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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1895)
July 4, ib'Jij j-fJ)NLY 30 CEMTS.- 1 VCome all ye tfyat labor, and take subscriptions for THE WEALTH MAKERS. 3 WE WANT . For By new subscribers, we mean people who are not now taking The Wealth Makers. If you love your family, if you love your home, if you love Liberty, if you love the People's Party of Nebraska, help us to circulate the paper that is doing more than any other one thing to educate the voters of the state. Both the old parties have proven themselves incompetent and unworthy. They have been " weighed in the balance and found wanting," and the People's Independent Party must now take the lead. It is already the second party in numbers in eleven states and, if its members do their whole duty, we shall sweep the country in '96! Educate; gdlicate Educate? Let some good local speaker in every neighborhood call a meeting of the voters in his precinct, make them a red hot pNulist speech, and urge all who are not now taking The Wealth Makers to subscribe immediately! If you want a good speaker and have none whom you can get right now, write us, and if possible, we will send you one. Let every one of our readers see how many voters he can get to take advantage of our Campaign offer 1 THE WEALTH MAKERS, the State Paper of the Populist Party, from now till November 1st for llOTflHIIIMffl Every voter in Nebraska should read it. Adddress, J. S. HYATT, Bus. ?3iuuuuiiuiiiiuiuuuuiUiuaiuuauimuuiuiuuiuuuimaiuiuimuuiuiuuiua 'AMSY PILLS! at i STIH5iM GUARD!' witea bpscifig vrmwu. Celebrated Female PowdrsneyertL wife and fun (after tailing ruu, punciuuitaaaa i Oregon Politics If you want to keep posted on Populism in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, SUBSCRIBE FOR The . . . People's Party Post, T I $1.00 per year. Portland, Oregon. h. s. ALEY, m. d. SPECIALIST IX FEMALE, NERVOUS AND CHRONIC DISEASES. Office 1215 0 St., Lincoln, Neb. S" Writ for tarmi ftnd que. t lorn blank.. Good Newel Governor Larrabee's great work, "The Railroad Question," is now issued in paper covers. It is the standard author ity on the subject and has just been adopted as a text book by Yasser Col lege. Every reformer Rhould have a copy. Price, cloth' $1.50; paper covers, 50c. Address, Wealth Makers Pcd. Co., Lincoln, Neb. Who has tried Mr. Kittinger's process for making cheese at home, advertwed in this issue? He offers to refund the money to every one who fails while following his process a very liberal offer. BITES 250000 . . the Campaign and will send the paper from now until November 1st for ONLY : 30 THE WEAIxTH MAKERS, Mgr. FIVE FACTS. -THE- Great Rock Island Route! Cheap Outing Excursions. First For the National Edncationnl Meeting at Denver, opening July 5th, the rnte will be one fare plus $2 00 lor round trip Tickets (rood to return and time np to and iuclmliiiK Sept. 1st. Second The renulnr Tourist Car to California Tia Kansas City runs once a week, and leaves Chicago every Thursday at 6 p.m.. Kansas City at 10.50 a,m. every Friday. Tickets based on second class rate, and enr runs oa fastest trains, and known as the I'hlllips-Kack Island Tourist Excursions. Car arrives at Colorado (-prlngs Saturday, 7:85 a.m. Third Home-Seeker's Excursions to Texns and New Mexico. Next one June lit h. Kate, one fare lor round trip. Tickets (rood twenty days. Fourth For Mexico City the Kock Island rnns a through sleeper from Kansas City daily at :40 p.m. via Topeka, McFarland, Wichita and Fort Worth and Austin to Sun Antonio. Two routes from there are Intefhatiouiil H. H. to Laredo, and Mexican National to the City of Mexico; Southern 1'aciflc and Mexican Interna tional via Spofford and Eagle Pass to City of Mexico, Connections are also made at Fort Worth via the Texas Pacific to El Paso, and over the Mexi ean Central to City of Mexico. Fit h Send to address be.ow for a Souvenir called the "Tourist Teacher," that gve much information to tourists. Seut free. JOHN SEBASTAIX, G. P. A., Chicago. HO FOR THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. Now is your time to see the great San Luis Valtey, Colo., the great garden spot of the West The Great Rock Island Route will run excursions on May 21st and June 11th from Lincoln by way ol Denver. Pueblo and Sahda, over the V. & R. G. into the great San Luis