THE WEALTH MAKERS.
May 16, 1895
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"Theater goers nowadays prefer
comedy to tragedy," says Myron Ileed.
"There is tragedy enough right around
the corner."
As long as we have rich idlers, we must
have poor workers. Were all producing
wealth and equitably exchanging it, none
need be poor.
Government bunks can alone secure
tons an unfluctuating unit of value, a
dollar whose purchasing power will
neither appreciate nor depreciate. .
Aararam Lincoln was the friend of the
oppressed; his son, Robert T ,is president
of the Chicago Gas Trust now owned by,
or a part of, the Standard Oil Company.
Too late for publication this week we
received a long communication (12 type
written pages) from Senator Allen. It
will appear, with editorial comments, in
our next issue.
II. F. WASMUNOof Rushville writes ask
ing where Prof, llerron's latest book,"The
Christian State," can be obtained. Order
of T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York. Trice
in cloth 75 cents. In paper 40 cents.
Governor Waits has challenged Pat
terson, editor of the Rocky Mountain
News.and other silver single-plank leaders
to meet him in joint debate July 4th. lie
propose to defend the Omaha platform
against all comers.
In the good time coining an idler, a
man who voluntarily lives on the labor
of others, will be universally despised and
condemned as a criminal. But how the
world would stare now were tha Astors,
Vauderbilts, and the whole outfit of
watering place dudes, arrested and com
plaint lodged against them for living
without labor, as aristocratic tramps!
One man belonging to the recentcity
government of Chicago, ' contrived to
draw, thirty-one salaries. He was on
thirty-one pay rolls. Another man, a
well-known saloon keeper of the 29th
ward, and who never did a stroke of
work for the city, was on fourteen differ
ent pay rolls. Stuffing pay rolls is a
great inveution. On the Chicago pay
rolls it was easy to carry dead men and
draw pay for work never performed.
United States Senator Mitchell of
Oregon, Republican, is leading the g. o.
n. of that state to adopt an out and out
free silver platform. Would'nt it be a
great scheme to cut down our platform
to free silver and in one state be swallow
ed by the Democrats and in another by
the Republicans who favored 16 to 1 free
silver? It's a pity someof our silver-crazy
Populists can't be lifted np high enough
to view the whole national field and
sense the situation as a wholel
The Buffalo Express (Rep.) declaret
that free trade creates trusts, and tells
why. Under a protective tariff on salt
the business remained unorganized; but
when the tariff was removed the salt
makers were "forced to make a combina
tion to raise (hold up?) prices to get a
profit out of the business," it is said.
Yea, well, but what difference has it made
to the people whether the tariff ora trust
held prices np? In either case the con
sumers' bill was the same and wages were
reduced to the lowest possible point.
"TO EKE 18 HUMAK"
Tiety ran so low in a certain charch
that a good deacon said there were but
two faithful, Bro. Blank aud himself, and
he had some doubts of Bro. Blank. It is
George Howard Gibson and Bro. Wolfe
with some suspicion of Bro. Wolfe. Say
George, who are most amused and grati
fied by this process? Cannot you indulge
your pt'Heiminni in other channels with a
little effort? Minden Courier.
Whether George is as self-satisfied, and
as doubtful of all the brethren, as this
application of the story implies, or not,
he appreciates the motive o his critic,
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."
He who canuot take criticism kindly and
gratefully should never criticise.
Probably Brother Richmond wishes to
intimate to me that I am not liberal
minded, that I am inclined to disfellow
ship and be suspicious of all who fail to
see the Populist truth as I see it. He
wishes me to be more tolerant, and not
be quite so sure that unless the world
comes to my way of thinking it will go
swiftly to the dogf, figuratively speak
ing. If I may be allowed now to speak for
myself, let me say that I have not been
consciously speaking for myself; but for
the people, the people's party and the
people's platform.. I have believed, do
believe, that the Omaha platform, made
by their honest intelligent representatives
in 1802 and in every state ratified by the
people, expresses their unchanged princi
ples and demands; demands which they
will persist in till they are enacted into
law. With my whole soul, my moral
sense and reason, I subscribe to those
demands, in substance, and believe upon
their enactment into law depends the
rescue of the masses from monopoly op
pression. I have had a taste of poverty
myself. I know how millions are suffer
ing today, A man out of work, with wife
and little ones dependent on him aud
means fast dwindling away, suffers fear
fully as day after day passes aud no work
can be found, and millions have been in
this situation since '93. I can imagine
how people suffer who are facing the fore
closure of mortgages upon their home,
their household goods and family ne
cessities. I can conceive the life of those
who must slowly die in sweaters' dens,
and the despair that leads to begging
drunkenness, crime, prostitution and
suicide. I see and in a measure feel all
this and know how the people are fast
being submerged by spreading poverty;
and 1 also see the salvation contained
for all in the changeless principles and
ust demands of the People's party.
