The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896, May 09, 1895, Image 1
3 V VOL. VI SO MOVES THE WORLD. W ileep and wake and simp, cat all thing move; fbe Bon flies forward to hie brother San ; The dark Earth followe, wheeled In her ellipse; And human thinire, returning on theroeelrea, -Hot onward, leading op the golden year." The Republicans of Kansas are for the dree coinage of silver. The town of Whiting, Indiana was ter rorized by a mob of tramps last week. Governor Brown of Kentucky is for free silver, 16 to 1, and will run for U. 8, senator. r The yellow fever has broken out among the Spanish troops m tuba, and bo will Mbe an ally of the insurgents. - Armour makes affidavit that the Chica , go packers have lost f 47,253 since the 1st of November. Do figures he; Minnesota has passed a law prohibit ing blacklisting. But the question re- iinains, how can the law be enforced I The Democratic party of Texas is di Tided into free silver and administration factions, but with the former largely in the majority. The Times-Herald reports that the del etrations to the Illinois Demo state con vention will be practically a unit for 16 to 1 free coinage. It isstated that French physicians have -discovered a certain cure for cancer. It is serum cultivated in dogs and injected as vaccine into the blood of. the patients Senator Voorhees now finds it popular and prospectively profitable to flop again to the side of free silver. He was chief of the cuckoo pie-eating crowd in the Congress which repealed the Sherman law Speaker CriBp has declared himself for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, aud for a western man for presidential canui date. He says the financial question (by which he means silver) will be settled by the Democratic party. Between the 1st of January 1895 and the 17th of April there were 111 coroner reported suicides in the city ot Chicago In over 40 cases outside of the above the juries were unable to decide whether self- murder was intended or not. Tennessee's prison system has been in vestigated by a committee and has been pronounced thoroughly bad. iraud, bribery, cruelty and immorality charged. Prisoners are starved in the stockades, Everybody is out for fat picking at the expense of the state. The Matter In Dispute The issue between this paper and the National Watchman is whether we shall stand by the Omaha platform or not, The Watchman denounces portions of that platform as trash and declares that .all those who advocate such trash are socialists, and that the People's Party has no room for socialists. It further declares that it is sustuinedinthis course by all of the Populist congressmen and byournationalchairman.Mr. laubeneck We are not fully prennred to believe this, Our party was formed not at Omaha, on Julv i, but at St. Louis, February 22, 1892, by the union of 26 labor organiza tions, following a previous union of the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor in St. Louis in December 1889, The Watchman, which was established and is owned by our Populist congress men, now declares that this union of the farmers and the laboring men must end; that the laboring men of the cities are socialists and have nothing in common with the laboring men of the farm. "There is no use in fooling away any more time or labor in the cities," says thelast issue of the Watchman. Thus the whole energy of the Washington paper seems to be bent to destroy and tear down the union of the city and rural labor which the Alliance has labored ten years to build up. This is the nub of the contention between this paper and the Watchman. The Interests of all produ cers are common, but Capitalism is al ways scheming to divide them and it seems to be mighty easy to set laboring men and farmers to pulling each other's hair. Lertaiuly, the Watchman ought to get pretty good pay for the part it is playing, for it is doing the devil's own work. It is not a mere question of policy of our party on the silver question that we are disputing about. The course mapped out by the Watchman if followed by the reform journals, would mean turning the party over to the plutes and the entire abandonment of the cause of the common people. We are not ready for that. Dakota Ruralist. Why So Partial to Democrat Cook, Neb., April, 1895. Editor Wealth Makers; I Wfoh to suggest to Governor Holcomb that if there is not to be found true and capable Populists 'co fill all positions, while he is making selections outside his party, let him not forget to reward one or two, at least, of Rosewater Republi cans with an appointment. Yours, W. P. BH00K9. The new song book contains about 125 pages, extra large size, illustrated eorerpage. No doggerel in it All high class, patriotic, pathetic, humorous, en hosing matter. Now ready. FROM OCR STATE PRESS Governor Holcomb has appointed Dr J. H. MacKay, a Democrat, as