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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB,, THURSDAY , OCT. 29, 1891.
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CT"The Bee now claims that Post
allowed himself to rest under the cloud
of seduction to shield a friend. This is
an open pjgiary on Cleveland.
..'-. PASS NO. 2 22,493.
When the B.f X. Journal published
its statement that the above numbered
past had been "issued to Mr. Burrows,
it knew it was publishing an infamous
lie by withholding part of the truth. At
the same time it obtained .information
of the pass having been issued, it also
learned could not fail to have learned
that the pass had been returned un
used. An editor who will resort to
such infamous methods to besmirch a
political opponent is a well, we cannot
defile our pages by Baying what he is.
POST'S CRIME.
We publish on our first page full and
conclusive evidence of the guilt of A
M Post of seducing a 10-vear-old girl
under promise of marriage. The crime
was committed many years ago. Mr.
Post's vile lie denying all guilt was ut
tered onlv ten davs aeo. Do you want
that man for Supreme Judge.
THE LAST APPEAL
Th!.s is the last opportunity we will
have to address the voters of the state
before the election on next Tuesday.
At the opening of the campaign we
fully concurred in Mr. Post's wish that
the contest should be a clean one, free
from all kinds of personal abuse and
mud slinging. But Mr. Post's support
ers did not coincide in that view, and
began a battle of unsurpassed meanness
against Mr. Edgerton. and have kept it
up ever since. We invite attention to
this fact, viz: that with all the personal
abuse that has been heaped upon our
candidate, not one nlsgle damaging fact
has been stated against him. He has
simply been pronounced incapable, and
not a scintilla of evidence oflered to
prove him so. He has made a brilliant
campaign. Wherever he was before
known he was deservedly and immensely
popular. Wherever he has appeared on
the rostrum he has won hosts of friends
Ills election is an assured fact. We now
state his majority at S5,000. This is low.
Many claim a much higher figure. But
the vote will be light. His chance for
carrying both Lancaster and Douglas
counties is good. This will be a remark
able victory, and will have a marked ef
fect upon the campaign of 161)2. A rev
olution is impending that may give us
the rresldont next year.
Farmers f Nebraska, the destiny of
the new party, and the future of this
State, is in your hands. The Supreme
Court of this State has entirely surrend
ered to the railroad power. It has en
tirely deserted the people, and cast its
lines with the corporations.
Mr. Tost is satisfactory to these cor
porations. His judicial record, as we
showed last week, is on their side. He
Is thoir man, and that is why he was
nominated.
It is for you to say whether they shall
tighten their clutch upon that court by
placing in it another of their chosen
friends for six years more.
A vote for Post is a vote for extending
the lease of corporate power.
A vote for Edgerton is a vote for the
people for honesty for manliness
for integrity for Justice.
Which will you have?
But there is another issue which is of
vital importance to you upon which
your vote next Tuesday will bo consid
ered in some sense a verdict. That is
the financial issuo. All parties have
this year made specific declarations up
on this subject. That of the independ
ent party is the only one which is
squarely on the side of the people. The
republican declaration is a complete
surrender to the money power an ao
ceptance of every dogma which that
power is now advocating.
That power has robbed you by chang
Ing the standard of payment of the na
tional debt atter the debt was created
robbod you of untold millions doubled
the burden of the debt and halved your
ability to pay it.
That power robbed you again by the
demonetization of silver, depressing the
prices of your products and property
and Increasing the burden of your debts.
mat power has by the same means
depressed the value of all our export
able products while we are a debtor
country.
That power has built up millionaires
by class legislation, and made tramps
by the same process.
By the same process it has so depressed
values and increased the purchasing
power of money that the burden of
the national debt is greater to-day than
it was in 18G6.
By its special legislation of the past
twenty -five years it has loaded the na
tion with a mountain of debt beyond
even hnite comprehension, placed by
tho best authorities at thirty thousand
millions of dollars! a sum so vast that
our producers can never hope to pay it
under the present financial system.
By its special legislation it has given
aggregated wealth under corporate
forms a potency which threatens the
people with industrial subjugation as
well as political annihilation.
