THE WEALTH MAKERS.
September 19, 1895
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Two highway robberies the same night
upon the streets ot Omaha were reported
in the Bee of Sept. 17.
It will take more than the Columbia
Liberty Bell to bring peace on earth.
Justice is what is needed to secure the
white-winged dove.
Judge Welty has been renominated
in the 7th judicial district. The Loan
and Trust companies opposed him, but he
was nominated on the first formal ballot
Judge Wm. Neville was last week
nominated by acclamation, amid great
enthusiasm, to succeed himself as judge
of the 13th judicial district of Nebraska.
He will doubtless be elected.
Fatti charges $5000 a night to sing.
She seems to think God gave her a
wonderful voice to sing only to the rich.
And the rich believe that God loves them
better than he does the poor. But how
about Dives and LazaruB?
Look out for an increase of bondsnow.
The Pierponb-Morgan syndicate has quit
furnishing gold to save the nation, and
now the necks of the taxpayers must be
bent to receive the yoke. Fall down,
every body, and worship the image ot
gold.
Senator Hill is posing as the cham'
pion of personal liberty and trying to
make Sunday closing the issue in New
York politics, so keeping out the great
overshadowing questions of justice. And
the Republican party is as anxious to
shelve those questions as the Democrats
are.
Mexico is prospering under freecoinage
of silver. It doesn't harm the industries
of a nation for gold to leave it, nor even
for gold and silver to both disappear.
The United States was never so prospe
rous as in the years following the war
when greenbacks did the commercial
work and gold and silver were not to be
had.
Postmaster-General Wilson shows
in a letter to the New York World, that
the Wilson tariff is workiug well for the
country. Major Mcfcinley.it is reported,
is going to demonstrate that it is work
ing ill. "All on account of the tariff."
Hell will need to bo enlarged to muke
room for political liars, if the world lasts
much longer.
The problem of "hard tunes" will be
solved when the workingmen of America
boycott the saloon and stop drinking
liquor. National Temperance Advocate.
This tool talk makes us tired. There is
a considerable percentage ot temperance
hobbyists who have been looking so long
at the saloon that they are blind to
every other evil under the sun.
Senator Peffer said Sept. 13: "If
another issue of bonds is made without
the authority of congress I shall advise
their repudiation. I am satisfied that
there will be another issue of bonds be
fore Oct. 1, because the syndicate has
been given the privilege of taking all the
bonds issued before then, There is only
one thing which may prevent a bond
issue, and that is the fear that it will
weaken the Democratic strength. They
are making heroic efforts to strangle the
free silver sentiment in all the states, and
have to aconsiderable extent succeeded."
A COS FUSION OF T0SGUES
The world in full of voices, false and
true, wl fish and unselfish; many mislead
ing, many ignorant, many mixing truth
with error consciously or unconsciously.
"It is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer; but when he has gone hid way he
bousteth." This is the language of trade
"Vote for me aud escape injustice,"
says the politician of every sort and
party.
"Believe as I believe, no more, no less,"
say all sectarians.
There is no music in all this. It is a
discordant clash and clangor, a world
wide babel of human tongues in which
the voice of God is lost to those who
hasten, to those who listen not with
earnest care. But
"Like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations.
We hear once more the voice of Christ say,
Peace!"'
And peace must come by dethroning
selfishness, in the market place, in poli
tics, in religion.
"In the market place?" What!
Exactly so. It is in buying and selling
that Love is murdered aud the struggle of
hell begins. The walls of separation be
tween man and man, class and class,
there rise, and wax thick and bard as
adamant. There thrones are built and
the masses are made slaves by law, the
laws of property. There can be no peace
till the professed followers of Christ wor
ship him in the market place, practice
love in all exchanges. "Without money
and without price," by love directed,
must all labor be done and all service
rendered. That would indeed be Christ
ianity. Anything less is self-worshiping
atheism.
"In politics?"
Yes. The politics which is selfish tries
to hide Its shame by pretense. The poli
tician must either love the poor and the
oppressed, or play the hypocrite. So
long as the people are ignorant of right
eousness, of the demands of justice, they
can and will be divided and misled by
smooth-tongued, selfish schemers, who
will "frame mischief by a law."
"In religion?" Selfishness in religion?
Yes, that is its chief stronghold. If
there were no selfishness in the churches
there would be but one church. The fact
that there are many, divided churches
proves that they are not the body of
Christ. The fact that there is not a church
whose members are united politically or
in labor and property proves that all
churches have lost the Spirit of Christ,
who prayed that his professed disciples
might be one, that the world might be
lieve he was from God.
