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LINCOLN, NEB., 1HUKSDAY, 3IAH. 10, 1892. tjfje larmtra' alliance, PubUah tot7 Beturdmy by Thx AiiiAifCTt Pcbusuixo Ca Oor.UUi d M Bu Uacotik,Ktk. THoarsox Pibtlk, PaorRirrons. "to the beauty of the lillies Christ wu born across the in, With a glory In his bosom That trans" yon and ma. As ha strove to make men holy Let ui strive to make them free, Since God is marching on." Julia B'ard Hove. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerta. "A ruddy drop at manly blood Tha surging aaa outweigh." - Xmum "Ha la a fool. Ca who wiU not ia a coward, Ca who dare not to slave." fl. R. P. A. TO COXXK8PONDKNTS. ill ! all barf mmunioattoas to AidrMt mtiwr lor jmblloattoa to Editor 'YStSSTon botti UdM of the PP kanot b umkL Terr long eonmeoioMoaa, StaniM wmnuw. Cmciao propose to tike possesttion of the Eooaomlo ins plant and make her o va km. Gai at cost ii batter than gas at monopoly prices. At the recent demosratio caucos of tha house, the question of free coins fee was subordinated in the debate to, how it would affect the party. It is ever thus with politicians. Office at any price. Firm thousand corporations were formed last year with a nominal capital of nearly six taousand million dollars. Part of this is tha capital of old firms reorganised and part of it is water, bat labor must earn interest for it all. A last week's telegraphic report from Europe gives tha Information that famine prevails in norther Hungary, and 90,000 Inhabitants of the county of Arva are in distress, equaling that pre valent in Kossia. The government re fuses to relieve the sufferers because they are of the Slav race." It was re cently reported that 70,0(0 men were unable to find employmect in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The great English statesman, Glad stone, says: "Strikes have done much good, and tha possibility and fear of strikes have done more good." A better plan, Incomparably better, however, Is the union of the industrial classes at the ballot box which the national confer ence at St, Louis prepared the way for. New law are what we need, laws which shall restore equal rights to all and be a wall of defense around each and every TBa tret kaowa gift of Jay Gould's to tha eanroa waa a law day ago re corded. Ha gave tlt,R9 for Presby writ chorea oxtaastoa la Haw Tork oity. TUs earn ia leas than his average daUyrohbary of the people, his income through monopoly enforced tribute be ing over 111,000 a day. But his gift of other people's earnings is credited to him by the churches of New York, and a den divines and an equal number of his fellow robbers had a big banquet to gether over it at his house. Pkbsidkmt Fbakcis A. Walker in an address before the American Economic Association, after describing the inter est now taken by the public in social problems and the spirit of dissatisfac tion with the existing order of things so rife among the producing class, ad mitted that there is a rising tide which threatens to overwhelm ovary position taken by the economist. "The latter,' he says, "have been driven from what was once the shore, far inland, and those, like himself, who refused to join then rout, now view the scene from the roofs and tree-tope in which they have had to take refuge." Society built on the "submerged tenth" and sinking classes, must expect to go down sooner or later. But we propose to put a new. just, solid bottom unaer it. VWhat's the Trouble." Is the title of a 110-page duodecimo volume by F. E. Tower, A. M., a Conneoticutt min ister, who in its pages ventilates the labor question, the question that ln rvoles so much, the question of justice and righteousness. We have found in the little book a very full and vivid de scription of society from top to bottom, as it has been made by competition, with the fire dangerously repressed be neath, a society of classes and rapidly increasing inequalities. The style of the book is clear, the matter of momen tous weight and interest, and the rea soning exceedingly wise and convincing. We commend it heartily, without re serve, to all who wish to study social problems. Twenty-five cents obtains a copy, and the publisher's agents are A J. Fhilpott Se Co., 64 Pearl St., Boston. Ti a pay rresiaent uarnson sau.uuu a year to execute our will. We also pay lung aotxeieiier zu,uuo,wq a year (400 times as much) to execute his own wilL How far astray then was Carlyle wnen ne spoxe oi me entire people as so many "millions mostly fools?" We are not at the mercy of one sovereign, but many, in addition to Rockefeller the Goulds, Vandarbilts, Aston, Ar moan, and thousands more, each of whom takes his tarsi taxing us, and col lects his levy out of each day's wages, and product marketed or purchased. Three million people plunged into a seven years war with tha mightiest na tion ou earth, rather than submit to a tax, the disposition of whica they ware to have ae voice in. They saw it to be oppression, the entering Wwig and be ginning of slavery, and prepared to spill their blood rather than