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tyNew York has 1,000 millionaires
sued 400,000 working women who are so
poorly paid that they must accept char
hy, sell their bodies, or starve.
tyA Birmingham, Ala., land com
puBj incorporated with $100,000, in five
jswra paid over 5,000 percent on its cash
capital, or $3,570,000, and now has prop
erty worth about $50,000,000.
Thk farmer who had a loan of $1,000
xm his farm in 1880 could have paid the
.mortgage with J.OQ0 bushels of corn.
Bat ten to seventeen years later, the
"hones; dollar," of which we hear so
'suck, had so changed its relative value
Lbat be was compelled to raise and sell
3.703 bushels of con to get $1,000, to
.fsj tfce principal only of his debt.
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Ti the ElgMj Thoasaad Uanbars of the
STATE ALLIANCE OF NEBRASKA.
Bkothers: The political contest that
is now being waged in this state is in
the interest of the producers and labor
ers of the state. It is your contest.
The principles of the Independent
party of Nebraska are your principles
While the Alliance Itself is not a po
litical party, and while iU organization
Is distinct from the independent organ i
ration, it is still true that your member
ship forms the back-bone of that party-
that the Farmers' Alliance is its source
and fountain head, and that if it Is to
succeed in the present campaign success
must be secured by Alllascs work, Alli
ance enthusiasm, Alliance speakers and
Alliance votes.
It is also undoubtedly true that if it
fails, if it is defeated, it will be consid
ered by the outside world as a defeat of
the Allianco, and it will be a severe blow
at the vitality of the society.
The questions of ti nance and trans
portation are the vital questions at issuo.
The correct s ilution of these questions
is vital to the welfare, vital to the liber
ties, almost vital to the very existence
of the producers and laborers of this
state.
In the solution of lbeie questions the
greater and paramount Issue, whether
these producers and laborers are to
emerge from the conflict with higher
privileges and a surer charter of thoir
liberties, or whether they are to sink
lower in the social scale, and to let an
arrogant and doailneeriiii power take
still another step above them, is involved.
Your right to regulate freight rates
has been questioned, and your attempt
to do it has been balked by an executive
veto used at the beck of arrogant cor
porate power.
Railroad kings have asserted their
power over you, aud at their domand
your stato board of transportation has
ofllcUlly asserted that justice does not
require any reduction of rates.
Will you be balked by this autocratic
power?
It demanded your lands, and you gave
theml It domanded right of way, and
yougaveit! It asked for statioD grouuds
for Bhops and depots free, and you gr.ve
them! It demanded town and county
bonds, and under threats of the destruc
tion of towns and the building up of ri
vals, you voted them!
It then proceeded to corrupt your ju
diciary, from the justice of the peace to
the judges of the Supreme Court! the
executive officers of the state, the mem
bers of the legislature, and town, city
and oounty officials.
Wnen at last, after nearly two decades
of domination by this arrogant power
when forbearance had ceased to be a vir
tuc when longer patience would have
meant cowardice and slavisbucss you
rose In your might and passed a just law
to curb and control it, it met you at the
door of your legislative halls with an
executive veto.
Men of the Allianco, can you afford to
be beaten?
This Is not so much a question as to
which judge is the ablest and moat
learned In the law, as whether a soulless
dynasty conceived in the womb of usurp
ation and nurtured in the power of
might, shall arrogate to itself the just
powers of the people, and rob them of
their substance and their liberties at
one and the same moment.
Tho finance" question Is equally impor
tant and vital to you, and a power which
is the twin of the other is gradually sap
ping your very life-blood by lessening
your volume et money while your ex
panding industry and commerce and
your growing numbers demand an in
crease of It.
Men of the Alliance, have you reflected
as to what your defeat means?
It means a "sanction of the veto of
your Iowa rate billi .
It means the sa action of the vile com
bination of the two old parties In the
legislature last winter.
It means the condoning of the bribery
of your senators.
It means an approval of the despicable
partisanship of your Supreme Court.
It means an admission that the vile
dogmas of the money power are seund
financial principles.
It means, in short, a turning back of
the hands, and a loss of the splendid
fruits you have gained in the struggle of
the last ten years.
Bat I do not speak of your defeat-as a
result that is possible. I only depict it
as a terrible calamity to be avoided.
