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THE WEALTH MAKERS.
September 26, 195
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ted?
When will the church regain faith in
Christ and follow him?
It is now Maxwell and. the people, or
Norval and the railroads.
The Populists and Republicans of
Mississippi have fused. Goodby Popu
lists.
Edward Bellamy has nearly ready for
the press a work "understood to be
Socialistic exposition of civilization."
Macmillan & Co., announce the pub
lication of The American Historical Re
view, a new quarterly review, to be de
voted entirely to history.
Now for a pull a 1 together to elect the
Populists candidates. Less growling and
more labor to elect representatives of
the people, is what is needed.
Who ever heard of a Republican court
failing to endorse Republican officials?
The Churchill-Russell A. P. A. board in
Omaha was of course sustained. '
The decision of the supreme court in
the case of Clark vs. The Cambridge and
Arapahoe Irrigation and Improvement
company places obstacles in the way of
irrigating from streams which are over
twenty feet width.
Low prices, damaged crops, a succes
sion of misfortunes and injustices that
are great and widespread, are threaten
ing us with a social convulsion which
cannot be controlled by the powers that
be. Thousands of families in this part
of Nebraska are in desperate financial
straits. What is to be done, is their cry.
Why does God permit men to starve?
He can't help himself, and at the same
time teach the race that His law may not
be trampled on. He has placed us here
not to fight, not to selfishly struggle. If
we persist in biting and devouring one
another, instead of loving and serving
one another, no power can save us from
evil. We shall suffer until we learn to
obey.
Thb "each for himself" struggle is be
coming too hard on the great mass of
the people. With all free land taken,
with all machinery in the hands of capi
talists, with all the circulating medium
controlled by the banks, with over half
the people landless and dependent and a
(uaHlne weisht of interest udoq a larcra
jj)anger that
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"THE QTJE8TI0H OF ISTEREST"
Under the above title an esteemed con
temporary, who declares itself "for the
Omaha platform and free silver," tells us
what "the economists have forever set
tled." The economists." Who are "the"
economists? Is Mr. Tibbies acquainted
with their writings to any considerable
extent? If bo, and he admits what they
Bay to be the truth, the word that ends
a 11 controversy, the law and gospel of
nature and commercial reason, why,
then, doe. he contradictorily profess
himeslf a believer in the Omaha platform?
Perhaps in articulating bis creed our riend
declares himself "for the Omaha platform
and FREE SILVER" the first part
ritual, the last part spirit and troth, with
emphasis. t
For our part we never say we are for
the Omaha platform and one plank of it.
But to go back to "the economists."
"They Bay," bo Mr. T. tells ns, that "to
destroy interest altogether" would be
"certain to destroy civilisation."
Ahl here we have it: civilization rests
not on labor and justice; bat on interest
obligations. The banks are the basis of
all we have that lifts us above barbarism!
Cut off the interest support, say "the
economists" (Mr.TibbIes),enact that the
government shall loan the people their
own credit (greenbacks) at cost, as the
Omaha platform requires, the platform
which Mr. T. ties to (?), and civilization
would be destroyed.
Great and good Shylocks, deliver ns.
Save us from the folly and ignorance of
everything in the Omaha platform, ex
cept free silver. For it is plain to see
that we must no more ignorantly inter
fere with what we have been calling
money land and transportation mono
poly.because interest, rent and dividends
are practically the same thing, and con
stitute civilization's basis. Some of "the
economists" will let us have silver, and
that, therefore, is the only safe thing to
ask for. Free silver, we know from ex
perience, would not reduce interest col
lections, therefore civilization would not
be endangered by It
"They say the economists the first
result of abolishing interest would be
such a contraction of the circulation of
money as the world has never seen.
There would remain no motive to keep
money in circulation, and every man
would lock up and hoard bis money
He would not take the risk of a loan
when there was no profit in doing it."
