Mfcrcb 28, 1895.
THE WKALTH MAKERS.
L1VINO TKLTIIH OF TIIK AlES
"And the Common People Heard Him
Gladly'
A PLIa Tl to rinin Teopi by E. C.H.r
tlin. North Piatt and Wblttler, Sb.
Tbis is most significant language, as
showing the manner in which the teach
ings of Jesus were received by the great
common people: "The common people
heard Him GLADLY."
But what shall we say of the other
class the uncommon, the "bon-ton," or
wealthy class? Did they then or since
ever hear Him gladly? No. They heard
Him with utter disdain. They called
him a babbler, an impostor, a seditious
person an anarchist. They mocked,
scourged and crucified Him.
But why did the common people hear
Him gladly? Because there was that in
His discourse that awakened their sym
pathies. He had something to offer them
which they needed. His youth had been
passed amidst scenes of poverty; His
younger manhood, in toil with fellow
workers at the carpenter's bench. Such
surroundings as these had brought Him
in daily association with those whose
condition had long made them strangers
to the life of free men and who had grown
hopeless for that deliverance promised by
the prophets of old, to be realized in the
reign of a coming Messiah. His mind
had carefully analyzed the economic con
ditions of His own time, and His knowl
edge of the past history of His race had
so aroused the sympathies of His great
heart that he assumed their champion
ship and took at once His rightful place
in their esteem their Friend and Brother.
Hence, when He taught them, they heard
him gladly; His words fell upon their ears
as a heavenly benediction.
Again, when He began to preach, He
struck at once a chord of sympathy in
the breasts of Hishearers, the vibrations
of which have come ringing down the
ages in the song of "Peace on earth and
good-will to men." For hundreds of
years before. His nation had been gradu
ally drifting away from the divine teach
ings. The law of the "year of jubilee,''
no longer enforced, had given place to
oppression, until the opportunities of the
people to enjoy more than the most
meagre share of the products of their
own toil had reduced them to the limit of
a bare existence. No wonder, then, when
He announced His mission to be, "To
preach the gospel to the poor, to heal
the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives and recovering of sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised, and to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord'' the year of jubilee
that "the common people heard Him
gladly." That law, which had in some
measure, once in fifty years, restored hu
man equality, now so long a dead letter,
was to be restored by Jesus with the
auueti ifiory ol perpetuity. It was to be
universal and continuous an eternity of
freedom and equality. There would be no
more bomes despoiled by tne mort
gage fiend, nor the bondage of bodily
servitude, but equality of privilege and
economic freedom.
For long years the "poor" had been
shut out from the privileges of the sanc
tuary. The Beets of Pharisees and
Sadducees, the wealthy classes of that
day, looked upon these toiling slaves as
no better than dogn as beings without
souls and hence had denied thera the
blessings ot God's temples. Jesus came
to preach the gospel, the good news of
reace on earth and good-will to men,
to these poor; to tuke them by the hand
and lift them up, and to give them a
place of equality among men.
He was also to henl the broken-hearted.
What a wonderful mission! The poor
broken heart the heart despoiled of its
tenderest ties, disappointed and broken
was to be healed by the blessed minis
trations of the Sou of Man.
"Deliverance tothecaptives" the poor
slaves to be set free, and those who, by
the cupidity and greed of the privileged
class, had been forced into captivity to
foreign masters, were to be delivered, and
a long, long year of freedom, of social
and economic freedom, was to be ushered
in one that would restore to the toilers
and burden-bearersof his day an equality
of privilege they had never known before.
01 the glad jubilee, in which want would
be unknown; in which the home ties
might be enjoyed unmixed with fear; in
which each would feel that he was a free
man, with all that free manhood means.
It was do wonder that the common peo
ple heard Him gladly and that they so
readily became His eager, earnest follow
ers. The theme that hechose as the founda
tion of His teachings was. "Repent, for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand." And
when He sent forth the Twelve, He said
to them: "As ye go preach, saying the
kingdom of heaven is at hand." Tbe
prayer that He taught them Thy king
dom come, on earth, as it is in heaven,"
only giving emphasis to His mission, as
above announced at once brought Him
in heart-touch with the common people,
and naturally they "heard him gladly."
The Sermon on the Mount, a symposium
of His theme concerning the coining of
the kingdom, reaches at once to the sim
plest details of that life into which the
kingdom of heaven is come and sets forth
the active principles of the life in which
Jesus, the King, reigns. lie says: "Do
unto others as you would have others do
unto yon," to seek for social conditions
that will make it unnecessary to worry
for the morrow, and to "seek first the
kingdom of God."'
