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STATE OFHOEBB
For Governor...... .' Sii.as A. Uolcohb
Lhtutenant-Oovernor James N. UrriN
Secretary ot State Hilary W. McKaddkk
Bute Auditor Jobn W. Wilson
Stat Treasurer...... John II Powers
Attorney-General Danicl B. Caret
Com. Public Lands A Bldgs Sidney J. Kcst
Bupt. Public Intrnctlon......i........ Wm. A. Jonas
FOB. CONUHK88MKN. (
First District......... A. H. Warn
Second District........ I). Clem Heaves
Third District............ ...Jobs M. I'Evihe
Fourth District W. I.. Stark
Filth District...... Wii. A. McKeiohan
Bllth District OmaB M. Kem
LANCASTER CODNTf.
County Attorney Fbedcbitk Hbkpberd
County Judge........ ......O. W. Hehoe
County Commlsslonsr G, 8. Paswater
. ( ....,.,. M. T. Chambers
B , J - Thomas O. Steves
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C. o. .lOKKS
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John Hahti.inn
m O. M. Dunn
Representatives
The Populists of North Dakota refused
to fuse with the Democrats.
The landlords of Loudon, England,
draw from the workers of that city f 80,
000,000 annually.
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It w ill be a dreadful calamity, to the
plundering railroads and the political
parasites, to have the Populists elected
to power. Great Satan, save us!
The rump Democratic convention tick
et has been thrown out by the Secretary
of State and the goldbug Democrats can
not now cover their planned secret de
sertion to the Majors led party they have
always professed to oppose on principle.
The railroads secured the nomination
of Majors and Moore chiefly to prevent
the parage of another maximum rate
bill. That . is what the State Jour
nal and Tool Manderson have in mind
when they say: "The election of Judge
Holcomb would be a calamity from which
it would take years to recover."
Wk hear report of great meetings in
the Sixth, addressed by Congressman
Kem and others. Kern is going to be re
elected by the largest majority given any
congressional candidate in the state. He
was a big enough man to down Dorsey
and wipe out an enormous majority in
the old Third district and his training
and education in thecongressional arena
have greatly increased his ability as a
speaker and debater.
Tut: Populists are- taking Chicago by
storm. Their mas meetings every Sato$- j
day evening eail out, more people than i
can erowd into the hull. Ex-Senator Ly- I
man Trumbnlt spoke last Saturday even
ing aud fully a thousand people were un
able to gain admittance to Central Music
hall." The Populist party in Illinois is
goiug to show great growth, and it was
to be expected with ench leaders a Henry
D. Lloyd. The railroad strike also broke
tens of thousands loose from the old
parties, and the. center of the cyclone
forces.
Bcd Lindsay, the boss saloon keeper of
Lincoln, mounted on a charger, helped
swell the Republicau procession last Fri
day. We also notiued an ex-convict on
another horse. Majors would himself
have been in the convict tail end of the
procession instead of at the head if the I
recommendation of the congressional
committee headed by the Hon.
Tom Reed of Maine, the committee
which proved that Majors and his accom
plices had been guilty of forgery and per
jury, had been acted on by . the officers
whose duty it was to indict and pros
cute him. "
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HknSQ LIES ITS REFUGE.
The Republicans last week improved
the i occasion of Governor McKinley's
presence, the greatest roan in the Repub
lican party, to gathercrowds and import
bands and work up a generat procession
and demonstration. We have seen such
before, but never a procession so lacking
in enthusiasm and that called forth so
little from the on-looking crowd. The
papers report that the B. & M. trains
brought in fifty carloads from all points
of the compass to see McKinley. The
bands were brought in on passes furnish
ed them, and, we are informed, free pass
es were furnished by the railroads to al
most any good Republican who wanted
to swell the demonstration. To others
the rates were cut to less than a one-third
rate. ' As a result thousands of people,
many of them not Republicans, improved
the occasion and came to Lincoln, and of
course added to the crowd which Lincoln
and Lancastercounty were able to furnish
The B. & M. brought its Havelock work
men in because of its political interest in
the success of its ticket, Majors, Moore,
etc. A supreme effort was made to or
ganize a grand procession, lots of boys,
and girls being gathered into it, and Bud
Lindsey and his gang, as well as any one
and every one who could be induced, J
pressed and hired to tramp after the
band wagon.