loaf their liberty. Would they not than despise ns who tamely submit to oppression. THE TSUTH BEiRCHtD OUT. "Ths rich man is wise in his own conceit, hut the poor that hath under- standing searcheth him out." This declaration of the wist man is 9,000 years old, but it is being verified ia a national way at the present time. Poverty for the workers and wealth for the schemers, have been very rapidly increasing and ia eqnal related ratios for twenty to thirty years. The Op pressed CUiiS. IOX 3 tCSZ U3 CS not understand the cause of falling wages, low prices, lack of employment, reduction of values in farm property, the rise of city rents, and general hard times for tha willing wealth producers. Tha politicians assured them it was the tariff, aad they could aad would make It right; but ths tinkering of tha tariff by disagreeing theorists aad office see log partisans, from time immemorial, has brought no relief. We were also biaadly informed by the successful class that "over-production" was what im porerlshed us I But we could net see why big crops might sot be exchanged for an equally large volume of manu factored goods, and so steady work and enough wealth for all be, provided by an abundant harvest. In each campaign the contending parties have divided and deceived the people with contradictory doctrine. with charges and oounter-charges, and they have vied with each other iu mak ing large promises. But when la office they have succeeded equally well in drawing their salaries and contriving to do nothing for tha people. They have been the willing tools of the "third house," so-called, the lobbyists kept at the capital daring the eessions of con gress by tha banks, railroads and big corporations and trusts, to seoure for a fair congressional division of the spoils special legislation for the rich. With the paid up stock and ensh which this sort of legislation has mysteriously con veyed into their pockets, poor politi cians have been made millionaires. And so things have gone on frora bad to worse. Finally the people lost all faith in the old party leaders, discovering that their "statesmen" belonged, body and soul, to the capitalists, and their "financiers" to the natloaal bank fraternity. They were forced to study commercial jus lice, statesmanship and finance for themselves. And so the ways of the thirty-one thousand who in thirty years have somehow secured absolute titles to half the wealth of this richest and greatest of nations with its sixty five millions of people, have been found out. When the war waa raging and mill ions of brave mea were fighting its bat tles the government needed money to feed, olothe and pay wages to its arm ies, aad to buy munitions of war. It began making money, stamping its dol lars, "legal tender for all debts and dues, public aud private." Those bills represented value received, the pro ducts of honest labor, and each product or service was worth more than gold, with its sneaking, treasonable, vampire owners added. In the ink which printed full legal tender notes was mingled the life blood of a million pa triots, which gave imperishable value to the nation's stamp and seal. Better money, or money with more behind it, was never made, and its value never depredated. If our momberi of con gress had permitted the treasury de partment to pay its obligations to the willing people as it began to de, with these national notes of hand, exchange able for everything, gold lnoluded, and to be taken by the government in pay ment for all internal revenues and taxes, so completing tha round at cir culation, the nation would have saved its emrmous interest-eating debt, and the financial burdens of the war would have been justly distributed. They would not have been felt, in fact, so great was the stimulating power of- the demands of the war upon all lines of business. But just here came in the "financiers," the men who owned the gold, the self same men who had brought all possible pressure to bear npon Lincoln and upon congress to not fight, to let the south go; caring more for the loss of a few dollars of their cursed Individual gold, through the Interference of war with trade, than for the union and the nation's life. These gold bug traitors saw in the non-interest bearing, debt paying, people's greenback an end to the blood-sucking business. And they stealthily stabbed it, drawing down with that blow the liberties and govern ment of the people. We have since been ruled and robbed by the money power, the laws having been made for it. By act of congress, passed by Igno rant and "influences." congressmen at the demand of the gold bug shylocks. the full legal tender olause was taken from the national treasury notes; the soldiers were paid in national paper whtch the government issuing It re fused to receive; it, because of this, de predated in value and was bought by the banks who, by another act of con Kress, were permltftd to buy with It at face value, gold interest-beating bonds, which they were allowed to deposit, draw interest on, and make them at the same