Now we were simple enough to believe
that the people would want a safe place
to deposit their money and that the gov
ernment postal savings banks, called for
in the Omaha platform, would receive all
money not in use and keep every dollar
needed in circulation. Have "the econo
mists" and yourself, Mr. T., given the
proposed postal savings banks plan your
distinguished consideration and found it
necessary to discard it? It will greatly
grieve us if you haveso "forever settled''
it. : ,
"The second result would be the imme
diate closing of almost every eleemosy
nary institution in the union not sup
ported by direct taxation, such as hospi
tals, schools, colleges, universities, homes
for the aged, etc., and all the people thus
educated or provided for would become
houseless and homeless, either dying of
starvation, or filling the poor houses to
overflowing, tor those institutions are
all more or less endowed ana tneir in
come derived from money invested in
mines, manufactures, railroads, county,
state or national bonds upon which tbey
receive interest.
"To this vast class thus made paupers
there would have to be added very many
thousands more, such as the aged who
had by hard work and a frugal life accu
mutated enough, which by investing it
in some interest bearing security are just
able to live. Then there are tne many
thousands of widows and orphans whose
father or husband provided for them be
fore his death, by investing his little all
in some mine or manufactory or other
security and they receive enough interest
on tne investment to keep tne won irom
the door. They too, in countless thous
ands, would have to wend their way to
the poor house. The economists say
that the result of the abolishment of in
terest is too horrible to contemplate,
Civilization would be crushed by it."
This makes us weep. In advocating
money at cost we never stopped to con
sider the preeminent rights of the elee
mosynaries, who live on interest, or that
Indirect taxes of the same amount are
less a burden on labor than direct taxes
And to think, in our haste to get the
crushing interest burdens off the backs
of the working class, we were on the
point of tumbling down and destroying
our colleges, theological seminaries,
hospitals, homes for the aged, etc., "and
all the pesple thus educated or provided
for would become houseless and home
less," we are told, "either dying of star
vation, or filling the poor houses to
overflowing." Think of all this vast
army of students, the brightest scholars
of every community, "either dying of
starvation" or crowded into the county
houses with the sick, disabled and imbe
cile! Then, "to the vast class thus made
paupers must be added " "the aged" and
"the widows and orphans" whose deceas
ed relatives have fastened them upon the
backs of the workers. But in addition
to "tins vast class ' thus added to, we
might as well figure in, in addition to
the aged, widows and orphans, all others
who draw fair interest incomes, whether
it be five or twenty -one or more per cent,
because if interest is right for one it is
right for all. Do not commiserate the
workers who must live and bear up this
fearful load of three thousand mil
lion dollars each year, they are used to
it. Think only of the vast class on their
backs who, sitting there, hold np civili
n. And atrre with "the economists"
being forced to get down "is too horrible
to contemplate."
In all seriousness the economists, so-
called, have settled nothing regarding
interest, and very little else, for that
ma'ter. Political economy as it has
bee taught has been termed the "grab
all" science. It has been assumed that
be may take who has the power, and he
may keep who can." "The economists,"
have not recognized that production and
distribution are moral questions and
must be regulated not by might, but by
equity and human need. "The "grab
all" game of the present 1b not scientific,
is not economical. It is brutal and
devilish. The each: for himself straggle is
horribly wasteful too. Political econo
my when understood will be seen to be
applied Christianity, or moral law in
action.
"Usury bringeth the treasure of a
realm into few hands," said Lord Bacon.
And by usury he meant what we now
call interest, not an unlawful rate. In-
terest-taking destroys the balance of
commercial forces and so periodically
brings about glutted - markets and fall
ing prices, which Mr. Tibbies considers
the great evil. But in skimming over the
surface of things he has not yet seen and
comprehended this fact. He therefore
knows practically nothing about the
money question.
Interest measures the money mono
poly tribute. Rent measures the land
monopoly tribute. Dividends, or divided
profits, measure the capital monopoly
tribute. The rate of interest always
just about equals the rate of tribute
forced from renters of land or capital.
Through these three tribute channels
wealth is drawn away from its producers
aud concentrated in the hands of the
monopolist class, a class whose power
thus steadily increases. He who wy-iiG
the money monopoly and thus defends
interest, is pitiably ignorant, or morally
culpable. Glittering or stupid generali
ties are worth nothing. The beating of
the torn toms over anything and every
thing said to be "socialism" is not an
evidence of wisdom. The burden of in
terest, rent and dividends has got to be
cut down, or there can be provided no
relief for the people. This musio must be
faced. ,
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HAVE WE LEARNED ANYTHING
The candidate for the Populist party
for judge of the Supreme court, Hon.
