THE WEALTH MAKERS.
January 24, 1895
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Suit baa been begun to test the consti
tutionality of the Income Tax law, by
Lewis II. Hyde, of Orange, N. J.
Ex-Senator Trumbull's bill .limiting
the power of the federal judges to auto
cratically punish for contempt, ought to
be pushed in congress.
"Ten Nights in a Barroom" was made
an effective story and play by T. 8.
Arthur. Ten days in a tenement coulo
be made as moving a presentation.
The Union Pacific Washington lobby
Is getting in its work, through sharp
attorneys, and the present congress will
probably allow the people's second mort
gage claim to be wiped out by foreclosure
of first mortgage.
Attorney-Qeeeral Olney is showing
bis friendship for the Trusts whenever he
can. His latent act is to find legal ground
to pay a customs rebate on , oil cake,
which will enrich the White Lead and
Linseed Oil Trust many thousands of
dollars a year.
General Field, writing to tha Farm
ers Tribune; shows that the one-idea
silver advocates cannot get together.
"No party could establish itself in Ameri
can politics npon a single issue to such
au extent as to obtain control of the na
tional government," he says.
The Farmers Tribune has introduced
at the head of its editorial columns iu big
black letters No Fusion. Good for
Editor Byron. He is evidently not under
the leading strings of General Weaver
whose fusion practices and one-idea
efforts when at the St. Louis conference
were an offense to the party.
The proposition to increase the beer
tax "has brought a very influential
lobby to the national capital," says the
Chicago Times. The discriminating duty
against German beet sugar and German
retaliation, shutting out American
meats, has also brought a sugar trust
lobby and a Chicago packers' lobby to
Washington. The people are not in it at
all. It is the big corporations and trusts
and members of the "third house' which
govern the country. There has been no
chance in twenty-five years to pass laws
for the poor, laws in the equal interest
of all. It takes money to pass laws.
Legislation goes to the highest bidder, aa ;
as a rale.
TEE CHILD OF O0MPETITI05.
The people who Relieve "competition
is the natural law n life, the need of lib
erty and the "life of trade" are, it seems
to ns, in view of the growth of voluntary
and involuntary cc-oieration, obliged
to admit a stronger force, a higher law
an economic necessity which is fast de
stroying competition. Individuals can
no longer contend with individuals. Cor
porations have seized upon the means of
Droduction and distribution, and to
save ourselves from being eaten np and
enslaved br them, organization must
match organization. So great and pow
erful are the corporations which monop
olize capital that vastly greater and
more powerful political and industrial
organizations than we now have, organ.
izations that include more of the work
ers and that unite all their interests in
the closest, firmest manner, are neces
sary. We must so organize, sinking our
differences and recognizing our equal
rights and duties, if we would live and
control our labor. The competition of
individuals and the need of great enter
prises first compelled the organization
of capital into corporations, aud to deal
with these gigautic corporations labor
bas been compelled to form itself into
unions and federations. But the power
of the corporations greatly overmatches
the power ot organized labor at the pres'
ent time.
Organized labor would be strong
enough to rule, to make the laws and
control 'the natural resources and the en
tire product of labor, were organization
perfect. Labor organizations are weak
because of the still prevalent spirit of
selfishness in them, and by reason ot
more or less ignorance of what the indi
vidual and common interest is and re
quires. Individualism and single-banded
competition cultivates selfishness, aud
an organization into which men enter
for selfish individual considerations
alone is like a rope of sand. Short-sight
ed self interest must be subordinated.
Look back over the history of laboi
organizations. They have one after au
other sprung ,up, spread themselves,
flourished more or less for a time, and
gone to pieces, disintegration and death
being the result of selfish strife over who
should be leaders, factional fights, local
and general, and the lack of the spirit ot
fraternal sacrifice when the times of
strain came, when self-interest needed to
be given up and great privation borne in
the conflict with capital. Organized la
bor should know its rights and vote aa
one mau to secure those rights. It has
never done so, hence it is placed greatly
at a disadvantage in its struggfe with
organized capital. Organization to be
permanent must be in recognized obedi
ence to the moral law, the law of love,
the law of brotherhood. It must not b
as now a question of. will it pay me per
sonally to go in or i ny out, or to stay in
or go out; bnt fraternal organization
with the object to help one another al
ways to bear all burdens and secure all
rights and organize all industries, or
ganization as recognized equals under
moral law which cannot be run away
from.