time the basis of the nationally. i ndorsed,, but privatelj-owned, cur reucy. National credit, private credit, and the public money was thus put into the bands of the national banks, who by tbase acts of congress doubled their capital at the start, enthroned shylock. saddled a three or four billion unending national debt upon the people, forced them to individually borrow of them at ruinous rates of Interest, and began drawing away wealth from all the pro ducing dasses and concentrating it with nrparalloled rapidity in the hands of mw inousana men. uatiroads were bniltwith government aid, enormous laa grants and local bond bonuses; and then given over without reserve te these mighty money kings and became the means of levying ceaseless tribute npon all forms of industry. As capital was thus drawn into the hands of the few It was Invested in other banks and railroads, In city real estate of ever in creasing rental and labor-oppressing value, ia mines and franchises which possessed monopoly taxing power.and it was used to buy out competitor In one business after another, and so trusts have secured control of and fixed prices on many of the necessaries of lite. But the crowning work of capitalistic strategy, the last congressional coup fttalot the money power, was the contraction of the currency, which forced the people to pay debts con tracted under one measure of values in measures of twice the length. When we remember that the creditor class in 1878 held.paper calling for the pay ment of over 129,000,000,000 (according to the congressional financial commit tee's report) the extent of this gigantic' unparalleled robbery begins to - be dimly conceived. This Is what appears when judgmont is laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet, with the refuge of lies swept away. The poor hsvs found oat the schemes of the rich and have arisen to demand justice for all. Shylock is to be stricken down with national money at cost. Speculation in land is to stopped. Transportation at cost is to make neighbors of all producers. A graduated Income tax is to prevent the heaping np of vast fortunes. Wealth is to be given to him who creates It, and all are, by legislation, to ;be driven at last to work, if they would eat. The rich sneer, but these are the conditions that face them. A BIHraG SYSTEM. Senator Ingalls in a speech about two years ago said: A sooial svstem which offers to tender virtuous aad dependent women the al- teraative between prostitution and sui cide as an escape from beggary, is or- ganlaed crime for which some day un relenting justice win oeniend atone ment and explanation. You havent thought the competitive system at fault and the cause of the poverty, dependence and degradation of the lower, the "submerged" and sinking classes It is, nevertheless. The success of the rich is at the ex pense of the poor. It is made by their unjustly. requited labor and depriva tions, with multiplied temptations. Again Senator Ingalls says, referring to the rich: By some means, some device, some machination, some incanation. honest or otherwise, seme process that can't be aennea, less man a two thousandth part of our population have obtained possession and kept out of the peni tentiary in spite of the means they nave adopted to acquire it, of more than one half of the entire accumulated wealth of the country. That is net the worst, Mr. President. It has been chiefly ac quired by men who have contributed little to the material welfare of the country, and by a process that I do not care In appropriate terms to describe, by wrecking of the fortunes of innocent men, women and children; by jugglery, by book-keeping, by financiering, . by what the Senator of Ohio calls," specu lation," and this process is going on with frightful and constantly accelerat ing rapidity. GET OFF, OS BLOW OFF. Between the years 1831 and 1891, 15,041,888 emigrants sought freedom and fortune in the United States. The virgin soli and undeveloped resources of America have hitherto acted as a safety-valve for the class ar.d capitalistic oppression of Europe. Every pound of pressure which human nature can en dure has been applied by capitalists or land monopolists to the laboring class, the dependent wage earners, But the time has come when emigration of the landless class is not to be encouraged. This nation will no longer be the dump ing ground of the world's pauperizing machinery And the European nations will have to take off the pressure from the poor, or face a huntcry, suffering, desperate, vengeful proletariat. Emperor William of Germany ten days ago got a glimpse of what is com ing, unless steps are taken out of and contrary to present courses. France found a hundred years ago that thero is a limit of oppression beyond which it is not safe to go. And that limit is pushed doser and closer .to justice as me people become enlightened. Justice for the people, or judgment by the people, is inevitable. And the longer judg ment is delayed, the more thorough aud terrible will be its work. THEY PEAT IN VAIN. The Atlanta