Valley to Alamoosa, Colo. One fare for the round trip. All persons desiring to go should write us for particulars. J. B. KOMINE, Colorado Land & Insurance Co., 1 025 O Street. Lincoln, Neb. WANTED. Every farmer to be his own painter and absolutely pure paint for sale by the Standard Glass and Paint Co., Cor ner 11th and M St., dealers in paints, oils, painter's supplies, glass, etc., Liu coin, Neb. HEW SUBSCRIBERS . CENTS. WIPP CANNOT IK HOW TOO DO IlirC IT AND PAYFREIQHT. Rut. oar 1 dr. war walnut or oak &av rmi High Ant MagaratwlDg macbla nely flaiaued, nickal pl.Ud, adapted to llfhl A.tmatli Bobbla Winter, Stlf-Tknadlat Crll a nearv work: nitiaiNa ror iv it.ni wu. dcr 8butll.,B.H'.8.tll.f Hwdl. Mid . compl. to t of 81ml Ittaabawatai .hipped uf where m tl,000 now !. World. Fair Medal awarded machine aid attach. Denta. Boy from factory and eava dealer, aod afanl'l profit. til Trial. Nn moD.v rvonlrtd is sdT.DC parr w nw an. i-mv w uroum. v .-.. .. IKII ...! ft-atlmnfiLle mri flllmMes of the World'a Fair. OXFORD MFB. C0.3ttW.UAAv.CHI6AiO,lll North-Western B LINE F., E. ft M. T. R. R. is the best to and from the BLACK HILLS Deadwood and - Hot Springs, South Dakota. For Sale at a Bargain I Lease of 640 acres school land (im proved) all enclosed with six-wire fence, 180 head of nice young hogs weighing from 100 to 200 pounds to go with it. This is in Custer county near Broken Bow. Price. 3,000. FOR SALE Good 5-room cottage, barn, corner lot in good neighborhood. For sale cheap. E. T. Huff, 236 So. 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. FOR SALE Printing Press complete outfit with good Subscription List at county seat in one of the banner Populist counties in -the state. l?or further parti culars address, THE WEALTH MAKERS, Lincoln, Neb. REFORM BOOKS We have the following books for sale. Tou ought to have them: Th. Railroad Problem. ..................... .50 Money Found, .25 Jaon Edward.. .. .... , .60 Klchurd'i Crown 60 Hill's Political Hlitorj ............... Mc, 76c, I 00 beneath th Uom. 60 Ten Men of Money Inland 10 Seren Financial Con.plracle......... 10 All these are excellent reform books and should be read by everyone. Ad dress all orders to this paper. That Lame Bar can te jxireA wttft Or. Miles NEBVE PLASTER. Oalj 250. Ixincolit, Nebraska. OUR GLcUBBING LIST- The Wealth Makers Farmers' Tribune The Wealth Makers The Missouri World The Wealth Makers AND VOX PcpUll (month.) 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Send us two neiv subscriptions with $2.00 and we will extend your subscription one year freel Faithfully yours, Wealth Makers Pub. Co., Iinooln, If eb. Chautauqua Assembly. Beatrice Neb. The Union Pacific (Short Line) will sell round tnn tickets to above assembly June 19th to July -tth, inclusive for one fare, final limit on tickets July otn. uiy ticket office 1044 O street. E. 1$. Slosson, Jxo. T. Mastin, General Agent. C. T. A. REPRESENTATION. rnprr ftal on rrnpnrtlonavl Kprnt lion Mr for th Miwtlnc of thai Kan.a Koform I'rMI A.aocUtlon In Cllrard, fun IN, 1NWA, by .1. I'. KaaUirly, of th Man hattan Kepuhllc. In the history of governments the idea of a democracy Is of comparatively recent origin. When our government was estabMshed it was considered that If the majority should rule all ought to be satisfied nothing more could be desired in the realm of representative government It seems not to have been foreseen that our constitutions and laws would almost certainly re sult in minority, rather than majority rule. But in our history we have seen the work of the gerrymander and in many instances have protested against it as manifestly unjust without dis covering that in many congressional districts a large proportion of the peo ple have really had no voice in the election of their representatives, nor could they have without forsaking their political principles. It is said that in one Ohio district the democrats have never had an opportunity to vote for a congressman, a democrat having never been chosen from that district. That is by no means an exceptional fact, but may be witnessed in one or more congressional or legislative dis tricts in nearly every state in the union. The Proportional Representation league calls attention to the following: In 1802 the total vote In the United States for congressmen wan 1,033,203, of which the re publicans polled 5,031,360, the democrats 6.071,. 