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"Foil bond issues" Senator Smith of
New Jersey. 01 course.
The Union Pacific lobby of railway
men is urging the passage of the funding
bill. They seem to have everything their
own way.
Already a corner on oranges is re
ported. Sick or well, monopoly demands
tribute of us to the full extent of ita
power to enforce.
The senate cut down the relief bill from
$100,000 to $50,000. There is nothing
like economy for the taxpayers when the
money so saved is beyond the reach of
the legislators.
The supreme court of the United State
has ordered the release of Debs and his
associates in jail, and that they be ad
mitted to bail in the sum of $4,000 each.
The hearing to show cause is fixed to be
March 25th.
Mrs. David Kallis, owning land on
Tefferson street in Chicago, by survey
was found to have encroached (with her
Improvements) five inches on adjoining
property. The value set on it was $3,022 I
a front inch, which would be $36,2C4 .
front foot. How is that for land monop
oly values and power to command rent!
Mb. Kohlsatt, proprietor of the Chi
jago Inter-Ocean, is reported to be nego
tiating for the New York Tribune. The
price asked is $3,000,000. This gives an
idea of the destruction of competition in
the daily newspaper field. A newspapor
2an no longer start and succeed that has
not immense wealth behind it. The old
tstablished dailies have the field and are
news monopolists. And as everybody
must have the news they become almost
all-powerful factors in molding public
opinion.
The Republican legislators are in favoi
of permitting the destitutedrouth strick
en counties to bond and rescue themselves,
and what they cannot raise in the wry
of funds from the usurers they may beg
Irom outside states. This policy of deal
ing with our own poor and correspond
ingly increasing our begging abroad it
advertising the state a good deal niort
than is likely to prove profitable to us.
"There is that scattereth and yet ii
creaseth; and there is that withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to
poverty."
A NOTABLE COURT DECISION
An important decision was handed
down January 24th, by Justice Gaynor
of the New York supreme court in the
sase of an application for a mandamus
to compel the Brooklyn street car com
panies to run their cars in sulflcit'nt num
bers to accomodate the traveling public,
"This railroad corporation is not in the
position of a mere private individual or
company carrying on business for private
gain, which may suspend business tempo
rarily or permanently at pleasure, says
the decision.
"In its chief aspect it is a public corpo
ration having duties to perform to the
public which transcend any obligation
which in its private aspect it owes to its
stockholders. It has received franchises
of great value from the state and had
coulerred upon it the state's transcen
dent power of eminent domain. In re
turn it took upon itself the performances
of public duties and functions, in the per
formance of which it is in law and in met
not an iudependentiudi vidua! or entirety
but the accountable agent ol tlie state.
"Though the principles are old and in
herent in the idea of the sovereignty of
the people, it would seem that in the re
cent rapid growth of corporate power
and of the tendency to use public fran
chises for the aggrandizement of indivi
duals first and for the service and benefit
of the public second they have come to
be somewhat overlooked and need to be
restated. They have ofteu been declared
by the highest courts of this state and
the supreme court of the United States.
"The duty of the company now before
the courts is to carry passengers through
certain streets of Brooklyn and to furn
ish men, and run cars enough to fully
accommodate the public. It may not
lawfully cease to perform that duty for
even one hour. The directors of a private
business company may, actuated by pri
vate greed or motives of private gain,
stop business and refuse to employ lubor
at all unless labor come down to their
conditions, however distressing, for such
are the existing legal, industrial ana
social conditions. But the directors of a
railroad corporation may not do the like.
They are not merely accountable to
themselves, they are accountable to the
public first and to the stockholders
second. They have duties to the public
to perform and they must perforin them.
If they cannot get labor to perform such
duties at what they offer to pay, then
they must pay more, and as much as is
necessary to get it.
"Likewise, if the conditions in respect
of hours or otherwise which they impose
repel labor they must adopt more lenient
or just conditions. They may not stop
their cars for one hour, much less one
week or one year, thereby to beat or
coerce the price or conditions of labor
down to the price or conditions they
offer. For them to do so would be a de
fiance of law and government, which,
becoming general, would inevitably by
the force of emample lead to general dis
quiet, to the disintegration of the social
order, and even the downfall of govern
ment itself.
"I do not think the present answer ol
the company is sufficient to prevent a
writ from being issued. The claim of vi
olence amounting to a prevention is not
legally made out. Instances of violence
generally by other than the former em
ployes of the company is shown, but it is
also shown that not only the police force
of the city, but over 7,000 soldiers are
preserving order, and I cannot believe
that this company is not protected in its
rights, nor do I think any question of
that fact is fairly raised on that head.