It is never safe to assume a certain
victory. Each man owes his best efforts
to secure success.
To be sure of success assume that des
perate efforts are needed to achieve it.
You know the proper methods to or
ganize a victory. Let every brother do
his duty!
Remember,you have EIGHTY THOU
SAND Iil'.OTHFKS, each demanding
that jou shall do your share.
Tho werd is FORWARD! Tas it
FOWM THE ESDLESS LISK! StJSD IT t'l'
IM A MMIITr elJOCT, t'XTIL IT ECIU'KS
THKOt UH THE FMI'YBEAJf, AKD BEVEK
BtEATES tliOU UUU1ZOM TO HORIZON!
This w a fight OF THE PEOPLE. BY
THE PEOPLE, IOK THE PEOPLF,
AMD THE RALLYING CRT IS VICTORY
AND LIBERTY!
Yours till the victory Is won.
J. BURROWS,
Chainnut State Alliance Ex. Committee.
J REPUBLICAX BOB-TAILED DOLUS
The republican gold-bug press are
harping about an "honest dollar,." and
Mr Harrison remarked the other day
that the people of this country "wanted
a dollar which was always as good as
any other dollar." This kind of stuff is
gr,t off by way of insinuation that the
people's party want a dishonest dollar,
or a dollar that is not as good as any
other dollar, while as a matter of fact
the only dollars that could by any stretch
of the imagination be considered dis
honest have been made so by the action
of the republican party alone. Tho sil
ver dollar has not been changed an iota
since it was issued under our first coiu
age law passed April 3, 1792. The
amount of pure silver in the dollar is ex
actly the same as it was then. If it is
not worth so much as a commodity in
the markets, its surreptitious demoneti
zation by the republican party in 1873 te
the sole cause of that fact, and its re-
monctization would at once restore It to
its full value At the time it was de
monetized the silver in the silver dollar
was worth S per cent more than the gold
in the gold dollar. These facts prove
concia-ilvely that the republican party is
alone responsible tor the present situa
tion of silver.
But the republican party has put an
other dollar in circulation which is the
nearest approach to wild-cat money of
any that has been htiued since the war,
aKd which comes very near filling the
definition of a dishonest dollar. It is in
the form of a treasury note in which the
United Slates promises to pay the bearer
one dollar in coin, which so far b very
good. But on the back of it is this le
gend: "This note is a legal tendor for
all debts public and private, except
where otherwise specified in tho con
tract." This is a republican bob-tailed
dollar. It will not pay a debt unless the
debtor and creditor can agree. The
creditor can exact a discount on It if he
pleases, and 'hat is just what the gold-
jug banks will be doing before the year
is out. And this is the kind of money
that a republican billiou dollar congress
and a wall street gold bug president is
issuing te the people, at the same time
dinging into their ears a fusillade of rid
icule about their demand for a dishonest
dollar. Give us a rest.
THK FARMERS' SIDE.
A census enumerator in Harvey
county one of the best countlesof Kan
sas in 1890 selected for comparison ten
average farms in his township, the lar
gest containing G40 acres, the smallest
80 acres. The average value of the
farms was $7,000. The average gross
proceeds of the farms during the census
year (June 1st, 18sD to Juno 1st 1890)
the best crop year Kansas ever had
amounted to $(100. The average family,
iuchuling hired help, on tho ton farms
was seven persons. Il will be seen
that the grosr increase, out of which all
expenses had to bo paid, was less than
9 per cent of tho value of the farms.
Putting the average expense for help,
for repairs of machinery and other nec
essary items at $150, we have $150 left,
out of which to support seven persons,
which is equal to 17 cents a day for
each person, and during tho same time
the people of Kansas were paying 42J
cents a day to keep each of their con
victs in the state prison. Besides,
taxes, interest and all other obligations
had to be paid out of this farm earning.
The averago amount of taxes on these
farms was not loss than $70, each that
is, 3 per cent on one-third the value.
The Interest amounted to at least $80-
That is assuming that one-half the farms
were mortgaged at 8 per cent on ouo
third of their value, and this, as will be
seen further on, is less than an average
for the state. Tax $70, interest $90, in
cidental and necessary expenses $150,
gives a total of $310 to be paid out of
$GC0, leaving $290 for the family 11
cents a day to each person. From The
Farmers ' Side. By Senator Peffer.
