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SO MOVES THE WORLD.
' We deep and wak ana sleep, bat all things
. more;
The Snn tltee forward to hU brother Bun :
The dark Earth follows, wheeled in ber ellipse;
And hnman thlnro. returning on themselves.
Move onward, leading np the golden year."
Brittish greed for gain is the cause of
the Venezuelan troubles.
The Anti-nans bill in the Wisconsin leg
islature was tabled by a vote of sixty-two
to thirty-seven. .
Losses framblinir on the Chicago board
of trade drove F. M.. McFarlin to take
his life March 17th.
The labor party of Austria has 120,
000 members who are pledged to the
principles of socialism.
The Populists of Peoria, Illinois, have
a full city ticket in the neid, ana tney
have a daily paper at their back.
fhn nar nf feeding 2.100 convicts in
the Missouri penitentiary averages 8J
cents per day lor eacn individual.
Duluth is to put in practice the Mayor
Pinu-ree Detroit nlan of orovidina: seed
potatoes and allowing the poor the free
use of unoccupied lots to raise iood irom
Pere Calendoni. a Sicilian monk has in
vented a machine which it is claimed will
compose 50,000 letters per hour. It
throws all type-setting machines far into
the shade.
Paris lias in every ward opened free
public libraries, provided by the munici
pality, whereintelhgentworkingmenmay
find the very best books relating to all
their crafts.
The Chicago Times-Herald of March 21
states editorially that sincethebeginning
of the year no less than 78 persons in
that city have taken their own lives, an
average of one a day.
Cleveland ship boiler makersareout on
strike and the strike seems likely to ex
tend to all the boiler makers of the coun
try, the boiler manufactories being at
Cleveland,) Buffalo, brie, Chicago, and
Duluth. tew- -'v ...
The Connecticutt Mutual Life Insurance
company has the enormous sum of $37,
- 487,848.18 loaned on real estate. And
it is but one of many insurance compan
ies that are eating up the liberties of the
people by the usury process.
Prof. Thorold Rogers, of "Six Centuries
of Work and Wages" shows from public
registers and market reports that the
humblest laborer or workman of the
middle ages received considerably better
- wages than such do today.
Rev. John Wilson after a personal in
vestigation says "there are 10,000 men,
hungry, ill-clad and shelterless, walking
the streets of New York every night."
He also declares they are not tramps or
criminals, and "they are willing to work,
but cannot find anything to do."
Lyman Trumbull has been asked to
become the head of a great labor organ
ization whose objects ara to foster colo
nization on a voluntury co-operative
basis, providing profitable employment
for the unemployed and fostering inde
pendent political action among wage
workers. The Philadelphia Traction Co. has
voted to increase its capital Btock from
f 15,000,000 to $20,000,000. Thiscom
pany is controlled by the Widener and
Elkins' syndicate, which is largely inter
ested in the Yerkes street railway system
in Chicago and also controls leading
roads in New York, Pittsburg and Balti
more. The hired lawyers, Choate, Edmunds
and others, have done their eloquent best
to rescue the rich from the dreadful in
justice of having to pay in income taxes
a small part of their share of what is due
the government, and now the supreme
court is weighing the arguments and con
sidering the law.
According to the figures given in Mr.
Van Obh's book on American Railroads,
and Investments, the most recent and
reliable authority and written in the
commercial interests of the railroads
themselves, "for $4,650,000,000 shares
now in existence, the original investors
certainly paid not more than $465,000,
000, or ten per cent of their face value,.
. and probably less.
When Constable Levy served a writ of
forcible detainer on Mrs. Caroline Mur
phy of 59 Milton avenue, Chicago, be
cause of her being $17 in arrears on rent,
he found her destitute of food and furni
ture, and both of her feet were frozen
during thecold weather. Shewasalmost
helpless. The notion against her will be
heard March 27, the report says. Heav
ens and earthl is the law against her to
punish her, in addition to all this?
