THE WEALTH MAKERS.
New Series of
TUB ALLIAS'CE-IXDEPESDENT.
Consolidation of the
Farmers Alliance and Neb. Independent.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BT
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Oroaoa Howiid Gibson
Editor
..Boslness Manager
J. 8. HT4TT..
N. I P. A.
"II any miin mast tail tor m to riw.
Then seek I not to climb. Another's pain
I choose not (or my good. A golden chain,
A rob of honor, is too good a prlia
To tempt my nasty band to do a wrong
Unto a tallow man. This Ufa batb wos
Sufficient, wrought by man's satanlc foe;
And who that batb a heart would dare prolong
Or add a sorrow to a atrlckea tool
That seeks a healing balm to make it whole?
My bocom owni the brotherhood of roan." ,
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.Public services must be under public
control.
What all the people need, a few of the
people must not be allowed to mono
polize. ,
The people's property and rights are
being taken from them by the laws of
the lawmakers they hare elected to pro
tect them. '
Send a two cent stamp to J. S. Coxey,
Mosailon, Ohio, for a copy of his speech
made before the Ways and Means Com
mittee of Congress.
If the people of Lincoln like what they
have voted for, the Graham gang can be
counted on to give them what they like
without any obstruction.
Will the poor ever learn that their
only salvation is in becoming sufficiently
intelligent to discover what wrongs are
being luflicted on them and unite for
self-help and defense?
Liberty and monopoly cannot exist
side by side and both be perpetuated.
Either liberty will overthrow monopoly,
or the tribute to monopoly will be used
to buy up the whole basis of liberty.
The Populist party is the only party
organized to wrwst public functions from
private control. And this part of its
work is vastly moreimportant than that
of coining all the silver 75 cents more
per capita.
The free coinage of silver is.all we want,
men are saying. What would the free
coinage of silver provide? Only about
75 cents per capita more money, and the
millionaire owners of the silver mines
would get about all of that, and placing
it in the banks the only way the people
could get it would be to borrow it at as
high rates of interest as are demanded
now. We can get money now by putting
up lots of security and paying interest
for it. What we want is money, the
people's money, at cost. And this we
can only get it through government
banks. The money question is tie in
terest Question. Keep that fact before
the people.
Governor Stone of Missouri has called
an extra session of the legislature to see
if it is possible to get through some
greatly needed legislation in spite of the
"third house." He says in his message
that "the Btate has been disgraced" for a
number of years "by an organized and
salaried lobby, maintained by special in
teres 1 8 at the capital" to influence legis
lation. "Encouraged by a seeming lack
of public resentment at their presence,
and emboldened by repeated successes,
these lobbyists have year by year in
creased in numbers, influence and auda
city until they have becomo an almost
dominating force in legislation. So con
fldent have they grown in their strength,
and so potent in influence, that they now
ply their vocation almost without dis
guise in defiance of public authority and
in utter contempt of pnblic opinion. It
has come to pass that almost every im-
Dortant measure of legislation must un
dergo the scrutiny of the lobby before its
i fate can be determined. What it ap
proves is not without hope, but what it
condemns is lost.
TEE OSE GREAT ISSUE
What in the issue? We are told there
must be one supreme, dominating, divid
ing question. Gentlemen of the Populist
party, and of all parties, we have such a
question. It Is this:
Ja monopoly-tribute right, or is It
wrong? '
Abraham Lincoln speaking at Norwich
Conneticutt, in March, 18G0, in his open
ing sentence said:
"My fellow citizens, there is, in fact, but
one political question before the people
M this country, and that is, la slavery
right or is it wrong?"
All civilized nations have declared, and
America, has with thehi answered, that
slavery is not right. And if slavery is
wrong it is plain that monopoly-tribute
is wrong, for it is but one of the protean
shapes of slavery, out of which all evil
comes.