Your verdict next Tuesday is of vital
importance to yeurselves and your pos
terity. V ill you vote for a party name
which means nothing, and surrender to
the powers which are using that party
to ruin you or will you vote for your
selvesfor the people for independence
and political freedom?
BORN FOR A MIGHTY WORK.
To say that the old party press, ma
chines, managors and palaoe car pass
engers, were greatly shaken up and
confounded by the vote of the united in
dependents a year "go, is to state a man
ifest truth. How could a party so sud
denly spring intj existence? Organiza
tion is not easy, it is usually a slow pro
cess, and especially difficult is it when
it must grow by disintegrating other or
ganizations. But the people's independ
ent party, Minerva-like, sprang full
armed into the political arena, and in
more states than one overwhelmed with
defeat the opposing political titans.
They had treated with contempt the
people's cause, and all previous efforts
to build up third parties. Such efforts
had, tvfter the most herculean exertions,
failed, f ad '.t had come to be the com
mon belief that they would always fail,
that the republican and democratic art
ies would live forever.
What brought this party of the people
Into existence?
It was divinely born. Conceived by
infinite Justice, its birth pangs were the
sufferings of the people. It was brougb
into the world by their groans, by the
sore travail, the unrequited labor of the
oppressed. It was created for a divine
purpose, a mighty work, and it will be
-Immortal till its work is done." Its
enemies are "legion" and tbey will com
bine their political forces as they are
beginning to do. But "the deep sea"
will gather them in finally and the coun
try will be reitcued from the power of
evil.
The new party is divine in its concep
tion and purposes, but human in its com
position. Its enemies without will
strengthen it, bnt those who creep in
and profess its faith while accepting the
bribes of its foes will weaken it. It is
however greater than any man or any
number of selfish men who may be in it
Foes within and foes without can not
destroy it, for it stands upon eternal
right and truth and justice. "Men miy
come, and men may go," but the truth
goes "on forever." The cause of hu
manity is God's cause. The forces that
make for righteousness are irresistible.
TUB PEOPLE'S WILL IRRESISTIBLE.
The desperate efforts of the old party
press and speakers to convince the vot
ing public that the Farmers' Alliauce
and independent party is already in
control of worse men than the old party
bosses, the railread tools which the peo
ple declared independence from and
voted against a year since, are am using.
lha piople's cause is just there is no de
nying it. And they will find honest men
to represent them. Their ablest enemy
but a few days since stated in are publi
can speech, that "for many years there
had been wide-spread discontent among
tho peoplo of Nebraska." The people,
said he, bad become "exasperated by
the domination of monopolies" and "or
ganized the Farmers' Alliance" for self
defense. The hitherto republicans and
democrats, finding they could not get
centrol of the old party machinery,
concluded to unite a year ago in a new
people's party to fight the monopoly
power, and so notorious was the legisla
tive corruption and oppression of this
power that nothing could be said against
the objects of te new party. It cast an
amazingly large vote, and but for a republican-democratic
combine would not
only have passed anti-monopoly laws of
greatest importance, but a people'sgov-
ernor would have signed them. Tho
republican and democratic machines
joined their forces before and after
election to defeat the people's will, and
partially succeeded. Passes were pro
vided by the railroads for all members,
clerks and other employes who would
accept them. Lobbies with unlimited
money worked for the railroads, and a
few poor devils ctJnld not resist the
strain of temptation. The will of the
people was thwarted, but a reckoning
time remains. All who stood in its way
must yet meet the dammed Niagara, and
all who were not true to tbeir interests,
true to the people who honored them
with their confidence, will be swept
down In the swelling torrent of popular
Indignation.
The people last year had had no op
portunity to try thoir representatives
and it could not be expected that all
would come unscathed through the fire
of temptation. But the false are and
will continue to bo denounced, and
their places will be filled by honest men.
The cause is the cause of justice, and in
spite of monopoly . republicans, demo
crats, hypocrites, bribes, and the devil
himself, it will sweep on to victory.
THE CAMPAIGN IN LANCASTER
COUNTY.
1 he tight in this county has been a
reasonably clean one. The iudepend
ents have had no disposition to throw
mud, the republicans have had no op
portunity. The independent nominees
are undoubtedly clean. No word of re
proach can be uttered airainst such men
as O. Hull and his associates oh our
ticket. The financial record of Mr.
