April 25, 1895.
THE WEALTH MAKERS.
V
OPERATION THE LAW
in
lie Forces of the Universe Are Found
to bo Co-operative Forces
00 OPEIATIOH MULTIPLIES POWEB
Competition U Wasteful, Destructive,
Disintegrating to Society, and there
fore the Absence of Law The
Superior Wisdom of the
Selfish
A Second Lecture by Prof Hereon
The problem of co-operation is the pro
blem of tbe discovery of law, the appre
hension of law. Nearly all science has
been tending toward the discovery that
law ot every sort, forces that we describe
as natural, physical, or moral, are all uni
fying and tend to co-operation. We have
all along been asserting laws under the
assumption that they were final, under
the assumption that they were laws when
as a matter of fact they can only be call
ed laws. We know as yet very little of
law. The need of man is that he shall
obey absolute law. As yet we know very
little of absolute law. We are all the
time classifying our actions into methods
of doing and assuming, that these are
laws. When we see men striving in the
world, we call competition law. Yet we
are discovering that competition iB not
law, but a form of activity that we obey
from the want of knowledge of what law
is. You remember the old conception of
the earth as the center of the universe,
and the universe as simply the environ
ment of the earth. All theology, science,
everything was based upon that concep
tion. And so upon the concentric con
ception of the universe, men framed laws.
Then, too, men framed laws upon the
assumption that the earth is supported
by great pillars. We know how blas
phemous the astronomer seemed when he
asserted that the earth was moving. We
know what a revolution it was when
Newton discovered the law of gravitation
Now we have diecovered, we are discover
ing that all the laws that we call laws,
that put men against each other even in
what we call honorable competition I
speak of it by way of contrast with the
most vicious competition are after all
not laws. They are inadequate. They
alwavs result in difficulty and degrada
tion. You may offer a prize for the best
essay on sacrifice, or on the teachings of
Jesus, rue inevitaDie result is competi
tion. Though it may not be open and
manifest, it is a feeling that is the oppo
site of brotherhood. No intercollegiate
game lias ever been played that has not
resulted in some sense in some ot that
disintegrating element. Everything
teaches us, everything tends, to the dis
covery that the world has made at this
time. It is a page of human history, the
discovery which we are making that, no
matter how we try to sanctify any sort
of competitive principle the inevitable re
sult is separative, divisive; tne coming in
of disintegrating elements; even though
we may wish that it is not so.
The ojd assertion of Hebrew scieuce, we
have never taken into account. We have
always read the Bible m arbitrary ways.
The assertion is this, "One man shall
chase a thousand and two Bhall put ten
thousand to flight." This is true because
it is natural law. It shows the power of
co-operation. It is natural law that if
one man can chase a thousand two can
chase ten thousand. The mutual power
that conies to men through unity is not
a power that you can estimate. Here
nre ten men acting as individuals in cer
tain directions. W hen these ten men act
together as one man the power is not
simply ten times as great. Here is one
man trying to accomplish one thing, and
another, another thine. Iet them work
together, the p'ower is multiplied so that
two men have ten times th power of one
man.
These laws that we are obeying all the
time and calling them laws are not laws
. but the want of law, the want of the dis
covery of law. The co-operation of forces
is in obedience to laws, the highest law
of all. The forces of the universe are co
operative forces. The kingdom of God
which Jesus disclosed and preached is an
order of life in which all men shall be
associated for the common good. Com;
' petition iu every sphere of life is the waste
v? of life, the waste of human energy, the
destruction of life. Men, as a result of
competing with each other, do not have
nearly as much as they otherwise would
have. The most of men are really losing
what they seek to aam.
The law of co-operation is the very law
that God himself obeys. God will not be
even a moral tyrant over men. He will
not work except through co-operation.