A reliable friend of the writer counted
bose who seemed to be voters, not in
ducing the hired bauds, and found there
were all told some over 1400 (less than
1500) voters in line. They were not a
fine looking body of citizens. The best
people were conspicuously absent Here
is one of the mottoes they flaunted. We
will gi ve it the benefit of a border:
; "Elect Holcomb and Angels will :
j Weep and Swear;
: Elect Majors and They :
Will Ratify np There." :
So low has the party once ruled by
right principles and moral ideas, fallen.
Its candidate for the highest office a
forger, a perjurer, a criminal at large,
chosen by the railroads for his lack of
principle to serve them in defeating any
legislation in the interest of the people,
is a man who at Grand Island appealed
to the old soldiers to elect him, and
illustrated the urgency of the need by
telling a story which was rank blasphemy,
a story similar to but far worse than the
above motto. The party of great mora'
ideas no longer has any ideas, morals or
greatness. Its tariff talk is a hundred
years old. It upholds monarchy (mono
polies) in onr midst. Its orators and
press lie devilishly in charging the pre
sent industrial stagnation and commer
cial paralysis to the rascals in office
alone. It knows perfectly well, or ought
to, that periodic depressions in the com
mercial world are regularly produced by
the monopolies both it and the Demo
cratic party are upholding, and that a
McKinley tariff offers no relief from their
visitations.
McKinley assumed that the 1893 and
'94 panic aad stoppage of work was
caused by the Itoinocratic Congress
squinting crosswise at the tariff law. But
it is capable of demonstration that the
panic wu caused by a contraction of
credits and that the contraction of credits
was necessitated largely by under con
sumption, caused by inequitable wages
and monopoly prices and rents, which
drew the money which corresponded with
and was inseparably related to the goods
in the markets into the bands of a
millionaire class wbo could use no more
goods than they were using. The con
traction of credits and enforced idleness
and distress came on schedule time, and
if the Republican party had been in power
it wonld have reached us the same year.
McKinley's whole shrewd speech was
based on the assumption that all
the poverty, enforced idleness and
suffering of the last eighteen months
are chargeable to the Democrats.
It is in part justly chargeable
to them, because the Democrats
whether in majority or minority have
made themselves strong with the corpo
rations, the banks, railroads and big
trusts. But the sin lies even more of it
at the door ' of the Republican party.
The argument, if argument it can be
called, which the greatest Republican in
the land made in Lincoln, was all based
on a lie, and with the lie must fall.
. The Populist party is the only party
that can bring to the people of this na
tion permanent good times. Because it
provides for the nationalization of mono
polies. It is the only party which stands
practically for the eternal principles and
inalienable individual rights upon which
this government was founded. It is the
only honest, progressive party. It is the
only party which cares for aud belongs to
the common people. Get into it quick
and pull bard against the stream, or all
liberty will be lost. The struggle is on
between the combined monopolists and
the poor and oppressed masses.
LAND BIGHTS OF ALL MEN-
' The New lork state constitutional
convention has just completed its work
and submitted its proposed new consti
tution to the people, who are to vote on
accepting or rejecting it in the November
election. Some sections of certain arti
cles which we find in it we think will be of
interest to our readers. Section 10, of
article 1 , reads as follows:
Section 10. The people of this State,
in their right of sovereignty are deemed
to possess the original and ultimate
property in and to all lands within the
jurisdiction of the State; and all lands the
title to which shall fail, from a defect of
heirs, shall revert or escheat to the peo
ple. The recognition of the prior, superior
and inextinguishable right of all the
people of the state to all lands within its
borders, furnishes the foundation for any
legislation deemed in the common inter
est which shall convert to public holdings
and use any or all lands now in posses
sion of private parties, The title does
not heed to fail, even, for the superior
right of sovereignty permits lands in pri
vate use to be condemned and taken for
public use, as in the case of railroads
canals, streets, etc., and there is nothing
inlaw or justice to prevent coal lands
and , mines, oil wells, railroads, street
railways, telegraph and telephone lines,
tenement districts, or even farm lands,
being taken and used by the public for
the public good. But section 12 goes on
to say:
Section 12. All lands within this State
are declared to be allodial, so that, sub
ject only to the liability to escheat, the
entire and absolute property is vested in
the owners, according to the nature of
their respective estates.