A piece of brass was taken out of the
chin of William Rudolph of Wymore.
It meaured one-eighth by three-eighths
of an inch in size, and Mr. Rudolph has
no idea how or when it came there. B.
f- .V. Journal.
A J iece of brass is immovably fixed in
the face of the editor of the B. & M.
Jo irnah It is about eight inches long
by two and one-half inches wide. It
r overs the entire facial structure of the
aforesaid editor, except his ears, which
required so much brass that the supply
was inadequate. How it came there
everybody in tho state except the editor
knows. Part of it was absorbed into his
animal organism by his overweening
admiration for the brass mounted fix
tures of B. & M. palace cars. But by
I far the greatest part of it is a deposit
accumulated upon the editor's facial or
ganism by his favorite recreation of con
fricating his nasal appurtenance against
the detruded anatomy of G. W. Hold
rege. Brass! We should say so! That
the Journal man should mention the
Wymore trifle, when he breathes and
glares through such a monumental sam
ple is simply amazing. 1
ISfThe farmers average net income,
with which he must support his family
and pay his taxes and interest, Is $373.
This estimate is based on figures given
by the statistician of the Agricultural
Department,
" THE C'S Y OF THE POOR. "
"When a man fiuds hiniMl! goieg down
ami down and lown, without power to
mend thing; freezing, hunpciing and
dtingby inches, he's sure to get des
perate. In the lost week I've been an
nl heist, anarchist and devil. I've sat
here and ori-d out that there was no
God except for the rich. I've said that
if I could get down stairs again I'd
burn a liI kill. I've looked at wife) aud
children with niuide: in my heart!"
These words wera recently spoken
to a reporter of tha Now York World
by a sick man living with his wife aud
children in a dingy room on the third
floor of a miserable tenement bouse in
New York city. The poor mat's heli,
which they so truly, so graphically
describe, is, however, but imperfectly
comprehended, and awake is only sur
face sympathy, uutil we study his situ
ation iu tbelig'at of the following or
dinary news item which we clip from
another paper:
"At a dinner given in New York the
other dav to thirtv-threo persons the
hill was $U,0C0, or $200 a plate."
Is there any certain connection be
tween the two conditions aud expe
riences cf human life revealed by these
common facts?
The hard working poor evidently
think so.
Why did this man, sick and hungry
and cold, cry out aguimit the rich?
Why, when be looked at his hollow
eyed r wife and famishing, freezing
children, did the spirit of destruction
aud murder struggle within him?
May we not even believe that he gave
too hard a name to the spirit that moved
him? Was it not the love of justice i j
an honest man, the hatred of injustice,
and an intense love of wifo aud little
ones, that burned in his soul, and that
made him fierce for judgment?
Let the rich beware. The poor in
this laud will not endure what the
wage slaves of other lands have suffered.
Human law and human teaching will
not be reverenced when it is found that
they contain for the poor neither justice
nor mercy. AH men love liberty. All
desire happiness. And who shall stand
in the way of their obtaining it? The
poor were not made to be beasts of
burden for the idle rich. They were
not created to be tho dependent slaves
of scheming capitalists. Yet a part, a
small part of the people, have so mo
nopolized the meaus of production and
exchange that they have enslaved the
rest. Can the poor be blamed, then, if
they declare their independence, and
when pushed to '.he wall, light for it?
More and more they realize that but
for unjust laws they would have been
born with equal rights in the earth,
equal opportunities and privileges with
all others. Why should they be obliged
to beg for a place to work? Why must
they sell their labor for less than it
produces? Who forged the name of
God and signed the deed to disinherit
them? Is not God's curse upon those
who "join house to house and lay field
to field till there be no place?" Has He
not made ample natural provision for
all whom he creates, aud plannod for
each a place where he may work to
satisfy his needs? Who then are these
who hold the keys of earth and stand
with legal despotic power between the
workers?
Nine out of every ten of our citizens,
the worried, the anxious, tho over
burdenedas well as those who are out
of work, and hungry, are thinking,
studying, questioning. Why should not
working and enjoying be inseparably
united? How can the idle bo rich and
respectable? The whole productive
class, forced to accept the tasks imposed
by capitalists, groans and labors in
pain together, and voiced or unvoiced
ouo praj'er is in all hearts.
