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SO MOVES THE WORLD.
Italy is in the game to get a slice of
Turkey.
r Aluminum is being used largely in ship
Construction.
November 5th there was a loss of two
millions by Are in New York City.
It is reported that Schlatter, the healer,
will soon go to Mexico to fast forty days
The Detroit boiler explosion last week
killed or mortally injured probably forty
people.
The Cuban insurgents are gaining. Even
the Spanish government officials admit
tha fnpt:
It is reported by his friends that Harrl
son is in the race as a candidate for re
election.
The British fleet in the Mediterranean
lias been reinforced because of the situa-
tiou in Turkey.
Mr. Bayard in his recent address at
Edinburgh denounced protection and
state socialism.
Eugene Field is dead. Many beautiful
tributes to his memory were in last
Sunday's Times- Ierald of Chicago.
Germany's war minister, Schelleudorf,
it is rumored will be retired soon, lie
too democratic and popular to please
William.
There is agricultural depression in Ger-
many as well as in England, and the
agrarians in strong speeches declare that
h the government proposals will not furn
f3H IICUCBOaiJ ItUifl.
The life of the Sultan of Turkey is in
danger. There is discontent in his army
and navy and almost a reign of terror
throughout the Turkish empire. More
trouble is reported in Armenia.
John D. Rockefeller has given his Ch
""cago Standard Oil University another
round million of plunder and promises
two millions more if the faculty will get
other gifts equal. With Bemis knocked
out and millions pouring in ,llarper
should be happy. .
Kelley is still at work on his motor nn
is backed by a woman millionaire, Mrs.
Jl. Bloomfield Jiloore. A group of New
lork millionaires recently tried to in
duce him to move his laboratory to
New lork, and offered him a new build
ing and a backing of millions, but his
Philadelphia patron successfully oppos
ed it.
Rapine and slaughter in China. Awful
atrocities are being committed by the
rebel Duncans in Northwest China. They
number 60,000 men and are armed with
rifles of Russian manufacture. I oreigii
ers are being protected by the rebel lead
er, who maintains rigid discipline among
his followers, but the native villages and
cities are being sacked and a inarch on
Tekin is threatened.
Turkey is in a bad way. The Sultan
can not control the fierce spirits of his
Mohammedan subjects and the race and
religions hatred which the massacres of
Armeriaus have stirred uo will, taken
with the demands of the European
powers, doubtless lead to the early dis
memberment of his kingdom. England
has already proposed the carving of the
empire. More massacres are occurring,
Business and political Europe is greatly
. agitated over the danger of war, about
vuuuiuiing interests.
Keep Away from California
p the men looking for work, to the
i with small means, we would say
ep away from California."
sver ninCM t.llA first antHumont n! th.
jfJ 8 je have conditions been so desperate
-a t present.
, Jven during the summer season, the
busiest time of the year, there were at
the lowest computation not less than
10,000 unemployed in the city of San
Francisco alone, while the rest of the
X tate was in equally as bad a condition.
Suicides occur almost daily, the starva
tion and misery or large numbers of peo
ple is frightful, and the condition the
coming winter will be horrible in the ex
treme. White women, tn an vo tliomunlvoa
from starvation, are working in Chinese
lactones no rates retused by Chinese
workers; and in the face of such horrible
state of affairs, employers have systema-
, iicany violated the law prohibiting the
importation of alieu laborers under con
tract and have flooded the state with
Japanese laborers who have monopoliz
ed a large amount of the fruit picking,
gardening and farm work.
Numbers of productive plants that
have been running for years have been
shut down aud the employes turned
adrift. Farms are foreclosed by the
hundreds, and crops are piling up with
out a market in sight.
To enter into all the details of the
situation would disclose such a state of
misery, depravity and crime that would
affright the stoutest heart.
We can only warn people to stay away
front California because the outlook is
glooiny and desperate in the extreme.
Exlhntiges please copy everywhere.
Living Issues, San Francisco.
Dr. Madden, Eye, Ear, Nose, and
Throat diseases, over IWlt Talnnri
I ticket office, S. W. cor. 11 and 0 streeU.
I Classes accurately adjusted.
Ntaahhedtv De. Mfla PatoPBW.
DIRECT LEGISLATION
BY J. W. ARROWSMIHH, ORANGE, N. I.
From Thk Cominq Nation! Oct. 12, 1805.
A SEVEN YEARS' STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY
AND SELF-GOVERNMENT.