They ore God's demands. They are the
demands of justice. It is my faith in this
political gospel of justice, of law to be
enacted, that makes me zealous in de
fense of the Omaha platform. I have
not been self-centered. I have not struck
blows becaUHe I have a dictator's spirit
aud love to fight, but only and always
for the sake of the suffering, defenseless
masses.
But no doubt a man may feel intensely
for the wronged and offend a needless
number. If I have offended a single Pop
ulist who loves the poor I am sincerely
sorry. He is a wise man who makes no
mistakes of judgment. There are all
sorts of men in the People's party. They
can not all see alike. What needs to be
said to some, if appropriated by others,
does harm. Some cannot see that our
boud of union is not silver, or any one
single question, but the entire Omaha
platform which drew us all together.
Those who think silver is the great ques
tion of course think the silver Democrats
are all right and that we can tie up with
them and accomplish more by so doing.
To such the governor's acts, distributing
rewards to Democratic leaders, do not
seem like the betrayal of the People's
party. And Senator Allen 'sefforts, aided
by other men, to turn the Populist vote
in the Second district to Jim Boyd aad
fuse and confuse ns with the Democrats in
the Third district, are looked upon by
the Populists who are first and princi
pally silver men as justifiable, the work
of "practical" politics, a desirable union
of forces. But a larger number, we be
lieve, men who stand on the whole Oma
ha platform refused to be made one with
the silver Democrats, men who remained
avowedly Democrats still, and fought
fusion because they believed it would ac
complish the disintegration aud destruc
tion of the Populist party. All of which
should show clearly that we can not
have peace in the party if the politicians
persist in trying to fuse us with our
political enemies.
The editor of this paper is as averse to
strife as a man can be. He is compelled,
however, to condemn fusion deals find
tie-ups with men who are not Populists,
who are therefore our political enemies.
The Omaha platform is broad enough to
hold, and hold together, men possessing
many shades and variations of opinion,
so long as they stay on it and do not
try to trim it down or lead us to tie it
and our cause to other opposing political
crafts. We do not seek to force our per
sonal interpretation of the body of Pop
ulist principles on those who differ with
ns. But we shall continue to insist that
Populist leaders must be loyal. If they
make deals or acknowledge obligations
to our political enemies we shall class
them with those enemies. Otherwise we
shall have political confusion, with
friends and foes indistinguishably and
inextricably intermixed.
THE SITUATION IX TEXAS
We are living in evil times when the ad
journment of our law-making bodies is
felt to be a relief. The following head
lines in the Louisville Courier-Journal
express about what hoe ben expressed
regarding the adjournment of perhaps
very state legislature and the national
congress:
"Without a Tear. Adjournment of
Texas Legislature a Relief. Accomplish
ed Nothing. Treasury Empty and the
Democrats Hopelessly Split."
The "split" is the silver lining to this
cloud. Hon. Travis Henderson, a life
long Democrat, twelve times returned to
his seat in the Texas legislature, near the
close of the recent session, in Which the
corruptiy divided Democrats had block
ed almost every act of legislation pro
posed in the interest of the people, rose
to warn the members of his party. He
said: "We must have a care how we con
duct legislation here." It may be a long
time indeed before we assemble another
Democratic legislature within these
walls."
His colleagues gazed upon him with
astonishment and after a few momenta
impressive silence he raised his hand and
swept it slowly before him as he traced
the letters of fire on the wall above their
heads, aud, exclaimed: "Mene, mene,
tekel upharsin." t
The Courier-Journal (Dem.) reporting
it says:
"No one has had much to say about
the little scene, but everybody has done
a lot of thinking."
The Populists in the legislature, 30 in
number, voted as one man for every
good measure introduced and against
every bad measure, and commanded the
respect of the better element of the Dem
ocrats. The Populist party in Texas at
the last election polled 160,000 votes for
their state ticket, and they will easily
sweep the state at the next election.
