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Which shall it be. eternal monopoly, or
a fight for liberty?
We have exalted liberty and belittled
love. Or, rather, we have excluded love,
from our universal pursuit of gain.
Everything favors the Populist party
It it refuses to be turned aside from its
attack on the three great heads of mo
nopoly power. "
The law of love declares that the
trong must serve the weak. The anar
ch of selfishness maintains that the
weak must serve the strong.
' The old parties are being knocked all
to pieces by the free coinage question
The only way to save the anti-goldbug
pieces is for them to drop into the Fopu
list party.
Men listen to the command, "Thov
halt not covet," and remain densely,
darkly, absolutely ignorant that the
both covet and take the products of
others' toil when they take rent, interest
and dividends.
1 "public ownership of all monopo
lies" is socialism, they are fools or knaves
who fight it. If we can't have public
ownership of monopolies the public,' the
people, will be owned by monopolists.
Take your choice.
Ex-Skchetary op State Osborne of
Kansas says there is no difference between
an eastern Democrat and an eastern Re
publican "they are two links of sausage
from the same dog, and the string sepa
rating them has slipped its knot."
The Associated Press figures out that
In the next national convention then
will be 604 free silver delegates in a whole
number of 906, and that this means not
only a free silver platform, but a free sil
ver candidate, And Cleveland in a letter
to Governor Stone of Mississippi says in
such case defeat would follow, if not the
disintegration of the Democratic party.
So be it, Grover. We'll bury the remains.
Even Meiklejohn has comeout in favor
of free silver. Say, you "one-idea," "get
together," free-silver "practical" Popu.
lists (?), what sort of embraces are you
leading us into? Have we got to sleep
three in a bed with Meiklejohn and Mac-
kay? Is it to be a hitch-up with such
leaders as Voorhees and Quay? They
will not come to us. they don't want
Populism; but we must go and attach
our party to their moral carcasses, must
we? -"
Thomas Paine was called an infidel,
but it appears that he was truer to God
and man than some of the churchmen
who anathematised him. In 1795 he
wrote a brochure on the land question
and later published it to meet the error
of a published sermon by Watson, Bishop
of Landaff,on"The Wisdom and Goodness
of God in having made both Rich and
Poor." This idea of the preacher origi.
Bated in the hell of selfishness, and is the
rankest blasphemy.
The man who has justice on his side ia
never afraid to arbitrate. But the other
fellowe alwaya insist that "there ia noth
"ALL OH ACCOUNT 0F"
Is the old worn out tune,
II on ac-
count of the tariff,"
about to be super
seded by another of political invention to
fool and continue to divide tits masses,
as has the tariff jangle?
"Alloa account of too much or too
little silver" is the new song, and multi
tudes appear to be going crazy over it.
The People's party with its 2,000,000
voters and the strength of the infant
Hercules bos got its grip on the old ser
pents that lave tried to destroy it. To
escape our power and save the monsters
of monopoly it is found necessary to
create a strong diversion and lead us
away from our present points of attack.
The silver question, it is hoped, will
absorb the attention of the people, divide
ns, and for another long period allow in
trenched monopoly to rule and rob and
ruin. The politicians, controlling the
miseducated, half-educated and ignorant
will succeed in this scheme if the Populist
press and leaders do not unitedly and
with all their power keep up the fight
against the great heads of monopoly,
the money lenders, railroad kings and
landlords.
Silver freely coined would not reduce
the rate of interest or the purchasing
power of the sum total of interest tribute
in the years to come. It cannot be shown
that it would. Why then call it the
money question and drop everything to
fight for free silver alone? Government
banks of loan and deposit can alone re
duce Interest and destroy the money
monopoly. We must therefore consider
some government banking plan the
principal part of the money question.
What material the money is composed of
is of comparatively little consequence.
We would bo wasting precious time and
would destroy a costly party organiza
tion were we to allow ourselves to be
drawn away from our .three great con
tentions to take sides in a single-standard
versus double-standard political
struggle. We no more believe in a gold
and silver money basis than we do in a
gold basis.
But if the Populists were to go into
this proposed free-silver-panacea fight,
and the struggle should at last re
sult in victory for the bimetallists (It
would not be quickly or easily won, be
assured), would the silver party machine
then allow us to take up the government
banking, railroad, land, telegraph or any
other great monopoly questions?