Again, "thecommon people heard Ilim
gladly" because he gave evidence of His
sympathy with them by denouncing in
most Bcathing language the class who
had become their oppressors the Scribes
and Pharisees. lie pronounces upon
these classes the most terrible woes, in
that they had shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men, had devoured the
houses of widows, and says to them: "Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, bow
can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
And when these wealthy classes occupied
the temple for the purpose of exacting
usury, He drove them forth, saying they
had made tbe Father's house a den of
thieves. Some have thought this occur
rence was simply against the pollution of
the temple by the carrying on of trade
within It nrr'! piwinHa, but when the
fnrt is aiidersttHxl llmtonijr the J-wioh
aliehe! routd te iimmI fur the ptirchiismg
of sacrifices and that liomimcoin linl Im.
come the circulating medium, and the
further fact that the objwit of these
money-changers was to change theNhekel
which they bad "cornered" for the coin
ot the realm, there can be no doubt that
they were indeed thieves.
It seems to me that the grandest of the
many lessons to be drawn from these
great truths is that the onecoruplete and
sovereign remedy to be applied to the
social and industrial conditions of the
present time is found in the practicable
application cf the teachings of Jesus to
our individual and, through that, to our
national life.
The great fault of the preaching of the
past is that it has been, too prone to
spiritualize all Bible truth and to make
the kingdom of heaven apply alone to the
higher conditions of our being, instead of
allowing us some of its benefits applied
to our temporal life. When Jesus reached
out after the spiritual nature, so warped
and degraded by the environments of
His day, He did it by first blessing in
some way the temporal life. He gave
sight to blinded eyes, hearing to deaf
ears, made the lame to leap, the tongue
of the dumb to sing, and, taking t lie poor
demoniac by the hand and lifting him up,
cast out the evil spirit from him and then
made him spiritually whole. Yet the
ministry has so spiritualized all truth
that the poor, hungry and oppressed
people have been driven to theconclusion
that the church had no longer anything
to offer them, and thus is the charge dis
proved that the toiling tnasnes have for
saken the good. The fact is that the
toiling people are just us loyal to the
gospel of Jesus today as they ever were,
but they want its truths pure and unde
filed; they want its philosophy to be
applied to the employer as well as to
themselves and the equality of privilege
which it teaches made' the controlling
spirit of our laws.
When wo can discover the impress of
the Christ-mind in our laws, then will be
exemplified the angelic announcement of
His mission, "peace on earth, good-will
to men." And when the pulpits of our
land shall emphasize the teachings of
Jesus applied to our social life, then will
thecommon people hear Him gladly.
The sociology of Jesus stands out so
prominently in His teachings that the
church cannot presume to ignore its-bearing
upon the social needs of the hour,nor
fail to make such application of it as will
make its impress felt upon our national
polity and lead us toward the God-given
right of human equality. He came not
to translate men into the kingdom of
heaven, but to put the kingdonof heaven
into men, that it might become the inspi
ration to individual and social life.
Again, that Jesus is still, as he has al"
ways been, the friend of thecommon peo
ple. He still speaks to us, through His
word, of the same life and thesameduties
as He did to those who ''heard Him
gladly" by the shores of Galilee.
He came to establish among men a
divine sociology which should rest upon
that doctrine too often forgotten. "The
Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood
of Man." He would give us, in place of
a despotism to which we are hastening, a
socialism recognizing the great doctrine,
giving us a community of interest in all
natural opportunities and thus insuring
to us a condition in which would be
neither the millionaire nor the tramp.
The economies with which God has en
riched our globe would be the common
property of all. There would be no
syndicates or trusts, corporations or
monopolies, but such a community of
interest and effort as would redound to
the welfare of all. He would say to the
modern Pharisee and Sadducee: "You
haveshut up the kingdom of heaven, you
have despoiled widows' houses, you have
laid burdens upou the people that you
will not so niuch as try to lift." 01 ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape
the damnation of hell?
A government founded upon any other
than the principles of a divine sociology
must be destructive of liberty. We can-'
not safely reject the wisdom of One who
foretold the destruction of those ancient
systems that enslaved the class who were
its wealth-makers and patriots, . but in
the history of their fall we should dis
cover the direful miseries that await us if
we do not get back to the principles of
equality and justice which were the foun
dation of our own national life. "Back
to your tents, 0! Israel," should be our
cry, anu, listening io we voice oi me
Carpenter of Narareth. when we pray,
"Thy kingdom come," we should empha
size that prayer with a ballot that
speaks for human equality and economic
freedom.
