V THE WEALTH MAKERS. June 13, 1895 THE WEALTH MAKERS. Kw Sarlaa ot TIIE ALLIAXCE-IS'DEPEXDEXT. Cunaoiidatioa ot tba Farmers Alliance and Neb. Independent. PUBLISHED EVERT TBTJBSDAT BY Tha Wealth Makers Publishing Company, WO M 8U Llneoii, Nabraaka. Gioioa Bowam Guao.. J. 8. HTiTT Edltoi m.BmIbmi liaaagai jv. z p. a. -It m iu molt fall lor aa to rlaa. Than aaak I aot to ellmb. Aaotbcr'i pala I ahooaa not for mj food. A f oldao eh aim, rob ot honor, la too good a prlaa To tempt my haaty band to do a wrong Unto a fallow Ban. Tbt Ufa bath wo Saffldrat, wroagbt by man'i aatanls foaj And who that hath haart wonld dara prolong Or add a sorrow to a atrtckta son! That Mki a baallng balm to maka It whole? lfy boiom owna tha brotharhood of nan.' Publisher' Announcement. Tha abcr!ptloa pries ot Ton WrtLTS Mai- aa ta Bl.w par yaar, in aaranca. Aganta In aollettlntr aabaoripMona ihonld ba Ttry earanl that all namaa ara eorraotly ipallad and propr poatofflca tfljm. 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It is conscienceless, and uninteresting besides. It gives us pleasure to be able to say that the State Journal ot one day (the day Gere's gang took a vacation) was a clean, wholesome, truthful, valuable. interesting paper. Pity, it ie, that th ladies could not stay in possession. Rubkin says: "Luxury is indeed po sible in the future innocent and exquisi luxury for all and by the help of all; b luxury for the present can only be e joyed by the ignorant; the crudest ma living could not sit at his feast unless h Bat blind-folded." A monster labor demonstration is tq be held in Chicago. Prominent speakers' from all Darts of the west are to be in vited. What is the matter with ou having similar demonstrations in Li coin and Omaha at the same time? Wh says the Lincoln Labor Club? Senator Sherman at the Ohio Rep lican convention said: "We prefer to ti foreign production rather than our own But who pays the tax when our peopl buy the goods? Is it possible that tha people can forever be made to belie vq that the tariff is pan. by foreigaers? Rev. Dr. John Hall of New York has" given the 11,000 income tax he would! uldt lirai.i have had to pay but for Judge Shirai plutocratic, thirty-days conversion the Presbyterian Missionary Society, and others are reported doing likewise. What effect will such gifts Lave on tbt altitude of the church toward the rich? The state convention at Lincoln Aug. 28th, will have a delegate representation based on McFadden's vote, the counties being entitled to one delegate for each 100 votes cast for our candidate for Sec retary of State, and one for each major fraction of a hundred, and also one dele gate at large. This will make a conven tion numbering 787 delegates. The Farmers' Tribune has recently changed editors, but it is evidently still in good hands, for its new editor says, "When the People's party deserts the Omaha Platform for any issue it will be the Initiative and Referendum." The politicians will never favor that plank, because, once made the law, machine poli tics and spoils hunting would be over, thrown for all time. Tobacco warehouse receipts used to be used as money in Virginia and they serv ed well the purpose. The only mistake in issuing them was that they were drawn up to the full value of the tobacco deposit and market fluctuations made it neces sary to discount them to cover fluctua tions. Tobacco, wheat, corn, staple goods of all sorts and valuable land are just as safe and sound a basis for credit money as government bonds now accepted from bankers, provided not more than half their value is stamped upon the money issued on them. 0 THE 61 HIST OUT BEING REPEATED The Titties-Herald of June 7th publishes interviews with Chairman Hinrichson and Governor Altgeld of Illinois which show the settled purpose of these fore most leaders to force the Democratic party to take up the free coinage ques tion or split oyer it. It is last year's Nebraska program made general. It will not work in the east, of course, but Mr. Hinrichson thinks thirty-five states and territories will respond to their call for a national silver convention either by committee action or by overriding gold bug committees. It can no longer be doubted that the silver men who engineered the Illinois Democratic convention and elected dele gates to a like national convention are determined to get control of the national Democratic party, or bolt. In some states they will get control.as in Illinois, and the Cleveland-led gold men will bolt; in other states the silver men will bolt. In twenty-five to thirty states and terri tories the party is likely to be split in twain. The result of this will be to weaken greatly the party allegiance of individual Democrats. For prudeutial reasons the goldbug Democrats will go to the Republican party, and the other sort in great numbers will come clear over to the Populist ranks, if we stand firmly on our platform of principles and refuse to fuse. It is our opportunity to forge forward as a great national party if we control ourselves, stand on our own feet and remain unbroken while the Dem ocracy goes to pieces. 1 In tha firat tilaCM th ailrar nlnmoni the Democratic party will not stand by greenback legal tenders. They call for gold and silver "primary" or "standard" money, in which all paper money, includ ing greenbacks, nhall be redeemed. A coin basis and convertible paper is their nlan Tks ... .... - il it"""- 4u;j van nut ai;n ua anymiug Jmore; and there is "a great gulf fixed" jbetween that standing ground and ours. IBut we must look on with intenseinterest while the war goes on between the gold and silver leaders of Democracy. Mr. Bryan says: "The convention at Springfield sounded the keynote of the campaign of 1896. It means that all other states in sympathy with the move ment will hold similar gatherings and select delegates to a national convention. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution of Georgia, and committee man for that state is much gratified by the action of the Illinois convention. But the Louisville Courier-Journal, the most influential southern paper, and hnost of the Democratic dailies of the en tire country are in the hands of the gold bugs. The power of patronage and the nfluence of the administration are also mmense. So it will be a pretty fight. The Republican party will not be bene fited much if any by the disintegration of its ancient rival. It, the g. o. p., will have so much straddling to do, and will in the different states be guilty of so much cowardly dodging, that tens of thousands of its voters will be disgusted by its dishonesty and trickery and leave it forever, to vote for reform candidates. It will be a Democratic funeral in '96. and in 1900 we shall have the inexpress ible satisfaction of burying with our .ballots the Republican slave-making ma chine. DEM00RA0Y'8 SILVER WEDGE The Democratic Silver Convention of Illinois last week showed that the silver fleaders are in the saddle in that state. Tbey had everything their own way, and their actions revealed that they had planned a national movement to get con trol of the party. About a thousand delegates were in attendance and a great host of visitors, among whom was a large element of politicians and news paper men who sought to measure the Iforce and scope of the movement. Chair man Hinrichson, Judge McConnell of Chicago, Judge Hunter, Governor Alt geld and W. J. Bryan of Nebraska were the principal speakers. They either assumed or charged that all our evils have come upon us as a result of the de monetization of silver. The great mono polies and trusts were not referred to, were not condemned. The goldbugs alone were attacked. The resolutions reported adopted read as follows: Whereas, Silver and gold have been the principal money metals of the world for thousands of yearn, and silver money is recognized and used as honest money be tween individuals and between nations, notwithstanding the varying ratio be tween silver and gold; and Whereas, The demonetization of silver has deprived the people of the free use and benefit of an invaluable and original money metal, and has increased debts and added to the burdens of the people by lowering the value of labor and labor products; and Whereas, The constitution of the Unit ed States prohibits any state from using anything but gold and silver coin as a legal tender for the payment of debts, thereby recognizing that coin composed of silver or of gold as honest money and fit to be used as a legal tender; therefore be it Resolved. By the Democrats of Illinois in convention assembled, That we are in favor of themse of both gold and silver as the standard money of the United States, and demand the free and unlimit ed coinage of both metals at the ratio of lb to 1, without waiting for the action yjf any other nation, and such coins shall )e a legal tender for all debts, both pub ic and private, and that all contracts jereafter executed for the payment of money, whether in gold, silver or coin, may be discharged by any money which is by law legal tender. 1 Resolved, That we hereby endorse the action of the Democratic state central committee in calling this convention, and we instruct the committee to carry out the will of this convention as ex pressed in its platform by inaugurating and carryingon a campaign of education in th is state and to thoroughly organize the democracy of thestateon the lines as laid down in the platform of this conven tion. Resolved, That the Democratic mem bers of congress and members of the sen ate from this state be and they are here by instructed to use all honorable means to carry out the principles above enun ciated. - There was another resolution declared adopted which is of importance as show ing what is in the wind, namely, one call ing on the national committee to issue a call for a national monetary conference not later than August 1st. If the national committee of the party ignores this demand the party in Illinois will make the call for a conference of states itself. Postmaster Hesing of Chicago, editor of the Staats Zeitung and a goldbug, at tended the Springfield convention and wired his paper that the action of the state convention marked a new era in political history in that a regularly call ed convention, for the first time, had de cided to go outside of the beaten track and had asked a national convention to call aconvention for thecousideration of a specific subject, for the laying down of a new declaration of principles. "It means," said he, "the founding of a new silver party under the auspices of Demo cratic authority." Mr. Hesing was of' opinion that the national committee would ignore the Illinois convention's requests "The result then will be," said he, "and I believe that the free silver combination in Illinois intends, to call a conference by states to consider the silver question and to launch at such a confer ence a new party." Hosing went on to say: "There appears to be a perfect under standing bet wee u the advocates of free silver in both partie to