That co-operation of forces in human life
is true conservation, a true fructuymg, a
true saving of human life. The great
trust monopolies are teaching us this,
These trusts and monopolies have in
augurated American commuuism of
capital. These men coming together and
discovering that they cannot have as
much power if they compete therefore de
cide to pool their interests. Every one
of these great monopolies are coinmun
istic institutions. They show the way
capital combines and pools its interests
for the exploiting of the people. If the
people combine to try to protect tfiem
selves they are called communists, social
ists. It is a discovery on the part of
selfishness.
For some reason tbe devil is always
smarter in the discovery of laws than
the men whom we call men of God. There
is that discovery that the great forces at
work are co-operative forces, bo capital
becomes absolutely communistic, but de
clares that competition is law, and ar
raigns the people before the courts if
they undertake to combine.
As a matter of fact a thousand oil com
panies could not have the power over the
fteople that one now has. That is the
aw of co-operation, giving power to
those who co-operate. The people are
gradually discovering that law.
After the French and Prussian war the
nation wished to sell bonds. In this
country we go and market them to make
a contract with some monopoly. The
French people with all their difficulties
have more common prosperity than any
other nation. The southern half of
France is the most prosperous of
countries. What did they do when they
wished to sell bonds? They appealed to
the people. What was the result? Work
ing men who could invest two or three
dollars did so. The result was they could
pay for eighteen times the quantity of
bonds needed. The great bonds of
France then instead of being in the hands
of a few men were held in the hands of
all the people: divided up among many
millions instead of a dozen or so. It was
a discovery of that law of co-operation.
Evolution has been disclosing the law
to us. The great financial event and
crises nre teaching it to us. Before all,
Jesus has taught us that that is tne law
of the kingdom of God. The great law
is the law of co-operation aud not com
petition. It is etrange that we see
Christian men and ministers ignoring
this fact as something foreign to us. We
are sending missionaries to establish the
kingdom of God. What is it? We are
absolutely ignoring the fact that the
kingdom of God is practically an organi
zation of human life, an order in which
men shall work for the common good.
Labor institutions, co-operating, become
a mighty power. What is it that we are
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nere ion utn m mw aiuKuum wi v.
but association in such a way that men
shall work for each other and not com
pete with each other. Competition is the
ruin of principles, the very negation of
Christianity, the establishment of that
order in which every man is looking out
for himself. The kingdom of God is not
a fiction but a reality, something to be
established in the trade and commerce of
the world.
Isaiah's complaint was not simply be
cause of some great moral wrong but he
said: "My people do not know, my peo
ple will not be morally intelligent." What
is righteousness? What is the kingdom
of God for, if it is not to" stand against
unrighteousness?
Get Together
Editor Wealth Makers:
The crying need of the hour is that the
decent men of the nation, in the language
of Dana of the Sun, "get together." Tbe
only salvation of thecountry is that they
"get together."
The only way in which you can de
throne the despots who now rule with
absolute sway is to "get together." The
only way in which you can redeem this
laud and reclaim the precious heritage
of liberty bought for you with a great
price, is to "get together." There are
plenty of decent men in this country to
rule this country if they would "get to
gether," but they cannot rule while
divided, and don't forget it, the seekers
after spoils will spare no pains to keep
you divided. You ought to be fighting
the powers of evil, but instead you are
divided into two parties, fighting over
the grave of a dead and buried issue, and
while you fight over a question settled in
the last generation, wrong rules the land
and the victors carry off the spoils of
office.
Men and brethren.ye cedars of Lebanon,
the decent men of American society, you
have called the Bramble of the Slums to
reign over you, and a nice government
he has given you. He has given you
175,000 saloons which drag to a drunk
ard's grave and a drunkard's hell sixty
thousand of your citizens every year. He
levies a tax of thousands of millions
every year eighty dollars for every
voter in the nation which he gathers in
over the bars of these saloons. He levies
a heavy tax on you, gathered by "the tax
collector, to maintain the .victims of
these saloons and protect yourselves
from them. He has given you an odious
system of trusts, by which you are fleeced
on nearly everything you eat, drink and
wear. He is filling your country with
imported paupers from Lurope, and with
home made paupers of the saloon. He
is enriching the millionaires and robbing
the poor. He has changed your legisia
tive halls into marts wherein votes are
bought and sold; he has made your
courts into travesties ot justice wnerem
the poor are punished and the rich go
free: he has filled your cities with anar
chists who flaunt the red ragof commune
in the face of your civilization.