By no manner of means. The silver
party leaders and leading bimetallists oi
the old parties refuse to come to the
Populist party because they are opposed
to our leading demands; and they would
effectually object to taking them up after
they had swallowed us, or attached us to
the silver party. We would even have to
fight them to the death over the barbar
ous intrinsic value fallacy. A silver, or a
gold and silver, bug is as much a bar to
progress and an enemy to society as
is a gold bug.
The present building up of the Populist
party appears to be the one hope of sal
vation from fast-increasing monopoly
despotism and resultant anarchy. But
it faces danger, the danger that too
many of its leaders lack the far-seeiug
wisdom or inherent character to go
steadily forward; turning neither to the
right hand nor to the left.
SFOKEN AS AN ARISTOCRAT
"No state interference or officialism can
deal effectively with the relief of suffering
humanity. The forces of personal beueV'
olence and individual kindness must be
the instruments of such work." Thomas
F. Bayard.
The above language was used by Am.
bassador Bayard in his speech at the
May 1st annual dinner of Kings College
hospital at London, England.
Consider for a moment what is con
tained and implied in his statement. It
is assumed by our nation's representa
tive at the court of St. James that the
laws are just, that there are equal oppor
tunities and individual freedom for all
and, therefore, that voluntary benevo
lence is the only possible means to allevi
ate human suffering. The reference to
state interference or officialism is made
to lead people away from the hope that
the state, the government, the law-niuk
ing body, can be looked to, to help the
masses.
the man who upon such an occasion
and in such an ottlce makes such a re
mark, is a cold-blooded conscienceless
aristocrat. He believes in ruling kings
and toiling slaves. He believes in law
for oppressors and officials and a milita
ry power to defend the decrees of inonop
oly despots; but that state interference
with them on the part of a majority of
the people cannot be. He seeks to dis
credit auy effort at "state interference'
with monopoly robbers who leave the
people naked and wounded, impoverished
I au(1 1 despair, by insinuating that sue
state interference would invade the realm
of individual rights, and constitute the
fearful crime (?) of socialism. He infers
that we now have righteous laws and
the best possible order and state of so
ciety.
And while thus speaking lies and mak
ing falsehoods a covering for the ruling
class of rich monopolists (kings), he calls
himself a democrat!
A GOOD MAN GONE DAFT
Count Vincent and the Searchlight-
swallowing Age as lost gone for good
after the anti-Populist sil verites. But dont
weep long. Henry either lacks a judg
ment balunce wheel to go with the
other wheels in his head, or he has
failed so many times and got so hard up
that be was compelled to accept the job
of writing at dictation of Bennett, th
Age publisher. This ia a piece of his re
cent writing:
If the Democrats would come out flat-
footed and declare for gold and silver
and all paper money issued by the gener
al government in sufficient volume to
supply the wants of the people and do
the business of the country on a casu
basis, without the intervention of the
banks, and based upon the wealth, faith
and credit of the nation, making: that
money receivable for all dues, the Demo
crats, bi-metallists in both parties.Popu-
lists and all would unite and sweep the
the country as one grand party whose
first principle would be monetary reform
and emancipation from the gold-trust
barons who have cornered the money
market and put the people in a pocket.
Well, now, the Democrats are going to
declare for free silver. All indications
show it. But it doesn't follow by any
means that the Populist party is going
to be gulled and gathered up by the
Democrats so easily. Vincent doesn't
seem to know how Populists were made
and brought together. In another col
umn he says farther:
Whether we are disposed to take this
view of it or not, common observation
should prompt us to get in out of 1 he
wet. for the silver flood is coming.
No one objects to your climbing the
alleged tidal wave and running in "out
of the wet" old boy; but you will find
your small craft, joined to Democracy,
stranded high and dry a little later; and
looking back you will see the proud ship,
Populism, shaking the spray from her
bows and plowing her way to the harbor.
"Steady, O Pilot, stand firm at the
wheel." Steady; it is only a passing gust
divinely sent to get rid of the old pirate
hulLa of our enemies. The silver wave
can only strip us of what is not really a
part of us. Hold hard to the Omaha
channel and there is nothing to fear.
BAUL'8 SUBSTITUTE A PROPHET ,
The May 1st issue of the Omaha Bee
was gotten out by the women of that
city, which explains how so much sense
as is found in the quotation below could
get into and be a part of a Bee editorial.