Furthermore, a fact that is important,
they have had no fusion in Texas. It
has been and will be a straight, middle-of-the-road,
Omaha platform fight. That
is the kind of "practical" politics the
Populists of that great state believe in
and successfully use. They have utterly
refused to fuse with the Republicans, and
by being honest, open-handed and con
sistent they are capturing that great
single-state empire.
BUT SEC ALL THE GUILTY '
Henry D. Lloyd's great book, "Wealth
Against Commonwealth," is doing so
much to destroy the oil magnates' repu
tation that it is a wonder Rockefeller
does not get out an injunction to protect
himself. Rev. Dr. Ecob of Albany follows
Prof. John Bascom, D. D., in protesting
against the harlotry of the church in ac
cepting money from such a source. Dr.
Ecob says:
"The Standard Oil money, if the rec
ords of our legal tribunals can be trusted
is foul by the cancerous touch of every
crime iu the calendar. It has silenced
the conscience of the juror, loaded like a
dice the decision of the judge, darkened
the discernment of the legislator, added
fuel to the greed of great corporation,
and has even gone down with malicious
intent into the nether world of arson and
murder. Plant a million of such money
in the foundation of a church institution
or college, aud what preacher or teacher
there can utter one profoundly true word
against the capital, criminal by whose
unhallowed gains he buys his daily bread?'
I wonder if this is only a shrewd exten
sion of its too succensful business policy,
to plant hush money among the schools
and churches." '
But, after all, there is only a shade or
two of difference between the guift 'of one
monopolist aud that of another. Murder
of the slow or life-shortening sort is in
volved in every individual act of monop.
oly oppression, and the monopolist is
the man who forces others to sweat for
him, to give him labor service which he
does not in any or. in equal measure re
tarn. The landlord, the money lender
the legalized highwayman (railroad
stockholder), the coal-baron, the specu
latorany and every man who uses nat
ural or acquired power to force from
others more labor than ht performs for
them, is of this robbing, torturing and
murdering class. He is foul with selfish
ness and the blood of the wounded and
dying is upon his garments.
"Come out of her, my people.that ye be
not partakers of her sins, and that ye re
ceive not of her plagues. For her sins
have reached unto heaven."
It seems to be the prevailing, all-con
trolling belief that there is nothingvalu
able that money cannot buy. All are
reaching after money as the means with
which to gratify every desire, and even
the multi-millionaire is still 'grasping
after more money, thiuking that with
more he can increase his happiness, or
satisfy his still unsatisfied desires. But
it is all a woeful blunder. There is just one
thing that can make us happiness, and
that is, to labor for others and to be
loved by others. We have some proof of
this in the ideal family life. But what
the most perfect family life is, the com
munity and national life must be made
before we can be satisfied. Each needs
all, and all need each. Hjred service has
no love in it, hence is contrary to nature's
plan. It is not fellowship, but isolatiou,
leaving the heart barren. The market
place or exchange struggle for gain from
one another, the contracts we make to
serve or to pay money for service, sepa
rate as, cut up the natural communal
body, compel antagonism of individual
parts, destroying all social life and fellow
ship. Voluntary community organiza
tion to labor for one another in all pos
sible ways on the fraternal plan, uniting
the interest of families in one great family,
is the beginning of a social service and
fellowship necessary to enlarge our life
and increase our happiness.
"Money continues to be very abund
ant" where? In New York. Oh I
. THE EVILS OF PARTY RULE
The Democrats will make a platform
and nominate a candidate for president
to catch the Populist voters who ask on
ly financial reform. The integrity of the
People's party will require a broadeuing
out the platform to take in the Initiative
and Referendum or it will be swallowed
np. The referendum alone would be
enough platform and when once under
stood would carry. Coming Nation.
We are strongly of the opinion that
this is what the Democrats will do, and
that the strain of attraction and counter-attraction
will test the cohesiveness
of our party and reduce its numbers for
a time if we canuot sink political differ
ences in a common effort to smash all
party machines for all time by voting in
to the people's hands the power of direct
legislation. If we could make a cam
paign on this one paramount, most
vitally important question, shall the ma
jority be given power to rule directly,
holding in their hands the veto power,
the referendum, so that no important
legislative act which they may choose to
pass on can become a law if they refuse
to sanction it, then once for all would we
escape from party divisions and evils,
from the independence-destroying rule
of either this or that spoils-seeking,
party-machine-running group of damna
ble demagogues. As Prof. Herron says,
"We do not select the men we elect."