What the question of chattel slavery
was thirty-five years and more ago, the
question of monopoly slavery is today;
and the latter is even more cold, calcula
ting, cruel and powerful than was the
former. The monopolists of today are
not compelled to feed, clothe and care for
those who serve them. Monopoly power
is the old slave-power in its most hidden,
elusive form. It is elusive because it
exercises its tyranny nnder the guise of
free contracts, its compulsion being exer
cised indirectly by controlling the condi
tions which destroy the independence of
the oppressed, so compelling them to ac
cept and even propose most inequitable
exchanges. As chattel slavery was legal
ized and by world-old custom defended,
so monopoly slavery is by law protected
and by age made honorable. The essen
tial principle of slavery is to get labor
products without labor, something for
nothing, compelling others to produce
wealth for us. There is therefore more
actual slavery and a greater number o'
wronged toilers in the world today than
gver before. The whips that drive men
to their tasks and to accept the terms of
monopolists are the whips of necessity,
are hunger and cold and wretchedness,
loved ones in want. And with a tenth
part of the slave class, on the average,
unable to find a master, begging work in
vaid, those who get work areexpected to
be grateful to God and man for an op
portunity to live and sweat for others.
Monopoly is a hydra-headed monster
of overshadowing power and insatiuble
greed, that must be attacked as a whole.
It is one question, one issue. We cannot
separate a single head from this mon
ster's body and kill it. The life of one 1
monopoly flows into the lite of others-
tone form of monopoly is wrong, all
forms of monopoly are wrong. If the
gold monopoly is wrong, the gold and
silver monopoly would be wrong. If the
money monopoly is wrong, the
(and, transportation, telegraph, tele-
ph one and other monopolies muetalsc be
condemned. The usurer's percent.whether
it be for money, victuals, land, houses,
street cars, railroads, or what not, must
be outlawed and cut off.
Why should the people pay dividends
on one thousand millions of railroad
stock forever, when the government could
operate the roads at cost and save all
the monopoly tribute? Why need we
pay a ruinous interest on the $32,000,
000,000 debts of the people, when the
government could loan us all the money
we need at two per cent or less per year?
Why should any individual or corpora
tion or trust be allowed to draw, from
thepeople more wealth than it creates and
exchanges lor it?
Let the cry be: Down with monopoly
rule; up with the great anti-monopoly
party of the people.
A THOROUGHLY SWINISH DROVE
Mr. Edgerton this week compresses a
great deal of truth and just criticism into
his last words regarding the work of the
last legislature. It has seemed to be
thoroughly swinish in its instincts, 'going
the whole hog' in a manner hitherto un
precedented. All decent Republicans are
ashamed of its special legislation to take
appointing power, always and properly
belonging to the executive, out of the
governor's hands, because he is a Popu
list. Its act taking from the Populist
governor the power to designate the
papers in which the proposed constitu
tional amendments shall be 'published
and giving the Republican secretary of
state control of this work, is beneath
the dignity of men. So of numbers of
other barefaced boodle and corporation
jobs. The Republican party in Nebraska
through the action of its chosen represen
tativesis unblushingly a party" of plun
der. It has been exceedingly extrava
gant of the people's money in this time
of unprecedented poverty. It has disre
garded tne laws 01 tne state and anar-
chistically voted itself an unlawful num
ber of clerks and helpers to pay partisan
debts. It has done almost its worst, but
it has passed into history, history which
will be of use in the next campaign.
The weakness of the Populists in the
last legislature, weakness of lack of num
bers, had a cause which is perhaps not
clearly understood by our people. Bryan
and his friends used their power first to
get Bryan-favoring Populists nominated
on the legislative ticket as lar as pos
sible. Then the Democratic state central
committee sent out letters to the differ
ent Populist candidates chosen in con
vention, promising to request the Demo
crats of the county or senatorial district
to support such several candidates pro
vided the candidate addressed would
pledge his vote to Mr. Bryan first and
last forU.S.senator. Those who refused to
pledge this.tosell theirvoteforDemocratic
support, were in all instances defeated
where it was in the power of the Demo.
craUtodoit. On the other hand those
who secretly or publicly pledged their
votes to the Democratic aspirant were in
almost every county handicapped by
Democratic support, a support which re
pelled the better element in the Republi
can party who were ready to leave their
old party, and would have done so in
great numbers if a strong, aggressively
Populist campaign bad been carried on.