Here is a practical contradiction and
limitation. If, with the one exception of
failure of landed property holders to
leave heirs to possess after them, the
lands are their "entire absolute proper
ty," the right of eminent domain does
not also exist, under which alleged right
states now even allow chartered corpora
tions t6 forcibly secure possession of
lands whose titles are in private hands.
But the statement in section ten above
quoted must stand. 'The people of the
state in their right of sovereignty are
deemed to possess no iv the original and
ultimate property in and to all lands,'
otherwise no railroads could be built, no
canals or irrigating ditches dug, no new
wagon roads could be laid out. But il
the original title to the lands is in the
whole number of uitizeus of thestateeach
citizen and child born in the state has an
equal right to the land, a right which
cannot be alienated. The first title to
the land is not a title by purchase, but
a title acquired by and which would
therefore in justice be limited to, use only.
There is no ground for land titles except
that of use. The first titles given by all
the people in their sovereign capacity to
private individuals should have been use
titles only, under which all lands not
kept in use by the parties obtaining them
would revert, or escheat, to the people,
the State. The State bad no right to
give wore land value to one citizen than
to another. It had no right to give titles
in fee simple, conveying an "entire and
absolute property" to certain individuals
of one generation, which belong equally
and inalienably, in the matter of free
right to use,' to all individuals of all
generations. The fee simple titles, how
ever, have made possible the gathering
np of birthrights and the monopolizing
of land and mines until the ever-increas
ing burden of land rent is a far heavier
labor load today than were the oppres
sions of feudalism. ,
There was not originally any injustice
thought of in granting titles in fee simple
t
to settlers upon state or government
lands and no injustice would have re
sulted if all families had been provided
for and the land of each family could
hove been retained by that family and
its heirs, and if there had arisen no ne
cessity of building on and near agricultu
ral lands cities, transportation centers
and manufacturing towns; and if com
mon stores of oil and coal and mineral
wealth bad not been found under its sur
face. But absolute titles were given, and
all the blessings of freedom and independ
ence, or equality before the law, have
been, with the buying and selling of the
land, lost, as Esau lost his birthright. '
It matters not to the worker in city or
country whether he is compelled to pay
equal labor tribute as rent to a landlord,
or whether as freeholder he pays it to
such a king as George Third or Charles
Second, or, as a serf, to some feudal bar
on. It matters not to the victims of the
sweaters, and other myriads, about
equally oppressed by land rents and cap
ital exactions, that chattel slavery is
abolished. They are even worse off than
were the black slaves on the southern
plantations. And the ballot is of no
practical use or value to us if we do not
use it to restore to ns all onr equal natu
ral rights to land and the equal legisla
tion benefits which a government owes
to its citizens.
The land question enters into and be
comes a part of all other economic ques
tions. All wealth producers in the coun
try are being forced, by a reduction in
the price of their products, to help pay
the rent bills of the workers in the cities.
Over half the people are now landless
tenants, and most of the other half are
paying rent indirectly.
We have not free land, but ,.
"Free land Is not enough. In earliest days
JVhen man, the babe, from oat the earth's bare
breast .
Drew tor himself his simple sustenance.
Then freedom and his effort was enough.
The world to which a man Is born today
Is a constructed, human, man-built world.
As the first savage needed the free wood.
We need the road, the ship, the bridge, the
house.
The government, society and church
These are the basis pf oar life today -As
much necessities to modern man
As was the forest to his ancestor.
