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    THE WEALTH MAKEK3.
October 4, 1894
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FOB CONGRESSMEN.
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girth Dlstriot. Omar M.Ksm
LANCASTER COUNTY.
County Attorney Kbbdbriok Shbphbrd
County Judge G. W. Bsrg
County Commissioner G. S, Pabwatsb
Bute senators K. T, Chambers,
THOMAS tt. bTBVBBB
Bepresentatives .. . A. 0. Hsbriox,
0. B. Johbs, Frank D. Eaoib, John
H abtubb, O. M. Dnmr
"The best laid plans of mice and men
aft gang agley."
The Republicans are giving evidences
of great concern. The shadow of coming
defeat is driving them to desperation.
A report of Congressman Bryan's
speech at Osceola, by "Hackberry Hay
seed," found elsewhere in this issue, is
wry interesting reading.
Judge Robinson delivered an address
at Neligh upon the free and unlimited
coinage of silver which a correspondent
writes "was really a good Populist ad
dress," and he complimented our party
for its courage and honesty.
Our candidate for Commissioner of.
Publio Lands and Buildings, Hon. S. J.
Kent, has just returned from Indianapo
lis where he has been attending the yearly
meeting of the Carpenters Union of Amer
ica and lecturing there and en route. He
report fine earnest work being done in
Indiana by able men, tor the Populist
cause. Mr. Kent will enter the campaign
fight here at once and speak ones or
twice a day till election day.
We reprint from the Review of Reviews
The report of the bi-inetallist members of
the German Silver Commission, not be
cause we consider the free coinage of sil
ver any considerable factor in the final
solution of the money question, but be
cause the report is perhaps the most per
fect refutation of the arguments ot the
monometallists. Again, we enter a
vigorous caveat to the idea advanced in
this report that an inter-national agree
ment is necessary before a nation can
make money for its people out of silver
or what it pleases. But it will be worth
while to read carefully the arguments
advanced by these bi-metallists.
The Bennett News (Republican) is doing
a good work exposing and fighting John
Charles-Fremont McKesson, Lancaster
county Republican candidate for the sen
ate. McKesson is an arrant hypocrite
who belongs to the church and teaches in
the Sunday school, and also buys votes
with beer and alcohol, besides being a
"notorious railroad capper and bribe
taker," a perfectly conscienceless tool of
one of the worst gangs of politicians and
publio plunderers that ever betrayed and
preyed upon a commonwealth. Mr,
Chambers, our candidate for the same
position, is a man of the highest charac
ter and is in nonor wttn men ot an par
ties. The honest Republicans, as well as
as Populists and Democrats, will sup
port Mr. Chambers. McKesson is too
well known.
STAND UP TOE NEBRASKA.
That is, stand up for the people of
Nebraska, Oppose the enemies of our
state, those who reduce the price of her
products and the purchasing power of
her citizens.
The Republican party, assisted by Boyd,
McSbane and other representative
Democrats, has been for many years
standing up for the railroads and pro
tecting them from the demands and from
the law of the plundered people. In Con
gress they first began to oppress and to
load us down with burdens in the shape
of the gigantic Credit Mobilier fraud, a
scheme which distributed vast amounts
of Union Pacific stock among the Con
gressmen who recklessly voted to the
corporation so vast a portion of the
public domain and cash subsidies, and
enabled the railway ring to pocket $75.
000 to $ 95,000 per mile of construction
stoalings. From the very beginning of
our state life the railroads which were
built practically without expense to the
projectors and stockholders, by means of
land grants, cash subsidies and bond
bonuses given to eastern capitalists,
have forced us to pay transportation
tariffs, to furnish dividends and interest
on capital by the state and nation pro
vided, and on a fictitious and fraudulent
over-capitalization (watered stock) of
vast amount.
Yes, stand up for Nebraska, and rescue
her people from bondage to the railroads,
Why should Nebraska be held a depend
ncy, an outlying province of the rail
road kings of Massachusetts? Why
should we go on forever toiling and
moiling to heap up crushing mountains
of wealth for their princeling progeny?