George W. Howard, vice-president of
the American Railway Union, now in
prison with Debs, Itogers and others by
dictation of Judge Woods, was at the
St. Louis Conference which we attended
last month, aud in an eloquent speech
upon the floor of the Conference he stated
that he was preparing to bring into ex
istence a new labor organization planned
to organize and federate all labor, illus
trated by the trunk, branches and twigs
of a tree. Such a tree of life can be or
ganized, but not by and of short-sighted,
eelf-centering individuals. It must grow
by assimilating, by degrees, by moral
principles, by the action of individuals
who voluntarily obey the law of social
liie and organization.
Competition has been swallowed by
its child, combination. Combination of
a part forces all men to combine, and
through the evolution of competing com
binations one non-competing, all-inclusive,
producing and distributing indus
trial organization must be brought
forth, when we shall have "peace on
earth."
OLNEY'8 ARBITRATION MEASURE
Congressman McGann of Illinois has
introduced a bill prepared by Attorney
General Olney providing for arbitration.
We have not seen the text of the bill, but
from telegraphic reports it stipulates
that wages paid employes shall be rea
sonable and just, and in case of contro.'
Versies the chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission -and thechnirman
of labor are to communicate with the
parties endeavoring to effect a settle
meat, and if this mediation fails the con
troversy may be submitted to a board
of arbitration which shall consist of the
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, who shall act as chairman
of the board, which shall have for other
members a commissioner chosen by the
employer and one by the iabor organiza
tion involved. The award shall be final
unless set aside for errors of law appar
ent on the record. Employes dissatisfied
with the award shall not quit work with
out three months notice in writing. The
award shall continue in force two years,
and during that time no new arbitration
shall be taken by the parties on the same
subject. It is provided that membership
in incorporated labor organizations shall
be terminated by indulgence in lawless
ness, violence, destruction of property,
intimidation or threats by members dur
ing strikes, but' they are not to be held
indvidually liable for debts of the organ
ization. On the other hand employer
who make it a condition of employment
that men Khali' not be members of organ
izations or threaten to discharge them
for such membership, or discriminate
against them because of it, or who enter
into contracts compelling the men to
contribute to any fund for charitable, so
cial or beneficial objects, or after dis
charge of men conspire to prevent them
from obtaining employment, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
a fine of from f COO to $ 1,000. Section
8 of the bill, which affirms "that arbitra
tion should be resorted to for the settle
ment of controversies between employers
and employes, General Olney says, "need
not be discussed. The only alternative
is industrial wars, aud they are illogical,
as brntal and as -wasteful as the wars by
which international disputes are often
accompanied."
A FOURTH PARTY WANTED
General Warner, president of the Ameri
can Bimetallic League, is out in an inter
view declaring that there is no hope for
bimetallism from either the Democratic.
Republican, or Populist party, and urg
ing that a new party be formed. We
have not been the interview reported, but
editorial mention is made of it in the
Chicago Times.
It was to be expected that those who
were behind the scheme to capture the
Populist conference at St. Louis, hoping
through an address of the leaders and
committee to practically get the party
away from the Omaha platform and on
to free silver alone, would, upon failure,
be disposed to organise a new, one-idea
party.