Secret pledges made open aggressive
fights on the Omaha principles impossi
ble, and open pledges of course tied our
men to a mild, milk-and-water, offend-
nobody-but-Republicans kind of cam
paign. There was too much politics, too much
secret tying up, too much endorsing done
by the Democratic party, too much ap
parent scheming, pledging and trading
for office, too apparent an understand
ing between the Democratic and Populist
candidates for office. We hate to say it,
but it is a fact.
Pledges to the Democrats and endorse'
ment by the Democrats will never build
up Populism, nor will it benefit the party.
The Wealth Makers is aware that it is
making enemies when it says this, never
theless it must be said. The Populists
who were wise, who are not Populists for
the sake of office, will thank ns for it.
The pledge-givers, vote-buyers and old
party endorsement seekers will bate us
and artfully combine to prejudice the
people against the state paper, but it
will always be faithful to the cause of the
people, and they will stand by it.
THE STATE AND THE OHUROH
If the state is a divine institution it has
fallen into the hands of selfish men and is
being used by them to plunder and op
press, to destroy instead of to save.
Legislatures are run by lobbies, congress
by the great corporations. The spirit of
commercialism, the divided, grasping
spirit of the business world, is supreme
in the political world today.
Can a party be built up by sacrifice,
kept clear of the control of hypocritical
spoils seekers and the selfishly ambitious,
and gaining control of the government
undo class legislation and cut off the
power of monopolies?
We look to the church for help, but it
is in vain. The church does not know
what justice is. It has adjusted itself to
established injustice and supports oppresr
sion. it Has no common conception of
the Christiau state and its work, no
clear voice or true interpretation of the
Supreme Ruler's will. Speaking of it as
a body, it does not perceive where God is
in politics. It does not recognize His
party, His cause. It is not united under
His banner to overthrow political selfish
ness and save the people from the awful,
universal consequences of political sins.
The church ought to be "fair as the
moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as
an amry with banners." It is its busi
ness to know what right is, and to pro
claim it without fear or favor. It should
act. as one body, having one spirit, to
save the poor from oppression. It should
scourge the money changers and mono
polists from its temples, refuse to be sup.
ported by their ill-gotten gains, and
learn to be as horrified at the sin of
usury (See Bible meaning as it now is
at the sins of highway robbery, adultery
and murder, with which God's word
classes it. The church as a body has
nothing to say against the individualism,
the selfish property struggle, of the busi
ness world, and out of the six days of
selfishness, self-seeking, sin, which it
allows and all engage in, all evil flows
and grows.
Faithful preachers can save thechurcln
society and the state, but each will have
his Gethsemane of heart-breaking loneli.
ness, of agony, of personal attack and
misudgment. Each must be branded as
annemy of the church he loves, and be
called an anarchist and socialist as he
walks the way to Calvary. The Bpirit of
old is still crying, "We want no king
but Cffisar."
A V0I0E ORYINQ, REPENT
The latest work of Prof. Herron, "The
Christian State. A Political Vision of
Christ," is a distinct advance in thought
over all his previous publications. It is
the Lincoln address of last June very
considerably elaborated and added to,
the book being divided into six chapters,
with the following titles, viz., "The Po
litical Appearing of Christ," "The Chris
tian State," "The Christian State the
Social Realization of Democracy," "The
Christian State the Salvation of the
Church," and "'The Christian Revival of
the Nation."
