September 2C, 1895.
THE WEALTH MAKERS.
THE PLATFORM FOR 1898.
Ibe Omaha FUtform Will Be Ita Baals and
There Will He No Backward Movement.
As the time approaches for entering
actively upon the great campaign of
1896 there is great anxiety manifested
among1 prominent workers of the peo
ple 8 party, as no doubt among many
not considered "prominent," relative
to the platform of principles to be
adopted at the next people's party na
tional convention.
This feeling is an index of earnest
ness in the work and a determination
- to win in the coming fight, and is to
be commended rather than severely
criticised.
As might be expected, there is di
versity of opinion in the people's party
ranks as to what changes, if any,
should be made in our present declara
tion of principles before entering upon
a political contest that promises to be
without a parallel in the history of
the country as regards its importance
and the desperate determination of
plutocracy to win at all hazards.
Among the platform makers of the
people's party there are those who
would reaffirm, in the main, the Omaha
platform; also those who would add to,
or substitute for a portion, compara
tively new and radical principles; as
well as those who would eliminate the
whole platform except a single declara
tion of a single plank making the
fight "on the silver issue alone."
Foremost among those who may be
termed the radical element of the par
ty are the old-time greenbackers men
who voted for Peter Cooper twenty
years, ago, and who have been in the
thickest of the fight ever since; men
who have sacrificed money, friends and
many of them fortune; who have en
dured privations, suffered ridicule, so
cial ostracism, and snapped their fin-
gers at golden opportunities to secure
personal ease and enjoyment rather
than relinquish their powerful and per
sistent advocacy of a "national curren
cy, safe, sound and flexible, issued by
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and that without the use of
banking corporations."
These old-time greenbackers have
long been the nucleus about which ev
ery monetary reform has rallied; they
have furnished the motive power, so to
speak, of every third party movement
since the first greenback plank was
proposed by Bob Schilling and adopted
at the Cleveland ' convention of the
labor reform party in 1872.
These old war-horses of reform, for
the sake of "union" and "harmony"
and "conciliation," have repeatedly
submitted without murmur to change
- of party name, ' to change of party
leadership, to change of party policy
on important questions, provided there
was always a straight, clear-cut, con
sistent, greenback plank in every third
party platform wh ich has always been
the case.
Now that certain party leaders, who
can count on the fingers of one hand
the years of their opposition to the old
parties, propose for the people's party
a presidential campaign "on the silver
issue alone," it is not to be wondered
at that these old veterans of reform
should indignantly protest and clamor
for an immediate advance on the en
emy under the old greenback banner.
It is not at all surprising that CoL
S. P. Norton, the veteran reform editor
who spent twenty of the best years of
his life building up the organized op
position to the old parties now known
as the people's party,should impatient
ly exclaim: "We are sick unto nausea
with all this clap-trap about the rel
ative merits of gold and silver," should
demand the demonetization of both,
and fling to the breeze the old banner
of "greenbacks and prosperity."
No doubt many of the old-time
workers are at heart inclined to join in
expressing the same sentiment and
would naturally lose interest in the
movement should the people's party
fight narrow down to an "issue" which
is already agreed upon by the leaders
of the two old parties. .
As well discharge all the veterans of
an army on the eve of a great battle as
as to enter the next campaign of the
people's party without the advocates
of greenback currency.
The next populist-platform must con
tain the usual greenback plank.
As to the introduction of a plank de
manding the demonetization of both
gold and silver, these old greenbackers
themselves would unhesitatingly dis
approve such a proposition as being
impracticable and untimely. It would
be regarded, also, just as inexpedient
to eliminate the silver plank, upon
which issue alone some want to make
the entire fight of the campaign, as to
eliminate the greenback plank, which
has been a leading feature in every
campaign.
The greenback plank is good as far
as it goes; the silver plank is good as
far as it goes; every word uttered in
favor of either is gospel truth and is
approved by every populist from Maine
to Texas, but neither of these, nor
both of them together, constitute the
main political issue before the Ameri
can people.
The great overshadowing issue
which confronts us and which must be
.fought to a finish in the next cam
paign, is this: Shall this government
continue a plutocracy, or become a
government of the people?
There are only two parties the
party of the plutocrats, and the party
of the people, the people's party.
To properly express opposition to
plutocracy, as represented and fostered
by the old parties, and assert the ina
lienable rights of the people, the
Omaha platform was promulgated.
Not since the 4th of July, 1776, has a
public document been received with
the demonstrations of approval and
idelight on the part of the common
ipeople of America that greeted the
lOmaha platform when sent forth by
' jits patriotic framers on the 4th of July
1893.
V That document voiced the sentiments
, of an overburdened and long-suffering
people in terms unmistakable and full
Ot meaning.