To say to the newborn, 'Take here your land:
In primal freedom settle where ye will.
And work your own salvation In the world,'
Is but to put the last come upon earth
Back with (he dim forerunners of his race.
To climb the race's stairway In one Ufel '
Allied society owes to the young
The new men come to carry on the world
Account for all the past, the deeds, the keys,
Fall access to the riches ot the earth.
Why? That these new ones may not be com
pelled Each for himself to do onr work again;
But reach their manhood even with today.
And gain tomorrow sooner. To go on
To start from where we are to go ahead
That Is true progress, true humanity."
CUE EISPEOrS 10 THE GANG.
Gov. McKinley is reckoned the great
est man in the Repnblican party, and it
cannot be pleaded that he lacks faculty
and opportunity to inform himself. But
he attributes all good, all exchange
activities, to the Republican, tariff, aud
all national evils, like the ' present com
mercial paralysis, to the Democratic
tariff. Therefore he is the greatest fraud,
hypocrite and deceiver outside of the
Democratic party.
McKinley knows that the railroads are
not affected by tariff legislation, that
foreign railroads do not compete with
ours. , And he knows that tariff legisla
tion will give us no relief from the trans
portation monopolists who now rob all
producers. He knows perfectly well that
the great stockyards and packing house
monopolists are in no way related to the
tariff, and that every farmer who sells
cattle and hogs, and every consumer who
buys meat, lard and leather, is forced to
pay a heavy tribute to the packing
house millionaires. He knows that every
family in the land pays monopoly reve
nue to the millionaires of the Standard
Oil company, one member of which has
in twenty-five years amassed from the
plunder of American workers (by con
spiring with the railroads to crush out
all competitors) about $200,000,000.
He knows perfectly well that the tariff
has never had and never will have any
effect on the price of anthracite coal,
that while prices of unmouopolized pro
ducts and labor have been falling, the
price of hard coal has even 6een raised,
and that every family in the land must
pay the coal barons tribute lor the com
iorts of the home fireside. He knows all
about the Cotton Seed Oil trust and the
twine trust and the barbed wire trust,
the lead trust, the milliug trust and
scores of other great monopolies not
affected by the tariff, which all together
are robbing us poor by means of powers
and privileges conferred on them by the
Republican aud Democratic parties. He
knows all this, we say, yet continues bis
efforts to fool the people longer with
nothing but tariff talk, while the gang of
plunderers go on taking from us our
money needed to buy back whac we all
together produce, our property in land,
too, which our liberties rest on.
The political leaders of both the old
parties are the tools of the monster
monopolists!. They are together de
termined we shall have no progressive
auti-monopoly legislation. Tbey com
bine withthe capitalists to defame our
party and prevent it. They are the worst
hypocrites that have ever cursed the
world. Here in Nebraska, where the
people are rising to throw both from
power, they are conspiring with the rail
roads and are seeking to coerce and
frighten the people who are in debt into
voting, again the ticket which will serve
the railroads, the banks, the spoils-hunting
politicians and the eastern Sbyiocks.
The tariff, the tariff, the tariff, "and all
on account of the tariff!" '
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the damnation of hell? "
TO REPUBLICANS AUD DEMOCRATS.
We get so tired of the hypocritical tariff
talk that we can hardly endure the hun
dred year old inconclusive arguments of
the office seeking demagogues. (Pro
gressive reciprocity is the policy which
the intelligent and wise know to be just
and best.) But we cannotforbear point
ing out McKiuley's fallacy.
In the first place the commercial para
lysis and industrial stagnation of the
past year and a half were caused not by
proposed tariff legislation, but by mono
poly tribute, which drew from the people
their money and left them without the
means to empty the markets. Lowering
the tariff, as the Democrats have, will hot
help the matter perceptibly, because they
have taken care not to narm those
monopolies which the tariff defends, and
it is a fact that the principal monopolies
are unaffected by the tariff whether it be
high or low. Nor would they be (the
railroads, for instance) if we had free
trade. The great error that McKinley
gets the nndiscriminatiug to believe, is
the assertion that buying more foreign
goods necessarily lessens our power to
buy American goods. If we buy more
foreign goods, those whom we buy of
will be able to purchase more American
goods. The McKinley idea would prevent
mutually advantageous exchanges. It
is the foolish stupid policy of China.
