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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1894)
G i .. - . December 27, 1894 THE WEALTK MAKERS WORKERS COOPERATE. Start Several Iron and Glass Plant i In the Pittsburg District Pittbuubo, Pa., Dec. 10. A fever o1 co-operation in manufacturing enter prises appears to have seized upon thii great labor center. Recently several glass and iron plants have been started on a co-operative basis. A co-operativi society, which had been successfully op erating a grocery store, is now engaged in building homes for its members. Co operation appears to be popular jusl now, notwithstanding the failure of the co-operative colony at ToDolobampo, Mexico, in which many Pittsburgers sui fered financial loss. The strikers from the Flaccus and other glass factories have organized a co-operative company with a capital stock of $50,000, and have purchased an idle factory at Ta rentum, which had been known to the trade as Factory C of the United States Glass company. The United States Glass company, singular to relate, has been engaged for a year and a half in ua at tempt to non-unionize all its factories in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. It could not secure enough men to run some of its factories, includ ing the Tarentum aud two Wheeling (W Va.) plants, and the purchase of the lat ter by the strikingemployes of the United States company has been seriously dis cussed. ' The Tarentum factory is a two-furnace plant with twenty-five-pot capacity and the product is tableware. The plant was partially destroyed by fire some tinif ago, and Tarentum business men sub scribed liberally to assist in the organiz ation of the co-operative company to put the plant in proper shape. Ex-employes of Tibby liros., at Sharpsburg, are building a twelve-pot flint prescrip tion glass factory at Wittmer Station, on the Pittsburg & Western railroad, which will be run on the co-operative plan. Glassworkers from Washington, Pa.., will establish a factory at Fairmont, W. Va. A co-operative glass factory at Six-Mile Run, on the Monongahela river, is in steady operation. A co-operative glass concern has been running at Roch ester, Pa., for nearly twenty years, antf several months ngo ironworkers leasee an idle mill at Hubbard, G, and started to run it in conjunction with the ownei and on the percentage plan. The Bellamy Co-operative association of BeHzhoover borough, this (Alleghany) county, as might be suspected by the title, has the backing of the few Populist leaders of this community. The corner stone of the first house built by the asso ciation was laid November 3. Speeches were made by Thomas L. Grundy and S.Duncan Kerns, the latter a millionaire and a candidate forCongresson the Pop ulist ticket at the late election, receiving a ridiculously small number of votes. The association is an outgrowth of Bellamy's book. Edward White was the organizer, and it is composed of fifteen "full" members. A co-operative grocery was started in Washington avenueand all goods are sold at 5 per cent above cost, Acommittee of three members constitute the management. Success with the store was followed by a decision to build houses. Mr. White agreed to take the society's certificates An exchange for a lot of ground at the corner of Sixth and Myrtle streets. John Beckert, who owns a stone quarry, joined the association and agreed to accept certificates for building stone. Two unemployed glass workers agreed to dig the cellar under the same conditions. All workmen are Eaid at the rate of 25 cents per hour, ollar contributions from non-workers count the same as four hours' labor. The building will be rented upon completion. The tenant will probably be a member of the association. .The occupant of the nouses will pay an amount sufhcient to cover the "fixed charges" (taxes, fire in surance, and repairs), also a compara tively small rental, when the rental amounts to the actual cost of construct ion the tenant gets a life lease on the property, but the deed for the property remains in the name of the association. One tenant will continue to pay the "fixed charges." There are a large num ber of associate members, but they are deprived of votes. It is said that Mr. White is ready to furnish the ground for a second house. The managers of the building enterprise are the six trustees of the association. Sinking Back to Barbarism. A prominent merchant in Central Georgia advertises, among other staple articles, "Women's full kip plow shoes, $1." Such a condition as this is the di rect result of Gormanism, Northernism, HokeSmithism and Clevelandism, per petuated by ballot box stuffing. Any American state in which women s plow shoes are a staple article is as far from frugal, honest and efficient government as the north from ths south pole. The people who would tolerate such a