"A political order that shall associate
men in justice is the present search of
civilized peoples," says Prof. Herron: and
his conception of it is an order that has
Christ as its head, its law, its individual
example. He sees disorder, division, in
dividual antagonizing individual, man
kind under the universal rule of selfish
ness or self-centered individualism, with
all evil resulting. But he says: "The
race is learning that it is not an aggre
gation of individuals, but one body, one
humanity, of which all individuals are
members; that it is not natural, but the
misapprehension and antagonism of na
ture, that these members should strive
with each other for place and life in the
body." "Men are ceasing to believe, and
can no longer be persuaded, that a con
dition of rivalry, fn whicb they are sup
posed to act from an enlightened self-interest,
is the real ground of social order
and progress. The civilization that now
builds upon the assumption that men are
antagonists, is fundamentally anarchical
against the divine course of things "
"Not iiidividusl liberty to Compete, and
the equilibrium of warring self-interests,
bur tlie association of men in a commun
ion of justice, is the work of the politics
that would command the patience and
win the respect of the people. The vision
of brotherhood will not pass away, for it
is heavenly. Politics must obey that
vision, or the people will try obedience
without politics, and a world-tragedy
will have to be the school in which the
nations shall learn their law and mis
sion." "The mind of Christ is the mind that
would make each life a sacrifice to the l.fe
of others, a contribution to the hie of all.
The righteousness of Christ was bis per
fect sacrifice for the world, and that sac
rifice is the complete and eternal defini
tion of righ teousness. Sacrifice is the so
cial law of gravity, in all the heavens, in
the organization of life upon earth. By
no other law could there be a universe,
and no other law has power to procure
social unity among men. The mind of
Christ is the one mind that has perfectly
understood and obeyed thisfundamental
law of association. -His sacrifice mani
fests the character of all power and au
thority, all government and order. It is
the perfect utterance of the moral mind
of God; and the disclosure of the whole
moral nature of the universe."
"The associating and organizing power
of the law of sacrifice was revealed
through the reception of the Spirit by the
first Christian community. After their
Lord had been taken away from them,
and they were of oue accord in the pur
pose to do whatever the Holy Spirit
might reveal, there came upon a little
company of those who believed in Christ.
one hundred and twenty men and wo
men, a profound immersion in bis Holy
Spirit; so that their nnholy spirit, with
its unsocial, selfish, and individualistic
desires, was driven out of them, and no
man called anything his own, but offered
himself and his all upon the altar of an
entire devotion to human need. This
was the beginning of the ultimate civili
zation the society thatisbecoming. So
perfect was the social order of this little
community, that its members defined their
civilization, and the civilization which
they hoped to get into the world, as the
communion of the Holy Ghost. They
meant by this that their minds and dis
positions were perfectly agreed and ao
cordant in the mind of God. . They be
came of one mind, one spirit, truly asso
ciated, through receiving the Holy Spirit j
they had seen 111 thrist as the uniting,
organizing spirit of them all. They were
thus perfectly socialized divinely coin- i
munized. In that transcendant moment
of human history the social order of
heaven appeared upon the earth."
"A Christian political philosophy will
teach us how to translate Christ's law of
sacrifice into economic association and
political organization, into the statutes
of the state; so that the state shall be
come the visible divinegovernmentof the
world which Jesus made. known and es
tablished anew." "A pure social Democ
racy is the political fulfillment of Chris
tianity; the political organization of
Christ'slawof love; the order thatthrouuh
faith in the right manifests itself in the
freedom of man." "But Democracy only
begins its real struggle and work in be
coming political; it must become social.
Unless Democracy retreat from the field
of progress, it must take possession of
'the industrial world. The govern
ment of the future will be mainly con
cerned with the social being and indus
trial association of the people. Political
.freedom can realize itself only through
industrial freedom. The life of man is
objectively an economic life. In the
sphere of production and distribution is
the economic life fulfilled. Production is
communion with God; the producer is
God's co-worker. Distribution is human
fellowship; it is the method by which
justice unites men. Until Democracy be
the order of production, it will be an illu
sive philosophy . and baffled effort, and
industrial slavery will be the inevitable
lot of millions. It is unreasonable and
morally intolerable; it is the social con
tinuation of the old absolutism, that the
well-being of the people should depend,
as it in large measure does depend under
the present economy, upon the will of the
few who possess the quality of power es
sential to reaping the harvest of the
common toil; and whose authority con
sists in the possession of material things.
The paople must finally own and distri
bute the products of their own labor, and
economic Democracy must now be the
search of political wisdom that would
command an intelligent respect and the
social patience."
