VOL. VL
SO MOVES THE WORLD.
"We sleep an wake and sleep, bat all thing
moye;
The Bun flies forward to bis brother Bun ;
The dark Earth follows, wheeled In her ellipse;
And human thlnm, returning on themselres.
More onward, leading up the golden year."
Allison o! Iowa ia a candidate for the
, presidency.
Japan will yield nothing to Russia,
France and Germany.
Kentucky Populists will hold their
state convention May 15. .
The striking Cincinnati cloak-makers
have Becured an advance of 25 percent in
wages.
Weavers to the' number of 2,000 are
out on strike at Olney ville, and 9,000
more are indirectly affected.
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky has
declared himself unqualifiedly for the free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1.
Silver, to the extent of 450,000 ounces
and 5,000 Mexican dollars, was shipped
to Europe by steamship Etruria last
Saturday.
Peace reigns at Pullman. The Duke's
edicts to "Get off the earth" are being
carried into effect by the sheriff in many
cases where tenants' are back on rent
tribute to the great lord of the land.
The Chicago Times-Herald has been
nought by a Republican and will cross
the imaginary line between the two old
parties without any strain at all on the
consciences of its editors, or the loss
of any perceptible percentage of its sub
ecribers. A unicycle has been invented by Mr. E.
N. Higley of Somersworth N. H. It is
not yet perfected, but has been ridden,
and speedily and safely. The machine is
seven feet three inches high and the rider
sits within the wheel circumference, a
forty-two inch inner circle containing the
saddle. The motive power is supplied by
a series of chain gears attached to fric
tion pullies which revolve in the inner
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Oat Of The Houso Of Bondage
Editor Wealth Makers:
When the Israelites were led by the
to and of the Almighty out of Egyptian
slavery, the promised land might have
been reached in a few months, instead of
forty years wandering in the wilderness.
Jod had delivered them, made them free
men, and straightway, with the inex
plicable perversity of human nature, they
forsook his leadership and lusted after
and followed strange gods.
The multiplied disasters that overtook
them was the result.
The new Declaration of Independence
contained in "The Omaha Platform" led
ns out of political bondage; shall we fol
low our grand emancipator, or Buffer
some ten cent politician to lead us into
the brushwood to worship his silver calf,
or any other "sawed off joss?" Shall we?
C. H. King.
Plutocracy Unspeakable
We clip from a New York letter in the
State Journal of Monday the following
) description of the delegation of the rich
of that city who live for nothing but to
gratify their pride. They place no moral
restraint upon their desires and go out
side of nature, Oscar Wilde like, when
ever a new sensation is within reach.
History is simply repeating itself.
New York will probably have its own
horror unspeakable before many weeks
have gone by. The Roman shameless
ness of plutocracy is conceded to trans
cend anything recorded of the Catullan
age. Even women in New York speak to
busts of Oscar Wilde endearingly, and
from the sheer enervation of luxury take
refuge from satiety itself in a new sensa
tion. Degradation has become a cult
and vice a god.
Anthony Comstock, the one man who
has played the part Cato in this Roman
cesspool, is the archenemy whom profli
gacy has picked out to make a lesson of.
, He is dogged and hounded, ridiculed and
threatened. He has even been approach
ed with offers of money provided he
would abate his hostilities. To all these
diatribes he has been adamant. He is
now the object of an open conspiracy to
bring him into disrepute.
In truth, the Sybarites he aims at may
well tremble. Their infamy is equaled
only by their culture. Their disgrace
would be as great as their fortunes. We
hear the weirdest tales of imported orgies,
of midnight madnesses, of deeds from
which the devil would shrink. And were
it not all made bo gorgeous by the cir
cumstantiality of the details, one would
seem to be reading Tiberius and Sejanus.
The vice rages like a prairie ffre
through fortunes and physiques until
every new invalid who flies from New
York leaves in his wake a slime of slan
der. -
Hope For The Workers
Couldn't some of the scientific men de
vise ome way that a laboring man could
live without eating? It would become
very popular just now. Scranton Ga
zette. Bean Soup Atkinson has come very
near doing it, and since the development
of the sawdust bread industry it is hoped
that its promoters will effect some kind
of combination with him and secure his
oven to bake the bread in. If this can
be done the labor problem will begin to
approach a scientific solution. Topeka
Advocate. ,
A aCHOOL OF THE KINGDOM
A Bummer Conference to Consider
The Question: Can we Have a
Political Revival of Chrletl
v anltv?