social coudition are as far from enlightened civilization, political intelligence, per sonal pride and Independent self-reliance as hades is from paradise. Yet this iH precisely what the Democratic bosses in Texas are striving to reduce the Texas people down to. Southern Mercury, Bow Et Wnz Dnn. Ah thair, sed the devvel Wun moruin en hel Things aint prugressin Sew awfulli wel Biznus iz dul An foks aint akummin Ez fast ez tha shud Tu keep things a hummifc He skip up tu erth An mesmerize men Ficks up ther bisness An kum bak agen Sew flippin lies tale With a grin on hes faea He puts arthli bizuuse Upon a gold base An now yu ken travvei Awl over the land Thers nuthin but morgages An notes uv hiind An hel iz chuk full Uv fat polytinhens Asizzlin and grizzlin Afillin ther mmhens An the devvel he blinks Az he stans ther agrinnin Tu think ets sew eesy Tu set foks sinnin Awl but jon shermun An snm fonneraf .Jfcrwar-w vv-iftl Jus lik a geraff An preeches the gjspul When he aint seliin mewl Er tokkm hors sens Intew gold bases fewls AN ODE TO THE BANKER. To b (ting ta the tone "Oh! I'll Meet Yon Ilere!" Tbere'e Just as much money as ever there was!' Where? In ths bunks. And jnst as much lying as ever there was. Where? In the banks. There's jnst as much wretchedness, Jnst as ranch sin, And Just as much poverty trying to win A place on this earth that they chance to be in. Where? In the ranks. There's Just as much "confidence" as ever there was. Where? In the banks. And Just as many mortitages held as ever there was. Where? In the banks. There's Just as much hunger, and jnst as much cold, And just as many homes now being sold ro enable these robbers to maintain their hold. Where? In the ranks. rhere's Just as many notes now being shaved. Where? In the banks. tnd Jnst as much gold now being saved! Where? ' In the banks. Out thsre Isn't as many who have homes of their own. ind it isn't the people who have money to loan; On the contrary, tbey have to take up with a bone. Where? In the ranks, A. Newdeal In the Real Issues. What We Would Do. A correspondent asks what the People's party would do for the cocntry If given a chance, and wants a condensed state ment of the results to be gained. It would establish government banks and a national system of currency to be loaned directly to the people on approved security instead of the banks as at pres ent, and the profits would go to pay the expenses of gtvernment instead of to the enrichment of a few bankers. It would thus break the money monopoly and re store business prosperity. It would nationalize the railroads and thus save the millions of dollars to the people that now go the to railroad kings, and it would thus reduce expenses of transportation, secure equal privileges to all shippers and passengers, prevent all strikes, remove the most corrupt cor rupter of good government, and pro mote general prosperity. It would prevent alien ownership of American soil, thus reserving America for American citizens and not permitting a system of foreign landlordism in our country. It would also restore all lands held by railroads and other corpora tions, in excess of what is in actual use, for settlement by the peopie. It would protect society against all panics, depreciation of labor values, and establish the brotherhood of man by providing work for all unable to employ themselves at good, remunerative wages, thus making liberty a reality and pros perity certain to all who would work. It would thus abolish the sweat shop and strikes arid prevent the reductiou of wages below what would afford a good, secure, comfortable existence. It would thus establish practical Christianity and realize the intent of the American repub lic as indicated by the preamble to tha constitution. It would thus abolish tramps and most of the vice and crime now caused by poverty. It would nationalize all natural mo nopolies and thus prevent the few from levying tribute at will upon the many, thus abolishing the millionaires and in suring the prosperity of the many. It would municipalize all public utili ties in order to secure the citizens from the extortion of corporations. It would establish a pure democracy in government by the introduction of the principles of initiative, imperative mandate and referendum, thus abolish ing the possibility of corrupt lugislatiou against the people. It would restore to society what has been unjustly taken from it by establish ing a graduated tax upon property and incomes and protect the government and the people from the dangerous concen tration of wealth. It would placehumanity above dollars in the industrial and social system by established a right system of sanitary inspection of all workshops, mines, etc., and would recognize the paramount value of human life by placing proper re sponsibility upon employers for the safe ty of employes. It would regulate