Lansing is a fit subject for criticism, as
he is running for an office of trust. But
we do not know that his moral character
has been impeached. And the same
may be Baid of the other candidates.
The battle in Lancaster is uon. The In
dependents will carry the county. It wil
be by a close vote, but we shall carry it,
We shall come in from the country with
an increased majority over last year,
which will be mot by a largely increased
vote in the city. The Australian ballot
law passed by the Independent legisla
ture will have its natural aud beneficent
effect. Working men cannot longer be
bull-dozed. They will vote thoir honest
sentiments without fear of losing their
job. As for the boodlors, while they
would willingly buy votes if they could,
they will not put their money into goods
they cannot see delivered.
Lancaster, sure of an independent
victory, sends greeting to the rural
counties, and says to them, DO YOUR
DUTY AS WE WILL DO OURS, AND
TUESDAY NEXT WILL SEE NE
BRASKA REDEEMED FROM COR
PORATE DOMINATION.
ARE PASSES BRIBES'
'The Journal believes the question
whether a pass is a bribe depends on the
mental or moral attitude of the acceptor
of the same." Tub Alliance believes
that no free pass was ever offered to a
public official or an editor by a corpor
ation which was not intended as a bribe.
There may be cases, and undoubtedly
are, whore they do not have the effect
of a bribe. But we do not on that
account diminish our condemnation of
them. And we say to all independents
that you must stand by your principles,
aad be willing to make personal sacri
fices for the cause you espouse. From
the beginning of time no great cause
has been won without the devotion of
adherents who would sacrifice their
lives, if need be, for its success. No
greater cause ever moved mankind
than the one for which the independents
are battling. They must show them
selves worthy of the cause they are advocating.
TTMiiY?
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AND
-THE FREE PASS VILLAINY."
An open letter from J. Burrows, to
whom it may concern:
On my return to Lincoln on Saturday
the 24 ih I was shown an article in the
Slate Journal of the 22nd, under the
caption of "The Bribe Takers," in which
was the following:
"On Feb- 25,1891, there was issued to
Jay Burrows, on request of R. R. Ran
dall, from the office of the C. B. & Q
railroad, a round trip pass No. Z 22,492,
to Chicago and return, good until March
31, lfcUl."
I also saw the Journal of Saturday, in
which I was critizised for having re
ceived a pass while denouncing the
roads for issuing and other men for
using them. In bis issue of the 22nd the
Journal editor said "for J. Burrows we
can only blush."
I now append a letter from Mr. R. R.
Randall to the editor of the Stale Jour
nal, a copy of which was furnished to
me by Mr. Randall, as follows:
Chicago, III.. Oct. 23. 1891.
Editor Nebraska State Journal:
In your issue of the 22(1 Inst. I find a
paragraph under the head of the "Bribe
lakcis, reading as iouows:
un rebruary 25. 1891. there was is
sued to Jay Burrows, on request of R.
u. uandaii, from tna Umaha olhce of
the C B & Q railroad a round trip
pass, No. Z22.492 to Chicago and return.
good until March 31. 1891."
in justice to Mr. Uurrows, I wish to
say, 1 did receive such a pass, but did
not give it to him. I returned the pass to
Geo. W. Holdi-ege, General Manager 11.
& M. R R. Mr. Burrows was doinz
what ho could to secure the appropria
tion of $50,000 for the Columbian Ex
position, and in view that he miaht be
one of a committee appointed by the
legislature to select site for Nebraska
exhibit, this pass was secured to relieve
mm from any personal expense, should
this committee be necessary. When
such committee was not named, I re
turned the pass to Omaha, to the par
ties who gave it.
lours Respectfully,
R. R. AND ALL.
I will add to Mr. Randall's stJ.eruent
that I had not solicited and did not ex
pect any appointment on the proposed
commission, and Mr. Randall's obtain
ing of tho pass was a voluntary kindness
on his part without my knowlege that
I knew nothing of it until I saw it in the
Journal on Saturday. The term "issued
to J. Burrows," used by both the Journal
and Mr. Randall, is only true in the
sense that it was issued in my name.
In the sense of its having been tendered
to, lecelved by Or asked for by me, it is
not true.