Samuel Maxwell, should be easily elected.
Why? Because the state has been
brought very low by old party legisla
tion, and scores of thousands of old
party voters whose noses have been
brought to the grindstone are beginning
to feel that something has got to be done
It isnot two or three partial crop fail-
nres tnat nas Drougnc us into our pre
sent fix. It is extortionate railroad
freights for one thing. It is a $17,000,
000 yearly stream of interest money
that has left us, for another thing. It is
too high taxes for another thing. It Is
all these combined, and in addition the
falling prices caused by the money being
drained away, which makes the farmers
and merchonts and mechanics here so
distressingly poor and hard up.
The Populist party is the only party
that nroDOses to reduce the drain of
monopolies. It is the only hope of the
people. To vote for either of the old
parties is to vote for the continuance of
present conditions, conditions that grow
worse year by year. It is the strangest
thing in the world that men will con
tinue so long voting against their inter
ests, for the agents of the classes that
rob them. But it does seem that the
man of any independent thought at all,
needs no more poverty and hard times
than we now have to open his eyes and
arouse him to action.
In Judge Maxwell the people have a
tried and true friend and a man of pre
eminent ability. He has no equal upon
the bench in Nebraska, and everybody
knows it He has a reputation for
ability and incorruptible integrity which
cannot fail to bring him the support of
thousands of good Republicans and
Democrats, and should be easily elected
by a handsome majority.
Mrs. Elia W. Peattie. our first candi
date for Regent of the State University,
is also a citizen of very superior talents,
and is known throughout the state and
very highly respected by the people of all
parties. She is a woman of liberal edu
cation, a journalist, author and lecturer,
a student of the social questions, an in
tense lover of truth and justice, and with
out doubt will poll more than the party
vote. The women of the state regardless
of party should feel personally interested
In helping to secure the election of the
first member of their sex to the import
ant office for which she is a candidate
Prof. James H. Bayston of Red Willow,
our second candidate for Regent, is an
educator of note, a strong man against
whom nothing can be said.
Altogether the Populists of Nebraska
have reason to be proud of their
candidates. Voters this year should
come to us without being sought and
argued with.
. Secretary Carlisle says: "The large
Bum spent in Europe this summer by
traveling Americans has been another
drain on our finances. It has been esti
mated that over 100,000 American tour
ists have gone abroad this year, and
that the aggregate of their expenditures
is nearly if not quite $100,000,000."
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IS OOMPETITIOH A5TQUATED
Prof. J. B. Clark of Columbia College
in bis monograph on "The Philosophy
of Wealth" has a chapter entitled "The
Ethics of Trade," in which be declares:
"Competition withontethical restrain ta
is a monster as completely antiquated aa
the saurians of which the geologists tell
as.
"Moral influences have for their parti
cular and legitimate function to sup
press the remnants of natural ferocity
which show themselves In tne economic
dealings of man with man. . . . The
boatman who bargains with a sinking
man virtually Bays to him, 'I now refuse
to rescue you, but will change my mind
if yon wilt give me a certain sum.' ...
It is the position ol the highwayman:
and the same is true of those who utilize
financial exigencies in the same way."
Yes, but to what extent do moral in
fluences restrain competition or selfish
ness in business? It may be better in
Wall Street than it is in Nebraska, but
might in business passes as right here.
''Business is business" out here, and we
are inclined to think it is everywhere
equally ruled by selfishness. The boat
man illustration is rather extreme, but
we venture the judgment that nine hun
dred and ninety-nine business transac
tions in every one thousand are selfish,
are controlled by struggle, by preponde
rating might or legal advantage. We
affirm, therefore, that prices and wages
are not fixed by moral considerations,
but by need and greed. Deny this who
can.