It is the common practice to stop the
ears when God's messenger speaks. Every
prophet and teacher of the people has
been opposed, defamed and hated by the
generution to which he was sent. Tho
class in power is always contented.
They refuse to be disturbed. Formerly
they crucified, burned alive, and in num
berless ways tortured to death preachers
of righteousness. Now they frighten
"the upper ten thousand" and middle
class mob with the cry of "Socialist and
Anarchist!" Ignorance is easily made
the ally of the shrewd, selfish class. Sel
fish voices, misleading cries, ignorance
and prejudice still hold mankind in mis
ery. O, how longt
"Is It, O mnn, with such discordant noises,
With such accursed Instruments as these.
Thon drowneat Nature's sweet and kindly
voices,
And Jarrest the celestial harmonics?"
The law of unselfish love is the law of
life. It is the law by which the social
world, now selfishly divided and chaotic,
must be organized. And not upon the
force of human government, not upon
majority action must love wait. Love is
duty, present, eternal. It does not de
pend on conditions. It must by action
make conditions. "Thou shale love thy
neighbor as thyself" now; not in the
period sailed the millennium; not in
another world.
SEVENTY MILLION, MOSTLY FOOLS
It is our observation (and experience
also) that the people of these parts, and
of all parts, bankers, landlords, and
large capitalists excepted, have been
growing poorer for several years past.
It is the same with those at work that it
is with those who can not get work. All
not supported by interest and rent, and
all not down to hard, pan already, are
growing poorer. Mortgages, bonds and
notes call for the same number of dollars,
with interest added, and to get a dollar
it takes two or three times as many
bushels of wheat, oats and corn (or
hours of labor) ts it did a few years ago,
when the obligation was given. Interest
rent and dividends are eating the people
up, absorbing their labor, making them
slaves; aud the great bulk of them
haven't enough sense to know what ails
business, what hurU the producing class.
Tell them it is lack of confidence on the
part of the bankers, coupled with fearjof
Democratic free trade, and half of them,
nearly, will believe it. Tell the other half
that it is too much tariff aud not enough
silver mouey and that the Democratic
party will give them free Bugar, free coal
and free coinage; and knowing nothing
of history they will trust it again, as
they have always done.
For thirty years and more the rich
have been running congress and the state
legislatures, securing the passage of class
laws, obtaining monopoly franchises
robbing the people and reducing them
by legal processes to increasing depend
ence and slavery, and the people have
been so blamed ignorant they did not
discover the leaks, the inequities, the
wholesale robbery. If told of it they
have for the most part been so crammed
full of prejudice, of lies, of child-like faith
in an old party name, that they could
not be made to see tho truth. All the
while they have been so narrowly and
selfishly interested in their private busi
ness that they have not attended pri
maries, have not discovered how horribly
corrupt ''the grand old party" has be
come, have therefore taken no time and
used no means to investigate political
and economic questions; and now they
find, with all their hard labor, strict at
tention to business, and economy, they
have for years been growing poorer.
Prices and market values have been fall
ing debts.have been growing by a process
as effective and as deserving of punish
ment as "raising the figures ot a check
or note.
Now, the question is, do the people
know enough to put a stop to this mono
poly robbery? Or will they go on voting
the tickets of their oppressors? Can they
be frightened out of what sense they have
by the epithets flung at reformers, such
as "cranks," "vagarists," "visionaries,"
"socialists," "anarchists?" Are they
ever going to be capable of doiug their
own thinking? ormay they be lied to and
fastened to poverty's treadmill forever?
THE MONEY QUESTION
What is the money question? What is
"the money power?"
The answers given are vnrious, depend
ing on the politics and mental grasp of
the individual. But the truth is within
reach of all.
It is evident, to all who think, that the
dollar should somehow be given a value
that is permanent, stable, unfluctuating.
But we all know that the dollar has
greatly increased in purchasing power in
the last two years. How was this done?
There are two causes which make money
rise and prices fall, viz: cutting oft the
normal supply by closing the mints or
stopping the printing ot paper money;
and boarding, withdrawing from circula
tion and refusing to use or loan the
money upon which industry and com
merce depends.
Under the present financial and pro
perty laws we have a panic and hoard
ing period, with labor thrown out of
employment, about once in every ten
years, three or four years out of every
ten being dull times. This is caused by
monopoly tribute of all sorts which
draws off the money under the name of
interest, rent and dividends or profits,
leaving the people who need more goods
unable to buy out of the market as
much as their labor has poured into it.