We pass laws and these railroad kings
trample them under their feet. How
can tbey do it? They do it because they
own the courts and the Republican state
officials whose duty it is to see that the
laws are enforced. Therefore the only
way to effectively stand up for Nebraska
is to vote into power the People's Inde
pendent representatives. The history of
the Republican party of this state is the
history of a gang of conscienceless selfish
office seekers who have stolen and wast
ed and served the corporations and been
paid by the people for it all. Their first
governor had to be impeached for divert
ing the publio funds into his private.
pocket. The publio buildings of the state
built under the supervision, and by con
tractors of their choosing were built at a
cost to the people vastly in excess of the
cost of construction, and the difference
enriched the Republican gang. The first
insane asylum was so constructed as to
be unsafe and a great quantity of the
building material was spirited away
The University edifice had to have a new
foundation put under it at great expense
to save the structure and prevent the
imminent danger of collapse and great
destruction of life, a risk that the politi
cal plundering gang cared nothing for,
The history of the penitentiary, both in
its building (down to the last cell house
construction steal and waste of folly)
and the contracts awarded C. W. Mosh-
er, the Capital National bank wrecker
and boodler, for the work and board of
the prisoners, is a history ot public steal
ings much ot which has been investigated
and the details and figures showing up
the extent of the misuse, private nest
feathering use, of the public funds are a
matter of record in the printed reports
of the work of the state legislature. The
state asylum steals exposed by Mr. E. C.
Rewick (a Republican) in 1892 and
farther investigated by a committee of
the People's legislature and brought out
in the impeachment trials of the state
board of transportation, are fresh in the
memory of all our people, as well as the
way the guitly escaped by wholesale
perjury, packed juries and a -Republican
prosecuting attorney who was put in
power to be used as he was used.
The state land steals are another mat
ter of history of which we can not now
speak in detail. The failure of the Cap
ital National bank and the loss of about
a quarter of a million of state funds,
was made possible by the approval of a
straw bond by Governor Crounse, and by
Allen and Hastings, secretary of state
and attorney general.
The Republican party has been kept
in power by an organization
of office holders and party
machinery. County and state funds (un
til the Populist legislature changed the
law) have been a source of great profit
to the respective treasurers, by placing
the money in political banks, which loan
ing it at high rates of interest divided
with the office holders the profits, and
these in turn furnished the "fat" to run
the campaigns. The railroads have also
contributed, in annual and trip passes,
the more effective means of holding to
gether the caucus and convention pro
fessionals, who are all the tools of the
railroads and the power which controls
nominations. The corporations hare
thus ruled the state from the first. They
have turned down every incorruptible
judge also, Maxwell, Reese and others,
and can now snap their fingers at the
people, and even when their plundering
henchmen are exposed they can prevent
their conviction and punishment. Ma
jors and Moore and the rest of the gang
chosen by the railroads they are deter
mined shall be crammed upon the people.
It is time to stand up for Nebraska.
It is time for the people to arouse them
selves and ' grapple in a life and death
struggle with the great corporations and
their tools. It is time that the ragged
remains of the lamb skin covering shall
be torn from the ravenous wolves who
have Mod ami wasted us for twenty
years.
Nebraska bos produced enough in the
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last score of years to make all her people
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rich and prosperous. The degree of pros
perity which has come to us has come
not by the professional politicians who
have, an the agents and tools of the cor
porations, controlled the government of
the state, but because we have been
blessed with most bountiful crops and
the tax makers, railroads, money loan
era, meat packers, coal monopolists,
lumber barons and the rest, could not
absorb it all. But if our people had had,
by just legislation, their rights preserved,
their labor products made equitably ex
changeable, the capital and wealth of our
state would be many times what it is to
day. To secure our rights, to preserve in our
own hands the products we produce or
their labor value equivalents, and to ob
tain the benefit of our own credit it is
necessary to free ourselves as citizens
from all partisan prejudice and vote the
People's Independent representatives in
to power. Stand up for the common
people, the farmers and wage workers
and honest wealth producers of Nebraska.
Tote out the old railroad Majors led
gang.