Constitution, the leading organ of democracy in the south, gets on its knees to the Alliance voters, once democrats, with the following prayer: Democrats and democratic alliance men lei us get together and pull to gether. We can win with these watch words "financial relief and tariff reform Hill and victory." Hill aad victory! What kind of vic tory? The victory of the New York slims and their political patron saint, of the Tammany tiger aott its rider, of a manifost Mephlstopheles who with the nether fires in view repeats for men to hoar, "lead kindly light I " Better call the tickat so headed "hell and victory," or, to save contradiction of terms, simply "hell for four years." Read elsewhere In this issue a history of Hill's doings written by the New York Exiling Pott. Meeting of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee of the peo ple's independent party is requested to meet at the Lindell hotel, Lincoln, Neb , Wednesday, March 16th at 7:80 p. m. The business will be to determine time and place of holding the state conven tion, to select delegates to the national convention, and to decide whether we will hold a separata convention to nomi nate a state ticket, and such other busi ness aa may come before the meeting. C. H.PlBTLE, J. V. WOLPK. Secy, j Chairman. THE HTDH0 PLACE OF DESPOTISM. The six financial planks of the plat form of the St. Louis national indus trial conference Involve reform of a most radical and far-reaching nature. Interest, or nsury, as it was formerly called, is now and was first made powlble by the need of the borrower, and the disposition and power to take advan tage of it by the lender. It may have been fire, or flood, or the ravages of war, cr sickness and death which first placed the destitute in a condition where they were compelled to borrow at others' terms. Whatever the cause of their dependence the payment of money or goods for the use of goods. added to the power and advantage of the lending class, enriching them by others' labor, and subtracted in equal amount and degree from the borrowing dass. It was thus that the creditor and debtor classes originated, and once originated the wealth of the leading class could be made to steadily increase, and the poverty of the borrowing class must as steadily spread. As early in national life as the time of Moses and the calling forth of the Israelitisli people usurers were protected by the semi-barbarous, despotic laws of all the surrounding nations. But God, as a just ruler, and to protect the poor and weak, through Moses gave the law prohibiting the selling of the land for ever, the creating of a landless class and the taking ot money , for the use of money, or goods tor the use of goods. (See Exodus , 22; 23-23, and Lev. 25; 23-29, 85 38.) The Christian chureh down to the time of Henry VIII., and later ia soms of its branches, preached vigorously against legalising usury (Interest.) but its voice waj finally silenced, and in so- called Christian lands for centuries usurers and capitalists hare demanded more than they lent, "interest," and have received a division of almost every product of other peoples' labor. The result has been increasing inequalities in society, the destruction of just liberty, equal liberty, the liberties of the many; and the elevation of plutocrats to perpetual thrones of luxuiy, and grind ing, taxing despotism. Laws have been passed limiting the percentage of usury that men could le gally tako, but not holding to the prin ciple of just, equal returns they were of no moral force, and it his been easy, by forcing interest to be paid in advance, to leap over every such limitation of greed. Usury, named "interest" to take the curse off, is the right arm of con quering capital and the ball and chain of poverty. It is the moss grown citadel which walls those at e:ise from those who labor. It is the treadmill harness which forces the poor forever to grind for the rich. It is the unjust weight (or division) upon one side, which destroys commercial equilibrium and produces gluts in the market and periodical panics. It is the absorber of other peo ple's products and ' purchasable land ti tles, leading to an ever-increasing num ber of monopolies, millionaires, "the coming billionaire," and a. final count less army of the landless, work-begging, dependent proletariat. , Millions have fought for freedom and after drenching the land with blood se cured it; and from their number great statesmen have arisen to frame into law the changeless principles of justice, to perpetuate in governmental consti tution a defense of the rights of man. But their inhnitely costly defense of liberty, their wisest, most elaborately constructed protection for the weak, has been overthrown by usury, and what our laws permitted it to buy absolute titles to. All the work of the statesman ship of the past has been swept away by this mighty wrong of the ages, the far- 'reaching power of which few have real ized, and against which, for the over throw ot which, none have until this year organized and risen