; That document gave hope to dis
couraged, struggling, half-starved
humanity, and struck terror to the
'hearts of their oppressors. J
Under the guidance of that document
the people's party fought the cam
paign of 1393 and raised the third
party membership from one hundred
and fifty thousand to over a million
votes, and cast twenty-two votes in the
electoral college.
Under the teachings of that docu
ment the people's party conducted the
campaign of 1894, when they added to
their membership more than six nun
dred thousand votes and took rank as
the second party in twenty-two states
in the union.
The people's party stands to-day an
army of more than two million inde
pendent thinkers, honest and tireless
workers, intelligent and patriotic
voters, who know their rights and are
determined to maintain them. Their
membership and allegiance are due
almost wholly to the principles enunci
ated in the Omaha platform.
We are daily in receipt of letters
from working populists in every state
in the union urging us to "stand by
the Omaha platform."
At a people's party convention held
at Chicago recently, composed of over
S50 delegates differing on local issues,
every one heartily applauded the deo'
laration approving the Omaha plat
form.
Could a vote of the people's party be
taken to-day it would be found that
all genuine populists, who prefer
principle, to pelf, still indorse the
Omaha platform and are in favor of
its reaffirmation at the next national
convention.
The Omaha platform is just as ap
plicable to-day, ana will be a year
hence as it was three years ago.
Instead of eliminating any of the
principles, emphasize them not by in
troducing new or strange ideas but
only what is well understood and
urgently demanded.
Let the people's indignation be ex
pressed and their protest recorded
against the bond syndicate, conspira
tors against the government and rob
bers of the public treasury; the bank
syndicate, panic breeders and con
scienceless manipulators of the peo
ple's money; Cleveland, Carlisle and
Sherman, the tools of Wall street and
subsidized servants of the money
power; the plutocrats of Europe and
Amerioa, who are determined to rule
or ruin perhaps rule and ruin this
republic and the people.
Such resolutions are demanded; such
resolutions from the people's party are
expected; no other party will give
them expression.
With the Omaha platform reaffirmed
and strengthened as above indicated,
confidence and faith in the integrity
and efficiency of the people's party
will be maintained among its member
ship, the honest and independent voters
of the old parties will flock to our
standard in droves, and we shall win
in the next campaign without the sac
rifice of a principle.
A victory thus obtained will be a vic
tory in tact, not alone in name, as
would be the case were but a single
principle involved which, if carried to
success, the next congress might over
turn.
Down with plutocracy! Up with the
people!
Let this be the rallying cry in the
coming campaign, and the people's
party will be given an opportunity to
engraft upon the statutes of the country
the principles enunciated in the Omaha
platform. Chicago Express.
As a Peter Cooper greenbacker one
of the "old guard " I indorse the fore
going article. And I indorse it, also,
as a practical nationalist, a Christian
socialist. The Omaha platform demands the
abolition of alien ownership of land
and of domestic ownership for specu
lative purposes, and it virtually de
mands a system of land tenure by "use
and occupancy" of actual settlers.
That is a long step toward land na
tionalization. It is true that the Omaha platform
demands bimetallism of the bifurcated
variety, but it also demands a supple
mental volume of full legal tender,
absolute paper money, loaned direct
to the people at 2 per cent or less, and
it demands government banks. That
socializes the people's credit (money)
and its avenue of distribution the
banking system of the nation. Free
coinage of silver will establish the fact
that the government's fiat can give to
nothingness a monetary value of 50
cents.
The Omaha platform makes a square
demand for the nationalization of the
means of transportation of commodi
ties and news. Taken as a whole, the
Omaha platform is a pretty fair social
ist programme, but it is not a particle
in advance of public sentiment in the
United States. Geobge C. Wabd.1
France la Preparing.
The railway labor organization, em
bodying all classes of employes in
France, is the most powerful factor in
that nation, around which all other
labor unions are gathering for the
final struggle between the use
less capitalist on one hand and the
useful workers on the other. They
are acting on political lines, being al
most to a man socialists and support
ing that party. When organized labor
in America learns that lesson the em
ployes will be the ones to govern, not
capitalists. The many are workers,
and our government is organized on
the theory that the many, not the few,
should control, and they will whenever
they organize politically as well as in
trade's unions. Appeal to Reason.
How Would Bondholders Do?
An ingenious farmer has invented a
machine called a bag-holder. It is well
and timely, for there are over a half
million farmers in this country who
are holding empty bags for the pluto
crats, and if one of their number
should invent some contraption to re
lieve the strain on the muscles of the
fraternity he would prove a benefactor
to the race. Neosho (Mo.) Silver Ad
vocate. Government Bavings banks are de
nounced as "paternalism," but they
are not so grievously paternalistic as
charity soup, poorhouses and homes
for the aged. Nevada (Mo.) Director.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
It la Getting Into the Churches, and It I
Time It Did.