" Go where I will I hear a sound
Like sullen thunder shake the ground."
Out of tho mines it mutters. Above
the roar of factories it rises. Wherever
workmen meet it threatens. Where
farmers stand allied it breaks with
mighty voice and the one word that
all are saying is, " WE WANT NO
KINGS.
O cruel travesty of freedom and just
laws! O boasted land of liberty, where
robbers rule! We pity the ancient stato
over which thirty tyrants reigned, while
thirty thousand sit enthroned above us,
and drive to treadmill toil the natious
millions! In thirty years our thirty
thousand kings have by monopoly
secured one-half of all productions,
half of all wealth in store. They now
control all mines, all railroads, all
factories and mills, ail motive power
end its machinery. They hold tho
lightuiug in their hands and steam is
their's alone. For them the earth
spouts oil. For them her iron, coal and
every useful mineral, was stored, it
seems. To them come sixty millions
for work and prices, aud bow submis
sive to the money king.
If all men are "created equal" none
shall be allowed to enslave them. If
each has an "inalienable right" to
"life liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness," each must have a God-given title
to such a portion of the earth and its
forces as is necessary to sustain life and
gratify legitimate desires. Tho means
of production must, be equally possessed
at birth and none can be disinherited.
Then, down with monopolies. Give
back to each his birthright. Stand out
of the factory's door. Take your P'nk
crtons from the mines' mouths. Give
to the people's representatives the keys
to nature's common storehouses, and let
willing workers enter to supply their
needs. Make every man a worker, and
secure to each the full product of his
labor, or its equivalent labor product
when he must needs exchange. Force
men not working to consume what
they with previous toil produced, in
stead of living as leeches, fastened to
the weary muscles and sucking the life
blood of those who still must work.
Harness Job's modern steeds to the
flying car, to the whirring wheb.s, to
tireless lever arms ana iron fingers, to
the common load of productive labor,
and shorten and lighten tho necessary
work of each citizen an equal amount.
fSut where is the church which says,
"Our Father," and pray. "Thy King
dora Come?" H it raid its vo'ce
against monopoly? Does it consider
the poor aud the common ca--.se of
their poverty? Does it "relieve the
oppressed?" Does it "judge the father
less." and "plead for the widow?'
Does it face the usurer, the money-
loaner, and say, God's curse is on you?
Does it require its rich communicants
to love the poor as they love themselves?
For the rich the professed followers
of Christ have demolished " the strait
gate." With a little talk, some pro
fessed faith and a few dollars doled out
in charity, they enter a palace car and
are put to sleep by pleasing platitudes
and monotonous meaningless abstrac
tions, expecting to wake up in heaven.
"How hardly shall they that hare riches
enter into the kingdom of God?" The
parable of the rich man who had more
than he needed, yet permitted the poor
to suffer, and who waked up in hell,
means something.
Not to the rich alone but to the
church that shelters them, comes the
word, " Whoso stoppeth his ears at the
cry of the poor, he also shall cry him
self, but shall not be heard."
GOLD MORTGAGES.
Tho loans that are being renewed in
this state, and the new loans that are
being made, are being secured by mort
gages payable, interest and principal.in
gold. ' Farmers should refuse to execute
such mortgages. Wh.le it is probable
that no money will be issued, or remain
long in circulation, which is not con
vertible into gold at par, this discrimi
nation in favor of gold alone is one of
the agencies by which the gold-bugs
hope to accomplish the final and com
plete demonetization and overthrow of
silver. A man who has signed a five
years' mortgige payable in gold will
hardly continue to be in favor of silver
legislation which the gold-bugs are con
stantly informing him will .drive gold
out of the country end render it impos
sible to pay his mortgage. The legal
tender money of the country should set
tle every contract and liquidate every
liability; but unfortunately the late sil
ver law has authorized a discrimination
against silver, and thus as far as con
gress has the power the same discrimi
nation in favor of gold. While this leg
islation is infamous, it is an accomplished
fact. Equally unfortunately, congress
does not possess jurisdiction in the mat
ter of saying how contracts may be li
quidated. This power belongs to the
states alone. So, practically the excep
tion as to freedom of contracts on the
new bullion currency the bob-tailed
dollar makes a money which may vary
in the dilferent states as the law of con
tract varies. Each state may pass alaw
enacting that any legal tender money of
the United States shall liquidate any and
all contracts, any exception to the can
trary notwithstanding; but such a law
could not be mado retroactive, and it
will be a long time before it can be se
cured in all the states.