up. It will be to the eternal honor of the industrial classes that among them have been found statesman who have not only been able te point out the fatal de fect in Freedom's previous defenses, but with constructive ability to repair the breach. Their work will be sneered at, as was Nehemiah's, but it will go for ward to perfection. These are their declarations: We declaie the union of the labor forces of the United States this day ac complished, permanent and perpetual May Its spirit enter into all hearts for tho salvation of the republic and the up lifting of mankind. Wealth belongs to him who creates it. Every dollar taken from industry with out an equivalent is robbery. If any will not wort neither snail ho eat. The in terests of rural and urban labor are the same; their enemies are identical. And this is their first blow for liberty: We demand a national currenry,safe, sound and flexible, issued bv tho gene ral government only, a foil legal tender iorauaeois, puonoana private, and that without the use of banking corpo rations, a just equitablo means of circu lation, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the farmers Alliance, or some better system. Also payment in discharge of its ODiigauonsior public improvements. Money at cost is the central idea of it. the government our creditor, instead of the voracious, never-satisfied, inhuman gold bugs. The destruction of usury means tho recovery and perpetuation of liberty. In another plink We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit ot the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. So we shall have a safe place to de posit money, a creditor who will lend us all we can secure the return of at cost of doing the business, all capital circulating and employed, and the producing classes will get all they produce. In Btill another plank we at St. Louis declared that "the land, Including all the natural resources ef wealth, is (he heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes." And in still anotner we de mand that the government should own and operate the railroads, telegraph and telephones, the means of transpor tation and communication, so clearing out the all-powerful gang which now stands between the producers and con sumer, robbing both. We may therefore hail the union ot the working classes npon such a nation al political platform as "the dawn of a new day breaking," the beginning of the jubilee year for all the disinherited and overburdened millions of our much loved land. Ma vua Stewart of Philadelphia two weeks aga vetoed an ordinance granting wholesale privileges ia four or five wards to the Northern Electric Light Company, which is a part of the Elec tric Trust. This does not settle the mat ter however. A big fight is underway to pass the ordinarce over his veto. Wm. U Vamdebbut's best whip cost 12,000." W. K. Vanderbilt has a whip which cost $350. Pierre Lorillard has one with carved ivory handle that cost 500. These are the items which the over-worked poor and thef unemployed, work-begging, starving class cannot readily understand. Nothing is more natural, however, than for those who can scourge the people with hunger and who drive all to serve them, to have costly whips. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard ell king, on March 1st gave to the Bap tist university of Chicago another mil lion dollars. He never earned a cent of it, but taxed it out of the neon. e. forcing them to pay him a royalty or monopoly margin on what God gave equally to us all. Yet he savs: "I make this gift as a special thanks onering to Almighty God for returning health." The religious press Is praising him. We would like to also,. . but we can't. A man who gives away other peoples property is not considered honest at eur house. TBKBJtare five million agricultural laborers in this country whose wages average less than 1114 a year, or 04 cents a day. And many of the farmers one year with another are earning in net market value less than their hired men. The arbitrarily fixed price of transportation, interest and inability to hold their crops making them as much serfs and slaves as their own employes. Railroad kings getting as hitrh as 120.- 000 a day regularly, and ten millions whom they dictate to directly and In directly, getting less than one dollar a dayl Jacob Riis, author of "How the other Half Lives." relales in his work that tha owner of one of those indescribably fil thy, disease-breeding dens, called tene ment houses, built for tho poor of New York, suffered loss by fire, and was seeking sympathy. His loss, however. was not the building. That was fully insured for 8800. But he wae getting on this S00 investment 8600 a vear rent. Another case given by Mr. Biis was that of a hardworking young couple, man and wife, from the old country. They took poison together in a Crosby street tenement leaving the statement that they were "tired." Mr; Riis says, after visiting the attic where they were forced to live, that it was all the expla nation needed. Thk Philadelphia Press (rep.) labors hard to convince iti readers that noth ing Is wrong, notwithstanding the fact admitted that215,000,000 worth of mer chandise exports in excess of imports have been drained away from us in the last eight months and we have nothing to show for it, not even less debts, as the Press would have bdieved. It says the departure of gold ($2,250,000 a week) is not yet alarming, and avers that this is "the only civilized country in which failures are not, week by week, more numerous than in receat years, and in which the large number of unemployed is not causing greater suffering, or as in Berlin, riots, which rouse rumors of worse to come than riots." Yes, we know the earns evils which affect uj are coming to a head in other lands, but that doesn't make us content to suffer and be kept forever poor and enslaved by monopolistic robbery. Govkknob Fifkk of Illinois lately de livered a speech at Joilet to conven tion of farmers f the eighth Illidols (Congressional district, and speaking ef the present national trend said: ', Just so certainly as I stand here this government will fall. All tends to wealth, wealth to luxury, luxury to weakness, and weakness to lapse." We should express our opinion this way: Capitalism with land, transportation and money monopoly concentrate wealth, and concentrating wealth leads through increasing despotism and dis tress to revolution. But by an intelli gent use of the ballot bloodshed may be averted and liberty regained. Another way of expressing our opinion would be: Al! tends to the poverty of the masses, poverty to organization, agita tion and education, education to the St. Louis conference, the St. Louis con ference to united political action of the producing classes, and the peaceful overthrow of their law making class enemies. WHAT CAPITAL WILL DO. Marx In his "Capital, a Critical Analy sis of Capitalistic Production," quotes this well written and perfectly true in dictment of personified capital by the English writer Dunn: Capital is said by a Quarterly review er to fly turbulence aud strife, and to be timid, which is very true: but this is very iacompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as nature was former ly said to abhor a vacuum. With ade quate profit, Capital is very bold: A cer tain 10 per cent will ensure its employ ment anywhere; 20 per cent certain will produce eagerness: 60 per cent, positive audacity; 100 per cent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent and there is ne crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encour age both. Smuggling aud the slave trade have amply proved all that is here stated. v KIH WHO PEAT AID PEET. The Chirm p Aduant of March 3d tCocgrt gatlenal church paper) speaks el tciully t f remsrkbi gathering c( tiit:i.gtih't I'rrabjlrritn iiiloutrri and ratky laymen, b- rain 10 jretlwr fw etetungi ago as the guests of Mr. Jjy G juii ui Miss Gould." It enumerates among the clergymen pres ent Drs. John R. Paxton. John Hall, C. L. Thompson, A. E. KIttredge. Philip Schaff. H. M. Field. J. H. McHvaise, David Gregg. E. B. Coe and R. R. Booth. And it goes on to say, "As for the laymen gathered there, there was money enough to buy a kingdom, among whom were such men as Ruasell Sage, C. N.. Bliss, R. Hoe, Calvin L. Brioe, Morris K. Jessup, Henry B. Hyde. Sidney Dillon, H. M. Flagler, R. G.Dunn. Henry Villard and J. S. Bro kaw" these and others meeting at Jay Gould's to talk np ths business of Pres byterian "chunk eioiii." Dr. Paxton. pastor of the church which the Goulds attend, welcomed the guests on their behalf and explained the purpose of the gathering. He alluded 10 the ssylng of Dr. Edaoo. that typhus fever was in town; cf Dr. Parkhorst, that the devil is la town, la politics; and of Ward McAllister, that la a town ot one million and a half souls there are really only one hundred and fifty truly elect, worthy to be counted, and then declared: But wu Presbyterians never despair. We have the courage of David when he went out against Goliath, and the un tiring patience of Christ when he put leaveu ia the sodden mass to reassure and regenerate it, when he went over to Gadara to reclaim one man and cast out his devils and leave him a mission ary among the depraved swine herders to communicate virtue by contact with one good man; so we are here to face the foe, to take heart of hope, to give our money, our prayers, our tribute, our toil, knowing no such word as fail, to this good cause." God pity the ignorance or cowardice of any minister who will meet such an audience and speak thus to and for them. The "sodden mass" referred to was the non church-going, most sinned agalnst, tenement-house myriads of New York, whom these multi-million aires and others have robbed of their just wages, independence, faith la men, and the religion that rich men and rich men's pastors preach, but do not prac tice. They were the "stripped and wounded" and these "laymen," with "money enough to buy a kingdom" were of those who did it. The modern Dives and his friends sat down to "a sumptuous banquet" and