The writer was Emma B. Wagner. With
a little enlightenment on the way govern
ment banks of deposit, loan and ex
change would reduce interest and regu
late the value of the paper dollar, and
show the volume that should be issued,
Miss (or Mrs.) Wagner would make a
good Populist editor. Weare pleased to
compliment her on the following:
"Exchange necessitates money, an in
strument by which itcan be better accom
plished. Utility is the one basic element
in determining valuein both commodities
and money. But that utility which
makes the valueof a commodity, as corn,
possible is its use in feeding; of a machine
its use to reap, drill, etc,; while theutility
which makes the value of money possible
the utility of exchange. It is this
utility alone which calls for money, and
which affords it an independent basis of
utility in exchange, that is, value. A
failure to see this point necessarily leads
to contusion upon what mayor may not
be true money and a consequent leading
away from the vital point at issue,
The advocates of a metallic currency
justify the use of the precious metals as
money because of their "intrinsic or
commodity value; in other words, be
cause of their usefulness for other pur.
poses. As well justify the use oi corn in
feeding cattle by its use iu feeding swine.
It is plain that the utility of corn in the
one case is in nowise dependent upon
its utility in the other. Likewise with
money; its justification as money rests
wholly upon the utility ot exchange,
which it facilitates. Each act must be
justified within itself. If there is any
justification for gold and silver, or of
either alone, over other materials for the
purposes of money, it must be because of
their self-imposed method of regulating
the volume. In no othercase could com
modity value be of any moment where,
as in this country, integrity of govern
ment is unquestioned. The materials of
which a money is made are ol technical
importance as a matter of convenience.
That which combines portability, divisi
bility, durability, etc., with difficulty of
counterfeit must bepreferable as araoney
material to one not possessing these
qualities. In this respect paper is per
haps superior to any of the metals.
The people of every age and nation
have had some term to express the, to
them, embodiment of all evils, the worst
of all characters. The "Nazarenes" with
in and the "Gentiles" witliout were syno
nyms of supreme contempt with the Jews.
"Christians" was the name given by the
oairan Romans to the sect of atheists
they most despised The proud Jews,
who thought themselves superior to all
other people, came to be despised by all
other nations, till to call a man a Jew
was to use against him the worst possi
ble term of reproach. The Mohamme
dans called the nations of Christendom
"dogs" and the Chinese call us "devils."
The people who have resisted tyranny
have always been called "rebels." The
theology and dogma centuries have made
cruel use of the brand called "infidel
And in this last age the name made use
of to scorch and blacken, to defame and
ruin is "anarchist," or the interchange
able use of the terms "socialist and an
archist." And they who use these terms
are nearly always oigotea, Diina, or
wickedly selfish, defenders of present op
pression and hoary, but respectable,
evils.
Paul and Silas were accused in the
Roman courts of 'teaching unlawful cus
toms which exceedingly troubled the
cities.'of 'turning the world npside down'
all because they interfered withtheunjust
gains of men. That was their way of ac
cusing them of being anarchists. Now
the fellows on top are as mad against
those whose teaching will cut off their in
comes and tnrn them down as the top
class has ever been. Don't expect any
thing but denunciation and crucifixion if
you do anything to save the world.
iirv or att Tno i rortTir,
aaau wax luauannii
Let no one feel alarmed because of the
sharp criticism that a few of the party
leaders in tbia state are receiving. When
a party has moral life in it it will resist
corruption, it will condemn traders, fu-
sionists, spoils-hunters. It ia proof of a
controlling purity when leaders are fear
lessly condemned for leading the party
astray, into the hands of our enemies.
Were we to lose our sturdy independence
as members of the People's party and
fear to ait in personal judgment on our
leaders, it would show that we were like
the bulk of the members of the old par
ties, i. e., puppets iu the handsof political
bosses. The Independents of Nebraska
are personally independent, fearless, free.
It took independent thinking in us to
cause us to break the bouds which bound 1
us to the old parties and lead us to form
or enter the People's party. That en
lightenment and independence which led
us out of one or the other of the old
parties is what makes it impossible for
any set of leaders openly or with secret
bargaining to lead us back where we were,
or into the embraces of our ancient
enemy.
We love the Populist party so well
that we are prepared to fight for its vir
tue, its good name. It shall not be be
trayed into the bauds of Democracy.