soperi tendent of the Norfolk insane asylum This is the first recognition the governor has given Democrats for their support of him in the last campaign, and will lead many Populists to believe that Holcomb's Democratic endorsement was not a pure recognition of merit, made with a desire for better government, but was along the line of barter and trade. There are how ever, other things to be taken into con sideration. MacKav had the endorse ment of Senator Allen: a bitter fight has been made by the Republicans of Madison county against MacKay, into wincn sen ator Allen was drawn, and it is possibk that the appointment was made more as a Vindication of Senator Allen than as a re ward of merit to a Democrat. No mat ter what the reason the appointment is distasteful to the Populists of this con gressional district, as MacKay, through his DaDer. the Reporter, conducted a scandalous campaign against Devine, the Populist candidate for congress and the only Populist be supported during the late campaign was Governor Holcomb, unless it was candidates for some of the minor offices. The appointment was made under protest of many Populists and we believe that the governor and the Populist party will yet have reason to regret the appointment. tieign world J. M. Devine's home papers are respon sible for the statement that Mr. Devine had been offered a $2,500 position by the administration at Washington and refused it. That J. Sterling Morton.Tobe Castor, Meiklejohnand thebalance of the crew who got Devine to run last mil have been promising the latter an office is not at all incredible. That's what we said last fall. A lot of other fellows were also promised offices, but the fact that Devme declined a S2.500 lobisincredible, Devine is not built that way. There are no offices to be given and probably De- vine has just discovered the hoax, and hence his declining. It's a smooth way of letting one' mlf down from the dizzy heights of anticipation. Madison Ue- porter. Dr. J. H. Mackay is the editor of the paper trom which the above emanated He is a Democrat, aud has been legging for an appointment under this Populist state administration, and to the discredit of our governor, secured it. MacKay, a Democrat, has sought and secured an office under a Populist administration Devine, a Populist, has spurned an office offered by a Democratic administration The contrast in principle between the two men is great. MacKay is like a prosti tute seeking to besmirch virtue. Leigh World. The World-Herald proffers the informa tion that George W. Leidigh, the newly appointed warden, is a Populist. The writer has a faint recollection of that paper making the same statement re gardingDr. Mackay last fall. Stanton Picket. Dr. Mackay's Appointment The appointment of Dr. J. H. Mackay to be superintendent of the Norfolk hos pital for the insane by Governor Hoi comb is the hardest blow that has yet been struck at tne straight Populists ol the third Congressional district. JNo man could have been selected from the Democratic ranks who would have been received with less favor than he. He has been a sly underhanded enemy to the party from its organization down to the present time. He was one of those Democrats who last fall attempted to control the Populist convention in favor of Judge Robinson, a Democrat, and failing in this, set about to encompass the defeat of John M. Devine. In this course he was supported by a handful of pretended Populists, and it is to such men that the Republican party is indebt ed for Meikleiohn's election. Mackay was one of the men who tried to force Mr. Devine from the field and who in sisted upon the nomination of a Demo cratic straw man, such as Hensley, who was a candidate in the interests of Geo. D. Meiklejohn. He is a man whose character unfits him for the responsible position to wnich ne has been appointed, even if he is professionally competent, which many affirm that he is not. It is not because of his being a Democrat that Populists are so greatly incensed as that they believe him to be incompetent pro fessionally, a man lacking in character, and know that he has opposed the Popu list party persistently and withou t reason other than his an t i pathy against straight Populists aud the principles they advo cate. If Governor Holcomb, after ap pointing a Democrat to be warden of the penitentiary and another as deputy oil inspector for the Sixth congressional dis trict, did not fully repay the debt he owed that party, why did he not appoint a man like Dr. Keiper, for whom Populists at least entertain respect? It would have been hitting middle-of-the-road Populists sufficiently hard to have appointed only one from their number as against three Democrats, without heaping burning coals upon their heads in the appoint ment of J. W. Mackay. Governor Hol comb has made a mistake that will cost the party