October 11, 1894 THE WEALTH MAKERS 6 Industrial Competition. BY AUGUST 8TORMB. An industrial cry of alarm is coming from across the Atlantic which Americaua ought to study. i Mr. Samuel Smith in the London Times makes the following comments on the economic situation in England: The great industries of Lancashire have been giving but very poor results for the last few years. Proflu have dis appeared and I dare claim that many big plants did not earn 6 pence for their owners. A gigantic competing industry has arisen in India and Japan where labor is to be had in unlimited quantity for 12 cents a day. Last year some cotton factories earned from 16 to 25 per cent, for their owners. I am greatly in doubt if profits in Lan cashire reached 2 per cent. The natural consequence of this is the emigration of English capital to countries where great er profits are to be made, and the strikes incited by socialist leaders, who do not understand, are unknown. If we are to escape serious social con vulsions in the future, it will only be on condition that employers and employes be just toward one another, that they recognize their interests as identical, and avoid differences which result in nothing but the death of industry. We like first to state a few small facts before commenting. Everything what Mr. Smith says is no news to the social ists. We have prophesied that the un bridled capitalistic production, which is producing to gain, without considering the human wants of the workers, would go to India, China and Japan, to die probably in ths virgin forests of Africa and Brazil, where the monkeys and bush men would be sought to spin and weave for a few cocoanuts daily. This is the civilizing tendency of capitalism. Secondly, we find a conclusive reply to the false claim that wages always corres pond with the profits of manufacturers. It proves, though the (honest) manufac turers earn from 10 to 25 per cent, they none the less pay only 12 cents a day to their wage slaves. Let us now come to the bottom of the matter., ; ' " , We neither deny the Hindoo nor Ja Danese competition, although we make two reservations about it. When England, Belgium, France and Germany are still standing up, notwith standing these competing wages of 12 cents daily, it is pleading undeniably in favor of the higher civilization and wort i ig power of the better fed and better in structed workers. l Must this civilizing tendency now be counteracted for the pleasure of capitalist employers, who come in competition with Japanese and Hindoo manufacturers? Never will the European workmen per mit it! Our whole struggle is the denial of that barbaric principle: to work at 12 writs a day to save tfte present anarchist mode of production. This, though, is the conclusion of Mr. Smith: "Workmen, if you want peace in Europe, work for the wages of Chinese and Hindoos." We respectfully declare, Mr. Smith, that we would rather fail in a revolution than to become galley men and the lowest of all slaves. Behold the infamy of capitalization! The high famed western civilization, Australia and America, with their colos sal capital, their highly improved ma chinery, their universities, and whole col lection of lawyers, preachers, scientists) political economists, kings and emperors, becomes subjected to the barbaric east, thanks to capitalism. The defenders of the family bring us under the influence of polygamy and a low, uncivilized, brut ish population. The defenders of religion go with the adherents of Buddha and other gods to hunt up the elements that starve Chris tian workmen. The friends of private property prepare by their moving the expropriation and misery of millions of workers who made their fortunes" for them, and even the ex. propriation of the middle classes, who become their accomplices in robbery and oppression. The east with its coarse morals, its monkeviBh. rice-eating population, is t . now held up as an example to us. The bourgeoise has descended very low. And what a terrible lesson for the poor for whom thus capitalism suddenly arises as a brutal international power (outside of religion and morals), which is in a struggle with humanity and civilization Against this terrible situation only one way of salvation is possible: Europe must become socialistic, with Australia and North America! . These continents possess all the ele ments, raw materials, knowledge and machinery to regulate their production, to create and keep peace and prosperity in their territory, in spite of all the Japs, Chinese. Hindoos and Negroes in the world. Besides, these continents can, by their influence, change the way of living and working of these eastern nations; ave. even force them, just like we force our little ones to go to school. Barbarism must not triumph in the world. The east, the rice bellies and child murderers, superstitious fanatics and dirty fellows must not set the tune, but the civilized, intelligent and freed producers of ' America, Australia and Europehaveto. Therefore, we once more aav. with ' pride and justice, socialism alone will bring civilization to its summit VooRurr The above Is a literal translation from a prominent Kuropmn nationalist daily paper, on which comment would be superfiiioiiH, if not a majority of Ameri cans IhI ored under the delusion that re striction of immigration and excl union of foreign goods is all that is required to again make Americana prosperous. Keep all foreigners out of this country