A New Financial Plan
Do away with all banks and issue all
money by the government, by the follow
ing plan:
Make all post offices places of loan and
deposit, as follows: for a loan appli
cant shall give postmaster amount
wanted and kind of security; and post
master shall reduce the same to writing
by use of blanks furnished for that pur
pose, and shall send such application to
central office which shall be located at
the state capital and shall be organized as
follows, and shall be known as the Loan
Commission.
Said Commission shall consist of not
less than three nor more than five persons,
and shall not have more than two mem
bers of the same political party; and as
in the present political situation of four
parties, each party shall have one mem
ber and one chosen from the state at
large, state to be divided into commis
sioner districts on the most equitable
plan as relates to population; said com
mission shall be chosen by popular vote
and tbe candidate receiving the largest
number of votes on the party ticket
shall be declared elected, except the one
at large, who shall receive the largest
number of votes the same as other state
officers. Said commissioners' duty shall
be to receive and examineall applications
made for loan and sent to them by post
masters and, to assist said Commission in
such examination of such security they
shall have power to call on county treas
urers for the assessed valuation of such
property, where such property was as
sessed, and if such property shall be
other than real estate said property
shall be appraised by three persons to be
chosen, oneby applicant.oneby postmas
ter one by a justice of the peace, and he
shall swear said appraisers the same as
In other ens nf appraisement, arid stirh
louii on real eMail shall not m lor more
than !' yenrs; and such real estate ahall
be I ii ml lined fur ngrieultuntl purpOMfs;
and on town property or laud used lor
other th nn agricultural puriioNPs nolonn
shall be for a longer term than ten years;
and if such property consists iu part of
buildings thereon then th appraisement
of such projMTty shall be made in two
parts, one of the real estate, the ot her
of the buildings or other im
provements thereon, and all buildings
and improvements shall be insured, and
any loan made on such property shall be
a lien on such insurance until such loan
is paid; Loans on chattels shall not be
made for more than five years, said chat
tels shall be insured and said loan shall
be a lien on such insurance. In case of
personal security shall be sworn as to
qualification, which shall not be for less
than double the amount; and said loan
shall not be for more than one year un
less a sworn statement is made that said
security has not depreciated; and further
that no loan be made to any person
company or corporation or any party
whatever who is not a bona tide citizen
of the United States, neither shall there
be loan on any security more than two-
thirds of assessed valuation on agricul
tural lands, and not more than one-half
valuation on othr securities; neither
shall any one person obtain a loan on
more than 640 acres of laud, and interest
on said loan shall not exceed two per
cent per annum; and if it be found that
two percent will more than pay the ex
penses of said loan department then said
interest shall be reduced to the actual
cost; and in case of deposits being made
at any post office the post master shall
give to said depositor a certificate of de
posit which shall nave attached his sig
nature and stamn of said oost office.
The money so deposited shall be forward
ed by said post master to central office
within twenty-four hours of receiptof the
same. Said certificate may be used in
business the same as a government note,
and shall be a legal tender in all business
transactions; and said certificate of de
posit shall be made redeemable at any
post office by giving the postmaster
sufficient time if necessary to call for the
money from the central office, and said
certificate of deposit shall not draw any
interest. And in order to meet all de
mands the government shall be prepared
to furnish central offices with such
amounts as shall be necessary to meet
its demands; but in no case shall such.
office draw from the government an
amount to exceed one-half the assessed
valuation of the state whero said office
is located. The commissioner of such
office shall give security in amounts col
lectively double the amount that they
will hold in said office.
And to further establish confidence and
prevent any depreciation in the credit of
the government, the government snail
coin all gold and silver bullion that shall
be presented into TJ. S. coins at the ratio
of 16 to 1 on the same terms as existed
prior to 1873. And after five years the
government may at its option redeem
the bills issued by this act in coin in such
sums as the coin on hand will justify.
A Free Thinker.
Tbe People's Government m Farce
Editor Wealth Makers:
Metalic money is a relic of barbarism.
It is brutal iu the extreme. The master
that spoke as never man spake disposed
of the money question in a very few
words. "Whose image and superscrip
tion hath it?" in other words, whoseflat?