further this movement, and I believe that the free silverites, who have hitherto been called the Populists or who belong to the school of Sibley or Weaver will all come to gether at this national conference and there proclaim the doctrine of the new political party. This movement will un doubtedly lead to the readjustment of parties." - - " w As a Democratic convention, the gathering today cannot be called a success. As a free silver con vention it certainly was." APPRECIATION AHD INTEREST There are two features to the money question. One is the appreciating dollar feature; the othr is the monopoly trib ute measured by interest. The free silver men outside of the Pop nlist party give almost or quite all their thought to the evil of an appreciating dollar, and it is certainly a very great evil. They believe if silver were freely coined at the present ratio prices would cease to fall, would rise to the '73 level, and remain, in the matter of a general average, stationary. It is a demand of justice and very important that the dol lars we borrow shall be paid back in dol lars of the same value, the same labor equivalence. The appreciating dollar wrongs the borrowing class. The depre ciating dollar would, if prices rose rapid ly, wrong the creditor class. The appre ciating dollar is, however, a much great er evil than a depreciating dollar because with the dollar depreciating, as in the de cade during and succeeding the war, bus iness expands, everybody can get work and wealth is greatly increased. On the contrary, as we saw in the currency con traction period of the '70s, with the dol lar appreciating and prices falling it is not safe to do business, goods cannot be sold to pay cost of production and the highways are filled with men seeking em ployment. But prices are affected by all monopolies, not by the money monopo ly alone. If we should succeed in our efforts to open the mints to silver it would not restore the conditions of the decade of greenback prosperity. It would not secure to labor a money equivalent for its product. The great monopolies have grown from small be ginnings to enormously oppressive over shadowing power, in twenty-five years, and their power would remain, and, ad ded to the power of the creditor class, would easily absorb, through the chan nels of rent, dividends and interest, vast ly more money than the increased silver coinage would provide. The concentra tion of wealth has carried with it power to organize and monopolize one industry after another and the natural resources, until its encroachments can not be pre vented by any small or large increase in the volume of the currency. Another thing. There is a periodical fall in prices, and consequent enforced idleness and hard times, which interest, rent and dividend drains produce, which the simple free coinage of silver would in no degree affect. The money question in its length and breadth is the question, how money shall be taken out and kept out of the hands of monopolists. To break the money loaners' monopoly it will be necessary for the government to conduct the loan, deposit and exchange business at cost, for all. To break the coal, oil, lumber, transportation, tele graph, land and other monopolies, which rob us of our money regardless of whether the mints are open or not, we must by some method take from them their pres ent legal power to decree prices. The People's party demands not merely the free coinage of silver, but an increase in the volume of the currency to correspond with the needs of the people and a meth od of issuing by loaning it direct to the people at a cost of not to exceed two per cent per annum, which would reduce all interest to the government rate. We also call for the nationalization of the railroads, telegraphs and telephones, a reduction of the land monopoly and a graduated income tax. It is a broad strong free platform, and the Booner the people get on to it the better it will be for them. , WHAT TIXAS LEADERS BAT The People's party executive committee of Texas has issued a ringing letter to the Populists of that state. They stand squarely on the entire Omaha platform, its land, money and transportation planks, and reach out the hand of wel come and fellowship to all free silver men who will como to them. Chairman Ashby in a separate personal appeal said: "If you load a cannon to the muzzle with powder and place no wadding or ball upon the powder and touch it off it will not be effective. .Likewise load a party these times with the single idea . i . 1 . 1 1 . llfc 01 silver coinage anu touch uer uu tiuu im will be so ineffective that it will not go beyond a few defeated ex-congressmen. Ours is not a Catholic party nor an auti- Catholic party, a local option or anti local option party. We may advocate any of these and stfll be Populists. We have a greater mission to perform as a party, and that is to see that the Omaha platform lsenacted into law every pianK of it. To this end let every Populist bend his energies. Let us continue to formulate and educate. Let our enemies continue to abuse us and call us anarch ists, but 'a curse on the minion who calls us disloyalr We know that we are guid- ed.by the constitution given us by the fathers of the republic, and under it we will triumph or we will perish! We do not desire to live in the land of our fathers when constitutional liberties are denied its citizens! Let me urge upon you the necessity of constant watchfulness and unceasing labor. Take and read reform literature. Keep speakers in the