and they will all go to South America, Australia, or eom parts of Africa, but especially to Argentine and Brazil, who provide every head of family with trans, portation, land, one team, Beed graiu, etc., free, against payment to the govern ment after a certain number of years. From fopd consumers the majority would become food producers, and drive the American farmer from the markets of western Europe. The American farm er's consuming power would be destroyed and countless numbers of them foreclosed to swell the ranks of the workers in the towns; besides, the wages of farm hands would be cut down to nothing and most of them driven to the towns to look for employment. , The other new countries of the world would be built up as fast as the United States has been, as well in manufacturing as in agriculture, and in the future become industrial rivals of the United States, instead of becoming a market, as is now hoped for. Refusing to trade with European na tions is suicidal to America, because European nations can create food sup plies, by building railroads and opening new fields for the farmers in other parts of the world, but cannot take American farming products, without being enabled to pay for them with industrial products, for then Europe would have to send hun dreds of millions of money to this coun try every year and be drained of all its money in about four years. Whereas consumption is impossible without pro duction, if the Americans could by legis lation restrict European production, they would by that same act restrict European consumption to correspond with the shrinkage in production. But let us ad mit even that we would sell our surplus products without trading back, this country would become glutted with the money of the world, and money not be ing wealth, we would have parted with real wealth for the sake of its shadow. And of what possible benefit would it be to us to sell our real wealth for the sake of unusable money, for having then too much of it for home use and not accepting real wealth in payment of interest from foreign countries we could not invest our surplus money there. (See Protection vs. Free Trade by Henry George,) To condense and conclude, I say all authorities declare that at least five times as many protected home-made goods are sold in this country as im ported; which means that the people pay five times as much to the protected in dustries as to the treasury: or if the home-made goods, sold for less than for eign prices, with tariff duties and interest on tariff duties on top, there would be no imports. Before the prohibitive Mc tun- ley bill the import duties amounted to an average of 220,000,000 a year; five times that sum made f 1,100,000,000 for protected industries, who pay less than $600,000,000 to the 2,000,000 men, women and children they employ and have reduced to slavery. Americans, quit boasting about your freedom and superior intelligence, and think more for yourself instead of blindly following the leadership of old party papers and politicians. I am intensely opposed to unrestricted immigration, but not for the reasons you are,, and do not look upon it as a cure. The cause of our trouble is the steady advance of improved machinery (which creates an international money power) and contraction of the currency. Tnat same international money power develops industries by means of improved machinery in all countries, until every nation will only have to produce for its home market. America having presently machinery to supply its own yearly market require ment in seven months, and a protective system, taxing raw materials (which no European nations except Spain have) making it impossible to produce for foreign markets, it is no wonder that we are in a worse fix than Europe, bad as it always is there. Americans, study up on nationalism, for nothing else will make you happy5 forever. Do not try to fight and shed blood for the money power is anxious for a fight; it knows that if the workers keep quiet a little longer they will find out what ails them, and slavery be abolished forever. Whereas they hope to find idle men enough they can hire to shoot the fighting workers down in order to delay the coming of the millennium for another generation. A Nationalist, Note In Europe the anti-socialists preach that socialism would break up familv life, which is a willful lie and slander, to discredit socialism or nation alism, which is literally the same, there fore the socialists sometimes call their adversaries the defenders of family life, Bourgeoisie means the untitled, well-to-do classes.. , The sew song book contains about 186 pages, extra large size, illustrated cover page. No doggerel in it All high class, patriotic, pathetic, humorous, en thusing matter. Now ready. Ask your neighbor to read some spec ial article in Thx Wealth Makers and then tell him that he can get the truth nntil election for 10 cents. Subscribe for The Wealth Makers. PEOPLE'S PLATFORM. doptfd by the Convention at Om aha Nebraska, July 4, 1802. Assembled upon the one hundred and nix teen th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the People's Party of America, in their first national conven tion, invoking upon their action the blessings of Almighty God, puts forth in the name, and on behalf of the people of the country, the following preamble and declaration of principles: The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the lench. The people are