heavily hereafter. Stanton Pickett. No lowering of the Populist Anglo any new craze or craft that may heave in sight no weakening of the timbers in the Ornaha nlntform to nlensn n new nor of political dudes Pittsburg kansan. LINCOLN, NEB., THUKSDAY, MAY 9, 1895. From Oar Outside Exchanges Competition is dead among capitalists, Washington flew &ra. Competition among wageworkers and co-operation among capitalists will de stroy any nation, u s only a question of time. New bra (Wash.) , "Sonnd currency" is what they call it now. The only sound that gold gives forth when thrown on the counters is ring. Wonder why they don't call "ring" money? Probably that is too suggestive. National Advance. Landlords and lendlords in England pay income tax in this country they do not but this is an enlightened Republic governed by landlords and lendlords, while England is a benighted Monarchy ruled by the people. PittBburg Kansan This silver agitation is a good thing, Every day it is leading people to the con clusion that metal money is a relic of barbarism, and that the fiat of a govern ment is what makes money whether it is stamped on metal or printed on paper, lopeka Advocate. . An old story is told of an Irish man sen tenced to death who begged and was granted the privilege of selecting the tree upon which he should be hanged. He chose a gooseberry bush. "But that," said the judge, "Is not largo enough for the purpose." "Bedad I'll wait till it grows, then," said Pat. Gold Basis, hav ing been doomed by popular sentiment. prefers to die upon a free-silver bush and wait till it grows rather than be hanged forthwith to the stalwart tree of Popu lism. Hence the Goldbug's weak opposi tion, amounting to indirect approval, of the tree silver movement. Chicago Sen tinel. The iBeef Combine ' Sherman Co., May 1, 1895, Editor Wealth Makers: I notice is your last issue that Secre- taryltfbrtonmistrusts that'there is dressed beef combine. For a man of his pretended acumen his suspicions are a trifle out of date. Any crank could have informed him of that fact years ago. Men who have lost all their labor in the cattle industry could have furnished him proof of the fact, Local butchers who have been driven to the wall, and forced to act as salesmen for this combine fill this country; reform papers have denounced the iniquitous combination for years, and yet this man that stands at the head of the Agricul tural Department is just getting a sus picion that such a thing exists! Verily, how little a man may know and fill or occupy au important public post in this glorious country I Here is au out rage that has been openly aud unblush- ingly inflicted upon the public for years, and this man Morton, with his head en veloped in the dense cloud of self conceit, has utterly refused to apprehend it. He is a fair sample of the average politician The chief aim of their existence is to get office, and they have no time or disposi tion tQ learn anything else. Mr. Morton can write a passable arti cle, as far as diction is concerned, but most of his premises and all his conclu sions in the realm of politics are as de void of reason as" a mummy's skull. He is having no better success in dealing with the beef combine. He thinks, or at least he says, "Not only as I look into the business does it look as if the cattle sellers and the beef consumers were being beaten by a combination, but it has the appearance of a beat on the railroads too. These big killers and packers have thefr own refrigeratorcarsystem, owning their own rolling stock. This enables them to force the railroads to lowest pos sible figures for the transportation, etc." No man of common intelligence would reach any such conclusion, for rolling stock has no voice in establishing tariff rates, and if Mr. Morton had looked into the business years ago, as he might have done, he would have discovered that this beef combine was a creature of the rail roads and brooded under their wing. When the Populists demanded "govern ment ownership of railways." to super cede this old monopoly incubator and protector, this man Morton called them cranks aud idiots. It is said that chick ens come home to roost. Mr. Morton's chickens are getting there in immense quantities. Poor old man, there are thousands just ike him strung on the tail of the pluto cratic kite; they serve a special purpose in the toilet arrangements of our Ameri can aristocracy. What a jolly fight he will have with the butcher boys! Get Grover to hold your coat. J. Sterling. put on all your convuss and sail into them steam on, as you liavestarted, and f you can t vanquish them that way. turn round and make them a speech, and if they don't take to the woods they have very little sense. C. II. Kio. Cheap Excursions ibr Home.seek- May 21st one fan- for round trip via the Burlington Rout- to points in Ark