But in your article you speak of
me as "either mentally or morally un
sound," and seem to deny my right to
be considered a minister of the gospel
at all. All of this simply upon your
own showing because, as you say, I ad
vocated a man for governor whom you
do not like. You speak of me as a nar
row and Ignorant partisan : but of what
spirit is this? Permit a word of ex
hortation: there are a class of people
whom articles such as you wrote of me
catch, but, believe me, there are other
and more thoughtful ones who are re
pelled by them. But enough of this.
1 write tnis article to as- mat you
take mv sermon and, first, copy the
charges you make against me, and then
make an exact quotation from my ser
mon, without note or comment, to prove
them. This will be exactly fair: but
will vou do it? I think not, as this
would entirely destroy your case and
show your readers the slanderous char
acter of your article. I affirm in all
kindness that your editorial was a tissue
of slanders and falsehoods which under
the laws of our state would give you a
term In the pen, as a common defamer
of character. I trust you will publish
this reauest for proof; but have little
hope from past experience with men of
your sort that you will treat my request
fairly. Now please do not launch out
into a general talk about Tom Majors
or the Republican party, etc., etc. You
made specific charges against me be
cause of a sermon of mine which is new
in your hands: now prove the charges
hv exact Quotations from the sermon,
or stand before the publlo in your true
light a traducer of your brethren.
Truly yours,
Byron Beall.
OUR reply.
The above letter from Reverend By
ron Beall to us was written on the back
of posters Q by 121 inches In size, upon
which was printed in bold black head
line the name, "Col. W. T. Brecxen-
ridee. M. C." Under the name in
smaller type was the following:
"Lessons from the life and downfall
of CoL Breckenrldge will be the subject
of a discourse delivered by Rev. Byron
Beall, pastor of the Third Presbyterian
Church, Lincoln, Neb.
At-
On-
Text: "Be Sure Your Sin Will Find
You Out."
Then followed a' cut of the distin
guished Reverend Byron Beall.
And below this was a syllabus of the
discourse. Also a puff from the State
Journal. And below all in a big black
line, were the words, "Admission Free."
We give this to our readers to show
them the sort of man the Reverand By
ron Beall is, and to at the same time
faver him with the personal advertising
which he is so anxious to obtain. He
seized upon this vile leper, Brecken
rldge, whose name was in all the papers,
polluting the moral atmosphere, to at
tract a crowd who will always go to
church when a sensational preacher ad
vertises to preach on such a subject.
More than this, he had these large
posters prepared, with blank time and
place lines, Breckenridge's name in
bold letters above, his own (Beall's) pic
ture in the center, and the State Journ
al's endorsement below, intending, ap
parently, to swing around the circle and
rake over the Breckenrldge scandal be
fore as many audiences as he could ob
tain to listen to him.
Now a few words spoken directly to
the reverend gentleman himself. Ac
cept thanks for the copy of your ser
mon received. But permit us te say
we had a copy of it in our possession
and read it, very carefully, before writ
ing the editorial which you affirm to be
"a tissue of slanders and falsehoods
which, under the laws of our state,
would give you a term in the pen."
The gentleman cannot seem to endure
just, reasonable criticism. We virtually
accuse him of doing a thin job in white
washing Majors and an unjustifiable be
smirching of Holcomb, in each case
witnessing ourselves to the untruth
which he insinuated or inferred
and published respecting each of
the candidates for governor. It
is our word against his, and
if he wants to see who can succeed best
in substantiating his testimony we in
vite him to the trial. We excused him
as far as charity could on the ground of
partisan prejudice, narrowness and ig
norance. No other excuse excuses in
the least his misrepresentation of
Majors, Holcomb or "the much-hated
Populist party," an expression which
is enough in itself to show his unfitness
to preach the gospel of Christ.
More than this, Mr. Beall, we sub
mitted the editorial which wounded so
severely your supersensitive organ of
approbativeness to several members of
your congregation before publishing it,
and it met with their approval. Now,
in all kindness we advise yon to saw off
very suddenly your talk about 'slanders
and falsehoods which would send ns to
the pen.'
Democrats, fellow citizens of Ne
braska, we confess it, we wish to see
you break to pieces as a party and div
ide yourselves permanently between
the party of the corporations and the
party of the people. Why keep up
tbree organizations longer? You who
are first of all goldbugs can get all you
want in the Republican party. And
you who are anti-monopolists will find
your proper place with us. The forces
of monopoly are enslaving and crushing
the masses. The unavoidable conflict
is with the corporations. The old party
lines over the tariff, the everlasting
tariff , cannot be kept up. They who
love liberty must come into the Peo
ple's party. They who demand privi
lege will be forced to draw together in
defense of their present legal advantage.
Why cling to a party which cannot
serve you? What is a party, anyway,
that it should tie people together who
have not a common interest and object?
Will you longer believe that the question
whether we shall let foreign goods in free
or tax them, is the only question which
can divide the voters of the United
States? Don't you see that the railroad
question is a greater question than the
tariff question? Dotft you see that the
money question is more important than
the tariff question? Don't you see that
the land question is now looming up in
gigantic proportions, with over half of
our people now landless and homeless,
and that these three great questions are
not affected by the tariff? Let us strike
together for free land, free money, and
free transportation, as well as free
trade, cutting off all the tribute which
now goes to the monopolizers of the gifts
of God and the benefits conferred by
society, or the government, benefits
which should be equally distributed.