A new political combination with
"one plank" platform for the union of all
reformers, Democrats, Republicans, Pop
ulists. Socialists. Prohibitionists and
Independents.
ORGANIZATION.
The social democracy.
PLATFORM.
Direct legislation, national, state and
local, asembodied in the fullest operation
of the initiative and referendum methods
of law-enacting.
COMPACT.
A Direct legislation through the initia
tive and referendum shall be the only
platform of the social democracy, nation
al, state, or local, for a period of seven
years from the date of the ratification of
this compact.
B No individual ororganizationeuter-
ing into this compact shall be bound in
loyalty to its provisions "for a period
longer than "seven years."
C When the social democracy shall
have gained, through its representatives,
sufficient power in either national, state
or local legislative departments of gov
ernment, it shall strive, first of all, to
submit amendments to the organic law
and to enact statutory laws embodying
the initiative and referendum in their full
est scope and application.
D Having secured the constitutional
or statutory operation of the initiative
and referendum, it is agreed that the fol
lowing propositions shall be submitted
to the vote of the citizenship affected
thereby and as often submitted as indi
cated bv petitions legally presented. In
the absence of legal process of manda
tory petition, it is further agreed that
under official petitions signed by 10 per
c?ntof the voting citizenship of the na
tion, state or political subdivision there-
of.nccordingto the proposition involved,
shall be deemed "an order to submit,"
governing the actions of representatives
of the social democracy.
E "CATALOGUE OF ISSUES TO BE SUB
MITTED.
1. Government, state and municipal
control and operation of the public
transportation and communication faci
lities.
2. A national bureau for the revision
and regulation of tariff schedules.
3. Government conduct of the manu
facture of alcoholic liquors and the sale
at cost, limited to scientific, medical and
art uses.
4. Free coinage df silver and gold at
the ratio of 16 to 1.
5. Prohibition of all monopolies and
trusts which combine to lower wages or
to raise the price of the necessaries of
life.
6. Civil service reform rapidly applied
to all departments of government.
7. Election of United States senators
by a direct vote of the people.
e. Abolition of national banks as
"banks of issue." .
9. Government nostal savincm hnnL-a
10. The United States government to
hold the exdllflivn rirhf tn ismm mnnor
which shall be full legal tender for the
aiscnarge ot all money obligations.
1 1. The sub-treasu
Alliance plan.
12. An increase of the oirr-nlntino- niA.
dium to $50 per capita.
13. The mnltfnle standard frr iir.
rency values.
14. Demonetization of gold.
15. Free tradn and n "aincrlo tnT'nn
land values.
17 A high protective rnriff on im
ports and reciprocity with othernations.
18. Restrict! nn nf immifrpntinn in lm
point of shutting out mechanics aud
luuorers until suen time as American
labor shall be fully employed.
iw. Jiunrage without regard to sex.
20. Proportional representation.
21. Tax on inheritance.
22. Progressive income tax.
23. Abolition of capital punishment.
24. Prohibition nf tho oinnlnvnunf of
children of school age.
25. Prohibition nf tllQ Dmnlrtrmftn rt
- -- - .v vuiujiii., vn
female laborin occupations detrimental
to neaiiu ana morality.
2u. Eaiia ization nf women's mncraa
with those of men, for equal services.
27. Public emnlovment for t.lm nnsm.
ployed.
28. The Public lands tn hedpnlnrnd in.
alienable.
29. Lands held bvrailroadsand other
corporations in pxpphh nf t.hnir nntiml
. - " - WUVUUIS
needs, and all lands held livnlinnafnim
reclaimed by the government for actua
settlers only.
dO. Abolition of con victcontrnct labor
system.
31. Uniform civil Anfl Pfitninnl Iowa
throughout the United States.
32. Nationalization nf t.im cnnl in.
dustry.
do. A Uniform Anstrnlinn aonrat Kallnt
system throughout the United States.
34. Prohibition of the inflinti
punishment through the "extraordinary
proceedings ot court," except by trial by
ury. a limitation ol the power of court
in the matter of "the process nf injunc
tion."
(Continued on 4th page)
LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1895.
A MI
The Editor of "The Arena" Discusses Mr.