On Saturday evening, the 24th, I wrote
a short statement of the facts and sent
it by a messenger to the editor of the
Journal in ample time for bis Sunday
morning edition, requesting him, as his
article did me the grossest injustice, to
give the facts the same publicity he had
given the charge. This he refused to do.
This would have been an actof simple
justice which we would have cheerfully
granted to the editor of the Journal.
That editor says he "blushes for J.
Burrows." That he can blush will be a
revelation. But he can save his blushes
for a moro deserving subject. His ef
fort to smirch the writer of this letter
has signally failed, and always will fail.
The day I am recreant to the principles
I support I will cease their advocacy.
J. Borrows.
THE HONEST MILLIONAIRE.
"Christianity is the only sure founda
tion for character, and character is a
positive advantage to anyone, from the
day laborer to the millionaire."
Rev. Chas. B. Newnan.
We find tho above clerical statement
in the Church Helper of this city. But
we fail to comprehend how such preach
ing and teaching can help the church or
tho world. If Christianity helps make
millionaires the day laborer doesn't
want any of it, and if it helps the day
laborer to secure what is justly due
him the millionaire is most surely op
posed to it.
But we find the millionaires in the
churches and they hear nothing there
which offends them. Does not Mr.
Newnan know, do not tho churches
know, that a man of character can not
become a millionaire, that to become
possessor of a million he must be a
thief, he must rob day laborers of their
rights?
We invite the reverend gentleman's
attention, to a line of thought which
may ba new to him, which will sustain
our position. Lest we should be thought
an enemy of the church we hasten to
say that we consider "the preacher of
righteousness," the most needed man
on earth, and that no man's services to
the world, to men here and note, are
worth as much. Now, how long would
it tako such a "laborer," "worthy of his
hire," to accumulate a million dollars?
If ho is paid $1,000 a year and can lay
half of it up "on earth" he will have to
live and preach two thousand years be
fore he can earn and save a million
dollars. Is Mr. Newnan prepared to
admit that the preacher must preach
that long befofe he benefits the business
world as much as the millionaire? It
is hardly likely that ho will caro to ad
mit it.
But let us see how much a man must
lay up each year of an ordinary business
lifetime, of fifty years, to amass a mil
lion. After paying all his living ex
penses he must put by an average of
$20,000 a year surplus. Our United
States supreme court judges, who must
bo men of most extensive learning and
the peers of the world's greatest in in
telectual gifts, after many years of prac
tice and preparation we elevate to the
highest, most useful, permanent office,
and they are ready to serve us for
$10,000 a year and pay their necessary
very considerable expenses out of this
salary. They would probably as just
judges have to bear cases on the supreme
bench at least 200 years btfore they
could be millionaires.
But we need not confine ourselves to
estimates of a million. Rockefeller
thirty years ago was a poor man. To
day he is worth at least $150,000,000
and his income is admitted to be about
$25,009 a day. He is a deacon in the
Baptist church in good standing, has
never been rebuked for 'laying up
treasures on earth,' and his character
in the church to which he belongs is
unquestioned. Must we then conclude
that he is a just man, a man of charac
ter in God's sight?.
If so he is worth to the country 0,125
times as much as the average minister,
912 times as much as the chief justice
of the United States, and 185 times as
much as President Harrison. These
figures are enough to shake any man's
belief in the honesty and usefulness of
millionaires. Let us then question how
they obtain their wealth. Tbey are not
intellectually greater than other men.
They labor no harder than other men.