demoralized: most of the states have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidised or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor impover ished; and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organi sation for elf-protection; imported pau perized labor beats down their wages; hireling army, unrecognized by our law, is established to shoot them down: and they are rapidly degenerating into Euro pean conditions. The fruit of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes forafew.unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the pos sessors of these in turn despise the re public and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in justice we breed the two great classes tramps and millionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people. Silver, which has been accepted as com since the dawn of history, has been de monetised to add to the purchasing pow er of gold, by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human la bor, and tne supply oi currency is pur posely abridged to fatten usurers, bank rupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organised on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world, if not met ana overmrown ac once it forebodes terrible social convul sions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despot ism. We have witnessed lor more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that tne controlling lunuenc dominating both these parties have per mitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop, without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. 1 . Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming cam paign, every issue but one. They pro pose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham- battle over the tariff; so that capitalists, corpo rations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of sil ver, and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost niirht of. The? propose to Hftcrittce our homes, lives uud children on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in ocder to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday ot the nation, and filled with the spirit ot the grand generation of men, who estab lished our independence, we seek to re store the government of the Republic to the bands ot "tne plain people," wita whose class it originated. We assert out purposes to be identical with the purpose of the national constitution: "to forma more perfect union, establish justice, in sure domestic tranquility, pro vide for ths common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty ourselves and our posterity." We declare that this republic can only endure as a free government while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets, that the civil war is over and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it; and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, one united brother hood. Our couutry finds itself confront ed by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world Our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities consumed in their produc tion; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this exchanga. The results are falling prices, the forma tion of combines and rings, and the im poverishment of the producing class. We pl-vlare ourselves that if given power we will Tabor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance with the terms of our platform. We believe that the powers of govern mentin other words, of the people should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people, and the teachings of experience, shall justify; to he end that oppression, in justice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. While our sympathies as a party of re form are naturally upon the sideof every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions im portant as they are as secondary to the great issues now pressing for solution; and upon which not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depends; and we ask all men to first help ns to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer, be fore we differ as to the conditions upon which it is to be administered; believing that the forces of reform this day organ ized will never cease to move forward un til every wrong is righted and equal pri vileges established for all the men and women of this country. We declare, therefore, """Ss UNION Or THE PEOPLE. First, That the union of the labot forces of the United States this day con summated, shall be permanent and per petual; may its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Second, Wealth belongs to him whe creates it; and every dollar taken from industry, without an equivalent, is rob bery. "If any man will not work neithei hall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies am identical. Third. We believe that the time has will either own the people or the people must own the railroads; and should the government enter upon the work of own ing and managing the railroads, we should favor an amendment to the con stitution by which all persons engaged in the government service shall be pro tected by civil service regulations of the most rigid character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of the national administration by the use of such addi tional gonernment employes. FINANCE. We damand a national currency, safe sound and flexible; issued by the general