To be held at Iowa College, Qrinnell,
Iowa, June 26 July 3, 1895.
Under the auspices of the department of
Applied Christianity there will be held at
Iowa College, beginning the morning of
the 26th of June and closing the evening
of the 3d of July, a Summer Conference
for studying the ways and forces by which
the kingdom of God is to be realized in
political institutions, in a Christian order
of society. The central theme of this
summer meeting can best be stated as an
inquiry: Can we have a political revival
of Christianity in our nation?
As was stated last year, this School of
the Kingdom, or Summer Conference diff
ers from the popular summer assembly
It also differs from thatwhich is common
ly understood by a summer school. In
the technical sense it is not a school but
a conference. It aims to biing together
only such as are deeply and righteously
interested, or are seeking to be interested
in the study and solution of social and
political problems in the light of the
gospel of Christ. It offers and would
have no other attraction than the best
thought and divine message of a group
of earnest men whose lives are dedicated
to procuring for society the righteous
ness of the kingdom of God. The school
means to attract only serious men and
women, who are willing to give strict
and faithful attention to the lectures
and conferences. The brevity of time,
eight days, and the number and import
ance of the themes discussed, demand
purpose and concentration from those
who attend. It is the idea of its con
ductors that this conference be a school
of the social disciples of Jesus. It is
their hope that many will come together
who believe that Jesus is the Redeemer of
society and of the nation. It is planned
that ample opportunity will be given at
the conference for general inquiries, ques
tions, discussions and prayers, in which
all present are to participate.
The Principal of the School would ask
the privilege of stating its object in a
quotation from a recent writing:
"As the peril and strain of our national
social situation increases, we are more
clearly seeing that it is God himself who
must save civilization and our nation.
Except the Lord build the new social
structure we labor in vain to build it.
Nothing else than a great political re
vival of the religion of Christ, a pro
found recuperation of the church which
bears his name, can solve the American
problem of society. By nothing but
prayer and fasting, issuing in repentance
and the honest parpose to put the teach
ings of Christ into political, institutional
and industrial practice, will the social
demons be cast out. I Bee no other hope
for our nation, no other redemption for
society, than a religious revival such as
the world has never known, that shall
enthrone Christ in our national ideals,
and give men thecommon will and power
to put the Christ life into social practice.
"The faith that God through Christ will
save society will not paralyze our reform
activities, nor weaken our sense of social
responsibility, nor shake our readiness to
be offered in behalf of our brothers, but
will divinely energize us to the most
strenuous activity, and inspire us to the
holiest sacrifice. Our faith thatGodhim
self will purge our political iniquity and
effect our social salvation will, and noth
ing else can, make wise and mighty our
social reforms, and change the vision of
the kingdom of heaven on earth into fact.
Civilization is founded upon what people
believe concerning God and human life,
and is built by what people feel. Social
progress is but the deepening inbreathing
of God, renewing thecommon life. Every
new development of society has been but
the manifestation of a purified religious
faith and increased religious feeling.
Really, our social conflict, like all the
conflicts gone, is a holy war between
those who believe in God, and those who
do not; between those who have faith in
the right, and those who put their trust
in the wrong; between those who believe
in the law and power of sacrifice, and
those who believein the power of lawand
selfishness. The revival of the faith of
those who believe in the right that God
has revealed in Christ in the rational
salvation fur which we wait.
"A truly scientific interpretation of
history will give a place not yet given to
the great religious revivals, and discern
in them the formative influence of pro
gress. "We are only scientific when we look to
the increased apprehension of spiritual
forces, to the revival of faith and quick
ening of the religious feeling, for the re
making of society. And we speak with
the historic spirit, in strict accord with
the actual facts, when we say that society
is to be saved through a great revival of
the religion of Jesus Christ, who is today
the social ideal of the world. Through
yielding to the personal touch and power
of the life forces in Christ, will the forces
of our civilization" be regenerated and
harmonized-'!