The labor question is getting into
the churches. It is time it did. It
must get there if they would have the
isDoring man mere. So long as
preachers preach Daniel and practice
Belshazzer, the churches will have no
attraction or usefulness for the work
ingman. The man-made gods have
had too much attention and the God
made men too little. Wouldn't it be
better to give more attention to the
men and less to the gods.
Question is: It is wiser to get on the
pinnacle and fish humanity out of the
slough of poverty and sin one at
time, or get down and drain it and save
the whole batch? Talmage says, "the
only thing Heaven lacks is inhabl
tants." The pinnacle fishing for hu
manity will never densely populate it
either. At the present rate of emigra
tion thither according to orthodoxy,
mere will be plenty 01 room to pre
empt there for all eternity, provided
sy ndicates are not allowed.
But we have got plenty of people
here; why not get up some sort of, re
ciprocity arrangement and begin to
import heaven instead of exporting
people.
Good comfortable homes, plenty of
wholesome food, some leisure and rest
would be so acceptable to thousands of
poor working people just now, and as
Mrs. Clara Hoffman once remarked
when the audience sent her up a bou
quet in thanks for some pleasing
speech: "Oh, I'm so glad you have
given me the flowers now, while I can
enjoy them, and have not kept them
to put on my coffin." So with these
multitudes of practical working men,
who are doing so much for the world.
How much better to give them bless
ings now when they need and oan en
joy them, than to promise them plenty
of food and rest in the whenceness to
come. This thing of relegating all
good to the future seems so remote and
unsatisfactory. This preaching con
tentment with lot when that lot is ab
ject poverty and suffering, and when
the eyes of men are everywhere open
ing to the fact that poverty is an un
necessary condition and that it will
not exist when the diviner laws shall
come into recognition and operation,
is a presumptuous fraud.
There is no doubt about the ability
of the earth to yield its increase to the
satisfying of every pang of hunger.
There is an abundance of material to
supply homes and comforts for all.
There is no lack of artisans to devise
and construct every needed article of
use, convenience or comfort
The want of material or the lack of
labor are matters not in controversy.
but the employment of the one and
the proprietorship of the other is the
unsolved problem.
These are the storm center around
which are clustering the hopes and
fears of the world, It is the survival
of the fittest arrayed asrainst the fit
test to survive. It is the doctrine of
individuality against the practice of
universality. It is the autocracy of
the infinite against the theocracy of
the finite. It is the denunciation of
the self-constituted prelacy of the Al
mighty against the prayer of the Naz
arene who said "Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven." It is the assumed divine
right of kings to rule against the crys-
tahzed law of all justice and equity,
namely: "Whatsoever things ye would
that men should do unto you, do ye
even unto them." We ask is this pos
sible? If not, then Christ has given
us an impossible philosophy. We must
abandon it If it is possible, then ev
ery follower of His is bound to obey
the rule, else he is none of His. Is it
possible? We say it is not, under ex
isting social conditions. We say it is,
under right social conditions. Hu
manity.
GOVERNMENT HELP,
The Only People Who Prosper Are Those
Whom the Government Protect! In a Mo
nopoly. You have heard some "smart" and
"important" men declare that "gov
ernment cannot help the people,"
haven't you? Did you ever think
about this? Did you ever try to find
out whether these very men were not
themselves being "helped" by govern
ment? Let us look at it and be hon
est: Are not national bankers prosperous
because they have government "help?"
Are not bondholders prosperous be
cause they have government "help?"
Are not the thieving trusts and
scheming syndicates prosperous be
cause they have government "help?"
Are not the owners (seldom the in
ventors) of valuable patents prosper
ous because they have government
'help?"
Are not those who hold valuable
land out of use and set legal owner
ship above natural ownership prosper
ous because they have government
help?"
Are not the owners of street rail
ways and gas plants and electric light
plants prosperous because they have
government "help?"
Finally.is not many an otherwise im
pecunious lawyer, who defends the
whole brood of monopolists, prosper
ous because he gets government
"help?"
Don't you think you would be pros
perous if government would "help"
you to a monopoly or something the
people were compelled to use?
The fact is, friend, that nobody is
anybody in America to-day without
government "help?" The fellows who
are being "helped" by government
rather enjoys the "help;" they live
sumptuously and die comfortably;
they have seized upon government for
their own advantage. Now, is it not
clear to you that the duty of the
masses the workers is to seize the
government for the general benefit?
Coming Nation.
The populists of Iowa and Ken
tucky are making it hot for the old
parties. The meetings are well attend
ed, which shows the direction in which
public sentiment is drifting. Missouri
World. '
Blood Poison
THE BANE OF HllMAN LIFE.