Brethren, all the evils that afflict and
the dangers that threaten this country
today are but the fruits of tho division
of the decent people between two dead
parties divided on dead issues. You re-
miud me of a temperance lecturer, one oi
those men who are rather prone to mak
ing positive assertions. He said one day
that no man conld use whisky and
tobacco regularly for twenty-five years
and live. After the meeting some one
came to him and said, "Mr. .Lecturer,
there is a man in this town who has been
using both whisky and tobacco for more
than 30 years." The lecturer was stump
ed for a moment and then he aBked:
"What sort of a man is he? Good, use
ful citizen?" "No, he isn't any use at all
as a citizen: too drunk." Good man in
his family? Kind to his wife and trains
up his ch ildren iu the way they should go?
"The onlv time he is kind to his wife is
when he is trying to wheedle her out of
the money she has made washing, and
trains up his children mostly with a piece
of bed cord." "Ah welll I see" said tbe
lecturer, "the man's been dead for these
ten years and you ve neglected to bury
him in order to defer incurring funeral
expenses." And that is just what is the
matter with your old parties. They are
dead and you have neglected to bury
them. Any party is dead through whose
system the life blood of an honest princi
ple no longer pulses. And you men of
today are groveling on your Knees in tne
dust before the idol of a dead party, and
are f rhting over whitened skeletons in the
grave yard of dead issues. lou are so
busy worshiping this dead idol that you
do not hear theshrieksof the sixty thous
and souls each year plunging into the
uttermost depths of hell. You do not
hear the wild cry of despair uttered by
the heart-broken wife and mother. You
do not hear the cry of laboring men who
are defrauded of their rightful share in
the products of their industry. You do
not hear the despairing death cry of the
women driven to death by tne grim
spectre of want. You do not hear the
muttering thunders ol a coming political
and social revolution L. M. Calvin
Ough, Nebraska.
Lamp Post Series No. 3
Today, Uncle Josh sat down upon tbe
lamp-post seat to rest, with his spade,
hoe and rake, across his knee; for he is
the village garden-maker, you must
know. He took off his hat, and the gen
tle breeze tossed those gray locks from
off his broad forehead, and revealed more
plainly tbe seams and lines, which be.
tokeu care, strife and thought.
"Hello. Uncle Josh! We want the gar
den planted up at our house," says Mr.
bilkhat as he comes across tne corner
from the saloon.
Thank you. will be at your house in
the morning. What do you think of the
law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to
minora?" cm ill Uncle Josh as a little fiend
about eight years old, went following a
cigarette down the street.
"I think,, sir," said Hon. Mr. feiiKnat,
"flint it ia nn pnrrniLohment lirton our
personal liberty. Any law that says
what we shall eat, arms or sidokb or
what we shall not eat. drink or smoke is
a menace to our personal liberty."
mat Kind oi nueriy oi uitu juu
speak," said Uncle Josh, "is nothing but
brute force. True liberty is anything
that will tend to develop the soul. Or,
as the t rench say, "tne liDerty oi one
ceases, where the liberty of another com
mences.' Mr. Silkhat, do I understand
you to say, that a man should have the
liberty, not only to smoke cigarettes, out
also the liberty to give or sell same to
boys?"
"Yes, if the boy wants them."
"Than I infer that . man should have
hm-irht tn rlrink a. mixture of strych
nine, arsenic and opium, aud flavor this
drink ot deatn witn tne penume oi iu
hori- nnH nut it. 11 n in the most allur
ing manner that tbe artist can devise;
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something that win De sure to caicu iuu
eye of the youn j boy, and when he asks
for it, give it hui, sell it mm.