In consequence the markets are glutted,
prices must fall, production must be
limited, and loans to a large extent also,
because the value of securities shrink
with falling prices, and people whose
security is sufficient dare not borrow and
produce on a falling market.
Opeuing the mints to coin all the gold
and silver that comes did not in the
past, much less would it in the future,
prevent the periodic concentration and
hoarding of money and corresponding
consequent glutting of the markets with
goods. The free coinage of silver would
furnish some relief from periodic money
stringency, but would fall far short of a
remedy.
Interest is the measure of a part of the
tribute which, draining the channels of
commerce, goes into the hands of the
money monopolists. The appreciation
of the dollar in purchasing power caused
by restricting the government supply
and by hoarding the money which is in
private hands, is the measure of the bal
ance of the tribute or plunder which the
money power commands. Hence it fol
lows that laws must be devised to pro
vide us a supply of money corresponding
to a free steady development of produc
tion and exchange, and which will also
prevent the appreciation of the dollar by
private hoarding. The money question
will be settled when the government goes
into the banking business, reducing
charges for loans and exchange to what
will cover thecostand unavoidable risks.
Tnn "financiers" are making a great
outcry against the greenbacks, craftily
assuming that they have to be redeemed
not in coin as the law says, but in gold,
and that to avert the frequent issue of
bonds to getgold to redeem them (when
ever the bankers present greenbacks and
demand gold) they must be retired. It
is a concerted raid on the part of the
money power, with their treacherous
tools in office ready to interpret the law
in their favor, and against the people
they were elected to serve, and only an
uprising up the people against the two
old parties can save us from one or the
other form of tribute to the money
power. It makes no practfeal difference
whether we continue to buy gold with
bonds to exchange for greenbacks,
trick which at no expense to the bankers
plunges the nation in debt for no benefit
received; or whether we burn up the
greenbacks to please them and turn over
to the bankers the government function
of making money. In either case it
means that the money power shall levy
per cent tribute upon the wealth produe
ing class which will perpetuate aud In
crease their power until slavery's yoke
has been securely fastened to the com
mon working class, the heaviest yoke the
workers can bear.
Now is the time to send for our popular
songbook, Armageddon. It is full of
stirring words and splendid music. The
price of the new edition is 30 cents
copy, f 3.00 a dozen.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
The Arena for September contains the
second part of Helen H. Gardiner's "A
Battle for hound Morality;" an article
from the pen of Prof. J. K. Buchnnan on
".Marvels of Electricity;"amost interest
ing sketch of Mr. J. G. Clark, the poet,
by B. O. Flower; "How Evolution
Evolves," by Stinson Jarvis; "Omnipre
sent Divinity" by Henry Wood; "The
Peoples Lamps, Lleotric Light," by
Prof. Frank Parsons; a symposium on
Prof. George D. Iferron, by Adeline
Knapp, Rev. Dr. J. R; McLean, Rev. W.
W. Scudder, Jr., Rev. J.CummingsSmith
Rev. J. E. Scott, Elder M. J. Ferguson,
Rev. R. M. Webster, and James G.Clark.
The third paper on Napoleon is furnished
bv lion. John Davis. ihe Labor ex
change is described by F. W. Cotton. Dr.
Shutter talks about progressive Uuiver-
salism, and there are most interesting
book reviews, etc.
It comes tough to the Americans who
have had the idea of independence as the
greatest blessing on earth taught them,
to come down to begging in vain for
work and getting off the earth they rent
when without money. It all comes of
false teaching. None ot us are or ought
to be independent. We are inter-dependent,
one as much dependent as the other
They who rule are tyrants; they who at
command serve, are slaves, Dependence
equalized, or recognized as equal, does
not detract from anyone's self respect.
Mutual, voluntary, unpriced service be
tween equals binds men together in love.
It avoids the waste of strife, the anxiety
of isolation. It secures peace and good
will among men.
The Arena for September contains a
most interesting symposium of Prof.
George D. Herron by eight Pacific Coast
leaders, six of them ministers and college
presidents, and another, Mr. Clark, the
poet. Dr. Herron is as warmly defended
by open-minded truth-lovers as he is
fiercely and viciously attacked by the
other class. No man in this age has so
stirred up the forces of good and evil.
The fight is centering about him, because
none wield the sword of Christ as power
fully as he. He is God's special mes
senger, teacher, prophet of this time.