They produce no more, and are no
more economical than their equals or
superiors who remain poor. Rockefeller
obtained his fortune by an agreement
with the railroads to deal unjustly with
his rivals. They granted him rebates
which enabled him to financially ruin
and crush out all in the same business,
and now he sits as king compelling all
the world who would have illuminating
oil to come to him and pay him a price
which he despotically fixes, a price so
far above the C03t as to amount to the
enormous net revenue of $25,000 a day,
and more to others. O.hers share the
Standard oil throne with him, and their
royal, self-decreed revenues are added
his and paid chielly by the laboring
classes. It is these monopoly thrones
which make and have made all our
millionaires, railroad kings, coal and
iron kings, and the rest. The usury
kings of this country, taking traitorous
advantage of our national peril and
corrupting our representatives, secured
the passage of acts of congress which
enabled them to buy up our bonds in
currency which their exception clause
act had deprecated, thus with one law
doubling their wealth and the people's
indebtedness. Other robber acts sup
plemented this, silver was demonetized,
again doubling the wealth of the money
lenders and the load of debtors, aud for
thirty years the bankers have been
given the monopoly of money loaning,
loaning other people's, over and over,
as well as their own. Each bank could
buy after the war was over in currency
which their exception clause act had
depreciated $100,000 in bonds with
greenbacks which cost but $40,000, and
this $100,000 not only drew interest of
five or six per cent and was exempt
from taxation, but was a deposit upon
which they received $90,000 of new
money in government endorsed cur
rency which they could loan and re
loan to the people at high rates of inter
est, the bonds being by after acts made
payable in gold also. It was estimated
by the New York Herald in 1888 that
our national bank currency cost the
people, and paid to the banks, twenty-
five per cent yearly. Other testimony
and official statistics prove the reliabil
ity of this estimate. Without consider
ing then the increased value given to
the holders of bonds and mortgages by
the steady and enermous contraction of
tho currency, by the retiring and burn
ing up of hundreds of millions of pre
vious money to increase the value of
bank notes, the rates of interest which
the banks are able to charge pays all
their running expenses and doubles the
capital of the idle stockholders as often
as every four years.
It was this gang of shylockn, this foul
brood of bankers who, by infamous
congressional legislation doubled and
quadrupled our war debt, made all
debtors dependent on them for credit,
got possession of the capital, transpor
tation, mines and machinery of tho
country, and by despotically fixing rates,
wages and market prices drew into
the hands of 31,000 men mora than half
of all acucmulated wealth, giving to the
members of this robber gang an average
of more than a million each. That is
the way our honest (?) millionaires
were made, by class legislation, by un
just laws and by enslaving and impov
erishing the working classes.
And the clergy says nothing against
this way of making money. Instead it
accepts with thanks the wealth so
gathered, and educates its ministry with
stolen money. Its colleges, seminaries
and universities are endowed by such
men as Rockefeller and these endow
ments draw Bible usury from the peo
plo to pay its teaching and preaching
professors.
THE B. $ M. RAILROAD AND THE
PASS-TAKERS.
What can be said of the honor of an
institution that will issue passes and
then exhibit its books for political pur
poses to show which of its political
opponents have accepted its favors.
Passes are first issued as bribes, and
then the fact of their issua is used for
purposes of revenge or to make capital
for political favorites. This is a strik
ing lesson in the science of organized
wealth as a political power. It ought
also to be a warning to all who are dis
posed to accept passes. Like Bacquo's
ghost, they may rise to confront you.
But what scorn is too withering, what
contempt too contemptuous, for the
low skunks who, to serve the causo of
a soulless corporation, will issue these
passes right and left, and then hold the
knowledge of their issue as a threat
over the takers of them?
CA11 the papers of the country
which are named "Post" are changing
their names.
A FRAUDULENT AUDITOR'S
REPORT.
His satanlc majesty Auditor Benton
has issued a report of the expenses and
appropriations of the last legislature
which is a square fraud, intended solely
to misinform and mislead the public as
to that legislature. Of course he has
done this for political purposes. He is
as unprincipled and unscrupulous as
any villain that was ever immured with
in fonr walls. If he had his just dues he
would be wearing the striped clothes of
a convict to-day. and be doing duty on
Charley Mosher's contract.
Now for the facts about his fraudulent
report.
He gives as "legislative expenses,
22n1 session, $175,000."
He then gives as total paid to mem
bers, officers and employes of the senate,
$37,410.30.
Total paid to members, officers and
employes of the house, $52,245 35.
He then gives as the total paid for all
incidental expenses of this legislature
$40,023.57. He now adds as a guess for
claims outstanding, $1C,000. This is
probably three or four times too great.
These claims are due as soon as created,
and in these hard times they are gener
ally filed at once. But accepting his
villainship's guess as correct, and we
have this result:
Total Senate f37,410 30
Houao 52,205.35
" Incidentals 40.022.57
Outstanding. Hen ton's guess 10,000.00
Total 13,638.23
This is $35,304 less than he reports for
"legislative expenses." If he had cared
to be honest, and did not wish to deceive
the public, he would have named this
sum as an "unexpended appropriation,"
and thus balanced his books. ( But he
prefers bad book-keeping to candor,
providing he can throw a slur upon the
independent legislature.