Men are nothing; principles are every
thing. The offices that have to be
bought by leaders are of no value to the
people. The office-seekers who think
Populist principles cannot in time succeed,
are themselves lacking in principle, and
the sooner they retire, to make room for
the leaders who are strong in faith, with
power to sacrifice and wait for uubought
victory, the better it will be for the
people.
Tue wealth Makerb knows what it
will cost to fight the fusionists in this
state. It has bared its breast to receive
all their shafts. It will gather the force
of all the words of misjudginent, deprecia
tion and enmity, as Winkelried gathered
the spears, and die, if need be, to "make
way for liberty."
We have not been drawn into the fusion
fight (by the Bryaut resolutions) before
the tune. It is the critical period in the
life of the People's party, especially in
Nebraska where the influence of a brilliant
Democrat and certain "demo-pop" lead
ers have been added together to carry
out a fusion program. The fusionists in
the last campaign by secret bargaining
betrayed uh, fastened upon us a "demo-
pop" reputation, and there will be every
where an effort made to quietly puck the
primaries and send one-idea, silver-fusion
men to our hext state convention in suf
ficient numbers to control it. It is time
to be awake. There is a great cry being
raised that money (meaning silver) is the
issue. And this silver agitation which is
breaking up the weakerof theold parties
will be artfully used to break us up, if we
do not by united effort of our best lead
ers and thinking people rise aboveit and
hold firm to the Omaha platform. The
People's party, standing on the Omaha
platform, is the only hope of our coun
try's salvation and the preservation of
world-wide civilization.
NOTICE OUR QUIET T0KE8
T,nnt Mnndnv an express package arrived In
Madison. addressed to Senator W. V. Allen, it
was a present from a gentleman In New York,
and proved to be a very fine Hambletonian colt.
Thurnlt wna a verv valuable one when shipped
from New York, but more ao when It arrived In
Madison, and the senator paid the express
charges, 206, The colt wag a present from the
senator's colleague. United states senator mur
phy of Troy ,N. Y., and is a full brother ot Robert
J. and is a nephew ot Maud 8. A brother of this
colt sold for J2.000. The senator was informed
later nn that he would be allowed a rebalt of
$135 from the express charges, whlcn Drougnt
the bill down to 171. Madison Reporter.
Now listen for the roar from The
Wealth Makers and a few other middie-
of-the-roaders. Crete Democrat.
What makes the Democrats spread
their wings to defend Senator Allen be
fore he is attacked? Is there a fluttering
fear in their breasts that we know
Senator Murphy, and know him to be ,a
tool of Tammany, a boodle politician of
the worst type, a man who perhaps can
be trusted to get at least equal value for
all he gives?
If we recollect aright his constituents
in Troy at the last fall or the preceding
spring election intimidated a great num
ber of voters, and killed one man in cold
blood for simply essaying to exercise his
constitutional rights as a voter on elec
tion day. It drew general attention to
Murphy and gave him national notoriety
at the time. We happen to regularly
read the New York papers, and so know
nnmethinir about "the senator's col
league," and special friend, Murphy.
But it should not be assumed that such
a man as Senator Murphy has no right
to make a $2,000 present to his Populist
hnsom friend. While it seems a marvel
to Populists in Nebraska that their sen
ntnr should so win and draw upon the
heart of a Tammany Democratic col
league, we should remember that money
comes to Murphy in great rolls and wads,
and a little f 2,000 token of political
affection is not felt by such a man.
There are not two kinds of socialism,
though there are two distinct concep
tions of it which are as far apart as
heaven and hell. The false idea of social
ism is really au individualistic perversion
of it. It is a conception of it as selfish
force used to equalize material orproper-
ty conditions. Material equality (or
Mill al nropertv to all individuals) can
never be secured by force,
It must come
through recognition of the supreme law
of love. It must be reached by a growth
in numbers of voluntary co-operators
vchn hold all their land, capital and labor
i common.
The Omaha platform when read the
first time was cheered for the space o
furty-flve minute, ten thousand voices
and bauda of music swelling the long
thunders of applause. There was never
Buch an outburst of enthusiasm for a
political platform, and its echoes shook
the land from ocean to ocean. It waa
felt to be a second declaration of inde
pendence, and it has drawn in two years
nearly two million voters together. And
shall a small part of it be declared great
er than the whole and retire the whole?
Can we be drawn apart by a stolen por
tion of the things which drew us together?