Tho time may come before silver is
remonetized, and this financial contro
versy settled, when these gold mortgages
may be oppressive. Even with ordinary
financial conditions they may be made
the means of exacting heavy charges for
exchange. With the present relative
value of coins in this couui.ry and Eu
rope the latter could not bring her silver
hero for re-coinage, even if coinage was
freo here and not there. The United
States would not be the highest world's
market for silver bullion when gold and
silver arc restored to equally free coin
age in our mints. Silver is overvalued
in India by about seven cents on the
dollar as compared with the United
States. In India silver is mosey, aud
Europe's silver is her money. Europe's
full legal tender silver is estimated at
$1,100,000,000, all of it equal to gold for
the redemption of bank notes, payment
of bank deposits, and settlement of pub
lic and private debts and dues. Eu
rope's valuation of silver to gsld in legal
tender coin would allow a re-coining of
each 10C ctnts of her silver into only
90 95 cents iu our coin. This would in
volve a loss of 3.05 per cent, or $33,000,
000 on her total stock, in addition to cost
of transportation. So with this relative
value of coinage maintained gold will
flow to us whenever the balanee of trade
is in our favor. The only real danger
of loss of gold by us arises from increas
irg foieign investments. These invest
ments are mostly stocks and bonds is
sued here, and based upon property
here that is credit money, or wind
money but which draw coin interest.
These investments are large. They are
not investments of actual money, but of
credit money; and the coin interest
gold interest accruing from them may
soon exceed our balance of trade, and
operate to drain our gold just to the ex
tent of that excess.
Loans can be made without signing
gold mortgages, and we earnestly urge
our farmers not to sign them. We will
soon obtain and publish a list of firms
who will make loans with interest pay
able in current money.
EST There are seventy persons in the
United States, according to the reliable
testimony of Thomas G. Shearman,
whose average wealth is $37,500,000.
BrRemember the Monday meetings,
afternoon and evening, at Bohaaau's
hall, Monday, the 19ih, Edt;erton, Mc
Keighan and Kem speakers.
THE CHARACTER AKD DIGXITY 0E
THE SUPREME COURT.
The Bee says it is of great importance
to the people to "preserve the character
and dignity of the supreme court."
Hadn't the people better confer some
"character and dignity" upon that
body by electing an honest nau to it?
Talk alout preserving it will be in
order later.
Subscribe for Thk Alliance.
The Judicial Contest in the
Tenth District.
INDEPENDENTS OF THE TENTH
WAKE UP
The Republican Railroad Candidate.
The judicial contest in the T,enth dis
trict is an interesting one, and has some
peculiar features. There are four can
didates in the field, viz: the three
straight nominees, these being Mr.
Beal, of Harlan, independent; Mr.
Smith, of Hastings, republican; Mr.
Batty, of Hastings, democratic, and
Judge Gaslin, nominated by petition,
and calling himself independent.
The independent voters of the Tenth
need to pay special attention to this
latter fact. Under the new law all the
names are on one ballot, and Mr. Gas
lin wilt be classed as independent.
That is, he is running on his own hook.
This fact must be kept carefully in
mind, and voters must not be deceived
into voting for him as the regular inde
pendent nominee.
The sharp republican wheel-horses of
this district are working a very nice
scheme, of which their nominee, Mr.
Smith, is to be the beneficiary, and poor
old Judge Gaslin, sobered up a little
while for a political campaign, the vic
tim. These wheel-horses are the signers
of the petition by which the decrepit old
judge is placed in nomination. Bat
they do not intend to vote for him, nor
to let their followers do so. O no!
They intend to run him under the
name of " independent," and divide as
far as possible the vote of the inde
pendent candidate, Mr. Beal, and cast
the solid republican vote for Mr. Smith
and thus elect him.
This readiness to use the old judge
who, drunk or sober, has stood by their
party fortunes for sixteen years, as a
miserable cat's paw to elect a railroad
attorney judge, is a marked example of
the kind of gratitude these republican
strikers have alwavs exhibited.