148, the populists 1,016,30.!, the prohibitionists 44,rA, and 3U,577 were scattering. The result of this poll Wiis that the republicans elected 131, the democrats 213, and the populists 12 congressmen. That Is to gay, the republicans with 41.0 per cent, of the total vote secured 36.8 per cent of the representatives; the demo crats with 47.2 per cent, of the vote got 69.8 per cent of the representatives: the 8.7 per cent, of the populists obtained a 4 per cent of the representatives-, the prohibitionists' 2 per cent secured nothing. Nor was the following election less erroneous in registering the will of the people. The to tal vote for congressmen In I8ut was 11, 284, 1 8 V, Of this number the republicans cast 6.461,202, the democrats 4,2i,7l8, the populists 1,333,644, the prohibitionists 182.678, scattering 24,862. The result was the election of 26 republican, 104 democratic and 7 populist congressmen. Or, in other words, the republicans, with 48.4 per cent of the total vote elected 68.8 per cent of the congressmen; the democrats with 38.1 per cent'of the vote secured 20.2 per cent, of the representatives; the 11.7 per eent. of the popu lists obtained 2 per cent of the representation: and the 1.6 per cent of the prohibitionists failed of recognition. This demonstration is complete. It is shown by the official vote In two national elections, when there were no serious charges of fraud or corruption, that two minority parties secured enormous majorities in the house of repro sentatives. The reason for this lies, not In the cunning or dishonesty of either party, but in the principle upon which the system is based. Congressmen are elected from separate dis tricts by means of a plurality vote; hence the political party which has a plurality in the whole state will have, unless the voters are unevenly distributed, a plurality In each din triot. Though the opposition party may have almost as many votes as its rival it may secure no representation at all. And should there be three or more parties it Is likely that all the representation will go to a party polling less than half the votes. In our own state last year the repub licans cast less than 50 per cent, of the entire vote and yet they elected 7 of our 8 congressmen. In 1893 the popn lists cast slightly more than 50 per cent of the vote and elected 6 of the 8 con gressmen. The gerrymander is right eously denounced in localities where it exists and it should be because it is de signed for base purposes, to take un due advantage, but similar results are often accomplished without its use, The defect is fundamental and cannot be cured while we have plurality elea tions in districts that are small por tions of a state. Students of the prob lems of government have reached the conclusion that it is possible to pro vide against minority rule, and not only that, but that it is possible to se cure a larger representation for the people in legislative bodies than that of mere majority, making it possible by the principle of proportional repre sentation to make the legislative bodies truly representative of the whole peo' pie. In the evolution of human affairs there is a constant tendency on the one hand to defeat all the real purposes for which government is founded. The forces that are perilous to peace and prosperity endeavor to use the machin ery of our government to accomplish partisan rather than patriotic ends, to place special above general interests, and hence largely defeat the idea of a government of the people, by dominat ing a mere majority of the active forces of the leading political party. By this method we see many measures desired by the people entirely ignored by the politician, while many others not de sired by the people are brought for ward. On the other hand the thought and patriotism of noble minds are con' stantlv engaged in the effort to so per feet our governmental machinery as to preserve the liberties of the people. The conflict between these two classes has always existed in our history and in the history of the world. Whenever the evil forces have had such a degree of power as to turn a deaf ear to the heart and conscience of the majority of the people thus preventing the nor mal growth, or evolution of the effort to improve, revolution has been the result, for revolution had been well characterized as