field. A MOST DANGEROUS FALSEHOOD Mr. Hall, of the Grand Island Free Pn-sH ha written a letter to the World Herald which is of special interest to tha Bryan worshipers of this state. In it h points out that the Illinois Democratic Silver convention lied, that Bryan plain ly lent himself to a compromise which compromised his integrity, and that the World-Herald is guilty of the same poli tical crime in endorsing the platform ol the falsifying Springfield convention. Mr, Hall's convictions regarding the real ob ject of the ninrichson-Bryan political move, are supported by reason. The falsehood in the Springfield plat form pointed out by Mr. Hall is the assertion that, "the Constitution of the United States prohibits any state from using anything but gold and silver coin as a legal tender for the payment of debts." The Constitution says: "No state shall coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts." This means that the states are forbidden to manufacture money and by law force debtors to accept it. It does not define the powers of Congress, or say what material it shall use to make money on. It does not limit that mate rial to gold and silver. Judge Tiffany in his ''Constitutional Law," page 221 says: "That upon which the stamp is placed is called coin. The coin may be metal, parchment or paper. The value is in the stamp, and not in the metal or material.'' As a matter of historic fact Congress authorized the stamping of full legal tender dollars upon paper in 1861, and a later Supreme Court declared the act constitutional. ' This misleading statement of the Illi nois convention proves that it was tht enemy of the greenback, of United States legal ' tender paper, and that its engineers are the determined supporters and tools of the bankers. They are ready to falsify and pervert or cover up history, in order to destroy the green back and padlock us firmly to a me tallic money basis, with the key turned over to, and the length of our chains controlled by, the Shylock profession We have got to wake up to realize tht difference between free silver 16 to 1 advocates of Shylock redemption money, and the real enemies of the money power. Bryan has taken his stand with those who oppose United States legal tender dollars stamped on paper. He is put for ward by the Illinois 16 to 1 redemption money leaders, as a candidate to lead the metallic basis men of the nation. Whether Editor Hall is right in believing that it is a political scheme to keep free silver Democrats together and deliver to the national machine again in '96 re mains to be seen. Rev. George J. Powell of Ornahe read a paper before the Municipal Reform National Conference at Cleveland, Ohio, week before last which attracted much attention, its subject being the municipal conditions of our state metropolis. Mr. Powell is secretary of the Civic Federa tion League of Omaha, his entire time being devoted to the League work. His paper dwelt chiefly upon the character of the forces the reformers had and still have to fight against. He named the two greatest of these to be: "the corpo rations possessing public franchises and corrupting city officials;" and "the Ameri can Protective Association, in dividing citizens according to religious hatred, and favoring any man, no matter what his want of integrity, who allied himself with this secret order." "This last evil," said Mr. Powell, "was now far more potent in Omaha than the universal evil of voting for municipal officers according to their views on national politics in stead of their fitness for their municipal duties." "The corporation evil was particularly great in Omaha for the rea son that the city in its hurried growth had parted with all its franchises for mere messes of Aldermanic pottage, and today the city does not own its own water supply. All these corporations driven by private interest to oppose the policies demanded by public interest were, by the nature of things, engaged in cor rupting the city's agents." "We need our state constitution so amended that franchises can be given only by a vote of the people, and that all important changes in the administration of the city government shall, in like manner, be re ferred to the voters for ratification." The Leader of Fremont last week re printed a part of the Ed mis ten letter which we printed and replied to May 30, branding as absolutely false and base less the accusations it contained, accusa tions that the editors, or the editor and business managers of The Wealth Mak ers, are members of the A. P. A., work ing in the interest of the Republican party, and a lot more hell-conceived slander, sent broadcast to poison the people against us; and Editor Ke'.iy in troduced the malicious stuff with the misstatement, that this paper "does not deny it, but by its silence acknowledges the accusation as correct." We have for warded our reply to Mr. Kelly and if be is a fair and honorable man he will it his this week's issue correct his damaging misstatement. The Greeley Citizen has also re-published the same slander, and we look to it to do us justice to print our emphatic denials of the unsupported, untrue statements of that malevolent letter. The plutocrats have gone as far as it was safe to go this time. They began to tremble in their seats, for fear the people had reached th limit of their en durance, and might rise and shake the monopolists from power. Look now for two years of rapid improvement in busi ness, a general rise in prices of product and wages, which cannot be exploined bj