A Pointer For Farmers
Mr. Brown loaned Mr. Green, in 1868,
$1,000 at 10 per cent interest. Each
year Mr. Brown received from Mr. Green
$ 100 as interest money. In order to get
this, Mr. Green sold from the products
of his farm at the market price at that
date:
50 bushels of wheat,
or 105 bushels of oats,
or 125 bushels of corn,
or 250 pounds of butter,
or 500 pounds of pork,
or 450 pounds of wool,
or 500 pounds of cotton.
In 1895 the mortgage was renewed at
8 per cent interest. Now, in order to get
the $80 interest, Mr. Green would sell:
200 bushels of wheat,
or 800 bushels of oats,
or 400 bushels of corn, . 4 .
or 534 pounds of butter,
or 800 pounds of pork,
or 400 pounds of wool,
or 1200 pounds of cotton.
Let The Government Ran Tbem All
It was the Union Pacific road that led
off in the $5 blanket rate for state fair
business. The liberal policy of the Union
Pacific under a receivership has become
marked. Under the guidance of Uncle
Sam's court the people are given benefits
that could not have been wrung from the
old regime. Omaha Bee.
A Co-operative Trinity of Colonies
Des Moines, la.. Sept. 16, 1895.
Editor Wealth Makers:
It often occurs to me, especially when
conversing with some hide-bound lover
of monopolistic ways, that we Populists
arethrowingawayagreatdeal of powder
and shot. Cattle take in wisdom through
the hide mostly, and there is a way to
pound it into such people. Why plead
and pray when the remedy is within our
own hands? Labor does it all. ' If we
cannot supply the modicum of brains re
quired then we deserve to be robbed by
monopoly. Colonize is the word. "Come
out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4.
Now let me suggest that instead of the
usual farm colony, whereon to vegetate,
we establish three colonies, one near a
coal deposit, another in proximity to an
iron deposit, and as near as possible to
both a good farm colony. There are
places where all three can be found at no
great distance from each other. There
we would have nearly all the raw mate
rial required, and it is the raw material
we must have or we would fall into the
hands of speculators. Another import
ant advantage such a combination
would have over a mere farm colony
would be in its ability to grow, a very
important point, for although the initial
expense might be greater, it would soon,
owing to its growth and ability to fur
nish employment toaconstantiyincreas
ing number, prove much the cheaper
undertaking. In my estimation, no
colony yet undertaken, has had half a
chance to live, let alone prosper, i need
not take up your space with details. You
and vour readers are sufficiently well in
formed upon economic matters to under
stand what 1 am driving at, sufficient to
say that operating public works at cost,
for the public benefit, accordiug to rop
ulistic doctrines, such an enterprise
would not only provide its members with
a living, but place them in a position to
make a very aggressive war upon mono
poly generally. With such opportunities
there is but little that is essential to the
welfare of any community they could not
create including tliMr own circulating
medium. There would be the place to
get arguments thnt would penetrate the
thickest skull. Think it over, orotners;
there is much more in it than may appear
at first sight machine shops, and
machinery of all kinds, railways, food,
clothiug and shelter. Almost everything
one can think of. Labor would have,
and should have, the best there is. And
listen, you monopolists, "but if ye bite
and devour one another, take heed that
ye be not consumed, one of another"
Gal. 15:5.
Evidently Paul knew a thing or two
about monopolists, but what a nasty
anarchist be would be considered today!
No doubt he meant something else.
Sincerely,
G.
J udge Berg Iasnes a Challenge
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 9, 1895.
non. Frank I). Euger, Chairman Indepen
dent County Central Committee, Lin
coln, Nebraska.
Dear Sir: As candidate for the office
of county judge of this county, on the
Independent ticket, I desire, through
you, to challenge my opponent, the
nominee of the Republican party for
that office, to a series of joint debates
upon the political issues of the day.-both
local and general, such discussions to
take place at such times and places and
to be governed by such rules as may be
hereafter agreed upon.