To all who would unite in a week of
LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1895.
tody and prayer, to the end that God's
Kingdom may come and his will be done
through Jesus Christ an urgent invito
tionis given to attend this Summer
School of Applied Christianity.
I. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
Archdeacon Charles James Wood, of
Pennsylvania, will preach the annual
Sunday morningsermon before theSchool
and give a course of lectures upon "The
Christian Religion."
Rev. Burt Estes Howard, of Los Ange
les, Cala., will preach the annual Sunday
evening sermon before the School upon a
related theme. ,
.THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOM.
President George A. Gates, of ' Iowa
College, will give a course of lectures up
on "The Christian Kingdom."
President W. F. Slocum, of Colorado
College, will also give two addresses upon
related themes.
Mr. George Howard Gibson, Editor of
The Wealth Makers, Lincoln, Neb., will
give an address entitled "A Christian
Corporation."
in. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Rev. J. H. Ecob, of Albany, N. Y., will
give a series of addresses upon the need
ed reformation and unification of the
Christian Church.
Professor Graham Taylor, of Chicago
Theological Semiuary, will lecture upon
the relation of the Church to the problem
of the city and to civic regeneration.
IV. THE CHRISTIAN STATE,
Professor George D. Herron, of Iowa
College, will give a course of lectures np
on this theme, which will be both an ein
bodimentand development of the themes
discussed in his recent book upon that
subject.
Professor Jesse Macy, of Iowa College,
will give a course of lectures upon "Chris
tian Politics." This is the course which
Professor Macy is to deliver later in the
Summer before the Pennsylvania Univer
sity Summer School of Politics.
V. THE CHRISTIAN CITY.
Professor John R. Commons, of Indiana
University, will deliver acourseof lectures
on municipal reform. ,
Mr. S. H. Hadley, Superintendent of the
Jerry McAuley Mission, Water Street,
New York City, will give a eeries of ad
dresses on city evangelization, dealing
especially with the rescue work which
has been bo marvellously carried on for
these many years under the direction of
Jerry McAuley and himself.
Rev. A. C. Clark, of Omaha, Neb., who
built up the famous Rescue Mission of
Omaha, will give a series of addresses up
on related themes.
VI. THE EVANGELISM OF. THE KINGDOM.
Rev. B. Fay Mills, the Evangelist, whose
recent meetings in Portland, Maine, and
other eastern cities have been the most
remarkable in power and results of any
evangelistic work of late years of any in
our country, will give a series of addresses
upon this theme.
VII. CHRISTIAN CHARITIES.
Mr. Edward M.Nealley, LL. B., of Bur
lington, Iowa, will give a course of lect
ures on the subject of the relation of
scientific charities to Christianity.
VIII. IN GENERAL.
A number of brief addresses and plat
form meetings, together with various
conferences, will be held during the ses
sion. The lectures and conferences will be
held in the college chapel, where the work
of each day will begin with chapel wor
ship at nine o'clock.
There will be no charge for attendance
at this School of the Kingdom. At the
evening meeting of each day an offering
will be taken to defray the incidental ex
penses of the school. Board can be ob
tained at low rates in the various board
ing houses, owing to the college vaca.
tion. To accommodate those who wish
to attend, a committee of students from
the Department of Applied Christianity
will secure board and room for those who
send in their names to the chairman of
the committee, Mr. W. R. Raymond, to
whom all communications concerning
such matters should be addressed.
It is urgent that engagements for
board and rooms be made as early as
possible, both because there will be some
limitation as to the number who can be
accommodated, and because all the time
of those attending will be needed for at
tention to the work of the school. Those
engaging places before coming will be
assigned and receive cards, directing
them to their homes when arriving.
All inquiries regarding the school
should be directed to the Principal, from
whom they will receive prompt attention
either from his own hand or that of his
co-workers. George D. Herron,
George A. Gates, , Principal.
President of Iowa College.
What Are Your Wages Now?
Are they sufficient to enable you to lay
up something for the future? If they are
jot, wouldn't it be wise for you to go
where you can get(good wages and a
chance to buy a permanent home for
yourself and family? You can get a little
pamphlet that will tell you where yrtu
can get good wages and a home, by
writing to Fred'k. Abbot, Land Com
missioner, W, C. R. R., Milwaukee, Wis.