free coinage or fat money. By next year they hope, through great improve- f ment in trade and industrial activities, to ; fool again the men who "wanted a change and got it," to take the wind out of the free silver movement that now threatens to destroy the Democratic party and put to sleep for another period the uneasy masses. But let us in the next breathing spell work mightily, for it is our last op portunity. " The Populists of Iowa in state conven tion this week refused to be led by Weaver on to the silver one-idea platform, and practically form a new silver party. The report of the committee on resolutions was adopted by an overwhelming ma jority. The platform reaffirms the Omaha demands, all of them, and adds thereto a call that banks be required to give a security for deposits, inspection of work shops and factories, readjustment of salaries of public officers on an economic basis, and a 10 per cent state tax on all contracts to pay in gold. John Mayo Palmer, goldbug, son of -Senator Palmer of Illinois, speaking of the Illinois silver convention said: "Assuming that silver men are correct in asserting that the vital question for solution in 1896 will be for or against 16 to 1 silver, then the necessary effect of the Illinois convention and its invitation for a national convention this year will , be to disrupt the Democratic party. Who would be the bolters, or who the regular Democrats, remains to be seen. That somebody would bolt is certain." Here is the financial plank of the Ohio Republicans adopted at their recent state convention: "We favor bimetallism, and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money, either in accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an international agree ment, if that can be obtained, or under such restrictions and such provisions to be determined by legislation as will se cure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals; that the pur chasing and debt-paying power of tha dollar, whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal." Mr. Bryan iu his Springfield. III. speech. June 5th, said: "All admit that hn iiiioaf iriTi rhimntnllioml ia thotTpaafaat. - J U1-UVIUAi I. V VUlllUtlilJ au lUVBjiVUWDW economic question which hascome before the people of the United States for a generation, if not, in fact, during the j present century." And Mr. Harvey, author of "Coin," defines "scientific bi- metallism" to be, "Free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver; these two metals to constitute the primary or . redemptive money of the government." I AMONG OUR EXCHANGES "The populists," says the Wayne Re" publican, "are having a merry war among themselves in this state." Yes, they are lust practicing a little drill exercise and propose to turn their arms upon the common enemy when the campaign opens. Wayne Forum. The Beacon Light has watched the general comments pro and con among the populist press concerning Governor Holcomb's appointments and the con troversy between the Wealth Makers and Senator Allen. There is no doubt but these discussions and personal controversies will have a tendency to cement and "line up" the people's party column in one solid pha lanx, and make it impregnable to amal gamation or fusion. O'Neill Beacon Light. Populists should not lose sight of the fact that money of ultimate redemption, or primary and secondary money, is a nowling farce. Ibe only redemption necessary is that contained in the pur chase of goods or the payment of a debt. The great mass of the people have no use for any other kind of redemption, and the very few who do make use of it do so for speculation only, and labor foots the bills. It is a function ot money for pur- m poses of robbery alone, to accumula wealth out of other men s toil. Mindk Courier, The plutocrats are wild in their deters- ? mination to suppress Populism. In it jf " tney near tneir deatn knell. The silver n j party fake is not "sidetracking" the I x ops a nine Dir. nui 11 is proving juicy bait for the old party suckers and that's where the plutocratic cuticle is getting harshly irritated. They realize that too many divisions in the old party ranks will cook their goose too brown. As the temperature mounts upward the glowing globules of prespiration stand out like glass agates on the noble ruffles of their brow, and their strength is failing. In their desperation and exhausted condi tion they are considering the feasibility of lashing their old party organs by ma chinery. People's (Saginaw, Michigan,) xnoune. The more the nonnlista exnerimon with the fusion policy the less they think 01 it. tve are aeciaeaiy in iavor of keep ing our ranks closed up solid, with every foot on the Omaha nlatform. .Inst, we are receiving a great deal of suspicious and dangerous advice about coming to gether on the money question. The pop ulists are together on the money ques tion and they are also together on the Omaha platform. The oooulista hnr already come. It remains for the other- fellows to do the coming. We are in fa vor of coming together on the OmoW platform but not anywhere off of it. Let those would-be leaders who are hungry for office wait. They are not fit to hold office anvwav. Th nnnnit party is growing fast enough and it will' vvjuo iiitu punt:, no laau us me people airs' reauy 10 auopi its principles, and tlwij soon enough. Cedar Rapids Republican. Respectfully Dedicated to the Nebr. State Journal. T- t ... . in your issue oi the 29th you giv what purports to be five points made ( V" - I i 1 V . i z Xi