I am a firm believer in the principles of
the Independent party and I believe that
the prosperity and welfare of our people
will be far more seriously affected by the
ultimate triumph or defeat of those prin
ciples, than by the mere victory or defeat
of any candidate. I will not, directly
nor indirectly, undertake to purchase
votes nor to pay any patriot for his
time and influence in my behalf. Politi
cal parties have their origin in public
necessity. No political party has ever
been called into existence in this country
without a cause, and no party can hope
to endure for any considerable length of
time after it has accomplished its mis
sion, or after it has turned its back upon
those fundamental principles out ot
which it had its birth. The Independent
party is the child of the common people,
and its organization by them was an act
of self-defense and self-protection. It was
called into existence to correct a long
train of public evils and abuses, nearly
all of which were and are directly trace
able to corrupt political methods. When
conditions are' such that it costs a candi
date for office more to be elected than the
office will repay him, the inevitable result
is that honest men are discouraged from
aspiring to public office, and the dis
honest ones push to the front, and these,
when elected, cannot afford to hold office
at a loss, and so a system of publio
plunder is inaugurated in order that
enough may be stolen from the publio to
pay back their campaign expenses in
addition to the legitimate emoluments
of office. This is the condition of things
at this time, nnd this was one of the
principal evils that led to the formation
of our party, and to this evil nearly all
corruption in office is traceable, because
a dishonest candidate will make a dis
honest official.
If we, as a party, would rectify any of
these evils, we must strike at the cause.
If we would purify the stream, we must
begin at the fountain. While it is of the
utmost importance that we nominate
and elect good men to office, it is well for
us to bear in mind that the fact of hom
ing office is not the end we hope to at
tain, but simply a menus to that end. It
seems to me that in the contest for office
it is our duty to our party to go before
the voters with our platform of princi
ples aud let them know our exact posi
tion upon every public question of the
day and what we, as a party, hope to
do, if placed in power.
It is true that this is a local contest in
which the fitness of a given candidate for
office should control the action of voters
rather than party ties, but it seems to
me that a fair and open discussion of
principles and issues is always preferable
as a means of letting the voters know
who a candidate is and what he is, to a
campaign conducted along the old lines
with wire pulling and boodleism as its
chief factors. A joint discussion
between opposing candidates furnishes
the best and fairest means of acquaint
ing voters with the parties concerned
and with their respective views, and in
this way there is at least a measure of
respectability and dignity added to the
campaign not otherwise attainable. Any
other kind of campaign is apt to be
come a scramble on the part of individu
al candidates to further their own politi
cal ends regardless of the rights of other
candidates. What 1 do in this campaign
I shall do in the interest of the candidate
for constable as well as the candidate for
supreme judge. I believe I can do the
greatest good for the whole ticket and
the party by a discussion of the issues oi
the day with my opponent. I desire to
get acquainted with the voters of this
county and I want them to know how I
stand on public questions, and also
what I propose to do if elected. Doubt
less my opponent entertains the same
desires. These ends can best beattained
by a series of joint discussions between
us. ;
I hope my opponent and all the candi
dates will join me in an attempt to ele
vate this campaign above the usual me
thods. It is a reflection upon our civili
zation that a class of professional politi
cians having no legitimate business and
no visible means of support, can secure
enough money from the people's candi
dates for public office to support them
selves from one campaign to another. I,
for one, will not pay tribute to these
people. They have no legitimate place
in our politics and their occupation is a
burning insult to the manhood of every
votr. All the voters need to know is the
various candidates a nd to acquai n t them
selves with their qualifications, and they
will know how to vote without the aid of
any expert or professional. With a view
to bringing about the results abovemen
tioned, I make this request.
Very respectfully,
G. V. Beuce.
Mr. Eager'a Letter to Mr. Clark
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 9, 1895.
Hon. Paul Clark, Chairman Republican
County Central Committeej Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Dear Sir: At the request of G. W,
Berge, candidate of the Independent
party for county judge of this county
desire as chairman of theCouuty Central
Committee of the Independent party, to
challenge the Republican nominee for
county judge, S. T. Cochran, to a series
of joint debates between Mr. Berge and
Mr. Cochran upon the political issues ot
the day. I send you herewith a copy of
Mr. Berge's letter to nie in order that (
you may fully understand the motives) '
that prompt him to this course. If this
challenge is accepted, please notify me to
that effect at your earliest convenience,
and advise me when it will beconvienient
to meet you and arrange a to the times
aud places of holding such discussions
and also the rules and regulations that
shall govern the same.
Very respectfully,
Frank D. Eager.
Chairman County Central Committee
People's Independent Party.
Convention Dates
The Otoe county Populist convention
for the purpose of nominatlngcandidates
lor county offices will be held at byracuse
Oct. 1st.
AN OBSTACLE
I was climbing np a mountain path
With many things to do,
Important business of my own
And other people's too,
When I ran against a Prejudice
That quite cut off the view.
My work was such as could not wait.
My path quite clearly showed.
My strength and time were limited,
I carried quite a load,
And there that hulking Prejudice
Bat all across the road.
So I spoke to him politely.