"Ohl Uncle Josh, but this is a very diff
erent matter."
"Rut, T contend that it is not. The cig
arette contains all these poisons and one
more, namely, nicotine. The drink I
mentioned is a stronger poison, but so
much the better; for then it would only
kill the physical body; while the Blow
poison oi the cigarette, witnin tne urain,
dwarfs the the intellect and kills the soul."
"Ah. welll vnn nut it too strong. And
at tho best law usurps the authority of
tbe parents, and in just tne proportion
that it does that, it is socialistic in its
tendency; and as such I condemu it."
Here Hon. Mr. Silkhat, paused, took a
cigar from his pocket, deliberately ap
plied tne matcn ana oegan to stuoKe.
"Then you allow your boys to smoke,
An trnn'f"
"No sir, I do not. I caught my older
boy at that trick once, i maae a law
for him, that he wont be in a hurry to
break, let me tell youl I made an ex
nmnle of him. for his voumrerbrothers to
contemplntel You just better bet my
boys wont smoker:
"You seem to govern your boys right
along the line ot tne law. uy ao you
nhioi.t?"
"I don't want my prerogative inter
fered with. 1 can bring up my ciniaren
without any help from the law.".
Just then two beautiful boys passed
olnntr tha atrvot lifted their hats politely
with n. "ftnnrf eveninor. father. How do
you do Uncle Josh." Nice manly little
fellows, about 12 to 14 years old. I
riim't wnnnW that, Hon. Mr. Silkhat's
ehirt bosom swelled with pride, at sight
oi tnem.
But there seemed to be something
familiar about those boys; cannot help
but connect them with a certain moon
light episode that happened a week or
more ago. mks. Ej. m. bhkoat.
Coxey Plan Thought Superior.
Bellevue, Iowa, April 13, '95.
Editor Wealth Makers:
I append an article containing a few
thoughts I should be glad to have you
communicate to your readers.
Why Iree Coinage and Making oi
Money Alone Is not a eolation of Matter!
Do we go into the matter far enough?
Of what benefit will be free coinage, or to
have the treasury filled with coin and
paper money? What good will come from
government loans to the people on sub
treasury plan? It will be only to those
that have that will be given. If you have
no property how can you borrow. Hence,
I ask, in the name of two-thirde or three
fourths of the people of the United States
who do not own their homes what will
free coinage and government loans com
bined help them? I ask in the name of
the army of the unemployed, 4,000,000
in number, what help will these be to
them? What help to tenant farmers?
How can money reach and circulate
among thisvast majority uuless they can
get hold of it earn it? For the govern
ment will not give it away, nor throw it
into the streets. But there must be some
legitimate way of getting it into circula
tion, that is, work must be provided.
Here is exactly where I believe Coxey is
on top. He has not only outlined a plan
to make a safe, sound and flexible cur
rency, but what is a matter of greater
importance, he has provided for a legiti
mate method of distribution and circula
tion, after it has been made. We want
not only money, plenty of it, but must
provide work, by means of which the
great starving, unemployed, homeless
multitude can get this money. Then soon
will the starving have food, the homeless
have homes, and trade will revive as a
result. We want not so much to be able
to borrow money, as we want to enable
men to work and earn it. The idea of
having to borrow in order to have or
get anything is the greatest and most
odious deception, and is now financially
ruining our whole nation. Let us stop
asking the government or any one else
for loans. But we have a right to ask it
to provide work and fair pay. Then we
will have money to pay with and have
no need of borrowing, or for a credit
system. Let the government do tbe
same. Make its own money and not
borrow it of Rothschilds.
As said, I believe Coxey has in his bill a
cure, a solution and not a palliative. Get
a copy of his Cause and Cure, and con
sider the far-reaching effect of his sinipl
remedy. He also endorses the balance ol
the Omaha platform. Yours,
C. Wirtu, M. D.
Land and Money
The profit, so-called, which is strictly
the result of effort, physical or mental, is
obviously subject to world-wide competi
tion, aud must therefore conform
to the general living standard pre
vailing in the trade or profession
concerned. It is wrong therefore,
und misleading, to speak of such
increase as profit, for an equivalent
must have been rendered, approximately
at least, in each case. But a considera
tion of rent and interest brings us face to
face with an entirely different problem.