"The condition of competition is in
consistent with both Christianity and
Democracy." The economy of competi
tion must come to an end, or both De
mocracy and Christianity will come to
an end, and the hope of justice be lost in
social despair."
"Competition has been the condition 01
much of the struggle for life it is true, but
not its law. The struggle for life has
never been fundamentally competitive,
and is on its way to become wholly al
truistic." "A more scientific interpreta
tion of history than we have had, will re
veal the altruistic and sacrificial forces
to have been the makers of progress."
"Competition is in fact the negation of
society; and such society as we have ex
ists through the restriction of competi
tion. The evolution of society is the
elimination of competition through the
progressive introduction of altruistic
torces."
"There no longer exists an honest ex
pectation of freedom or justice in a com
petitive system based upon what is prac
tically an exclusive private ownership of
property. Notwithstanding our com
petitive philosophy, the natural and un
alterable result of the system is the
wealth and power of the few, and the
poverty and social oppression of the
many; the exploitation of thetruly indus
trious by the speculative and cunning;
the toil of the millions to produce social
benefits possessed by the tens."
"Whatever I may know or not know of
the politics of the iuture, I declare to you
the word of Christ, that this industrial
order of things in which we live is wicked
and doomed, and that the social traits
we once glorified as its virtues are now
become vices and tyrannies. I have seen
the kingdom of Christ's law and order
routiner to indirt the kingdom and laws
of the world, and have beheld the King
appearing in clouds of so 'al threat and
gathering storm. 1 kiio.v tne testimony
of Christ, that in the purpose of hi
Father who is ours, this civilization of
organized selfishness cannot abide the
day of his political appearing, which is
now being nado manifest. 1 bear the
witness of Christ, that the church's
greatest apostasy, and his own present
fearful sorrow, is its ignorance of the
wick wines and doom of thin social
order; its want of knowledge and faith
concerning t lie social order of the king
dom of God; its chosen impotence to
lead the social change; its protection of
the social wolves who prey upon the
sheep it has largely forsaken."
In next week's Wealth Makers we
shall quote farther from Prof. Herron's
book. There is no book to compare
with it in breadth of viaiou and grasp of
truth.
"Who dares not follow Troth where'er
Her footsteps lead,
Bnt says: 'O. guide not there, not there.
I have not strength to follow where
My feet wonld bleed;
Bnt show me worn ways, trodden fair
By feet more brave'
Who fears to stand In truth's broad
What others dared not will not dare.
Is bnt a slave."
April 4th there was a streetcar riot in
Chicago and it was an organized compa
ny of the capitalists, take notice, whicb
did the rioting. An army of 300 em
ployes of the Central Railway Co., under
direction of their employers set npon one
of the cars of a rival street car company,
as it was being driven with passengers in
it on Wabash Avenue, drew it from the
track, tore it to pieces with grappling
irons,andsmasbed it to bits with axes,and
ledges. The car was being driven in a
public street which aprivate corporation
claimed exclusive right by gift to use;
but instead of calling a constable and se
curing a process from the court it took
the law into its own hands, as any other
anarchist, and in its illegal destruction
of property did the work of dynamateurs.
Lieutenant-Governor Day of Minne
sota, speaking of the growing sentiment
for free silver, says: "I confidently ex.
pect that within a shorter period than
most people think the majority of the
Republican party will declare unequivo
cally in its favor." They are to hold a
big free coinage convention at St. Paul
this summer, he reports, and will invite
all silver Republicans and Democrats but
exclude the Populists. See? When
both the old parties in the western and
southern states and at least one of them
in national convention aresure to declare
for free silver, what a stroke of suicidal
folly it would be for us to reduce our
platform to that one idea, and have no
party issue to fight fori
Governor Holcomb madea mistake in
signing House Roll 602, which requires
Iegnl notices to be published in news
papers that have been published for a
year or more. It will operate against
Populist papers in some counties, Keith,
for instance, requiring Populist officials
to publish legal notices in Republican
papers. The bill was framed for this
very purpose, it is evident. The gover
nor, in his press of duties doubtless, did
not get the bearings of it or see its parti
san trickery and meanness.