production by prop erly reducing the hours of labor to con form to the demands of society. In short, the People's party would re store the natural rightsof humanity and protect the members of society from the vicious defects of our present industrial system by recognizing the natural equal rights of all mankind to the earth and its resources and their logical social equality as brothers of the race. At the same time it would not destroy the indi viduality of the people by the introduc tion of communism but would require each to rely upon self after having given each an equal chance and equal protec tion. Vote the People's ticket if you want to correct the evils that exist under our present system. Labor Advocate. , . Notice our cheap 'clubbing rates with "The Prairie Farmer" and ."The Picture Magazine." Send in your subscriptions. Tou will want good reading matter for the family during the long winter even ings. WALTER BAKER & GO. The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES On this Continent, hare received HIGHEST AWARDS from the gnat Industrial and Food EXPOSITIONS In Europe and America. TTnllkt tha Dntch ProeMa. no AUta- ntad In any of their yr.pSiTftiT'.iIT' Their deUetoui BREAKFAST COCOA la abaolutelr pojaaad aolubia, and cotu Urn tkm mm cent a cnjp. OLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE, WALTER BAKER 4CO0RCHE8TER, MASS. ill PRIVATE BILLS BLOCKED. IIa English ProvanU Much Action Tha Currency Debate Renamed. Washixgton, Dec 23. At least twenty members crowded into tha area in front of the speaker's rostrum to-day in an effort to secure the pas sage by congress of bills of local im portance, but Mr. English of New Jersey, who has inaugurated a war of retaliation against unanimous con sent legislation until a measure of his should be passed, was on guard and obdurate. He relented in two in- tances, however, allowing a senate bill and a joint resolution offered by Mr. Livingstone of Georiria to go through, providing for the entrance of foreign exhibits to the cotton states international exposition to be held at AlNnta next year. Of the latter, Mr. Wilson, of Wash ington said: "This bill, I understand, involves the admission of contract la bor. I want to remind the gentle man that but a short time ago the country was in a furore over the ad mission of a single coachman. Does this bill provide for the admission of an English coachman?" "It does not," replied Mr. Livings ton, amid laughter. Mr. De Armond of Missouri, ob jected to a bill offered by Mr. Coombs of New York, granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of the late Major General Abner Dubleday. Mr. English finally demanded the regular order and the joint resolution providing for a holiday recess from to-morrow to Thursday, January 3, was adopted. The house then, on Mr. Springer's motion, went into committee of the whole, for the further consideration of the. currency bill, and Mr. Pendle ton of West Virginia was recognized by the chairman, but before he could proceed Mr. Johnson of Indiana arose for the purpose, as he stated, of pro pounding an inquiry to the chairman of the banking committee, (Mr. Springer). "I understand," said he, "that at a meeting of the Democratic members of the banking committee last night it was decided lo offer a substitute to the pending measure and that consent of the secretary of the treasury was obtained. Is my in formation correct? If so, I suggest that the substitute be now offered in order that we can proceed intelli gently." "Sometime during the afternoon," replied Mr. Springer, "I will say it is my intention to introduce a substitute lor the pending bilL" Mr. Springer, however, denied C"iat the "consent" of the secretary ot the treasury Had been asked or obtained. The Democratic members of the com mittee, he declared, were responsible for the substitute. Mr. Pendleton inveighed against the disposition manifested on the Re publican side to oppose anything in the shape of financial legislation pro posed from the Democratic side and appealed to his party opponents to patriotically join in perfecting a measure that would relieve the treasury and inure to the welfare of the country. He declared, with an emphasis that provoked a howl of de rision from the Republican side, that at this time the Republican party "stood bv, supinely flat upon ' its back,"' while the Democratic party was trying to save the country. Mr. Russell of Connecticut followed Mr. Pendleton with an argument in opposition to a measure which pro posed, he said, to destroy a national banking system that had stood the testVf thirty years. COLORADO SILVER LEAGUE. Words Non-J' artisan" Stricken From the By-Laws of the Organisation. Denver, CoL, Dec. 22. There was a large attendance of representative men at the convention of the Colorado State Silver league yesterday. After a hot