"Besides, the position of the company
in failing to run its cars, except ns it may
gradually get employes to accept its
terms, being in itself unlawful, as I have
shown, must necessarily, by its bad ex
ample, tend to public disquiet, if not
some disorder. In respect of the question
of hours and of wages between the com
pany and its employes its duty was to
nave gone on and now is to go on, with
its full equipment of employes, having
the right gradually and from day to day
to supersede its employes if it can by
new employes who will work when once
it has obtained a . sufficient number for
that purpose; but in such a controversy
it has not the right to stop its cars while
it is thus gradually getting other men.
If the people of the state were running
these roads they would not thus incom
mode and damage themselves, and it
must not be forgotten that this corpora
tion is entrusted with the running of
these roads as the servant of the people
of the state.
Had the courts granted like writs of
mandamus compelling the railroads last
summer to run their trains regularly, or
become liable for all the damages inflict
ed on the public, with the alternative of
forfeiting their charters, the A. It. U.
strike would have been successful. The
courts have only to compel the corpora
tions which serve the public to fulfill their
plain obligations to the people, to bring
them down in power to a level with labor
organizations. There would be no temp
tation on the part of labor organizations
to use more than persuasion it the rights
and interests of the public were by court
processes strictly guarded, by obliging
strikers to keep the peace and at the
same time forcing the corporations to
perform their public duties. And this is
the way to avoid waste, injury, distress
and auarcby.
PERFECT A P0PUFI8T PLAN
The Call, of Seattle, Washington, sug
gests to the national committee of the
party that it appoint acommitteeof five
of our most prominent and devoted re-!
formers, and that they formulate a call
for plans and suggestions as to a mone
tary system by which the people can get
money always at labor cost, money that
will best serve the people. The Omaha
platform calls for money at "not to ex
ceed two per cent per annum, as set forth
in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers
Alliance, or some bet ter plan."
So far as we know but one other plan
to provide money at labor cost has been
thought out in detail and given to th
public. That plan is the one found in
Thk Wealth Makers. We think it en
tirely free from the objections raised
against the sub-treasury plan and would
like to have it freely discussed. It will
be found under double head on the inside
of this paper.
The Midland Journal, in a very able
article discussing the money question,
says:
"What other plan can the People'
party offer to supersede the national
banks and forestall the scheme being
concocted by the bunkers but a system
of government banks? It short there is
nothing else to offer. The People's party
must come out and in the most definite
manner for government banks or aban
don the field. No financial system can
be conducted in this era of trade and
commerce and complex civilization with
out the machinery of banks. The power
that controls the banks controls the
money of the country, and by that lever
controls business and prices. Moneyed
corporations with little responsibility to
government and people will control the
currency or the government mast. The
hankers have raised the new battle cry
that the government must get out of the
banking business, while the fact is the
government has never been in the bank
ing business. Had it been the present
stagnation of business and distress
would not exist. In place of getting out
government must get into the business,
or in other words
the people must be
iw.; .. i i. . .i . i.
post office managers. The corporations
which Have been in the banking business
must be tnrned out as they were out of
the mail business.
"It is time the reform papers took this
.
demand up and pressed it upon the lead
ers of the People's party who are hang
ing back and thrashing over old straw
The People's party have been loud iu
the demands for the money question to
be brought to the front. It is there now
in its most vital form. Who shall con
troi tne money oi tne country ; This is
the most important phase of the ques
tion. Are we ready for the question? Not
till we can present a well-digested system
ol government banking.
IS DUNNING A WRECKER?
Senator Stewart is reported in the Na
tional Watchman as a one-idea man.
Speaking of that idea (free silver), he
says:
"Unfortunately, however, this great
issue is embarrassed by other subjects
about which there is great diversity ol
opinion. I fear it will be impossible foi
the People's party to succeed on the
main issue unless it is made the sole
issue."
Stewart has called himself a Populist,
but he has no distinctive Populist prin
ciples in him. He wants all else in the
Oinnha platform set aside as of "minoi
importance" compared with silver, which
he says is "the main issue, which must be
settled before any other reforms are pos
sible." He is just a silver-bug of the cap
italist class.