the host gave a fraction of one day's monopoly-enforced robbery of the peo ple to hire some one to go outside to the hard-working, miserable, disinher. ited beggars and preach to them about future salvation! "Courage!" indeed! When John Bat- tist met Herod, the rulimr snb-kinir. hn gave him God's law at the risk of his nie. When ram was invited to visit Felix and his wife, he "reasoned of righteousness, temperance and judg ment to come" till the monev-maklnir. luxurious, governor trembled. When John Knox was founding Presbyterian- ism be published a "Trumpet Blast" against his own , f'moastrous" ruler. Queen Mary. But these hirelings of the millionaire monopoly tyrants talked about their victims as the "sodden mass," and seemed not to realize that the men before them were infinitely greater sinners, who needed both law and gospel preached to them without delay. Were they to thunder against the rich the well-known curses cf God's word, His anathemas against those "who join house to house" and "lay field to field till there be no place" and who then are able to keep back bv force and fraud "the hire," the just wages, "of the laborers" were they to preach thus, the poor would flock to them as they did to Chnst, in multitudes, for they would see them to be their needed friends and present saviors. O Christ! true Bon of God, Saturn in power. For thieves iofeit fay eourtt. Drlvs out one more The men who pray and prey, whil, preaohers cower; Aad let thy poor find Justice at thy door, THE TREND IS D0WWABD. The great preacher of righteousness and noble friend of the people, Rev. Dr. De La Martyr of Akron, Ohio, writing Jan. 18, 1892, to General Weaver and his associate editors, says: Have just looked over your paper. Glad that the farmers are waking. With good crops and no disaster, farm property has declined iu price 25 per oeni wiimn nve years past and the trend is still downward In Ohio. Me- cnauics1 wages nave oeen cut 25 per cent in the same time. One third of the subscribers to church periodicals in my church have just dropped their papers, affirming they cannot more than keep me won ai Day xeuohn Sherman is again elected to hold the ration relent lessly to the gold basis. God pity the poors HOW CAPITAL SUCCEEDS IN EH SLAVING LABOfi. "Tho overwork of the employed part of the working class swells the ranks of the reserve," says Marx, "while conver sely the greater pressure that the latter by its competition exerts on the former forces these to submit to overwork and to subjugation under the dictates of capital. The condemnation of one part of the working class to enforced idleness by the overwork ef the other part, and the converse, becomes a means of enriching the individual capitalist and accellerates at the same time the production of the industrial reserve army on a scale corresponding with the advance of social accumulation." Capital is glad to see half a million poor emigrants land here yearly, because with more seeking work it can force down the price of labor and absorb a larger percentage of labor's product. The army of destitute unemployed is the source of its power, the misery of the unemployed is the club with which it enslaves all workers. The legaliza tion of land monopoly, and interest, are the sources of its strength, the canals by which it turns wealth from ta channels ot natural and juet distribu tion. Again capital enslaves otherwise in dependent labor, that which is in pos session of land, by monopolizing the means of transportation, so controlling commerce. Standing between producers and consumers and exacting an unjust price for iu labor it makes itself a king, levying tribute upon all classes. Capi-' talwith its present legally conferred and popularly permitted kingly power, , will rule despotically as long as it can make labor werk for . it upon its own terms, or collect tribute from those who need credit. FBOM THE STATE CEBT&AL COMMIT TEE BOOMS. Timely ' Suggestions, and EeconHuenda- if A TT L t SV . .1 nous a noperoi vuuook. HXADQDAKTEKS PKOPtBS LkDK- 1 PKHPEKT PABTT. I , Limcolx, Neb., March ?, 1893 To the Independent voters of Ne braska, greeting: Since tbe last meet ing of your committee in this ciiy, ia December, the cause for which we labor has been steadily moving onward. The honest, laboring, thinking people, not only of Nebraska, but all over the country, are fast realizing their true condition and the hopelessness of longer relying upon either or both of the old parties for relief. A great many good, honest people, we know there are, who r.re still joined to their party idols. In stead of laboring, and voting, to help themselves, they are still trying to re form their party, not realizing that it is easier for a hen to lay a fresh egg than to reform a rotten one. Their folly will be more apparent, however, after their parties hold their, next national conventions, for we predict that neither of taem will even promise the only mea sures that can bring relief. The party bosses will say to tuem, as the German emperor recently said to his complain