the inevitable result of hindering or delaying evolution Hence it becomes all good people to be allied to the forces that promote good and checkmate evil in politics as well as elsewhere. The ideas of propor tional representation and the initiative and referendum are brought forward by those who would aid in making our government more truly a people s gov ernment We have shown that our present methods are seriously defective. The evil lies in the district system which limits the sphere of auction and the range of influence and gives the parti san control, instead of reposing all the elements of control in the people. We need to abolish the district and make the fields of action larger, dividing the representation by the lines of thought Instead of by geographical lines. This is not a new idea. It has been in practice in an imperfect manner i Illinois in the election of the state leg islature for many years. Also In sev eral Swiss cantons. A number of ichemes hv been rterlwd to develop thU principle uch a the Hare r tern, the Uove ytem, and the free list yntem. The American Proportional Representation league recommends the free lint system as the one offering the least resistance as a means of introduc tion. The essentials of the free list system may be stated thus: 1. District lines, so far as representa tion is concerned, are wiped out and the congressmen elected from the state at large. Any group of voters entitled to nominate candidates, either by con vention or petition, may nominate as many candidates as it sees fit up to the whole number to be elected. 8. Each elector has as many votes as there are congressmen to be elected, which he may distribute as he pleases among tne candidates, me votes count individually for the candidates as well as for the party or group to which they belong. 4. The sum of all the votes cast in the state is divided by the number of congressmen to be elected, and the quotient is known as the quota of rep resentation. 5. The total vote of each party or group of voters is divided by this elect oral quota, and each party is allotted as many congressmen as the quota is contained times in its vote. Should there not be enough full quotas to elect all the congressmen, the required number is taken from the party or par ties having the largest unfilled quotas. 6. The proportion of candidates to which each party is entitled is taken from Us list in the order of votes re ceived by the candidates. 7. Should there be a vacancy during a term of office the remainder of the term is served by the candidate of the same party whose vote was highest of those not at first chosen. The vote for congressmen in our state in 1894 will serve as an illustra tion. The republicans polled 148,097 votes, the populists 118,829 votes, the democrats 26,709 votes and the prohi bitionists 5,496, making a total of 299, 231 votes. The state being entitled to eight congressmen, each eighth part of the total vote should elect one con gressman; 299,231 divided by 8 equal 87,404 as the electoral quota. Since 37,404 is the number of votes necessary to elect one congressman, each party should have as many congressmen as that number is contained times in the vote cast by it. The republican vote of 148,697, divided by 37,404, gives al most four full quotas. The populist vote is thus entitled to somewhat over three full quotas and the democratic vote to one quota. By this plan the democrats would have always had one or more representatives in congress. whereas under the present plan they have scarcely ever had any representa tion. Proportional representation cannot intelligently be considered in any sense minority representation for it is really representation of the whole peo ple, and makes majority rule a fact in practice as well as in theory. Those who look into the operation of the forces of government can but see that what we have in the way of repre sentation is but a travesty upon pop ular government The abolition of this system which produces such results is demanded in behalf of the whole people and in tne name of common justice. When the principle of proportional representa tion is understood it will be used not only in the election of congressmen, but also in state legislatures and city councils. Published by request of Kansas Reform Press Association. 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