THE BOOT OF THE EVIL-
According to Congressman Wilson the
manufacturing plants in the United States
can produce in six months all our people
can demand. But why not ran them on
full time and keep all at work until all
are supplied with all the manufactured
wealth and capital they can enjoy and
economically use? Why stop working
while ninety-nine families in a hundred
need or could make good use of more or
better food, clothing, furniture, fuel
houses, barns, fencing, tools, machinery,
literature, worksof art, education? Why
stop the machinery and keep vast num
bers out of work, and unable to supply
their wants by exchange of services?
Stopping work shuts off wealth produc
tion and decreasing wealth (by unavoid-
ableconsumption) keeps theentire wealth
producing class in want, poor, or poorer
than they otherwise would be. To stop
work while the workers are in want is
the criminality and insanity of the pres
ent system of production and distriba
tion. It is a root-hog-and-die system
that has its perfect brute illustration in
the despised swine who eats his fill and
then lies down in the trough. When w.
think of all the suffering, the anxiety and
crippling, degrading poverty which the
demand for net profits forces upon the
working millions the hot curses of o
righteous indignation rise to ourlipsand
with difficulty are repressed. Dividends,
net profits, the product of the workers or
its money equivalent, divided among the
non-workers and the covetous! It is
damnable to thus rob the workers of
their power to buy back out of the mark
et as much wealth as they have produced,
and then when the net profit hogs have
gorged themselves like princes and the
market is still over full to stop" produc
tion and allow none to work because
workers cannot be kept employed at a
profit
Now observe what idiocy or criminality
the Republican and Democratic alleged
remedies reveal.
The Republican party would tax heavi
ly imported goods while our own man
ufacturing plants are half the time idle.
That country which keeps its machinery
running all the time can sell goods at
lower prices than any and every other
nation. Furthermore, a tariff which
keeps out goods lessens the demand of
other countries for American goods and
therefore there is no such thing as a pro
tective tariff for a country whose manu
facturing plants are of the best and
whose capital is ample.
The Democrats, on the other hand,
would throw off a few stones, more or less,
from the tariff and let in more foreign
goods, when we cannot now buy half
what are produced here. The mere
wholesale exchange of foreign goods for
American goods would not materially
change the situation for the working
classes and the unemployed.
The root of the matter lies deeper. The
net profit dividends, usury and monopoly
rent that are drawn and forced from the
workers, leave them powerless to buy as
much out of the market as they pour into
t, and this is true the world over; there
fore, neither shutting out foreign goods
nor letting them in to exchange, will in
crease the world's or the American de
mand for goods. The only way to in
crease the demand for goods is to de-
decrease the various monopoly charges,
rent, interest, dividends. And right here
observe, that the nationalization of an
Industry does away with these charges
and allows the workers in it to receive a
money equivalent for their labor or pro
duct. Nationalize the railroads, and the
railway employees would either have
their wages raised to include the present
interest and dividends paid, or these
sums would, by reduction of transporta
tion tariffs, be retained in the hands of
the people and would greatly increase
their power to demand goods out of the
markets. Nationalize the banking busi
ness and the people would get all the
legal tender currency they could advan
tageously use at cost, as the bankers now
get their notes, and the vast usury or
interest drain, now concentrating all
money, capital and natural resources in
to few hands, would be cut off, and the
masses of the people would have that
much more money to buy goods with.
Nationalize the coal mines and the coal
diggers would be kept at work, at reason
able hours, all the time and the people
would have coal at a great reduction.
And each industry nationalized would
(by saving rent, interest and dividends
to the workers in it,) tend to restore the
natural, just equilibrium between the
supply of goods and the demand for
them. Let us not waste precious time
and energy on the comparatively useless
supefircial, inconsequential reforms, but
recognize that the way of economic po
litical salvation for the masses, salvation
from dependence and poverty, is through
the national ownership of the natural re
sources and the nationalization of the
productive or transportation and ex
change industries. The Populist party
is most feared and most attacked on tli
side where its heaviest guns are mouuteo
where it demands the nationalization
of the means of transportation and ex
change and the destruction, of land monopoly.
THE HEED OF UNITING.
Let us reflect.
