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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1896.
NO. 51.
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GO HELP YOURSELVES
GREAT SPEECH OF GENERAL
WEAVER IN PORTLAND.
Your Child Comes to a World Where
It Has No Right to a
Foot of Soil.
Heaven Help Only Those Who Help
'' Themselves.' -
The following is an extract from a
speech recently delivered by General
Weaver in Portland, Oregon:
I say that a government that stands
still, and with its police force holds the
people in subjection while the corpora
tions rob them of their national right to
earn a living and clothe and feed them
selves, is a rebellion against God. (Great
applause.) It is a rebellion against the
natural rights of man. (Applause.)
Ib there a man or woman here tonight
that does not need something? Iam
going to give you a little off-hand talk
tonight, but I am trying to explain your
natural rights. You are living in rented
houses; you have not standing room on
God's footstool. You have not the right
to occupy this earth without getting the
consent of some other man, and your
child that comes into this world comes in
unbidden, without the right to lie down
upon the footstool of its heavenly father,
and you have not the power tonight to
take care of your family, (cries of "that
is right, that is right,") nor to educate
your children, nor to support the wife
whom you led to the altar, because your
wages are just enough, if you have any
at all, to pay your rent. But you are
not any worse off here nor as bad off as
we are in our state of Iowa, because you
have industries here; we have not. You
have great lumber foresls here; you have
fishing industries that we have not. We
are depending almost entirely upon agri
culture in our state; there is very little
manufacturing. You have great advant
ages, cut with all your advantages
labor here is in a mendicant condition.
The remedy lies with you. God will not
do anything for a man that he can do for
himself. Do you suppose lie is going to
take you by the coat collar and lift you
out of this condition? He has provided,
J. B. WEAVER.
in the very foundation of this govern'
ment, the means whereby you can help
yourselves. (Applause.) The greatest
crime save one that can be committed by
a man is to be idle and to refuse to do
everything that is in his power to change
this abominable order of things. (Great
applause.)
I cannot change this condition; the
gentlemen who are coming here to assist
in canvassing .this state cannot do it;
there are none who can do it but the peo
ple of Oregon. You can set yourself free
if you will. (Great applause.) But you
will have to do it in the way pointed out
by the constitution of your country.
You must simply go as freemen on the
morning of election day to the polls and
deposit your sovereign will in the ballot
dox, ana vote tor your own emancipa
tion, or God help you. You will never be
free unless you do it. That is a sacred
. duty of American citizenship. The great
, est crime that man can commit is to sell
his vote. (Great applause.) And that
is one of the greatest temptations today
that confronts the laboring men of this
country. This matter has been going
from bad to worse for twenty years.
The old parties have debauched, degrad
ed and impoverished the people until $ 2
or $2.50, a side of bacon or a sack of
flour looks like a little fortune. (Great
applause.) And bribery is one of the
crimes that are rife today in the United
States. They are bribing the electors all
over this country. And who do they
bribe? Do you suppose they go to a
man that has a family, that is well to
do, in comfortable circumstances and a
home of his own and offer to bribe him?
No, sir. They go to the men from whom
they know they have taken away the
last vestige of respectable citizanship in
the United States; (applause) those are
the men that they tempt all over this
country, and it is one of the marked evi
dences of the decay of the body politic
and of the republic. I advise the officers
and members of this club, one and all, to
organize closely and securely and com
pactly to resist, in every ward of this
city, the men who offer to bribe the voter
at the ballot box. . (Great applause.)
I want to tell you and I am not
speaking particularly for Oregon, but I
am giving the note of warning largely
for the whole country that we demand
an honest election in every state in this
Union; we want yon in Oregon to stand
by us in making that demand heeded in
every ward and every precinct in this
city. You will be put to the test on the
first day of June, and you will be put to
the test in November again twice this
year will you be thrown into the crucible
and it will be ascertained whether you
are capable of free government whether
you are willing to do that which Ood has
required you to do, or whether you will
be fooled and cajoled and forced by party
discipline and allegiance to vote against
yourselves and to enslave your own fam
ily. You all know well that you cannot wit
ness the further degradation of labor
and the fall of prices and retain your
manhood. It is utterly impossible that
you can exist and be happy or comfort
able or free if this state of affairs is to be
continued. What is the remedy? The
remedy is what I have just been hinting
at. Whose government is this: Upon
what foundation does this government
rest, what class of people? What does
this honse rest upon? Upon its founda
tion! What is the foundation of society?