The business world is a barbarous
world, a world that is not penetrated by
the moral forces and that has nothing to
do with Christianity, the real, practical
self-sacrificing sort. But it must accept
its forgotten, long-buried teachings. It
is the work of the church to separate it
self from the self-seeking mammon wor
shipers and go to preaching what is
right, what is the law which must govern
men in the everyday work and business
relations of life.
WHAT THEN AIL8 PRIORS
See how it is in England. We quote be
low from the Boston Herald:
The threatened failure of the regular
crops in England has led to the extreme
measure of asking Parliament for relief.
It is anticipated that the farmers cannot
go through the coming winter without
help. Lord Salisbury is asked to devise
measures of relief that shall be adequate
to the distress, and it is a case where the
party in power is under the necessity of
doing something, and does not know
what it is wise to suggest. It is plain
that the government cannot enter into
the relief of British agriculture to any
great extent without seriously conflict
ing with other interests. The power of
remedial legislation is greatly limited,
and even if it could afford temporary re
lief, it could not remove the foreign com
petition which is the curse of the British
farmers in good times. The situation is
exceptionally depressing, and threatens
to become worse. All the products of
the farm can besupplied at cheaper rates
from foreign sources than they can be
raised in England, and from this outlook
the situation is almost hopeless. Even if
the crops were up to a high average the
farmers could scarcely make a living,
and when they are destroyed, to use the
language of Lord Winchelsea, they "con
template the coming winter with feelings
of absolute dismay."
The Springfield Republican also says
upon the same subject:
American agriculture is certainly in a
no worse state of depression than the
English industry. The case is cited of
the recent sale of 639 acres of land in
England, with farm-house, stables, home
stead and seven cottages, for $28,500.
This property a dozen years or more ago
was valued at $100,000, and only four
years ago was mortgaged for $70,000.
We have had a good many cases of this
sort, particularly in New England, but
none representing so violent a shrinkage
as this.
Ti me was when the world-wide suffering
caused by monopoly of land and capital,
and competition between the workers
would have been endured, to actual star
vation, without a murmur. But it is
not so now. The spread of a knowledge
of man's inalienable rights and of the
injustice of rent, interest and monopoly
profits makes it dangerous to keep on
the pressure. An explosion may occur.
The British farmers are all renters.
The American farmers are fast becoming
renters.
THE EQUALITY OP MAS
"He declared the eternal principles of
truth, justice and equality of man," said
Bishop Newman last Sunday, referring to
Christ.
"The equality of man." How must
this be understood? "All men are creat
ed equal," says the Declaration of Inde
pendence. But in only one way can this
be true. We are equally the children of
God, equal in our divine inheritance,
eaual because of being each a child of
God. All things were designed for each
of us who by obedience will receive them
"All things are yours, and yeare Christ's
and Christ's is Gods." ,
But the law of unity, love, united in
terests, is not accepted. "Each for him
self" is received as the supreme wisdom,
aud in consequence the world is full of
evil. The strong command the weak.
The smart oppress the simple. The obli
gations of brotherhood are in all com
mercial acts disregarded. The little
ones, who should be loved and protected,
are beaten in trade, are traded out of all
their inalienable rights, and so are made
a great disinherited class. Under the
form of freedom inequitable contracts
are forced upon them which make them
treadmill drudges and their condition as
dependents hopeless.
When will the nation wake up and
call for justice that will give us peace and
prosperity?
The lassoa of righteousness, of the
natural order and social harmony, is a
lesson that roust be learned. Think of
the criminal folly of the present each
for-himself disordered state in which
millions of workers have lost the right
to work and are in worse condition than
slaves. Think of millions more whose
productive labor is so unjustly rewarded
that their lives are a dreary treadmill
round, work, work, work; no playtime,
no culture.no strength left when work is
done. The people need to be saved from
all this. But where can a savior be
found?
"Thy will be done on earth aa it is in
heaven" except on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur
day. In heaven they are "all minister
ing spirits." On earth, Sundays (rest
days) excepted, they are all grasping
spirits. "Business is business." "Each
for himself" is the only practical (?) thing.
We don't mean it Lord. We can't stand
it to have thy will done. We haven't
any faith in it under present circumstan
ces. It is not safe to love our neighbors
as we do ourselves. So do not consider
that we mean it when we pray.