But the Democrats are no less hypocri
tical or blind, for the only "robber trusts"
and monopolies they rave about are the
unnamed, unlocated, uncertain ones
which they claim are the offspring of the
tariff.
The Populist party, on the contrary,
are in the arena to actually fight and
knock out monopolies, all monopolies,
and will thus do away with the monopoly
produced panics and periods of commer
cial paralysis. When there areno mono
polies teft the people who produce the
wealth will be able to exchange it for its
money or labor equivalents, and the
American surplus exchanged yearly in
the markets of the world for a foreign
surplus will be not an evil to fear, but a
mutual, world-wide advantage to desire
and to gain. Our natural resources, per
fected machinery and skilled labor wiH
make us amply able to compete in prices
with all other countries whose produc
tions are like ours. We have nothing to
fear from inferior races or half starved
weakened European laborers, except as
we allow capitalists and landlords to put
on the sweating screws and reduce wages,
below the wages of other countries. Pro
tective (?) tariffs do not secure high wages
but high wages constitute protection
and makes a home market. Free trade,
so-called, is not free trade so long as
monopolists dictate rent, wages, and
prices. But overthrow all the mono
polies and we can then for the first time
have free trade and equitable exchanges.
Monopolies destroy the home market by
forcing from the workers part of the
money or wages needed to empty the
market, or to keep the demand for goods
equal to the supply, and" prices steady.
To wall us in with the American mono
polists will not free us from their greedy
merciless decrees. To throw down the
wall in wholo or in part will not enable
us to find other nations who can buy
more than they sell. (We must except
those who draw usury tribute.) There
fore lowering the tariff will not increase
work or raise wages.
The one thing that introduces disorder
into the commercial world and brings it
to a standstill every ten years or so, is
the greed and power of those who have
monopolized the earth, the necessary
capital to produce wealth, and the means
of transportation and exchange. There
fore we claim that the Populist party
principles and demands must be adopted
by this nation and the nations of the
world. That nation and every nation
which will not adopt them will go down
in blood, sooner or later.
The assumption on the part of the
"Republican leaders that they alone are
honest and fit to legislate and conduct
the official business of the state is the
basis of their appeal to the people to give
tbem the offices. All tho laws which have
beeu enacted in the interest of the people
in the last four years have been originat
ed and passed by the Populists iu the
face of a majority of Republicans oppos
ing them. The Democrat, Boyd, vetoed
the first maximum freight bill. The Re
publican state board of transportation
has allowed the second freight bill to be
trampled under foot by the railroads,
and permitted it, a state matter, to be
lugged into a United States court and
kept it there hung up in the interest of
the railroads. The impeachment proceed
ings instituted by the last legislature re
vealed also a gang of Republican thieves
in office who escaped punishmentby hav
ing too many friends at court.' The help
which the B; & M. railroad is giving the
Republican ticket, and its well-known
pass assistance and controlling voice in
the state convention, also shows that
the Republican candidates do not stand
for the people's interests, but for the
railroads.
Ten cents for the campaign. Only te
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voters and order The Wealth Makkbc
sent hem till election.
ENLIST IS TRUTH'S ARMY.
Whether we go backward to anarchy
anil hnrlinriam or forward tn liberty, -v. 1
equality and fraternity, depends on the
conflict now raging between liars and
truth-tellers. The liars are intrenched in
power, the power of the legislation which
has built up monopolies; and in the lying
business they have at command all the
modern improvements and machinery to
multiply falsehoods, delusions and mis- ,
conceptions. The struggle is between the
rich and poor, bet ween the great corpora
tions and the people. The corporations
own the daily papers and hire the smooth
est, most plausible and canning intellects
to edit them. Formerly a lie had to be ,
passed from mouth to mouth to do its
devilish work. Now the most skillful
mixers of truth and falsehood are em
ployed at high salaries to mold and
manipulate legislation, serve in the .
courts and edit the great dailies, and
the dailies accomplish more in the deceiv
ing business than any and every other
agency. A well-constructed plausible lie,
which has in it some necessary truth or
half truth and takes advantage of the
traditional ideas, prejudices and miscon
ceptions of men, can now be originated,
polished in its diction, perfected in its
rhetoric, printed, and so multiplied a
hundred thousand times, and placed in
as many hands and bomes.all in one day.