For he was hugs and high,
And begged that he would mors a bit
And let me travel by;
He smiled, but as lor moving!
He didn't e Ten try.
And when I reasoned quietly
With that colossal mnle;
My time was short no other path
The mountain winds were cool
I argued like a Solomon.
He sat thera like a fool.
Then I flew Into a passion,
I danced and howled and swore,
I pelted and belabored him
Till I was stiff and sore,
Es got aa mad as I did
But he sat there as before.
And then I begged him on my knees
I might be kneeling still
If so I hoped to move that mass
Of obdurate ill-will
As well Invite the monument
To vacate Bunker Hill!
Bo I sat before him helpless.
In an ecstasy of woe:
The mountain mists were rising fast.
The sun was sinking slow.
When a sudden inspiration came,
As sudden winds do blow.
I took my hat, I took my stick, '
My load I settled fair,
I approached that awful Incubus
With an absent-minded air
And I walked directly through him ,
As If he wasn't there!
Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
PEOPLE'S INDEPENDENT PARTY
Fourth Judicial District Convention
A delegate convention of the Peoole'n IndeDen-
brnska, composed of Burt, Douglas, Sarpy and
Washington counties, is hereby called to meet at
K. of L. ball, 110 and 112 South Fourteenth street
Omaha, Neb., at 2:30 p. m. Saturday, September
21, l!05, for the purpose of placing in nomination
seven candidates for judges of the district courts
of said Fourth Judicial district, to be cbosen at
the coming election, also to transact such other
business as may properly come before the conven
tion.
The basis of representation snail be the same-
as that adopted by the state committee one
delegate for every 100 votes or major fraction
thereof cast at the state election In 1884 for Hon.
U. W. McFadden for secretary of state as lol-
lows:
Burt county 9 delegates
Douglas aonnty 40 delegates
Sarpy county 6 delegate
Washington county i aeiegaies
The committee recommends that no individu
ally chosen proxies be allowed, but that the
delegates present, or alternates selected by regu
lar convention, cast the lull vote to which their
respective counties are entitled.
John Jeffcoat, Silas Bobbins,
Chairman. Secretary,
Populist Judicial Convention
We the undersigned connty committeemen, ot
the Independent People's party of the several
counties, of the (eighth) judicial district, hereby
call a judicial convention to be held at Wakefield
Dixon county, Nebraska, on Thursday, Septem
ber 2t, ISito, at one o'clock p. in., for the purpose
of nominating a candidate for district judge.
The counties are entitled to the following num
ber ot delegates:
Dakota 4
Cuming 5-
Thurston 3
Dixon 8
Cedar
stuutou A
Dr. L. D evoke, ot Dixon,
John H. Feliier, Cedar
Louis Dewald, Cuming.
T. H. Graves, Thurston.
Dated Lincoln, August 28, 1SW5.
THE STATE PLATFOKM.
We, the people's party of the state
of Nebraska, in convention assembled, do
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puwiui uii m louowiug pituiumi oi pru-
We hereby reaffirm the principles of thej
Omaha platform. 7
We declare ourselves iu favor of strict
economy in conducting1 the affairs of the i
state government in a I its branches.
We believe the judicial affairs of the
state Bhould be conducted on the princi
ples of justice and honesty, without par
tisan bias, and in the interests of the
people.
THE BE80LUTI0N8 AS PASSED.
Resolved, That we favor the principle
of tbe initiative and referendum in mat
ters of legislation.
Resolved, That we are opposed to any
religious test for admission to office or
for membership in this party.
We invite all reform and progressive
organizations and persons to to unite
with us, and deprecate any act which.
tends to give prestige and continued ex-
latonno tn Hiviumn nf pptnrm fnrppn. i
Resolevd. That if the policy of the gen
eral government in reducing the volume ,
of money is continued we must in justice
to the taxpayers demand the reduction
of all salaries of state and county
officers.
Resolved, That this convention most
heartily endorses the position of Governor
Holcomb in reference to the penitentiary
contracts and his efforts to administer
the affairs of the state in an economical
manner.
Resolved, That we express our sincere
thanks to the mayor and citizens of Lin
coln for their courtesy to the delegates
end visitorsat this convention.
Dr. Madden, Eye, Ear, Noseband
Throat diseases, over Rock Island
ticket office, S. W. cor. 11 and O atreetst
Glasses accurately adjusted.
Dr. If Ilea'N mv PcASTmicnre BHKTTVA,
T1HM, WEAK BACKS. At drugflsta. oolj 25c,
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