ansas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Indian nnd Oklahoma Terri- ones.lexas.South Dakota. Missouri. New Mexico and Utah. Tirketsgood 20 days. For full information apply at B. A M. depot or city office, cor. 10th and O St. Uko. W. Bonn ell, C. P. & T. A. General Weaver In the Role of Can ! vaaser Air the Sliver f arty Following is an extract from a private letter received from a reader in Iowa; "What is going to become of General Weaver? He seems to have gone politi cally crazy. It is too bad, for he deserved a better fate. Six out of seven Populist papers which I receive, criticise him for his infatuation over silver. But they don't know the worst. They don't know that at the close of the meeting of the Populist state central committee in Des Moines last week, Weaver announced that he had nothing to conceal, that he was in daily communication with the leaders of the silver party, and was co-operating with them cordially, and that he wanted to give eacn gentleman present some thing to read; whereupon he banded around oopies of a Bimetallic League cir cular which urges upon the person re ceiving it the duty of organizing a sepa rate party for the promotion of the cause of silver. I have a copy. Weaver's act was so extraordinary the presidential candidate of one party acting us can vasser for another party right in the state committee of his own party as for tne moment to take everybody s breath away. No man ever beard of such a per formance before, it is safe to say. But they all knew Weaver, who never did have good judgment and whosesanguine mind is forever seeing success in some thing new. Every one feels now .that he is sorely vexed oyer the defeat of his fusion candidate for temporary chairman of the statecouvention by thecomimttee, and all believe that he will fulfill his threat to carry the tight for fusion into the convention; but there he will again illustrate his customary lack of ludgmeu for the anti-fusion sentiment of Iowa is so strong that he will be only running his bead against a stonewall. Weaver best friends are the most sorry over his Want of sense, which is now unusually great, and are at a loss how to accouu for it. The silver crowd seem to have hypnotized him." Jersey Cattle Breeder Association 'tTUflM will Via n tnjuti'rifv rt tha Slf afd dersey uuiw ureeaers Association m xn chapel of the State University. Lincoln Nebraska, beginning at one o'clock p. m Wednesday, May 22d, 1895. A full pro gram has been provided for. All Jersey Cattle breeders and dairymen through out the state are requested to be present and to participate in the meeting. I. N. Leonard, Wm. M. Clark, President. Secretary The Crimes of Comp -tltlon Fifteen years ago city sewing girls got from five to ten dollars a week, worked only ten hours a day, dressed prettily and enjoyed life in a measure. Now not one out of twenty can live in a comforta ble home if she pays her board out of her wages. They live in poorcrowded homes, or live in pairs, eating only hasty mouth fuls of weak tea and bread and mush for their meals. They make elaborate capes for 15 cents apiece, cloaks for 25 and 35 cents, ladies plaited and trimmed waists for 35 cents a dozen. The work is abso lutely hopeless, says Miss Holmes. "Try as hard as human strength can, a day's decent wages cannot be made. Therat- tling old machines will not allow haste, and the hurried, anxious, overdriven workers carry bundles home and work far into the night the law to the con trary notwithstanding. One woman who is a skillful seamstress, made a 15 ;ent cloak in three-fourths of a day and arned 2 cents making waist cuffs during the rest of the day. Imagine such a woman with no other resource on earth, and car fare, rent, food and clothing to pay fori I he wretchedness of the sewing people. the dire straits to which they are re duced, the schemes to which they must resort to live at all, are beyond the reach oi imagination. H,ven the coal miners, though they run greater risks of injury and death, are not so miserably paid. and in spite of all the agitation on the subject that has been carried on it grows worse and worse every year. If united labor can do nothing to improve this mrticuiar branch and raise it at least to the standard of other trades, civilization mgnt to como to an end. Life is not worth living uuder such circumstances." Two way to Look at It One of the brightest of country editors Nebraska is Editor Mackay of tho Madison Reporter. He also has a front seat iu the medical profession. His ap pointment as superintendent of the Nor- lolk hospital for the insane was richly deserved, because it is at once a recogni tion of professional merit and fidelity to political convictions. Papillion (Dem.) limes. "Richly deserved" Fidelity to political convictions" II Deserved, as a Demo crat! who fought the Populists! to be re warded by tho Populists? Well, no, he didn't