Let us suppose there are 500 daily papers
in this country with an average daily
circulation of 40,000 each and that eacb
paper contains several plausible, import
ant lies or misrepresentations. On this -supposition
20,000,000 people would be
reached and mentally twisted each day,
including Sundays.
To counteract this most artful ever'
where diffused influence, which with the
prejudiced and ignorant is all-controlling,
the forces of progress are arrayed. We
are poor in purse. Lack of capital makes
it impossible for ns to multiply the truth
as lies are multiplied. We have only a
weekly press to give light, and the oil
runs low in these weekly lamps because it
needs so much self denial on the part ot
many to support the reform press. But
we have this to encourage us: truth can
not be destroyed. In spite of all lying,
what ought to be is becoming more and
more apparent, and when the majority
know what ought to be they will demand
that it shall be. We gain in the struggle
with evil just as fast as we are able to
unveil justice to the conception of the
majority. We may also gain good as
individuals by obedience to the law of
love, by massing our means, wisdom and
energies for the equal benefit of each and
all.
But let us not forget that the progress'
of the world is accelerated and retarded
by individual effort or lack of effort. If
you can give a dollar to send The
Wealth Makers to a neighbor vho
otherwise will remain uninformed and .
misdirected give it. It will be bread cast
upon the waters which will return, if not "
to yon to yonr children and children's
children. If you cannot give money none
are so poor that they cannot give good
words to advertise The Wealth Makers
and ask neighbors who can afford it to
subscribe. The pressure of monopolies is
increasing and to avert increasing, dread
ful suffering let every one do all be can to
spread the truth.
THE DIABOLISM OF POLITICS-
''Vote the ticket that is satisfactory to
ns, or we will cutoff your money supply."
This is the voice from the east, the rul
ing east, the State Journal and the
cuckoo country Republican press inform
ns. Vote for the railroad gang who will
oppose any effort to reduce the pressure
of monopoly, or we will draw all bor
rowed capital out of the state and by
ruining your patrons ruin the trade of
you business men, is the warning given
to retailers and others in our towns and
cities. Tremble, everybody, at our
kingly power and obey our behests at
the ballot box, or we will demand our
pound of flesh of every borrower and
bring loss to every citizen of Nebraska.
This is the substance of the thinly dis
guised threats, and this is the insolence
of the money power, or the spoils-seeking
party leaders who stand ready to serv
it.
Now let us look into the matter a little.
In the first place money that is not due
cauuot be withdrawn. What is due (or
other money to replace it) can be bor
rowed again if the security is still good.
So, fear not, poor mortgaged farmers.
They are always anxious to get an in
terest income and uever hoard their
money when good real estate security is
offered for loans. The Populists do not
propose repudiation, either, as Majors
did. They are honest men, and under
their economic rule the credit of the state
will be built up. Kansas under Populist
rule is in better financial condition thaa
Nebraska, Republican statements to the
contrary notwithstanding. Colorado i
better off, also, and nothing of the proph
esied "monumental disaster to the pro
gress and prosperity" of those states has
come to them. Under Populist rule in
both these states it has never been diffi
cult to borrow money on good real estate
security at rates of interest no higher
than the west has been accustomed to
pay. Nor has it been difficult to dispose
of Kansas and Colorado bonds to eastern
capitalists since Waite and Lewelling
have been in power.
This is all an un-American political
scheme to scare and coerce the voting
citizens of Nebraska, a scheme that in its
inception is so devilish and in its poorly
veiled utterance so Insolent, that it
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