CO-OPERATION THE LAW
I.;'-. -
There- Can Be Ho Bala&oing of Contend
I ing Individual Interests
COMPETITION BEING DISCARDED
Professor Herron Asserts That We Must
Recognise The Law of Co-operation
Everywhere
The Organizing Principle of Society
The following lecture by Prof. George D. Her
on In one of a aeries of four reported from sten
graph notes taken down In the class room for
Thi Wiiltb Maeem. They are Informal lect
nree delivered extempore. Two proceeding lect
ure were ou Wealth and Co-operation,
The problem of co-operation in society
is manifestly the supreme problem of re
organization. It is the most perplexing
because of social conditions. In fact it
is the social problem how to co-operate
the various economic forces and various
activities, how to unify them bo that
they shall all converge, yet in such away
as to provide for the fullest, most abun
dant needs of the individual how to do
that in snch a way as to bring justice to
the individual. As a matter of fact no
body expects justice of this order of so
ciety. Those who contend for the law of
competition no longer expect a just or
der of society. They abandon the idea
that anything like justice can be procured.
They do not see but that there will be a
few rich men in power always. Those
who contend for the present organization
of society, give up the hope of social or
der and social peace. They contend that
the best we can do is to restrain and
modify wickedness and cruelty. But we
face today the utter inadequacy of indi
vidualism, the utter failure of the pure
individualistic conception of ownership.
We all acknowledge that it has failed.
Some contend that there cannot be any
thing better, just as the theologian con
tends that we have reached the end of
all truth. We do not dare to reckon with
the forces of unselfishness for want of
faith in industrial co-operation. The
most conservative political elements in
sist ou reckoning with the most irreligious
motives. If we take away thepossibility
of collecting material things we have an
nihilated the motive for labor, they say.
There is no ground in nature for the
thought that the highest motive we can
put before men is self-interest. We have
reckoned with selfishness; selfishness has
failed us. We have reckoned with self
interest; self-interest has failed us. We
have reckoned with competition; compe
tition has failed us. Every tendency of
competition is to annihilate competition
to the interest of the few. These forces
have proved devastating. They have
proved failures, yet we dare not reckon
with the divinest instinct of human life.
We are afraid to take our chances with
that which is noblest, that which ia best
and highest in human nature. We even
religiously refuse to try human life. So
long as we have that theory of human
society so long we can have nothing but
war, strife, injustice and tailure.
We must recognize the law of co-operation
everywhere. The co-operative forces
of nature prevail. We do recognize the
principle in Borne places, for instance in a
house of worship. We can say that the
church belongs to no individual. We can
have no education without cooperation.
There is no private ownership of public
schools. We are recognizing the co-operative
principle, beginning to realize that
unless it is introduced into every sphere
of life we are still in anarchy. If the co
operative force is the inherent force of life
it must be every where. Weare constant
ly denying the application of that princi
ple, but the world has developed simply
through the co-operative principle. It is
the organizing principle of human life.
The public school belongs to everybody.
The church belongs to every one in it.
The college, in a sense, belongs to every
one who is related to it, to each student.
The co-operative principle is the organ
izing principle of society. The change
from an absolute to a limited monarchy,
the change from a monarchical to a
democratic form of government, is an
increased application of the co-operative
principle. Monopolies are teaching us
great lessons which the people will take
advantage of. We have certain schemes
which are helpful now. All of these are
educational, they tench us certain lessons,
but they cannot solve the problem of co
operation in society. They are limited.
They depend upon mere individualistic
good will. We caunot organize society
by some other principle. If profit-sharing
is the best way, then men in society
will individually lenrn the lesson. If a
government by the people is good in
politics, it is good in industry. We can
not limit the principle. We can never
come at it by taking another in its stead.
The division of the prqducts of labor
will never procure justice. The labor
movement must huh to be a mere move
ment for rights. Can there be such a di
vision of the products of labor as we
sometimes think of? How do we know?
