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September 17, 1895.
THE WEALTH MAKERS.
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TRUTH TERSELY TOLD.
A Populist Who Is Mot Afraid to Tall the
Troth Speaks Out Plainly.
i In the course of an address made at
a Fourth of July celebration at Van'
conver, state ol Washington, the ora
tor of the day, Mr. Martin Quinn,
said:
"We now come to the leading1 popu
list postulate, which is that the money
volume should be immediately and
'largely increased to the end that the
people might have enough of the cir
culating medium with which to do
business. Now I hope my brother
'populists will not misunderstand me.
I believe the people's party is destined
.' ' ,to accomplish great 'things but I be
lieve its platform will be greatly im
proved in the next campaign. But even
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the one that I would by the logic of
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. events ue compelled 10 support ana i
would do so willingly. But in the
first place let us see how an increase
in the volume of currency could in-
. crease prices. It, will be perceived
that the demand for an increase in the
currency finds its greatest expression
in the agricultural states, seemingly
for this reason: The decline in the
prices of agricultural products
is simultaneous with the de
struction of the legal tenders
and the demonetization of sil-
V ver. It is inferred from this that the
contraction of currency is the cause of
' the fall of prices. I do not believe
'that this is the real reason. The rea
son is more likely to be found in the
enormously increased capacity to pro
duce. Mr. Smaller, of the St Paul
Northwest, an authority of standing
on agricultural questions, says that in
the grain districts, one man now does
the work formerly done by six. If
this is true and it probably is then
it would seem that the number of
human beings necessary to produce a
given product is, owing to labor dis
placing inventions, steadily becoming
less, and no increase in the volume of
money would induce the farmer to dis
card his machines and go back to the
primitive methods. But it is urged the
farmers are in debt and the enhance
ment of prices would enable them to
liquidate their indebtedness. Would
it? Let us see. Let us suppose that
the currency was increased by the free
coinage of silver and increase in the
legal tenders by land loans, sub-treasury
certificates or otherwise. A farmer,
like other people, needs money only
that he may buy what he needs with
it Now let us suppose that when he
comes to dispose of his crop he did
receive a greater price for it,
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. uuca to iiui iviiuw tunb wueu
A. he came to buy what he needed he
' would find the price also advanced for
V cloth, shoes, tools, etc.? He surely
would, and alas for him, he would find
y the prices of what he had to buy in-
'for their production would be con-
!to11i1 and racrnln.t.Arl riv t.rnst.a rtiH n.s-
sociations, who produced just what
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they thought the market could stand,
and maintained the price, whereas the
farmers having no association or trust
to control prices produce blindly and
profusely, and prices fall for inexora
ble reasons that will be given later on.
"I will briefly give you what I be
lieve to be the cause of the trouble and
the remedy, and I may add, and I do
so with oleasure. that this opinion is
shared by a great and constantly in-
lists.
V: ' "The cause is this: The power of
the human unit to produce has outrun
the capacity of the human unit to con
sume; in other words, man with the
aid of the blind forces of nature, steam
and electricity, is able to produce more
than he can consume, and furthermore,
his power to produce is susceptible of
Y indefinite increase, while his capacity
X to consume is plainly limited. Now
uuia 19 buo puuicui uud age, auu 1U
importance it is to any and all other
' political and social questions what the
mighty Columbia is to the tiny rill
t trickling from the melting snow bank.
It is a fact that under the present cap
italistic system of production, the
greater the power of the worker to
produce wealth the more uncertain,
dependent and altogether -unsatisfactory
becomes his condition. There
has been a great change in productive
methods amounting to a revolution.
i The power loom has replaced the hand
loom, the spinning frame the old spin
ning? wheel, the steam threshing ma-
fctvine the flail. A few machines in the
ields now do the work that formerly
required thousands.