The South Carolina Constitutional
Convention is admittedly called "to
overthrow negro suffrage. Nobody tries
to conceal it, nobody seeks to excuse it."
So says the Charleston News and Courier
Those negroes who have education and
property will not be disfranchised. It is
a beginning against the equal rights of
the poor aa such that whites and blacks
north and south will do well to ponder.
It is a violation of the fundamental prin
ciple of democracy. It is not property
nor even education that makes the man.
"A man's a man."
The New York Board of Trade and
Transportation calls for the creation of
a National Forest Commission whose
business it shall be to study and control
the public timber lands reserves and
parks to ascertain their relation to the
public welfare. This is socialism bnt
manifestly sense also. Only, what a
pity the lumber regions were not also re
tained by the government and the tim
ber us ed by the people profit the whole
people, instead of making a lot of mill'
ionaires.
The State Journal says Norval will be
elected over Maxwell by 30,000 to 40,
000 majority. "You can fool all the
people some of the time and some of the
people all the time, but you can't fool all
the people all the time," was Abe Lin
coln's remark. The State Journal and
the Republican railroad and boodle ring
have gone too far and are discredited.
Judge Maxwell will draw 25,000 votes
from the Republican party 10,000 from
the Democrats and all the Populist
strength.
We give elsewhere Judge Maxwell's
letter of acceptance. He will be the can
didate of the best element of all parties
and it will not be possible to smirch his
character or detract from his well-earn
ed reputation. The people will, by elect
ing him, administer astern rebuke to
the railroad machine that packed the
convention to retire him, because he
would not serve the corporations. One
firm friend of the people on the supreme
bench is not enough, but through him
the rights of the people and the voice of
justice will be heard.
John E. Gorst in the (English) Nine
teenth Century says: "There are two
diseases or disorders of the body politic
which, though of old standing, have in
recent times undergone a new and alarm
ing development. They not only ob
struct progress, but threaten to destroy
the stability of the existing social order.
They are (1) strikes and lockouts, (2)
the unemployed. The first of these dis
orders is not so hard to deal with as the
second."
From the reports of many disinterested
unprejudiced parties the New York City
Association for Improving the Condition
of the Poor has found the general judg
ment to be that farm lands in that state
have depreciated 48 to 50 per cent in
the last twenty-five years. The railroad
mileage in the state in the same time has
increased 4,182 miles.
Ex-Judge Littlefield of Perkins
county, former editor of the Nebraska
State Laborer, has started a new paper
at Nebraska City. It is a hummer aud
will make interesting political times in
that part of the state. Mr. Littlefield is
on to all the tricks and schemes and re
cord of the g. o. p.
When will business become Christian
ized? Report of the Meeting
The county central committee met at
headquarters on the 21st with nearly
every precinct represented.
John G. Seidell was nominated by
unanimous vote as candidate for county
superintendent of schools, Prof. Bowers
having declined the nomination.
The committee will hold another meet
ing on Saturday, the 28th, to fill the
vacancy caused be the resignation of A.
H. Weir. J. M. Thomson,
F. D. Eager, Secretary.
Chairman.
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few new subscribers for The Wealth
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THE CENTURY'S END
f
Emperors, stand to the bar! Chancellors,
halt at the barracks!
Landlords and Lawlords and Trade
lords, the specters you conjured have
risen
Communists, Socialists, Nihilists, Rent
rebels, Strikers, behold! f
They are fruit of the seed you have sown
God haa prospered yc ar planting.
They coma
From the earth like the ariiy of Death.
Yon have sowed the teeth of the dra
gon! f
Hark to the bay of the leader. You shall
hear the roar of the pack
As sure as the stream goes seaward.
The crust on the crater beneath you
Shall crack and crumble and sink with
your laws and rules '
That breed the million to toil for the
luxury of the ten
That grind therentfrom the tillers' blood
for drones to spend
That hold the teeming planet as a garden
plot for a thousand
That draw the crowds from the cities
from the healthful fields and woods
That copulate with greed and beget dis.
ease and crime
That join these two and their off-spring,
till the world is filled with fear,
And falsehood wins from truth, and the
vile and cunning succeed,
And manhood and love are dwarfed, and
virtue and friendship sick,
And the law of Christ is a cloak for the
corpse that stands for Justice!