The man who mines coal ia the depths of
the earth may render just as much to
society as the man who administers the
affairs of state. The man who is brake
man ou a railway, if we could come to a
better analysis of society, is sometimes
as useful to society as he who preaches
the gospel; the servant who cooks In the
kitchen as the woman who teaches in a
college. I believe the principle is true. I
do not think we can ultimately arrive at
any other principle. Every man who
contributes his life to the well being of
society, who does all the work In the
world that he is capable of doing, is en
titled to as much from society as any
other man. I do not believe that it lies
in the nature of things that any one man
who works, who contributes all that is
in him, should have less than another. I
believe it is a wholly degraded conception
of a man which insists that because he is
a United States senator, or doctor, or
anything else, that he must have more
from society than others. The reward of
life does not consist in material things.
The man ought to And in that contribu
tion, in that power to serve, his highest
reward. If one has ability at all, even
the least ability, then that ability to
serve, itself, is the very highest reward
that anyone can have. In any moral
teaching it would be so. Any other con
ception is immoral and degrading to our
human nature. It is a materialistic con
ception of our human nature that makes
it otherwise, which thinks of the forces of
society as being merely animal forces, of
the rewards as simply material rewards.
Why did Jesus work? For the joy that
was set before him. You will understand
from no other standpoint than the stand
point of Jesus. It was the joy that was
set before him of making his whole life a
contribution, the joy of having something
to give, the joy of giving his life, the high
est reward of any life, the highest reward
that comes to human nature. If a man
discovers that by some wit he has more
organizing force, or intellectual force than
others and he thinks that therefore he is
entitled to get more, he has debased his
human nature that which was given
from God for the good of the world. He
takes it and uses it simply for material
ends.
There can be no such thingasadivision
of benefits or the products of labor. The
law of societr is that the benefits of hu
man labor will tend more and more to
belong to all men, to be shared, in cer
tain sense, in common. All men built up
the church. Now every family has the
benefit of that church. It belongs to all
and every man gets the benefit, so each
man has a better church than if he went
off and tried to have a church of his own
Education is the common property of
the world. In Europe it is so in art. The
great pictures belong to the state. The
greatest gallery in the world is in Dresden.
The greatest pictures of the world have
been gathered there in Dresden. How did
that come about? Because the state it
self has become the owner, the patron of
art. The finest pictures in the world are
there, the property of the people. Every
peasant can go to see the best pictures
in the world. Thecityhasalsodeveloped
music. The best music is in Dresden.
The state owns it. In the employ of the
state itself are some five thousand musi
cians. Five hundred of them are of the
very highest class, the rest of them are
called in for special service. The best
music is centered there year by year.
There is the state theatre, most splendid
ly equipped, in itself a work of art. The
best music to be heard in the world can
be heard in private boxes, the highest
f 1.37. 1,200 seats are to be had for
12 cents each, better than any of the
seats you would pay two or three dollars
for here in America. The working classes
there can hear the very highest music.
The very best is provided for. There,
too, are the pictures of Murillo, Angelo.
They belong to all the people. No one
home, no one man, could owp all this.
How is that music possible? How is the
church possible? N6w the tendency of
society will be in that direction more and
more. These things that are now ex
clusively enjoyed by the few shall be en
joyed by all. Art is, in one sense, the
product of the labor of every peasant.
No man has any more right to it than
another. In Europe the peasant families,
in wooden shoes, canying their children,
know something, understand something,
of art. There will l- no division on that
sort of basis. 1 su-pect that the tene
ment house system in the cities of Great
Britain will finally belong to the munici
palities themselves. It is only through
co-operation that we can ever reach that
Eoint where all the products of labor will
e equally received, the benefits equally
enjoyed, by all.