"The effect of these familiar ma-
v iuiura is Kiiuwa tu uu, uuu uew ones
'Sfare being invented and put into use
'every day, for one invention suggests
another. There is the type-setting ma
chine that has displaced thousands of
printers; the new attachment for cot
ton looms whereby one weaver can
run twenty looms, instead of six or
eight as formerly; the chain making
machine that takes in the iron rod at
one end and turns out a linked and
welded chain at the other, the cigar
ette machine that makes five hundred
a minute; the machine that pastes
labels on one hundred thousand fruit
cans in a day of ten hours; the recently
Invented machine that takes the flour,
. f'ifts, mixes, lightens and bakes the
M bread without beinsr touched bv hu
man fingers, and the telantograph that
recently worked successfully between
Chicago and Cleveland, a distance of
431 miles. Hereafter when you wish
to send a telegraph message you sim
ply step into the telegraph office, take
a pencil, write your dispatch on a
table and as fast as you write it will
be reproduced at the other end of the
line in your exact hand-writing. The
telegraph operator will not be needed;
he will join the large and rapid grow
ing varmy of weavers, cigarmakers,
farmN hands, printers, bakers and
others who find their places filled by a
machube that does more work, does not
talk Jback to the boss, makes no protest
11 overwork or small nav. and nevnr
kes. I have never had clear vex-
ined to me the process of roasoninir
which one arrives at the conclusion
. that a mere increase in the volume of
currency could find employment for
those victims of the machines. A
revolution is also going on in the dis
tributive world; the great department
stores employing thousands of hands,
mostly women and children, and
backed by enormous capital, are
steadily and quickly devouring the
small retail dealers. These larce con
cerns buy in such large quantities that
they are enabled to obtain rates that
the small retail dealer cannot have.
In many lines the large stores manu
facture what they sell in their own
factories. There can be but one end
to such an unequal struggle, and that
is the practical elimination of the little
retailer. Already he is calling on the
legislatures and municipal govern
ments to sav him, but his doom is
certain; he will join the printers and
telegraph operators. I will instance
one more cause that displaces labor
and that is the trust Let us see how
a trust comes into existence. Say
there are fifty mills engaged in the
manufacture of glass; the competition
finally becomes fierce and ruinous.
One or more of them conceive the idea
that it would be a good plan to stop
competing and co-operate. A meeting
is called; the condition of the business
is plainly stated It is found that the
competitive method will and can only
end in certain disaster. Figures are
produced showing how much" glass
the market needs, and a plan
proposed mat they only manu
facture as much as the market can
stand, and thus be enabled to get a
price sufficient to yield them a. profit
The plan is adopted; the trust is born:
hereafter the gross profits of the glass
busimess will be divided pro rata
among the different individuals or
corporations composing the trust in
proportion to amount that plant does
or can produce. As the product is to
be limited it is found necessary to
adopt one of two courses, either to run
all the mills a part of the time or a
certain number of the mills all the
time. As a matter of economy the lab
ter course is generally adopted. As we
have seen there are fifty glass mills; it
is found that forty running all the
time can supply the demand; ten are
shut down indefinitely. Quarterly
or semi-annually their proprietors
draw their share of the profits made
by the trust, but for the hands em'
ployed in those ten mills there is no
division of profits. Oh no, they must
get out and look for work, and as they
find the labor market already supplied,
the only way they can find employ
ment is by offering their labor for less
than those receive who are already at
work. This results in a fall of wages
and a decreased capacity to consume
what the farmer has to 6ell and so it
acts and reacts back and forth from
one branch of labor to another, prices
falling exoept where maintained by a
trust and wages falling continually.
"If I have stated the case truthfully
as to the cause of the trouble, then it
would seem there can be but one
remedy. You have seen that competi
tion has driven the capitalists to co
operation. Labor, too, must co-operate;
there is no other solution possible. If
the machines do the work, the people
in their collective capacity must own
the machines. Whenever the people
have abandoned the competitive for
the collective method the result has
been very satisfactory. All fraternal
societies, such as - the Odd Fellows,
Masons, Workmen, are an evidence of
the superiority of co-operation.
"So are our police and Are depart
ments, as are also our public schools and
post office system.
"How many votes would a proposi
tion receive in the country, having for
its object the disposal of our postal
system to a private company? Only as
many as that private company could
buy, no more.
"The extension of the functions of
the government in the field of produc
tion and distribution has been attended
by success in all countries as a general
thing, and where the success was at
all qualified, it was not due to any
fault of the principle, but to extrane
ous causes."
The foregoing is an admirable expo
sition of the problem confronting us.
which can be solved m but two ways,
i. e.: First, by reducing the length of
a day's labor until there are as many
days' labor to be done as there are la
borers to perform them, so that all
may work. Second, the collective own
ership and operation of the machinery
and tools of production and distribu
tion. But Mr. Quinn errs when he assumes
and contends that increasing the vol
ume of full legal tender money would
not make it easier for the farmers to
pay their debts. Not only would farm
ers, but also all other producers, be
much more able to pay their debts,
already contracted, were the volume of
debt-paying money increased.