deserve nny thing from the I'opa )ist but be did from the Democratic can didate for governor. All parties who may wish to take ad vantage of oar clubbing rates or receive our premiums must pay back subscrip tion to data if in arrears. all dragglits sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters. The People Still Responding Aurora, Neb., April 26, 1895. Editor Wealth Makers: I suppose you want to know bow all ot the wealth makers stand. I stand square on the Omaha platform, and not a single one of the planks taken out. And no fusion in mine at all. Find inclosed two dollars to pay up back subscription and pay up my subscription lor another year, I can't see how I can do without the paper, for you preach the doctrine that is for liberty, and that is, what my fore- lathers fought for. Yours for victory in '96. E. A. Spiiaocb. (An old Democrat, but not the kind we nave nowadays.) Stands on the Omaha Platform Sawyer, Neb., April, 1895. Editor Wealth Makers: With your permission I would like to stand np and be counted as one who en dorses the People's party and the Omaha platform. It is with no small degree of satisfac tion that I read the responses of those that declare to stand by our platform. I will admit that a man that has been help up as the common people of this state have been, feels like calling for help to defend his rights, and for that reason we have in some cases found ourselves straying from the center of the broad highway. The Populists of Fillmore connty had a little experience in thelast fall campaign in the line of fusion, which, I trust, will not soon be forgotten and should suffice lor some time to come. The Populists met a just rebuke in the resolutions passed by the Democratic convention, wherein they endorsed the administration. It would take a Popu list with the stomach of a buzzard to digest that dose. , What is the lesson we have learned? It is to be men, and, stand firm as the rock of Gibraltar for bur principles and not countenance fusion with any party. By so doing we can command the respect of others, or at least have more respect for ourselves. No man has any higher re gard than the writer for any man that has been true to the best interest of the people, and I consider it the. duty of all such men to be American citizens and get out of a party that has sold its principles lor untisn gold. . The Populists of Nebraska can well be proud ot our state paper and the manly stand it has taken. It has been for the Populist party first, last and all the time. lours, from a horny banded farmer. L. G. Stewart. Be on Guard at the Primaries Grksham, Neb., April 27, 1895. Editor Wealth Makers: As Populists it behooves us to be on guard, and at the present time especially as otherwise the move now on foot to organize a free silver party is liable to sweep our party oat of existence, if every effort is not put forth aud pushed by all who believein principles first, last and al' ways. While the big majority of onr party stands squarely on the Omaha platform and will die in the middle of the road rather than surrender onesingle principle embodied in that platform, yet many of our so-called leaders hold different views aud are ready to sacrifice principles every time for the sake of getting into office, These men we must watch aud see to it that they are put back into the ranks where they properly belong. In order to do this let the true Populists see to it when the caucuses are held that it be ascertained how all the voters stand on the question and further that only men of principles are elected delegates to the county conventions, and from there again to the state convention. When this is done there will be no question as to what the result will be, as I am sure the vote there will be unanimous for the principles of our platform and not a single-idea platform. Otherwise, if care is not taken in regard to this matter, the probabilities are that the shrewd policy loving souls will be organized beforehand have their men selected and duly elected at the caucus. A handful of organized men can beat the big unorganized ma jority everytime. that we all know, there fore it is necessary that the eople be on guard, and this year especially. Lt the reform presH throughout 1he state (and in other states) see to it that this matter be brought before the people of every locality, and we will see that our state convention will adopt a plat form that will represent the ideas of tho honest majority of our party. Mating my individual opinion of si ver I will say that I have very unfriendly ideas regarding the silver plank in our piatiorm, nnd would tavor a tIank in its place calling for the demonetization of gold. My reason for this is because there are hardly any Populists that believe in ntrinsic value money standard, irold basin, or redemption, or any such things. nny then demand a double