Ihe laboring man! (Loud applause.)
He builds everything: he creates all
wealth by his labor, and yet he has less
of it than any other man in the. world
Now, whilst he is laboring and creating
this wealth he cannot retain it. It is im
possible under present conditions. He
must change these conditions so that he
will be able to retain his full share of
this wealth. That is done by force of
government; he must throw around him
self the safeguard of law, not for the pur
pose 01 taking from another man any
thing, but in order that the wealth that
is created hereafter by his labor shall re
main with himsolf and with his own fam
ily. (Applause.) The accusation that
these laboring men have a desire to con
fiscate property is slanderous. They
neither want nor demand anything of
the kind, nor is the party in whose inter
ests this club is formed striving to do
anything but to erect barriers against
syndicates and trusts and thieves who
want to rob labor of its earnings.
A man may say: "I am an humble
man; I live out here on a little ranch.
Nobody knows me, and I don't know
anybody." That is nothing. If you
will rise up and assert your manhood
you can help to revolutionize your neigh
bor ana this city, and this you must do
before any good can be accomplished in
your interest.
Now, the party that I have the honor
to belong to, the people's party, is the
party of the common people. Christ
called very few nobles, very few wealthy
men. bo the people's party has within
its ranks very few of the nobility, as no
bility is counted now-a-days. They
have God's aristocracy, for Christ said:
Blessed are the poor." We have the
aristocracy of Christ. (Applause.) We
have no objection to the aristocracy,
we do not exclude anybody, but we are
not seeking them. We are like the
Dutchman who was asked what his poli
tics was.. He answered, "My politics is
50 cents a' bushel for mine grain and
swei glass lager beer for 5 cents
He says, "I mean business," and that is
what we mean, business. If you will
help us, the people's party intends to
take charge of this government, and if
we don t conduct it alter we take charge
of it better than the democratic party
has done in the last four years, we will
quit. (Laughter.) We will not have the
gall to ask you to keep us in any longer.
If we do not stop this decline in prices,
and stop business failures and give you
better times for the laboring and busi
ness men, I authorize you to say that,
so far as Weaver is concerned, the peo
ple's party is disbanded.
Now let the coyotes that have been
yelping at General Weaver's heels or
wearing out their throats and toes howl
ing and kicking, get out and make a few
speeches like this, and the rest of us will
be more inclined to listen to them.
Another Eminent Popnlist.
Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at
as a possible refuge from'.the power of
the people. In my present position, I
could scarcely be justified were I to omit
raising a warning voice against this ap
proach of returning despotism. It is not
needed nor fitting here that a general ar
gument should be made in favor of pop
ular institutions; but there is one point
with its connections not so hackneyed
as most others, to which I ask a brief
attention. It is the effort to place capi
tal on an equal footing with, if not
above labor, in the structure of govern
ment. It is assumed that labor is avail
able only in connection with capital,
that nobody labors unless somebody
else, owning capital, somehow by the use
of it induces him to labor. Labor is
prior to and thus independent of capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and
could never have existed if labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior of
capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration. No men living are more
worthy to be trusted than those who
toil up from poverty; none less inclined
to take or touch ought which they have
not honestly earned. Let thtm beware
of surrendering a political power which
they already possess, and which, if sur
rendered, will surely be used to close the
door of advancement against such as
they, and to fix new disabilities or bur
dens upon them till all liberty shall be
lost." Message of Abraham Lincoln to
congress, Dec 1861. Appendix Congres
sional Globe, 37th congress, 2d session,
page 4.
Editor Join Forces.
On Tuesday, June 2, 1896, at the New
York Life building, Minneapolis, there
will be an important meeting of the free
silver, people's party, and reform press
of the state of Minnesota, to organize
for the campaign so as to work together
in the great battle of November.
The Honorable Thieves.
The house of representatives has done
another reprehensible act, that of voting
each member f 100 per month for a clerk
during the time congress is not in ses
sion. What on earth congressmen need
a clerk for when not working, ia more
than, we can understand, and just why a
congressman is allowed a clerk at any
time is more than most men can see.
NOW AN OPEN SECRET.
Certificates and not Cash in the
State Treasury.
ANXIETY OF REPUBLICAN
FICIALS.