Sir Archibald Alison ably demon
strated this fact as long ago as 1847,
while, in his open letter to President
Cleveland, Mr. George G. Merrick
states the problem thus:
"Now as to the effect of rising prices
upon the farmerl The wheat crop of
1894 did not give to the producer 50
cents a bushel on the farm. But sup
pose the farmer realized 50 cents a
busheL A crop of 1,000 bushels gave
him in some form of currency $500. Of
that $500 we will say that his family
expenses for the year were 8250, leav
ing 8250 for payment of taxes, insur
ance, debts, interest and maintenance
of property.
"Suppose the general range of prices
to be doubled. In that case the farmer
receives for his 1,000 bushels of wheat
81,000 instead of 8500. ne pays 8500
for his family expenses instead of 8250,
and has 8500 instead of $250 to apply to
the payment of taxes, insurance, in
terest, debts, the maintenance of his
property, and to the improved condi
tion of his family. The same law ap
plies to all the great farm products
north and south. The law is this:
'Producers always produce more than
they consume, and in the case of a rise
they gain on the whole amount pro
duced, while they lose only on what
they have to purchase."
To make it easier to pay debts and
fixed charges, such as interest, taxes
and salaries, is the one good and, prob
ably, the only good that an increase
in the volume of money would accom
plish. George C. Ward.
THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.
Church Mtmben Who Pray "Thy Kingdom
Coma" hut Themselves Try to Answer
the Prayer.
At the Tabernacle church, Morgan
street and Grand avenue, the Chicago
Commons School of Economics recent
ly opened its summer course of lec
tures. The principal address was de
livered by Prof. George D. Herron, of
Iowa college. His main thought was
that the kingdom of Christ on earth
should be realized in the social and in
dustrial, life of to-day. Jesus, he said,
came into the world when discontent
was universal, when Roman civiliza
tion was but a synonym of corruption,
and his first thought was to give Him
self up for the elevation of the people.
In that day, in Judea, the phrase,
"The kingdom of God," meant social
justice, a condition in which all men
should have liberty and the opportu
nitiesto live happily and in enjoyment
of all reasonable wants. He says that
the people were wretched and in strife,
and that sordid interests governed the
relations of man to man, and that ev
ery one was pursuing his own individ
ual happiness as the end of life.
And that, he remarked, is what most
people aie doing to-day. Jesus thought
of a different mode and purpose in life,
and that was that each man should
live for the good of all and for the
building up of a common life, charac
terized by justice and happiness. And
so the men who lived for no other pur
pose than to make the world better be
came his apostles and disciples. If we
should all become inspired with the
idea that we are not here for ourselves,
but to uplift the world onto a higher
plane, the kingdom of God on earth
would come near being realized. If
ever a small portion of the members of
our churches were to commit them
selves to the. idea of Jesus, it would
not be easy for us to realize at present
the wonderful and beneficial results
that would follow.
Most of us now live to build up our
selves, to Accumulate wealth and, so
cial position, and in the struggle many
are trampled down? and with the re
sult that the slums of our cities are
created and perpetuated. Money and
what is called society group themselves
in certain districts, . and there become
congested. Jesus introduced the idea
that whatever came to us we Bhould
receive, not to selfishly use, so long as
there was another human being in dis
tress. If we would say that Jesus is
onr Master and our Lord, and read His
life aright, then we would not hoard
up money, and the world would be
brighter and better, and would sym
bolize what we meant as the kingdom
of God. .
EDITOR AND REPORTER.
The Editor of the Inter Ocean Convlots a
Reporter for the Paper of False State
ments. In his write-up of the Labor day pa
rade in Chicago, an Inter Ocean re
porter used this language:
"Another feature of the early morn
ing preparation was the action of the
horseshoers. This was the union that
led the labor parade. In it are a num
ber who are anarchistically inclined,
and they, owing to the small attend
ance at the meeting of the union, de
cided to go with the labor congress."
In the same issue of the paper the
above appeared in there was an edi
torial from which is clipped the fol
lowing paragraph:
"It is worthy of note that there
seems to be no virus of anarchy in the
blood of Chicago industry. Socialism
has its followers, but the fundamental
ideas of socialism and anarchy are di
ametrically opposed to each other.