The Omaha platform and the Populist
party have knocked out the tariff hum
bug. The old parties are beingshattered
and disintegrated by the Populist blows
which compelled them to drop the tariff
and grapple with another dividing ques
tion. All we have to do is to keep our
batteries booming, and keep cheering the
Omaha platform.
The strong and selfish are very zealous
defenders of what tbey are pleased to call
their rights, their property rights, their
right to rule. Their rights seem to them
to increase as their property increases.
But let us hear what one of the best
thinkers of the age has to say about
auch. We quote the recent words of Prof.
John R. Commons of the Indiana State
University, as follows:
"The opponents of the income tax, with
blushing egotism, bewail this attempt to
levy burden s on Ability. Tbey are self-
made men, and should reap all the fruits
of their bar di work. But let us see. Are
they self-made? Society does two things
for every human being. First, it furnishes
him with ancestors. If he is born a
genius instead of an idiot, no thanks
are due to himself. He is simply a pro
duct of those unexplained complex forces
running through centuries of. ancestry,
all of which would have been impossible
without social organization, ills abili
ties are relative. To thousands of his
fellow-beings heredity has been less par
tial, let they go to make up that social
structure without which we could never
have been born. His abilities, says Pro
fessor Cohn, the eminent German econo
mist, are therefore only an endowment
held in trust for the service of the less
favored members of the social body."
Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose palace
in New York city cost f8,000,000, is
building a villa, a summer residence, at
Newport, which will cost $2,000,000.
The last Saturday papers reported that
he had through his agents tried to smug
gle in carved and costly decorations
without paying full duty on them. One
case of the goods was for the library dec
orations and consisted of walnut, gor
geously carved, with decorations of gold
bookcases for four sides of the inter
ior, trimmings for the walls, window
cases carved complete and doors and
mantels A carriage and team could
pass through one of the windows, while
four horses abreast could be driven all
around the room when finished. The
locks and hinges were of the most elabo
rate description. The door-knobs were
of cast brass with a gold finish, all
chiseled by hand, the workmanship being
as fine as that in jewelry. Each knob
bore a rampant lion. The experts ap
praised the entire lot at $100,000. One,
only one, of our railroad kings.
You can measure the value of any
alleged relief from oppression by figuring
out how much it would reduce the sum of
either the rent, interest, or dividend tri
bute drawn from the producing class.
For example: if the government owned
and operated the railroads we would
save the interest on the railroad bonds
and the dividends paid to stockholders
besides all political expenses, passes,
lobbies, advertising, strike losses, etc.
With government banks we could reduce
interest to two per cent a year or less.
With the single tax, or land and houses
owned by the municipality, we could save
to society the values created by society
and compel the landlord class to go back
Into the ranks of labor, where all men
belong.
The Detroit Tribune advocates as a
solution of the so-called hard money
question that a com posite dollar be coined
consisting of 206 grains of standard
silver and 12 and nine-tenths grains of
standard gold fused together and struck
into coin. It says of it: "The coin would
be absolute stable value, for, in case of
disparity at any time in the commercial
values of gold and silver, what was lost
by one metal would be made up by the
exactly corresponding appreciation of
the other." Bv this ingenious plan the
Tribune hopes to save the dear old party
from internal strife and destruction. But
this sort of arbitration will not satisfy
either side. Each will declare they have
nothing to arbitrate.
"All on account of the tariff" has fool
ed the people as long as it can, and now
thev are trying to divert our attention
and split the Populist party with the
new political war cry, "All on account of
too much, or too little silver." Curse the
hypocrites. They know it is a lie. iney
know that the Populist party has trained
its guns on the citadel of oppression, in
the land, money and transportation
monopoly triangle, and they are desper
ately anxious to draw us aside in a dis
pute and division over something that,
whichever way it went, would not reduce
rent, interest and dividends.
The People's Tribune of Saginaw, state
I organ of the Populist party of Michigan,
is on to the ridiculous scheme to try to
break up our party by having some old
or new party adopt the silver part of our
platform, and fires a volley at the organ
I wed hypocritea" that are trying to dia
ruptua. The Democratic party of that
state has declared for free coinage and ia
surprised that the Populist party does
not in consequence fall into the clutch of
its slimy tentacles.
The American Standard reports that a
meeting to discuss the silver question was
held in the Chamber of Commerce at
Longmont, Colorado, one day last week,
with Senator Teller, A. J. Warner, presi
dent of the American Bimetallic League,
and a number of Colorado politicians.