OF-
The Next Treasurer Must Stand in
With the Gang or There will be
a Burst up.
Idiotic Financial Management of Kepub
lican Legislatures.
Lincoln, Neb., May 19, 1896
lditob Independent: It is an open
secret that the present state treasurer is
maneuvering to name his own successor,
This is openly charged by some republi,
can papers. The interest of the presen
incumbent in securing a friendly success
or is easily surmised. It is the same
that which caused the board of educa-
tional lands and funds to refuse by a
vote of three to two to invest the idle
$ 600,000 of permanent school funds in
state securities drawing five per cent, in
terest. The question is pertinent "have
these funds been deposited or loaned
where they are not available for such in
vestment?" The outgoingtreasurer may
need an incoming one who will accept
cer tinea tea of deposit on banks that may
or may not be solvent, and thus shift
losses to the taxpayers as in the Hill
Mosher case. The struggle in the repub
lican state convention will be on this line
and that convention will be controlled,
as to the office of treasurer at least, by
bankers who have state funds on deposit
and no man need hope to be nominated
for that office who will not pledge him
self to accept and carry doubtful collater
als for large amounts. A system of state
financiering that not only permits, but
encourages and sustains the perpetra
tion 01 such outrages on the people, is
pernicious and most assuredly ought to
be abolished. Whether 1 his system was
originally devised in the interest of bank
ers and speculating state officials mat
ters not, such interests it has alv,;itys
been made to serve.'' Let me repeat that
money raised by tax ought to be paid
back to the people for services rendered.
or applied on their corporate obligations
as fast as collected. No accumulation of
any considerable sums of money in the
hands of officials ought to be permitted
or possible. This would reduce the li
ability of bondsmen, and losses to the
people, to the minimum. Lack of sym
pathy for the suffering bondsmen would
permit the prosecution of defaulters and
rascais by wnom public lunds are now
"legally" lost through deposits and
loans.
The treasurer of Nebraska gives bonds
in the sum of $2,000,000 furnished by
the bankers of the state in consideration
of which cheap money is furnished the
bankers by the people through their
state treasurer. In smaller degree a sim
ilar consideration exists in the several
counties of the state, and bondsmen have
been known to deed away their property
and hiregreat lawyers to void and avoid
their legal liabilities as guarantors.
rne cunningly devised scheme of "sep
arate funds; general, sinking, road etc.,
is the basis of the evil complained of.
Under this plan funds will accumulate
under the administration of an honest
official, because there can be but partial
disbursement of the amount . paid in
taxes by a single individual. The several
funds must be credited their proper por
tion and the disbursement must come
from one of these funds; Hence a bal
ance remains in each fund for future de
mands on that funds. But a cute and
successful man in charge who can fail to
find any money credited to the fund
drawn on, will in a short time accumu
late a fund large enough to start a bank
or open a store even in oneof our sparce-
ly settled western counties.' 1 he treas
urer of the city of Lincoln carries in
banks from $25,000 to f 50,000; Lan
caster county treasurer, from $ 150,000
to $ 200,000 and our state treasurer
from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
The grocer who would divide each
day's sales into the separate funds from
which, derived, as sugar fund, flour fund
eta, and refuse to pay bills except as de
rived from like funds, would at best be
thought a crank. Suould the burglar
capture, or the banker fail and the grocer
lose the funds he refused to pay out, he
would be classed as an idiot. But should
he use this device, (division of; funds as a
pretext to keep from paying his bills
when due he would justly be called a
knave and a rogue and denied credit
among honorable men. Yet our coun
ties and our state pursue a policy not
unlike this and one subject to all the
criticisms named from , the crank te the
rogue and the knave, and no effort has
ever been made to reform or change the
system. .
Like Secretary Carlisle who with mil
lions of idle money in the national vaults
refuses to pay demands on the treasury
in lawful money but borrows of a foreign
syndicate and changes non-interest'-bear-ing
obligations into interest-bearing
bonds, so our state officials, who with
hundreds of thousands of idle money
which cannot be used, make forced loans
on the people by converting non-interest
bearing claims into interest bearing war-
rents, which they refuse to buy with
other idle funds and thus save the inter
est at least to the taxpayers of the state.
"Stand up for Nebraska." P.
Whoop the Tariff.
Neosho, Mo., May 17, 1896.