The diphtheria bacillus has its princi
pal seat in the throat and upper air
passages and produces in its growth a
poison known ns diphtheria toxin, which
affects the heart and nerves, and is of in
credible virulence. It is said to bt 700
times as poisionous as morphine. The
new anti-toxin remedy is said to cure 00
per cent of cases of diphtheria It is the
poison separated from the bacilli which
produces it, injected into the veins of pa
tients. The United Boy's Brigade of America is
the name of a new military organization
formed under the auspices of the various
churches, branchesof which are springing
up in almost every city and town. We
advise parents to tnke their children out
of all Sunday Schools where war is
taught. The Boys' Brigade is officered
as in the army and tney train with real
guns that will shoot and bayonets that
will pierce. The plutocrats are gettiug
ready for a fight.
The New York charities conference has
decided to make use of the Mayor Pin
gree Detroit plan of utilizing the vacant
lots of the city to raise potatoes and
garden truck, the use of the land being
given and seed furnished, each family to
have a third of an acre to work aud all
they raise on it. Wm. Steinway gives
the use of 200 acres in Long Island city,
ex-Mayor Hewitt wves a large tract in
Inwood, and Columbia college donates
seven acres of its new site on Morning
Side heights. It is expected that thou
sands of acres will be tendered when
asked for.
Last year our exports amounted to
$825,000,000, and our imports to $672,
000,000. Adding the. merchandise and
the gold and silver movements together
it shows that our excess of exports over
imports was $270,000,000. This unde
niably represents tribute paid to foreign
ers and was our year's lossof wealth, for
which no benefit was received. The gov
ernment . might have manufactured its
own money, lent it to the people, and
saved this vast sum to empty American
markets and make that much more de
mand for labor.
Populists Look Oat For Cuckoo
Nests
The Tribune has reliable information,
whfch comes to it both from friends and
right out of the camp of the enemy at
Washington, that a movement is on foot
to organize a secret order inside the
People's party whose object is to capture
the national convention in 1896. This
information is conveyed to the Tribune
by persons of character and national
reputation, and we believe it to be abso
lutely unquestionable. ,
Organizers are beine appointed and
salaried by the Bimetallic League, out of
funds furnished by the great silver own
ers and the railroads, who have joined
forces to proiuotetheirbusinessinterests.
The silver monopolists want to draw
our two million voters out into their
lately launched single plank party by
1896, and the object of the railroads is
to increase the genei al prospority of the
country for the sake of their earnings by
increasing the volume of money, and
what they count of more importance at
the same time so control the People's
party leadership, clear down to county
officers, as to render inoperative the de
mand for government ownership of rail
roads. The silver speculators fear that
this demand may grow to include gov
ernment ownership of mines.
So much for the motives. The method
is to organize a Becret "machine" within
the party, so arranged as to leaveall the
power of selecting delegates in the hands
of the salaried organizers.
The Tribune has inside information of
the organization of one of these cuckoo
nests in Iowa. (The cuckoo lays its eggs
in nests built by other birds, aud leaves
the eggs to be hatched by them.) The
cuckoo organizer in Iowa (as we are in
formed almost straight out of the mouth
of one of his employers at Washington)
is one Mullor, formerly of Illinois. We
are credibly informed, in addition, that
Muller worked for the Democrats as their
agent among Populists of the Ninth
Iowa district at twenty dollars a week,
last fall.
Populist papers should spread this in
formation broadcast iu every state and
territory, as organizers have begun, or
shortly will begin, their treacherous
work in all. Forewarn, the brethren,
and, like the one-plank movement, this
cuckoo-nesting business will diea-bornin.'
With the light thus turned on, the Peo
ples' party has nothing to fear.
Dowu with the cuckoos!
Farmers Tribune.
Anti-Bonds Resolution
We have received- for publication the
following resolution:
Resolved, That . the citizens of Oak
precinct are opposed to bonding the
county for $90,000 to build anew jail, as
there is plenty of room in the basement
of the Courthouse that could be fitted up
at little expense. And there is room in
old jail now occupied by sheriff that
could be fitted up as cells. And we are
unalterably oppesed to taxing genera
tions unborn.
Jonx F. Kicklike,
.E .V Ekickson,
G. W. McDebmott,
Committee.