Now let us compare these legislative
expenses with those of the 21st session.
In his report of that session, after giving
the incidental expenses, Mr. Benton
adds this note: "la addition to the
above there are a ft w vouchers unadjusted
which will be paid out of this appropria
tion, but amount cannot be estimated."
For tho 22nd session Benton found no
difficulty in "estimating" these "few
vouchers" at ten thousand dollars! Ex
cluding thin guess, which he does not
include in report of 21st session, the ex
penses of the independent legislature
was $129,638.22, against $159,815 27 as
expenses for the 21st session, or $30,177.
05 in favor of the independents.
The little Bohemian devil who edits
the Bee is making a great hue and cry
about the expenses and extravagance of
the 22nd legislature. Let us look at
some of the items of these "extravagant
appropriations." As we pointed out be
fore the legislature met, there had been
large sums expended by republican offi
cials which had to be met by our legis
lature. These sums, unless paid, be
como an interest bearing debt against
the state. These were a legacy left by
"extravagant" republican officials, and
had to be either paid or repudiated.
Some of them were as follows:
Insane Asylum at Lincoln $12,000
Htate university o.ouu
Norfolk - 9,516
Hastlnirs
Kearney 5,300
Milford 3.SO0
Miscellaneous Items 10,000
Outstanding claims 25,0,0
Total $119,806
Now add. for capitol grounds 12,320
Capitol water works LOTS
Frescoing governor's rooms and llb'ary 2.P00
Public notice of cons't amendments.... 11,733
Oxnard sugar bounty 7,364
MakiBg a total of $135,202
Every dollar of which was a legacy
from the previous two years' expenses
Now add as p, credit the unexpended
balance of appropriation for 22nd legis
lature, fraudulently suppressed by Ben
ton, $35,304.
For monumental lying, and misrepre
sentation of statistics, the brass-collared
railroad striker who edits the Bee is un
excelled in Nebraska or elsewhere.
Dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled,
he and Tommy Benton should be yoked
together, nod be identured by the state
to Charley Moaner for time and eternity.
Another legacy of the republican
party was the Increase in judicial dis
tricts and judges. The 21st session had
to provide for only twenty-one judges
and twenty-one stenographsrs, at a cost
of $108,000. The 22nd, or independent
legislature had to provide for twenty
eight judges and twenty-eight steno
graphers, at a cost of $224,000, or an in
crease of $56,000.
As a matter ef fact, notwithstanding
Rosewater's lying, the 22nd legislature
was the most economic, as well as .the
most honest and patriotic one ever as
sembled in the state.
LET US REFLECT.
Two sisters, Margaret and Bridget
Breen, aged seventy-five and seventy
eight years, starved two weeks since
is Boston, Massachusetts. . They were
found in the two attic rooms of a four
story brick tenement in the rear of No.
61 Prince street, where they had lived
thirty years. The lower floors of the
houso are occupied by Portugese fami
lies. The two sisters had not been able
to work for five or six years, aud the
older one was blind. Some of the other
occupants of tho tenement state that
they had repeatedly offered them food,
but they refused to accept charity, and
it ii evident that they preferred starva
tion to the alternative of beggary and
the hard, loveless, meager, humiliating
support which is furnished paupers
Both women were very much emaciated,
and there were absolutely no traces of
food in their rooms.
What is tho sociological lesson of this
simple news record ? To answer let the
people grapple with these facts and re
flect upen them;
Death by hunger in sight of tho pala
tial residences of scores of millionaires!
Sixty years of labor so poorly paid
that five years of attic lite in feeble old
age must be ended in the agonies of slow
starvation I
Erect, heroic women who preferred
one of the most painful deaths to the
abasement and abuse which are forced
upon the helpless poor!
Laws and legalized monopolies which
eaable some to grow rich without labor,
(legalized robbery) and force others to
labor in poverty all their lives long,
compelling them in old age to beg or die!