discussion the following resolu tion was adopted, with only two dis senting votes: That the word non-partisan be stricken from the constitution and by-laws wherever it appears, and that the members of the Colorado Silver league refuse to affiliate or work with any political party which does not nationally declare unequivocally in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 18 to L Ed R. Holden wanted the conven tion to indorse the People's party.but this it refused to da C S. Thomas, Democratic national committeeman for Colorado in . a speech, said: "If, when the next presidential nominations are made, the men now backing Cleveland and sanctioning every move that is made by Carlisle in regard to tne financial question, come to the support of the party which elected Mr. Cleveland, that party will meet political death and will sink into oblivion, and if, on the other hand, that same element, Wall street, shall be the sponser for the Republican nominees, that party, too, will meet the same deserving fate." BATTLESHIPS EFFECTIVE. Good Reports of the Heavy Chinese Ves sels In the Talu i:lver Fight. Washington, Dec. 22. The Chinese mail which has just arrived at the navy department contained the first reports from its intelligence officers at the seat of war touching the naval engagerjnt off the mouth of Yalu river October 30. In substance they show that the heavily armored Chi nese vessels were practically unin jured by the Japanese fire, and as this fact tends strongly to bear out the ar guments in favor of the battleship as against the cruiser as set out in the report of the secretary of the navy to congress without doubt the reports will be exhibited to the house naval committee in connection with the pending proposition for the construe tion of three more battleships. A Minister In Jail. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 22. Rev. Ebenezer Todd, a married man, and pastor of the Friendship Baptist church of this city, was arrested yes terday charged with criminal assault Deiia Coffey, the plaintiff, a girl of 16, is a member of Todd's church, and charges that Todd committed a crim inal assault on her several months LSgQt- and j that his threats have kept ner suem until now, wnen ner condi tion renders further concealment im possible. Todd was unable ta secure bondsmen and has gone to jaiL PRAISE, ONLY, FROM ALL WHO USB AYER'S Inlair Vigor "Ayer's preparations are too o well known to need any commen- j dation from me ; but I feel com- 2! pelled to state, for the benefit of o others, that six years .ago, I lost nearly half of my hair, and what was left turned crrav. Alter 2 using Ayer's Hair Vigor several o months, my hair began to grow I again, and with the natural color g restored. I recommend it to all o my friends." Mrs. E. Frank- o hauseb, box 305, Station C, Los Angeles, Vdl. t Ayer's Hair Vigor O PREPARED BY lurs nn inuirn ssieo O! un, I, II. Hitn b w.i kunkbk, mnuu. qi 000O000O0000O00OOj THE MOTION SECONDED. Oall a Conference and Form aGi . gantlo Farmer' Trust. Editor Wealth Makers: I heartily concur with Mr. G. E. Bent ey's article in The Wealth MakehsoT Oec. 13th, relative to forming a Farmers' irust. . Let us have it by all means and nave it organized soon. I believe it to be our bounden duty as armers to fight the devil with his own jvea pon cooperation, 1. e., Trusts. Every other business interest under the sun, aearly, is now organized as a trust; rherefore, let us last, though not least, organize a FARMERS' TRUST for all there is in it. fio hall way measures, either; but uncompromising, unrelent 'ng, all-pervading co-operation with no !n np until all the farmers in the United States are fully, firmly uiid eternally or ganized into such a gigantic TRUST as th world has never seen. I would suggest that the satanic prin ciple of greed, so prominent in other monopolies, tie luny ana lorever elimin ated from the farmers' trust; let us, in stead, recognize the. principle of the "brotherhood of man" live and let live. I particularly like Brother Bentley's plan of so arranging that we could deal directly with the consumer, and especial ly with the laboring classes. We have no need of middlemen, either to sell our produce for us or to furnish us goods. Kiirhtlv organized, we can attend to all bat business ourselves and save the middleman's profits. Co-operation is the golden key which all wealth makers should procure and use in order tnai tne profits of their own labor may accrue to themselves, and not to monopolists who liave. ud to date, formed themselves into grent trusts that they might skin us alive and then cuss us because we do not yield them a larger income. Let the Fanners' Conference be called at the state canital. and every county and township, if possible, be represented. No narm can come of it, but much good if wiselv directed. J. k. oPENCEB, Beemer, Neb., Dec. 