Tbe image and superscription, or fiat,,
constitutes money, no matter what its
substance. History is repeating itself.
The destruction of the Jewish nation was
preceded by a period of oppression. In
1776 the English tax on tea caused our
forefathers to take a bead on the red
coated demons. What kind of Ameri
cans have we now that will tamely sub
mit to the direct descendants of Judas
Iscariot, the Jewish baukers who mock
at the people's distress and sing:
What care we for labor
That Plebeian crowd?
Onr vaBsala we draw from
The rich and the proud.
Our Dukes control the great wealth of
the land, and they smile in their hauteur,
"the people be damned."
Every precinct in this great nation
should send a delegation to Washington
with Winchesters in their hands toenforce
their demands. When you are dealing
with a brute you have to use force.
THE MORTGAGE BIG
Did yon ever see a mortgage big? '
A mortgage big; v
It eats the (arm, the cow, the pig,
Tbe cow, the pig.
It eats the butter and the cheese,
It eats the hives ot honey bees.
It eats the peach and apple trees.
The apple trees.
It eats the handsome two year old.
The two year old;
The pretty gelding njnst be sold,
He mast be sold.
It eats the wheat, the oats, tbe corn.
The farmer's heart with grief Is worn.
His overalls are tattered and torn,
Are tittered and torn,
It eats the duck and It eats the hen:
It eats tbe hen;
It comes In the dark yon know not when
Yon know not when.
Tbe farmer's wife is filled with sighs.
It puts the tear drop In her eyes,
' It steals her plums and apple pies.
Her apple pies.
It makes ber wear an old print dress,
An old print dress;
It fills her soul with great distress.
With great distress.
It hurts and injures every arm.
She knows down In her bosom warm
That's why the boys all leave tbe farm, .
They leave the farml '
Did yon ever see a mortgage big?
A mortgage big.
It eats tbe goose, the colt, the pig,
Tbe colt, the pig.
It eats the hnystnek and the hen,
It makes a wreck ot perch and pen.
And oht It makes a wreck of men,
A wreck of men.
Selected.
Spaniards Active Over All Cuba.
Tampa, Fla., March 19. The reports
Of the Progrresso, a Cuban steamer that
arrived last night, give credence to the
uprising; in the eastern department and
say much activity exists among the
Spanish troops on the entire Island.
Thirteen prisoners are reported in the
prisons of Havana. The Cubans had a
recent engagement with Spanish troops
In the outskirts of Bayamo. The af
fray lasted two hours and 300 Spaniards
were killed and wounded.
Blood Poison
THE BANE OF HUMAN LIFE,
Driven Out of the System by
the Use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
L'For five years, I was a great H
sufferer from a most persistent j
blood disease, none of the various of
meuicmes l iook. wing oi any a
help whatever. Hoping that oj
change of climate wouldlicnelit j
me, I went to Cuba, to Florida, J
and then to Saratoga Springs, o
where I remained some time oj
drinking the waters, lint all was ?i
no use. At last, being advised 0!
by several friends to try Ayer's oi
Sarsaparilla, I began taking it, o
and very soon favorable results 2i
were manuesi. io-uay i con- oi
aider myself a perfectly healthy oj
man, with a good appetite and J
not the least trace of my former i
complaint. To all my friends, o;
and especially young men like i
myself, I recommend Ayer's Sar- 2i
saparilla, if in need of a perfectly 0
reliable blood-purifier." Jose oj
A. Escobar, proprietor Hotel Jj
victoria, jvey v cm, rij imr :
aence, 352 v. lutn&i., .new xorn. o
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Admitted for Exhibition
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SPAIN IN A PICKLE.
M Treated Fairly, bat Hail Av
swer Uncle Sam.
Washington, March 25. Yesterday"
was the regular cabinet day, and the
President and his advisers gave up
most of the time of the meeting to a
general discussion of foreign affairs.
Two things were practically decided
upon. Spain is to be treated fairly, but
delays will be frowned on. The cabinet
crisis is assumed to be a reasonable ex
cuse for failure to consider the Alllanca
matter promptl y.but once the new min
istry is in working order Uncle Sam will
Insist on an answer to his demands.
When the new Spanish cabinet assumes
the reins the first thing to be considered
will be something much in the shape ol
an ultimatum from the United States.
Admiral Meade's fleet is handy to Cuba,
and it is said that at the first Intima
tion there will be a display of Yankee
ships in Cuban waters, and they will
not be at all'Vartlcular about keeping
outside the three mile limit.