Bland, Byran, Warner and other poli
tical leaders of their sort, are men who
magnify the importance of free silver and
desire to make it the issue in the next
congressional and presidential campaign,
But the silver question as the basis of a
new party is powerless to attract any
considerable percentage of voters from
either the Republican. Democratic or
Populist party. Our St. Louis confer
ence and the utterance of a very strong
majority of the Populist papers -shows
that we are bound together firmly by
other questions embraced in the Omaha
platform, the railroad question, the gov
ernment banking or interest question,
and others. We are sincere in advocat
ing the free coinage of both silver and
gold. But the Warner-Bland-Bryan-Teller
class of silver advocates have re
fused to come to our platform. Are they
now convinced that they must cut loose
from the Democratic and Republican
parties? It is a recent change of mind, if
such is now their belief and determination,
but it is an encouraging proof of inde
pendence if they refuse to stay where
they are. A free silver fourth party
might do something to help break up or
reduce the strength of the old parties,
and the Populist party can gather then
even more easily the anti-monopoly ele
ments that have not yet broken away
from party bonds and promises.
It is well for us to know that the presi
dent of the Bimetallic League, and the
League itself, if he represents it, are no
longer friendly toward our party. It has
been taken for granted that they have
been friendly because of our unequivocal
declaration for the free coinage of silver;
ut it now appears that they have no
use for the Populist party since it has
been found impossible to make 'ua ovtr
Into a mere silver, one-idea party.
Only the people who come to us are
friends. AH others are our political ene
mies. A3 SEEN FROM CHICAGO
The Populist members of the Nebraska
legislature were guilty of a uross breach
of faith when they failed to vote for V.
J. Bryan, thefusion candidate for United
States senator. Mr. Bryan swung the
Democratic vote of Nebraska to the
support of the Populist candidate for
governor, wiiom he himself nominated
and who was elected. J he same conven
tion which nominated Holcomb for gov
ernor nominated Bryan for seuator, and
through the campaign Mr. Bryan fought
hard by the side of the Populist leader.
Now comes the Populist legislature and
repudiates their own party convention by
casting their votes for an obscure mem
ber of their own party, instead of for
Bryan. It is the grossest betrayal of
political faith, and, more than that, it is
an act of the densest political stupidity.
If the Populists of Nebraska are not to
be trusted to live up to their agreements
there can be no further essays on fusion.
This is exactly what the Republicans
want, for without fusion Republican
domination in that slate is assured.
Chicago Times.
Fusion neans confusion, and the Times
has both in bad form, iu its memory of
facts as well as in its accepted theories.
We have called our people's attention to
the national reputation which the Popu
list party in the state acquired in spite
of itself in the last campaign, and the
above in the editorial columns of the
eastern paper which kept a correspon
dent here and advised us most freely, the
one daily outside of the state which took
most pains to obtain Nebraska news,
ehowsplainlyenoughthat areform party
should avoid the endorsement of its
candidates by an old party when it can
do so.
As all Nebraska knows, the Times is
conveying an idea which is not true when
it gives its readers to understand that
Governor Holcomb was nominated by
Bryan at the Populist state convention,
and that the same Populist convention
nominated Bryan for senator. The Pop
ulist party in convention assembled did
not nominate Bryan, did not endorse
him, did not ask his assistance, did not
contract or deal with him in any way,
did not agree to do anything for him.
The Populists live up to all they promise
to do, but they have no political faith
with or in other parties, or other party
leaders.. Fusion, contracting with those
who are not Popu lists, is making mer
chandise of principle, is betrayal of tha
people's trust, is "the densest political
stupidity," if party principle is of any
value.
We shall be very well pleased if old
party leaders from this time forth leave
off trying to fuse with the Populists for
a division of the offices.
Mr. Bryan's influence and action
brought a fraction of the Democratic
voters to Holcomb's support, but it also
drove a larger Democratic vote to the
Republican candidates, and e) did not
result in what he no doubt really desired
it to. Parties cannot be traded off and
delivered at the ballot box as leaders
desire.
That "obscure member of their own
party" is a man of larger mental caliber
than Win. J. Bryan, and a- man w hose
intellectual reputation is nation-wide-He
has come within one vote of being
elected United States senator.