The honest, fair minded people of this
country are not united and cannot unite
in one party, because they canuot agree
as to what is the most important .ques
tion or reform. They are found in four
contending parties. There is a struggle
even now going on in each party to hold
together those already in that particu
lar party, and it is probable that in the
campaign next year there will be six di
visions in which good men will be found
fighting each other, six political parties
instead of four. Now, the question is, is
it possible for the good people of this
country to avoid or escape from party
divisions? Is it not possible for thegood
men of all parties to see that the evils
which afflict us so sorely are each and I
every one of them intrenched behind the
grouping, dividing party machinery?
Nobody knows what the majority would
like to do on any unsettled question.
Republicans, Democrats, Populists, and
Prohibitionists cannot, as they think,
reasonably tear themselves away from
their several party groups, because the
men of each party believe their party to
be wiser than any other party, and
so no expression of the will of the ma
jority can be reached on any proposed
reform and all progress is blocked. It is
apparent, therefore, is it uot, that party
groupings by dividing us are the defense
of evil and that party bonds must be
broken? In other words we mustget to
gether out of all parties. We must get
together, but we cannot get together as
Republicans, or Democrats, or Prohibi
tionists, or Populists, or Bimetallists, or
anything else. We cannot escape from
party bondage by any effort of one party
(new or old) to swallow all other parties.
WejCannot get together on any one
question; because we cannot agree as to
what that question should be unless we
can come to see that thr question of de
stroying all party machinery by giving
ourselves power to rule directly, by the
Swiss method of the Initiative and Refer
endum, a non-partisan question, is in
comparably more important than all
party questions, because it removes the
obstacles which separate usand provides
the means by which to take action upon
any and all questions, as fast as we be
come interested in and wish to vote upon
a question.
The difficulties in the way of uniting to
overthrow the power of all parties to
keep us divided, may not be insurmount
able. Let us consider what they are.
The mere adding of the Initiative and
Referendum demand to the platform of
the Populist party would not add the
people to us, would not break the bands
that bind them to their present parties.
Aud if two or more reform parties Bhould
add this demand to their platforms it
would not help the matter. It would be
wiser to have no other demand save this
one, to confer all power of legislation
from their representatives (?), so-called-back
into the hands of the people. To
obtain this we would not be sacrificing
anything, ,b,ecause the People's party
would be exchanged for, would in its
last labor help to usher in, a people's
government, which would be permanent
and progressive. It is not a people's
party, but a people's government, that
we want.
Is it possible for Republicans, Demo
crats, Prohibitionists and Populists who
desire progress, unobstructed majority
will enactments, a people's government,
by the action of all who desire progress,
to come together to secure the law-making
power, through the adoption of the
Initiative and Referendum method of
legislation?
THE TALK OF U8URERS
In looking through the financial editor's
columns of a New York exchange dated
May 9th we were somewhat interested in
his statements intended to make wage
earners and borrowers contented and
capitalists and money monopolists easy
in their consciences. He claimed first
basing his statement on a table prepared
by a U. S. senate committee that wages
Increased between 1864 and 1891 over
80 per cent, and that prices of commod
ities had decreased 4 per cent. Referring
to the claim of certain philosophers, that
labor originates all values, be said,
"This, of course, is not true; but it is a
fact that of the prices at which articles
are sold at wholesale, labor gets by far
the largest share."
Now, why does he say, "This, of course,
is not true?" The labor of God and the
labor of men create all useful and valu
able things. This is self-evident. Where
then does the idle capitalist and his chil
dren and children's children get a just
claim Cu the product of those who work?
Is it not exasperating to the wealth
makers to have the wealth takers preach
that they ought to be content if over half
the value of what they produce is left by
the plunderers? Statutes that legalize
plundering do not change the nature of
it.
This New York financier also tries to
convince his readers that the creditor
class has less power and a smaller share
now than formerly, because the rates
of interest have falleB. The rate of
interest does not show the amount of
interest If the rate of interest is some
what lowered, but the amount of debt
greatly increased, the interest burden at
the lower rate is greater. And if the
yearly interest amounts to more than
the net product of labor, as is the cose,
it proves that the wealth and land and
capital resources of thecountryare being
concentrated and the workers expropriated.
THE MAY MAGAZINES
The May Century contains the conclu
sion of Mrs. Harrison's serial, "An Er
raut Wooing," the seventh instalment of
"Casa Braccio," the beginning of "The
Princess Sonia," a novelette by Julia
Magruder, "Two Shadowy Rivals," one
of Richard Maicolm Johnston's ever wel
come short stories, and two others, "Lu
cinda," by Langdon E. Mitchell, and
"Regret" by Kate Chopin, making an
unusual amount of fiction forthis month.