How does it come about that we have
once in ten years or so a period of hard
times such as we entered over a year ago;
such as we had, with less severity.
in the 80s; and with very great wide
spread distress in the '70s?
The Republican press and politicians
assert that tinkering with the tariff does
all the evil. But the Democrats were not
in power in the '70s. There was no
change nor fear of change in the tariff
then: hence the tariff, in the opinion of
Republicans, could not have brought on
those years of business prostration and
eniorcea idleness, it tne cause then was
unjust legislation, as it must have been,
it must be charged up as the work of the
Republican party. The cause of the '93
and '94 depression and distress must be
traced to the class legislation of both the
old parties, both having been in power.
But neither proposes any remedial and
preventive legislation which is new,
nothing which can be reasonably ex
pected to change the present and the old
periodic order of industrial activity
followed by lack of demand, dullness of
trade, under consumption, falling prices,
the complete stagnation of enforced idle
ness in manufacturing industries and the
spread of poverty and distress. High
tariffs have not prevented these distress
ful periods of underconsumption, falling
prices and enforced idleness. Low tariffs
and free trade have had no discoverable
effect to prevent such periods, neither
here nor in any part of the world. The
Same succession of activity and enforced
inactivity was also the order of the in.
dustrial and commercial world before
silver was demonetized, there being eight
periodic depressions in the country prior
to silver demonetization in 1873. We
have all history to prove that the re
menetization of silver would not be a
sufficient remedy; it would not provide
(because it did not and could not pro
vide) the means to maintain an equili
brium between production and consump
tion, between power to produce and
power to demand (with money) the
goods marketed. It is not the kind or
quantity of money used and possessed
by all, but too much money in the hands
of those who are over supplied with goods
and too little money in the hands ol
those who are in need of goods, which
causes the trouble. If those who have
the money needed the goods, or if those
who need the goods had the money, de
mand would equal supply, and produc
tion would be constant, the demand for
labor, the labor of each and all, being
equal to the labor impelling desires of
each and all.
Now how is it that those who have
every want supplied and perhaps toil not
have a great surplus of money, and
those who work hard and produce much
value or who are willing to work hard
and produce value lack money to buy
what they need?
It is gathered as tribute, princely des
potic tribute, from the workers by the
land, capital, money and transportation
monopolists. It is drawn from those
who toil and sweat, by and to a class
who have by violence orunjust legal pro
cesses and inequitable exchanges obtain
ed titles to the natural resources which
all men are given an equal inalienable
right to, by a class, too, who have se
cured the benefits and heaped upon the
other class the burdens of organized
society, or government. Government
should protect the defenceless from the
strong and cunning. It should confer
equal benefits upon all. It should not
grant charters and record titles and
articles of incorporation which confer
monopoly power to private individuals.
It should by enactments procure and se
cure to the workers with brain and
brawn, to each individual of the wealth
producing or society-serving class, his
equal, rightful share of the labor-saving,
wealth-making power of steam, electricity
and machinery.
These are the manifest needs of the peo
ple and the duties of the government.
But neither of the old parties (their
leaders) cares for the people's needs or
rights. One party charges that all evils
have come upon us ns the result of too
high a tax on foreign goods, the other
party swears that all evils that exist are
produced by the fear of the people that
the tax will be reduced; and they propose
to keep up the eternal tariff racket while
the boodlers, bankers.bondholders, land
lords, railroad princes and other mono
polists are allowed to complete the work
of reducing the masses to a state of
absolute dependence and slavery.
There is but one way to preserve and
restore the people's liberties. That is, to
unite in a third party which is being
driven with full steam on against mono
polies. Come into the People's party
and demand with us the new adequate
legislation which is needed to sweep away
special privileges and secure to all our
citizens their natural rights and the
economic benefits which belong equally
to all members of society.
THE ACTION AT OMAHA.
The Bryan free silver Democrats came
out on top in the state convention, and
their action nominating five out of eight
of the Populist candidates, namely, Hoi
comb, Gaffin, Carey, Kent aud Jones,
drove the administration element out.