The St. Louis Conference revealed the
fact that some of our National Commit
teemen had come under the silver influ
ence and lost their heads, but the mem
bers of the Conference were almost to a
man staunchly true and loyal to th
Omaha platform: They were prepared
to fight for it, and to conquer or virtu
ally kick out the committee if it persistec
in tampering with our three great con
tentions, with the people's demands en
trusted to them. No one idea could be
forced upon them by the silver lobby,
with the help of proxies which had been
ga thered in, for that purpose, doubtless.
But some of these leaders, it seems,
though, have not given up the scheme,
and the Watchman is helping them
in their efforts to make silver the
main question by the dictation of a few
politicians.
These politicians remind us forcibly of
the wreckers who used to plact false lights
on the shore to draw vessels onto the
rocks and shoals. We would like to be
lieve every man of these honest, but, con
found them, they must know that the
men who made the Omaha platform
meant business. The forty and more
minutes of universal shouting which
greeted it when read, came from
men who knew what monopoly drains
impoverish the people. They were the
people's carefully selected representatives
and not one among them was so narrow
visioned and simple as to suppose free
silver the main question. Interest, divi
dends and rent, land, money and trans
portation monopolies, were then ruining
us, and the causes and situation have not
changed since '92, except for the worse.
Free silver would not lower rents, would
not reduce transportation tribute, would
not curb the power of the Standard Oil
trust, would not destroy the monopoly
in coal or lumber, or steel, or sugar, or
dressed meats, and a hundred other
things, would not reduce the usury tri
bute, or money and wealth concentra
tion. It would stimulate somewhat the
employment of labor for a brief period,
but the profits of the monopolists would
be increased, and presently the situation
would be as bad as it now is. Cut off
the power of monopolies by means of
government banks, railroads, coal mines,
telegraphs, etc., and something great
and permanent is accomplished.
Get out of the Populist party, or quit
trying to pull its platform to pieces. If
the party was worth organizing, it is
worth defending. The 2,000,000 men
who have come together on the Omaha
platform will stand no scheming to get
them off it.
For $500,000,000 more bonds: Senator
Jones of Arkansas has a bill to this
effect, bonds to mature in thirty years.
What is it all for? Who wants bouds?
The bankers, nobody else. And they
want bonds to use ns security for batik
notes, to enable them to leud their debts
and draw iuterest on them, while all
other classes are compelled to pay inter
est on theirs. Who gets benefit out of
the bouds? Nobody but the bankers.
What need is there of bonds? No need
at all." The people are not in favor of
bonds, of bondage to the bankers. Issue
money, coin or paper and the people
stand ready to accept it.
JRIME AND GRIMINAL8 COMPARED
Which is the greater crime, to make
itatutes which destroy the iiiriependeuc
of our citizens and force them to beg
(?ary, desperation and suicide, or to go
out as highwaymen and make forced
levy s upon travelers at the point of a
pistol?
Which is the greater crime, to starve
eopIe by slow degrees, or to murder
them suddenly and save them the torture
of a living death?
Which is the greater crime, to commit
rape upon the innocent, or to drive the
poor and pure into life-saving prostitu
tion? Which is worse, to rob and kill and
ruin by law, or in defiance of law?
The monopolists of this country are
committing indirectly the blackest
crimes in the calendar. They are mur
derers, traitors, robbers, rapists, fortune
wreckers, slavemakers, breeders of vio
lence, spreaders of famine and pestilence,
! de8troyer8 of home8' VmoUrB of beg-
KJ. uegrauuuun auu uespair.
'. Here is a sample of their work: Henrv
v nnaa wu th;-fff ,,.. niA ;
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S l,n i a nil r ti wrtlr a rtrf nnah a finH
-' e ajuuidj vt, ss Wi UI14 IS UUUtVaO WS II 11
employment took morphine and died a
few days ago, in preference to being a
beggar. He left the following letter
addressed to his wife:
"Oh, God, Kiitie! It seems so hard to
leave you when there is so mnch work in
the country. Kittie, my darling, I can
not get work. I have tried so hard.
Kiss our babies for me. If I could have
got the position with an express com
pany my living would have been insured,
and I could have sent for you very
quick."
In the same city a carpenter, named
William M. Conrad, living at 1928 Mor
gan street with his 19 year old daughter
Daisy, committed suicide the other day
by hanging himself with a piece of
clothes-line. He had been out of work
three mouths, and all his savings were
exhausted. In a long letter to his
daughter , he recounted their struggles
together, encouraged her to be brave,
and killed himself for her sake, that she
might be free to work out, for her board
if nothing more.