"Honest" Barney Johnston seriously
injured his reputation in voting to pass
the Republican partisan A. P. A. bill over
the governor's veto, a bill that takes
appointing power from the Populist
governor and gives it to a Republican
majority. Barney was seen too much
in Tom Majors company just before the
vote was taken. Wonder if Tom promis
ed him a place as secretary of the state
board of transportation? Two thousand
a year.
The Ontrirv for Anril must surelv con
tain something to please each one of its
many readers, so varied are the subjects
of the different articles. Prof. Sloane'a
"Life of Bonaparte" increases in interest
each month. It has thirteen full page
illustrations from noted artists. Molly
Eliot Seawell has an article on John Paul
Jones, with extracts from his unpublish
ed let ters. She ardently defends him from
the charges made against him. A paper
on Testa b Oscillator ana otner mveii
hv T f! Martin, has illustrations
tions, made from phosporescent photo
graphs taken oeiore tne uurning ui m
laboratory last month. They are the
only record he has of some of his latest
discoveries. Dr. Lyman Abbott contri
butes a paper on "Religious Teaching in
the Public Schools," and Noah Brooks
tells this month of "Lincoln's Re-elec-tiou."
There are short articles on Ma
dame Rejane the actress, by Justin Mc
Carthy; Ferdinand Bol, the painter, by
Timothy Coleand BernliardStavenhagen,
the German pianist, by Henry T. . Finck.
These with the serials, short stories and
poems make a very interesting and valu
able number.
- A riore Affliction
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thompson of this
city last week suffered a sad afP.iction in
the death of their baby Lr.wrence, a
bright, win8omechild of about two years
Mr. Thompson is well known throughout
the state, as formerly business manager
of this paper and secretary of the State
Alliance. The little one was stricken
with brain fever and sank gradually till
death brought relief. Rev. W. H. Doane
preached the funeral sermon and a choir
from the Christian church sang. The
bereaved parents will have the heartfelt
sympathy of many friends.
He That is Nor fop Va Is Against Usj
While the National Watchman claims
to bea Populist paper, its course recently
indicates plainly that it is not in full
sympathy with the reform movement. It
devotes more Bpace to the criticism of
Populists and Populist journals than it
does to exposing the common enemy.
In a recent issue it repeats the silly old
party slush about "socialism," and pro
fesses to be in possession oi a rumor that
a socialist labor party has recently been
organized by II. D. Lloyd of Chicago,
and that the Topeka Advocate, Fanners
Tribune, Nonconformist, The Wealth
Makers and other journals are to es
pouse the cause of this rumored new
"socialistic" party.
While the Mercury recognizes that the
papers above named are "middle-of-the
road" Populist journals, and fully able
to take care of themselves, it takes this
occasion to deny the accusation that
either one of the papers named is advo
cating anything save and except the de
mands of the Omaha platform.
The trouble with the National Watch
man is, that it is infected with the silver
itch, probably seated in the palm of the
editor's hand, and is trying to serve two
masters one for pay and the other for
position and respectability. It has not
the courage to come out boldly and
announce its principles as being in
accord with the one plank silver party,
but seeks, Judas like, to betray the Peo
ple's party, while pretending to be its
friend and an exponent of its principles.
The Watchman even resorts to the silly
hog-wash of the two old party papers
and howls "socialism." If the Watchman
feels that there is too much "socialism"
or any other ism in the People's party
platform for it to conform to its code,
the manly thing for it to do would be to
denounce thewhole movement and align
itself with a party more in consonance
with its views.
Its continuous yawp about "socialism"
is disgusting, coming from a professed
Populist paper. It is using the same
campaign lies of the old parties, and
seems to roll them under its tongue as a
sweet morsel. "Socialism." indeed! What
is socialism, any way? Webster says it
is "a theory or system of social reform
which contemplates a complete recon
struction of society, with a view to a
more just and equitable distribution of
property and labor." Any man then
who believes in a more just and equitable
distribution of property and labor is a
socialist! Any man who is opposed to
the manner in which the trusts and com
bines distribute capital and control
labor is a socialist! In fact any one who
criticises and opposes the present money
oligarchy, which is ruining business,
robbing the farmers and wealth produc
ers and pauperizing labor, is a socialist,
according to the old party papers and
according to the National Watchman.