The "Life of Napoleon" iscontinued, as
richly illustrated as usual; Noah Brooks
tells of "The Close of Lincoln's Career;"
R. W. Gilder, the editor of the magazine,
has an article on "The Heart of Living
stone, with pictures from photographs
taken in Africa; A. C. Bernheirn contribu
tes "A Chapter of Municipal Folly The
Squandering of New York's Public Fran
chise;" W.E.,Sraythe,edit6r of the Irriga
tion Age, has a timely article on "The
Conquest of Arid America" with a map
of the arid region of the United States,
showing areas irrigated and giving re
sults in Utah, Colorado, California and
Arizona. Alexander McArthur has an
interesting paper on "Rubinstein" with
portrait, and Harriet Waters Preston's
"Beyond the Adriatic" is , concluded.
These with the usual departments and
poems make a valuable number.
We sometimes think there has been by
evolution a great increase in human wis
dom in the last 2000 years, but it is not
so apparent when we acquaint ourselves
with the wisdom of the ancients, The
The prayerof Agur was, "Give me neither
poverty nor riches;" today the man who
thinks less wealth is better than more, is
rarely overheard in his devotions. And
if he were he would doubtless bedenounc
ed as a dangerous character, a "socialist
communist and anarchist," (as if these
words meant the same!) a leveler, an in
fidel, etc. Speaking of socialists, Cicero
had more sense and wisdom than most
moderns who fancy they have "evoluted"
far beyond him. He said:
"One thing ought to be aimed at by all
men: that the interest of each individu
ally, and of all collectively, should be the
same; for if each should grasp at his in
dividual interest, all society will be dis
solved." Yet this is what all, except a few com
munities like the Christian Corporation,
seem to be doing. And we can see, too,
that the antagonisms between theselfish
monopolists and dependent workers, with
increasing strife, suffering and bitterness,,
threatens the dissolution of society.
In the investigation before the Illinois
senate of the department store question
a representative of one of the largest de
partment stores defended them as follow
ing the ordinary lines of (selfish) strug
gle and power and said: "It is almost
axiomatic that every man's success is
made by overcoming those in the same
business. Success is simply a process of
eliminating others out of the contest."
This is the naked unadorned (save by
political economists) brutal fact. Now
why can not the church see that this is
not Christianity, but devilishness; and
that if the Christian law (love) is rejected
by all six days out of seven, there can
be no Christianity or salvation even one
day in seven, and hence no salvation
here or hereafter.
Mr. Edward Atkinson knows alto
gether too much of "the things that
aiu't so," and he continues to add to his
stock in trade. He is just in print with
the claim that thecoin notes issued under
the act of 1890 cannot be reissued if
they have once been redeemed in coin. If
Edward's interpretation of the law is
allowed and the goldbug administra
tion will be pleased, of course, to agree
with it a little stock of coined dollars
can be used (by pushing them out of one
window and taking them bank at
another) to redeem, cancel and destroy
all the coin certificate currency issued
under the Sherman act, and the bullion
bought with it, with the mints closed
against silver will lie in the treasury
vaults, unused, unrepresented, wasted.
The "Sound Money" fellows of New
York are keeping up the flow of their
literature, "without money and without
price" so much do they love, or fear, the
benighted people. Thelastedition of their
goldbug gospel isentitled "Coin's Finan
cial Fool." Horace White of Wall Street
perpetrates it and in the publisher's note
to editors pasted on they say any editor
may use the stuff as his own and give no
credit for it, and that a hundred copies
of it will be sent free to any one who will
make use of them. And the bankers
settle the bills.
Tret have struck oil in Southeastern
Kansas, but the Standard Oil company
has stepped in and through itscontrol of
the railroads shut that oil away from
:i .'.t .1 a t T l
vania and either so lower the freight for
the oil shipped in, or raise the freight on
the Kansas product that the Kansas oil
cannot be disposed of. But suppose the
state of Kansas Bhould take the oil busi
ness into its hands, produce and refine
it, and force the railroads to haul it at a
reasonable rate. How long will it' take
the people to learn how to combine for
their own protection?
Bicycles of the best make have only
within a year dropped in price below
$150. The figure now is $100. They
cost somewhere between ten and twenty .
dollars. If the price corresponded with
the cost ten times as many would be
used with vast benefit, and an enormous
labor demand would be made to produce
them. What a shame that a few should
have the power to so stand in the way of
the people, as dogs in the manger. Be
stow power upon men and their greed is
insatiable.