The bolters held a separate convention
aud put up a ticket of their own. The
Populist candidates not nominated or
endorsed by the Democrats are Mr. Pow
ers for treasurer, Mr. McFadden for
secretary of state and Judge Wilson for
auditor. Just why these three were left
off by the Democrats may not be appar
ent. It was not desirable to accept the
entire Populist ticket, they probably
thought, because that would be a com
plete unreserved swallowing up of the old
Bryan-led party by our party. It may
be, however, that when it comes to voting
our entire ticket will be generally voted,
for it is apparent that votes cast for the
three Democrats who have been named
in place of Powers, McFadden and Wilson
are votes wasted.
w e wish to warn our people against
trading schemes. There is likely to be
an effort in certain localities to trade
votes for our three state candidates who
have been left off the Democratic ticket,
so-called, for Populist votes for Demo
cratic candidates for other offices. We
shall be able to get all honest sensible
Democrats to vote our entire state ticket
without purchase or trade, and we are
bound in honor and justice to support all
our candidates. Let us have no slaught
ering of part of our men to add to the
majorities of others. Let there be all
possible personal work done with the
Democrats who will, because they have
been . nominated by their convention,
naturally vote at least five-eighths of our
ticket, and get them to vote it all. There
should be a special effort of this sort on
the part of every Populist with his Dem.
ocratic neighbors. Let each do what he
can in this way and we shall bury the
entire railroad anarchists' ticket and
destroy forever their political power in
Nebraska.
There is talk that Luikhart, El lick and
the other Democrat will be withdrawn in
favor of our three candidates left off of
the Bryan Democrats ticket; but as this
may and may not be done, do the per
sonal work above suggested any way.
NO VOTES POB ENEMIES
The World-Herald says Boyd's chances
are improving, and gives as reasons the
action of the Democrats in state conven
tion endorsing Holcomb and four other
candidates upon our ticket, tl action of
the Fifth district in nominating Weir,
and the action of the Sixth "in adjourn
ing without a nomination, for the pur
pose of helping Mr. Kem." Continuing
the World-Herald (Mr. Bryan editor)
says:
It is safe to say that Judge Holcomb's
nomination alone has added more than
1,000 votes to Mr. Boyd's plurality. It
is not necessary that the Populists should
defend Governor Boyd's position where
he differs from the Populists, it is enough
to know that on many questions he is in
harmony with them, and that he is
nearer to them than any man whom
they have a chance to elect.
Is it so? Are the Populists expected to
help elect a goldbug, a railroad tool, the
man who vetoed the first maximum
freight bill, the man whom the World-
Herald at that time called "e broken idol
and a blasted hope," are we expected to
elect such a man in payment for or
through appreciation of Democratic en
dorsement of our candidates? Is it so,
that "many of the Independents of the
Second district will support Governor
Boyd in order to defeat Congressman
Mercer, in return for the support the
Democrats are giving to Judge Holcomb
and other Populist candidates?"
It rather seems to us that a Populist
who would vote for such a man as Jim
Boyd for any consideration must be
either a knave or a fool. We don't be
lieve the Second district Populists are,
many of them, likely to forsake Mr.
Deaver for the notorious friend of the
railroads and enemy of the people, an
utterly corrupt corporation tool and
goldbug. On the other hand we do be
lieve that every honest Democrat in the
Second district who believes in over
throwing monopoly rule will vote for Mr.
Deaver.
The Independents of Nebraska are
watching the World-Herald's support of
its "broken idol and blasted hope."
CH1N0ELL0B OANFIELD'S PLO.
Chancellor Canfleld, of our State Uni
versity, has proposed a new branch of the
civil service, a United States Railway
Service, which he describes in an article
Written for The Outlook, reprinted by us
and found on another page of this issue.
He would have at least engineers, fire
men, conductors, brakemen and switch
men, who must first pass an examination
enlisted for a term of service under
stipulated conditions of enlistment, terms
of service, methods of withdrawal, com
pensation of the members of each class,
mileage or hours that shall constitute a
day's service, conditions of overwork
and overpay, the exact responsibility of
employers for injury to employees and
the methods of possible pensioning all
determined by the general government
and made constituent parts of the gene
ral plan. And he would make it unlaw
ful for any transportation company to
employ others than the enlisted men.