THE ASTUTENESS OF THUR8T0N
Mr. Thurston is a politician of Die
James G. Blaine sort; with very much
less ability of course; but undeniably
astute and skillful in playing upon tin
popular prejudices, and in "following
just a leetle ahead," as old Simon Cam
eron used to do. He is shrewd in his
seeming unfriendly attitude toward the
gold monopolists, and is careful at the
same time to favOr bank currency based
on government bonds, which of course i
a virtual pledge that he will help provide
the necessary bonds. He favors the I ree
coinage of American silver to hold the
silver men behind him, and by limiting
it to American silver draws a smile from
the gold bugs. He makes himself solid
also with the Republicans whose eyes an
about half open, by insisting on the re
demption of coin obligations iu eithei
gold or silver, and he even dares to suy
"We can better afford to have gold at o
premium than prosperity at adiscount.'
He is not in favor of retiring the green
backs and he declares himself in'favor ol
leading the world back to bimetallism
butis careful to say that "Legislation to
accomplish this would, however, be care
fully considered and wisely guarded."
On the Pacific roads question Mr.
Thurston indicates that the government
should give the stockholders an exten
sion of time with a promise to pay per
haps two per cent interest, aud allow
them to go on sapping and impoverish
ing the people of Nebraska to pay rates
that are based on an immense over val
uation represented by inflated capital
and enormous corresponding bonds.
On the labor question this great lover
of voters is in favor of nothing in par
ticular, beyond a political inquiry into
the condition of labor and the establish
ment of a board to collect statistics of
the requirements of wage earners. The
Republican senator doesn't know yet
what is the condition of the working
masses and what legislation they in just
ice should have, but he will try and find
find out if they do really need to be leg
islated for, as well as the wealthy classes.
YES, IT MUST DISAPPEAR
Chairman Wilson of the Ways and
Means committee, speaking of the trusts,
says: "Either they or the Democratic
party must rule in this country, and
either they or the Democratic party must
disappear from the countryl
Poor man! He seems to be still dream
ing, or trying to believe that the Demo
cratic party is the party of the people
and the enemy of the trusts. Tho Sugar
Trust and Whisky Trust and coal and
iron combinations had their way with it
in the last Congress. The President and
Secretary Carlisle are the pliant too's ol
the Bankers Association. Attorney-General
Olney declares that the anti-trust
law is unconstitutional and reiuses to
enforce it. Olney does not ask that the
law be changed and the party in Con
gress makes no effort to amend it, which
shows that it is not sincerely opposed to
the trusts nor the friend of the people.
Not more than a third of the trusts
which are plundering us of our products
and liberties are in any respect benefici
aries of or dependent on the tariff,
and it is therefore hypocrisy for the Dem
ocratic party to pose as the enemy of
trusts when it does not recognize this
fact and by legislation show enmity to
all oppressive combinations.
But Professor Wilson is in part right.
"The Democratic party must disappear
from the country," because the money
power, the railroads and the trusts are
represented in it, control its action, and
the rifling party of the people will, must,
sweep the tools of monopoly from power.
The Popufist party has been organized
uo overthrow monopoly power, the com
mercial dictators which the Republican
and Democratic parties have, by class
legislation, special privileges and char
ters which delegate sovereign powers,
placed over us.
The power of money to shield criminals
and condemn the innocent is exasperat
ing the people who suffer, and tempting
them to take punishment into their own
hands, as is evidenced by the , alarming
increase in the number of lynchings the
country over. But it is an awful thing
to take human life. The crime of the
murderers of Barrett Scott was delibera te,
oremeditated, and one crime is no excuse
lor another crime.
" AFTER MANY DAY3"
The people, of Nebraska are deeply
touched by the generous gifU of the peo
ple of the south and elsewhere who have
responded to the call of the destitute.
Three years ago Nebraska sent a train
load of corn to famine-stricken Russia.
Aud now her western frontier counties
are receiving that bread which tbey cast
upon the waters, The heartbeats of
humanity can still be counted. The doc
trine of human brotherhood was never
so clearly grasped or so widely felt,
If men only bad half an oppor
tunity to follow their generous im
pulses, if their own needs and
future were insured, tbey would, as a rule
delight to help all in need.
In the last few days the people of
Georgia have shipped twenty-one car
loads of provisions to the destitute
drouth-stricken poor of our state. Dr.