"When the Devil Fell Sick."
(Continued from 1st pagif!)
also." "When the devil fell sick the
devil a saint would be." When the
devil got well a devil a saint was
he." One of the political devils was
very sick at the time of our late conven
tionTom Majors was setting very hard
on his stomach and suddenly he develop
ed into a Populist saint. A very devoted
one too. No common farmer like Honest
John Powers, was good enough for a
Populist governor, but there was that
incomparable man, Judge Holcoinb.
The Bee would be proud to support him.
Rosewater's love always proves fatal.
The wreck may survive, but the man on
whom he lavishes his affections invari
ably dies, and his last love has proved no
exception.
But Rosewater is getting well, he land
ed Majors higher than Jonah, and he has
the grand satisfaction of knowing that
the governor's Democratic appointments
will drive every last man of the Republi
cans who strayed from the fold last fall
back into the g. o. p. camp.
Yes, Rosewater is happy; he made the
"medicine," Dr. Holcomb is administer
ing it where it will do the most good
The earnest Populist worKer is not so '
happy. He denies that his hard work
aud conscientious devotion for the cause
can with justice be ignored, and the
emoluments at the disposal of our chief
be squandered on political harlots.
ni.utna.ia ir I nuuiinr. inr iiiiii ill 111.
Kpnnh i(!h,iih ne Dersuaueu 10 voio m
head of the ticket last fall, and be greet
ed with, "We told you so." It is bad
enough for Rosewater, Bryan, or any of
the rest of our political oppouents to use
the talents God has given them to defeat
justice, and break down the advance of
reform; but when it comes to meinuers oi
our own household, it cuts to the quick,
and the Populist or Populist news
paper that remains silent while these re
wards are being bestowed upon our
political opponents, denies the faith, and
like the sow that was washed .lies down
again in the old wallow. Thank God
there is a goodly army yet in Nebraska
who have not bowed the knee to Baal,
men of honor, men who cannot be
bought, aud men who will nofr'be sold to
gratify the personal ambition of any
one. False leaders may betray them,
but will utterly fail of retaining their
future support. Fusion is like the fly in
the apothecaries' ointment, causing the
whole mass to stink, a drop of poison in
jected into a healthy body destroying its
vitality, and the end is paralysis and
death. --"l
Another vital point must be guarded, f
True men thoroughly converted to our
principles, who serve the cause for the '
love of it, in short, patriots, not politi
cians, should be nominated for office.
Had this course been strictly pursued
our organization would show no joint
in its harness, a target for our foes. If
an incorruptible man had been nominat
ed at the head of our ticket last fall no
evil results would have followed; he might
have bees defeated, but the defeat would
have been a crown of glorv compared
with the disgrace attached to electing a
rw.litixul nnrnhol. all HHP VftnitV led (him
to attempt dancing ou two ropes at We
aud the same time, as wide aparts
PnnnliHtn nnd Dpmocracv. A lofty tuiir-'r
ble was inevitable. Shall the party cling
to the seat of his tights and play the
clown and tumble with him, or leave hii
uml
in future to his own devices?
In a word, shall the party live, or
buried alive in the grave of personal anf
bition. C ri. King.
'Where Cbasn County Populists
Stand
Imperials', Neb., May 5, 1805.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Herewith enclosed plense find one dollar
to pay for The Wealth Makers another '
year. I am pleased with the noble utter
ances found in your paper for justice and
the right at all times.
First I would say that Chase county
Populists stand squarely upon the Oma
ha platform, and will not be side-tracked V
on the "free Bilver switch." r
I have just read Hon. J. V. Wolfe's '
letter to the governor in this week's
paper, aud must say that my already
good opinion of Mr. Wolfe lias grown
wonderfully in the last half hour. But
can I say the same for him to whom it is
addressed? I do not believe there is a
person in Nebraska who had felt more
just pride in our governor and his noble
actionsup to acertain point than I have.
Was always making the boast that we
had a thorough Populist governor. Now
I have to suffer the humiliation of admit-
ting that 1 was mistaken. jj
Would it not have been better initio ('
long run if we had suffered defeat in fhe
election than that any combination
should have been entered into, if such
were thecase? If 1 have the best interests
r.t Ka nnrt.v ut hpArt. will I anrfifina fkomV
IS! MW f ' ..... - ...ww
to promote my own interests; lo, never.