"Socialism" is the same sort of a buga
boo that "rag-baby" was back in the
time of the party advocating greenback
money as a party principle. There is
nothing in this cry of "socialism." One
ha!f of the papers yelling "socialism" do
not know What socialism is! It is .the
"bad man" bugaboo to scare the un
wary. The People's party is based upon the
demands set forth in the Omaha plat
form. If that platform is socialism, then
the party favors socialism. If that plat
form favors greenbacks, then the party
favors "rag-baby." The people are too
vvhII (dncnto(l to hn snored bv n.nv such
rot as "socialism," "rag-baby" or any
other yawp of the tools of plutocracy!
These epithets and cowardly flings are
intended only to defeat the party seek
ing to elevate the masses and to cut off
the prerogative of the classes to continu
ously rob the wealth producers. It is a
cowardly and dishonest method of politi
cal warfare, and .the Populist masses
especially should refuse to support a
paper that mingles its voice in such
slander and humbuggery. If the Watch
man is in line with the Omaha platform
1 l will gel uui ui iiue Willi uie uiu (juiues.
The reform masses will not tolerate a
1 i l u - t 1 : -1. l :
traitor in the cu.i.i. The Watchman
should advocate the Omaha demands in
no uncertain language, and stop its non
sense about socialism, or get in line with
the parties whose war cry it is so persist
ently repeating. The People's party un
qualifiedly condemns carrying water on
both shoulders. If the Watchman is not
for the Omaha platform, it is against it!
There is no middle ground! An honest
enemy is more to be admired than a
cowardly, cringing, hypocritical, dis
honest friend. Get in the middle of the
road or take to the woods. Southern
Mercury.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
Let Populists beware of this new silver
party movement. It is only started to
divide the new party which is not show
ing signs of early decay as hoped for by
the old party leaders. The Populists
have ever been loyal to silver coinage
and no party could be more strong in
the support, hence there is no demand
for this new party. Shun it! The Quill.
A government bankingsystem, loaning
money to the people at cost of operating
expenses, would stimulate industry,
abolish tramps, and destroy that univer
sal vampire of the human family, usury.
The government now loans $205,000,
000 to the national banks at oue per
cent. Why not to the customers of tfie-'
banks as well? "Equal rights to all
special privileges to none." Farmers
Tribune.
Beware of the old party silver adher
ents. If thpv were honest in their advo
cacies they would not hesitate to come
into tne rauKH 01 tne popunsi party,
where all men who are working in earn
est for the people's cause are coming.
You will notice that the single plank
clintiA Am doinc all in their Dower to de
stroy the principles advocated in the
umana piauorin. ouiy 111 1110 miuuie 01
the road boys, and fight fusion, and we"
will h victorious in time to vet save this
country. Petersburg Index.
Thecharacterand animus of Nebraska's
legislature is fittingly exemplified and set
forth in a bill authorizing the secretary
to designate the papers that shall pub
lish the constitutional amendments. The
governor has heretofore exercised this
prerogative, and had there been a Re
publican governor such a thing would
not have been thought of. Can the Re
publicans expect to command respect
and practice such small and contempti
ble tactics. Minden Courier.
If you want something excruciatingly
funny, something unusuully, ridiculous,
something that would make a billy-gout
grin, just turn some Democratic editor
loose on the Populist idea of money. If
there is anything this side of the Iufinite
of which the average Democratic editor
is densely ignorant, of which he has no
conception, it is the money question. He
knows the price of a drink, and he seldom
has it about him, but when he comes to
the principles of finance he is as ignorant
as a mule. Kentucky Populist.
The whole social and political system
of this country is bused upon thedoctrine
that the poor have no right which the
rich should be called upon to respect.
The producers of the couutry are held to
be valuable to society and the nation