Singing the old Hong
Although the new tariff law borders
too close on high protection to givecom
mercial and industrial enterprises the
encouragement they should have, it is
evident that all signs point to a revival
in business activity that the country has
not enjoyed for many years. World
Herald. All parties who mnv wish to tako ad
vantage of our clubl'ing rates or receive
our Dremiurns muni HUT back unhar-rin.
tion to date if in arrears.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla is unequalled as a
cure for female disorders.
LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1895.
The President of itie American Hu
mane Education Society
I hold that every city and town should
be prepared at all times to furnish tem
porary work at low wages to those who
are not able to obtain better work else
where, because men must live, and it is
better they should live by earning than
by begging or stealing. Say nothing of
the humanitarian aspects of the case, it
is cheaper to provide even unprofitable
labor than to build and sustain prisons
and almshouses.
In many of our cities and towns public
improvements are needed, and this labor
could be made profitable. Whenever
work is provided tramps and ablebodied
beggars can be immediately employed,
and will have no excuse for begging. But
how shall we provide permanent work for
our unemployed ablebodied men?
I answer: That there is but one way
under the existing state of things in
which this can be done. They must go
on to and till the soil. No trade is so
easily learned as that of a farmer. To
plough and plant and hoe and sow and
gather are things not difficult to under
stand. Put 10,000 people, the number
of the Brooklyn strikers, on fertile lands,
give them domestic animals, implements,
seeds and provisions, and they will live
and have plenty of work.
I say: Establish colonies. Put these
unemployed men on alternate quarter
sections of lands; put up tor them small
houses, mills, shops, a savings bank and
halls to be used for schools weekdays, for
religious instrnction on Sundays, and for
moral and interesting amusements and
instruction evenings: furnish them tools,
transportation, money. Give each who
desires it a constitutional deed of his
lands and buildings, which on the pay
ment ot what has been advanced, with
interest, shall vest in him a arood title,
provided he shall have sustained a good
character.
If it be said that we cannot afford to
provide labor for the unemployed and to
establish these colonies, then I answer;
We cannot afford not to.
If these colonies are well managed by
competent and honest men, of whom I
think we still have a considerable stock
in the country, there is no reason why
the sums paid back by the colonists in
purchase of their buildings and lands,
together with sums received tor the a lter
nate reserved quarter sections and lots,
should not pay eventually the whole, or
nearly the whole expense of the coloniza
tion, and so make the cost little or noth
ing of transforming thousands of our
able-bodied poor, liable to become crimi
nals, into productive, law-abiding citi
zens This is the plan. How can it be carried
out? I answer: Not by individuals, talk
ing, preaching or writing. These simply
prepare the way. It must be accomplish
ed as all other great political, religious
and humane movements are, by organiz
ed action. If we seek to prevent poverty
and crime, the first step is to form in our
cities and larger towns organizations tor
the purpose of preventing them; which
organizations I would call "societies lor
the prevention of poverty and crime."
They should be composed of both men
and women. They should have, as other
organizations have, offices, and paid
officers constantly employed. They
should gather and publish facts go be-
lore city and town authorities and state
governments, and if necessary before
Congress, with petitions and arguments,
and in all practical ways labor to carry
out the purposes for which they are
formed. Geo. T. Anoell,
President American Humane Education
Society.
Ob the Misery and Despair!
Kaufmann hasn't had steady work for
six months. Hegot little jobs forawhile,
made a dollar or two in a week, but for
the last four months he hasn't had a
stitch to do. He hasn't earned a dollar.
The man is almost crazy. The landlord's
agent was around yesterday. Kaufmann
begged and pleaded for a little more
time.
"Well, I'm sorry," said the agent. "If
it was me, I suppose I'd let you stay.
But you see how it is. The landlord
needs the money. He has to pay taxes
and all that. He'd rather let the rooms
stand empty than have people in here
who won't pay any rent. The placeruns
down when you're here, and it wouldn't
if it were empty. You'll have to get the
rent somehow or other."
Then Kaufmaun's heart sank within
him, and his bosom was contracted with
grief.
One of the neighbors tried to comfort
him. "Don't get discouraged. Times
are going to pick up."