In certain diplomats circles there are
rumors afloat that the administration
Is losing some of its enthusiasm in the
Nicaragua matter. The right of Great
Britain to demand Indemnity Is con
ceded. The way in which it Is to be col
lected Is the question at issue. In fact,
intimations have been given to Nicara
gua that Great Britain's claims must at
least be adjudicated, and that if it is re
pudiated In advance the United States
will withdraw the right hand of fellow
ship. At the same time It Is said there
will be no trifling If Great Britain shows
a disposition to enforce the claims in
any high handed manner. If Nicaragua
can not pay a claim found due Englnnd
will have to content Itself with being In
the position fit an unsecured creditor of
an insolvent concern. It is believed the
administration will concede that Great
Britain has a prima facia Icalm on
Nicaragua, which should be paid, and
that if the little republlo concedes the
same thing but pleads poverty Uncle
Sam will see that its pooyr but honest
condition is properly recognized.
What Is troubling some people in the
state department is the fact that Eu
rope seems to be combined against
America. First came the significant
combination of Germany, Austria
France, Belgium, and Denmark against
the meat trade of the United States.
Spain at the same time, though a gainer
by the discriminating duty on sugar,
put the United States In the second or
higher table of customs duties. It
backed down fri this position on a
little bluff from this country about re
taliation, but then wound up by firing
on the Alllanca. Now, while the United
States is busy with the Cuban and
Nlcaraguan incidents, Great Britain,
Germany, France, and Belgium are
combining to make trouble In Vene
Eula. It begins to look as if it were get
ting to be a case of all Europe against
all America.
INCOME TAXES ROLL IN-
Estlmates of Congress Far Exceeded by
Returns Already Hade.
Washington. March 25. Income ta
returns are pouring into the office of
the Commissioner of Internal revenua at
such a rate as to make the income tax
division a beehive of industry and ac
tivity; These returns, it la
much more numerous than were calcu
lated upon in the first estimate sub
mitted to congress as the basis of ac
tion. The estimate then was that 80,000
corporations and Individuals wem sub
ject to the tax. After the law passed
and the estimates of the fifty-eight col
lectors of Internal revenue were com-
pileu it was found that thev mnrreratud
490,000 returns from corporations and In
dividuals. This estimate Is considered
entirely too high, and if the income tax
IS paid by 240.000 individuals nnil onr.
poratlons it is believed the law will have
oeen more generally enforced than Is
usual with a new enactment of this kind
when first put into operation.
"Oar Governor," the new march, com
posed in honor of Governor llolconib by
l'rof. J. L. Frank, will be sent to any ad
dressby remitting 35c. to J. L. Frank,
Y. M. C. A., Lincoln, Neb.
The Baltimore Plan,
now practically endorsed by President Cleveland, is attracting
universal attention because it is based on the evident fact that
the currency and banking systems of the country must be re
formed. But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It gives the associated
banks the power to expand the currency and relieve the country.
It also gives them the power to contract it at will and create
universal distress for their own private gain.
It puts the credit of the government behind every bank note.
It donates all but half of one per cent of the profit on the note
issue to the banks, and it leaves plenty of opportunities for a
Napoleon of Finance to .wreck a bank and leave the government
to pay the notes.
It leaves the banks free to demand the highest interest that
the several states will allow, and affords no relief to farmers and
business men of moderate capital.
Contrast .with this -
The Hill Banking System.
In "Money Found," an exceedingly valuable and instructive
book published by Charles H. Kerr & Company of Chicago, and
for sale at the office of this paper at 25 cents, Hon. Thos. E.
Hill proposes that the government open its own bank in every
large town, or county seat in the United States, pay 3 per cent
on long tima deposits, receive deposits subject to check without
interest, and loan money at the uniform rate of 4 per cent to
every one offering security worth double the amount of the loan.
This plan is not an expense to the government.but a source of
large revenue. '
It secures the government amply, which the Baltimore plan
does not.
It relieves the distress of the common people, which the Bal
timore plan does not.
It protects not only note-holders but depositors, who are un
secured now and under the Baltimore plan would be still
worse off. ,
In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the bankers,
the Hill Banking System is in the interest of the peopled
Consider them both, and ask your congressman to vote for the '
ttie you believe in.
And send us 25c. immediately for the book. "Money Found?
has no equal in its line. Address,
Wealth Makers Pub. Co..
Lincoln, Neh,
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