As sure as the Spirit of God is Truth, this
Truth shall reign,
And the trees and the lowly brutes shall
cease to be higher than men.
God purifies slowly by peace, but urgent
ly by fire.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
Congressional Debauchery
When Mr. Watson wrote his famous
letter from Washington City, in . 1891,
describing the maudlin condition of the
members of the fifty-second congress, and
gave a graphic description of the gentle
man from Alabama asking, "Mr. Speaker
where am I at," public sentiment appear
ed to be blocked. The Associated Preso
dispatches denied the allegation; the
democratic press denounced Mr. Watson;
and little General Wheeler, of Alabama,
frothed at the mouth. So great was the
little general's indignation that nothing
short of the appointment of an investi'
gating committee saved him from hydro
phobia. He got his committee, the committee
got the facts, and the facts got pigeon
holed from the public.
Many an honest Christian man in
Georgia was embittered against Mr.
Watson, by the denunciation of the dem
ocratic press, for this, one of the bravest
and most fearless acts. They could not
believe that men chosen to make laws for
a great Christian republic could be guilty
of reeling in drunkenness upon the floor
of the house of representatives.
The mills of the gods grind slowly but
surely.
Here is a description from the Herald
of the closing hours of the fifty-third
Democratic congress. To the great sin of
violating the Sabbath, is added drunken
ness galore.
Georgians will regret to learn that the
tinrrnnm in tinder control of the speaker
of the house of representatives Charles
. i;nsp:
"Tha Mnoiurr hmira nf (nnCTPflS were
characterized by the wanton destruction
of great thirst. The debauch did not
reach its accustomed proportions until
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tne session oi yesterday ounuiiy; uuu
Simdnv riio-ht. On Sunday nicht the
congressmen.particularly the representa
tives began unnuing neavny, auu ou
Sunday the onslaughts on the bar under
fha hnnaa nf rpnrpHAn t,n ti VfiS became SO
ardent and so prolonged that placards
were poBteo on tne wans ueurmg vuu le
gend, "For members only." In order to
prevent anyone but congressmen from
breaking the Sunday law, policemen were
stationed at the doors of the saloon to
keep out the jam. Waiters working
night and day, in relays of from fifteen
to twenty-five each, frantically endeavor
ing to keep up with the demands made
upon them, and two cashiers were kept
drumming on their cash registers in
typewriter fashion, till the sweat stream
ed from their faces.
"The congressional thirst raged with
such fierceness that Sunday afternoon
several were disabled and taken from the
field of battle. Great care was taken not
to permit a congressman to get too far
gone. Whenever he became too garru
lous he was quietly hustled to a diet of
ice water and seltzer until himself again.
"Sunday evening Congressman J. A.
Scranton of Scranton, Pa., managed to
break loose from the inebriates and
reached the floor of the house, and in a
maudlin fashion began to object to a pri
vate bill being called up by De Armond,
of Missouri.
"Mr. Speaker, I'd like to know if a
member as drunk asthat has a right to
object? shouted De Armond. .
"The drunken Scranton then began to
abuse De Armoud until he was taken
out by the sergeant-at-arms by direction
of the speaker.
"The drinking became so excessive
that the chief of police detailed ten extra
policemen and three detectives to prevent
the general disorder from becoming an
open riot.
"Late Sunday evening some women be
came iutoxicated, and taking possession
of a vault under the house, danced a can
can for the edification of a crowd of men
until dispersed by the police.
"The saloon under the senate also ran
full blast all night Saturday night, all
day Sunday and all night Sunday night,
but managed to keep up a better pre
tense of decorum. The lobby and the
rabble were here permitted to drink aa
well as senators, with no policemen to
make them afraid. .",
"Today, on being asked the proceeds
of h is sales for Sunday , the cashier of ttie
house saloon said to a Herald represen
tative that they had not had time to
check up the cash, but said it was enough
to require more than $200 expense for
extra help alone. The saloons in the
veiaber 1st
Wealth Makers.