Gall's Book
INEQUALITY OF OPPOBTUNITIES
Flutocraoy the Product of Special Privi
lege The Fallacy of the Survival of
the Fittest Things when Applied to
Social Conditions The Well-spring's
of Colossal Fortunes Found in Privi
leges Obtained through (1) Inheritance;
(3) Monopoly in Land; (3) Monopoly in
Money; (4) Monopoly in Transporta
tion; (5) Monopoly in Commodities, or
Corporate Control of Industry The
Plea of Privilege The Fruit oi Privi
legeThe Law of Freedom A Critical
Examination of the Main Factors in the
Production of Plutocrat and Proleta
riatThe New Republic.
In "The Coming Revolution" Mr. Call
has made a contribution to social and
economic literature of the new time of
positive value. It is a work which merits
a very wide reading. It might be justly
characterized a trumpet call to freemen;
but it is more than this it is a calm, fair
and masterly survey of social conditions
as they exist; an investigation of the
underlying causes of the widespread
poverty and misery of today, and a bold
but reasonable and statesmanlike pre
sentation of measures, which, if radical,
are as conservative as any remedies can
be", which in the nature of the case are
more than palliative or temporary make
shifts.
The author is a brilliant lawyer, he has
been trained to reason logically and to
view questions on all sides, but his educa
tion has not blinded him to the fun da
mental aemanus ot justice, lie lias a
charmingstyle,at once lucid and concise;
he makes his meaning perfectly plain,
while using few words an art few writers
possess, his style is simple, and be has
so thoroughly mastered the subject in
hand that he finds no difficulty in mak
ing his meaning perfectly plain.
So important is this work at the pre
sent crisis that it calls for an extended
review. As may be inferred, the author
does not agree with the conventional
economists who owe their popularity
and livelihood to their efficiency as soph
ists in the unsavory if lucrative rolp of
the paid tools or attorneys for plutoc
racy, and who are everanxious to silence
the discontent of the industrial millions,
who are being pressed slowly but re
morselessly toward serfdom, through in
justice and the essential anarchy oi capi
talism, lie does not believe that it is the
will of a Divine Providence that a million
shout! suiter that ten mav revel in mill.
NG
REVOLUTION
ions of dollars which have been anquirodcjofoi, hat some must perish in order
I J 1 J t...t 7 . I ' I i ' -ll'l 1 . 1. ll , " J .
by the ten, but earned chiefly by the mill
ions. .
In hjs opening chapter on "The Sicns
of the Times," lie says:
here are those who have come to
charge the wretchedness and warfare now
everywhere existing among men to their
institutions, instead nf to any wise or
beneficent provision of their future: thev
deny either the necessity or heueflt of the
hardships the great mass of mankind
now suffer, and demand that these hard
ships be at once remedied."
lie points out the creneral discontent-
which exists and the various methods
proposed for remedying the wrongs
which are becoming too grievous to be
come.
The condition of the toilinir masses
may truly be described as a struggle for
existence. Hard and constant toil is
necessary for the meatrre return which
clothes body and affords shelter nnd
food, but it is not the ceaseless grind of
work which is chiefly responsible for the
discontent which is present amonir the
industrial millions throughout the in
dustrial world. Work is not itself un
welcome, but it is the anxiety, poverty.
wretchedness wh ich are everywhere the
ot oi labor, that cause men to ook
with sullen dread and revolt upon this
struggle. However meagre their subsist
ence, this is ever precarious; theirs is a
contest for very life in which many fail.
Each recurring crisis shows how thin are
the walls of chance which everdivide suc
cess, in this struggle, from failure. Then
it is that the merchant and mechanic fail
in business, the farmer loses his farm, and
penniless and burdened with debt they
together sink into the condition of wage
laborers; meanwhile their ruin has also
driven labor out of employment, and the
raiiKsoitne unemployed, always full,
swollen from these various sources, be
come now bo crowded that all cannot
hope to obtain positions; a competition
ensues in which some must inevitably
fail. However remote the tramp and the
pauper of society may seem from their
more fortunate fellows, they have but
failed in the common struggle!"
THE "STftUGGLEFOR EXISTENCE" FALLACY.
But it isurged that the savage struggle
for life is seen among the lower animals,
that the weaker are devoured by the
stronger, and the fittest survive, there
fore this brutal struggle is natural. This
argument is fatally weak ff examined iu
a candid and impartial spirit, even
though we leave all questions of mora
lity out of the discussion. For the con
ditions are not the same. The freedom
which obtains among the lower animals
is not present here. The widespread
misery today is due chiefly to artificial
and not natural conditions. On this
point Mr. Call is very strong. He shows:
(1) That there is no sound reason for the
Btruggle for existence with man because
there is wealth enough for all, and uuder
just conditions no man, woman, or child
who choose to work need fear poverty.