Now who is this man Smith whom
the railroad strikers of the Tenth dis
trict propose to foist upon the bench by
means of contemptible treachery to
Gaslin? He is a member of the law
firm of Dilworth, Smith & Dilworth,
the B. & M. railroad attorneys of this
judicial district, with their office at
Hastings. Young Dilworth, the junior
partner of the firm, is one of the secre
taries of the present precious board of
transportation, which hasjust informed
the people of the state that there is no
need of any reduction in rates. With
the head of an able law firm at Hastings,
with one member of the firm on the
district bench, and with another mem
ber on the board of traEsportation at
Lincoln, the railroads would certainly
have a soft snap in the Tenth district.
Voters of the Tenth district, look
sharp! Don't throw away any votes on
Gaslin unless you want to be the vic
tims of the above sharp combine. Rally
to the supp3rt of Mr. Beal, the able and
incorruptible people's candidate.
It must not be forgotten that if inde
pendent voters, desiring to vote for all
independents, should vote for both
Gaflin and Beal, thoir votes would be
neutralized and not counted.
Now a word or two more. Has the
republican party of a groat political
sub-division like the Tenth district be
come so utterly oblivious to public
opinion and public morals as to nom
inate for the exalted position of judgoa
man of notoriously immoral character?
We now leave this matter with the
voters of the Tenth district, commend
ing to the attention of the independent
papers of that district immediate atten
tion to tho matters herein alluded to,
viz: the scheme to use Judge Gaslin as
a stool pigeon to defeat the independent
candidate, and the character of the re
publican nominee. If he is grossly im
moral in his private life the voters of
the district have a right to know it.
ARE YOU AWARE OF IT?
Mr. Rosewater has 'opened the cam
paign.'
So the headlines of Monday's Bee
affirm. What has been previously done
by republicans, democrats and inde
pendents is not worthy of consideration.
Hundreds of speeches have been made
by men who have attracted audiences
ten times as large as the Bee editor
drew, but with the first appearance of
his towering figure and commanding
mind they ware obliterated. The sun
rises, and the stars fade and are forgot
ten. It is time, eloquence and money
wasted, to say anything in Nebraska
until Rosewater speaks at any rate
that is his opinion.
The Bee states that he addressed " a
large audience" (we are informed it
numbered eighty) at Columbus Saturday
last and his "interesting address," a
lengthy one, is reported in two issues
of bis paper.
He begins by saying that "for many
years there has been deep-seated and
wide-spread discontent among the peo
ple of Nebraska." Ia 1876 the popu
lar dissatisfaction manifested itself in
an open revolt in the ranks of tho re
publican party against the interference
by federal officers in coalition with rail
way employes and railway managers
with our state and congressional con
ventions." But the rebellion was pat
down, the revolt did not purify; for
Rosewater goes on to say:
This feeling was intensified from year
to year by the Issue of railroad pa
to public oi'jciais and politicians, the
discrimination in favor of certain ship
pers and the excessive freight rates and
high passenger tolls. A large number
of the farmers republicans and demo
crats exasperated by the domina
tion of monopoly, organized the Ne
braska Farmers' Alliance in 1881. With
this movement I myself, in common
with thousands of other republicans,
was in full accord. I felt thon and I
. have felt ever since that the people of
this state should have the right to gov
ern themselves untrammelled by inter
ference from any corporation; that our
public servants should regard an office
as a public trust; that our legislature
should aot be manipulated by corrupt
lobbies; that jobbery should be banished
from legislative halls, aud that the rail
road companies of this state should be
made to charge reasonable rates to
their patrons. This view I still hold
tsday.
Then Rosewater is and always has
been "in full accord " with the Farmers
Alliance movement -in its effort to
down monopolies?
Woll, no, not exactly. Rosey held
that "the policy of the Alliance should
be to exert its influence within the
parties already established." That is
to say, the democrat farmers should
vote against the republican fanners and
the republican farmers against their
democrat neighbors, as they had always
done; and because they both, farmers
with interests identical, concluded it
would be wiser to stand together ia
future, Rosey, touched by Ithuriel's
spear, flames out their fiendish enemy.
The 'squat toad' could no longer divide
and so control them by tilling their
minds with the fancy, the traditional
illusion, that each was the othei's prin
cipal enemy.