The co-operative principle is the or
ganizing force of society. Ultimately, all
the people can be benefitted by the great
natural monopolies. You have often
beard men say that the world owes every
man a living. There is a profound sense
in which that is true, and every man owes
the world his life in any right world, in
any righteocial organization. Ultimate
ly, we can preserve the home only in this
way. Ultimately, any principle that will
organize humnn life must make it a joy,
a privilege, for a man to contribute to
the common good his life and all that is
in him. It is not what he can get but
what he can give. All that he is, will be
long to every man. All men will be ab
solutely responsible for seeing that every
man lives the highest possible life, with
some true sense of social morality. The
idea of life in which we think we can go in
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and array ourselves as mere social beasts
of prey I It is not true. The scrambling,
the plunder, that has cursed the world Is
degrading, utterly demoralizing. It
must end. That philosophy has been ia
the world too long. It ia accursed. Christ
came into the world to overturn it and
he is doing it. Making one's life the
largest possible gift to the common good
is the true incentive, the true motive for
life. The divine conception of the world
is as the arena of sacrifice, of service, of
co-operation, each individual ability
given to the common good.
These principles that have dominated
us will sometime in the future look as
horrible as cannibalism looks to ns now.
We are to live, we are to co-operate, for
the common good of all. There will be
no dispute about how much each man
has. There will be no dispute about how
much wit each man has. Men will not be
driven from their homes the way they
are now driven from home, family, labor.
Instead of strife there will be a co-operative
principle, the organizing principle of
the kingdom of God. We may fight it in
our idle, silly way, in our moral frivolity,
but we are fighting against the stars in
their course. 1
Concerning Those Resolutions
Osceola, Neb., April 20, '95.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Thinking it proper to bring your request
concerning the Bryant resolutions before
the Alliance, we did so, and our Alliance
of twenty members passed resolutions
endorsing the Omaha platform in full,
and declared themselves against a "one
plank" platform, whatever the origin.
R. A. Calkins, C. E. Jones,
Secretary. President.
Bellwood, Neb., Mar. 29, '95,
Editor Wealth Makers:
We are pleased with the stand you have
taken on every issue, and hope you may
continue in the good work. Also like to
see the different letters from the workers
on the line, and expressing their faith in
the Omaha platform and its future, Be
lieving it a sure cure for our present
panics and ills if not misconstrued and
wrongly managed.
I am yours truly,
' G. S. Enoard.
Webster County Populists all Bight
Red Cloud, Neb., April 23, 1895.
Editor Wealth Makers:
The Populists of Webster county, as far
as I have been able to ascertain, are
heartily in favor of the Omaha platform.
We tried to reform the old parties till w
got tired of the job; then we formed a
new one; and to ask ns now, after all we
have accomplished and have two million
voters, to give up our platform and fuse
with the Democrats or free silver, comes
rather late in the day.
Who gives us the assurance that we
would be much better off if such a combi
nation were successful, and free silver
should carry the day? .
As long as the trusts and monopolies
are on top and the banks have the same
facilities to concentrate the money, they
would get hold of it whether the circula
tion per capita were $ 50 or $ 5. Let the
volume of money be ever so large we will
get none of it unless we have something
to buy it with. What is to hinder those
men that can corner the money and
make it scarce, when our crops are ready
for market, in order to get them cheap,
to do so after we have free coinage of
silver? We will get permanent relief only
when the governmeut owns the railroads
and when we have government banks
where we can get money at a small rate
of interest. Under these circumstances
it would be worse than foolish for us to
give up the Omaha platform that de
mands legislation on these lines and take
up with something very much less im
portant. It is much better to stick to
our principles, even if victory does not
come so soon, than to win next year on
a compromise. If the demands in the
Omaha platform cannnot beenacted into
luw it is a comparatively unimportant
matter to the rank and file of the Popu;
lists who holds the offices or by what
party name the office holders are called.
If our leaders are true they will carry the
flag of Populism forward in the middle
of the road; if not, we will find new ones.
Our first plank in the platform might
be explained in fewer words and leave
out the sub-treasury plank, something
like this:
First, We demand free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the present
ratio of 16 to 1, also a national currency
safe and sound, issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for
all debts public and private, and that
without the use of banking corporations,
a just, equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the people; also by
payments in discharge of its obligations
for public improvements.
Second, We demand a graduated in
come tax, and hence we demand that all '
state and national revenues shall be
limited to the necessary expenses of the
government economically and honestly
ly administered.
Third, We demand that postal saving
banks be established by the government
for the safe deposit of the earnings of the
people and the facilitation of exchange.
Transportation as it is in the platform.
Land as in the platform.
( Continued on 5th page.)