The greatest possible effort will be
made to defeat the People's party this
fall. But here in Nebraska Providence
is either interposing, or tbe devil is
overreaching himself. The advantages
In sight for us are: first, a ticket which
commands the respect and confidence of
the good men of all parties; second, a
vear of fearful financial pressure which
has led thousands to investigate
and cut loose from the old parties; third,
the decision of organized labor to go in
great bodies to the Populist party;
fourth, the failure of congress to pass
any laws against the monopolies and in
the interest of the people; fifth, the
failure of the Republican attorney gen
eral and state board of transportation to
compel the railroads to obey the law;
sixth, the unpunished asylum thieves
and state officials; seventh, the nomina
tion of a gubernational candidate by
the Republicans who is repudiated, ex
posed and denounced by a strong, in
fluential element of the party; eighth the
selection of a usurer and railroad tool as
the Republican candidate for lieutenant
governor; ninth, the breaking to.piecea
of the Democratic party and the attrac
tion of the larger part of it our way;
tenth, all the dallies of any account, the
B. & M. Journal alone excepted, fight
ing tbe Republican candidates; eleventh,
better organization than we have ever
had before; twelfth, a state chairman
who is a flyer from the word go, and
who is bound to use every nerve and
muscle belonging to the party.
Smith, Jones and Brown are all farm
ers. Their political interests, therefore,,
must be the same. Why then do they
not come together instead of voting
against each other at the ballot box?'
They must see that they are practically
disfranchising one another so long as
they vote in different parties. Why
not look at it this way? It doesn't take
a philosopher to see that we are all
being robbed by the great corporations
that have obtained monopoly power.
We are in the clutch of the railroads,
the bankers, the trusts, the great corpo
rate aggregations of capital. These are
the alien, monarchic forces which
threaten to absorb all our resources and
reduce us and our posterity to a state of
absolute dependence and the slavery ol
unrequited toil. Smith is a Republican,
Jones a Democrat. Each ses very
plainly that the two old parties are not
in a condition to actually oppose mono
polies. But it is the life and object of
the Populist party to fight and cut off .
the tribute of all such monarchic
powers. Therefore Smith, Jones and
Brown, and all wealth producers and
honest, useful members of society,
should come together to place it la
power.
The yearly income of W. W. Astor Is
$8,900,000, or 122,377 a day. John D.
Rockefeller's yearly income is 17,661,
259, his daily tribute $20,853. Jay
Gould's estate draws $4,040,000 yearly
from the living workers. Cornelius
Vanderbilt's yearly tribute is $4,048,000.
W. H. Vanderbilt's yearly revenue is
$3,795,000, or $10,397 per day. Now
what is this but monarchy, despotism,
robbery? A dead man commanding the
living to pay his posterity $11,068 a day,
or $4,040,000 a year, world without endl
And the American people have become
so accustomed to paying this tribute at
the dictation of dead men and to the
useless living, the class who do nothing
except to invest and so increase their
incomes, that but a small part of them
comprehend that there is any injustice
in it. Our people would be aroused if a
monarchy were proposed. Yet pay
princely revenues to useless citizens and
bind their children of all generations to
support and extend these monopoly dy
nasties. With the new song book, Armaged
don, in hand our party can gather mul
titudes of old party voters to hear the
singing and speaking. We ask singers
In our party everywhere to investigate
the merits of the music as well as the
words of Armageddon. A considerable
number of the finest, most famous tunea
that were ever written are to be found
In this book such music as "The Mar
seillaise," "Die Wacht Am Rhein.
"The German Fatherland," "Robin
Adair," etc. We have new words for
all these famous tunes, and we have
new music equally good and in great
variety. The Rocky Mountain News
says Armageddon "is the best of any
thing in its line that we have seen."
The-Marshalltown (Iowa) Populist says
"Armageddon should be in the hand
of every individual who wishes to make
a hit during the campaign." Ba quick
to make use of this vote-making book.
Governor Waite was renominated
at the Colorado state convention last
week, receiving all votes cast except
eight. No man has been so viciously
misrepresented and lied about. No
man in the Populist party has had so
many men wickedly bent on murdering
his reputation, all because be is a strong
leader of the Populist party. - But all
efforts to destroy him have completely
failed. Single handed he has swept
down his scheming, unprincipled, bitter
enemies, and steadily risen in the confi
dence and esteem of the people whose
cause he has courageously and consist
ently espoused. All possible combina
tions between the Republicans and
Democrats wlil be made to defeat the
Populist leader most dreaded, but we
believe he will triumph over all and be
returned te the executive chair by a
largely Increased majority.
"Government banks, government
railroads aad government employment
for the unemployed," is the brief but
sweeplngly comprehensive platform
which Laurence Uronlund wishes the
People's party to adopt. It suits us, and
it would appeal mightily to the masses.
OCR next issue will be an illustrated
number. We have been collecting
electros of our candidates and data for
brief biographical sketches, and shall
group the cuts and sketches on our first
page next week. It will be a specially
valuable campaign issue of The.