The old political clap trap was thor
oughly understood at last, and the
farmers could not again be led by it to
vote against one another, so practically
disfrauchising each other for the benefit
of the railroads and their vile dema
gogue mouth-pieces. Ana so ;11 hell
must be let loose in a new effort to de
ceive and separate the people.
Rosewater, the distillers', brewers'
and saloonkeepers' man last year, the
chosen chief of the rum rabble, and tho
craftiest, meanest, utterly unprincipled
and most thoroughly despised dema
gogue that ever stood in the pathway of
reform, makes himself chief liar this
year also, and announces that the
"campaign is opened." His first attack
is upon the character of the people's
chosen loaders. The people since they
quit ffoseicattr have been blindly follow
ing "played out politicians," "dema
gogues and imposters," a "junta more
unscrupulous and selfish than any that
had manipulated the machinery of the
old parties!!!" The mere statement of
Rosewater is all that is given, as usual,
and ho still imagines his word has power
to make or destroy reputations. The peo
ple's reply to' this is, " Mr. Rosewater
you are a bare faced, bald-headed, con
temptible liar, and everybody knows
it."
He next displays his demagoguery by
denouncing "independent extrava
gance." "The most extravagant legis
lature that this state ever had was that
of 1889," says Rosey: yet the one fol
lowing, controlled by the independents,
appropriated "more than a half million
more " than did that preceding, " most
reckless and extravagant" legislature.
Sounds bad, don't it? But he art
fully suppresses the fact that the legis
lative expenses proper of the last ses
sion, as reported by the state auditor,
were $15,000 Uss than the cost of the
preceding legislature.
Mr. Rosewater says that Socretary
Pirtle drew $1,600 for the same work
for which Mr. Ssely only received $900.
The vouchers at, the state auditor's,
office show that Mr. Secly drew $1,000
while Mr. Pirtle only drew $8u0. This
is a specimen of Rosewaler's lying.
It was dreadfully extravagant and
corrupt for the independents to voto
S'00,000 to the drouth sufferers, and
$50,000 to tho Columbian fair to adver
tise Nebraska to the world.
Then the expense of putting down,
the Indian insurrection, tho py and
transportation of the National Guards,
an item of $37,200, was tyy reckless inde
pendents, cruelly saddled upon the tax
pavers. The insane increasing in number
under republican rule, should have
been allowed to run loose, instead of
building additions to the Hastings
asylum to care for them, at a cost of
$130,390.
The penitentiry, nndor republican
state rule, was a fast growing institu
tion and asked for $32,280 extra to meet
the bills. Instead of allowing it the in
dependents should have turned over to
Rosewater some of the convict boarders
to help him run the Bee.
Rosewater doesn't believe in doing
anything for the Nebraska girls, and
therefore the $52,500 put into the Indus
trial School at Geneva was wasted.
H9 doesn't approve of a State uni
versity investment, therefore the extra
$63,000 put into much needed improve
ments, is of necessity " independent
extravagance."
The extra bills of the district court,
growing out of republican rule, amount
ed to $54,681. It was one of the items
the "extravagant independents" had
to pay.
Then there were the extra bills of the
Indnstrhl Home, the Institute for the
Feeble Miudcxl, and the Home of the
Friendless, bills, rauging from $16,000
to 27.000, which the legislature met by
appropriations, all of which did not
meet with Mr. Rosewater's approval.
So we have discovered where the
money went to and that, though Rose
water needs it for campaign capital, it
was well spent.
The remainder of Rosewater's speech
is an extended effort to convince by
assertions that the independent repre
sentatives are frauds, individually and
collectively; that the people do net
know what they want, how to get it;
that money is plentiful, and short crops
is (was) their only grievance; that the
dollar of the gold bugs is an honest dol
lar, and that no other dollar would have
legal value; that "paper money is debt,"'
an "I owe you;"thatfreecoinagewould
not benefit the farmer or laboring man,
and that the independents are hood
winked by the bullionaires.
What would the people do if Rose
water should be called to "pass in,'"
and account for, "his checks?" No
doubt he is "the people" and "wisdom
will did with him." But the indepen
dents have doso a littlo thinking for
i hemselves, and they will keep at it.
The " campaign is opened" in vain,.
Rosey.