Editor Independent: Please find in
closed post office ; order for which enter
my subscription accordingly and change
the address from Beatrice, Nebraska to
Neosho, Mo.
I have just moved here, therefore will
iose my vote tnis tail, xt makes me a
little hot when 1 think of a Dago from
Italy going to Nebraska and voting on
his first papers in six months, and I
move"" here from Nebraska and have to
stay a year to gain my citizenship not
withstanding I gave three of the best
years of my life to the service of the
country, and that my ancestors fought
in tne revolution. uut then whoop up
the tariff a little higher and that wili fix
those foreigners.
I must change at least two votes here
in Missouri to even up for losing mine,
and I need the Independent to help me
in the Lord's work. So please Bend her
along as soon as possible.
And here's to W. V. Allen hoping he
will be the next president of the United
States. Yours for the right,
J. P. Wesleb.
Clem baaver Declined. , .
Omaha, Feb., May 13, 1896.
Editor Independent: With .your
kind permission I would like to make a
statement to the voters of our party.
Sometime ago it was suggested to me by
my friends from different parts of the
state, that I be a candidate for one of
the three delegates at large, to the St,
Louis convention, and as 1 like any
other person, felt flattered at the prof
fered honor, I thought to make the race.
1 have since learned that Hon. J. A
Edgerton, chairman of the state commit
tee, is being put forward by his friends
who are my friends as well as a candi
date for one of the three places. Now as
Mr. idgerton represents the younger ele-
mont of the party, and the other two
should, and in all probability will be
our senator and governor. I wish to
hereby thank my many friends who have
proffered me their support, and with
draw from theraceasadelegate-atlarge.
Give us the principles of the Omaha plat
form and a candidate in full accord with
the platform. . D. Clem Deaveh.
HE GOT TIRED.
Cockrell Swears He Will not Stay
in
And Fight for Gold,
Washington, D. C, May 18, 1896. '
Representative Cockrell, of Texas, who
has for a long time been a member of
the House, and who is a brother of Sen
ator Cockrell of Missouri has written a
letter to the people of his district in Tex
as declining to be the democratic candi
date for congcess unless he is nominated
with the understanding that he will not
vote for the nominee of the democratic
convention for president if that nominee
is a gold bug or a straddle bug. He
says that he is determined to be free to
do what he thinks is right and best for
his people irrespective of party. In clos
ing his letter be says:
"The gold standard once recognized
by law and backed by the wealth ot the
world nothing short of a bloody revolu
tion could wipe it out and bring relief to
an overburdened people. The people
must tane a stand lor their liberties. 1,
for one, am tired of parading under a
democratic banner which has been so
foully besmirched by men who claimed to
be democrats, but who are agents of the
British gold trust. '
OH! GIVE U3 THE TARIFF,
Keep the Pauper Potato Raisers out.
In the last issue of the representative'
Donnelly says:
We want the whole world to under
stand that we have seven hundred bush
els of first-class potatoes, and that we
cannot sell them for one cent a bushel,
or in fact for anything; and that we are
raising a lot more to pile on top of them.
"We want theMclunley tariff asrainl
We must have it. If we don't get it the
pauper labor of "Yurrup" will rush in a
flood of potatoes and undersell our po
tatoes! Horrible thought! They will
sell their tubers for half what we can get
for ours which is nothing! One-half of
nothing! who can raise potatoes, in com
petition with the pauper labor of "Yur-
rup," and seii them for one-hail of noth-
ngf It can t be did. For God s sake
bring on your tariff on a clean plate.
We want John Judas Carlisle to come
along and comfort us with the informa
tion that the purchasing power of the
dollar was never so great as it is today;
and that the purchasing power of the po
tato was never so little; but that the
money lenders do not deal in potatoes
and so we are all happy. ' We would like
John Judas to come into our celiar and
deliver an oration on this subject over
them potatoes." We have a club that
would just about fit into John's cranial
bumps, and iwe would only want one
good whack at him: and we would
cover up the remains with potatoes, and
use the whole mess to manure our fields
next year, and raise more potatoes
under the single gold standard!"
lo show that Mr. Donnelly is not un
duly exagerating the condition among
the farmers, we append a price list
published in the papers of the day.
"Potatoes are selling on the wholsale
market here at as low as one cent a
bushel for Early Rose Varieties, the low
est price ever known in the history of
this great potato belt. Prices for other
varieties are as follows: Kings. 2 cents
bushel; Hebrons, 3 cents a bushel, and
Burbanks, 5 cents a bushel. Farmers
are spreading their potatoes on their
farms as fertilizers."