"Yes, but how shall I get the money
to pay my rent? We .haven't a cent to
buy food with. How can I pay rent?"
"Business will pick up pretty soon."
"Fear me, not. I'll bo dead when it
does. I can die but once, and why not
die quick msteud of drugging along?"
Then he started off on a run.
"Where are you going?" the neighbor
called after him.
"To hell!" cried Kaufmann.
The neighbors think he will not kill
himself. They expect he will make the
same old weary rouud of the shops ask
ing tor a little job that will give him
something to eat. New York World.
VOICE OF THE PRESS
The One-Plank Foolishness an View
ed by Leading Populist Paper
The man who looks to "practical poll
tics" as the road to reform has an in
stinctive fear that the organization of a
new party will interfere with bis carefully
prepared estimates of future political
alignments. He has "rubbed up against
the practical side of affairs" and is not
influenced by any sentimentality or by
the vagaries of visionary and impractic
able theorists. He would adopt such a
platform as would catch free-silver Dem
ocrats and free-silver Republicans. He
overlooks the fact that Populism means
more than free silver, or more even than
currency reform, and that the party, as
it now is, cannot be held together upon
the narrow basis to which he would con
fine it. Let the "cranks" remain stead
fast to their principles and leave "practi
cal politics" to the politicians. Topeka
Advocate.
We do not object to the free silver idea,
but we do most emphatically object to
making that the only issue of a political
party in this country. History admon
ishes us that no great party ever was
created around one issue. Why should
they ask a political party that polled
nearly two million votes to disband?
Why seek to disrupt a movement based
on great principles in the interests of one
issue? Either these men are fanatics or
they are men who are designing for no
good purpose. The People's party will
not be moved. Progressive Age, Minne
apolis. '
The People's party will not adopt Mr;
Taubeneck's policy. That is the long
and short of it. The People's party has
made more rapid growth than any party
ever did before in the same length of
tune, and it has done it without adopt
ing the Taubeueck single-plank policy.
The indications are that it will keep on
succeeding at the same old stand. Mr.
Taubeneck is old enough to know that
he nor any other one man can run the
People's party. Southern Mercury.
"Stick to Your Press"
The newspapers of the Populist party
are true to the cause and the platform.
Some small-sized politicians in prominent
places got very angry at the leading
papers because they would not allow the
party to be switched off into a one-prong
trap, and not being able to say anything
else the sapheads have been swearing at
the newspapers that refused to do their
bidding ns "Socialists." The cause is all
right as long as the papers are true, and
there is not a single instance of a Popu
list paper having betrayed the cause.
These "prong-buck" politicians, who are
after boodle or an office, amount to
nothing and will be brushed aside like a
fly. They can't stem the great Populist
tide and their efforts to change the plat
form are like a little fice dog scratching
at a ground-hog hole. There are only a
few of these traitors and they can do
little harm if the people refuse to listen to
them. .Stick to your press and it will
stick to you. Like a faithful sentinel it
will sound the alarm when the enemy
approaches, whether from within or with
out. Nonconformist.
Solid Sense from an Ex-Repnbllcan
Belvedeiie, Neb., Mar. 22, '95.
Editor Wealth Makers:
1 would like to give my impressions on
the political situation in the past and
present, and also touch the future some
what. BeinR an old-line Republican till
last year maybe my prejudice may be of
some use to others. I have been for some
years an ardent advocate of "National
ism," foolishly thinking the Republican
party would adopt those ideas after
awhile. Last year gave up hope and
joined with the Populists.
Now about recruits from the two old
parties, I can only speak from a Republi
can standpoint.
There is nothing that a Republican
hates worse than being classed as a Dem
ocrat. .
I am well satisfied that the Populists in
the last election would have swept the
state overwhelmingly if our candidates
(some of them) had not been nominated
by the Democrats loo. I could hardly
go that myself. I believe if those Popu
list candidates thnt-, mro
Democratic ticket had withdrawn from
the Democratic ticket the gain in Repub
lican votes would have been tremendous;
for they were ready, wheu Tom Majors
was lorcea on tfem by the Lincoln ring,
to bolt.