Klopsch of the Christian Herald is on his
way to Neb-iaska to distribute over $15,
000 of relief funds raised through bis
paper. And the governor of Arkansas
has telegraphed to Governor Holcomb
that Arkansas will vote a sum for the
relief of our people if they will receive it,
ine citizens of Nebraska who in our
frontier counties were facing the gaunt
wolf of hunger will take heart again, and
they will remember their unknown broth
ers who have sent them the evidences of
sympathy and love.
THE CONFERENCE REOOMMENDA
TIONS
The conference at St' Louis took action
regarding a campaign of education and
recommended:
First. That the People's party enter
at once upon club organization bv
townships, under the name of People's
party lyceum ciuds, lor the purpose oi
educating the voters in the principles oi
the People's partj
Saecond. lhat the work be put in the
Hands of the executive committee of the
Sstate Central committee of the People's
party, inis committee to appoint
three active men in each county to take
cnarge oi tne airect work.
inira. l be executive committee is to
secure or prepare literature, constitution
and bylaws lor the county clubs at
price which will meet ' expenses. They
shall have power to employ organizers
ana lecturers.
Fourth. Membership and work in the
clubs to be open to women.
Fifth. General rules for the guidance of
tne ciuds are to De made by the State
executive committees, but minor regula'
tions are to ne lett to the respective
clubs.
It is recommended, lastly and strenu
ously, that as the most valuable means
of education and promoting partv
growth, that the party throughout the
country mate a vigorous enort to in
crease the circulation of People's party
newspapers.
The Lancaster county central commit
tee at its meeting next Saturday, Jan.
26th, should discuss this plan and
arrange for its adoption in this county
as soon as possible.
The meeting will be held at the office
Chairman McNerney, 1034 0 St., at 1:30
p. m.
Jay Gould's estate has been appraised
to collect the inheritance tax which the
New York law imposes, and it sums up
180,934,580,79. This vast sum was
drawn into his hands in about thirty
years. In thirty years there are about
9,000 working days. Therefore Gould
gained on the average nearly $ 9,000 a
day. What do you call that, honest
money? It is the inevitable result of the
each-for-himself struggle. The laws hith
erto have been made to defend the indi
vidual pursuit and . acquirement of
money. But liberty to struggle with one
another iu buying and selling labor and
wealth and natural resources have led to
the pauperism of the masses and the
commercial enthronement of the million
aires. The laws hold the propertyless
class down, and the monopolists of the
earth and necessary capital in power.
The laws theoretically check the unjust
aud defend the weak; but practically
they restrain the liberties of the poor
and defend the unlicensed greed of the
rich. Gould was simply a grabber, a
schemer to get advantage of other men
and squeeze property out of them. He
did on a big scale what each man in the
market is trying to do. He got vastly
more wealth in his deals than he gave.
The man who gets five cents on the dol
lar more than he produces and gives, is
guilty of the same injustice that secured
Jay Gould his millions. Something for
nothing, more value for less value, the
law allows, and leaves each to look out
for himself in commercial relations.
Therefore the inequalities of rich and
poor go on increasing, and a steadily in
creasing number are being reduced to the
propertyless, dependent, enslaved condi
tion. According to the English statistician,
Giffin, in 1880 foreign capital to the
amount of $5,000,000,000 was invested
in the United States. On this money we
have been paying in interest and ex
change six per cent yearly, just as tribu
tary provinces pay yearly a stipulated
sum to their conquerers. This money
might have been provided by congress,
by an issue of greenbacks, loaned to the
people, and the entire foreign interest
tribute of $300,000,000 a year would
then have been saved, and, expended in
our market, would have given trade and
industry a mighty stimulus.
Anarchy is the necessary product ol
atheism. One God, one law.makes order
necessary and possible. Anarchy is the
selfish self-interest made supreme. Ordei
is the common interest recognized and
submitted to.
A New Story!
Next week the first chapter
of an intensely interesting
story will appear in The
Wealth Majcers.
Be sure your subscription is
paid up don't miss a copy
get up a club.