The significant part of the report is that
which states that General Warner de
clared in his speech that he and Mr. Sib
ley had not come west to organize a
third party, but merely to confer with
silver men concerning the most practic
able steps to take for the fight of 1896.
There were two suicides in Central
Park, New York City, April 29. Not a
bad place to go to, to show up the fruits
and end of competitive civilization. One
man was found dangling to a limb of one
of the beautiful trees, and another had
fertilized the soil with what blood he had
left, let out with the help of a revolver.
The one who hung himself was 40 years
old, the other but 21. The hidiug away
out of sight the results of competition
and monopoly keeps the evils of the self
ish struggle out of mind, unrealized, un
known. What is ','the gospel to the poor'
which Christ preached. He didn't say
anything about heaven when he began
to preach. He did promise them
help here, a jubilee restoring them their
equal rightful share and place in the
earth. There is no such "good news"
preached to the poor now in the churches,
except by a few, such men as Dr. Herron.
And these few are decried as anarchists
sinners above all men for preaching
what Christ did.
The devil is said to be a very regular
attendant at church. He is also reveal
ing his horns and brimstone in the Popu
list party. Formerly he stayed iu the
old parties and called us all socialists,
anarchists . and Populists, all in one
breath, making out that it was all a
repetition of the same dreadful thing.
He now gets alleged Populists to defame
their brethren by echoing within our
ranks his old party demoniac accusa-'
tion.
George Canning, the English orator
and statesman, said "that those who
discountenance every improvement be
cause it is an innovation, may presently
find themselves obliged to accept innova
tions which are not improvements."
BOOKS ABD MAGAZINES
City Government in the United States,
by A. R. Conklin.
Mr. Conklin has written a suggestive
book on a much discussed subject. It is
a significant fact and an encouraging
one that the question is being so
thoroughly discussed and written upon.
The writer is heartily in favor of the gov
ernments of cities being run ou a business
and not a party basis.
Altogether the book is a valuable one.
Published byD.Appleton&Co.,NewYork
City. Price $1.00.'
Evolution and Ethics and other essays,
by Thomas Huxley.
This is volume IX in the series of "Col
lected Essays." The essays here contain
ed are on "Evolution and Ethics," chap
ters I and II: Scienceand Morals, chapter
III; Capital the Mother of Labor, chap-
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Remedies, chapter V. Chapter I, which
deals largely with the survival of the
fittest, etc., is a strong chapter, and a
good example of Huxley's style. We
have often thought how this struggle lor
existence is compatible with the growth
of the ethical process. Many of us,
doubtless, have thought that this survi
val of the fittest is in direct opposition
to the altruistic spirit. Mr. Huxley in
this chapter takes the ground that the
strengthening of thesocial bond tends to
assist this struggle for existence within
society and that when the ethical deve
lopment is great enough to provide all
members of society with the means of
subsistence, then this struggle between
man and man ceases. It is also stated
that the process known as "Evolution of
Society" is a very different thing from
the process known asevolutionof species
and varieties. The following is a strik
ing statement for Mr. Huxley to make,
and one that has caused already com
ment: "Social progress means the check
ing of the cosmic process at every step
and the substitution for it ot anotner,
which may be calied the ethical process;
the end of which is not the survival of
those who happened to be the fittest in
respect of the whole of the conditions
which obtain, but of those who are ethi
cally the best."
In "Science and Morals," he with some
heat denies the charge of being a materi
alist and intimates that no sensible man
can be. He tries to impress upon us aa
strongly as possible that science is neu
tral in questions of religious moment.
Altogether the book is a valuable one.
It isextremely well bound and printed as
all of D. Appleton's books are.
Published by D. Appletion & Co., New
York City. Price f 1.25.
John F. Mf ffVrd'a Crltlclama
Editor Wealth Makers:
At the Grand Island convention after
Governor Holcomb bad received the nom-
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convention the men who in confidence
had placed the keeping of the Populist
party in his hands, and therein a solemn
and apparently honest and sincere man
ner pledge bis manhood and his sacred .
honor to protect the interest, and faith.
fully carry out the will of the Populist (
party aa far aa it was in his power ao to
do.
Haa Governor Holcomb kept that
promise? Haa the Fopnliat party who
ing to arbitrate."