One is for magnifying the government
and making it take the place of indi
vidual ownership and control; the
other is for abolishing the government
altogether, or at least reducing
its functions to the minimum. One
would have the government own the
land, run the railroads, and the like;
the other would have it stop carrying
the mail or protecting persons and
property. Keir Hardie and Tommy
Morgan are socialists, and the only
former anarchist of note who is now at
all before the public, Oscar ' Neebe,
poses as a socialist Anarchy finds no
favor with the intelligent labor of this
country. Socialism is not an element
of danger. Its advocates do not pro
poses to resort to violence. They are
harmless as the single-taxers, and, we
may add, rather more sensible, because
more logical."
The reporter was either a fool or a
knave. I wonder if he calls Thomas
Dixon, Jr., Prof. Ely, W. D. P. Bliss
and Myron W. Reed anarchists?
t G. C. W.
It Robs Them of All.
It is said there are three prominent
periods in the life of man childhood,
with its merry frolics; manhood, with
its stern nobility, and old age, with its
calm repose. But in this country
where cruel competition turns the
hearts of men into stone, and wage
slavery grinds the faces of the poor,
millions of children are robbed of their
frolics, millions of men are robbed of
their manhood, and millions of the
aged are robbed of their repose. Cor
porations, with improved machinery,
convicts and child labor, produce and
retain all the wealth while making
men go to jail for want of money, or
grow hardened to sin and crime and
beg and steal to maintain a little light
in their weary lives and faintly illumi
nate their miserable souls. Pioneer
Exponent The? are Coming:.
In our last issue we noted the acces
sion to the people's party of Col. S. D.
Troy, one of the foremost lawyers of
Alabama. We are pleased to announce
that Hon. Walter R. Henry, a promi
nent democratic leader in North Caro
lina, has abandoned the rotten demo
cratic ship and enlisted in the army of
reform. Col. Henry is a son-in.law of
Ex-Gov. Holden, of North Carolina,
and was offered a consulship by Ring
Grover, which he refused. In the
Caucasian (Senator Butler's paper),
Col. Henry tells why he has taken the
step, and tells in words that strike ter
ror to the wavering lines of the
doomed democracy. Southern Mercury.
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EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
five People Instantly Killed and Houses
Blown to Splinters.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept 10. A
frightful accident resulting in the death
of "five persons, occurred yesterday at
Specht's Ferry, a small station on the
Milwaukee road, twelve milts from
Dubuque. A. Kirschner of Fountain
City has the contract of putting wing
dams in the river, and has a large force
of men employed. These men boarded
in a large shanty run by Edward Lat
Bhaw, whose home was in Victory,
Wis. Yesterday morning1 Foreman C
H. Owens was passing the building,
when he noticed one of the Latshaw
boys firing a rifle near the house.
which was raised near the ground, and
under it 1,000 pounds of dynamite were
stored. Owens pointed out the danger
of an explosion and the lad promised
to stop faring the gun. Owens passed
along and had gone about hfty feet
when the gun was again fired and an
explosion of dynamite followed. There
were seven persons in the building,
which was blown to atoms. Of the
seven, four were killed, also the boy
outside, who fired the fatal shot.
NOT SATISFACTORY.
The Reform Proposition of Turkey Not
Acceptable to the Powers.
Constantinople, Sept 10 . The
dragomans of the British, French and
Russian embassies have received the
decision of the porte with reference to
Armenia. The porte's proposed con
cessions entitle the dragomans of the
three embassies to deal with the presi
dent of the Turkish committee of con
trol, which is to superintend the appli
cation of the reform. No Christian
mutissaria will be appointed and the
other administrative officers will be
chosen in proportion to the population.
The mutissaria will be elected to the
councils of the elders, and a con
stabulary will be established. It is
not believed that the concessions will
satisfy the powers. It is pointed out
that owing to the persecution, the
Christian population is so diminished
in many districts that it is now in a
minority. The officials therefore
would always be Mohammedan.
Jealousy Causes a Tragedy.
Gband Rapids, Mich., Sept. 10. At
Ottawa Beach Jacob Vanry, owner
and captain of the little schooner,
Three Sisters, which runs on Black
Lake, shot his wife four times, then
turned the pistol upon himself, send
ing a bullet' into his brain. The man
died instantly, but the woman may re
cover. Jealousy is the supposed cause
of the tragedy.
Jack the Ripper Again.