In this Old Rcnillilicnn BtrnnrrlinM tlm
vote was a tie, and 1 know of many Re-
pumicuns tnat did not vote on governor
at all. TlieV COUld not vet Tnin Mnwira
and would not votnwith thpip l
enemies, the Democrats, for Holcomb.
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in my mind the wisest policy to pursue
will be to-
First. Keen in tlie iniiHIe nf tlm mnA
Not allow either the Democrats or Re-
.ii; a. j .
tu,yi;uiin iu fiiuursw or nominate our
cniidates. If they do, withdraw from
tlii'ir tii'L r.t
Second. Let Brvnn nnrl t-iin nno.iilon
followers 1T0 after their fulsp n-nds if their
want to, but lot them go alone.
Third. Stink tn tiio OmnU 1 a t tt f in
and keep educating the people; and I be
lieve victory is ours. If not now it is
bound to come in the end.
Very Respectfully,
i N. F. House.
To The F. A. & I. U.
To the Officers and Members of the Ne
braska Farmers' Alliance and Indus
trial Union Greeting:
Having accepted the position of lec
turer for the Fourth district in the hands
of President J. F. Willetts and the execu
tive committee of our Order, I take thiB
means of opening communication with
all who may see this notice. It is my de
sire to enter at once upon the discharge
of the duties of this position, and I ask
the hearty co-operation of all Alliance
members to the end that the greatest
amount of good may be dono during the
coming year. It is proper to state in
this announcement that the amended
constitution of the national F. A. & I. U.
provides for five lecturers, to be appoint
ed by the president and the executive
committee, but provides no compensa
tion for such lecturers except as may be
agreed between the lecturer and those
who call for his services. 1 hope that
officers of county or sub-alliances, or in
dividual members of the order, that de
sire a visit from your lecturer, will write
to me without delay and I will endeavor
to arrange for a visit at such time as
will be most convenient for all concerned
and upon such terras as can be mutually
agreed upon. The absence of political
excitement during the coming year wilt
make the buildingof our order on a busi
ness basis much easier than in a cam
paign year when politics absorbs the at
tention of the people. In the past the
co-operative and business features of the
order have been neglected and we have
depended too much upon the social and
educational work to keep up the roll of
membership. This course has always
been attended with unsatisfactory results
and during the comingyear it will be the
chief care of our officers to perfect the
business methods in their various lines
so that membership in the Alliance shall
be profitable, not alone socially, morp.'lj
and educationally, but financially as ll
I wish to be fully informed of the need of
the order in all parts of tbia district as
quickly as possible, and to this end, ask
all members as well as officers to write
me fully so that I may be advised of your
condition and requirements at once.
The Fourth district includes Iudiana,
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan. Trusting that the
coining year may be one of great pros
perity to our order, and that each mem
ber will contribute bis or her best efforts
to promote this prosperity, I remain
Fraternally yours,
C. Vincent.
37 W, Market street,
Indianapolis, Ind.
(Exchanges please copy.)
Competition Cannot be Continued
"Liberty is but a means to the divine
social end. If liberty is not fulfilled in
unity, then liberty was the consumma
tion of the supreme design of evil powers.
And if liberty means no more than the
right to strive with each other for mate a.
lal gain or intellectual superiority; if the
state can do no more than foster a
civilization founded in such a freedom,
then the evolution of present civilization
from feudalism was the irreparable ruin
of the world. The conception that free
dom consists in the protection of men
from one another in social antagonisms,
rather than in their association with each
other in social sacrifice, can never bring
forth any order but that of tyranny and
slavery. The worship of Baal and Mo
loch was relatively no more degrading
and dehumanizing than the conception
of the state as a commercial compact
and secular institution, with ony police
functions to procure individual liberty
and protect property. If the state has
fundamentally and finally any business
that is not comprehended in the discovery
and organization of society in the high
est right known to man, and the redemp
tion of man from all known wrong, then
the state is a fraud and a tyranny, and
has no right to exist and have authority
over man."
From Prof. Herrou'a new book. The
Chkistian State.