government only; a full legal tender for all debts public and private; and that without the use of bankingoorporations; a Just equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, t be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements: We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ration of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount ot cir culating medium be speedily increased to not less than 50 per capita, . We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of ths country should be kept, as much as pos sible, in the hands of the people; an ! hence we demand that all state and na tional revenues shajl . be limited to tV necessary expenses of the governmen, economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings banks beestablished by the government for ths safe deposit ot the earnings of the people and the facilitation of exchange. . TRANSPORTATION. Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity: the gov ernment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffloe system, being a necessity, lor tne transmissionoi newB,snouiODeownea and operated by the government in the interests oi tne people. . LANDS. The land, including all natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolised for speculative purposes; and alien owner ship of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers. only. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were offered Independent of the platform, and were adopted, as expressive ot the sentiments of the convention: Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections, and pledge ourselves to secure to it every feral voter without federal intervention, through the adoption by the states of the unperrerted Australian secret ballot system. .... Resolved, That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be appli ed to the reduction of the burden of taxa tion now levied upon tne domestic in Jnatries of this couutry. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions o ex-union rlriira and sailors. Resolved, Tha we condemn the iaJlarr of protecting American labor vttler the nresent system, which ooensour ports to the pauper and criminal classes of ths world, and crowds out our wage-earners and we denounce the present ineffective law acrainst contract labor, and demand the further restriction ot undesirable immiirration. Resolved, That we cordially sympa thize with the effort of organised work- imrmen to shorter the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the exist ing eight-hour law on government wore, and ask that a penalty clause be added to said law. Resolved. That we reirard the main tenance of a larire standing army of inernenariMi. known as the Pinkerton system, as a menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition, and we condemn the recent invasion ot the Territory of Wvominir bv the hired assassins of Plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers. Resolved. That we commend to th thouarhtfnl consideration of the people and the reform press, the legislative sys tem known as the Initiative and tteieren- dura. Resolved, That we favor a constitu tional provision limiting the office ot a president and vice president to one term, and nrovidintr for the election O) the senators by a direct vote ot the people. Resolved, That we oppcte any subsidy or national aid to any private corpora t ion for anv nnrpose. H. E. Taubbneck, Chairman, Marshall, Illinois. .T. H. Trrnkr. Secretarv. Georgia. Lawbkncb MoFabland, Secretary, Nev. York. M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terre Haute Indiana. Oar State Platform. . We, the People's Indepenpent party of the state of Nebraska, reaffirm the prin ciples laid down in the national platform adopted at Omaha. July 4, 1892. We emphasize the demand for free and un limited coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio 16 to 1. We brand as treason to labor in every field, and to labor in every field, and to the best inter esta of the whole country, the uncondi tional repeal bv congress ot the purchas ing clause of the Sherman act We de mand both state and national laws for the encouragement and promotion of the irrigation ot onr arid and semi-arid lands. We demand that congress shall speedi ly pass a law by which the federal courts will be prevented from suspending the operation of a state law at the dictation of corporations. We demand a liberal service pension to all honorably discharged union soldiers and sailors of the late war. ' We declare for municipal ownership of street cars, gas and electric light plants and water works. We demand compulsory arbitration of all controversies between employers and employes. We heartily approve the course of Sen ator William T. Allen and Congressmen W. A. McKeighan and 0. M. Kern for their fidelity and loyalty to our entire interests, and we compliment Congress man W. j. Bryan, who, though elected as a Democrat, has given strong support to manv of our reform measures. We demand a more economical admin istration ot our state government, and a more strict accountability ot moneys ap propriated and expended. We reiterate our demand tor a maxi mum freight rate law or the enforcement of the one now on onr statute books. We demnnd the amendment of our state constitution by the adoption of what are properly known as the initiative and referendum. We demand the enforcement of the present law for the investment of our permanent