LoNDON,Sept. JO. Another supposed
Jack the Ripper murder was discovered
yesterday morning at Kensal Green.
The victim was an unfortunate woman
of the outcast class, and her throat
was cut from ear to ear and her head
was fearfully battered with a stone.
Another Treasurer Short.
iRONTON.Ohio, Sept. 1 0. A shortage
of 818,000 has been discovered in the
accounts of County Treasurer M. G.
Clay, through the investigations of
examiners.
The Burlington has been chosen the
official route for Louisville G. A, R. En
campment. Special train with Comman
der C. E. Adams and staff also Woman's
Relief Corps will leave Lincoln 2:15 p.m.
Sept. 9th, leave Omaha 4:35 p. m., and
arrive in Chicago early next morniDg
and at Louisville via Pennsylvania Line
at 4 p. in. Sleeping car accomodations
without change, double berth $4.50,
Onmha to Louisville. Reservations for
berths should be made early so that am
ple accomodations can be arranged for.
For full information and tickets apply
at li. &. M. Depot or city office corner 10
and 0 streets. Geo. W. Bonnell,
CP.&T.A.
Dr. P. Reed Madden, ' diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Noso, and Throat, 1041 0
street, over R. I. ticket oilice.
. Cyclone Season is Here.
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$3 for first $l,0OO, 10c. for
fcacta additional $100 In the Cy
clone department. Same in Fire
department.
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FIRE, LIGHTNING AND CYCLONE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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J. Y. M. SWIOART, Secretary-Treasurer Lincola
Over $800,000 Insured. Have paid $640.00 In Losses. Have
had but one assessment. 1 Oc. per $ 1 OO.OO.
J. Y.
Agents Wanted.
The Baltimore Plan,
now practically endorsed by President Cleveland, is attracting
universal attention because it is based on the evident fact that
the currency and banking systems of the country must be re
formed. But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It gives the associated
banks the power to expand the currency and relieve the country.
It also gives them the power to contract it at will and create
universal distress for their own private gain.
It puts the credit of the government behind every bank note.
It donates all but half of one per cent of the profit on the note
issue to the banks, and it leaves plenty of opportunities for a
Napoleon of Finance to wreck a bank and leave the government
to pay the notes.
It leaves the banks free to demand the highest interest that
the several states will allow, and affords nq relief to farmers and
business men of moderate capital.
Contrast with this
The Hill Banking System.
In "Money Found," an exceedingly valuable and instructive
book published by Charles H. Kerr & Company of Chicago, and
for sale at the office of this paper at 25 cents, Hon. Thos. E.
Hill proposes that the government open its own bank in every
large town or county seat in the United States, pay 3 per cent
on long time deposits, receive deposits subject to check without
interest, and loan money at the uniform rate of 4 per cent to
every one offering security worth double the amount of the loan.
This plan is not an expense to the government, but a source of
large revenue.
It secures the government amply, which the Baltimore plan
does not. -
It relieves the distress of the common people, which the Bal
timore plan does not.
It protects not only note-holders but depositors, who are un
secured now and under the Baltimore plan would be still
worse off.
In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the bankers,
the Hill Banking System is in the interest of the people.
Consider them both, and ask your congressman to vote for the
one you believe in.
And send us 2$c. immediately for the book, "Money Found"
has no equal in its line. Address,
TINGLEY & BURKETT,
Attorneys-at-Law,
1026 O St., Lincoln, Neb.
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from terrttory covered by local
company.
II. SWIGART, Secretary,
' LINCOLN, NEB.
Wealth Makers Pub. Co.,
Lincoln, Neb.
HOMES IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
No hot winds, billiards, nor crop fall tires. Na
tural Clover, Timothy and Blue Grass. Fuel
cheap. Coal 1 per ton at bank. Dry wood fl.M
per cord dellvured. All kinds of fruit that grow
In this latitude. You will And all these ad ran
tatres in the country adjacent Calhoun, Henry
county, Ho., 13 mlls from Clinton, the county
seat; population 6,000. Located on the M. K. i
T. K. R. TO miles southeast Kansas City. We
haTe a list of good farms for sale at from $10 to
fftO per acre. Cora yields from 80 to 60 per acre,
flax from S to 18 per acre and other crops Im
Sroportlon. We will cheerfully fir and Inform.
on required. Call on or address,
BABTUOLKMKW A ALBIOJf,
Real Estate Agents,
Calhoun, Hs