Now let some old republican farmer sit
down and comfort himself with the gold
bug aphorism, "the best money is the
money of the greatest purchasing power.
Dominion of Man.
We have an account of God's creations
and tbey were land air, water and all
animal and vegetable life, and over all
these things man was given dominion
not money or corporations. Judge
H. C. Caldwell.
TAUBENECK
SPEAKS
Warns the People Against the Asso
ciated Press Liars.
NO SINGLE PLANK WANTED.
There Will be no Surrender and no
Fusion with Old Parties.
Populists Will Make Their Own Plat
form and Name Their Own Candidate.
The following is a letter written by
Chairman Taubeneck to the editor of
the Joliet (III.) News, iu reply to an in
quiry regarding a fake dispatch recently
Bent out from Indianapolis; '
Charles H. Ferris, Joliet, III. My Dear
Sir: Yours of the 20th inst. enclosing
clipping fron the Chicago Record, con
o
taining press dispatch from Indianapolis,
dated May 19, giving what is supposed
to be the proceedings of a conference be
tween the Indiana populists, bimetallisms
and silver democrats, received yesterday.
In reply will state that so far as head
quarters and the national comraitte are
concerned, there is not one word of truth
iu the report It is a deliberate falsehood
from beginning to end. If Indiana pop
ulists have gone into a combination of
this kind, they have not taken any one
in other states into their confidence. No
Eopulist, bimetallist or silver democrat
as ever mentioned a single word to me
about a combination, as stated in the
dispatch. ; ,
You must accept, with much allowance.
anything that comes from Indianapolis.
Twice before, and within the last year,
nave late statements and dispatches, in
which populists have figured, emenated
from that city. I repeat, as I have a
hundred times before, that no union of
the reform forces can ever be perfected
in either of the old parties. 1 have spent
too much "time and labor to get people
to leave the old parties and 1 shall not
advise them to go back regardless of
what their respective parties may do.
Fopulist editors and populists in gen
eral must realize that we can not con
trol the columns of the old party press,
We have no way to prevent them from
publishing false statements. Anything
that appears along those lines, especially
now when there seems to be a break-up
in the ranks of the old parties, must be
accepted with much allowance. It mat
ters not what the democratic party may
do at Chicago, or what the bimetallists
may do at St. Louis, or whether they
meet us at all; the people's party will
hold a national convention July 22d,
mate a platform and nominate candi
dates for president and vice president.
Our convention will be ' controlled by
populists, and whatever, is done at that
convention will be the work of the rep
resentatives of the people's party elected
by the members of that party through
out the United States.
This report from Indianapolis, in re
gard to the populists indorsing the nom
inees of the Chicago convention, is on a
par with the statement made about a
one plank platform, or a single silver
plank platform. There isn't a populist
in the United States, so far as 1 know,
who has ever advocated a one-plank
platform, still less a single silver plank
platform. I never did, and do not now,
favor such a platform.
It is no credit to a gentleman or a
populist paper to misrepresent the views
of others. The talk of selling out, con
trolling state conventions and state del
egates, is a downright insult to every
populist in the land. As though popu
lists could be persuaded to do something
against their convictions! It is humil
iating to the people's party to have pop
ulist papers publish such nonsense. If I
had no better opinion of the average
populist than these papers express I
would certainly give up the contest as
hopeless. I know the populists are hon
est and at our national convention they
will do that which is best for the party
and our country. Every populist in the
United States has a right to express his
opinion as to what the platform should
contain. He also has a right to work
and vote to select delegates who will rep
resent his views in the national conven
tion. Anything short of this means to
throttle free thought and free speech.
The delegates to the national conven
tion will do that which is best for the
party and our country as the conditions
confront us in 1896. That is, they will
do that which it best for , the people's
party, and not for either of the old
parties. Whether the silver organiza
tions throughout the United States meet
n. e. tacbenecx. risi
with as at St. Louis or not, will not in
the slightest degree deter us from pursu
ing the same course as though tbey had
not called a convention for the same date
and place as ours. Nor will the people's
party ever surrender the principle that
the government alone has the right to
issue all money, whether it ia gold,
silver or paper, and that all money must
be a full legal tender and not redeemable
in coiu. Let the populists throughout
the United States elect good, honest,
true, cool and deliberate men aa dele
gates to the national convention, and
we need not have the slightest fear aa to
the result .