standard? To my mind the silver plank is inserted (Continued onStb page.) NO. 48 CREEDS CANNOT SAVE We If nit Let the Law of Lot Orgtnlis TJl At One Body OOMPETITIOS 7EBSTT8 OOOPEBA-TIOI Competition Is Sin, Co-Operatioo Is 8al. vation Solf -Interest Contending With SslMntsrest It ' Anarchy The following leetpre by Prof. George D. Her ron I one ol a eerlee of four reported from sten ograph te notea taken down In theclaai room for Tbi Wcaltr MtECRK. They are Informal leet nrea dallTered extempore. Two preceding' lect ure were on Wealth and Co-operation, The Law of Service. If the law of service is ever to be put into practice, if the law of the kingdom of God becomes the actual law of this world, it must be wrought into our in stitutions. It is true that we have many Christjan sentiments, many Christian in dividual practices in the world, but as a whole our civilization is not Christian. Now when I say that I am not saying it in a merely critical sense, any more than I am criticising a tree because it is not a house. I am not even saying that civili zation should be blamed because it is not Christian, bat I am stating as a fact that civilization is not Christian, but solidly Roman. There does not prevail in the world a single commercial maxim that Is not a denial of Christianity. There is uot a single educational maxim that is not at best a negation of Christianity. I ann not saying that they are bad, but that they are something else than Christian. -We speak o! Christianity having con quered the Greeks; but the conquest was the other way; that is,'temporarily. Christianity came into contact with the Greek institutions and ethics and at tempted to swallow them, but failed, be cause the contest resulted in a compro mise. About the third or fourtn century at the time of the formation of theNicene creed, there was a great conflict, which resulted in this, that the old Greek phi losophers came over in a body to Chris tianity, but they brought their philoso phy along with them. Our philosophy is really Greek philosophy varnished with Christian teaching. That is why it is that our ethics, our conceptions of right and wrong, are very largely Greek yet, rather than Christian, and so our education is Greek, and what we call the Christian sermon, the idea by which we meet on Sundays to hear a sermon, is wholly Greek. Christian worship was a gathering of the faithful; each of them gave testimony; everybody in the church was a minister. They had some leaders, but they went from place to place oq missions. Slowly we have been em and. pating Christianity, or the fundamental Christian laws, from the dominance of the Greek conceptions of right and wrong. They were not bad, they had their plact in the world, but they were not Christian. Christianity came in contact with Rome. We have our traditions abon the early conquest of Rome and Constan tino, the Roman emperor, by Christiani ty. Constantino was the same type o. man as Napoleon, but more cunning, more unscrupulous than Napoleon ana not so much of a Christian. Home con quered the world anew through Christian institutions, because a compromise, a truce, was declared, where Christianity might have gone on and by sacrifice con- quered. The Roman Empire faded away, in a sense, and reappeared in the Roman Catholic church. That church was sim ply the Roman Empire perpetuated. Do not understand that I am deploringthat it was perpetuated. Home still rules the world even more than it did. Our poli tics are Roman politics, our commercial system, our maxims are essentially Ro man. The very highest morality ever obtained in that time was obtained by the Roman Stoics. It is still accepted, though not practiced by the commercial world. Our civilization is solidly Roman and Greek with a leaven of Christianity a work in it. There is nothinir more un- historical, more contrary to actual facts, there is nothing more childish, nothinir showing a more superficial knowledge of history than to get up and call ourcivili zation Christian; so we are at sea as to what there is yet to be done. I do uot know that civilization could have been Christian up to this time, but the time has come when the leaven at work must bring forth its fruit. Taking civilization at its highest we find this to be the case, that we nave a theory of enlightened self- nterest as law. itisn barbarous notion of tho early pagan Stoics, the highest moral conception that prevails in civili zation. We find men repeating that the teachings of Jesus canuot be curried into practice. 1 lie Bishop of Canterbury put it thus: "The teachings of Jesus Christ will be absolutely destructive to our northern civilizations if they are put into practice." The teachings of Jesus, it is ' said, can be put into practice in very narrow spheres of action, but are irrele vant in the actual, social organization (Continued on 3rd page.)