school fund as directed, and not through bond investment companies, at a loss to said fund or profit to specu lators and money sharks. We demand that all officers, both state and county, be paid a reasonable salary, in accordance with the labor to be per formed and the amount of skill required, and that all fees be turned into the gen eral fund for state and county purposes. We commend to the favorable consid eration of the state ths building of what is known as the Gull & Interstate rail road, now under process of construction. We demand tnat immediate steps oe taken for the relief of the drouth sufferers of our state, and that some means be devised to give them employment snd Having stated onr demands, we cordi ally invite all persons who are in sympa thy with them to co-operate with us, re gardless of former party afflictions. TTNGLEY & Attomoyo-at-Law, 1026 O St, Lincoln, Hob COLLECTIONS MADE J. w H Lraoa. A. OiiMAMTim, Tnimnr, Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. OP NEBRASKA. HOrganlzed In 189l..9 $2.000,000 INSURANCE NOW IN EFFECT. DIRECTORS: ' ' : ' . J. W. Caitob, Emerald. Neb. v- J.A.Flossii. Oeetaaer, Nee. J P Hones Alvo. Neb. I J. A. Bs. York. Neb. -.,, A. Gskssamtss. Cseenejr, Neb. IK.. Htatt, President, nee. B. H. Dvw. Byreente, Neb. I PMIOIPAL OfrlOS.-246 SOUTH 'Ajgm'JSSL JVCorrMpoBMsee oncnen mm y PURELY i ll it A an is N1ERKA8K A MUTtTAti 17BS, LIGHTNING CYCLONE IRSUKANCI COMPANY, hSlsUUto hiirid. Have pctd over SJ00.00 In losses. JUt. bad but one aisto 10c pernamJ. Y7x!woAM,Scrtr7. Lincoln, Neb. gTAgsnts wanted. Irrigated Farm Lands -IN FERTILE SAM LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO. T HE SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO, is a stretch ot level plain about as large as the State of Connecticut, lyinir between surrounding ranges .of lofty mountains and watered by the Rio Grande River and a score or more of small tributary streams. It was the bottom of a great sea, whose de posits have made a fertile soil on an average more than ten feet deep. The mountains are covered with great deposits of snow, which melt and furnish the irrigating canals with water for the farmers' crops. The Climate is Unrivaled. Almost perpetual sunshine, and the elevation of about 7,000 feet dispels all malaria, nor are such pests as chinch bugs, weevil, etc., found there. Flowing artesian wells are secured at a depth, on an average, of about 100 feet, and at a cost of about $25.00 each. Such is the flow that they are being utilized for irrigating the yards, garden and vegetable crops. The pressure is sufficient to carry the water, which is pure, all through the farmers' dwellings. Irrigation. Already several thousand miles of large and small irrigating canals have been built and several hundred thousand acres of lands made available for farming operations. Irrigation is an insurance against failure of crops, because buo ceBB is a question only of the proper application of water to them. The loss of a single corn or wheat crop in Nebraska, for instance, would more than equal the cost of irrigating canals to cover the entire state, so important is the cer tainty of a tall crop return to any agricultural state. The San Luis Valley will grow Spring wheat oats, barley, peas, hops, beans, potatoes, vegetables and all kinds of small fruits and many of the hardier varieties of apples, pears and all kinds of cherries. In the yield of all these products it has neyeb been surpassed by any other SECTION ON THE CONTINENT. . Forty Acres Enough Land. Forty acres is enough land for the farmer of ordinary means and help. Be sides the certainty of return, the yield, under the conditions of proper irriga tion, will average far more than the 160-acre farms in the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, and the outlay for machinery, farming stock, purchase nioney, taxes, etc., are proportionately less. There are a hundred thousand acres of such lands located in the very heart of the San Luis Valley, all within six miles of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, convenient markets and shipping stations, for sale at $15.00 per acre. Most of these lands are fenced and have been under cultivation and in many instances have wells and some buildings, everything ready to proceed at once to begin farming. A small cash payment only is required where the purchaser immediately occupies the premises, and long time at seven per cent, interest is granted for the deferred payments. A Specially Low Homeseekers Rate will be made you, your family and friends. Should you settle on these lands the amount vou paid for railroad fare will be credited to you on yonr pay ments; and 'remember the laud is perfectly and thoroughly irrigated, and the land and perpetuel water rights are sold you for less than other sec tions ask for simply the water rights without the land. No better lands exist anywhere on eartb. For further particulars, prices of land, railroad fare, and all other information call on or address, F. Hi. ULJECT (Mention this paper.) Manager Celeries Land ft ImmlgratlM Ce., BB0WIELL BL00& LgOOLM, IE3 BOOKS FOR THE MASSES. Get these books and our paper as taut as you can into the bands of the people, friends. Buy, read and circulate. Ad dress all orders to the Wealth Makers Pvb. Co., Lincoln, Sab. The New Redemption 1 0.75 A Plea For the uospel . i Civilization's Inferno .'' 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