(2) That, under the conditions which ex
ist among the loweranimals the colossal
fortunes of the present would be impos
sible. These two points are clearly set
forth, and upon the establishment of
them the popular plea of the apologists
for plutocracy falls. Touching the boun
ty of nature he observes.
"The position of man in the world is
far from unfavorable. The world is large
enough for all, but everywhere land is
unoccupied withheld from use. It is,
too, so bountiful, that if labor is but al
lowed to exert itself for a brief season,
the cry is raised of overproduction, the
markets are glutted, mines must be clos
ed, mills must be shut down, and labor
must be turned out of employment be
cause there is no demand for its pro
ducts. Nor was the labor of man ever
effective than now. Machinery has come
to his aid, and with it he can accomplish
so much in every branch of production
that labor itself is becoming superfluous
a drug on the market; man is crowded
out of the field of industry because his
labor has become too efficient. Surely,
when the world is large enough for all,
when its bounty more than suffices for
all the wants of man, and when his lubor
is only too efficient in procuring the sat
isfaction of his wants surely, in face of
these facts, the position of man in the
world cannot be held responsible for his
woes; want and wretchedness cannot be
preached as the necessary and natural
lot of man.
"The poor will not believe that their
struggle nnd want are necessary, so long
as they see in contrast with their condi
tion the possessions and idleness of the
rich. This Is not only the nge of
paupers, it is also the age of themillion
aires; the hovel of the poor is under the
Phadow of the palace of the rich
However stinted and wretched mav be
the lot of the musses, they see here
no evidence of want; all is, instead, the
most lavish luxury and display; every
thing that wealth can procure to satisfy
the wants, or pander to the appetite and
pride of man, or astonish the gaze of the
beholder, belongs to these favorites of
fortune Yet, notwithstanding all their
expenditures the fortunes of the rich are
ever swelling into vaster and vaster pro
portions; the number of the rich, too, is
fast increasing. The hoards and the
squanderings of these alike show that
the world is filled with abundance; they
also show the wonderful effectiveness of
labor, for labor, either of the past or
present, is, after all, the source of all
value, and the means by which all wealth
is brought into being."
Thus it will be seen that the "survival
argument is fatally weak in that it is
based on false premises. It necessarily
assumes-triai there is not room enough
H.ri'il, i L ... P
that others may survive, and therefore
that man has a natural right to prey up
on his brother. Not only does this popu
lar plea rest upon false premises, but it
assumes that man in civilization is ac
corded at least a fair chance in his strug
gle with his fellowmau as the lower ani
mals enjoy, and this assumption is false.
"It is not applicable to present condi
tions, for the reason that the freedom of
struggle there among the lower an imals
allowed is here denied. The brute has the
free useof all his faculties; to one isgiven
strength, to another cunning, and each,
by the kind provision of nature, is ad
apted to obtain his living in his own way
This is indeed the cause of his survival:
the first law of nature, the verv Instinct:
of life, is self-preservation; to preserve
his life the brute is allowed the use of
every faculty given him; where life is at
stake every means to preserve it is justi
fied. But it is not so with man's institu
tions. Man cannot by his strong arm
help himself to the plenty he sees around
him; to do so would be trespass or crime.
Cunning is the only faculty in free use,
and it is allowed to run riot. Manly
strength is chained helpless, while low
cunning, deft-fingered, passes by and
filches from it.
"Noris labor allowed in its struggle
the freedom of opportunity given the
brute. Each brute has free access to the
world: man is denied that ncctH hv t.hn
laws of society, which give the world to
a few in each generation and say to all
others "keep aloof." These few play the
"dog In the manger;" and although they
may each have enough to support a
thousand such as they, society itself
stands watch and ward over their pos
sessions, and turns portionless labor
away unless it can purchase the consent
of these owners by the waees of servi
tude. Compared with the lot of labor
how free that of the brute! Take the
most savage and despicable of these, the
wolf and the hyena: they each range the
prairie or forest in equal struggle, and
do not always feel it necessary to war up
on aud devour each other; then when
they have satisfied their maw from the
carcass which they with honest toil have
slain, they become almost sociable, and
perhaps abandon it to their fellows. If,
now, these brutes had reached a high
stale of civilization, and united into a
society given to some few of them, under
the name of property rights, the whole
world now ranged in freedom by all, and
compelling all others to come to them in
Bervice or beggary for leave to get food
and shelter, how like to the institutions
of man they would have attained.