ing subjects: "If you don't like our rule shake the German (party) dust from your feet." We have confidence to believe that when that time comes, as come it soon will, that the grand army of the common people will receive such accessions as to make victory easy and relief to the toiling masses sure. riKAKCX. Ii affords ns pleasure to state that the promises made to your chairman and secretary, at the last meeting of the committee, regarding finances, have been reasonably well kept, and we have no doubt that all finally will be re deemed. If so we will be able to enter vigorously upon an early campaign. We want to make the coming campaign almost a purely educational one. Ex perience has taught us that, when the people see the light, they are willing and anxious to walk in it, and we hope to be able with speakers, and literature upon economlo subjects, to open, as it were, a political school in every neigh borhood, if not in every house in the state. THX ST. LOUIS CON FERENCE. We had the privilege and pleasure of attending the orreat Sk f.mito m.k.. O a - www ..vutvi- ence, and we congratulate our people uiu iuc uuuuiry upon lis worm, and its work. A body of men and women ronrft reliffmmlv HnvntnH in tha int... C J . ,w WUH lUW,ODH. of humanity never assembled on this wutiucui, Ai. wo husuiubu in us pur poses, grand in its numbers, and sub-' lime in its utterances, and that its in fluences will be far reaching no one can reasonably doubt. W null panw.inl atfanflnn i nA r w VUC Jk its recommendations, and urge its ob- BBrv&ucB. r ii was recommended that the organizations, there represented, mpAt nn tha 9fltW of M arMi all country and ratify the platform of prin- uniB Buupuu. vve suggest mat In Nebraska VTA Tft.tlr'V laV AAliriftaa T as j vvuuwosi the eounty Alliances, Knights of Labor. fu.: - All: i n . . . . ' viuaciu &uiauco auu au oiner indus trial organizations unite and hold at some central or conveninnt nnlnf grand ratification meeting of the St. Louis platform. As the principles mere taia aown were adopted by your representatives, by a unanimous vote, let us ratify them by a united voice that shall swell from sea to sea. Every county has good local speakers, but if you desire others you will have to write to them in time, as the demand will probably be greater than the sup- .t is hardlv necessary. In nnnnlnflinn to throw out a single word of caution Y nil nrhn hntra kw t economic reform, and for the emanci pation of the industrial classes in its darkest hours will not desert it in the dawning of its morning. Nor will you be unwise enough to notice, only with a smile of contempt, the efforts of the partisan press to create jealousy or dis trust among you. The old parties re cognize the fact that tbe only way they can possibly defeat us in Nebraska, at least, is to create a division in our own ranks, and to accomplish this they would lie awake seven nights in a week until the election. They have already beorun their tacvtins hv mi Klsl oil in (V 1 m acrinarv interview with "l "Al has liunce men," telling that the -'ring arranged it." and that the "Hint is made OUt." etc In Rhnrf anvthinoonl everything will be done for the pur pose, and in the hope of sowing the seeds of discord, but we have no fears of their success. We haven't yet adopted old party tactics. It is not a question yet as to who shall lead in this movement, but who is going to be able to keep up with tbe procession. We recognize the fast that you will soon be called upon to select men from among It is proper and wise to be casting around you for suitable candidates. Let neither prejudice nor personal preference however, decide who the men shall be, whom yon thns honor. Let them be true men, unselfishly de voted to our DrincinlAR - - ar---- x vvuilOUH IV discharge the duties of the oflice to be 4I11ai4 anI M!tW k!1 -. . uiiou, auu, iritu an bwiii runners. Men in this country, you must understand. run tor office, hnt a man an nn ' - ku uu UJUIC successfully run for oflice and carry a InsiJ than tha UmaUh .ili... 1 . . -" uiouau UUOie COUld Win a race in the Olvmnln tl T-Q 1 nnlRM ......In . i . "V "8 mo every weignc. therefore, wise as serpents, and Be. - yet uarmiess as aoves. Draw all men ot all parties, to you, if possible, but do "ut iu or reiy upon old parties them selves. There is strength in union, but not in mere combinatinna nr ma tures. Whore there is sufficient affinity substances will unite;when there is not they will only come together and form a mixture that may be easily separated. Keeo. therefore, in the ml,Mia .u. mad. and we will succeed as sure as that juutice is eternal, or that "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." viwL"t. Chairman. C. H. Pirtlk, Secretary. Oca readers will find in annthor onl. umn an article signed "Mechanic," which gives a very correct and interest ing description of the condition v Uc sentiment on financial and industrial re orm questions as it today registers it- Sell in Meat IT.nrrlon.l PV ?...- i; t ; - -"- iu writer is a 5L2te!2 iif" ... .,vu,c T,ur&er.