The benefits flowing from such an en
listed service are enumerated by Dr.
Canfleld as, certain transportation of
the mails, greater safety in travel and
preservation of life, especially at great
railroad centers. Do not fail to turn to
the article and see exactly what the .
Chancellor has to say.
The extension of the civil service pro
posed would be a very great improve
ment over present competitive labor
conditions and railroad strikes, but it
seems to us that from the standpoint of
the railroads it proposes too much, and
from the standpoint of the interests of
the people not enough. So long as the
railroads remain private property it is a
question whether a scale of wages which
tliey have no voice in making can be -forced
upon them. The only way we can
see to carry out about all the features of
the very excellent plan of Chancelor Can
field, is for the government to purchase
the railroads and operate them, as it
now carries on the postal service. The
enlistment plan would be the best pos
sible plan for a system of government
rum uaus.
The Republicans are all the time trying .
to frighten the people with the cry ofS
'Tree trade." But under the capitalistic
net profit system of production free trade
even within our own borders, is impos
sible. It is not free trade where one
class possess theland, capital and money
and auother class, without land to live
on, must, in order to live, sell them their
bodies and brains. The first class al
ways demand more labor product than
they give, as wages, and they thus, by
compulsion, by unpaid labor, accumulate
fortunes without labor of their own. It
is not free trade when we deal with the
railroads. They fix their own prices and
we have to pay them. It is not free
trade when we buy coal or oil. The coal
barons and King Rockefeller dictate the
prices to us. And it is the same way
with a very large part of what wo buy
and sell. There can be no industrial
freedom so long as we must deal with
monopolies, and three-quarters of the
monopolies, by all odds the greatest and
worst, too, have not the slightest con
nection with the tariff. We . demand
legislation to cut off the enforced tribute
to the greater monopolists, tribute
which is actual, undeniable robbery, not
a cent of which goes for the support of
government. We demand this of the
Republican party, and brand its leaders
as the tools of robbers for refusing to
hear the cries of a plundered people. We'
demand it of the Democratic party, and
scorn it (its leaders) because of its canto
and its condemnation of the free trade, ,
monopoly-dethroning demands of the '
Populist party.
Hon. J. M. Devine opened his cam
paign m Antelope county tne zuth or
September, with a speech at the opera
house. The next day he addressed a
rally at Clearwater, "the largest and
most successful ever held in the county,"
writes Lawyer Freese of Elgin. "From
there he went to a picnic near Bruns
wick where he spoke to a larger crowd in
the afternoon, and in the opera house at
Plainview in the evening. It was an.
nounced at the Brunswick picnic that
there was an individual at Plainview
whose bump of self conceit was so extra
ordinarily developed that he said the
Pops dared not bring Devine up against -him
and that he desired to divide time
with Devine. The permission was grant
ed and he went home a sadder but wiser
man. His friends said he made a fool of
himself, in which opinion the Populists
concurred."
A newspaper reporter on one of the
A'ew York dailies a few days ago inter
viewed a number of the city pawnbrokers
and to the question: "Have you felt the
effect of the bad times?" was answered:
"We haven't noticed it at all." Another
broker said: "It seems as if the people
had pawned everything, and now they
are offering babies' clothes." Don't ask
us to believe that somebody isn't going
to be damned. And if usurers get a
ticket to the lower regions there will be
a very great number classed as such. All
interest extracters and monopolists
will be classed with them. - ,
"The week in society" column of the
New York Tribune reported last week
the marriage of Miss M. H. Toft to Mr.
James P. Scott. The groom gave the
bride a tiara of diamonds and a neck
lace said to be worth $20,000. He
will take his bride to Europe to pass the
winter. The marriage presents all told
had an estimated value of $100,000.
The people who are not in but under
society, foot all the bills.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Never "seen 'em skeered" so badly, did
you?
The Populists, and Rosewater, don't
have to import their crowds.
Our enemies are on the run but let us
camp on their trail, until after election.
If the B. & M. railroad were not so
liberal as & giver, it might be able to post
pone the date of a receiver.
Rosewater is no orator, but facts are
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