Terrible are the curses and judgments
which are deserved and which must fall
upon those who, back of -all, are respon
sible for the state of things that drove
these willing workers to a choice between
charity and suicide. And these are two
only of a vast number who are suffering
beyond the power of language to de
scribe. The grasping monopolists are
the men guilty of about all the crimes
and evils which afflict society. There is
blood upon their garments and their
hands which no charitiescan wash away.
Who are the monopolists whose hands
are stained with the blood of the inno
cent, who are the men who make it im
possible for willing workers to work anc
force down wages far below the line of
equity? They are the men who clamor
for and force out of the people dividends,
interest and rent. Drained of their
money by these devices of power the
poor cannot purchase back out of the
market half what they produce, or half
what they need, and so the markets are :
periodically glutted, prices fall, goods,
cannot be sold, and the people who need
goods cannot be employed to keep one .
another in the working circle supplied. ,
They cannot live without w ork, except ;
on chanty, so they crowd into death-!
breeding tenements to save rent, and die '
off like poisoned flies- that way, or are
pressed into the criminal and pauper
ranks, or kill themselves to get out of
their degradation and misery.
The competitive-monopoly system
competition between the poor for work,
monopoly agreements among the rich
for profits is a huge grinding machine
to grind up and press the life energies
out of the poor for the creation of lux
uries and power for the rich.
SHERMAN TO THE RESOUE
"Sherman to the rescue," says theNew
York Tribune. "He introduces a finan
cial bill based On common-sense."
"To the rescue" of whom? The people?
Not much. His bill provides for an un
limited issue of bonds and iuterest bear
ing certificates, the secretary of the
treasury being authorized to pileiuterest-!
bearing debts on the people whenever
Congress fails to provide revenue by cus
toms and internal taxes, aud whenever
the bankers want gold iu place of green
backs and treasury notes. And the bill
further provides for the bouds to be a
basis for a bank note circulation up to
their full face value.
The ouly thing peculiar about this bill
to distinguish it from the others in the
interest of the bankers solely, is the pro
vision for coupon certificates in $25, $50
and $100 denominations, yieldiug the
same annual interest as the bonds, viz.,
3 per cent. This is a scheme to beguile
the innocent, that is, it is designed to
give the law, if it becomes a law, the ap
pearance of legislation in the interest of
the poor as well as the rich. But sup
pose the poor to be safe buy U.S. coupon
certificates and get three per cent, that
is all the benefit they can get; whereas,
the bankers get the three per cent on
their U. S. bonds and bank notes of equal
amount besides, that they can loan for
whatever interest they can force out of
of the people.
John Shermun has done more to en
throne the rich and enslave the poor
than any man that, ever lived. He is a
traitor to the common people, and he
will be by millions execrated and abhor
red so long as the money power exists to
impoverish and enslave the mnsses.
Dit. Parkhcrst, in his Chicago epeech 'away before the onward march of mat
lust week, said: "With special empha- ter? What are the latest conclusions of
sis let me urge it upon you to pray to . is mind left to us, or is it , all
, b , 1 . '.. . matter? It is a question that affects us
have your reform movemeut delivered pTolounytor if science has demonstrat
ion! the influence and participation of or jg liable to demonstrate, that
professional politicians, as you would mind is but another form of matter (as
prny to have it delivered from the devil, it were), or a peculiar manifestation of
.. . . . . . . , matter, upon which it absolutely de
Lver.v thing in all this business depends pend8t ihen there is no mind, there is no
upon the solidity and everlasting mobil- metaphysic or super-natural or super
ity and unmarketable righteousness o! physical and the breach between science
the men you tie to. Therefore, skip this and religion can never be cl osed This
, tl -xj- j is why the ordinary reader is anxious for
sort of creature I have just designated as guch a D00k as the one. before us that
you would skip Satan. Never give them shall give, in a clear unbiassed way, the
yonr confidence, never repose upon them latest researches and conclusions of
any of the weight of a critical situation. - For such readers the book can
, , f. . .t. be depended on. It is clear, not too
Make none of them sharers with you in ftbstrct) j8 up t0 date) and gives an
your movement. If I were to mention unbiassed account. The author
the hardest lesson that I have had to approaches the subject first as a phys
learn during the past Jtwo years, it would 'cist f as he is, being pr ofessor j of ana
. , , ,, A lytical physics in the University of the
be that of the damnable dangeronsness gouthi evidentiy) a8 a philoso-
of a professional politician; and you pher.
know what I mean by that term; we are He starts with the scope and limit of
in no need of bothering to give a deflni- Bcepticism in order to show that the self ,
. . is the ultimate fact. Thus comes person-
tion; you have specimens of your own ftity He algo digcu88e8 the mechanical
you can lean your minds upon while this basis of phenomena. Mechanics is the
species of creature is being dissected. The lord of science, and scientists seek to re
professional politician is the people's na- duce .all phenomena to modes of motion.
r r but they are too inclined to overlook the
tural enemy. jentral forces in nature, "or the primord-
ial factor of personality," a3 the author
The gold bugs are after the gold, and would express it, that produce the modes
Cleveland in alarm has sent a message of motion.