These two leading factors of the indus
trial situation (land and money), one the
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seat of all production, the other the chief
instrument of exchange, not being the
product of. or producible by individuals,
it follows that any increase derived from
the mere possession, or loaning of them,
is pure gain, and the loaner being still in
full possession of all his natural ability
to produce, or distribute, retaining still
his full power to compete, is cieariy occu
ovine: a position of advantage. On the
other hand it is obvious that the bor
rower is reversely,in exact proportion, at
a disadvantage.
So long as the mere possession of an
article enables the possessor to acquire a
clear train, a gain not subject to redistri'
bution in any degree through living or
other expenses, so long must wealth con
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Ludden Needs Tbe Coffee
Hazard, Neb., April 11, 1895,
Editor Wealth Makers:
I saw in the Christian Herald about
two months ago that the editor ot that
paper was at Lincoln and gave L. P.
Ludden five hundred dollars for coffee,
sugar and tea for the old and infirm of
Nebraska. 1 will be 70 my next birthday
and four others are older than I am. One
of thein carries French lead in his body,
he having been in t he German and French
war, and we have not got any sugar or
tea. I got a tea cup full of green coffee,
Borne of tbe others get none. We don't
grumble, as we know Ludden has a hard
time aud needs coffee to keep him from
getting the St. Vitus dance.
S. C. Swig art.
The Trouble at Pender, Neb.
Pender, Neb., April 22. Sheriff Mul
lln and a posse of ten heavily-armed
men, yesterday started for the Mar
mlon house, seven miles from here,
where eight Indian police were known
to be holding possession of the house,
from which they had driven the leaser.
The Indiana were taken by surprise,
but all escaped In the darkness except
two, John White and Jim Black Hawk.
No resistance was attempted. The pris
oners will be given a preliminary hear
Ing to-day. The trouble grows out of
the refusal of the Flournoy Land Com
pany and its lessees of Indian lands to
vacate the property In favor of persons
to whom the agent, Capt. Black; has
leased directly. The Indian office at
Washington fully upholds the actions
of the Indian agent and the Indian po
lice in the trouble at the Omaha and
Winnebago Indian reservations at Pen
der. Neb. ;
Miner It Fatally AMaulted.
Leadvllle, Colo., April 22. John El
liot was assaulted and fatally injured
yesterday by a man whom he positively
refuses to name. Elliott Is a miner and
while coming from his work he was
met by a man In a buggy. The strang
er Jumped out and knocked Elliott down
and then kicked him in a terrible man
ner. A number of ribs were broken and
he Is Internally hurt. His face is a
mass of bruises. There Is a woman la
the case.
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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
It puts the credit of the government behind every bank note.
It donates all but half of one per
issue to the banks, and it leaves
Napoleon of Finance to wreck a
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
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 time 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. ' o
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. " t
In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the bankers,
the Hill Banking System is in the interest of the people.
Consider them both, and ask your congressman to vote for the
One you believe in. ,
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has no equal in its line. Address,' -
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and intereattsa; book, handsomely U
with Tlaws ot SonthMljsonrtscsnsrlncludlM
the famous Olden Vrnlt Far-; ol t.tM irj
Howell county. It pertalae to
that sreat trnlt belt of America, tha soathen
slope of tbe Carts, and wUI V'
otonly to frolt growers, but to
and homeeeeker looking lor a fan asfl a hoata
Mailed free. Address. '
J. L0CKW00D,
Kauai City, Ha
I North-Western
LINE
F., E. & M. V. R. R. is the best to and
from the
Sugar Beet Fields
NORTH NEBRASKA.
All druggists sell Dr. lilies' Nerve Plasters.