Ma. J. L. H. Knight sends us a call for
a conference at Broken Bow, February 5,
to organize a new party on the proposed
basis of the initiative and referendum,
government banks, election of the presi
dent by direct vote of the people and the
establishment of a complete system of
civil service reform. The demands
are all right, but all found in the Omaha
platform or recommended by the national
convention in 1892. It is therefore the
part of wisdom for the reform forces
(which Mr. Knight is anxious to bring
together) to come into the Populist
party. It is no small thing to do to
build up a party from nothing to the
present numbers and organized power of
the Populist party. It requires time and
immense outlay and the labor of tens
of thousands of self-denying people.
The PopuliBt party does not stand for
all the reforms that all the reformers de-'
sire, but it is the broadest and best party
that it has been possible to build up under
the circumstances surrounding its birth
and growth. It is not wisdom to waste
or cast aside the forces which have gath
ered and bound together nearly 2,000,
000 voters. It is time to cast it aside
only when it ceases to grow through the
disintegrating attraction of other par
ties. In our opinion the Populist party
has passed the danger point of party ex.
istence, the point where, having won sec
ond place, its leaders are tempted to try
to fuse it with a rotten old party in the
hope of sooner seizing some of the of-
38. The Populist party is today stand
ing nobly by her principles, and we 11 not
forsake her. She is what the goddess of
liberty pictures.
Senator Dale a few days ago rose in
his place in the legislature and with his
finger on the law, in his innocent way,
called attention to the limit which tha
people have placed on the number of em
ployees the senators may have. In re
warding their political friends at the ex.
pense of the state they had disregarded-
the wishes of the parsimonions tax-pay
ers, and had voted themselves nearly
twice as many clerks, cloak room keep
ers, oil room ornaments and other sine
cures aud Walt seeley lobbyists as the
law allowed. They were going ahead in
an anarchistic way, utterly regardless 6f
the law. Mr. Dale, Populist, to preserve
respect for the law, therefore suggested
that the law be changed so that the Re
publican senate might not longer trans
gress it, while paying personal debts out
of the public treasury. It was meant
well, this proposal of the Populist sena
tor, but the Republicans would not hear
to anything anti-anarchistic from the
Populist side. They therefore voted
down Mr. Dale's motion to change the
law in their interest, and decided to re
form themselves in view of the public
light the Populist leader had turned on
them. The Republican legislature has
shown itself much more disposed to
economize by cutting down the proposed
$ 100,000 relief appropriation to help
the drouth sufferers, than to keep within
the limits of the law in the matter of
multiplying places for their political
friends.
The coal mine owners of Northern Wis
consin are complaining. Providence is
against them in sending mild weather.
Their money interests under this each-
for-himself system conflict with the inter
ests of those who must buv coal. We
call earnest attention of those who sneer
and set themselves against those who
would co-operate to the contradictions
and antagonisms of the present selfish s
struggle. When the mild seasons reduce
the need of fuel the mine owners and
operators are injured. When severe
weather makes it necessary to buy an in
creased quantity of coalorfreeze.then the
people who must buy it are injured and
the coal men ore benefited. When crops
fail in certain localities, it raises the price
for those whose crops are good; so when
one is praying for daily bread the way
for his prayer to be answered is to take
bread from others, whose prayers there
fore cannot be answered. What to acer-
tain number is called a blessing, must
now to others equally deserving be felt a
curse. And all this because we divide our
interests and struggle with each other
for advantage over and gain from one
another. We ought to associate our
selves together so that we can all be
blessed equally by the earth, the sun
shine, the dew and the rain, the cold and
the heat; and so that blessings that are
labor saving will be blessings for all.
Tun Stute Kxecutive Committee ol
clubs and education of the Populis
party of Iowa has started in to raise a
fund of $10,000 on the plan of calling for
1 00 men to subscribe ten dollars each,
500 men five dollars each, 1,000 men
$2.50 each, 2,000 men $1.00 each and
4,000 men fifty cents each. This fund to
be used in educational work. Missouri
Fopulists have called for $20,000. JFhat
can Nebraska do?
Improve your time by getting up a
club for The Wealth Makers.
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