. . xtc. x There is also a very clear, instructive
to Congress calling for BONDS to save acCount of brain structure and phenom
the country. Bonds, gold-bearing inter- ena of the senses, the understanding, the
est bonds, he says the Secretary of the feelings, the will, etc. He shows couclu
Treasurymust have authority to make vely that Darwin and Tyndall are far
, . . , from being materialists. The chasm be
and fasten upon us. We must have tween Inechanism apd personality, too,
$500,000,000 gold interest-bearing is well brought out.
bonds to get gold to "redeem" the same Some of the best features are the chap
amount of treasury notes issued to pur- ?n Som? th ?reat. Metaphyseal
, ., v . Systems and the Unity of Personality,
chase silver, for silver cannot redeem it- It j8 altogether a book that every man
self, says Cleveland; and we must submit or woman who desires some clear no
to $346,000,000 more bonds to take the tions in regard to these questions will do
place of the greenbacks, which must be w t.Kw3 ?ndfige? r ofn
r , . , , B ,;,,.. , Published by Ginn & Co., Boston, price,
retired and cancelled. ( I he banks do ci qq
not like greenbacks and treasury notes.)
And Cleveland says a mere increase in
revenue is not w hat is needed. We must
issue bonds and agree to pay more, more,
more gold, principal and interest, and in
order to escape ruin. But with each
promise in bonds to pay more gold we
sink ourselves that much deeper under
the feet of the gold bond holders.
B00E8 AND MAGAZINES
rrv.T, Tn,,o, n( rBr, t u
n.tiir is n. r-nnd nun. The hnnk list, in
large and contains some unusually inter- dUCe into the state legislature to appro
ving matter The section on Iu the' priute$i00,000 to providemilita ryacou
World of Religious Thought is excel- v ' A .r ,
lent, containingamong other things ex- cements, cadet rifles, caps aud military
tracts from "Religion of Science," by Dr. insignia. Boys of eleven years and over
Paul Cams. The Sociological Depart- are to be entitled to become members,
me,, t has discussions on "Prison Reform," Col. Butler, who is pushing the matter,
"Woman and the Suffrage," etc. i . . A ,
Indeed, Current Literature always con- ' stated that he had received a telegram
tains an accurate and comprehensive di- from Gen. Harrison saying he hoped to
gest of the happenings of the month and be present at the large meeting to be
is most valuable to the people-and there held Friday at Carnegie hall in support
are many of them whocannot spare the , , J , . . .' ,
time to look up in detail the new books J of the movement. Harrison is evidently j
and magazine articles and who would , acting in this along the line of his public
not be able to get access to all the uum I trprnnce last vear. viz: "That we need
get
'leness publications if they had the time.
They find here in the best form just
what they waut to keep abreust of the
times.
VVoifuswonTH's Phelude, by A. J. George.
This book was published some time
since, dui ueserves nonce uecuune n mi.. , . , . . .... ,
valuable to those desiring a knowledge i t,0, a,ld &OTl n war, in killing the des-
of Wordsworth as he was.
Professor George has made an especial
Btudy of the poet and edits as an enthu
siast. Wordsworth now is not read as
much as he deserves to be, for he was an
epoch maker as a poet. Nature found a
true lover in him, and he is noted more
over as "one who had shed a celestial
light over the affections,
and the piety of the poor.':
occupations,
Wordsworth was a long time getting
the homage due him, all of which he
seems to have borne with humility and
equanimity. Merit wins in the long run,
however, and so it was in this case, for
the Laureateship was conferred upon
him in 1843. He accepted it finally, but
it came after all his work was done.
Lovers of Wordsworth will do well to
read this book.
Published by Ginn & Co., Boston.
Number and Space, by Herbert Nichols,
Ph.D.