"Not the doctrine of the struggle for
existence brute doctrine though it be
is altogether too merciful to palliate or
justify the institutions with which man
has cursed himself; It is too honest a doc
trine. These institutions will be found
to have cloaked themselves under names
sacred and revered by man, such as
"liberty," "rights of property," and the
like, and not to have paraded openly in
their true colors under any doctrine how
ever brutal, else would mankind have
long ago risen in revolt and made short
work of them."
It is not in the working of natural law,
but in the operation of artificial and un
just conditions that we find the main
spring of the misery of man throughout
the civilized world.
It is not to any lack of wealth in tin
world, but, instead, to man's institution!
which have made this distribution of it,
and have given to the few so much, that
we must look if we would know why th
many have so little."
The author points out the signs of
profound discontent everywhere mani
fested. In our country the violent oscil
lations of the political pendulum, no lest
than tho desperate struggle of organized
labor, are suggestive signs of the times
He shows that a political readjustment
must speedily supervene, else will politi
cal as well as industrial freedom soon bi
a thing of the past.
"Industrial slavery cannot long coexist
with political freedom. Either tho spiriti
of men will be crushed, as under th
tyrannies of ancient times, and they will
become unfit to remain free even in name
or they will resent the yoke of oppression
whatever its form, and demand with
their ballot that they shall be free, nol
only in name, but also in fact."
The progress of revolutionary ideas ii
necessarily slow in gaining popular ac
ceptance, especially among phlegmatic
people. The attention must be gained,
the reason successfully appealed to, and
the people must also be made to see that
their interest will be better conserved by
the change. Old prejudices have to be
overcome, and the influence of opinion
forming organs, which are always largely
wedded to conventionalism, have to bt
neutralized. Frequently the most bene
fieia.l reforms nrn reteriled by a false and
vicious conservatism which turns alarm
ist whenever a progressive step is pro
posed for society. Yet the history of the
world's great reformative measures
shows that when evil conditions have
reached such a point that a noble discon
tent is everywhere visiblo, the light of a
better day dawns aud increases until the
darkness which enslaved the brain and
lent wings to fear disappears.
to be continued.
Worth Half a Billion
Who says we are not progressing? Bar
ney Barnato, the ex-prestidigitator, ie
worth $500,000,000. As he is only forty
six years of age. and is laborious and in
dustrious we have every cause for hoping
that before he dies Barney will be a bill
ionaire. When we look back on the days
of ancient Rome and remember that a
man worth ten millions of dollars was
considered enormously wealthy, we can
realize what simple people they were,
But then what can you expect? These
Romans were poor, benighted pagans,
while we we are christians, brothers rfll
in religion whose duty it is to share with
one another. We have all shared with
liarney and the Vanderbilts and the Asr.
ora and the Rockefellers and given them
our heritage so that they may be immen
sely wealthy, and be a credit to a civiliz
ed and christian age. What matter if we
are hungry, Barney owns millions nl
cattle; if we are thirsty, Rockefeller has a
magnificent wine cellar; if we are home-
le
r nas tnonsanua oi ioLh m jw
York city. Whoare the laboring classes
that this should not satisfy them? Who
knows but the glorious time may come
wnen a syndicate shall own the whole
earth and all the rest of humanity will
have to do is to worshi
Barney liarnato is a god in London just
uui. ie is noiuing io the god he will
be if he keeps on grtting rich. Hail
mighty Barney! Twentieth Century.
Death or John S. Malben
It is with sadness and extreme regret
that we are called upon to chronicle the
death of our much esteemed citizen and
beloved brother, John S. Maiben, of Pal
myra, Neb., which took place at his home
Nov. 5th, and was the result of a team
running over him the day previous.
Mr. Maiben was well and widely known
as a leader of the great reform move
ment, and while in the act of postiug
bills for the good of the cause the death
blow came. It can be truthfully said of
him: "He died in the work which was
given him to do," nnd on the day which
he always commemorated by casting his
- w.w .J.V.VJ V'l IUU twiu J lift i c,
the principles he so strongly advocated.
On this memorable day his life went out.
But may the light of his beautiful exam
still live on, whilo he enjoys the reward
he so richly deserves.
A FRIEND.
L. P. Davis, Dentist over Rock Is
land ticket office, cor. 11 and 0 streets.