A kingly, plutocrat class whose royal
titles and prerogatives the law transmits
to "their heirs and assigns forever!"
A dependent, producing class, the
toiling millions, with manhood, woman
hood, aspiration and high moral char,
acter largely crushed out of them!
A ruling, unjust class, a dependent
serving class and the gulf widening
between them!
Shall we have, as a result, Ciesar's
Column or Bellamy's nationalism?
Certainly the former, if the power of
th rich to fix prices and enslave is not
soon checked, and the government
wrested from their grasp.
LOOK OUT FOR ROORBACKS.
Be ready for the customary political
trick of the old parties, the seading out
Lof lies on the eve of election too late for
exposure and contradiction The re
publican party is in a desperate case
and will resort to anvthinir which
promises to injure the people's inde
pendent candidates.
R0SETS CAMPAIGN PROGRESSING.
Rosewater has again spoken his piece.
this time at Genoa. He proves by "a
mire of assertions" that the people's in
dependent candidates are all either fools
or knaves, and that the railroad repub
lican candidates are the only candidates
who will care for the people's interests.
As is frequently remarked, any candi
date for office that Rosewater endorses
it is always safe to vote airainst. and anv
man whom he bitterly attacks, unless he
happens to Ve a personal enemy of
Rosey's, it is wisdom to believe in and
support.
The little Bee editor is the biggest
hypocrite and the worst political liar
known in Nebraska. He joined in a
railroad conspiracy to defeat Reese,
while professing to be his friend. He
knifed the republican candidate for
governor last year, usinar his utmost in
fluence, under cover, to elect Boyd. He
has never failed to pose as the people's
friend, while secretly serving their ene
mies for his personal benefit and ag
grandizement. He is the finished, per
fect, completedemagogue.characterless,
cunning, covetous of wealth and power.
ruled by the worst passions of his race.
but so widely is he now known that his
influence is waning.
THE C, B. -f Q. AND THE INTER
STATE COMMERCE LAW.
The pass which Mr. Randall obtained
but which Mr. Burrows never received,
was numbered Z 22,492. It was an inter-state
pass, and as nuch prohibited
and illegal under the inter state com
merce law. Its eagerness to improve
what it thought was a chance to be
smirch Mr. Burrows has led the Journal
to expose its patron saint the C, B. &
Q. road, as a constant violator of tho
law. Nearly 22,500 passes, probably
nine-tenths of them issued to persons
who are in no sense employes of the
road. This exposure may probably
result in a prosecution of the road. It
certainly ought lo.
SECRQTAR Y PIRTLE'S PASS.
The following letters show the facts
about Secretary Pirtle's Pass, and his
rejection of the same. (" Walt " is Walt
Seeley, secretary republican state com
mittee:) Headquarters Republican
State Central Com. f
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 28, 1891.
Friend Pirtle:
1 have been unable to get your pass
till recently' and when I saw you I for
got to give it to you ia my " rush."
"Better late than never." Please ac
knowledge rec't. Yours, &c,
Hastily. Walt.
Headquarters People's )
Independent Party, f
Lincoln, Neb. Sept. 29, 1891.
Friend Seely:
Dear Sir: Yours of Sept. 28th re
ceived with pass inclosed. There is no
doubt but that it would be improper
for me as secretary of tho independent
committee to retain a pass. I therefore
herewith return the same with kind
thanks for the kindness you have ex
tended to me. Yours Resp.
C. H. Pirtle.
tlTln the tenth assembly district of
New York city 510 people live, eat,
drink, work and sleep, on each acre.
Try to conceive of it, forty-two people
living on a spot of ground 100 by 25 feet.
tOne firm of mortgage brokers in
Kansas amassed a capital of $10,000,000
between 18:0 and 1890.
Chairman Mercer to Republican
Speakers.
' 'lie good to the democrats.
They hold the balance of pow
er; we can't get there without
their help. If we can't secure
more of them than we have so
far our cake is dough. The
Australian ballot law interferes
with our usual method of obtain
ing votes; therefore all attacks
upon the tariff should be aban
doned, and it will be well to in
timate that reciprocity might be
profitably carried much further
than it is likely to be especi
ally in this election. Be good
to the democrats."
S. D. Mercer,
Chin. Kepub. State Com.