The people's party, at its national
convention, will take care of itself re
gardless of what the democrats may do
at Chicago. I have no time to enter in
to a controversy with any member ot
our party; no good can result from this.
Dissension in our ranks ia the laat argu
ment to win recruits. I am anxious that
our national convention shall be a suc
cess in uniting all the elements opposed
to present conditions. We need every
voter who is dissatisfied with the old
parties. I repeat again, that so far as
the national committee is concerned,
this report from Indianapolis is a delib
erate falsehood, manufactured for the
purpose of creating dissension in our
ranks. And, if it does create anv dissen
sion, the populists will be responsible for
it. We ought not to let these reports in
terfere with what isour duty toward our
country. Nothing would suit the repub
licans and democrats so well as dissen
sion in our ranks; especially now when
they know we will receive a large follow
ing from their ranks in the south and
west. Yours for our cause.
H.B. Taubeneck.
THE OLD MOSSBACKS.
Tbey try to Keep us at the Tail end of
Civilization.
The gold bugs of this country are de
termined that the United States shall
eternally tag at the tail end of civiliza
tion side by side with the pig tailed
Chinese. Every nation either owes or
controls its railways except the United
States and China, - while the mossback
old tories raise a howl every time a pop
ulist sugests that we should at least try
to keep step with the advancement of the
age. Once in a while' one of the mow
backs gets an idea into his head. Such
seems to be the case with the New
Orleans Picayune. It says:
"In Australia you can ride a distance
of 1,000 miles across the country for
$6.50 first class, while workingmen can
ride six mile for two cents, twelve miles
for four cents, thirty miles for ten cents,
and railroad men receive from twenty
five to thirty per cent more wages for
eight hours work than tbey are paid in
this country for ten hours. In Victoria,
where these rates prevail, the net income
for the roads is sufflcint to pay all tho fed
eral taxes. In Hungary where the roads
are state owned, you can ride ail miles ,
for one cent and since the roads were
bought by the government the men's
wages have doubled. Belgium tells the
same same story fares and freight rates
cut down one-half and wages doubled.
Yet the roads pay a yearly revenue to the
government of $4,000,000. In Germany
you can ride four miles for one cent on
the government owned lines, Yet the
wages are over 125 per cent, higher than
tbey were when the corporations owned
tbem and during the last ten years the
net profits have increased 41 per cent.
Last year the roads paid the German
government a net profit of $25,000,000.
People who favor the government owner
ship of railroads claim that if our gov
ernment owned the railroads we could go
to San Francisco from Boston for $10.
Here is the proof: The United States pays
the railroads not quite $275 to trans
port a loaded postal car from Boston to
San Francisco. A passenger car will
carry fifty passengers, which, at $10
each, would be $500 a clear profit of
$225 per car, and this, too, after paying
5 per cent, on watered stock, which is
fully 100 per cent, on the cost of the road. '
ihese figures are taken from a reliable
source."
Senator Kyle's Idea.
It is folly when our welfare and that of
our children is involved to argue for a
generation and split ourselves into a
dozen factions because we cannot agree
as to all the planks that should be em
bodied in national and state platforms.
Five hundred reforms can be named, all
of which are good, but it would take a
century to unite all the people if they
were embraced in one platform.
Our efforts must be directed toward
union. Both state and national platforms
must be short and decisive and yet in-
clnde the fundamental isssues. In my
judgment it uld be well to confine our
state campaign to the financial question,
including:
1. h ree silver, a declaration against
the issue of bonds, the issue of a paper
currency by the government direct and
in sufficient volume to bring our circula
tion to $40 per capita.
z. Ihe transportation question. Rig
id control of railroads and other corpor
ations, with government ownership of
trans-continental lines.
3. An honest, clean administration of
state affairs. Senator Kyle.
A Few Finanaial Facts.
This excellent book by S. S. King con
tains 60 illustrative diagrams showing
clearly the misfortunes that have come
to the people, the causes that produce
them and the remedy that will remove
them. A large number of copies have
been furnished to the Nebraska Silver
League which they will sell in order to
raise money tor postage at one half the
regular price. Send 25 cents and get
two copies. Address Secretary of silver
league, 1122 M street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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