Driven Out of the System by
the Use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
"For Ave years, 1 was a great 03
niiffnrer from a most nnrsi stent. 3
blood disease, none of the various
medicines I took being of any a
neip wnaiever. jioring mat o
change of climate would nenetit
me, I went to Cuba, to Florida,
and then to Saratoga Springs,
where I remained some time
drinking the waters. But all was
no use. At last, being advised
by several friends to try Ayer's
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aider mvself a perfectly liealthv oi
man with a OYind nnnpfirA nnii I
not the least trace of my former
complaint. To all my friends,
and especially young men like
myself, I recommend Ayer's Sar
saparilla, if in need of a perfectly
reliable blood-purifier." Jose
A. Escobar, proprietor Hotel
Victoria, Key west, Fla.; resi
dence, 352 W. 16th St., New York.
Ayer's sxSarsaparilla
Admitted for Exhibition
AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
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Grave Fears for a Big Ship,'
Sajt Fbancisco, Sept. 23. February
27, 1895, the four-masted British ship
btoneleigh left Melbourne for London,
and is now 210 days out Hope for her
sale arrival is beginning to be aban
doned, and it is feared that the craft.
with her crew and passengers, have
gone down off Cape Horn. If such is
the case about thirty-six lives have
been lost.
Snow In the Far West,
Cheyenne, Wyo.,Sept. 23, The first
snow storm of the season reacifed here
early to-day. Snow is reported fall
ing at Rock Creek, fifty miles west of
Laramie.
Salt Lalk, Utah, Sept 23. Heavy
rain last night was followed by snow
which fell steadily up to noon.
Big Loss on Gold Coins.
Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 23. The
Rochester bank, which recently ship
ped one-fourth million dollars in gold to
the subtreasiiry in New York are out
$1,500. The face value of the coin
which they sent was correct, but upon
tne delicate balances of the sub treas
ury the $1,500 shortage showed.
WaUer'g Family Near Bis Prison.
Fakis, Sept. 23. The family of ex-
United States Consul Waller have ar
rived at Marseilles, where Mr. Waller
is imprisoned by the French govern
ment on conviction of having suoplied
information of the movements of
French troops to the Hovas in Ma da-
gascar.
No Tote for Women Delegates.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 23. In the
North German Methodist Episcopal
conference the proposition to give to
women the right to sit as delegates in
tne general conference of the church
was presented for action and the mem
bers refused to vote on it.
DO YOU WANT IT?
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or eon mission. No experience, Nsw Tariff
Bill aiTM unlimited profits, active aisa ap
ply Quickly statins- salary and territory
waated. Manufacturers, P. O. Box 5808,
wvn, mass.
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Dr. P. Reed Madden, diseases of the
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Dr. Madden. Eye. Ear, Nose, and
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ticket office, S. W. cor. 11 and 0 streets.
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Cyclone Season is Here.
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each additional $100 In the Cy
clone department. Same In Fire
department.
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FIRE, LIGHTNING AND CYCLONE INSURANCE COUPA
K All El OF DIBtOTOBS.
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S. LICHTY, President ; Falls
L N. LEONARD, Vice-President Iin
J. Y. M. SWIQART, Secretary-Treasurer Lint
Over $800,000 insured. Have paid $640.00 In Losses. Ha
.had but one assessment. 1 Oc. per $ 1 00.00.
J. Y. M. SWIGART, Secretary,
Agents Wanted.
The Baltimore Plan,
now practically endorsed by
universal attention because it is based on the evident fact that'J
the currency and banking systems of the country must be re-JJ
formed. ?
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But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It gives the associated tith
banks the power to expand the currency and relieve the country, tjj
It also gives them the power to
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 no 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
ttie you believe in.
And send us 25c. immediately for the book. "Money Found"
has no equal in its line. Address,
Wealth Makers Pub. Co.,
Lincoln, Neb.
TINGLEY& BURKETT,
Attorney s-at- Law,
1026 0 St., Lincoln, Neb.
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from territory covered by local
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HOMES IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
No not winds, billiards, nor crop failures. 5a.
taral CloTer, Timothy and Blue Grass, fuel
cheap. Coal $1 per ton at bank. Dry wood l.M
per cord dellTvrod. All kinds of trait that crow
fn this latitude. Toa will find ail these adraa.
taces la the country adjacent Calhoun, Henry
county. Mo., 13 mllee from Clinton, the eounty
eat; population 1.000. Located on the M. K. e
T. K. B. 70 mllee southeast Kansas City. Wa
hare a list of good farms for sale at from $1 t
80 per acre. Corn yields from M to 60 par anre.
'lax from I to 18 par aero and other orope la
proportion. We wlU cheerfully aire aA toe"-
lion, required. O"'
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