18, 1884. Second the Motion. Editor Wealth Makers: I noticed ,aa article in The Wealth Makers of December 13th, headed "A Farmers' Trust," by G. E. Bentley of Be atrice. The article is very good as far us it goes, but he suggests no plan. I will give an outline of my ideas. Suppose all farmers who ship to Chicago would form a combination with headquarters at Chicago, with a competent board to hnnHla their nroduots bv taxing each farmer from SI to 5 to build storage room, with a fixed price on all grain at Chicago. Let the larmers ioaa ana snip tlmir nwn crain. One-half thev now DaV to the middle man will pay the running . . I . I . f . .L expenses of tne comDine; aiso ine that, shin to Kansas Citv. St. Louis, Minneapolis and other points do the same. I merely give you an outline, w it. utrilcpn von favorablv fill in and publish. If not consign it to the waste- basket. As all other business interests are con i fnll hv nrcrn nidations. Whv not farm W8 organize? At least I see no way out of it unless they come to some under standing for self-protection. I havegiven up the idea of it being done through the ballot. The late ot tne .-ewoerry Din that was passed is sutncient to convince me. Very respectmiiy yors, D. Boughner. Clarks, Neb., Dec. 18., 1894. rrenchand German scientific farm' ers are experimenting in "vaccinat ing" land. A plant bearing a small animal which absorbs and restores nitrogen to the land has been discov ered, and this they sow on their fields. Tailor Married or unmarried? Customer Married. Tailor, to cutter: One pocket concealed in lining of vest Customer: Eh, what's that? Tailor, explaining To hide your change, you know at night I'm mar ried myself. Irrigated Farm Lands IN THIS FERTILE SAH LDIS VALLEY, COLORADO. THHE SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO, is a stretch of level plain about as large as the State of Connecticut, lying between surrounding ranges of lofty mountains and watered by the Rio Grande River and a score or more of email 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 hasdred thousand acres of lands made available for farming operations. Irrigation is an insurance against failure of crops, because suc cess 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, bo important is the cer tainty of a full crop return to any agricultural state. The San Luis Valley will grow .r. ' -. '". ; 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 kever been surpassed BY amy 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 il 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 uiouey, 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 f 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 ths deferred payments. A Specially Low Homeseekers Rate will be made yon, your family and friends. Should you settle on these lands the amount you 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 perpetcel 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 earth. For further particulars, prices ol land, railroad fare, and all other information call on or address, F. Xj. (Mention this paper.) BB0WVELL BL00JL Msnigsr . J. W. Caitob. Pres. J. P, Boots, Vlce-PrM. o. L. Linos, Btaw Agent. The Fanners Matuat Insurance Company of Nebraska. The Largest, Best and Cheapest ' , in the IV Now in S Effect...! G Lotus Paid If or Promptly than Any Old Una Over' ' ' ' f ' tk Ann nnn Insurance if mull 1 gu Main ft, Tf iuu suu a vruauu, mm wuv vuw ww ww - m , iHetnufttit FnrnlihM Inmrano to tna Farmers at Actual Cost. All Losses - Paid In Fall and no debts standing against ths Company ' - Home Office: 245 So. 11th Si , PURELY s E H o u. 1 NEBRASKA MUTUAL FIRE, LIGHTNING ft CYCLONE INSURANCE COMPANY. Over half mllllom Insured. Have paid over 1500.00 In losses. Have had bat one assessment, 10c per 1100.00. J. Y. M. Bwioabt, secretary. Lincoln, Neb. y Agents wanted. this err ' represent on ol onrualvao liad Steel Tank a, a tank that will last lor a lifetime. "If not. why not?" Writ E. B. WINGER, tb Wind Mill Han. Chicago, lor enta, sIsm and price. The New Commonwealth. THE great People's party papa ol New York, aa organ of the Co-Opmtin mevenwnt of the United States, and Canada. Prloe.00 Cents PrYer. ample Ceplee Free Address, Kef Coimsoai ealtt, TKMaoeaSt. BaeoaxTevH.T. We want yon to notice every new "ad" in our columns. They are put there es pecially for your benefit. If our advertisers do not treat yon right let us know. We want no "fakes" in The Wealth Makers. Isn't there something in our "Three Cent Column" that will profit you? Cokjrado Land t Immigration Ct., . - LTJOOLI, IEB W. B. Linos, Bto'jr. A. OsBHAiiTBB, Troas. Farm Mutual Insurance Company State. Over $7,000 k on band. Thirty-two Losses & Paid in 1894 . . . Company Doing Bnainaaa. Inmrea against Fin LINCOLN, NEB. 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