Bridge and crown work a specialty
NO. 23
DEMOCRACY
DEAD
Juried Too Seep For Eesnrreotion in the
Ballot Avalanche
POPULISM VEE8US REPUBLICANISM
The Solid South Broken by the Finan
cial Question. Democracy Divided
and Fast Disintegrating;
And the Other Rotten Party Going
The battle lias been fought and we
know several things that we could not
have told before.
One is, that the solid south is broken.
Kentucky aud Maryland have gone Re
publican. Democracy under Hill has been
beaten again in New York. Ohio Demo
crats under Brice have been snowed un
der by perhaps 00,000 votes. Maryland
has spewed out Gorman and his gang,
but had'nt enough intelligence to turn
Populist. New Jersey has turned to the
arms of the Republican deceiver. Iowa
has gone back to its old charmer, but
has nearly doubled its Populist vote.
Ohio also has made phenomenal Populist
gains. Unoulcial returns indicating that
Gen. Coxey's vote may be as high as
70,000.
It is reported that Denver has gone
Populist.
In Nebraska Maxwell's vote over Hol-
comb's two years ago amounts to about
8,000 which measures the growth of the
party. The Republicans win by about
7,000 plurality, but there is a falling off
in their vote as compared with two years
ago. Below we give a table showing
Populist gains and losses on county
tickets. The vote reported shows a net '
Populist gain of 28 connty offices. The
letters n. r. "mean "not reported."
REPORT OF THE ELECTION
COOKTI
Quia Lorn
County Gain Loot
Adams
Wains
Hoy U
Duller
C&H8
Clay
t'UHter
Dannon...
Purine
Fillmore.,
Frontier..
4
1
n r
Kuai nt-.y . ..... 1
Keya I'aha... 0
l.uiit-iutor
Loup n r
Merrick n r
.Niickulln , 1
0
1
Jl
8
1
6
erkiuo & r
I'latte
Saline.)
Saunders ......
Sheridan .......
Stanton
n r
Uoxper n r
Ilnll 1
Holt 0
Hooker n r
Johnson , 0
Knox
l.oRiin n r
Mcl'berson.... 0
Nemaha 0
I'awnee 0
I'lerce or
flock n r
8arpy 0
Reward ......... 0
Sioux n r
Thorn u
Valley
Webnter
Klchardson...
1) aimer
Box Butt..
Buffalo
Chase
Che.veune ......
Cuming.,,,
Dawes
Dixon
Dundy
Franklin
Thayer
Garfield
ThumtoD 0
Wayne
Red Willow... 4
Antelope........ 0
Boone 2
Brown
Bort
Cedar 1
Colfax o
Dakota 0
Duell 0
Douglas
Furnas
Gage 1
Grant. n r
Hamilton 4
Harlan 0
Howard......... n r
Greeley
Hitchcock
Hayes........... n r
JetferBon. ...... 0
Keith 8
Kimball 8
Lincoln S
Madison....... 0
Nance
t
0
1
all
1
1
2S
Otoe 1
'helps 0
I'olk
Scott lilulf.... nr
Sherman
Washington.
York
Total- 66
Many counties, under the Supervisor law, elect
Sfull et of supervisors. For the purpose ol fair
comparison with the elecOlon ot 93 the party
electing the majority of such board is credited
with the offlce.
Total gain 66, total loss 28, net gain IS. '
So far us reported we notice the Populists hold
265 offices, 1 commissioner for each county (by
election of '1)5.)
Counties yet tn bear from and official returns
will inure to l'opnlist credit
Education
Editor Wkalth Makeiis:
As the Republican papers talked so loud
about an educational campaign, but
their candidates refused to discuss the
questions of the day during the cam
paign, therefore I deem it a duty to let
them have a chance during the winter In
this way, viz.; let each community organ
ize a literary society and choose political
and economic questions for discussion.
Allow the Populist members of the
society to choose a speaker to take their
side aud the Republican and Democratic
members to choose some one to represent
them.
Let the speakers have a couple of weeks
to prepare, and the Republican majority
will go glimmering. Be sure to get all
the old party people in the society and
- 't them to discussing the fallacies of the
Populist platform, and you may be able
to get something into their head that
can't be smoked ont in 1896.
Yes, let us educate in every schoolhouse
in Nebraska. Get debaters to volunteer
their talk and you guarantee their ex
pense. Now, Mr. Editor, if the above plan is
followed and only one vote made for the
cause of the great common people in
each school district our majority in '96
Will b assured.
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