This is a treatise on a subject now at
tracting a considerable attention, the
Genetic Theory of the Mind. It starts
with the thesis that "Our brain habits,
with the mode of thought and judgment
dependent thereon, are morphological
resultants of definite past experiences;
our experiences and those of our ances
tors." The investigations set on foot
are to prove the thesis, do prove it as
the introduction informs us. While it is
always admissible in true scientific in
vestigations to construct a hypothesis
on which to work, there is a danger al
ways involved ot making all results of
investigation fit the hypothesis even by
stretching, instead of making the hypo-
thesis pliantly change to fit every new
series of facts.
True induction would call for examina
tion, investigation and comparison first,
and then formulation.
The results of these investigations are
sufficiently interesting to warrant care
ful study and are ably set out. Experi
ments were made on the tongue, fore
bead, forearm and abdomen, iu order to
determine the difference in our notions
of number and space from these different
regions of the body as a basis.
These experiments show, our author
says, "that our judgment of the same
outer facts, such as of number of dist
ance vary greatly when mediated by
different tactual regions.
Published bv Ginn & Co., Boston,
Mass. Price $1.00.
Mechanism and Personality, by Francis
A. Shoup, D. D.
Dr. Sliouo has performed a
valuable
service for the ordinary reader who is un
able to wade through technical treatises,
but who, nevertheless, is anxious to
know what are the latest scientific and
philosophical conclusions.
Modern science has, seemingly, over
shadowed every other department of
knowledge thus far, but there are signs
of a strong re-awakening of interest in
true philosophical discussion.
What has the intensely materialistic
trend of science effected as to the philo
lophical dogmas of the past? What has
become of metaphysic, is it all swept
The advisory council for the introduc
tion of military drill into the public
schools of the cities of New York met at
the Grand Central palace January 20th
to act upon the report of its executive
;ommittee. That committee reported
that at its December 22d meeting the
name of the public school military or
gmiization was agreed upon as the
"American Guard." The unit of the or
ganization is to be a squad of eight, and
i six BQuaos are to consrituie a scnooi
reiriment. A bill has been drawn to intro-
utterance last year, viz: "That we need
legislation to make the rich secure and
the poor content." It is all a piece of
capitalistic foresight and preparation. A
class struggle is coming and they are go-
ing to train the boys to obey orders im
plicitly, make them think there is distinc-
perate poor, so that the property of the
j millionaires may be protected when the
i crisis comes.
Ituled by the Party Wbfp
Bostwick, Neb., Jan. 21, 1895.
j Editor Wealth Makehs:
It is almost enough to make a cat
laugh and anti-monopoly Republicans
weep to see the way the latter are being
treated in the state legislature, after
their organ, the Bee, has been telling the
farmers that the anti-monop. element in
the party would, as soon as the legisla
ture convened, commence to curtail the
powers of the semi-European corpora
tions, like the U. P. and B. & M. About
the first thing they are whipped into line
and made to help elect John M. Thurs
ton to the United States senate. Now
howcan thev succeed in their anti-monop.
ideas by electing a man directly opposed
to those ideas, a man who is the avowed
mouthpiece and has been the chief attor
ney of those roads for years? I have
heard hiin several times, and afterwards
the words, watered stock and U. P.
steals, would seem to ring in my ears for"
days.
The Bee is working to allure the voters
back into the old party again, but after
the above object lesson how can it suc
ceed? It might almost as well expect
Satan to teach the way to heaven. The
World-Herald is also trying to win back
some votes for Grover by holding out a
sugar plum coated with free silver; but
then the World-Herald supported Bryan
ites with one hand and Jim Boydites
with the other, so they will not fool many
either. No, Mr. Editor, the Populist
party has come to stay. It has grown
from little over one million vote? in 1892
to one million nine hundred thousand
or thereabouts in 1894, and by 1896
will sweep the L. S. from north to south
and from east to west, and liberate the
the white man, like Lincoln did the black.
Yours fraternally,
Stabs and Stuipes.
jibe Douglas County Popnlist Club
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 21, 1895.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Being aware that all populistic items
of news are of interest to you, you will
beglad to learn that the Douglas county
i rPu,l8t club was duy organized last
week. -Mr. laylor was elected president,
Mr. Bernine vice-president, C. W. Lun
beck secretary and A. A. Perry treasurer.
All members subscribing to the bylaws
and constitution pledged themselves to
advocate, forward and stand by the
Omaha platform of 1892, and to oppose
fusion with Democrats und Republicans
in all places.
The club will hold weekly meetings at
Mouingers Hotel for the present.
Respectfully,
Walter Bueen.