Leaders Must Lead Forward
We want no Fabius now to deviselines
of retreat and consult as to how best
to evade an action. Timid leaders must
go to the rear. Their place is with the
commissary wagons. A real leader
forces the fighting. The Populist is a
fighting party and it demands a leader
ship in sympathy with its demands.
Molly-coddles and sapheads, who think
it "practical politics" to ask their ene
my's permission what to do, may suit to
preside over au old woman's quilting
party, but they are out of place iu revo
lutionary times. Nonconformist.
We have just received a large supply of
the new book, "Money Found," written
by Thos. E. Hill. Price, 25c. Send in
your orders. Nothing like it.
NO. 42
WORK AT THE CAPITAL
Pay Time Over, Makes Froipeot of Ad
jourament Generally Gratifying
TEE EMEEGEEOT CLAUSE ADDED
A Bad Feature of the Irrigation Bill
Bill to Appeal Populist Maximum
1 Rate Bill Bills to Limit Power
of Populist Governor
Good Age of Consent Bill Passed
Friday ended the sixtieth day of the
session, the constitutional limit, in the
house. Hereafter members ot that body
will have to serve without pay, if at all.
Instead of drawing on the public treasury
they will have to draw on their patriot
ism; and as the bankable quality of this
is probably rather small, It may be ex
pected that the agonies produced by the
twenty-fourth session of the Nebraska
legislature will soon be over.
ItELIEF BILL PASSED. " .
The bill appropriating $200,000 for
the purpose of buyiug feed and seed for
indigent farmers has finally passed both
houses, and ere this reaches the readers,'
will have become a law. The boose re
fused to agree to theseuate amendments,
but a conference committee soon got the
two bodies together. The bill was passed
with the emergency clause, so that the
cash will be available at once.
IBRIGATION.
One irrigation bill has passed the house
and will probably soon pass the senate.
The objectionable feature about it ia
that it gives a few men a practical mono
poly of the whole irrigation business. The
state irrigation society and nearly all
the members from the drouth stricken
counties fought to have it amended so
as to give the individual farmer some
rights, but enough Republican voters were
held in lipe to defeat the effort. Bill Pax
ton and other great land owners in the
Platte valley have been down here with a
strong lobby and have succeeded in get
ting the act into such a shape that it
will be one of the worst monopolies ever
known in the state.
OTHEB BILLS.
General appropriation bill, also two
claims bills, have gone through the
house.
Bill to appeal the maximum rate case
has passed the house.
Bill to give a one dollar bountyon wolf
scalps has been recommended to pass the
house.
A bill appropriating $73,000 for the
purpose of furnishing the university
library building was recommended for
passage in the house, after a hard fight.
A bill has passed the senate requiring
that where a man goes on a ticket by
petition, the words "by petition" shall
be prfnted after the name.
A bill has passed the senate to take the
appointment of the oil inspector out of
the hands of the governor.
The house refused to repeal the present
depository law, but favorably acted on
bill amending it in certain particulars.
Anti-cigarette bill has passed.
The bouse has favorably acted on a
constitutional amendment requiring all
members to be able to read and write the
American language.
The bill raising the legal age of consent
with women to eighteen years has passed
the house.
The senate has tacked an amendment
onto the beet sugar bounty bill, giving
a bouuty on chicory.
The bill taking the appointment of the
Omaha fire and police commission out ot
the governor's hands has been favorably
acted on by the senate.
The seriate has adopted a resolution
declaring to be fraudulent the sale of
certain school lands made a few years
ago. J. A. E.
What the Third Party Is.
The predominance of the few against
the many is becoming more and more
apparent. The tribunals of the law are
practically failures. Ever since the war
the people have been trying to work
out a release from the domination of
the old parties, which have proved them
selves failures. Neither of them have
given the relief to the people which they
promised. The present third party, com
posed of farmers, professional men, work
men and small capitalists, is but a con
tinuation of the Workingmen's party,
which in 18(0 nominated Wendell Phil
lips for the presidency. The third party
Is a movement the aim ot which is the
abolition of monopolies. Henry D.
Lloyd.
To retain an abundant head of hair of
a natural color to a good old age, the
hygiene of the scalp must be observed.
Apply Hall's Hair Renewer.
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